OREGON COURIER
A, W. CHRNBT, Publisher.
OREGON CITY OREGON
LAST COREAN UPRISING
Marines Were Landed From
Foreign Warships.
PROBABLE DEATH OF THE QUEEN
Tremble Had It Inception Through
Hr Dislike to the Newly-Organised
Soldiers.
Washington. Oct 16. Information
of a formidable uprising in Corea, re
suiting in the disappearance and prob
able death of the queen and landing of
military forces bv the United States
ind European powers, has been receiv
ed by Minister Kurino, of Japan, from
the foreign office at Tokio. It is quite
sensational, indicating the landing of
" murines br Russia, the United States
and probably Great Britain.
The latest dispatch to Minister Kn
rino itates that a force of Russian ma'
lines, forty in number, has been land
ed. Thus far they have confined
themselves to guarding the Russian le
cation near Seoul. United States ma
"lines were landed from the Yorktown
to the number of sixteen. It is believ
ed British marines have been landed.
Besides these the Japanese have a con
siderable force of soldiers at Seoul,
who have been preserving order.
The dispatches oome from Tokio,
and communicate the substance of dig-
Hatches received from General Miira,
the Japanese envoy at Seoul They are
dated from the 9th to the 12th inst,
and it appears from these dispatches
that the trouble had its inception
through the queen's dislike of the new
ly organized soldiers of Corea. The
old soldiers had the primitive equip
ment of the far East, but with the
progress of Japanese influence in Corea,
two battalions of Corea n troops were
organised on modern methods. Eaoh
battalion numbered 600 men, armed
with modern weapons. They were
-well drilled and offloered.
When the queen showed her disfavor
toward these new troops they appealed
to Tai Won Kun, a powerful chief,
who had long been at enmity with the
queen, He aooepted the leadership of
the new troops, and, at the head of
one battalion, entered the queen's pal
ace. The native soldiers fled from the
tfidaoe.
The Tokio dispatch did not state
-what had become of the queen, further
-than that she had disappeared and can'
not be located. The officials are in
olined to believe however that the un
official reports of the queen's death are
"true. The Japanese government, the
dinatoh further states, has acted
aaiokly on the reports and has appoint
ed a commission to inquire into the
facia.
In the meantime it is emphatically
denied that the queen's death, if it has
ooonrred. was due to the Japanese.
One disDatoh says a Japanese soshi
"Skilled the aneen. This is not yet con
firmed in the dispatches received here.
The offloials say that the soshi are an
irresponsible andjlawless olass, and that
their acts cannot be laid to we Japan
ese people or government
SYMPATHY FOR DEBS.
.a Resolution Adopted by a Section of
the American Railway Union.
Devil's Lake, N. D., Oct 16. The
general board of mediation of the
-American Railway Union has adopted
the following resolution, addressed to
jthe employes of America:
"Though overwhelmed and shatter
d in the great strike of 1804, its mem'
hers blacklisted and scattered, the
onion has risen and is lighting the
way to Industrial freedom. The rail
way interests of the country are rapid
ly vassing into the bands of a few men,
nd the only hope of employes lies in
unification, and progressive men are
active in their efforts to bring this
about To our beloved president, E.
V. Debs, although you are behind
priauu bars, deprived of your liberty
by a oorrupt and servile tool of cor
purations, backed by rotten adminis--tratiou,
you live in the hearts of the
common people. The employes of the
Ureat Northern are with you, as they
were in 18U4, and honor you as a leader
who will yet load to victory."
MorrU Park to Heopea.
New York, Oct 15. Everything is
in readiness for the meeting of the
Westchester Racing Association at
-Morris Park, whioh will beign to this
week with a brilliant card. The pro
gramme is the best of the year. It
was especially framed to command the
teat horses in training. It was de
signed that not only might the new as
euoiatiou win at once for itself the
premiership of the turf, but that the
year should have a brilliant ending.
This meeting, it is realised, will be the
reooommendation and the gurantee for
1898, Its promoters are proooeeding
with enterprise and resolution.
Tiiu' Mew Lew It In Force.
Austin, Tex., Oct 16. The supreme
court today handed down an opinion
in the case of the tax collectors of
Williamson and Hayes oounties, seek
ing to force the controller to issue
them a priaefight lioense, under the
law passed at the regular session of the
legislature, last spring. The oourt de
clines to mandamus the controller on
the ground that the special session of
the legislature nnlifled all previous sou
or law on the subject by passing a
new law making prisefigbting a felony.
THE OREGON INDIANS.
Encouraging Reports Regarding Their
Civilisation
Washington, Oct 16. Some enoour
aging reports oome from Oregon con
corning the civilization of Indians upon
the various agenoies of that state. This
is esiieoially true of the Grand Ronde
agency, where progress has been made
and where the Indians have developed
a desire to become something more than
ordinary vagabonds, supported by the
government From other agenoies the
reoorts have not been quite so favor
able, and it seems that the Oregon In
dian is generally willing to take ad
vantage of his privilege, as defined
Judge Bellinger, and get dnmk.
There is every possibility that a bill
will be passed at the coming congress
prohibiting the sale of liquor to
In
diana. whether he has taken bis lands
in severalty or not Such a measure
was prepared in the last congress, but
it did not get through. It is doubtful
under the construction placed upon the
law of citizenship of the Indians
whether oongress oan interfere in any
such matter, except upon reservations,
for the sale of liauor is regarded and
held to be subject to the states as po
lioe regulations may require. The law
whioh the Indian offloe wants passed is
to nlaoe the Indian on alloted land
under the same jurisdiction as the In
dian who has not yet severed bis tribal
relations.
It may delay the final extinction of
the Indian race some years if liquor
kent away from the Indians, but, at
the same time, it will interfere with
great and glorious privilege of the red
man. The destiny of the Indian now
is to get rid of himself as soon as possi
ble,
PORTLAND HAS 81,342.
The Total Population Within the City
Limits.
Portland, Or., Oct 16. Portland
has a population of 81,342 within its
oity limits, and the oounty, outside of
the oitv limits, has a population oi
11,608, making a total for Multnomah
oounty of 93,960. Those are the at
tested figures of the census taken by
Assessor Greenleaf, which was com'
Dieted yesterday and turned over by
him to County Clerk Smith. The
showing is a gain of nearly 10,000 in
consolidated Portland in five years, the
census taken by the United States gov
eminent in 1890 showing a total of
72,857 souls residing within the city
limits.
The enumeration, of Multnomah
county's census was commenced last
spring, the field work under the super
vision of Captain Greenleaf, requiring
about one month. Sinoe that time
small corps of clerks, under General
Kapus, have been transferring the field
notes to regular blanks, provided by
the state, whioh will be bound in book
form and preserved for future refer
ence. Great care has been taken to
avoid double counts and other errors
that would tend to swell the totals,
and Captain Greenleaf now believes
that he has a true enumeration of every
soul in Multnomah oounty. The totals
have exceeded all previous estimates,
and general satisfaction is expressed
that the dull times have not visibly
thinned out Portland's population.
BEFORE JUDGE BEATTY.
The Northern PaclBo Receivership Case
In Idaho Courts.
Moscow. Idaho. Oct 16. In the
United States circuit oourt today the
proceedings were begun in the North
ern Paoiflo receivership matter by
Judge Beatty announcing that he
would appoint George W. Diokinson
general manager of the road and its
branches in Idaho, to the end that his
operative aotions might extend from
the Dakota line continuously west
Ex-Senator W. F. Sanders, of Helena,
appeared for the railroad company and
urged the aooeptanoe of the resigns
tions of Messrs. Oakes, Payne and
Rouse, and the appointment of An
drew F. Burleigh, presenting many
reasons for prompt action, but Judge
Beatty said he had hoped for a settle'
ment of the controversy beyond the
limits of Idaho, and had promised to
give notioe to oounsel representing cer
tain interests if a hearing were to be
had. He finally said that he would
hear argument October 23, at whioh
date all parties interested would re
oeive a hearing.
Senator Sanders scored the old re
ceivers, stating that they bad paid out
$260,000 for counsel during the year;
that a nenhew of Judge Jenkins was
receiving $12,000 a year; that the road
was being robbed in the interest of the
first-mortgage bondholders, and mill
ions were being spent on improving
the road, instead of discharging lawful
obligations, so that the bondholders
would receive the road in the best pby
sioal condition.
The Vanderbllts lteronxlled.
Brooklyn. Oct 16. It has become
almost a settled rumor among the four
hundred of New York and Brooklyn
and among those who compose the
Meadowbrook Hunt Club, of Long Isl
and, says the Eagle tonight, that a
reconciliation is probable between
Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt, and
that, immediately following the mar
riage of their daughter, Consuelo, with
the Duke of Marlborough, a second
ceremony will unite the parents a sec
ond time in matrimony. The mar
riage of Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt with
the Duke of Marlborough is recognised
as more the wish and desire of ber
father than ber mother, and this union
has been used by friends of both parents
to bring about a happy understanding
between them. This has been kept a
close secret in the innermost circlet of
the four hundred, but it has progressed
so far that it need no longer be so
closely guarded. I
JWAR ON LOTTERIES
Annual Report of Postoffice
Department's Attorney.
MANY FRAUD OKDK&S ISSUED
Amended Lottery Aet lias Been Most
Successful and .Virtually Closed
the Malls to Lottery Concerns.
Washington, Oct 15. John L.
Thomas, attorney-general for the post
office department, has made bis annual
report to the postmaster-general. Of
the operations of his office he says that
during the year 218 "fraud" orders
were issued, prohibiting the delivery of
registered packages and the payment of
money orders to oertain companies and
parties named. Of these, however,
thirty-eight were duplicate orders.
The orders were issued against fifty-five
lotteries, operated by so-called bond
investment companies; twelve against
avowed lotteries; 21 lotteries of a mis
oellaneous obaraoter and 180 schemes
devised to defraud the public. Seventy
of these orders were revoked upon
being made to appear that the parties
operating the schemes had abandoned
them. This left in force, at the end of
the year, 148 orders, original and dnp
lioates. Twenty-eight of the orders
issued during the previous year were
also revoked upon the proper showing,
Mr. Thomas says that the aot of March
2, 1895, further amending the lottery
act, has been most suooessful and has
virtually closed the mails to lottery
oonoerns. tie adds:
"This aot goes further still, and for'
bids international state carriers from
transporting lottery matter from for
eign countries into this country, or
from one state to another. This de
partment has no jurisdiction, however,
to enforce this part of the law, and I
cannot state definitely the extent to
which the lottery carrying business has
been checked by the act, but I am in
formed that most, if not all, of the ex
press companies yield obedience to it
by refusing to carry the prohibited lot
tery matter. It may be confidently as
sorted that the death knell of the lot
teries in this country has been sound
ed, and their business has been vastly
crippled, if not destroyed; but I am
sorry to note the foot that many busi
ness men think they must, in order to
succeed, resort to schemes that appeal
to the gambling spirit of the people,
and they accordingly sugar-coat their
legitimate enterprises with lottery ad
vertisements, and thus create a desire
for other and more pernioious modes of
obtaining something for nothing by
hazard or chance. These fascinating
and apparently innocent schemes reach
the boys and girls of the land and tend
to make them gamblers.
Tne number oi claims auowea ior
. . 1 1 M
losses by: burglary, fire, etc., were
1,306, amounting to $186,686.
The attorney-general again urges a
law compelling subordinates in post-
offices to give security for the hand'
ling of money, or making the post'
masters responsible for the losses in
curred by subordinates. Mr. Thomas
also calls attention to an important
subject in the following way:
Attention has been several times
during the year called to the danger
oos and injurious matter deposited in
the mails, and upon investigation it
was shown that there was no penalty
prescribed for putting such matter in
the mails, and, indeed, there is no
statute forbidding the mailing of these
substances, such as poisons, matches,
and other artioles liable to ignite or
explode by shock or jar; live and pois
onous insects and reptiles, smallpox
virus or germs of contagious diseases,
or fatty substances, liquids, or sharp
tongued instruments. Some are very
dangerous to the life, health and com
fort of the body, and others are liable
to damage other mail matter and mail-
sacks if they should become loose in the
mails."
Probably an Old A flair.
London, Oct 16. The Kohlniche
Zeitung publishes a dispatch from a
correspondent in Constantinople assert
ing that information had been received
there that Zabara, Arabia, in the Per
sian gulf, had been bombarded by two
British warships and had been destroy
ed. The English government has no
news of any such bombardment, and
officials believe it refers to the shelling
of Arab dhows off the town of Buhreim,
in tho middle of September.
The Belgic Floated.
San Francisco, Oct 14. The
steamer Belgio, which has been ashore
near Yokohama, was floated today.
Private advices say the steamer has
been dragged off the reef and towed to
Yokohama. There she will be placed
in the government dry dock and tem
porarily repaired. When she is in
condition to go to sea again, she will
be brought here and rebuilt It will
probably be six months before she is
ready for regular business.
He Shot His Sweetheart.
Eaton, O., Oct 15. Last night John
Monroe Smith, aged 17, escorted home
his sweetheart, Gertrude Lally, and
quarreled with her on the way. Ar
riving at the house, he shot and fatally
wounded her in the presence of her
mother. He then surrendered to the
sheriff.
Purchased Colorado Mines.
Denver, Colo., Oct 14. Dennis
Sullivan, T. Burke, Senator Bolziger,
and some Eastern capitalists, have in
corporated the Vendone Mining Com
pany, and bought all the property of
the Herbert Mining Company, and
some adjacent mines comprising about
forty acres in uiloin county. The nnoe '
paid is in the neighborhood of $480,000. '
THE UPRISING IN COREA.
Complete Details of the Plot to Over.
throw the Oovernntent.
New York, Oct IS. A special from
the Herald from Seoul, Corea, says:
The palace was broken Into Tuesday
morning by a body of Corean troops
and a band of Japanese soshi in civil
ian dress. The oolonel in command
of the troops, on refusing to enter the
palace, was killed and a number of the
guards wre slain. The Japanese enter
ed the queen's room and killed the
queen, the minister of the household
and three women. The bodies were
taken outside and burned. Tbe Jap
anese troops were at tbe palace, but
took no part in the proceedings. Tai
Won Kun, the king's father, reached
the palace soon after the assault and
assumed the ohief authority. He is
now dictator, and is known to have
been in the plot The pro-Japanese
party are in control. Many of the op
posing party have been arrested and
many have fled. The queen-dowager
was killed last night and the king will
be forced to abdicate. Guards from
the United States warship Yorktown
and a Russian oruiser at Chemulpo
have been ordered up. Great excite
ment prevails. It is thought the but
chery will hasten action on the part of
Russia.
A later dispatch says the plot to kill
the queen was made by Corean friends
of Tai Won Kun, and a responsible
Japanese soshi. The Japanese troops
were at the gates when the butchery
took plaoe. The king is now a prisoner
and his father has been proclaimed dic
tator. A new cabinet has been consti
tuted of pro-Japanese elements. The
queen's offloials have fled. Appeals
have been issued to the Coreans to re
tire and expel the Japanese. A Jap
anese soshi has been arrested for the
murder of the queen.
A SEATTLE MYSTERY.
Peculiarly-Shaped Human Skull Is
Pound In an Old Foundation.
Seattle, Oct 16. Carefully con-
oealed under boards in an old unfin
ished buildng foundation in the heart
of the city, a human skull and upper
bone of an arm were discovered today,
The skull had been scraped clean, and
from its general oondition it was evi
dent that death had taken plaoe a con
sidefable time ago. Edward E. Davis,
a contractor, made the disooovery ow
ing to a peculiar incident last night
He was going home, and saw the two
men in the old foupdation. He yelled
to them, and they scrambled out and
ran away. Today be investigated and
made the discovery.
Tbe bones were first wrapped in
brown paper, and tied with a small
string, then put in a new gunnysack,
and this was wrapped with a very long
chalk line. Nothing about tbe skull in
dioates foul play, but its shape is some
thing wonderful It looks like an or
ange that bad been squeezed. The left
side of the skull is abnormally devel
oped, and tbe right Bide is as fiat as B
board. The forehead slopes directly
back, and the nosebone is twisted to
the right Ten teeth have been pulled
from eaoh jaw, leaving three perfect
double teeth on either side of both
jaws.
The Cholera Decreasing,
San Franoisoo, Oct 16. The fol
lowing advices received today per
steamer China from Honolulu, dated
October 7, state that cholera has run
its course on the islands, but one case
being reported since the last mail,
making a total of eighty-seven oases to
date. Passenger travel to the neigh
boring islands is still restricted, but
freight shipments are now freely mr.de.
The government is in a ferment over
another reported filibustering expedi
tion. The polioe have all been armed
and extra soldiers enlisted. It is re'
ported a filibuster oraft, , with armed
men, was seen about ten miles irom
Honolulu, but the polioe tug failed to
locate them. The oraft is supposed to
be from South America, and it is
olaimed that Ezcta and one of the Ash'
fords are at the head of a movement to
overthrow the present government and
establish another of their own in its
place.
College Football.
Cambridge, Mass., Oct 15. The
prospect of a football game with Prince-
ton is the one thing talked of among
the followers of the game at Harvard,
Tbe latter will do everything possible
to bring about the game and it is said
the only difficulty is a suitable date.
Princeton hag named November 3 with
the university of Michigan, but has
open dates .November o and 6. Tbe
latter date is objectionable because a
week later both Harvard and Princeton
play tbeir most important games, the
former with the university of Penn
sylvania and the latter with Yale.
Princeton has a game with Cornell No
vember 9, which, it is stated, the lat
ter refuses to cancel although it is sug
gested that Marshall Newell, the old
I Harvard tackle, who is coaching Cor
nell, may be able to arrange a date
later.
Mulr Tunnel Burning-.
Helena, Mont, Oct 15. Fire has
been raging furiously in the Mnir tun
nel, on the Northern Pacific, between
Boxeman and Livingston, for nearly a
month. Two weeks ago both ends
were sealed up for the purpose of
smothering the fire. Thursday they
were unsealed, and it was found that
there was much less smoke in the pas
sageway than at any time sinoe tbe fire
broke out A large fan will be placed
at one end of the tunnel and an effort
made to create a draught The dam
age to tbe tunnel cannot be estimated
at this time, but it is believed to be
very heavy. Large quantities of earth
have fallen in on the track. Trains
are being transferred very successfully
on the new track recently constructed
.k. nmnuin.
Tbe tunnel
jg 1
about 4,000 feet long.
TRADE WAS TOO GOOD
Heavy Volume of Business
Causes Uncertainty.
FEATURES OF THE FAST WEEK
Material Decline In the I' lioe of Iron
and Falling Off In the I'rlee for
Woolens Are Reported.
New York, Oct 14. R. G. Dun &
Co.'s weekly review of trade says:
The prioe barometer gives indica
tions that are not entirely favorable,
Cotton goods go up with increased evi
denoe that the crop of ootton is short
Prices of manufactured produots of
wool, hides and leather all show some
decline, the general abatement in new
orders being the principal cause.
With an immense volume of business,
not much exoeded in the largest mouth
of the exceptional year of 1892, and
with evidence that in several branches
the volume has surpassed that of any
previous year, there is a growing un
certainty about the near future of in
dustries. Money markets are neither
strained nor threatening, foreign ex
change no longer raises apprehension,
and all fears about the Great Northern
crops are past There have been few
advances in wages of labor within the
past month, and only a few works
have been olosed by strikes for an ad
vanoe.
The production of pig-iron October 1
was tbe largest in the history of the
country, 301,415 tons weekly, against
194,309 tons September 1; 196,000
having been the highest in 1892,
Stocks unsold are not stated, but sub
stantially the whole production is in
execution of past orders. On the
other hand, new orders are exceedingly
small. There is a marked decrease in
almost all finished products. Tank
steel is lower, bar iron is offered by
some at concessions; plates are firm;
the structural demand has greatly in
oreased, and wire rods declined $1 to
$29, with lower wire and a much re'
duoed demand for nails. , Bessemer pig
has fallen $1 to (15 at Pittsburg, and
gray forge 25 oents, and prices of iron
products average one-half per" cent
lower for the West Discontinuance of
the demand, which could not be ex
pec ted to continue at the same rate
after prices bad risen 62.9 per oent,
leaves actual consumption in question.
In woolen manufactures a demand
for dress goods and some specialties
keeps many fully employed, but most
of the works making woolens, for
which new orders are scanty, find not
enough to keep them running. To pile
up goods in advance, wholly in the
dark as to future competition, involves
suoh risks that some consumers may
close for a time. Yet ' sales - of . wool
continue heavy, 11,184,100 pounds for
the week, largely speculative.
The ootton manufacturer is peculiar
ly favored by the rise in materials and
by the extraordinary stocks of ootton
brought over from last year, but goods
are also advanoing.
Wheat receipts have been 7,631,474
bufihels, against 4,690,181 last year,
and Atlantic exports only 1,707,629
bushels, flour included, against 1,998,-
785 last year. The movement at Du-
luth is so heavy as to absorb vessels
and almost arrest more shipments.
Failures for tbe past week have in
cluded two banks and several oonoerns
of some size, and have been 268 in the
'United States, against 331 last year,
and 63 in Canada, against 48 last year.
BEAT THE RATLROAD.
Valuable Property on Oray's Harbor Is
Involved.
Tacoma, Oct 14. Letters have been
received here from St Paul men well
posted in railway affairs, who state
that President Hill is working harder
than ever to consummate his consoli
dation plan. They say that the
Deutsch bank, of Berlin, representing
a majority of the bondholders, is ready
to advance the money necessary for the
reorganization of the Northern Paoiflo,
about $15,000,000, if it is convinced
that the Hill scheme is the right one.
Men here who have been quietly in
vestigating state that the sentiment of
tbe people of Washington and Mon
tana s practically unanimous against
consolidation, and that tbe Hill
Adams plan will encounter a serious
obstacle in the constitution and laws
of Montana. It is given out here to
day that ex-United States Senator
Sanders, of Monatna, has gone on the
warpath against the consolidation
scheme, with the intention of fighting
it to a finish.
Railroad men here assert that the
Northern Pacific will soon be earning
sufficient to nearly or quite pay the
annual fixed charges of 19,000,000, and
that this probability is fast putting the
Hill plan to sleep. Present earnings
are given at the rate of (6,000,000 to
(7,000,000 above operating expenses.
A New Transatlantic Cable.
London, Oct 15. The Times' Paris
correspondent says that directly parlia
ment opens, Lebon, minister of com
merce, will submit a bill ratifying the
contract for a a new cable to be laid
from Brest to New York, with branches
to the West Indies and Brazil.
Cholera la Russia.
St. Petersburg, Oct 15. Official re
turns for the last fortnight in Septem
ber chow that there were during that
time 4,429 new cases and 1,701 deaths
from cholera in tbe province of Vol
hynia. Te Inspect the Siberian Railway.
Vladivostok, Oct 15. An Ameri
can scientific expedition has arrived
here to inspect the Siberian railway.
The government will grant every facil
ity for aooompiianing tneir wort.
TO PREPARE FOR EMERGENCIES
The Marblehead Ordered to) Proceed te
Tnrkey at Ones.
Washington, Oct 14. By request of
Minister Terrell for the protection of
missionaries in Turkey, the navy de
partment has ordered the Marblehead
to the gulf of Iskenderon. Minister
Terrell has telegraphed that orders
have been issued in all the provinces to
protest Americans.
It is not believed that there is immi
nent danger of an outbreak, but the
warship has been ordered to Turkey
rather as a precautionary measure.
Last summer Admiral Kirkland took
his two ships, the San Franoisoo and.
the Marblehead, into the same waters.
There was not aoutal rioting in prog
ress, but the situation had a threaten
ing aspect Though tbe American
warships could not get near the most
disturbed provinces, the effect of their
presence on the ooast was most salu
tary, impressing the people, who, per
haps, hover before bad seen American
men-of-war, with a visible sense of the
power of this country. It i surmised
that Minister Terrell feels the time is
now opportune to revive this impres
sion. The state department is gratified
with the energetio course of Mr. Ter
rell, and bis dispatch indicates that be
has forestalled the representatives of
other powers and secured the compli
ance of the porte with his demand,
made early in the week, that steps be
taken to protect Americans in provinoea
diBtant from Constantinople without
waiting until they actually have suffer
ed outrage and assault
The Marblehead sailed yesterday
from Villefranche for Naples, where
she should arrive the next day. From
there to the Levant is a distance of
about four days, so that she will be at
Alexandretta about the middle of the
week.
EUROPE'S KAFFIR CRAZE.
South Africa Rich In Minerals But the
Boom Is Overdone.
New York, Oct 14. Levi Mayer, a
prominent attorney of Chicago, who
has been in England for the past four
weeks, has returned to New York and
disoussed quite fully the present craw,
in London for Kaffir mine speculation.
He corroborated tbe current stories of
the fabulous wealth made in develop
ing tbe mines in South Africa, and de
clared that only a beginning had been
made in uncovering the riches of theae
mines. He believed that many of the corn-
organized for developing the
mining industry in South Africa and
West Australia were founded on un
productive properties, and that a grand!
collapse would ultimately follow the
boom whioh they were now enjoying.
But there were many mines of praoti-'
cally unlimited productive resources.
Mr. Mayer said be represented a
prospective ' international company
wbose shares are .being subscribed .for
by London and New York bankers.
The purpose of this company will be
the purchase and development of South
African and Australian and also Amer
ican mines, whioh when found profit
able will be transferred to subsidiary
companies whose stock will be listed
and sold on the American and London
markets. Mr. Mayer said that th
Rothschilds bad sent experts to South
Africa, who estimated that the so-called
Rand mine alone contained 850,000,
000 pounds. '
Heavy Car-Building Orders.
Chicago, Oct 14. Fifteen thousand.
new cars ordered for Chicago railroada
or their branoh connections this year i
an indication of the strong-tide of busi
ness, witn tne orders mere nave been
others for 160 locomotives. These or
ders for oars and locomotives are the
greatest placed by the combined Chi
cago roads sinoe the two years preced
ing the panio of 1893. When car-
building orders praoticully ceased at
that time hope was expressed that the
shops might open again in 1894, but
that was destroyed by the strike which
not only kept those industries closed-
but practically shut the doors of every
Northwestern railroad repair shop
A Loe Angeles Minister Suspended.
Los Angeles, Oct 14. The Rev;
Burt Estes Howard, of tbe Westminster
Presbyterian church, charged with con
tumacy and willful disregard of the
presbytery, was found guilty by the
judicatory this evening. Tbe Rev. Mr.
Howard was ordered suspended from
the exercise of tbe functions and the
insignia of his offloe as minister of the
gospel until he shall give satisfactory
evidence of his willingness to submit
to the authority and .decision of the
presbytery.
The Csarewiteh's Condition.
New York, Oct 14. A special to
the Herald from St. Petersburg says;
The news reaching here Irom the cau
cus, respecting the health of the czare
witch, is anything but reassuring. A t
story is told to the effect that the first
cause of the much -regretted illness of
the czarewitch was overexertion, whlo
boxing with Prinoe George of Greece.
It is said that the czarewitch, on one
of these occasions, fell backward and.
hurt his spine, and that his sickness
dated from that date.
Oakland's Oldest Paper Sold.
Oakland, Cai, Oct 14. Tbe Times,
the oldest paper in Oakland, was sold
today to C L. Maxwell, a hardware
dealer. Tbe paper was sold at auction
for (400. Mr. Maxwell expects to
make a financial success of the paper.
something which has not been done in
a long time.
Dr. ManaSeld Permitted te Resign.
San Francisco, Oct. 16. Dr. L Leror
Mansfield, the physician at San Quentin
prison, who confessed to. having receiv
ed (50 from the friends of a Greek
convict, was permitted to resign today.
His resignation will go into effect at
once.