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VOL. XVII.
ST. HELENS, OKEGON, FEIDAT, APRIL 27, 1900.
NO. 19.
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EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraph!
New of the World.
TF.R8K TICKS FROM Til R WIRES
An Interesting Colleetluii of Items Pror
the Two HeutUplierea I'renentr4
a Comlenied Vuria
The proceediiiKsof llio navul strategy
Aoaru will ne aoerct.
The Ohio anti-bicycle law win de
clared uucoiiatltutiouul.
Democrats, Populists anil Hllvor Re
publicum have fused in Nebraska.
Fire la a tenement house at Newest'
tie, Pa., caused the death o( four pur-
SOUS.
Republican party luadors have agreed
upuu planks. Expansion will be the
keynote.
Charles II. A lion, of Massachusetts,
waa nominated (or governor of Puerto
II leo by the president.
Large (tool mllU in the vicinity of
Chicago ami Joltet have closed duwn
on account o( labor troubles.
In a siateoh on the Philippine ques
tion, Hi'iiKtiir Hour said that the war
to dato had coat 0,000 Uvea.
An Albany, Or., man, whom Don Ua
oornatlat, but tost Ilia hand, hai had a
left-handed ooruttt made for the boy.
Hie historical clinroh of Notre Dame
dee Vortua, on the outskirts of Paris,
waa pillaged, then burned by vaudale.
Commodore t'owla, U. 8. N., haa
aailod for the Philippines on the
steamer Doric, to take charge of the
machine ahope at the Cavlte navy yard.
Gennral Montenegro, one of the Kill
plnoa' boat tllittrn. haa surrendered to
Colonel Smith in the moiiutiiina near
t'amaling, in the province of Paugaai
uan. By the closing of nine additional
cigar facloriea In New York city, the
number of striking and lockud out
oigaruiakers baa been increased to
6,000.
Twelve hundred Tagaloa attacked
Case's battalion headquarters t'aga
au, ialand of Mindanao, but were re
pulsed with a Ioim of 60 kllln.l and 80
wounded. Anierioana liad five oaaual
tie. Sixteen monlha havo elapsed since
the an I tun of Turkey promised to pay
ill), 000 indemnity for the destruction
of American missionary property dur
ing the riots of I8U5. The uaual aharp
bint ia necessary.
The secretary of war bus ordered an
Investigation of the ease of Major
Knight, United Hiatus engineer.
chanted with interfering with father
Tiernny, of the lioman Catholic church.
In the performance of his dutioa.
Congress will adjourn in Jane.
War taxoa will not be reduced at
this sesiiiou of congress.
Great Hiitaln will levy a tax on
mines to pay the expenses of the war.
A burglar entered a saloon in Che
halls, Wash., and took foOU iu silver,
Four men were killed and several In
jured in a drnnkon riot of coal miners
uear Joliuskiwn, I'a.
Heavy rain and snow storms in the
vicinity of Denver are canning much
delay to railroad traffic. '
John Hannigan, sued 03, one of the
best-known horse trainers in tho coun
try, died at Mildalo, Ky.
Two Mexican outlaws held np a
gambling house in Johnson, Arizona,
and killed a promiuent mining man
liev. William J. Rtitledge, of Jack
sonville, HI., prominent Methodist
iniuiater and originator of the 0. A.
It., ia dead, aged 80.
The legislature of Trinidad haa re
jected the offer of Canada for recipro
cal trade and adopted the convention
with the United States.
Fourteen thousand people have en
Raged passage from Pacillo coast porta
to Cape Nome, Alaska, ou the first
fleet of steamers, which sails about
May 1.
Two hundred or 800 families bought
1,900 acres of land near Eugene, Or.,
with the intention of dividing it np
into 40-acre tracts and working on the
colonization plan.
Burglars at Toronto, Out., dug
through the uine-inah brick wall of
the vault of St. Himon's church with
crowbars and picks and stole $1, 175,
the Easter offering.
Conditions in famine-stricken India
are deplorable. Sixty millions of peo
ple are suffering and 80,000,000 are In
dire distress, and only 5,000,000 are
receiving government aid.
In New York, a school of voice cul
ture was begun on a portentious scale
at Carnegie Hall, under the direction
of Oiaoomo Minkowsky, called the
Metropolitan School of Voice and Sing
ing. Edouard de Reezke and Mine.
Nordica will give scholarships to the
best gifted pupils under Minowsky.
Maurice Grau and Andrew A. McCor
inick are lending their iutluunoe. Min
kowsky is a composer of note,
Former Seoretary of the
Interior
Hoke Smith haa sold his Atlanta, Ua.,
Journal to a Boston syndicate.
Germany and Russia are said to have
reached an agreement as to railway
concessions, praotioally dividing Asia
Minor between them.
Cyril Arthur Pearson, principal
owner, manager and editor of Pearson's
magazine and many other journals,
intends shortly to launch a Loudon
daily newspaper modeled on American
lines.
LATER NEWS.
Wepenor has not yet been relieved.
The revolution In Colombia Is spread
ing throughout the republic.
Ileujamin Northrup, a well-known
newspaper man, of New York oitv. la
dead, aged 44.
The plant of the St. Louie Chronl.de.
St. Louis, Mo., was destroyed by fire.
urns, fou,UU0.
The loss to railroads bv the recent
flood In Mississippi will amount to
moro than $1,000,000.
Plnguo Is still rife in Manila, a fonl
breeding place havinu been dianovorud
in the heart of the city.
Hov. Charlee Bceehor. brother of the
Into Heury Ward Heecher. died at
Georgetown, Mas., aged 84 year.
Efforts to stamp out the plague in
Sydney, Autralla, have not been suc
cessful. The epidemic is sureadinir.
Hush tiros are raging In Manitoba
and advices from Winuepeg state that
600 persons are in danger of loaing
their lives.
Five men were killed at Balmain.
Australia, by being precipitated to the
bottom of au 1,800-foot perpendicular
ahaft of a mine.
A strange tale of crime has come to
light in the case of a rich Colorado
miner, who is charged with the mur
der of four persons.
Fx -Congressman David G. Col son.
on trial at Frankfort, Ky.,for the mur-
Inr of Lieutenant Scott and Lnther
Demaree last January 16, has been ac
quitted.
The total receipts of the Cuban treas
ury for the mouth of March, 1800, were
1,U78.U8H. The receipt lor the oor
responding mouth of lotffl amounted to
$1)08,083.
Queen Victoria reviewed the naval
and Infantry brigades and the boys ol
the Royal Hibernian military school at
Dublin. Two hundred thousand people
witnessed the review.
At Atchison, Kan., a reader of cheap
novels was given 18 years in the peni
tentiary foi arson. He set Are to a
house in order to play the part of a hero
by rescuing the family.
Adelbcrt Woiceth Rogdamowskl and
Anton Kody, alias Anton Kosohinowskl,
who arrived iu New York recently on
the steamship Palatia, will be sent
ack to their native country. The men
admit they were implicated in the
burglary of a store in Lemberg,
alicia, in which they got about 10,-
000 florins and serionsly wounded the
proprietor Two of the men have been
misted on the other side. The apocial
board of inquiry investigated the mat
er, and, upon the confession of the
men, It was decided to deport them.
Civil government for Puerto Rico
will be inaugurated May 1.
The election in Louisiana resulted In
a sweeping victory tor the Democrats
the Ameer of Afghanistan warns
Kugland of Russian aggression on In
dia.
Harry F. Allen, defaulting clerk of
Denver county treasurer's office, wua
arrested in San Francisco.
Canada will repeal the alien labor
law which was aimed at American
miners in the Atlln district.
Great battles have taken place be
twoen government troops and rebels in
the United States of Colomba.
Thirteen persons were drowned by
the capsizing of a boat while crossing
the Rhine, near liingen, Germany,
Work on the darn at Croton Land
log, N. Y., haa been resumed, under
the protection of the state troops.
Lord Roberts sharply criticises the
ability of Generals Duller and Warren,
Loudon papers maintain there is noth
ing loft for Roller but to resign.
Orders have been given to turn the
trau8iorts Tartar and Westminster
over to their owners. The government
has no longer auy need for their serv
lues. ,
The will of a woman who died in
Topeka, Kas., recently, bequeaths the
greater part of a fortune of $ -'50.000
for the founding of the University of
Topeka.
Harry B. Wandell, eity editor ol the
St. Louis Globe-Democrat, and his
sinter, have fallen heir to an estate in
the Canary Islands, valued at from
$10,000,000 to $30,000,000.
The Sultan of Turkey for the third
time auuouuoes his intention to in
crease duties 8 per cent. The powers
will address another note to the port
stating their objections to euch an In
crease. A party of three scientists have
sailed from San Francisco to explore
the unknown portion of Northeastern
Siberia. One object of their trip will
be to determine whether or not the
American Indian is descended from
Asiatic stock.
The mountain which overlooks the
town of Kluppi, In Bohemia, where a
landslide recently occurred, haa under
gone a seismio disturbance whiob ia
spreading throughout the entire prov
lUCe. Jlie lieiglllS Ol WIO oill!
i . rM i a. I. .
ISohemla
middle range are moving
anil hnnaal i
and churches have collapsed in Borne
110 villages. Railway embankments
have been moved, streams diverted and
roada sunk.
Mra. James G. Blaine is collecting
her husband's letters for publioation in
a biography.
Workiugmen in California are be
coming alarmed at the steadily in
creasing number of Japanese immi
grants. The Pennsylvania supreme court has
held that a company incorporated in
another stats and not registered in
Pennsylvania cannot recover in an
aotion at law.
I.EGIRA FROM JAPAN
How Islands Are Scoured for
Steerage Passengers.
PBOMISED JOBS AND GOOD PAY
10,000 Already Booked fur I'aelflo
Ooaet of America and Twice as
Many Mara May Coma.
Tacoma, April 21. According to an
0 fllcer of the Northern Paoilic steam
ship Goodwin, over 10,000 Japanese
were booked for passage to this coast in
Kobe and Yokohama, iu the two weeks
preceding the sailing of the Goodwin
from Japan. Of this large army of
coolies, over 8,400 arrived on the sound
inside of three days; the Riojun Mam
having 1,800 aboard, the German
steamer Milos 1,014, and the Goodwin
1,117, while the Rraemar is following
with 1,016 of them, and several other
ships clearing for Portland and other
porta containing the remainder of this
army of coolie laborers.
According to this officer, immigra
tion agents have been "working" the
agricultural districts of Japan for re
cruits, telling the Japs that all they
have to do is raise $00 in gold to be
transited to a country flowing with
milk and honey, and where every man
will be given an easy position at $1 a
day gold. To prove they are telling
the truth, these agents show letters
from Japs in this country and photo
graphs of them dressed equal to the
white merchants in the ports.
With such bright prospects in view,
the parents of a large family of boys
are induced to borrow money on their
farms, or to raise it by mortgaging the
earnings of the boys and the farm for
$00. The agent engages passage for
them in the steerage of some of the
trans-Pacific steamships for $30 each,
the balance being his commission; but
which he can only collect after the
emigrants have arrived in this country.
as the law requires each Japanese to
have at least $30 on his arrival here.
Not oue of these men come to this
country expecting to clear the forests
or to till the ground, but every one has
been led to believe an easy position at
good wages in white men's bouses
awaits him.
This officer says it something is not
done soon to check the influx of Japan
ese before the year is out at least 20,
000 more of them will be booked for
this coast, as there are fully 100 agents
in the various provinces ol Japan, work
ing up the lower class of Japs to raise
$00 each to reach a land where they
can make more money in one year than
they could in Japan in a lifetime.
ARREST OF STRIKERS.
Lively Iuy
t the Croton Valley
Dam.
Crolon Landing, N. Y.. April 21.
This was by far the liveliest day in and
arouud Croton valley since the strike
began, 17 days ago. The civil and mili
tary authorities played a very iinmirt-
ant part in the day's proceedings, and
ihe result ia that now 20 Italians are
behind prison bars awaiting eiamina
tion on charges of inciting riot and
with carrying weapons to inflict Ixidily
injury. Sheriff Molloy, of Westchester
county, secured 32 warrants for the ar
rest of loaders of tho strikers, and also
search warrants for the houses in the
Italian colonies where the laborers
live, from Judge Smith, at Sing Sing,
last night. This fact became known
last night, and more than 100 Italians
lied from their homes during the night
to avoid arrest. It was said today
that fully 150 of the men who had
struck for higher wages had gone to
New York and Syracuse, where they
have secured other places.
The sheriff, with a posse of 35 depu
ties, escorted by company D, of the
Seventh regiment, arrived at the Bow
ery aliout 9 o'clock, where they imnie
diately began a thorough search of the
houses for weapons and ammunition,
and whenever they came across a per
son for whom they had a warrant,
they plaoed him under arrest. There
waa not the slightest resistance made
except bv one man. Iu the Bowery,
nine prisoners were captured. The
sheriff then went to the other side of
the river and scoured the houses on
top of the bill and in little Italy. In
this round-up. which lasted nearly four
hours, 16 prisoners were captured.
Many of the most peaoeful of the
striking Italians are leaving town to
seek woik elsewhere. At 8 o'olock
this morning work waa resumed the
same as yesterday, but there were no
more laborers on hand.
Repairing- the Boston.
Washington, April 20. The board of
survey In the case of the United States
cruiser Boston has reported to the navy
department that the ship oan be re
paired at a cost of $175,000, or one-
balf of the original estimate, ana the
work has been ordered done a the
Mara island navy-yard.
Large Importation of Opium,
San Francisco, April 20. Th
t ,...., J,.-(o.lr,n ninm fal Mr.
rive in this port was that brought hero
" . ...
on the Nippon Maru. The opium it
worth $000,000, and the duty amount
to $200,088.
rood for Indian Famine SuXerere.
Washington, April SI. The navy
department has seoured a 5,000-ton
steamer to carry the wheat and other
food supplies collected by charitable
organisations in New York to the
plague and famine sufferers In India.
Spokane, Wash., April 21. The
trustees of the Spokane Exposition
Company have raised $42,050 for the
erection of a permanent exposition
bnilding this summer, and holding the
annual fair next Ootober.
TURKEY MUST
American Claims Can no Longer Ge Un
settled,
Washington, April 81. The news of
the firm attitude asaumed by the state
department toward the Turkish gov
ernment in the prosecution of its claim
for damages to American missionary
property caused something of a sensa
tion in diplomatic circles today. Three
successive Ameiican ministers have
prosecuted these claims; each received
a promise of prompt settlement, and
yet not a dollar has been paid. With
Kuropean diplomats that is an old ex
perience, and tbey have consequently
been somewhat surprised at the an
nouncement that the United States
government is actually going to insist
npon performance, instead of promise.
Minister Angell, after trying bis
hand at collection for two years, rec
ommended that a United States war
ship be sent to seize Smyrna and col
lect revenues at the custom-bouse there
sufficient to meet our claims. This
suggestion was not seriously entertain
ed, nor is it now. In the first place,
according to the state department offi
cials, the most Important business in
terests in Smyrna are in the hands of
foreigners, not Turks, and a bombard
ment by a United States fleet might
result In a pretty bill for damages
against ns. Then, as there is still a
remnant of a Turkish navy, the United
States would have to send a squadron,
instead of a single ship. Such a move
ment would, without doubt, be resent
ed by the remainder of Europe, which
could not contemplate with equanimity
an action by the Unltea States that
would perhaps destroy the. fruits of
many years' work of the greatest Euro
pean statesmen by precipitating a final
crisis in Turkey.
Therefore, the important step to be
taken by our government will not be
warlike, hnt will still suggest in a
most dignified manner the indignation
felt by the United States at the betray
al of Turkish promises. How this at
titude will bear upon the Tnrkish min
ister in Washington cannot be foretold
at this moment. He has so far abso
lutely been unentangled In the negotia
tions of the American claims, but that
fact might not save him from being
made the immediate victim of bis
country'! laches. The minister, how
ever, is very popular in Washington.
The proved claims against Turkey in
clude about $300,000 for the destruc
tion of property alone. To these,
which admitted of practically no dis
pute, there was added the Lentz claim
of $40,000, which was presented by
Secretary Olney.
STORIES OF REFUGEES.
Boers Said to Be Preparing vo Destroy
Johannesburg Mlnee.
London, April 21. A cable this
morning states that the Natal Mercury
publishes accounts of newly arrived
refugees, who tell of elaborate prepara
tions which are being made for tbe de
struction of all the shafts in the mines
around Johannesburg. The scheme is
being carried out under the supervision
of the state mining engineer, who has
requisitioned all the copper wire in the
town for the purpose of making connec
tions.
Weeks must elapse before General
Carrington who has arrived at Beira,
will be able to concentrate his force on
the borders of tbe Transvaal or ap
proach Mafeking. According to a
rumor in circulation at Lourenco
Marques, a Boer force has been sent to
intercept General Carrington, but it is
not thought to be of sufficient strength
to cause anxiety.
Aocording to a dispatch from Lady-
smith, dated today, the Boers are much
disconcerted by the present condition
of affairs. - Their fortifications and
forces, numbering about 15,000 men,
are spread over ridges in contempla
tion of a British advance through the
Waschbank valley north of Ladysmith,
which has not been occupied. The
Boer patrols are active and constantly
laying traps.
Day In the Senate.
Washington, April 21. In accord
ance with the recommendation of the
president in his message sent to con
gress yesterday, tbe senate today passed
a joint resolution providing for the ad
ministration of civil affairs in Puerto
Rico, pending the appointment of offi
cers under the Puerto Rican govern
ment law, recently enacted.
The Alaska civil code bill was again
under consideration the debate con
tinuing on the Hansbrough alien min
ers' amendment. Carter presented
formally his substitute for the Hans
brough amendment and delivered a
speech in support of it. Spooner antag
onised both the original and substitute
amendments, holding that the oourts
ought to settle the conflicting claims
without interference by congress.
Philippine Trlala.
Manila, April 21. The military
commission which tried throe Filipinos
at Loallamba for guerrilla warfare has
found all three guilty and sentenced
two of them to life imprisonment and
one to 80 years' imprisonment.
Major-General Otis has approved the
findings, but has reduced the sentences
to 15 years. Two Ladrones convicted
of murder have been sentenced to be
hanged at O'Donell.
Paper made from seaweed is so trans
parent that it la used for windows in
stead of glass.
Killed His Father to Save Hla Mother.
Anderson, Ind.. April 21. John
Rodmore, 64 years of age, was shot and
Instantly killed by his sou, Thomas E.
Rodmore, aged SO. The son claims he
killed his father to save his mother's
and his own life, both of whom had
been attacked by the elder Rodmore
with a hatchet. Mrs. Rodmore had
filed suit for divorce.
Infectious diseases are nnknown i !
arsenland, on account of the dry, cold
atmosphere.
CANNED ROAST BEEF
Philippine Army to B Sup
plied With It
FRESH L'EAT A NECESSITY
Impoialhltlty of Providing Cattle ea
the Hoot or Refrigerator Beef Car
der Existing Conditions.
"Washington, April 23. War depart
ment officials have been compelled to
resort to the use of canned roast beef
for the subsistence of the army in the
Philippines. This is due to the fact
that it is absolutely essential that tho
soldiers shall be served with fresh meat
and because of the impossibility of pro
viding refrigerator beef or cattle on the
hoof under existing conditions. When
the bulk of the army was located at the
seashore and at easily accessible points
there was no difficulty in providing
them with fresh meats, but conditions
have now changed, and tbe army is
satteretd among 160 points in various
parts of the archipelago, a great many
of them at considerable distance from
the nearest shipping point. There ar
no cattle available, and the refriger
ated beef which has heretofore formed
the principal basis of subsistence for
the troops cannot tie preserved in good
condition long enough to reach many
of the inland posts. Consequently it
became necessary to look for-some suit
able substitute, and tbe American
canned roast beef was the only thin;
found to meet the requirements.
The suggestions for its use came
originally from tbe subsistence officers
in tbe Philippines, and the chief com
missarr officer at Manila recently ca
bled a requisition for an immediate de
livery of about 100,000 cans of roast
beef anil subsequent deliveries at the
rate of about 50,000 cans a month
Acting Cominissary-General Webster
presented the matter to the secretary
of war with a strong indorsement of
the proposition. As a measure of ex
treme caution, however, Secretary Root
decided to get a personal opinion from
Major-General Otis before taking final
action. A cable message of inquiry
was forwarded at once,, and General
Otis' reply was received today. Ita
text was not made publio, but its gen
eral character may be clearly inferred
from the fact that instructions have
been sent to Colonel Alexander, the
commissary officer at Chicago, to ar
range for tbe immediate dispatch of a
large quantity of roast beef to San
Francisco for shipment to Manila by
the first available steamer. Special
precaution will be taken to secure the
best quality of beef and to insure its
proper care and preservation at all
stages of its long journey to the Philip
pines.
KISSED THE BIG GIRLS.
Charge
Made Against
Teacher.
a Retdvllle
Hillstioro, or., April 21. A sworn
complaint, signed by N. P. Oakerman
and 1 1 other patrons of school district
No. 29, directed against U. S. Mo-
llargue, the principal of the Reedville
school, was today forwarded to the
Btate department of publio instruction
at Salem, asking that the teacher's cer
tificate be revoked. The petition al
leges that McIIargue has been guilty of
gross misconduct, and that during
school hours be has been guilty of kiss
ing the older girls", much "to their dis
gust and annoyance, ' and, further.
that owing to this conduct, many of the
larger girls are remaining away from
school. McHargue is -chargd with
voting at a school meeting at a January
session, while his name does not ap
pear on the tax roll for 1899. One
singular statement in the complaint is
the allegation that at the March school
meeting the principal accused one of
tbe complainants of "killing his (com
plainant's) eldest son." For these
charges and others of like nature, the
petitioners ask that the state certificate
of McHargue be revoked.
Fight With Cattle Thieves.
Salt Lake, April 23. A special to
the Tribune from Thompson's, Utah,
says: Mr. Fullerton, manager of the
Webster City Cattle Company, yester
day discovered two men mutilating
brands on his cattle. They threatened
to shoot and he retreated. With tho
assistance of Sheriff Presse and posse,
the thieves were overtaken 70 miles
north of here and ordered to surrender.
The thieves showed fight, and were fol
lowed six miles further north, all ex
changing shots, one of the outlaws be
ing instantly killed. The dead man
answers tho description of "Flat Nose"
George, and investigation proves almost
conclusively that he is one of the men
that robbed the train of the Union Pa
cific railroad about a year ago. He
haa been brought to Thopm son's for
identification. Men are now on the
way from Cheyenne to identify him.
All Quiet at Croton Dam.
Croton Landing. N. Y., April 28.
Everything was quiet in the strike sit
uation today. The same men who re
ported yesterday to the summons of tbe
whistle at 7 A. M. reported for work
agian this morning, bringing a dosen
more with them. At the quarry 132
men appeared tor work.
Canal Bill Changed.
Washington, April 23. The house
committee on interstate and foreign
commerce today made an important
change in the Hepburn Nicaragua canal
bill, striking out the provision for for
tifications and thus providing what is
expected to become a compromise.
The amendment was pioposed by Rep-
I retsentative Barham, of California.
The chairman of the committee was in-
nwa ! J '? 9 Upn
jerationof the bill at the proper time,
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WESTERN GOVERNORS.
Protest Against the Leasing of Public
Arld Lande.
Bait Lake, April 28. Governor Lee,
of South Dakota, and Governor Povn
ter, arrived today and took part in the
proceedings of the governors of West
ern states, who have met to discuss
subjects of interest to this section.
After a general discussion, the com
mittee appointed to formulate resolu
tions against the leasing of publio arid
lands by the general government and
demanding the cession of such lands to
the several states should any change in
the present system be made, reported
the following, which were adopted:
"Resolved, That the people of the
states here represented are opposed ab
solutely to any legislation or any action
of any kind looking to, or having for its
object, the leasing of the public lands
of the United States by the general
government or auv angency thereof.
"Resolved, second, That the present
laws providing for the control, man
agement and disposal of the publio arid
lands of the United States are best
adapted to the needs and requirements
of the country, and conducive to the
settlement and oocupanoy thereof by
bona fide settlers.
"Resolved, third, That if it shall b
found that the present laws affecting
the arid lands are not satisfactory to
the congress of the United States, then
we favor a cession of the said arid lands
to the several states wherein they are
situated under such teis and condi
tions as will guarantee the benefits of
tbe free homestead laws to the people
of the United States, and that will pre
vent said lands either by fee simple
title, or by the leasing thereof from
passing into tbe possession or control
of large companies, syndicates, copror-
ations or wealthy individuals in large
quantities, to the exclusion of others,
snd nnder such conditions that the sev
eral states may have the ;ucome aris
ing from said lands to be devoted to
the reclamation and improvement
thereof for settlement bona fide citi-
cens."
Governor Lee, of South Dakota, was
the only one who opposed the resolution
His opposition waa simply because he
believed that the demand for cession
to the states should be put first. A
form of letters to be sent out to other
governors was adopted.
THE YAQUI WAR.
Mexican
Indian Rebels Still Full of
Fight.
San Francisco, April 23. Henry
Hoahstey, of Oakland, who has re
turned from the seat of the Yaqui war,
in Mexico, brings advices as follows:
The Mexicans sent out word that tbe
war was over, but at the same time
4,000 troops were hastening to tbe
fiont. The Yaquis have about 6,000
men under arms. They have Reming
ton and Mauser rifles and bows and
arrows. They have two cannons that
34 Yaquis captured from 200 Mexicans.
The Mexicans keep to the roads and
towns, while the Yaquis hold the Sier
ras. Mexicans estimate the Yaquis at
15,000, but the population of Sonora ia
at least 120,000, and half of them are
Yaquis. The Indians have a peculiar
system for keeping their treasury in
funds. The warriors alternate between
the firing line and working in the mines
and on the ranches. Tiieir wages go
to the common fund. Within the past
two weeks several engagements have
been fought in wheh tbe government
troops were generally victorious. In
a recent engagement between a party
of insurgents, the government reports
17 Yaquis dead on the field. Only one
Mexican, an officer, was killed, but
many were wounded.
NOVEL PLAN OF ROBBERY.
Chicago Police Have a New and Comp
licated Mold-up to Investigate.
Chioago, April 23. J. H. Smith,
president of an organization styled the
Industrial Trades Union, at 151-153
Michigan avenue, was arrested last
night, charged with robbery and dis
orderly conduct on a warrant issued by
Justice Martin, on complaint of Frank
Gustaveon, a carpenter.
Gustavson Bays he was suramond to
the offices of the union by a letter ask
ing him to aocept a position as fore
man over a number of oarpenters.
Gustavson said that after conversing
with Smith a few minutes, Smith drew
a revolver and told him to throw up
his hands. Smith, he said, then went
through his pockets and took $46 and
some valuable papers and told him he
would shoot him ndless he kept his
mouth shut. Two men, both of whom
wore stars, placed Gustavson, under
arrest, be declares, obeying Smith's
command. The alleged officers, Gus
tavson says, then took him into a hall
way, where they made him sign a pa
per, the contents or which he was sa
ble to read. Tbe alleged officers,
Gustavson said, gave him a dollar after
he had signed the paper and told him
to leave.
Gustavson then reported the matter
to the Central police station. Smith
at the station said be had never before
seen Gustavson. He will have a hear
ing this afternoon.
Norway Buying War Supplies.
Stockholm, April 21. The riksdag
has voted 8,000,000 kroner for ammu
nition and rifles, 13,000,000 for new
field artillery, 820,000 for volunteer
rifle associations, and has agreed to in
crease the new naval construction esti
mates for 1901 to 1,725,000 kroner.
Dose Was Too Strong.
Lewiston, Idaho, April 23. Mrs.
David Watson, an aged lady residing
six miles east of Lewiston, died at 10
'clock tonight. Yesterday afternoon
she drank half a bottle of cherry peo-
toral, and soon collapsed into an un
conscious state, from which she never
recovered.
New Yoik, April S3. Miss Mary
E. Dinse, of this city, jumped form the
Brooklyn bridge at 2 o'clock this after
noon without serious injuries,
MANY REBELS KILLED
A Bloody Week on the Island
of Luzon.
AMERICAN CASUALTIES WERE 25
General Pilaris Band Agala at Work
and Gave Sea Miguel Oarrlaa
a Three-Hoar right.
Manila, April 24. Last week waa
one of the bloodiest of the war since
tbe first day's fighting around Manila,
authentic reports, mostly official, show
ing a total of 378 Filipinos killed, 12
officers and 244 men captured, and
many more wounded. Tbe number
wounded is hardly gueasable. Consid
ering that the Filipinos entirely lack
hospital facilities, a great majority of
the wounded will die. Probably the
week's work finished 1,000 insurgents.
The American loss was nine killed and
16 wounded. Two sergeants and one
private were killed in ambushes, while
escorting provision trains.
The insurgents have been aggressive
in almost every province of Luzon.
General Piodel Pllar's band, numbering
800, which was out of sight for three
monins, ua leaner oeing reponea
1. 1 1 1 J 1 9 1 ... .
jtiueu, uiis reappeared in lie uiu neiu
about San Miquel. Pilar is supposed
to be again in command. He gave the
American garrison at San Miquel, con
sisting of three companies of the Thirty-
aria inianixy, wiw a uacung, urea
hours' fighting, during a night attack.
Tbe loss of tbe insurgents in this en
gagement is not inoluded in the forego
ing total, as they removed their dead
and wounded, but presumably it was
considerable.
Twenty-two Filipinos in the province
of Santangas attacked Lieutenant
Wende, who, with eight men, waa
scouting near 8an Jose. The lieuten
ant and five men were wounded, and
one private was killed.
Seigeant Ledonins, of the Thirty-fifth
infantry, waa badly wounded in an
ambush near Baliuag. Lieutenant
Batch, of the Thirty-seventh infantry,
with 70 men, had a five hours' fight
with 400 insurgents in the Kneva
Cacoras district. Twenty of the in
surgents were killed.
Colonel Smith, of the Seventeenth
infantry, who captured General Mon
tenegro and brought him to Manila, ia
in the isolation hospital, suffering from
smallpox. Colonel Smith's command
captured 180 officers and men with
Montenegro. Montenegro, who was
formerly one of the most dapper offi
cers in tbe Filipino army, looks worn
and baggard. He says he led a terrible
life for months, and he has offered to
return to the north with Colonel Smith,
to endeavor to persuade his former com
rades of the nselessness of opposing the
Americans.
One hundred escaped Spanish pris
oners from the province of South Luzon
have arrived at Manila. The insur
gents have 400 more Spanish prisoners
in that district. Recently the Fili
pinos destroyed several rods of the rail
road line near Panique, in an nnsuc-
cestful attempt to wreck a train.
DAMAGE BY FOREST FIRES.
Much Timber Destroyed and Probably
Idvee Lost
Winnipeg, Man., April 24. Exag
gerated reports of heavy loss of life by
forest fires in the southeastern portion
of the province are denied. A special
train from the scene of the conflagra
tion today brings news that much val
uable wood and timber has been de
stroyed, but there has been no loss of -
life. Another story says:
'Fires along the southeastern region
are still raging. The entrapped spe-
oial train succeeded in breaking through t
toe names, anu arrived wis morning.
Brought in with it were several strag
gle! s, found in a desperate condition '
near Vassar. These fugitives lost -everything.
All tell thrilling stories
of escape from death. '
"Besides immense quantities of lum-
ber and wood, two large lumbering out- ,
fits are known to be burned. The driv
ers and bushmen have scattered in all ,
directions, and out of 200 only about '
80 are known to have reached a place
of safety. The fatalities will not be
known until the contractors can call
the roll of their men. The total loss
is estimated at $1,000,000."
Not Afraid of stoglinb. Law.
Chicago, April 24. Earl Russell,
whose recent divorce in Nevada from
the Countess Russell, and marriage im
mediately afterwards to Mrs. Mollie
Cook, arrived in Chicago today, ac
companied by his bride. The earl
says he will leave in a few days for
London, regardless of the theories of
some English lawyers that his divorce
ia not valid tSere.
Bandit Fired Into a Crowd.
Eagle Pass, Tex., April 24. News
has readied here of the killing of Jor
dan L. Cook, at Aoatlan, Mex. Cook
was in charge of a railroad construc
tion gang. He was standing in a group
of a half a dozen men when a bandit
rode np and fired several shots into tho
crowd, killing young Cook. His
father, who is ex-sheriff of Maverick
county, Texas, haa taken the matter up
with the Mexican authorities.
Many Cases of Worthless Checks.
Chicago, April 24. The police aay
they have 18 cases against C. O. Charl
ston, under arrest on the charge of get
ting money from various persons on
worthless checks. He is said to be a
former member of the Nebraska leg is-.
Uture.
Detroit, April 24. Charles G.
Fleischmann, seoi etary of the Trust
Security Ss Safe Deposit Company, of
this city, hanged himself in ham to
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