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IHTl irnnn ID 1, H i v ik n i iri v n JLJLJ VOL. XIV. ST. HELENS, OREGON, FIIIDAY, JANIXAIIV 15, 1897. NO. 4. nn TVIT EVENTS OF THE DAY Epitome ot the Telegraphic Newt of the World. TEilSB TICKS FROM THE WIRES Am iMtereitIng Colleotloa of -! From th Two Ilemliphere Presented In a Voadeneed Fern. :. The nineteenth session of tho Ore yon legislature mot in Sitlem Monday, i Mid failed to organize completely, be cause of disagreement between factious ; in the senatorial fight - The evident purpose seemed to be to delay the elec tion of United State senator for two wwki unit they were successful. The senate organized without friction, but the house not at nil. A vote for (ten ator can not now ho taken until Tue' day. January 26. Joseph Simon, Miiltiiomiili, wiui chosen president of , the senate without oppomtion. f v The Washington legislature me Motu by ut Olympia, nnii promptly pro ceeded to organize. W. H. Plummer, of Sxkann, : wm elected -. temporary chairman of the senate; Dudley JSshel man. of Sixikane, secretary of tho eon nt. The election of minor employe wiih proceeded with until number of place were filled. The house wa t iilloil to ortlor t noon hy Assistant Chief Clerk Alexander of the last sc sloii. The election of officer ami cm liloyim followed, mill C K. Cline, oi f Whatcom, was chosen speaker, end Judge Carusl, of Clallam, chief clerk. f. A commltUe wan appointed to text ti e contested places, and tho house ad , joiimed. - . ' ' Tho Pin-i llo railroad funding hill had ? met itn doom in the national house, j under nn adverse majority of (1(1. A thousand warring Pole, in Bay i City, Miolt., were determined that Fa thor Boguckl should not officiate aa their priont. They attacked the par tonage of St Btauislana' oliurch, and tunned it for over an hoar. They de molished the edifice and one man was hot and several oUmrs wonnded with eluba. The priest finally surrendered, 1 and the polioe quolled the riot I A Chicago paper say that President I itloot McKinley will eeleot Colonel John I Hay, of Washington, a ambassador to a ' i vni uiiuiiiii uj WW. I enoretary of tho legation at Farii, I Vienna and Mwlrld and waa often I charge d 'affaire ad Interim at each of I these capital. In Unyea' adminetra- tlon he wai flret axa'vtant teoretary of itate. ' Hay wan one of President Lin i: elon'a Kwretarioa. -r':.- Sir Charlea TnpiKr at dinner in London 1 (juoti.Hl aa laying! "I feel great admiration for the United Statei, bat do not dimire to pome their inetl- tutlona. I feel that there ia greater lu-onrity nndor British inotitntiona for life, property and liberty. Canadian ; are greatly flattered at the desire of the United State to poeeee Canada, I Irat no deep l tlie(r loyalty and o I nniwxl are the Canadian that theqnea. I tion i impound I be. " The speech of the I ex-premier wa rooelvoil with great ap- plauM. ' : In anwr to Senator Mitehell'a reso lution on the Yaqnina and other im : provemout in Oregon, the secretary of war ha reported that the matter had j been referred to Captain Fink, and that conHiaerauieeorreMponiiDiioe nan ensued, (Captain Fink is endeavoring to ascer tain the bent method of proceeding with the project. The work on the pVillamette river hits been ordered, and tho Yamhill lock are in the condition of the Yaquina project. Evidently there lin lNen delay in the matter, which may be continued for some time. The Paoiflo cable oonforenoe will meet witiiin a fortnight In London to jfign tho report already agreed opon. It i aemi-vflloinlly stated that the report unaiiimonnly reoonimeuds that a cable lie built, aa It is practically feasible and nommurulally and pohtioally neoes fary. There 1 some difference of opin ion regarding the relative share of ex KiiiHe to bo borne by Great Britain 4nd the colon io concerned, but the del egate have agreed Anally to recommend that lea be paid by Great Britain and more by the colonies than originally onuldered nnoesaary. . The snm aaked from Great Britain la tinderRtood to be oonsidered financially feasible by Beore- tary Chiimpurlaln. A band of masked regulator went to the honse of C. W. Roddick, a few miles wat of Newport, Idaho, and eallod him to the door. They solved him, dragged him outside, took him a ''short distance from the house and gave Jdm a terrible beating with horsewhip and swltohea His oondition is orltioal. The alleged offense of Kcddiok was Im proper attentions to a married woman of the neighborhood. ;i It is stated that CP, Huntington ho a corps of engineer in the field making a preliminary survey for a rail road from Port Alvarado, south of Vera Kruz, to the port of Balina Cms on he FaelHo, and that, if he oan secure idvantngooua route, he will ask tho government for a concession for the purpose of operating the line in eon peotion with Paoitlo Mall atoamora, do ing away with the Panama route. ? The Now York Herald' correspond, ent' In Managua, Nioaragnu, ends word that the government 1 about to effect m forced loan of 1500,000 to pay debt contracted by the present admin istration. . , . i Tho authoritiea in Jamaica have pro hibited the importation of cattle from Colombia. By way of retaliation it i suggested that the government should iHue a deoree agalnrt the importation of "laborer"'from Jamaica, many of whom are now at work on the Panama anaL 1 . .. . . . A GREAT IRON PLANT, To B Ball at Port 1iIm r Kastcra Mill Werhar. Nir York, Jan. ll.A Braddoek, Pa., tecial to the World Bays: Mill worker at the Carnelg plant her and at Homestead, Dnquosne and Pitts burg, and employes of the Weetinf house works on Tnttle creek and Wll mnrding, are forming a joint atock com pany to build a $3,000,000 iron and teel plant at Port Anglclea, on Pugot sound. . The company has been incor porated under the Washington law. Twelve hundred of the prominent mlllworker of thin section have, in the last fortnight, lubscriM about $1,000,000 worth of stock. The plant will employ 3,000 men, and will cover thirty acre of ground. The work on the mill building will be started in April, and subscription books will re main open until that time. The com pany ha been made great inducement to locate at Port Angeles. Eighty aore of land for a manuafcturing site and 900 acres for a town site, with 600 feet of wharf front on Pnget sound and railroad rights of way for proper de velopment, will compose the bonus. The iron and steel plant will include blast furnace of 800 tons, thirty open hearth furnaces, bloom and billet mill, rolling, bar and wire nail, sheet and tinplate mills, foundry, machine shops, j blacksmith and boiler shops. ; The company hold 000 acre of iron ore land of 69 per cent pure iron, and 1,000 acres of coal land that make coke equal to Pennsylvania Connells Till ooah THE TERRIBLE'S TRIAL. Great SpS Mall fey Bnsjland's Maw ;',.;.., Warhl. London, Jan. 13. II. M. 8. Terrible, the new flrst-clas cruiser, had her trial over a thirty-two mile course oft the Cornish coast Saturday. The speed developed showed an average of 82 X knot an hour, beating, it 1 claimed here, the record ot every war vessel afloat The Terrible was launched at Glas gow in 1805, and she Is equipped with forty-eight boiler of the Bellville water-tube type. This great chip is built of sheathed steel, and is of 14,300 ton displacement Iter length 1 600 feet, and her beam 71 feet, while the maximum draught i 87 feet She ha twin screw propellers, and has an in dicated horsepower of S5.000. . She is rated as a protected cruiser, her armored duck extending over the whole length of the ship. In its thickest part it is four inches and tapers to three inches at the end. Her coal capacity is 80,000 tons. The complement of officers and men provided is 840. Th Steal Board. Washington, Jan. 1J. Ths navy de partment is carrying out the plans pro jected by Secretary Herbert for the prevention of further detects in steel supplied for the construction ot battle ships. Having ascertained through an investigation, made by a special board, the ' extent of the defect in tho plate already supplied, the next step has been taken by the reorganisation of the steel board. This has been done upon the lines suggested by the chief construct or, Mr. Ifichiwrne, namely, to make the majority of the board experts. Cap tain Day, the present bead of the board, will be succeeded in that place by Commander Coquin, and Lieutenant Everett bus' been succeeded hy Con structor Dashiel. Chief Engineer Free man will be retained on the board, consisting ot one line officer and two staff officers, the latter mechanical ex pert. This reconstructed board is alxmt to undertake a revision of the specifications under which ship steel is made, guided by the experience ac quired by the special board. : Drowned ia Colvlllo Lake. Sprague, Wash., Jan. 18. Two boys, Frits and Con Veyen, aged respectively 19 and 17 years, wore drowned yester day in Colvllle lake, two miles east of this place. They left home in the at ternoon, telling their mother they were going on a fishing expedition. : They had not returned at a late hour and a searching party set out The body of the younger waa brought to the surface 100 yards from shore; that of the older boy was not recovered. They went out on the lake in a sailboat, and the boat was evidently overturned by the wind, The father is employed In the railroad ahops In Spokane. His Attempt Were Fallaree. Fon Du Lac, Wl., Jan. 19. Owen Ferguson, clerk of Fond duLao county, shot himself lost night twice, each time too high to hit the heart About a year ago his wife died. At the last election he was defeated. A few months ago he broke a leg, and before that he was a cripple. It waa reported that he waa short in his accounts. He is still alive,. . . A Hunter's Awful Death. Atlantic, la., Jan. 11,-r-Fred Foulk in the was attacked and killed by hogs heavy timber about fifteen miles northeast of here, Foulk was hunting rabbits, and accidentally wounded one of the hogs. Its ories attraotod several other hogs, and they attacked him and literally chewed him to death. The hpgs had escaped from farmers living in tnru locality, ana were virtually wild. Costly Tobacco Faotory Fire. Danville, Va.. Jan. 13. Fire broke out today in the big leaf tobacco factory of the American Tobacco Company. The building, with all its contents, was entirely consumed. Valuable ma chinery and 1,000,000 pound of loaf tobacco are a total loss. The insuranFe ia $130,000. The companywill rebuild. Harber, the great authority on fish, says that' every square mile of the sea ia inhabited by 130,000,000 finny ore. tures. . . . .. . PACIFICOS STARVING Hundreds of Families Burn d , Out by Weyler'e Orders. UNABLE TO 8AVK ANYTHISG Th Movsmanta of Goms Laadlnar Spaniards la Cuba Honored mj . ."..the Quu Rag-ant. Key West, Fla., Jan. 18. Copies of the Vose de Cuba received here show that that newspaper recently published an extra, advisiu all loyal Spaniard not to buy the Madrid paper. The claim is made that the attack of the Madrid papers on Weyler have a ten dency to do him more harm than the attack of the Patria and El Porvenir, of New York. Several young men who recently joined the insurgents' at Manzanillo report the existence of widespread dis affection among the followers of Babi and Calixto Oarcia. ' . Advices have been received from Trinidad that several young men who recently joined the insurgents at Sanctl Spiritus report that a number of day since Maximo Gomes was encamped near La Campania. On the 1st of January, it is asserted, the insurgent leaders, Jose Miguel and Gomez, passed by the Mapos plantation, in company L with other Cuban insurgent command ers. Over S00 families are roported to have been burned out of their houses, ' owing to the recent orders to destroy the property, and even the home of paciflcoa. Many of these persons have been unable to save even their clothing. Mother are carrying their babes in their arm, and are without food and renting place. Old, grayheaded men and women are barely able to move, owing to the prolonged period of suffer ing, and many ot them will probably starve to death. The magnificent sugar estate of Santa Koea has been burned by the insurgents. For several days the horizon ha been brilliantly illuminated by the destroy ing fire. Many of the canefielda in this vicinity are still burning. HUNGARIAN CHRISTENING. Liquor Flowed Freely, and a Stabbing ; Matob Was the Keanlt. Scrantnn, Pa., Jan. , 12. A Hun garian christening at Mayfleld, this county, had the usual bloody ending which attends such affairs, lor as a re sult one man is dead, two are dying and five others are badly carved. , Strong liquor flowed freely at the christening, and soon many of the men were mad with drink. Seven of the participants in the fracas went to the house ot Lucets Krutchaa. Krutchaa oon had to resent an insult to his wifo, and knives flashed out Mrs. Krutchas datdied out the light and fled from the room. A fearful fight followed in the dark. Tho drink maddened men cut and stabbed each other and rolled together on the floor iii deadly grapple. ...; f tiv'. : Finally a constable and posse broke into the house and when a light was had a ghastly picture was presented. The furniture Was battered and broken and blood waa everywhere, and stretched on the floor wore eight ap parently dead and dying men, groaning and cursing. A physician waa hastily summoned. Krutcha was so terribly cut that he died in a short time. The injuries of the other men show the sav age nature of the fight , , Beaton and Kobbxd by Thugs. Chicago, Jan. 13. Mrs. Charles Bouchsoin, of 47 Clark street, was at tacked by two highwaymen at Kiusie and West Water streets last night and dragged from the cab in which she was riding aud robbed. About 10 o'clock a cab was driven to her home and a note was handed her puprorting to have "been signed by a friend, asking hor to take the cab to his home at once. Mrs. Bouchzein hurriedly dressed and departed in the cab. 'v'-'- West Water street is a dark thor oughfare, aud as : the driver turned north into it two men ran out from the shadow of a building and appeared at the door or tho vehicle. une oi me men threw red pepper into the eyes of tho woman to blind her. She was then beaten with a re volver until she was unconscious. Her assailant robbed her of her jewelry, valued at $1,600, and her pocketbook, which contained $400. She was dragged into the street aud her -assailants es caped in the same cab. Her injuires are said to be dangerous. .-, v Accident on tho Great Northern. jtiuue, juont., Jan. is. while a gang of workmen were employed in re pairing the trestle on the Great North ran road, just outside of town today, a big iron truss which was being put in position slipped, carrying down with it Peter Hishon and John Council. The latter was killed outright Hishon lived an hour. Tho men were members of a bridge crew brought here from Chi cago recently. Dr. I. S. Freund, the company physician, Vaa on his way to the scene of the accident on a switch engine when a collision occurred with a freight engine. Tho doctor was thrown off, sustaining serious injuries. : Plotting Against the Rnltan. Brussels, Jan. 12. The Turkish Re form League has issued from Brussels an appeal to the people of Europe, de claring that the sultan has planned a massacre to take place during the ap proaching ramazan fasts, and imploring the powers to interfere, doposo the sul tan and proclaim Reichad Effcndi, younger brother of the sultan, and heir presumtive, his successor, with a coun- oil of state made up of equal number! of Moslem, Christian and Europeans. THE SHORT LINE SOLD gafwratlM of Union Faalfls and Its rrlRlaI Branca. Salt Lak, Jan. 13.-The tale of the Oregon Short Line Utah Northern railway, under th coneoldiated mort gage of August 1, 1889, waa made today under direction of John B. Cleland, court commissioner. Samuel Carr, Walter C. Oakman and Henry G. Nicholls, representing the reorganiza tion committee, purcliased the property for 16,447,600. The UUth Southern road was bid in by the same parties foi $708,000. Thoy also purchased th Utah Southern extension, for $975,000. W. H. Bancroft will be general man ager of the company. Tho transfer of the Oregon Short Line & Utah Northorn, with property IvEno. in ftva nf tVia WflHtopn afutjta wu. of great interest to railroad men in the ; .nIr mmbf of tho California delega intermountain country. The event! ! ua who t the funding bln m were the legal forms by which the aub- j the courBe hlB "ark" took occasion branches of the Union Pacific trunk' system were foreclosed and bid in by the holders of liens upon tbem, and are to be followed by a reorganization oi the officers and employes ot the linei involved. INDIAN APPROPRIATIONS. (he Bill Completed and th Boom. Reported to Washington, Jan. . 12. The Indian annrnnriation hill for the. next flaeal rear was comnleted todnr bv tho bona committee on Indian affairs, and re- ported to the house by Sherman. The bill carries a total of $7,466,000, which Is somewhat less than the appropriation for the current year. The allowance for anhnols. however, in increased 20.. 000, and provision is made for starting the new schools at Chamberlain and Rapid City, S. D., whose establish ment was provided for by the last bill. There ia an item continuing the Dawes commission, with special sal aries and compensation, and $40,000 is given for the expenses of the com mission of citizens who serve without compensation. The claims of the old settlors against Western Cherokee In-, dians, which have been a troublesome question xor years, are settled by a clause directing the secretary of the oeeUed quietly to the hour when recess Interior to pay $86,200 on proper requi- was taken. The general debate closed sition. today..;.".,... Three bills for the ratification of Harrison gave notice of a substitute the treaties to secure Indian lands are he should offer to provide for a com incrooorated in the bill. One is mission to consist of the secretary of Flynn's bill to ratify the agrement with the Comanche, Kiowa and Apache tribes of Oklahoma, by which the gov ernment is to secure their reservations for $3,000,000. The second is for ratification of the treaty of 1892 with the Turtle Mountain Chippewas, of North Dakota, for their lands. Kepre- nnntiLtivA Mnnriall'a rtrn1,ct f.tr mnlrino a government reservation of the Hot Springs on the Shoshone reservation, in Wyoming, for Which a treaty has been made with the Indians, is includ ed. - One of tho most important features of the bill is the incorporation in it of a bill recently introduced by Sherman of New York, which provides for three least twenty whole bodies and many Indian commissioners to succeed the more leS" an(i arm8' other P1-8 of 108 present commissioner and deputy com- dismembered bodies being missing, missionor. One of the three is to be the bodle8 remaining entire, four an army officer, and the office of deputy were those of women, three of young commissioner is to be done awa7 with, misses, one of a girl not more than ten i years old, four of boys, and the rest of Durrant Stay Got a Now Trial. i men. . ' San Francisco, Jan. 13. It is re- ' Permission to bury the remains was ported in legal circles that the supreme brutally refused, with a threat that if court may send the Durrant case back this slaughter was complained of many for retrial. At least one of the jus- more would be added to what the Span tices is said to have openly said the evi- ish officials called the "Cuban diet" dence against Durrant for the murder pile. of Blanche Lament was insufficient to convict He believes Durrant waa found guilty to satisfy the popular clamor, and it he can influence the other justices to the same view, a new trial may be ordered, as waa in the and insult, if not kill, persons suspect cose of Dr. Milton Bowers, who now ed of Cuban leanings. i walks the streets a free man. Although ' 1 Some families in the poorer sections the Durrant case is now under submis- of the oity, who did not know of the sion, Attorney-General Fitzgerald ho edict, started to move Sunday night not filed his brief in reply to the de- After they hod loaded their furniture fendant's brief. When that is filed on wagons, the police and soldiers fired there will be a defendant's brief in re- bn them, killing eight persona, inolud turn. Two months may elapse before ing several innocent passers-by. In the all-important decision of the au the official report it was stated that the preme court is handed down. Hcad-Cnd Colllalon, Fort Worth, Tex., Jan. 13. A head- end collision ocurred today between two freight trains on the Gulf, Colo- rado & Santa Fe road at Hazlett, two miles north of here. One .train was standing on the main line waiting for the other to take the siding. The en- gineer of the south-bound train pre- sumed that the switch had been thrown, and came ahead at a lively speed and crashed into the north-bound engine. Joe Haggerty, of Gainseville, engineer of the south-bound, and E. W. Palushall, - brakeman, were killed. George Coombs, of Gainseville, the other engineer, had an arm broken, and a man named Morris was badly injured. Dragged to Death. Modesto, Cal., Jan. 'm'J3;686!11!1 Weyler'a system of of T. K. Walhs, aged 17, ! ja,. , . j i.,j Blakely, son ,.. A A J.K - 1,1 t, . w the San Joaquin nver eighteen miles south ttf Modesto. He was driving a team etched to a scraper, when he waa caught in the spring and the team ran away. , f or over 200 yards he was hit on the bead by the blade of the scraper aa it bumped along the field. His head was badly lacerated, and he remained unconscious for six hours, when he died.- , , BHIea Terry's I'oor Dreealng. Paris, Jan. 12. It is reported Jhat the Casino at Monte Carlo recently re fused admission to Ellen Terry, on the (round that she was too ill-dressed. Spenjanli Defeated I'.eurgante. Madrid, Jan.' 12. Advices received from Manila are to the effect that the Spaniards have again defeated the in- .urgent at Montabatan. Sixty-one of I .... "i'" killed in the engagement ' HEARST ON THE RACK Bitterly Denounced by John son of California IN THE FUNDING-BILL DEBATE Bpeh Characterised by Cooper M tho Host Disgraceful Attack la tho History of th Uoose. Washington, Jon; 11. The second day's debate on the Pucifio railway re funding bill developed by far the most sensational incident of this session of congress, jonhnson or (Julilorma, the umao a jcuittrauuic, : f n,uJoinhifo personal auocK on junior jaeursi, oi the San Francisco Examiner. He de scribed Mr. Hearst and Mayor Sutro as men who were terrorizing the Pacifio coast members, and made statements concerning the former which led Coop er, of Wisconsin to characterize it later as the "most disgraceful attack in the legislative , annals of the United States." ' The members, who had been listen ing attentively to Johnson's remarks, he is always one of the most enter taining speakers in the house, were thunderstruck at the lengths to which he went- At the ,ast e&ion Johnson denounced Hearst, but on that occasion he was called to order by Maguire of California. Today he completed his philippic without interruption. The speech created a profound sensation, which was increased by Cooper's denun ciation of it as a cowardly attempt to blacken the reputation of a man of "positive genius. " Cooper also took occasion to score the gentleman from California roundly for his attitude to ward the bill. Johnson made no at tempt to reply to Cooper. . . ; This incident completely overshad owed the interest in the debate on the lundmg bill, and thereafter it pro- the treasury, secretary of the interior and the attorney-general, to negotiate the settlement of the debt MURDER OF PACIFICOS. Evidences Aecnmnlatlne; of Awful Span Jeh Butchnrlwe at Guanabaooa . New York, Jan. 11. A Key West dispatch to the World says: Evidences of awful butcheries at Guanabaooa accumulate daily. Ad vices from Havana report that a great pit filled with corpses and human frag ments was discovered in a canefield. not more than a mile from that place. A careful investigation revealed at ' : The edict refusing permission to re move furniture and other things unless asked for twenty-four hours previously is taken advantage of by the Spanish soldiers to wreck buildings and revile troops had been attacked and several rebels had been killed. ; A girls' school near the center ot the town waa entered bv trooDS one dav la8t week, and the Drinciiml. an elder- ly Cuban-born woman, very prominent, wag compelled to kneel to the officer in command and beg pardon for UBing translations of text-books printed in the United States. The girl pupils W6re insulted and rudely treated until the school was broken ud in disorder. a. complaint to the commandant: only 1 excited laughter that "such a little thing" was complained of. Havana ia much agitated by rumors of victories by Gomez's troops; of the successful crossing of the trooha into Pinar del Rio, and several routs ot Spanish troops. General Weyler is execrated on every hand, but, on aooount of the severe . - ".u.u Every one thinks his neighbor a spy, ,nd little lmTaed from Spies by the hundred attend the open- air and the least dissatisfao- tion expressed is used as a pretext and the victim is thrust into Cabanas or Moro castle, most likely never to be seen again by friends or kindred. Scarcely a night passes but ten to twenty persona disappear, and every one knows what that means. ' Fire In a Mining Town. - Kendriuk, Idaho, Jan. II. News reached here today of a disastrous fire at Pierce City, the historio old placer camp ot North Idaho. A number of landmarks that were built back in the '60a wore destroyed. The Heaviest loss was suffered by a Chinese merchant, who lost a $5,000 stock of goods. The fire will prove a serious loss to the narnri. n,i mttnv m:,Mr,. u r.r.rlor.on,wl on this store tor siona. ILUr winter provl- Bold Chicago Hold-tip. Chicago, Jan. 11. Two armed rob bers entered the buffet of the Auditor ium hotel at 1:80 this morning, while twelve people were sitting at the table, covered the cashier, D. Walsh, with their weapons, seized $100 which he had just deposited in a tin box, and then escaped. The men entered the buffet from the door in the annex. They were well dressed, and created no suspicion until they drew their revol vers. Cashier Walsh had counted out the money and deposited it in the box when one of the robber said: "Cry for help and you're a dead man." Hia companion seized the cash and both backed out of the door with drawn weapons. They ran into Lake-Front Park and the police could find no trace of them. The annex ia one of the most prominent hotels in Chicago, and is located in the heart of the city. Wheat Scarce and High. Ban Francisco, Jan. II. Wheat in thi market ha become scarce, and is daily advancing. Shippers would will ingly pay $1.60 per cental for good No. 1 shipping wheat today, and it is known among a few that they have paid as high as $1.63 for something extra choice within the last forty-eight hours. Owing to the growing scarcity of wheat in this state, the San Fran cisco market possesses a firmness inde pendent of the other leading markets. It is said that there are not more than 250,000 tons of wheat remaining in the entire state to supply the export de mand and home requirements before another crop is harvested. There has been a decrease of 74,716 tons within one year. - ' ., -. Blown Out to Sea. .. Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 11. As the United States revenue cutter Boutwell was approaching the mouth of St John's river late last evening the look out discovered a cat-rigged boat flying a signal of distress. One of the Bout well's boats sent to investigate found a sailor in the bottom ot the yawL. He was unconscious and his mouth was on his naked forearm aa though he had tried to drink his own blood. He proved to be Captain Charles Herman, of Providence, R. L On No vember 21, accompanied by Charles Gladding, he set out in the yawl Coch eco for a cruise along the coast of Flor ida, When they left Charleston on December 26 they were blown out to sea. Their provisions and water were soon exhausted. Twenty More Armenians Liberated. New York, Jan. 11. A Herald dis patch from Constantinople says: The last twenty of the 888 Armenian prisoners in Constantinople were liber ated yesterday. . There are still in prison twenty-five prisoners condemned to death, one of whom is Bishop Arab ' gari. As to the number of Armenian ' priests in prison condemned to death, J oniy two nave up to uie present time f been mentioned to the patriarchate as worthy of pardon. Sixty-five Armeni- an8 wl had sought refuge in Varna ! returned yesterday evening and were uuuvercu wiuiuui, uiuiuuuy iu ixie Ar menian partiarchate. ' A Fanner Found Dead. j Heppner, Or., Jan. 11. M. D. Lo gan ,a farmer, living about ten miles from here, was found dead in a gulch near the residence of Robert Dexter, , yesterday forenoon. He was lost seen j Friday evening, when he loft here for home. He was then considerably under the influence , of liquor, and it is thought that he had a bottle with him, and became so intoxic;vd that he fell off his horse and died from exposure. The remains were brought ' in last night Logan leaves a large family in poor circumstances. The verdict of the coroner's jury was that Logan died from intoxication and exposure, Seventy-Five Cent for Wheat. Garfield, Wash., Jan. 11 The last sale of wheat was effected Saturday at 76 cents a bushel, the top prioe reached in the Palouee country this season. A pool was formed six weeks ago, repre senting about 20,000 bushels, that were to be held until wheat reached 76 cents. This cleans up nearly all of the wheat within twenty miles of Gar field, and a famine in seed wheat is ex pected before spring. ". Tho silver-Fox Bill. Washington, Jan. 11. The house committee on territories today agreed to report the bill which has passed the senate authorizing the secretary of the interior to . nee his discretion to lease certain islands in Alaska for terms of twenty years, for the purpose of propa- gating the silver fox. At present, the tease can be for but one year, which is not sufficient for the purpose proposed. Agolnat a Red notion. Massillon, O., Jan. 11. A conven tion representing 1,800 independent coal miners of . the Massillon district decided today that the miners would not accept the ten cents reduotion or dered by the operators. The operators are firm and a strike is probable. The United Mine Workers will probably take similar action tomorrow. A WlaeoBatn Batik Failure. Eau Claire, Wis., Jan. 11. The Commercial bank, of Eau Claire, capi tal $30,000, closed today. The failure I is due to the suspension of the Allema- nia bank, of St Paul. President Allen states the depositors will be paid in full. i Is Just Four Mill. , Salem, Jan. 11. The state tax levy for 1807 was declared today, and it is 4 mills. It is customary to make the appropriation of the last legislature the basiB in estimating the state's ex penses. There was an exception this time in the matter of appropriations for the homes, whioh keeps the levy down. The normal temperature ot a human being ia 98 degreea Fahr.j that of a ' nan only r aegrees. NORTHWEST BREVITIES Evidence ot Steady Growth and Enterprise. ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST From All tho Cities and Towns of tho Thriving Slator Statei Oregon. The Tigardville flouring mill, in Washington county, is running full time, and is not able to fill all orders. Professor R. D. Williams, who was stabbed by Ed Meador, one of his pu pils, at Prairie City, in Grant county, has since died. One firm in Coquille City shipped, during December last, 800 dozen of eggs. . The poultry shipments, too, were quite large. The schooner Free Trade was struck by a heavy sea while crossing the Tilla mook bar lately. The man at the wheel was injured and the steering gear demolished. . Work on the Bandon woolen mills warehouse has been Stopped for the present owing to claims on the wharf between the river channel and the place selected for the building. The logging camp of Nixon Bros., near Peoria, in Linn county, burned last week and all of the property in it The Nixon Bros, were getting ont logs for the O. R. & N. wharf in Corvallis. The mail-carrier, while crossing Warm Springs reservation with a buck board and four horses, mired down and .had to get ont with the mail for Prine- ville on a pack animal on a recent trip. H. Clay, of Alrington, who has 7,000 sheep that are being fed in Min nesota for -the Chicago market, says that there are 80,000 head of sheep near his place that are being fattened for market - Cnt worms are doing considerable damage to fallrrain in the vicinity of Oak Grove, in AY asco county. The cold spell in November did some damage to grain in that part ot the county, bat the injury was not great The Uamtilla county assessor has just completed the military roll, which has been turned over to the county clerk. The roll contains about 1,800 names, and is compiled alphabetically, so that it is a simple matter to ascertain whoso names are upon it whose are not ' The people of Arlington had an ex tra dish of entertainment served Christ mas night in the way of an Indian dance, given by about thirty of the Co lumiba Indians. The Indians hired the hall and charged an admission. Nearly every one went to see them and hear the music they furnished on such occasions. Like many other ballroom celebrities, they were painted in the loudest colors. The Indians had a big time at Thorn Hollow, in Umatilla county, on Christ mas day. There took part in the fes tivities 100 Umatilla Indians, five Po catellos and four Ne Perces. One of the Nes Perce Indians was found with a bottle of whisky in hia possession. This was promptly taken from him by the Indian police, who poured ont the contents. Two other Indians got some what hilarious and were put in irons. ' Waahlngtom. .' .. .' The population of Chehalis county is 10,473, an increase of 1,400 in two years. The Electric Light & Power Com pany is planting maple trees and other wise improving the Tumwater park, near Olympia. , Judge Hume, in Seattle, has fixed -March 28, 1807, as the date upon whioh William Carey, convicted of mnrder, will be hanged. It is thought that a new use has been fonnd for the black beachsand of Gray's harbor, that it will prove valuable for the iron that is in it , ' In Kittitas county all approved bills up to January 1, 1898, have been paid. The laBt payment before this oleaned up all warrants issued prior to April, . 1896. It said that a measure will be presented to the coming state legisla ture to re-enact the beet-sugar bounty law passed in 1898, which has now be come inoperative by limitation. The Spokane Reform leauge will con- . tinue in its work of trying to close the saloons in that city Sunday, and has ' engaged an attorney to assist in prose cuting the cases that are expected to arise. ' ' Mr. Dunham, one of the oldest set tlers of Gig Harbor, in Pierce county, died last week at the age of 93 years. He was the first man to settle at Gig Harbor, and lived there dnring the lat- ter years of hia life. During 1896, the Rev. John F. Da- mon, of Seattle, married 159 couples. , The oldest groom was 66 years of age, and the oldest bride 64. The youngest groom of the year was 30 years old, and the youngest bride 15.. . , There is a movement afoot in the southern part of Stevens county to di- ' vide the county on a line running east and west, about half way between Col ville and Chewelah. There are about 12,000 inhabitants in the county. There is a large quantity of old bills at the capitol in Olympia that will , have to be destroyed. Two years ago the schools found these of value to use as soratoh paper. The school pupils gathered tliem, but many were seat--tered about the streets. , They may be . had this year, if the matter is looked after by the teachers and assurance given that they will not be used to lit ter the streets. Kalama hopes to have two wood- working factories in operation by March 1 next