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VOL. XIV.
ST. HELENS, OREGON, FIIIDAY, JANIXAIIV 15, 1897.
NO. 4.
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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