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YOL.tt. " " 7 " ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 3, 189G. NO. 28. EVENTS OF THE DAY Epitome ot the Telegraphic News of the World. TERSE TICKS FROM TUB WIRES An Iut.re.ting Uolleotlon of Items Fran tli Two ll.uil.pheres Freaented la (Joml.iia.d Turin. ' The oppoittton has decided to re qaetl the Spanish government to in troduoe a bill providing tor sufficient resources to prosecute th campaign tu Cuba. Mint Lunging Rowan, in aotress, of tlio Frawloy oompany, playing iu Han Frsnolsoo, has challenged Champion Ourbett to nioet her in a solentlflo spar ring contest. Henry Gardner, a farmer, llTlng near Mount Data, Washington oounty, Or., m accidentally killed by being track In tbe itoraaoh by falling tree which be bad just out down. ' A cyclone swept a aeotion of oountry four oiilea tooth of Clayton, Wis., and a number of dwelling! and barn were demoliahed. One nan, same un known, waa fatally Injured. A Constantinople dispatch tays dis turbances of a serious character occur red at Van. Many Armeniau were killed. Many (ought refuge at the British consulate. It ia estimated that 400 peraoua were killed on both ildea In the rioting laat week. It ii now believed that the ikeleton recently discovned at Dry creek, near Pendleton, ia that of J. Keith, who, about a year ago started with Den Dowers to go to the higher mountain and was never aeen again, although Dowers soon returned. The two men are known to have had some trouble over a woman. A London paper says that Great Britain and the United Bute have agreed to publish, simultaneously, within a fortnight, ail the arbitration correspondence exohsnged between tbe governments of the two oountrio. Its publication has been delayed pending the arrival of Secretary Olney's latest communication. (fin a oolllaion between Chicago, Minneapolis A St Paul and Chios go A Burlington trains at Davis Jonotlon, 111., in a deep cut, thirty-five cars were piled in a heap and burned fiercely all day. Xhomas F. Moran, a fireman, was instantly killed, and Fred Dltir, a brakeman, fatally hurt Engineer Daly was injured. Controller Eckels, a Washington d la pa toh says, has undertaken an extensive Inquiry to learn the variona kinds of credit instruments and money held by all the banking institutions in the United States. Be has sent ont 11,000 letters to national banks, state and pri vate bunks and loan and trnst com panies asking for information on these points. A year ago the controller made an investigation of this kind, but ha eonflned it to the 0,000 national banks. The returns will be published in bia annual report wlboh Issues in Decem ber. Twenty-four hundred additional Turkish troops are now on their way to Crete. It la thought the Turks are preparing for another nianaore. Houses of Christians are being marked by the Turkiab soldiers. Sir Joseph Prestwioh, porfessor of geology at Oxford, and the author of valuable geological works, died in Lon don, sged 84. French officers were grossly insulted at Canea by Turkiab soldiers. They were onrsed and reviled and sword were drawn threatening their lives. O. H. Penderaon, a fisherman of As toria, is misting, and, as he was very despondent previous to his disappear ance, it is believed that he haa , com mitted auloide. ' Notice bsve been posted at all the oollieries of the Lehigh & Wllkesbarre Coal Company, of Pennsylvania, that work is discontinued until further no tice. Eight thousand men apd boys are idle. President Jordan, of the Stanford university, has arrived at Seattle to take charge of the expedition which ia to sail on the steamer Albatross to in vestigate the teal fisheries on the ialunds of tbe north, and study the lite and habits of the teals. The largest single night's catob of salmon which baa been made for many years in the Columbia river, was taken between midnight and dawn Tuesday morning. The canneriea were com pelled to limit tbe boat to a oertain amount of fish each, as they were un able to handle all that was brought in. Unless significant signs fail, the squadron ot United States warships, just now stationed in the harbor of Hew York, will be dispatohed soon on an important mission. Those who should be in a position to know say tbe destination will be the coast of Cuba. During tbe last week work on all the Teasels has been doubled in response to a special order received from the sec retary of tbe navy. The nature ot this order cannot be ascertained. A, Requisition Frovlded For. Wasblugfcon. Acting Seoretary of the Interior 81ms has approved and provided for a requisition on tbe .treas ury for the payment of $aa,000 to every state included in tbe Morrill sot ot 1890 for the endowment of agricultural and meohanioal oolleges in the United States. This it to apply for the fiscal year 1808-97. Glasgow. The Pan-Presbytcrian oounoil unanimously aocopted the invl ' tation to bold its meeting at Washing ton in 1800, and tbauked San Francis vo for the invitation extended. orlp Mud Onnd. At Daker City Judge Eakin decided that tbe warrants leaned by Baker county were valid, and tbut made good about 1300,000 worth of county sorlp. , Aoeldent to Minor, Andy Benson, a miner, in attempt ing to fire a salute to Colonel Taylor, a mine-owner, who was passing on a train near Glendale, accidentally ex ploded a stick of giant powder in bl bands tnd was so badly mangled that he will probably not reoover front his injories. Unknown JNootor Found. An unknown floster was found near the Morrison street bridge in Portland. The remains were fearfully decom posed, and almost fell to pieces as they were being placed in a receiving casket The body beers the appearanoee of having been in tbe water several months. ' ' Revolt la Armenia. Another sanguinary outbreak has oo-' curred at Van and 400 are reported to have been killed. Th Persians sre promoting tbe disturbances and foment ing tbe revolt throughout Armenia. Tbe Druses have now reoeived Bedouin support and are driving out tbe Turks. Diplomatic prest is being brought to bear on the porte, increasing the oh a noes of peace, , Wire-Murderer Hanged. Carl Aubreoht, the wife-murderer, was banged in tbe jail yard at Marsh field, Or. Life was pronounoed ex tlnot within a few seconds after the drop fell. The execution was tbe first that ever took plaoe in that oity, and was witnessed by those legally entitled to be present Aubreoht retained his nerve to tbe last He left word of good-by to bis friends. A Lady Suffocated la Vault. Miss Rosa Caudlll, of Barbbursvllle, Ky., wss looked in ber father' vault for fifteen minutes and when taken out was unconscious, but under tbe oare of physicians soon recovered. A gentle man friend looked her in for a joke, but not having the combination, wss unable to release ber until her father was found. His aotion it generally condemned, and he is considered a fit subject for tbe fool-killer. Fnllnro, Then Death. The body of Joseph C Powell, a stu dent In the Oregon medloal college, was found floating in the river, oppo site the O. R. As N. freight warehouse, in Portland, A rope was fastened around th neck, to whioh wet firmly attached a granite rock, weighing about IS pounds. Powell was one ot a class of students in the medloal college that was presented for final examina ion laat March. He failed to pass, and in despair, oommltted tbe rash aot He bad been missing for three months. A Big Railroad Deal. The Chicago Evening -Post ha a sensational piece of railway new to tbe effect that Henry Villard. baoked by European capitalists, has about completed a deal which will give them a through line from th Atlantic to the Paciflo seaboard. The intention of the Villard syndioste is to buy the North ern Pacific road, then th Baltimore A Ohio, at the receivers' sale. . It la said that the syndicate has already prac tically obtained control of the Chicago & Great Western road, tbe oonneotlng link between tbe Baltimore A Ohio, and the Northern Paoiflo. , Photography la Oolor. Photography in oolora it assured. Jamoa W. MoDonough, of Chios go, and Professor Joly, of Dublin, who were attempting to secure patents, agreed that the successful one should pay the other a fee, and the capitalists in the undertaking would support the success ful man. MoDonough won after a con test A company hat now been incor porated in Riohmond, Va., with a capital of $700,000 for tbe purpose of pushing tbe new invention. A Clondbunt la Ohio. A cloudburst took plaoe near Mari etta, a Tbe water oovered a wide area of territory and was the most de structive ever known there. Houses were swept away, stock drowned and many persons narrowly escaped death. In tome streams the water roes twenty feet in ten minutes. Tbe flood came almost as suddenly tt did the Johns town flood. Crops are ruined on the Little Muskingum for twenty miles, and on many tmall tributaries of the Ohio above there. s lie Wat a Olsvor Bwludler. Edward Traak, a former partner of Murderer Holmes, and who wat sen tenced to the penitentiary from Chi cago in 1803 for eighteen yean for bit glgantio real estate swindles, is dead. Be succumbed to consumption. Trnsk was notoriout for. tbe daring of his ventures. v' '' ' . - ' Lyman Trumbull Ia Dead Ex-United States Senator Lyman Trumbull, the distinguished jurist, died in Chicago: He had been ilia long time, but rallied at intervals, oauaing hope that he might eventually reoover. Crop. Failure. . Report from Polk oounty, Or., say that the apple and prune oorps of that section are almost a total failure this year, and that there ia a large shortage in the yield of other fruits. Fight With Druaos. Constantinople. A dispatch from Beyrout, Syria, says that during the reoent fight between the Turks and in surgent Druses in the Hanran distriot, the former lost fifty-five men killed. Injured by Dynamite. Tom Strang, the son ot R. L. Strang, of Woodburn, Or., was playing with a piece ot dynamite one day reoently when the stiok exploded, badly burning the young man's faoe, and causing both of his eyes to be tightly closed tor several days, Report of the Geological Sur vey for the Calendar Year. INCREASE OVER THE PA8T YEAR The Quantities and Values of the Vari ous Product. In the Min eral Kingdom, Wsshlngton, Jone 80. Tbe mineral produota of tbe United States for tbe calendar year of 1 80S are reviewed at length in tbe mineral resources report of tbe United State geologioal survey. The report, which was compiled by Dr. David T. Day, obief of division, showt tbe total value of tbe products to be 1811,705,290. This stands against a production valued at $527, 868,594 fur 1984. Tbit it an increase of 180,000,000. The report in summarixing condi tions, says: "The general inoresse is a long step toward reoovery from the depression to whloh tbe mineral industry, like all others, bat been tubjeoted. The total value is slightly less than the greatest we have known, whiob was over f 848, 000,000 in 1898. In terms of quanti ties produced, instead of value re oeived, 1805 is greater. In other words, prioes are lower. Considering the reoord of the total value in these reports alnoe 1880, the increase, which is from $350,819,000 to $611,795,290, is significant, and the average for these sixteen years gives a fair approxi mation of what our normal mineral porduot should have been half-way be tween these dates, or in 1888. "The United States shsred in the general Increase In gold production, tbe increase being shown in nearly all the gold-produoing states, but coming principally from Cripple Creek and other new camps in Colorado. -The gain in the quantity of petroleum and especially tbe phenomenal increase in its price, was one ot tbe great features of tbe year. The steady increase In gold product since 1898 wa kept up dninrg 1895, increasing from 1,018,816 oonoes in 1894, to 8,878,639 ounces in 1895, tbe valuation of tbe Utter being $49,500,000. ' "Sliver production foil to 47,000,000 ounce from 49,001,133 ounce in 1894, with ooining value respectively of $60,766,800 and $040,000,000. "Copper, domestio ore production, followed tbe upward tendency ot the other metals and inoreased over 20, 000,000 pounds, or $5,000,000. The rapidly increasing ; product of aino, whiob was obecked in 1898 and 1894, was resumed. The declining tendenoy in iron and steel production in 1894 was ohanged in 1895 to one of the moat remarkable increases in the production of pig-iron in the history of the indus try ot tbe United States. It rose from 6,607,888 long tons in 1894 to 9,446, 808 long tons in 1895, or nearly 43 per oent This is tbe largest product ever attained in this oountry, the nearest ap proach to it being in 1890. BARRED BY THE LAW. Judges In Washington Ineligible for Any Other Office. Taooma, Wash., June 80. It has been discovered that, uuder aeotion 15, article IV of the state constitution, the judges of tbe tupreme court and su perior oourts are Ineligible for any offloe, other than judicial ones, for the full term for which they are eleoted. This section bars three ot the most prominent candidates. Judge N. H. Pritchard, ot Taooma; Judge Richard Bellinger, of Port Townseud, and Z. T. Moore, of Spokane, from the guber natorial race. Its disoovery hss creat ed quite a flutter in the political oir olet of tbit state. Tbe section reads: - "Tbe judges ot the supreme oourt and the judges of the superior oourt shall be ineligible to any other office or publio employment than a judioial offloe or employment during the term for whiob them shall have been eleot ed." Yaohtlna; Party Drowned. Shawnee, Wit,, June 80. Word hat reaohed here of the drowning of tlx persons, at Shawnee lake, during a gale this evening. A paity started from Cecil about 5 o'olook in a yacht for a tew day' outing on the north shore of tbe lake. When about three miles from tbe shore, the boat wa oapsiaed by a tudden squall, and the party pre cipitated into the water. Mr. Risum and Dr. Draoker olung to the oapsiaed yaoht tor several hours, the latter hold ing the oihld in his arms, when they were rescued by parties from Ceoil who were attracted by their oriea for help. The bodies of tbe other six have not been recovered. Two Doys browned In Muddy Lake. Addy, Wash, June 80. The 8-year-old son ot H. Alby, while riding on a raft in Muddy lake, near Summit school-house yesterday afternoon, fell in. A number of other boys were ou the raft, and the affair went to pieoea. Harry Newell went to the rescue of the other boys, and was oaught about the neck, and both boys drowned. Topeka, Kan., June 80. P. M. Ar thur, ohief of tbe Brotherhood of Lo oomotlve Engineers, is here visiting Topeka members of the order. He said tbat in bia opinion, strikes would not be so trequenHn the future as in the past He is working with the leaders of the different political organisations to build up a sentiment in favor of a law tor the arbitration of difference between railroad oompaniet and their employee, and believet that oongrest will enaot snob a law in the near fu ture. Mr. Arthur addressed a meet-, ing of tnigneer duiing the day. A RESERVATION TRAGEDY. i Two Murd.r. ul Bulelde th. Hesult of a Bla.k'oot Affair. Helena, Mont, June 80. Two men and one woman dead and a man tinder arrest as accessory to the murder, it the result ot a woman's onfaitbf ullness and a man's perfidy, Tbe dead are: Paul Vinette, a half-breed; bis wife, and Took-a-Fine-Gun, a full-blooded Indian. The man under arrest la Makes-the-Fire, a brother of tbe dead Indian. Tbe scene of the murder was the Blakfoot reservation. Took-a-Fine-Gun had been paying attention to Vinette' wife, in spite of Vinette' protests. Friday, he caught the oonple together, and took a shot at tbe Indian, who esoaped uninjured, vowing ven geance. Next day, Vinette mounted hi horse to bunt for missing cattle. He had aot proceeded far when two shots were heard, and Vinette's horse came back riderless. Took-a-Fine-Gnn and Makes-tbeFIre rode up, laying they had killed Vinette. Then, with Mia. Vinette, the trio rode away. Mounted police followed, and the next morning two shots were besrd in a clump of bushes. , An investigation re vealed tbe bodies of Mrs. Vinette and Took-a-Fine Gun. He bad killed ber by shooting ber through tbe bead, and then committed suioide in a like man ner. Makes-the-Fire was captured later. - Death Cao.ad by a Beoreher. Chicago, June 80. Three-year-old Ernest Sohliokwein, the son of Fran Schliokwein, a German truck farmer, living about four miles toutbeast of Hinsdale, met his death in a manner hitherto unheard of. He was following his mother along a path beside the roadway which fronts their borne, when tbey were passed by a wheelman tiding at his best speed. Shortly afterwards Mrs. ScbKokwein missed her ton. Hastening back she discovered bim prostrate In the path, while an ugly wound in his left temple was bleeding profusely. A physician was summoned, but the child died be fore he arrived. A jagged atone weigh ing about four ounoes, lying at tbe point where he bad fallen told the story. It had been snapped from under tbe wheel of the scorching bicyollst with sufficient force to cause death. The wheelman, who was ot course en tirely ignorant ot theaocident, passed on, and no olew to his identity re mains. Mrs. Scblickwein is prostrated and may not reoover. A Soldier. Revenge. Valentine, Neb., June 80. Fort Niobrara was the scene of a murder, and the almost instant execution of the murderer under military orders today. Private Weaver shot and instantly killed First Sergeant Livingstone, of oompany D, who was passing alcug the roadway in front of oompany C's quar ters. When the sergeant dropped, four men ran and pioked him up, when Weaver fired tour shots at them, forc ing them to drop the sergeant and run for shelter. Weaver then fired several shots, aiming at anyone who happened to oome within range of bis rifle, but without effect Then First Lieutenant Clark ordered Private Strine to shoot Weaver, which he did, the ball strik ing Weaver't rifle near the butt, shat tering it tnd afterwards entering his body, from whioh be died within an hour. ;- ' v; - . MoKlnley Formally Notlfled. - Canton, O., July I. Ex Governor McKinley was officially notified today' of his nomination by tbe Republican party for the effioe ot president of the United States of America. Tbe notification speech was made by Senator Thurston, who was wildly ap plauded during the course of bis re marks by the vast crowd whioh bad gathered from far and near to do honor to Ohio's favorite son upon this, the occasion of tbe greatest triumph of his life. Governor McKinley, in an able speech, responded to Senator Thurston's address, and heartily thanked the noti fication oommittee and the constituents of the Republican party at lar.e for the gracious honor tendered him. Fell From n Balloon. Grand Rapids, Mich., July 1. Hiram H. Cole, 20 years old, a profes sional aeronaut, living in Big Rapids, Mich., fell thirty feet from his balloon while making an ascension last night and died shortly afterward. A high wind blew him against a building, severing his trapeze ropes and letting him tall. He leaves a wife and 8 months' -old baby. Several Venous Drowned. Boston, July 1. The small steam ferry-boat plying between Marine Park and Governor's island struok an ob struction today and capsized. Several young people drowned. ,'A Mob". Work. Baltimore, June 80, Joseph Cock ing, of Hilltop, Charles oounty, await ing trial on a oharge of murdering his wife and her sister, Miss Daisy Miller, on April 88, was taken from the old jail at Port Tobacco last night and lynohed by about twenty-five men. France Will Admit Corn. Paris, June 80. M. Meline, the pre mier, speaking at Soissona on the dis turbance of the world's markets by the monev orisis, announced that measures ! would shortly be taken tor tbe tempor I ary tree admission into France of corn. Bancher Killed by a Farmhand Port Townsend, Wash., June 80. Fred Miller, a ranohernear Duokabuok, on Hood canal, was shot and instantly killed last night by John Marinbuok, a farmhand. Tbe men quarreled about a woman. " Money For Kedinen. Washington, June 89. Steps have been taken by the bureau of Indian affairs to make the payment of $168, 604, due the Cherokee-Pawnee Indiana from the Cherokee nation, at their thara of th Cherokee grass money. HELP FOR COMMERCE Money for Northwest Rivera and Harbors. TUB RIVER AND HARBOR BILL IJabo and Alaska Greatly Benefited Gongreu' Generous Treatment of Oray'e Harbor. Washington, June 89. The follow ing is an offloial statement of the ap propriations for government works in the states of Washington and Idaho, and in Alaska, contained in the river and harbor bill passed by Congress over the president's veto: Improving Gray's harbor and bar en tranoe in aooordanoe with plans sub mitted in tbe annual report ot theohief of engineers, for 1895, $20,000; pro vided tbat contracts may be entered into by the secretary of war for snob materials and work as may be neces sary to complete said iinprovment, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not ex ceeding in tbe aggregate $980,000, ex clusive of tbe sum herein appropriated, and the seoretary of war may, in bis discretion, transfer the government plant or any part of it, now at the mouth ot the Columbia river, to Gray' harbor. Continuing improvement of Olympia harbor, $33,000, and that a survey be made of Deschutes river, at its entranoe into Olympia harbor, and the coat ot it improvement be estimated. Continuing improvement of Everett harbor, $20,000. For survey of Portland channel, Alaska, $5,000. Continuing improvement of Upper Columbia river, including Snake river, as far as Asotin, $5,000. For continuing improvement ot Clearwater river, Idaho, $25,000. For completing improvement of Koo tenai river, Idaho, between Bonner's ferry and international boundary line, $5,000. Improving Paget sound and tributary waters. Continuing improvement, in cluding the rivera Skagit, Nooksack, Dowamith and Poyallup, $75,000, of whiob turn to much thereof at may be neoessary may be nsed for the rebuild ing of a snsgboat For dredging Salmon bay, and im provement of the waterway connecting the waters of Puget Sound with Lakes Union and Washington by enlarging the said waterway into a ship canal, ; with the neossary looks and appliances in connection therewith, $150,000; pro vided that no part ot said amount shall be expended on the improvement of said waterway until the entire right-of-way and a release from all liability to adjaoent property-owners have been' se cured to the United States, free ot cost, and to tbe satisfaction ot tbe seoretary of war; said canal to be constructed either by tbe Smith' cove route or by the Shilshole bay route, in the discre tion of the secretary ot war. Improving Chebalia river by snag ging, $3,000. Continuing improvement ot Swino mish slough, in aooordanoe with exist ing plan, $26,000. Continuing improvement of Cowlits river. $3,000. Attempted Bank Robbery. Los Angeles, June 89. An unsuc cessful attempt to rob the First Nation al bank of this oity, by means of an underground tunnel, has been brought to light' The affair is remarkable in the history of crime in California for the reason that it bat been going on for months and involved an effort to carry off about $500,000, and wa onl discovered by the merest accident James Stevens, who is known to tbe police as an all-around crook, has been arrested tor complicity in the attempt ed robbery. Another crook, named Brown Mathery, ia eagerly sought after and the polioe are oonvinoed that two other were in the job. The bank ia located near tbe corner of Main and Commercial streets, and just around the oorner ia a saloon owned by Fred W. Jones, wbo disappeared a few days ago. It was in the cellar of the Baloon that the would-be robbers started tbe tunnel. ' . ' ' .' Blew Bit Bead OftV Chewelah, June 39. When the pas senger train arrived this morning the crew and passengers reported that near South Switoh, lying fifteen feet west of the railroad track, was the body ot a man about 5 feet 10 icohes in height, light build, with tbe head completely gone. He was dressed in overalls and moccasins, a striped cotton shirt, blue jumper and grayish ooat, almost new. He came to bis death by snioido from a dynamite cartridge plaoed within hia mouth. . Helena Kew.peper Bold. - ' Helena, Mont, June 89. Tbe own ership of the Helena Independent has ohanged hands. A. W. Lyman has sold a controlling interest to George W. Graham, the business msnager. W. G. Eggleston, formerly of the Chi cago Herald, assumes editorial charge. The paper will advocate the free and unlimited coinage of silver. ; " ' ? ' Caught la a Swamp. Arlington, Minn., June 89. The two tramps who murdered Sheriff Rogers last night were caught today in a swamp.. Two hundred men surround ed them. Tbe tramps were taken to Glenoo, Minn , where they were lodged in jaiL There haa been some talk of lynobing them. The oyster grows from th inside by throwing out every year rings or cir cles of a oaloerou substanoe and ex pert oan tell where the growth begin and ends for the year. BALDWIN'S TESTIMONY. Compelled to Tell of the VUlt to Coroando. San Franoisoo, June 29. E. J. Bald win, who is on trial in a breaeh of promise snit brought by Lillian Ashley, was on the witness stand today, and for several hours did not have a particu larly enjoyable time, a the plaintiff' counsel, upon cross-examination, prob ed into tbe millionaire horseman' private life and used bis best endeavor to release tbe defendant's family skele tons from their closets. Baldwin de nied most emphatically tbat he had ever offered or promised to adopt the plaintiff, legally or any other way, either orally or in writing. He denied tbat the scene alleged to have occurred at the Boston depot wa enacted there, but admitted that, upon 'bidding tbe fair Lillian adieu, he drew ber up to him with tbe intention of kissing ber, but as she demurred, he did not insist His version of the soene at tbe Bald win hotel, upon the night of Miss Ashley's arrival from tbe East, was totally at variance with that related so dramatically by the plaintiff . Baldwin said he had been married four time and divorced onoe. Attorney Crittenden compelled tbe defendant to reiterate every detail of the scene in Mis Ashley' room at the Baldwin hotel Then the visit to Coro nado was gone into, and Attorney Crit tenden oompelled the defendant to admit tbat be had deliberately gone to a respectable hotel and falsely regis tered, with the express purpose of act ing dishonestly. He wss alto oompelled to admit that, although 66 yeara of age, and tbe pro prietor of one of the largest hotels in this oity, be bed deliberately violated tbe rule of another establishment He admitted tbat, to the best of bis recol lection, he had introduced Miss Ashley to E. 8. Babcock, the proprietor of the Cornado hotel, as bis daughter. Tbe defendant stated that he did not in tend to take Mis Ashley to Cornado, but, upon going to the train, found ber awaiting him on tbe oars. He wa then asked, it that was the esse, to ex plain what be meant by writing to tbe plaintiff that he would take her to San Diego, prior to March, 1893. He de nied tbat he had done so, bnt was con fronted with one of hi letter to her, and admitted that be had written to b;t effeot PRELIMINARY INFORMATION. Thirtieth National Bnoampment Grand Army of the Republic St Ptnl, Minn. In order to more fully and quickly reply to inquiries re lating to the thirtieth national encamp ment G. A. R., to be held in St Paul during the first week in September next, the following general Informa tion has been prepared and tent out from headquarters, signed by Edwin C Mason, U. S. A., president, and John S. Pinney, general secretary: The question of railway rate to tbe encampment has been settled by tbe Western Passenger Association, giving the one-oent-a-mile rate and the usual limitation, and the St Panl transporta tion onmmittee feels oonfident that sat isfactory rates will be allowed by all passenger associationa. Definite in lormation and report upon this matter will be forthcoming soon. Veterans will be provided with free quarters in tbe school buildings. Cots or mattresses will be furnished in these free- quarters, but ro blankets. Hotel rates will not b9 ohanged, and will vary from $1 tc 15 per day. Tbe accommodations oommittee will funrish a list of hotels and boarding houses on request Early and defuiite informa tion is deisred as to the number of com rades from eaoh department who will expect free quarters during tbe encamp ment . A veterans' camp will be established at University avenue and St Albans street, near four lines of street cars. It will be equipped with water service and other conveniences, and good meals will be served at reasonable rates. Spaoe will be provided adjaoent to the vetearns' camp, tor those wbo desire to bring tents, etc, for private camping parties. Mr. C W. Hon ia chairman of tbe aooommodations oommittee, and Joe L. Brigham is seoretary. Their mail address ia room 520, Endioott build ing. National headquarter will be at Hotel Ryan, oorner of Robert and Sixth streets. Mrs. R. M. Newport Is president of the ladies' committee. Ladies' head quarters are looated in the large man sion overlooking the oity, oorner of Summit and Dayton avenues. The route of the G. A. R. parade September 8 is fixed. It embraoes por tions of the best residence and business streets, is less than two miles long, all down grade, on asphalt pavements, and free from street car traoka exoept at two or three street orossings. Divisions will form on shaded residenoe streets. Bid! for Battle-Ships. Washington, Jane 89. The navy department has issued advertisements calling for proposals for constructing, three battle-ships ot about 11,000 tons displacement The bids are required to be submitted by Monday, September 14. Tbe features of the new ships have been made publio already. Portland Mill. Buying Heavily. Garfield, Wash,. June 89. The farmers' warehouse, negotiated a tale of between 80,000 and 85,000 bushels ot wheat this week. The price reoeived was 40 oents a bushel tab., whioh i several cents better than the general market The Portland Milling Com pany was the buyer. This wa about half of the wheat remaining in the warehouses of Whitman oounty. Seoreoy of the Oonfe.elonnl. Montreal, June 89. The superior oourt decided today to uphold th seoreoy of the oonfessionaL NORTHWEST BREVITIES Evidence ot Steady Growth and Enterprise. ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST From All the Gltlea and Town, of the Thriving Slater States Oregon. The Dalles Cbroniole says that a set tlement baa been effected with the Mo Coy ditch laborers for 60 cents on the dollar., : The Southern Paoiflo Company baa put in electric light at its plant at Latham, and now run the oreosoting works day and night Tbe bicycle track north of the town of Coquille City has just been com pleted. The traok is five laps to the mile, and is an exoellent raoing course. There are two companies engaged in egg gathering near Port Orford, and the rocks are being hunted very olosely, over 1,000 dozen having already beei gathered. Millions of young grasshoppers have made their appearance on Tygh ridge, and farmers in that section fear they will do considerable damage to grow ing crops before tbe "critters" wings are sufficiently large to carry them out of the oountry. Joseph Adams, a son of John Ad sms, an Indian living on the Siletz, was one of the graduate of tbe Carlisle Indian school this spring. Mr. Adams haa graduated as a full-fledged doctor of medicine, and will practice bis pro fession in the East An old soldier tramped through The Dalle laat week, bound for the Soldiers' Home at Kansas City. He wss old and feeble, bnt was neatly dressed, and wore a pair of new, but cheap shoes. He proposes to walk the enire distance, unless invited to ride. The lessees of the plant and placer mines of the Siskiyou Gold Mining Company, on Elliott creek, commonly called the "Joe Bar diggings," have fully completed the opening and equip ment of them, and are piping day and night with assnrances of an uninter rupted water supply. The sales of cattle from the Eagle valley range have been quite aotive re oently, and upwards of 1,800 head will be delivered in Baker City during the next few Bays for shipment to Montana and Wyoming. Tbe sales amount to about $15,000, a very neat sum in the hands of the stockrsisers of one locality- Assessor Cowan, ot Union oounty, la assessing all property in the county be longing to religions organizations and not nsed exclusively for worship; tbat is, only churoh buildings and the lots upon whioh tbey stand are exempt Heretofore all property belonging to tbe church, including houses, school buildings, town buildings, town lota and farms, nave been exempt Private school buildings and property will also Le assessed. - '. WaahlngtoBj. President Cleveland haa been asked to pardon Mrs. Morrison, convicted of smuggling opium in the federal oourt at Seattle. At Barlow Pass, the buildings are being' put in order as rapidly as pos- Great Lake mines, and supplies are ooming by every train. The diploma and medals awarded the Seattle school exhibit at the world's fair have been reoeived. The exhibit is now at the Philadelphia educational museum, and haa led to many inquiries for information of the city superin tendent Elder Van Dusen, of Spokane, who has been visiting Lewiston. says tbat in driving along any road out of Lewis ton to tbe reservation, prairie schooners and other vehicles oan be passed, all loaded to the guards, and all bound for the reservation. . Mr. Woo ten, of Starbuok, says that he has discovered a new variety ot win ter apple in bit orchard, whioh he thinks ia going to take the lead in the Northwest It is a large, red apple, fine flavored and a good keeper. He planted tbe seed five yeara ago. Last year the tree bore 150 pounds of apples. A conference of commercial bodies, at Taooma, accepted the offer ot a Phil adelphia museum for a display of the state's resources. A committee of three, one from Seattle, another from Taoom, and a third from Gray's har bor, will be appointed by President Mottet to prepare a lumber exhibit Another oommittee will be appointed to prepare a general exhibit Tbe injunction which was asked was denied and the work on the reservation ditoh near North Yakima will now go ' forward. In denying the application,' Judge Hantord stated that the peti tioners were not entitled to oome into court, inasmuch as no one of them showed a claim of $3,000. ; Judge Han tord also said that be knew ot no case in whiob an Indian had been allowed to bring suit against the government, whioh was bis guardian. Commissioner of the General Land Offloe Lamoreaux says that the north half of the Colvllle reservation will be thrown open to settlement within forty days. It is probable that a force of surveyors will be put to work on the reservation within a few days, Tbe lowering of the waters in the Davenport week diolosea tbe fact that a Urge number of big trout found their way up the stream during high-tide, whioh find the waters too shallow for comfort now, and the town boy are fishing after them with sticks with pretty good success.
