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r OREGON VOL. XIV. ST. HELENS, OKEGON, EIIIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1897. NO. 39. NEWS OF THE WEEK From all . Parts of the New and Old World. IIUIEP AND INTERESTING ITEMS Comprehensive llevlew of the Import ant Happening of the Cur rent Week. A terrible explosion of nitroglycerins occurred In Cygnet, O., resulting in tht (loath of nix person and the injury of largo number. It it wild that John W. Msoksy, the American millionaire, will lay Cuna dlnn I'acltla cable from Vancouver, B. U, to Australia. ; Count Okuros, of Japan, has notified his minister at Honolulu of the terms nd condition! of Japan's acceptance of the proposal to Arbitrate the dUputs with Hawaii. A New York Herald special front Barcelona says that it ia atatod on the highest diplomatic1 anthorlty that the present Spanish government will go out within a fortnight, aim tfiat the liberals will come In. Customs Inspectors nt Laredo, Tex., have found an unclaimed grip on a train, containing 1300,000 worth of diamond, jewelry and other valuables. The paperi In the valiae indicate that It belonged to a Spanish officer. It I believed it wa stolon by a man who lacked the courage to claim ownership. W. P. Atwoll, commercial agent of the united States at liobaix, Fiance. sends to the itate department a report on the abort wheat crop in Franco. He says the crop In France, and in fart all Europe, ban fallen much Itnlow the average, and that it ia estimated that the United State and Canada will be called upon to export from 130,000,000 to 180,000,000 bushels more than they exported to Euro) last year. France will require about 60,000,000 bushels to meet the deficit in that country. A Portland company has offered to build a sugar beet factory in La Grands. , U. J. Laysoll was killed and Claude Hawthorne severely injured by a tire on launch in Astoria, Or. Fall! Company, '' manufacturers of cotton goods, In Norwich, Conn., have started op on full time, giving employ ment to 600 hands. The New Orleans health authorities have lent out notice of a death by yel low few In that city. Quarantine has been declared by aeveral Southern cities. A rich striko is reported in the Schroder mine, in Yreka, Cal., on the 1,900-foot level, the vein avoragiivi four feet in width, and running $180 to the ton. Edward Lyons, a patient at the Ore gon atate Insane asylum hung iiimaelf to treo in the asylum grounds. He waa committed from Multnomah county last March. In the Mllford labor anion, at Its game In Milford, Mans., II. 8. Dono van, of Natick, ran 100 yards in 9H seconds, breaking the world's record by one-tenth of second, according to the timekeepers. George W. Clark broke the world's Llgh-dive record by jumping off the. railing of the Halatead-streot life bridge j in Chicago, when the structure was raised to an elevation of 105 feet above the Chicago river. The diver was taken out of the river uninjured, and Waa placed under arrest by the police. The Washington Star says: It Is stated that 8. D. North, of Boston, has been selected as superintendent of the next census, and that his appointment will be made as soon as neocssary legis lation can be enacted. . The president is aald to favor the establishment of permanent bureau on census, and Is likely to express some views on that subject in his next message to congress. Wild horses have become a nulsanoe In Northern Arizona, and Attorny General Fraaior has been aaked if they may not be legally slaughtered. That vlciuity haa been overrun by several large bands, hundreds in number, un bonded and unclaimed by any one. They have rapidly increased in number nd have become wilder than deer and vicious as well. The matter has been referred to the livestock board. A Phoenix, Aria., dispatch says it 1 1 expected that work will be resumed within 80 days on the great Eio Verde irrigation enterprise which is to redeem 800,000 sores of the finest land in the Bait river valley. Of the 150 miles of canals that will constitute the Rio Verde irrigation system, 32 have hi en dug. "d a large amount of work, coat ing altogether $300,000, hai been done at and near the beadworks. ' . "We are on the verge of a gront min ing era," remarked Clarenoe King, former chief of the United States geo logical survey, in Denver. "The time is not far distant when a man can start out of Denver and travel to Klondike, topping every night at a mining camp. Already two American stamp mills are pounding away on the border of the Straits of Magellan, and the day is ap proacihng when chain of mining cam pa will extend from Cape Horn to St. Michael!." A Philadelphia & Beading wrecking engine crashed into a wagon at a grade crossing at Frush Valley, a few miles above Beading, Pa., and three lives were loat. The Marquis of Salisbury'! proposal for the constitution of an international commitee representing the six powers to assume control of the revenues, with which Greece will guarantee the pay ment of Interest for holders on old bonds as well as payment of the indem nity loan, ha been aooepted by the powers, THE STRIKE SETTLED. Miliars Aeeept the Proposition of Pitts. ' burg Operators. Columbus, O., Sept J 4. The great miners' strike, which was declared on July 4, was brought to an end this evening, so far, at leant, a! Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and West Virginia are concerned, by the action of the convention of miners which has been in session since Wednesday. After a tiny of voting and wrangling, the con' vent ion voted to accept the proposition of the Pitttfburg operators. The vote was 496 for and 817 against accepting the terms of settlement, and 1 1 vote! were not cast. The delegates from 11 linols, who had 800 votes, were unani mously against the settlement; Indiana and West Virginia voted solidly to ac cept the projioaitlon, but there were scattering votes among Ohio and Penn sylvania against it. The resolution is as follows: "Kosolved, That we, the miners of Pennsylvania, Heat Virginia, Ohio, In dluna and Illinois, in oomention assem bled, do hereby agree to accept the proposition recommended by our na tionat executive council, vis , 68 oetits in Pittsburg district and all places in the above-named state where a relative price can lie obtained, to resume work and contribute liberally to the miners who will not receive the advance, over which the fight wuat be continued to bitter end. "Resolved, That the national officers of the executive board and distriot presidents act as an advlaory board for the purpose of providing ways and means for the carrying on of the strike where necessary; provided, however, that no district resume work for 10 dnys, for the purpose of giving miners in other diatricts time to confer with the operators and get the price, if pos sible." The Illinois men will be called in convention at Springfield, September 10, to determine what shall bo. done in that state. A resolution was adopted denouncing the action of the deputies In firing into the striking miners at Hazelton. LIVES CRUSHED OUT. His Victim, of a Truln-Wreek In the Indian Territory. Memphis, Sept 14. A special to the Commercial-Appeal from Hanburn, Ark., says: A moat disastrous freight wieck occurred on the Iron Mountain railroad, at Hanson, I. T., a small sta tion SO miles west of Van Buren, at 3 o'clock today, resulting in the death of seven men and the serious injury of is others, two of whom will die. The dead are: Will Frame, Charles Frame, Douglas! Anderson, John Johnson, Bose Henderson, Frank Hamilton and II. A. Walton. . .... "Of the wounded two suffered inter nal injuries. All of the dead and wounded were sent to Vian, with the exception of Walton's body, it being brought to this place, where he haa rel atives living. None of the trainmen were hurt While the train was runhing at a speed of SO miles an hour, the forward trucks of one of the cars near the en gine broke, wrecking 15 cars with wal nuts and baled hay. With the excep tion of two oars in front and three in the rear, including the oalioose, every car of the SO in the train was ditched. The middle of the train was a oar load ed with heavy maohinery, and it waa in this our that 18 men were stealing a ride. The occupants of the wrecked car Were a party of men and boys living in Vian, who were coming to Van Buren to And employment in the cotton holds. When the machinery car left the rails, it fell on its side, nearly all of the men being caught by the heavy beams. ir.i.,,1 Pit Snnt 14. A aneclal to tl.o TiinM frnm Hanbnrn. Ark., aavs: Many sad scenes were enacted at Man- son, ' One of the dead, whose name is unknown, was found with bis head mashed to a pulp between two heavy logs, his brains ooaing out Others were crushed and mangled in a horrible manner. Two of the dead were brothers, Will and Charles Frame. Will was found on one side of the track and Charles oil the other, both crushed al pioat out of nil semblance of human beings, ''' The scenes at Vian, when the dead bodies of those who had resided there arrived, wpre affecting in the extreme. The parents and other kin of the de ceased were at the depot when the train came in. It will probably be several days before the wreck will be cleared away and the full extent of the dis aster revealed. " Three men are still missing, aocroding to statements of some of those who esooped. A large force of men is at the spot, clearing away the wreckage. Quarantine Ieelnred. Nashville, Sept. 14. Today, the state board of health issued quarantine orders against all poftits along the gulf coast, extending from Mobile to New Orleans. This was done as a measure of extra oaution, because of the receipt of unfavorable reports from the gulf coast. Memphis, Sept. 14. The board of health of this city today issued a proc lamation enforcing a strict quarantine agaiiiBt New Orleans, Ocean Springs, Mobile and other towns on the gulf coaat. ' " ' ' '' - : rresldont Ulan Meeenge. Mexico, Sept. 14. It Is not believed that the president will in his message announoe any radical change in the pub lio policy. The manufacturing and agricultural interests are unanimously In favor of the Bilvor standard. """ The Guatemala Revolution. uoriiu, - l ----- . Guatemala say revolution has broken , out against rreaiuem jinmvo western part of the republic I FATE OFTUE ANDERSON Reported That She Went Down With All Hands. NEWS HEARD AT MARY'S ISLAND The Steamer Carried 1J FaMengers . Irrom Seattle, Bound for the Klondike. Seattle, Sept. 14. Another story of the wreck of the Eliza Anderson reached thli city today. It came on the steamer George E. Starr. Captain Harry Struve, one of the beat-known men in Seattle, was a passenger on the Starr from Skag uay bay. At Mary's island he was told by the oustoms officers there that a schooner had touched that port from Kodlak island, reporting that the Eliza Anderson was wrecked in the vicinity of Kodlak, with all hands lost. The steamer carried 125 passengers from Seattle for St. Michaels. Captain Strove did not learn the name of the schooner which brought the news. The statement was made by the customs offloer with apparent con fidence ih its truth. . The Anderson was last seen by the tug Holyoke near Kodiak island. She was headed that way for fuel, and to , get out of the way of the furious gale that was blowing from the southeast While the story told Captain Strove may not establsh the fact of the An derson's wreck, it gives rise to grave fears for her safety. NEW KLONDIKE DIGGINGS. Sulphur Creek the Scene of the Latest Excitement. Seattle, Sept 14. Sulphur creek, a branch of Dominion creek, which is a tributary to the Indian river, is the scene of the latest great excitement in the Klondike. From accounts of the new district brought down on the South Coast, it seems that the new dig gings will rival even the famed Bonanza and Eldorado. Gold was found just below the surface running $34 to the pan. Two men took out $300 in a day in simply prospecting their claims. A stampede followed the reports of the new finds, which reached Dawson City, August 15. In a week 500 men had crossed the mountains between Eldorado creek and Dominion creek. They traveled day and night, and In two weeks the whole stream waa staked out. The first authentio story of Sulphur creek was given today by John E. Light, of Chicago. He left Dawson City on the steamer Bella, August 18. He owns a claim on Sulphur creek which he located himself. He says: "Sulhpur creek will equal Bonanza. T,ere is no doubt about it When I first heard of the strike there, I went over the mountain to investigate it myself. I spent one day there with two brothers, the MtKinnon boys, of Wellington, B. C. I saw them take . out $300 in one day from simply sink- , ing two prospect holes. The formation i is the same as at Eldorado creek, and Sulphur creeks bears the same relation to Dominion as does Ellorado to Bo nanza. The streams empty into In dian river. They are just acrots the divide from the Klondike, and the same process that brought millions in gold into the beds of Bonanza and Eldorado creeks deposited as much wealth in Sul phur and Dominion. "One old German, whose name l out not learn, located the creek, and from Discovery claim he took out $80 to the pan. Of course, when the news of the new strike reached Daweon there was a great stampede, and hundreds left the Klondike for Dominion creek. It is all staked out now. Mark my words, you will hear of big strikes there." A WOMAN'S STORY. Mrs. Hendenoa Telle Golden Stories of the Klondike. TiMimi. Rnnt. 14. Mrs. E. A. Hen- dnrann thn first nawsnarjer oorresnond- ent to make the trip to Dawson City, returned on tne steamer uieveiana irora St. Michaels, and is visiting friends in this city. With her little 8-year old daughtor she spent some months in the mining dietrlots, and gives the Ledger some interesting experiences in the far north.. She . confirms the report of the find ing of a $583.25 nugget, the largest yet discovered in the Yukon country, which Nick Knutaon picked up on No, 8. Eldorado, and is bringing to San Francisco on the Exoelsior. When the Excelsior with its reported, but prob ably exaggerated, cargo of nearly $1, 000,000 in dust, readies San Fran cisco, she believes the fever will prob ably reaoh its height "Yet." said Mr. Henderson, "tne excitement is all on the outside. In the Klondike country, even this huge nugget, whioh is as large as your hand and almost a perfeot hatohot-head shape and seemingly pure gold, did not greatly excite the miners. , "I have been np tne xuxon ait sum mer. From Apirl to June i, tour men tnnlr nnt from No. 18. Eldorado, from but a small part of the claim, a strip only 85x70 feet, $43,038, and have re cently sold the olaim for $45,000. This u fnr the hltrhest amount sot out of a Klondike mine nearly $90,000. "I am asked scores of times, 'Is the Klondike country as rich as reported?' I was prepared to say, 'It oan Boarcely be exaggerated,' but since then I have seen newspapers, and I reply more cau tiously. In several papers I saw the statement that somebody had seen 'five five-gallon ooal oil cans filled with gold in one winter.' No one in that coun try ever heard of suoh a cabin. The truth is, I lifted less than $18,000 of dust in a granite bowl with difficulty. Gold is heavy to bear in more senses than one. MOWED DOWN. Hasletan Strikers Are Shot Like . Many Sheep. ". Hazelton, Pa., Sept. 18. The strike situation reached a terrible crisis on, the outskirts of Latimer this afternoon, when a band of deptuy sheriffs fired into a mob of miners. The men fell like so many sheep, and the excitement has been so intense that no accurate figures of the dead and wounded can be obtaind. Iteports run from 15 to 30 killed and 40 or more wonnded. . One man who reached the scene to night counted 18 corpses. Four other bodies lay In the mountains between Latimer and Harleigh. Those who were uninjured carried their dead and wounded friends into the woods. Esti mates are baffling. Three bodies were found tonight on the road near Latimer. The strikers left Hazelton about 8:80 o'clock this ' afternoon, and it was their intention to go to Latimer. As soon as this became known, a band of deputies was loaded on a trolley car and went whirling across the mountain im the scene, where the bloody conflict followed. - After reaching Latimer, they left the car and formed into three companies, under Thomas Hall, E. A. Hess and Samuel B. Sercy. They drew up in line at the edge of the village, with a fence and a line of houses in their rear. Sheriff Martin was in entire command and stood in the front of the line until the strikers approached. They were seen coming across the ridge, and Mar tin went out to ret them. The men drew up sullenly and listened in silence until he bod once more read the riot BOt" This finished, a low muttering arose among the foreigners, and there was a slight movement forward. Perceiving this the sheriff stepped toward them and forbade them to advance. Some one struck the sheriff, and the next moment the command was given to the deputies to fire. ' 4 The guns of the deputies instantly belohed forth a terrible volley. The report seemed ,to Bhake the very moun tains, and a cry of dismay went up from the people. The strikers were taken entirely by surprise, and as the men fell ever each other, these who remained unhurt stampeded. The men went down be fore the Btorm of bullets like tebpins, and the groans of the dying and wound ed filled the air. Tiie scene that followed was simply indescribable. The deputies seemed to be terror-stricken at the deadly execu tion of their guns, and seeing the liv ing strikers fleeing like wild men and Others dropping to the earth, they went to the aid of the unfortunates whom they had bronght down. The people of Latimer ruhsed pell mell to the scene, but the shrieks of the wounded drowned the cries of the sym pathizing and half-crazed inhabitants. A reporter who soon afterwards reached the scene found the road lead ing to Latimer filled with groups of frightened Hungarians. Some sur rounded dying companions, and others, fearful of pursuit, clung to the new comer and begged his protection. At Farley's hotel were two men lying on the porch. Both had been shot in the head. One had three bullets in the thigh. His groans and appeals for a doctor were heartrending. All along the rood the wounded men who were able to leave the field of bat tle scattered themselves and sought the shade of trees for protection, but there was no need of that then. Approaching the place where the shooting occurred, people were met wringing their hands and bemoaning the catastrophe. " they could not talk Intelligently, and it was with the great est difficulty that information could be gleaned. All along the bank of the trolley road men lay in every position, some dead, others dying. Three bodies, face downward, lay along the Incline, while others were but a Bhort distance away. On the other side of the road as many bodiea lay. The schoolhouse was trans formed into a temporary hospital and some of the wounded were taken there. The colliery ambulance was sum moned to the place as soon as possible, and upon its arrival, two men, hot' shot through the legs, were loaded in the wagon. All along the hillsiiu wounded men were found, on the road side and in the fields. Many miners who had been carried to distances oould not be found. Aa eoon as the news of the shooting reached Hazelton, there was consterna tion. Within 10 minutes, the streets were blocked with excited people. The Lehigh Traction Company immediately started a number of extra cars on the Latimer line, and doctors and clergy men responded promptly. :. ; During the excitement, the deputies turned their attention to the wounded, and carried many of them to places where they oould be more comfortably treated. . . Martin Boski, an intelligent Hun garian from Mount Pleasant, who was shot in the arm, was seen by a reporter, nd gave this version of the affair: "We were going along the road to Latimer, and the deputies were lined across the road, barring our passage. We tried to go through them, and did not attempt to hit or molest them.when. they fired upon us. We ran, but they kept on shooting at us while we ran. It is all their fault" , Citizens' meetings were held at vari ous parts of the city tonight. Opinion was divided about the responaibilty for the shooting. At one meeting held in Van Wyokle's casino, attended by bank ers, coal operators and prominent men, resolutions were adopted calling on Governor Hastings to send militia here. At another mass meeting, attended by thousands of people, the sentiment was against bringing the troops here, and it Is asserted by these that there will be no real necessity for having deputies kept here. SERIOUS TRAIN WRECK Caused by the Disobedience of Orders. FORTY PEOPLE LOSE THEIR LIVES Passenger Collided With Stock Train Menr Denver Damaging Both Greatljr Kmporln Wreck. Denver, Sept 18. A special to the News from New Castle, Colo., says: Rio Grande passenger train No. 1, run ning one hour late, collided with a Col orado Midland stock extra, miles west of New Castle. Both engines are total wreck. There are In all probability 40 human beings in the burning mass. Shortly after the collision occurred the baggage,- day coach and tourist sleeper caught fire, while one Pullman and a special car from the Hannibal & St Joseph railroad remained on the track. ": ; The fault is said to lie with the train crew of the extra. Details of the wreck are hard to ob tain. It 1b known that A. Hartman and wife and two children, of Harahon, 111., are among the dead; Engineer Gordon, of the passenger train; R. H. Bed ley, postal olerk, and .Robert How lett, passenger fireman, are fatally in jured. Engineer Ostrander and Fire man Sutliff, are missing, and are be lieved to be buried in the wreck. So thoroughly are the trains demol ished that but few of those caught es caped alive, those not killed by the shock of the collision being burned to. death in the ruins of the cars. A Bio Grande special, just arrived from Glenwood, brings doctors and comforts for the wounded. The wreck occurred on what is called the Bio Junction road. This runs from New Castle to Grand Junction. It be longs jointly to the Denver & Bio Grande and the Colorado Midland, be ing used by both roads. Two oars of stock were completely demolished, and the right of way ia strewn with dead stock and debris. . Conductor Barbank'a explanation of the wreck is that in looking at the passenger's leaving time on the card he looked at the wrong column of figures. Two Italians caught in the act of rob bing trunks have been placed nnder arreat The latest information from the wreck makes it almost certain that 25 persona are dead, and s dozen badly in jured, fully half of whom will die. THE EMPORIA WRECK. Farther Details of the Accident In . Knneu. ' Emporia, Kan., Sept 13. Twelve known dead, one missing (probably inoinerated) and 14 injured, two of whom will likely die, is the record of the terrible head-end collision on the Santa Fe, as known tonight It is not positively known that the list given is complete, and it is believed that several were burned to death and nothing left by which they could be recognised. The bodies of 11 have been taken from the debris, three burned beyond recog nition. Nothing oould be found of the re mains of the Wells-Fargo messenger, J. F. Sauer. A handful of charred bones taken from the wreck, however, are supposed to be his. Near them was found his watch. Human ghouls delved in the burning wreckage and plundered the baggage and mail sacks whioh strewed the ground. One man tried to snatch a diamond from the breast of an Emporia doctor who, weak and nervous, was creeping slowly out of the debris. He had strength enough left to hit the brute blow in the faoe, whioh made him turn with a curse and sneak away. Mail saoks were dragged into the corn field and rifled. The report of the Kansas City post office is that practically all of the mail on both the wrecked Santa Fe trains was destroyed. One pouch, however, for Southern California, on the west bound train, is said to have been saved. This train oarried a large mail from New York city to California. Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. No official report has been received here. Trains over the Santa Fe will be run by way of Ottawa for a few days. The cost of the wreck to the railway is esti mated at $100,000. Aa the passengers and trainmen re covered from the shock of the explosion, they looked for the injured and dead. Far down in the heaps of debris sound ed wailing voices of men pleading for aid. While the rescuers were working to get at the unfortunates, fire broke out in the wreckage of the forward ooaohes, and a cry for water went up. Water tanks were torn from their fastenings in the ooaohes that oould be entered, and blood-besmeared men carried them over broken timbers to quench the fast spreading flames. ' The dead and mangled bodies of four viotims were dragged to the grass beside the track. After herculean efforts, the flames were finally subdued, and the work of rescue made more easy. - ' ',: A merchant in Copenhagen was fined 10 crowns for having used the American flag as an advertising medium. Explorer Wellmnn Keturne. New York, Sept 9. Walter Well man, the journalist and Arctic explorer, was one of the passengers on the New York, which arrived today. He has been to Norway and Russia to consult with Dr. Nansen to arrange for a steamer and a large number of dogs. He said efforts would be made to reach the north pole until the feat was ac oompliBhed. Russians make a pleasant drink from sap of the walnut DISTRESS AT DAWSON. Terrible Tnle of Suffering Bronght From Klondike by the Clevelnnd. San Francisco, Sept. 18. The Ex aminer prints an extra edition contain ing the following news from Dawson City: . ' "Otter Point, B. C, Sept. 18. The steamer Cleveland haa arrived from St Michaels,' bringing with her from the Yukon gold fields a story of distre'l and disaster, : The miners she has on board and officers in charge of the ship tell a stroy of disorder and dis tress at Dawson. Winter has set in at the mining city of the frozen north, and the two great stores of the place have closed their doors, for they have nothing to sell. Those who have been seeking gold must now seek for food or starve. - While there may be a tendency to exaggerate the actual conditions of affairs, there can be no question that famine threatens all the venturesome men and women who made their way to the Klondike. Hundreds of nnruly spirits are flock ing to Dawson. Threats of violence are being made on every side. Enormous prices are now being paid for food at Dawson, and it is impos sible that more than four vessels with provisions oan reach that camp before the river freezes. Indignation meetings, heavy with murmured threats of vengeance, have been held at St Michaels by those who see no hope of advancing np the river, and less of getting back to civilization. T3 first signs of winter are apparent on the river Yukon, which is begin ning to freeze, and in a few weeks will be closed against all navigation. : A mishap has come to the Excelsior, and from the frozen north comes the story of another disaster in which 43 men lost their lives. , On the Cleveland there are 88 pas sengers who have come from Dawson City. There are few miners in this party that are able to tell of prosperity. Most of them wish to exaggerate their possessions, and it one were to believe the indefinite stories they tell he would say the treasure ship with which they come carried $5,000,OCO. Captain Hall, of the Cleveland, says he has $100,000 in his safe. The purser be lieves he can account for $150,000 on board. I The Cleveland left St Micbaela August 29. She has some of the pas sengers of the P. B. Weare on board. The Weare left Dawson City in time to connect with the Portland had she not met with a mishap and stuck on the flats above Circle City. The miners from Dawson report that on July 25 the stores of the Alaska Commercial Company and the North American Trading & Transportation Company closed their doors, and an nounced they bad no more food to sell. When the announcement was made oont sternation seized upon the people of Dawson, with gold-seekers crowding in at the rate of 20 to 30 per day. Drunk enne.s and disorder, gambling and Idleness were rampant At St Michaels the condition of affairs is also the cause of gravest con cern. There are not enough structures in town to accommodate the crowd, and scores of the people are living in tents. Shortly before .the Cleveland left St. Michaels two expeditions, those of the National City and of the South Coast, held indignation meetings, threatening dire vengeance upon those who had brought them there and then were unable to carry them further. On August 86 the Excelsior left St Michaels with a large number of min ers and large quantity of gold. Re ports were current that her treasure amounted to a million dollars. . Soon after leaving St. Michaels the Excelsior was caught on the dangerous flats of the Yukon and broke two blades of her propeller. When the Cleveland reached Ounalaaka she found the Excelsior un dergoing repairs. It is probable Bhe left Ounalaska last Monday. Shortly before the Cleveland left fcr Seattle on her journey borne the Unitfd Sttes revenue cutter Bear put i:i(o St. Michaels to tell another story of death and disaster in the ioe-bound Arctic The Bear had on board Cap tain Whiteside, his wife, the first and fourth officers and four seamen of tli ateam whaler Nevaoh. They , are that remain to tell a terrible story o. death in an ice pack. Of her crew 42 were lost Thirty-one were crushed in the ice and ten frozen to death. The Bear saw the vessel's signals of distress near Point Barrow, and went to her assistance. The captain, his wife, two officers and four seamen were persuaded to leave the crippled ship, but nine others positively refused to go. They were left on a desolate field of ice, and it is feared perished with their comrades. ; The terrible tale of suffering told by Captain Whitesides and his officers forms but an incident in the story that the Cleveland brings. It was believed after she had left St. Michaels she was to learn' no more of the Klondike, its dangers jind disasters, but the Cleve land had hardly gone 85 mies when she passed a vessel that told of evils to come, of dangerous spirits ready for any outrage, of exoited and angry men who have left a blaok record on the coast on their own pathway to the Yukon. ' The Cleveland and Humboldt had met, and new stories of the abandoned adventurers the latter vessel la convey ing to the gold fields were sent back to the world. When the Humboldt stopped at Oun alaska on her journey to St Michaels, the passengers were in open rebellion. They began to realize that it would be impossible to reach Dawson before next Bpring, and they knew that misery awaited them at St. Michaels. There were open threats against W. D. Wood, organizer and manager of the expedi tion, and it is feared he may lose his life st the hands of his passengers. The new Yerkes telescope brings the moon within about 200 miles. NORTHWEST BREVITIES Evidence of Steady Growth and Enterprise. ITEMS 07 GENERAL INTEREST from ATI the Cities and Towns ft ' the Thriving SUter St tee ' Oregon . During the week ending September 4, $1,823.33 was paid out on money orders by the Salem postofflce. The revenue of the city of Astoria will fall short this year on fines snd forfeitures at least $7,000, and prob ably more. The Beaver Hill Coal Company, in Coos county, has received a diamond drill that will be used in prospecting its properties. Everything at the cannery in Marsh field is running smoothly, and the quality of the fish is good. The man agement claims to be able to put np 700 cases a day. A Scnttsborg farmer thinks he has some tall corn on his farm. He says there is one stalk 13 feet inches high, pne; 10 feet 2 inches, and two that grow up 10 feet Sheepmen of Gilliam county say that the grass is drying up pretty fast in the mountains and that the sheep will be taken to their home range earlier than usual this season. ; The fall run of beshows, or coal fish, has arrived in Coos bay, and large joBntities ,ire 'ieing caught with hooks ind Unes off '.he cannery wharf. Some people consider these fish nearly as good as mackerel. The Brownsville Woolen Mills are so crowded with orders for goods that the machinery is kept humming from daj light until dark, and some of it day and night, says the Brownsville Times. Last week the wages of employes were advanced 5 percent. , The cannery at Marshfield rari short on cans last week, and had to stop the receipt of flsh for one day, but is now in' operation, and is canning all the fish received. Superintendent Flye says thut they are now able to take care of 2,000 chinooks a day. A placer mining company operating on the Baker county side of Powder river, one and one-half miles from its mouth, has a floating flume a quarter of a mile long, three feet wide and a foot deep, and a few men there are getting big paying results. The Vale Advocate says that in the canyon of the Malheur there is a small active animal unlike anything described in the natural histories. By people living on the Malheur it is called a "rocket cat," although it is very un like the common stubtail wild cat, of which there are many in the country. A resident of the Helix country, in Umatilla county, takes the palm so far this season for growing the largest yield of barley per acre. His barley turned out 70 bushels per acre, and his wheat crop went above 40 bushels. He sold his wheat crop for better than 75 cents, and he is in excellent humor io conse quence. A savage boar attacked two horses pastured on the Bellfountain fruit farm, Benton county, last week, killing one and maiming the j other. The horses belonged to men working for the Green Peak Fruit Company. Later, the owner of the hog removed its tusks and penned it up. When next he visited it he founl the animal dead. Washington. Three inches of snow fell on the Wenatchee summit one night last week. The B'hingle mill at Oooeta haa been started, giving employment to over 20 men. . .. : There are not enough loggers and mill hands in the Gray's harbor country to supply the demand. A. C. Little, state fish commissioner, . hopes to have the fish hatchery on the Chehalis river ready for the fall rnn of steelheads. , ' Improvements now being mode at the warehouse, in Wilbur will raise the total storage capacity for grain at that place to 180,000 bushels. State Dairy Commissioner McDonald warns owners ot cows to look out for tuberculosis and lumpy jaw. Several cases of lumpy jaW have recently beon reported from Pierce and King counties, and a cow suffering from tuberculosis was killed near Fern hill, not far from Tacoma, recently, by the commissioner. The Indians on the Yakima reserva tion complain that some of the squaw men who used to be employed in doing the threshing on the reservation have revenged themselves, because of the employment of a ateam thresher, by putting barb wire into the bundles of grain, thereby wrecking the cylinder of the thresher. A detachment of Uncle Sam's regular army, from the Vancouver barracks, consisting of two lieutenants, a corporal and four privates, with a complete camping equipment, has been to camp in Clallam county surveying and mak ing maps of the roads in that vicinity. While there are six horses and mules in the outfit, two of the officers use" bicycles, and say that they are far superior to horses for such work. A movement is on foot in Colville for the purpose of raising funds with which to build a new courthouse. Lib eral donations of material are offered, and about all the money that will ba required will be that necessary to pay for the labor. '." , The ceremonies attending the dedica ting and unveiling of the Whitman monument in Walla Walla will occur November 29, as that will be the 50; h annlversay of Whitman's death. The total cost of the monument, includes lbs inclosurea, will be P,10