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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.