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Newspaper Page TextAn Advertisement Which bring rttnrnt id proof thai it U in tbt rglt place. The WEST bID bring m vert. The Best Newspaper It tbt out thai giHi tbt not! and freshest newi. Com pis r lb WEST HIDE with toy paper io Polk county. VOL. XVII. $1.50 PER TEAR. IN1)EIM2XI)EKCK, POLK COUNTV, ' OUEOX, Fill DAY, H KPT KM I! Kit 21, WHO. Five Cents Per Copy. 2s O. fill). Bll! .11.1.1 I I'M 1. U I. M' ' 'I ,,,. From All Pari? or the New World and the Old. OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS Comprehensive Review f the Import ant Happening, nt the l'ntt Week tulll t'rtmi the Telegraph Columue. Boxer art ag.vlu active at Peklu. A gradual reduction ot the Russian Airee in Pekiu ha begun. Other town iu Texas beside CSal vestou are iu ueed of assistance. General Freuob hu occupied Barber ton, rupturing 100 iloert aud aomt roll ing (took. The first thimble were mart in Hol land. They were brought to F.nglaud Ut 1095. At Taconia, Wash., the North Too ma shingle mill wa eutirely destroyed by Are. Lo unknown. John Wilsnu, a pioneer merchant ot 1'ortlaud, Or., who began busiuesa there in 1850, is dead, aged "4. The exodus from Galveston grows in number as the facilities for gutting away from the city are increased. At Kan Claire, Wi., seveu men were diowned by the overturning ot a boat white trying to erosa the river at that place. Mexican thieve) entered a saloon at Guthrie., Ariiona, for the propose of rubbery and were compelled to kill two men and then escape. Another plague case has beeu re ported at Glasgow, making a total of 17. In addition there la one suspect and 115 peraous under observation. Near Nanaimo, H. C, two coal trainecollide I on the ceuter of a trcs-j tie, killing four men aud reducing one engine to scrap irou. Misplaced tig nala waa the rauxe. The division of custom and insular affairs of the war department ha given out fur publication a statement of the receipt pf the Havana custom houie for the month of August, 1900, show ing that the total receipt lor the mouth were f.HU.U.'l). The Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire men convened at De Moines adipted resolution denouncing the governor of Idaho for maintaining martial law in th,e Coeur d'Aleue district, the gov ernment for using the government troop aud cougres for making puhlio the testimony taken at the investiga tion by the house committee last win ter. The Boer delegate, Messra. Fisher, Wolmaraua and Wessela, have ad dressed an appeal to all nation for in tervention in Sooth Africa. The ap peal conclude a follows: "In the name ot justice and humauity, we ap . pt-altoall people to come to our aid in thi supreme moment and save our co? u try. We commit ourselves to Hod, trusting that our prayer will be heard." Conger advice American to leave China. . Colorado Democrats nominated J. B. Oran for governor. General Botha is said to be making overtute to HtirTauiler. Forest fire destroyed no timber in Cascade reserve this season. A man fell from a fruit tree at Eu gene, Or., with fatal result. Negro vandal were tried by court martial and shot at Galveston. New York Democrats nominated John B. Stanchfield for governor. A number of vessel were lost or stianded in the gale on the lake. American troop await the presi dent' word to march from 1'ekin. Fire at NarraganHett pier, R. I., destroyed property worth $350,000, President Kruger is at Loureuco, Marque preparing to sail for Kuiope. From 15,000 to 20,000 Chinese con vert were massacred in July by Box er. Nine person were killed in South ern lllinioa by the wrecking of a the atrical car. Three thousand bodies of storm vio tlmg have been buried at Galveston, The property lusa is estimated at $16, 000,000. The city of Dallas, Texas, ha tub toribed nearly $15,000 in cash and six carload of olothing for the South Texa flood sufferers. Dr. Dennis Dowlin Mulcahy, onot an active Fenian agitator, who was imprisoned in England in the latter part of the '60 with O'Douovan Kossa and others, died in Newark, N. J., aged 53 year. The trouble that wan threatened be tween the whites and Indian, arrayed on one side, aguiust the Japs, on tht other side, in the hop field above I'uy allup, Wash., seeniB to have been avert ed, at least for the lime being. No ac tual clash ha yet taken place, but there is bad feeling between the fac tion that may at any time break out into open hostilities. Bev. George B. Cutting, a young clergyman in New Haven, Conn., ha discovered in hypnotism a cure for tht cigarette habit. Bethel Baptist church at Fairview, Ky., built aa a memorial on the site of Jefferson Davis' birthplace, was de stroyed by lightning. Bev. Dr. Franci S. McCabe, a Pres byterian clergyman well known throughout the west, died at hi horn in Topeka, Kansas, aged 77 year. Mr. Mary McGill was killed in Maryville, Mo., by the shock of the new that her ton, Jamea McGill, had died suddenly at Jetmore, Kanea. In the past year, according to au thority, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, Pennsylvania and Cornell universities expended $304,241 on ath letic. Arthur J. Rice, a prominent New York bnsinea man, was drowned at Brighton Beach while bathing. It la thought the drowning was the result ot hi false teeth dropping into hi throat, atrangllng bin, LATER NEWS. Count von Welderce hat reached Hong Kong. The yellow fever "altuatlon ii Ha vana la decidedly unfavorable. British and Uoera are fighting tot: the poolou of komattpoort. , 'The work of clearing away tbt wreckage in Galveston progresses. ' I Herman Petersdorf, a farmer living near Junction City, Or., murdered hit wife. President Mitohell, ot the Uulted Miueworker, hit a 118,000 men are ou atrike. Germany demand that the Chines reHUi8ible for tht outrage le deliv ered up. Koveutv-two new eoal liiliiea bav luian n,wtii..l I 1. I..,,,..!., tlttd u,.l 1,1. i K . .n uv.. . ii null. in J i B I p creasing the output for 11)00 by 2,500, 0i)0 tona. The transport Thnmaa aailud from Fan Francisco for Manila with 1,648 enlisted men, 10? cabin passenger aud $!,800,000 iu treasure. The poatotllet departmeut haa given a coutract to the Canadian Develop ment Compauv to carry letter mult from Skagway to St. Michael aud Nome from December 1 next to 'March 81 uext. Emperor William haa pardoned German-American named Schuh, iu Kiel After 20 year' atweuce, Sehuli had visited hit relative an i leu tau tenoed to lx mouth' imprlaonmeut foi contravening the army regulation. Major Edward K. Dravo, eoniml inry ot ubslteuee, who has just ar rived at San Francisco from the Phil ippiue, ha been ordered to New York for assignment to duty a chief rum mi usury of the department of the Kant, to relieve Major David L. Braiuerd, oommiaeary of subsistence. Lord Robert report a from Madia dixlorp, under data of September 17, that a few more sklrmlshe have takea plaue betweeu the British troopa and the Boer, He add that (iennral French baa raptured 50 locomotives, it addition to the 43 locomotive and other rolling stock which he took wheu he occupied Barberton, September 13. The department of the interior it taking tep to prevent the further suf fering anion: the Pima Indian on tht Sacton reservation, Arizona, caused by a tcarctty of Irrigation water. Col onel K. II. Grave, of that departmeut, who is at Phoeuix making an examin ation of the condition on t lie reserva tion and reporting any method of relief that i practicable, ha iuvaeiigHted thoroughly and ha plauned a kvstetu by which the uuderllow in the Gila river may be raised to the surface la summer and a supply of water devel oped (uttlcieut to iirlgate many hun dred of acre now uncultivated. Galveston 'a lift of dead number 4,078. Six person perished iu a Cincinnati, Ohio, tire. Bryau't letter of acceptance wa given to the public. The power have accepted Li Hung ( Chaug a a negotiator. Plana are being drawn for harbor im provement iu Manila. American are building a permanent telegraph lino to Pekin. Lord Robert will leave South Africa for England about October 3. Colorado Republican nominated Frank C. Goudy for governor. Great Britain i preparing tn have more troop in readiness fur service In China. Troopt of various nationalities are bustliug for wiutur quartern at Tien Tsin, I'ortngal has authorized the depart ure ot President Kruger from Loureuco Marque. Cuba bad an orderly election, and closer relation with the United State are desired. All Alaska I infected with small pox aud strict quarantine regulation! are pcribed. Government 1 building raihoad spur to secure direct delivery of rock to Columbia river jetty. Li Hung Chung seuda memorial to the throne, advising the impeachment of seveial anti-foreign advisei. Roosevelt' letter accepting the Re publican vice-presidential nomination discuHseM the financial question, trusts aud "imperialism." The steamer City of Grand Rapids, built for the Yukon trade, wa burned to the water' edge iu the West Seattle harbor, causing a loss of $20,000. An official dispatch from Shanghai say a German naval battalion, ac companied by 40 Bengal lancers, cap tured and burned the town of Liang September 1 1. Chinese regular troop occupying the place had previously tied. The German loss was wne man killed and five wounded. Professor David Starr Jordan, of Stanford University, Palo Alto, Cal., bus returned from a three month' trip through Japan, where, he succeeded in securing the largest und most complete collection of Japanese fishes ever ob tained by scientists. Collection or description were made of all but 15 known species, beside 125 specie un known to science. - Mayor James G. Woodward, of At lanta, Ga., wa impeached for intoxi cation. The Lehigh Valley railroad ha abol: isheri the custom of currying newsboy on train. The largest portion of the tovvu of Whitewood, N. W. T., waa demolished by a tornado. Exports from the United State dur ing the past lineal year increased to e cry section of the globe. The Peapack Smith family held a re union at Peapaok, N'. J., and 2,800 were present. Three men dying from thirst were picked up on the desert 00 mile from El Paso, Texas. Forest flies that have been raging in the Yellowstone National Park have been extinguished. The steamship Ohio arrived at Seat tle fmn Nome with 832 passenger and treasure estimated at $2,000,000. About one-third of the gold came from Nome. Tht Klondike contiibuted the Imlanct, 111 I m South African Soldiers Held In Readiness. PREPARED TO ENFORCE POLICY Americana Have Regan the t'unstrnetlo f Permanent Telegraph Metwoen Ilea Tela and I'tkhi. London, Sept. 18. In aeoordanet with the prediction of Sir Robert llarl that there will be further hostilities in China in November, the press un ilreatanda that tht Hrltlah government it already coualderiug the traunfer ol trtMipa from South Africa to India in order to make it praoticab'a to nl mora Urttiah troopa to Chlua. Hit military nuthorttiet coualdur the wai Id South Africa o tar ended thai troopt may now bt tafely moved. II It poitnibt that the Kimalan lega tion haa already been removed from l'ekln to Tien Tilu, but there itt-o definite new at yet aa to whether Li Hung Chang will after all go to I'eklu. Geueral Dorward la going to the capi tal, leavlug the llrillxh troop at Tien Tttu uuder commaud of llrliadler-(ien-tral Campbell. Vlce-Admlial Alex- lalT lma relurued to Talcu. Tn, American have begun at Ho Si I Wu a permanent telegraph line bo- tveeu l'ekln and Tieu Tain The l'ekln correspondent of the Dally Mail aaya that the aiu of Huron vou Ketteler ha been shot. j The Morning Post' representative al Peklu say that the question I betug JUcuMNe-l of semilog relief to a few hritish, French aud American eogl-j ueera, who are besieged iu a city 200 ailles south of l'ekln. ChtneMi otliVUl estimate that '.'0,000 Unbended t 'I. Inane soldier, by the1 tlmple expedlaot of turning their coat, 1 managed to remain behind in l'ekln. j Other dtspatche con II nil the report that in addition to llu Tung, tht) j guardian ot the heir apwrent, Yo Lit,' viceroy of Chi LI, and Wang Yt Yung,! president of the imperial academy,! with 800 mem tiers of official families, committed suicide when the allies en tered l'ekln. HUSTLED BY A MOB. Hasan" rorelbljr Kinol llnla Tearh.ra Fro hi lh t'lly. Maustield, O., Sept. 18. A mob to day drove Zion F.ular Kphriam Pas singer, of II I u II too, hid., and two ol llowie'a ceuvert here out of the city, and thu broke the, monotony of the usual routiue followed for the past lour Sunday. Flder lainger wai in the oily yes terday, held several meeting without molestation, ud had a number of ou tultatiout with hi attorney, A. A. lKiugla. Ha left last night, but re turned again today aud waa holding a meeting at the home of K. II. Lelby, wheu the officers went there and took bim to the depot, followed by a jeering moo ol several iinmlred. I la wa a target for apple, tobacco quid, ml sites aud kicks, a he wa escorted to the depot, and when he arrived there hawaa a pitiable sight. The pansunger train wa missed Dy about two min ute, aud while they were watting fur the uext train the mob went to the home of K. 11. Lelby aud took him und Frank Calver, both Zlon (ol lowers, and marched them to the depot. Wheu an express tr.iu arrived all three were put ou it aud hustled out of the city. CLUBBED TO DEATH. Hrutal Murilor of 1'urtlaml Ratuuii Hatr-Mtllv m Kubburjr Portlund, Or., Sept. 18. A brutal murder, followed by robbery, wa com mitted at an early hour yesterday morning in a saloon ou the southwest coruer of Fourteenth and Marshall streets, II R. Dickel. the proprietor of the place, being the victim. Although the tragedy occurred about 2 o'clock, nothing was known of it un til nearly 4, wheu Partoltuan Wheeler, on his regular round, wa passing the premise. He noticed that tho saloon wa lighted up, which wa something nuusual, aud tie proceeded to investi gate. On entering a lltflerariloom at the rear, he found the body of the murdered man iu a coruer, luituiug against the wail, where the murderers had placed it after riling the wickets and helping themselves to the contents of the safe, which it i thought amounted to over $250. New lliirlliigton Una Opnmd. Denver, Colo., Sept. 18. The first train over the new branch ot the Burl ington road from thi city to Dead wood, 8. D., left thi city at 11:30 to nlitht. The first train from the north will complete it journey ot 456 mile at 1 1 :80 tomorrow night. This new route to the Black Hill country is al most due north from Denver, the main line of the Burlington being left be hind at Brush, Colo. The road then lead across Eastern Colorado and Westeiu Nebraska aud into the Black Hill. - ' The Russian government i investi gating the cost und probabilities of i quick delivery of 80,000,000 feet of lumber from I'uget Sound to Yluldvo stock. Thru Negroes Lynelmd. St. Loui, Sept. 17. A special to the Post-Dispatch from Memphis, Tenn., say: A masked mob of be tween 00 aud 100 men broke Into the jail at Tunica, Mis., early today and took out three negroes, whom they ttrung up to a tree within 100 yard of the jail. Not a shot waa fired. Each negro had committed a murder. The lynching ia a climax of the intense feeling against desperate negroe which ha been brewing in the ueighboihood of Tuuica for months. Hlf Cotton Oil Mill lliirnr,t. Houston, Texas, Sept. 18. The Merchant' and Planters' Oil Mill, one of the largest cotton oil manufacturing and refining concern iu the city, wua totally destroyed by fire this afternoon. The loss is estimated at $350,000 or $400,000; insurance $250,000. Throe bundled and fifty men will be thrown out of work. The Hague, Sept. 18. The govern ment of The Metherlunde ha tele graphed to Lonrenco Marque offering a Dutch warship to bring Mr. Kruger to Holland. AFFAIRS IN CHINA. RMhhllt Uwi U rhlM-OarllBt el Amrlau Troops. Tien Tslu, Sept. 18, via Shanghai, Sept. llr.-r-Willieiu W. Itoukhlll, (pe dal tepreteutattva ot tht United State In China, hat left (or l'ekln, In an Interview befoit leaving, ha aaid ha did not expect to remain there mora than a tew day, 14 Hung Chang It at Takii on a Ruv tau vessel. It 1 not believed thai he will cHuiit to Tien Tslu, Amttrlrans Klght With the itotvrt. Tieu Tsin, Sept, IN, via Shanghai, Sept. 19. A British signal officer re ports sharp tngagemeut betweeu a company of tht Fourteenth United Statu Infantry aud S.000 Bnxert at Matow, ou tht road to Peklu. Tht Auiericaut mad a gallant staud, and t detachment of Bengal lancer nearby, hearing tht firing, vault to their raaoua tnd charged tht Boxer lu th r-nr, Tbt thine t wet routed, livlng )i dead. Tht Amerioaut bad no tual Ilea. ' - ..: The German rtport tn utkv'm'Ut with a heavy (orca ot Bosom m -mi Pekln yesterday, Tht Gertusu to, 1 laid to have lieeti 20. Indication now point strongly to the withdrawal of all tht power from l'ekln to Tieu Tslu. Tbt British have Issued au order prohibiting the selling or rentiug ot any building within tht limit of the British concession. Geu eral Fukushima I her arraugiug win ter quarter for tht Japanese tioopt. Tht German art pouring into Tien Tsin, aud all nationalities art srram bliug for bultdtngV Out British bat. tery aud 200 Aus'rallau have arrived. Musslaas I'u.li Into MaaoJiurla. Tien Tslu, Sept. 18, via Shanghai, Sept. III. The Russians, it I rumored here, are rapidly pushing through into Manchuria, where all Indications potut to extensive operation before tht arri val of winter. They have tmpcuded work on the railroad to Peklu, which add to the complications. It la be lieved that their object in thi 1 to compel the other power to consent to the destruction of Peklu. The Tu Liu expedition ha returned to Tien Tslu. The march back wat utiopposad, and it I reported that the Boxer have retired in force to a vil li ge 80 mile up the Grand canal, Tht American did not participate ia the burning aud looting of Tu Liu, aud tht caused considerable comment among the other comma'jdnrs. The Sixth United State cavalry, it is rumored here, ha beeu ordered to camp at Yang Tsum, up the Pel Ho, with a view o' strengthening the line of communication, The regiment will taka two heavy gun. Twelve thousand Uermaut arrived here. Corporal Hughes, of tht Third Unit ed State artillery, wa killed, end hi oompautou wounded, while trying io force a passage ot tbt Freoub bridge ifter dark. AGAINST COLUMBIA. Award ol the fremiti Frealdeat eo the Mamillary ynl rii Washington, Sept. 10 The minis tet of Costa Rica at Washmgunc en' or Calvo, ha received a cablegram from the minister ot Coat Rlua at Parts, which convey tht information that the presldeut ol the French repub lic, M. Iiubert, who wa tht arbitra tor appointed to decide the boundary question between Costa Rica ami Ck lomlita, by hi award of yesterday, fixed the lioundary limit between the two countries on tit Atlantic aide at Mona Point aud ou the Pacific side at l'unta Harica. The re pull to of Colom bia claimed that the limit should be fixed at Cape Graciaa Adlo, on the At lantic, including the whole of Costa Rica and the Nlcaraguan Atlantic coast, aud that the limit on the Pacific aide should be placed at Boruca river, to the northwest of Golfo Dulue, which would have given Colombia a right to half the territory of Costa Rica aud about two-third of that of Nicaragua. Costa Rica claimed the old limit be tween Central America and Colombia, placed at the Island of Eicudo de Ver igua, on the Atlantic, and tho river Chlriqui Ylejo, on the Pacific. The award fixe the boundary Hue on the Pacific side at Puuta Barlca, a claim d by Costa Rica, aud ou the Atlantic denies the right of Colombia to any pai t ot the territory of Nicaragua or suy portion of that of Costa Rica be yond Mona Point. An Arlsnna Mnnler. Phoenix, Alia., Sept. 19. Some time last night, Fermina Ochua, a Mex ican woman, about 60 year of age, wa murdered in a horrible manner at Yuma, Her body wa found the fol lowing morning in front of the house where she had taken lodging the night before, Her skull had been fractured by a blow on the foiebead aud a piece of cloth torn into atrip, and twisted into a rope waa tied around her throat ao tightly a to produoe strautuliitinn There waa also a deep knife wound in the body. . Captured Hoer dun ana Stores. Cape Town, Sept. 18. The military authorities have taken over The Nether land Railway, General' MacDouald, operating in the northeast coiner ol Orange colony, compelled the Boers to' make hasty flight from Yet river. He captured 81 gun, a quantity of cattle aud store, and 1)5,000 round of am muuitiou, JnTlielTa7inarklit""itlot. Chlougo, Sept. I!, Police Lieuten ant Edward J. Steele died ettddeuly early today. Lieutenant Steele wa the man who led the police up IJes Plaine street to the scene of the Hay market riot, hi company being at the head of the column that advanced to disperse the anarchist who were mak ing speeches. He wa prostrated by the force of the bomb explosion and had one of hi wrists broken. Hine out of 24 of hi company were severely injured. nui'Klar Hull t Demi. Seattle, Sept. 19. Edward Morse, formerly of Rudyard, Minn., who hud just returned from Nome, waa shot und Instantly killed early thia morning by Policeman Fred A. Ribbach. Ribbach fdund Morse aud two companion at tempting to commit burglary in the Whiteuhnpel district, and attempted to arrest them. A pitched battle with revolvers ensued, 20 shot being fired. Harry Austin, one of the burglar, waa wonndod in the arm while fleeing from the icene. Morse wa 87 year of age, and had been a shingle weaver before coming to thi coast, last February. MINERS GO IS!! Atiout 112,000 Quit In the 3 Anthracite Region. Nd VIOLENCE REPORTED YET trill frote a erluu lllow to Ihe Mia Mwa.rt-Tlie atrike Ksleail (Iter a JUrge Territory, Jfatleton, ra., Kepi. IB. Tim grea Itroglge betweeu the anthracite coal miner of Pennsylvania aud their em ployer wa begun today. Each side is confident of wlnulug, aud neither of tht coiityurtlng force show any dls pirtmvto yield. - Tho contest thus far iof teen devoid of any violence. '? exact iiiimM of men who struck Ct at tM ttmt be told. Report t by tit C-uel Mlneworkers' i'5 i Hi'U tut ei.tlrt anthriicltt re I i why to f "hi most satisfactory. I t i:i!t ter.'tor), kcowu a district No, ?, mere r li.ti i ) men employed lii and about the tiiliie. Of thi number, II I (Hi.ieravttvly estimate I Hist about 60 per rent obeyed the order uf President Mitchell to quit work. Fire thousand ot tiesa lathing to the col Iterie which (ltd not woik at all, ami the remaining 8,000 to mine which work ahort-hviided. Tht district south ot Ihl place, kuown a tht South Side, was tied up completely with the exception of Culcralne, Ib-avet Meadow and G'srwm's Wahctle. In Ihl territory the United Mlneworkers art very strong. On the north side, the Upper Lehigh, Mines villi!, I'.l.crale and Driftou No, 1 collieries, employ, ing about 1.600, are shut down. The millet at l.atiimer and Pond Creek, employing 1,200, are wroklug full, but every other mine In that big territory I working with badly crippled forces. Three of the Murklu minus, over which there ha U-en so much contention, worked all day with aobut 65 per caul ot the men. Ou the West Side every colliery started up today minus Its union men, except at the IIhxIb mine, where the union miner weut to work in consequence of a mlsuuderatandiiig. Haaloton today presented an ani mated appenranee, strikers from all Ihe surrounding mining town coming In early in tho day aud gatherlnn in group ou the street comers and dis cussing the situation. It wa a most orderly orowd. Around strike head quarters, at the Yalloy hotel, there wa mart or les of a crowd of mtn all day. President Mitchell, who arrived from the West last night, waa kept busy all day and evening, receiving reKrt (ruin every section ot the region. Mes senger bringing information to him f. ' n ricar j pntnt kept coming regu ii. . At Mitchell decided an Important porat toil iu the matter of arbltra t'. 'U, wi ' - the miner employed t ?r, li. Mn-al.i It Co. decided uol to sm.':e nu.-.l the, linn had paesed upon a sat of their own grlevaueea, which differ somewhat f-om thoet of the Uult ed Mlneworkers. Tht firm ha an agreement with it men that if any difference fall of adjustment, then the grievance shall be arbitrated. John Markle, ot the firm, yesterday agreed to have Archbishop Ryau, of Philadel phia, arbitrate the difference, if the mediator already decided upon by the Urin aud the meii cannot come to a satisfactory agreemeut. Presldeut Mitchell, however, atatnd today that bo should ask the men employed by Markle to eeiu-e work. The men might Itaiu cnuceasinu through arbitration, he kald, but it wa now a case of secur ing a uniform settlement throughout the anthracite rsuiou. About 100 foreigu-speHklng miners left Haxletou today, and will takea iteamer for F'.urope. These men ex pect a long strike, ami, rather than re main idle here, they preferred to go to their former homes. President Mitchell tonight gave out the followiug statement: ''Information received np to tonight show that 112,000 mlneworker aie un strike in the authracitu region. Of thi number, 72,000 are in district No. 1; 80,000 in district No. 3, ami. 10,000 in district No. 7. Report received ire to tho effect that a large uumber of those who weut to the mine today will join in the suspension tomorrow. The uumber ot men now out on strike ex ceed that of any other Industrial con test in the history of our country. Re w rail For American lleails Victoria, B. C, Sept. 17. Among the advice brought by the Breooushtre from China were stories of the arrest ol Chinese with the head of foreign sol uli r In nick. It seem that head motiey of 50 t icl Is paid for each head. Th faot. whs brought t light by the 'llaiovery of Uei private papere of Vice-ii'--I n! H' T in. Inhladay ton ft. there'll an entry which reads: " iacls, 100, paid for the heada of two Aiwciican marine killed iu the ad vance for the relief of Tieu Tsin. Taols, 60, tor the two gun ouptured on the aamo occasion." , More Ping-tie In Glasgow. Glnsgow, Sopt, 19. Five additional ease of bubonio phiguo have been re ported bote, four ot the etrickon per aon being members of tho sumo family. I'rlnee nf Saxony Killed. Dresdon, Sept. ,19. Prince Albert of Saxony wa killed in a carriage ac cident yesterday at Wolkiiu, a abort distance from Dresden. He wa born in 1859 und was uumairied. Iteruied to Work, Bloomsberg, pa Sept. . I9.r-All effort to settle the difference between the Readiug Iron Company, of Dan ville, and it employe having failed, the 000 men employed at the plant re-v fused to work this morning. Vancouver, Wash., Sept. 19 Cap tain Waimvright and assistant have returned hero from Eusteru Washing ton, where tiny have been bnyiug horse aud mule for the United Statca cavalry ervioe in the l'hilippiuo. Nearly 1,000 horse and 200 mule were purchased, About nine hundred horse are now being oared for at Van couver barrack, awaiting transporta tion to the Philipuine by the United State transport Lennox and Thyra, which are being refitted in Portland. Being a dunce i the most expensive habit you can Doasiblv have. LETTER OF ACCEPTANCI. feryaa Heaew the t-ledaes Ht Mad Vour Veari Ago. Lincoln. Nab., Sept. 20. Tht letter ol Hon. W. J. Bryan accepting tiit Democratic nomination for president wa given out today, and Usuuimarlxed at follow: The platform adopted at Kauaa City commaud my cordial aud unqualified approval. It courageously meets tht issues now before tht country, and states clearly and without ambiguity the party 'i position on every question considered, Tht platform very properly give promise to tht trust question, The ap palling growth of combinations in re lralnt of trade during tht present ad ministration prove conclusively that tht Republican party lack either the deslrt or tht ability to dtal with tht question effectively, Tht Democratic party make no war upon honestly acquired wtaltb; neither duet il teek to embarrass vorpoiatioul engaged in legit iuiatv business; but it doea proles I igalutt corporation en tering polities and attempting to sumt contiol ot tht iuttrunitutatlitie of government. Tbt platform reiterate tht demand contained in tht Chicago platform fui aa American financial system made by tht American people for themselves. The purpose of uch a cyitom i to re store aud uialutaiu a blmetalio level of prices, ana tu older that there may be no uuceitainty at to tht method of restoring bimetallsin, tht tMtciflo dec laratlon in favor of free and unlimited coinage at the existing ratio ol 16 to 1, Independent of the action ot other nation, 1 repeated. The demand for constitutional amendment provldlcg for the election of senator by direct vote ot the people apear for the first time in a Demo cratic platform. A senator I no less the representative of the state because ha receive hi commtsslou from tht people themselves, rather than from the member of the state legislature. The platform Indorses the principle of direct legislation. Thi i already applied to tht mote important que tion iu nation, statu and city, It rest upou the sound theory that the eople can be trusted, and that tht inort re sponsive the government i to the will of the people the more free it will be from misuse and abuse. . The platform renew tbt demand for arbitration between corporation aud their employe. I cannot too strongly emphasize the importance of the platform recommen dation of the establishment of a de partment of labor, with a member ot the cabinet at it head. The Chinese exclusion act ha proven an advantage to the country, and it contluuauca and strict enforcement, a well a it extouslon to other similar race, are imperatively necessary. The Demomcratio party I in favor of the immediate construction, owner hip and control ot the Nicaragua canal by the United State. The time it ripe for systematic and extended effort to reclaim the arid landa and fit them lor actual settlers. Wt cannot conneot ourselves with European nation, and share in their jealouaie aud ambitious without losing tht peculiar adavutage which our loca tion, onr character and our Institution give ut in the world't affair. Tht doctrine euuuoiated by Montot aud approved by auoceediug president, i essential to the welfare of the Unit ed State. The continent of North aud South America are dedicated to the development ot free government. One republic after another ha been etab llshed, until today the monarchical idea ha already barely a foothold iu the New World. linperlallain. The subjects, however, treated in thlt letter, important a each may eem lu itself, do not pros ao Impera tively for solution a the question which tht platform declare to be the para mount issue in till campaign. Whether we shall adhere to orabandou those idea of government which have distinguished thi nation from other nation and given to it history it pe culiar charm and value i a question the settlement ot which cannot bo de layed. No other question can approach it in importance; no other question demand auoh immediate considera tion. It ia easier to lose a reputation than to establish one, and this nation would find it a long and laborious taak to regain it proud position among tht nation, it, under the itres ot tempt a tin, it should repudiate tht self-evident truth proclaimed by our herolo ances tor and sacredly treasured during that career unparalleled in the annala ot time. When the doctrine that tht people are the only source of power ia made secure fromg further attack wa can lately proceed to the settlement ot the numerous questiou which involve the domestio and eoonomio welfare ot our citizen. Very truly yours, , W. J. BRYAN. ateamar Valencia from Nome. Seattle, Sept. 20. The steamer Va lencia ariived from Nome thi aternoon with a large passenger list and $500,. 000 in gold, consigned by the trading companies to two local bank. The Valleuciu bring new that a terrible gale raged ut Nome from September 1 to September 5, but that only three death hud beeu verified. Wisdom i the knowledge of other, people' mistake. Appropriation by Mexico. City of "Mexico, Sept. 20. A bill hua beeu introduced iu the Mexican congress providing for an appropria tion of $30,000 or the Galveston suffer- New York' Subscriptions. New York, Sept. 20. Subscription received to date in this city for the sufferers in Galveston amount to $210,010, The police force gave $7,738. Cleaning the Texa City, Galveston, Sept. 20. The work of clearing the street of debris ia pro gressing rapidly under the perfect organization instituted by military rule under Adjutant-General Scurry, More than 2,000 men are engaged on the work. Ninety-eight bodie are report ed aa having been Tound in the wreck age and removed today, making a total of 1,801 victim bo farrecovered, Thia Hat ia far short ot the accurate number of dead found. Bodiet found are burned and no ayatematio record hat been kept. ' Y TO THE P Is Not Ready to Withdraw From China. ISSUES A CIRCULAR NOTE lurrenderlnf of the Utility Officials aa Indispensable Preliminary Ut Be f lealag react Nef etlatloas. Berlin, Sept. 20. Tht foreign office lias tent a ctcrular note to all the pow er announcing that tht German gov ernment consider thai an indispeuxa bit preliminary to tht beglnulug uf peace negotiation with China i tbt delivering np of those who wertrespon libit (or tht ootraget. - Tht text of the telegraphic note, at tbt North German Gaaette give it, l a fol low: "Tbt government of the emperor bold a preliminary to eutrlng upon diplomatic relation with the Chinese government that those person most bt delivered up who have beeu proved to be the original and real instigators ot tht outiaget against international law which have occurred at 1'rkiu. Tht number of those who were merely iustru mental in carrying out these out rages I too gieat. Wholesale execu tion would bt oontrary to the civilised conscience and the circumstances of such a group of leaders cannot be com pletely ascertained, but few whose guilt is notorious should tie delivered up and punished. The representative of the power at Pekin are in a poaitioc to give or bring forward convincing avidenot, aa lei importance attache to the number punished than their character a Instruments or leader. Tbt government believe it can count on the unanimity of all the cabinet in regard to thi jioiut, inasmuch a in difference to the idea ot Just atone ment would be equivalent to indiffer ence to a repetition of a crime. The government propose, therefore, that the cabinet concerned should Instruct their representative at Pekin to indi cate those leading Chinese peraonagi from whose guilt in instigating am, perpetrating outrages all doubt ia pre cluded. VON BULOW." Tht note has been tent to the Ger man embassies at Washington, Lon don, St. Petersburg, Pari, Rome, Vienna and Tukio. II8,000MEN ARE IDLE. Feaaeylvaala Miners' Strike Is Oa la full Hlast. Philadelphia, Sept. 20. The leadei of the strike aay that at the end of the seconl day 118,000 ef the 141.00G minewoiken in the anthracite field art idle. No representative ot the mint operator make a statement foi Ibeir aide ot the matter, but individual mineownera dispute tho strikers' fig ure, saying tbert are more men at work than the union leader will ad mit. The flrat advance in the price ot coal, as a result of the strike, was made by the Philadelphia & Reading Coal Company today, 26 cent per ton being added. This advance was promptly met by the local dealer, who increased the price to consumers 60 cents a ton. . A cioud appears on the otherw ise peaceful horixon In the shape of a re port from HaiTisburg that a bittei feel ing 1 developing between the onion andwonuuion men in the Lykeu dis trict, located in the upper eud of Dau phin county, aud involving about 2,500 mlneworkers. A concession waa voluntarily grant ed the 6,000 employes of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company iu the region west ot Mauch Chunk, who will bereaftor work 10 hours a day for a comeque'ut increase in earning. These men were unorganized, and had not presented any grievance. True to it declaration made before the atrike wa ordered, the Philadel phia & Readiug Company today brought it mule to the surface in the two mine in Shamokin that had been cloied by the strike, and announced that they will be permanently aban doned. Tht action makes it necessary for tho miners who have been working in these collieries to seek work else where. The action of the 400 or 600 em ploye of the West Find Coal Company at Mocanaqua, near Wilkesbarre, in sticking to their work stand out prominently a the busy feature of an otherwise idla territory. They say that they have no grievances, have al ways received good treatment from their employers, and, therefore, resist every effort to induce them to strike. Insurrection In Salvador. San Diego, Sept. 19. The steamer Herodt brings a story of the suppres sion of an'inolpient insurrection at Sal avdor, Minister of War Castro waa the instigator ot a plot to remove the present president, Thomas Regulado, and have himself proclaimed president of the republic In hi plan to bring about the insurrection, Castro deemed It ueceasary to remove the colonel of tho barracks, and shot him down in cold blood. It waa not known until after hi arrest for that crime that the murder wa a part of the plot to over throw the present government, but in the investigation that followed the whole lobeme was unearthed. Castro was found guilty ot murder and at 6 o'clock the afternoon ot September 3 he was shot by order of the president. The death of the leader brought the threatened insurrection to a close. . Soldiers Blown Cp. . London, Sept. 20. The British com mander at Taku cable that a fatigue party eugaged in destroying gunpowder at Tung Chow ha been blown up. Sixteen were killed and 23 injured by the explosiou. "IMttsburi roll" Sells Out. New York, Sept. 20. George E. Smith, "Pittsburg Phil," announces that he has decided to sell all the horses he ha in training, and never again to own a racer. He ia quoted aa saying: "I find that there is no profit for me in owning horse. J have to take very short prices against them and when I am interested in a horse in a race my judgment . is anohored. More than that, 1 am compelled to take two to one against a horse when six to one would not be more than a fair price, It is ruination,," BRAD.STREET'3 REPORTS. easy Trading and a l arge Gala la) Haw Cotton. Bradstreet' say: Expanding de mand at advancing prices in many Hues of trade flnda its chief exemplar in the market for raw cuttou, which bas witnessed the greatest excitement, heaviest trading and largest gain ia price for at least a decade. Rarely, it ever, In tht history of the trade, at conducted on modern lines, haa the in terest displayed in the product been greater, and tht manufacturing inter eats of tht world find tht situation perplexing one, while the prospects of large profits to producer art stimulat ing all line ot Southern trade, la American cotton market the situation, from being t buyers' market a short time ago, is now reversed, and tellers rt in a position to dictate term. So tuddenly ba the outlook, a viewed by tbt trade generally, changed that man ofactorers art unable or uuwlllliig to define their exact position, or, if they accept new bulneea, do to on a dis tinct bail ol cost of new supplies. Maximum cotton-crop estimators of part year are apparently panic-atricken, and predict famine stock for the end of tht year, even with reduced cca tumption. Most food prices are either firm or higher on the week, wheat being ad vanced on better export demand and bad. weather at the Northwest, proved by tht lower grade ot much of the re ceipt. Wool i still rather weak, and the demand for spring-weight nitn'i wear good la atlll disappointing. Hardware ia in good doiunnd, and good fall business ia likely. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregate 4,606,982 bush els, against 8,878, 100 bushel last week. itusiuess failures in the Unit'vl State fur the week number 207. aa against 164 last week. PACIFIC COAST TRADE. Seattle Market. Onion, new, 1 He Lettuce, hot house, $1 per crate. Potatoes, new. $15. Beete, per sack, 85c(3$l. Turnips, per sack, 76c. Squash 4o. Carrot, per sack, $1.00 Parsnip, per sack, $1.25, Cauliflower, native, 75o. Cucumbers 10i20c. Cabbage, native and California, 2c per pounds. Tomstoes 306Or. Butter Creamery, 25c; Eastern 32c; dairy, 1819o; ranch, lflo pound. Eggs-28c. Cheese 12o. Poultry 12c; dressed, 14c; spring, 18A16C. Hay Puget Sound timothy, $11.00 12.00; choice Eastern Washington timothy, $18.00. Corn Whole, $23.00; cracked, $25; feed meal, $25. Barley Rolled or ground, per ton, $30. Flour Patent, . per barrel, $8.60; blended straights, $3.26; California, $3.25; buckwheat Hour, $6.00; irra hain, per barrel, $3.00; whole wheat Dour, $3.35; rye flour, $3.80(34.00. Mills tuffs Bran, per ton, $12.00; shorte, per ton, $14.00. Feed Chopped feed, $19.00 per ton; middling, per ton, $20; oil cake meal, per ton, $30.00. Fresh Meats Choice dressed beef steers, price 7 He; cows, 7c; mutton 7K; pork, 8c; trimmed, 9c; veal, 9( 11c. Hamt Large, 13c; small, 13; breakfast bacon, 12c; dry Bait sides, 8.4c Portland Market. Wheat Walla Walla. 60 57c; Valley, 60o; Bluestom, 60o per bushel. Flour Best grades, $3.10; graham, $2'.60. Oats Choice white, 42o; choice gray, 40o per bushel. Barley Feed barley, $15.00 15.60; brewing, $17.00 per ton, Mills tuffs Bran, $13.00 ton; mid dling, $20; shorts, $16; chop, $15 per ton. i Hay Timothy, $1 1 12; clover,$7 7.60; Oregon wild hay, $G7 per ton. Butter Fancy creamery, 4565c; store, 80o. Eggs 19c per dozen. Cheese Oregon full cream, 13c; Young America, 14c; new cheese lOo per pound. Poultry Chickens, mixed, $3.00 4.00 per dozen; hone, $4.50; springs, $2.003.00; goose, , $0.007.00 per ducks, $3.00(34.00 per dozen; turkeys, live, 14 10o per pound. rotaioee uusiouo per saoa; eweeta, 3 3 o per pouna. Vegetables Beets, $1; turnip, $1; per saok; garlio, 7o per pound; cab bage, So per pound; parsnip, $1; onions, lHc per pound; carrot, $1. Hops 5 7o per pound. Wool Valley, 15 16o 'per pound; Eastern Oregon, 15 16c; mohair, 86 per pound, Mutton Gross, best sheep, wethers and ewe, 8o; dressed mutton, 7 TKo per pound; lambs, 6b0. Hogs Gross, choice heavy, $5.00; light and feeders,. $4.50; dressed, $5.006.60 per 100 pounds. Beef Gross, top steers, $4.00 4. 60; cows, $3.504.00; dressed beet, 6 7?40 per pound. Veal Large, 6'7sc; Bmall, 8, 8 o per pound. San Frauoisoo Market. Wool Spring Nevada, ll18o per pound; Eastern Oregon, 1014o; Val ley, 1818o; Northern, 910o. Hops 1899 crop, 13ii15o; new crop, 1900, 1012ao. Butter rancy creamery 4c; do seconds, 22 23c; fancy, dairy, 22o; do seconds, 20o per pound. Eggs Store, 17c; fancy ranoh, 82c. Millstuffs Middling, $17.00 80.00; bran, $12.60 13.50. . .. Hay Wheat $8 12; wheat and oat $8.00(310.60; best barley $8.60 alfalfa, $6.00 7.60 per ton; straw, 2687io per bale. . Potatoes Early Rose, 8075o; Ore gon Burbanks, 90c $1; river Bur banks, 8565o; new, l2o. . . Citrus Fruit Oranges, Valencia, $2.753.25; Mexican limes, $4.00 6.00; California lemons 75c$1.50; do choice $1.76 3.00 per box. Tropical Fruits Bananas, $1.80 ,9.50 per bunch; pineapples, nom inal; Persian dates, C6Ho pec pound.