Oregon Gity Goarier.
A. W. OHKNEY, Publisher.
OREGON CITY OREGON
HEWS OF THE WEEK
ftntoreatjitg Collection of Current Kveat
In Condensed Form Prom
Both Continents.
The food of San Francisco laborers is
to be analysed by the professors at the
Stale University.
The Fort Randall military reserva
tion, which contains over 100,000 acres
ta South Dakota and Nebraska, - has
boon opened to settlers.
Negotiations of the Chinese govern
ment with the Hooly syndicate for a
loan of $80,000,000 have fallen through.
Tb government is now negotiating
with the Hong Kong & Shanghai bank.
The Washington state grain commis
sion announces that it will not lower
No. 1 wheat grade from 59 to 58 pounds
to the bushel, notwithstanding the agi
tation to that end in the eastern part
el the state.
Tbe Long Island coast for a distanoe
six miles, between Far Rockaway
Mid Rockaway beach, was more or less
damaged by a very high tide. The
JMmora hotel was damaged to the ex
tent of 125,000.
Speedy, the professional bridgejump
nr, jumped from the Louisville & Jef
femonville bridge in Louisville, Ey.,
before an audience of 18,000. Speedy
' made the jump of 130 feet in safety,
-and was mingling with the orowd a
few minutes later.
Frank Moon, aged 50 years, and Mrs.
Wells, were found dead at the bottom
fa 80-foot well on Moon's farm, near
Derby. Kan., having been asphyxiated.
Moon had been overcome while work
ing, and the woman, fearful at his not
returning home, went to the well late
at night to investigate, and fell in.
Admiral Matthews, chief of the hu
man of yards and docks, in his annual
report to Secretary Long, recommends
the construction of four drydocks of the
-best type. lie recommends that con
rete docks be built at Boston, Norfolk
and Mare Island, and that a floating
"tiuck bo placed at either Key West.Tor
togaa, or Algiers, La. The estimates
for the maintenance of the yards next
year aggregate $3,804,202.
TWIowing close upon the recent an
nouncement of a great syndicate to con
trol the trade of Honduras comes the
iuformation received from reliable
oarcea that a gigantic syndicate is in
process of organization for the purpose
of promoting direct trade between the
United States and Russia. The project
originated with Russian merchants and
aim the sanction, if not the direct sup
port, of the imperial government.
A dispatch from Managua, Nicaia
gna, says John Augustine, an Ameri
can citizen, was arrested at San Carlos,
at the mouth of the Han Juun river, by
order of President Zulaya'a brother,
and, without any pretense of a trial,
w imprisoned iu the penitentiary.
Mr. Augustine was formerly United
States consul at Blueflelds, Mosquito
territory, and is at present in chargo of
the navigation company's Bteamers on
the San Juan river.
John Griffith essayed "Riohard III"
at the opera house in Butte, Mont. In
the closing scene Uriflith's sword struck
John Fay Palmor,who was doing Rich
mond, in the face, cutting a gash ex
tending from above one eye across the
nose and cheek. The bone of the nose
waa broken and a little more force
would have penetrated the brain.
Palmer turned his back to the audience
ao4 finished the boo ne without any one
knowing what had happened.
Sheldon Jackson, United States su
perintendent of Aluskan schools, who
has just returned from Alaska, says:
There is hut one solution to the trans
portation problem in Alaska, and that
la tho reindeer.
A special to the Kansas City Journal
from Muskogee, I. T., says: The
treaty between the Dawos and Creek
ootaniissions, which was concluded
here lost month, was reject oil by the
Crook council in gession at Okmulgee.
A patrol of dervish horsemen raided
a village seven miles from Berber, kill
ing 11 men and capturing many
women, children and cuttle. A detach
ment of Anglo-Egyptian cavalry sent in
parco.it of the dervishes overtook them
and routed them with heavy loss. The
dervishes abundoued their booty and
Sod.
The body of William J. Lyons, an
employe of the Pacitlo (las Improve
ment Company, of San Francisco, was
found iu the hills bii''k of Berkley with
a bullet-holo iu his head. Ho waa
hurt in his accounts and attomptod to
born his books to hide his orime. Be
mi discovered iu this ho killed him
aoH in despair.
Senator Morgan, who has just re
turnod from mi extended visit to Ha
waii, has expressed himsetlf as well
ploased with what he saw and tho man
ner in which ho was entortainod on
the is'ands. He is more than ever en
thusiastic on the subject of annexation,
and intimates that Hawaii will become
a part of this country before the close
of the coming year.
John Falongos, a resident of Clifton,
Or., for the past six years, was killed
by the caving of an embankment on
the grade of the Astoria & Columbia
River railroad.
A dispatch from Madrid says there li
much discussion at the Spanish capital
on the subject of an alliance between
Spain and Portugal, reported to be iu
process of negotiation. The Portu
guese minister of marine, who is now
in Madrid, has expressed the belief
that such an alliance may be accom
plished at any moment.
OUTLOOK IS BETTER.
Spain's New Cnhan Policy Is Regarded
With Favor.
Washington, Oot. 27. Developments
in Cuba within the next 80 days will
definitely determine President MoKin
ley's attitude npon the Spanish ques
tion, but he expects no trouble. The
administration looks with favor on
Spain's change of polioy, and believes
the ministry is sincere in its endeavor
to bring about a speedy termination of
the strife in Cuba by granting substan
tial reforms.
While not fully advised as to Spain's
replv to Secretatry Sherman's note,
presented by Minister Woodford in
September, its general character is
known here, and it is' not anticipated
by the president that any friotion will
arise between the two countries as a re
sult of the exchange of notes.
The prime object the president had
in view when General Woodford went
to Madrid was bringing about an im
proved condition of affairs in Cuba be
fore congress reassembled. Spain's re
ply and her instructions to the new
captain-general of Cuba will show an
advanced step in that direction.
But the administration is more con
cerned about the rapid change of policy
than it is about the character of Spain's
reply to Minister Woodford's represen
tations. The government has no reason
to fear that Spain will take an aggres
sive stand against the United States.
On the contrary, it is sure of a note
friendly and conciliatory in tone. Tho
president realizes, however, the danger
of further agitation by congress and a
further disturbance of our interests if
something more substantial than these
mere promises of Spain to grant genu
ine autonomy cannot be furnished
when the new session begins.
It can hardly be expected that Gen
eral Blanco within a month after his
arrival will be able to end the war, but
if it oan be shown that an advanced
stop has been taken in that direction,
President McKinley may, by forward
ing the correspondence which has pass
ed and calling attention to an improved
condition in Cuba, be able to paoify
congress long enough to give Spain a
chance to thoroughly establish her new
reforms. Hence it appears that the
wording of the president's forthcoming
message depends mainly upon the im
mediate effect of General Blanco's ar
rival in Havana, the promulgation of
an amnesty proclamation, of new auton
omist reforms and the abandonment of
tho reconcentraio policy.
FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT.
Ancient Document Found In Recently
Unearthed Fapyri.
Denver, Oct. 27. Dr. Cobern, pastor
of Trinity Methodist church, who has
recently returned from England, tolls
of a wonderful papyri discovered last
January, and gives out information
which is new to the world. This is
that in the logia, which was unearthed
by Messrs. Grennfel and Hunt under
the direction of Dr. Flinders Petrie, of
Oxford university, last January, there
was found beside the notebook leaf,
ooutaining what purported to be the
sayings of Jesus Christ, a leaf from the
New Testament. The leaf contained
nearly the whole of the first chapter of
Matthew, and was written exactly the
same as our Greek testament of today.
Dr. Cobern says that this is our earl
iest record of the Bible, and that in the
61 basket of papyri that were taken
out there may be found a copy of the
soripturcs. He also points out what a
blow to infldelism it might be, and
what a strengthening of the Christian
cause. He says there is no doubt of
the genuineness of these findings; that
such critics as Professor Harmack and
Thomson have passed upon them and
declare that they could not have been
written later than 200 A. D.
DR. NANSEN IN NEW YORK.
Tendered a Reception by the American
Geographical Society.
New York, Oot. 26. Dr. Nansen, the
Arctic explorer, arrived tonight on the
steamship Lucania. He was taken off
the steamer at quarantine. He received
an invitation to be present at a reoep
tion tendered by the American Geogra
phical Society at dickering hall to
night. Dr. Nansen was due at the hall
at 8:30 p. ru., and arrived 10 minutes
ahead of timo. ilisoutranco was the
signal for the heartiest applause, the
entire audience rising to greet him.
A gold medal was presented to Dr.
NanBen from the Geographical Society.
Dr. Nansen replied briefly, thanking
the society for the honor conferred upon
him. He spoke iu very fair English.
Lieuteant Peary and Captain D L.
Braiuard, of the United States army,
who Wlltl (Ml M Itf tliA ttnrtv ivhiiOi l.nl.1
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the record for northern latitudes prior
to the Nansen expedition, also spoke
briefly.
Decision Reverted.
Carson, Nev., Oct. 27. Tho supreme
court reversed the decision awarding
damages against tho Western Union
Telegraph Company to the plaintiff
Bums. Tho latter had urgent business
at Lovelock, and telegraphed a friond
from Grand Junction for money. Re
ceiving no reply, he attempted to beat
his way on a train, and fulling off, was
seriously injured. Hu then sued the
telegraph company for failing to de
liver his message, and received judg
muut, which has just been reversed.
lint righting Probable.
Simla, Oct. 27. Official dispatches
from Khangarbur received today state
the advance upon Seinagha pass on
both sides, In which the insuigent
tribes are collecting in great force, and
where furious righting is expected to
occur, will be resinned toiuorrow. The
position taken up by the enemy is of
the strongest description. Tribesmen
are expected to make the most deter
mined resistance to tho advance of the
British troops.
DROWNED LIKE RATS
Terrible Accident on New
York Cenrtal Railroad.
9
TRAIN PLUNGES INTO THE HUDSON
Twenty-Eight Lives Were Lost Disas
ter Caused by the Giving Way
of an Embaukment.
Garrison's, N. Y., Oct. 26. From
the sleep that means refreshment and
rest to the eternal sleep that knows no
awakening plunged in the twinkling of
an eye this morning 28 souls, men,
women and children. In the slimy bed
of the Hudson river a train laden with
slumbering humanity plowed, dragging
through the waters the passengers.
There was nothing to presage the ter
rible accident which so suddenly de
prived these unfortunates of life.
The New York Central train left
Buffalo last night, and had progressed
nearly nine-tenths of the distance
toward its destination. The engineer
and his fireman had just noted tbe gray
dawn breaking from the east and the
light streak of red denoting the sun's
appearance, when the great engine,
a servant of the rails, plunged into the
depths of the river. Neither engineer
nor fireman will ever tell the story of
that terrible moment. With hand upon
the throttle the engineer plunged with
his engine to the river's bottom, and
the fireman, too, was at his post. Be
hind them came the express car, the
combination car and the sleepers, and
these piled on top of the engine.
It is known that it was a trifle foggy
and that the track was not visible, but
if there was any break in the lines
of steel it must have been of very re
cent happening, for only an hour be
fore there passed over it a heavy pas
senger train laden with human freight.
Neitherisan explanation ready. All
is conjecture. The section of road was
supposed to be the very best on the en
tire division. There was a great, heavy
retaining wall all along the bank, and,
while the tide was high yesterday, it
was not unprecedented. What seems
to have happened was that underneath
the tracks and ties the heavy wall had
given way. When the great weight of
the engine struck the unsupported
tracks it went crashing through the
rest of the wall and toppled over into
the river.
Then there happened what on the
railroad at any other time would have
caused disaster, but now proved a very
blessing. As the train plunged over the
embankment, the coupling that held
the last three of the six sleepers broke
and they miraculously remained on the
broken track. In that way some 60
lives were saved.
Following is a list of the dead as far
as ascertained up to midnight:
Thomas Reilly, of St. Louis.
E. A. Green, of Chicago.
W. II. Myers, of Tremont, N. J.
Woman, unidentified.
Woman, unidentified.
Guiseppe Paduano, of New York.
W. S. Becker, of Newark, N. J.
Unknown man, died while being res
cued. A. G. McKay, private secretary to
General Superintendent Van Ktten;
body supposed to be in the wreck.
John Folye, engineer of East Albany;
body not recovered.
John Q. Tompkins, fireman, of East
Albany; body not recovered.
Wong Gin and eight unidentified
Chinese,
Of eye-witnesses there were none ex
cept the orew of a tugboat passing with
a tow. They saw the train, with its
light, as it oamn flashing about the
curves, and then saw the greater part of
it go into the river. Some of the cars
with oloscd windows floated, and the
tug, whistling for help, oast off its
hawser and started to the rescue.
A porter jumped from one of the cart
that remained on the track and ran into
the yard of Augustus Carr's house,
near which the accident ooeurred, and
stood screaming for help, and moaning:
"The train is in the river; all our pas
sengers are drowned I"
In a few minutes Carr had dressed
himself, and getting a boat, rowed
with the porter to the scene. As they
turned a point into the bank, they
came upon the express car and the com
bination car floating about 20 feet from
the shore, but sinking every minute.
One man was taken from the top of the
car, and efforts were made to rescue
those inside. A few were gotten out,
the passengers left on the track making
a human bridge to the shore to take the
wounded on.
The day coach and smoker had gone
down in deep wate, and reacno was
impossible. In the latter coaoh the
condition must havo been horriblo.
Tho car turned completely over, and
the passenger end of it was deep in the
water, while tho baggage end stood up
towards the surface. The men in that
lower end must have fought like fiends
for a brief period, for the bodies, when
taken out, were a mass of wounds.
The olosing scene of the first day of
this tragedy is drawn around a common
oar that stands near the scene of the
accident, where nearly a score of badly
mutilated bodies, none of them yet
claimed by friends, are lying in a long
row, grew some evidences of thedisaster,
the greatest that has ever occurred on
the railioad.
Total number of known doad, 19;
estimated number of dead, 23.
A New Trial for I.uetgert.
Cbioago, Oct. 28. State's Attorney
Deneen late this afternoon decided to
put Luetgert on trial for a second time
some day next week. New evidenoe
has been discovered, it is said, relating
to testimony of three witnesses for the
defense. No arrangement was reached
as to bail.
A BIG EXPEDITION.
Klondike Party With 45 Florae
Leave Yakima for Victoria.
North Yakima, Wash., Oct. 27.
One of the greatest of the Klondike ex
peditions yet organized made a prelim
inary start from this city today,
through the shipment of 10 oarloads of
horses, numbering 245 head, and 23
men, headed by J. W. Cameron. They
go to Seattle, and will sail tomorrow
from Victoria by the Bark Colorado,
which has been chartered and espec
ially fitted for this purpose. Few sup
plies will be taken at Seattle other
tbanjtoose shipped from Portland, the
main outfitting being done at Victoria,
where 125 head of cattle will be loaded.
The expedition i's backed by Boston
capital, and the men employed are un
der one and two-year contracts. They
will take the Dalton trail, and each
animal other than those to be used for
saddle purposes will have an equipment
of pack saddle and sled. Even the cat
tle are to be used in the transportation
of supplies. Permanent stations are to
be established along tho trail, and it is
the intention to kill the horses when
they are no longer of service for pack
ing, freeze the meat and, by means of
sleds, take it to tbe gold-producing re
gions, where from 80 cents per pound
npwards is expected to be realized.
Forty wagons will also be taken for use
in the first 18 miles after leaving
Pyramid harbor, and then bobsleds
will be utilized for transportation over
the snow and ice.
The men taken from here are mainly
packers, miners and mountaineers, who
are insured to all kinds of hardships.
Their contracts specify that they shall
have sleeping-bags, rubber and canvas
clothing, tents and everything necessary
to give them as much comfort as pos
sible in the region to which they are
going. A provision in the contract of
many of them is that they shall be
outfitted fr a year's prospecting on
shares. Some think the plans are chi
merical, but those who are in oharge of
the expedition are Alaskan pioneers,
who thoroughly understand their busi
ness, and the financial backing is un
questioned. A GLOOMY TALE.
Starvation and Death Staring Many in
the Face at Dawson.
Victoria, Oot. 27. Miners who came
down on the Farallon from Dyea, and
who left Diwson City about 40 days
ago, say that the day before they left
Hansen, one of the managers of the
Alaska Commercial Company arrived
in a oanone and told of the abandon
ment of the efforts to get food up the
river. Fully 400 miners at once made
preparations to start out over the trail,
but the citizens' committee refused to
allow them sufficient provisions for
the journey, so, save those who had al
ready started, all will havo to remain
and share in the privations at Dawson.
Charles Fries, of Taeoma, who came
out with Bert Woods and Archie
Burns, says that besides the famine, a
mysterious disease has broken out
which is carrying off five men daily.
Twenty-four hours after the victim is
attacked he turns black from the waist
to the throat and in two days, in a ma
jority of cases, is dead.
On the way over the Dalton trail,
which in many places runs along the
Yukon's bank, Fries' party met many
boats bound down. He estimated that
about 800 boats are going down the
river with from four to seven men each.
The Fries party was the last to leave
Dawson. At Five Finger rapids they
fell in with the party headed by Kay
Stuart, of New York, which left five
days before, and caught up with the
party made up of John Fry, F. L. and
J. Trippe and C. Holden, of Kew
York, with an Indian guido. The
party ran short of food and for four
days none had any food save an owl
which they shot and some soup made
from a rawhide strap which they were
using in packing their goods.
The Farallon brought down about
(30,000 in gold.
The Alaska Boundary.
Washington, Oct. 27. It is believed
here that, in view of the great promi
nence Alaska has achieved, owing to
the reoent gold discoveries, and the im
portance of definitely fixing the bound
ary line between our territory and that
of the Dominion of Canada, the senate,
when it assembles in December, will
take early action on the treaty pending
between Great Britain and the United
States and marking off the 141st merid
ian. This treaty was sent to the sen
ate almost two years ago.
The work of adjusting the differ
ences between the countries regarding
the southeastern line has been in prog
rets for two years. In 1898, each gov
ernment appointed a commission to
survey the territory through which this
line runs, and each made the geograph
ical maps of the country, which wero
submitted to the government Decem
ber 81, 1895. These commissioners,
however, had no power to propose a
settlement. Their work was confined
strictly to furnishing information upon
which subsequent negotiations could
proceed.
The Porte'i Demand Ignored.
The porte has demanded the recall of
two American missionaries from the
province of Aleppo, on the pretext that
their mission for the distribution of re
lief is likely to cause disturbances. The
United States legation has ignored the
demand.
One Method of Faolflcation.
Washington, Oct. 27. In his last
weekly report to Surgeon-General Wy
man,. Sanitary Inspector Brunner, of
the marine hospital service, reports
seven deaths from starvation in Hav
ana, for the week ended October 7, and
23 fur tho week ended October 14. He
also reports rapid increase in intestinal
diseases, due to contracted food supply,
and estimates that two-fifths of the
total deaths of the city are due to this
cause.
Evidence of Steady Growth
and Enterprise.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
From All the Cities and Town ol
the Thriving Sinter State
Oregon. V
A fishing crew oaught between 800
and 1,000 herring in one night last
week, in Yaquina bay.
A farmer of Malheur county, this
year sold 73,000 pounds of wool and 52
head of choice beef cattle.
Eighteen thousand dollars in gold
bullion was the output of the Bonanza
mine in Baker county last month.
The Ashland iron works are working
on a (1,600 order for pulleys, shafting,
etc., from the Sissons Lumber & Mer
cantile Company.
The keel for the Alaska Gold Min
ing & Navigation .Company's boat that
is being built in the Siuslaw. near
Florence, measures 125 feet in length.
There are now 1,200 signers in
Astoria to the petition for the bridge
across Young's bay. Only about 1,400
names are required to put the measure
through.
Among Mr. Dade's sheep on Biroh
creek, in Umatilla county, is a lamb
with only one ear and one eye. It was
born thus, and is fully developed in
every other respect.
Contractor Jacobson, who is work
ing on the jetties on Coos bay and on
the Siuslaw, has about 130 men em
ployed. He says his contraots will be
finished in two or three months.
There are no empty houses in Vale,
Malheur county. Several farmers have
been compelled to give up the idea of
living in town in order to send their
children to school, because of the lack
of houses.
The run cf ohinooks in Coos bay was
light last week, and silversides were
scarce also. . There has been a great im
provement, however, in the last few
days, and boats on the lower bay are
making good catches.
One day last week Hume's fishing
orew at the mouth of Rogue river made
a regular old-time catch of salmon,
raking in 8,750 at one haul of the seine.
There is a large run of salmon coming
into Sixes river, in Curry county.
A fish eight or nine inches long and
somewhat resembling the Sound mack
erel is being caught along tho water
front in Astoria. No one seems to
know just of what. specie it is, but such
a fish was soen in these waters about
five years ago.
There is greater activity witnessed
in and around Drain this fall than has
been seen here before for years. New
buildings are being built, old ones re
paired, sidewalks made and improved,
empty houses are rapidly filling up, a
brick kiln of over 100,000 is always
ready for burning, and thousands of
oords of wood are being handled by
woodmen.
A disease called glanders is' causing
the death of quite a number of horses
in Paradise. Wallowa oounty. The
people there have asked the county
cor.rt to order the stook inspector to
that place to take steps to prevent the
spread of the disease. At this particu
lar time, however, the county is with
out a stock inspector, but the matter
will be attended to at the next session
of the court.
Movement of the hop crop has not
yet started, except on sales contracted
before harvest, and neither buyers nor
growers are able to say when it will.
A few sales are reported from Polk
county at 15 cents, and it is stated on
good authority that 15 cents has
been offered in Salem for choice hops.
The price, generally offered, however,
is from 13 to 13 cents. This, grow
ers are unwilling to take, and in some
instances, agents having failed to buy
at these figures, the orders have been
recalled.
Washington.
The Lincoln county tax levy has been
fixed at 16 mills.
The shingle mill in Kelso, Cowlitz
county, is ontting 170,000 shingles in
11 hours. Trjis is at the rate of over
150,000 in 10 hours.
By a vote of 10 to 4, the Tacomacity
council passed an ordinance making it
imperative for women to remove their
hats in places of public amusement.
Tea Inspector Palmer has rejected
200 cases of Japanese tea, recently
brought to Seattle on the Nippon Yu
sen liner, Kinshui Maru. The inspec
tor says the tea has apparently once
been used.
A farmer of Yakima will this fall
sow a lot of the muoh-talked-uf Ber
muda grass, which is said to thrive on
dry hilly ground without irrigation. If
the test proves successful the grass will
be largely sown for sheep fodder.
Tests made nt the Washington state
agricultural college of beets grown on
irrigated lands in Yakima county un
der the eystem of experiments inaugur
ated by the Northern Pacilio, show a
range of from 14 to 20 per cent of
sugar, with an average above 18 per
oent. These results are laid to be very
satisfactory.
Thurston county will build a steel
bridge with 200-foot span across the
Chehalis river, near Grand Mound.
During the past week grain has been
pouring in from the fields to the ware
houses and mills in Dayton, and they
are now nearly rilled to overflowine.
Very little grain is being sold or ship
ped, the farmers desiring to hold for a
higher price. Most of them want to
hold for 75 cents, but if that price is
reached again and the market has a
tendency to go still higher, they would
no doubt still continue to hold.
DEATH IN THE GALE.
Schooner Caspar Wrecked on tbe Cal
ifornia Coast.
Point Arena, CaL, Oct. 26. Thirteen
seamen, comprising almost the entire
crew cf the schooner Caspar, were
drowned early this morning by the
wreck of their vessel. The rooky shore
in this vicinity was strewn with wreck
age today, but there was no way of
identifying the ship until this evening,
when two men from shore, who had
gone out in a small boat to secure any
of the crew who might still be alive,
picked up Captain Anfindsen and Sea
men Chris Larsen, who had been float
ing about 'on an improvised raft for
over 14 hours.
To his rescuers, Adolph Peterson and
Henry Anderson, the captain said the
bark struck on a reef this morning and
seven minutes later capsized. When
she tipped over, all the crew were
washed overboard. The steamer car
ried 15 men, but from the moment the
accident occurred the captain has seen
none of his orew except his companion,
Larsen, and has no doubt that the other
13 have all been lost.
When thrown into the water, Anfind
sen and Larsen by good fortune were
enabled to raft some pieces of floating
timber. They succeeded in drawing
the boards together, and clung to tf
improvised raft from the time of the
accident until late this afternoon, while
the storm beat about them, being ex
posed to the most fearful gale of the
season. They had almost succumbed
from cold, exposure and exhaustion,
and were with great diffloulty saved by
their rescuers.
The sea has been so high all day that
it has been impossible to launch a boat
from shore, and even this evening the
two men who went out and accom
plished the rescue risked their lives in
the breakers.
Later in the evening the steamer
Alcazar oruised about the scene of the
wreck, but could find no trace of tho
other seamen.
This is a very dangerous looality for
shipping, and when a vessol is once
thrown on the rooks she is certain to
he doomed, and there is little chance
for the escape of her unfortunato ctpw.
The Caspar sailed from San Francisco
yesterday for Usal, where 8he was to
load lumber for San Francisco. She
was owned by the Caspar Lumber Com
pany, and registered 300 tons.
The drowned are:
Morris Peterson, first mate.
Andrew Anderson, second mate.
George Offerman, chief engineer.
John Kuhn, assistant engineer.
N. C. Helverson, seaman.
Louis Bruce, seaman.
The cook, name unknown, and five
others whose names are also unknown.
THE NOTE ANSWERED.
Spain Bay She Ila Done All in Her
Power to End the War.
Madrid, Oot. 20. In the special note
to Minister Woodford, the government
declares that Spain has done all in her
power to end the war in Cuba, and cites
the many sacrifices which have been
made by the nation, the number of
troops sent to Cuba, and the reforms
which are carried out on the island,
which are fully desorihed.
The note ends with the statement
that "Spain will not admit the right
of any foreign power to interfere in any
of her affairs."
El Tempo publishes with reserve the
announcement that the reply of the
Spanish government to the United
States, presented to General Woodford,
the American minister at Madrid, de
clares that, if the United States does
not stop the sailing of filibustering ex
peditions from American ports, Spain
will re-establish the right to search ves
sels anchoring in Cuban waters.
El Liberul thinks a rupture possible
as the result of negotiations between
Spain and the United States, and
thinks Spain ought to avoid this rup
ture, so far as duty and honor permit,
but that the government Bhould act ia
a spirit of moderation and that the
nation will under no circumstances au
thorize a renunciation ef Spain's rights,
Australians Klondike Crazy,
San Francisco, Oct. 26. Australia
will add its share of goldhunters to
the Klondike region next year. When
the Alameda sailed from Sydney the
offices of the Ocean io Steamship ronr
pany were being besieged with miners
anxious to get to the new land of gold.
Hundreds of letters a day were being
received, asking for information about
the land of glaciers and treasure. A
lengthy circular containing the gen
eral information that was sought was
prepared and copies of it were sent to
inquirers.
It is thought by the officers of tho
Alameda that the next steamer will
come to this port crowded with gold,
hunters for the Yukon.
Fatal New York Fire.
New York, Oot, 26. Two men lost
their lives in a fire today on Broadway,
near Ninth. When the bodies we're
found, one was in a standing position,
the upper part of the body being over a
beam. The other was at a front win
dow, indicating that the .man had
struggled to reach air and escape tho
flames. The fire was in a throe-story
brick building, owned by tho Sailor's
Snug Harbor estate, ami oocupied by
the laundry of Gardner & Vuil. Tho
loss is (25,000.
An Aged Soldier.
Valparaiso, Ind., Oct. 20. Undo
Charles Decker, the oldest man in Por
toco, and probably the oldest soldier of
the la.e war, is dead. He was 89 years
old. During the war, nt that time be
ing 61 years old, he enlisted in com
pany I, Nineteenth Indiana
' serving one year, when he was die.
cnarged lor disability.
Apples, pears and plums when take!,
without sugar diminish rather than in
crease the acidity of the stomach.