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About The Oregon mist. (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.) 188?-1913 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 17, 1897)
.. nptri? OREGON ST M VOL. XIV. , ST. HELENS. OREGON". FRIDAY, dim i KM it Kit i? isoa ."' :- ji " . - 1 . " ------- - - . 'if v' V U- NEWS OF THE WEEK . From all Pnrti nf ha'xr' rom au larts or the New and Old World. BRIEF AND INTKKKKTINa ITEMS Co iilirchi'iielv It v low of Ml Import ant t'apnoulng of the Cur rmt Week. A Frenoh expedition it reported mas sacred. Til Chinese urn endeavoring to soltl mattnra with Germany. Tim Chickasaw and Cherokee Indians art to coluniM In Mexico. A vessel 1 1 UK sailed from Portsmouth, N. H.. (or the Klondike. The National Guard ask for an ap propriation of 13,000,000. There la a possibility of a rate war between Weatern railroad. A party baa left San Francisco to survey a new route to (he Klondike, ' can Francisco merchants are being prosecuted for selling adulterated olive Oil. At Salinas, Cal., two burglars clever ly jailed the jailer and a deputy siierm. ; A treranndoua rluh gold strike la re ported on Dog creek, a tributary of the XuKon. The son of a New York niilllonalrs died In the county hospital in Ban Francisco. The Georgia senate, wanla to send tate convicts to Cuba to light for the Insurgents. Senator Perkins hna Introduced Joint resolution authorizing the itni dent to appoint a committee to draft code cf luwa for the territory of Alaska, The man who helped hang Fran Uutler, the "rnunluror ol the momi taina," in Australia, waa arrested I San Franoisco, accused of larceny ol coat One of the moat horrihla lynohings vr known in .Neva. I a haa occurred at Genoa, 14 mile from Carson. Aram I! her, who last week ahot and killed Huns Anderson in a Millerville saloon waa taken by a mob of masked mini and hanged to a cottonwool tree hull mile from the jail. When taken hum hi cell, the victim had nuthlng on hut a shirt. Thia wnt torn off hy th lyncher, and the nude body wm l(t dangling in the air (or aix hour. At the body waa being pulled up the mob riddled it with bullets. When satis, fled that the man waa dead the vigil antes diaiieraed and returned to their homes. S. L. llewea, the Wichita mountain boomer, who haa been at Wichita for three weeks trying to organize a party baa left for Olkahnma City without eingle follower. At different timet he claimed to have from 600 to 1,000 . bootneri ready to follow hie lead into the country. Torn Hoehi, envoy extradordinary and minister plenipotentiary from Japan to the United States, waa a paaaaengor from the Orient on the City of Peking which 1 aa Jiiat arrived In ma Iran Cisco. Ilo will leave fur Washington at oni" carrying with him Instructions in reference to the Hawaiian treaty of annexation which will be considered by the United State sonata. . When the Gorman reinforcements, consisting of four companies of ma rines, numbering 83 officers and 1,300 men, ana company ol uaval nrtillery, arrive at Kiao Chan hay. lor which point, aa already cabled, they will soon ant out. thev will bring the German force there up to 4,600 men, the lar eat body Germany haa ever aent ! yond Eropean wateri. It ia understood that the reaervea had to be drawn upon. 8nruoon-Onnernl Wvman, of the marine honpital aorvico, haa anhmitted hie annual report to Hecretury Giigo, It ahow that durinit the flaoul year ended June 80, 189T, the total number of natienta treated ut lioapilals and the diepeneaties connected with the iorvh't waa 04,477. Altliounn tna total ninn ber of imtient treated waa 073 in ex cea of thoae treated during the pre- Tlona flacal year, the expenditures were 538.630. which ia 131,000 less tnan the previous year. The annual report of Jumea H. Ecklea, controller of the currency, (or the year ended October 81, 1807, open with brief roaume of the history of the legia lation which constitutes the present National-bank act, and Invites the at tontion of congreaa to amendment: to the law recommend od in former report, without arieclfleally repealing them, The controller renew hia recommend ation of lust year, nrging that nutional bank examiner be paid an annual sal ary instead of fee, aa now. Further Information from Washing ton respecting tho proposed canal and look for the channel at the dalles ia to the effect that It ia proposod to push the work with a deal ol rapidity. The contract system and modern methods of excavation and building have mado it clear that year need not be spent upon a work of this character. If the con tract for improving the Columbia by small channel at the dalles is adopted It will no doubt be stipulated that the work must be done with rapidity. The Insurgents have literally wiped out tho Spanish town of Oulsa of 800 inhabitants. . Senator Mollrlde of Oregon, Iibs in trod need a bill in the senato to aid in tho construction of an aerial tramway and railway line from Dyea to Lake Uennett . Three thoausand horses, worth $800, 000, lie beneath the snow on tho White pas trail. Bix hundred camper rep resent an Investment of (1300,000 for outfit and provision. MRS. M'KINLEY DEAD. The I'reelilent anil Other Member) th Family at til Deathbed. Canton, )., Dec. 14. Mrs. Nancy mmm MoKini nwawi from tin. iif at a lew minutes past a thia morning, with all hor children and other Imme diate relatives at her bedside. Hhe did not suffer any in her last hour, but gradually passed from the deep, palsied sleep, in which she had rested almost constantly for the past 10 duys, Into the sleep of death. No word could bo secured from the house for some hours before dissolu tion. At 3:86 an nndertukor was sum moned and the first publicity wasgiven of the death. The cud was almost beautiful In its peaoefulnesa. She seemed to sleep so soundly that it wits difficult to tell whether she hud yet breathed her Inst. This condition continued (of half an hour. The president and all of the family were by hur tide. There was no recognition, however. Her last consciousness was hour before hur final taking away. Tiie tenth day of Mr. MoKinley' illness was marked by a number of material changes such as improved the condition uf the patient, and a dark ness approached it waa felt by those around her that she had ilnished the last day of her life' journey. Hhe was resting comparatively easy at that time, but wus a great deal weaker. At the dawn of day it was felt that the end was at hand, (or about that time she experienced one of the sinking spells common to the illness, and for a long time seemed to nearly inanimate that it was thought no rally was possi ble; but tho rally came, and with it a small amount of iiipiid nourishment, the first si') hail taken since Monday. Thia was followed fay such peaceful re pose as to rovlve the hope, which waa realized, that she would live through the d:iy. In the afternoon another period of anxiety wa experienced by the watch ers. Another sinking spell came, and for a time It seemed a though it wonld be the last. After that, ahe continued weak and low. The doctor called at 6:30 o'clock and reiiorted that he f.mnd a material change for the worse, such as he regard ed as certain to bring about Anal disso lution during the night, lie had not even a faint hoie that ahe could live until morning, AN IMPROMPTU COURT. Trying to fix th Ka.ponalblty fur the Niullb Merrier. Huzelhurat, Miss., Dec. 14. In an ien field, without a bouse In sight, on a high hillside, with a crowd of ener men waiting to avenge the terrible murder that ha taken place in Law rence county, in case a conviction was reached by the impromptu court, the scene lighted by flaring pine-knot torches held aloft in the hands of the waiting mob, the three negroes, Giles Uerry. Will Powell and Tom Wallen, were standing trial for their life last night at Bankstone Ferry. The nea-roes were arrested with Lewis, who waa lynched Friday, at the place of the original crime, but were released on their promising to appear next morning as witnesses. They did not put in an apisaranue wjion the triat was ready to begin. Search wa made for thorn by the mob. and the negroes were caught and brought baca. Then th? suspicion that they were im plicated in the original urime anise. Aocordir.g to their own atory. the? weie with Lewis tho night before. Tbf three men testified that they slept in a oottonhoiise a mile and a half from the 8mith house, where the terrible butch erv took place, ana tiuu Liewia win with them all night; at least he war there when they went to sleep and wa there when they awoke the next morn fg. . '. . There are about 300 mon in the mot constituting a committee of the whoU for the trial. Reliable reports today from a' messenger who was at the aaena say that tiie mob la very moderate in its acts, and has cooled down consider ably. Berry and Wullcn, though badly scared, maintain their denial of any complicity in the crime. A telephone message Irom non, wai ter C'atchings, of Ooogetown, states that two other neiiroos have been arrested on suspicion. Wesson, Miss., Deo. 14. The three nearoes arrested in tne juonuceiio neilthborhood in connection with Char lev Lewis, tho neirro lynched for the niiintuple butchery of the Smith family, ufinr a lonir trial were declared not guilty, but were given until Mouduy to leave tiie county. ConvloUd at Wlf Murdar. Btikeraliold, Cal.. Deo. 14. D.ivld Davidson, the Kandsburg wife-murder er, was today convioteu oi munier in the first degree, with tne penalty oi ife imprisonment, tie is said to be the son of a prominent St. Louis phy- ician. The defense ws insanity, and during the trial Davidson appeared ob vious to his surroundings, but oxperti declared that lie was shamming. education of Oof Children. Washington; Deo. 14. The house oommittoe on education haa reported (avorably the bill to aid the educator in the states and territories in teaching articulate apeoch and vocal language to doaf children before the are of school ago. 1 - A Mexican Execution. . Matamoras, Mex,, Deo. 14. Punta- eon and Vietoriano Uuillon were shot the jallyard this morning for the murder of Dr. Manuel Curpio. Five nolicomen wore in the firing platoon, and neither man was killed by the first discharge. Ant.go, is., ".0. I bank was 7res ed toda7 . . cl ge ' Grounding Kiao-Chon bay Is set ) five miles north of thi. city thi morn banK, was airesieu vouay v , , u.;.i. w nn.nv: Ch na Inn. Two or three Daaeemiera are re- embpnlenent. His snoring a w reach 13,000. iTIIE ROOT OFTIIE EVH Convention to Consider Prfc mary Election Reforms. PROMINENT MEN SIGN THE CAU Conference Will tie Hold In Mew York In th Mlil.ll of January Ut tret on Rtti !.!gl. latum. New York, Doc. 14. The following oall was given out tonight by ItBlph M. Kus ley, secretary of the Civic Federa tion of Chicago, who has been acting for a committee on reforms of quasi political organizations (or the past tnree weeks: "The object of this conference is to bring together men with practical ideas from all the large cities, and eepecially from state in which substantial pro gress has been made in reform. The programme will include speeches made by men of national reputation in both political parties, as well a reports from practical men as to the working of the various laws now governing pri mary election caucuses. Considerable attention will be given to the question 'How to get voters out to the primaries, after fair laws are secured. Special in terest will be taken In rejrorts from Now York, Massachusetts, Maryland, Illinois, New Jersey and Ohio, where legislatures will be in session. Head quarters will be opened at the Hotel Manhattan, New York, December 27, 1807. "Believing that our caucuses or pri mary election customs or lawa lie at the very root and source of our entire elec tive franchise system ana that the re sults in our larger cities are due in a large measure to the defect in such practice and customs, it, therefore, follows that to purify thi system is to take long step in the direction of hon esty, economy and efficiency in every branch of the public service; and fur ther believing that the enactment of laws to prevent corrupt practice ami throw the safeguards of a regular elec tion around the caucus or primary will encourage many good citizen to take part therein, we, the undersigned, tor the purpose of discussing and discover ing, as far a possible, the precise de tects in the various systems which now obtain, and the remedies:, and take such action as may seem necessary in the premises, do hereby join in calling a conference of persons interested in said questions to convene in the city of New York, on the 15th day of January, 1808. "We deem It desirable that the con ference be made up from men of all parts of the country and without regard te party or factional affliationa." The call ia signed by prominent men from all sections of the Union. INDIAN TERRITORY QUESTION Congress Will SetH Bill. It In a 3nral Washington, Deo. 14. The indica tions are that this congress will pass general bill for the entire rehabilitation of Indian territory. The measure as now planod I to make it embrace everything that ha been (ought to be accomplished in tiie past by the. Dawes Indian commission, which is still nego tiating with the five oiviliaed tribes, but which will be here next week to report the discouraging existing condi tions. The hill covers nil the questions of citixenship, allotments of lands, dis positions of towusites, mineral lands, jurisdiction of the United States courts over the present reservations and other in at tern bearing on the extinguishment of tribal organization. The first steps in the matter have been taken by the Indian committees of both the senate and house. It is understood that In a few days there will bo a session of the commit tees at which these matters will be cone over and steps taken in the way of settling the problems by congres sional enactment. In view of the large amount of "work necessary to be done, I however, it is not probable that any bill can bo passed till well toward tne end of the session. Bad Philadelphia Fir. Philadelphia, Deo. 14. Fire broke out shortly be'ore 10 o'clock tonight in the six-story building at 809 and 811 Chestnut street, occupied by themanu fucturinu firm of John & Jamee Dobson as their wholesale and retail rooms. The tire had its start in the basement, and the flames shooting up the elevator shaft destroyed the entire interior of the building and contents. , General Manager Berry, of the Dobson narpet house, stated that the stock in the building would amount to 500,000. The building was owned by the firm, and waa valued at about 160,000. Haytlan Miiil.try Re.lfna. ' Port Au Prince, Deo. 14. The mim istry ha resigned. A yet, thi com position of its successor haa not been definitely settled, but several well known men are mentioned who Will j command the confidence "of Haytians and forelgnera alike. This morning, while attending mass at .Notre fame, President Sam made a circuit of the city on horseback escorted by his staff officers, but without special military display, China Forced to Yield. Peking, Deo. 14. The German-Chinese difficulty la prnotically settled. The Germans refuse to discontiuue the occupancy of Kiao-Chou bay. The gov ernor of Shan Tung province haa been removed from office, but will not be any further degraded. No monopoly i minu trl ruilroada ia conceded Ger- , I -.. the ea immediately 1 .7. , . I yieius on an on.eM''"- r RIVERA A FREE MAN. Th Cuban Patriot BIm4 bas Fortran. From C. Havana TW, Iff t r) : the Insurgent leader, who was captured sn.nuh . ' ,n del f , Spanish troops under General Hernando de Velasco, and who wa recently oar - doned by royal decree, ha been released from Ctbanas fortress, where be ha been imprisoned for several month, and sailed today by the steamer Colon for Cadiz, his home. The Colon also carries back to Spain 800 ick, wounded and otherwise in capacitated soldier ; In the skirmishes of the last ten days the insurgents have lost 118 killed and 1,000 prisoners. Eight chiefs and offi cers and 63 armed privates have surren dered to the Spanish. The Spanish column, in the same period, has lost five officer and 33 soldiers killed, with 11 officers and 110 soldiers wounded. Juan Cossio, who wa in charge of the insurgent I'ynamite corp in the province o( Puerto Prinoipe, is dead at the insurgent camp. He was cousin of Evangelina Cossio. i The insurgents fired cannon shot into the maobinery of the plantation of Mr. Kigby, an American, in the Man- ranillo district, destrovina the ma.! chinery. The insurgents have forbid. den grinding in that neighborhood, under threat or burning the fields. . Th Fight In I'lnar del Rio. ; Havana, Dec. 18. Latest reports ol the late fight in Pinar del Bio province show the Spanish loss wa more than claimed. The dead or wounded include one colonel, one major, (even captains, 11 subordinate officers and 74 privates. Most of the wounded will die. The rebel loss was 14. The rebels used ex plosive bullets. Want O Lorn Recalled. New York, Deo. IS. The Spanish coUmy .n tb.s city haa been dmded by yi'-" T ?. ".lrld at e tlmV u mo nimiMBifjHLiuii vi f rviuier anuvas, asking for the appointment of a ationg successor to Senor de Lome. According' to the World the petition was drawn so aa to attack Senor de Lome without mentioning hi name, and among th 40 prominent Spaniard who signed it' were several friends of the minister, who did not see any attack upon him In the apparently harmless recom-1 mendation. The result is a bitterness among the faction almost aa strong a' their hatred of the Cubans. The peti tion says: , I ''For Spain to suocecd in her rela tion with the United State fbe must have in Washington a representative ol bility and firmness, whose heart will beat with the pulsations of our mother) country, and with ahead balanced to base all his diplomatic relations on an ' indisputable right, and not allow the right to be curtailed in the least by nn-1 founded demands or unjust pretensions from the opposing party." Insurgant Near Havana. New York, Dec. 13. A dispatch to the World from Havana says: An im portant battle is expected hourly. Ths insurgents have planned the most (or, midable demonstration against Havana of the year. General Parrados has started from this city with a strong coin in n of troops to meet , the insur gents. Senor Caneljas, the confidential agent of the Spanish government, went with him to ascertain the real coudi tions in Havana province. v General Rodriguez, with the com. bined Cuban forces under Juan Del- gado Ladarez and Rafael Zeckardinas, ia encamped about 20 miles eonth o here. He has fully 1,000 men, who are well armed and is said to have a Hotchkiss rapid-lire cannon, Kmio Consalo has hanged Antonio Rivera and a negro named Osman. They went to Consalo from Blanco with money and a proXitioii that he lay down hia arms and accept autonomy. A note was pinned on the breasts ol the hanged men announcing that any one coming on a similar mission would meet a like fate. Starving Cubans In New York. New York, Dec. 13. The Journal and Advertiser says: Weyler's policy of extermination, which he called re concentration, hag resulted in an enor mous influx of Cubans into New Yoik. Ilundrods if not thousands of them are dying of hunger here. The number ol these refugees is variously estimated from 13,000 to 20,000. Perhaps the great majority are absolutely without means. mere are men and women among them who were worth thou sands of dollars before the war began, but are now penniless. Some of those are Working as waiters, porters or seamstresses. Kinilio Agremonte, president of the Marti Charity Association, says that many of them have actually died from starvation, and that the majority have proferred to live quietly in misery rather tlinu let their desperate wants be known to those who could help them, but who have in the past known them to be people of wealth, influence and refinement. Spain Aeeuae Cubans or Cruelty. New York, Deo. 13. A Herald dis patch from Madrid says: A storm ol iiidinuation has been provoaod Here oy news of torturea Inflicted by the Cuban rebels upon inhabitants of Guisa, where women and children are alleged to have been bound and burnt alive. The details are given by the Imparcial, a paper by no mean favorable to the present government' policy, and the newB is now officially confirmed. . On of the ministers say that as far a t - " ' ' '" " "' ' ' " "' ." " , ...i... - known at present the only crime ha ( yamen telegraphed the vioeroy of the unfortunate creatures appear to hava province of Pe-chi-lir north of the prov been guilty of ia that they favored the ' jnoe 0f ghan Tung, that China, having acceptance of autonomy. T TV ,n a . 1- curred on the N. O. & O. railway about ,.,1 t nlnre,!. THE ELLIS ISLAND FIRE ls OUPPOSed to Have Been Set bV Incendiaries, 1 INVESTIGATION WILL BE MADE Tea Million of Railroad Tickot Wert Thought to Hut Burned One of Them Turn ITp. New York, Dec 13 Facts have come to light that suggest the possi bility that the mysterious fire that de. Itrnyed the great immigrant buildings on Ellis island a few month ago, was started by thieves, who had carefully planned a f 10,000,000 robbery, says the Journal and Advertiser today. Ten of the trunk lines leading to the West, including the New York Central, the Pennsylvania, the Erie, the Delaware, Lackawanna ft Western and the New York, Ontario & Western, nnite in maintaining a railroad on the island tilne "ier are quantities of ticrets mere. General Ticket Agent Eobinson, of 1 the Ontario & Western, say that on the night of the fire a conservative es. tiuiate would place the value of tickets in the island office at $10,000,000. ,' The tickets, with much cash, were locked in drawers in wooden caaea and desks, and the entire parcel was sup posed to have been totally destroyed. The different roads posted notices that ' 'if ticket of certain form and series ' should be presented, they should be taken up and (are demanded. A few days ago a ticket issued by the Ontario & Western from Chicago to Kansas City was received from a pas senger and found to be one of the tick kket , f from New York to Ch'cagl has not yet et supposd to have been burned. The j Now the officials are asking how many other tickets out of the $10,000, 000 worth, are in existence, it is deemed not impossible that the entire lot wa stolen and held until conductors should forget the warning. Commissioner eenner, who was in charge of Elli island at the time of the fire, deems the hypothesis by no means improbable. "The origin oi the fire was never learned, be said. it began in a tower of the main building some dis tance from the offices occupied by the railroad people. Every one of the gov ernment guards were busy getting the immigrants safely out. It is not im possible that thieves deliberately start ed the fire in the expectation, justified by events, that the ticket office would be quickly deserted." General Ticket Agent Robinson said he could scarcely believe that any such wholesale robbery had taken place. "I have communicated with other roads, and they have bod no such tick ets presented aa yet. I think it more likely that the report of gales (or the day preceding the fire was not correct. Of course, though, if someone had used that ticket, if it was honestly disposed of, it should have turned up sooner. An Investigation will be made." TRAIL TO KLONDIKE. Srr&l Live Lot In Whit Horn Bapid. Victoria, Dec. 18. Five or six, and perhaps soven, lives have been lost in the White Horse rapids, Lewis river, during the last two months, according 'to John Hepburn, Who arrived from there today. A boat built for (our or aix men was found below the rapids one morning, but there waa no trace of the occupants. They must ail have been drowned. Other parties lost their out fits, but managed to save their lives. There is now very little opeu water between the rapids and the lakes, most f it being frozen over. ' At White Horse rapid there are (about 30 people, and there are 85 at the jfoot of Marsh lake. There are at least 100 more below White Horse rapids, and many others have gone into th' Hootalinqua country to piosuect durh the winter. Hepburn had heard of no strikes being made on the Hootalinqua or tributaries, but a man named Davis washed f 1,600 from the river bars last summer. Hepburn believes that rich strikes will be made on the Hootalin qua this winter. At Tagish house, the weather was bitterly cold, the thermometer regis tering 43 degrees below. People were I met making their way down all along the route to head of Lake Bennett. Among the goldseekers was a woman, who was pulling ber sled all alone, and ahe was making fair time. Lake Bennett was still open 15 milea from the foot, on November 17, and the mercury stood at 34 below. Attempt on th Sultan' Life, London, Deo. 13. The Athens corre spondent of the Chronicle says that on Monday last, two soldiers in the im perial aervioe at the Yildis Kiosk, the palace of the sultan, made an attempt on the sultan'a life. Thia was frus trated by the attendants of the sultan. The sultan had the men tortured in the hope of extracting the names of the instigators, but both succumbed with out revealing anything. ' China Give In. London, Deo. 13. A dispatch from Pekin says that today the tsung-li- complied with her demands, Germany undertakes to evacuate Kiao Chou at a date to De nxea nereaiiei, aim win tu- t ceive instead as a coaling station the o c.u :i... i v, nf ; j 'mosa. OREGON 8TATE NEWS. Briar ETlew of th Wk th Stat. Thrangnont iniriy-iour marriage license were issued by the Marion county clerk in INOvember, Fishermen on the Umpqua are ship ping sturgeon overland via Drain to Portland. t Four panthers were killed near Marsh field last week. One measured 1 feet from tip to tip. Manager Dorwin increased the force at the Jewett mine and will hereafter run night and day shifts. Samuel Henry, a veteran of the civil war, celebrated his 94th birthday an niversary at Jacksonville last week. It ia estimated that over 30,000 boxes of apples have been shipped from the Coquille valley thi season, and there are several carloads ret to be forwarded. The owners of the Oregon Bonanza mine contemplate running a blind tun nel, to begin on the Powell creek side of the mountain and extend westward a distance o( 800 feet. Another shipment of Wallowa coun ty beef cattle was made from Elgin the latter part of last week by a Chicago dealer. He paid 3 cents lor the steers weighed at Joseph. A lot of cattle were recently bought on Smith river, in Lane county, and driven to Harrieburg. The average weight of 18 of the band waa estimated to be 1,760 pounds each. A three-foot ledge of bituminous coal has been found in the south end of Jackson county, as good as that pro duced in eastern state. " Indications are that the vein is very extensive. The judgment in favor of the state of Oregon and against Baker county haa been recorded in Baker City, and a tax levy will have to be made to raise the amount of the judgment, $10,938.60. It was blowing a gale when the Chll- kat crossed the Coos bay bar Monday, and two tremendous sea boarded the little steamer. Her stern waa stove in. and she ia at North Bend, undergoing repair. An old store building,-a landmark. at Utter Citv, Coo county, collapsed during the recent storm. , Aa many sur veys started from the old building a corner, some trouble will be caused in running lines. It la a foregone conclusion that we will be treated to the operations of a first-class English mining company, in the Ashland district very soon, as one of the beet and largest quartz mines is now being listed on the London mar, ket. At the Clackamas hatchery about 1,- 000,000 yonng fish have been turned ont so far this season. There are now about 5,000,000 eggs in the troughs in all stages of hatching. The eggs were obtained from the Little White Salmon river station, in Washington. There was a heavy run of salmon in the Siuslaw thia year, and at the Florence cannery 8,500 cases of canned salmon and 600 barrel of salmon were recently shipped to San Francisco. Mr. Hurd says that 10,000 caaea could have been put up had the market price justified. During the last two months one man haa shipped from Brownsville, to out side markets, 1,150 turkeys, 660 chickens, 71 geese and 05 ducks, mak ing a total of about 15,000 pounds of poultry shipped by him alone. There are several other poultry buyers in Brownsville, who have shipped a large amount also. . , There have been shipped from Med- ford station this season thtu far about 40 carloada of apples, and there re mains to be shipped yet 30 carloads more of merchantable apples. This includes fruit hauled from the Apple gate and surrounding oountry. Two carloads of dried fruits of different varieties have been shipped eastward from that station, too, and about eight carloads more remain to be shipped. The Alabny Fruit Company has shipped to Davenport, Ia., 600 boxes of Oregon winter apples. The company is also arranging to ship a carload of winter apples to Missouri There is a good demand for Oregon apples in the East, but they must be salable. This company has dried 8,000 pounds of apples, which were not good keeper. It is also now arranging to oarry cut the experiment of drying vegetables (or the Alaska trade. While workmen were excavating a ditch in Elgin, at the interesectiou of Front and C. streets, last week, at a depth of two feet or a little more they began to uncover human bones, and in a short time almost the entire skeleton was unearthed. A few (eet further on they unearthed portions of another skeleton. From the shape of the skull found, the remains are undoubtedly those of Indiaus, buried long before the whites settled there, says the Elgin Recorder. There has been received at Astoria a fish from the life-saving crew at Fort Canby that no one seems to recognize. Some pronounced it a devil fish, and others are certain it is an octopus. It is about three feet long and of dark brown color. Ita girth ia probably 10 or 13 inches and from the tail to the gills varies bnt little in size. The head is attaohed to the body with a sort of swivel, and the mouth ie hid beneath a clump of tentacles atout a foot long. A Lake county man who left last June to assist in driving 8,000 head of sheep to Amadee, Cal., ha returned. He says that the sheep were bought be fore shearing or lambing 'for X. 78 to 3 a head, and that Flanagan & Dunn, the Durchasera. have made a little for- , ! tune on the speculation, aa the culls of 1 the band are worth f 3 a head at Ama 1 dee. He thinks their profit will be nearer uu ... . k .nn H. than 1AIT Thatf i nad a suoceasiui drive and spent th , r in the Sycan country, county. in Lak AID FOR KLOiNDIKERS McBride Brings Up the Relief Question in the Senate TIIE RESOLUTION GOES OVER Pension Xattara . War Con.lderad In Both Hon. Beginning of a Lengthy Debet. Washington, Deo. 11. The senate did a oonvideralbe amount of buainess today, although no very important matter was considered or passed. There was very little debate. Senator Gallinger, chairman of the committee on pensions, called attention to the increasing demand for private pension legislation and requested senators in the future to be careful to aee that their bill for private pension were meritori ous before they were introduced. An attempt was made by McBride to secure an appropriation for the relief of the Klondike miners, but the net result was a resolution calling on the secre tary o( war for all information he had on that subject. An hour was devoted to the consider ation of private pension bills and 45 were passed. The resolution of the Pacific rail road committee asking information re garding the sale of the Kansas Pacific was passed which gave Gear and Thurs ton opportunity to make short speeches congratulating the oountry upon the settlement of the Pacific railroad ques tion, Some work was laid out for next week. Carter securing the right o( way Monday and Tuesday for his census bill, and Lodge had the immigration bill made the unfinished business dur ing the week. i : la th Hon. The house today entered upon the consideration of the pension appropria tion bill and stirred up a debate that promise to continue for several days. Several Southern Democrats offered criticisms of various classes of pension ers, and Private John Allen, of Missis sippi, who led the assault in a speech replete with his characteristic humor, presented a series of amendments de signed, as he said, to correct some of the glaring evils. They prohibit the granting of pension to widows whose applications were not filed daring their widowhood, and the granting of pen lion to widowswhoseapplirations weie baaed on marriages contracted after the passage of this act, and to permanently insane or idotic minors who had reached Iheir majority. The Northern Demo crats, however, vied with the Republi cans in their professions of friendship for the soldiers, and one of them Nor ton of Ohio declared that the Republi can could not make the bill too large for him, ; It was admitted on both aides of the honse during the discussion that the $140,000,000 carried by the bill for pensions would not cover the ex penditures, but aa congress would be in session, Cannon said it would be easy to make good any deficiency that might occur. : ' V , THE HOUSE PROGRAMME Financial Legislation Will Not B Un dertaken Immediately. Washington, Dec. 11. Although no formal aotion has been taken, a pretty general understanding has been reached by leaders in the house aa to the course of action in tho near future. It in cludes the disposal of appropriation bills aa fast aa they are ready. The bankruptcy bill will be reported before the holiday recess, but will not be taken up by the house until after recess. It is understood that for the present there will be no effort to take up finan cial legislation on the floor of the house. This is due mainly to the im pression that the committee on bank ing and currency will not be able to reconcile many conflicting interests in side the committee. When it becomes evident the committee on banking anil currency i at standstill, then the ways and means committee will frame a bill on broad lines, calculated to meet the present financial requirements. The disposition of house leaders will be tc keep radical legislation to the rear. Th Aided Railroad. Washington, Dec. 11. In the house today, Mr. Fleming, of Georgia, intro duced a bill authorizing an investiga tion of the books, accounts and methods of railroads which have received aid from the United States. It provides that, in the president's judgment the secretary of the treasury shall redeem or otherwise clear off the paramount lien, mortgage or other encumbrance of government-aided railroads by pay ing the sum lawfully due out of the treasury, or may bid and purchase for the Dnited State the property, subject to such enoumbrance, at any sale or sales made under any order of the court or any judgment or decree of foreclo sure of such enoumbrance, or of arty lien or mortgage or interest of the Dnited States. Indian Affair. - Washington, Deo. 11. The house committee on Indian affairs today be gan its investigation of the problem in Indian territory. It waa a long ses sion, and the result was a call for the Dane commission and all others inter ested to appear before it next Tuesday. St. Louis, Dec. 0. The dead body of Loo Fook Guey, known es the king of the highbinders, who several days ago tried to rob another Chinese, waa 1 found tonight in a room in Chinatown. 1 At the time of, the attempted robbery both men fired at each other, aa I a hi "? 7 mammr nis en, been wounded.