The Oregon mist., June 14, 1895, Image 1

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VOL. 12.
ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1895.
NO. 25.
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Better Conditions Prevail in
Every Direction.
CROPS ARE AS YET UNSETTLED
Aa the Earning Power of tlie Maaae.
llri'oiiiea tireater, Cneuittlun
Orowa Larger l'rla High.
Now York, June 10. Dun & Co.'
woukly roviow of tradu mivn:
' Xlio troud of tiuHlnoiM in rUiiiKi
evuu aa It wit falling joHt two years
nuo, with atinirUlnir rnnluity. Die
K ii in him gono ao fur aud o fitat In
aoine liriini'.lion that the more ooiinorva-
tivo foar it tuny uot bo maintained.
Uut the porlod of dullnoMa whioh oomoa
iu oauh iiutrkot aftur au unuauul rise
brliign.au yet nothing like a oorroHpiuid
inir diKjlini). InduHtirea gain much,
halt, or full back a little aud then gain
ouoo more. The demand for ooiiHiinip
tion in gtuadily iuoruuHing as the era.
liloymiiiit and wagea of the people in.
croaao. The demand for money in.
oreaae, one bunk reporting 21) per cent
inoruHHO In the diaoouuu for the coun
try and another 2U per cent mora com-
ineroial louua than a year ago, and all
but two report dome gain.
"The aurioun queatiou remain
whether the crop will be good enough
to BUHtuin a large buHineaa, The re
port are better by far than entimatug
recently current Wheat roue 2o, fell
back So with realizing, and has risen
again 8a, with a WoHtcrn estimate of a
crop of 80,000,000 bushels smaller than
lust year. It is pertinent to remember
that oflioial aud most nuoflluiul reports,
down to a late period last fall, had the
yield about 80,000,000 lower than now
known to have been. Western receipts
wore 831,000 bushels more than last
year, aud in live weeks have been
7,071,000 bnahols against 0,000,500
lust year, while Atlantic exports, flour
included, 070,000 bushels smaller for
the week, have boon iu five weeks
7,730,700 bushels against 11,945,500
hist year.
There is neither holding back by
farmers, nor any anxious baste in pur
chasing by foreigners to support the
belief iu a scarcity. Cotton declined
an eighth of a cent
"Iron pushed npward like the great
buildings into which so much of it goes
and the advance in finished products
has become general. Of stuetural steel,
13,000,000 tons were turnod out in May
by the Homestead works, breaking the
record, and prices rose to 1.8 oents for
beams aud 1.8 for angola.
"Coke producers are said to have
substantially agreed upon sules by an
agency and au advanoo in prices to
91.60 or higher. Chicago works are
iu full operation, though the demand
from agricultural implement uiukers
lags, because the coming harvest is in
doubt. Tin is weaker, with a rise in
the world's supply, but copper is
stronger at $10.75 for lake, aud lead
at 8. 8 cent.
"Failures for the week wore 195 for
the United States, against 816 last
year, and 25 in Canada, against 40 last
year."
TOLD TO INSPECTORS.
The Official Inquiry Into the Wreck or
the Collnm.
Sau Francisco, June 10. The
United Stutes inspectors of hulls and
boilers commenced an official exainiua
t.ou into the Colitna disaster today, A.
K. Richardson, storekeeper of the
wrecked steamer, told the story of the
storm, of the sinking of the ship and of
the rescue of the survivors by the
steamer San Juan. His testimony de
veloped no new details of the ship
wreck. Third officer Hansen was the
next witness, aud stated that when the
steamer left Mauziuiillo Hay SO the
weather was fair, with a heavy south
west swell. He said that he had super
intended the loading of the cargo; that
the work had been well done, aud that
the cargo had not shifted. It the Co
lima hud not been a good boat, he
thought she would not have weathered
the storm as long as she did. He heard
no explosion. He was in charge of the
bridge when the steamer went dowu.
He believes the wreck was due entirely
to the violence of the storm. The
morning of the 37th she fell off into
the trough of the son aud listed to star
board. Three heavy seas broke over
her, and after tho third she listed over
on her beam ends with her masts in the
water, sinking five minutes later be
fore the lifo-boats could be launched.
The customs and quarantine authori
ties say they will discipline the Paoiflo
Mail officials for summarily removing
the Colma's officers and seamen from
the San Juuu on a tug before the quar
antine or customs oflioers boarded her.
The Wild Man of Sonoma.
Santa Rosa, Cal., June 10. Bon
Buckley, the famous Sonoma county
"wild man," is now in the Ukiah in
sane asylum. For tho past twenty
years Buokley has been living in au
open pen on the Cunningham ranch,
in Blucher valley. He refused to leave
the pluoe even in a the worst part of
the rainy season, and was content to
lio in a hole in the gound during the
hardest rain storms. When the water
got too deep to suit him he wonld bail
it out with his hat He , lived mostly
on canned goods, aud seldom oooked
anything. He imagined himself to be
the prosidont of the United States, and
said he had boon president since the
time of Washington. Tho cause of his
hallucination was a blow received on
the head twenty years ago, while on
the road home one night He was as
saulted by robbers and badly beaten.
BR TISH IN NICARAGUA.
Thalr Ooeupatlon of Corlnto Neither
Forgotten Kor Forgiven.
Now York, Juno 10. The Herald's
Washington correspondent says:
England is reaping a sorry harvest
as result of the Corlnto affair. By
lunding her marines on Nicaraguun soil
to soonro tho payment of the indent
nity for the expulsion of Consul Hatch
sho sowed for herself seeds of hatred in
the native broast that has produoed a
crop of most bitter animosity, and has
already affected her interests in PJica
ragna, and will undoubtedly contiuuo
to do so.
This is made clear in the first report
on this subject, which has been rooeiv
ed at the navy department from Coin,
mander Ide, of the Alert The Kica
ruguans and in fact all residents of
Coutrat America, he says, consider the
United States as their uatural protector
and look to us for assistance when in
trouble. They have au exaggerated
notion of the scope of the Monroe doc
trino, as well as the size of the naval
aud military service of the United
Stutes, and believe, with the majority
of Americans, that the United States
can trounce the remainder of the world
if necessary.
It was feared by tho Nicaraguans,
Commander Ide reports, that the Brit
ish intended to obtain control of theoa
ual, and they declared they would
rather see the canal project defeated
than have it pass into British hands.
CONFLICT OF AUTHORITY.
Callfornla'a Labor Commissioner and a
Man Frauclaco I'olloe Justioe.
San Francisoo, June 10. State La
bor Commissioner Fitzgerald oollided
with Justice of the Peace Uroezingor
yesterday and came out second best
A. E. Moore was tried several days
ago by Justice Uroezingor for refusal
to pay rent for a building he occupied,
He cluiined that the building was not
iu good sanitary condition, as required
by law, and he was therefore privileged
to retain one month's rent A health
inspector testified that the building was
in propor sanitary condition, but Moore
produoed a letter from Labor Commis
sioner Fitzgerald, declaring that the
building was unhealthy. Justice
Uroezingor refused to recognize Fitz
gerald's authority in the matter and
gave judgment against Moore for (150.
Today Fitzgerald accompanied by
an officer, entered Uroezingor' court
room and announced to the astonished
justice that he had oouie to place him
under arrest for refusing to notice Fitz
gerald's statement about the unhealthy
condition of the buildiug occupied by
Moore. Uroezingor ordered Fitzgerald
from the room under pain of arrest,
and the labor commissioner retired.
Cut Mlinaelf While Shaving.
Ukiah, Cal., Juno 10. A case which
is now attracting great attention among
members of the medical profession in
this comity is that of Frank Groeu, who
lives at Calpella, a small hamlet six
miles north of this oity. Some time
since while shaving Green cut himself
slightly at the point of the chin. The
razor barely penetrated the flesh, and
to an ordinary man the wound would
have caused only temporary inconveni
ence. Ureen, however, is subjeot to
hemorrhage diathesis from the slightest
puncture, aud the surgeons agree that
there is a poasibiltiy of the result be
ing fatal. Ureen is a member of a
family in whioh these results from in
cised or lacerated wounds is hereditary.
Immediately after the infliction of the
wound Green applied the usual reme
dies to stop the flow of blood, but the
flow continued, aud it was not until
medical assistance had been summoned
that the flow was stopped, and even
then relief was but temporary. The
wound was inflicted on the 25th of
May, and it has bled intermittently
ever since. According to the theory of
the physicians in charge of the case
there is an utter absence of fibrin in
the blood of Ureen, and as this sub
stance is nooessary to ooagulatiou it is
probable that death will result
' Coat Rica Preparing for War.
New York, June 10. A special to
the World from San Jose, Costa Rica,
says:
Everything possible is being done to
put this country in a good position for
defense. The topograghy is such that
an invasion by Honduras aud Nicara
gua combined would be dimoult If
the four other Central Amorioan repub
lics combine against her, it 1b believed
she will receive Colombia's aid, with
whioh she can hold her own. Costa
Rioa will make no further concessions,
but will rest on President Cleveland's
decision with reference to the boundary.
Erin's Flag on Fourth of luly.
San Francisco, June 10. The execu
tive committee of the Fourth of July
celebration committee has, iu answer
to a communication, informed the local
society of the Anoieut Order pf Hibern
ians, that it may carry in the proces
sion the flag known as the Green Flag
of Ireland, if made in the form of a
banner, suspended from cross poles and
lettered a a banner of a fraternal or
der, without conflicting with the reso
lution that no flags other than the stars
and srtipes will be allowed to be car
ried. Unless so made and used as a
banner, no flag of any description will
be allowed in tho exercises.
Weak Caee Agaluat Wlnthrop.
San Francisco, June 10. The pre
liminary examination of O. Wln
throp, secretary of the local lodge of
Chosen Friends, aooused of the murder
of Mrs. .Jennie Matthews, was oom
menoed today. Six-year-old Mattie
Matthews today denied she had ever
said that Winthrop had given her
mother a pill before she became ill in
the oemctory. She said he did not
give her mother anything. The child's
former testimony was the only founda
tion the prosecution had. , It now has
no evidence. .
Another Decision by Assistant
Secretary Reynolds.
SOLDIERS' PENSIONABLE RIGHTS
Question to Be Ascertained Is Whether
'Enlistment Waa for the War or
the Hegulor Army.
Washington, June 8. Another de
cision has been rendered by Assistant
Secretary Reynolds bearing on the date
of the termination of the war and the
pensionable rights of soldiers enlisting
in 1804 and 1805. The ooucluston
reached by Mr. Reynolds is that in all
these oases the question to be ascertain
ed is whether the enlistment of the sol
diers was for service in the war of the
rebellion or in the regular army. If
the former, he is pensionable, aud if
the latter, he is not Mr. Reynolds
cites the various ordors suspending en
listments for tho war and those order
ing the commencing of enlistments for
the regular army. He says:
"As to these volunteer enlistments
in the regular army, after the cessation
of armed bostiltios, it cannot be truth
fully said that their enlistment was for
the war of the Rebellion. "
In reference to the decision of the
supremo court assigning August 20,
1806, as the end of the civil war be
says:
The reasons however which would
admit of this holding where the right
of the parties in the 'cases involved
might be affected by tho running of
the statute of limitations, cannot be
accepted to establish the date of termi
nation of the war of the rebellion
where the questions involved are
whether an enlistment was in fact for
the war of the Rebellion and the ser
vice performed thereunder in f urther-
anoe of its suppression. '
The secretary, therefore, holds that
enlistments in the loyal states after
April 13, 1865 when recruiting in
them ceased will not be deemed en
listments in or for the war of the re
bellion. In the other states and terri
tories and the District of Columbia,
June 1, 1805, will be taken as the final
date, aa enlistments then ceased in
those parts of the oouutry, and July 1,
1865, will be taken as the final date of
war enlistments for the navy.
AN IMPORTANT QUESTION.
flight o' a Husband to Dismiss a Pam-
ge Suit Brought by t is Wife.
San Francisco, June 8. There was
filed in the superior court today a peti
tion involving the right of a husband
to dismiss an action for damages
brought by the wife. This affects every
woman in California, for a decision in
favor of the petitioner means that a
husband can at any time, for a consid
eration, dismiss an action brought by
the wife, without regard to the justice
of her cause. The case in question is
the suit of Laura D. Cunningham
against the California Street Railway
Company for damages on account of
injuries received in a oollision. At
torneys for defendants have filed a pe
tition, signed by A. C. Cunningham,
husband of the plaintiff, asking that
the suit be dismissed. Cunningham
says he has separated from his wife,
but no formal agreement of separation
has been made. He alleges that his
wife waa not so badly injured as she
pretended to be, and is attempting to
blackmail the railway company. Act
ing under this belief, Cunningham has
authorized the company to dismiss his
wife's suit
Heavy Travel to Alaska.
Taooma, June 8. The City of To-
poka sails for Alaska tomorrow, with
every berth taken, and carries the first
parties of Eastern excursionists for the
season. A Raymond- Whitoomb party
of twenty-seven goes op on her. The
Queen will leave on her first trip this
season next Wednesday, with a full
list of tourists. The outlook is for a
very heavy Alaskan travel this sum
mer, this being indicated by both the
present bookings and inquiries One
cause, perhaps, is the fact that rates
on the steamers, the Queen excepted,
are 50 per cent lower than during pre
vious seasons.
Prince of Wales Wilt Surely Come.
New York, June 8. A speoial to a
morning paper from Newport says the
Prinoe of Wales will visit Newport the
last of August as the gnest of Mr. and
Mrs. Ogden Uoelet The Uoelet villa
is now being redecorated, and it is said
a suite will be especially furnished for
the prince. The prince has not visited
this oountry for thirty-five years. It is
said he will come only on the assurance
of Mr. Uoelet that no fuss shall be
made over his presence, and that he
shall be permitted to appear at the
American cup races and about Newport
striotly incognito.
Denver Makes an Appropriation.
Denver, June 8. The Denver board
of supervisors has passed an appropria
tion of $50,000 for the mining and in
dustral exposition to be held in Denver
next year. A petition asking the coun
ty commissioners to apropriate $100,
000 has been signed by many of the
heaviest taxpayers and wealthiest men
in the oity. Leases were today Bigned
for thirty acres of private land adjoin
ing the state and oity property sot
apart for the site.
To Prison for Life.
Detroit, Mioh., June 6. The jury
in the case of Mrs. Nellie Pope, oharg
ed with the murder of her husband, re
turned a verdict of guilty this after
noon. She was immediately sentenced
to life imprisonment
AMERICA'S BEST SOCIETY.
The Sloan-Burden Wedding In Massa
chuaetts Yesterday.
Lenox, Mass., Jnne 8. Two of the
richest families in America were united
today. At noon at Trinity church,
James Aberorombie Burden, jr., and
Miss Florence Adele Sloan, grand
daughter of Mrs. William Vanderbilt,
were married. The . most elaborate
preparations had been made for the
event, involving the expenditure of
$1,000,000. About 800 guests were
nndor the care of Mr. and Mrs. Doug
lass Sloan, and Mrs. Anson Phelps
Stokes entertained fully eighty guests
at her residence, Shadow Brook.
The church was trimmed with white
and green, the colors of the Porcelain
Clnb, the most exclusive organization
at the Harvard university, of which
Mr. Burden is a member. The ushers
were all members of the class of '95 at
Harvard.
With the groom were Thomas L.
Perkins, Louis Adorns, Rufus K.
Thomas, George B. Blake, George
Richmond Fearing and Columbus C.
Baldwin. The bridesmaids were Misses
Emily and Lily Sloan, sisters of the
bride, and Mis Gertrude Vanderbilt
and Miss Beatrice Bend. The maids of
honor were Miss Ruth Twombley and
Miss Jessie Sloan. Frederick Winthrop
was tho best man.
The bride's dress wag made by
Worth, of heavy satin, ivory colored,
and trimmed with point lace. Her veil
was of very rare old lace, fastened
at the crown of the head with a bunch
of orange blossoms. The services were
read by Rev. Dr. William Urosvenor,
rector of Trinity church, and John
Hall, of New York.
Directly - after the ceremony traps
were in readiness to convey the guests
to fclnicourt, the Lenox oountry place
of Mr. and Mrs. Sloan, where the
bridal breakfast was served.
Among the guests was W. K. Van
derbilt, who had not been expected, bnt
came np Tuesday in a private car.
The bride, as stated, - is the grand
daughter of Mrs. William Vanderbilt
and the daughter of William D. Sloan.
The bridegroom, James Abercrombie
Burden, jr., is a member of the family
of Burdens, whose fortune originated
in the great iron works at Leroy, N.
Y. , bearing their name. He is him
self a millionaire, and has been a
prominent figure in society for several
seasons. The reception was given at
the Sloan country place, which com
prises 2,000 acres, and is considered
one of the most valuable estates in the
fashionable colony of Lenox.
For the occasion the preparations
have been on a scale of magnificence
more than regal. The Curtis, one of
the largest hotels in Lenox, was en
gaged for the exclusive nse of the wed
ding guests for three days. A special
train conveyed guests from New York
to Lenox, and will remain until they
are ready to return. The item of ex
pense for transporting 180 broughams
to Lenox, for the nse of guests, is esti
mated at $7,800. The bride's trousseau
is said to have cost $40,000. The pres
ents have been mostly in the form of
jewels, and a conservative estimate
has placed the value of the gifts at
about $700,000.
Wiseonsin After Swamp Lands.
Madison, Wis., June 8. Attorney
General Myrea and Secretary of State
Casson left last night for Washington,
Whore they go to lay claim to Borne
700,000 acres of land in this state,
granted to the state by the swamp-land
act of 1850. By this act nearly 4,000,
000 acres of so-called swamp-land was
settled largely by immigrants to the
state in pioneer days under authority
of patents of the federal government
To reimburse the state for the loss, con
gress in 1857 passed an indemnity act,
providing that the state should be paid
for the lands held by settlers under the
federal patents. But it was not until
after the olose of the war that a settle
ment of the matter was attempted, and
during the administration of Rusk and
Hoard a partial settlement was effect
ed. There is still due the state nearly
700,000 acres.
This Government Criticised.
London, June 8. The Standard to
day oontains an intimation to the effect
that when the insurrection in Cuba is
ended, Spain will refuse to pay part of
the cost of suppressing it, adding:
"There is small pretense of conceal
ment on the part of those going to Cuba
from the United States, and the au
thorities must be cognizant of it The
oountry which claimed and obtained
damages from England on aooount of
assistance given to the south by armed
vessels, which were allowed by this
country, should be the last to allow
armed men to leave her shores and in
surrect against Spain."
It is expected that an addition to the
ten battalions of infantry, another gen
eral will be sent to assist Campos in
suppressing the insurrection in Cuba.
The loan for the Cuban expedition will
be 16,000,000 pesetas.
Now to Be Heard In Utah.
Salt Lake, June 7. Much interest
is shown in the application for a re
ceiver for the Utah Northern & Short
Line, within the territory of Utah,
whioh comes' up before Judge Merritt
tomorrow. S. H. H. Clark and other
Union Pacific officials are here. J. M.
Thurston is also to look after Union
Pacific interests. J. M. Egan arrived
from Portland this morning.
Satisfaction Will Be .lven.
Constantinople, June 7. Iu a dis
pute here today between a Turkish
officer and the officers of a French
steamer regarding baggage, the former
drew a sword and wounded one of the
French officers. The Turkish officer
was arrested. . The French embassy
promptly demanded satisfaction from
the Turkish government, whioh agreed
that the Turk shall be tried by French
laws.
THE SULTAN REFUSES
Will Not Agree to Demands
of the Powers.
PROPOSED REFORMS IN ARMENIA
It Is Believed Great Britain, France
and Kusala I ave Determined to
Foree Turkey to Comply.
Constantinople, June 6. The reply
of the Turkish government to the notes
of the representatives of Ureat Britain,
France and Russia, regarding the pro
posed reforms in Armenia, has been
delivered to the envoy. The porte's
answer is not satisfactory. Turkish gov
ernment does not agree to the principle
of the control of the proposed reforms
by the powers. After receiving the re
ply, the envoys of the three powers
held a meeting, at which they decided
to refer the whole matter to their re
spective governments. The situation
is serious, as last week the British em
bassy informed the porte that Ureat
Britain had decided not to accept any
modifications of the proposition effect
ing reforms in Armenia, and the rep
resentatives of other powers have made
the same declaration to the porta. The
reply of the Turkish government causes
surprise. It is thought such answer
would not be given without encourage
ment from some European power, but
the presence of the British Mediterran
ean squadron, consisting of seventeen
ships, at Beyrout, points to an agree
ment between Ureat Britain, France
and Russia to force Turkey to comply
with the demands of the powers.
Consequently, interesting news may
soon be flashed from Beyrout, Syria,
where it is believed the British fleet
will be called upon to support the de
mands of the three powers. The meas
ures which UreataBritain, France and
Russia insist upon as preliminary to
the reform, include the appointment of
a high commissioner from Armenia,
general amnesty and release of all po
litical prisoners, the revision of certain
judgments and the appointment of a
commission to sit at Constantinople,
charged with the application of the re
forms and working in connection with
the high commissioner.
It is also demanded by the powers
that the governor and vice-governors
of Van, Erzerouiu, Sivas, Bitlis, Khar
toum and Trebizond be Christian or
Mussulmans, according as the popula
tion of the places is inclined. In any
case, however, either the governor or
vice-governor of the places named is to
be a Christian, and the appointment of
these officials is to be approved by the
powers.
Taxes are to be collected by local and
not by state officials, and enough is to
be retained before the money is for
warded to Constantinople to provide
for the cost of local government, as
under the present system all tax money
is first sent to Constantinople, and but
little of it returns to Armenia.
The powers propose to compel the
porte to make radical changes in the
judicial system, in order to insure fair
trials, the surveillance of prisons and
the abolition of torture, and the police
is to be oomposed of Turks and Chris
tians equally. Finally, the Turkish
government is to be compelled to strict
ly enforce the law against compulsory
oonviction of Islamism.
As already cabled, when the sultan
read the note of the representative pow
ers, outlining the proposed reforms, he
was not unfavoralby impressed. He
had several oonferenoes with the for
eign ambassadors, and the Austrian
ambassador urged him to aocquiesce to
the demands of the powers. But it
was added at the time that the sultan
appeared to be counting upon the moral
support of Emperor William of Uer
many, to whom he is known to have
sent an autograph letter on the sub
ject . .
AN OFFICIAL INQUIRY.
The Government Will Investigate the
Faulty Loading o the Coltina.
San Francisco, June 6. The federal
government is said to have decided to
make a thorough investigation of the
Colima disaster, which cost so many
lives. It is not improbable that the
state authorities may take a hand in
the affair, and there is already talk of
criminal proceedings. These, however,
are not yet a certainty.
The federal inquiry will be insti
tuted by Messrs. Talbot and Hillman,
the inspectors of hulls and boilers.
They are watching now for the return
of the steamer San Juan, which is ex
pected to enter this port Friday. As
soon as she arrives, the third officer,
O. Hanson, and all the survivors who
may be on board, will be summoned as
witnesses to an investigation whioh will
be instituted without delay. , The in
quiry, it it intended, shall be thorough
in every respect
One of the first questions to be dis
cussed in the investigation is the man
ner in which the ship was - loaded.
Charges of the most serious character
have been made, and if there be any
truth in them it will be discovered.
The most serious allegation in this
part of the affair is that the ship was
negligently loaded.
Against August Spreckela.
San Francisoo, June 5. The suit of
August Spreckels against the directors
of the Oceanic Steamship Company to
oom pel the election of new directors,
was decided in favor of the company
in the superior court this afternoon.
En Route to the Yukon Country.
Vancouver, B. C, June 6. Captain
Constantino, of the Northwest mounted
polioe, and twenty members of that or
ganization, arrived from Regina and
left for Seattle, whenoe they proceed
by steamer to the Yukon oountry,
where they will be stationed.
ALL ARE SATISFIED.
Dallas Will Be the Battle Ground for
the Big Fight.
New York, June 7. The proposed
Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight remains the
topio of discussion among sporting men
here. Brady said today he was per
fectly satisfied with the arrangements
made by the Dallas people, and that his
man wonld be in the ring fit and ready
on the day to be fixed, late in Octolier,
by the Dallas club. A reporter called
on Fitzsimmons at his residence to
night. In response to questions he
said:
"I feel perfectly satisfied the contest
will take place at Dallas, for the busi
ness men, through their representa
tives, seem to be on the level. There
have been remarks questioning my sin
cerity in the affair, and some persons
have been unkind enough to say I will
weaken. I can assure you, and the
public as well, that I am just as ready
to meet Corbett as I would be to meet
an inferior in the ring. Corbett, I be
lieve, has said I was not in his class,
but if Charlie Mitchell was, then cer
tainly I must be, and I cannot see
where I could possibly be left out De
pend upon my word, Mr. Corbett has a
big contract on his hands, and when he
meets me he will tackle a better man
than he has ever met before.
"Uive me a fair, trustworthy referee, '
and I have no doubt that I shall prove
myself the better man. It is just pos
sible I may weigh twenty pounds
lighter than Corbett, but I can easily
make up for that Our relative weights
may be 168 and 187."
' Phil J. Dwyer, stakeholder for the
coming fight, said tonight:
"I am perfectly satisfied that Fitz
simmons and Corbett will meet in Oc
tober near Dallas. I now have in my
posssession $25,000, $10,000 each of
the principals' side bet, and the $5,
000 guarantee from the Dallas people."
Dallas, Tex., June 7. In sporting,
circles the opinion is generally' ex
pressed that Corbett will do the bulk of
his training at Asbury Park, N. J., and
Fitzsimmons at Galveston.
P. T. Roberts says: "It will be the
most important event in the history of
Dallas. The total crop of Dallas coun
ty last year, according to the assessor's
report, agregated $1,929,447. This
glove contest will be worth more to
Dallas from a dollar and cent stand
point than the entire agricultural pro
duct of the county for 1894. An amphi
theater will be built with a seating ca
pacity of 50,000. The general plan
will be after the great Chicago Wig
wam for the Democratic convention of ,
1890, but fully one-fourth larger and
roofless."
Another Expedition Fitting Out.
Havana, June 7. The authorities
have information of an expedition from
Dauphin island and other places in the
bay of the Mississippi river, which is
being fitted out with a considerable
armed force to aid the rebels here. The
United States authorities and the
Spanish legation at Washington have
been notified and informed of all the
movements of the expedition and the
names of the Bhips in use. The au
thorities have their eyes upon some of
the suspicious movements about Mobile,
Ala.
In reply to direct inqures, the acting
captain-general says there is no truth
whatever in recent reports that Marti
is still alive. He says he corpse of
Marti has been identified beyond all.
question. No news concerning Maxi
mo Gomez has been received since May
30, the day of the fight at Dosbido,
where Marti was killed and Gomez re
ported wounded. The acting captain-'
general says that the reports that Marti
is still alive are being circulated by,
Cubans for the express purpose of keep
ing up the courage of the people in
terested in the expedition now rendez-
vousing at Dauphin island.
The Lake Washington Canal.
Seattle, June 7. Edgar Ames and
George Pascal, the latter accompanied
by his wife, arrived from St Louis to
day to take an active part in the man
agement of the construction of the Lake
Washington canal and filling the tide
flats. They say that the subsidy of
$500,000 raised by the people of Seattle
is entirely satisfactory, and speak high
ly of the public spirit of the city in
raising it They say that the whole
undertaking involving an expenditure
of $7,000,000, will be carried out with
out interruption, as the St Louis capi
talists intend to complete it as a whole
to fill in all the Seattle tide flats and
complete the canal to Lake Washing
ton. The financial arrangements have
all been completed, and the work will
go right ahead, as all the capital is
available without any "ifs" whatever..
They also say that a large amonnt of
St Louis capital and many St Louis
people, whose interest in Seattle and
the state of Washington has been
aroused by this enterprise, will come
here this summer.
Contract Labor in Cali'ornlau
San Farncisoo, Jnne 7. The immi
gration commissioners have found 400
Japs, many in the uniform of Japanese
soldiers, at work on Li-ermore valley
ranches, to the exclusion of white men.
The commissioners believe they are all
contract laborers, and they will prob
ably be deported.
The French in Madagascar. -
London, June 7. The Times' corre
spondent at Antananarivo telegraphs
that plaoards have been secretly affixed
to church doors in that place, inoiting
the people to kill the Madegassee queen
and premier and to welcome the
French. -
The Baltic Canal a Success.
Kiel, June 7. The steamer Palitia,
with Prinoe Hohenlohe aud other
members of the oounoil of ministers
aboard, traversed the Baltic canal to
day for hundred kilometers. The trial
demonstrates the complete success of
the canal.