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VOL. XIV.
ST. HELENS, OREGON, FKIDAY, JUNE 4, 1897.
NO. 24.
NEWS OF IE WEEK
From all Parts of th New
and Old World.
BBIEP iKD IHTE&E8TIK0 ITEMS
u,nliiMli Relew of the Imnort
I Happenings nf tfce 0un
' '" ' tent Week.
Caswell' mllU at Lewiston, Me.,
vera blown up. Four men wart killed
and several were Injured. , The mills
re a total wreck, and the Ioh I
ItnaW. 1
A dispatch from Berlin ay thai
the powen, Including Turkey, have
, sentod to the appointment of Prince
Franoi Joseph of Battenburg M gov
ernor-general of Crete.
A dispatch to the Dally Mail from
Borne says the king of Greece fi be
ginning to reassert himself and will
soon be able to dismiss M. Belli and to
appoint M. Kalaptano ai premier.
' At Colfax, Wash., John Leonard,
who murdered Jaoob Malquist last
July, was eentenoed by Judge McDon
ald to be hanged July 1. The sentence
did not affect the priioner. He had
nothing to say.
WhihfOeorge Allen, George Warren
and bia eon Willie were crowing the
Grand river at Fruits, Colo., in a tem
porary ferry, the oable broke and all
three were drowned. The river ii very
high, and la half a mile wide at that
.place. ;-
The Mew York Herald 'a eorrw pond
en t in Onatemala cable that the gov
ernment haa issued a decree impend
ing epeola payment! for six months.
The banka lend the government 1,000,
000 peaoa to be repaid in liz montha in
. silver.
Oflloera of the Cuban league have de
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of $1,000,000 in the United State, be
lieving that thl will enable the Co
ban to eatabliah their independence.
The fund 1 to be raised in tw ways
by donation and by the sale of gold
bond at 0 per cent, payable "ten yean
after the evacuation of Cuba by the
Spanish troop."
B. C. Brloe, whoae claim to pro
ofs for making gold and diver from
chemically pure antimony and other
bare metal baa been under investiga
tion by a committee of expert, with
only negative results, lias made appli
cation to the commissioner of patent
for another teat. In bi request he a
ert that the other commission did not
follow hi direction in important par
ticular. The deoree of the Turkish govern
ment calling for the expulison of all
Ureek from the Ottoman empire, haa
been auipended, in view of the peace
negotiations.
Governor Ellerbe haa announoed
that he will appoint Congressman
John L. McLaurin to be United State
enator, in succeasin to the late Sena
;. tor Earle,
The Cretan oilier nave sent a docu
ment to the Greek government deolar
ing.that they are almost unanimously
in favor of polltioal union with Greece,
but asking the advice , of the govern
ment a to the beat course to pursue
consistently and with due regard to na
tional Interests.
. President MoKinley sent a cablegram
to Queen Victoria, congratulating her
on the celebration of her 79th birthday.
The message was as follows: "To the
Ambassador of the CnitedJStates, Lon
don: The president desires you to con
vey to the queen his sincere congratula
tion and those of the Amerioan people
upon the celebration of her 79th birthday."-
Governor Lord ba appointed 3. V.
B. Butler, of Monmouth, to succeed
himself; Judge John J. Daly, of Dallas,
vice J. a White, and K. C. Pentland,
of Independence, vloe P. Haloy, mem
bers of the board of regents of the slate
normal school at Monmouth, Or., each
to hold for six year. Judge G. C.
' Blakely, of The Dalles, has been ap
pointed a member of the Oregon state
board of pharmacy, vloe M. M. Davis.
The 70-year-old widow of Colonel
Samuel Colt, the millionaire firearm
manufacutrer, haa been sued by Nor
man Colt, of Seattle, and James B.
Colt, of Washington, D. 0., for a big
lioe of the estate which has been In
control of herself or her son since the
colonel' death in 1863. Mrs. Colt i
accused of alienating her husband'
affection from his nephew by fraud
and deceitful statements, while he was
in a weak mental and pbyiloal state.
Plaintiff also aver that the million
aire' death was hastened by an over
dose of medioine.
Seven year ago James Braaell made
proposition to the English govern
ment, to send out 15,000 prospector
covering an area of 10 mile through
British Colombia, in a nothwesterly
dlreotlon from Kossland. The cost of
snch an expedition was such that tlis
English and Canadian government
would have nothing to io with it, the
haszard being one that the home sec
retary would not countenance. The
proposition, however, baa met with
the approval of a syndicate of English
capitalists, who sends forth ISO men
from San Francisco, with .James Bra
aell at the head.
In a blast In a mine at Forbestown,
Cal.. Santine Kavonl, a Portuguese
suffered frightful Injuries. His eye
balls were dislodged and left banging
on his cheeks, his shoulder was partly
torn away and his scalp out open. He
still lives.
General Miles has been afforded by
the sultan and the Turkish officials
very faollity for studying the Turkish
army. He is pursuing the work with
great vigor, and 1 kept very busy.
The officials are most kind In offering
very aid.
THE. GLASS SCHEDULE.-
flare ike Damoorati a Chance to Eitend
' the Tariff Ilat.
Washington, June 1. Progress on
the tariff bill in the senate was oheoked
today, the plate-glass paragraphs prov
ing a source of controversy lasting
throughout the day. As a result, lit
tle more than a page of the bill was
disposed of. The finance committee
suooeoded without difficulty in resist
ing proposed amendments from Demo
cratic member of the committee, al
though each amendment was debated
at great length,
An exciting incident occurred dur
ing the afternoon, when Senator Mor
gan was called to order by Uallinger,
who was temporarily in the chair, for
severely criticising the inaction of the
house of representative. Morgan de
clared that the speaker of the bouse
wa enforcing an automatic rule, by
which representatives were assembled
and dispersed, and he characterized
this Inaction as an outrage against pop
ular rights.
Frye first gave warning that a pro
teat would be made against criticisms
of the other house, when Morgan ve
hemently related his criticisms. Hale
made a point of order against him.
The temporary presiding officer direct
ed Morgan to resume his seat, and then
ruled that he was out of order. The
Alabama senator somewhat chagrined,
was about to appeal from the decision
when Hale withdrew his point of or
der, and further action was avoided.
Morgan resumed his criticisms dur
ing the tariff debate, and made the
point that congress was not now in ses
sion iu accordance with the constitu
tion, the bouse having vacated ita
functions.
After a sharp contest with the tariff
leaders, Quay succeeded in carrying a
motion to adjourn.
NO HOPE FOR DURRANT.
Governor Badd Hefuaes to Interfere
In HU Behalf.
Sacramento, June 1. Theodore Dur
rant will be banged -on June 11, one
week from next Friday. Governor
Budd this evening telephoned that
much In effect to Warden Hale, of San
Quentin, at the same time ordering the
doath watch plaoed upon the prisoner.
Immediately after telephoning this
message to Hale, the governor was
driven in a hack to the depot, where
he took the train for San Francisco.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
governor has made known hi decision,
and the telephone message has leaked
out, the same secrecy has been made
regarding the statement which the
governor baa prepared, and it will not
be given out until tomorrow.
Bui-rant's Parents Will Nee Him Win.
San Quentin, Cal., June 1. Theo
dore Durrant has made the declaration
that if he must meet his fate on the
gallows, he will die like a man. The
mere suggestion of suicide is repulsive
to blm, he says. He also deola-es that
he will die in the presence of his
parents, who will insist on attending
the execution as bis invited guests.
The elder Durrant says that his wife is
a woman of determination, and she
will press her legal rights to the limit.
Under the law, Warden Hale cannot
deny her admission if she presents at
the prison gate an invitation of her
son, requesting her presence at the
banging. ' ,
A Driver's Carelessness.
Denver, June 1. -At 8 o'clock this
afternoon a spring wagon driven by
Henry Marsadu, a carpenter, and con
taining eight children ranging from 8
to 9 years, waa struck by a special train
on the Denver & Bio Grande railorad,
and as a result four children are dead
and the other are terribly Injured,
two so badly that they will die. Mar
sau, with hi three children, had been
pending the day at the home of Christo
pher Schoneweiss, in the southern
portion of the city. When ready to
tart for home he took a load of chil
dren gathered up in the neighborhood
for a short ride. It is claimed by the
police that Marsau was intoxicated and
paid no attention to the signals of the
engineer, but drove upon the track
while the train was in plain sight and
but a few feet away. The engine
truck the wagon, demolishing It and
crushing and mangling the children in
a horrible manner.
W armed the Dynamite. ,
Denver. June 1. A voeclal to the
, Rooky Mountain News" from Cripple
Ureea- says: wnuam uarr, agea xo,
and Frank Curtis, aged 81, miner in
the Norman tunnel, live miles south
of this city, were killed today by a pre
mature explosion of dynamite. Carr
wa warming four sticks of dynamite
overs Are. The bodies were hardly
recognisable.
Drowned In a Tank.
Abbott, Tex., June 1. Mrs. Nannie
r. Rarr. hnr i.vear-old babe, and her
1 lister, Miss Hattie L. Alexander, aged
1 14, were all drowned in a tank near the
house. The boy was playing in the
1 shallow water and inadvertently step
1 ped off Into a deep hole in the center of
the tank, and the others were drowned
in trying to rescue the little follow.
j A Monument to Firemen.
Chloago, June 1. Next Monday the
firemen of Chloago will dedicate a mon
ument to the firemen and citiaens who
' t .loath In the cold-storage building
fire at the world' fair ground.
The Garment-Workers' Strike.
New York, June 1. The big strike
of the garment-makers entered upon its
, third week today, adoui x.ouu opera
tors, whose employers have signed the
new agreement, have returned to work,
leaving about 22,400 still on strike in
this oity and vicinity. Leader Meyer
cs .i. ii.t .-.! in. AYTWAflSAii himself as
OUHUDIIloiu r - -
satisfied that the operators would not
return to work under. th old condl-
Tion.
GUNS FOR THE
Successful Expedition From
North Carolina Coast
IN CHARGE OF CAPTAIN 0'BSIEN
The Tag Alesande Jones, Schooner
John D. Long and the famous
Dauntless. Participated.
Wilmington, N. C, June 1. The
Messenger print a detailed account of
the loading of the tug Alexander
Jones and her departure with the
schooner John D. Long on a Cuban fili
bustering expedition. The fact were
obtained from a member of the orew
of the Alexander Jones, which re
turned to port aeveral daya ago. Hi
story substantially is as follows: .
On Thursday night, May 18, the
Jones took on a cargo of rifles, ma
ohetos, rapid-fire guns and ammunition
at the Wilmington, Newborn & Nor
folk railroad depot in the southern
limits of the city. Before she had en
tirely finished iter cargo a rumor was
started that officers were approaching,
and that the revenue cutter Morrill
wa getting op steam. Taking alarm
at this, the Jones pulled out id start
ed down the river at 10:45 P.' M., and
in a few hours crossed the bar and an
chored outside. The schooner John D.
Long, having meanwhile been loaded
with coal and other material at the
Wilmington & Weldon railroad wharf,
was shortly towed out to sea by the tug
Brandon, going past the cutter Colfax.
On the schooner was General Nunea
and another officer of the Cuban army,
a Cuban pilot and Captain John
O'Brien, of the filibustering tug Daunt
less. At the sea buoy, they went on board
the Jones, anchored near by, and Cap
tain O'Brien took charge of the ex
pedition. A hawser was made fast
from the Jones to the schooner, and
early Friday morning the tug steamed
to the south with her in tow. The
Brandon returned to South port.
On the way down the coast no port
was entered, but off the beach on the
coast of Florida, 62 Cubans were taken
on board. The Jones then towed the
schooner to the Bahamas, and in the
vicinity anchored in the open sea on
Tuesday, May 18.
On Thursday morning, May SO, the
filibuster Dauntless hove in sigbt, and
came alongside the Jones and the
schooner. She coaled from tlis
choooner, took charge of arms from
the Jones, and with Captain O'Brien
in command, headed for the Cuban
coast, about 60 miles away. She left
the Jones between 8 and 9 o'clock
Thursday night, made a successful
landing near Matanzaa,' and, after an
absence of 84 hours, returned to the
Jooc, took another cargo of war ma
terial, and started for Cuba Friday
night On the last trip, General Nu
nes and the 63 Cubans left the Jones,
and went on the Dauntless, accom
panied by Captain O'Brien.
When the Dauntless left with her
second oargo, the Jones coaled from the
schooner, towed her off Cape Canaval,
Florida, and turned her loose. She
sailed baok and got into Southport yes-,
terday morning.
. The cargo carried from here was val
ued at 178,000, and is said to have been
the second largest ever landed in Cuba.
The member of the crew referred to
says there is no truth in the story that
the Jones was chased and fired on by a
Spanish war vessel. The Jones never
saw the amoke of a war vessel while on
her trip.
Calhoun Is Attacked.
Havana, June 1. In a leading ar
ticle this morning, El Diario de la Ma
rina makes a scathing indirect attack
upon Commissioner Calhoun, by oriti
clsiilng articles which have appeared
in a Washington newspaper over the
signature of Mr. Pepper, who. in the
guise of an intimate friend of President
MoKinley and Mr. Calhoun, accom
panied the latter to Cuba.
El Diario de la Marina maintain
that many incidents of the interior
working of the mixed commission,
which are wholly private, have been
divulged in Mr. Pepper' letter, thus
tending to compromise Mr. Calhoun.
The paper also resents Mr. Pepper'
unfriendly attitude toward Spain in
his report on the Cuban question, ex
pressing disgust that while he blame
Spain for the natural result of the war,
he had no word of oensure for the Cu
ban Insurgents, whose torches are de
stroying the wealth of the island.
In dosing its article, El Diario de la
Marina calls attention to the fact that
two New York newspapers, whose Cu
ban representatives are scarcely favor
able to Spain, maintain bureaus in Ha
vana under the same roof with United
States consul-general, intimating with
out muoh delicacy that the correspond
ents of these newspapers are virtually
under the wing of General Fltshugh
Lee, and draw most of their inspiration
from him.
Mr. Fishback, accompanied by Mr.
Pepper, went Into the Interior today
to visit Guanajay. Mr. Calhoun spent
the day with General Lee at the Amer
ioan consulate.
Captain-General Weyler went from
Tunas to' Jaoaro on Friday, but re
turned to Tunas today.
The insurgents dynamited a passen
ger train between Santa Clara and Es-1
peranxa. The baggage oar was capsised
and the locomotive and three passenger
oars were derailed, but no lives were
lost. ;
Paris, June 1. -The Athens corre
spondent of the Journal asserts tbat
Crown Prince Constantino, after th
retreat from Domokos, attempted to
commit suioide with a revolver, on
learning of the intense feeling against
him. He wa prevented by officer.
THE RIO GRANDE FLOOD.
Head ga to of the Canal and Leva Broke
Inundating El Pann.
El Paso, Tex., May 81. The head
gate of the large canal running through
the southern part of the city, and the
levee separating the canal from the
river, gave way at 3:80 this afternoon,
and the water came through in torrents,
inundating the Santa Fe freight yards,
and a half mile south flowed in behind
the main temporary levee, erected in
the past week to hold hack the water,
which had settled itself t a height of
from 6 to 10 feet on the southern rivet
front.
A general alarm was sent out by
, the Are department, and all the assist-
ance possible was given to those in the
miust oi the nooti. some 70 residences
between the Santa Fe freight yards and
the canal on the river front were in
undated within half an hour after
the break, but nearly everything mov
able was carried to high ground, A
new levee is now being constructed foi
a distance of two miles along Fourth
street to hold the water back and turn
it again into the river. A great many
bouses are filled with refugees, but
there are yet 200 families shelterless.
These families are encamped along the
edge of the mesa, in the north side of
the city.
At 10 o'clock the flood has broken
through the second levee on Fourth
street, and the waters have advanced to
Second street, causing several hundred
more poor families to flee from their
homes. There will be over 400 home
less families on the streets of El Paso
tonight, and large number of them
are without food, as they are laboring
people, who have been fighting the
flood Instead of earning bread for the
past 15 days. The water is running
into the county jail and around the
Texas Pacific depot. . The river is re
ported falling.
El Paso, May 81. At 10:30 o'clock
the water broke through the reserve
levee on Fonr.h street, and now covers
' one-half of tlj city. The destruction
to property will be immense. Every
available man and vehicle is occupied
in moving families and household goods
to high ground. The business port 10s
may be invaded before morning.
A SPANISH WARNING.
Havana Paper Tells now Wa Would
Ba Worsted In a War.
Havana, May 81. El Diario de la
MaYing in a leading editorial says:
"We see in the American newspapen
evidence that there are certain social
classes in the United States not suffi
ciently alive to the1 importance of the
advice, 'Don't monkey with the lion's
tail. These classes are remarkable
for the eagerness with which they
evade jurisdiction in affairs, which,
like the Cuban war, are exclusively the
affairs of Spain.. The persistence with
which they recognise the belligerency
of the insurgents is craay and ridicu
lous. The important conservative in
terests of the United States should not
forget that the patience of Spain may
soon become exhausted. The Spanish
government has given abundant proofs
of Its good will by ignoring the many
inconveniences that have been caused
by resolutions in congress. Those in
terests ought to be thankful to us for
our abnegation. ' v
"But in case the sword should be
unsheathed, Spain would certainly not
be the heaviest loser in the fight.
Spain has sent 900,000 troops to Cuba
to settle a domestic difficulty. Wbat
would she not do in the event of a for
eign war, with the nation which for a
century has abused our patience by ig
noring Spanish honor and chivalry?
President MoKinley should consider
this carefully, and if he is to deal with
us as enemies let him take the advice
of an enemy and no longer trifle with
US.". -,;... -
BIG BLUBBER SOCIAL.
Whale Killed Off Flattery by Neah
. Bay Indians.
Port Townsend, Wash.. May 81.
Yesterday, while cruising in the neigh
borhood of Cape Flattery, the attention
of Captain Clinge'r, of the tugboat Holy
oke, waa attracted to s great oommot ion
to the southward. Steaming to the
scene, the oaptain and crew of the
Holyoke were rewarded with the spec
tacle of a vicious fight between a oanoe
fleet of Indians on one side and a large
whale on the other. The Indians
handled their ounces well, and from
every point of the compass an attack
was being made, harpoon after harpoon
sinking from sight in the sides of the
monster, whioh lashed the waters high
into the air in its vicious attempts to
crush the canoes and drown ita tor
mentors. The Indiana were too wary,
however, and finally tired the whale
out. Then a well-directed harpoon
thrust finished him. v
Having dispatched their game, the
Indians were in a quandry as to get
ting the big fellow ashore, but Captain
Clinger wa equal to the emergency. A
small hawser was passed into a canoe
and taken to the dead whale, where it
was attached to many harpoon ropes.
Numerous canoes then hooked on to
one another behind the whale, and the
procession started for Neah bay, where
it was met with great rejoicing by the
natives who had remained at home.
The whale waa beaohed and the Neah
bay tribe of Indians are now enjoying
a big blubber social.
The dead whale measured 63 feet in
length, being the largest ever .captured
in North Paoiflo waters.
Chicago, May 81. George, M. Pull
man has reoeived from Archduke Ba
ner two magnificent medals and a rich
ly wrought diploma, a tostimonal of
honor and merit in founding and build
ing the most perfect town in the world.
This distinction came as the result of
an exhibit in the international hygienic
and pharmaceutical exposition in
Prague,
WILD FREIGHT TRAIN
Causes a Terrible Wreck on
the Short Line.
NINE KILLED, EIGHT INJURED
Runaway Ran Into the West-Bound
Passenger Train at American
fall, Hear Fooatellu.
Boise, May 81. The most disastrous
wreck in the history of the Short Line
railroad occurred at American Falls at
4:80 this morning. A runaway freight
train crashed into the west-bound pas
senger train. Nine men were killed
outright and eight others seriously in
jured. Both engines were demolished,
the station buildings shattered to pieces
nd 18 or 20 cars smashed. The dead
ares
O. W. Shields, residence unknown;
D. L. Thompson, of Dayton, Wash.;
John B. Cooper, of Wellsville, Utah;
J. Steffen, of Dillon, Mont; five un
known men.
Excepting Cooper, these men were
beating their way on the freight Most
of them were eheepshearers. Cooper
was just about to take the passenger
train going west.
The passenger train had pulled into
American Falls, and was standing at
its accustomed place waiting for the
freight to pass it on the sidetrack.
American Falls station Is situated in a
depression, and there is quite an up
grade in both directions.
The first warning of any danger was
when Engineer Heckman heard the
freight whistle to back up. He at once
reversed bis engine, but the rails were
wet and the grade heavy, and it was
an instant or two before the train re
sponded, and in that moment the
freight train thundered around the
curve and across the bridge, going at
the rat of 60 miles an hour. The
passenger train had hardly begun to
move before the freight dashed into it.
Both engines were demolished and
the freight cars piled up one on the
other, jamming in the side and demol
ishing one whole end of the station
building.
Just as the engines met, Engineer
Heckman jumped and came to the
ground in the midst of flying timbers
and debris.
John Cooper, Frank Burke and
Night Telegraph Operator Charles
Goodwin had been talking on the plat
form an instant before they saw the
wild freight coming. Cooper ran into
the depot and was killed instantly.
Burke and Goodwin ran out behind the
building and escaped. Brennan, who
was on the platform at the same time,
was burled in the wreck.
. The station building waa demolished
to the partition between the depot and
the private rooms where Agent St.
Clair and his wife and three children
were asleep.
The dead and mangled bodies of two
of the killed were hurled . against this
partition. Beams were forced through
it and over the bed occupied by the
children, but miraculously not one of
them was injured, although the room
was twisted and shattered almost to
fragments.
The freight train bad run away on
the hill west of American Falls. . It
is thought tbat some of the sheep
shearers or hobos had cut off the air.
The air brakes would not work, and on
the hill the train waa found unmanage
able. Conductor Cook and Brakemen
Davia and Westron were on top setting
the brakes, and Fireman Cosgrove had
climbed back to help set the brakes,
but they proved of no avail. The train
shot down , the grade and across the
bridge Into the passenger train.
Only the cool nerve of Engineer
Heckman in remaining at his post and
reversing his engine saved the lives of
dozens of his passengers, as well as of
the family of the station agent sleeping
in the building.
The wreck presented a scene of inde
scribable destruction. The cut in front
of the station and the spot where the
station stood were piled high with
broken oars, demolished buildings and
the shattered engines. Ties were torn
up and telegraph poles and wires were
down in the ruins,
The dead were recovered and the in
jured cared for as rapidly as possible,
and at 11 o'clock a special left the
Falls with the wounded for the hos
pital at Salt Lake.
; A CUBAN CONFERENCE.
Important Meeting to Be Held la Phtla
, ,: delphla Next Week.
Philadelpnia, May 81. It is defii-
nitely settled that the most .important
conference-held In America in connec
tion with the Cuban cause will assem
ble in Philadelphia some time next
week. General Palma will preside.
With him will be Quesada, the charge
d'affaires. They are coming here, it
is said, to prepare plans that may
meet with entire approbation of the ad
ministration. It is said that as soon as Senator
Sherman became secretary of state he
sent for Quesada. That interview has
had more to do with the coming confer
ence than anything that has occurred
in Cuban affairs since the inauguration
of the war two years ago.
Looking for a Sunken Safe.
Taooma, Wash., May 81. Diver
O'Ksef, of San Francisco, i now try
ing to find the safe of the Northern
Pacifio railway, that was buried in the
Sound in the landslide two years ago.
Several futile attempts have been made
to find it. It contains 910,000, and
the finder is promised (4,000 to re
cover it.
There are more American vessels on
the great lakes than on the ocean, and
their combined tonnage is greater.
MADE MONEY IN SUGAR.
Senator Tillman Want the Newspaper
Charges Investigated.
Washington, May 81. After a long
period of silence, Senator Tillman
startled the senate today by a speech no
less dramatic in its deliverr than sen
sational in its allegations. He pre
ceded it by presenting a resolution for
the appointment of a special committee
of five senators to investigate charges
of speculation by senators while the
tariff bill was before the finance com
mittee. In advocating the resolution,
Tillman threw aside the usual conven
tionalities of thi senate and with plain
ness of speech seldom heard about the
halls of congress called on bis associates
to investigate the published charges of
senatorial speculation, and if found
true, to purge the senate of those who
debauched it.
Aldrich. in charge of the tariff bill,
answered Tillman in a sweeping denial.
The Tillman resolution was referred
to the cork mi tee on contingent expenses
of the senate.
Considerable progress was made on
the tariff, IS pages being covered.
Several votes were taken during the
day, but the finance committee had a
liberal majority in every instance.
The Democratic members of the com
mittee made a strong effort to reduce
the rates on window glass, but their
amendments to this effect were defeat
ed. . .
Tillman's resolution quote the sen
ate resolution of May 17, 1894, author
izing the original inquiry and then,
after reciting the proceeding in the
Chapman and Havemeyer trials, pro
ceeds: ..'"'' "i. "
"Whereas, In the last 80 days sun
dry newspaper correspondents have
openly charged senators with speculat
ing in sugar stocks, while the sugar
schedule is under disonssion, and have
ulso charged that brokers in New York
Knew in advance as to what the senate
finance comn.lttee would report as to
the sugar schedule, all of which in
volves a question of the highest-
privilege, towit: The right of the sen
ate to protect its members from slander
and to protect the body as a whole from
these open charges of corruption, there
fore, be It :
"Eesolved, That a oommittee of five
be appointed with power to send for
persons and papers, to employ a sten
ographer, and to administer oath to
inquire into the truth or falsity of the
charges made in May, 1894, and into
the charges recently made, and the
soope of the investigation shall cover
everything emb-aced in the resolution
of May 17, 1894, as well as the meth
ods pursued by the American Sugar Re
fining Company, better known as the
sugar trust, in controlling legislation
in its favor at the present time, and es
pecially whether it haa in any wise
contributed to or controlled the elec
tion of a senator in this body at any
time." '
The presiding officer (Frye) prompt
ly ruled that the resolution should go
to the committee on contingent ex
penses, but Tillman obtained consent
to make a statement. '
"We have arrived at a time," he be
gan, "when the senate can no longer
afford to. rest under damning accusa
tions made against senators. If there
are men here debauching the senate,
:hen we should be purged of them. If
these reports are slanders, then the
press galleries should be purged. ' We
cannot afford io lay back on our dignity
any longer and say we will not investi
gate." . .
JAPAN'S POLICY. ,
Claims There Is Na Deelre to Annex the
Hawaiian Islands.
New York, May 81. The World
Bays: Marquis Ito, who has just ar
rived in this city en route for London
and the queen's jubilee, ' politely re
fused to be interviewed, on the plea
that he was too fatigued after his long
journey, but Marquis Kido, who speaks
English fluently, ' answered for him
some questions concerning the policy of
Japan. - :
"The rumors of Japan's desire to
annex Hawaii." he said, "are mere
idle gossip. We sent a man-of-war
there to protect the interests of our
countrymen. That is all. After our
experience in Formosa we do not want
to annex Hawaii, nor anything else at
present." '
Marquia Kido said the Japanese have
the most amicable feeling toward
Americans and hoped pleasant rela
tions would always continue.
"I want to correct one mistake that
is quite general. Marquis Ito is not
being sent to England as a special rep
resentative at the queen's jubilee, but
as a member of the suite of Prince
Arasngawa, a member of the imperial
family, who will fill that position for
the government on that occasion. We
will sail soon and join the prinoe in
ROYAL FAMILY IN DANGER.
Ring George I Preparing to Leare
Athens.
London, May 81. The Post's Con
stantinople correspondent says: Today
the embassies received word from their
respective ministers at Athens that the
position of the Greek royal family is
now critical. King George is praoti
cally barricaded in the palace, and it
is reported he is making preparations
to leave Athens in order to evade the
fury of the populace.
Athena, May 81. Elaborate mea
sures have been taken to preserve or
der. ' Besides the police and gend
armes, a civil guard haa been selected
from the most trusted . inhabitants.
The minister of the interior is resolved
to deal severely with anti-dynastie
movements. The fact tbat the war
shins at Pharleum are ready to land
troops and artillery In the event of dis
orders occurring has deterred tna revo
lutionists from making a demonatra
tion. - '-
NORTHWEST BREVITIES
Evidence of Steady Growth
and Enterprise.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
Vroin All the Cities and Towns at
the Thriving Meter Xtates
Oregon. -
A peoial term of circuit court for
Grant county will be held at Canyon
City, July 19 next.
Fred and Tobey Hanna of Olex, Gil
liam county, last week,, after plowing
wa over, killed 1,200 squirrels.
Mrs. Mary Patterson, for many years
resident of Umatilla county, died at
her home in Pendleton, at the ripe age
f 84 years.
There was an Indian war dance in
the Armory ball in Condon, Gilliam
county, last week, by a band of red
skins in that town.
Coos county has 71 public school
houses and 8,098 legal voters for school
purposes. Curry county haa 18 school
bouses and 620 legal voters.
Lane county is only a little more than
six months behind in her payments of
county warrants, and warrants are sel
ling at 2 per cent premium.
J. W. Blake delivered 7,000 head of
sheep at Lone Rock in Gilliam county
last week 8,000 wethers ; to Harry
Clay and 4,000 ewes to several other
parties.
A few days ago a band of 600 head of
horses, owned by George Holstein, G.
W. Mood and Dan Tartar, was started
from the Eagle valley range, in Uma
tilla county, over the trail for South
Dakota to find a market. :
The warehouses in The Dalles are .
filling with wool, but no sales of the
1897 clip have thus far been reported,
say the Times-Mountaineer. While
there are a number of woolbuyers here,
the market is still dull, and will likely
show no activity until the bulk of the
wool is in. ,
William Sayers, an old man about 60
years of age, was killed last week at
Lost river gap, Klamath county, by his
team running away. - There was no
eye-witness to the accident, but Sayers
was evidently thrown from the wagon,
striking upon his head among the rocks
and crushing his skull. ;
The residence of Rev. J. H. Grant,
in Gray Butte, Crook county, burned
last week. The library, valued at $500,
burned, as did most of the clothing an
furniture. Mr. Grant was not at borne,
and, in saving the children, Mrs.
Grant's hands were severely, burned
and her hair was singed. . , . -
Frank Davenport, of Hood Biver.who
has the contract for building the big
irrigating flume and ditch on the west
side of Hood river valley, and is one of
the principal stockholders, says' the
ditch will be completed about the mid-
die of July. It will cost $26,000 and
furnish 2,000 inches of water
' Washington.
A. T. Hammond, of Everett, was
found dead in his bed, having died dur
ing the night of heart disease.
Funds have been subscribed in Port
Townsend to build a trail along the
Little Quilioene river, and into the
Olympics. -s
Tbe enrollment at the Castle Book
school has increased to more than 200,
and the directors found it necessary to
employ a fourth teacher.
George Guthridge has conynenoed an
action in the superior court against the
city of Walla Walla for damages in the
sum of $16,726 on account of injuries
receivd while acting as engine driver in
the fire department. . :, , .
The Tacoma saloons, which have been
allowed to keep open all night, must
close their doors from now on between
the hours of S and 6 o'clock A. M.
Chief H.oge has issued orders to that
effect, and says he intends to enforce
them to the letter. .
Cnder the new law, the inmates of
the school for defective youth, at Van
couver, will probably not spend their
vacations at home this summer, unless
their parents are able to pay their tran'
spoliation, as no provision for such ex
pense is made by the new law.
The sulphur mine now located near
the Natohes trail about 16 miles front
Buckley were first discovered by a
camper whose fire took hold of the
rocks, which burned and created such a
smell that he had to move two or three
miles to get away from the fumes.,
The fish commission steamer Alba
tross last week lowered the deep-sea fish
net off Cape Flattery, and when the net
was drawn up with great difficulty an
enormous shark was found, weigh ij
660 pounds, and being 10 feet long.
It had devoured all the small fish in the
net. The shark waa out op afterwards
and thrown overboard.
Stockmen who have been making a
round-up of their horses on tbe range in
Asotin county complain that many of
their finest and most valuable geldings
are missing and oannot be found, al
though every nook and corner of the
range has been hunted over, says the
Sentinel. All the old mares and 1 and
2-year-olds were found on their usual
feeding grounds..
Land Commissioner Robert Bridge
is in Spokane leasing school lands.
Section 16 lies close to the business sec
tion of the city, and has over 160
dwellings, stores, etc, built by squat
ters. The section is platted into 2,080
lots, and haa wide streets, but owing
to the title being in the state, water,
sewer, and gas connections have never
been extended through it. In most in
stance the squatters are leasing the
land on which their improvements ex
ist, paying an average yearly rental oi
$3 for corner lot and $1 for inside tats.