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Oregon Gity Courier. A, W. OHBNKT, rsbllsher. OREGON CITY ; OREGON EVENTS OF THE DAY As) interesting Collection of Items From in Te Hemispheres Presented Id Condensed Form. 'loo killing of Frauk Hepburn, too of Congressman Hepburn,' at Chester, Ark., ii now attributed to a political conspiracy. Tbe first . report stated that a dnel wai fought. ' Lee Ah Mee, a waiter, was ibot and instantly killed by nnkDOwn assassins in San Francisoo, a a result of a high binder war. Another shooting affair occurred the fame evening, but no one wai killed. , Three dead bodies have been taken from the Cbioago river,' and men are at work dragging the stream for more. The remains are those of infants and bad been in, tbe water - for. some time. Tbe doctors assert tbat-.tboy bad all been drowned,' and it is , thought that they have been the victims of a baby- farmer. ' , n' A fatal oollision occurred on the Southern' Pablflo railway, half a mile oath of Green's station, Oregon, re salting in the death of John MoGou igle, of Portland,' fireman, and A. K. Toy, a brakeinan. Five others were . seriously injured.' The collision was dne to a oonduotor's carelessness ia mislaying bis papers and orders. In .Abbeville, S. -CVWilledge Ma loue, a boy 14 years old, went with a shotgun to a cilored womun, Muttie Uellman, who owed him twenty-live omits and told her be would shoot her if she did not pay him. ' She replied that she hud no money,' and he would bave to shoot. ' Thereupon the boy emptied both barrels of the gun into bur, killing her instantly. Cases of. . poisoning from eating smoked whitoflsh continue to ba re ported from-. Wisconsin. At Merrill, in that state, Albert Radloff and an other man died of poisoning. Twenty five case's ib all are reported from that town. Twenty additional oases are re ported from Brotherton, on the east shore, of take Winnebago, some of whom cannot reoover. Milwaukee has also received hor share, and fifty peo ple bave ' been poisoned in Oshkosh. The news is causing a panio among fish eaters and dealers. For the third time in six months the Bonora stage has been held op, near Cloadman, Oul. .. Two masked men suddenly appeared on either side of the road and covering with shotguns the driver, ordered him to "bold up." He waa then ordered to throw out the mail sacks and told to drive on. 5he mail sacks- were rifled of registered letters and left on tbe road where they were subsequently found by the postmaster of Cloudman. The amount seoured by tbe robbers is unknown, bnt is believed to have been large. The barge Sumatra, the consort of the W. B. Arnold, from Chicago, with load of railroad iron, foundered off Government pier, near Milwaukee. Four sailors were drowned. The oap tain, mate and oook were rescued by a life-saving crew. Jennie Love was shot in the head and instantly killed by William Swanson in St Louis. , Tbe testimony of several witnesses goes to show that the bullet whioh ended tbe woman's life was in tended for William Lee, a negro with whom Swanson. bad been quarreling. Jealousy about the woman is the cause alleged. ' A vicious St. Bernard dog attaoked a party of sohool ohildren in Marys ville, Cal. Laura Baumann, aged 7, waa bitten about the face and head and will probably die; Baby Knobs, was almost torn to shreds, its arms and breast were' terribly bitten, and it can not recover. Albert Kuohs was bitten through the wrist, and will reoover, unless rabies follows. A little girl was bitten in the leg, but will recover. "Doc" Payne and Lon Beokwith, middle-weights, met in Cleveland, O., for a finish fight tor (250 a side and tbe gate reoeipts in Lavao's gymna-1 slum. In , the seventh round, when Payne was all but knocked out, the police burst in the doors and stopped the fight, arresting all the principals, seoonds and -'referee. Two hundred spectators were in attendance, and only teu of them escaped, jumping from the windows. All of the patrol wagons in the oity made trip after trip oonveying the orowd, whioh contained many prominent oitizens, to the station. A Touch at Womanly Oraue, The members of the party composed of federal generals who are touring the oountry in tbe interests of tbe Repub lican party unite in saying that tbe most pleasing incident so far of their journey was a delicate bit of courtesy shown by Mrs. Bryan, wife of the Democratic oandidate for president, who, while the procession in honor of the visiting generals was moving past her house in Linooln, Neb., displayed over ber door a large portrait of Wil liam MoKinley, tastefully draped in tbe national colors. It was a touch of womanly garoe, beautiful as it was un expected, and General Alger says that he will cherish it as a sweet recollec tion plucked from an aorimonious campaign until the end of bis days. JOINED THE DREPND Roumania and Greece Pre paring for Turkey. WILL ASSIST THE POWERS WEEKLY MAWKET LETTER. Downing, Hopkins ti t'o.'i Trade, Kesiew of . Match lrls on a Strike. Rather than have their teotb ex amined and repaired, half of the 800 girl employes of Edwin Gould's big match factory at Passaic, N. J., bave gone on a strike, and deolare they will never work for suob a horrid man again. Phosphorous, which is used in making matches, if allowed to aot on decayed teeth, will evntually subject them to disease and leave them crip pled for life. Damage suits may re sulk Gould, therefore, ordered tbe girls to submit to an examination by a dentist, but tbey refused. .,, Will Readjust Wife Hates. , The ' Carneige Steel - Company, of Homestead, Pa., has notified its em ployes in the mills that a "readjust ment" of the existing wage scale is de sired by the oompuny. This, tbe men say, means another cut in wages. Un der the agreement with tbe workmen, each side is required to give a ninetv days' notice, of any chaugo desired in the wages paid. The prasent scale expires January 1, when tbe new scale will be put into effect. Storm od the Potomac. Reports from tbe upper Potomao show that high winds did great dam age to property this side of the moun tain. In addition to the wind, there was a cloudburst that soon changed tbe small tributaries into raging torrents, carrying away much farm property and washing away many bridges. On a short spur of tbe railroad leading to Berkley Springs, tbirtoon bridges were oarried off. ' .The Powers Have Agreed. There is, says a London dispatoh, very good reason foi belivoing that an important agreement has been reached between tbe great powers and that all danger of a European war has, for the present passed away. It may now be hoped ' that the danger has been con jured by diplomaoy, whioh alone was capable of dealing safely and ade quately with tbe problem. Mines to He Worked. Preparations are being hurried for the resumption of work ia the Bison, Little Johnny, Mehala and Resurreo tion mines, at Leadville. At least 500 men are expected to go to work soon. Servla Will Follow as Boon as Kz Uueen Natalie's Influence Can lie Overcome. Berlin, Oct. 6. Tbe sensational news that Roumania and Greece bave joined tbe dreibund, and that the formal agreements to this end were signed at Bucharest during the presence there of Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria, after the opening of tbe oanal through the iron gates of the Danube, is being discussed in political circles here. Tbe statements made are be lieved to be oorrect, and are reoeived as being of prime importance, for tbe dreibund will thus have valuable allies in these two countries in the event of the disruption of Turkey or any serious complications in tbe East. King Cbarles of Roumania has long been anxious to join the dreibund, but it was only lately that a binding bar gain acceptable to all parties was drawn up. It is expected that Servia will also adhere to the dreibund, as soon as tbe influence of ex-Cjueen Natalie, wbo is a Russophile, is overcome. The general uprising of the Wabehes, the powerful and warlike tribe of Ger man East Afrioa, is causing some an xiety in colonial circles here and else where. Tbe Wabehes, who met with crushing defeat from German troops a oouple of years ago, have this time been inoited by Arab chiefs,' and they must hvae excellent weapons and equip ments. The rebellion- seems to, be spreading around the whole Tangan yika region, and the troops available are much too weak to cope with it. In the meantime Governor Wissrnann is lingering here, unwilling to return to bis post in East Afrioa, owing to his shattered health, though be is being urged to do so. Moreover, the govern ment is not inclined to ask the reioh-i stag for a large increase of tbe Gorman East Africa troops, in view of the big colonial budget, although the present forces Are quite inadequate. A CHINESE ASSASSIN. '.'. , Portland, Or., Oct. 7. -Wheat has taken a position as tbe leading specu lative commodity, and there is a grad ual return of confidence among the busi ness and speculative publiu Tbe res toration among the first named class has gone far toward helping the lat ter, but tbe speculators were tbe first to start it. Imports of gold, which bave thus far been about 110,000,000, counting that already received and en gaged and in trauist, will reach f 50,-a 0UO.0UO belore the end. Those best in formed among the foreign bankers ssy that the top figures will be reaohed in side of tbe next thirty days. Tbe movement, however, will continue af ter that time on a moderato scale, as our exports are heavy and the exohange market will be too low for gold ship ments to be checked. It also looks as though our exports will be large until tbe first of the year, as about all the ! freight room has been engaged up to that date, and steamers that have been in the Indian trade are coming to the Atlantio ports for loads. This shows that there is nothing u the Southern hemisphere to tempt the boats in that direction. Last week our exports were 4,215,794 bushels wheat and flour from both coasts, and for the past . four, weeks have been nearly 20,000,000 bushels. , All the evidence is at hand to show that the arena of depression , is gradu ally passing away, and that the prides on farm products bave touched lowest point Inside of thirty days there has been a surprising change for tbe better. Wheat lias advanced 13 WRECKED BI WIND FREDERICK COUDERT. BACK. Desolation in the Path ot the Hurricane. H UNBBEUS RKN DEBKD HOMELESS The Town of Cedar Keys Leveled tu the irouod Blxty-Heven Per sons Killed Ik the Htate. . Jacksonville, Fla., Oot 6. Com munication with the interior is re stored, and the news of the destruction of life and property by Tuesday's bur ricane becomes appalling; Hundreds of persons are homeless and - must suffer from hungor unless relief shall be' quickly furnished. Reports to the Citizen from many different towns, in cluding all of tbe important points in Levy, Lafuyette, Suwanee, Columbus, Bradford and Baker counties, show that sixty-seven persons were killed, and sixty-two injured. These are the known oaosalties. To this total, prob ably a considerable number must be added to cover those not yet heard from. .' Tbe loss of life was greatest at Cedar Keys, on the Gulf of Mexico, wbefe the hurricane entered the state. Oven half of tbe known deaths occur red at that . place. The destruction of valuable timber, turpentine trees, farm aroDS. nhnsnhate works and Vinilriinus the.. 0f eyery description 'in the counites' mentioned forming a belt across the state from southwest to northeast, will aggregate hundreds of thousands if cents ior December: oorn and oats are ,,,,, m;iiin,,nf tniim-a up 8 cents; rye has made a better im- j Full and authoutio ''advides from provement than the other coarse grains, I Cedar Keys late tonight show 'the al &H cents. Chicago has not beonaloue j m0Bt total dcBtruotion of tbe town, and in the advance as prices at other mar-1 the loss of thirty-nine lives. This is kets bave appreciated rapidly. This advance in the face of only a fair trade, with no short interest of any moment and a moderate run of outside buying orders, showed that it . bad merit. In the past a large part of the big advances have been produced by the oovering of heavy Hues of- shorts. Tift' bulge of 82 cents last year.,was largely tbe result of the oovering ,by Fardridge, Rosecranz, and a faw other biff shorts. This bulge has been differ- believed to include the complete roll of tbe dead. At Shell Mound, a great pleasure resort near that place, a party of five men, three women and three children were camping out. Some sur veyors making their way , home after the storm found eleven bodies strewn i on the shore, under lofts and -brush Unearthed Valuable Information Par-talulu- to Venesiiela Huundarr- New York, Oot 6. Frederick R. Condert, the eminent lawyer and mem ber of the Venezuela commission, ap pointed by President Cleveland to in vestigate the Venezuela boundary ques tion, returned to this oity today from Tbe Hague, on the French liner La Bourgogue. Mr. Coudert went abroad for the purpose of examining the old Dutch records relating to tbe Vene zuela boundary, and has spent consider able time over government archives, with the result tbat quite an array of new testimony bearing upon tbe.point at issue bas been unearthed..- Mr. Coudert waa seen tonigh concerning the result of bis trip,.' jje said much hadlioen accomplished. .;' : .. . i . . "immediately upon'Jriy; arrival at'. Tbe Hague, " said be, "I met Professor Barr,1 of .Cornell UD3Yersttywbo, aa:. tbe representative' of .the' .commission, bad already spent much time, in gather ing data. Together .we went through the records very thoroughly. Then we went to Londop, herA iflUby of tbe records were transTefrea-at the time of tbe purobaseof Guiana, (n 1815. Many of these reoord bad already been pub lished by the British government and very fairly. We found other useful evidence, however, and both in Lon don and Holland met uniform courtesy in the prosooution of our search." '.'Were all the records prior to 1815 transferred to London at tbe .time of the SRlej" he was asked. .,. ' - indeed," said Mr. Coudert, "not. all of them. We found some very valuable 'papers in the old Dutch i'eoordg; , - ' , , , Just how valuable the records were ur what they tended to etublish, Mr. Coudert would not disclose, but reiter ated bis statement that they were valu able. .v f-- Another useful souroe of informa tion he said, was thC propaganda, at Rome, where some, of; the most valu able recortfs were found. ' ' '."Ihe.Bipueeis in this territory," be aaid, "were monks, chiefly of the order of Capuchins, and - their' reports to- their borne order contain much infor- jro, uuuer logs uu orusii. - ,u ,. iU ,' They were close together, which would J . '.: : 'v,.. ...n...., ' n atthev weresimulanteonslvl.r r'D"? """"". indicate tbat they .were simulanteously. killed by the tidal'wave. 1 Eight other f uuuica jjuvo ukvu iuuuu uu iue ueacu. San the A Head-End Collision. Two freight trains collided at Phil son, on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, 124 miles east of Pittsburg, Pa., mak ing one of the worst wrecks in the his tory of the road. Twelve tramps have been taken from the wreck, six of whom were dead. The other six are in a serious condition. Tbe two en gineers and firemen were injured seri ously and one perhaps, fatally. The crew of the faBt freight train lost con trol of the train on a steep grade. It was going at a high rate of speed when it struok the other train, every car be ing thrown to a common oenter in the collision and ground to atoms. It Was a Bold riot. A plot to ovethrow the government of Nicaragua and kill President Zel aya, has been disoovered and frustrat ed. Some of the most prominent peo ple are implicated in the plan, which waa well prepared. Since the oloBe of the last rebellion, in which Zelaya was vlotoriouB, bis enemies and a majority of his former allies, namely, the con servatives, bave been plotting to upset the government by force of arms. . The barracks and palaoes were to be as saulted simultaneously, and President Zelaya was to be assassinated. The barraoks were to be blown up with dynamite in case the assault failed. , Made a Hold Attempt to Murder a FraticlMco Droscmt. San Franoisoo, Oot 6. One of boldest attempts at murder ever made in Chinatown took place today shortly before noon, when Gin Lun Cbee, one of the proprietors of the Cbee Sang Tong Company, druggists, was de liberately shot in, the baok by an al leged hired assassin, in the presence of at least half a dozen spectators. As a direct result of the shooting, Gin Lun Chee is now lying at the point of death in tbe reoeiving bopsital, and Ah Chang and Ah Wah are incarcerat ed in tbe city prison, one identified by tbe wounded Chinese as he wbo did tbe shooting, and the other as the man wbo directed him to do it. Officer Freel saw the shooting, and .arrested the Chinese, whom the wounded man identified. Gin Lung Chee was shot through the spine. He says: "Chin Kim Leon told the two men wbo are arrested to kill me, because Chin Kim Leon owed me money. I asked him to pay me; for this reason he told them to kill me. When the man shot at me, I turned my bead and saw and reoognized him. Chin Kim Leon was standing by the two men. I beard the tall man tell the short man to shoot, and be pointed his finger at me." CHOCTAW SCHOOL BURNED. eut from all others, being bused entire-1 Twenty fhberenin are still missnig, all ly on the cash denia'id and '..foreign'.' of whom are probably dead. 1 During the hurricane at Cedar Keys, the water came up with the wind, and down the principal streets rushed a I mad torrent, upon which floated houses, ! boats and debris of every description, j While the tempest was at its height, I the Bettelini bouse, the Schemmer I house and John Sherill'a residence took I fire and were burned. Tbe destruo ; tion of property was very great, tht : loss being estimated at (250,000. buying, as there have 'been no lare shorts. Another strong feature of tno advanoe in wheat is the faot ; that the cash markets have followed futures closer than for years. Millers and shippers have taken low grades so fast that there bas not been such a strong, healthy condition in twenty years. Farmers in the winter wheat country are holding for higher prices, but within the past week there bas been a loosening up in offerings from Nebras ka and Northern Kansas, tbe result of the sharp advance. There is also talk of the Northwestern movement enlarging.- Millers at Minnesota are paying a premium for cash lots, and the best posted men there say tbat the mills re quire all the wheat raised there this year. The visible supply inoreased 1, 410,000 bushels on Monday, and now totals 60,116,000 bushelB. ' GREAT FISH STORY. OREGON'S HOP CROP. .1 It is reported tbat Lewis Gimm, of Cleveland, O., the holder of the Ameri can 24-hour indoor biyole reoord, is mentally unbalanced from tbe effects of bis remarkable performance in that oity last week. . Gimm rode 486 miles and 1,115 yards in 231,' hours, break ing the American reoord by more than 83 miles. He would bave fallen from hia wheel at the finish but for tbe jndges, wbo noticed the movementa of tbe rider and. oarried him from the track. . There bas been a run on the society known as the Culda Eoonomica in Rio de Janneiro. The funds of the society are guaranteed by the government, but numerous persons withdrew their de posits. Coftee producers and export era are greatly alarmed at the falling prior in Europe. The agricultural congress in San Paulo proposed the foundation of a bank for the needs of tbe rural depositors. Foreign capital, it ia aaid, can be procured to open oob an institution, and immediatf fjtepa will be taken to start it Another Hl( Deficit. A comparative statement of the re oeipts and expenditures of the govern ment for the mouth of September shows the total receipts to have been 124,584, 244; expenditures, 126,579,683, leav ing a deficit for the month of f 1,995, 291. The deficit of the three months ot the present fiscal year is 25, 194. 129, as oom pared with a deficit of $9,884, 658 in tbe corresponding months last year. Reoeipts for tbe last month show a loss as oompared with September of last year of nearly (3, 800, 000 from cus toms, and about 1580,000 from internal revenue. Pour of the Students Were Cremated and Others Iajured. Antlers, I. T., Oot. 6. At 11 o'olook last night, Spencer's academy, looated ten miles west of here, burned, together with all the furniture and four Chootaw boys. '. The origin of the fire is supposed to be incendiary, as no one was occupying the room in which the fire broke out, and there had been no fire in it this season. Superintendent J. , B. Eter, who was in charge of the school, heard tho flames, and when he got up, the stairway was on fire. He ran on the outside and woke all the boys and barely saved bis own life. The boya threw their beds out of the windows and jumped to tbe ground on them. 'One of the boya who was burned to death was a cripple, and the other three were in rooms in which there were no windows. It is said the moans and groans were heartrending in tbe extrenie. Reviewing Stand Collapsed. During tbe parade at the Iowa semi centennial celebration, at Burlington, Ia., tbe reviewing stand containing Vioe-President Stevensou, Governor Drake, of Iowa, and staff, and many other promineut people, collapsed, throwing all to the ground and injur ing thirty people. Vice-President Stevenson and Governor Drake escaped with slight bruises. Michigan Forest Fires. Marquette, Mich., Oct. 6. Destruo- ; I tive fo.est fires are burning two miles south of this city, along the line of the Marquette & Western railway. Dur ing tbe afternoon, a biisk south wind was blowing and there was some an xiety lest the fires .might be driven upon the city, but a change of the wind to the west averted tbe danger. Nestoria Junction on the line of the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantio road, seven miles west of here, is in serious danger. - . Tart of Fes Bnrned. A Tangier dispatch says: Tbe Jew ish quarter of Fez, the principal oity of the empire of Morocco, bas been burned. Several persons perished, and many were fatally injured. Five hundred of the residents of the burn ing quarter were oom pel led to flee in an unclad condition to tbe oountry unilt the flames were quenched. It ia estimated that there were 10,000 Jews in Fes, oot of a total population of 100.00O. . San Francisco, Oct 6. Frederick E. Luty, a stock operator and mining man, committed suicide today by shoot ing himself in tbe bead while in a ball way over tbe Anglo-California bank. No motive for tbe deed is yet known, and temporary insanity is tbe reason advanced by bis friends. Luty was secretary of half a dozen mining com panies, but bis accounts are apparently The Yield Will Be About What Was Estimated -40,000 Bales. Salem, Or., Oct. 7. The hopyards throughout the Willamette valley are now deserted, picking having been completed and tbe brokers and Eastern buyers are busily engaged forwarding samples and inspecting hops, prepara tory to buying and filling orders al ready received, or at least expected, says the Statesman. Many of ' the growera have oontraoted their bops, in odrer to procure an advance to enable them to piok. This oourse has been followed to suob an extent this year that but a small percentage of the crop is really in the hands of . independent growers, and they will, of oourse, hold their hops until the market suits them. The crop of Oregon will prove to be about what it was estimated earlier in the season, about 40,000 bales. The quality, in most cases, is exceptionally good, although some overdried bops are found, and some few ha-ve . been ' sam pled that are badly tainted with mould. Sevearl heavy shipments bave been made from Salem already, the pur chases averaging 6 to 6 cents, although one heavy grower ia reported as having disposed of bis crop in two different lots at 7 cents per pound, one lot going to a California firm, represented in Salem by an agent, tbe other, being purchased by an Eastern bop faotory. A Hypnotist's Responsibilities. Atlanta, Ga., Oct 7. If the ruling of Judge Foule, of Atlanta, obtains, hypnotists will have to be very careful what they order their subjects to do. . Tbe judge holds that tbe hypnotist is direotly responsible for the acts of his subjects. During a performance at a .local theater the subject of a hypnotist imagined be was a monkey. He grabbed a hat off a man in tbe audience and bit a piece out of it The professeor and bis business manager declined to make good tbe cost of the bat and tbe hyp notist was prosecuted before Judge route on a charge or malicious mis-. chief. Tbe judge sustained the charge and bound the hypnotist over to a high er oourt Four Hundred and Twelve Tons Were Caught In One Haul. .. f . Seattle, Oct. 6. A Port Townsdnd dispatch to the Post-Intelligencer, says: The catch of salmon in Southwestern Alaska is about 80 per cent more than that of last year, and about equal to the pack of the preceding year. , What is believed to bave been the largest number of fish ever taken at one haul was made at Karluk this summer. In one haul 75,000 fish were caught. Each fish averaged about eleven pounds, and tbe entire oatob weighed about 413 tons. It is almost impos sible for a person unfamiliar with fish ing to realize the vast pile of fish in such a haul. The Theater Hat Question. San Franoisoo, Oct. 6. Alfred Bou vier, the manager of tbe Baldwin thea ter, thinks he baa solved tbe feminine head-gear problem and that diplomacy in suob dilemmas as his will prove bet ter than foroe. Tbe plan be has de vised for persuading the ladies to re move their bats consists in the follow ing protest, wbicb, engraved on a oaid, will be presented on a silver sal ver to the woman who wears a high hat to the play in tbe future: 'The management sinoerely regretB any personal annoyance this may cause you, but must respectfully request that you remove yonr bat, as complaints have been lodged that it interferes with the comfort and enjoyment to which those seated back of you are en titled. (Signed) .The Baldwin, San Franoisoo." tbensejves of. -. . Recording the correspondence which 'thk pa'ssed "between Seoretary Olney and Lord Salisbury reoently, Mr. Cou dert said: ' 'Tu'iiderstaud that this correspond ence deals' with the subject of arbitra tion generally and cannot be specific ally applied to Venezuela controversy. The recent visit of Joseph Chamberlain did not, in my opinion, have any con nection with this case. So. far as I knbw officially, nothing further has been . accomplished in the matter than when I left, and if any negotiations are being" oonduoted by the exeontive of the government to settle it, they are un known to me. I cannot Say when tbe commission's report will be ready, nor whether it will be finished before Presi dent Cleveland's term of offioe ex.- fires.", CHANGED THEIR MINDS. Fot Hall Indians Decline to Sell Their Lands. Poostello, Idaho, Oct. 6. United States Commissioners Hoyt, Goodwin -and Barge, met the Indian chiefs, fif teen in number, of tbe Bannock and Shoshone tribes of the Fort Hall reser- ' vation, at Ross Fork, today, for tbe purpose of forming a treaty with the Indians for tbe. relinquishment of a portion of tlrtir reservation. Fully 1,000 people came from, surrounding towns to witness tbe negotiations. Tbe Indians bad been promised a feast by the commissioners and had looked forward to the oooasion for many weeks. They were there, in force to participate in tbe festivities wbicb promised so muqh enjoyment. When about to go into council, . one of the Bannock chiefs, Jim Ballard, a leader of the faction opposed to the sale of tbe reservation lands, rode up on horse back, bedecked with paint and feathers, and forbade tbe chiefs of- both tribes assembled to paritcipate in tbe festivi ties. Ballard evidently bad the ohiefs under his oontrol, for they refused to partake of the dinner or . listen to any argument. The chiefs admitted they bad oonoluded to make a favorable treaty, but upon witnessing tbe arrival of special trains bearing hundreds of whites to witness the oounoil, changed their minds. 1 Report of the Astoria Health Officer. Salem, Or., Oct. 6. J. A. Fulton, health officer of the port of Astoria, baa filed .with the r governor bia report for the quarter ending September 80. It showa that during July eight vessels entered and left, the snatitary condi tions' of each being good. Ten entries and departures are shown for August, one case of fever being found aboard, and': one of scurvy. Disinfectants are reported used in the fever cases. Dur ing September fifteen vessels entered and cleared, and tbe sanitary condition of each is noted as, good. An Klfht-Tear-Old Murderer. I Zanesville, O.,. Oct 5. The 8-year- old son of Andrew J. Andrews, of Irviue, secured hia father's gun today, during the absence of the family, and, pointing it at bia baby brother, fired, killing bim instantly. The fratricide is not thought to be accountable. Attempted Train Wreck. Baraboo, Wis., Oct 6. An attempt was made lsts night to wreck passengrr train No. 6. on .the C R. N. W. rail way, near Devil's lake. Four bandits were discovered obstructing tbe track. Tom Patterson, wbo made the dis- covery, shot one of them. Tbey re i turned tbe fire, and Patterson was shot T.nrr .a. an .... anU ,nA inrougn mo irg uu uai ine wrecaers I left a wife and family, wbo are weU ! Id. ud ' sheriff's posse ia in pur known socially. ! nit An attempt waa made to wreck I the same tram a week ago. " ..Woman Beaten to Death. St Joseph, Mo., Oct 6. Advices were received here tonight of a brutal murder, which occurred at Arkoe, a small town about thirty-five milee north of here. Mrs. Edith Bom ley waa found in ber borne dead, with evi dences of a desperate struggle with her assailant She bad been beaten to deatb.but the murderer made bis es cape and nothing ! R1nnrlhnnnta will trail. is known of bim, be put upon bU A Brutal Prizefight. - New York, Oct 6. Jaok Collier, of Rockaway Beach, and Kid Harris, of Kentucky, fought seventeen of the fiercest rounds , with bare . knuckles ever witnesed by old-time sports at Far ' Rockaway. They were on their feet when time was called for the eigb- , teenth, but were so badly cut and bruised about the face that they were unable to see each other, and tbe bat tle was stopped. Harris' . ear is half gone; hia cheek, from eye to jawbone.' ia cut open and his face and body are . one mass of cuts and bruises. Both of his eyes are closed. Collier bad botb eyes closed, bis left cheek cut open to the bone, and was badly bruised about tbe body. - Recent Austrian observations in tbe Mediterranean sea prove that tbe deepest spot in tbat body of water is . nearly three milea in distance. Tried to Steal History Plates. San Francisco, Oct 6. The officers of tbe Bancroft Company are still with holding tbe name of the burglar who attempted to steal $10,000 worth of history plates from their basement. Tbey now make the statement that be was formerly employed by the firm as clerk. It is also asserted by tbe members of tbe Bancroft Company tbat the burglar bad no other reason for stealing tbe plates than to melt tbent tad sell them for old lead.