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ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1897.
NO. 43.
NEWS OF THE WEEK
From all Parts of the New
and Old World.
BRIEF AND INTERESTING ITEMS
Comprehensive Ilevlew of the Import
ant Happenings of th Cur
rant Week.
'Edward Langtry, the former bus
band of Lily Langtry, ha bean placed
In an insane asylum.
Japan ha named two delegate t
attend th International sealing confer
nee at Washington, D. 0
At Dixon, la., the dead oody of Rob
rt Parks was found In bis burning
house. It il belloved ha wai murdered
for hi money.
During quarrel at their borne la
8t. Louis, George P. PnlTer, a iteuog
rapher, hot hit father-in-law, Robert
Dolancy, through the brain, and then
.killed himelf.
Kidie Bosley, the SO-montba-old
child of Mr, George Boalcy, wai killed
v a. Bothell.Wasb., by a Seattle & Inteia
national train. The child' beats wai
levered from itt body.
The Union Pacific committee ha
' acceded to the government'! contention
that Ita lien on the Union Paclflo road
includes the Omaha bridge, and that it
has inoreaoed It eaab bid o a to make
th entile concession approximately $5,
000,000. Tbi would make it guaren
; ty offer for the property, including the
linking fund, now In the treaiury, about
150,000,000
The United State circuit court ba
decided that tapioca flour mint be taxed
a duty of cent per pound. Thi
will increase the government revenue
many hundred of thouitanda of dollar
per annum. Tbi flour u nied almost
exclusively in all the Chinese laundries
in the United State because of it
cheapness, tareh, and it ha been
the moat formidable obstacle to the
starch manufacturing industry In th
United Stale.
The lumbering town of Austin, Pa.,
wai nearly wiped off the map by Are.
Only five dwelling remain. Fully
600 portion are bomelou.
Tbe Hotel Lafayette, at Minnetonka,
Minn., the Urgent cummer retort in th
Wet, wa totally destroyed by fire.
It wai owned by tbe Great Northern
railway.
For the month of September, the at
tendant at the Nashville exposition
wa 358,734, and the total nttendanoe
siuce the opening up October 1 amount
ed to 1,196.085.
The emperor of Chin ha forbidden
i all aorta of banquet and junketing be
cause an eclipse will occnr on January
S3, 1888. An eclipse of the inn i aid
by the Chinese to be proof of th
wrath of heaven at the lack of virtue
, in a ruler.
Five hundred thousand asrea of fine
land along the Big Plney, Lebarge,
Fontanollo creek and Green river,
which bav recently been wrveyed,
will be thrown open to settlement
under the United Bute land law after
November 1, when plat of the laud
will be filed in the local land office.
The land comprise eight townships, all
in Uintah county, Wyoming.
A vessel carrying supplies of medi
cine, clothing, arms and ammunition
for the Cuban army has left Montreal
for Cuba. The scheme was not author
ised by the Cuban junta In New York,
but was undertaken on behalf of two
. gentlemen, one a Canadian, -who de
cided on running an expedition to the
coast of Cuba, and, if successful, iden
tifying themselves with the cause.
Nog I Dow, the great temperanoe ad
vocate, died at hi home in Portland,
Me. It wa through his'efforta that in
1884 an amendment to the constitution
of jUaine wa adopted by a popular vote
of bearly three to one, in which it wa
declared that the manufacture, sale and
keeping for sale of intoxicating bever
ages was forever forbidden, and com
manding the legislature to enaot suit
able lawa for tbe enforcement of the
prohibition.
The topic of tbe day in Paris has been
the rofusal of M. Loao, French ambasa
dor at Vienna, to accept the appoint
ment tendered him as governor Algeria,
on the gronnd that he doe not desire
to leave his aged parents. He declares
that he will remain in Vienna, but the
Marquis d'Kevorsau has already been
" appointed to replace him, and the cab
inet has decided that this appointment
must stand. M. Loao, therefore, will
have to make an ignominious retreat
" The Orange-Judd Farmer, In its
final estimate of the year's crop, lays
thut figures, based on aotual threshing
returns, indicate a total yield of 689,-
' 000,000 buihela of wheat, of which
873,000,000 bushels in winter, and
815,470,000 bushel in spring wheat.
.The report lays the corn orop is exceed
lugly disappointing, and an outside es
timate is 1,750,000,000 bushels..
Drought during the past two months
reduced th average condition from
82.8 a month ago to 78.9 on October 1.
An average oat yield of 38.7 bushel
por acre suggest a orop of 814,000,000
: bushel, 100,000,000 more than lust
' year, :
Burglars broke Into the office of the
steamer Flyer on the water front at
Seattle, and, after overhauling the con
tents of several trunks, carried away
the safe, weighing 400 pounds. No
trace of it has been found. , '
A California company proposes to
build three enormous rafts at Stella, on
the Columbia river, and take them to
San Francisco during the coming sum
mer. Each raft will contain over 80,
000 piles, to be used by the Southern
Paciflo Company in the construction
and repair of wharves.
ANOTHER BOLD HOLD UP.
Two. Mu Stop anil llob an Oregon
City Oar. ,.
Portland, Out. 13. The East Side
Railway Company' car, On it, bound
for Portlnnd, wa held up at Meldrum
station, four miles this side of Oregon
City, at 6:45 last evening, by two high
way men, and from the 85 passenger
on board $97 was taken. Both the
robber were armed with revolver,
each had his face blackened, and each
acted with perfect calinneti dnring the
robbery. Not a single shot was fired
by cither the robber or pnaHenger.
An absurd civility prevailed, and wben
the work had been finished the high
waymen bade their victims a courteous
adieu and said they would call again
when broke, They then banked short
distance Into the brush and secreted
tliemso'.ves until the car moved on.
The work of the two men 1 well in
line with the attempt on the O. U. &
N. passenger only a short time ago,
but the result was more satisfactory to
the robbers. Who they are is unknown
I to the authorities, although some per
sons on me car asserteu mat mey rec
ognized the voice of one of them. The
pursuit was commenced a soon ai the
oar con hi reach thi city and the police
could be returned to the scene, but o
far no trace of them can be found.
The On left Oregon City at 6:30
There were about 85 pussenger aboard,
the seals nearly all being full. At
Meldrum station there is a switch,
which necessitates a slowing down for
a distance. The truck at this point ia
in a very light out, and on both aides
there is a considerable growth of low
underbrush and ferns. When tbe On
was passing tbi place the motorman
board something running through tbe
brush and fern, which he supposed
was cattle fleeing from the car. A
moment later, however, be realised
that the somethings were coming to
ward the car, and that their speed was
not due to fright.
A medlum-iod man stepped on the
front step while the car was still go
ing slowly, and, approaching the mo
torman, peremptorily commanded bim
to stop the car. The motorman did
not grasp the situation at first, but
thought a joke was Iming perpetrated.
The highwayman soon disabused bis
mind by poking a revolver into his
face a an additional emphaaia, which
induced the motorman to net promptly.
The robber asked bim if he bad any
money, and, being answered in the
negative, patted his pockets to ascer
tain if the answer was true, He then
ordered the motorman inside the, car,
and started in to "go through" the
passenger. ' .
About the same time tbe man
jumped on at the front, a second rob
ber climbed onto the rear platform.
He indicated hi purpose by pointing a
revolver down the aisle of the oar to
intimidate the passengers. Just as the
car was coming to a halt the conductor
managed to pass down the aisle to the
center of the car, and, reaching the
button overhead, turned off tbe light.
He then stood near that place during
the proceedings following. . , ,
The man in front found the work of
taking the surplus cash possessed by
the passengers impeded by the lack of
light. He had taken tbe money from
three passenger, when he decided to
have the lights turned on again. He
ordered the conductor to do this, using
an oath each time. "Tnrn on tbe
lights or I'll blow your brains out,"
was repeated onoe or twice, to whioh
th conductor replied that some one
outside bad pulled the trolley off. At
Inst tbe robber at tbe front end called
out two or three times for the oar to go
ahead so that be could have the benefit
of the moonlight Following hi or
der, the oar moved on until it turned
so that the light shone In fairly well,
when be said that was enough, wben it
stopped again. How the car was
moved is not dear, as the motorman
say he was taken inside and kept
there, and neither of the two robbers
in sight wont to the front platform.
The robber from tbe front continued
his work when (lie oar came to a halt
. He went down the aisle commanding
the passenger to stand, and taking
from them the money offered, and in
some oases feeling of their pockets to
see if they had given all. Ho passed
alleged witticisms with several, and
kept up a talk the whole time be wa
la tbe car.
After the robber from the front had
gone through the car, the one standing
guard at the rear asked impatiently if
he was through. Being told that all
was finished, he sgain asked how much
had been gotton. No. 1 said,' Oil, 115
or $16," and the two then backed out
of the rear door. They kept ,their pis
tols pointed at the car after reaohing
the ground until they had backed about
10 feet, when they squatted in the
brush until the car had gone on. ,
Kxploslun In a Ulna.
' Bakor City, Or., Oat. 13. Thi af
ternoon, at 4 o'clock, an explosion of
giant powdor occurred in the 000-foot
level of the Virtue mine, killing J. P.
Mnddox and injuring several other
miners. The cause of the explosion
was the dropping of a lighted candle in
the powdor magazine, !
To Settle It Finally. -
Constantinople, Oot 13. Thesultau
has appointed the minister of foreign
affairs, Tewtik Pasha, as the plenipo
tentiary of Turkey to negotiate the
peace treaty with Greece.
Jumped tha Track.
Seattle,' Oct. 13. This afternoon an
electric car on Third avenue jumped
the track and plunged down a 10-foot
embankwont. The car contained about
35 passongers, but none of them were
seriously injured.
Struck by an Klectrlo Car. '
Detroit, Oct. 13. Thomas McGraw,
an aged capitalist, was sirucK uy an
electrio car today, sustaining injurie
trow which ha cannot recover.
CAUGHT ON THE TRAIL I
Winter Overtakes Prospec.
tors at the Lakes.
THE SUFFERING IS INTENSE
Two 'eat of Know Already .Miner
Camped In Flimsy Tentslee on
: , Lakes Mocks Further Travel "
Bkaguay, Alaska, Oot. . 13. Several
parties are just in over theDalton trail
from Klondike, and all bring the same
story scarcity of provisions and pos
sible hunger and starvation as the
portion of many there this winter.
The latest arrivals, James Clark and
C. A. Brown, who have been mining
on Birch creek, having left Dawson
City September 6, poled up the river to
150 mile above Felly river, and there
bought horses and came in over the
"supposed" Dalton trail, making the
trip in 28 day to Haines' mission, get
ting there on Sunday. They parsed
the Thorp party on the summit with
100 bead of cattle. , Most of the party
were discouraged and wanted to turn
back. Brown and Clark told them
they bad gone , through 100 miles of
snow where no food could be got for
their stock, and It would be utterly im
possible to get their cattle through
alive. Thorp had already lost 15 pack
horse on the trail, and part of hi or
iginal party bad turned back two day
before, but he was stubborn and would
jot consent to turn back himself.
About 85 persons came out over the
Dalton trail in the past week, and say
there are a good many following them,,
all bringing tbe same report, that there
is no trail, that it i 417 mile long,
that summits Innumerable,, have to be
crossed and streams forded, and that it
is impossible to find your way without
Indian guide. The largest party to
come out together consisted of 1 1 per
sons. An Indian paoker who has just ar
rived from Lake Lindemann reports
that two feet of snow fell at Lakes
Lindemann and Bennett, and the dis
tress and suffering there are intense.
Most of the people at the lake live in
tents, and many have made provision
for getting away this season. They
have not built cabins for themselves,
and the Indian says that with so much
snow ou the ground, which will in all
probability remain, there will be in
tense suffering before the people are
boused in shacks or cabins. Tiie win
ter snow have begun to fall on tbe
pas, and there are yet hundred of
men scattered along the trail between
Sheep camp and the lake. This ia well
known, traveling over the pass in one
of those snow storms, which frequently
lusts one or two week, ia impossible,
and wben thi fact is considered, it is
easy to imagine the awful condition
which confront the gold-seekers.
There are grave fears that many will
perish on the trail before they can
reach Lake Lindemann.
Late reports from the lake are that
ice is rapidly forming, and all indica
tions point to an unusually early and
severe winter."
Australian Mine on Fire.
Vancouver, B. O., Oct 12. The
atanmAr Minwara. whiuh. arrived from
Australia today, brings an aocount of
the Are in tbe Broken Mill mine on
September 18. Between 6 and 7
o'clock on that day, the shift bosses in
block 13 discovered a portion of the
underground working to be aflame, and
immediately gave the alarm. - The un
derground drive were found to be full
of smoke, and for a long time the blaze
could not be located. Volunteer were
called for from the surface, and, in
charge of mine officer they went be
low, spending their energies to get at
the seat of the Are. Bags of and, to
gether with oanva and timber, were
sent down several shafts to form block
ado and confine the flames. After a
hard struggle the men were driven
back by the flames, and when the Mion
wera left tbe Are was still raging.
Fifty men were overcome by smoke and
heat, three suocumbing to the injuries
received. ,
Captain Whiteside's Canvas Boat.
San Francisco, Oct 13. The whal
ino ac.hnoner Bonanza, which reached
the harbor on Friday night, brought
from the Arctio the canvas boat in
Which Captain aavl Mr. Whiteside
and six of the orew of the Nevarcb es
1 caped from the Ice jam that wrecked
' the vessel, to the shore, and subse
1 quently to the cutter Bear. It has a
double oanvas bottom, and while the
' .iain ami hie crew were drarclnir it
over the ioe, a bearskin was stretched
over Uie oanvas for protection. To the
forethought of Captain Whiteside in
having it built is due the safety of him
self and seven other.
'Cuban Kxlles May Return.
Havana, Oct 12. General Weyler
has issued a decree allowing the return
to the island of Senor Gonzales Lanuza,
a judge of the supreme court of Havana
and a professor in university; Dr.
Emilio Nunez, a well-known lawyer;
Alfredo Zayas, Adolfo Diaz, Ignaeio
Lamas, Manoel Castro Palomino, Juun
Nnsenat, Adolfo de la Cuevn, Miguel
Ferro, and 121 other who had been ex
pelled. . .
Mutinous Talk In a Regiment.
Chicago, Oct. 13. The punishment
meted out to Private Charles Ham
mond, at Fort Sheridan, yesterday, has
oaused considerable mutinous talk
among the entire regiment of the poBt.
Under orders from Captain Lovering C.
Day, Hammond was dragged feet first
by four soldier from the guardhouse
down a flight of stairs, to the head
quarters, 600 yards, up the stairs, then
down again and to the adjutant' quart
ers, whore he was to be given a hearing
for refusing to work.
WEYLER DEPOSED.
Blaneo Wilt Succeed Him as Captain.
' General.
Madrid, Oct. 11. The cabinet has
decided upon the immediate recall of
General Weyler from Cuba. A de
cree will be issued appointing Cap
tain General Blanco y Arenas, Mar
quis of Pena-Plana, governor of the is
land. The queen regent will sign the
decree tomorrow.
According to El Beraldo, 20,000 re
inforcements will accompany General
Blanco to Cuba.
General Blanco will be accompanied
by General Arderin as vice-governor of
Cuba; General Gonzales Painale as
chief of staff, and Genera! Spando,
Bernal and CannaU n. '
Staving Off too Inevitable.
New York, Oct. 11 A dispatch to
the Herald from Madird say:
General Weyler will fight tooth and
nail against being removed from Cuba.
He is trying to terrorize the liberal
government into retaining him in cora
m ind in Cuba until next June, and if
recalled now he will utilize his in
fluence over the army to create distur
bs noes in the peninsula or sell himself
to the Carlists.
Now that the late conservative ad
ministration is no more than a shat
tered remnant, the organ of the con
servative press are nothing backward
in vitupearting one another, and the
defunct ministry is so malignant in
tone as to clearly, betray that there was
no intention whatever of surrendering
the reins of government had not the
queen regent herself deliberately in
duoed and insisted on the crisis.
In consequence of this tbe fallen
magnates of that administration,
which has been one of continuous
brawl and national scandal for so many
weary months, are being so bitterly as
sailed in the columns of their own
newspapers that their tempera are said
to have suffered in the glorious melee,
and more than one ha to part from
public life and even from Madrid, with
cowls u)on his brow and anathemas
upon bis lips, which has caused no
little merriment to tbe unconcerned on
lookers. '
. Tbe conservative paper El Naoional
has made a dead set against General
Azcarraga, assailing him more fiercely
than ever, and Senor Robledo, the an
tagonist of Cuban reform, "the man
who has lost ma Cuba," as be is now
branded in Spain, in wrath at similar
tirades against himself, has stopped his
ears and fled southward to his native
antiquary, where the crowds turned
out to receive him, and where the
adulation of the villagers will doubt
less compensate him for tbe harshness,
sneers and ridicule of the Madrid
public.
De Lome to Be Recalled.
Madrid, Oct. 11. Among the diplo
matic change reported here as being
imminent is that tbe Duke of Almor
dova, or Senor Mnraga, will replace
Senor Dupny de Lome as Spanish min
ister to tbe United States.
Treasure Island Again.
Victoria, Oot. 11. Tbe warship Im
periuce, which recently sailed for Gua
temala, carried as a guest' of Rear-Ad-mirul
Falliser, Ernest Harris, a real
estate man of this city. It is asserted
that be went south to secure part of the
treasure which Charles Hartford say
be has located on Cocoa island.
Hartford came here from Cooos is
land a couple of months ago on the
schooner Aurora, on which party of
scalers had gone to the island to search
for treasure. The sealers could not
find it, hut Hartford claimed to bave
located $30,000,000 in gold, silver and
jewels. Hartford ia said to have in
terested Harris and the officers of tbe
Imperiuae in bis story, and it is even
thought that he himself sailed as a
bluejacket on Hie vessel. .
Rich Find of Prospectors.
Long Creek, Or., Oct 11. A rioh
pocket was discovered a few days ago
in the mining belt east of Canyon City,
in this county, from which its discov
erers realized $3,000 in cash. This is
the same pocket that was searched for
by a miner of the name of James Wal
lace last summer, and from the evi
dences of Wallace's , prospecting, be
was within two feet of the rich pocket
at the time lie abandoned it The
finding of this rich pocket has given
new life to the mining belt of Grant
county, and with a few more similar
strikes, this section is likely to exper
ience a "Klondike rush." . .
A Fllibuiter Released From Jail.
Philadelphia, Oct. 11. Opatain J.
it a Wihnro maa rnlnaafld from nrison
tonight, after serving a 16 months' sen
tence for carrying, on tne -uanisn
Hnraa. a filibustering expedi
tion to Cuba. There was a fine of $300
and costs, $500 in all, attached to the
term of imprisonment, out captain
uriknro nnn Id not. raise the monev.
The term expired last Saturday, but
t wnulfi havA added 80 davs
to his confinement, but a popular sub
scription, lieauea oy a local newspaper,
raised the money, and tbe captain was
. . . ... .1 1 -13
restored to nis wue ana ouuuren.
Colorado Forest Fires.
Estes Park, Colo,, Oct 11. Forest
fire are raging in the timber southwest
of this city. Immense volumes of
smoke darken the sky. Unless Were ia
a storm the destruction will be enor
mous. Drowned In the Clearwater.
Lewiston, Idaho, Oct 11. Ira Cow
an, of Plaza, Spokane county, was
drowned in the Clearwater river today.
While oroasing with a band of horses,
his horse reared up and fell backwards
with him. The body has not been re
covered. .
Vhitims of the Quebec Fires.
nuai Oct 11. Word comes from
Cosselean tonight that four more bodies
have been found there, victim of the
forest tire.
FORESTS ALL AFLAME
Twenty Persons Burned
to
Death in Manitoba.
THE LOSS OF PE0PEETY HEAVY
Flames Sweeping Into North Dakota-
Swamp and Palrle Fires
In Other States.
Winnipeg. Oct. 11. The forest fire
Uliat have been raging in Manitoba
olose to the boundary line for the past
ten days bave broken out more furious
ly than ever. Ten or 18 person are re
ported to have been burned to death,
and tbe Ore is rapidly spreading anu
crossing the boundary into North
Dakota. Settler have been fighting
the flames for over a week trying to
keep them from getting into the more
thickly populated districts.
The flames are driving hundreds -of
wolves and coyotes into the open, and
flocks of geese and ducks have been
seen flying over the burning forests.
Near Whitemouth, H. L. Laundry, a
trapper, was burned to death.
; A German woman living in a small
house near where the fire was the most
furious yesterday is reported to have
burned to death and her children are
missing.
A dispatch from Whitemouth states
the fire is spreading rapidly. Several
settler bad close calls for their lives.
A heavy wind drove ahead of it a mas
of smoke which blinded them, and a
long line of flames which consumed
everything in their path
East of Whitemouth the situation is
very critical. The section fofeman of
Darwin and hi wife and men were
picked up by a freight train and
brought to Whitemouth. Road master
Horner, on a handoar attempted to run
from Darwin with his men, but nearly
succumbed through suffocation, and was
compelled to take refuge in a passing
freight train.
AH the telegraph pole for several
miles east of the town are down and
trains are tied up.
A Broken Head, Manitoba, dispatch
says the country ia on fire there. On
both sides of Broken Head river much
damage is being done. The smoke is
so thick that it is impossible to see 20
yards, though there is no fire nearer
than a mile.
Mr. and Mrs. Young, wbo live eight
miles away, lost everything, and only
saved their lives by standing in the
river for 13 hours, when they were able
to come onto the burnt ground after
the fire had passed. Nearly every one
in the path of the flames lost every
thing. ... At Beauzjour, Manitoba, seven per
son have been burned to death. Mrs.
O. W. Thomas, her young son and a
daughter, had a race with the flames
for several miles. They had a team of
horses, which they kept on , the run.
Sparks from the burning timber W'jre
blown into the dry ground of a prairie
where they were compelled to oross,and
soon they were surrounded by flames.
The frantic horses started to run straight
ahead into the burning timbers. Be
fore they had gone far the oarriage
overturned and they were thrown down
an embankment into a small creek.
This probably saved their lives. They
were badly burned. '
A report from Morris, Manitoba,
says a fire has , been raging there, ftnd
that one family of five persons is known
to have perished.
The Kankakee Marsh Fires.
Valpariso, Ind., Oct. 11. The Kan
kakee marsh fires are spreading in this
county, although the farmers have
given up all other work and are fight
ing it at all hours of the day. Several
bouses were destroyed last night. Tbe
big marsh near Assinong caught tire
last night, and the flames swept over
acres of land, destroying everything in
their path. Residents of Hebron,
Kouts and Kintnan are badly fright
ened, as it is feared the fire may sweep
across the heavy ditches which have
been dug. ,-..
Michigan Marsh Fires.
Niles, Michf, Oct. 11. East and
north of this city the marsh fires con
tinue. Farmers bave fought the flames
night and day for a week, and ara
utterly exhausted. They have moved
their household goods to places of safety
and bave sacrificed their homes. Game
which inhabited the marshes has been
driven to the city. Near Berrien
Springs, on what is known as the Big
Meadow, the fire has swept over like a
prairie fire, and hundreds of acres of
potatoes have been roasted in the hills.
The fire is the worst that has occurred
in thi vioinity since 1871.
Fires In Wisconsin.
Kenosha, Wis., Oct. 11. Prairie
flres in Sommers and Bristol counties
caused by sparks from passing engines
destroyed considerable property belong
ing to the farmers. All kinds of means
have been adopted to stay the advanoe
of the flames. In some cases where
tbe fire was apparently-extinguished it
continued to burn the surface.
Whole Fields of Corn Burned.
Decatur, 111., Oot 11. Forest fires
are raging over the entire Northwestern
part of this county. Fields of shocked
corn have been swept by the flames.
St Louis, Oct 11. John Jackson,
employed in the Tudor iron works in
East St. Louis, was terribly burned
last night while at work. He was guid
ing a red-hot bar of iron as it came out
of the rollers. Suddenly the bar
twisted, and before Jackson could es
cape, had pushed him against a heavy
stand, where, by the force of the roll
ers it slowly encircled him. The smoke
and the odor of his burning body filled
the room. Before he was rescued he
was terribly burned.
ON THE SAILOR BOY.
A Crowd Who Were Glad to Get Away
From St. Michaels.
Port Townsend, Wash. , Oct 11.
The schooner Sailor Boy, Captain Pet
erson, arrived at 1 o'clock this after
noon, direct form St Michael, having
left there September 19. The Sailor
Boy brought nine passenger from St.
Michaels, who came to spend the win
ter rather than endure the hardhsips
incident to semi-camp life, at St
Michaels until the river opens in the
spring. The returning passengers had
gone north on the steamers Eliza An
derson and Merwin. Their names are:
J. Q. Barnum, of Murray, Idaho; Dr.
Proot, of Michigan; Dr. Frost, of New
York; Kaufman, of Chicago; Ander
son, of Chicago;; Kappapai, of Sioux
City, Ia.; Robinson, of San Francisco,
and W. H. Churchill, of New York
city. All the returning passengers
agree that St. Michael will never be
popular as a plaoe of residence.
Captain Peterson sayi the Yukon
river was still open to navigation wben
he left, but water was so low that boats
of over 15 inchei draught could not
cross many bar which showed at irreg
ular interval in tbe river' course, and
as a result all efforts to go up the river
this fail will be fruitless. Captain
Peterson doe not think either Captain
Frank Worth' or Mayor Wood' boat
will be able to go to Dawson City be
fore next June, notwitstanding the fact
that both were all ready to make the
attempt when the Sailor Boy left.
The Sailor Boy did not sight or hear
anything of the schooner Bryant, which
broke loose from the tug Holyoke off
Kadiak island in a severe storm, Sep
tember 20.
There had been no news direct from
Dawson City received at St. Michael
for four weeks previous to leaving, and
no news can possibly be brought by
river before next summer, as ice was
already forming in the salt water, at
the mouth of the river, and the fresh
water must certainly have been frozen
to a considerable thickness at that time.
"In a month form now," said he, "I
do not believe there will be 100 persons
at St. Michaels, as nearly everybody is
preparing to come bock. A great many
will come down on the Portland. But
a majority left ere this on tbe schooner
Novelty, which was discharging cargo
at St. Michaels when we left The
captain of the Novelty will bring down
all those having sufficient money to pay
their board on the trip, no fate being
charged. r This isdonesimply as an act
of charity and in the interests of hu
manity. Many persons have not money
lufficient to even pay for their board on
tbe schooner, and unless they can sell
their outfit for cash, will be forced to
remain at St. Michaels during the
winter. .
' Mayor Wood, of Seattle, manager of
the Humboldt expedition, and D. K.
Howard, wbo had charge of the Eliza
Anderson party, are praotically prison
ers in the hands of their irate passen
gers. Only the presence of the United
States troops under Lieutenant-Colonel
Randall is expected to avert serious
trouble. -
Tbe feeling against both Wood and
Howard is said to be bitter in the ex
treme, and tbe miners bave appointed
committees to guard both, and see to it
that they do not get out of their reach.
Thomas K. Clark, of Seattle, who was
a passenger on tbe Sailor Boy, said:
.."There is no chance for the Wood
party to get any considerable distance
up the river, although they had every
thing ready to make the start Septem
ber 19, tbe day we left The men rre
disgusted and disheartened. They are
quite likely to do something desperate
before spring. Without exception, they
seem to blame Wood for all their mis
fortunes, and it would not be surprising
if he were made the victim of their
wrath. 1 would ' not be surprised to
hear of the death of Howard at the
hands of the miners. The feeling
against him is growing more bitter
every day. The passenger of the Eliza
Anderson paid their fares and freight to
Dawson, but the Anderson was aban
doned at Dutch harbor, and the passen
gers were landed at St. Michaels by tbe
schooner Baranoff, with no prospect of
getting futher this winter. Then How
ard announoed that the expedition was
a failure, and that he would not feed
them till they reached Dawson, a his
contraot demanded. His declaration
caused great dissatisfaction, and he will
be fortunate if he gets out of there
alive.'" .
Died of tho Glanders.
. Chehalis, Wash., Oct 11. W. W.
Jordan, the second victim of the gland
ers, died this morning at his residence,
after a brave fight of nearly a month
against the disease. Everything was
done by the physician in charge, and
the A. O. U. W. lodge, of which he
was a member, and it was thought at
times that, on account of his vigorous
constitution, he might be able to pull
through, but he was compelled to suc
cumb. .,
Our Foreign Trade.
Washington, Oct. 11. The bureau
of statistic has issued a table showing
imports and exports for August; the
first fulll month under the new tariff
law. - -.
,. These figures show for that month
the largest exports of domestic merchan
dise of any August in the history of the
government. The exports were $79,
490,264,against $66,689,981 for August,
1896.
Grape Thieves Shot.
Fresno, Cal., Oot 11. Willie Patti
son, aged 17, employed to protect the
Reese vineyards from grape thieves,
and armed with a botgun, today shot
and fatally injured Dennett Doland
and Bobbv Murray, who were stealing
grapes. . Murray ia Pattison's cousin1)
Pattison is ia jail. .
Professor E. C. Pickering, of tue
Harvard Observatory, announoes tbe
discovery of 143 new double star in
th southern ikies.
I NORTHWEST BREVITIES
Evidence of Steady Growth
and Enterprise.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
From All the Cities and Towns of
the Thriving Slater State
. Oregon.. .
A new shingle mill has been itarted
at Coborg.
A wingless lark is tbe latest Lane
county freak. -
A sneak thief stole 100 jar of frnit
from a house in Eugene.' '
A golden eagle measuring 7 feet 4
inches was killed near Astoria. .
Three thousand lambs were recently
sold in Grant county at $1.60 per bead.
A band of 8.000 2-year-old wethers
was sold in Wallowa county last week.
The cannery in Marshfield is receiv
ing on an average of 600 salmon a day.
A drive of 3.000,000 feet of logs i
being made down the McKenzie river
to Coburg.
It is reported that a rioh placer striks
has been made on Bear creek, 20 miles
from Wallowa.
The lumber mill at Rainier, which
has been idle for a long time, has re- -sumed
operations.
According to the returns of the a-
sessor the total of tbe taxable property
cf Jackson county is $4,623,821. '
There have been 13 house built in
Toledo during the past summer, and
several more will be built this fall. 4
A buck, two does and three fawn,
killed with two shots from a shotgun,
is the record made by a Gate Creek
hunter.
A shipment of 600 fino head of cattle,
making a trainload of 23 oars, wa
recently made from Baker city to
Omaha.
It i3 estimated that a pasture neat
Monroe contains 4,000 bushels ol
acorns. The nuts will be utilized to
fatten hog. .
County warrant in Jacksonville ar
selling at 3 per cent premium. Thi i
said to be the highest paid for Jackson
county warrant in 20 years.
An Ashland paper say that tbe free-picture-and-yon-buy-tbe-frame
racket
was worked in Ashland last week, the
workers cleaning up about $400.
Since the late rains on Camas prairie,
grass is coming up nicely. Many ol
the farmers are plowing and others are
putting in their fall grain. ,',
' About 82,00 ton of rock ha been
dumped on the Coquille jetty this sea
son, and a few thousand more will be
necessary to complete the work for th
year. '; :-. "v
The Western Union Telegraph com
pany is putting in another arm and
wire on its line between Portland and
fTacoma. It is said tbe company was
unable to get men in Porltand to do
the work and was obliged to bring a
crew of men from Minneapolis.
; Sheriff Kilburn and posse, of Baker
county, bad a hot fight with two cattle
thieves on Lower Powder river. Fort?
shots were exchanged. Fred Hull wa
shot through the arm, but escaped to
Baker City. Earl Wheeler wa not
captured.; Hull called a doctor to hi
lodging-bouse and was caught there.
Tbe thieves had 80 cattle, which they
were driving to Idaho across Snake
river, expecting to exchange them and
bring back strange cattle to the butcher.
The gang is suspected of having oper
ated for a long time.
: Washington.". .
A six-inch refracting telescope baa
been received in Tacoma by the Puget
sound university.
Captain L. H. Coon ha assumed the
duties of collector of the port at Ever
ett, succeeding W. R. Stockbridge.
Union City is the name of the new
town just started in the vicinity of the 1
new gold finds in Whatcom county.
Kitsap oounty has sued .Snohomish
county for $600, alleged to have been
paid improperly by Kitsap on the su
preme judge's salary.
. James A. Roberts, a logger and
woodsman, about 60 year of age,
dropped dead in a saloon in Whatcom,
probably of heart disease.
The dead body of a man found near
the Indian reservation school, near Ta- '
coma, with a bullet through his brain,
was identified a that of Charles Ley.
H. 8. Ballou, a well-known real es
tate dealer, dropped dead in Port An
geles on tbe eve of bis departure for
California, the cause being hemorrhage
of the longs.
- There is an estimated shortage in the
oat crop around La Conner of 2,000
sacks or 60,000 bushels. Every farmer
on the flat reports his shortage at from
800 to 1,3000 sacks.
, Negotiation are well under way ta
ecure the location of 100 familie of
Hollander on the Book ranch, in West
Aberdeen, where the land is said to b
well lootaed for uch a colony.
Governor Roger has appointed R.
C. McCroskey regent of the Washington
agricultural college. McCrosaey will
probably All the vacancy caused by th
resignation of Regent Windus.
' Since Governor Rogers began signing
commissions there bave been 148 notar
ial appointments in Washington,
Many of these are reappointment. For
each notarial appointment. $10 goes
into the state library fund. ; .
A good many Indian stopped ixt
Ellensburg on their way borne from th
Yakima hopflelds. Most of them , ar
Okanogans; of Cb iaf : Moses' t baud.
While there they spent quite a lot of
money, and the merchants profited by
a brisk oasli ti ado. '