VOL. 13.
ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY. MAY 29, 1896.
NO. 23.
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News ot the World.
TKKSK TICKS FROM THE WISES
An Intonating Collection of Items Tram
tli Two Heinlspharos CmnM
In Codwud ironni
Word has been reoeifed of the mur
der in (Job of Walton K. Sulla, an
Amerioan, fur bit money. "'
Arohduk Charles Louii of Austria,
eldest brother of Emperor Franola
Joseph, died In Vienna, aged 04.
Tom Linton, a Welibman, beat tbe
bioyole reoord from the fifth mile up
ward, In Parla, covering thirty mile
within one bonr. .
" John D.' Jones, who stamped to death
In a fit of auger Mr. Mendenhall, at
the Anna, 111., fair but fall, wat
banged at Murpbysboro. , Be professed
repentauoe.
The Western Federation of Miners
bai deoided to amalgamate with tbe
American Federation of Labor, and
wi'l alnot delegate to the oonvention
of the latter body,
Dr. Tbomaa Renn was shot by hi
wife in Chicago. Tbe woman fired five
time. Two ballet entered the doo
tor' bead and be will probably die.
Jealousy waa tbe cause,
Jame Daaale (oolored), waa taken
from tbe Jail in Bt. Bernard' pariah,
Louisiana,, and lynched. Be waa ar
retted for attempting to ontrage a
white woman near the Pa Hereon plan
tatlon. Barry Jocea and Frank Jefferess,
two oonviot at Ban Qoentln, got into
II quarrel during wbleb Jefferess
atabbed Joue with a knife, indicting
a wonnd from which Jones died ah only
afterward...
General Vlouna, the Bpaniib oom
mander," it dead of yellow fever, at
Corral Falio, in Matansas, where be
ba been tick for several day past
Bl body wilt be bnried in tbe city of
Matauaas.
Lillian Buseell, while riding her
golden wheel near Central Park, New
York, collided with an unknown cyol
1st and wat thrown to the pavement
Her ooatly wheel wa amaabed and ber
ankle waa hurt
Mm. Loniae A. Speetaen, an attrao
tive and entertaining woman, laaghed
beraelf to death to Oakland, Cal. Tbe
oaae wa a peculiar one, and attracted
tbe attention of a number of Oakland
pbyiioiani, who attended the lady.
'. The itriking firemen of the Armour
paoking plant, of Kanaa City, who
went out May 0 for Inoreased wage
and fewer boun. have oompromiied
their affair and lifted their boyoott
againat the company' meat and re
turned to work.
A London dlipatoh eaya tbe British
foreign oflloe baa deoided upon tbe i
aae of a anpplementary blue book reU'
tlve to Veuesoola, very ahortly. Tbe
forthoomlng volume will contain im
vortant additional biitorioal evidence
In support of the Britlah oaae.
What la oUlmed to be tbe largeat
atrike ever made in the Ainaworth, a.
O., camp waa nnoovered on the Terml
nu, owned by Bpokane parties. At
tbe end of a 100-foot tunnel a 40-foot
ledge wa ttruok of high-grade ore, av
raging f 147 per ton gold and silver.
" A double murder waa committed at
Pyramid Lake Indian reservation, May
18. Indian Bam bmall aeiiDerateiy
abot hla wife and her paramour with a
piitol which be Hole from a polloeman.
Tbe woman died Instantly, but the
man. Georae Meserve, an Indian, ia
atill alive, though dangerouily abot.
A Cairo dispatch says a death from
cholera 1 reported among the Egyptian
troop at Tourba. . A regular cholera
miaima ia brooding over Cairo with
tbe heavy air and the hot wind. Tbe
virulence of the diaeaae i almoat un
paralleled at uoh an early stage of via
itatlon. Tbe percentage of death i 90.
In Nahant, Ma., an incipient blaae
from painter' lamp at the aummer
cottage onoe oooupted by tbe poet Long
fellow, on Willow road, waa the be
ginning ot a fleroe Are, which fanned
by atrong aouthweit gale, devoured
five handsome unmer residence and
oontenta, entailing a lo of about
1100,000.
A special from Caraoa aaya: The
Veneaeula government ba offered to
release the schooner New Day, but tbe
owner refuse to aooept under condi
tions attaohod. The English govern
ment will push the olaima of the own
er. Thi make new oomplioatlona In
the relation between England and
Veneauela. ).,';
The flood .situation in Crookston,
Minn., ia beooming very eerlou, the
rie In the Red Lake river having been
very rapid by reason of continuous and
copious rains. The flood ia gaining,
and tbe water 1 two or three feet deep
on some of the prinoipal atreeta, while
tn some of the reaidenoe district entire
door have been flooded. '- '
The Arotlo explorer, Lieutenant
Peary, is going North again thi sum
mer, and a steamer i now being ar
rangde in Bt John', N. F., for that
purpose. The object of the expedition
ia believed to be to aeoure for the
Philadelphia aoademy of oimoe the
40-ton meteorite near Cape York,
wbioh Peary disoovered last year.
A dispatch ha been received in Lon
don fiotn Governor Sir Hercules Rob
inson relative to tbe seutenoes imposed
upon the reformer at Pretoria, wbioh
ay number of the prisoners will be
released immediately, and others in
three month. A third lot of tbe pris
oner will have their case considered
and passed upon after five months, and
a fourth portion after one year.
The house committee on public land
ba ordered favorable report on tbe
bill for tbe maintenance of schools of
mine in pnlblo land tnte and terri
toriei, by granting eaoh state from tbe
proceeds from the sale of mineral
land $10,000 fur tbe current year and
an annual Inorease of 11,000 per year
for ten year. ;
White Buffalo, captain of Indian
police on the Cheyenne reservation, has
applied for a pension, on aooonnt of in
juries sustained while a member of tbe
Third United Btatea cavalry, and Ex
amining Pbysioian Hurley any the In
juries are suoh as would give a white
man a penaion. ' White Buffalo ia a
ton of Bitting Boll, and has always
been loyal to tbe whites a a polloeman
and soldier.
Upon representation of Indian
Agent Slouch, at Tongue River ageuoy.
Mont, transmitted through and in
dorsed by tbe interior department, the
war department sent orders to General
Brooke, commanding tbe department
of Dakota, to send troop from Fort
Custer to tbe agency to preserve order
and stop the killing of cattle by tbe In
rtlans. , Probably two troops of tbe
Tenth cavalry will be sent, but Gen
eral Brooke ia allowed to use discre
tion.
new xorx na tbe first dally paper
devoted to wheeling published in tbe
English language. It is called tbe
Daily American Wheelman.
Tbe General Trana-Atlantique Com
pany ba advanoed freight rates on
specie one-eighth per oent on lota of
1000,000 or over, either gold or silver.
The North German Gasette aaya:
Tbe government ia desirous of the total
abolition of the augar Import bounties,
provided tbe other states enter
agreement to take similar aotion.
A oloudbnrst ooourred near Perry,
O. T.f eight to twelve inobe ot rain
falling. Reaidenoe and buainess build'
inga on high, level ground were flood'
ed, while housea along Cow creek were
washed away.
Lieutenant Luther B. Baker, who,
aa an offloer in tbe government deteo
tive setvioe, bad charge of tbe party
which oaptured J. Wilkes Booth, the
assassin of President Lincoln, died in
Lansing, Mich., aged 66 years.
Jobn Taggart, of Big Stone Gap,
Ky., waa killed, and twelve ' others
dangerously wounded In a gas explo
sion in the mines near Big Stone Gap.
Part of the mine cared in. It it be
lieved six ot tbe injured will die.
Tbe boiler in Davidson Bros.' saw
mill, near Marietta, lud. , exploded
with terrlflo force, fatally injuring
Kunioe Davidson, ; Thomas Davidson
and Frank Battran. Bix other were
more or leas Injured.
Near Atlautlo, Ia., the combination
train on the Urlswold branch ot the
Rock Island wa ditched by striking a
mule. All the oar and engine went
into tbe ditob, but tbe ooaoh. crowded
with passengers, remained on the
track. Several were injured, but none
seriously.
The property at Elizabeth, N. J., of
the defunct United States Cordage
Company, ba been sold by the sheriff
of Union county, N. J., to satisfy
TORE THROUGH IOWA
Halt a Hundred Lives Lost in
a Cyclone.
STORIES TOLD BY EYEWITNESSES
mortgage held by the United States
Trust Company,, ot New York. The
plant, wbioh waa valued at nearly
11,000,000 waa sold for $30,000.
The London Chronlole'i Romeoor
respondent says: News ha been re
oeivd from Valparaiso that on the in
itiative of Chile, it haa been deoided to
establish between Braail, Chile and
Argentina another commercial agree
ment applying tbe principles of the
Monroe doctrine to South America.
i, Henry Walker, residing near Broken
Bow, Neb., murdered his wife, his ex
cuse being that she had attempted to
poison him, and be killed ber aa a mat
ter of self protection. He purobased a
revolver and deliberately anaoged all
the details. The murderer la a
wealthy farmer, prominent and well
known.
The ooal . produot of the . United
Btatea, for the calendar year 1896,
show the output of the Northwest
state to be: Oregon, 73,685 short ton
produot, valued at $347,001; Washing
ton, 1,191,410 ahort ton, with a valua
tion ot $2,077,908; Montana, 1,489,19$
ahort ton, valued at $3,810,906.
A dispatch from Basse Terre, Island
of Guadloupe.West Indie, aays: i Jap
anese immigrants are again in rebel
lion. The uprising ba beoome so for
midable aa to cause planter grave anx
iety. Tbe colonial government i
adopting drastlo measure to suppress
tbe insurrection, notwithstanding the
stipulations of the treaty.
General Luoiua Fairohild, command-
er-ln-obief of the Loyal Legion and ex-oommander-ln-ohief
ot tbe G. A. R.,
died at bla reaidenoe in Madison, Wis.
General Fairohild bad suffered from
tbe effects ol the grippe fur aeveral
weeks, and a month ago tbe ailment
was oomplloated by kidney . trouble.
Until five day ago, it was thought be
would recover. ,. ... ) '-. '! ',v'..;-'
The senate oommittee on Interstate
oommeroe ba authorised the reporting
of a bill for the uniform classification
ot railroad freight rates framed on tbe
linea reoommended by the national
board of trade. It will require an in
terstate oommeroe commission to pre
pare and publish a classification whioh
shall apply to all sections of the
country.
A Madrid dispatch says: In oonse-
quenoe of tbe representations made by
the Amerioan government, the Spanish
cabinet will try to lnduoe Captain-
General Weyler to reconsider his pro
hibition of the export of loaf tobaooo
to foreign countries, Tbe ediot haa
been welcomed in Spain and Havana,
as a olever blow dealt at the people who
ar considered to be oh let abettor of
the insurrection.
Whole Vanilla Wiped Out ot Kil.tenoe
Tornado Want Mast Through
;' Illinois and Michigan.
De Moines, la., May 87. Forty-
three killed, a More of fatally injured
and about fifty people seriously hurt is,
a near aa oan be estimated tonight, tbe
result of the destructive tornado which
swept portions of Iowa, Illinois and
Kanaaa last night The property loss
i heavy, but accurate estimate thus
far ar impossible. Tbe list of killed
stand follow:
Jasper county, Iowa, 10; Polk coun
ty, Iowa, 9; Rookford county, Iowa,
4; Elgin oounty, Iowa, 1; North Mc
Gregor, Iowa, IS; Durango, Iowa, 6;
Fort Soott, Kan., 3.
The storm wrought it greatest havoo
in Iowa, where the counties of Polk
and Jasper were devastated by two
tornadoes. The loaa of life wa beavieat
there.
Tbe storm originated near tbe town
of Ankeny, ninety-five mile north of
De Moines. A near as oan be ascer
tained from those who saw tbe eight,
two olouds, one from tbe northwest
and one from tbe southwest, met and
dropped down on tbe earth and wrought
their havoo on all that waa loose and
fast Tbe storm moved northeastward
Near the town of Bondurant it killed
its first viotims, the member of the
Bailey family. The storm waa seen
ooiulng from Bondurant Many farm
ers who bad attended the cburoh serv
loes bad been unable to get home before
tbe storm, and their uvea were tbu
saved. Tbe traok of tbe tornado at
thia point waa about a quarter of
mile wide. It passed onward, going
north of tbe town of Santiago. All
along the course the fenoe and build
lugs, crop and tree were completely
destroyed. In place bark waa peeled
from tbe trees, bouse were lifted up
and burled down and broken Into spun
ten; oellar were heaped full of mud,
and debris, often partially ooverlng
those who bad taken refuge in them,
Those who bad fled to oave were in
variably aaved, but so sudden was tbe
approach of tbe storm that many were
unable to find that abetter, though the
oaves were only a few rods from them.
Passing onward the storm struck Va'
lerla. Tbe railroad bridge on the Chi
oago Great Western waa the first object
it wrestled with." The bridge wa com
pletely demolished, and the rails were
twisted and bent out of shape. - Tbe
town wa almost completely ruined.
Tbe buildings were demolished when
they stood in the full force of the
storm, and those which stood along tbe
edges of the storm were moved and
twisted, and in other ways injured. A
sohoolbouse wa taken away 'bodily,
and fragment of it have so far escaped
discovery.'1.
There were some strange pranks
played near this town. ' An old man
holding a babe wa lifted up and
dropped into an adjoining field without
the least injury being done to either
him or tbe child.
Leaving the wreoked town, tbe storm
moved forward, laying tbe oonntry
bare, wrecking bouses and killing the
inmates. One observer near Valeria
who saw the storm and observed it
oarefully, say that the oloud appeared
to be a high balloon, dark green in
oolor, witn a light streak in the can
ter. It traveled at a tremendous rate,
tearing up the largest trees by the roots
or stripping them olean off, driving
posts into the earth, twisting buildings
in tbe edge of its traok, end first, spat
taring the houses close to it with mud
and sand, stripping hedges and licking
the grass from tbe fields. rrom Vale
ria the storm moved on, passing near
the town ot Mingo. f i
Later in the evening, a tornado seems
to have straok near . Manchester, tn
Delaware county, although reports are
very meager from there. It ia possible
that this waa tbe same storm, and that,
after traveling 160 miles in the air, it
onoe more dipped down to the earth
and laid bare a atrip half a mile wide
and six or eight mile long.
THE BERMUDA NEARLY CAUGHT
- Colorado Minors Strike.
Denver, May 37. A special to the
Rooky Mountain News from Louis
ville, Colo., states that the Western
Federation of Miners has called atrike
on the ooal mines operated by the Unit
ed Coal Company and the Citiaens'
Coal Company. . The strike waaoaused
by the discharge of eight men at the
Simpson mine, and was over an old
trouble with tbe oompany in refusing
to reinstate twenty-two men who were
discharged, tbe oompany declining to
adopt tbe schedule under whioh the
men were working. About 600
miner are affected.
: Secession In Pern. '
New York, May 87. A Herald dis
patch from Buenos Ayre aays: The
Herald' correspondent in Manaoa,
Braail, send word that a boat arriving
there from Iquitos, Pern bring news
that Colonel Seminarioa, leader of the
movement to make the department ot
Lore to, Peru, an independent state, has
oalled Into the field all persons able to
carry arms. Colonel Seminarioa has
raised about 8,000 men to resiat the
troop of President Pierola. They have
only old-style arms. A small ateamer
has been armed for servioe on the
Amaaon river. Seminarioa baa issued
proclamation declaring the independ
ence ot the new state.
Dr. Peters, the Afrioan explorer,
about to undertake a new explora
tion of Somaliland under tbe auspices
of a numbr of wealthy Amerioan s. -
Bna a Marrow B.eape From Spanish
Ouuboata.
New York. May 86. New reached
thi oity today from Puerto Cortez,
Honduras, that tbe steamship Ber'
muda, with a large party of filibusters
and a cargo of ammunition and provis
ions, bad a narrow escape from 'being
oaptured by tbe Spanish warship on
ber lust orulse to Cuba. This wi tbe
Bermuda' seoond successful trip.
Sbe crossed the St John's river bar
April 17, in oommand of Captain E.
G. Beilly. Tbe Bermuda hove to at a
place on tbe northern coast of Cuba,
some ten miles east ot Cardenas, and
at onoe began to lower ber boats.
It was said today by one in autboirty
that tbe first boat capsized, being over
loaded, and , that five men were
drowned, among them a brother of
Colonel Nicholas de Cardenas, one of
the insurgent leaders.
The cargo was all landed, when one
of tbe boat got adrift Borne of
tbe party began shouting. Sudden
ly tbe flash of an eleotrio light was
seen directly over tbe ship's masthead,
The shouts of tbe men In tbe boat bad
been beard by a Spanish warship.
There was flash : and a roar, and a
solid abot passed about 800 feet astern
ol tbe snip.
Captain Reilly headed bla ship west
ward, and wa pulling away from tbe
Spaniard very quiokly. A few min
utea after a seoond shot was fired and
went wide. Then it waa disoovered
that two Spanish gunboata were in
pursuit Tbe Bermuda had no trouble
in abowing the Spaniarda ber heels.
Ohlnaaa Counter. elter.
Ban Franolsoo, May 86. At laat the
United States secret servioe authorities
have atruok a lead to the source whenoe
have oome tbe almost perfect imitation
of half dollar circulated throughout
tbe ooaat
It is believed tbe counterfeits,
PACIFIC NORTHWES
Items ot General Interest
From AU Sections.
DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS
All the Cities and Towns of the Paolfl
'. States and Territories -Waehlngtoa.
Spokane 1 about to take a school
census.
Columbia oounty was organized
twenty-one years ago, and has never
bad a poor farm.
Tbe Washington pioneers will meet
at tteattle June 3. This is tbe thir
teenth annual reunion.
Treasurer Mudgett, of Spokane, will
gain about $000 by the reoent supreme
court decision In bis favor. -
William Hume, of the Eagle Cliff
cannery, who ia canning 4-cent flab, re
porta tbe catch tbe lightest sinoe 1864.
There are within tbe oorporate limit
of Cosmopolis, aooording to a census
just completed, 838 males and 198
females.
Receiver Balkwill, of tbe German
American Savinga bank, of Taooma,
ha been discharged of hi trust and
bis aooounts approved.
Cattle, hogs lumber fenoe posts and
oordwood to trade for horses" ia an ad
vetisement out ol the ordinary in a
Columbia oounty paper."
A traveling tight-rope : walker met
with an accident at Port Townaend.
While performing on the wire, it broke
and he fell thirty feet, breaking his
lee-
Potatoes are opening their eyea and
looking up in North Yakima. G. M.
which absolutely defy detection, except MoKinney received an order for tour
under a powerful magnifying glass in carloads last week at $9 per ton in tbe
the hands of a clever expert, were made oar.
by Chinese, in their native land, and Parties recently oomlns from tbe
brought to thia oonntry laat summer by Conoonully oonntry report that a party
members of the troupe of Chinese of surveyors are engaged in laying off
aotora who came to America to perform a townsite along the east side of Boyoos
at the Atlanta exposition. It ia esti- lake on the reservation.
mated that 80,000 of the unauthorized
coins have been disposed ot by tbe
Chinese, and that "Little Pete," tbe
Chinese of reoent raoetrack job no
toriety, wa back of the soheme.
A Disastrous Cloudburst.
Marshalltown, Ia., May 86. A
oloudbnrst today, between Lamoille
and State Center, caused Linn creek,
which flow through this oity, to rise
in one hour from a mere rivulet, to
river a bait mile. wide.. The .Chioago
The jail part of tbe Whitman county
oourthouM ba settled eight inobe, so
twisting the cell and their bearings
that it baa been necessary to remove
tbe prisoners for aafe keeping.
nFor the first time in several seasons,
many ot the farmers around Davenport
are breaking up a lot of prairie land,
which they are preparing for next sea-
ton's crop. Thia year has been un
usually propitious for spring breaking.
Tbe fees earned In tbe auditor'
& Northwestern tracks and roadbed office, in Chehalia county, during tbe
and two bridge near Lamoille were months of January, February, March
seriously damaged, tbe flood destroying and April, amounted to $2,891.16, of
crops and drowning considerable live- wbioh $1,440.80 waa for work done for
stock. A heavy bail aooompanied the
rain. Tbe railroad yards in this oity
are submerged, and dwellings in tbe
lowlands flooded to a depth ot three
feet Some of the residents were res
cued in boats, having narrow escapes.
Railroad traffic cannot be resumed for
a day or two. Iowa river is also on
tbe biggest rampage for fifteen year.
Deadly Gasoline Stove. ,
county and state, and $800.86 waa cash
fee.
Reports from the lower end of Yak
ima oounty indicate that tbe crops of
thi season will be larger than for
many years past The unusual amount
of rain baa proved a blessing to tbe
farmer, especially in the Horse Heaven
section.' -
Walla Walla haa a Daniel Webster,
Chioago. May 86. By the explosion w,no elb over boo pounds and is a
ot a gasoline etove on Townsend street EJgger man wan tne original uanieL
today a family of six persons wa al- He makes no pretense of statesmanship,
most exterminated. Four are dead Dnt butoher by trade. He baa trav-
and a fifth ia so badly burned that f'6" "0M1TeV n tne orient, ano
death ia almost oertain. lived for many yeara in Japan.
Mrs. Malm, tbe wife and mother, Piling ia being driven at Fort Canbv
had arisen to prepare breakast and her for the new life-saving quarters. Great
husband and children were still asleep difficulty is experienced in driving
in .bed. She lighted a gasoline stove, them, on aocount of the rockv nature
of the bottom. Some can only be
driven down eighteen inohea. A gov-1
eminent inspector superintend tne
work.
bark, out from a Douglas fir, which
measured 1 8 inches. Tbe tree was on
Northern Pacific land near Snoqualmie.
For the first time in several seasons,
many of the tanners around Daren
port are breaking up a lot of prairie
land, wbioh they are preparing for next
year' crop. Tbe season ba been un
usually propitious for spring breaking,
The Fierce oounty commissioners
have about yielded to the demands of
bicyclists for a road from Taooma to
Puyallup reservation. It will parallel
the Northern Paoiflo track, and oon-
sent of the federal government has been
obtained. , , ,
According to tbe Blaine Republican,
that place is soon to boast of an ostrich
farm. Tbe pen ia now under construc
tion, and two of our well-known citi
zens have taken the oon tract to furnish
the tomato cms and gravel for feed.
All it needs, evidently, are the os
triches, i. ,
Tbe land commission of Washington
has invested $86,000 more of tbe per
manent school fund in state warrants.
This makea a total of $790,000 of thia
fund Invested in warranta and bonds
of various kinds $604,000 in county
and school district bonds, and $186,000
in state wraranta.
Tbe Seatco Manufacturing Company,
of Buooda, ia building a big flushing
dam on tbe Skookumohuck eleven
miles above the mill. The dam is 10
feet high and 80 feet long, and will
have two X 0-foot flushing gates. It is
figured that with two flushes all the
logs that will be put in will be carried
down tbe river.
The nam of the station "Maxfleld,
on the Northern Paoiflo, at the Nis-
qually river, haa been changed to
Sherlock." the name of the postoffioe
at that point - At aeveral points on
tbe Olympia branch of the Northern
Paoiflo, the name of the station and
postoffioe at tbe same place are differ.
ent, and the Olympian say this Is
rather confusing to those unacquanited
with all the facta.
According to the Yakima Herald,
Professor Lawrence, who haa been look
ing up the prospects of a fruit crop, is
confident that the earlier reports of
damage done by frost are exaggerated.
The crop of Crawford peaches and sil
ver prunes will be rather light but
other fruit has been uninjured. Many
orchards will be so loaded down with
fruit that the tree will have to be
lightened of their load to prevent
breaking down.
County Auditor Hopkins, of Thurs
ton oounty, has issued general fund
warrants for tbe total sum of $14,
806.48 sinoe the supreme court deoided
that the bonded indebtedness of the
county could not figure into it 1 per
cent of legal indebtedness. This sum
is divided among 930 warranta, and
oovers the expene of the county from
August 10, 1894, until May 1, 1896.
Tbe putting Into circulation of $14,000
has given a temporary relief from the
financial strain to a great many residents.
Last week an express wagon from
Aberdeen, carrying two drummers and
their samples, met with an aocident on
the ferry slip, at Hoquiam. The driver
had driven off the ferryboat and nearly
to tbe top of tbe alip, when a trace
broke and the wagon started to run
back, but turned over and spilled
drummers, trunks and all. Tbe boat
bad just started and was hardly off the
landing, but was stopped in tune to
catch the wagon and oontenta, which
would have otherwise landed in several
feet ot water.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
Daily Proceedings in Senate
and House.
IMPORTANT BILLS INTRODUCED
when the reservoir which holds the
supply of oil, exploded, throwing the
burning fluid about tbe room. Before
the sleeping members of the family
oould be ' taken out or even warned,
they were shut in by the flamea and
burned almost to a orlsp.
xne treasury ox snonomisn oounty
haa received notioe that $11,800 ot the
money tied up in the Puget Sound Na
a Woman Miner. ' '. tional bank, of Everett, ia now ready
Baker Citv. Or.. Mav 88 Mra. W. I to be turned over. For the remainder
Afjisworth is the only woman in Ore- of the indebtedness to the county, tbe
gon who can handle a miner' pick in bank proposes to give a first lien on its
regulation style. She and her family, assets.
consisting ot ber husband and four Misa Agne E. Adams, who won the
children, live in Sparta, Or., at the Washington intercollegiate oratorical
edge ol town. When through with her contest at Taooma, representing Whit
household duties, she amuses hereelf I man oollege, is 18 yeara ot age and has
by doing a little plaoer mining, been at Walla Walla three years. Sbe
Three days ago she ground-sluioed a lis from New Hampshire. Both her
patch of ground six feet square, right parents are dead, and she has been
at the back ot her reaidenoe, and aa a making her home with ber aunt, Mrs.
result she added $31 in gold to her pin EUvira Cobleigh,
money, xne ciean-up inoiudea a gold
nugget valued at $7.80. Mr. Ains
worth ia the possessor of some valuable
plaoer ground in tbe vicinity of Sparta,
and a man of considerable means.
, A Skirmish With Garola.
Havana, May 86. Colonel Motons.
near Santa Clara . province, oame in
sight of the insurgent band ot Zayas,
Tbe insurgents abandoned one pris
oner, who declared tnat tbe insurgent
Brigadier-General Tayo waa dead.
Colonel Marito met the Insurgent lead
er, Ednardo Garcia, who, in conjunc
tion with other leaders, bad a force of
8,000 men at the farm ot Vinola, in
Matanzas, near tbe great Southern
swamp, xne battalion ol Alfonso Dooe
opened fire and the- insurgents re
treated, leaving sixteen killed, two
prisoners, their arm and ammunition.
Accidental Daath of a thlld.
Dayton, Or., May 87. A frightful
aocident ooourred near Wheatland, ten
miles south ot here, in which a 6-year-old
sirl of D. Maaill. a farmer, waa
killed. It seem the grandfather of the plnwr of 1849, was buried
A good story ba just got out on the-
Washington militia. It it that, while
they were encamped at Sand island,
the horses they were using to patrol
the beach were taken sick and a veter
inary surgeon waa sent for. On in
quiry he found that the soldier boys
bad been watering the poor brutes On
the brackish water of the Columbia
river. Had tney known it they .oould
have found plenty ot fresh water on
the island by digging five or six feet
through the sand.
Or(on.
It oosta Coos county $146 to send an
insane patient to the asylum.
The Vogt opera house at The Dalles
ia being fitted with new aoenery.
The Washburne mill at Snrinsfield
has put In dynamos for its own eleo
trio lighting. ;., .
The ateamer Moor will take out a
cargo of Coqnllle ooal on her next trip
from oooa bay.
Elisia Bedwell, aged 76 years and a
at Mon-
little girl was coming outot the house, mouth last week,
with the hammers of a gun oooked, to I i K. W. Purdy, treasurer of Whatcom.
shoot a Chinese pheasant, whioh waa has begun suit against tbe persona on
near tne nouse, ae stum Died and both
barrel of the gun were discharged.
the contents entering one of the lower
limbs of the little girl near the bip,
and entirely severed the limb from the
body. Tbe ohild died soon after from
loss of blood.
the guarantee bond for the oounty
money deposited in the Bellingham
Bay National bank. Tbe amount
looked up In tbe bank is $7,898. 18. :
Kinsey Bros., official photographers
of the Seattle, Lake Shore A Eastern teotion to work this property quite ex
rniiruau, rouauu sent m a sample oi tenstvejy irom now on.
: Idaho Mining Notoa.
, The Campbell tunnel at the Standard
mine ia now in 1,730 feet -;
A new mining diatriot ha been or
ganised in thia state. It ia on Indian
creek . and will be known by the same
name. .
' The flume for the Standard mine is
now 6,000 feet long. Some heavy
work is now being enooun tared In
blasting rock. , ,
The old Granite mill near Gem ia
being put in condition for use. A
tramway is alBO being erected oonnoet
ing the railroad siding with tbe ore
bin a. ,. , .,
The oapaoity of the mill of the Blaok
Jack mine is being considerably In
creased and many other needed im
provements are being made in and
about tbe plant
The Consolidated Tiger-Poonnan
Company at Burke ia now employing
about sixty men. Good headway is be
ing made in clearing the debria and
getting ready to ereot the new milling
plant
The Frisco shaft ia down 400 feet,
and as soon aa the station is cut the
new level will be started. A fine body
of ore was struck in the banging wall
at the 400-foot point The ore ia of a
better grade than has ever been found
in the mine.
Montana Mining Kotaa.
' The Butte & Boston , company have
leased tbe Blue Jay mine down to the
000-foot level to Messrs. White A
Farry. Several other properties of the
oompany have been leased in similar
manner. , . ...
Work has been commenced on the
Copperopolis mine near White Sulphur
Springs. It was recently bonded to
Chioago parties, Lumber and necessary
maohinery is being shipped to sink the
present shaft, whioh is now 100 feet
deep, ;
Tbe Butte miners' union la already
making great preparstiona for their
annual meeting whioh takes place in
that oity June 18. There will be a
street parade and speaking during the
day and wind up in tbe evening with
a ball. ,: ........ ;
' The Anaconda Company baa com
menced work on the old Buffalo mine
in the Centerville district The founda
tion for a new hoisting plant is now
being built ' It is tbe company' in
nbstaneo of the Measure. Being Coti-'
aldarad by tha Ilfty-Fourth
. Session Senate. :-.r.:'
Washington, .May 88. The fortifica
tions bill, whioh passed the senate yes
terday, appropriated the liberal sum of
$10,768,888. After the committee on
coast defense concluded it invetiga
tions, tbe bouse committee on appro-1
prlation availed itself of information
obtained by the senate coast-defense
committee; it also followed up the in
vestigation and concluded to appropri
ate $0,840,887. Thia waa beyond all
precedent departure in the line of '
coast defenses, but the senate, not '
content with this, and after due oon
lideration in the oommittee on appro
priation, increased the amount by $4,-'
918,001. Senator Squire was invited -'
to sit with the senate oommittee dur-'
ing its review of the subject, snd mat-'
ten in question were thoroughly oon- '
sidered. The main question of the im- '
portanoe of having this appropriation
made was conceded without objection
in tbe senate so the bill passed unani
mously. Washington, May 80. In tbe senate
today Butler renewed tbe motion to .
take up the bill prohibiting the issue
of interest-bearing bonds. After some
sparring Hill interposed tbe objection :
that thia waa too Important a question
to be oonsdered "without a quorum."
This wa the first evidence of a renew-
al of the obstruction. A quorum being :
found quiokly, the motion was adopt- '
ed, tbe vote being ayes, 84, noes, 80. '
With tbe understanding that the But-
ler bill should not be prejudiced, a bill '
wa passed to quiet titlei to land to
person who bad purchased in good -faith,
without notioe, and for a valu-
able consideration, to enable the gov
ernment to issue patents on such lands -and
providing that commutations of ;
homestead entries shall take effect .
from the date of settlement and not
from the date of entry.
Washington May 27. The general
deficiency appropriation bill, the laat
of tbe supply bills, was before tbe sen- -
ate throughout the day and passed just '
before adjournment It temporarily
diaplaoed tbe bill to prohibit the issue ':
ot bonds. Aa passed, the bill carries ';
about $10,000,000, an increase of $6,
000,000 over the house bill Tbe most
important amendment agreed to up to '
3 o'clock was that of $1,643,979, to the
Southern Paoiflo oompany for tbe
transportation ot mails. At 3 o'clock "
the bond bill was formally laid befoie '
the senate, and Pritobard waa recog
nised, but after some discussion the
bond bill waa informally laid aside
and the consideration of the deficiency '
bill continued. All the committee 7
amendments were agreed to. :
Bouao
Washington, May 28. So much of .
the time of the house was occupied to- .
day in considering the president's veto .
of the bill to pension Francis E. Hoover,
a private in the Sixty-fourth Ohio vol- ;
unteer infantry, and in listening to a .i
personal explanation from Grosvenor
relative to a newspaper misrepresenta
tion of his position on the subject of r
reciprocity, that the time for tbe debate
on the Phillips commission bill was
extended. Tbe bill provides for the
appointment by tbe president of a non- i
partisan commission . of twenty-one,
seven representatives eaoh from labor, ,(,
agriculture and business oi roles, to ool- -,
leot information and oonaider and -
recommend legislation to meet prob- 3
lema presented by labor. The author. i
of the bill made the prinoipal argument :
today.,. .. ... ... ,. ,!.';",
Washington,' May 80. The Phillips '
labor commission bill, which waa to
have oome to a vote in the house today
under the special order, was completely '
crowded out by the conference report '
on tbe river and harbor, and sundry '
oivil bills. The conference report on '
the river and barbor bill, whioh re-
ported an agreement on all the items !
save that relating to the Santa Monica :
and San Pedro harbors, was made the 1
basis of a very bitter attack on tbe bill J
by Hepburn and Dookery- The latter '
said be opposed this measure because it '
contained riotous appropriations not :
warranted by the condition of tbe treaa-
ury. He said he realized that his re- '
marks would not be ponotuated by ap-
plause. At the night session, Cum- '
mings made a stirring speech, appeal- ;
iog to bis Demooratio friends not to
stand in the way of meritorious pen
sion bills. Twelve bills were favor- .
ably acted on.
Washington, May 87. Shortly after ..
the opening of the session today, the
house went into a oommittee of the t
whole to oonsider tbe bill to repeat the .
free-aloohol olauae of the existing tariff i
law. Evans, in charge of the bill, '
opened the debate in support ot the t
measure, explaining the necessity of
the legislation. He said tbe bill would
not affect the claims now pending, 1
amounting to $10,000,000. Evans"
offered the amendment to the bill
whioh had been agreed upon a a oom- '
promise by some of the friends and op' ,
ponenta of the measure. It provided "
for a joint oommittee of three member
from eaoh bouse of oon great to consider '
all questions relating to the free use of '
aloohol in the arts, , to report their '"
conclusions to onngrew in December. "
At 0 o'clock the oommittee rose.'."
Strode presented the majority report in 1
the contested election oass of Martin
vs. Lookhart, from the sixth North
Carolina distriot, and at 0:10 ththoas
adjourned.
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