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Mi The Best Newspaper If tut one that gives (lit most and freshest ui, Compart tho WE8T BIDE with nay paper in Polk county. An Advertisement Waioh brtogt rttvru b proof tbl tt li in tb rit ft plat Tbt WEST HIDE bring n were. Or.; INDEl'ENDKtfCK, POLK C0UNT1T OUIWON, FItlDAY, MAY 31, IftOl. Five, Cents Per Copy. NO. 05. VOL XVIII. $1.50 PER YEAR. EVENTS OP THE DAY FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE WORLD. A Comprehensive Review x th Important Happtitlngt of lh Put Week Presented In a Condensed Form t'Mch U Moil Ukery to Ptov of Interest to Our M.n Readers. The plague is reported- to be spread ing in India. The Cuban convent Km hot accept ed the IMntt amendment. Another Jack the Ripper ease hat been discovered in London. Porto Rican are dissatisfied with the Supreme court division. The Confederate Vcterana reunion ha been opened at Memphis Tenn. Duties collected on good from the Philippine may have to Ih refunded. Coiner stone for the new federal building at Salem, Or,, will be laid May 31. Chin lias agreed to the amount of indemnity demanded by the power, but object to the interest. The 10 hour day law, enacted by the last Washington legislature, for female may not affect the telephone girls. At a Nashville, Tenn., university, a native of China won the medal pre acnted to the best orator in the uni versity. Big San Francisco machine shop proprietors still refuse to sign the new scale Almost all of the smaller ones have signed. The editor of a German newspaper has violated the laws of the United States by publishing a half-tone por trait of a $10 bill. Advices just received from Hawaii .eport the arrival there of a ship load of Porto Rican immigrants, nearly starved to death. The vessel ran out of provisions. The United States supreme court adjourned until the second Monday in Octolwr without disposing of the Philippine eases, so the treasury de partment will continue to collect on good coming from that country. The Chinese indemnity will be settled this week. Mrs. McKinley is standing the homeward trip well. It is certain that all volunteers will I started for home before July. Danger of serious trouble U'tween France and Morocco has lieen averted. A freight train on the Great North ern ran into a car loaded with dyna mite. The battle shin Orciron is to be thoroughly overhauled on her return to this country. A 13 year old San Francisco boy was murdered in a most cold blooded manner by a butcher. The supreme court holds that the United States may levy duty on im ports from Porto Rico. In round mini hers the estimate for the civil government of the Philip pines will le 1,2UU,000. Twenty-one men were killed and nine others seriously injured in a mine explosion in Tennessee. -Telephoiicss arc in greater demand in Havana than in any American city, according to population. Philippines commission has enacted a law fixing the salaries of the offi cials oi trie central government. Dr. Monroe, senior dean of Colum bia University, Washington, has been decorated by the sultan of turkey. A dismantled hulk has been sighted on Lake Michigan. Investigation disclosed seven bodies aboard her. Rear Admiral Sampson is to retire from service in the American navy. He will ask for retirement on account of poor health. It is very likely that as soon as the ministers move to the hills for the warm months that the Boxers will again attack the legations. The America's cup race will begin September 21. France wants her treaties with Tu nis abrogated. Mrs. Mckinley is standing the re turn trip well. An unknown man committed sui cide near Kahuna, Wash. Three prisoners escaped from the county jail at Salem, Or. Army frauds have lieen discovered in Leyte, Philippine islands. Suicide of a Russian financier may embarrass many institutions. Senators Tillman and McLaurin, of South Carolina, have resigned. Caillcs and Malver, Filipino lead ers, have been forced to surrender. Thirty-two bodies have so far been recovered form the Senghcny colliery Oregon ores are being collected for the International Mining Con gress. It is understood in Rome that Pope Leo XIII has made a will naming hie successor. Northwestern Iowa has begun ship ping choice butter to Porto Rico, The first consignment left Sioux Falls a few days ago. The Austro Hungarian census just completed shows the total population to lie 47,000,000, an increase since 1890 of 9 per cent. The population oi Budapest has increased 45 per cent. Judge Coxe, in an importing case in New York, decided that statues brought from Italy were not works of art, , . Chief Tenawashie, the old medi cine man of the Yakimas, in Wash ington, has been assassinated by tribesmen in anger at his failure to cure smallpox. There are 7,400 members of the New York police force. The number of arrests made by the New York police last year was 138,875, or an average of between 13 and 20 for each policeman. HIS STAY AT AN END. - Presidential Party Complett Their Programs tnd Start tor Horn San Francisco, May 25. President McKinley has completed his program in this city, having met every organ ixatlon included in the original k-lmtitl. ami Mr MeKinlcv's health 'has so far improved that tho president and his party lxgan their return jour ney to the national capital at 10 A. M. today. The 'president' pnlhio (unctions yesterday included ft reception at the Scott mansion to the members of the foreign consular corps of this city, a reception at the Palace Hotel by the Sous and Daughters of the American Revolution and the Loyal legion in honor of the. president, and a review of the school children of Oakland by the presdent. Last night President McKinley at tended an impromptu reception at the California etrcct M. K. church, given by the Kpworth league and Christian Endeavor societies. Special precautious were taken to prevent any annovance whilo the president and his w ife were being driven to the ferry. A route was chosen that secured per fect comfort for Mr. McKinley. The party was taken to Oakland on a special boat. The two trained nurse who have attended the patient in this city will also go to Washington with her. No fast time will be made and the train will run slowly to Stocktou. ECLIPSE PHOTOGRAPHS. Satisfactory Results Obtained by thi Lies Party la Sumatra. San Jose, Cal., May 27. The fol lowng has laen received from the di rector of the Lick observatory! "Lick Olwcrvatory, May 27. As tronomer Perrine, in charge o( the Crocker eclipse excdition from the Lick oLservatory to Sumatra, has cabled the gratifying information that some results were secured with all the instruments taken with him. This, taken in connection with his cable of last week, taken to mean that his successful photographs were secured between cloudsdrifting across the vicinity of the sun, As thi was an unusually long eclipse, it is quite probable that his results will compact favorably in quality and quantity nith those secured at the short eclipses of the past three year. The hood of the coronal streamers, first observed at the I ndiau eclipse of 1808, are recorded on the plates of the pres ent eclise. Further details of the results secured arc not e.xpeeti'd until the arrival of Mr. Perrine's letters." TO DEFINE BOUDARY. Internal Survty Party Will Locals United States-Canada Lint, Vancouver, H. C, May 27. An in ternational survey party, consisting (if United States and Canadian en gineers, is about to begin the task of defining the international boundary between the United States and Can ada from tho Pacific coast to the Rocky mountain. It is contended that this work was inaccurately per formed in tho surveys of 1859 and 19(51. One of the most iniortant matters to le determined is tho ques tion of the national locaton of Mount Baker mining district. Valuable mines are embraced in this section, and the territory is claimed by both the American and Canadian govern ment. Lieutenant Sinclair, of the coast and geodetic survey, will 1 at the head of the United States party, and J. If. Mi'Arthur will lead the Cana dian surveyors. The work will begin this week. MULTIPLEX TELEGRAPHY. Tht Rowland System Is Being Introduced Into Germany. Baltimore, May 27. The multiplex system of telegraphy, invented by the late Henry A. Rowland, of Balti more, which is being introduced into Germany, permits of the transmission of eight message simultaneously over a single wire, four in each direction at the rate of 40 words a minute. The messages are sent by means of a. keyboard similar to that of a typo writer, which can 1 operated by an ordinary typewriter opreator, and are recorded at the other end of the wiro by a small machine. It ispnssiblo to fither print the message upon a sheet of pajKT or U)on a long tape like that which is used in tho ordinary ticker service. Slide More Serloui Than Reported. Baker City, Or., May 27. The landslide nt the Climax mine, which occurred about. two week; ago, in con sequence of a water ditch overflowing, has proven fur moro serious than at first reported. Tho mouth of tho main tunnel was closed with timbers, boulders, gravel and debris of all kinds, so that it required heavy blast ing and 10 days to open it up. It will require several weeks more to put up the buldings destroyed and restore the other property lost in the flood. No Smallpox on Indiana. Pekin, May 27. Tho doctors who were instructed to make a report as to what length of time must elapse before it will be safe to allow the troops on board the United States transport Indiana, where it was sup posed a case of smallpox had devel oped, have decided that the suspected case was not smallpox. The troops will go on board the Indiana today. No Joint Guranty Probable. Washington. Mav 27. Count Cas- sini, the Russian ambassador, spent till nun. itiuii f.vf. ,,.i. v.ih j today, and it is assumed that the DiineHe negotiations were the bur den of their talk. It has bc"ome ap- pedient to close with the proposition to accept Chinese bonds at any of the interest figures mentioned as indem nity, unless thero is on international guaranty, and the Unitod States finds it quite impossible to assent to the latter, NWS OF THE STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL OVER OREGON. Commercial and Financial Happenings el Inv porUnce-A Drill Review of of the Orowth tnd Improvement of Iht Many Industries Throughout Onr Thriving Com monwealth Utest Market Report Philomath will celebrate the Fourth of July. The llil lahnro council hat ordered 500 feet of hose. Sufficient funds have been pledged for a Fourth of July celebration at Kosehurg. Last week there was 00,000 pounds of wool told at Blaloek (or 10 cent per pound. , .. , ' Two oarloadt of borne were shipped from Baker City to the East this week by Susanville people. 8 L. Brooks, a stoekraiser of the Sandridce, north of Iniber, lost his large !arn by lire last week. ! Tht Imard of director of the Hunt-' iugton high school have divided to' have nine mouths' school this year. I The 12th annual convention of the; Washington County Sunday School Association will !e held June 0 at Forest Grove. The Inland Telephone Company has j a crew of men engaged in stringing) extra wires bet weiii La Grande and! Wallowa county points. The iVep Gravel Mining Company, incorporated, ha aiunl control o! all tho mining proHrty heretofore owned by Winter Bros, k Co., at Waldo. The contract lis Is-cn let for the hauling of 3,000 tout of gypsum for the Oregon Lime Company from the gpysum mine to the company's works at Lime, three mile from Hunting ton. There was a 13,500 fire at Oregon City the tlrst of the win k. Arrangements are Udng made to celebrate the Fourth at Baker City. The Grand bulge of (Kid Fellow held their encampment at Baker City, Effort are being made to develop the Kaolin deposits, near Huntington. The people of Forest Grove and vi cinity are trying to secure a Sunday train service. Farmers near Salem say grain if looking as well as it ever did and they expect a large crop this year. Mrs. Thomas Campbell, aged (10 years, an old resident of Oregon, died at her homo in Monmouth lust wink. Tho Baldwin 8 hern St 1-and Com pany, of Hav Creek, will sell at pub lic auction, June 1, 1,000,01)0 pound of wool. At a meeting of the executive com mittee of the Columbia River Pack ers' Association it was decided to raisr tho price of canned goisls. i Reports from Willamette and Cluckamaa river fishermen, near Ore gon City, say this is the Ust season for their work lor several years. The board of trustees of the State Reform School has let bids for tin laying of 4,500 square feet of concrete work, for baseuieiit tliHir and walks, Portland Marked. Wheat Walla Walla, (SOc. ; val ley, nominal; bliiestcm, filyfiic. per bushel, Flour Best grades, $2.1H)(3.40 s-r barrel; graham, $2.(10. Oatt White.fi. 35( 1.40 percental ; gray, f 1.30t 1.U2 per cental. Barley Feed, f 17(417.50; brewing, $17(3 17.50 per ton. Millstuffs Bran, $17 tcr ton; midd lings, $21.50; shorts, $20.00; chop, $1. Hay Timothy, $!2.5)14; clover, f7(4.50; Oregon wild hay, $H7 jer ton. Hops 12i l ie. per lb. Wool Valley, ll(13c; Eastern Oregon, 7 10c ; mohair, 20(21o. per pound. Butter Fancy creamery, 15r 17 c. ; dairy, 13 Mc; store, ll(f 12Vjjc. per pound. Kggs Oregon ranch, I'ltfVli. per dozen. Cheese Full cream, twins, Lift 13a'c. ; Young America, 13 V He. per pound. Poultry Chickens, mixcd,$3. 5044; hens, $4(45.00; dressed, ll(r2c. kt pound; springs, $3(55 per dozen; ducks, $5((o; geese, $(i7; turkeys, live, 10 12c; dressed, 14fllGc. per pound. Potatoes Old, $t1.15 per sack; new, 22)o. per pound. Mutton Lambs 4 4 (ft 6c. per pound gross; best' sheep, wethers, with wool, f t.25(as4.50; dressed, ll(7o per pound. Hogs Gross, heavy, $5.750; light, $1.755; dressed, 77J(,'o. per poutid. Veal Large, (!$7c. per pound; small, 7J8c. per pound. Beef Gross, top steers, $.rHi5.25; cows and heifers, $4.50C44.75; dressed beef, 8K8c. per pound Senator Hawley is in favor of protecting- the Nicaraguan canal, no matter what kind of an interna tional agreement is made. It was held recently in a London police court that no one bus any right to force his way into a railway car riage already full. Ran Francisco has 130, rittsburj; 385, Providence 250, Washington (100, Louisville 325, Cincinnati Bill and Cleveland 400 policemen. It is said that 1,000 pounds of poul try will cost less than 1,000 pounds of beef and will sell for almost twice is much. The Mexican army of more than 25,000 men is supported upon a trille moro than 1,000,000 Mexican dollars 4 month. Tho Mexican congress loos not cost $1,000,000 a year. Tho natives of the east const of Africa have a species of cymbal cx ictly resembling in shape tho dumb bells UBed by athletes. They are played in pairs, 0110 in each hand, inu violently smitten together. RACEO FOR A SWITCH. rrrlbl Accident Cauud by Molormtn'i CartliuMit. Albany, N. Y., May 27,-Elcclrlc cart racing for ft switch whilo fun ning in opposite direction at the rate of 40 mile an hour coat live live yesterday afternoon by a terrific collision in which over 40 prominent, people were Injured, tome fatally and others seriously. Tho lobby of the local postotllca, filled with dead and wounded, hysterical women and children looking for relative and friends, surgeons administering tern, porary relief, and ambulance racing through tho city taking the wounded to tho hospitals, were the early in timations of the accident, Tho scene of the accident was at a point about two mile out of Green busoh, on the lino of the Albany A Hudson Railway, Tht point where tho cart met on the single track was at ft sharp curve, and to fast were both running and so sudden wa the collision that the motormen did not have time to put on the brakes lie fore south bound car No. 22 had gone almost clear through north Uiund car No. 17, and hung on the edge of t high bluff with its loait of shriek ing maimed humanity. One motor man was pinioned up against the smashed (rout o( the south Ismiid car, with Imth legs severed and was killed instantly, while the other one lived but a (ow nimueut. The few women and children who had ecBicd injury were hysterical and added their cries to the shrieks of the dying and mutilated. Men with broken arms and hones, with dislocated joints ami bloody heads and face, tried to assist others alio were more helpless. Help had Ix-en summoned from Fast Grconbuseh and vicinity, and in a little time the bruised mass of humanity, with the mutilated dead, were loaded on empty car and taken to Albany. Thn ambulances and physicians hud been summoned and the ostotliee turned into morgue and hospital. As far as the physicians could tem porarily attend the wounded they were taken to their home or to the hospitals. With loth motormen killed it wa hard to get at the real cause ol the accident, but it is pretty well de. termiiied that it was caused by an attempt of the-sooth IhiuikI car to reach a second switch instead of waiting for the north bound car at tho first siding, The cars widgh 15 ton each and are the largest electric cars built, and so (rightful was the crash that Isith cars were torn almost to splinters. SEVERE W N3 STORM. Cauud Widespread Dtvailstioa In ftvt Wit. era States. Salt Lake, May 28, The wind storm which swept over Nevada, Utah, Southern Idaho, Wyoming mil Colorado, did damage that will run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. It resulted in almost complete prostration of telegraph and telephone cr ice in the state nffi-et. ed and for nearly 21 hours during the height of the storm, the inter moun tain region was practically cut oil from the rest of the world, The storm was severest in Eastern Nevada snd Utah, and in tho fertile valleys in the northern part of Utah wide spread devastation resulted, When the storm was at its height, the uind at somo juiiiits reached a velocity of 50 miles an hour. At Ogden the storm was felt worst. Hero the wind tore roofs from a num ber of buildings, ineliiiiing the Bap tist church, completely demolishing barns and outbuildings, and scattered them far anil wide, uprooted many shade trees ami tore others to pieces, blew in plate glass windows in busi ness blocks and prostrated electric light wires, so that the city was ii. darkness. Tho damage in Ogden will probably reach $100,000. At Five Points, Logan, Sinithfield, Hooper and other places the damage was very great. Hundreds of fruit tree were completely stripped. The force of the wind was so terrific around Logan and ' Hooper that to mato vines were swept entirely from fields. It is estimated Unit fully one half of thn crops were destroyed, Around Hooper, the sweep of. the wind blew away the ploughed ground to the full depth that the plows had entered the earth, rendering the land practically useless, f ,-. Along the north shoro of the Greal Salt Lake the wind picked up the dry sand in great clouds and hurled it across tho country with terrific force, half burying tho railroad tracks for miles, New Mexico Mine Accident, flunla Fe. N. M.. Mav 28. One man was instantly killed and several seriously Iiurt at the rwita Kim cop per mine, in Grant county, while cleaning out blasts which had failed to cxplodo. Sailed for Nome. San Francisco, May 28, Throe steamers sailed today for Nome the Conemnugh, with 2,(500 tons of gen eral freight but no passengers; the l'oitland with 400 passengers, three tons of mail and a full cargo. Nearly half of the passengers arc employes of tbo Northern Commercial com pany, bound for Unalnska, Dutch harbor, St. Michael and Nome, The steamer Valencia, with about 200 passengers and supplies. Mileage and Feet. . Washington, May 28. Tho con- trollerof tho treasury has decided that I United States senators Bate unci Till man, having been summoned to tins city 11s witnesses 011 behalf of the United States in tho ease of the .United States against Cullen, are 'entitled to tho usual mileage fees pro vided by law, nnd that the law 11s tc 'clerks and officers of .the United I Qlnln. ...liwili t,rnv M.,,1 lltnf. In utwiti cases they shall not ho allowed mile age, does not apply to United States senators. EXPLOSION IN MINE TWENTY-ONE MEN MET A TER RIBLE DEATH. Nine Mors Terribly Burned Explotlo Ceuied by Coal Dutt m the Air Being Ignited by t 'Wow Bloal" Tlrt Shot' Out Prom Iht Mouth el tht Tunnel 900 rut lllijh-MlM Is Badly Damayd. Dayton; Tenn, May 29.-AI the Itichlund tuiuo of the Dayton Coal k Iron Company, two mile from here, at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon, t terrific explosion of eoal dust re oilted In thn death of 21 men, all fthite, and most of them mar I red Slid with families. The explosion was caused by what Is known among miners as ft ' blown blast," It is ,the custom of the miners to place blasts and fire them off at quitting lime, leaving the coal thus thrown down to I loaded and hauled out of the mine the next morning. The Richland mine is destitute of water, and a great vol ume of line imrticlc o( coal dust, invisible to the naked eye, accuiou luted at the roof of the mine, Thi afternoon at 4 :30 o'clock dynamite caitridttwas placed in position in one of the room for a blast, and the miners startiil (or the mouth of the mine. The blast did not explode, intended, but instead ft long llaino shot out of the blast bole and ignited the accumulation of dust. Instantly a terrillo explosion occurred, and a seething mass of (lame shot to the mouth of the mine ami extended 300 feet into the air, scorching the leaves from the nearby tree. There were 34 men in the mine at the time, Four of them reaed with slight injuries, Twenty one were killed, and nine terribly burned, most of them fatally, The force of the explosion caused gnrnt masse of coal and slate to cave in from tho roof of the mine, and many of tho miner' were completely buriisL Word quickly reached Dayton and ten-lie forces were ut once organism! and proceeded to the mine. One by one the blackened ami horribly dis figured Isidies were taken from the debris and carried to the mouth of the mine, where they were put on a locomotive and taken to Dayton. Scores of relatives and friends gath ered at tho mouth of the mine, and Ilia shriek of anguish a the Uslie aero removed were heart rending. The two undertaking establishment at Dayton were turned into morgues, where the mangled bodies were dre-sed and prepared for delivery to their families. All the men em ployed in this mine were residents of Dayton. The Richland mine i the prop erly of tho Dayton Coal St Iron Com pany, eomiioMvJ of Glasgow capital ists. The company 0H-rate an iron furnace at Dayton. RAPIDLY NEARINQ HOME. PreildcntUI Train Will Reach Waihlnglon Thursday. H l.l t.f.W V..1, M 11 v 98 Tlin ore!. I'K.II. J, - ...... dentin! train made the third days run on the homeward journey without incident. Tbo trip aero Wyoming was al an average eieviuiou 01 over 4 IKS) feet, and at Sherman, just le f.,rn iliii 1 ruin Wean to descend the eatern slope of the Kocky mountains the elevation exceeded 7,600. The president has made no remarks at nuv of the stops, but ho has ap- . . 1 . . 1 . 1 . .1 1 . 1. pen rM on inn piauorm aim shook I.uihU ti lth some of those nearest the ea'r. There were crowds at every sta- 1 . - ,1... 1 .......... ...to 1 11)11 along UI' roun- inu i-ieijr ilium rniii ti bad its little Cruill) Of COWOOVS sitting lull upright on tl.cir horses waving the sombreros as the train went by. Mrs. McKinley is standing the trip well, Toe weather has lieen pleasant and that, means much for Iter comfort. The Presidential train will reach Washington Thursday morning at 7:30. Demand! of Striken Met. Dunkirk. X. Y.. Mav 29. Tho strike of the machinists employed by the jlrooks Locomotive vtoraa nas been settled. All who struck aro to be taken back without discrimination. 1,'lfiv Hvn hours will constitute a week's work: a straight increaso of 10 nor cent in wane is' granted. These are substantially tho demands made by the machinists. Date fixed for Cup Racci New York. Mav 20. Tho Royal Ulster Yacht Club has cabled tho New York Yacht Club an approval of September 21 as tho day for tho spelling conios in uiu cup rucr. New Submarine Cable. New York, May 2!), A new sub marine cable lictwoen Kngland and Germany has just been put down. Tbo cable is owned by a British company, but tho German govern ment contributed to its cost, and a German firm waa employed to carry out tho work. Poilal Orderi. Washington, May 29 Tho post office at Susanville, - Grant county, Or, has been moved three quarters'of a milo to tho northeast without change of postmaster. A postoffice has been established at Midford, King county, Washington, to be supplied with special service from North Bond. Daily mail messenger service has been authorized between Seattle and West Seattle. Dlimlued Cadets Saw Root Washington, May 29. The five cadets who were dismissed from West Point wcro at tho war dpeartmcnt today, Senator Ilawlov, chairman of the committco on military affairs, and Senator Cockrcll, of Missouri, also a member of tho committee, in 'crested themselves in getting a hear ing for 'tho cadets before Secretary Hoot. Mr. Root stated, aftor tho statements miulo by the cadets today, that they had not altered his opinion and tho situation remains unchanged. MINERAL OIL EXPORTS. New 011 DiKoverlee Will Keep ll Ahead of Runt In Amount Produced. - Washington, May 20, The recent oil discoveries in Texas and on the Pacific coast lend especial interest to ome facts just presented by the tress ury bureau of statistics regarding the exports of mineral oils from the United States, These show thai the exportation of the fiscal year sUmt to end will probably lie the largest In the history of this remarkable industry, which has Increased It export from 204,000.000 gallons of illuminating oil in 1875, to 721,000,000 gallon In 1SKK), In the quarter century from 1876 to 1000 the value of mineral oils exported from tho United State was about $1,200,000,000, n average of about $18,00,000 ft year. During re cent year it hat averaged alsiut $00, 000,000 r annum or $5,000,000 per month. In the mere question of gallons of oil produced, - Russia bat been for years a close competitor of tho United States, though it is prohahie that the recent discoveries in the United States will enable it to continue to lead in the number of gallon produced ; whilo tho fact that American oil pro- duces nearly twice as much refined : i .... r .. i ..ii . .oai. iiiri hi noiiiiit hh ivaih inn tf its Miiiii rn r ' ' . " .'. add greatly to it value a a conuner cial nroduct. One rsnecia Iv Interesting leal-; nre of the development of the oil in dustry is, that there has been a re markable decrease In the price to tno consumer during tho jienoa in wiucn the actual exortatiou and thn net vslueof the exports have ween in creasing, The average value of the illuminating oil exported in 1870 was about 15 cent tier gallon, and in 1877, an exceptional year, 20 cents tier gallon. By 1881 tho price had fallen to alsiut 10 cents per gallon, the figures for that year being 332,- 000,000 gallons, valued at $34,0OO, OIK), By 18'Jl tho average price wa about 7 cent per gallon. By 1898 the average r ximiH price had droped to 5 cent per gallon, the quantity exported having laiin 824,000,000 gab Ions, and the value retiorted to the bureau of statistics by exporter through the custom collectors, $12, 1)22,682. BLOWN UP BY DYNAMITE. Car Loaded With Explolvei Run Into by i Preljhl Tralo, Everett, Wash., My 29 An acci dent occurred yesterday afternoon on the Great Northern Railroad four mile east of Skykoniish which re sulted in the serious injury of Engi neer John McOrouty snd consider able loss of property. A push car loaded with 48 1kxc of dynamite was U'ing run to a siding when the west hound freight train, No, 15, came along. Before the men in charge of the push car could reach the siding, the freight struck the car. A terrible explosion fol lowed. The engine was hurled some distance up the mountain side. Three freight car were demolished and alsnit 500 feet of track was torn up. A steam shovel standing near a as reduced to scrap iron. McGrouty was the only one seriously hurt. He received a scalp wound, his tongue was bitten through, and he also sus tained Injuries to hi spine, A watchman's shack, 75 yards from the explosion, was blown to atoms and the watchman himself stunned. The injured men were taken to the Everett hospital. 8TIKERS LESS SANGUINE. Eighteen Hundred Men Still Out Around Newark, N. J. -New York, May 29. Tho close of the tjrst week of the -machinists' strike at Newark, X. J., finds almnt 1,800 idle men in Newark and its submits. The -striker have ceased to U as sarguiue as at first ie;ardiug the outcome of their efforts to com h1 their employers to grant a" nine hour day without decreased pay, A half dozen of the smaller shopsin this section have met the demands of tbo men but none of the larger one ha shown any disposition to yield.- Renrescntatives of the larger! firms say they aro prepared (or just as long a tignt as tho machinists are to maintain. ft ' .,..,.1. it... tl. ,w,M.w.it. employed in the American Engine1 Fd for Cheating the Government, works, at Plain field will go out. i Chicago, May 29. AlU'rt Dow, pro This company agreed to the nine hour ' prietor of the Fert ile Valley Creamery clause, but cut 15 cents from tho 10, Company, was today fined $10,tXK) hour pay, and sentenced to six months in the c ; j county jail. Dow is said to have Homecoming of Voluntcert. cheated tho government out of $ 10,- Manila, May 29. It is reasonably jWX in revenue payment, which he certain that tho remaining volunteers evaded. This is the heaviest tine ever will sail for homo lie fore July. Tho Forty seventh regiment and battalions of tho Forty ninth and Thirty eighth have sailed on the transport Thomas. Tho Ohio sails today with the Forty scond regiment and tho Kilpntrick and Logan Juno 1 with the Forty third and Forty ninth regiments and two battalions of tho Sixth. Tho Grant sails from Aparri Juno 1 with the Forty eighth regiment and two battalions of tho Forty ninth. . Rioting In South Russia. London, May 29. Rioting has spread to South Russia, Bays a dis patch from St. Petersburg, as tho result of tho production of tho anti Scminite play, "The Smugglers." At Kutiils thousands of people congre gated about tho theater und stoned tho police. A detachment of Cos sacks charged and dispersed the crowd, Thirteen policemen, 15 Cos sacks and two olllcers were severely injured, Added to tht School Fund. Olympia, Wash., May 29. State Auditor Atkinson has issued to the permanent school fund 39 londs, amounting to $195,000. Of thii, amount $150,000 was from the pay incut made by Thurston county in cident to the sale of the courthouse' to the state. This makes a total of $1,000,000 of tho permanent school fund invested in state bonds drawing 3 per cent, or ovfr $35,000 yearly interest, ns a part of the ' income ol tho current school fund. A 0IIAVK PROBLEM REQARDINQ DUTIES ON G0OD8 FROM THE PHILIPPINES. Such Duties Art rltld lo Be Illegal, snd May Have It Bs Refunded President tnd His Cabinet, on Their Journey Through Iowa, Comldtrlnf Queillon of Exirt Senlon of Cengrcii. Cedar Rapids, la., May !).-During their journey across lows, Presi dent McK inl y and. the members o( his cabinet spent much time reading snd discussing the published rcorts on the opinion of tho supreme court in the insular case, They were much' Interesed in the way the court divided in the two coses. The decision in tho Del ima case, if (olio wed In the Philippines, a it i also assumed that it will be, might result In the calling o( an extra sion o( congress. In the Dclima case tho court ducidotl that the duties collected on Porto Rican gissls before congress enacted the Foraker law wo illcagal and must bo refunded. It is presumed that the court, lol- same Hues ol reasoning, will decide that dot lea collected on goods from the Philippines were also illegal, and that goods from the Phil ippines are subject to free entry into the United States until congress acts, as it has already done in the case of Porto Rico. " Such a decision would mean not only the refunding of duties hereto fore collected, but would ojs'n the ports of tho United State to mer chandise and good of every descrip tion from the Philippine until con gress meets in Decemlsr. It is plain that imjsirters might take advantage o( this to ship g(Msls into the United States through the Philippines, and thus defraud the government of its revenues. Whether the danger from this source is great enough to warrant the calling of congress in extra ses sion is one which will le decided only after full deliberation. D is Mssible, however, that this danger may be already obviated in the enactment of the Sjiooner reso lution, delegating temporarily to the president the Hw;r to govern the Philippines. - This may be consid ered an act of congress within the meaning of tho Downes case, affirm ing the constitutionality of the Fora ker law. But it is a deleca'te ques tion and one which the president and his advisers will consider in all its bearings Isdore coming to a con clusion. SETTLEMENT BY PERU. Afreet lo Pay the Claim of An American Consular Agent. Washington, . May 30. The state department ha succeeded in settling satisfactorily another claim ol an American cituen against the govern ment of Peru. Mini.ter Dudley, at Lima, has cabled the department that the claimant in the case is wil ling to accept the sum of 8,000 silver soles tendered by that government. The department bus authorized the acceptance of the tender and the case is closed. The Bottled claim was that of a United Slates consular agent in Peru in 1885, and his claim was bused on the destruction of bis horses and tho pillaging of his property by armed and uniformed men of the party of General Caccras in July of that year. Coat for Army Tranjport. Seattle, May 30. Quartermaster ftuhlin was today authorised by the quartermaster general to award the contract to supply coal for all army tranports loading on Puget Sound foi the Philippines ami for Alaskan port during the fiscal year beginning July 1 next and ending June 30, 1902. The contract will amount to nearly $100, (XX), figuring on the basis of the quartermater's business at this port and Tacotna during the past year. It is believed that at least 30,000 tons w ill be required. The quartermaster general authorized Mr. Ruhlin to award the contracts for the purchase of coal according to his recommenda- 1 ti0I19 t tho timo tho mas were wvm) WCeks ago. miposou m a icuciui eonn. Will Visit Windsor. Loudon, - My 30. Tho visiting members of the New York chamber of commerce will visit Windsor castle Juno 1, and will bo received by the kirtg. A conference lietween the New Vork.chamlior of commerce and tho London chamber of commerce has been arranged for Juno 3. Washout on the Great Northern. Seattle. Mav 30. A washout on tho Great Northern main line, two miles west of enateliee,. lias boon renoi'ted here. The t rack was washed not. for a distance of 150 feet, and ns a result all passengers on cast and west bound- trains were transiorrou at tho scene of the trouble. There was no delnv in the arrival and de parture of trains, however, the trans fer being mode with little trouble. French Captured s Walled Town. Paris. Mav 30. A disimtch received here from Genearl Voyron, nt Tien Tsin, dated May 25, says that" a re oonnoitering party camo upon n walled town 15 kilometers northeast of Tim? Chau. Tho town authorities refused to open the gates, whereupon the French artillery opened lire, the wall' was breached and tho town taken. One French infantry man was wounded, Genearl Bailloud is nniirlnc the country with a column of French troops, and is supporting the unineso regulars. MAY 00 8COT FREE. Chance for til Condemned Murderers la Waihlngton, Seattle, May 30. Thero is serious danger that every condemned mur derer in the slate of Washington will soon be releasrd from custody. Ac cording to Prosecuting Attorney Walter 8. Fulton, of King county, the last legislature, in passing a law providing that hereafter condemned murderers shall Isj executed in the penitentiary, instead of in the county jails, committed a serious blunder in not including clause providing lor the iiurtishnicnt of those condemned at tbo time the law goes into effect. That the consequences will bo the most serious to the administration of Justice is Mr, Fulton's fear. Briefly, stated tho construction placed upon the law by Mr. Fulton is as follows: The new law provides that, upon the sentencing of the prisoner, he shall be delivered forthwith to the warden of the penitentiary and kept by him in "solitary confinement" until the day of his execution. It is said that the "solitary confinement" clause contitutes an additional pun ishment than that provided for at the time of the commission of the crimes of the men now in jail. Therefore, it is an ex post facto law, and can not bo made applicable to the pris oner now confined. Moreover, the new law, which is valid, insofar as it relates to criminals to be con demned in the future, contain ft clause repealing by implication the idd law, under which criminals have Is'en hanged, and leaves apparently no avenue of escape, from the fact that criminals now condemned must lie given their lilicrty. : Mr. Fulton will try to induce Gov ernor Rogers to call a special session of the h gislatuie to remedy the al leged radical defect in the law. He says that ft law can be drafted which will cover the points desired by the framcrs of the one passed at the last session, and at the same time make provision for the legal execution ol tho criminals, who, under existing conditions, must, perforce, be re leased. MACHINST8 ARE CONFIDENT. San Francisco Striken Expect to Resume Work Soon. San Francisco, May 30. The strik ing machinists report that 22 shops in this city " have signed the union agri-ctuent. Several of tho strikers have purchased small shops and be gun business on their own account. The machinists generally express themselves as confident that an ad justment of the differences with their former employers will soon be effect ed. " The Amalgamated Society of Engin eers has dcclured its sympathy with the strike of tho machinists, and levied an'ossessnient on it members for the strikers' Is'tielit. More than 1,000 employes of tho Risdon Iron Works, who are now out on strike, were paid off yesterday after returning their tools. The men who worked at the Union Iron Works will receive their pay today. The metal polisher say thero are five union shoiis in the city. The marine paint ers, w ho went out on strike last Satur day, are all at work, their demand for $3 a day having been granted. In response to a demand that only union sailors lc shipped on vessels Ixdoncing to the Ship Owners' Asso ciation, the latter organization has demanded that members of the Sail ors' Union go to sea only on associa tion ships. May Bt Ramagnoli't Body. Berlin, May 30. Tho Lokal Anzei- ger reports on tho authority of the Buda Pest correspondent that there has just been taken from the river Danube, near that city, a dead body, heavily loaded with chains, which tho Hunagrian police firmly believe to lie that of Ramagnoli, the anarchist re ported to have been sent from Amer ica to murder the German emperor. Tho police of every country in EuroH and America have been notified of the discovery. Bear May Have to Civt Up Trip. Seattle, May 30. It is possible that on account of the machinists strike the repairs on tho revenue cut ter Bear w ill not be completed in time to per mit her to proceed on her journey north. This will necessitate the abandonment of the voyage to Siberia, and the" distribution of the herd of 3(X) reindeer now awaiting the arrival of tho Bear. In this event Lieutenant Berthiolf will be com pelled to spend tho winter on tho Siberian coast. Withdrawal of Germans. Berlin, May 30. A dispatch to the Cologne Gaxetto says tho withdrawal of tho. German marines to Sing Tail has begun and that the German quar ter of Pekin has lieen handed over to tho Chinese authorities experiment ally for a fortnight. Amendment Accepted. TIiiv.m.1 Mav 30. Tho Piatt , , - - - amendment has lieen accpeted by the Cuban const it uitonal convention by a vote of 15 to 14. Tho actual report was on accepting the majority report of the committee on relations winch embodied the amendment, with ex pliuiaitons or certain clauses. The Radicals made a hard fight at the last moment, ana on several occasions personal encounters seemed immi nent. Boxtra Again Active. London, May 30. "The Boxers are again active in all districts whero there are no foreign troops," says a dispatch from Tien Tsin. "A mis sionary who was going to Tulu on tho Grand canal was forced to return to Tien Tsin on account of a fierce fight raging between Boxers and Catholic converts. There was heavy tiring on both sides. Four thousand insurgents from tho province of Kwttiehai have invaded the province of Szechuan, causing a widespread panic.