VOL. 13.
ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 8, 18.
NO. 20.
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the
News ot the
Telegraphic
World.
TERSK TICKS FROM TUB WIRKS
An Inture.tliiB Collection of Item. from
till) Two Hemispheres Presented
In a Oondeused Form,
A oase of leprosy lna been dlioover
ed iu California. The afflicted perioo
Is a girl of ,16.
Hour ' Gottharde tou Treitaohke,
the German historian, died ill Berlin,
tie was born in 1841.
Lord Dunraveu deulet (he report
that Mr. H. MoCaltuont U now (he sole
owner of Valkyrie III,
Rev. 0. O. Brown hai given op (he
fight and resigned hii pastorate of (he
First Congregational ohnroh of San
Frauoltoo.
A Gorman foroe defeated a large
body of Hottentot rebels in Damarand,
on April 0, killing forty-six of them.
- The German loss was small.
During a fete at the town of Let
Sanior, France, an anarchist stabbed
and killed (he mayor. The motive for
(ho crime was political hatred.
A general strike on the lines of the
Union Traction Company has been or'
dured to take effect at onoe. The na
tional board has given Its consent
John Huliioti, aged about 28, and
James Davis, aged about 71, prospect'
ors, mining near Delta, Cal., were
drowned while crossing the river in
boat
A dispatch from Athens says anoth r
conflict has occurred In the Hagion
Vaaileon district of Crete. It Is alleged
twenty Tarks were killed and thirty
wounded.
All ot Rienff blew oat the brains ot
bis wife, Jnlia, while she slept at bis
side, in their room at the Pease lodg
ing-honaa, (Seattle, and then killed him
self. Jealousy was the oause.
Sir William Robinson, governor cf
Hong Kong, telegraphs that there bas
been eoveuty-five new oases of buboine
plague and seventy-five deaths from
the disease in Hong Kong the past
week.
Commander Booth-Tucker, of the
Salvation Army, while out slumming in
Mew York, was arrested and taken to
the Elisabeth-street polioe station.
Kali was iixort at 11,000, which was
furnished by Steve Brodie.
A Pretoria, South Afrioa, dispatch
says: The sentences of death Imposed
upon John Hays Hammond, (he
American engineer, Colonel Francis
Kuodus, brother of (be former premier
of Cape Colony; Lionel Philips, prei
dent of the chamber of mines, Juhan
neaborg, and George Farrar, proprietor
of Country Life, of Johannesburg, have
been aom muted.
The announcement is made that M.
Mollne had succeeded In forming bis
oubinet as follows: M. Melino, pre
ruler aud minister of agriculture; M.
Bartbou, minister of foreign affairs,
M. Coohery, finance; M. Lebon, oolo
ntes; M. Valle, coram eroe; General
Billet, war; M. Darlan, Justioe; Ad
mlral Bernard, marine; M. Laoombe;
publio works; M. Ramban, publio in
struotiou
The Old Dominion soamoi Wyanoke,
when making for New Port News pier
near Norfolk, Va., struck the prow of
the United States steamer Columbia,
lying at anohor, and had a bole out in
the forward part of the starboard side.
She sank in sixty feet of water. All
the Wyauoke's passengers and crew
were saved, but their baggage, and
probably the cargo, was lost. Two fire
men were badly scalded.
Cripple Creek, Colo., was again
visited by fire, and now from 8,000 to
4,000 people aro homeless in a oity of
desolation, with no homes to offer and
no food to supply the daily wants.
One life was lost. The business por
tion of the oity left standing is leas
than would cover a block. The resi
dence section is confined to what were
formerly the suburbs. Relief parties
are being organized in Denver and
Colorado Springs.
The battleship Oregon, whloh was
recently Completed at the Union iron
works in San Frauoiaoo, has been
placed in the drydook to be soraped, in
preparation for the final test of speed
required by the navy department. The
Oregon will be the most formidable
battle-ship iu the Amerloan navy when
turned over to the government,
A special to the Denver Times from
El Paso, Tex., says the governor of
Chihuahua has sent a regiment of
troops to MinaViejo to oompel the peons
to open the mine and resoue the min
ers. He bad the polioe gather all (be
unemployed men in the oity street and
march them to the mine to work. Of
the sixty-one entombed miners fifty
were taken out dead. The disaster was
caused by the encroaching for ore on
the pillars supporting the roof.
The Spanish gunboat Mensagera has
captured and brought into Havana the
Amerloan schooner Competitor, of Key
West, loaded with arms and ammuni
tion.
were issued and the officers were com'
polled to land their private'aud mess
liquor supply. The captain them
selves, while in (he North, must live
like prohibitionists, as they will not
be allowed to have on board (he mild
est of intoxioating beverages,
The following unique challenge has
been sent to Colonel Robert Ot. Inger
soli, by Thomas Keuyon, a resident of
Providenoe, H. 1.1 "I, the undersign
ed, oballonge Robert (. Ingorsoll in
joint debate before three judges and
two timekeepers, ten minutes each, for
point on his (Ingersoll's) Bible leo
tares, in any ball in New York or any
large oity, but New York preferred,
The one gaining the most points must
reoeive 60 per oont of the net receipts
alter paying expense. Thomas Ken
yon." Colonel Ingersoll will probably
aoeept tbe ohallonge.
Spanish authorities in New York
and Washington have recently disoov'
ered a conspiracy, whloh was formed
by Cubans, to blow up a Spanish war
ship and at the same time interoept
peninsula mail steamer and rob her of
a large quantity of gold intended for
the government troops on the island
Tbe plot further inoluded the capture
ot tbe seaport town of Nou vitas, and
contemplated oertain demonstrations
along the poast of tbe eastern Cuban
proviuoes, in order to precipitate
rush of troops from the west and effect
a weakening of tbe military trooha
across Pinar del Rio
J. C. Sommers, a millionaire banker
ot Keokuk, la., was killed by a (rain
in (he onion depot at Burlington.
Tbe six-story buildiug of the Junior
Order of United American Mechanics,
in Philadelphia, was entirely destroyed
oy nre. Loss, about fa 10,000.
Columbia university will send
band of naturalists to explore the Paget
souna region. The expedition will
set out from New York June 10.
The Paris newspapers oouflrm the
rumor that M. Hebete, French a in bas
sador to Germany, will at once return
to Berlin, to present hi letters of re
call.
Mary.wife of William Shore, leaped
from a bridge into Elkborn river, near
Washington, W. Va., fifty feet, to es
cape a passing engine. She was res
cued but will die.
Rain tell for 84 hour in Ooon
io, wis., ana an tne lowianda are
flooded. IThe oity is neatly inundated
and tbe river reached the highest mark
that it bas for years.
Warren Fisher, who oaine into
prominence iu 1876 through bis con
nection with the investigation of
charges directed against James O,
Blaine, died at hi borne in Roxbury.
irinoeas Beatrice, the youngest
daugbterot Uaeen Viotoria, and widow
of Prinoe Henry of Battenburg. has
been appointed governor of the Isle of
Wight, (he offloe previously held by
ner nusband.
Word bas been received in Washing'
ton by telegraph that the Canadian
government has adopted an order in
oounoil exempting American vessels
from entry and clearance oharge at
Canadian ports.
A dispao(b from Madrid says: The
Spanish government ha declined the
pope' mediation in Cuban affairs, on
the ground that acceptance would be
tantamount to roeognicing America's
right to iuterfore.
Tbe black plague is still prevalen(
at Hong Kong and Canton. Two Eu
ropean ohildren have been attacked by
tbe disease. Japan is taking elaborate
precautious to prevent the introduc
tion of the plague.
An attempt was made to burn An
derson, Cal., by saturating a number
of buildings with coal oil. The plot
was frustrated by the discovery of the
fire five minutes after it was started,
when it was soon extinguished,
An explosion, by which 100 persons
are believed to have perished, baa oo
curred at Mioklefleld, Yorkshire, Eng
land. The explosion took place in a
ooinery, and twenty injured persons
nave been rescued from the abaft
An "X" ray will kill the bacteria of
diphtheria The eleotrical department
of tbe university of Missouri, at Co
lumbia, announoea that, after exten
sive experiments, diphtheria germa had
been killed by tbe Roentgen light.
Seven hundred men were thrown ont
of work by strike of the employe in
Sherman & Company' iron mine in
Port Henry, N. Y., whose demand for
an inorease of forty cents a day was re
fused. Tbe mines were shut down.
In Woodland, Cal. , two armed men
stood up Jailer Labrie in (he jailyard
and relieved him of 1 187 in oasb and a
watoh chain. The offloial had occasion
(0 go into (be jailyard for a moment,
and left hi pistol and hat in the offloe.
M. Coubertin, president of the inter
national committee of the Olympio
games, write to the London Time
that tbe game in 1000 will be held in
Pari, and tor 1904 the committee will
ohooae between New York, Berlin and
Stockholm.
The little 8-year-old ion of Mr. Ford,
a trainman on the Sumpter Valley
railroad, Baker City, Or., walked on
the track a the engine and two cars
oame along. He was unobserved and
the train passed over him. His skull
was badly fraotured, and the ohild will
die.
William A. Holoomb, one of (he best
known business men of (he Pacific
A FATAL EXPLOSION
Large Cincinnati Building
Completely Demolished.
A TRAGEDY NEAR PARIS.
AT LEAST SIX PERSONS KILLED
A mlil ant Wa Caused by mowing
of m Ua.ollu Tank-Tlie Build
ing Collapsed.
Dp
Cincinnati, May 6. This oity and
vicinity has been greatly exoited over
tbe explosion of a large tank of gaso,
line, which completely demolished tbe
five-story building at 480 and 48a Wal
nut street, at 8 o'clock tonight After
the explosion tbe wildest reports were
ourrout as to th loss of life. Before
midnight it was known that six were
killed and eighteen injured, but the
work of removing the debris had pro
oeeded so slowly that (he general esti
mate of the killed and wounded greatly
exceeded this number. Tbe building
was occupied Dy Adolpb C. Dracbs, a
saloon-keeper nn the first floor, and by
Diofil x ca. , dealers in fire works, on
the upper floors. There were also many
roomer in tbe building.
The family of Adolph Dracbs suffer
ed most severely. Draobs and wife are
injured, and the 5-year-old danehte:
is dead, and the 6-year-old boy is be.
lievod to be dying. Nolan David.
traveling man for (he Columbia Car
riage Company, of Hamilton, O., and
two others, unidentified, oomplete the
list of those known to be dead.
Among the missing, who are believed
to be in the ruins, are A. R. Frioke. of
Nowrood; Joseph Wortbner, barkeeper;
uouis rey, wife and baby; also two
servant girl in the family of Fey and
uraona.
A most touching scene occurred when
Fireman John McCarthy found his
brother pinned under a beam and beg,
glng the men above him (o kill him,
McCarthy said there were three other
men near him, and they were alive.
The most heroic efforts (0 liberate (hese
sufferer were made.
Herman Nolte, Jr., waa standing in
front of an adjoining building wnen
struck by debris, and suffered a broken
leg and other injuries.
The shook was so terrific that it was
felt all over the oity. Not one brick
upon another was left in the front and
rear walla of (be building, while adja
oeut buildings were badly dainaared.
The glass was broken out of street cars
that were passing at the time, and one
of the oars was badly damased. bat
none of the passengers were seriously
hurt All the horses in tbe immediate
neighborhood broke from their fasten
tags and ran away, and there was not
only iuteae exoitement, but the greatest
contusion.
Xhe dust and dirt oontinued flvins
for a long time, so densely that tbe
work of rescuing tbe victims nrooeeded
with geac difficulty, although the po
lioe and fire departments rallied hero
ically to the wreck. The saloons
were said to be quite full of neoDle
One of the bartenders who was not on
duty at tbe time, and who escaoed.
lived in one of the upper flats, and was
wild with grief because he knew that
bia wife and four ohildren were in the
ruins.
HAMMOND IMPOSED UPON.
He Kefused
to Take I'art
ou'i Kalil.
In Jame-
lli command nf hnr wern AlfrArio
I muu 1. u vuiiuqh UiQU U liUO XMUIUU
Liarofle, Dr. Bedia and three uewsuaner nna.t. nrAeidant nf the s nvo!
""T ?1 wuo n Mia M Voa- Produne and Merchants' Exohange,
uiiDUBiers are soiq to
have succeeded in jumping overboard
and awimming ashore. Others who
Jumped into the tea were drowned.
The insurgent general Monon, was a
member of the expedition.
Instructions oame from the treasury
department ordering the commander of
the revenue cutters of the Behring sea
patrol fleet, equipping in the Bound,
not to take any spirituous liquors. The
fleet, was ready to sail when (be order
died at hi residenoe in Oakland. Mr.
Holoomb had been ill for some six
months with an affection of the kidneys.
James Beala, a stove dealer, of Iron-
ton, O., shot and fatally wounded his
wife. The couple had been out walk
ing, and immediately upon their retnrn
home be drew a revolver and fired four
shot at hi wife, three of them taking
effect. Tbe deed was actuated by jeal
ousy. Beal esoaped.
New York, May 6. Samuel Lioh-
tonstadter, a man who has just return
ed here from Johannesburg, says:
ibe Johannesburg reform commit
tee met last Christmas day at Cecil
Rhodes' bouse to reoeive instructions
from him for the movement against the
Boers. 1 waa present Rhodes' in
structions to (he reformer were that
they should march into Johannesburg
under the British flag and when the
town was oaptured, a triumph of Brit
ish arms should be proclaimed.
"The reading of the instruotious
was followed by a silenoe of some min
utes. Then Hammond arose and said:
" 'Not for all the wealth this land
contains, not if yon were to make me
the absolute ruler, would I have a
hand in carrying ont these instructions.
I oan pull a trigger to shoot down an
oppressor, but I oannot and will not be
a party to a revolutionary intrigue. If
I am going to take up arm under any
flag, it will be tbe one that i flying
today over the ocean nnder the banner
of a free people, who believe in revo
lution as a remedy for oppression, but
who hate, with a Kaffir's bate, the
rape of a free people' territory. Yon
oan ooun( me out '
"The reformers, nearly all ot whom
are Britons, were thunderstruck. They
needed Hammond. After he had spo
ken, they realized that Ceoil Rhodes'
order must be reversed. Jameson,
however, refused to be put off. He in
sisted on oarrying ont his part of tbe
original programme ot oonqueat But
when he invaded the Transvaal, the
Uitlandera, influenced by Hammond.
gave him no aid, and the raid faibd
miserably.
Rhode and Jameson, beintr En
glishmen, are now enjoying the pow
erful protection of the British govern
ment, whose agent they were, while
Hammond and the other Americans
are made to pay tbe penalty of the
others' orimes."
Ifoung Man Killed That lla May Not
Dlntruce HI. Family.
New York, May 4. According
the Journal's Pari correspondent.
Eugene Vasseuar, a young Frenchman
whos dead body was found in a thicket
on tbe Bois de Viennes, was murdered
by bis own father and cousin, the la
ter having been hired to assist in the
orinie by the former. Vasseuar did not
bear a good reputation, and it
claimed that bis father wished him
dead rather than tbat he should dis
graoe the family. The cousin, whose
name is Boucher, tells tbe following
story of (be crime:
A lonely spot in (be Bois de Viennes
was fixed upon for (be scene of (he
(ragedy, and it was arranged that
Boucher should go along a small path
with Eugene, while the father was to
bide in a thicket and then spring ont
on their vioitm. At 8 o'clock the next
evening Boucher persuaded Eugene
that be had a job for bim at Cravelle,
so the oouple went down in a boat to
Charenton, olimbed to the plateau, and
as thy passed the fatal spot the father
prang out like a tiger and seized bis
son by tbe throat.
Eugene shouted for help, at tbe same
time making a desperate resistance.
and the father, who was becoming
blaok in the face, called to Boucher
"Why dont' you help, you coward?'
Boucher seized tbe yonng men by the
throat, and was bitten in tbe hand.
He thon loosened bia grip, whereupon
tbe father, with a desperate effort
threw his son down, and bending over
him, strangled him. As be pulled the
oord which they had prepared, Boucher
said:
"Let him alone; bis punishment has
been severe enough." The father re
plied: "I believe yon; this time the
scamp has full measure and running
over." Both men are under arrest.
HOW IT FELT.
A Suicide Kecorded HI. Dying Ben.
.atlona.
San Farnoisoo, May 4. An nn
known man committed suioide in
Golden Gate park last night, by drink
ing carbolic acid. Tbe strange part of
it is tbat be left a record of his feelings
while the biting fluid was at work
upon his vitals. He wrote that he was
dying beautifully," but tbat bis tat
ing off was a pleanst one was made
donbtful by the evidence of a final
frenzy, furnished by the fragments of
(ho card on whioh other words were
written.
In his last momenta the dying man
bad torn it to bits, together with an
other on whioh be had written after
taking the poison. When the pieces
were adjusted, it was found that they
bore the name of Descalao Brothers,
wholesale liquor dealers. On one.
doubled with the first one on which the
man bad used his penoil, were tbe fol
lowing words in printed letters:
Drug is working; friends only two
one dead. No hope in this world.
Wife good, but obstinate. My wife,
God bless "
Then the writing broke off into a
few unintelligible words. On the
other card appeared the line, also
printed:
I am dyiug beautifluly."
In some further writing appeared the
words "soul" and "sleeping." Then
the final frenzy bad evidently come,
and the life that was held valueless
bad gone.
There also lay beside the body a
newly laundried and folded apron,
which might have belonged to a bar
keeper. It bore the initials "O. W.
THE OREGON'S TRIAL
Perry After the Meteorite.
Washington, May 6. Tbe seoretarv
of tho navy has granted six months'
leave, with permission to go abroad,
to Civil Engineer R. E. Peary, the
Arotio explorer. Although no expla
nation is furnished of the objeot of bis
leave, it ia supposed the offloer is about
to go to Greenland, for the purpose of
bringing borne the largest meteorite in
existenoe. whioh he discovered when
last in tbat country.
Speed Te.t of the New Battle Ship
- Boon to Be Made.
Washington, May 4. Instructions
were sent forward from the navy de
partment today to San Francisco for
tbe trial of the battle-ship Oregon.
The conditions for the trial will be
precisely the same as (hone in the case
her sister ships, tbe Indiana and
Massachusetts. The trial will take
place over a thirty-one knot oourse in
the Santa Barbara channel, just out
side tbe old Olympia course. As there
has been a strong spirti of emulation
manifested between the shipbuilders of
the Atlanito and Pacifio coasts, much
interest ia felt in the outcome cf the
Oregon's trial. Tbe California build
ers are expressing oonfidenoe that she
will be able to maoth the 16.2079 knots
of the Massachusetts when the trial is
run off, whioh will be as soon as the
board oan reoeive the instructions
mailed today.
LAND OFFICE MATTERS. I
GROWING NORTHWEST
Progress and Doings in the
Pacific States.
COXDEN8KD BUDGET OK NEWS
From All the Cities and Town, or tbe
Pacific State and Territories
-Washington.
The energy of tramps in Spokane is
now directed, by the authorities to the
rook pile.
The Clallam County Immigration
Society bas published a neat descrip
tive pamphlet.
Tbe revenue cutter Bear is taking
400 tons of Blue Canyon coal from
Lake Whatcom. ,
The Ellensburg creameries are all
getting plenty of milk now, and their
product is steadily increasing.
Newton Martin bas been sent to the
Medical Lake asylum from Spokane.
He thought his mission was to kill off
all office holders. '
An electric light plant is being in
stalled in the Skamokawa sawmilL
J. he dynamo
will have a capacity of
thirty aro lights of 3,000 candle-power.
A cougar recently went into Robert badly bnt not fatally burned about (he
wuiiaoe s barn, near Mossy Rock, in breast and face.
traveled again, and there is talk
stage line being put on.
Joseph Parr was sentenced to one
and one- half years in (he penitentiary
by Judge Lowell, at Pendleton for as
sault with a deadly weapon.
One of (be examiners of (he oivil ser
vioe commission was in Ashland last
week superintending (he examination
of applicants for tbe railway mail ser
vioe and for teacher at (he Indian
school.
About 100 bead of cattle and 1,000
hogs are being fed at the Grant distil
lerv. There are 600 bogs in tbe fat
tening pens, and a like number in out
side lots. The company turns out
about 600 head f fat hog every aixty
days.
April 16 a new 20-stamp mill was
put in at the Bonanza mine, in Baker
county, and April 25 . the mill was
closed down for tbe first olean-np. The
result of tbe run was $10,000 in bul
lion, that was taken to Baker City.
Tbe recent oold weather has retarded
sheepsbearing and hss delayed the Pen
dleton scouring mills from starting up
a soon as was expoted, as tbe man
agement at (he mill ha not a large
a stock of wool on band to begin with
as it wishes.
Last week Mrs. R- E Springer was
badly bnrned at Weston. She was
about to retire when the lamp tbat was
upon tbe table by tbe bedside exploded
setting fire to ber clothing. She was
"iTHE NATIONAL CAPITAL
Daily Proceedings in Senate
and House.
Deolelona In Several Washington
Cases, .
Washington, May 4 The eoretary
of the interior has reversed the deci
sion of the general land office iu the
case of the state of Washington against
the Northern Pacific railroad. The old
decision, rendered in Ootober, 1894,
held for cancellation the state's selec
tion list No. 2, for agricultural oollege
support, on aooount of conflict with
the indemnity selections ot the road.
These selection were made in the
North Yakima distriot.
An order was issued on the railroad
tewis oounty, and earned off a pig.
Wallace and two neighbor went after
tbe beast with dogs, and treed and
killed it
A. J. Thompson had six rollers at
work on his fields, near Medical lake,
nearly all of last week. Mr. Thomp
son has nearly 600 acre of wheat in.
and expects to thresh from 10,000 to
12,000 bushels next fall.
It is estimatd that the cost of juries
and baliffs for tbe term of court in
Walla Walla juat closed will amount
to more than (2,100. Most of this
was due to the trial of the cases against
Helnbold Harras and Eicbler.
The saloon men of Ellensburg want
their licenses reduced to 1300 and an
ordinance passed requiring all saloons
to close at 12 o'clock midnight, of each
weekday and to remain closed till 6 A.
M., and to remain closed all day Sun
day.
Only $600 of the $4,000 required is
yet to be raised for the Gilmore cream
ery at New Whatcom. Bellingham
bay people will hold $3,000 of the capi
tal stock, the other $1,000 to be taken
by the people of Whatcom oounty out
side the cities. .
Tbe Spokane land office officials
have rendered a deoision in favor of
the settlers in the contest of Marion
F. Munoey against the Northern Pa
cifio Railroad Company. Settlement
prior to tbe selection as indemnity
land was the basis of the decision.
The trustees of the normal school at
Ellensburg have elected teachers and
established salaries for the ensuing year
as follows : Professsor Getz. $2,160;
Professor Morgan, $1,200; Professor
Mahan, $1,200; Miss Marquis, $1,200;
Miss Cartwright, $900; Miss Ay res.
$800; Miss Turner, $800; Miss Stew
ard, $800. ,
It is an odd coincidence that Oregon
and Washington should each have a
vacancy in the office of pilot commis
sioner to be filled at the same time.
The. Washington vaoanoy was occa
aioned by the resignation of Captain
John Barenson, who is snoceeded on
the Pnget Sound board by Captain F.
Al. Bartlett
Tbe Sohlotfeldt packing establish'
ment, in Ellensburg, has been rebuilt,
and is now in running order, turning
out bams, bacon, eto. Mr. Sohlotfeldt
proposes to take no further chance on
the plant, which was twice destroyed
by fire, and bas a watchman on the
plaoe all the time. In addition to this
he is importing two dogs (0 assist
the work.
The specifications of the gasoline
launob that is to oarry summer travel
between Astoria and Ilwaoo, connect
ing with Columbia river boats, have
been enlarged. Tbe boat is to have
(wo engines of 90-borsepower eaob, in
stead of 16, and her forward part will
be built for trucking baggage, giving,
it is thought, first-olass service. Cap
tain U. B. Soott will superintend the
construction.
The Anderson Woodenware Com
pany, ot Tacoma, has reoeived an or
der from a Kansas City packing house
for 200 carloads of ware, to be manu
factured from woods native to Wash
ington Several days ago the com
pany reoeived orders from ; Kansas
City, Omaha and other central Eastern
state paoking-houses for woodenware,
aggregating 200 carloads. -The last
order swells the list to 400 carloads.
George Craig and Fred Harris, oon
victed of counterfeiting, were sen
tenced at Spokane by Judge Hanford
to ten years each, in the United States
penitentiary on McNeill's island, Pa
get Sound. They were engaged in the
manufacture of half dollars, in a small
building near tbe Spokane depot,
where they bad a good outfit and made
an excellent imitation. Several accom
plices in diposing of the ware were
Perhaps the last lot of dried prunes
from last season' crop went out of
Benton county last week. The ship
ment contained 4,000 pounds, and
went to (be San Francisco market The
shippers were paid an advance of
cents per pound.
School Superintendent Newbury, of
Jackson county, last week made tbe
regular semi-annual apportionment ot
the school funds, amounting in the
aggregate to $12,435.40, or a per cap
lta of $1.65 and $50 io each distriot,
as provided by law.
Three carloads of balm lumber and
two of hard wood, destined for San
Francisoo market, were shipped by
the Corvallia Lumber company, over
the Oregon Central & Eastern last
week. Foul carloads of ash and maple
will follow the shipment soon.
J. H. Law, a detective, ha gone to
Heppner to look for Wolf, who i al
leged to have killed hi sweetheart
three years aog, while she was going
to chucrh at Mount Tabor. The shot
was instantly fatal. Wolf escaped,
and there ia a reward of $1,000 for bis
capture.
' Idaho.
Five new cases .of scarlet fever are
reported at Moscow. Aotive measures
are being taken to prevent an epidemic.
Mail messenger servioe ba ben dis
continued on the route in Idaho, be
tween Osburn postoflloe, in Shoshone
oounty, and (he Oregon Short Line &
Utah Northern Kail way depot
The Lew is ton Water & Fire Com'
pany ia settling Lewiston Flat, whioh
they are developing by an extensive ir
rigation system, on a plan (bat ia co
operative in it nature. A creamery
and a cannery are feature of the
scheme.
At no distant date tbe New Colum
bia Gold Mining Company operating
in the Yellaw Jacket mining district,
will be absorbed by tho new oompany
organized for that purpose and known
as tbe Idaho Chemical Gold Mining
Company.
Colonel W. H. Dewey is expected to
arirve from Pittsburg in about ten
day, and shortly thereafter aotive
work will be commenced on tbe oon'
struotion of the $100,000 twenty-stamp
quart mill his oompany will erect at
Booneville to work the ore from the
rich Booneville, Florida Hill, Seventy-
nine and Mother Lode mines.
From all indications this year will
be an aotive one in mining in Custer
oounty, says the Challis Silver Messen
ger. Our mines are not boomed to any
great extent on tbe outside; they do
not require it, as they show for (hem
selves. Just how much work will be
done on them this year depends greatly
on the price ot lead and silver.
tu revise 1 in uui wiuuu biz mourns, bo t spotted Dy tne police, bnt as soon as
that proper basis will be shown for all the principals were arrested they fled,
lands selected as indemnity, and the Craig and Harris were taken to (ho
road failed to comply with it The island last week.
land offloe therefore is held to have
erred in its action and advised that the
state's selections, if otherwise regular
and legal, shoud be submitted for ap
Tho
fast westbound mail on the
Northern Pacifio met an eastbound oat
tie train near Livingston, Mont , 1
wreaking both trains. Engineer Fan
ning, of tbe oattle train, waa killed;
Fireman P. McClelland, was fatally
injured and several were badly hurt 1
Many passengers jumped.
. Oregon.
A pair of new roller were put in at
the Pendleton flouring mills last week.
A plan is on foot for the reorganiza
tion of the oarriage factory at Cor
vallia. The Dufur school will hold its an
nual May-day pionio on Friday, May
22, at the baseball grounds, just above
Dufur.
The Wilson river road, from Tilla
mook to Forest Grove, will soon be
Montana.
It is now definitely known that Phil
lipsburg will have a custom smelter.
Thi is badly needed for that section
a it is a well-known fact that even bad
tbe ores of the great Granite Mountain
mine been treated by smelting (be
profits would have been greatly increased.
The oopper market is quite satisfac
tory to all concerned. With the com
ing spring it is thought that consum
ers will be more aotive buyers, as their
stocks on band are rather low. "' The
market is in a strong position, statisti
cally speaking, and should advance on
any increase in the demand. Dealers
are confident tbat a better inquiry is
about duo and express a belief that the
next movement will be in tbe direction
of higher prices.
The Butte Mining World says:
Railroad building in Montana and Ida
bo is quite satisfactory in two or three
instanoes. Work will be begun at onoe
on a road from Nampa, Idaho, to (he
Snake river. This road will be an out
let for the great gold mine in the
Owyhee mountains. The road now
nnder construction by Mr. Hammond
ot Missoula, from a point where the
IMPORTANT BILLS INTRODUCED
Substance of the Measure. Being Con
sidered by the rifty-foarth
Session Senate. '
Washington, May 2. The senate
pent another day on the naval appro
priation bill without completing it
Gorman further opposed the item of
four battleships and expressed the opin
ion that the appropriation already
made wonld consume the balance in
tbe treasury. A determination of the
number of battleships ha not yet been
reached. Chandler ha proposed sub
stituting thirty large and fast torpedo
gunboat for two of the battle-ships.
White spoke of the need of coast de
fenses before farther naval vessels
were built, and Allen made a speech of
over three hour arraigning the two old
parties.
Washinton, May 4 The debate in
the senate today wa of a dramatic and
sensational character, recalling tbe
famon Ingalla-Voorheea contest of
some year ago. Senator Tillman,
of South Carolina, again brought his
unique personality into the debate, bis
speech being (be first of any length ,
since bis memorable maiden effort at
tacking publio official high and low.
While be spoke today, the silver Bitch-
fork recently presented to him in the 1
West was conspicuously displayed on
bis scarf. Tbe senator used the blunt
words charaoteristio of hi utterances.
arraiging the preaidnet and cabinet
offloer with unsparing oriticism and
personal invective. He also addressed
himself personally to Hill and Sher
man, and drew from tbe former sham
rejoinders, while Sherman declined
to be brought into a controversy with
the South Carolina senator.
Washington, May 6. Senator Teller
today, from the oommittee on forest
reservations, reported favorably a bill
lor tbe protection of tbe publio forea(
reservations. The bill provide tbat
no publio f ores( reservation shall be
established except to improve and pro
tect tne lorest within the reservation,
for the purpose ot securing favor
able conditions of water flow and to
in nre a cont'nued supply ot timber
for tbe people of the state wherein
snob forest reservations are located.
General rules are laid down for tbe
protection and government of inch res
ervations, and the bill give to state
wherein such forest reservations are
situated oivil and criminal jurisdiction
over person within such reservations.
' Boose.
Washington, May a. The debate on
tbe bankruptcy bill was resumed today.
The speakers were Daniels, Ray and
Culberson, in rapport of tbe bill;
Strode, Terry and Bailey, in favor ot a
voluntary system, and Griffith, " De
Axmond, Bell and Traoey against
any bankruptcy law. DeArmond, who
opened the debate argued that the
etates had ample legislation to enfoore
tbe collection of debt If a bankruptcy .
law was passed, he (bought it should
have only the voluntary feature for the
protection of the insolvent debtor. He
oharged tbat the pending measure had
been prepared by the agent of tbe
creditor jolass. Bell opposed the pass
age ot any bankruptcy bill, and Barton
advocated the measure. Tbe latter, de
sired particularly (be technical pro
cedure nnder (be terms ot (he bill.
Washington, May - 4. The house
again devoted the major portion ol the
day to debate on the bankruptcy bill.
Several amendments were offered, but
none were adopted. A bill to provide
for a delegate in congress from the ter
ritory of Alaska waa defeated, 44 to- 60.
Soranton oalled up the bill and spoke
of the development of the Alaska min
ing and fishing industries and, the in- ,
orease of population in tbe last fifteen
years, its vas( area rendered it proper
and necessary that it should have a
well-informed representative in the
house. There were over 10,000 white
Americans in Alaska.
Washington, May 6. The first skir-
mish over the senate amendment to tbe
naval appropriation bill, reducing tbe
number of battle-ships provided for in
that bill from four to two, occurred in
the house today, when Boutelle, chair
man of the naval oommittee, moved to
nonoonour in all tbe senate amend-
ments and requested a conference. -Boutelle
undertook to chastise some of
the senators for their inconsistency.
He referred to (he war scares ot the
past, and (be bellicose resolutions in
troduced in tbe senate, and then sar
castically contrasted the wax talk ot
some of the senator with their voting
reduce the number of battle-ships
provided for in the bill.
Cruelty of Kastre.
Key West, May 6.A passenger
from Cuba report that Candido Mai-
tre, lieutenant-colonel of the local
guerillas of Cruoes, Ceinfuego, ba
been shot by order of Captain Alba, of
tbe Spanish forces. Thi passenger al
leges tbat he was in Cruoes and saw
the dead body. He also report tbat
there were some appalling stories in
circulation a to (he cruelty of Maatre.
He is alleged to have killed over 160
Northern Paoiflo crosses the Columbia peaoeful peasants. This, it is said,
river ot Astoira, Or. , is expected to be oame to the knowledge of tbe govern
oompleted by June 1. We are assured ' ment through bis killing of the oousin
that the Castle road from Helena will of the unole of General Snares Valdez.
reach CaBtle by June 1. This road The people ot Cruoes are reported to ,
will be abont seventy miles in length have been terrorized by the presence of
and will rehabitate the deserted eamo. i Mastre ana Alba.
It will furnish an
mineral distriot
outlet for a rioh
It is said that by tbe aid of Roent
gen' X ray one oan see the heart beat
Cyolists should see that their shoe
lace sre fastened before mounting a
machine; for a in skating, a loose lace
may oause a bad fall.