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3 OREGON-M nn ST. HELENS, OREGON; FRIDAY, JUNE 2G, 1896.. NO. 27. VOL. 13. r EVENTS OF THE DAY Epitome oi the Telegraphic Newa of the World. TERSE TICKS FROM TUB WIRES Anltretln Colle.tlonof Item from tb. Two llauilaphera rraMnUd la a Oond.uMd Furui. President Cleveland will take no no tion at to the Cuban rebellion. , John M. Thornton, of Nebraska, waa made permanent obalrman ot tha Her publican national convention at St. Louis. -. . ' Adolpb Fadelford ii dead In Pari. Ha waa tha tha husband of Bottina Gtrard, the aotreta, whom ha paid 120,000 to drop her name. The pump home of the North End Water Worka, Taooma, waa burned down, leaving that entire aeotlon of the city without water for a day. Parah Blaokburn obtained verdlot at Oregon City from the Bouthern Pa olfio Railway Company for 13,000 for the killing of Mark Blaokburn, by train at a atreet oroaalng. As a remit of the recent warn weatbor rlvert and oreekt in Idaho are booming, and landt in many plaoea ate overflowed. It la estimated thai damage to the amount of 1111,000 baa i been done to the road between Wallace and Osborne. Owing to poor attendance and bad weather, the Portland baseball club of the Paoiflo leange, baa been flabauded. The Seattle club followed suit. Ta coma will make an effort to hold to- ether. An effort will be made to bave deaultory gamea throughout the eummer. v..-" . John Connor ahot Mamie Mulligan three timea in the bead, in Chisago, lie then ahot hlmielf through the right temple. lie ia dead. The girl li not ejpeoted to live. The deed waa com mitted becauie the girl would not marry bim. Connora ia 45 year old, and Mia Mulligan ia 16. The British steamer Drommond Cat tie, Captain N. M. I'lerie, from Cape Town, for London, collided with an unknown steamer near Brett, Franoe. She cank In thro minute with 144 paaaenger and 103 officer and crew on board. Two men were picked up by a fishing boat. The fate ot the ateamer with which she collided la not known. News of a terrible aarthanake. ln volving the lots of over a thousand Uvea, has reached Yokohama from the island of Yeaao, which oootalns tbt the final ratification ot the constltu northern nrovinooa of Japan. The tluial amondment by which Vene subterraneous disturbano lasted about twenty boors, and during tbat period the ntmoat terror prevailed. Ground rutnblinga are described a resembling th roar ot distant cannon. Shook fol - lowed abock almost In uninterrupted nooeaaion. In all i was estimated that about 180 ehook occurred. Tbe whole town of Kumaiobl ia destroyed by a tidal wave, which accompanied the earthquake. Many disasters to hipping are reported from the tldl wave. A year-old baby fell ont ot a fourth storv window in Chioaso tbe other day and sustained no serious damage, lie lit in a mndhole. Th banka at Cheney, Wash., sus pended payment ana lauoa w upon their floora. iiara inw m maouuy to make ooiieotion are w " - signed for tbe failure. A young man named Conway, a brakeman on a gravel train, fell be - tween two oar of the moving tram near Arlington, ur., ana naa hi right leg crushed In two plaoea. The coroner' Jury impaneled to In vestigate tbe fatal shooting of Charlea Rioe, near Roseborg, returned a verdict of willful mnrder against James Dix on, the boy who fired the fatal ahot A 16-year old boy named Charlea Wyatt accidentally ahot and killed himself with a aa-oallber rifle near Centralla, Wash., while out hnutiiv In oompaoy with another lad of abuut bl own age. By a fire at Hoqulam, Wash., the mill ot the Northwest Lumber Com- vany wa destroyed, and tbe barkentlna North Bend, Wbion wa taxing on a etrgo at tbe dock, waa damaged to tha extent of 11,000. - The amount ot tbe damage to th mill baa not been esti mated. , Tbe Goodrich reservoir, fifteen mile from Baker City, broke, and a great volume of water rushed down the guluh about tour miles, where it jumped from Goodrioh creek to Pine creek. About three mile further the flood truok R. French' bouse and dashed It to pieoec, drowning th family, oon Isting ot th parent and five child ren, agea ranging from 8 to 18 year. The bodle were found scattered along tbe oreek a distance of two mile. Tbe clothing wa torn off and the bodle mangled. Large pine tree were car ried mile down the stream and fenoea and bridges were swept away. Grain ld ar badly damaged. Tbe reser voir wa constructed in 1808 and ha been used for mining purpose. , ladloa War V.taraas. The grand encampment of Indian war veterans ot th Paciflo Northwet was held in Portland this week, pre sided over by Grand Commander Thos. A. Wood, and Otto Kleemann acting as grand adjutant The representation of members was unusually large, and wa augmented by a large attendance of tbe women' auxiliary, embracing in wive ana aaugnter or tne sturdy , t men, wno in me earner matory ox the th Arab ohieft against tne BrH'sn. nas rgte Q. d a jwn MtA. Eight Northwest protected their bomea and been massacred to a man, it oonflrmed. i pf the pa,,engerl wew internally in fatnlliee from the hostile savages. Th Th member of the DeMore expedition .red grnd wer, takeB hospital, but aaHttsc lutfid U tf7 ! wer killed near Cadema. tl i, 00t thought any deaths will follow. ' Mini Brought to Trial, A Cape Town dlipatoh lay the too reUry of itate for the Transvaal bai telegraphed the British high oommit iloner there tbat, having in view the welfare and peaoe of South Afrloa, the Tranivaal government ia oonvlnoed that the proofa in iti possession, which are at the disposal of Great Britain,' now completely Juatlfy and oompel the bringing to trial of Cecil Rbodoa, A1-, fred Beit and Dr. Hurrii, all of tbel British Booth Afrloa Company, and oonneotod with the raid into the Irani vaal. The aeoretary adda, that the Tranavaal aeoretary la obliged to preii tbiaj atep on Great BriUln, and alao to orge that all control of the British: Chartered South Afrloa Company be transferred to Great Britain. ' Ttae.Tu.tlra Waa lpdy. Faal Ksmaane, a kanaka, waa bang ed in tha prlaon corridor in Folaom, Cal., for the murder of Mr a. Ellen Boblnaon at Lntrobe, Eldorado county, on May 8, 1800. The eseoution waa deovld of aenaatlonal inoldents, and waa witnessed by only the few persont required by law. The murderer died without a word or a tremor on the scaffold. He waa pronounoed dead esaotly 11 mtuutee after the fall of the drop, bia neck being broken. It waa the quickest execution on record, the body being out down Just IS mlnutea after the prlaoner left hit cell. ' rw Troop. Will be Moved. The programme for the annual move meut ot troopa hna been definitely ar- ranged at laat, and the neotaary oraera will go forward at once to department sommandera. There will be much ' diaappolntment over the fact tbat with the exception of two oompanlea of the m infantry, -be movement! are eon- oned to two regiments. It la under- stood tbat lack of fundi It the otuae for , limned orange Ton TXon.and Drown.d. A Yokohama dispatch aaya: It 1 animated that 10,000 people were drowned by the tidal wave on the ialaod of Yeeao, In the northern part of Japan, whioh aooompanied a auooession of frightful earthquake laating about twenty hour. In addition to the town of Kumaaaia, whlob waa wholly de stroyed, many other ooaat towna have been washed away entirely ox In part Th atrlao BHoatloa. Every cannery on the lower Colum bia river i in operation, some of them taxed to their ntmoat capacity to handle the catch of flab, and it look If the fishermen' strike 1 about over for this year. vnaia for Gold. Minister Andrada, of Veneanela, baa' 'received adviooa from Caracas aa to I tela adopts the gold standard. . fortono'. favorlto. . George Delong, who bad been pick- ' log strawberries in Benton uaroor, ! Mion , has fallen belr to a fortune of 1150.000 by the death of an uncle la .th bt. 14ui orusuo. ' Five to Bo Haned. ; Judge Parker, of the federal oourt, ot Fort Smith, Ark., haa sentenced Dennis Davie, Goorge W. Wilson, Frank Carver. Jesse and John Nonce 'to be hanged July 9, tor murders coin muted in th Indian territory. Carver . killed bi mistress, Annie Maledon. Tiiis is tbe second time he and Davit bave been sentenced. . an.., nt.ii.it. Qf ft iiWw boU,OB pal(A w .aerthe act of Joly 14. 1890. there are now on band 188,098,468 fine ounoe; the ooat ot tbi bullion is 1110,941,056; 1 it oolning value $178,641,414. Tbe total number or auver oouara ouiuou from bullion purchased under the aot ot July 14, 18U0, to June 1. 1896, wa 40,104,661. Upon this coinage there wa a seignorage or profit of 10, 117,834. : Patlar. a WmU.i od. ' a T. Patterson, of Taooma, ha been elected commander ot the U. A. R. for the department of Washington and Alaska. Drowned In tbo ITmoMlla. A young ton ot A. B, Hogne, of Pen dleton, while playing on a footlog over the Umatilla river, lost bia balance and toll into the rapidly running .tream and wa drowned. Hi body bat not been reooverea. Borlal of tbo froaob rarallr. The burial of the Frenob family, tbe vlotlm of tbe reservoir disaster at Baker City, took plaoe in that city, the even bodie all being interred in one grave. The funeral wat the most im pressive, and tbe bodies were followed to the cemetery by a prooeeaion of ear riage one mil In length. . Outbreak of Natives. A new outbreak ot the native of Matabeland oooorred between Umtali and Salisbury. At a meeting in that vicinity June 9, of a number of obiefa under Makonl, all exoept fonr agreed to revolt, and several whites wers mur dored. , General Dlmond Is Oaad. General W. M. Dim on d, of the Cali fornia National Guard, died at the Gilsey house la New York. Hold-Cp Near Bakor City. The MoEwen-Canyon City stage was held up., tlx miles from MoEwen, Or., by two masked men armed with re volvers. They relieved one paaaenger of tl8 and then emptied the mall sacks, taklug all they deemed valuable. Mm. acred to a Man. The report that the party headed by the MarquU de Mores, consisting of 85 m.n tinnnd for the Soudan to enlist ujou, . ( MILITIA AND A MOB. Troops W railed Out lo Prvnt a Lynulihig. : Boaeburg, Or , June 28. Upon the reqnest of the mayor, Governor Lord ordered ont the militia here last night to protect prisoner Jamet Dixon, who ahot and killed Charles Bice, on the 14th, from mob violence. The order hid the desired effect. The mob, bearing thit the jail waa well guarded, did not come. Sheriff Cathoart took the prisoner to Engoue for safe keeping on the north-bound overland. Having walked a short distance. Cathcart sig naled the train, and getting on board with bl prisoner, waa soon beyond the reaob of the would-be lj n ibert. The flrat intimation tbat an attempt would be made to lynch Dixun waa last night, when John Dixon, a brother of the murderer, rode iut Rotoburg and Informed the sheriff thnt a large mob was forming at Blakcsloj 't, the scene ot the crime, with the intention of proceeding to Boaeburg and demand ing the prlaoner. . The sheriff and hi deputies at once made preparations for defending their charge, but at latt, fearing that the mob would be too strong for them to oope with, a consultation was held with the mayor of the city, which re sulted in a request being made upon Governor Lord for aid. The crime for which Dixon is await ing trial was the murder of Charles Rio at a ball game near Blakesley's, on hist Sunday. The two young men were old ene miea, and their quarrel was reopened over a decision concerning the game, when, after a few hot word between them, Dixon drew a revolver and fired twice at Rioe, both shot taking effect, and resulting in the instant death of the young man. THE STRIKE IS OFF, riibarntoa'a Union Hat Formally Voted ' to Oo to Work. Astoria, June 88. At a meeting of the flabermen'a union, held tonight, under a call made for tbat purpose by the executive committee this afternoon, the strike wa formally deolared off, by a majolrty of 67, in a total vote of 460. m anticipation of tbe action oi tne meeting, the men bave been applying all day at the oannerle for their nets. 1 Tbe militia bave left for their homes. ' It It asserted byalltheflthermentbat the compromise oomea at a late day, a few, if any fish bave been coming into ' the river during the last few days. The oatche last night were uniformly Urge, one ot the Scandinavian Packing Copmany'i men being paid 1 1 63 for bis night' work, while few of them delivered loss than 3,000 pounds. The appearance of tbe fish indicate tbat they bave been lu tbe river for , some day st least, and it ia predicted tbat as soon aa all the boat are out, the river will qutokly be cleared ot fish, and small catobe will be th rule until the July run oomea. Folly ot a Driver. Atlantlo City, N. J., June 23 Three men were instantly killed and a fourth probably fatally injured in a ornda ertMaincr accident at Abaecon to- f. u , dev. Tha dead are: Georce Hober. ' a ui an. tt.j l. u. no t uwi iw. mwwqa, mi ww.., v, . Germanta, Uiis county, and Harry Henbelor, of Philadelphia. The in jured man ia George Sahl, ot Gallo way. The men were crossing the traok in a wagon drawn by a pair of spirited horses when tbe accident oo oorred. Nearing the traok, the driver attempted to beat tbe approaohing Cnmdon express train aoross the traok. The train was running at the rate of sixty mile an hour. Tbe Ruber were thrown under the wheela and ground to piece. Henbelor was thrown agaiuat the station, with a horse upon him.. ..,. : y v.;..'. VneallncM In Rialn. London, June 88. -A dlapatoh from Madrid to the Dally Mail aaya: The platform adopted in St Louis oaute great uneasiness in Spain, and it it feared a conflict with the United State haa now alomst a fixed date. The government ha hastened to boy two 13,000 ton lronolads at Genoa, at a price whioh a few day ago wa thought to be exoesslve. A great part ot the loan of 100,000 peseta made by Rothschilds on tbe Almadln quioksllver mines will probably be im mediately applied to such warsihsp at re now for tale. The government, responding to the undoubted national aentimeut, and trusting probably to the help of other powers, seeing re solved to resist Amerioan impositions. Result of Bblrmlahes. ' Havana, June 23. As a result ot skirmiahet In Pinar del Rio, Havana and Santa Clara provinces, the insur gents have sustained a loss ot nineteen killed, eleven wounded and four pris oners, while the troops had three killed and five wounded. On aooount of the alleged outrages committted throughout the country, many families are moving into tbe towna.. Monthly Berenue ttatameul. Washington," June 88. The monthly statement ot the internal revenue bu reau shows that during May, 1896, the reoeiptt form all sources amounted to 111,464,490, as oompared with $10, 768,490 during May, 1895. ' - ,, , A I'aoullar Aeoldeut. Philadelpiha, June 88 More than twenty paasengers on two ' open trolley oar were injured tonight in a peouliar aooident.at Franktord, a suburb ot this oity. One ot the oars wat returning from and the other going to a nearby pleasure park. They ran on parallel traokt. Both were to crowded that many of the passengers were on the sideway footboards, and when the ears Kiceinpteu fcu uoaa n,uu uiuu attempted to pass eaoh other at a rapid MoKlnley for President, Ho , bart for Vice-President. NOMINATED ON FIRST BALLOT Tbrllllng lenn la tko Ball Wbon . Baanlt Won A uoun4 -Sllvor Hon ; BolWd tb Gold Itaadard Platform. St Louis, Ma The Republican na tional convention ha nailed it prin cipal to the masthead and plaoed in Dommanc of the ship, whiob i to bear it to fortune or disaster in November, its popular idol, William MoKlnley, of Ohio, and Garret A. fiobart, of New Jersey. But there waa mutiny aboard, and, before the linea were oaat off, some of the member of the crew who had shipped on many a voyage refused to subscribe to the new ahipping artiole and walked down the gang plank.. Vote by Btato. fur f ro.ldent. STATES. Alabama Arkanau. .,. , California ....... Colorado , Connecticut ..... Ijf-lawara Florida , , Ueorala Ma bo Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky , Louisiana Maine Maryland Mapfiachusetts .. Mlchlxan Mlnneaota ....... MlKslKIIDpl , MlfnourI Montana Nebraaka Nevada New Hampihlre. New Jeraey...... New York., North Carolina.. North Dakota... Ohio Oretton lVnnsylvanl ... Itho.li, iHland.... 26, 8 80 261 20! 20 Ml 1 12 Hi 811 18: 18 17 34 1 IS 3 17 19V4: 8 is' s 24 21 a 8 23 8 South Carolina.... South Dakota. 1""' u(ah Xfr"1.0"' whiirfon'.V. v phi v irigiiua, Wisconsin 13 31 6 I t 4 Wyoming" Arisona New Mexico Oklahoma Indian Territory Diet, ot Columbia. Alaska Total 922661'4;84t! Vota by at. for Vloo.Pnaldent. STATES. Alabama ... Arkansas , California ., Colorado .... Connecticut Delaware ... Florida Georgia ..... t 6 t 'iV 12 8 20 t 'ii' .14 1 t 13 10 1 16 "T 20 72 lu.iig Illinois J nano Indiana Iowa Kinai Kentucky t l-ioulatana ........ ! Maine , ' Maryland Maasachuaelts ., MIchlKan I Mlnneaota r. ' M!Mlsalpi)l , , Missouri Montana Nebraska : Nuvuda i New Hampshire ., New jersey Now York North Caiollna , North Dakota ' Ohio Oregon SOW -1 36 8 S4 .... 8 'ii' s 8 "T 13 3 t 4 "4" i 4 IS I'pimsyivania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota .... Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia , Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Arisona Now Mexico Oklahoma Indian Territory Dlstrlot ot Columbia... Alaska ., Totals 853'Al aw: S9 The last day ot the convention was ! held in session for ten boors to aooom I pliah the work ont out for it, and the ' scenes at different timea were tragio, dramatioand inspiring. Fully 15,000 people were in the vast auditorium to hia or cheer by turn. The bolt of the silver men from the West furnished tbe moat dramatic in cident ot the day. -Led by Senator Teller, they had previously deolared their intention ot refusing to subscribe to the gold plank In the platform, but, after Senator Teller had made bit final appeal to the oonvention not to take the step whioh would drive him and hit oolleagues ont of the ranks of the party which in tbe past honored them, and they had delighted to serve, the oonvention had voted, 818M to 106, to stand by the gold declaration in the platform. When Senator Taller made bia declaration, aaying: "I moat lever my connection with the political party whioh makes the gold plank one of the prinolpal arttolea of ita faith," he panted and twpet hit eyet aoroet the hall. The galleries rote with a yell, and mingled with the yell wat a fusl ladeof hisses. There wat b-pathos In the senator's voloe, and those nearest could deteot a glimmer of tears while be taid there would be heartburnings and grief in the taorlfloe he and hia colleagues were to make tor their oon sciences. Cheers then oame from the silver delegate and tbe gold men were on their feet from the admiration ot the man, not ot bia cause. Tbe hisaea were few thit time. r- No one who witnessed tbe soenes will forget them to bia dying day, the pio- tore of Senator Frank Cannon, of Utah, facing from the platform 10,000 irate, biasing, jeering people, aa be read the valedictory of the silver men. The very oourage displayed by him won for him the admiration wblob compelled silence. When be bad fin ished be turned and ehook bands with tbe chairman and other friends on tbe platform. He then locked arms with Senator Teller, and the two men left tbe stand and moved down between the walls of yelling delegates to where tbe standard ot the Idaho delegation stood. There thy were joined by tbe . handsome, stalwart Dubois, and the three con tinued their march to the main door, their followers falling in behind them as they left tbe building. Carter and Mantle of Montana, kopt their aeats, signifying their willingness to abide by tbe plartfom. Tbe silver men who bolted imme diately perfected plans to place Senator Teller in nomination at an independent silver candidate for president After tbi sensational incident tbe convention turned to tbe work of selecting the standard-bearers. It was a foregone conclusion that McKinley would be nominated. Baldwin, ot CounoiL Bluffs, nomi nated Allison, Senator Lodge nominat ed Reed, Hastings nominated Quay, Denew nominated Morton, and For- aker, in a masterly effort wblob turned the convention into bedlam, nominated MoKlnley. Save for tbe tumult that followed Woloott'i speech placing Blaine in nomination four years ago, the demon, stration bad no parallel in the nation at least in length. The applause lasted twenty-seven minutes. . Just at the olose of the shouting thousands were ready to sink from sheer exhaustion. Altogether tbe scene wa a remarkable one, and testified to the popularity of the candidate who had been plaoed in the field. Tbe ballot was then taken and Mo Kinley's vote exceeded the expectation of hia frienda, as he received 661 , within a vote and a half of 200 more than a majority, and almost three timea aa many at hia five opponent. Major William McKmtey. The nomination was made unanim ous with enthusiastic speeches from tbe representative! of the other candidates. After the decision ot the Piatt forces not to present the name ot Governor Morton, the nomination of Hobart, of New Jersey, for vioe-prjsident, became a certainty. The McKinloy force was thrown for bim, whiob waa too potent to overcome, besides, it waa the general sense of the delegates that the situa tion required the nomination of an Eastern man for vice-president The nominating speeches were brief. Bulkley, of Connecticut; Llppitt, of Rhode Island, and General Walker, of Virginia, were alao plaoed in nomina tion, but it only required one ballot to determine the result Hobart received 680 votes, 00 more than a majority. Evans, his nearest competitor, received 280s. There were scattering votea for Reed, Thurston, Grant, Depew, Morton and Brown. PLATFORM ADOPTED. Protective Tariff, Reciprocity and tbe , Gold Btandard. The platform adopted by the national Republican oonvention it aa follows: "The republicans of the United States, assembled by their representatives in na tional convention, appealing for the popu lar and historic jua:lHcation ot their claims to the matchless achievements of 30 years ot republican rule, earnestly and confi dently address themselves to the kwak ened Intelligence, experience and con science ot their countrymen, in the follow ing declaration of faols and principles: "For the tlrst time since the civil war, the American people have witnessed the calamitous consequences of full and unre stricted democratic control of the govern ment. It haa been a record of unparal leled Incapacity, dishonor and disaster. - "In administrative management. It has ruthlessly sacrificed Indispensable revenue, entailed an unceasing deficit, eked out or dinary current expenses with borrowed money, piled up the publlo debt by fcM-',-(Xti.001) In .lime of peace, forced an adverse balance- of trade, kept a perpetual menace hanging over tha redemption fund, pawned American credit to alien syndicates, and reversed all the measure, and results of successful republican rule. "In the broad effect of Its policy, It has precipitated panic, blighted Industry and trade with prolonged depression, closed factories, reduced work and wages, halted enterprise and crippled American produc tion while stimulating foreign production for the American market. Every consider ation of publio safety and Individual In terest: demands that tha government shall be rescued from the bands of those who have shown themselves Incapable to con duct It without disaster at home and dis honor abroad, and shall be restored to the panly which for SO years administered It with unequaled suocesa and prosperity, and In thla connection wa heartily Indorse the wisdom, patriotism and success of the administration of President Harrison. "Wo renew and emphaalsie our allegiance to the policy of protection aa the bulwark of American Industrial Independence and the foundation of American development and prosperity. This true American policy taxes foreign produots, encourages home Industry, and puts the burden of revenue on foreign goods; it Beoures -the American mar ket for the American producer; It upholds the American standard of wages for the American worklngman; It puts the factory by the slda of the farm and makes the American farmer less dependent on foreign demand and price; It diffuses general thrift and founds the strength of all on the atrenguh of eaoh. In Its reasonable appli cation It Is Just, fair and Impartial; equal ly opposed to foreign control and domestic monopolv; to sectional discrimination and Individual favoritism. "We denounce the present democratic tariff as sectional, Injurious to the public credit and destructive to business enter prise. We demand such an equitable tar iff, on such foreign Imports as come Into competition with American products, as will not only furnish adequate revenue for the necessary expenses of the government, but protect American labor from depreda tion the wage level of other lands. "We ar. not pledged to any particular sohedules. The question of rate. Is a praatloal question, to ba governed by th -a. f' V-VOT-'''- A'Xv -V V'... . -A it. ' J. . conditions of the time and of production) the ruling and uncompromising principle ! th protection and development ot American labor and Industry. The country demands a right settlement and then it wants rest. Wa be ev th repeal of the reciprocity arrangements negotiated by th. las re publican administration wa. a national disgrace, and we demand their renewal and extension on such term, as will equal ize our trade witn otner nations, remove tne restrictions which now obstruct the sale of American products In the port, of other countries, and secure enlarged mar- ktit. for tha product of our farms, forest. and factories. 'Protection and reciprocity ar. the twin measure, of republican policy, and go hand in hand, ljemoi ratio rule ha reck lesitly strur k down both, and both must be re-established. Protection, for what w produce; free admission for the necessaries of life which we do not proaajc; recip rocal agreement of mutual Interests which gain open markets In return for our open markets to other, protection build. up domestic Industry and trade and se cures our own market for ourselves; re ciprocity builds up foreign trad and find an outlet for our surplus. -vve conuemn tne present administra tion for not keeping faith with the suaar producer of this country. The republican party favgr such protection a will lead to ie production on American oil, ox au the sugar which tha American oeocle use. and for which they pay other countris mure man .iw.wo.utM annually. 10 an oi our products to tnose or tne mine and field, as well as those of the sheep and the factory to hemp, to wool, the product of the great industry of aheep husbandry, as well as to the flnUhed wool en of the mill, we promise th most ample protection. "We favor restoring the early American policy of discriminating duties for the up building of our merchant marine, and the protection of our shipping Interests in th foreign-carrying trade, so American ships, the product ot American labor, employed in American shipyards, sailing under tha Stars and Btrlpts, and manned, officered, and owned by Americans, may regain the carrying of our foreign commerce. "The republican party la unreservedly for sound money, it caused the enact ment of the law providing for the r sumptlon of snecie Davments In lOTD: ilnu then every dollar has been a good a. ukj, we are unaiieraoiy opposea 10 every measure calculated to debase our currency or Impair the credit of our country. "We are, therefore, opposed to the free coinage of silver except by international u,m .TinLi i, nim tur leaning commercial nations of the world, which we pledge ourselves to promote, and until such agreement can be obtained the existing gold standard must be pr served. "All our silver and paper currency must b maintained at parity with gold, and w i " uieure aesignea to maintain. Inviolably, tbe obligations at th l ni,4 States, and all our money, whether cola or paper, at the present standard, the standard of the most enlightened nation, of the earth. "The veterans of the Union armies de serve and should reoelve kind treatment and generous recognition. .Whenever pintHR-Mitie iney snouia oe given the pref erence In the matter of employement, and thev are entitled tn the ,ni.tm.n, A ...,.u laws as are best calculated to secure tha fulfillment of th pledge, made to them In the dark day. of the country' peril. We denounce the nrac-tic in th !... bureau, so recklessly and unjustly carried on by the present administration, of re- ! duclng pensions and arbitrarily dropping names from the roll, as deserving the severest condemnation of th American people. "Our foreign policy should be at all times, firm, vigorous and dignified, and all our Interests In the w, stern hemisphere t artfully watched and guarded. The Hawaiian Islands should be controlled by the United States, and no foreign power should be permitted to Interfere with them; the Nicaragua canal should be built, owned, and operated by the United State and by the purchase of the Danish island, we should secure the proper and much needed naval station In tbe West Indies. The maasAcma in a ,nl..i. aroused the deep sympathy and Just In dignation of the American people, and we believe the United States hould exert all the Influence It can properly exsrt to bring these atrocities to an end. In Turkey American resident have been exposed to the gravest dangers and American proper ty destroyed. There, aa everywhere, Amer ican citizens and American property must be absolutely protested at all haiards and at any cost. "We reassert the Monroe doctrine In Its fullest extent, and we reaffirm the right of tho United States to give the doctrine effect, by responding to the appeals of any American state for friendly Intervention In case of European encroachment. "We have not interfered and shall not In terfere with the existing possessions of any Kuropean nower in thi hemisphere, but those possessions must not, on any pretext, be extended. We hoiwfully look forward to the eventual withdrawal of the European power from this hemisphere and to the ultimate union of all the English-speaking part of the continent by the free consent of Its Inhabitants. "From .the hour of achieving their own independence, the people of the United States have regarded with sympathy th. struggles of our American people to free themselves from European domination. Wa watch with deep and abiding Interest the heroic battle of the Cuban patriots against cruelty and oppression, and our beat hope go out for the full success of their deter mined corkiest for liberty. - "The government of Spain, having lost control of Cuba, and being unable to pro tect the property or live of resident American cltiiena. or to comply with its treaty obllgailons, we believe the govern ment of the United States should actively use Its Influence and good offices to re store peace and give Independence to the island. "The peace and security of the republls and 'the maintenance of It rightful Influ ence among the nations of the earth, de mand a naval power commensurate with its position and responsibility. Wa. there fore, favor the continued enlargement of the navy and a complete system of harbor and seacoast defenses. "For the protection of the quality of our American citizenship and the wages ot our worklngmen against the fatal competi tion of low-priced labor, we demand that tne immigration laws oe inoroughly en forced and so extended as to exclude from entrance to the United States those who can neither read nor write. "The civil service law was placed on the statute books by the republican party, which has always sustained it, and w re new our repeated declarations that it shall be thoroughly and honestly enforced and extended wherever practicable. "We demand that every eitlsen ot the United States shall be allowed to cast one free and unrestricted ballot, and that such ballot be counted and returned aa cast. "We proclaim our unqualified condemna tion of the uncivilised and barbarous prac tice, well known as lynching, or killing of human beings suspected or charged with crime, without process of law. "We favor the creation of a national board of arbitration to settle and adjust differences which may arise between em ployers and employe, engaged in Interstate commerce. "We believe in an Immediate return to the free homestead policy of the republi can party, and urge the passage by con gress of the satisfactory free-homestead measure, which haa already passed th house and is now pending In the senate. "We favor the admission of the remain ing territories at the earliest practicable date, having due regard to the Interest of the territories and the United States. AU the federal officer appointed for the terri tories should be selected from bona fide residents thereof, and the right of self government should be acoorded aa far as practicable. "We bellev the citizen ot Alaska should have representation in the con gress of the United States, to the end that needful legislation may b Intelligently enacted. "We sympathize with all wise and legiti mate efforts to lessen and prevent the evils of Intemperance and promote morality. "The republican party Is mindful of the rights of women. Protection of American industries Includes equal opportunities, equal pay for equal work and protection to the home. "We favor the admission of women to wider sphere, of usefulness, and welcome their co-operation In rescuing the country from dmocratiu and populist mismanage ment and misrule. , "Such are th principle and policies ot the repuDiican party. "Hv these principles we will abide, and these policies we will put Into execution. W ask for them the considerate Judg ment of the American people. Confident alike In th history of our great party, and in the Justice of our cause, we present our platform and our candidates In the full assurance that th election will bring victory to th republican party and pro parity to the peoole el th United I tales," NORTHWEST BREVITIES Evidence ot Steady Growth and Enterprise. ITEMS OF GENERAL LNTEBE3T From All tbo Cities and Town at tha Thriving Bl.ter State .. Oregon . Pendleton ia to bave ita ordinances codified in book form. A nugget weighing $28 waa recently found in the left fork of Galioe oreek. The G. A. R. Eastern Oregon vet eran! will hold a reunion at Union, July 3, 8 and 4. The express oompany at The Dallea has shipped up to date 13,975 pounda : of strawberries to Montana and Fort land. : The Albany creamery bad to return an 8,000-pound order for butter, al ready having orders amounting to 131, 000 pounds ahead, all it can fill in tbe time dearied. A gentleman in Independence, hat a French rapier in hit possession tbat wat need by hit grandfather in the Revolutionary war. He also baa an old razor that bean the date mark of 1776. , The directoca of the Garnd Rondo Valley Agricultural Society bave pre pared a speed programme for the fall meeting, which beigna on Monday, September 38. Tbe puraea range from -ITS to $150. A' large amount of wool is being moved to market, aaya tbe Prineville paper. It bat been a backward spring about ahearing, and many tbousana pounda of wool were lost on aooount of there being no grease in the wooL Tbe Prineville Review learns from reliable authority that there will be 860.000 yearling ewes bought in East ern Oregon this tnmmex and driven East, to be used for breeding purpose. Crook county will f urniah a large share of them. Since the waters of the John Day have receded it it found tbat the dam age to the Canyon creek county road by reason of wash-outs it incalculable. Muoh work and plenty of dynamite will be required to make tbe gradea passable.....; All the property of the defunct As toria & Portland Railroad Company waa laat week told by sheriff Bare in Astoria to satisfy executions amounting to a boat $164,000. The property waa purchased by a representative of Ed ward Ehrman, a judgment creditor, for $30,000, and ia supposed to be in the interest of the Astoria & Columbia River railroad. Tbe law of Oregon provides when 100 oitizens of a oounty petition the county oourt to have the question at to whether or not bogt shall run at large voted on, the oourt thall order the clerk to place the tame npon the bal- ' lota at the next regular election. Such a petition wat prepared, circulated and tinged in Union county. Tbe result it that a very large majority of the people of that oounty desire bogt thall not run at large. Washington. Work on the new oigar-thaped craft at Stella ia porgretsing alowly. ; ; The Pleasant Valley, Whatcom ooun ty, school building burned last week. One hundred trainloadt of grain bave been ground to flour at Spokane since last September. ..-'? i; The Whatcom Zouaves are bappy in the receipt of twenty-five standi of arms from the adjutant-general. The Taooma Morning Union hat been awarded the oontraot for doing the oity printing of Taooma during the coming year. ; Owing to the refusal of the Northern Paoiflo Railroad Company to pay ita road tax in Chehalia oounty, many of the road distriota will be short one third ot the money expected. Federal tnrveyora are at work ascer taining the exaot bonndariea of the government reserves at Pointa Wilson . and Marrowttone, and Admiralty Head, where the fortificationi are to be bnilt by the war department - J. P. Carson and Eugene Franoe, re oelvera of the Aberdeen bank, have paid oil all of the bank'a indebtedness, exoept about $3,000, and expect to bave tbat paid off and the affaire finally settled by the laat of the month. Kliokitat oounty waa made a part of the judioial ; district comprising the counties of Clark, Skamania and Cow ltia, by the last legislature, but sev eral of the Kliokitat people think the law ia unconstitutional, and will take a teat case to the tupreme oourt and bave it deeded before election day, , It ia now praotioally oertain that the proposed reincorporation of the oity ot Port Townsend, whioh ia to be submit-, ted to tbe voters at a tpeoial eleotion oalled for that purpose on June 39, will be favorably considered, and that the plaoe will thereafter be known at a oity of the third class, incorporated under tbe general lawt ot the state ot Washington. '. f. Jndge Eanford bat denied the ap plication of oertain of the Indians liv ing on tbe Yakima reservation, who asked tor the injunction to prevent the agent on the reservation from expend-' ing $30,000 for the construction ot an Irrigation canal. . " . ; Treasurer Lewis, of Chehalia oon-. k-a i.in.nl a nnll tt DanATol . fnilll county warrants. No. 178 so 1837, r. amounting to $8,670.34, of whioh $3, ' 875.71 la interest, eaob dollar ot the I original promise now amounting to $13.56. Tbeae warrant! were iasotd in 1898. ' '