F airly on DAYTON ¡HE HUS ISLAND HI® Victoria, Due. IA—By the sfaamee Topeka, from Dyea, nlw* is received that msr q than 1,000 ill-previsioned men-stampeded from Dawson daring with tall her children and othar i m s ae the Utter part of Octoboe, and impelled diate relatives at her bedsidCL She did by the haunting fear of famine pre now not suffer any in her last boura, but madly forcing their way over the moun- PBOMININT MEN SIGN THE CALL gradually passed from the deep, palsied sleyp, in which she had rested almost constantly for the past 10 days, into U m sleep of death. ___ No word could be secured from the bouse for some bourn before dieeolu- Wheat fell over 7 cents per bushel in Chicago Monday. Senator White of California haa in­ troduced a bill in congress to strengthen the sight-hour law as applieabl* to gov­ North. eoundly that it was diflicpit to tell ernment work. whether she had yet breathed her lasL started by thieves, who had rarsfaRy The controller of the currency has de­ Thia condition continued for. half an planned, a $10,000.000 robbery, says clared a dividend of 10 par cent in favor 'fioun The president and *11 of the the Journal and Id vertiere today Tan of depositors of the Moscow National at the trunk lines leading to the West, family were by her side. bank, Moscow, Idaha There was no recognition, however. including the New York Central, th« Judge Sanborn fa the court of ap­ from states in which substantial Her last consciousness was hours before Pennsylvania, the Erie, the Drhvm, peals at SL Louis haa granted a post­ her final taking away. ' ponement of tbe proposed tele of the The tenth day ot Mm. McKinley’s Kansas Pacific for 60 day*. by men of national reputation in both illness was marked by a number of One of the interesting items in the which they will take into Dawson this political parties, as well as reports material changes such as improved the agricultural appropriation bill is pro­ winter. Ulmer prill go 'south by tbe from practical men as to theArorking condition of toe patient, and as dark­ vision for M0,000 for an agricultural next steamer to lay his proposition be- t f th* varieua laws now governing pri­ ness approached it was felt by those General Ticket Agent Fiji*****, at experiment station in Alaska. mary election caucuses. Considerable around her that she bad1 finished the the Ontario 4b Weatarn, my* that eu foreibe secretary of War by wire.~k Brigadier-General Otia, stationed ut. . Mus stated that material lev the pro- attention WHl be given to the question last day of her life’s journey. She Was tbe nigbt of tbe fire a bo assi s a live em Denver, has received a telegram from pdsed railroad over Taku paa? has been ‘How to get vuten out to the primaries,r resting comparatively easy at that timate would place the value ef tickets after fair laws are secured. Spec fal l n- time, bnt was a great deal weaker. At Fort Duchesne stating that all tbe Ute shipped from the East. . The steamers Bella and Weare, It tereet will be taken in reports from the dawn of day it was felt that the Indians have returned to their reserva­ tion. . . - now appears, did not land more than New York, Massachusetts, Maryland, ¿nd was at hand, for about that time Illinois, New Jersey and Ohio, where she experienced one of the sinking A dispatch from Havana states that 100 tons of provisions on their arrival legislatures will be in session. Head­ spell»oommon to the illness, and for a Gomes is being hard pushed by a in Dawson in tbe early part of Octo­ quarters will be opened at the Hotel long time seemed so nearly inanimate The different roads posted aotiare that Spanish column under command of ber, owing to their having been held Manhattan, New York, December 37, that it was thought no rally was pomi- if tickets of a certain form and eerMa * General Pando, in tbe province of up at Circle City. ble; but the rally oame, and with it a should be presented, they should bo Puerto Principe. * - i_ The only bright view of tbe present 1897. situation is that the trails crossing the ■ “Believing that onr caucuses or pri-. small amount of liquid nourishment, Uikcn op dooMuoioiL George C. Green, a carpenter ot Mo­ passes above Dyea and Skagway have ma~ry election customs or laws lie at the the first she had taken since Monday. A few days ago a ticket insued by desto. Cal., fatally shot bis wife and lately been greatly improved and with­ very root and source of onr entire elea-. This was followed by such peaceful re- tbe Ontario A Western from Chiesa wounded his daughter] Mrs. W. E. in a mouth will be in Excellent condi­ live franchise system and that the re­ poee an to retire the Hope, which was to Kansas City was received from a pass- Liedman with a revolver. He then sults in our larger cities are due in a realized, that ahe would live through senger and found to be one at tbe tick­ tion. turned tbe revolver upon himself, bnt large measure te the defects in such ets suppoed to have been burned The only inflicted a scalp wound. «> practiceafand custinfo^ it, therefore, ; part of the ticket calling for passage Tacoma, Wash., Dec. 16.—Already follows^i^i'tfi purify this system is to , _ The agricultural department issues from New York to Chicago has not ye* the rush to Alaska has set in, the take a long step in the direction of hon­ ■following: A been preoented. ere.' Another sinking spell came, and City of Seattle having left Tacoma p , veetigation insti tn esty, economy and efficiency in every tor a time it seemed as though it would Now the officials are asking ha* this morning for Skagway. Her pas ­ ment of agriculture indicates a crop of branch of Jhe public service; and fur­ be the. Iqgi. ...After that, she continued many other tickets out of tbe $10,Mb.- i 680,000,000 bushels. These figures are sengers from the Sound will reach the ther believing that the enactment of 000 worth are in existence. It is subject to slight modification in ths' hundred mark. Several women were laws to prevent corrupt practices and weak and low. deemed not impossible that tbe entire , Tbe doctor called at 6:60 o ’ clock and on board, final report throw the safeguards of a regular elec­ reported that he found a material lot was stolen sad held until nondirt tun , freight. tion around the caucus or primary will change for the worse, such as he regard­ should forget tbe warning. ' The legislative, executive and judi­ cial appropriation bill, as reported to encourage many good citizens to take ed as certain to bring about final disso­ Commissioner Senner, who was m ' A LIGHT DAY'S WORK the house by the pommitjee on appro­ part therein, we, the undersigned, tor lution during the night. He had not charge of Ellis island at tbe time of tbe I priations, carries a total of $31,663,436, the purpose of discussing and discover­ even a faint hope that she could live fire, deems tbe hypothesis by ne msaae i being $780,861 lee* than tbe former ing, as far M possible, the precise de­ until morning._______ - improbable. ■ - bill. The number of aahtrie* provided fects in the various systems which now for i* 10,000, being 198 les* than the obtain, and the remedies, and take IMPROMPTU COURT number proved for in the current tuch action as may seem necessary in tower of the main building naw dis­ law. — ' the premises, do hereby join iq calling tance from the efita* occupied by the Hans Frohman “cnrled” a pair of voteuponhis immigration BH1, which a conference of persons interested in railroad gteople. Every one of the gov­ ia substantially the same measure that said questions to convene in the city of eighLgouod dumb-bells 14,000 times ernment guards were busy getting the was passed by the 64th congress and New York, on the 16th day of January, in an hour and 46 minutes in a New open field, without a house in sight, on immigrants safely out. It is not im- 1 fiQU’* York gymnasium. When he bad fin- vetoed by President Clevefend. Mr. a high hillside, with a crowd of eager pomible that thieves deliberately etart- We deem it desirable that the con men waiting to avenge the terrible ished his 13,000 curl in one hour and Allen, of Nebraska, objected to an im­ 30 minutes, it was proposed that Froh­ mediate vote, and suggested thatiho ference be made up from men of all murder that has taken place in Law­ man stop, but he ifisisted on continu- final vote on the amendments and the parts of the country and without regard rence county, in case a conviction was be quickly deserted.” bill be taken on that day, January IT, to party or factional affliationa” General Ticket Agent Robineaa read reached by the impromptu court, the at 8 P. M. This suggestion in accept­ The call is sigi prominent meh scene lighted by flaring pine-knot he could resweely believe tbet nay sash the time stated ed by Mr. Lodge, and the order for« from all sections Union. torches held aloft in the bead* of the whoteaato robbery had taken pt era It is announced SL Louis will soon vote at that time was made. "I have communicated with ether waiting mob, the three negroes, Giles have a new $3,000,000 hotel. Several Davi*, chairman of the committee on Berry, Will Powell and Tom Wallen, road*, and they have bad ne Mb tick­ Chicagoan* will furnish the necessary foreign relations, called op thk-bi 11 pro­ were standing trial for their life last et* prevented as yeL I think it snare capital. Tbe bote! ia to be the most, hibiting’the killing of fur seals in the likely that tbe report of mire for th* night at Bankstone Ferry. modern structure of> tbe kind west of North Pacific ocean, but on suggestion day preceding the fire wan not rerreet tbe Mississippi. The company bopea_ of Pettigrew, who desired to offer Washington, Dec. 14.—The indica­ Lewis, wbo was lynched Friday, at th« Of course, though, if aomeeae bad used to close all contracts and commence’ amendments, it went Over until tomor­ tions are that'this congress will pass a place of thè original crime, but were that ticket, if it waa boueatly dispoeai construction* next season. row. general bill for the entire rehabilitation released on their promising to appear of, it should have turned up aassser. The United State* supreme court'has The bill granting settlers tbe rigirt rendered a decision in tbe case at to make second homestead entries of of Indian territory. The measure as next proming as witnesses. They did An investigation will be aaade.” now planed ia to make it embrace not put in an appearance when the Tbomaa Bram, under sentence of death 160 acres was passed. * •vorything that has been sought to be in Massaohuaetts for murder oocihi it ted Butter spoke at some length on hi* accomplished in tbe past by tbe Dawes trial wgs ready to begin. Search was made for them by tbe mob, and tbe at sea. He was accused of murdering postal savings bank bill.- Such a sys­ the captain, mate and captain’» wife tem would, in his opinion, insure Indian commiseion,which is still neg(H negroes were caught and brought baca. of a vessel bound for South America. greater comfort in the homes of tbe tiating with the five civilised tribes, Chen the suspicion that they were im The opinion reversed the decision of plain people of the land, as a great ma­ but which will be here next week to dica ted in the original the court below on the ground that jority of them would certainly become report the discouraging existing condi­ According to the|r own story, they perhaps reven, lives have been teat in Bram’s testimony should not have been depositor* in such bank*. This would tions The bill covers all the questions wefe with Lewis tb* night before. The admitted. *- ■ ’ __ cultivate among them thrift and econ­ of citizenship, allotments of lands, dis-' three men testified that they slept in a the White Horse rapids. Lewri* river, during tbe tert two mewths, aeamdiag positions of townsitee, mineral lands, A vessel has sailed from Portsmouth, omy, and enable them to provide for jurisdiction of the United States courts cottonhouse a mile and a half from tbe to John Hepburn, who arrived foam Smith house, where the terrible buteb- themselve* in illnea* and old ag*. N. H., for the Klondike. over the present reservations and other ery took plsce, snd that Lewis was there today. A boat built for four er The National Guard asks for an ap­ matters bearing on the extinguishment with them all night; at least he was six men waa found below the rapids sire propriation of $3,000,000. The blind chaplain of the hones in of tribal organization. Tbe first steps there when they went to sleep and was morning, but there waa ne tram at tbe There is a possibility of a rate war his invocation today referred eloquent­ in the matter have been taken by the there when they awoke the next morn­ occupants. They must all have bees between Western railroads. drowned. Other parties lest their esm- ly and feelingly to the death of the Indian committees of both the senate ing. .—- There are about 300 men in the mob fits, but managed to save their lives. ' A party has left San Francisco to president’s mother. Cannon, chairman and bouse. It is understood that in a few days constituting a committee ot the whola There to now very little open water survey a new route to the Klondike. of the committee on appropriations, there will be a session of the commit­ for the trial. Reliable reports today between tbe rapids and the mast secured unanimous consent for the pas ­ At Salinas, Cal., two burglars clever­ ly jailed the jailer and a deputy sage of the urgent deficiency bill,which tees at which these matters will be from a messenger who was at tbe scene of it being froae« over. At White Horae rapids there me be explained carried but three items— gone over and steps taken in tbe way say that tbe mob is very moderate in sheriff. $6,000 for the construction of a build­ of settling the problems by congres­ its acts, and haa cooled down consider­ about SO people, and there are Sb at the A tremendous rich gold strike is re- sional enactment. In view of the large ?*rted on Dog creek, a tributary ef the ing at the naval academy, $80,030 for amount of work necessary to be done, ably. Berry and Wallen, though badly foot of Marsh lake. There are at least scared, maintain their denial of 100 more below White Horae rapsdn. payment of temporary employes of th* ukon. and many other* have goae into tb* house and senate, and $150,000 for the however, it is not probable that any The eon of a New York millionaire bill can be passed till well toward the Hootalinqna country to pvsspsrt dwin* payment of mileage of senators and died in the county hospital -in San end of the session. ter Catchings, of Geogetown.statee that tbe winter. Hepburn had breed at are representatives. Francisca two.other negroes have been arrested strikes being made on tbe Hee«*Iraq«« The rest ot the session was taken up The Georgia senate wants to send by a personal debate between Hepburn on suspicion. or tributaries, but a man named Davis broke State convicts to Cub* to tight for the and Norton, whic^ ended by a vote washed $1,600 from tbe river bare tat Wesson, Miss., Dec. 14. — The three insurgents. sustaining Hepburn, and’the house then out shortly before 10 o’clock tonight in negroes arrested in the Monticello the six-story building at 809 and 811 Senator Perkins has introduced a adjourns!*-. strikes will be made ult in a speech replete with hi* characteristic humor, preacwted a series of amendments de­ signed. a* be said, to correct some of gra n tin g at p eue inn* to widows whose applications were not filed during their widowhood, and tbe granting of pen- UMSM to widows whose applications were k n eed on marriages contracted after the [tsasa g e of this art, and to permanently iamane or idotic minor* who had reached cans could not~make the bill too large for folaa It was adaaitted on both aides at tise house during the discussion that U m $14«.to6,M0 carried by the bill Is* peneasM would not cover the ex- penditures, but as congress would be in aeeesea. Cannon said it would be easy to make good any deficiency that might Watata^tou, Dm. 11.—Although no formal action has been taken, a pretty general understanding baa been reached by leaders ia the house as to the course at action ia the near future. It in- dades the disposal of appropriation bills as fast as they are ready. The bankruptcy bill will be reported b rd a r s the holiday recess, but will not be taken up by the bouse until after It a understood that for the present tlaes« will bo no effort to take up finan- csal kgfelaUoo on tbe floor of the 6 mm . This is due mainly to the im- preaatOM that tbe committee on bank­ ing aad cuneney will not be able to raeaaeile many conflicting interests in- eu bread lines, calculated to meet the praeeat financial requirements. The di sp—i t »»« of bouse leaders will be to keep radical legislation to tbe rear. W as h i ngt o n . Dee. 11.—In the houre tatay. Mr. Fleming, of Georgia, intro­ duced a bill authorising an investiga­ tion of the books, accountsand methods of railroads which have received aid ‘ ' treasury, ar aaay bid and purchase for the United States the property, subject to s*cfc encumbrance, at any sale or sales made under any order of the court er any judgment or decree of foreclo- emweieoch encumbrance, or of any- Meu er mortgage or interest of the Wartnngton. Dec. 11.—The bouse —■*<<"» «■ Indien affaire today be- investigation of tbe problème ■ farfiaa territory. It was a long ses- mea, and tbe resuit was a call for the BL Louis, Dec. 9.—The dead body ef Lee Fook Goey, known as the king at the highbinders, who several days Uge tried to rob another Chinese, was found tonight in a room in Chinatown. At the time of the attempted robbery bath mon fired at each other, and a trail of Hoed left by Loo Fook, while making bio eocope. ahowed that he had I thii mohi- and North