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The Best Newspaper b tb ph that five tb nost tai frsht mi. Compare tbt WEST U2 with any paper la Polk eoaoty. trti i a--1 - - An Advertisement or--1 Which twtag wtaros U proof th) it it in the riglt plMu Tb WEST BIDS bring war. . . wjw v ZD 39. VOL. XVII. 1NDEPKNDKNCI2, TOLIC COUNTY, ''OUKOOX HATUttDAY, JULY 2t, IMP. FiTt Cent! Per Copy. NO. 920. r"" . , ....n.. r.miB-t pinr I MORI MEN ARC S lllllil ILUK . H 3 - ' THE KE17S Of HI LIK1 LAI R HIW. by Llama. T., wi demolished ' tyolon I St. Lout Transit Company refuse Parts Of the NeW to arbitrate mtth th striker. From All World and the Old. OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS Onmnrrkaaalva Ravlow t Ike Import Hi .llannruli of the Peat, Week CnHed front : Trlrgrapk ColMMtMO. American thlto wet successful at tb Pari touruauieut. An all day light between th Boer nd Biitlah at Platkop resulted ludeol ivly. . The niwalan minister at Pkta ta said to have been boiled to death by Roxer. , Ntn noose were entirety commuted and many other damaged by Ira at Dunsmulr, Cal. A German paper lay tba selser ol Kiao Choo hat caused the present iron- lie with China. Fir at Durant, 1. T., wiped out tb mater nortion of th town, canning a lost of 1100,000. All foreigner hav been removed from the town of Wa Chou, China, and are m! at Shaughat. tinita.1 States Senator John II. Clear. of Iowa, died at Washington City of heart disease, aged 75 yean. A larae mrt of th badness district of Frescott, Ariaona, were burued, canting a Kwa of $1,000,000. The steamer City of Topeka i rived t Kaattla fioiu Lvun Canal With l tween f750,0OO and $1,000,000 in gold duet trout Klondike. Twenty square mile of foretta were bonred by a fir started by a firecracker naar Grub Gulch. Cal. Tba loaa will be hnndreda of thousand. lienaral rain has fallen Over nearly all India during the past few deye and the prospects are that cropa hav im nianaa It im Droved. The fauiiue area haa generally been benefitted. Klght-boor alii fta for all mderground men at the United Verde mine and an WrMi of IS ver cent in wagea for miner in certalu portions of the in in were announced at Jeiome, An Advice were received from Sytlney that tribal wars are raging at the bu nion gronp. There hat been a fierce UttU IwtwMn the Marian (Hovs) and Malata tribe. Tb Wise on each side were beavy. Drnamite was exploded nnder a Transit oar in North St. Louis, and fnur uaatmnirere were Iniured. A an burban car. the only union line in tha ritv. aecidentlv ran into a striken 'tins wagon ami injured 12 ocenpanta, two aeriouely. m.h mA strike have been made on tba Koynknk. some claims staked ont yielding $4 to tb pan. Rnhliera held no an Illinois Central train iiear Faducah, Ky.. blew up tha express car and secured $10,000. The am Dress dowaiier has ordered the suppression of the Boxers and th protection of the legations ai ream. A Pullman car was turned upside ilnwn near Iteldin. Cal.. the nine oo- copanta were all more or leas injured. but none fatally. Thirtv-eix bodies, horribly disflg Brad, have been recovered from the bull of the steamship Saale, recently burned at Hoboken, N. J. County Commissioner Campbell, of Spokane county, Wash., was killed by n n. R. & N. Dasseueer train near Latah. Idaho, lie was crossing th track in a boggy. A flood of gol is pouring in from Alaska. The receipts of the govern- nmnt amsnv otlice at Seattle in the fls pl vflr' were $13,630,326. This month's recepta may exceed $0,000, 000. The Chineau government Is sorry for the nutent outbreaks, but holds the hlamable. The empress dow aiier says the attacks on Tien Tsin were tha remit of the bombardment oi lieu Tsin. Savaite of tha Caroline inlands at tacked a shipwrecked British crew, ailouslT woundinu two of the British, and were only driven off when an American cattle dealer came to the rescue of the Biitish. On the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. a deliberate attempt to wreck the Washington express, bearing $3,000, 000 in gold to the subtresaury in New Vrtrlr nntriA vp.rv near beinit successful at Folsom. a short distance outside of Philadelphia. The general freight agents of leading 'ivtrii mads have formed an amuse ment for the pooliutf of business. Joint agencies are to be established at Kan aa C'itv. Omaha and St. Paul. A joint agent will be placed in charge of the traffic at each of these cities Colombian revolutionists, nnder Gen i Juan B. Gonzales and Bunbn f'liam. have canturcd the bitv of i'ona yan, a capital of the department of fun,. On the march to i'onavau the revolutionists took all the cities near tlia Knadorian fioutier. including the Paport Tunico. Chicago Chlues. havlug just learned of th troubl in Chin, at grtly ' ciUd. ' Twenty persons wer prostrated by heat at Iiw York. Tupratnr .100 degrees. - Foreign rahli hav their guu trained on Ch Foo, In anUclpaUoa oi an outbid:. Fleet of th revolutlonlsU haa been captured by government for tn Co toniblan rabellion. Tha M ataal nlant of th Fdrl Ktl iiomiiaiiT. al Lorain. Pa., haa been dosed down, throwing 4,000 mu out of work. , Entire Business District , of Presoott, Ariz.i Burned. FEW BUSINESS HOUSES LIFT tlaay WtWinCMiMillf Haa Haw I'aaallaaa-'tai'rtlarjf's Ofll Veatut latUlio Ha VIum rail. Fntoott. Aria.. July 17.-A on of great desolatlou ami a leaung ui atglouni pervade this n t.xUy. ill .1... mmaina of 111 mlncliwl bUi- ni tha klWD la tOttWlUll wall and pile of oharnd and burning debri. Tiia flra which started at 10:45 .m,v. u.i ntht. was not nnd con trot until 8 o'clock Ihtt worotne. when th fighhar w eoualdambU ta in uImh. of tha name aDti blew k. k.iMi. n iU south aid of vy - 1:.1 .tM.1. nrevantlnsT the lire i ...u.ln thai street. Tbt) must IIVIU v I V" " w - ' . oouservativ aatimatesof th total losses ar from $1,000,000 to i.ow.wu. Tk. ..ii.irict smlirawa five blocks, In whluh were located h prin ainal marcautil hottMHi, both Uauks both telearauh onleet, th three news paper orlloea, four hotels, and every Li.... . wtanranl txceut OH iU .i. .i.iMa nHirvs of wlvate rest deuces. To add to th pviluij gloom, a high wind has prevailed all oay, sending amok, dust and tmrului embers In every dlraotlou, r quiring th greatest vlgllanc to prevent au- . .. " U ..I tl.d llmiina. OwllIU u.aia .i ...Mil ..w i vum umumi. v. - atatea 9,530 case, of which 6,802 war to tha chaotic condition eiUtiug tolay, faul It U imnosalble to'obulu au ncourats accouiit of th loss or ltKlividual iusur- ance, From interviews wuu iunw. T- tntnimni-ta. with 1.900 ottloer and men, tailed from Manila for Takn. Th hospital ahio lUlief tea alao teen tent to Taara. m: vjlnabetb O. Tolman, wlf ol (leueral J. C. Tolman, and a ptoner of 1859. died at bar bom in Aahland, Or., aged 71 year. At Nw York citr. Tarry McGovero. faatliar ataitrht charaulon of the World. defeated in three rourds, rrans r.rne, light weight champion of tb world. Kaallmr olnima ara to be arbitrated Ruaaia, United Htatea and England have finally agreed on a method of dis posing c; long pending isenring troubl. In Bombay. India, for the week end In. Jnl t. there were B.928 cat of cholera In the famine district, of which fl.474 wer fatal, and in the native MORI MEN NEEDED. the Oeasaa4 free All Parte ef tM rmilavla l.laatfs. . Manila. Julv II "More oldlerM la th demand which It coming to Uen aral Mad Arthur fnna aver? deoartiueul nftha lalamla. Henaul VUt ha VI workd to vlndlcat Usneral lwton'i tuilaitiant that I III) 000 trOOUt WOUld M needed to establish American aovarelgn- iv over th Phllinblnaa. Until tny altemnted to bold provinces of 200,000 or boo.oou hostile people wun uieut or two, the Ainericau coiuina art hardle taallaud tha sll of tllO l'hll Innlna itlanda. Tha nreseut fore ll . ' . . .L not large euough to garrison more man nan tna important wwiu, aun iu of tha moat itninrtaat islaud. niOU them Cabu. ranay, Hamar nd Uyt and th great Mohammedan empire ol Mindanao, ouly th commercial part are ocuuuiad. . " Hi Moro ar a cloud oa.Uw .bori. ton. The offloen best acqunuiod with eonditioua in Mindanao and V Hnia I.Uiula tall aha MMHManiuulauil ti.t til tV 0C4dr aertont f;ht.. tin rtr,a"1' tit. - II II ootnaa, tn two nviuiem 11 Of III BEUET of Repulse of Confirmed. Allies News AMERICANS LOST OVER THIRTY which are scattered iu imalt fkrvlnx, turn of them hundreds of inilnii a(wrl along- tlie coast of Mindanao, mu inland nearly at large a Luton, n.ay hav terloutwork. Th Morot are tighten hv nature, do not fear death, bav uisur sun, tlwuuh of makea. but do tha best exec rhra thaetaatl rrlaudly 1'Mnete Ott- , elalt Unlaratf Kill r rrlaae Taaa iHlulatr Wa't Nllaallaa. ; Wttliington, Jnly 18.Tha navy iiaiarl.i.,ant tl.la uuiruihif ntiwlvntl Old ulal couflrniatlon from Admiral Hemey ol tlia revere of the Milled forces at Tien Tain on tba nioriiiuu of the Ittth The dUnatcb.it daUMlCh I'oo, July IB. and aavt! ),.i,ri.i thai tha allied force at ffai the native city ,tii morning ol tlu txtt, i'.ttiiaalana i.u tit riuhl. with . iijaj.tr a nil iHn w 1 1 1. ,f. 1 hii lot of tit rtllled krrea I lvluu In the thick lunulas and cutting down soldier who natt through with their terrible krlses aud spear. GREAT WAR HAS OPENED. Uue: Ka-tlami, 100, Jncln.lUiu artil u v m Kin. 'I: Aiin.rt.-iin'- over oU! lint !..h oar 40! JaimJtwu 6H. tuullldlug oolonetl Freuch, "257" "Colonel Ltacuiii. Mnth luruntry. killed; also Captain Davis,, marine .V . nnriii. Canta n UihIkv. Llewteiiaute !T: Butli raml Leonard wouiided. iKVHtlUU I ..... 1 ,1.. ..... fatal. Joe Barton!, a wealthy tbveptnan of Weatfavll, Malheur county. Or., waa .nntrUntall killed while stacking hay nn hia ranch, baton struck DV a dorriCI f.rk. ona nrona ol wbion mercea au nack. TMirla. so miles southwest of Dl laa. Taiat. waa sweot by a cyclone, killing three personi. Two church. several dwelllnit house ana en im uiense amount of farm property wai destroyed Tha first anil for damage trowing ant of the Fourth of July street car ac eidant al Tacoma. in which 43 lives were loat. haa been filed by Harry Gaul, Inr tha death of his SOU Ham. for BO, 000. Many other inlt are expected. Viva Chinese ruiiimenU have been m-riarwl from Pekia to China llaU Po, on the Grand canal, the objective point of the southern extension oi ui voter movement. Shanghai and Ch Foo ar threatened, and an attack on New Cbwang it Unmintut. Ten thousand Boers ar massing near Pretoria, Demand for harvest bands in Kastern Oregon is enormous Mora soldiers ar needed for garrison duty In the Philippines. Chinese reformers ar using every n deavor to save tb foreigner. A mountain of eold bearinn quart a li said to have been found in the Bloc river district. A daughter of Theodore Havemayer, the sonar king, shot and accidently killed herself. Manila la now the counterfeiter') naradise. Blu snuo in making Ameri can dollars ont of .Mexican aouar. Anrfv Smith. TO vears old. waa struck with paralysis at Kalama, Wash., and when found had been four day witnout food or water Heavy rain storms are raging in Knrtharn Wisconsin. All railroads hava mffered from washouts. Hail did great damage to crops, It it reoorted that 10.000 Boers are nmnarinir to eniiurftte to America President Kruger will refuse to surren der until hia supplies are exhausted Theodore Grell, aged 60, an employ of th woolen mills at Oregon City, Or., wa accidentally drowned wnli uttumntiuor to set into a boat to row m lome The American bark McNear wa lost nn a reel near Lavsan istanu, aetu Japan. The passengers and crew spent tun h.ti nn tha water ana lanaea on Laysan island. Anmiral Rnvmonr waa compelled to hnot his own wounded during the re cent disastrous retreat of the Pekin re Hal avriAriitinn. Thev cref erred it to tortne by barbarous Chinamen Jiidae W. If. Wathlnitton, of Phlla rialnhia. a direct descendant of Angus tine Washington, latner oi veorge Waahimrton. is dead at Castle Creek Hot Springs, Arizona, of oonsnnrptlon. Ua 4K vaara nld and a laWTMr OI recognized ability. A Holland submarine torvedo boat may protect the port of Portland, ,Or Tun nf thfl new ones soon to be don structed will be assigned to tervlo ron the Pacitio coast, and on may come w the Colombia river. Tha Washington government will tak every precaution against violence w r'hinniia in the United States, which is intimated in so me lections, in order that the force of our demand for satin faction from China shall not be weak cued by counter claims Will Kad Only With Mraaklag aad re. tltlaalaa ar taiuata Ktniir. New York. Julv 18. A dispatch to the Tribune from London savs: A great war haa opened In China, with the Japaueae in the front line and with the heaviest rewrvet tiu mediately ivalUW. Three American battalions, At 7 in the evening an aliiwl attack- on tli native city was repulsed, with great lot. Kcturnt yet Incomplete detail not yet coullnnetl. 'Ki'.sir.x. ronsul-dencrtl (looduow cablwl to the tute department from Shanghai nuitiir tiulav'a date that thuie I uoth lug more to riort since hi cablegram nf tha lath lust. The i iHtwicn rvuorf til Hie attack on the legiition at Pekin aa .... I - at about to Irttlun. Sir. VUKMHIOW a statement la in direct contradiction of th Hbangbal ttory that all foreign cou Chinch bogs are doing great damage to Kansas crops. American trade with China it rhinflr in the region where the dis turbance is greatest. A atearn. automobile was built in Fmland in 1834. it wat regarded as a curiosity. An Oklahoma woman wants a di nrp rmcanse her husband had killed n man. After the 36th she drew the line. A music typewriter has been patent ed by a Worcester, Maw., man. The poorhonse at Wichita, Kan., hat been abolished by the county conimis tloners, there being , no more paupers in the county. James II. Eckles sayt bnsinea con dition are better than admitted, farm ers are prosperous, and trade will con tinue good. , Bev. Anson Phelpt Stoke, Jr., the new rector of St. Paul' Episoopal chuich, New Haven, Conn., it th richest clergyman in America, count ing hit wealth by million, A BirminBbam. N. Y., school teaoher whipped a school boy and exploded a torpedo. He may die. A tlx year old boy at Acorn Ridge, Mo., shot hia brother dead at tba re sult of a quarrel. , Japan ha appropriated 60.000,000 yen or war purposes. A yen it about the same at onr dollar. The Christian i'ndeavor convention in London will be attended by 10,000 delegates, 8,000 from America. Iwindon is crowded with Americans, I ami hotel keepers are reaping a harvest. Ti.fltifi with European countries will postpone until 1903 the exclusion of canned meat from Germany. Paving blocks made of glass refnse pressed into shape by a new invention are giving good satisfaction in Geneva. Official of big railroad lines at Chi cago tay the exonrsion business, both east and west, it heaviet than in yean. Ex-Governor "Bob" Taylor, of Ten nessee, baa closed a leoture tour in the West and it reported to have earned $80,000 abov hit expenses. agents, th total inturauc doe uot x ceed $350,000. At daylight this mnrnluii team were at work healing lumber to the public pitta, aud thi evening it i covered with tout and temporary frame build ings. Th occupant will be ready lor business tomorrow. Doth bankt have tecum! temporary ouarter and will be open tomorrow, Tb Bh!rd-Bur-n..L,, r.nnnaiiv will be open forbutl- BM tomorrow in tlmlr warehooae, two 1.1 a.. bat iMim til IiimIA. linn. W. A. Clark, of the United Verde Copper Compauy, who wa visit na tha workt at Jerome, wired a draft for $500. All th sufferer from th fire are provided with food, abetter aud nk.thlnir. and it is not thought any nn..i,u .uiatanca will It reaotred. The onlv business house remelulug in th tiiwn are (ioldwater Drue., A I'.UmWu and Mrs. K. K. Blaine, dry ..u. i,,,!, tkmuhartv. T. W. Otis aud J. I. Gardner, grocers, aud W. W. Roes and W. P. Covlllaud, drug More The expres otlice ud postofnoe were both out of the fire ttmlta, bot ths uttM ha.l a elate call. All the mall and effect were ready to toov at a moment' notice. The offloe of the supervisor of census for the territory was located in tha Prescott Natioual Bank building, aud contained all the official statlati. a of the census of th territory, but Uwy were removed to a place of safety. Th Western Union opened it office hi. mnrnina in a Brocery atore, and .k. tn.t,.l hua niienml tn otlice at the railroad depot. The electiio light poles and wire wer iu th burned dis trict, and the town will be tn darkues until they can be replaced. The com pany also owns the telephone system, and loses more than half it iuttru ments. kf an citizen who yesterday wcrs tnrtutilv fixed r today homeless .u.nnllaaa. a UtimW loHiOU both muM . - their bnsines place and Ihelr rest dences. An army of carpenter havi i.An i.nav all dar Duttliift np toiiMior .... .,.,.. raa. manv of which hav been completed and will open for bull mil tmnnrroW. Ol the three printing olllooe in town .11 .hat waa aaved was BbOIlt B0 caSel of type by the Courier. The destruc tion of the other was com plote . J . C xinin nmnrlatov of tb Journal Mn aavad onlv his books. Included tn hi. loaa waa a Memonthaler linotype in.tiiuri in the office only throe monthi aco. The two papers have already ....ita arrangements for contiuoing pnb iati.m although but little incuruixs ...rla,t l,T eithtr. Most Of tllO i,..,i.t nuurm will rebuild at ouoe. The origin of the fire wa unknown .,ntii this avenlns. when it was learned that a man rooming over the bottling nfV...i lvlmr In bed reading by candlelight when a piece of looae paper the. wall canuht fire. He rau out .iu tha alarm, aud before others reached the place the Are wa beyond control. Mora llallii In T.iaa nail t. Tex.. Julv 17. Northern T.a. hat hnnn rielussd bv rains for mm than 12 honrs. and the inaioa tinna ..a that the tor in haa only be .nn. Tha downrxmr at uhiihb waa ir rifln Rtreama are swollen sou num. ar delayed because ol washouts Vminottown. O.. July 14. The severe storm last night canned a sud 1 den rise in Mill creek, sweeping away la bridue and washing out railroad tnnk. uiiMiiiir duuiiiiro amountiug to 1 $50,000. - 100,000 Fruit Flrt la California. Newcastle. Cal.. July 17. Fire to .la flnatrovad all the fruit houses and leadine business houses of the town. Tha lnat will exceed 1100.000. Over inn.ooo boxes of fruit were burned The Southern Paciflo Compnny wai the heaviest loser. Their lost in fruit in Aart and rolllna stock is estimated at $35,000. Some women amount to nothing out tide of their oh arch. All Korelt.r. Killed. Shanahal. July 17. An official iele oram was received touicrht fioin the governor of Shun Tun stating that a breach waa made In the wall of the British legation at Pskln after a gal lant defense, and when all the ammu nition had given out. AU foreigner! were killed. a a five m . ...... . - - - and about 13.000 Japanese troopa, hav ,u, srM infurmod Haturday bv Hhug reached Tien Tsin since th two battlei imt th legtini4)iad falteu and the were fought, ao that the allied force minUteii were killed, now arcrtte-ate 95.000 men. with con- without excentlou tlav th foreign tlngenta slowly drtbuliug Into Taka. , Wieuttive lu VVashingtiu aocoptud war naa not oeen lurinaiiy practically certain iuhi nn mreinH but It I in progress, with every Indira- lauatlon aud mlnUten at Pekin have tion that it will continue indefinitely i, wimid out. The opinion U batwi uutil the uoverninenl now in rower Is ... tha aneHiunlailna unofficial data overthrown and tha empire broken up that the alauithter oin urred about July into a serif of European aud Japanese g or 7, Even among the high Chinese province ami ini)u!rBHia. ma olllclall IKpe ime oeeu imiui kitwu treat of the allied forces from Tien Tsin . !, malnUIn that there Is no oltl would be followed by outbreak against 0Ut information, ami thnt they ar as the foreigner In all the province. m.n iu tha M othert They are com pel led to halt where they are and to bold their groun l.by hard fkhtina. and a rainnalun ben on with no other motive uower than that of cnrtua veiia-auce and renaration for tb mttsaore of the leuttiont will involve sacrifice and expenditures for which territorial concession are IndUpeiia Die. This It not the American view, but the Kuaslan. Jananree. German. Ital Tha situation aa a telling effect on theChlueae minister, who is under m,rvrm. tellkinU ttlll lttOII UlOre tavara than that of the American off! eials. He it seeking to ihow lu the pret ant acute critit that no matter how bad condition may be In China, be It not tha lata aux out to serve the American .la and iravermimut. for be has - ti.vn tmsat nrme in me aiumr ixsik'h al relation twitwewn him and tlie poo- LIQHT PEKIN. Ware temlalitrallaa Arraaaat le Oal THroyia. Waahtnulun. Julv 19. A decidedly more hopeful teeilu with regard to the Chinese tttuation wat aptreui lu all sdmlnlstrstlou clrcl this evening. The tide of teutlmeut, whlcU naa oeen markedly nesslmlttlo, turned with the aunouncfment of the victory of the allies at Tien Tsin, and the capture ui the forts and native city, and gam, furthar tirnirth from Minisler Wn't cablegram declaring that the forelmi minister at Pekin were saie joy t.i.ia fM.. tliaa nisiittches. the ar rival of the president end tb special cabinet meeting caiien 10 coutiaer i. itnatlnn ware the features of the day. Th cabinet met at 2:30 thli afternoon, la.a than an hour after til prtsioeni ....i.i tha Whlta House. Over 100 newspaper ineu thronged the corridor ultll. .I,a AalklltHE Waa BlltlUH ,n-l,.M. closed door. Th on rmblel the i...ti... iaa nl tha Wnauish war. There ........ . - "w ll.watarUa liar. 1.00 1. bOUg. g anrt ewnaaiti ; Kmith. At the oonclnsiou of tn o .l..n whlnh laatad two and hall hmirs. iiacretarr Hoot ttllV OOt til Uii lnwliia formal atatemeut of the action nt tha eahlnnt! ' ' "The president bat determined that tha facu known to o do not require or justify calling an extra session ol nnnuress. Should lulure ueveiopmeuis Indicate t' k r I unable to do what is reuulred wiwi the means now at hi command, aud th action of congress it natsarv to famish either men or money or authority, he will not hesitate tn eall it toaether." Tha . anlaion that an extra session oi congress waa uot demanded by existing condition wa the outcome of the showing which lath Secretory Itoot and Secretary Long mane a to toe force that can Im thrown into China without the authorisation of additional Ih.hu li nniivraat. and also the decid- edly more hopeful feeling entertained by the president and member oi nis cabinet a to the , safety of Minister Conner aud the other foreiguer in Pekin, due to the cable of Minister Wti, reporting the safely of the minis ters July 9, two days after their re ported massacre. While thi cable it not regarded a conclusive, it i ac cepted in good faltMor th present. ' CAMPAIGN IN CAVITE. urn mwi fill TRADE. Chinese Army li Bursting Its Bounds, f ATTACKED CAPITAL OP AMUIR It It rraalleallr Oetlarallae ef Wai Agalaal the tsar Ueveraatea attlaat Have , T-PkMAjitt .1 nltf 1 II. a Th Daily Mall M.ll.haa a aanaatlonal dlSUBtcb from 8t. Petersburg, dated Monday, which atsit tliat there I no aouut ui China bat declared war against Kutla. The Kuian prees," say tlie wire tpondent, "l restricted to the pnbllc- Mnn of irflolal details, ana tue iiuiuita- tinn ( an dianetobe f torn the fron haa haan nmhlhitad. I liear. however. from a rellewe eeurot, ta tww,a ami ska Itnaara taltad a Uessitn transport vessel laden with monitions tt Ariagon (on th Amur nver, auuot in.iiaamm tha liuttitn. frontier), killing almost tb entire Kusaiau escort. They next oddniy atucKeo ann om barded the town of Bltgovettcbneak, nanllal of th lulf' BOVmUieUt. OB the Amor river. The garrison beldont bravely, but wa finally overwhelming ly overpowered. Nearly all perished aud the town waa trorneo." Ian and French, who already hav their U ham. Minister Wti declare uu- eyet fixed upon futnr-riTirti?n.TTrnT) t ,irljJ", Tu i "thn vuole rejairt that counneat. and tlie Knallrh will flu ! an India in Central Asia. A rrtaaa eflasialt Baltimore. Julv 17.-M'utr'.v anl ill-health drove I-oul. Fimin, a thoe- niaker, ttnlay to kill hlmsilf. hia wifn and 18-mouths-ohl Ube with a mior aud to wound his lil year-ol'l ou. The traired v o-cunetl In l .ast Liexliig' ton street. The corpse of Fieen wai found lying in the middle of the floor with the bead almost severed from the body. The body of Mrs. Fisen lay across a mattress in the corucr of the hmhii. her throat cut from ear to ear. sud the infant's body was lu a bahy currlHue btblud th (Minuter. A inert pitiable aud iliNtressiug tight wat the little boy, II arry, standing nonr the IhhIv of his dead mother, with lilood stream Inn from a gusli lu hi throat. The hov wna mint to a hospital, wnut the physicians hojie to save hi Ire. from Manila tu I'lilna. Manila. July 18. Two battalions ol the Koiirleenth Infantry and Daggatt's hutterv of the rum artillery, win Imhvh fur (,'lilnii tomorrow bv the trans' isirts Indiana, Fllnlshlre and Wyefluld. 'I leexuiMlitiou. which win joiu tut Ninth iufaiitrv. will curry 600 rounds of ammunition to a man, and a reserve nf l.ooo.OOO rounds, together with medical subsistence, stores aud cloth ing for 000 muii for three months. It will take also two seven inch mortars and two tlx inch howitzers, with am munition. The hospital ship liellef is guiug to China. Assault on Kaasas I lly Chinaman. Kansu City, Mo., July 18. In cdiiHud at the Boxer news a crowd of man mid Imjv fathered about the Ihuu dry of Ah King, a Chinese luuiidrymau, and started a domonsiration that oau d 81nu to call on the police for protec tluu. The crowd passed the time throwing etouos into the laundry and calllnu out to the Inmatus that thoy would kill them. A sqmid ol ponce illsoerned the crowd quickly, aud, l.u Un...t.ir 1,1 IuIol'1 IllllS ailil IMIStl ti t-haiigbai. know of th killing of the Talntxwra-at th time ne inaie t im -t tnastwri inu lurrigueia oe tveotied out of pekin It the allied force . mi,! not advait' . a a matter oi it Minita Wo slate that the Lhl ni-Timrtat7trWrwftwtter meant of learulnif the truth of a ft sirs In Pekiu ti..n tha fureiiruert. as ali the usual muana of comuionlcatiou are suspend ad. But he Points out that hheng could not have kuown of the death ol ti, fnraluuer. viae he would not nave nisde a proposal that the foreiguoi be escorted out of the city, mis initei It cmisldered pnxif positive hy sir. wo that Sheiig considered the foreigner alive. Hiialnatt lrriiiltl by Nlrlka. at. liiu i. Julv 18. in ixmis T.utit Com ia ii v today tiled lu the Mtv register' olllre its returns of trips mid passenger for tha quarter ending ...... i i . .. , tuiiH HO IHSt. as miuireu ny iw Thnta reiK.rtaaro particularly Interest (mi nti ahowluir the decrease iu the ... ----- - OOinpBliy IH'slliess, caused oy iiio .irika. Dnriufi the llrst three month of this year, before the strike wa In ,r..t.ui tli a iriuiHii omimiiv. ao MHUIfltw.,, - . cording to Its returns, curried 27,058, liHS nasaoni;er. it cur mating i.bui, 835 trip, iu o doing. According to Its returns for the three months ending Juno BO. it cars made only 447,U4 trios and carried 13,733,631 passcu gore. Hurt by Failing Walls Chcugo, July 18. Nine persons wen Inlnrail. one fatally, by fallinu walls In a lire caused by lightning tonight at Mich ltfHil street ana ueiiroorn avenue. Hubert McHny will die. The totul damage amounts to nearly inn nno. 1 enrv r. viiiiemeyer iin . uroorlotors of the brooni com fao tory, eKtiniftte their loss at $150,000, aud J. Dreyfus & Co., luiriers, atao,- 000. At tha inatiirntion Of SiDtf. .Who i 0116 01 Attaii.pt to Wreek a.t Train. the most Intel iireut oi me several mm-1 jniiotior- city, wan., juiy j i. ju MmA nhinnan in Kansas ' MiT. cimr'U t .itnn.nfi v.s -i i le to wreck and prob .. . ii i .... .1 n..i. li....lfl ii,..-M the mace aurina ui uikih. ; nil v to rou vr ouwu i wiuu Vlolane ta Italian' Ml. .Ions. Rome. July 17. The.lfaliaa consul tt Shanghai cables that the Italian mission in Ha Hun has been destroyed aud Hishop Fantosttti and two misslou- aries killed. He also report thnt th Itallun tnlasions in Ilo Nan and liup have been assaulted. Tornado Struck tlano, Tat. Austin. Tex.. July 17. A tornado truck Llano, a town ol 2,000 inhabit ants, demolishing th depot and sev eral houtet, Many person received injuries. rira at HI. Paul. St. Paul. July 18,-Fire thin after noon destroyed five large and three small buildings formerly used ty tn Chicago Great Western railway as re pair shop, at South park. Just outsid th city. About 800 carload of shin gles were burned, The loss I estimat ed at $200,000. There waa a high wind blowing, and the flamea spread from the oil house to the adjoining buildings and freight oars, of , which there wa a great number in the yard. The blaze lastod four hours. The shops had boeu used us store house by the c.ucf Khiiiirla Comnunv. and 000 oar- loads of that product were in ine uuuu lugs. ; - Mora Troopi for China.. Chicago. July 17.-The depot bat tallon of the Fifth United States in fant, stationed at Fort Sheridan, ni received orders to go to China. With in two weeks the other two battalions of the regiment are expected from rinda A wnek's test will be allowed them, and then the entire regiment will start for China about (our nrvlos this sldeof Manhattan tMi avonimr. Hie twitch wut turned bat the engineer succeeded In stopping the train bufore it imd gone out a hnrt distance in on the siding. A gun, dynamite and a bottle, supposed tn nnntain uitroBivcerine, were louna hidden under a pile ol old ties. Cloudburst In Texas. Coleman. Tex., July 18. Fifteen lives are known to have been lost iu a cloudburst here today. , Ten bodlei have been recovered, but only two were liinnHflAd. It is feared thnt many ninra Uvea were lost iu the valley be low Coleman. The cloudburst, wnion followed throe days' unprecedented rainfall, caused Fonl'i crook to burst Its banks aud rush through Coleman, a villain of less tllRU J.UUU 1U1IIIU1 tiints. Tha War In Ciilinnlila. Wnsliinirton. July 18. Dr. Louii Pn i on. M a vn utiZ. cluirue d'affaires ol the Colombian legation, today received a oabloizram from the Colombian con sul at Curacao, informing him that thihanf the revolutionists had been oantnrad bv ' the Colombian govern- mo.it in the ooinion of Dr. Curvo- Msrquez, this reverse destroys the last hope ot the revolutionary party. Now York Prostrations. Maw Ynrlr. Julv 18. About 20 PC'' sous were prostrated by heut, which today registered 100 deg. in the tun. Uvasral (Irani Mamas Caplala llolllt laa act. Washington, July 19. Rilgadier General Fred D. Grant, United rotate vnl.mtaara. in tuhuilttlnU to the War department an Intereitlng account of tha Ituhtlnif around linut, In Cavlte province, from tieptoiuber 20 lo October a i.at ninaaa bv aavinu: 'All the ofuoeri and men under my nniiiiu and behaved well tn all engage- i.,nta nnlaaa 1 exceut the uioveuieiit nf Cantaln llolllt' battalion of the Fourth infantry, from luius, on Octolier a hi,h aa uot well conducted. Bom deserve especial mention for their knuar and annrffV. Amonar tlieae I would mention Captain lleilly, of th Fifth aitillery, ' wno conouctea in move auainst iilnacayan, . October 0; Liantanant Kiiatseniliue. my aid-de camp, who oomniauded the scout dur ing the whole time; Lieutenant teuton l iril, navatrr. aid.de CB1I10. who COU duoted a coinpauythiough from Ilaotxii b, in.ni fh'lnhar 2. and wa much ex posed in the fighting which occurred October 2, 8 and 6, ami t upuui Cowles, who commandod the rewn-1 ntissauce. October 8. which resulted in a fight at Ht. Nicholas. Mainr lee aud Cantalua King and l'liller. of General Law ton's staff, who were with me on Oolober 8 and 0, de serve special mention for their gallan try, aud my personal thanks for tue assiHtanoe they rendered me." 'Naw Vork Bwallarad. Naw York. July 19. There wa no relief for suffering New Yorker today. In (act, it was hotter this afternoon than yesterday, aud there was scarcely any breeae. As was the case yesterday, many busluesa houses were compelled to close early in the aiteruoon, ami ii was impossible for tailoring men to work lu the street after 9 o'clock. In Greater New York there were about 85 -iises of heat proslrations. Five per- mis died from the effects of the heat aud one person, who had been over come and taken to a hospital, commit ted suicide. Olllolully, the mercury wuged from 09 to 100 degrees between tha hours of 10 A. M. and 6 P. M. but many thermometers at difforeut potuti throughout the city reglitered a nign as 100. . Horaa del Toro llattroyed. Ktmraton. Jamaioa. July 18. A let tr from Atrato. Colombia, say Boca del Toro hat been visited by a terrilio galo, which destroyed many buildings ami bauana plantations. Immediately aftor the L-iile a fearful lire swept the tnwn. dARtiovinir its finest buildings The Bitunttou is said to be desperate, the people belngjkniiffaU1 Varl.hail In Utah Uatarl. Williams. Aria.. July 19. Word laaehnd here today of the death of J. M. Meueck, upon the desert of touth ern Utah. Meneok, who wub an eugi neor and miulng expert, aud a repw tentative of the Smithsouiau institu n,, inft here June 21 In company ,,th fnnr nthnra for southern Utah in quest of the far famed lost copper mine timt wut ii aimed to nave neen visnou by one of the party, E. R. Good. riaaji of Kattlaat. I Ann. JnlT 19. The IMW of th Mannhnria dlaturbancei ll not regarded a. inatifvinu the ae riots view attribut ed by the Daily Mail's advice. Amur ta boundary territory between Mtiern uiu.1. .nil t.n, hurla. The district mmm w - - haa been tb scene of local dlttui ban ces for a long tlm. owing to provocative conduct of tb Cossaoki . toward the 28,000 Cbtnee euiplov,ed in ne con ttruotion of the RutwMancburian railway. ' , Several collision bav occurred t" tween the Cowacks and th' Chinese troopi. One happened leveral weeg airo. when two Kustian omcera anu i. men wer killed. The extension of the Iloxer movement to Manchuria has re sulted in great destruction of the rail way, compelling the itusslau to with drtw tholr official. Tb Chlne-e tried m .inn the Itnasian steamer Michael. carrying ammunition, and tbe (teamer Selonga, with tn itusaian , immwr ooiumistion on board, from paasing np th Aujur at Igun. They fireo on tne tteainert, wounding an officer 'and few men, but the steamers reached ui.unvMti'hnaak. The local commander at Arlaimn aeenis to have tent the . . . . . Russian sort of ultimatum to quiet Manchuria. The Chinese, aooordlng to tbe Daily Mail' St. Petersburg correapondent. have thrown up , fortification and placed 40 gum tt a point li mile from Ariagon, to dispute toe passage oi tin Haitians. Tbe official Kusaiau adivoes leave tb Inference that B'-v--tobt k It still la Rnesiaa btttS-. w .-- tosses during tb bombardment being only three killed ft id five wounded. The Amur military dlttrict w mobilised tt fortnight ago, on a war footing, and it i believed that th Russian force there are 50,000 men and 1 Haunt. The ffovernor-Keneral ha now ordered the troopi on tbe frontier to form a cordon. Tb Russian ptr demand retribution for Chinese uda city in Manobnria, but they hold to the view that Rusia must persevere in ber resolution to avoid wai . me uuincse minister in St. Petersburg ha disavow ed the eventa in Manchuria, on behalf of bis government, nd bai promised to make serious representations to Pekin regarding the consequences that will follow it tlie hostilities there be continued. aaroaaaat ef Toae, author Tfcaa ef llotaaed. . Bradstreet'i says: While trad I til. oal of mid-summer volom. th beginning oi Improvement in detiaad are annarantlv becomiotf visible. The Improvement it ttlll one of tone, ratbw than of demand, but with ylew oi 640,000,000 buthels of wheat. ntt lo record breaking yield of corn, and a very large iroiortion of oats, the west crop situation oontaiua uiany eu eouraging features. The foutbern cot ton crop hat undoubtedly unred, tna condition! are unprecedeutedly low for thi teaaon of thv year, but the acreage planted wa a large one, and price are so moen nigner tnas a factory fluanclal return la confidently looked for. The effort of tbe big Iron nd neei eonoern to control price, u ret 1 17 made, baa proven abortive, and another wlioleeal slashing 01 quotation w be reported thi wek. , 1 M UMBStrlal tUUatlOU It raw ueir tat M twnltof ggfetMW trpni wat k a tnnliw of iron and steel manu facturing concerns and their employe. Lower prices for lumber are sppar anil tndncin- more activity in build ing, though bow much 1 due to tbit or bow wocb to tb settlement 01 laour dftturbance 1 hard to measure. . Wheat, inolnding flour, ahipmenta for the week aggregate 2,829,910 bosh- tit, against 8,Olo,Ba4 nuanuie . V9ka Buslnes failures in the United States Bomber 221 at compared with US latt Bo'tine failure in the Dominion of Canada number 83 ,aa compared with fS laat week. A CHINESE REFORMER. ' . . Luna Kal Chu't ldaa or Oovorning Worried to Death Over the Haitaare n ... Ta .Tnlv 10. John 11 ni.,.1... . nMimliiniit lumberman, died ruvjuii - today of apoplexy, attributed to worry tha f,.r. nf relatives iu ream wuu V v via wv - DiiAHts of Minister Conger't lamiiy at the American legation. MuiHiiY. N. S.. July 19. A cable (mm Knnth Africa reports that 1 ......... itarnhl Horded, of the Caua : ... "... .,.. j dian contingent, nao oeen auieu u tion. He wut the only son of F. W. llordon, Canadian minister of militia. Missing Man Beard From. TH.nnlv Aria.. July !. .IOI1U Meeker, who disappeared from here four vears aao. and who owned consid erable land at that time, hat been beard from in Arkansas. At the time of hit disappearance blood wat found in his room and hit wife wat suspected of murder. ' Proof was not tumcieni, but the lost the property to eastern heirs, after a bitter fight, t Meeker says he wut luffering from sunstroke when he left home and knew nothing until a few months ago when be found him ttlf in a California insane asvluqr Ika Kiuplr Honolulu. Julv 12. via San Fran clsco, Jnly 19. Long . Kal Chu, the iintad Chinese reformer, on whose bead a TPWH rd of 105.000 it offered by the amnraat dowaiter. has returned to Hon ninln from the Island of Maui. The reformer ha been in tlie islands about thro months, oniaultinit the Po Wong movement, which has a it object tna overthrow of the empress dowager' twuima and the re-insUtemeut of the vniiiim anitttror. Societies have been organised here and a large amount of monoy raised, in speeding 01 now Phina mav be aoverned in the future ha aulii: Tha nnnnina nu of China so that tha Chinese mav be able to aaaimilate foreign ideal of progress and that all forelirner may share witn tne ninese in development of the wealth ol this vast empire, the power in phina must be centraliaed to prevent, jealousy amonii factions, and for the best inter ests of China and tlie world the em- peror should be reinstated. "Last year the United State pro nnmd to the other rower to open up China and to proteot her territory from partition. Such a oourse win oe lound most beneficial and a policy moat ap propriate to modern civilisation." Kainaatla Hollered. : ' Fumsn, July 18. Kumassie has been relieved by the command under Colonel Witlock. , : ' : Antl-Ghlufte Biol In Vlrdan. Virden, 111., July 19. Enraged at the newt from China, a mob today at tacked a Chinese laundry here and de molished the entire front of the build ing. Six thott were fired at two Chi nese laundrymen, but without effect. No arrests have yet been made. ' Joseph Real, a white man, died in Toledo, O... from lockjaw, resulting from bite received in an assault oy a negro, llaiey Kaveue. Panama Threatened. Kimmton.' Jamaioa. July 19. Fur ther newt from Colombia i to tbe effect that ud to July 13 Panama waa tin hld bv the eovernment. The rebel in the vicinity were espeoted to begin operation won. ine govern ment troops have been strongly rein foroed by drafts from Colon, but it' it tha onneral oninion that the rebela can taka Panama any time they like. It it rannrted that the rebel are led by an Amarlnan military expert. The gov eminent it in dreadful strait for food with whloh to teed tbe troop, and l seizing cattle from lesldent, Ninety person were made eerionsly 1)1 at Hhelne, Westphalia, Germany, owing to tbe eating of diseased horseflesh. PACIFIC COAST TRADE. oatllo Mark ola. Onions, new, ltc. Lettuce, hothouie, $1 per crate. Potatoes, new. lc Beets, per sack, 85c $1. , Turnips, per sack, 75o. Carrot, per sack, $1.00 Parsnip, per aok, 60 75c. Cauliflower, native, 75c. Cucumber 50(8600. Cabbage, native and California, ll.00fjl.25 per 100 pounds. Tomatoes $1.25. v Butter Creamery, 23c; Eastern 22c; dairy, 17 8 22c; ranch, 16 17o pound. Egg 24o. Cheese 12o. Poultry 14c; dreaoed, 14916c; spring, $3.60. Hay Pnget Bound timothy, $11.00 9 12.00; choice Eastern Washington timothy, $19.00. Corn Whole, $23.00; cracked, $23; feed meal, $23. Barley Rolled or ground, per ton, ton - ' . .a. Flour Patent, per barrel, s.ou. blended straUhta. $3.26; California, - bam, per barrel, ia.lKi; wuoie wneat Sour, 13.00; rye flour, $3.8094.00. MUlatuffs Bran, per ton, ib.w; iborta, per ton, $14.00. Feed Chopped feed, $19.00 per ton; middling, per ton, $20; oil cake meal, per ton, $30.00. Fraah Meats Choloe dressed beef teer,prlce 7&o; cow, 7c; mutton 8c; pork, 8c; trimmed, uc; veai, s 11c. ' - llama Lanre. 18c: email, lSU; breakfast bacon, 13c; dry aalt sides, Sc. Portland Markal. Whaat Walla Walla. 55(4560, Valley, 60c; Blue tcin, 69o per bushel. Vlonr Best irradea. $3.20; graham . . $2.70; uperflne, $2.10 per barrel. Oats Choice white, 85c; choice gray, 83o per bushel. Barlev Feed barley, u.outsio.ou. brewing, $16.00 per ton. . MUlatuffs Bran, $13.60 tou; mid dlings, $19; iborta, $13; chop, $14 put ton. ? . iiaTTimothv, SlOfitll: clover,7(fl 7.60; Oregon wild hay, $097 per tou. Butter Fancy creamery, aoitfiut, ttore, 25o. Egg 170 perdoien. Cheese Oregon full cream, . 13o; Young America, 14c; uew cheese 10c per pound. Poultry Chickens, mixod, $3.00oJ 8.50 per doaeu; Iioiih, $i,60; epiius, $2.0O8.50; geese, $4.005."0 for old; $4.6096.60; ducks, $!M)0(g4.00 per doaen; . turkeys, , live, UdiUo per pound. ; Potatoes 40 60o per sack; sweets, 9op'Poun, Vegetables Beets, $1; turnips, 75c; rr aaok: irarlic. 7o per pound; cab bage, l40 per pound; parsunis, i; onions, 1 Jio per pound; carrots, $1. Hope 2 80 per pouna . Wool Valley. 1516o per pound; Eastern Oregon, 1016o; uiohair, 26 per pound. 1 . ', Mutton Gross, Dest suoep, wemen and ewes, 840; dressed mutton, 79 7)o per pound; lambs, 6,0. Hogs Gross, choice neavy, o.uoi litfht and feeders. $4.60; dressed, $5.00 9 6.60 per 100 pounds. Beef Gross, top steers, 4.uug ; cows, $8.5094.00; dressed beef, 6K9 7o perpound. Veal Larue, 6a74o: smaii, e SHoper pound. aa fraaolteo Markal. WnnlRnrlnir Nevada. 139150 pel pound; Eastern Oregon, 109 15o; Val ley, 18 9 20o; Northern, 109 12o. Hop 1899 crop, lioiao pei pound. Butter ranoy creamery joisiwu. do seconds, 18)o; fancy dairy, 17o; do seconds, 159 16 Ko per pound. Eggs Store, 15o; laacy ranon, 18o. , 1 " ' MUlatuffs Middlings, $17.00 9 2Qj.00i.bran, $19.50913.60. Hay Wheat $6.60 910; wheat and oat $6.0099.60; best barley $5,009 7.00; alfalfa, , $5.0096.00 per ton; straw, 259 40o per bale. Potatoes Early Rose, C0 05c; Ore gon "Burbanks, 80o990; river Bur banks, 86985o; new, 70c $1.25. ' Citrus Fruit Oranges, Valencia, $2.7698.25; ; Mexican limes, $4,009 6.00; . California lemons 75c9$l,50j do choice $1.75 9 2.00 per box. ' ' Tropical Fruita Bananas, $1,609 1.60 per bunch; pineapples, nom inal; Persian date, 6960 pel nud. '