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NEWS OF THE WEEK
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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-
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-.. the ea immediately 1
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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
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'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
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mammr nis en,
been wounded.