Oregon City Courier.
A, W. CHKNBY, Publlaher.
MGON CITY OREGON
NEWS OF THE WEEK
PASSED WITH A RUSH.
fnte renting Collection of Current Event
III Condriiacd Komi From
lloth Cunt lunul a.
Col. C. P. Crocker, vice-president of
the Southern Pacific railroad, died at
his home in San Francisco.
Sheep owners in Eastern Oregon are
organizing to protoot their flocks from
the merciless gun of the cattlemen.
The miners' strike in the Eastern
totes is assuming a desperato aspect.
The miners have appealed to the rail
waymen for help.
C. M. Shultz, of Chicago, has bought
the Tacoma Ledger and has placed J.
M. Bradley in editorial management.
The price paid was $18,000.
There is a great rush from Seattle
nd the Sound to the gold fields at
Clondyke. One minor says that many
will go there who will never return.
John Durbin, one of Oregon's oldest
pioneers and citizens, died at the home
of his grandson, Duncan Boss, near
Salem. He was nearly 103 years old.
The pioneer jubilee has been ushered
In at Salt Lake, and this week will he
witnessed one of the grandest celebra
tions ever seen in the inter-mountain
.country.
The Japan official press states that it
is probable that the Japanese govern
ment will agree to the proposal of Ha
waii and submit the dispute between
the two countries to arbitration.
The famous Broadmoor Casino, a
$100,000 pleasure resort at Colorado
Springs, Colo., was burned to the
ground. The entire loss will be double
that amount. There was scarcely any
Insurance.
Two masked men robbed tne Rao and
Fox postofflce, 50 miles from Guthrie,
O. T.t and secured a quantity of regis
tered letters, stamps and a small sum
of money. They were after $20,000
being paid the Indians.
W. A. Bellwood, a well-known
Philadelphia merchant, has been ar
rested for obtaining jewelry under
false pretense. He pawned the jewelry
to get money to bet on horse races, and
1n this way loBt $13,000.
The Central Labor Union of Now
York, after a long wrangle, adopted the
following resolution: "Resolved, That
the appointment of T. V. Powderly as
commissioner of immigration is the
greatest offlical insult ever offered by
the federal government to organized la
bor."
Lieutenant Peary, the famous arctic
explorer, has left Boston for Greenland
on preliminary voyage. The object
of the voyage is to establish a station at
northern point in Greenland which
hall be used as a baso of supplies for
n expedition in search of the North
Pole under Lieutenunt Peary in 1808.
The National Republican Leuguo con
. rention met in Detroit. Delegates were
present from nearly all the states
The departure from Portland of the
British ship Glonolvun brings the grain
fleet for the present season up to 77
vessels compared with 08 the year be
fore. Advices from Constantinople indicate
that the snltan is obdurate regarding
the acceptance of the peace proposals.
Kdhom Pashu is hastening back to Do
mokos, and the furlouuhsof all Turkish
officers have boen canceled, in readiness
for a renewal of hostilities.
Advices from the south of France
how that the destruction ,by the floods
.there was greater even than earlier re
ports indicated. The losses are esti
mated at 200,000,000 franus in the aggre
gate. Hardly a village has escaped
aamage, ana tne numuor oi persons
drowned is nearly 300.
K. M. Waite, about 70 years old, who
waa the oldest printer in Oregon,
dropped dead in Salem. The printers
were to play the barbers a game of
baseball. Waite carried a printer's
towel as a banner for t.lio printers in
the parade. Ho fainted from the heat
nd never regained consciousness.
The parliamentary South African
commission, which lias been inquiring
into the Trausvull raid, has agreed
noon its report. The'roort will ex
press an emphatic opinion that what
ever justification there might have
been for action on the part of the peo
ple of Johannesburg, there was none
whatever for Cecil Rhodes' conduct in
subsidizing, organizing and stimulat
ing an armed insurrection against the
government of the Transvaal.
Henrique Laidley, Portuguese vice-
consul at San Francisco, is at Monterey,
Oul., at the request of the Portuguese
minister at ushington to make a thor
ough investigation regarding tho dis
turbance over the hauling down of the
1'ortngnese Hag from tho polo above
Manuel Ortin's grocery store ami the
burning of the flag. Ortin's notifica
tion to the minister at Washington re
sulted in the investigation. Laidley
declares if the affair is not satisfactorily
explained the Portuguese government
will demand an apology from the Unit
ed States.
The ninth session of the trans-Mis-aiasippi
commercial congress is being
beld in Salt Lake, Every state and ter
ritory weit of the Mississippi river will
be represented.
A statement prepared at the mint bu
reau shows the number of silver dollars
rained at the United States mints dur
ing the fisca I year was 31,203,701, on
which the seigniorage, or profit to the
government, amounted to $6,336,10-1.
The proills have been turned into the
treasury from time to time, as the coin
age progressed.
tariff BUI Went Through the Home In
Itecord Breaking Tims,
Washington, July 21. Tho confer
enne report on the bill was adopted by
the house shortly after midnight by a
vote of 185 to 118, and at noon today
the report will go to the senate for ac
tion there. This eclipses all previous
records. The remilt was accomplished
after 12 hours of continuous debate.
But two speeches were mado by the Re
publicans, one by Dingley, in opening
the debate, and by Payno, in closing it,
lne sugar schedule, was tho main
point of assault, but the most interest'
ing feature of the debate occurred when
bailey and McMillin, the two rival
Democratic leaders, crossed swords on
the question of the orthodoxy of the free
raw material doctrine, the former op
posing and the lutter championing it.
. The galleries were crowded np to
the time the vote was taken, many dis
tinguished people being present.
Among them were many senators,
many members of the cabinet and a few
members of the diplomatic corps. Ev
ery Republican in the house who was
present voted for the report. The
Democrats, with five exceptions, voted
against the report. The exceptions
were Slayden, Brouisard, Myer, Davey
and Kleburg.
The Populists and silverites did not
vote solidly. Shaforth, Newlands and
Uartman did not vote.
The Populists who voted against the
report were as follows: Baker, Bar
low, Botkin, Fowler, Jett, Lewis, Mar
shall, Murton, PeterB, Simpson, Strowd
and Vincent. Four did not vote-
Howard, Kelly, Stark and Sutherland.
The other Populists were absent
An analysis of the vote shows that
180 Republicans and five Democrats
voted for the report, and ,106 Democrats
and 12 Populists against it.
Senate Proceeding!.
Washington, July 21. The senate,
after assembling, went into executive
session for over two hours, and on re
opening the doors the conference report
on the general deficiency bill was agreed
to.- The Harris resolution in regard to
the Union Pacific railway was taken up,
and Morgan continued his speech on the
subject. He hoped the president would
defer action in order to enable congress
to look into the matter. Thurston gave
notice of his intention to discuss the
subject in the future. Stewart then
took the floor.
He reviewed the history of the con
struction of the road, contending that
it was a patriotic effort, und not a
scheme to rob the government. Harris,
in refutation of this, called attention
to President Cleveland's striotnre upon
the Union Pacific management in his
message of January 17,, 1888.
Stewart said he did not wish to ex
onerate the company from the payment
of its just dues to the government, but
objected to their being regarded us
criminals. He desired to have the
whole mutter closed. The resolution
under consideration would accomplish
no purpose.
Thurston spoke in opposition to the
resolution. He contended the govern
ment hud already risked enough money
n the investment; that, without ex
tending another favor and without
making further expenditure, it should
proceed in the ordinary legal methods
through the courts to enforce its legal
rights, whatever they might be, and to
secure repayment or all its dues. on
whatever property the courts shull find
are justly subject thereto. The propo
sition before the senate, he Baid,
stripped of technicalities, was simply to
OFFFORTIIE CLONDYKET
THE PLOTS THICKEN.
The Rush for the New Eldo
rado Begun in Earnest.
0XE HUNDRED SAIL ON THE AL-KI
the Excitement Intenae on the Mound
and In Juneau Large Numbers
of New Yorkers Intereated.
Seattle, July 20. One hundred men
;ook passago today on the steamer Al
Ki, most of them starting on what is
calloj the overland trip, to the Clon
dyke. From Juneau they will go 100
miles further by water, to Dyea, thence
over the mountain passes, down Lakes
Lindermun and Bennett to the Yukon
river and down that river to the new
discoveries.
Among the crowd wero many men
well known in Seattle; men who have
been long identified with its growth
and development. The Al-Ki was
billed to sail at 9 o'clock this morning.
At 6, crowds began to gather on the j
deck. At 9, it was announced she
would not sail till 1 o'clock. Tho 1
crowd kept growing larger. At 1
o'clock it was said she would not get
away till 5, and at that hour she threw
off her lines and pulled into the bay,
thousands of people that lined the
water lront sending her Godspeed with
cheers and shouts.
Every inch of her passenger and car
go space was taken.
The steamship Portland, whose arri
val Saturday morning, with her loud of
treasure caused tremendous excitement
gome Berlnue Uueallnn Confront the
Nation of the Karlh.
London, July 21. In the hnnso of
commons today, in tho course of a do
ha to on the foreign office vote, Sir
Charles Dilke, radical, said:
"Tho gravest foreign question at tho
present moment grows out of our rela
tions with tho United States, and if tho
matter is not dwelt upon, it is because
the government is conscious that in
these difficult matters it cunnot count
on the support of the entire house."
Merloua Complication Foaalble.
New York, July 21. A special to tho
World from Washington says:
The possibility of serious interna
tional complications between the United
States and Great Britain as the result
of the recent gold discoveries in Alaska
has become apparent to the state depart
ment. Senator Davis, of the senate
foreign relations committee, has been
requested to secure tho immodiute rati
fication of a treaty for determining the
i boundary line between Canada and
! Alaska in order to lessen the probable
uiiiiuuiky.
Chairman Davis lias unnounced his
intention of culling tiiis treaty up for
action at the next executive session of
the senate. There is said to be no ob
jection, and prompt ratification is expected.
TIIE BALANCE OFTR ADE
Exports of Merchandise Last
Year Larger Than Ever.
IS OVER ONE BILLION DOLLARS
The
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A NOTED CHARACTER DEAD.
Amelia
Kohler, Mho Inaplred
Laat Jtoae of Mummer."
The
New York, July 21. Mrs. Amelia
Kohler died today at Mount Vernon.
Had it not been for Mrs. Kohler, Tom
Moore might never have written "The
T.iiaf.. T?fua tf Mmtlmnp " Tim niinni
here, is due to sail for St. Michaels, at' wa, of ,.. ..,,.,!,, Mnii tbe first line
the mouth of the Yukon, next Tuesduy, i fmm nor Hnu wa ,., in
uu l. III ID IllvolJ' frliub OIIU mil UUb
away for a day or two later. This !
boat will not carry a pound of provi
sions except for the North American
Trading & Transportation Company,
which operates it. But its passenger
accommodations are all engaged. At
St. Michaels, the passengers and
freight will be transferred to a Yukon
steamer.
Captain Carroll, of the excursion
steamer Queen, which arrived tonight,
denieb the reports sent out that there
will not be an able-bodied man left in
Juneau on account of the exodus to the
Clondyke. Juneau merchants are very
short of goods having outfitted pros
pectors and miners until their stocks
have run extremely low. It is undeni
ably true that many men from Alaska
towns have gone to the placer diggings
inadequately supplied with food or
xii.n.lt. 11 ... 1 J, v.. . . 1. nnffmlnntnill M !
UtVHVJf nilU lillill. Ill IH.11 DUUU lllg Will AC
Slllt. The miners have posted notices
along the various trails and routes to
the gold fields that men without provi
sions would receive scant welcome.
Port Townsend.July 20. The steam
er Al-Ki will sail for Alaska at mid
night will all the passenger and freight
accommodations filled. She carried 40
horses and' 1,000 sheep for Dyea, where
they will be landed and driven across
the summit to the Yukon valley.
Stockmen say the sheep are the finest
band ever collected in Eastern Wash
ington. Any kind of fresh meat on the
Yukon sells at 50 cents per pound.
The Al-Ki carries 85 first and 65
second-class passengers, nearly all for
Lthe Clondyke.
New Yorkera Intereated.
New York, July 20. This city bus
been touched with the gold fever. The
invest another 134, 000.000 and tuke the1 24 hrs l"s seen come to the
tbe century a close friend of Moore's
sister, and kept a private school in
London. While walking in the garden
of the school one day. Mrs. Kohler,
so the story goes, plucked a rose, re
marking: " 'Tis the last rose of sum
mer; why not write about it, Dr.
Moore?"
The incident suggested the thoughts
that were afterward so beautifully
woven into verse, and the poem was
dedicated by the poet to "Amelia,"
which is Mrs. Kohler's name.
Mrs. Kohler was 93 years old when
she died, and for 20 years had lived
with her daughter, Mrs. F. M. Saun
ders, at Mount Vernon. Her maiden
name was Amelia Offergeld, and her
father was an officer under General
Blucher. The family homo was at
Aix la Chappelle. Mrs. Kohler often
spoke of having seen Napoleon in her
girlhood.
New Era In Rapid Tranalt.
Xew York, July 21. The Journal
and Advertiser says: Projected changes
in the motive power of the three ele
vated railway lines of Greater New
York and the New York, New Haven
& Hartford steam surface roads have
been announced. In the case of the
New Haven road i the alterations have
begun and the elevated roads await
only the consummation of incidental
plans to embark in changes of kin, lied
type, which portend, among other
things a revolution of the rapid transit
system ot New York.
chance of getting it buck on the ulti
mate sule of tho road.
At 5 o'clock an executive session was
held, and then adjournment was had.
Placing the Navy on a War Footing.
New York, July 21. A special to
the Herald from Washington says:1
With a view to making available for
immediate service as many of the ships
of the navy as possible, Secretary Long
is considering tbe advisability of plac
ing the monitor Miautouomah in the
reserve.
The Miantonomah was laid up in or
dinary at League island in 1895 and
front at least 2,000 Argonauts, who
will be on the way to the Clondyke re
gion just as soon as arrangements can
be made for transporation. This city
furnished more '4'jers than any state
in the Union. It would not be strange
at all if this city should within the,
next six months, assuming there is a
corroboration of the favorable reports,
be more largely represented on the
bouts slowly stemming the currents of
the Youkon than tho entire Pacific
coast.
Some notion of how the craze is
spreading may be had from the fact
that within 48 hours an advertisement
caning tor tnose who desired to join
inoo that time but little attention has
been paid to the ship except to make 1 an expedition to Alaska and who had
repairs from time to time. Secretary , from $500 to $2,000 to invest was an
Long now intends to have the vessel swered by more than 1,200 applicants.
put in thorough condition so that she ;
can be ordered into reserve with the
Columbia and Minneapolis. This
means that a "short crew" with a full
Biipply of stores and coal will be kept
on board and that the she can be made
ready for sea service within five days
if the necessity arises.
While department officials declare
there is no significance in this move,
the attitude of Japan witli respect to
Hawaii and Cuban troubles are suffi
cient to make the administration do
sire to be in good shape to meet any
emergency that may arise.
flood Demand for Warahlpa.
New York, July 21. The Herald's
correspondent in Kio do Janeiro tele
graphs that the United States and Japan
have communicated with the govern
ment of Brazil witli the idea of the
possible purchase of warships now
building for Brazil in England and
Germany.
Owing to Brazil's financial plight at
this timo it was recently decided to
sell before completion, if possible, all
the war vessels being built for Brazil
in the two countries named. These are
principally small boats.
Blood Wanted.
Rome, July 21. ThePopolo Romano
announces that the Count of Turin has
been challenged by Prince Henry of
Orleans to a duel for the calumnies and
insulting remarks he is alleged to have
uttered at the expense of the Italian
officers recently released from captivity
in Abyssinia. Prince Henry had de
clined to fight with the Italian lieuten
unt who hud been designated by the
drawing of lots to challenge him.
A Battle Koyal, Perhapa.
London, July 21. The Telegraph's
Vienna correspondent learns that the
British government bus demanded the
immediate coercion of Turkey. Russia,
on the other hand, has declared that
the moment for coercion has not ar-
gervice, and will start for the Clondyke ', rived, und that the situation must not
Kxceaa Over Import Waa
Ureateat In the lliatory of
the Country. -
Washington, July 19. The annual
statement of iinfiorts and exports of the
United States, issued by the bureau of
statistics, in ukes the remarkable show
ing that never before in the history of
the country have the exports of mer
chandise, which includes practically
all the exports except gold and silver,
reached so high a figure as during the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1897, nor
has tho excess of exports over imports
ever been so lurge. The only time
these figures wero approached was in'
1892, when the United States was mak
ing heavy shipments of grain to Eu
rope, to feed the people suffering from
deficient harvests. The statement of
18117, with comparisons, is us follows:
Exports of domestic merchandise,
1,032,998,770, an increase over 1806
of ubout $170,000,000.
Total exports of domestic and foreign
merchandise, $1,051,897,091, as com
pared with $882,006,938 for 1896.
The total imports of merchandise
during the fiscal year just closed
amounted to $764,373,905, of which
$381,932,005 was free of duty. The
total imports were ubout $15,350,000
less than last year, and the excess of
exports over imports for the year was
$287,613,186.
This is an excess of about $185,000,-
000 over last year, and an excess of
about $23,000,000 over any previous
year.
The exports of gold, including ores,
for the fiscal year 1897 amounted to
$40,359,780. us compared with $112,
409,447 for 1806.
The imports of gold amounted to $85,
013,575, an increase of about $51,500,
000 over 18,96.
The exports of silver during 1897
amounted to $61,946,638, and the im
ports $20,533,227.
The'excess of gold imports over ex
ports therefore was $44,658,795, and
the excess of silver exports over im
ports. $31,413,411. Never before bus
the silver movement, both export and
import, reached so high a figure.
THE CONFEREES AGREE.
WOMEN AT THE ROCK PILE.
win
in tins particular case tnere was some
misunderstanding, inasmuch as the
company publishing the call, is, in the
main, a trading company, while the
applicants were eager to go as prospect
ors, or to ally themselves with what
eveu might be "grub-stake" concerns.
However, 32 men havo enlisted in its
female Prlaonera In Kanaaa City
Not Be Put to Work.
Kansas City, July 19. Women
prisoners are not to be put to work on
the rock pile with men in Kansas City,
Kan. The board of police commission
ers, who decided last week that this
should be done, have found public sen
timent too strongly opposed to their
plan. In deference to the first outburst
of popular opposition, the police com
missioners proposed to rescind that part
of the order compelling the women to
wear men's overall's, but this failed to
tally to stop the flood of protest, and
the order is wholly rescinded.
The agitation here has devolped the
fact that the same rule is enforced by
the police of Leavenworth, Kan.
Leavenworth's women prisoners are
made to break rock, and to wear over
alls. They are worked .separate from
the men, and break rocks with small
hammers, under ashed in the jail yard.
The Leavenworth officers declare that
their women prisoners, as .a rule, do
not object to the work.
All the Tariff Dlfferencea Have at Laal
Keen Mettled.
Washington, July 20. When the
Republican conferees on the tariff ad
journed at 6 P. M. today, the an
nouncement was made on behalf of
each house, that they had agreed on all
tho items of the bill, and that the re
sult of the partisan conference would
be submitted to the Democratic mem
bers of the conference ut a full meetliig
to be held noxt day.
This announcement had been made
informally to the Demooratio members
of the conference at noon, and had
formed the subject of general specula
tion obout the senate during the after
noon. It appeared, after the informal
statement was made, thot there was
still much to be done in the way of
putting the bill in shape, and the con
ferees spent six hours in close applica
tion to the work in hand. They were,
for the most part, merely running over
the bill, but there were still rates to
be agreed upon which had been passed
over until tho sugar schedule should be
finully disposed of. The revision was
not even-completed during the after
noon session, und some of the members
returned to renew the work tonight.
The members of the conference still
preserve the strictest silence in regard
to the conditions made, giving out no
official confirmation as to the changes
made in the bill. It is learned, how
ever, from an entirely reliuble source,
thnt a very large majority of the senate
amendments were accepted. This was
rendered necessary by several circum
stances. A number of amendments
nia;'e by the senate were verbal, others
were trivial, and still others were made
nucessaryto secure harmony of con
struction, and would have been made
by the house if that body had had the
bill under consideration for so long a
time as the senate. .
All such changes as these are accept
ed without question by the house con
ferees. They also accepted in most .
cases all these alterations mado by the
senate in order to secure the passage of
the bill in that body. Senator Jones
of Nevada, holding, as he did, the prac
tical balance of power, both in the sen
ate and in the conference, was enabled
to secure many concessions for Western
interests in the senate, and these he
held for without exception in the con
ference. He even succeeded in secur
ing a degree of protection for beet-sugar
greater than was given either in . the
senate or house bill.
The bill, us agreed upon, will, when
made public, present an entirely new
sugar schedule, at least, in the main
item of the duty on raw and refined
sugar, the fourth presented since the
bill emerged from the recesses of tho
ways and means committee.
IN EVENT OF TROUBLE.
A PROPOSED AERIAL VOYAGE.
Killed the florae.
Roseburg, Or., July 21. Near Fair
view, Coos county, yesterday, while
George Martin and a companion were
leading two horses, Martin was attacked
by his horse and badly wounded. The
horse seized him, threw him to the
ground and was tearing the flesh from
his body in a horrible manner when
his companion secured a club and killed
the horse. Martin's shoulder-blade is
broken. It is thought that he will re
cover. t'nlon-Made Khoee Muat Be Worn.
Chicago, July 21. Every man who
marches in the big Labor-day parade
must wear union made shoes, with the
union laltel on the sole. A committee
has "boen appointed to inspect every
shoe in the line of march, and anv man
found guilty of
region within three weeks. Tbey will
go as employes of the company, essen
tially, but in the event of their strik
ing a paying claim or becoming inter
ested in one, the company will aid
them by advancing money sufficient tu
develop promising strikes.
Alaaha Hold at the Mint.
Washington, July 20. Mr. Preston,
director of the mint, received a tele
gram from the superintendent of the
Sun Franciso mint stating that $500,
000 in gold had arrived at that point
from Alaska, and than an equal
amount was expected to arrive next
week.
be complicated. Germany, the corre
spondent states, has concurred in this
view.
Prince Henri Makea a Dlatinction.
London, July 20. The Daily Muil's
Paris correspondent says: Prince
Henri of Orleans declines to fight a
duel with Lieutenant Pinin, one of the
Italian officers recently released from
captivity in Abyssinia, who was desig
nated by the drawing of lots among his
comrades to challenge the prince.
Prince Henri, however, is willing to ac
cept a challenge from an Italian officer
of a rank corresponding to his own.
Prom the .Summit of IMke'a Peak to
Colorado Springs. ,
Colorado Springs, Jnly 19. The an
nouncement was made today that W.
D. Felts will make an aerial excursion
from the summit of Pike's peak to
Colorado Springs, a distance of 10 miles,
in an air line, and drop 8,000 feet.
In making the flight, Felts will use a
series of rigid aeroplanes, modeled af
ter the wings of a condor. The body
of the voyager will hang suspended
from an easy harness. In order to
steer the apparatus, Felts has provided
a movable vane, which will be operat
ed at the will of the navigator. Felts
announced today that he would first
alight on Cameron's cone, a distance of
five miles, and a drop of 4,000 feet
From this he said he would make a de
scent of 4.000 feet more to Colorado
Springs, where he would alight.
The Navy Department Will Not It
. Caught Napping.
San Francisco, July 20. The Bulle
tin says this evening that it has re
ceived information that the navy de
partment has determined not to be
caught napping in the event of trouble
with Japan over the annexation of the
Hawaiian islands. All orders of the
department, which would have result
ed in moving ships of the Pacific and
Asiatic squadrons from headquarters to
distant points, have been temporarily
suspended. While the authorities at
Washington deny that, there it any
effort to keep all available vessels at
ports where orders can reach them at
short notice, naval office's admit that
such a scheme is being carried out, and
that orders have been issued to the
Asiatic squadron requiring the fleet to
make no move and hold itself in readi
ness to return to the coast or proceed
to Hawaii on short notice.
The report that the coast defense
monitors Monadnock and Monterey
will be sent to Honolulu is denied, and
the statement is made that they will
be held on the coast.
Inquiries have been received at
Mare island from headquarters as to
the condition of the Baltimore, now
under repairs there, with a view of
putting her in commission in case of
emergency, although under ordinary
conditions 'she would not be ready for
service until September, or even later.
THE TORPEDO BOATS.
BUI win
The French admirers of Balzao have
j determined to erect in his honor a
Fair-haired people are becoming less j splendid monument in the city of
Tours, the place of his birth.
numerous than formerly.
Antlers, I. T., July 20. The Choctaw-Chickasaw
union party proposes
to treat with the Dawes commission,
provided the United States will buy all
of the Choctaw and Chickasaw land
outright. They will form a colonT. eo
earing nonunion shoes into Mexico, bny a lot of land from
ill be dealt with accordingly. The Mexico and have their own laws. They
action to this .effect was taken at the! say that a white man shall not move
meeting of the Chicago Federation of among them. The full-bloods are very
Labor on the suggestion of William 1 favorably impressed with the move,
Jones, of the Boot and Shoeworkers' I but none but the ignorant Choctaw
Union of America. I wi!S go into such a scheme.
Life for a Life.
Atlanta, Ga., July 21. A special to
the Constitution from Columbus, tia.,
says: Dr. V. L. Ryder, .who, on
Easter Sunday a year ago, shot to death
the young woman who bad rejected
him, was tonight taken out of jail, and
is probably lynched. Only the news of
the bare fact that he was forcibly seized
and taken from the sheriff's custody at
8:30 tonight can be learned in Columbus
e Jo a late hour. A special train
came in abont 9 o'clock with the news
that Ryder bad been pnt to death.
A Scorcher Cauaed Her Deah.
Chicago, July 19. A scorcher is re
sponsible for the death of Mrs. M. A.
Morton, who was yesterday killed in a
runaway accident The scorcher, with
elevated back and lowered head, while
bowling along at a rapid rate, collided
with the horse driven by Mrs. Morton.
The frightened animal became nncon
trollable,.and dashed down the street,
colliding with a lamppost and throwing
the unfortunate woman from the ve
hicle. She was instantly killed. She
had been an invalid for years,
scorcher was thrown from his wheel.
but remounted and rode away before he
could be apprehended. The horse was I years,
badly injured and died in a few minutes.
Next Naval Appropriation
Favor the Coaat.
Washington, July 20. It is safe to
say that the next naval appropriation
bill will contain a provision for letting
the contract for building some of the
torpedo-boats on the Pacific coast. The
bill passed previous to the last con
tained a provision which allowed the
Pacific coast 5 per cent more than
shipyards on tbe Atlantic coast. This
difference gave the Pacific bidders an
opportunity to compete. The clause
was omitted from the current bill by
mistake, or through design on the part
of those who had the measure in
charge. By a singular coincidence,
the men w ho had the bill in charge
during the last session come from states
which are largely interested in ship
building on the Atlantic coast The
bill was passed during the closine days
The of congress and rushed through hur
riedly, as must be expected in the
short sessions of congress every two
The Pacific coast interests will
be looked after next time.
Miner' Day In Wallace.
Wallace, Idaho, July 19. The single-handed
drilling contest resulted in
a victory for C A. Patterson, of Mur
ray, he drilling 17 8-8 inches. There
was voting for the most popular yonng
woman on Miners' Union Memorial
day, at 25 cents a rote, and 6,000 votes
were cast Miss Jennie Graham, of
Burke, won the prize, a gold watch,
with 1.645 votes.
The new Yerkes telescope brings the
moon within about 200 miles.
Drowned In the Breakers.
Astoria, Or., July 20. Two Finn
fishermen were drowned in the breakers
Wednesday, at the mouth of the river.
Their names are not known, the fact of
their drowning having just been learn
ed. They belonged to the new fisher
men's cannery.
Simla, India, Jnly 20. There baa
been a satisfactory rainfall throughout
the northwest province, and the author
ities intend to reduce considerably th
extent of the relief work.