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VOL. XTII.
ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1900.
NO. 3.
HE
OREGON
EVENTS OF HIE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
New of the World.
TRUNK TICKS VltUM THR WIBKS
An Interailhig Culleetlon of Il.iul Prort
the Two llemlauheres I'raiiented
Vomleneed Form.
Over BOO British prisoner captorod
at htoniiburg liavo reached Pretoria,
Buller him destroyed the Colon)
footbridge, and iiiukut no further at
tempt to advance
Armour' running dopartuient, Chi
cago, 1m rushed night and day filling
order fur thu English army.
A drunken wife in Ban Francisco har
charged hiir hushum! with murder and
he la hulng hold by the authorities.
ino currency uui, according to a
Washington correspondent, will be
rushed through thu senate without
ninuudiiiuiit.
Tlie Great Northern will Inaugurate
a now departure. A largo block of the
company's stock is to be distributed
among the employes at par.
It ia aaid that Knglnnd had been
warned by General Butler, whom ahe in
now turning down, that it would nol
be wise to attack the Doers nutil bet
tor prepared.
Should all Rpanlsh war pensions no
asked lie allowed, it would cost 13
72.1,0(10. The Seventy-flint Now Yorkf
nk for annual allowances which ag
grngute ? 84,002
Yaqnl Indiana plunder, kill and bunt
villages and the Muxiuan do not seem
to make much headway In whipping
tne savages. An entire Mexican rogl
meiit seem to have disappeared
The Fenian are organising at Buffa
lo, N. Y., for an invasion of Canada.
They expect, it la said, to raise 125,000
men, and have two carloads of arms
and munitous of war In concealment.
There is disaffection among the Free
Pinter trooiM. They complain that
Croujo's men are overboarlng and bet
ter fed than tliey. The Transvaaler's
are suspicious and the situatien ia bs
coming grave.
The president of the New York
prison association, who bus made an
investigation of the Cuban prisons tells
a Horrible tale of the conditions there.
Offender of all oIushom sleep in filth
and vermin. No beds or clean clothing
ia provided. Money or influence is
nevosmry before they can secure their
freedom.
The members of the senate committee
on privileges and election doolare
they will carry on the investigation ol
Henutor Clark's case without regard to
the decision of the Montana supreme
court nmler wmoli Wellcome was (Its
lmrred from practice on charges of brlb
ery in connection with the seuator'i
election.
The United Btntea cruiser Mont
gnniery has been on a secrot m Union
and the American Hag may soon float
over Liberia. The little country hai
long desired an American protectorate
and it may now be given. Mason oi
Illinois will introduce a resolution ol
inquiry in the senate, asking the par
pose lor wnicn mo Montgomery was
. sent to Libertun waters.
The Grangers' warehouse at Bose-
bnrg, Or., was destroyed by lire; loss,
l,uuu, folly insured.
A six-story building, 00 years old,
was destroyed by fire in New York, en'
tailing a loss of 80,000.
At Kan Francisco the Carlisle In
diaus defeated the university of Call
fornla in a football gaiuo; score, 2 to 0.
Julius Baldwin ia dead at his bonis
nt The Dalles. lie was one of the old'
est and most prominent pioneers of the
ISorthwcst.
. Thirty mon perished in a colliery
horror causod by lire damp explosion
at the Braznull mine, near Browns
ville, Pu.
Lanrior's French-Canadian following
is protesting against Canada sending
any more troop to help England in I
bouth Africa.
by President McKinlcy director of the
American woman' department at th
Paris exposition.
Tho state department will investigate
tho action of the British government
in sexlng several cargoes of American
floor off Dulugoa hay.
The train wreck near Pomona, Cal.,
in which one life was lost and four
wore injured, was causod by the break'
ing of a locomotive wheel.
At Rome tho pope solemnly InnugU'
rutod tho holy year by performing the
impressive ceremony of opening th
holy door of St. Peter's cathedral.
The charred remain of W, J.
Thomas, a farmer, and his three chil
dren, were found in the ashos of theit
homo, II miles southwest of Chilli
cotho, Kan. It is supposed that Thomai
murdered the ohlldren and then set fire
to the house and took Ills own life.
Aliout a year ago Thomas' wife com
mitted suicide by taking poison.
Admiral and Mrs. Dowey have takes
a pew in St. Paul's lionian Catholic
church, Washington.
The entire crop of sugarcane and beet
for 1NU0-1000 will amount to about 8,
000,000 tons about the same anionnt
a lust year.
Exports and imports at the five prln.'fecBived b5' mal1 commission from
olpal ports of Porto Kico for th ' resident Kruger appointing him a
months of May, June and July show i MKdier-gonera! in .the Boor army,
a balance of trade iu favor ol these 1 1Wwla U PBWonttl 'rloud of Kruger's,
port of $847,883, , end ouce visited him in Africa.
LATER NiW3.
fioutelle will probably never return
to eongreaa.
The Boer trending at Colenao
bomb proof.
are
ringree'a tux resolution wai defoated
in the Michigan annate.
People are tired of Colombian
and ask for intervention.
war
British Columbia hai sent a gold dig-
play to the Pari exposition.
If Delagoa bay i closed the Hours
will raid Portuguese territory,
The Stuhl & Htraub failure in I'hlla
dulphla ia a clear cuae of looting.
An importunt witness against Bona-
tor Clark has confessoil to perjury.
Kooert uoroellus, aged zu, wai
found dead in the woods near Clencoo,
ur.
Fosslllforou remain of a gigantlo
lea aerpeut were found on the couHt oi
Chill.
At its lust meeting the cabinet dis
cussed the agricultural possibilities lu
Alaska.
Bullor'a army on the Tugola has now
reached the euoromua strength of 28,
000 men.
Luzon hemp poits will be opened in
time for supplies to reach this country
vy next Harvest.
A Loudon diateh ay Russia longs
I w "" Herat, aud she only waits foi
-giana to oeoupy Delagoa bay.
C. Q. Goad, of Dallas, Or,, has been
appointed assistant sergeant-at-arms in
the United States senate.
1 he floor tiny mounted a now gun
at Ladysimth in the place of the one
captured by the British cavalry.
The clerk of the court of appeals has
refused to administer the oath of office
to members of the state election board
in Kentucky.
A Colorado Midland passenger and
Santa Fe freight collided near Palmer
Lake, Colo. One lirunmn was killed
and two engineers were hurt.
An Lnglish military expert assert
that the time has come for a change in
the cabinet. He favors either a dicta
torshlp or an all-powerful military
minister.
Miss Florence Wythe Hinckley,
heiress to the Blythe millions, was
quietly married in Sun Francisco to A
A. Moore, jr., deputy attoruey-geueral
ef Can lorn la.
American have captured another in
urgent stronghold. Many rebels were
killed, wounded and captured and an
amount of ammunition and food taken.
Their supposed impregnable position
was north of Han Mateo.
An Ottawa dispatch says' that treason
is talked openly among tho trench Ca
nadiuns, and all of their members have
retired from parliament. All the lat
ent hostility to British rule has been
aroasod by Canada's action in sending
troops to the Transvaal.
San Franciscans are arranging for a
big pro-Boer demonstration.
K, O. nodgea & Co., one of Boston's
largost banks, has closed its doors.
In the engagement at Ladysmith Fri
day, 10 British were killed and 16
wounded.
England has discovered that her mil
itary resources were overestimated by
80,000 men.
Mat Chandler, the old-time pugilist
and former partner of John L. Sulli
van, is dead.
The queen ha given warning that
British subjects must not help Boer or
Free Stater.
riaguo of a sovero type is mging and
many deaths from that cause have oc
curred in New Caledonia.
Sydney Paget, William C. Whitney'
racing partner, has left this country to
Join the British rough ridora.
A Purls dispatch says that France
would be happy if the Delagoa bay in
cident caused an anglo-Amorican quar
rel.
Alfred Borlinl was arrested in Ran
Francisco wlilo on his wodding trip.
He ia charged with being a bonk de
faulter. Innrt larmfir. llnvA fai-mail a m-twll.
oate to irrow rice in Texan. Thnv hnv
secured options on 14.000 aores o! land
to cost $235,000.
m, n,. ... i
growing greater each day. Thev are
building trouohes within three and one
half miles of Mothuon's picket line.
Th Nnrthnr panifln ,,,,,, u i tji,
yfrM DB1 on8- A'10' 10 days tho last
body had not been recovered. The
trainmen were to uinme.
Governor (Jeer, of Oregon, does not
approve of Oregon citizens contributing
to a fund for Luwtou's family. He
think the state should look after her
own heroes' familos first.
The Countess of Canavarro thought
she was a convert to Buddhism. She
'entered their oonvout and changed her
mind, and has applied to friends in
Son Francisco for assistance.
Winston Ppenoer Churchill has
cabled to the London Post of Ills esoape
ifrom tho Boer prison. He niado his
Way overland from Delagoa bay and
scaled walls while guards were not
looking. Ho journeyed for six days.
walking at night, with nothing to eat
but chocolate.
The Pittsburg baseball club has
.bought the pick of the Louisville team
Jor a sum said to bo $36,000 cash.
Mrs. C. A. Burling, mother-in-law
nf Itear-Admiral William T. Sampson,
Idled at her home in Rochester, N, Y.,
Rged 70 years.
Ex-Sheriff Weis, of Dayton, O., has
PLAGUE IN HONOLULU
The Disease Gets a Foothold
in the Islands.
3IX DEATHS HAVE OCCURRED
I'll Epidemic Is Confined to the Chi
nese llunrter Measures Taken te
Stamp It Out.
San Franoisco, Deo. 80.- The trans
port Centennial, which has reached
hero from Honolulu, confirms the re
port that bubonlo plagne exists in that
ilty. There had been no new case of
the disease, however, from December
12 up to the time the transport sailed,
the 18th. The quarantine at the port
was to lie raised the 19th. There war
little anxiety among the resident p
Honolulu, according to Captain Eagles,
of the Centennial, as the plague was
confined to the Chinese quarter of the
city. That part of the city was under
strict quarantine, and no ingress or
egrosa whatever was allowed. Up to
the time of the sailing of the Centen
nial, there had been six deaths.
The Centennial arrived at Honolulu
from this port with horses December
15, but was not allowed to dock nntil
tho 16th. Even then nono of the crew
was permitted to land. All inter-island
trafllo was at a full stop, as no steamei
could enter the port. The citizen
have subscribed $20,000 to fight tar,
plague.
The transport Newport has arrived
from Manila in ballast, with no new
of importance.
The Centennial will be kept in qaur
antlne till tomorrow. There is
trace of the disease on the vessel, and
aa has been demonstrated, there is
likelihood of its finding lodgment there
but still there are many Hawaiian rats
that have made a home on the steamer,
and they nave all to be oanght and sao
riflced before the vessel will be allowed
to dock. Bats are said to be the most
prolillc means of spreading the plague,
They carry the germ from port to port
IN STRONG POSITION.
Boar Have Fortified I he Hill, at Col
euio Treuchee lloinb Proof.
London, Deo. 80. A dispatch to the
Dally Mail from Plctermaritzbnrg,
dated Saturday, December 28, says:
"Every day reveals some fact regard
Ing the strength of the Boer position at
Colonso. Thuuks to the service of
Continental olllcers, the charaoter of
the campaign has changed. We are no
longer fighting a foe who relies upon
guerrilla tactics, but we have to deal
with what 1 rapidly becoming a disci
plined army, enjoying the advantage
of knowing the country and of selecting
the scene of contest without the bur
dens of cumbersome commissariat.
"The Boers have converted the hill
near Col en so Into fortresses of immense
strength. . Everywhere they have.
splendid trenches, many of them bomb
proof. Tramway lines permit the
shifting of gun with astonishing rap
idity. The main positions are con'
nactod with the outlying positions by
underground passages, and the fort
proper bristle with machine guns that
command the approaches. Probably
mines are laid.
Skirmish at Tugela.
Chevoley Camp, Natal, Wednesday
A heavy Boer gun on Bnlwaua hill
fired steadily upon Ladysmith through
out the morning. Ladysmith did not
respond.
The enemy having been again de
tected attempting to Improve their
trenches facing General Boiler, the
British heavy guns opened upon them
and the Boers scampered back into the
hill.
The British patrols sighted the en
emy in force on the extreme left
Nine Boer were killed in a skirmish
that followed, and six Boor wagon
were captured.
Clan-Na-Gael Talk.
New York, Doc. 29. Relative to tht
attltnde of the Irish revolutionary socl
etiea toward the government of Great
Britain at the present juncture of
affairs, the Evening Post today quote
an officer of the Clau-na-Gael as say'
ing:
England can be only made to feel
by physical foroe, and we're now going
to give her some Boer treatment. We
did intend going out and sinking the
first expedition from Camula to South
Africa, but thought it better to wait
little. We can mobilise our men with
out much difficulty for an attack on
Canada, and we are fairly well armed
as well as the , United States troops
in the Spanish war. We have lots of
Springfield rifles, and are handy with
the bayonet.
The Movmitt In Phlladolhla.
Philadelphia, Uoo. 28. There is
general movement among the Irish
here to aid the Boers in their war with
England. A oall was sent out today
for a special assessment on every mem
ber of the Order of Hibernians, of
which there are 25,000 in this city.
A return of $25,000 is expected, which
will help to swell the general fund of
$1,000,000 which organisations
throughout the country seek to raise.
'Friiool7Ned at Coal.
San Francisco, Deo. 80. The Exam
iner says: There are over 00 vessel,
eaoh carrying from a few hundred to
over 8,000 tons of coal, bound from
Newcastle, Australia, to the Hawaiian
islands. From the same Australian
port to San Francisco there are but 20
vessel bound with similar cargoes.
The coal destined for Hawaii is chiefly
for use of the sugar plantations, but
the diversion of the supply from this
port ha caused a scarcity of fuel and
a consequent inoreoae in prioe.
AMERICANS BUY A CANAL.
At Least Thr Own aa InUrast I:
tho Panama.
New York, Deo. 80 The incorpora
tion of the Panama Canal Company of
America 1 said to be the first move
a plan to transfer the Panama canal to
American in order that it may have
a better chance in the struggle
with
the Mcaraguan concessionaries,
banking houses and Individual
are understood to be Interested
The
who
are:
Augnst Belmont & Co., Kuhn, Loeb &
Co., Levi P. Morton, Charles B. Flint,
J. E. Simmons, president of the Fourth
National bank; Edward Sweet, George
Sheldon Co., Baring, Magoun & Co.,
and George W. Young, president of the
United States Mortgage & Trust Com
pany.
In addition to these, several banking
bouses in Ban Francisco and in cities
in the South and West are interested
in the company. The Herald lay this
incorporation of an American company
i the result of negotiations between
representative of the French company,
including Baron Openheim, who came
to thl olty from Pari several months
ago, and leading financiers of America,
The representative of the French com
pany came to this country empowered
to transfer the rights of the company
having now been incorporated, the
transfer will very shortly be effected
the transfer to be given formal approval
by the shareholder In France. These
Shareholders receive shares in the new
American company in proportion to
their holdings in the old.
This "Americanizing" of the Pana
ma canal, as one of the gentlemen in'
terested in the new company styled it
yesterday, has been brought about in
order to place the Panama canal on a
footing in America more satisfactory to
the French company, and to place
on the same base as the Nicaragua
canal before the United State govern
ment.
An isthmian canal commission, with
Bear-Admiral Walker a chairman, i
now at work making an exhaustive
study of all possible routes for a canal
across the isthmus of Central America
This commission was created in the
closing hours of the last congress, and
$1,000,000 was appropriated for It use
through ttbe river and harbor bills.
Its report will undoubtedly be final as
far as the United States la concerned as
to the best route for a canal. Its par
ties, both engineering and exploring,
are now scattered over Central America,
obtaining material to assist the com'
mission in forming conclusion.
i The French company, realizing the
importance of the commission's find
ings, has taken the steps which have
been described, believing that the canal
commission would naturally be enabled
to judge more impartially between the
two route with both under American
control. The gentlemen of the French
company long since recognized that
the undertaking of a canal across Nica
ragua either by the United States or by
private parties with the assistance or
Indorsement of the United States would
be a most serious blow to their project,
but the American financiers who have
formed the new company, now that the
two routes are on an even footing, and
that judgment will be made only on
the ground of engineering and general
desirability, they argue that the
"Americanizing" of Panama is the
only way by which the 400 shareholders
can have any hope of any return from
the $200,000,000 whioh has gone out of
France and Into the canal, and they be
lieve that this arrangement can pro
dace only good feeling botweenthe two
countries.
Since 1884, when the French com
pany was formed, there has been ex
pended in work on the canal something
like $8,000,000. Several thousand
men, mostly negroes from Jamaica,
have been employed, and expert de
clare that tho 'money has been proprely
expended, and that good progress has
been made. There is a large number
of men at work on the canal at the
present time, and this force will be
found at work by the canal commission
when it goes over the route, which will
probably be during February. The
canal is about two-Sths completed,
and the now American company esti
mates that the cost of completion
would be about $100,000,000.
Hilton Fainting! at Auction.
New York, Deo. 80. The gallery oi
paintings collected by the late Judge
Hilton ia about to be sold at auction.
It ia composed of nearly 200 paintings,
mostly by modern French artists, and
ia valued at more than $500,000.
Among tne masters represented are
Meissonler, Cort, Daubigny, Gerome.
Yibert, Makart, Munokasy, Bourgereaa
and TlBsot.
Quarantine Acalnst New Caledonia,
Melbourne, Victoria, Deo. 80. A
passenger who arrived here on board
the steamer Australian from Noumea,
New Caledonia, where the plague is
raging, has been quarantined, and eight
others have been placed under surveil
lance.
Money for Improvement.
St. Paul, Minn., Dec. 80. The
Great Northern directory today in
creased its capital stock $7,600,000,
for the purpose of acquiring new prop
erties and making extension and im
provements on the Pacifio coast. The
Sioux City & Northern and Pacific
Short Line, in Iowa and Nebraska, are
among the new properties to be taken
in.
Soma's Band does to Paris.
New York, Deo. 80. Commissioner-
General Ferdinand W. Peck, of ' the
United States commission to the Paris
exposition of next year, has appointed
Sousa'a band as the official American
band to play at the exposition.
A Chrlitmat Poisoning-. .
Barboursville, W. Va., Deo. 28.
Three members of the family of Man-
ford Pollock died last night, havine
been mysteriously poisoned while eat
ing their Christmas dinner.
RETURNING IN BANDS'
r;t- r tt
c. w..-
tected Towns.
NATIVES ASK FOE ASSISTANCE
Colonel Hare Loses the Track of the
frleoners He Has Followed Gen
eral Wheeler does South.
Manila, Jan. 1. The insurgents
who evacuated the coast towns between
Dagupan and Vigan, fleeing to the
mountains before the advancing Amer
icans, are returning in small bands to
the towns the American do not oc
cupy, terrorizing the native and
Chinamen, who showed friendship for
the Amerioans. The native and
Chinamen are seeking the protection of
the American garrisons. '
Colonel Wessel'a cavalry, while
scouting in the vicinity of Trinidad,
found evidence of Filipino soldiers be
lli)? in that vicinity, but it was Impos
uble to bring about an engagement.
The recent increuse in the garrison of
Namacpacan against the threatened
rebel attack on Christmas day averted
trouble.
Colonel Hare, of the Thirty-third in
fantry, who has been following a party
of American prisoners, lost track for
three day, about December 80, of such
sign and evidence of their passage as
they customarily left behind them. It
is thought the prisoners were separated
and conveyed to remote parts of the
mountains, thus increasing the diffiCui
ties of General Young's troop to effect
a rescue.
General Wheeler, who was recently
In Manila requesting an appointment
sooth In the line of the expected cam'
paign, la now at Paranaque.
Americans Captured Stronghold,
Washington, Jan. 1. General Otis
cable the war department today as fol
lows:
Manila Colonel Lockett, with a
regiment of two battalion of the
rorty-sixth, (Colonel Schuyler), one
battalion of the Forty-fifth (Colonel
Dorst), and one company of the Twenty-seventh
infantry, and two guns (Cap
tain van Deasen,) attacked the enemy,
600 strong in a mountain stronghold
beyond Mont Alban, northeast of San
Mateo. A large number were killed
and wounded, and 24 were taken pris
oners. Lockett captured one cannon,
40 rifles, 20,000 rounds of ammunition,
500 pounds of powder, arsenal fortifica
tions, all their food supplies and con
siderable other property.
This captured point, located on
mountain trail, was formerly supposed
to be impregnable. Our casualties:
Lieu'enant Enlow, Eleventh cavalry,
and five enlisted men wounded, mostly
light. Private Mataon, Forty-fifth in
fantry, drowned."
Mot American Vessels.
i on iownsend, Jan. l. lne pur
chase of foreign vessel by the United
States government for use as transports
daring the Spanish-American war and
their subsequent sale by the govern
ment to private citizens ha resulted in
complicating matter for purchasers
from the faot that after purchase of
such vessels the government refuses to
allow them to be documented in the
United States as American vessels.
The case in point is the steamship
Sciplo, which was recently sold by the
navy department and was afterwards
refused documentation. - The purchaser
applied to the secretary of the treasury,
asking that if he should break the
Sciplo up, whether the material of
which she was constructed would be
subject to duty if sold in the United
States. Yesterday Collector Heustis
received a circular letter covering the
bove case from the treasury depart
ment in which Acting Secretary Spaul-
ding say that upon the sale of said
essol in a port of the United States
the material or materials taken there
from would not be regarded as an im
portation within the meaning of the
customs laws, and would therefore be-
exempt from duty. ,
The Plague Scare.
San Francisco, Jan. 1. The steamer
Gaelio arrived here this afternoon from
the Orient, via Honolulu. The Gaelio
aa sent to quarantine, owing to the
plague scare, but her cabin passengers
were allowed to land, towboata plying
between the steamer and, the city for
me purpose.
The press correspondent at Honolulu
say there have been no new cases of
plague since last advices. There have
been several sudden deaths, and in
eaoh instance rumor assigned the
plagne. as the cause. Investigation
proved otherwise. The board of health
now claims but two deaths were caused
by the scourge, the remaining cases be
ing doubtful or suspicious.
Rubbed ot lS.OOO.
Walsenbarg, Colo., Jan. 1. W. J.
iMiisap, a prominent stockman, wa
seized by two men when about to enter
the Klein hotel and was robbed of
112,900. The money was mostly in
his coat and vesi pockets and these
garments were torn from him. No
trace of the criminals has been found.
Mr. Milsap was on his way to Mexico
to buy cattle.
Big l.lner Is Ashore.
London, Jan. 1. A large German
mail steamer, believed to be one of the
II am burg-American liners, has gone
aground during a terrific gale in East
bay, about a quarter of a mile off Dun-
geness, the southern extremity of Kent.
Heavy seas are breaking over' the ves
sel, and life-boats are unable to reach
her. Fears are entertained for the
safety of the passengers.
It is reported that the position of the
liner ia very serious,
A DOUBLE TREATY.
I fortagtiMe Booth Africa Is to Be 1
vlded Pp.
New York. Jan. 1. A dsipatch
to
"! tne Herald from Berlin says:
xheLokal Acsieger publishes the
content of the German-English-Portu-
gnese secret treaty. Thl double treaty
will have executive foroe a soon a the
Swiss jurists, Messrs. Blaeel-Hensley
and Goldan, have given decision in
the Delagoa. bay arbitration.
The decision, it is expected, will be
given in January or February and will
probably be in favor of England, In
which case Portugal mast pay to Eng
land and America an indemnity of 1,-
900,000. England obtained in 1881
from Portugal the right of pre-emption
in .Delagoa bay, and the cession of Del
agoa bay to England may therefore be
expected in March next.
It Is possible that President Kroger
may now declare war on Portugal and
attack Delagoa at once.
In order to prevent any interference
by France or Bussia, Enlgand con
cluded a secret treaty with Germany
regarding the complete partition of the
Portuguese colonial possessions. Ger
many is to receive all the Portuguese
possessions in Asia, with 20,000 square
miles of territory ana 1,000,000 inhab
itant. Germany farther receives in
Africa all Portuguese territory north of
Mozambique, except a strip of hind
three miles wide, for Mr. Cecil Rhodes'
trans-African railway. For this the
German government will pay Portugal
25,000,000 marks.
REST AT ARLINGTON.
Barlal ef the Martyred Heroes of the
Maine.
Washington, Jan. 1. Upon the
windy heights of Arlington cemetery,
the Maine dead, brought from Havana
by the battleship Texas, today were
laid away in their final resting places.
with simple religions services, and the
impressive honor of war, in the pres
ence of the president, members of hi
cabinet, officers of the army and navy
and other officer of the government.
A cabinet officer, surveying the flag-
draped coffins before the ceremony be
gan, said: The Uvea of these men
cost Spain her colonies." But there
wa no note of triupmh in the grim
scene today. With a touch of sadness
and solemn gravity, the nation per
formed Its duty to the dead and gave
Ite defender a Christian, burial at
home, in soil hallowed by patriotic
dead.
Battle With Bobbers.
Seattle, Jan. l. Two masked men
held up a Ballard street-car at 11
o'clock tonight. There were eight
passengers aboard, and a regular fusil
lade of shots was fired. One of the
passengers inside the ear, C. E. Plimp
ton, opened fire on the hghwayman en
tering from the rear, and three shots
were returned. One broke Plimpton'
arm and the other entered hi breast.
Shortly after midnight the police
found near the scene of the Ballard
street-oar hold-up the body of one of
the two bandits. He had been almost
instantly killed by a bullet from a
passenger' pistol. The body ia still
unidentified.
Big Baffalo Mine Turns Out Rich.
Baker City, Or., Jan. 1. A sensa
tional strike was made today in A.
Geiser's Big Buffalo mine, two miles
west of this city. The miners took
several samples of ore from the tunnel,
which today tapped the 80-foot ledge.
By assays just returned to ' the owner
of the mine, the samples all show gold
values ranging from 1S to 9102.75 In
gold and five ounces of silver to the
ton. Mr. Geiser,' who was formerly
part owner of the Bonanza mine, said
today that if the values hold out
throughout the Big Buffalo, the prop
erty will be equal to the Bonanza. The
Big Buffalo is within plain sight of
Ibis city.
Killed His Young Wife and Hlraselr.
Winnipeg, Jan. 1. Pierre Dentzer,
a German farmer, aged SO, living near
Rath well, 100 miles from Winnipeg,
shot and killed his 19-year-old wife in
a fit of temper. Dentzer then carried
his baby to a neighbors' house and re
turned home. The authorities were
notified, and on approaching the house
ound that the woman's body had been
aken inside the house and a cross had
been raised by Dentzer on the ground
where she bad been shot. Dentzer had
spread a sheet on the floor, placed his
wife's body on it, blew out his brains.
Went Through a Bridge.
San Bernardino, Cal., Jan. 1. As
No. 83, west-bound freight train over
the Saute Fe route, was crossing Cajon
creek bridge today, about 12 miles
north of this city, nine cars went
through the bridge into the creek bot
tom. Six of the cars weie loaded with
cotton, one with telegraph wire, and
one with general merchandise and sul
phur. The cars caught fire and made
a terrible conflagration, destroying the
entire contents and framework. No
one was killed.
A Murderous Collector.
Chattanooga, Tenn.,Jan. 1. Samnel
Mills, a collector for an installment
house, this afternoon attempted to seize
furniture in the house of Mary Yen-
able, colored, for a small debt. The
woman attempted to prevent it, and in
the struggle that ensued Mills shot the
woman and her little son and daughter,
all seriously. Mills was arrested.
Buller's Sphere of Action.
Cape Town, Jan. 1. Colonel Otter,
commanding the Canadian contingent
of troops, is to join the staff of Bailer,
all tne memDers oi wnicn are proceed
ing to Natal, indicating that
Buller's
sphere
will shortly be
confined to
(Natal.
Boston Sympathy for Boers.
Boston, Jan. 1. The common coun
cil of Boston today, after a spirited de
bate, adopted a resolution of sympathy
for the Boorst -
.. CONTRABAND OF WAR
Rosebery Wants the Govern,
ment's Position Defined.
POSSIBLE CHANGE OP POLICY
Sir Charles Dllke Warns AgalnsR
Hasty Overturning ef
Precedent.
London, Jan. 1. Lord Rosebery
writes a follow thl morning to the
Times:
"There are disquieting Intimation
which appear to point to onr govern
ment having treated foodstuffs aa con
traband of war. A this is a matter of
supreme importance, I venture to ad
dress this line to you in the hope that
it may elicit an authoritative statement
on the subject."
The Times, commenting editorially
upon Lord Roseberry'i letter, says:
Too little is known of the seizure
for any valid inference safely to be
drawn. An emergency might arise
when certain foodstuffs would be re
garded a contraband while others
would not, especially if the latter were
intended for conoombatants. There
might, for instance, be reasonable
grounds for treating canned good aa
contraband and flour aa legitimate."
After admitting that it "would be
unadvisable to create a precedent which
might some day be invoked against
ui, " the article concludes aa follow:
"While we fully share the view that
no serious change of policy should oc
cur without cogent reaaons and ample
consideration, we cannot but ask our
selves whether, in the event of Great
Britain being engaged in a war, the
action, either of the enemy or even of
neutral powers, in a matter upon
which such great divergence of opinion
till exists is likely to be governed by
any precedent we or any one else may
have set in the past, rather than by the
immediate interest of the moment. "
A NEW YORK FIRE.
In Seren-Story Buildings Were De.
strayed Firemen Injured.
New York, Jan. 1. The two seven-
story buildings at 425 to 435 East
Twenty-fourth street, occupied princi
pally by the wall-paper factory of Wil
liam Campbell & Co., were destroyed
by fire tonight. The loss is fully
$500,000. The plant of the New York
Hygienic Ioe Company, which occu
pied the basement of 423. and that oi
the Manhattan Electric Light Com
pany, on the first and second floors of
the same building, were totally de
stroyed. A large portion of the east
side gets its lights from that company.
and was, on account of the Are, cast
into complete darkness. The Campbell
company employed 400 hands, who
will be thrown out of work by the fire.
The properties of all three firms are de
stroyed beyond the hope of saving
dollar's worth. The losses are partly
covered by Insurance. -
Three hook-and-ladder men, Andrew
Degnan, Joseph Shaughneesy and Jos
eph Bessinger, were oanght on the sixth
floor ofjthe building, and escaped with
great difficulty. AU were severely
burned. Shaughnessy and Bessinger
were sent to Bellevus hoepitaL The
other hook-and-ladder men were caught
on one of the, high window ledges, with
the flames roaring all around them and .
the dense smoke making them almost
imperceptible from the street. Exten- '
elon ladders were run and firemen
brought them down in an almost tm- :
conscious condition. One of the men, -
Lee Potter, was very severely burned,
and was sent to Bellevae hospital. .
TWO TRAINS WRECKED.
One Person Was Killed and Fourteen
Were Injured.
Denver, Colo., Jan. 1. The Chey
enne flyer on the Union Pacifio rail
road crashed into the Boulder Valley
train, at Brighton, Colo., at 8 this
morning. One man was killed, Win
field Bandelman, express messenger,
Denver, whose body was burned to a ,
crisp. Fourteen persons were injured.
The Boulder Valley train left Denver
a little late this morning, and aa usual
stopped at Brighton, which is the junc
tion for the Boulder valley line from
the main line to Cheyenne. The Chey- S
enne flyer also left Denver late, and -coming
into Brighton in the early .
morning dusk, ran into the rear end ol
the Boulder train, telescoping two or
three cars and derailing the passenger
locomotive.
Section gangs from Denver yards and '
half a dozen passengers occupied the
Boulder train. - The mall and baggage
car and the smoker of the flyer were
burned. Mrs. Young was in the chair
car with six children. None of the
children were hart, although she re- "
ceived serious injury. The woundod
were brought to Denver and taken to
the hospitals. Conductor McAllister,
of the Boulder valley train was erased
by the accident. He attempted to
Jump into the burning wreckage, and
had to be forcibly restrained.
In his proclamation to the burghers.
Baden-Powell makes the extraordi
nary statement that the American gov
ernment has warned others ol her in
tentions to side with England should
any of them interfere. ,
- General White Ha th Fever,
Ladysmith, Sunday, Deo. 24, via
Pletermaritzburg General White has
had a slight attack of fever, but. is.
now convalescent.
It ia reported that General Jonbert il
again in command ot the Boer here. ,
The military authoiitie appear confi
dent, but they are very reticent.
About 2,000 claims have been filed
so far for pensions for disabilities re
ceived during the Spanish-American '
war. . ; . , ; -