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VOL. 13.
ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 24, 18.
NO. 31.
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EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome ot the Telegraphic
News of the World.
riSSK TICKS FB01I TUB WIBK8
a Interesting Collection of lUm. From
tha Iw. Iieml.paares Presented
in a Condensed Worm,
A slight movemoot la wool It re
ported in Oregon and Washington,
. Rtoturs ar again rampant at the
Brown Hoisting Works, in Cleveland,
O., and serious trouble ta feared.
Cincinnati and vicinity bar been
visited by heavy thunder storm and at
several plaoea ther la roported loaa of
Ufa and property. Near Portsmouth
five persons took refuge in a ahed,
wbioh waa attack by lightning, killing
11 of them. ; , : .
Captain-General Weyler baa issued
daorea that all forelgnera in tba
Inland art to teglater In a apeolal book
'In the goTerotneat'a charge previous to
their being justified In appealing to ar
ticle f of tba decree relative to foreign
eltisenship In November, 189.
Jam Harvey Sherman, a famoaa
apy In the war of the rebellion, wbo
realded near Cbarlotteville, Mloh la
dead. More the war broke out Sher
man realded in Vlrtgnia, where be ac
cumulated fortune, wbleb waa after
warda entirely awept away by the war.
Albert Olaen, 8S yeara of age, an em
ployee ot tbe Willamette Caaket Com
pany, ot Taooma, waa oangbt In tbe
machinery, whirled rapidly aronnd the
revolving abaft and inatantly killed.
Tbe body waa horribly mangled, tbe
left leg and right foot being torn off
oompletely.
A little boy of Marshall. Mioh,,
when herding oattle, tied two of bia
aiatera, 4 and 6 yeara old, and another
little girl with rope, the end of
which waa attached to the aaddle on a
pony. The pony ran away, dragging
the three girla bait a mile. Two of
the girla were killed and tbe other
badly Injured.
' Tbe colored people of Clnolnnatl
held a memorial meeting in honor of
.Harriet Beeeber 8 to we. It waa in thla
oity that ahe wrote "Uncle Tom'a
Cabin," aim apendlng ber early life
bare when ber father waa prealdent of
Lane theological seminary. 8be waa
married in Clnolnnatl, Professor Stow
being connected with Lane aemlnary.
Another bond lame la being apoken
of aa a reaolt of the heavy gold with
drawals Tbe rebel Impl la gathered in battle
array near Balnwayo, and a fight ia
probable.;
The barkentlne Sllaa MoManemy
waa annk near Memory Book, Fa. Mo
Uvea were loai
A terriflo wind and rain storm in
Ohio badly aamaged oropa Light
ning itxuok a number ot buildings.
Tbe deadly yellow jaok ia playing
aad bavoo with the Spanish army in
Cnba, and many of the aoldlere are dy
ing. ,rr .:
Two oabin-boya ot Pomeroy, O , ahot
and killed Peter Whtttaker. Tbe kill
ing was the result of rivalry over a
woman.
More silver ia to be coined. The
Ban Franoisoo mint will toon reanme
operattona and It ia aaid that about
1600,000 will be coined, daring thla
month.
. Inteoie heat prevaila throughout the
aoutbern portion of Great Britain and
in Franoe and Germany. In London
the mercury marked 80 degree in the
ahade and 186 in (he eon. In Parle
tbe heat ia ao great it baa been found
necessary to close many workshops.
' On July 4, tbe inmate ot tbe oity
infirmary in Clnolnnatl were treated to
green apple, lemonade and other lux
uries. Tbe inmate drank and ate
too much; siokneis followed, and
eight have ainoe died from tbe effects
of the festivities on that day.
Noah MoGill, sheriff of Tishomingo
oonnty, L T., reports that three white
men were found banging to tbe limb
of a tree near Reagan poatoffioe, a few
miles from Tishomingo oonnty, Chtoka
aaw nation. It ia generally believed
that they were bortetbievea, captured
by a party of Teiana, and twang np
on the pot
It it understood that tbe secretary of
atate haa instructed the United State
minister at Lima to demand a prompt
settlement of the claim of Viator O.
Maooord, tbe American oitieen, tor al
leged brutal and inhuman treatment by
the Peruvian authorities. Mr. Mao
oord' olaim ia for 1300,000. It growl
oat of hi imprisonment by the Per
uvian authorities in 1880. while be
waa acting superintendent of the rail
road at Arequipa. '
Felii Faure, president of the French
republic was fired at from a distance
of only a few feet by an unknown man,
but the bullet fortunately went wide
of Its mark, and tbe prealdent escaped
unharmed. Prealdent Faure had gone
to tbe Champs to review the troop.
He bad no sooner entered the field when
man in the orowd stepped forward
nd fired at him. . Tbe shot did not
take effect The would-be assassin wa
arrested. He declared that he only fired
blank oartridge.
The Prinoe and Princess ot Wales in
behalf of the queen gave a garden
party at Buckingham palace, in hon
or of Prlnoeaa Maud of Wales, who it
to be married to Prinoe Cbarlea of
Denmark. The stateroom of the palace
were thrown open to the guests of
whom there were about 8,000. Am
bassador Bayard and Chaunoey M. De
pew were present.
The Loudon Post announoea that
Mr. John W. Maokay hat been turn
mooed to Rome on aooount of tbe dan
lrons Illness of ber father.
Fired an tbe Tuar,
It is rumored at Astoria that the tug
Relief, while on a trip from Astoria to
Port Townsend, w tired upon by
tome fishermen whose not the tug bad
Just passed over. ,4.,l,
Jose Mums Killed.
Private dipatobt from Havana tay
that General Jos Maoeo, the Cuban
patriot leader, waa ahot through the
head and Instantly killed during an
attack which be led upon tbe Spanish
foroe in Gato Hills, The report says
that Colonel Caratagena, another In
surgent officer, and several member of
Maoeo't staff, were killed at tbe same
time.
'Mr.tvrlvua Poisoning.
, In Clnolnnatl an unknown blonde
woman waa found by a Fort Thomas
soldier lying unooniclou on the ground
on a farm, within a few feet ot the spot
where the beheaded body ' of Pearl
Bryan wa left by her murderer. The
girl wa taken to Newport, where it
wa found she bad either been drugged
or bad taken poison herself. ,.
ICi-floT.rnnr BumII Dead
Ks-Goveruor William E. Russell, of
Muisaohnsetts, waa found dead in bed
in a fishing oamp near Grand Pabos,
Quebec. When be passed through Mon-
treal on his way to the salmon grounds
in Gaspo, be was in the beat of health.
It i supposed he died of heart disease.
I He wss well-known in public lite, and
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iwn a I'lumiuou m .no uotiuuoi -
Democralio convention reoently held
in Chicago,
Hanged at Folom.
John E. Howard waa banged in the
prison corridor at Folsom, Cal., for
the murder ot Martin DeLanina, In
rular oounty, in June, 1804. Only
twenty person beside tbe prison
officials witnessed tbe exeontion.
Howard walked firmly to the scaffold
and stood calm and composed till the
drop fell. A (light twitching of the
baud gave tbe only evidence ot agita
tion. : , . .
Haw Sta-.ni.hlp Llae.
A 8b Paul dispatch tay 8. Iwanaga,
ot Toklo, Japan, general manager of
the Japanese Mail (Steamship Company,
limited, ha Just signed a contract with
he Great Northern Railway Company
for the establishment of a steamship
line between Toklo and Seattle. Thus
tbe Great Northern system extends its
operattona Into tbe far east, and its
bills of lading are in foroe from Toklo
to Buffalo, N. Y.
Aa Amerloaa Bark Ashore.
A dispatch from Zanaibar reports
that the Amerioan bark John D.
Brewer, went ashore at PangawanL
Tbe government baa sent a veasel to tbe
atslstanoe of tbe Brewer.
eraped From the Band Waaoa.
The band wbioh eooompanie Buffalo
Bill' Wild West Bbow attempted to
drive under bridge in Maaalllon, O.
All tbe men were scraped off. Five or
ix are reported dead or dying and in
jured. '
Palsoaed by Drinklaa; Leuoaade.
New has been reoeived of tbe fatal
poisoning at Santiago, Minn., of a
family of nine ohildren, canted by
drluking lemonade. The ohildren died
one after another, and the parent are
not expected to live.
A Fatal Call arala Fire.
Fir broke out In the residence of
John Coyle in Fresno, Cat Coyle
wa in the bouse asleep at the time and
wa burned to death. He waa a
pioneer oltiaen of Frosno oounty and
possessed of considerable means.
Fleadlsh Wotnaa Baagad.
Newt from Coeborn, Va., say that
Mary Snodgrass was banged there to
tbe murder of 6-montba-old ohild by
burning it In a stove. The woman was
88 years old. Tbe Snodgrass woman
was a disreputable woman and was
oompelled to leave Plkevllle, Ky., on
that aooount ,-" r v .
Boad lareatl gallon.
Senator Harris, chairman of tbe sen
ate oommittee to Investigate tbereoent
bond issue, say ha bat not yet deter
mined whether tbe oommitte will
watt until tbe fall before going on
with it Investigation or will oomplete
it work, frame it report and make it
publlo thla summer. Tbe last meeting
adjourned inbjeot to tbe oall of the
ohalrman. -
: The H.n(.r Craolfl.d.
A London dlspstoh from Wady
Haifa report that the messenger wbo
carried tbe new to Khalifa at Om
duran that bia army bad been defeated
at Firket, wat immediately put to
death by croolOxion. Khalifa an
nounoed that the lame fate would be
Imposed upon any one who mentioned
the Ftrket in bia bearing.
A Fromlneat Lawyer Daad.
John Cameron Slmmonda, formerly
ot Chioago, and a member of tbe bar,
died at tbe Ward island Insane aaylum,
New York. His business interest
were largely in tbe West He waa in
terested in mining and railway eon
struotlon In California, but did muob
of hla business in New York, and waa
well-known to Wall-street bankers. '
Mr. Slmmonda was an authority on
criminal law and. wrote a great deal
on that subject Hi . writing on
prison reform have alio mad him
noted.
The semt-ofHolal Neuatenaohrlohten,
of Berlin, refer in ironical language
to Rudini't tpeeoh in whioh be refer
red to the possibility of bettering the
term of tbe triple alliance. Tbe
writer draw attention to tbe weakness
of Italy, wbioh was so oompletely
beaten by Abyssinia, and asks what
she could do against Franoe. The ar
tlole declare that Baraterl'i report on
the oomplete rout of the Italian army
at Adowah la perfectly true. Her al
lies should ttudy ber bad organisation.
A CRUSHING DEFEAT
Spanish Column Utterly Rout
ed by Maceo.
GENERAL 1HCLAM WAS CaPTOBED
Oovernment Soldiers Ware Drawn
lata Tray aad Fired aa
From All eldae.
Key West, July 91. -The Spaniards
under General Snares Ynolan have sus
tained a orosbing defeat at the banda
of the insurgent under Atonio Maoeo.
Not only waa Ynolan's column defeated
with heavy loss, but It is currently
reported in Havana that tbe Spaniah
general himself wa captured and is
now held prisoner by Maoeo. Tbe bat
tle it laid to have ooonrred on July IS,
near Maoeo't ttronghold, in Pinar del
Rio. For the last two week the
rebel bave been very aggressive, and
mall parties bave repeatedly attacked
the trocba, causing tbe Bpanlarda muob
annoyance.
Ynolan waa ordered to drive baok
these detached banda of Cuban, and
for tbi purpose took with him 3,000
men. -:.. . t. ,
Maoeo seems to bave expected snob a
movement, and arranged to ambush
the Bpanlarda. He stationed a
foroe in a favorable spot, and ordered
m. a.a v. a. a, vi-
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insurgent skirmisher inoautiously and
fell into the ambush. Then the Cubans
opened Are from all sides, whiob threw
the Bpanlarda into oonfnsion.
While tbe Spaniards were thus beeet,
the Cubans charged and oompletely
routed their foes. Ynolan made a des
perate effort to rally bis demoralized
foroe, but wa (nrrounded by the Cu
ban and compelled to surrender.
It 1 aaid in Havana that tbe Span
iard were punned almost to tbe
trooba, and lost more than 800 killed i
and wounded. There were fourteen
officers among tbe killed. The Cubans
here also say that Maoeo will bold
Ynolan aa hostage to aave tbe Uvea of
prominent insurgent ofOoers wbo have
been captured by tbe Bpanlarda. One
of those offloers 1 Capote. If thla
rebel leader i shot by tbe Spaniard, it
is thought Ynolan will meet the tame
fate at the band of Maoeo.
W at Maeea Wants.
New York, July 91 The World
publishes tbe following correspondence
from the headquarters of Maoeo, Toma
de San Jose, Ptnar del Bio, June 80:
"The want of a few cartridge and a
few cannon," aaid General Antonio
Xf a tn ' .It thai mflbiu nn. ,nmm.
ment us n.ture'.rook. instead of brick I
and mortar for a White House."
Asked how many and what arms and
ammunition be needa to guarantee to
win the war in, tay two months, be
aaid: .
"I could do it With 90,000 Reming
ton rifles, aamller caliber, 180,000 cart
ridge, 10 oannon and 100,000 round
of artillery ammunition. I might do
it with muob leas. I would invariably
attack tbe Spaniards and attaok tbem
after maneuvering their oolumna into
oul de aot and I would take an Im
portant town. Tbe (upplie captured
there would assist In the capture of
the next one, and ao on until I would
be able to storm Havana with lta fully
equipped army of 100,000 men and
fifty pieces of artillery.
"In addition to our 60,000 armed
men, we bave fully 90,000 more men
armed with only maobetea and re
volver, thus giving us a probable total
of 80,000 revolutionist in tbe field."
JAPANESE ENTERPRISE.
Great Colonisation and Trading Ich.mo
an Foot
San Frsnoisofo, July 91. Among
the passengers on the steamship China,
whiob arrived today from Yokohama,
were Sho Nemato and T. Kusakado,
promlnenUipanese business men, whose
errand ia to arrange the detaila ot a
gigantio colonisation scheme in Mexl
oo. They have secured an option, on
800,000 acre ot land in tbe atate ot
Cheapls, Mexico, and areon their way
outh to oonsummate the deal. Tbe
land 1 sold to tbem at 1 per acre.
Tbe immense traot will be out up into
small farms, whioh wll be operated by
ooolle labor brought from Japan. Cot
ton, sugsr, tobaooo and other product
adapted to the olimate will be raised.
In addition to the above scheme, Sho
Nemato has been commissioned by the
Japanese government to investigate the
trade prospect ot Mexico and Central
Amerioa. . It is the desire of Japan to
trade direotly witn the oountrle south
of tbe United State, a far down as
Panama, and a steamship line ha been
subsidised to run to port along the
Paciflo coast ' The main port will be
San Diego, and it 1 the intention of
tbe Jipanese manufacturer to Import
all their ootton via San Diego Instead
of through Ban Franoisoo and Paget
sound port at present A trafflo ar-
rangement will also probably be made
with the Tehuantepeo railroad, thus
giving the new steamship aooess to the
Atlantio ooast
Thi steamship company bat nothing
to do with the one about to ,be estab
lished with Portland, Or., as the main
port of oall.
' Brought TJp With tha Tlda. ,
Vanoouver, B. C, July 91. Word
wa received by the steamer Burt to
day that the body of a woman had been
found on the shore of Gambler island
I on Howe ound. The body waa dressed
j in blue serge and bad evidently been
' in the water some time, a the eyea and
other feature were gone. No person
i answering the description lived on the
island or in that distriot, and no on
I ha been reported missing.
' Maddanad by Faar. ; '
Athens, July 33. Dispatches re
oeived from Canea state that a panio
occurred there Sunday in tbe Plantza
quarter, owing to a fire whiob was mis
taken as a signal for carnage. The
houses were forthwith barricaded.
British Captain Drury landed boats,
carrying armed sailors. Austrian and
Russian ahip also landed men in
Canea and Haleppa. The Turk were
finally dispersed. The (hops were
olosed and nobody dared stay in the
street. A correspondent say that aa
be passed through the town the dead
and wounded were lying about, and the
panio continued. A number of Cretans
arrived here, making demands to the
oommittee for perfected guns.
To Their Old Keaervatloa.
Chamberlain, 8. D., July 93. A
olause in the Indian appropriation bill
granted permission to tbe Lower Brule
Indians, who prior to July 8, 1890,
lived south of White river on the
Rosebud Indian reservation, to return
ZiZ: TZT r. Vu 1 mJLZ , . ,u V r:
oooupled by tbem prior to that date.
J 1 4. At... 11.A.A.. 1
About 400 of the Lower Brule have
Just taken advantage of this olause and
removed to their former home. The
government will bave to pay tbe Rose
bud Indiana at the rate of 81 per acre
for all land settled upon and oooupled
by the Lower Brule.
WanU to Wear the Bolt.
New York, July 33. J. a Hilde-
""""
' T Denver Ed 8mith. Hildebrand
he bad $1,000 up for over
a month and nobody would oover it.
Smith himself declared his ability to
defeat anything in the world, Corbett,
Fitssimmons, Jackson, . Goddard,
Sbarkey and so on preferred in that
order.
. Woman Attempts Snleldo.
Chicago, July 93. Because ber bus
band abuaed ber, Mr. Henry Well
bouse attempted to drown herself and
four children last avenlnn in the lake
at the foot of Twenty-fifth street She
waa intercepted by the polioe in the aot
of leading the ohildren into the lake.
COMMITTED SUICIDE.
Bat First John Beehor Burned
Bis
Dwelling House.
Roaeburg, Or., July 91. John Beck
er, a native ot Bavaria, living at Cleve
land, fifteen miles west of Roseburg,
committed lulolde yesterday, after hav
ing burned bia dwelling-bouse and it
oontenta.
He had trouble with his wife In the
forenoon, and beat ber over the head
with a revolver. Hia 18 year old son
took the weapon from him. The
mother and youngest ohild then went
"bbor, half a mile distant, and
a 19-year-old son came to Romberg to
bave the father arrested. Meantime, !
Br "tJS h?nM fnd ""P i M. Wilson, superintendent ot govern
peered. Hi body wa. found early thi. ment ixm ,nd Bronndii nM .
monring a mile from home, and 600 j , oinmended the erection of
l'"lmJ"2!2Z ."IB7."aC
avwaui TV QUI tu V VMM A osovm SS MUMcra, wvrvah.
a gun and shot himself. He had been
aoting atrangely for some time, and
waa evidently insane.
An Arkansas Town Burned.
I IU1. D A .. Tl Ol tt.l
vern, Ark,, at 'the junction of the Hot
Springs railway, was almost entirely
swept out by fire early this morning.
Malvern was a oity of about 6,000 in
habitants, the business portion of the
plaoe being olustered around tbe rail
road station. All this section was de
storyed, only three business-houses re
maining. The total loss is variously
estimated at from t-300,000 to 8400,
000, only a small portion of whiob i
oover ed by lniuranoe. Tbe burned
building Inolnded the railroad depot,
two hotel and the bank. Tbe fire waa
without doubt the result of plot to
destroy the town. The blase broke out
about midnight, in three different
plaoea, and aa there waa no apparatus,
the fire burned itself out
WORK AT THE LOCKS.
As Soon aa tba Watar Ooos Dawn, Oper
ations Will OonniiM,
The Dalle, Or., July 91. The
$300,000 appropriated In the last river
and harbor bill : for completing the
canal and lock at the cascades of the
Columbia river are now available, and
Mr. MoDonald, superintendent of
stoneontters under Day Bros., Informed
a Dalle man wbo waa visiting at tbe
Looks a few days slnoe, that work
would be resumed on the canal, be
. V. nn ri . alumt Inmi.t 1 A. bum mm
the water had receded sufficiently so :
that tbe oanal between tbe upper guard
gate and the look gate oan be drained ,
of water.
The engineers bave determined to
construct walls ot solid masonry be
tween tbe upper guard and look gate,
and It 1 estimated that these walls oan
be oompleted In two or three month.
The oonatrnotlon of these walla will be
under tbe supervision of Day Bros. , on
the bail of their former con traot for
imllar work.
A foroe of from fifty to aixty men
will be put on the stone work within
two weeks, and the building of tbe
walls will be poshed to completion.
Then the work ot rip-rapping the outer
bank on the river side will be com
menced, and it ia estimated that six
months will be required to oomplete
the entire Job.
Riparla, Wash., July 81. One ot
the moat cold-blooded murders In tbe
history of this place was committed
this afternoon by James D. Lawrenoe,
a passenger en route from Walla
Walla to Lewiston, Idaho, Jaoob Mai
quist, an old steamboat man, but wbo,
for the past dosen years, has been con
ducting the Steamboat saloon, being
tbe vlotlm. Tbe murderer took to the
bills, but wat followed by posse and
captured about two milea from town.
He will be taken to Colfax.
WIPED OUT BY FIRE
Business Portion ot the Town
of Lone Rock.
TOTAL LOSS 18 NOT YET O0WI
Few Dwelling L.ft-A Braall Boy With
" a Foehet Fall of Match..
atarto the Blase. '
Arlington, Or., July 30. Word
wat received here today that the town
of Lone Rock waa almost wiped out
yesterday by lire. The whole business
portion of the town went up in smoke,
and nothing remains bnt a few dwell
ing in the outskirts of the town.
Lone Rook i on Long Creek, in
Gilliam oounty. It is twenty-six miles
southeast of Condon, the oounty teat;
1y mile from Arlington, wbioh I.
. ',,,, and m " .tatl0 nd
its shipping and express station, and
thirty-five milea from Heppner, it
banking point There ia a stage to
Arlington and a daily mail. The
town was started in 1870.
A FERRY-BOAT SUNK.
Foartoon
Orahaadle-S
Cl.T.land.
Drowaad at
Cleveland, O., July 30. Several
lives were lost In an aooident wbioh oo
onrred about 7:80 tonight on an old
river-bed near tbe ore docks of tbe
aeveland & Pittsburg Railroad Com-
pany. Tbe ore nandlers bad just quit
work for the day, and were waiting
their turn to cross the branch of tbe
river on the flat-bottom ferry-boat
whiob they bad provided for thi pur
pose. When it wa about bait way
over, the frail craft was swamped by
tbe wash from a passing steamer, and
it began to sink. The first report of
tbe aooident plaoed tbe number of dead
at twenty-two, but that proved to have
been an exaggeration. Fourteen
bodies bave been taken from the water.
William Bueloy, a well-known press
man, went to tbe river to see the ex
citement, fell oil an abutment near
the Detroit boat-landing and waa
drowned.
Tbe river is being dragged for more
bodies. There were many pathetic
soenet about the morgue while rela
tive of the dead men were identifying
them. It 1 believed at 11 o'clock all
the bodies bave been recovered, though
It la possible one or two victims may
be added to the list Twelve ot the
, fourteen victims leave familiea who
1 were dependent upon them.
. FOR THE PRESIDENT,
!
Bulldin BnDorlntendent Wll. on Manas
I a Boeommoadation.
. Tl Alt -vl T
i 'Peoi.l office building
for the chief
executive of the nation, but oongress
has taken no action on them. His an
nual report jnst submitted, saya:
"I earnestly recommend that an ap
propriation of 1250,000 be made for the
erection, within tbe executive mansion
!t?E
ury building, of a granite structure for
the ofSoe of the chief executive of the
nation. Thla struoture oould be con
nected by a wide corridor with a large
conservatory fitted up a a winter gar
den, with tropical plants and a foun
tain, statue of eminent Amerioan;
the conservatories oould open into a
picture gallery connected by two wide
walla, with the east room, and the im
provements could serve a double pur
pose of relieving tbe mansion of tbe
terrible crush inoident to the evening
reception a.
"I earnestly hope that aotion may
be taken at the approaching session of
congress toward erecting a suitable
office building for the president ot the
United States."
THE YEAR'S IMMIGRATION.
A Irge
Ineraaaa In tha Number of
Aliens Arriving.
Washington, July 90. A statement
prepared by the commissioner of immi
gration shows the number of Immi
grants wbo arrived in thla country dur
ing the fiscal year ending June 80,
1896. to have been 843,967, aa oom
pared with 958,586 during 1895. Of
the whole number, 919,466 were males
and 180,881 were female. Tbe ooun
trle from which the Immigrant oame
are given a follow:
Austria Hungary, 65,108; Italy, 68,
080; Russia, 69,186; Germany, 81,885;
United Kingdom, 64,867; all other
oountrle, 61,446.
The whole number debarred and re
turned during the year waa 8,035, aa
follow: Pauper, 9,010; oontraot la
borers, 776; Idiot, 1; insane, 1; dis
eased, 3.
Two hundred and thirty-six were re
turned witihn one year, because of
their having become publlo oharges.
The total number debarred and returned
In 1895 was 9.696. ;
Bleyola Factory Burned.
London, July SO. The Humber
bioyole worka, at Coventry, were burn
ed today. Four thousand unfinished
bicycle in tbe faotory were destroyed.
The total loss is 80,000.
A Granite afauaoleunu
New York, July 30. William A.
Clark, wbo Is known as tbe silver king
ot Montana, and who is reputed to be
worth more than $90,000,000, haa so
oepted an architect' a plan for a gran
ite mausoleum to be erected in Wood
lawn oemetery at a oost of $100,000, aa
a memorial to bi wife, wbo died about
two years ago in this oity. . The archi
tects refuse to desorlbe the proposed
tuoture or to give any information re
garding it
CAPTAIN TAYLOR'S REPORT
Cn Blv.r and Harbor Work la tha Fa
altta Werthwest.
Washington, July 90. Tbe report of
Captain Harry Taylor, of the engineer
oorp. who ba oharge of the river and
harbor work in the Not :b west, ha been
mad to the secretary of war.
The work on Willapa river aad har
bor, in Washington, hat been com
pleted and twenty-one feet of water ee
onred, but tome shoal need to be
dredged yet No further appropriation
will be be required.
For the improvement of Gray harbor
and bar, plan for a jetty 1 mile to
the tea on the south side of the harbor,
to secure a low-water depth ot 94 feet,
has been decided upon, and contract!
will be let for the work. It ia recom
mended that the full amount permitted
by law 1400,000 bcapproprlated for
tbe next fiscal year.
In Gray's harbor and Cbehalla river,
to carry the dredging to a depth of six
teen feet will- largely exoeed the esti
mate ot oost
The extersion of tbe Northern Paoiflo
railway to the lower-harbor towns is
said to bave lessened the impor
tance of the river as a highway, ao
that no ooastlng vessels bave navigated
it above Coamopolis since 1899, and It
ia recommended that tbe plan for dredg
ing channel thrcngb tbe aboala to
give ooastlng vessel aooeaa to Monte
sano be reconsidered..
The importance of greater facilities
for keepng the river flowing into
Paget sound free from obstruction is
urged. In connecting Paget sound
j w
1th Lake Union and Washington,
the Smith's cove route Is favored, and
the engineer urges that preliminary
work be done before right of way ia
secured, and says tht $500,000 can be
profitably expended during the year.
The earnestness of tbe, people ot
Everett for pushing the work ot their
harbor ia oommendeC. and (15,000 ia
recommended to be expended during
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1898.
The opening of Bwinomiab slough at
tbe earliest possilbe date ia urged. '.
It ia reported that tbe expense of car
rying out tbe project for removing
boulders, etc, from the Upper Colum
bia and Snake rivers ia so great that it
should not be begun with the present
appropriation.
" A POPULIST PLATFORM.
Draws up la Califomiu far tha St. louls
Convention
Ban Franoisoo, July 90. F. M.
Wardell, chairman of the Populist
state central oommittee of California,
and J. Taylor Rogers, Mayor Sutro's
secretary, bave prepared a platform
whioh it ia proposed to present to the
national Populist convention at St
Louis next week. Tbe finanolal plank
is aa follows:
"We demand a national maney,
issued direotly by the general govern
ment only, as a full legal tender tor all
debts and issued without the agency of
any private corporation or bank, and in
circulating volume; subject to law and
responsive to our needs, and speedily
to be increased to $50 per capita ot tbe
entire peopla,
"Snob money shall consist ot gold,
silver and paper, each dollar thereof
endowed with the tame fnnotion, im
parted solely by the stamp thereon,
and not dependent for lta money value
upon tbe price of the material used.
Each dollar shall be Interchangeable
with, but not redeemable In tbe other,
and (ball be denominated respectively
j guia, buvbt or paper momj su na
tional aeots oeing payaoie in eiwwr, ai
the option of tbe government
"As the United State 1 a free and
powerful nation nnd the financial and
industrial liberty ot it oltisens ahould
be independent of the action of any
other government, we demand the free
and unlimited coinage ot gold and sil
ver by the United State at the present
ratio of 16 to 1, without referenoe to
the oourse of any foreign nation.
"We demand that all national banks
be abolished, and in lieu of them that
the government establish a postal bank
in each oity, town and village of the
United State containing a population
of 1,000 or more."
The platform also declares for the
reoognltdon of Cub and against tbe re
funding ot the Paoiflo railroad debt.
A Woman's Terrible Doed. .
Butte, July 90. Mrs. Rose Heim
beok, wife ot Ed Heimbaok, of Meader
ville, became jealoua ot the attentions
ber husband paid Mrs. Thomas Snell
lng. In company with her sister,
Mrs, Hoakins, she went to the Snelllng
home today and, calling Mr. 8nelling
into the parlor, Mrs. Heimbaok threw a
pint of sulphurio aold on her. Mrs. j
Snelling is terribly burned and will
die. Mrs. Heimbaok and her sister are
under arrest The latter ia a raving
maniao in the county jail, and is ex
pected to die also. : ,
Bottle Paper From tha Baroale. , .
London, July 20. At the offioe ol
Alt TirhJtA G. 14m In .V.J Mtw wimI
was received inai as uoy taxe, near
Birkenhead, a bottle waa ploked up
reoently whioh oontained the following
wirtten on a dip of paper:
"Struck iceberg. Sinking fast Mid
ooean. ' Naronio. (Signed) Young."
The steamer Naronio, one of the
largest and finest freighter of the
White Star line, aailed from Liverpool
February 11, 1898, for New York, and
from that time to tbi haa never been
heard from.
Foil Down a Shaft.
Rossland, B. a, July 90. Patrlok
Driver, a miner working in tbe White
Bear mine, waa killed today by falling
down 80-foot shaft He struck rook
at the bottom headforemost, and broke
bis neck. Driver wa about 85 years ;
old, unmarried. His only known rela-,
i. - i i i t
live was a ouuaiu, nuw aumewnera IB
the Coenr de'Alenea. Driver had been
for some time In this section, having
gone into the Coeur de'Alenea during
the early days.
NORTHWEST BREVITIES
Evidence ot Steady Growth
and Enterprise.
ITEMS OF 6EXEBAL I5TESEST
Fraas AU tha Cities and Towns of tha
Thriving- lister ttatee
. .. Oregon. ."
A young oyolone passed through the
timber near Fox valley last week, end
great deal of timber was blown
down. : .
The ordinance preventing cow front
running at large and for cutting'
thistles will be ttriotly enforoed In
The Dallee.
According to the report given tbe
oounty court by George Tregaskis, stock
inspector, there are over 110,000 sheep
in Harney oounty, not including lamb.
Bandover St Co. propose putting in a
mill at their Olalla, Doulgaa oounty,'
mine. The Arm has sunk a shaft ten
feet, and at that depth the assay run
from $9.60 to $50 a ton, it la laid. ,
The Long Creek Ealge, of Grant
oounty, ia informed that over 800 sheep
are dead on the range between the mid
dle and north fork of the John Day
river, the result of poison on the range.
Tbe Umatilla county grand jury cau
tioned justices of the peaoe against inn
ing warrranta for the arrest of persons
charged with petty offenses, unless the
judge should be satisfied that the evi
dence is sufficient to convict or that the
accused is attempting to leave the ooun
ty or state.
a B. Wade, cashier of the First Na
tional bank, of Pendleton, easy, after
personal inspection ot seventy-five
wheat fields in Umatilla oounty, and
upon careful inquiry, that tbe damage
to the wheat crop in Umatilla oounty,
done by hot weather, haa been on the
average, 60 per cent
It looks a though Salem and Marion
county were to become famous by rea
son of tbe newspaper sketch artist
preduoed from - that section, says the
Statesman. F. F. Bower, a bright
and conscientious cartoonist, has been'
summoned by telegraph to the office of
a San Farncisoo paper and to assume
the dnites of a valuable assignment
The directors of The Dalles, Port
land A Astoria Navigation Company
visited tbe Cascade Locks, where they
met the governor, secretary of state
and state treasurer, who were looking
over the state portage. The portage
was damaged but little by the high'
water, and will require only slight
repair before it oan be operated. , Ibe
repair will be made aa soon a he
water goe down sufficiently to allow
Tbe Dalle City to land at the lower
end of-the incline.
The oounty oourt of Union county
ha reduced by one tbe deputies in the
offioe of iheriff and clerk. In the
matter of the deputyahip tor the school
superintendent's offioe, which In a pub-'
Ho way has been conferred on Miss,
Nellie Stevens, it is stated that the
oounty oourt will not favor her ap
pointment in that oapaoity, the board
taking the gronnda that disqualification
a to tbe prinoipalship also disqualifies
her from discharging the duties of the
offioe as deputy.
Waahlnaton.
: The city oounoil ot Puyallup haa ap-'
propria ted $35 for cutting the thistles
In the streets and highways ot that,
town. ,
During the month of June the Eggert
& Johnson Company at Getohell, In
Snohomish . county, - out 3,175,000
shingles. , . . i
Government Architect Aaron B.
Johnson, wbo will have charge of
building Spokane' new army post, baa
arrived in that oity to assume hla
duties. - '
According to the report ot the di
rector of the mint, Kittitas county
took the lead In mineral production in
Washington last year, and produced
one-third of the gold ot the state.
George B. Lowe, a Georgia melon ,
planter, has booked an order to ship '
two carloads of the green-above-tbe-red .
fruit to Seattle. 8,000 mile. The
freight charge ia $850 per carload.
Captain Kingsbury, wbo ha been
employed a engineer of tbe Yakima
reservation ditoh, report that the
ohannel will carry 164 feet of water
per second, sufficient to water 40,000
acres of land. -,
Tbe oyster men of Mason oonnty ,
have all been notified by the state hind .
commissioner that their deed for
oyster land are ready for them, and '
they are happy, a the work of yeara
ia bearing fruit
At the Day logging oamp, at Oak
Point, In Cowlita oounty, a logging
railorad it being built It will be
about five milea in length, and will :
tap large body of exoellent timber;
heavy steel rails will be used, and the
track will be standard gauge.
A few weeka ago a quantity of flax
straw, grown on Fuget sound, was -snipped
by the Seattle obamber of com- '
meroe to Barbour & Bona, ot Lisburn, '
Ireland. The manufacturers report that '
tbe sample are exoellent, and very
similar to that grown in the Courtral
dUtriot In Belgium.
' An applioaiton ba been filed on be- "
half of Anaoortes to make that city a
sub-port The recently erected salmon
canneries there will use fish brought -from
British Columbia waters. Thi
it given aa tbe reason for the applioa- '
tlon. 1 V
: A. Toblasson, of Delta, In Wbatoom ,
county, heard a bog qe'aal near hi '
home tbe otber night, and on going '
out found a black bear had Just killed
the bog. Mr. Toblasson killed the
bear, whioh wat a very large one,
with a single shot in it bead,