rm OREGON VOL. XIV. ST. HELENS, OHEGON, FRIDAY, OCTOJIEU 22, 1897. NO. 44. MIST. NEWS OF THE WEEKI From all Parts of the New and Old World. BRIEF AND INTERESTING ITEMS Lomprehenalve Itevlew of tha Import ant Happenings of tho Cur ; rant Week. The state department received word that Aliforouok Bey has been appointed Turkish mlnlnter to ttio United Statee, " Hon, Charles VV. Jones, former United State lermtor from Florida, illod at Dot roll, attar a alcknes of ev ral work. Tha mitional council of Swltaerland liaa adopted bill making Imuranca auainit aioknowl compulsory in case of all dupendent persons. It la reported that an Engliah ayndl data hua purchased, for $9,000,000, tha l.lK plant of the J. I. CaaS Machine Company, at Milwaukee. .. Jackson am! Willinmi, the O. It. A N. trainrobliers, were sentenced to the Oregon penitentiary for a term of 80 yean and erven montha each. Heavy shipment of wheat to Europe oontluiie. Over 60 grain-laden vessel have left Ban Francisco during the last two montha, and six more are ready to nil. : The naval nrmor board will leave Washington aoon for the South to look at certain places, with a view of ascer taining their aduptihllity for aitee for the proposed armor plant. , The cruiser Baltimore ha beta put Into commission with LImiteiiant-Com-uiandor Gottfried Biocklinger, her Brit lieutenant, in command. The Balti more wilt meet the Philadelphia In Kan Francisco on the lutter'a arrival. The monthly treasury statement of the principal article of domestio ex port ahow that during September laat the export of breadstuff from the Unite.! States amounted to $31,629,940, an Increase, aa compared with Septem ber, 1806, of over 100 per cent, and an inoieaae of about 800 per cent over Sep tember, 1 805. . General Weyler announces that he rill embark from Cuba on October 30. Benjamin Nelson waa found dead on the floor of hla cabin near Hendricks, Or. . ., The general grand chapter of Royal Arch Masons la In session at Baltimore. Delegate are present from all parte of tho wotld. The whalera that wintered In the Arctic last year are having liard luck this aeason. Only one of them lucced ed In killing a whale this sununor, and the floot that will return thia fall will bring only a small revenue to their ' owner. Sunday waa the sixth anniversary of the death of Charles Stewart Parnell. Five thousand nationalist paraded the streets of Dublin to the bleak Gluanev in cemetery, where they heaped high the grave of their fmiiout and talented leader with flowers brought from all the oonntioa of Ireland. r Senorita Evangelina Claneroa, the Cuban girl who eecu)ied from Casa de Rooogias, In Havana, ia aaid to have arrived in New York city. American ' friend accompanied her by train from New Orleans. On reaching Jersey City, Mis Cisneroa wa taken in a closed car riage to the headquarters of the Cuban sympathizer. Cuban of New York celebrated the 39th anniversary of the beginning of ' (he 10 year' .war' by a man meeting, I presided over by Tomua Estrada Palma, j president of the junta, All the shak ers emphasized, amid great applause from tho audience, the firm resolution of the Cuban people to carry on the itruggle nntll absolute independence of Cuba ia accomplished. . axjL t v.iw Mohn. i " i,ir ), been . battle between ! ny i settlor and ahevpherdera, and that , three of the farmers were killed. The trouble Is the outgrowth of the strained ( relatione that have existed in that eo- ( tion between the settlors and sheepmon for some tune, It has boen no uncom- mon tiling lor sioun lo uo umnuuu mu j . .. . . . . l. - . : . 1 I haystack to be burned, and even for settler and sheepmen to exchange shots, but no ono has heretofore been killed. The United States board of geogra- phlcal names which meets at Washing. ton. D. C, at state intervals, ha Just s..,A i n tnrv d ia nam mar. rendered decisions determining the spelling of 149 geographical name. These include a number in Alaska, sig nificant at tliiB time in view of the Klondike excitement. Many varia tion of nomenclature for the same place are encountered, and the board' notion settles the uniform usage. A to Klondike, the decision 1 to spell It aa here Kiven, and not Clondyke. The ! j -f in 10., ... ... ....- Linn canal, which now appears in the newspapers auiiom, usuj- u.ioi .... form of Dyea, the starting point for the overland route, I an Indian word,' i.ii. v.... I.. 'mun. k,m. wiiiiiii tinn wifTj.iv., Ulan; i A.imirui Mtt,i. In ino. wrote it I : ;.w Ty-Y Kranse, Deiah Sc . . m , mL. Lj - i .u- tn 1883, Taiya, The board adopts the form Taiia. Tn Itto annual rnnort. Mvron H. Mo n..l .1 Arlonm Htnnnsses .L. '...,i r .infoh, anH the rnni omenta as to oonnlation. educa- tion and wealth are fully met. I fact that President MoKlnley ha re- More than 1.000 revolutionist and ceived new that a new ayiidioate of refugee have fled from Guatemala to New York men, a well a the Hunt Mexico, dreading the vengeance of Bar- Ington-Gnuld combination, etaudsrea.!y rios. The refugees know their property to bid at the alo of the Union Pacific, will be confiscated, a the government providing , the terms of payment are has Issued a decree to that effeot. Some satisfactorily changed, within a few people took the precaution to deposit day he may order a postponement, their valuable with the Briti.h consul The sale waa advertised to take place on t tytMaUeuMgo. Novembers. . THE RUSH TO THE NORTH. Nearly ,000 Men Mlarted for the Kloa dike in Two Months. TacomA, Oct. 19. The railroad com panies have for the past month had a mini at work compiling statistics of th amount of buslnesa done between the Hound and Alaska during the rush in cident to the gold excitement, Ao cording to these figures, which have been very carefully gutiiored and veri fled, 1,348 persons took passuge foi Ht. Mlcliaela, and 7,638 went to Wran gel, Juneau, Hkaguay and Dyea, be twaon July 17 and September 11. During thia same period, 13,000 tons of freight wore shipped to St. Michaels, and about 34,000 tons to the four above named lower ports. Thia inoludes business done at British Columbian porta, In addition to Uie large passenger and freight list, 8,860 moles and liorse were shipped north, 1,110 head of beef and other cattle, as well as over 8,000 doge. The report closes with a note, which says: "in the above figures nothing la included fro n outside the Hound district. Probably, if Portland and Han Francisco freight and passen gers were included, it woold nearly double the already almost incredible figures of 86,000 tons of frieght aud 8,876 passenger moved to the north' inside of two months." I Of the passengers tlmt have returned, ' the report says: j , "The number cannot ao far be ascer tained, aa many have gone to Portland and San Francisco direct, but a fair es timate of tha number that will reach their final destination this winter is as follows: Of the 1,200 who embarked for St. Michaels, not more than 400 could possibly reaoh the diggings by way of the river, with the limited means of transportation then on the river. About 800 -will be scattered along the river ' banks to a point 1,000 miles or ao from the mouth. The re mainder will either winter at Ht. Mi chaels or return on the boats now at that port. Of the 8,000 that took pas sage for tower ports, not to exceed 8, 600 have succeeded In getting away from the lakes, aud about 85 por cent of thia number will fail to reach the Klondike diggings by reason of mishaps on the rivers and frost overtaking them. "Bo far, over 3,000 persona have re turned to the Bound, and a conservative estimate I think would be that fully aa many more will reach the Sound by the middle of November: of which . number, unfortunately 78 per cent will be flat broke. "As several thonaand ton of provi sion got up the river, and a there was a reasonably fair supply for the want of the minei before the present excitement, I see no reason why w should look for any famine, aa, accord ing to the flgurea of my report, not to exoeed 8,600 new miner will reach the digging this year, and 80 per cent of theae will have provision enough to last them for aix or nine month at least. So, what with the provision from Portland and San Francisco, I think the atoriea told about miner starving are not founded on fact." CHAS A. DANA DEAD. Tho Veteran Editor Faeeed Away nl Ml Long Iilaad Home. New York, Oct. 19. Charlea A. Dana, editor of the New York Bun. dieJ 18:80 ww"0011! ' !en cove. Long Island Mr, Dana's death had been expeotext j for several hour, ana In family and physicians all sat at hi bedside when the end came. Hi condition had been auoh for several hour that member of hi family had kept themselves in con stant readiness to go to hi bedside at nnv moment. On Sattmiav niominir he had a relapse, and It waa apparent that recovery waa impossible. Several times, however, he rallied, but toward night hiumn to sink. During the nluht there - . - . ' . ! w,)re feeble rallies, but they did not last 0g. This morning it waa seen that tho end was but a few hour off, and hit attendants remained almost con-' tantly at hi bedside. The end came quickly. she wanted him to understand that The extreme heat of Friday and Sat the applause was a much for him aa nrday had much to do with hastening , for hor. For some moments the two hi death. On Friday, Mr. Dana'atood forth while the cheering con showed signs of distress, and everything tlnued. Then Mis Ciflneroa wa led possible was done to relieve him. He baok to the rear platform, where she had been weakened by hi long illness, and during the aummor wa several llIUBIi Hlt,USl VV. uo mis uiMu w fatal collapse, but each time rallied. He did not improve much with the Mnmini, iwil weather, anil the sinkinff i)OOBme mQre frennent. On Fri-1 'd Mr Danawas b,9 ,0 tke only . . .... tll),'gl)ie.t nourishment, and this oon- dltion continued Paul Dana and hi sinters, Mrs; Dra per, Mr. Underbill and Mrs. Brannan were at hi home on Saturday morning, and were warned to remain there. They were at the bedside when death came. The cause of Mr. Dana' death waa oirrhoai of the liver. On June 9 he was at hi office, apparently strong aud j ii"i"'j' y - : , ; i and cvar aiterwarna,visitea new york , wa. 78 yeari oU) Preparations for the burial finve not . hnnn nmr,i.ui Canadian Independence. . . ,.1 Montreal, Oct. 19. An organization - iL rWrlUn Imleriflndenon 1 ti.o lima haA nm for Oannda to throw the time had come for Canada to throw off ita connection with England. - May fostpono tho Solo. ' New York. Oct. 19. The Herald publishe the following: Owing to the LOSS OF THE TRITON At Least 150 Persons Perished in the Disaster. ONLY FORTY-SIX WKIIE SAVED atorlei Told by tha SurvlTori-The Cap. tain Committed Suicide aa tho Ship Wont Down. Havana Oct. 19 The gunboat Maria Christina, which left this port yester day for the scene of the wreck of the Triton, bound from Havana to Bahia Honda, Pinar del Mo, which sank yes terday between Dominica and Muriel, has returned, accompanied by the tug boat Suri, which went with her. The two vessel arrived here thia evening, the gunboat having on board 19 and the tugboat 38 members of the Inst ship's company, of whom 13 are civilians and the rest aoldiera. The whereabouts of the rest of the company is unknown. The Triton struck during a heavy rain. Her cargo shifted and IB minutee later she sank in 130 fathoms of water. A scene of terrible confusion and panic ensued as soon as the passengers realized the meaning of the crash. In a wild struggle they rushed for the boats. The first boat that waa lowered Capsized immediately and all ita occu pant were drowned in the whirling waters. The next was struck by an enormous wavo and turned over, drown ing 30. The frail oraft righted again, aud eight who had beeu thrown out re gained it Some were good swimmers and .kept themselves afloat for hour. Other floated about for hour on plunks. ;. ,". Four soldiers on planks, whom the strong eurrent carried east of Havana opposite Morro castle, wore saved thia morning by a pilot boat. They de clared that last evening there wore many others near them on planks, but when the morning came they disap peared and probably became food for sharks. . . . Those who were rescued toll heart rending etoriee of the acenea during the terrible quarter of an hour before the Triton sank. An army captain with his daughter went down locked in a Inst embrace. A mother with twin 10 months Old drifted helplessly away on tun uicd, ul a wave All . ma vwicr ,a(iei amJ pl,j,(,rBn were dr0Wlie(). the .. . , .I, . i . - ... i. Just as the Triton wa sinking, Cap tain Rickardo, her commander, commit ted auioide by shooting himself. , It 1 impossible to give the exact number of those who were lost, but it Is estimated that they were no fewer than 160. No passenger lint has been found. .The vessel, which carried a general cargo, was not insured. The 43 rescued persona suffered severely, from exposure. All of them were more or less- bruised and many of them badly wounded, t . " i THE CISNEROS RECEPTION. Now Yorkers Yelled Thomtiolvoo Hoarse Over tho Cuban Girl. 'New York, Oct. 19. The popular reception in Madison square tonight waa an extradorinary demonstration. Fully .83,000 person, nearly one-third of them well-dressed women, crowded the upper half of Madison Square Park a.t.l Al -.1 Drnnilwa. fs, 1 1 a .vinm-atn. latoary speeches to be finished, and the Cuban heroine to appear on the stand erected south of the Worth monument. Mis Cossio y Cisneros appearance waa the signal for a tremendous dem onstration by the great crowd which stretched out for 100 yards before her. n,i II. , . i .1 . ' e men yeueu mm waveu meir , the women waved their handkerohiefa, nd the band pluyed a Cuban battle song- J With a boqnet in her right hand and a pleased but diffident expression on her face, Miss Cisneroa bowed to her auJionce, for hers it whs, and then turned to Mr. Decker, Indicating that bowed and smiled to the crowd on that aide of the platform. Then Bhe de scended the steps to the carriage, which was driven around the equare and baok to Delmonioo's. rn..:.,..n .nMd(..nM nf r ; aa ,v.. t, itf,m thr .-ore . !'nmb,r of short sneeche. intersoersed - with selection by the band. Senator Thurston and Henry George were among the speaker. A ltevonao Vml Aground. Charleston. 8. 0 Oct. 19. The United 8tatea revenue practice vessel Salmon P. Chase came into Charleston hartmr onriT this mornins. alter an exciting inoident Just off Fort Sumter. ane oara, inuig w m u went aground on Cummings point shoal iitation looke(, .erioiiVfor a fev The situation looked serious for a lew momenta, but the prompt arrival of as sistance from the oity averted trouble. The Chase wa pulled off by the tug Cecilia, and towed to anohorage in the stream by the revenue cutter Colfax. daniter Ot yeuow raver u pa in danger of Florida. . For Fnnilno Suflerert In Inland. Spokane, Oct. 19. C. L. Whitney, of Walla Walla, is due here to urge the Northern Paoillo officials to provide free transportation for one or more carload of potatoes and other vegetables, which the people of the Walla Walla country are willing to contribute to the famine sufferers in Ireland. The matter haa been referred to Western Land Agent Cooper, at Tuooma.. It is thought that three carloads of food product can be gathered in the Walla Walla valley alone. . EUROPEAN CROP SHORTAGE. Agrlcaltural Dopartmont lanimarUos tho Hltoatlon. . Washington, Oct. 18. The monthly report of the agricultural department on the European crop condition, sum marizing the crop report of European correspondents to Statistician Hyde has been made public The following is an abstract: ' Recent Information, while it may in some oases modify the crop estimates for particular countries, does not essen tially change the situation as regards the deficiency in the principal crop of Europe. The outlook for wheat in the Australuaian countries continues good, but the prospects in Argentina are somewhat less bright, owing to the drought and frost. Accounts from In dia are quite favorable, both as' to tiie Kharif crop harvested or to be harvest ed this fall, and as to the seeding of the Kabi crop to be harvested next spring, which latter include the wheat crop. The annual estimate of the world' wheat crop issued by the Hungarian ministry of agriculture gives the follow ing revised results for 1897, compared with 1896: . Wheat production of Importing coun tries, 800,771,000 for 1897: 886,839,000 for 1896. Wheat production of exporting conn tries, 1897, 1,841,806,000; 1896, 1,459,- '908,000. - ..-: ? ' :' Total wheat production of both im porting and exporting countries in 1897, 3,148,577,000; In 1896, 2,288,641,000 bushel. Net deficit, 1897, 303,896,000 bush els; 1896, 130,584,000. Extremely pessimistic report a to the extent of the crop failure in Russia have been circulated, but the liberal quantities of wheat coming forward for shipment have led dealer to receive such report with inoredulity. It is probable, however, that much of the Ruasian grain going to Western Euro pean markets ia out of the more liberal harvest of former year, and there ia evidence there going to show that the crop of 1897 is at any rate considerably below the average. Consul Eugene Germain, of Zurich, Bwitzerland, after an investigation of the European fruit prospect, expressed the opinion that there will be a good market for American apples and dried fruit thia aeason if grower would be careful to put up choice atock only. He aye: . "Nothing maller than eight case in French prune will pay to ship to Europe, and all other dried fruit must be uniform in size and attractively packed." EVANGELINA IN NEW YORK. Tho Cuban Horolno Arrived From Ho nu on tho Stoaraer Soneea- New York, Oct. 18. Evangelina Cis neros, who recently escaped from a Spanish prison in Cuba, was a passen ger on the Ward line steamer Seneca, which arrived today from Havana. Miss Cisneroa asked to be excused from aaying anything about her imprison ment and escape. On the passenger list she wa registered a Mia Juana Sola. She waa traveling under the cire of a gentleman who accompanied her from Havana. Several newspaper reporter and four women went alongide the steamer, and after the health officer' inspection waa over they acoompanied Miss Cisnero to thia oity. Mies Cisneros' escape and safe arrival on the Seneca wa one of the most dar ing feat ever attempted and success fully carried out. On Saturday, when the Seneca was to leave Havana, detec tives watched the gangway with extra caution. Their vigilance would prob ably have prevented the departure of Miss Cisneroa from Cuba had it not been for refreshments, including wine, served them by friend of Miss Cisneroa aboard the Seneca. . - A few - minutes , before the Seneca Was ready to sail, a slim young fellow came runnng across the wharf. He had no baggage and wa. fashionably dressed. The detectvea stopped hm. i "Mv name is Juan Sola," he said. and he showed his passport. : Every thing waa aatisfactory. So the enor waa allowed to go aboard. It is said if it had not been for the wine, the strange figure of Senor Sola might have aroused suspicion. ' Mis Cisneros' friends, when they saw everything was satisfactory, disem barked and watched the ship pull out, carrying the fugitive to safety under the stars and stripes. A Holona-Alatkn Company. Helena, Mont., Oct. 18. Today ar tiolos of incorporation of the Klondike-Yukon-Copper River Mining Company were filed here by Chicago, St. Louie and Minneapolis capitalists. The capi tal atock ia 13,000,000. As the name indicate, the oompany i, formed for the purpose of mining in Alaska. The shares are of par value of 110 each. The main office Is to be located at Helena. : '.- " :-- Thlrd Victim of tho Mob. Little Rock, Ark., Oct. 18. Aa the result of the racial trouble which began in Cleveland oounty on August 93, when a riot occurred at a negro picnio near Keudall and several white men were killed and out, Tom Parker waa lynched laat night near Kendall. : This make the third negro to meet a violent death aa the result of the picnic riot. It is not known who composed the mob. Havana, Oct. 18. It is reported In official circle that another filibustering expedition haa been landed in the River Arimai, province of Santa Clara, and auoceeded in joining the insurgent forces. ''"'' : '' Rlvor Minor Working. Pittsburg, Oct. 18. Thirty-five hun dred miners of the river district, who have been idle for two weeks, owing to a dispute over the differential, resumed work today, pending settlement by arbitration. HIS WISH GRATIFIED After Completing; Long Term, Justice Field Resigns. FOETY YEARS OF JUDICIAL LIFE Tho Afd Jurlat's Lottor to Bis Col Loagoeo Roilanntlon to Toko Kffoct Doooutber 1. Washington, Oct. 18. Associate Jus tice Stephen J. Field today formally retired from the supreme court of the United State, after 84 yeara of service in that tribunal. The correspondence between Justice Field and the president which was made public today, show that hi resignation was tendered in April last. President MoKinley, how ever, did not respond until October 9. ; While Justice Field's resignation doe not take effect until December I, he will not again sit on the supreme court. . . His colleagues of the supreme court today called upon him and expressed regret at his retirement and extended their congratulations upon his long service as associate Justice the longest on record. The following letter was given ont this afternoon: "Washington, Oct, 16. Dear Mr. Chief Justice and Brethren Near the close of the last term, feeling that the duties of toy long office bad become too arduous for my strength. I transmitted my resignation to the president to take effect on the first day of December next, and this he has accepted with kindly expressions of regard. My ju dicial experience covers many years of service. Having been elected a mem ber of the supreme court of California, I assumed that office October 18, 1857, holding it for five years, seven montha and five days, the latter part of the time being chief justice. On the 10th of March, 1863, I was commissioned by President Lincoln justice of the supreme court of the United States, taking the oath of office on the 10th day of the following May. . "When my resignation take effeot my period of service on this bench will have exceeded that of any of my prede cessors, while my entire judicial life will have embraced more than 40 years, I may be pardoned for saying that dur ing all this period, long in comparison with the brevity of human life, though in retrospect it has gone with the swift ness of a tale that is tol-l I have not shunned to declare in every oaser com ing before me for decision conclusions which my deliberate oonviotiona exer cise of such abilities and requirements as I possessed. . "It is a pleasant thing in my memory that my appointment came from Presi dent Lincoln, of whose appointees I am the last survivor. Up to that time, there had been no representative here from the Pacific coast. A new empire had risen in the West, whose laws were those of another country. The land titles were from Spanish and Mexican erants, both of which were often over laid by the claims of first settlers. To bring order out of this confusion, oon cress passed an act providing for an other seat on this bench, with the in tention that it should be filled by some one familiar with these conflicting titles and with the mining laws of the coast, and it so happened that, as I had framed the principal of these laws, and was, moreover, chief justice of Califor nia, it was the wish of senators and representatives of this state, as well ai those from Oregon, tn&t 1 sbouiu sue ceed to the new position. "Few appreciate the magnitude ol our labors. The buiden resting upon us for the last 15 or 20 years has been enormous. The volumes of our report, show that I alone have written 620 opinions. If to these are added 67 opin ons in the circuit court and 865 pre pared while I was on the supreme court of California, it will be seen I have voiced the decision in 1,043 cases. It may be said that all of our decision) have not met with the universal ap proval of the American people, yet it ie to the great glory of that people that always and everywhere has been yielded a willing obedience to them. That fact is eloquent of the stability of popular institutions, and demonstrates that the people of the United States are capable of self-government. "As I look baok over the more than a third of a century that I have sat on this benoh, I am more and more im pressed with the immeasurable import ance of this court. Now and then we hear it spoken of as an aristocratic fea ture of a republican government. But it is the most democratic of all. Sen ator represent their states, and repre sentatives their constituencies, but this court stands for the whole country, and, as such, it is truly of the people, by the people, and for the people. , "It has indeed no power to legislate. It cannot appropriate a dollar of money. It carries neither the purse nor the word. But it does possess the power of declaring the law, and in that is founded the safeguard which keep the whole mighty fabric of government from rushing to destruction. Thia negative power, the power of resist ance, is the only safety of a popular government, and it i an additional as surance when the power is in suob hands as yours. "With tbi I give place to my uo cesaor, but I can never cease to linger In memories of the past. Though we have often differed in our opinions, it haa always been an honest difference, which did not affect our mutual re gard and respect. These many years have indeed been yeara of labor and ol toil, but they have brought their own rewards, and we can all join in thanks giving to the author of our being that we have been permitted to spend so muoh of our lives in the service of our country. STEPHEN J. FIELD." THE DOME CAME DOWN. Sorlons Accident In Cinclnnntt Opera Honae-Three Woro Killed. Cincinnati, Oct. 18. Three persons were killed and over 80 others were more or less seriously injured by the falling of the dome of Robinson's opera-house this evening. About 8:45 o'clock, soon after the raising of the curtain at the perform ance of "Dangers of a Great City," plastering began to fall from the dome ceiling, 40 or 50 feet above the people in the parquette. The house was well filled, but not crowded. The plaster ing fell in small particles at first, but enough to alarm some of the timid, who retired. . A little later the plastering began to shower down in great chunks. There was a rush from the gallery, which was not very well filled. The balcony wi s soon emptied. Those in the dress circle retired as promptly as possible, and, strange to say, without apparent panic. The crowding of those to the door ob structed the passage of the people from the parquette, which accounts in a measure for the number of causalties. Nobody expected at the moment any other danger than from the falling plas tering. . . Suddenly, and with a great crash, the great central truss of the ceiling, 80 feet long and 80 feet wide, came plunging down. The ends of it struck on the two gallery wings and doubled it up in the center, sending down into the prrquette a great scattering of joists and timbers. Nothing on the stage was harmed. There were moans from the injured, which, as often hap pens, were loudest from those least hurt The news spread rapidly, ,and there was a rush of patrol wagons and firemen to the scene. The salvage corps, with its wagon, was first on the ground, and it was followed by the police patrol wagogii, which carried the injured to the Cincinnati hospital. The list thus far showed three dead, five dangerously if not fatally wounded, aud 36 more or less seriously injured. In addition to these, a large number, probably 25 or 80, were so slightly in jured as to be able to walk home. Of the seriously injured at the hospital, several will suffer amputation of limbs, yet every one is refusing to submit to the operation. A score of surgeons volunteered their assiotance to the hospitals corps. A sufficient num ber was accepted FORTY-FOUR CASES. HIsh-Water Mark In tho FeTor-Striuken , . ; City. New Orleans, Oct. 18. Fever cases ran up rapidly today. By 10 o'clock there had been 17 cases reported, and by 6 o'clock 44, so that early in the evening the prospects were excellent that this day would show the high water mark. There were three deaths. An excellent feature of the situation, however, is that recoveries and dis charges of patients are numerous. Tint is the 40th day of the fever, and th total number of recoveries exceeded the total number of cases now under treat ment, showing the success which local physicians are meeting with in treating cases. .:. The weather ia a trifle cooler thii evening, but still, warm enough tc rapidly develop cases. Douglas Bolte, a negro leader, wai lynched at a small settlement on Bayou Barteria, about 15 mile from this city. His t,5ense was running the quarantine gauntlet. The Knights of Honor have organized a committee and notified the grand offi cers that they are prepared to look af tei any member of the order that may b sojourning in this city pending the pre vailing fever, so that fraternal care and attention may be accorded such mem bers as may become afflicted. Down nn Embankment. St. Louis, Oct. 18. A special to the Republic from Selma, Ala., says: A borrible accident occurred on the Mo bile & Birmingham road, near Mill house, 20 miles south of this city, at 3:30 this afternoon, the engineer and fireman being killed, and several per sons wounded. The dead are: Ollie Munn, engineer, and Jerry Codd, fire man. The injured are: J. E. Broad street, couduotor.and Quarantine Officer Newman. While approaching Millbouse, the train waa running 20 miles an hour. Without a moment's warning, and from some inexplicable cause, the truck of the tender jumped the track, caus ing the whole train to go down a 12 foot embankment. The engineer lived uutil evening, dying in terrible agony. . HoraeleM Brewery Wegoni. St. Louis, Oct. 18. Anton Steuver, president of a local brewing company, says that in a fow days the big brewery wagon will be propelled by gasoline engines instead of horses. Herbert Mulherren, a young man of this oity, is the inventor of the engine, which weighs only 800 pounds and whioh will run 10 hours on fivegallonsof gasoline, whioh can be bought for five cents per gallon. No engineer is required, and it is self-oiling. The gearing can be re versed and the wagon suddenly stopped or instantly backed without stopping the engine. The 800-pound machine will furnish i horse-power. It will be a great saving to concerns using a number of horses. Berkeley, Oal.i Oct. 18. Gold from silver is not an impossibility, accord ing to Edmund O'Neill, associate pro fessor of chemiBtry at the university of California. In a lecture delivered to the chemists of the University Science Association, on the transmntion of metals, he desoribed the possibility of making gold from silver, and declared there was an excellent Ibasia to upport the claim for the union of metals, and that the ultimate solution of the prob lem wa an achievement science expeot. NORTHWEST BREVITIES Evidence of Steady Growth and Enterprise. ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST From All the Cltlee and Towns of . tho Thriving Hiater gtate fc. Oregn. A sealhunter just returned to Marsh field states that he killed 267 seal. Bears are numerous in the foothill near Scio, to the delight of sportsmen. Ten thousand bushels of onions were raised on 16 acres of land near Progress. A Corvallis lady made 435 words out of the letters in tiie word "enthus iastic." . . The body of a large whale was re cently washed ashore at Nelly's Grove, in Lane county. Steps are being taken in Pendlettn looking toward the organization of a poultry association. , More than 34 tons of silverside sal mon were received within two days at tho Nehalem cannery. , A cranberry grower in North Slough, Coos county, state that hi crop this year is about 550 bushels. A nnmler of Linn county farmers cultivated sufficient sorghum cane this year to supply their home use. ' The Florence cannery has finished packing fish, having canned 85,000 cases and salted 100 barrels of salmon. Mrs. James Patterson, while mentally deranged, set fire to her husband's resi dence near Elgin. The building and , contents were destroyed. Fred Wheeler was kicked in the stomach- by a horBe a the Peebler ranch near Pendleton. He walked to his house, but died two hours later, after much suffering. Stockmen in Pine creek neighbor-, hood, in Grant oounty, report some loss among their cattle by blackleg. The disease does not exist to a great extant, however. Of the $38,098.05 taxes to be collect ed in Tillamook county this year, all has been collected except $8,811.65, and this will probably be reduced to $5,000 or less by the time the delin quent tax roll is published. A brickmaker at Weston is now put ting out about 45,000 brick per week. Daring the winter he expects to in crease the capacity of his yard to that 75,000 or 80,000 brick may be put out weekly. He looks for plenty of build ing and a good market next year. The five-mile ditch for the mining company at Glendale, Douglas county, has been completed, and the company ia now having constructed a monster reservoir, into which this ditub will empty. There are now about 10 men at work at their mine getting thing ready for a full run thia winter. The scntohing-mill plant for the new flax fiber mill has arrived in Salem and is being placed in position. The machinery weighs about 8,000 pound and was manufactured in Portland. The mill will employ 10 persons, wbo will work up about 100 tons of flax straw, and about 80 tons ot fiber. Washington. Ritxville is to have an eleotrio light plant.-.' The tax levy for Tacoma for 1897 has been fixed at 10 mills. Lewis county must pay $14,991 state ' tax this year, and $15,568 school tax. The Mealy-Lacy mill at Chehalis, after being idle for some months, ha resumed operations. . " A vegetable farmer near Dayton ex pects to make $4,000 this year from the products of 23 acres. The owners of the cannery at What com, which was recently destroyed by fire, will rebuild the structure. v Every effort is being made to get enough threshers into the Palouse country to aave all of the wheat crop. Notice haa been given in Colville that all of the business houses in that place most close Sundays henceforth, The Port Townsend board of trade ia endeavoring to devise ways and means for the completion of the Port Town send Southern railroad. The tax levy in Whitman oounty for current expenses thia year will be about 16 mills and 3.6 mills additional to raise funds to pay warrant indebted ness. The foreign exportation of lumbor from Gray's harbor for the first eight months of 1897 haa exceeded the entire foreign trade from the harbor for the year 1896 by 100 per cent. The exports from Gray's horbor for 1890 were: Eleven cargoes of lumber, aggregating 8,500,000 feet, valued at $30,663; 2,000,000 feet of this amount being shipped to Mexico, while Japan, the Fiji islands and the South Sea island eaoh received one cargo of 500,000 feet. The shipments from Gray's harbor for eight months of 1897 are 7,857,000 feet of lumber, valued at $75,000. The trade with Mexico for eight month ot 1897 wa 4,473,000 feet, or more than twice as much aa the entire trade for 1898. The trade with Honolulu for eight montha is 1,880,000; while in 1896 they had no Honolulu trade. The warehouse at Guy collapsed under the weight of 60,000 bushels ot wheat. The building, 50x150 feet, ie a total wreck. The foundation gave way and the wheat burst through the sides, lotting the roof fail in. Only two men were injured, neither seri ously. Only three men were in the warehouse at the time. ; Had the crash occurred 10 mlnntes earlier, seven men and four team would have been osught and crushed to death, The report could be heard half a mile and created great) excitement In the little vUU9.