Oregon City Courier.
A, W. UHKNKY, Publisher.
BEQON CITY OREGON
MS OF THE WEEK
bterettlnf Collection of Current Events
la Condensed Form From
Both Continents.
The fund raised in Canada fur the
India famine sufferers lias been closed.
The amount contributed wan f 176,161.
Ten saloons in Kaunas City, Kan.,
worn ruid(!l by the police and $3,500
worth of liquors seized and poured into
the gutter. Saloon furniture and fix
ture filling tun big drays were poized
and carted to police headquarters, where
. it will be burned.
A di spa toll from Buenos Ayres nays
the wheat crop in the province of
Santa Fe is calculated at about 10,000
torn, scarcely more than enough to
supply the pro', i nee for the year.
What is true in Santa Fe province is
said to be true in the other provinces,
that in, none will furnish more than
enough for home use.
The jewelry store of W. II. Finck,
at Seattle, was burglarized and goods
to the amount of $10,000 taken. By
rawing the iron burs off the window,
the burglurs secured an entrance to the
store. With a seven-pound sledgeham
mer and an eight-inch punch they
broke the handle off -the outside door
of the safe, and then easily pried the
door open.
' Five orphan children have been
shipped from Honolulu to San Fran
cisco. The government officials will
not permit them to land unless $500
Iwnds are furnished for each of the
quintet as a guarantee that they shall
not become public churges, but so far
the necessary amuunt hus not been
raised by the Salvation Army officer to
whom they were consigned.
Official information recoived at Ma
nila confirms the reports previously
' published as to the disastrous character
if the ernption of the Manyon volcano.
Several villages were completely de
Htroyed. At Libog 150 bodies were re
covered and buried, and more remained
in the lava. At another place 200 per
sons were missing. Some of the bodies
recovered were so completely calcined
as to be unrecognizable.
Advices from Rio do Janeiro state
that the fanatics attnoked several con
voys oCjrovisions and ammunition in
the interior a few days ago and a bloody
I tattle followed. The fanatics wore
forced to retire after severe losses. The
Hrtailian troops had 38 officers wound
ed. The fanatics are now reorganizing
their forces and another attack on con
Toys is expected, as the fanatics are in
need of ammunition.
Involved in the question of inter
pretation of section 22 of the new tar
iff, with regard to the 10 per cent die
criminating duty on foreign goods oonv
ing to the United States from Canada
or Mexico, which i now betore the at'
torney general for decision, is another
question of equal if not greater magni
tude. It involves the question of
whether this discriminating duty of 10
per cent does not apply to all goods im
jxtrted in foreign vessels landing at
United States ports which are not ex
empt from discriminating tonnage taxes
by express treaty stipulation. The
matter is now before the attorney-gen
era), awaiting an interpretation.
Two young ladies from Alameda and
Kan Francisco have gone to Trinity
county upon a prospecting tour. They
are equipped with complete minors' out
fits and are determined to work hard to
tind a paying claim.
Edwin Oorbin, of Chicago, has closed
a deal amalgamating the United States
and Canadian Lakes Fisheries Com
panies, whereby the control of 20 com
panies passed into the hands of the
British company with $5,000,000 cap
ital. The British, Russian and French
minister to Greece have notified their
respective governments that it is im
possible for Greeoo to pay an indemnity
exceeding 3,000,000 Turkish. It is
understood that negotiations are on
loot to induce turkey to aeuept a
smaller sum than the amount originally
demanded.
The county recorder in Great Bend,
kii., lias reported tlte release ot over
$110,000 in chattel and real estate mort
gages since August 1, and half of the
crop has not been threshed. It is pre
dicted that by the new year the county
will be in better shape than everbeforo
and will look back on the largest acre
age of wheat in the history of the
county.
Paul J. Ilenning, who has just ar
rived in San Francisco, says the Amer
ican flag is (lying on Clipporton island.
He has been living on the island with
two other men and they successfully
blocked the attempt of Captain Murt
ray of the ship Kinkora, to hoist the
British flag there three months ago.
The Kinkora was wrecked and the three
Americans held as wreckage nearly a
in ill ion feet of lumber, which was
washed ashore. 11. M. S. Com in vis
ited the island later, but did not dis
turb the Stars and Stripes nor enter a
claim for the lumber.
S. J. Hatchet t, formerly secretary of
the Los Anglees chamber of commerce,
w ho had charge of the Los Angeles ex
hibit at the world's fair aud mysteri
ously disappeared before the exposition
lowed, is said to have been seen in
Chicago. Hi wife has mourned him
a dead. The informant states that
llatchett told him ha bad concluded to
drop out of sight, and cautioned him to
say nothing about having met him.
President McKinley spoke at the
Grand Army encampment at Buffalo,
N. Y
CUBA'S FIGHT FOR LIBERTY
fjulntnn llnnilrra Telia nf I lie I'rogren
of th War.
New York, Sept. 1. The .Tournul
and Advertiser says: The sensationally
victorious march ot the Cubans under
Maximo Gomez and Antonio Macco,
the entire length of the island, in Mar
tinez Canipo's time, has just Is 'en
juplicated by Quintin Banderas. Th
negro war captain, than whom no Cuban
af the colored race, excepting only
Macco, perhaps, has won greater honors
in the struggle for independence, led
12,000 men from the eastern end of the
Island, whero the patriots in arms are
strongest, to the western end, where,
sinco Maceo's death the Cuban cause
has not prospered so well. Those 12,
000 men represented all branches of the
Cuban army service. They penetrated
into the provinces of Matanzas, Havana
and Pinar del Rio, strengthening the
existing forces in each of these provinces
to such an extent that the coming win
ter campaign there may be expected to
be even as disastrous for the Spanish as
in the times of the redoubtable Maceo,
The news of the brilliant achieve
merit was brought to tho Journal and
Advertiser by the mail from Havana in
an autograph letter from Banderas hnn
self. In it he requests the publication
of the proclamation that he issued on
taking charge of the department.
Banderas says that the second invasion
of tho west was made in compliance
with plans that were completed by
Muximo Gomez, the generul-in-chief
himself, in June last, and that the
march, was effected with little or no
trouble or molestation from the Spanish
troops. Tho proclamation intimates
that there have been wholcsalo deser
tions from the Spanish army in Havana
province into the Cuban service.
The rest of the proclamation is di
rected "To the Men of My Race," and
is as follows:
"It only remains for mo to appeal to
the men of my race, to point out to
them that we owo the liberty of our
fathers to tho revolution of 18(18, anil
it is my duty to present to them the
example of that noble figure, Mu'jor
General Antonio Maceo, who died on
the field for the liberty of his country."
Spain Will Never Yield.
Denver, Sept. 1. Count Henri Pen
aloza, of Paris, is spending a few days
in the city upon mining business. The
count is an American by birth, a Span
iard by descent and a Frenchman by
adoption. He was born in San Fran
cisco in 1869, while his parents were
spending the winter in California. In
the course of an interview Count Pen
aloza said:
"As long as Spain has a man or a
penny in the treasury the Spanish gov
ernment will not consent to the inde
pendence of Cuba. A country whose
call for military funds was subscribed
four times over and which has sent
200,000 soldiers to Cuba, is not in the
impoverished condition so often de
scribed. "
Count Penaloza is exiled from his
native country on account of the Carlist
proclivities of his family.
IN BEHALF OF INDIANA MINERS,
A Large Kallef Fund Subenrlbed
t
Lebanon.
Denver, Sept. 1. A special to the
News from Lebanon, Ind., says: An
immense meeting was held last night
at the opera house in behalf of the
starving coal miners in Indiana.
Thomas J. Terhune made a statement
of the condition of the miners as he
found it while making his investiga
tion as Governor Mount's special com
missioner. He said:
"There are 8,000 families in this
state in destitution. Thirty thousand
people are literally starving. A few
years ago they received $1.25 per ton;
now the average price paid is about 35
cents per ton. A good miner can make
$1 a day and is allowed to work two
or three days each week. They are
compelled to trade at coihpany stores
and the prices they pay are left entire
ly to the mine operators. The miners
admit that thev cannot live upon the
present scale of wages."
A large subscription to the relief
fund was raised.
E. V. Debs left Terra Haute for St.
Louis last night to attend tho confer
ence called by the national executive
board of United Mineworkers. He
says there has been a remarkable change
in public sentiment on the injunction
question; that whereas three years ago
there was hardly any dissent from the
course of judges who were issuing re
straining orders against the strikers,
the preponderance of sentiment now is
in opposition.
A Convert to ItuddhUtn.
New York, Sept. 1. A most nunsual
ceremony will bo performod this even
ing uK)n the platform of New Century
hall, on Fifth avenue, when Countess
M. de Canavaro will bo received into
the Buddhist faith by Dluirmapala, a
priest ot the Brahina-Somaj sect. The
priest will repeat in his native language
the formula of the oath of Buddha,
which will be repeated by the prose
lyte. This will be but the second cere
mony of the kind ever performed in
this country.
Countess do Canavaro is an American
woman, about o years old, a native oi
California, who married a foreigner.
Further than that she will say nothing
whatever about her family affairs.
I Thinks Andree Will Ketnrn.
New York, Sept. 1. Evelin B. Bald
win, an Arctio explorer of some note,
when seen by a reporter in Brooklyn
last night, declared his belief that An
dree will come back safely from his
journey in search of the north pole. Mr.
Baldwin has just returned from Europe,
where he talked with leading scientists,
all of whom share bis belief.
Friendship, Me., has a great grand
mother hut 63 years old.
i UTTER DAY PIRATES
Bloody Outrages Occurred in
Chinese Waters.
VESSELS AXI) POUTS PLUNDERED
Arlilneae Attui'ltml a ItrltUh Hteamer,
Maaiucred I'ltoeiiKer and 4'rew
and Looted the Nlilp.
Tacoma, Aug. 31. The Northern Pa
cific liner Columbia arrived today on
her maiden voyage from Yokohama,
with 127 pussengers and a full cargo of
freight. She was delayed on Several oc
casions and forced to lie to 24 hours on
account of the breakage of her machin
ery. One of the firemen died of heat ao
plcxy, and was buried at sea. The
Columbia's cargo includes 1,700 bales
of silk, valued at $500,000, which will
go acorss the continent via the Northern
Pacific today on a special train of eight
baggage cars. The Columbia brings
Oriental advices up to July 27, as fol
lows:
News has just reached Hong Kong of
the prevalence of pirates on tho Canton
river, and one of the most daring out
rages perpetrated. One of the sons of
Captain Chung Kwei, a Straits million
aire, KungAh Phin, who recently wen
to Canton, was the victim. He, in com
pany with a few of his relatives, hired
a flower bout, and they were proceed
ing to their native place. On the sec
ond day the boat stuck in the mud, and
could not proceed. During tho night
a gang of men with painted faces and
fully armed boarded tho boat. With
revolvers leveled at the passengers.
they commanded silence while four men
begun at once to look for plunder. Ah
Phin brought from the Straits jewelry
amounting in value to $5,000 and $2,
000 in notes. These tho pirates took,
besides clothing, etc. When they had
satisfied themselves that nothing more
was to be obtained, they left the bout,
after threatening the victims with in
stunt death if they mado a noise till
hours afterward. In the morning, in
formation was at once sent down to
Canton, but before the authorities had
time to send a gunboat, tho pirates had
made their escape. Up to the present,
nothing more has been heard of them
Mat Sallot, a notorious brigand, with
200 followers, raided the government
station at Pulch Guya, captured Mr.
Newbronner, the officer in charge,
killed a corporal, and then sacked the
treasury of $20,000. The town, which
consisted entirely of wooden and kajang
bouses, was then fired, and every build
ing destroyed. Gaya is the export and
import center of a considerable district,
and the population is largely Chinese.
Bullet at last accounts was fortified at
Inaman, and it is feared will attaok
Sandkan and massacre the European's,
after looting the town.
A daring piracy is reported off the
coast of Aoheen. The British steamer
Pegu was attacked by six armed Aohi
nese. Captain Ross managed to force
his way through and reached the deck,
hotly pursued by his savage assailants,
one of whom had meanwhile laid hold
of the carving knife from the table. As
the unfortunate skipper, badly wounded
as he was, struggled to get to the bridge,
this man stabbed him terribly in the
abdomen and when he fell, the rest of
the piratical gang surrounded the pros
trate man and hacked him savagely,
actually disemboweling him, and leav
ing him a mangled corpse on the deck.
The mate and the steersman were
the next to be attacked. Both these
men were on the bridge, and in spite of
what resistance they ;0uld offer were
soon out down. The boatswain, how
ever, climbed up the funnel stairs and
escaped the onslaught of the pirates.
Returning to the deck, two more of
the crew and three Chinese passengers
were, killed. Thirty or forty pussengers
according to one account, were killed
or met their death by jumping over
board. The vessel was then thoroughly,
looted. One of the Achinese was
placed at the wheel to steer the ship
nearer land; others plundered the cap
tain's cabin, taking a repeating rifle
and a revolver. The safe was opened,
$15,000 taken, and the pirates made
off in tho direction of Simpang Olim.
The vessel was a frightful sight, the
deck being spattered with blood and
the entrails of the victims.
Official information received at Man
ila confirms the reports previously pub
lished us to the disastrous character of
the ernption of the Mayon volcano.
Lava covered the whole mountain to its
base, and the obscuration of the sun by
the clouds of ashes was so great that in
the neighborhood of tho disaster artifi
cial light had to lie used at 3 o'clock in
the afternoon. Several villages were
completely destroyed. At Libog 150
bodies were recoverd and buried, and
more remained in the lava. At another
place, 200 persons were missing. Some
of the bodies recovered were so com
pletely calcined as to be unrecognizable.
A great danger threatens the sugar
planters in Java, from a widespread dis
ease which attacks the roots of the cane.
The roots rot and the cane dies. The
planters stand helpless before the dis
ease, which may ere long bring on a
failure of the sugar crop. It has already
struck four provinces, and has broken
out even on well-kept estates.
According to a Tokio dispatch, it is
reported that next year's budget will
show a deficit of 25,000.000 yen, even
though the fullest economy is observed.
The deficit is chiefly due to the extraor
dinary expenditures, sanctioned by the
diet.
Advices from Taipeh, North Formosa,
state that the rebels have been particu
larly active, but no serious fighting has
taken place.
Serious floods are reported from vari
out parts of Japan.
THE TRAIL IS OPEN.
A few of Thine timbered at Hksgiiay
Can Now Kintpe.
Seattle, Sept. 1. Tho following let
ter was received r steamer Utopia,
which arrived in Seattle today:
Skuguuy.Aug. 25. The jam is broken
on the Skuguity trail. A number of
outfits have gotten over, and there is a
steady stream of moving humanity,
mixed up in an almost indescribable
mass of horses of all sizes, ages and
conditions, mules, steers, milch cows,
goats and dogs, also vehicles of every
description and kind to be imagined.
Three steamers are now unloading on
lighters, which convey the freight us
near the shore as possible, whore it is
loaded on wagons or curried alwve high
tide. The Utopia is unloading ut the
only wharf a very shaky structure.
Two piledrivers are at work on another
dock, which is intended to be a sub
stantial one.
A new sawmill got up steam for the
first time this morning. Rough lumber
is worth $27 per 1,000, but cannot be
got half fast enough at any price. The
city of tents is not being displuoed, but
roinforcod by a citv of "shucks" of all
sizes and degrees of finish. Skaguay is
tho boom town of Alaska. Every man
whose heart failed him when he en
countered the first hardship has turned
townsite boomer. four weeks ago
Skaguay was not known; today there
are not less than 3,000 people here, in
addition to those on the ships in the
harbor. They have surveyed off the
townsite, the first comers having first
choice. The United States commis
sioner is issuing some kind of a certifi
cate for a fee of $5; then tho squatter
sticks up his tent, shuck, or corral, and
is ready to "skin" the first tenderfoot
that comes along. Transfers by quit
claim are quite common, and as high
as $200 has been paid for a choice loca
tion. Skaguay hus ull the nsuai, accompani
ments of a frontier mining town.
Dunce halls and scarlet women are
plentiful, while roulette, faro, and stud
poker and craps find devotees ready to
tempt fickle fortune's smile.
There is no danger of a famine here,
though there may be shortage in certain
lines. On all sides, "smiling plenty
as if conjured by some enchanter" here
abounds. Greut piles of hay, grain,
flour, bacon, sugar and all the necessa
ries are in stock apparently enough to
lust for some time to come. There are
not less than 2,000 horses at work on
the Skaguay trail, but it is hard to get
anyone to contract lo deliver you over
the summit at any price but you can
get over for about 30 cents a pound, if
yon are willing to wait and contract by
sections. The packers at this end of
the trail do not like to contract further
than the first hill, six miles out, then
one has to hire another ojtfit.
At Dyea the Indians are moving the
freight in an almost uubroken stream
from the landing to Lake Lindeinan,
and it is no trouble to contract to get
one's entire outfit over at one trip for
80 to 35 cents per pound. No one
should come expecting to get over this
fall for a less rate, and no one should
bring boats. There are boats, set up,
knocked down, in sections, and single
boards on both trails from the landing
to the base of the BUinmit, but not one
has yet been taken over.
Another Illch Strike.
Tacoma, Wash., Sept. 1. A letter to
the Ledger has just been received from
the north fork of the MoMillan river,
Alaska, from George Lemmon, addressed
to his wife, in South Tacoma, giving
particulars of a fabulously rich strike
on this tributary of the McMillan river.
He and his partner went there from
the Yukon on information from an In
dian, who accompanied them, lust
spring, and ne says they have struck a
locality richer than the Klondike. In
three months they have made a cleanup
of $55,000. He says they have a lurd
bucket and a bean can full of nuggets,
and although they have no scales, they
believe it will run at least the amount
named. They have staked off five
claims, and he tells his wife to send up
four friends, whom he designated, as
quickly as possible, to locate the ad
joining properties, the law being that
one man oan locate onlv one claim.
The letter was sent down by the In
dian, who takes $500 or $000 worth of
nuggets to luy in a fresh supply for the
winter. Lemmon says he will not be
out before next summer, and thinks his
friends can reach there by theiiddle
of October over the Chilcout pass. Mo
Millan river is between 200 and 300
miles south of Klondike, and until
latelv has been an unexplored region.
He expresses fear of scurvy breaking
out this winter unless they can get some
green vegetables in, but adds that
iiorning would induce him to leave the
diggings until next year, as by that
time they are confident of having sev
eral hundred thousand dollars.
Flour I'njr No Puty.
Washington, Sept. 1. Consul Fow-
er, at unee roo, inina, reports to tne
state department that foreign flour pays
no import duty in that country. He
says that one-third of the flour import
ed goes to Canton. About 850,000
pounds of flour from California is srftd
in Chee Foo yearly. The Chinese in
that part of China consume corn food
mostly.
Philadelphia, Sept.
1. Twelve hun
struck today for
pay and abolition
dred trousers-makers
shorter hours, better
of the sweat system.
American Manufacturer Excluded.
Hamburg, Sept. 1. The agreement
arrived at between the leading Amer
ican dynamite companies and the Nobel
trust has been ratified. Its provisions
exclude American manufacturers of
dynamite from the South African
market.
A Fatal Fire.
Venice, Sept. 1. A great fire oc
curred today, and it is believed nine
men were burned to death and that
their bodies are buried in the debris.
Evidence of Steady Growth
and Enterprise.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
From All the Cities and Towns ef
the Thriving HUter Hates
Oregon.
The spring run of tulraon at Cell to
wns a tailuro this year. ,
The hay harvest in Wallowa county
is over, and farmers are busy garnering
their wheat,
A stu lent nf fruit culture In Jackson
county says that yellow jackets are
death on all kinds of moths thut prey
on fruit.
One of tho tramps injured in the
wreck south of Rosohurg drew $100
out of his pocket and asked to be well
cured for while that lusted.
The schooner Bella, built on the
Siuslaw by Eli Hansen,' was furnished
with musts lust week. The Bella hus
been a long time building.
Hon. Thomas H. Tongue has suc
ceeded in locating the lost muster rolls
af tho companies of volunteers that
fought the Rogue river Indians in 1853.
The sawmills up the North Santium
ire being operated to their fullest
Capacity. Many of them are cutting
ties and bridge timbers for repairs on
the O. C. & E.
Eighty acres of the Ginn place, near
Weston, which was threshed lust week,
averaged 52 bushels of wheat to the
acre. This is the largest yield yet
heard of in that section.
Engineer Halcombe, with a crew of
men, is now engaged in making a sur
vey of tho Nehulem bur, with the ob
ject of getting an appropriation for
jetty work. He is doing the work
thoroughly, and will also make a sur
vey of the Tillamook bur later.
Astronomer S.S. 'Gannett has the in
struments in place for receiving time by
wire from St. Louis, in order to estab
lish a meridian line at Baker City for
the geological maps that are to be made
by the federal authorities of the Baker
mineral district.
The Astoria carnival this yetir bag
eclipsed anything of the kind ever held
in that city. It is the intention to
effect a permanent organization of a
regatta club, the objeots of which will
be to collect funds and otnerwise pro
mote the annual carnival.
The state fair to be held in Salem
this year promises to be a success in
every way. The O. R. & N., with its
usual generosity and care for the
state's interests, is the first line to an
nounce a reduced rate to Salem dnring
the fair of one fare for the tound trip.
Work is being pushed on the con
struction of the Astoria & Columbia
River road to Goble, and the officers
say they will have trains running be
tween Astoria and Portland by January
1. The affairs of the road are in good
hands, and being conducted in a business-like
manner.
L. C. Coleman returned to Jackson
ville from Snn Francisco last week.
While at that city he hud four sugar
beets, raised on Griffin creek, analyzed
at the Spreokles refinery. The result
showed that they averaged 10 ounces in
weight, contained 16.53 per cent of
sugar and co-efficient of purity of 85
per cent. The percentage of saccharine
matter is high, especially as the beets
are not matured. Those containing 14
per cent sugar, with a co-efficient purity
of over 80 per cent, are considered good.
Should beets raised in other parts of
Juckeon county turn out equally well,
a factory may be up in the near future.
Washington.
Much of the grain around Colfax is
yiolding more thuu 40 bushels to the
aore.
The turfmen of Walla Walla have
arranged for a race meeting in that city
for October 20, 21, 22 and 23.
The shingle mill at Cosmopolis is
running a night and a day crew, as are
the box factory and planing mill.
The ruling price for pack horses in
Ellensburg lust week was $20, and the
tendency of the market lSBtill upwards,
It is reported that the Northern Pa
cific will at once put on six more com
pound locomotives between Ellensburg
una nope.
Kittitas county is advertising for bids
for building a bridge across the Cle
Klum river, and also across the Yakima
at Thorp.
The steam heating apparatus for the
marine hospital in Port Townsend has
arrived, and is being put in by the con
tractor, who expects to have the work
finished on time.
The Spokane Spokesmr.n-Review says
that never in the history of Spokane
has there been such a demand fur har
vest hands, and that unprecedented
wages are offered. From $2 to $4 per
day and board is tendered in many sec
tions. Lists of school land of Lincoln, Walla
Walla and Adams counties subject to
lease have been sent to the respective
county auditors by the board of land
commissioners. After these lists have
been posted 30 days, the lands will be
offered for lease.
Each of the fair associations in Ste
vens county will hold a fair this fall,
one at Kettle Falls, September 29 and
30, and October 1 and 2, and the other
at Myers Falls, September 29 and 30,
and October 1.
From the southern part of Thurston
county comes the gratifying report that
the hop crop of that vicinity is giving
excellent promise. The lice have not
bothered much this year, and the crop
now maturing is of excellent quality, '
And the yield promises fair
THE TREASURE SHIP.
Die Nteniner Portland Arrives From
HI. Mlelll.
Port Angeles, Wash., Aug. 81. The
teuiner Portland arrive! from St.
Miuhuels tonight. Captain Kidstou
reported a pleasant voyage, and ex
plained the delay of three days in
reaching Port Angeles by stating thut
a very serious storm ut St. Michaels de
layed the discharge of his cargo.
He laughed when told of the reports
thut tho Portland wus carrying over
$2,000,000 in gold, As a mutter of
fnct, ho said, there was only about
$825,000 in gold dust and nuggets on
board his vessel.
Up to tho time he left St. Michaels
he had heard of no new gold fields.
Among the Portland's passengers
from St. Michaels is Timothy Bell, who
bus with him $30,000 in gold which
he dug from a claim that cost $125.
William Ogilvio, Dominion surveyor,
says tho (100 claims now stukud out
will yield $00,000,000.
From a number of the Portland's
crow it wus learned thut Captain Kids
ton hud expected the Wuuro, one of
the company's bouts, to come down the
Yukon with about $1,000,000 worth of
nuggets and gold dust, but as she did
not arrive in time he decided to bring
down the treasure next trip.
The United States cutter Bear, it is
said, will guard tho Portland on her
next trip from St. Michaels to Seattle.
As most miners will make their clean
up by thut time it is expected the
Portlund'a cargo will be a very valu
able one.
Tho returning miners say the re
murkubly rich claims on Eldorado creek
will number 140. Mr. Ogilvio esti
mates that, ut the rate these 140 cluims
are now producing, ami considering
the ground yet to be worked, the
amount in the next three years will ag
gregate ubout $70,000,000. To this
must bo added the favorable possibil
ities of pockets and development of
cluims already found, but not opened.
There have been other rich strikes
on Stewart river, Hunker, Henderson
and Indian creeks, but none ( f these
are as rich as the cluims on Eldorado
and Bonanza creeks.
Until the wonderful discoveries of
Klondike were made, ground worth 10
cents to the pan, with two or three feet
of pay dirt, was considered very good
for tho Yukon, and the miners mude
their money with rockers and sluices.
This year the miners are passing en
tirely over ground of this richness in
their search for sand and gravel that
will pay like that of the Klondike dis
coveries. Up to date, none of the claims was
Bbowing any signs of exhaustion, and
scarcely a dozen are more than well
opened. Every one has lurge areas of
ground to be worked.
One returning miner says it is im
possible to make anything like an ac
curate estimate of the probable yield of
the mines. The ground is not at all
even in richness, and the worth of pay
streaks varies greatly.
The most important news from St.
Michaels is that the river steamers left
there t.vo weeks ago for their last trip
up It is not certain they will reach
Dawson this full, and the pussengers
who left the Sound as early as July 25
may not reach Cirole City before navi
gation closes. This makes it certain
that hundreds who left the Sound and
California since August 1 for St.
Michaels will winter there. At the
best they can scarcely get started up
the Yukon before it freezes solid.
All vessels touching at St. Michaels
this summer have had difficulty keep
ing their crews, who have caught tfio
fever. One schooner from Victoria was
entirely deserted by her crew, from
captain to cook, who sturted up the
river for Klondike.
The crew of the J. M. Colman tried
to desert, but the attempt was discov
ered in time, and, by a display of fire
arms, the men were compelled to re
main. Every vessel from St. Michaels has
oome away short-handed. The Port
land lost several of her crew, hut was
able to obtain men by paying high
wages.
FATE OF THE BENDERS.
The Old Man and Rate
a Pone.
Were Shot by
Wichita, Kan.. Aug. 81. Another
chapter is added to the gruesome story
of the Bender family, whose home in
Montgomery county over 20 years ago
was the scene of upward of 80 murders,
according to the deathbed confession of
Captain Carroll. The fate of the
Benders has heretofore been veiled in
mystery.
Captain Carroll confessed that a band
of citizens, sworn to eternal secrecy,
followed the Benders after their flight
from the scene of their crimes and
killed Kate and the old man, but let
Mrs. Bender go, with a warning never
to return on pain of death.
He said that Kate and her mother
stood by and stoically watched the men
riddle the body of William Bender with
bullets, and then when Kate's turn
came she stepped out like a tragedy
queen and said:
"Blaze away."
She was shot down like a dog, but
when it came to shooting the mother,
the hearts of the posse failed them and
they allowed her to go. The bodies
were carefully buried and the eravea
concealed.
Peru Invaded.
Lima, Peru, Aug. 31. The renorta
that Colonel Pando, with a force of
Bolivians, has invaded the Peruvian
province of Sandia, proves upon inves
tigation to oe correct. The number of
Colonel Pando's followers is consider
ably exaggerated, however. It is prob
able that the incident will be dinln.
matically arranged.
Three million, five hundred thousand
steel pens are used throughout the
world every day in the week.