Weyler Must Make an Effort
Crush the Rebellion.
MOKE RAIDS BY INSURGENTS
An Edict Taaued fro in Madrid A Mora
Active Campaign Muatrhere
for Be Inaugurated.
Few York, Aug. 9. A diHputoli to
the Herald from Havana says: It in
rumored thut General Weyler's de
parture for Matanssas was due to orders
direct from Madrid, Bunding him to
the front. Weyler made preparations
to take the field Rome duyg ago, but uc
t'ording to a Htateinent made by an
ifHeer at the palace, he delayed his de
parture in order to mature a plan to
entrap General Castillo.
The captain-general in severely crit
tcixed for not having taken the field
earlier. For three weeks now bands of
insurgents have been swarming into
Matanzas and even Havana. They
have raided small towns and made
demonstrations before large towns.
They have raided landed exieditions
and had time to organize. Yet Gen
eral Weyler contented himself with
remaining on the defensive and only
retaliating on the insurgents by issuing
decrees that considerably aggravated
the sufferings of the unfortunate recon
oentrados. It was only when the insur
gents boldly attacked the suburbs of
Havana that public opinion forced him
to go.
Public opinion with regard to Wey
ler's policy is beginning to manifest
itself. Business is at a standstill, and
the merchants throw the blame upon
the government. They say General
Weyler's edicts practically restrict them
from doing business with the interior.
The wholesale arrests that have been
lately made and the terror of the people
on the outskirts of the city help to
swell the feeling of uneasiness and dis
content with the way the campaign is
varried on.
Insurgents reoently entered Esper
nza, a railroad town of 8,000 persons.
There they met with some resistance,
and there was considerable fighting in
the streets. According to official ac
counts the insuregnts left 20 killed
when they finally retired. The com
mander of. the town was seriously
wounded. He admits that the insur
gents robbed several stores. Bolondron,
another small town about eight leagues
from Matanzas, was also raided and
many stores and buildings were de
stroyed. In Havana province on Sunday last
insurgents attaoked Santiago de lus
Vegas, five leagues from the capital.
A band was playing in the park at the
time and most of the citizens were out
promenading. A panic was threatened,
but the Spanish officers kept their headB
and took prompt steps to repel the in
surgents. There wub brisk firing in
the streets for a time, but eventually
the insurgents were forced to retreat.
Several on both sides were killed. The
iiyurgents remained close up all night
to keep a fire on the forts.
Four hundred insurgents under Gen
eral Castillo attacked La Chora, a town
three miles nearer Havana, on the same
night, but kept np a fire on the forts
All night He also used dynamite with
great effect, throwing bombs into the
town and destroying several public
buildings. Three bombs were fired
from dynamite guns which were landed
by a recent expedition. The Spaniards
did not venture out of the town.
The authorities determined on the
following morning to be revenged on
some one, and arrested the family of
Morales Bottelas, because the dunghter
of the house was the affianced of Cas
tillo's late chief of staff. Mr. and
Mrs. Morales, their daughter and two
children were taken outside the town,
ordered to kneel down and were fired
upon by a squad of Spanish soldiers.
Morales, his wife and one child were
killed at the first volley. The daugh
ter and her 7-year-old brother were
wounded and left on the ground. They
will die.
Several families have moved from
the town.
. Claim to Be Schlatter.
Canton, 0., Aug. 9. A man who
ayn he is the original Schlatter has
been creating exoitement here. T. C.
' Snvde. formerly a state senator, walk
ing about the streets, was injured 13
years ago so he has not walked without
a crutch or eane since that time.
Without solicitation from any one Mr.
Snyder visited Schlatter. He has now
laid aside bis crutches and the cane.
His recovery is the talk of the city and
Mr. Snyder is jubilant over the aid
that has been given him.
Another alleged cure is that of John
Krause. He had a leg broken and the
member when healed would not allow
him to walk without aid. After
Schlatter had treated him be was ena
bled to get up and walk. ,
Girl Drowned While Wading.
Sigonrney, la., Aug. 6. Four girls
.i.i- : Pl
jajiss Adams. They were caught in
tlcurrent while wading.
Reined Ira for Hard Time.
Vidon, Aug. 6. The royal commis
pion agriculture has issued a report
ul?iting various palliativeg for the
exi4 depression in agriculture,
'h'he commission attributes main
ly tow genera' and persistent fall of
pricelnj the foreign competition
wb'not likely to abate.
1 where nature intends tha
insects) on flowers at night,
tie floi ti,eT geiect are all of a white
Atlor.
SEVEN WIVES CLAIM HIM.
A rolygamou Bookkeeper In a Chi
cago Jail.
Chicago, Aug. 9. A warrant charg
ing bigamy has been served on' David
Ellsworth Butes in his cell at the police
station. It was sworn out by James L.
McCarthy, who suid he was the father
of Mrs. Bates No. 8. The police say
Mr. Bates married ut least seven women,
all of whom are living, and only one of
them divorced. " This makes the lean
and sallow-faced little bookkeeper a
poly gam ist extraordinary.
The following women have so far filed
with the police their claims to Butes as
husband:
Mrs. Butes, formerly Miss Jnlia Mc
Carthy, married in Chicago three years
ago, recognized by the prisoner as his
true wife, and dwelling at 840 West
Sixty-first street.
Mrs. Bates, formerly Miss Nettie
Swaitn, married February 25, 1897, in
Chicago, and residing at 6402 Bishop
street.
Mrs. Bates, formerly Miss Anna E.
Herbert, Plain well, Mich., a sister of
his brother's 'wife, morried September
11, 1889, and now in Michigan.
Mrs. Bates, formerly Mies Nellie
Howard, of Kalamazoo, Mich., married
in 1885, and divorced two years later.
Mrs. Butes, formerly Miss Ida Cader
wood, of Gulena, III., who dwelt at 6401
Dearborn street, where she gave birth
to a baby. Her home is not known to
the police.
Mrs. Bates, whose identity is a my
stery, but knnwn to have dwelt at
Forty-third and Wallace streets, where
a child was born.
A Wisconsin sheriff says Butes is
really Austin O. Croven, who is under
indictment at Waupauca, Wis., for the
abduction of pretty 15-year-old Olive
Vosburg some months ago. Her photo
graph was found in his coat. It is sug
gested by the police that this girl may
have been his wife.
A PECULIAR COMPLICATION.
Two CominlMlonera Appointed for the
St. Michaels Office.
Washington, Aug. 9. A peouliar
complication has grown out of the fill
ing of the posts of United States com
missioners for the district of Alaska,
and two men now hold commissions
for the same office at St Michaels.
The last sundry civil bill created four
commissionerships for Alaska, to be
located at Circle City, Dyea, Unga and
St Michaels. There were already four
commissioners there, with offices at
Sitka, Juneau, Wrangel, Kodiak and
Unalaska.
William J. Jones, a lawyer of Port
Townsend, was appointed- to the St.
Michaels commissionership. The de
partment heard he had withdrawn, and
then cliose L. B. Shepard, of Nebraska,
for the place. Meantime, Jones' bond
and oath of office were received, al
though he was supposed to have with?
drawn, but the second appointee's
tommission had then been forwarded.
Both men hold commissions, and the
department is at sea as to how t
straighten out the tangle.
THE SWAUK DISTRICT. .
O. B. Henton Kearhe Seattle With
1, OOO lu Gold, Kuggeta.
Seattle, Aug. 9. G. B. Henton ar
rived in this city tonight with over
$1,000 worth of gold nnggests, there
suit of ten days' work on Williams
creek placer claim on the Swauk dis
trict, Kittitas county. One nugget was
worth $200, another $120; others $50
and $00 and down to very email pieces.
He bus been working the claims since
January, and since that time has taken
out $5,000. The Swauk placers are old
and well known, but have been worked
only in a crude way. One man who
owns a claim there has been working it
quietly for six years, during which time
he has made about $50,000. Mr. Hen
ton sunk a shaft 103 feet to bedrook
before he made his find. He says the
Clcndyke has no attractions for him.
Flailing 8eaon to Cloie.
AstoriarOr., Aug. 9. The fishing
season closes Tuesday. It is utterly
impossible as yet to make an estimate
of the pack, but it will probably be in
the neighborhood of 500,000 cases. It
is known that the fiflhermen's union
cannery packed 80,000 oases. Of the
other packers, some have made the
usual packs, while others have fallen
below last year's output. The fisher
men on the upper river have done com
paratively nothing, the ' catches being
very light. An up-river fisherman says
the men have barely made expenses.
On the lower river the men have done
better, and all cleaned up good wages.
The high men on the lower river have
19 tons to their credit, valued at about
$1,500. The seiners have made light
catches, but the traps have done very
well. Fish are plentiful in the river
at present.
Canada Enforces Labor Law.
Toronto, Ontario, Aug. 9. Canada
has begun to take means to enforce the
alien labor law against Americans.
Commissioner McCreary is here on
business in connection with work on the
Crow's Neet Pass railway through the
Kocky mountains, and he informed the
Canadian Pacific railway authorities
that any American laborers engaged for
that work would be deported to their
own country again. McCreary has in
structions from the Canadian govern
ment to strictly enforce the new law.
Trouble on Turko-Peralan Frontier.
London, Aug. 9. A dispatch to the
Daily News from Takriz, North Persia,
capital ol the province of Azerbaijam,
says that serious trouble has broken
out on the Turko-Persian frontier, and
that both governments have dispatched
troops and guns to the scene of toe
difficulty.
There is nothing that helps a man in
his conduct through life more than the
knowledge of bis own characteristic
weakness.
CLAIMS ARE ALL TAKEN.
Clondyke Thronged Willi liUappolnted
(nip Huntra.
San Francisco, Aug. 9. Speuking of
the Clondyke output of gold, the chief
olerk of the mint said:
"All the gold brought to this city
from the Aluxkuii mines will not ex
ceed $800,000, mid all that has been
taken out this year and gent to the
other mints of the country will not ex
ceed $2,000,000. The gold from that
part of the country is generally from
700 to 800 flue and Home of it rates 000,
the average being worth from $15.65 to
$17 an ounce."
J. C. Butler, of the Pullman Car
Company, is in receipt of a letter from
R. P. Taylor, a financial broker of
Seattle. A few days ago Taylor re
ceived word from some men whom he
sent to the Clondyke region last spring,
in which they inform him that every
claim within 150 miles of Dawson
City has been taken up, and thut men
are rushing all over the country look
ing for locatitons. He says that star
vation and hardship stares many of
them in the face.
Cuptuin Niebaiim, of the Alaska
Commercial Company, who has made
a careful study of the situation, fears
there will be a great deal of suffering
in the mining regions this spring. He
thinks the people going are far in ex
cess of the supplies thut have been for
warded. A letter from Hurt Humber, a pros,
pector, dated Dawson City, June 18,
just received, shows thut the gold seek
er needs plenty of capital. After reach
ing Dawson and paying the heavy duty
on his outfit, besides 80 cents a pound
for getting it over Chilkoot pass, he
will have to pay 25 cents a pound to
get his stuff from Dawson to the dig
gings. The rush to the Clondyke gold fields
is affecting the mineowners of the
mother lode in the vicinity of Sonora,
Jackson and Sutter Creek, and if it con
tinues will cause the closing down of
the mines in Calaveras, Amador and
Tuolumne counties, or their operation
with depleted forces.
In the past week 200 men have left
Amador county alone for the gold fields
in the north and others are preparing
to follow. Some of them were hired
by mineowners in Alaska, but many of
them went on their own resources.
The other counties have also sent ex
pert miners in large numbers.
An Expedition From Brooklyn.
New York, Aug. 9. A half dozen
ambitious Brooklynites are organizing
an expedition to Alaska to search for
some of the Clondyke gold. David P.
Watsons, of Brooklyn, clerk of the Re
publican general committee, is making
up a party, of which he will be one,
and which will leave early in February
to seek fortunes in the gold fields of
the North.
Ticnml la Clondyke Mad. '"'
Tacoma, Wash., Aug. 9. Desire to
rush off to the Alaska gold fields at
once, without waiting till next spring
is increasing all the time. Fourteen
steamers are scheduled to sail from
this port between now and the first of
.September.
TO LAY THE DUST.
Novel Scheme of a New Jeraejr Railway
I , Engineer.
New York, Aug. 9. A dispatch to
the Herald from May's' Landing, N.
J., says: The recent discovery of Chief
Engineer Nicholas, of the West Jersey
& Seashore railway, that crude oil ap
plied to the ground along the railway
tracks would effectually lay the dust,
lias proven after thorough tests to work
far -better than was first expected.
Both lines of track leading from Cam
den to At'antio City are being thor
oughly saturated for u .distance of six
feet on both sides of the track.
Tlie oil is applied on much the same
plan as streets are sprinkled. A water
and recently an oil train with sprin
kling apparatus sprinkled more than
20 miles. The work will be completed
in a few days. One sprinkling a year
at a cost of $30 per mile, it is claimed,
will lay the dust effectually, but two
applications may have to be made.
The Pennsylvania system is to be
sprinkled with oil as speedily as possi
ble. A Michigan Tragedy.
Grand Rapids, Mich., Aug. 9. Last
April A. II. Dailey, of Jennieon, sent
a 'letter to Mayor Swift, saying he
wanted a wife. The letter got into
the newspapers, and as a result Dailey
received 500 answers. From among
the offers he selected Mrs, Hattie M.
Newton, a Chicago widow, and they
were married. They quarreled and
finally separated. Dailey gave his wife
three days to return. The time was up
at midnight last night and she refused
to return. Dailey forced his way into
her bedchamber and shot her with a
musket. Dailey was arrested, and on
hie way to juil was allowed to go into
a saloon to drink. He slipped strych
nine into his beer and fell over dead
in a few minutes. The woman will
recover.
Fatal Quarrel Oyer Cattle.
Madera, Cal., Aug. 9. In a quarrel
over cattle in Crane valley, at Mc
Swain ranch, yesterday, between Patsy
Reardon and L. A. Woodford, the lat
ter was shot and instantly killed.
Keardon gave himself up.
Over Seventy Million.
Washington, Aug. 9. The latest offi
cial estimate of the population of the
United States is 77,000,068. This li
made by the actuary of the treasury an
officer whose duty it is at fixed intervals
to report on the per captia circulation
of money in the United States. He
estimates that the present holdings of
money are $22.53 for every man, woman
and child in the United States.
It is much easier to find the man yog
owe than the man who owes you.
Evidence of Steady Growth
and Enterprise.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
From All the Cities and Towns ml
the ThrlTln Slater ftatet
Oregon.
A large cougar, measuring 0 lj feet
from tip to tip, was killed near Alsea
last week.
The Oregon Press Association will
meet in Baker City on October 18, 17
and 18.
Quite a number of tlifl Umatilla In
diuns are in the Grand Honda valley, in
Union county, digging camas.
Just outside of the town of Athena a
field of 25 acres of wheat has just been
harvested, and the yield was 52 bushels
to the aore.
The salary of the principal of tha
Roseburg school has been reduced to
$70, and the under-teachers to $37.50
The janitor's salary was cut down to
$18 from $30.
Last week a piece of bridge timber
70 feet long and 40 inches in diameter
was cut at Saldun's logging camp, near
Clatskunie, for the Astoria & Columbia
River railroad.
At the custom -house in Astoria one
day last week $1,200 duty on coul was
paid under the new tariff, or $300 more
than would have been required under
the old law.
Thirty-six bounty warrants for squir
rels and gopher sculps were issued by
Marion county last week. The sums
for which the warrants were issued
amounted in the aggregate to $94. 10.
Mrs. Mercy Simons, of Sodaville, is
said to be the oldest person in Linn
county, and perhaps in the state. She
is 105 years old. Mrs. Fisher, who is
95 years old, is the oldest resident in
Albany.
The Columbia river annual confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal churoh
will be held in Pendleton during the
week commencing August 25. The con
ference has about 85 ministers and
more than 90 charges. It is expected
that 150 visitors will be present.
Bishop Foss will preside.
A dispatch was received in Baker
City from Weiser, Idaho, announcing
the arrival of a smelter and that the
same would he immediately forwarded
to the Seven Devils. This is the first
move of importance toward opening np
this vast copper belt. One carload of
sawmill machinery was received at the
same time. The smelter is said to be
of 75 tons capaoity, and one ton of
tnatte will equal four tons of ore. As
the Peacock ore average? 20 per Cent
copper, the lessees of the mines expect
to reap a rich harvest. Several arras
tras are being put tip for the purpose of
working some of the rich- gold ledgei
which abound in the same district.
Washington.
Aostin has a new flouring mill.
The State Bar Association will hold
its next annual meeting in Spokane.
More than $1,000 was paid the gill
netters in Blaine for one night's catch.
The annual report of the auditor of
Adams county shows that the county
only owes $5,000.
John W. Trov, the alleged defaulting
auditor of Clallam county, has been
taken back to Port Angeles. It is prob
able that his case will be settled out
of court.
The telephone line to Goldendule
will soon be completed. The poles are
all set, and the wire in place as fur as
Winans. The line will cross tne river
at Winans' place, being stretched be
tween their big stationary fishwheels.
It is reported that the General Elec
tric Company, of Portland, has had a
survey of the Klickitat fulls made re
cently for the purpose of furnishing
eleotricity for The Dalles and GolJen
dale and to bnild an electric line from
Lyle to Uoldendale.
So many men are leaving Skagit
county that there is a fear of crippling
the shingle industry in this county, as
the manufacturers say they can't get
enough men to keep the mills in opera
tion. Even the farmers come to Mount
Vernon daily looking for help to work
in the hay fields.
The Walla Walla Statesman says
that when the petition of the Commer
cial Club of that place to the war de
partment to have two troops of cavalry
sent to Walla to replace those sent to
Fort Yellowstone was referred to tha
commanding officer of the department
of the Columbia, that official made
favorable report upon the petition,
Mrs. Egpey and her daughter, Clara,
of' Rock ford, Spokane county, who
walked all the way from Spokane to
New York city, returned a few days
ago to their home. Both mother and
daughter report having had a good
time, and declare that their health was
nearer hotter, although the long journey
reducer! them an flesh. Their object in
making the pip wag for the purpose
of making enough money to lift a
mortgage trcja their farm. They were
in derna id alj the various museums and
other pi k,' where salaries were paid
them a curiosities.
The eceitfer of the bank of Puyallup
has received) permission to sell the real
estate and other assets of the institu
tion. I '
Th report of the commissioner of
tub and fisheries recently published
bows thai the government has dis
Iributed ii Washington state during
:he. fiscal year, 625 large-mouthed
laik basi, 450 yellow perch and 860
-,ch; in Idaho, 495 carp, 758 tench,
'.,475 broLk tnnt, 400 yellow perch,
170 largefmouthed black bass and 2,-
'10,000 hiteflh fry.
WEEKLY MARKET LETTER.
Downing, Hopklna Company' Review
of Trade.
The short sellers of wheat have but
a single argument left to support their
views, viz: The admitted fuut that the
wheat crop of this country will be at
least 100,000,000 bushels larger than
thut of lust year. The current news
during the week bus been extremely
bullish and developments huve materi
ally strengthened the position of spec
ulative buyers. Probably the most im
portant annoucement wus Beerbohm'a
estimute platting the European shorttge
compared with lust year at 224,000,000
bushels. This has been emphasized
und confirmed by the active cash de
mand and enormous sales for export.
An additional aid in enhancing vuluea
has been furnished by the farmers
stacking their wheat at a greater ex
tent than usual. Should the coal min
ers' strike continue a fortnight longer
it will prove a powerful, although un
natural, factor in enhancing values,
and in all probability result in a more
serious congestion of the market for
September delivery than lias prevailed
for July contracts. The promise ol an
abundant wheat crop in America, the
ubsence of competition in supplying
the requirements of importing coun
tries, and the oonsequont increused ex
port demand for American wheat, all
tend to benefit the American farmer.
Wheat will prove a profitable purchase
on all reactions and the general tend
ency is toward a still higher range of
values.
The American visible this week shows
a decrease of 164,000 bushels, and now
totals 17,650,000 bushels against 46,
429,000 a year ago. There is much to
be suid regarding both sides of the com
market, but after all is said it is still a
fact thut values are extremely low due
to panic and overproduction. The
growing crop is not yet assured, and
with the enhancing values ruling for
wheat compared with producing years,
the increasing activity in general trade,
oom must participate to a greater or
less extent in the general improvements,
according as the crop promise to be
above or below that of last year. In
any event, present values promise to be
well maintained, and there is little
if any inducement for speculative short
gelling. Should the growing crop meet
with any mishap much higher values
will quickly obtain.
Portland Markets.
Wheat Walla Wallai 78c; Val
ley, 81c per bushel.
Flour Best grades, $4.15; graham,
$3.65; superfine, $2.25 per barrel.
Outs Choice white, 88 40c; choice
gray, 87 89c per bushel.
Barley Feed barley, $16 16.50;
brewing, $18 19 per ton.
Millstuffs Bran, $14 per ton;
middlings, $21; shorts, $15.50.
!. Timothy, $12 13; olover,
$1011; California wheat, $10
11; do oat, $11; Oregon wild hay, $9
10 per ton.
Eggs 1212c per dozen.
Butter Fancy creamery, 8540o;
fair to good, 80c; dairy, 2680c per
roll.
Cheese Oregon, la Young
America, 12$'c; California, 910oper
pound. .,
Poultry Chiokens, mixed, $8.00
3.50 per dozen; broilers, $1.502.75;
geese, $34; dnoks, $3.60(3 3 per dozen;
turkeys, live, 10llc per pound.
Potatoes. Oregon Burbanks. 85
45c per saok; new potatoes, 50o per
sack; sweets, $1.902.25 per oental.
Onions California, new, red, $1.25;
yellow, $1.50 per cental.
Hops 1011M l'er ponnd for new
crop; 1896 crop, 46c.
Wool Valley, ll18o per pound;
Eastern Oregon, 7 9c; mohair, 20c
per pound.
Mutton Gross, best sheep, wethers
and ewes, 22c; dressed mutton,
4o; spring lambs, b per pound.
Hogs Gross, choice heavy, $4; light
and feeders, $2.603; dressed, $3
4.25 per 100 pounds.
Beef Gross, top steers, $2.75(38;
cows $2.25; dressed beef, 4050 per
pound.
Veal Largo, 83Jo; small, i)i
per pound.
Seattle Market!.
Butter Fancy native oreamery,
brick, 18c; ranch, 1012o.
Cheese Native Washington, 10
Ho; California, 9,'jC.
Eggs Fresh ranch, 1819o.
Poultry Chickens, live, per pound,
hens, 10llc; spring chickens, $2
3.50; ducks, $2.50(38.75.
Wheat Feed wheat, $28 per ton.
Oats Choice, per ton, $23.
Corn Whole, $22; oraoked, per ton,
$22; feed meal, $22 per ton.
Barley Rolled or ground, per ton,
$22; whole, $21.
Fresh Meats Choice dressed beef,
iteers, 6o; cows, 6Jc; mutton sheep,
5o; pork, 6c; veal, small, 6.
Fresh Fish Halibut, 4)c; salmon,
4 5c; salmon trout, 7 10c; flounders
nd sole, 84; ling cod, 45; rock
ood, 6o; smelt, 2)j(34c..
Ban Franclaco Market.
Wool Choice foothill, 9 12c; Pan
Joaqnin, 6 months' 8 10c; do year's
staple, 79c; mountain, 11 13c; Ore
gon, 10 13c per pound.
Hops 79o per pound.
Hay Wheat, $12 15; wheat and oat,
$11 14; oat, $10 12; river barley,
$7 8; best barley, $9 12; alfalfa,
$7 8. 50 clover, $7. 50 9.
Millstuffs Middlings, $18.50 22;
California bran, $14 15 per ton.
Potatoes New, in boxes, 40 60c.
Onions New red, 70 80c; do new
ilverskin, 85 95c per cental.
Fresh fruit Apples, 20 80c per
email box; do large box, 40 65c Royal
apricots, 2085c common cherries,
15 (3 2 5c; Royal Anne cherriet, 2540o
per box; currants, $1.00 1.60 per
chest; peachefc, 25 40c; pears, 20
40c; cherry plums, 20 30c per box.
Cheese Fancy mild, new, 8c; fair
toitood, 7)o per pound.
MOVED THEIR CAMP.
The Striker Won the nay at Turtle Mot
Handy Creek.
Pittsburg, Aug. 9. Out of the 3,000
striker who camped at Turtlo creek
lust Saturday, barely 300 now remain
at Camp Determination. In addition
to the large number turned out of camp
and'shut off from the free food distri
bution yesterday, many were drafted to
Plnm creek, where the great struggle
for supremacy between the strikers and
the New York & Cleveland Gas Coal
Company will be carried on.
At Turtle and Sandy creeks Jha
Hrikers have practioally won. Turtle
3 reek mine, known as No. 4, is closed,
down as tight as the strikers can ever
hope to close it by their present peace
ful means of agitation. It is true that,
a few men are still at work in the pit,
but they are not putting out any coal.
IThe same holds good at Sandy oreek.
Reports from Plum creek are conflict
ing. Superintendent DoArmitt claim
that 255 men are still working, while
the strikers say they oounted but 30 go
ing into the pit this morning.
The deputies at Plum creek are bar
ing a hard time. Many are ooroplain
ing, and a number have resigned. They
are np from before daylight nnitl Ions;
after the sun has set. They are on
constaut strain. All the mines are con
nected by private telegraph and tele
phone wires, and every stranger or
body of strangers moving along the
highway are reported to the nearest!
oftioe by ' scouts, and the foremen or
managers of all the mines get notion.
At the point upon which, any march,
thus reported seems to be directed,
there is a stir among the deputies. Aa
these ' marches are of almost daily oc
currence day and night in all direc
tions, the deputies are in a constant
state of apprehension and activity.
The feeding and lodging facilities ara
limited, and not adequate o. the de
mands made upon them, and what adda
to the deputies' discomfort is the fact
that none of them are used to bard
ships.
TESLA'S WIRELESS SYSTEM.
Meaaagea May Be Sent to Any Fait ml
the Globe.
New York, Aug. 6. Nioola Teslav
Rnnounced today the completion of hi
latest discovery, the "simultaneous
transmission of messages by. means of.
the earth's electrical currents to aa
many scattered points on the surface of
the globe as may be desired." This he
regards as by far his greatest achieve
ment To a few intimates he gave a
thrilling demonstration of the operation
nf hi dnvlnn for arrnatinir and snhtact-
ing to control under natural laws the
natural substances in and about the
earth.
His latest invention or discovery ie
to produce such a disturbance of the
electricity of the earth which can be
felt and noted simultaneously at alL
parts of the globe.
"I am producing," said he in the
course of his demonstration, "an elec
trical disturbance of intense magnitude,
which is continuing throughout the en
tire earth. In other words, I am pro
ducing a disturbance of the earth'
charge of electricity which can be felt
to the uttermost parts of the earth."
"And the result will be?"
"That is almost incomprehensible.
This electrioal disturbance by means
of certain simple instruments, can be
felt and appreciated at any point of tha
crlnhn In this wav messages can be
sent the entire earth around, and be
taken up at any part of the earth with
out the aid or intervention of wires in
any wuy at all."
Mowed Down With Cannon.
London, Aug. 9. The London Newa
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JUUIIHIlce O IUHUI liuiu n vnivuiia .wr
unteer reiterating the statement; that
during the recent rioting there the artil
lery fired at a mob of 5,000 mill hand
who were marching to join the rioters,
with the result that 1,500 of the native
were killed.
The secretary of state for India was
questioned in the house of commonr
July 9 as to thre accuraoy of the native
report that 1,600 persons were,, killed
during the rioting, which had just oc
curred in the vicinity of Calcutta, aa ,
one of the results of the stringent meas
ures taken by government officials to
prevent the spread of and stamp out
the bubonio plague. He replied that
'tbout seven persons were killed and 20) '
were wounded during the riots referred
to.
To Complete Hudaon River Tnaael. ,
New York, Aug. 9. The Hudson
river tunnel project tu connect New
York and New Jersey has been revived.
Plans are now being perfected to re
sume construction where it was dropped
five years ago. Engineers say that an
expenditure of $1,600,000 will com
plete the work. Four million dollars
had already been spent before the work
was abandoned, at which time there
were 3,916 feet of completed tunnel go
ing east from the shaft in Jersey City.
One thousand feet of this distance em
tends east of the middle of the Hudson
river.
Prealdent Will Not Come Wtit
San Francisco, Aug. 9. Mayor
Phelan today received a dispatch from
Attorney-General McKenna, stating;
that President McKinley had assured
him that the proposed trip to the Pa
cific coast had been abandoned for this
year.
'California Wheat for Brazil.
Washington, Aug. 9. The bureau of
American republics had information
that merchants of Rio Janeiro have
chartered two vessels in San Francisco
to take cargoes of California wheat to
Rio. This is the first time that soch a.
thing has occurred and is attributed to
the short crop in the Argentine repub
lic and Paraguay.
The common house sparrow flies at
the rate of 93 mi lei an hour
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