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.