TH1R OEEGON MIST -. V JJL . JJL VOL. XIV. ST. HELENS, OliEGON, FItlDAY, BEPTEMHEIl JO, 1897. NO. 38. NEWS OF THE WEEK From all Parts of the New and Old World. JIRIKF AND I NTK RESTING ITEMS Coninralieiislvo Kevlow of the Import, lilt Happenings of til Our. rent Wnkt The 17th meeting of the farmers' mitlonul congress convened in Kt. Paul Tuesday. Tim supreme court of Oregon ha de cided tliut a jury cannot lie discharged on Sunday. MrH. Jiilm Drew, the famous actress, died at Lrcbiunt, N. Y after an III omm of three year, Table cutters employed In the four largest (hive factories In Gioversville, N. Y., have struck for an advance In wagua. About 800 ikllled men are out. By a vole of 63 to 85 the Pennsyl vania ntnto Domocratio comtnittue de clared vacant the lost of William liar rity tn the national Democratic com mittee. At Spanish cabinet oounoll It was decided to summon the next class of 80,000 reserves, 87,000 of whom will bo wmt to Cuba and 18,000 to the Phil ippine Islands. A landslide oonnrred at tunnel No. 4, on the Northern Pacific, several milei went of the summit of the Cascades. KaatlMiiiud Mil westbound traini were delayed. A genuln '.Vinn machine, It It said, waa seen at Sterling, Colo., a few days mo by G. A. Kuiisteln, Mr. Nenstein noticed a large black object In the southeastern part of the heaveni, trav eling rapidly toward the northeast. He watched it pas clear annus the heaven., moving quite rapidly in a straight line, lie watched it until it panned out of light; and ia convinced that it waa i bona fide Hying machine. The naval officer who oompose the board recently appointed by Hucretary Long, of the navy department, to pre pare piuni for the erection of an armor- plate plant to be 0rated by the United State government, have concluded their inspection of the itoeli planta of the country, and are now ready to re port. Plana will be drawn up for a government faotory. Ten talonne In Kansas City, Kan., were raided by the police and $3,500 worth of liquors eixed and poured into Uie gottera. Saloon furniture and fix tnrea Ailing ten big draya were seised and carted to police headquarter, where it will be burned. A dispatch from Buenos Ayre aaya the wheat crop in the province of Hun tn Fe ia culcaluted at about 10,000 tona, scarcely more limn enough to uopply the pro.lnoe for the year. What la true in (Junta Fe province ia aid to be true in the other provinoua, that i, none will furnieh more than enough for home use. " The jewelry atore of W. H. Finck, at Seattle, waa burglarised and good to the amount of $10,000 taken. By anwing the iron bora off the window, tlie liurglara secured an entrance to the atore. With a aoveii-jound sledgeham mer and an eight-inch punch they broke the handle off the outside door of the lufe, and then easily pried the door open, i - Five orphan children have been hipped from Honolulu t6 Han Fran cisco. The government officials will not permit them to land uiiIcha $500 lunula are furnished for each of the quintet aa a guarantee tliut they ahall not become puldio charges, but ao far the necessary amount haa not been rained ly the Salvation Army offlcer to whom they wore consigned. Official Information received at Ma iii lu oonflimi the reporta previously published aa to the disastrous eharaoter if the ernption of the Manyon voloann. Knvoral village wore completely de alroyeil. At Lihog ISO bodies were re covered and buried, and more remained in the lava. At anathor place 300 per aoiia wore missing. Homo of the ho lies recovered were io completely calcined as to be unrecognisable. Advices from' Rio de Janeiro atate that the fanntius attacked aeveral oon voya of provisions and ammunition in the interior n fewdayaago and a bloody battle followed. The lunatic were forced to retire after aovero losses. The . Brazilian troopa bad 38 officers wound ed. The fanatica are now reorganising their foroes and another attack on con voy ia expeoted, aa the lunatics are In need of ammunition. Involved in the question of inter pretation of section 39 of the now tar iff, with regard to the 10 per cent dis criminating duty on foreign goods com ing to the United States from Canada or Mexico, which i now before the at torney general for deoision, is another question of equal if not greater magni tude. . It involve! the question of whether this discriminating duty of 10 per cent does not apply to all goods im ported in foreign vessels landing at United Btutea ports which are not ex empt from discriminating tonnage taxes by express treaty stipulation, The - matter ia now before the attorney-general, awaiting an interpretation. Another attempt haa been made to destroy the life of President Fuure of France.'-- Three minutes after the pres ident had passod the Madeline churoh in Paris, on his return from Russia, a bomb waa exploded inside the railing around the churoh. An arrest followed immediately, and the railed field was closed by the police, who began an ao tive . investigation into the outrage. Nobody was injured by the explosion, but the affair, following so olosoly upon others of a similar nature, oausod the greatest excitement. MICHIPICOTAN GOLD HELD3. flnl Kepurts Confirmed by the Sul Mte. Maria Party. Fault Ste. Marie, Mich,, Sept. 7 Hie party of goldseekcrs on the yacht Mary Boll returned from Michipicotan lust evening, alter having been in the new gold fields hut throe days. They say the newly discovered Klilorado; is as ricli aa rciiorted. There were 14 in the party, and all are responsible busi ness men of this city. Kaeh secured claims upon gold quarts promising big returns. In all, the party will make application for 4,000 'teres, which were prosiectvd and slaked out while they were there. Many 'ciiiicin of quarts, ill which free geld as hirtfe ns n pill head can be seen, were brought buck with them. ' The specimens were se cured from different places on their claims, which are scattered ubout. When the porty arrived Tncsrluy night there were but six prospectors on the gionnd at Lake Wawu, and they secured good locations. They are jubil ant over their finds, and say that the auriferous deposit evidently is an im mense one. Veins of beautiful white quarts, carrying free gold, exist In the River and Lake Wawa region. The original find is an extremely large one, beyond doubt. The returning piosiec tora lay that where the veins are laid bare, the gold particle oan be seen everywhere In the quarts. Wiien the party left Saturday, at least 300 pronators had arrived, and they panned several parties going in. The shores of Luke Wawa were dotted with tents, and within the three days they were there a lively mining camp had sprung up. The distance fiom the inouth of Michipicotan river to Lake Wawa is not to exoeed seven in lies, ami the party experienced no difficulty in getting In and out. With their camp equipage, the trip was made in about three hours. The road is well deli ned. The reporta the Mary Bell party brought ha set the two Koos wild with excitement, and an exodus to Klondike, jr., will begin tomorrow. RICHER THAN KLONDIKE. According to Reports Prom the Vaqnl ludlaa llcscrvatlon. Kansas City, Sept. 7. A special to the Journal from Keilalia, Mo., say a: J. W. Corkins, a Kedalia capitalist, and Leo Cloud, an expert mining engineer of Cincinnati, representatives of a 8t Louis and Cincinnati syndicate, will leave tomorrow for the west coast of Mexico to practically verify the value of gold placer and quarts mines which have recently been secured by the syn dicate, Messrs. Corkins and Cloud will go direct to Hermosillo, and from there to the gold fluids in the new El dorado located in the Yiiqui Indian country, which has just been opened to entry to white men. This part of Mex ico has been explored but little by the Whites, but, if reports of the syndi cate's prospectors are true, tho inland mountain ranges along the west coaat of Mexico are richer even than those of the Klondike. The placer mines are said to bo uiarvelously rich in scale and nugget gold, while the quarts rook in the upper ledgos contain veins of free-milling ore which assays from $50 to $300 per ton. The syndicate sue ceeded in keeping the discovery a v cret while securing its patent! and con cessions, and, if the repot ts are sub stantially correct, the syndicate will be able to turn the tide of fortune-hunters from the gold fields of Alaska to the Eldorado of Mexico. Tho HpaD Oavo Way. flanta Rosa, Cal., Sept. 7. A tele phone message this evening from Dun can's mills stated that the southbound train on the Pacific coast road narrowly escaped serious accident. A long bridge crosses Russian river, near Dun oan's mills, and as the train, a mixed freight and passenger, was oroasing the third span, one of tho piers gave way, owing to h defective bolt. ' The greater part of the train had already passed the Biot in safety, but It la reiwi tod that one of tho freight curs went through the gap in the long bridge, fatally in juring John Blaney, one of the train orew. . - Four to Oct Ofllpo. Portland, Or., Sept. 7. The Oregon congressional delegation ' have agreed upon the following recommendations for appointment to federal offices in Oregon: United States district attorney John II. Hull, of Portland. United States marshal Zoeth Hou ser, of Umatilla county. ', Appraiser of customs, Willamette district, at Portland Colonel Owen Summon, of Portland. Register of United States land office, at Oregon City T. T. Ooer, of Marion county. - Nitroglycerin In Uaggy. Monongahela, Pa., Sept. 7. By an explosion of nitroglycerin this morning two men and a horse were killed, a buggy completely demolished and a bridge across the Monongahela river badly dumaged. Windows in tho vi cinity were brokon and residents for miles awakened by tho ooncussion. One of the men is believed to be Charles P, Rankin, foimerly superintendent of the Watson Company. It is aupposod the men had nitroglycerin in tho buggy and that a mdden jolt oausod the ex plosion. " Murderous Chief Arretted. Vancouver, B. C, Sept. 7. Skooka wak, an Indian chief residing in Lower Nicolai valley, haa been arrested after hot tight with members of his trihe, by the provincial police, for tying his Bged squaw to a horse by the heels and then having young bucks lash the horse to a gallop with tho roBult that lie was dragged to death. The latest thing In locks is one where the keyhole is in the center of the doorknob. THE AMEER'S LOYALTY Difficulty of Holding Subjects in Check. His NO IMPORTANT BATTLES FOUGHT Kotli Hides Massing Their Troops on tho Border-Mod Mullah's . Men Deserting. London, Sept. 7. The Times this morning publishes a dispatch from Biinla saying that further evidence haa boon obtained of tiie desireof the ameer of Afghanistan to prevent his subject from taking part in the frontier disturb ances. The British agent at Cabul sub mitted, at the ameer's request, a writ ten statement showing the point upon which the government laid sjiecial sires. Tho ameer replied to this statement in his own handwriting, emphasizing his previous statements that hi subjects did not dar9 to openly take part in the fighting, but they have been drawn away secretly by the mullahs, whose conduct he atrongly condemned. Not the least doubt is entertained, tho dispatch says, of the ameer's desire to fulfill hi obligation loyally. He ha issued orders that hi troops be withdrawn from the detached outpost. so that they may be kept together under Uie control of olnoera who are able to prevent them from deserting and join ing in the lighting. An important step ha been taken by Maharajah Sir Ber Shamsher Jang Rarm Bahadur, prime minister of Mepaul, who haa forbidden the circulation in tho kingdom of native newspapers, which he considers seditious and hos tile to the British government Both Sides Lined Up. Peshawur, Sept, 7. No fighting of importance ha yet occurred between the government forces and the rribes- mon who have taken part in the upris ing. - The enemy is concentrating at various points, and it is estimated that 17,000 tribesmen are now on the 8a niana range, hut tlioy appear loth to attack the government troops. It is reported that the followers of i Haddah Mullah in the Shabkar district are deserting him, and several columns have been sent out in different direc tion. A alight skirmish has occurred near Hangu, from which point a small column was dispatched and scoured the district of Algmir, Nawimela and Turi. ; They found the enemy's posts deserted. There was some firing, but the enemy refused to be engaged at close quarters. The aubadar com manding Uie Mullagori Levies, and 40 of his company, which formed a part of the garrison at Fort Lundi-Kotal, ar rived at Jamrund on Friday, and were given an enthusiastic reception, the entire garrison turning out and cheer ing a they entered the town. The Mullagoris cut their way through the enemy after the capture of Fort Lundi Kotal, and marched to their own coun try, where they buried their dead and reassured their friends. They then pro ceeded for Jamrund, which place they reached in safety with their arms. YELLOW FEVER AGAIN. Tho Disease Prevalent on tho Missis sippi Coast. Mobile, Ala., Sept. 7. Yellow fever prevails to some extent at Ocean Springs, Miss., on the bay of Biloxi, ac cording to a report just made by a board of physicians who have been making an examination of the patients, and the place has been rigidly quarantined. Alt persons coining from that place or neighborhood are to be detained at a station established outside Um city limits. - Tho Town Quarantined. New Orleans, Sept. 7. The Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana boards of health have been at Ocean Springs since yesterday. An examination of the pre vailing disease was made a . week ago. There have been several hundred cases, but few deaths, and a board of experts leclared the disease to be Dengue fever. Since then, mortalities became more frequent, and the symptoms became more like yellow fever and the alarm became so great that the health authori ties again gathered. This time they wore accompanied by Professor A. I. Mets, chemist of the Louisiana board, who analysed the virus in aeveral cases. The verdict tonight was yellow fever, and various points on both aides of the town are rapidly declaring quarantine. Trying to Suppress the Newt,' Ocean SpringB, Miss., Sept 7. This has been a day of anxious expectancy al to whether or not yellow fever exists here, and the question lias not been de termined. The members of the Louis iana state board of health have been hard at work all day long, working in conjunction with the representatives of the Alabama and the Mississippi organ. izations, in a determined effort to settle the vexed question as to the identity of the pernicious fever. Their investiga tion! were extensive. Professor Mets appears of the opinion that the prevail ing complaint is due in a measure to the pollution of the water in the bay fronting the town. It is feared that the oysters absorb poisonous germs and communicate them to the consumers. Kentucky Farmer Murdered. Russellviiie, Ky., Sept. 7 Will Barker, a prominent farmer, was shot by Doc Chapman last night at Adair- ville and died today. Chapman ia under guard. .He was taken to Bowl ing Green for safekeeping, al a mob was expected. An old grudge caused the trouble. Chapman claims self-de fense. Barker's friends say it was cold blooded murder. About 800 western cities have the ourfew ordinance. AWAITING HER FATE. A Ollinpie at Krangellna Clsnoros la Her Prison Home. New York, Sept. 6. A special to the World from Havana says: The World's correspondent went to see Evangelina Cisnero in her prison. Tuesdays, Thursday and Saturday are visiting days at the woman's jail, and the ante-room on these days i full of people from 13 to 4 P. M., who have coma to condole with and bear good tiding to their relatives and friend. When the World' correspondent asked to see Miss Cisneros, he was al lowed to pass through the outside iron gate into a small room with a stone floor, on one of the walls of which wo painted in large letters, "Sails de Jus tica." Evangelina was sent for up stairs, and while waiting the: corre spondent had the opportunity to notice some of the other women who were re ceiving visits. One was a well-dressed woman who had murdered her husband. Sitting next to her was a good-looking woman who had been oaught selling ammunition and supplies to the insur gents. She waa a political prisoner. Next to her was a woman who kept a lodging-house in Havana, and had rented a room to two men whom she did not know. While their baggage was being moved into the room the polio seized two of their trunks and found arms and ammunition. The men esoaped, but the landlady was arrested. She knew nothing of the case, but was held responsible, and is now waiting the result of the full and long Investi gation. ; A few minutes after the arrival of the correspondent Evangelina' came tripping down the stairs and walked gracefully across the end of the court yard and out through the gate into the reception room. She ia beyond ques tion pretty. She is petite of figure and graceful in all her movements. Her manners are perfect and her self-possession wonderful. : She said abe could not make any statement on paper be cause her friends had told her not to, but she talked freely of her hopes and fears, and answered questions seemingly without reserve. She did not receive her meals from the outside, she said, because site was afraid of treachery, and preferred to be content with the rations of the jail. There are eight or ten other women in this same big room. All looked clean and respectable, and all were white women. One of them was a distinguished-looking lady of about 50, with handsome gray hair. Some alleged politioal offense is the cause of her im prisc nment. Ei angelina is the most animated of all. She is the star boarder, and re ceive more attention and has more vis itors than the others. She said the letters she received from Colonel Berris on the Itde of Pines, and which contain evidence of his guilty intentions to ward her, were all sent by her friends to Austria, and from there direct to Spain to the queen regent. She says if they could be produced before a fair court hi conviction would be certain. The colonel says that he wrote her but one letter, and that granted the permit to her father to travel as a peddler. She would not describe the events of the night of July 36, 1896, further than to say that she knew Colonel Berris was coming to her house that night, because his secretary had told ber so. She opened the door when he knocked. As to how he waa seized, or by whom she would not say. She escaped from the house and was caught and arrested the following morning and brought to Havana. She says that the greatest favor anyone could do for her would be to secure for her an interview witb General Weyler. She says: . "I could convince him, if he would only hear me." In government oircles nothing has been heard from Madrid in connection with transferring her to a convent. Opinions differ as to whether such a change would be of benefit. If her case ia let alone for a while she will be released and perhaps ordered to leave the island. EIGHT SUCCUMBED TO FEVER Fatal Expedition of Mine Prospectors . to South America. Denver, Sept. 6. George W. Adams, of Cripple Creek, arrived In this city today from the gold fields of South America. Fourteen months ago Ad ams left this city to try his fortune in South American mines. He went to the gold fields 800 miles from George town in company with eight Ameri cans, remaining there 11 months. Of the entire party of nine he alone escaped death from the fatal fever. One by one he saw his companions die of the terrible disease; saw holes scooped in the ground, and their bodies, twist ed from pain, covered with earth'. He waa attaoked twice himself with the malady, and all but died, and finally, after seeing the last of the eight die in agony, he became terror-stricken and fled from the country, from which he says not one of 70 white men ever re tnrnde alive. . A Fatal Accident. , Moscow, Idaho, Sept. 8. By the upsetting of a lamp tbe clothing or Mary Hildebraut, aged 4, caught fire and her body was burned almost to a crisp, rue cnim mea aner tnree -ours of terrible agony. Mr. Hildebrant was badly burned in her efforts to save her child's life. , Spain's Sick Soldiers. Havana, Sept 8. The last two steamers which have sailed for Spain carried 1,600 sick soldiers. Captain General General Weyler received from Spain today $8,000,000 in aiiver, to be used in defraying the expenses of the war in Cuba. -. ! Four oamels have been suooesfully acclimated in Poland by Count Skor sewski, who has had them broken to the plow on his estate in the province of Posen. ... . . OUR FLAG OVER THEM The United States Will An. nex Dawson City. . PART OF YUK05 IS IN ALASKA Strong KSTort Will Bo Mado to Reclaim lt-Berloue Complications May Arise Other Alaakan Mews. Port Townsend, Sept. 6. A letter just received from John V. Smith, United States coramisioner at Dyea and Skaguay, intimates that government officials now on the way to the Upper Yukon may by their official acts bring on serious international complications with the Dominion government. ' He say: : "It ia announced here by a depnty United States marshal that the United States government is to make claim for a large portion of the Yukon gold field which have heretofore been supposed to be in British territory, and that the territory which is claimed aa being within Alaska include Dawson City. "The basis of the claim to be made by the United States official to the dis puted territory is in the fact that the boundary line has never been deter mined, and that the United States claim to possess information as to sur veys made by the Canadian government that fixes Dawson City and a large por tion of the district in Alaska. ' Tars Attacked by Gold Fever. . Santa Rosa, Cal., Sept. 6. A letter has been received by Deputy Postmas ter Griggs from his eon, Joseph, who is a member of the crew of the United States gunboat Concord. Tbe letter i dated Juneau, August 25, and gives details of the desertions of 45 men from the Concord during its cruise in Alas kan waters. It saves . "Some of tbe boys got the gold fever and ran away, but were brought back, and are now in double irons. Tbe ship lost 45 good seamen, but if they are fools enough to go and starve this winter they are not fit for the ship." To Klondike by Balloon. Toronto, Sept. 6. Aeronaut Leo Stevens ba successfully tested his new generator for manufaturing gas for hi balloon, and say he will leave for Klondike the latter part of this month. He declares he will go to Andree'i res cue providing his later experiments are successful. ; ALASKA'S SILENT CITY. Members of the Lnlgl Party Say They Saw the Mirage. V Seattle, Sept. 6. Alaska's Silent City has emerged once more from its mysterious hiding place, and revealed its presence to five members of the party that acorn pan ied" Prince Luigi up Mount St; blias. In the early morn ing of July 13, the party, while return ing from the ocean with supplies, sud denly saw the oity mirrored in the clear atmosphere. The vision was so clear that C. W. Thornton, who first noticed it, wrote in his notebook aa fol lows: "It required no effort of the imagina tion to liken it to a city, for the image was so distinct and plain that it re quired, instead, a strong faith to be lieve that it was not in reality a pity." Whereas the Silent City, of which Minor W. Bruce wrote, was seen from Muir glaoier, the one obsereved by Mr. Thornton and company was observed from Malaspina glacier, more than 100 miles distant. It remained a perfect image for 80 minutes, and then slowly faded away, while in its place appeared a rocky ridge. A BRIDGE-JUMPER. His Lire Probably the Penalty of HI. Recklessness. New York, Sept. 6. William Orton jumped from the Brooklyn bridge thia afternoon, and now lies in a critical condition at the marine hospital. He rode on a truck going to Brooklyn shortly before 8 o'clock. When the truck was near the center of the bridge, Orton got off and quickly olimbed upon the rail. The bridge was crowded with promenaders, but no policeman was near. Orton stood on the rail for a few moments, and throwing off his hat, jumped out into space. He turned over several times in his descent, and struck the water on his right side. When he came to the surface, the crew of the tug gratitude fished him out. Orton was in an exhausted condition, and, after a while said: "I did it; I did it; didn't I?" Then he sank off into a state of coma, from which he had not recovered at last ac counts. - - - Fly Wheel Burst. : Porstmonth, O., Sept. 8. A 40-ton fly-wheel at the Burgess steel and iron works was bursted by a 4,800-pound ingot stopping a roll. ' The mill was crowded with workmen. John Murphy was hurled 80 feet and badly bruised. The roof wag wrecked. Beams two feet square were cnt in two like straws. The mill was set on fire, but the flames were soon extinguished and the furnace de stroyed. The loss cannot be estimated, but the damages will close the mill un til a new fly wheel is secured. Chinese Marries an English Girl. Minneapolis, Minn., Sept. 3. John H. Taylor, an Americanized Chinese, was married yesterday to Carol Die- more, a pretty woman 39 years old. The bride waa born in Manchester, England. She first met her husband in the Mott street mission, after he had moved here from Oakl and, Cal. In the pubUo schools in Japan the English language is required by law to be taught. . . NEARINQ THE END. Great Coal Mlaere' Strike Is Praetl. tally Orir. Columbus, O., Sept. 6. The end of the great miners' strike is in siiiht This afternoon the national executive board of the United Mineworkera' Association agreed to recommend to the miners a proposition from the Pittsburg operators for a straight prioeof 65 cent a ton, to continue in force untI the end of the year, with the additional mutual understanding that a joint meeting of operators and miners shall be held in December, 1897, for the purpose of de termining what the rate of mining shall be thereaftr. A delegate convention of all miners who have suspended work has been called to meet in Columbus September 8, at 10 A. M., to act upon the recom mediation. President Ratchford and the other members of the board say there i not the (lightest doubt but that the miner will approve the recom mendation. The proposition does not involve arbitration, and it provides for an immediate settlement of the strike As soon as the miners ratify the proposition work will be resumed in all the mines. - ' - : McDonald Miners Ont. Pittsburg, Pa., Spet. 6. Colonel Rend'l miner at McDonald, Pa., will not go back at the terms offered by him yesterday. Tbe committee appointed to present his ultimatum to the men reported today that meetings were held last night, and it was decided to accept no rate except 69 cents, and not to work for that price unless all the other miners do it. Operators here say the; will not pay 69 cents, and' will now go ahead with their arrangements to start tbe mines with new men. Marchers Again Enjoined. Wheeling, W. Va., Sept. 6. An other injunction was served this morn ing on J. Rea, James Wood and 73 other named and an unlimited number of unnamed and unknown people, pro hibiting them from holding meetings or marching near the property of the Worthington Coal & Coke Company. This injunction was issued by Judge J. H. Hagans, judge of the Marion ounty court Assistance From Saa Francisco. San Francisco, Sept. 6. The San Francisco labor council tonight adopted a resolution recommending the affil iated unions to instruct their members to contribute one day's wages to the striking miners in the East, the money to be sent to Secretary Fearce, at Co Inmbne, O. TWELVE MINERS KILLED. Explosion In a Coal Mine Near Glen : wood Springs, Colo Glen wood Springs, Colo., Spet. 6. A . coal dust explosion in one of tbe chambers of tbe Sunrise Coal Company, the property of the Colorado Fuel SB Iron Company, at Sunshine, 13 miles southeast of Glen wood Springs, killed 11 Italians and one American tonight, a few minutes before 6 o'clock. The men were preparing to leave the mine on the day shift when the disaster oc curred. : A shot had been fired, and in stead of its being a direct explosion, which in miners' parlance is called a "blowout," it created a flame, which shot backward and caught the dust that had accumulated in the chamber intsead of dislodging the seam of the coal in tended. At the time of the explosion there was a barrel of powder in the chamber, which ingited and aided tbe disaster which would have occurred through the coal dust exploding alone. The Sunshine mine, where the disaster occurred, is of a peculiar coal, a com bination of anthracite and bitumen, and there is a belief that the gather ing of coal dust in the chamber was due to excessive explosions caused by a desire to empty the chamber too quick ly. In the property there are 50 to 55 men employed., The single chamber where the men were"killed, was the only one damaged. Two hours after the explosion occurred, the bodies of the dead men were all brought to the surface. Tasques Was Deported. San Francisoo, Sept 6. The steamer Acapuloo brought information of an other political earthquake in Guate mala. When the Vessel reached Aca jutla it waa met by a telegram from President Barrois and held until - 1 1 o'clock at night, when a special train arrived with General Vasque, ex-president of Honduras, under guard. It was ascertained that Vasqnez, who had taken refuge in San Jose de Guatemala after his expulsion from Honduras, had been ordered deported by Barrois. The refugee was put on board the steamer and landed at Acapnlco. It ia said he was detected in fomenting a revolution gainst Barrois. Lead Industry Booming. St. Louis, Sept. 6. Prosperity has truck the lead industry, and the mar ket is on the boom. Prices are higher than they have been for the past five years, with the prospect of attaining the highest point in the history of the metal. Missouri mines, which were on the point of closing down, have resumed operations in full blast, and will pro duce a larger tonnage than ever before. Since August, 18B6, when the pnoe f lead reached the lowest, it has been gradually climbing, until today it was quoted at $4. 05 to $4. 10 per 100 pounds. Bicycles Are Personal Property. Oakland, Cal., Sept. 6. Judge Eli Worth has ruled that a bioyole is per sonal property and exempt from execu tion if nesd by the owner in his daily business. Kreneh Monuments France is the country of monuments. It has set up about 800 monuments to more or less distinguished Frenchmen during the last 35 years, and there are now 137 committee oolleoting money fox more. NORTHWEST BREVITIES Evidence of Steady Growth and Enterprise. Items of general interest from ATI tho Cities and Towns ft tho thriving Bister States - - ... ' --Oregon It Is estimated that 1,280,000 prunes were shipped in the three oars that left The Dalles for Chicago recently. That number could about supply nearly everybody in Chicago with one Dalles prune. A plan is on foot in Pendleton to raise $16,000, to be invested in build ing a first-class racetrack. Nearly enough subscriptions have been prom ised to make up a joint stock company with the required capital. Albert Geiser.who recently purchased the Pyx mine, in Baker county, for $15,000, sold the property thia week to New York parties for $30,000. Ail mining properties in this section of the state are advancing in value. The vicinity of Bly, on Sprague riv er, in Klamath county, was the scene of a cyclone one day last week. Exten sive damage was done to fenoing, out buildings and hayricks at an estimated loss of several thousand dollars. : The Indians on the Silets are object ing because, when they get drunk, un der the law passed by congress, thoy get at least 80 days in jail, while white man can get drunk without be ing sent up for more than five days. The grain crop of Grant county is something enormous this year, es pecially wheat, and, with the good round price it is bringing in the mar ket, will put the farmers in a flue financial condition for the coming year. On the 1897 assessment roll, in Lane county, all church parsonages are as sessed. This is the first time they have been included in the assessable prop erty of Lane county. All lots owned by churches, but not occupied by churches, are also assessed. The Umatilla reservation ha been nearly deserted by tbe Indians, who enjoy summering as well as the pale faces. Many have gone to the John Day mountains and the Wallowa lake to hunt and fish. Over 300 are pick ing hop in the Yakima country. Estimates of tbe wheat crop of Union county for 1897 range from 1,350,000 bushel to 2,000,000. While the latter figure ia considered rather high, yet when the facts of increased acreage and better crops of this year, aa compared with others, are taken into ensidera tion, it is not improbable that the out put will reach that amount. Craig Blankenship, of South Salem, is packing eggs for the Klondike trade. The eggs are dipped in a preparation to preserve them before they are packed. It is the intention of Mr. Blankenship to ship bis eggs to the Klondike next spring. The demand has not caused any noticeable advance in price, but has stiffened the egg market here. The law preventing Oregon sheep raisers from driving their sheep into Washington doesn't seem to permit of reciprocity. More than 10,0000 sheep that would have crossed the Columbia at Arlington have been kept out of Washington; but thousands of Wash ington sheep have been driven all along the border into the mountain ranges of Eastern Oregon, so the Oregon sheep men say. -- Washington. 1 Grouse are reported to be quite plentiful on Blue Mountain. Congressman James Hamilton Lewi arrived in Spokane, from Washington, last week, on his way to the Sound. There are 63,000 sheep owned in Kit titas county. Besides this number, many bands summer there on the moun tain ranges. A party of prospeotorB from Seattle are reported to have made a rich strike in the Olympics about 18 miles from Duckabush. " A telephone line is to be erected at once from Oakesdale to Thornton, Sun set and St John. Work will begin as soon as the mateiral can be had. A Taooma carpenter, while walking in his sleep, fell from a two-story win dow to the ground. Nothing but his nap and a little skin were broken. Salmon for the interior and transcon tinental shipment have begun to arrive in Tacoma from lower Puget sound can neries,, and the traffic is expeoted to soon be brisk. The firm of Balfour, Guthrie & Co., for the first time in the history of the crop hop industry in Yakima county, is buying in that county this year. The firm recently bought 1,300 bales on a 10-cent basis. Two wagon-loads of immigrants passed through Walla Walla on their way to Centralia. They started from Kansas on tbe 39th of April and have been traveling ever since. Whitman county warrants have re cently advanced from 05 to 98 cents. As these warrants only draw 7 per cent interest, the price offered is considered good, and as speaking well for the county. ' .- " '. . The hay crop of Kittitas county for this year ia estimated, by those who are said to know, at 85,000 tons. Fruit has been shipped from Wen- atchee at the rate of a carload a day for the last few weeks. The shipments consist mostly of tomatoes, pear, peaches, watermelons and apples. The marketing of tomatoes has ceaved al most entirely at present, owing to de preciated prices, and, as a consequence, hundreds of. bushels will rot on the vines, as the hot weather has ripened, them very fast.