DAYTON
OREGON
DOINGS OF THE WEEK
Over 10,000 people witnessed the
aliening of the Portland exposition
Thursday night.
The state fair opened at Salem,
Thursday. Most of the stock, poultry
and exhibits are on the ground.
Mr. Angell, our late minister to
atee the American claims,'and recom
mends a naval demonstration to bring
him to time.
Major-General Milea, commanding
the United States army, has completed
his plan tor the reorganisation of the
volunteer forces into corps, divisions
and brigades. This plan has been sub
mitted to the war department for ap-
General Si* Herbert Kitchener haa
bean elevated to tbe peerage by the
British government as a reward of
merit.
The American evacuation ammii-
■ion at Havana haa been officially noti
fied that Mansanillo will be evacuated
October 3.
.
Tbe Italian government has sent to
Russia a diplomatically worded accept
ance of the osar’s invitation to taks
part in the peaoe conference.
Damage to tbe amount of about 830,-
000 was caused by fire in the Hotel
Vendome, San Jose, CaL, which is one
of tbe finest hotels oh the cosat.
Tbe New York transport Yucatan
has arrived ffbm Ponca, having on
board 186 men belonging to the various
regiments sent home for muster out.
The president has appointed Harvey
Humphrey, of Washington, special
agent to allot lands in severalty to the
Indian* on the Colville reservation in
Washington.
The Farmers’ hank in Flora, Ind.,
was looted, the robbers securing about
813,000. Cashier William Lennon,
who was sroused by the noise, was shot
and probably fatally injured. Blood-
bounda were put on the trail ot tbe
bandits.
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General Nunez of tbe Cuban army,
refutes all statements to the effect that
Cubans were in league with Spaniards.
Cubans, he says, could not so far forget
themselves aa to form an alliance with
the Spaniards, who have so cruelly op-
presed them, against the Americans.
The commission to investigate the
conduct of the war department held a
secret meeting Monday. Nothing can
be learned as to what trnnapired. The
commission decided to hold two ses
sions daily, one from 10 A. M. to 12:30
P. M., and the other from 3 to 4 P. M.
volere
to
».
the
id t tmimiit-
MANY BILLS WERK INTRODUCED
and
The senate was called to order at
10:10 o'clock by Taylor of üxaatilla.
Tern porary officers were elected rpom a
strict party »ota of 34 to I-
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A committoe on credentials was ap
point«!, consisting of . Ben Selling, G.
W. Prpebetel and William Smith.
The senate adjourned until 10:45 to
give tbe committee on credentials a
chance to make their report. Tbe ro-
l>ort waa adopted when the senate re
convened, and the new members were
sworn in by Chief Justice Wolverton.
The resolution providing for perma
nent organisation was presented by
Reed of Douglas, and was adopted.
The election of officers proceeded,
with the following results:
President—Joseph Simon, of Mult-
nomah. .
Chief clerk-
Junction.
Assistant chief clerk-
lion of the volunteer force which has
not been ordered mustered out.
Frank P. Myers shot and killed John
Lenhart, constable, and M. Kerns, by-
standen et Garrett, Md., while resist
ing eviction from a house which was a
subject of a family dispiute. He then
barricaded the doors and windows, but
was finally captured by the sheriff. As
lie was being taken to jail, some one
in the crowd shot the prisoner and ha
nomah.
fell dead.
"Calendar clerk
According to special dispatcher from
ton, of Multnomah.
Peking, members of the European com
Sergeant-at-arms
The first word that has come to
munity there believe the emperor ot
Washington from the American mem
China is in danger. It is add«l that bers of the peace commission since their
the dowager empress desires to place
departure waa received at the navy de
Prince Kwang’« grandaon on tiro
partment Monday, being a cablegram
throne.
The emperor realizes the requesting that Captain Bradford, chief
Salem. »
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strength of the conspiracy against him
of the equipment bureau, be sent" at
Pages—Harvey Bell and Frank Hart-
and has ordered the guards at the pal
once to Paris to assist the oommision. man.
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ace strengthened.
A new and highly important inven • The minor officers of the senate war*
A dispatch to the London Globe from
then sworn in.
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Hong Kong ports gives the details of a tion has been tested at the German
A resolution calling upon tbe secre
naval
maneuvers
at
Ber
lin.
It
was
in
secret convention signed recently at
tary of state tor his report on the finan
Peking. It appears that the Chinese the shape of a Greek Phoenician fire, cial condition of tbe atate waa pee-
invented
by
a
Berlin
engineer.
It
ig-
thereby coilclmled an agreement with.
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BvIlXCu Milt! Ruoptcw
St. Petersburg by which China ceded ’ nites on contact with the air or water,
The rules of the session of 1897 were
and
cannot
be
quenched
by
either
Port Arthur and Talien Wan, stipulat
adopted. .
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-
ing that only Russian and Chinese water or earth. It burns with a bril
Mulkey of Polk, Introduced a rerta-
Warships should enter or(dock at Port liant flame, exceeding big searchlighta,
■nd it ¿an be sunk under .water or un tion tot a joint committee of two from
Arthur.
der ground, and, when brought to the each house to examine and report upon
Aguinaljo and hie chiefs have made
■urface, Instantly bursts into flame at the books of the secretary of Mate. It
a plea to the powers tor recognition of
any desiyed point. It was tested dur carried.
belligerency and independence. An-
A bill was introduced by Brownell
ing the bight evolutions off the island
gonoillo, hi« agent, who wa« a passen
of Heligoland, and off Kiel, and proved of Clackamas^ to repeal tire act creat
ger on the steamer China, is on hi«
most efficient in detecting the presence ing the state railway commission, and
way to Europe to «ubmit the question
passed to its second reading.
of
the enemy.
to foreign arbitralion. Before preced
Mackay of Multnomah, introduced a
Tbe work of raising the Cristobal
ing to Europe Angoncillo will stop in
bill to provide new pilotage rule» in*
Washington and attempt to impress Colon hM now been taken up by the
the port of Portland-
.
the administration with his appeal. navy department.
Daly of Benton, introduced a bill to
No mention .of the United States nor
Tbe steamer Rosalie has arrived at reduce the statutory rate of intereat to
any American force is marie in the doc Seattle with 110 passengers from Klon
fl per cent.
ument which he carries.
dike, and 840,000 in gold dust.
The senate then adjourned antri 10
CajubotR the French ambassador at
A recapitulation of the reports of the A. M. tomòrrow.
Washington, is. to be transferred to
board of health shows a total of 134
~ Sept. 37.— The senate convened at
Viepna.
cases in the state of Mississippi.
Am.“
Tnbhtrm
"r H
tain applications for discharge, ex
standing committees as follows:
effect that Spaniards must have con
cepting they reach it through military
Agriculture snd forestry—Looney,
sideration shown them, and American
channels
orders obeyed.
Kelly, Clem.
News has been received from Ju
Assessment snd taxation—Mulkey,
The navy department has ordered
neau, Alaska, of the drowning of W. Mackay, Porter, Cameron, Taylor.
400 sailors to be rent to Adiuirqi
Claims—Howe, Fulton, Daly of
Dewey’s squadron at Manila to take ths Nulling, of Michigan, and W. H. Lock
Lake.
place of sailors whose terms of service wood, of California.
Commerce and navigation—Selling,
The Louisiana board of health makes
have expired.
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the official announcement that frank Howe, Proebstel.
General Blanco has issued an order
Counties—Mackay, Taylor, Howe.
authorizing the soldiers of the Cuban lin has had 101 eases to date. Five
Cameron, Patterson.
army to travel unarmed .on railway persons have died there.
Education — Kuykendall, Harmon,
An official dispatch from St. Lonis,
trains in the provinces of Pinar del Rio
Porter.
Senegal,
in
West
French
Africa,
says
a
and Havana.
Elections and privileges Hsimim,
force of Soudanese sharpshooters in
As (ar as new discoveries went, the the French service defeated an army of Brownell, Wade.
expedition sent out by the university of Sofas under one of Samody's chiefs,
Engrossed bills—Daly of Benton,
Pennsylvania to study North Alaska
Reed, Michel).
capturing 5,000 men.
from a scientific standpoint has been a
Enrolled . bills—Patterson, Mulkey,
The most beautiful of the souvenirs
failure. Three men of the party re
Cameron.
of
the
great
naval
battle
rtf
—
July
8,
off
turned to Seattle on tb« Excelsior.
Federal relations—Diiver, PioebMel,
Nearly 12,000 specimens, weighing Santiago, has reached the navy depart- Dufur.
mnt
from
Guantanamo.
It
is
a
bronze
1154 tons, were brought back.
Fishing industries—Reed, Michell,
bust of Christopher Columbus, taken
The report that the last Spanish gar front the flagship Cristobal Colon, Bates.
Horticulture—Daly of Benton. Pat
rison In the island of Luson had sur which lies Irelow the surface of the
rendered is p'reinature. The Spaniards ocean, 20 miles from Santiago.
terson, Looney.
still hold seven seaports inwAlbay prov-
Insurance
and banking—Hainer,
Advices frm San Francisco say Gen
principal hemp district.
in ce,
Adams,
Bates.
eral Shafter will soon return to resume
The disturbances have already result«!
Printing—Michell, Selling. Haines.
his station as commander of the depart
in the diminution of the output of Al-
Irrigation—Proebstel, Camercn, Mor
ment of California, relieving'General
bny hemp by 260,000 bales, as com
Merriam, who will probably ire as row.
pared with last year’s figures.
Judiciary—Fulton, Biownell, Mi
signed to his former duties as com
Advices from tbe Orient state that mander of the department ot tbe Colum- chel), Kelly, Dufur.
Medicine, pharmacy, dentistry—Duly
China and Japan have been visited by
of Lake, Kuykendall. Morrow.
thunder storms and destructive floods,
The steamship Topeka has arrived at
Military affairs—Haseltine, Taylor,
in which many hundreds ot ]>eojMe have Seattle with 160 Klondike», 90 per
r
lost their lives. The region north ot cent of whom have Utile or no dust Wade.
Penal institutions—Hainan, Driver^
the Anshang mountains has been inun The passengers ", re port that II. Fraser
dated for hundreds of miles by the Yel and E. L. Tolner, both of Seattle, were Looney.
Mining—Cameron, Harmon, Smith.
low river. Several hundred thousand held up by two men near Haines’ mis
Municipal corporation»—Haseltine,
persons have been plunged into the sion and robbed of 84,800 In gold.
deepest distress, and many into abso The body ot Ike Martin was found near Harmon, Smith.
Public buildings and institution s
lute penury, which local authorities the scene with a bullet-bole through
Adams. Haseltine, Reed.
are unable to alleviate.
tbe head, lie had been robbed of
Public lands—Porter. Mulkey, Howe,
News received at San Francisco re 84,000.
Driver,
Wade.
ports the loss of the schooner C. C.
At a meeting of the French cabinet
Railroads—Brownell, Pattenon,Mac
Funk, on Flanders island, on July 81, Monday, all the ministers being pres
'with 10 of her crew. Only two seamen ent, a decision was taken in favor of a kay, Morrow, Daly of Benton.
Revision of laws—Kelly, Reed, FaL-
were saved, and but one body has been revision of the trial of former Captain
recovered. The list of the drowned is Dreyfus, and the documents in tbe case tor., Smith, Daly of Lake.
Roads and highways—Bates. Looney,
as follows: Captain and Mrs. Nesson will be sent to the court of cessation.
and two children, aged 8 and 6 years, Crowds of people outside the ministry Proebstel, Clem, Daly, of Benton.
Ways and means— Taylor, Mulkey,
respectively; A. llansen, chief mate; of the interior, where the cabinet coun
J. Stump, second mate; Charles Olsen, cil was held, loudly cheered the minis Kuykendall, Selling, Adams.
Following bills were introduced:
Peter Neilson. Charles Jonhansen aixl ters. The legality ot the proposed re
By Dufur, to amend the statute re-
Peter Anton, able seamen. The vessel trial prodeedings must be passed upon
lating to terms of circuit courts. By
was dtiven ashore by a gale and wont by the court.
Daly of Lake, to amend the statute tn
to pieces in the smf.
America’srwheat crop for 1898 Is esti
mated at 70,000,000 bushels.
The following resolutions wen intro
Russia’s commoh soldier gets 83.36
Every Spaniard is liable to be called
duced in the house:
a year.
to military service on attaining 30
A concurrent resolution by Myen
Our daily output of powder is 16,090 years of age.
was read, providing for a committee of
The annual report -of the commie« three from the house and two frona tbe
tons.
sioner of pensions shows that there
Cuba has 16,000,000 acre* of virgin were 6,836 pensioners residing in the senate to examine and report upon tbe
books and accounts of the insane asy
forest
state of Washington on June 80 last, lum.
and
they
were
paid
8780,877
during
the
War has doubled tbe price of army
Young introduced a measure author
year just closed. In Oregon there were
horses.
ising the secretary of state to have
4,933, who drew 1713,008 during the
printed 1.U00 copies of tbe governor’s
Italy's war department utilises 846,- 12 months embraced In the report.
mevage.
000,000 a year.
Cuba lias 1.931,000 inhabitants;
A joint resolution by Roberts van
Policemen in Boston have been In- Philadelphia 1,860,000.
resd, favoring action try eoegrans to
struct«! to salute the flag whenever it
Prior to the war the annual net rev ward making an appropriation for the
is carried past them in purade.
enues of Cuba waa 880,000,000.
improvement of the Columbia river a*
Sixty trained nurses have been sent the Cascade locks to prevent the pn—i
Four unfortunate sailors lielonging
bility of such disasters to vessels as
to the steam whaler Mary D. Hume, to Porto Rico from New York.
have recently occurred.
escaped from the ve*el during the
It la tbe Intention of tbe navy de
A concurrent resolution by Hill was
winter and started overland to ths gold partment to place three men-of-war in
fields of the Yukon. They have not commission during October. Theee atu read, providing for a committee to in
been heard from since, except from In the cruisers Chicago and Atlanta,which vestigate the land board. It was re
dians, who report finding the bodies of have been undergoing repairs at tbe ferred.
A resolution for a committee to in
the four a considerable distance from New York navy-yard for two years, and
the Arctic, shrunken from starvation the gunboat Yorktown, which haa been vestigate tiro secretary of Mate’s arte»,
and frosen stiff. Thia is one of the put in condition for service at U m Mars which came from tire senate aswi b»i
ueen tabled, waa taken ep art ca»-
terrible Arctic tales brought buck frost Gland navy-yard.
ourrod in.
lbs North by tbs cutter Besr.
to Hu
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ready nutien mod, "im the
met-rwetisag. m iirtain i ng a nd
dijduok, Boating duck, or
MVif it «hull be deemed
r a Maipwrary luun, a
Jenger Slant eta mont)«
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