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A. W. CHJENCT, Publisher.
OREGON CITY OREGON
OF THE WEEK
interesting Collection of Current Kvontr
. In Condensed Form From
Itoth Continents.
' Wheat fell over T cents per bushel in
Chicago Monday.
Senator White of California has in
troduced a bill in congress to strengthen
the eight-hour law as applicable to gov
ernment work.
The controller of the currency has de
clared a dividend of 10 per cent in favor
of depositors of the Moscow National
bank, Moscow, Idaho.
Judge Sanborn in the court of ap
peals at St. Louis has granted a post
ponement of the proposed sale of the
Kansas Pacific for 60 days.
One of the interesting items in the
agricultural appropriation bill is pro
vision for $10,000 for an agricultural
experiment station in Alaska.
Q Brigadier-General Otis, stationed at
Denver, has received a telegram from
Fort Duchesne stating that all the Ute
Indians have returned to their reserva
tion. A dispatch from Havana states that
Gomez is being hard pushed by a
Spanish column under command of
General Pando, in the province of
Puerto Principe.
George C. Green, a carponter of Mo
desto, Cal., fatally shot his wife and
wounded his daughter, Mrs. W. B.
Lied man with a revolver. He then
turned the revolver upon himself, but
only indicted a scalp wound.
The agricultural department issues
the following: A special wheat in
vestigation instituted by the depart
ment of agriculture iudioates a crop of
630,000,000 bushels. These figures are
subject to Blight modification in the
final report.
The legislative, executive and judi
cial appropriation bill, as reported to
the house by the committee on appro
priations, carries a total of $21,502,425,
being $780,861 loss than the former
bill. The number of salaries provided
for is 10,000, being 198 less than the
number provided for in the current
law. '
' Hans Fr oilman "curled" a pair of
eight-pound dumb-bells 14,000 times
In an hour and 4b minutes in a New
York gymnasium. When he had fin
ished his 13,000 curl in one hour and
SO minutes, it was proposed that Froli
man stop, but ho insisted on continu
ing, and executed the 14,000th curl in
the time stated.
It is announced St. Louis' will soon
have a new $3,000,000 hotel. Several
ChicagoanB will furnish the necessary
capital. The hotel is to be the most
mxlern structure of the kind west of
the Mississippi. Tho company hopes
to close all contracts and commence
construction .next season.
The United States supreme court has
rendered a decision in the case of
Thomas Brain, under scntonce of death
in Massachusetts for murder committed
at sea. He was accused of murdering
the captain, mate and captain' wife
of a vessel bound for South America.
The opinion reversed the decision of
the court below on the ground that
Bram's testimony should not have been
admitted.
A vessel tins sailod from Portsmouth,
N. II., for the Klondike.
The National Guard asks for an
propriation of $3,000,000.
np-
There is a possibility of a rate
between Western railroads.
war
A party has left San Francisco
to
survey a now route to tho Klondike.
At Salinas, Cal., two burglars clever
ly jailed tho jailer and a deputy
sheriff.
A tremendous rich gold strike is re
ported on Dog creek, a tributary of the
Yukon.
The son of a New York millionaire
died in tho county hospital in Sun
Francisco.
The Georgia senate wants to Bend
state convicts to Cuba to light for the
insurgents.
Senator Perkins has introduced n
joint resolution authorizing the presi
dent to appoint a committee to draft a
codo of laws for tho territory of Alaska.
The man who helped hang Frank
Butler, the "murderer of the moun
tains," in Australia, was arrested in
San Francisco, accused of larceny of a
coat.
One of the most horrible lynehings
ever known in Nevada has occurred at
Genoa, 14 miles from Carson. Aram
Uber, who last week shot and killed
Hans Anderson in a Millerville saloon,
was taken by a mob of masked men and
hanged to a cottonwood tree half a
mile from the jail. When taken from
his cell, the victim had nothing on but
shirt. This was torn otT by the
lynchers, and the nude body was left
dangling in the air for six hours. As
the body was being pulled up the mob
riddled it with bullets. When satis
fled that the man was dead the vigil
ante dispersed and returned to their
homes.
The insurgents have literally wiped
out the Spanish town of Guisa of 800
inhabitants.
Senator MoBride of Oregon, has in
troduced a bill in the senate to aid in
the construction of an aerial tramway
nd railway line from Dyea to Lake
Bennett.
Three thoausand horses, worth $300,
000, lie beneath the snow on the Whits
pass trail. Six hundred campers rep
resent an investment of $500,000 for
outfits and provisions.
STAMPEDE FAIRLY ON.
Fear-Mad Men Rush From Dawson and
Famine.
Victoria, Deo. 15. By the steamer
Topeka, from Dyea, news is received
that more than 1,000 ill-provisioned
men stampeded from Dawson during
the latter part of October, and impelled
by the haunting fear of famine are now
madly forcing their way over the moun
tains. 'Auk, the Indian mailcarrier who
brings this report, left the Yukon cap
ital fully 10 days after the Dalton
party, lie says the vanguard of the
terror-stricken army is following less
than a week behind bim. Auk de
clares that fully 25 per cent of the
stampeding army will never live to re
cite the terrors of their flight from the
North.
Dyea parties headed by, George F.
Dlmer hope to go to the relief of the
hungry men at Dawson. They will
make the United States government an
offer to deliver 60,000 pounds of pro
visions within 50 days after starting
for Dawson for the sum of $75,000.
They already have 50,000 pounds of
provisions cached at Lake Bennett,
which they will take into Dawson this
winter. Ulmer will go . south by the
next steamer to lay his proposition be
fore the secretary of war by wire.
It is stated that material for the pro
posed railroad over Taku pass has been
shipped from the East.
The steamers Bella and Weare, it
now appears, did not land more than
100 tons of provisions on their arrival
in Dawson in the early part of Octo
ber, owing to their having been held
up at Circle City.
The only bright view of the present
situation is that the trails crossing the
passes above Dyea and Skagway have
lately been greatly improved and with
in a month will be in excellent condi
tion.
A Steamer for Alaska.
Tacoma, Wash., Dec. 15. Already
the rush to Alaska has set in, the
City of Seattle having left Tacoma
this morning for Skagway. Her pas
sengers frdm the Sound will reach the
hundred mark. Several women were
on board. She oarried a full cargo of
Height.
A LIGHT DAY'S WORK.
Nothing of Importance Accomplished in
the House or Senate.
Washington, Dec. 15. Mr. Lodge,
of Massachusetts, made an effort in the
senate today to secure an immediate
vote upon his immigration bill, which
is substantially the same measure that
was passed by the 64th congress and
vetoed by President Cleveland. Mr.
Allen, of Nebraska, objeoted to an im
mediate vote, and suggested that the
final vote on the amendments and the
bill be taken on that day, January 17,
Bt 8 P. M. This suggestion was accept
ed by Mr. Lodge, and the order tor a
vote at that time was made.
Davis, chairman of the committee on
foreign relations, oalled up the bill pro
hibiting the killing of fur seals in the
North Pacific ocean, but on suggestion
of Pettigrew, ,who desired to offer
amendments, it went over until tomor
row. The bill granting settlers the right
to make second homestead entries of
180 acres was passed.
Butler spoke at some length on his
postal savings bank bill. Such a sys
tem would, in his opinion, insure
jreater comfort in the homes of the
plain people of the land, as a great ma
jority of them would certainly become
depositors in such banks. Tliis would
cultivato among them thrift and econ
omy, and enable them to provide for
themselves in illness and old age.
In the House.
The blind chaplain of tho house in
his invocation today referred eloquent
ly and feelingly to the death of the
president's mother. Cannon, chairman
of the committee on appropriations,
secured unanimous consent for tho pas
sage of the urgent deliciency bill, which
he explained carried but three items
$5,000 for the construction of a build
ing at the naval academy, $30,000 for
payment of temporary employes of the
house and senate, and $150,000 for tho
payment of mileage of senators and
representatives.
Tho rest of the session was takon tip
by a personal debate between Hepburn
and Norton, which ended by a vote
sustaining Hepburn, and the house then
adjourned.
Her Aim Was Good.
Sacramento, Dec. 15. At nn early
hour Sunday morning a burglar entered
the residence of Sergeant of Polieo Mo
Manus and proceeded to ransack tho
parlor. Mrs. McMauus heard the bur
glar at his work.but decided not to wake
her husband. She piekod up a re
volver from a table by the bed and
nwiuu'ci ueveiopments. in a lew mo
ments the burglar reached the swinging
doors leading from the parlor into tho
room adjoining the bedroom, and when
ho opened tho doors, she opened fire.
Ho made his escape, but the trail of
blood left showed that her aim was
good.
Oklahoma Hank Failure.
El Reno, O. T., Dec. 15. Tho Stock
Exchange bank closed its doors this
morning, and J. M. Cannon has been
appointed receiver. Tho liabilities are
stuted to be $30,000, and the assets are
claimed to bo worth $70,000.
St. Petersburg, Dec. 18. The No
rosti says that in the absence of pro
tests from the other powers, Germany's
evident determination to remain at
Kiao-Chou indicates that the partition
of China has actually begun, and will
proceed quickly. Another newspaper
expresses the belief that the United
States, among other powers, may ob
ject to the permanent occupation of
Kiao-Chou by Germany. Russian
officials, however, appear indifferent to
the step taken by Germany.
HIE ROOT OF THE EVIL
Convention to Consider Pri
mary Election Reforms.
PROMINENT MEN SIGN THE CALL
Conference Will Be Held In Mew York
In the Middle of January Ef
fect on State Legislatures.
New York, Dec. 14. The following
call was given out tonight by Ralph M.
Easley, secretary of the Civic Federa
tion of Chicago, who has been acting
for a committee on reforms of quasi
political organizations for . the past
three weeks:
"The object of this conference is to
bring together men with practical ideas
from all the large cities, and especially
from states in which substantial pro
gress has been made in 'reform. The
programme will include speeches made
by men of national reputation in both
political parties, as well as reports
from practical men as to the working
of the various laws now governing pri
mary election caucuses. Considerable
attention will be given to the question
'How to get voters out to the primaries,'
after fair laws are secured. SDeeial in-
0
terest will be taken in reports from
New York, .Massachusetts, Maryland,
Illinois, New Jersey and Ohio, where
legislatures will be in session. Head
quarters will be opened at the Hotel
Manhattan, New York, December 27,
1897.
"Believing that our caucuses or pri
mary election customs or laws lie at the
very root and source of our entire elec
tive franchise system and that the re
sults in our larger cities are due in a
largo measure to the defects in such
practices and customs, it, therefore,
follows that to purify this system is to
take a long step in the direction of hon
esty, coonomy and efficiency in every
branch of the publio service; and fur
ther believing that the enactment of
laws to prevent corrupt practices and
throw the safeguards of a regular elec
tion around the caucus or primary will
encourage many good citizens to take
part therein, we, the undersigned, tor
the purpose of discussing and discover
ing, as far as possible, the precise de
fects in the various systems which now
obtain, and the remedies, ami take
Buch action as may seem necessary in
the premises, do hereby join in calling
a conference of persons interested in
Baid questions to convene in the city of
New York, on the 15th day of January,
1898.
"We deem it desirable that the con
ference be made up from men of all
parts of the country and without regard
to party or factional affiiations."
The call is signed by prominent men
from all sections of the Union.
INDIAN TERRITORY QUESTION
Congress Will Settle It In
General
Kill.
Washington, Deo. 14. The indica
tions are that this congress will pass a
general bill for the entire rehabilitation
of Indian territory. The measure ae
now planed is to make it embrace
everything that has been sought to be
accomplished in the past by the Dawes
Indian commission, which is still nego
tiating with the five civilized tribes,
but which will be here next week to
report the discouraging existing condi
tions. The hill oovers all the questions
of citizenship, allotments of lands, dis
positions of townsites, mineral lands,
jurisdiction of the United States courts
over the present reservations and other
matters bearing on the extinguishment
of tribal organization. The first steps
in the matter have been taken by the
Indian committees of both the senate
and house.
It is understood that in a few days
there will be a session of the commit
tees at which these matters will be
gone over and steps taken in the way
of settling the problems by congres
sional enactment. In view of the largo
amount of work necessary to be done,
however, it is not probable that any
bill can be passed till well toward the
end of the session.
' Had Philadelphia Fire.
Philadelphia, Dec. 14. Fire broke
out shortly before 10 o'clock tonight in
the six-story building at 809 and 811
Chestnut street, occupied by the manu
facturing firm of John & James Dobson
us their wholesale and retail rooms.
The tire had its start in the basement,
and the flames shooting up the elevator
shaft destroyed the' entire interior of
the building and contents. General
Manager Berry, of the Dobson nurpet
house, stated that the stock in the
building would amount to $500,000.
The building was owned by the firm,
aud was valued at about $150,000.
llaytlun Ministry Resigns.
.Port Au Prince, Deo. 14. The min
istry has resigned. As yet, tlu com
position of its successor lias not been
definitely settled, but several well
known men are mentioned who will
command the confidence of Haytians
and foreigners alike. This morning,
while attending mass at Notre Dame,
President Sam made a circuit of tho
city on horseback escorted by his staff
officers, but without special military
display.
China Forced to Yield.
Peking, Deo. 14. The German-Chinese
difficulty is practically settled.
The Germans refuse to discontinue the
occupancy of Kiao-Chou bay. The gov
ernor of Shan Tung province has been
removed from office, but will not be
any further degraded. No monoio!y
of mines and railroads is conceded Ger
many, but that country is given a pref
erence. Finally, the area immediately
surrounding Kiao-Chou bay is set
apart exclusively for Germany. Chins
yields on all other points.
MRS. M'KINLEY DEAD.
fhe President and Other Members ol
( the Family at the Deathbed.
Canton, O.. Dec. 14. Mrs. Nancv
Allison McKinley passed from this life
at a few minutes past 2 this morning,
with all her children and other imme
diate relatives at her bedside. She did
not suffer any in her last hours, but
gradually passed from the deep, palsied
sleep, in which she had rested almost
constantly for the past 10 days, into
the sleep of death.
No word could be secured from the
house for some hours before dissolu
tion. At 2:35 an undertaker was sum
moned and the first publicity was given
of the death.
The end was almost beautiful in its
peaoefulness. She seemed to sleep so
soundly that it was difficult -to tell
whether she had yet breathed her last.
This condition continued for half an
hour. The president and all of "the
family were by her side.
There was no recognition, however.
Her last consciousness was hours before
her final taking away.
The tenth day of Mrs. McKinley's
illness was marked by a number of
material ohanges such as improved the
condition of the patient, and as dark
ness approached it was felt by those
around her that she had finished the
last day of her life's journey. She was
resting comparatively easy at. that
time, but was a great deal weaker. At
the dawn of day it was felt that the
end was at hand, for about that time
she experienced one of the sinking
spells common to the illness, and for a
long time seemed so nearly inanimate
that it was thought no rally was possi
ble; but the rally oame, and with it a
small amount of liquid nourishment,
the first she had taken since Monday.
This was followed by such peaceful re
pose as to revive the hope, which was
realized, that she would live through
the day.
In the afternoon another period of
anxiety was experienced by the watch
ers. Another sinking spell came, and
for a time it seemed as though it would
be the last. After that, she continued
weak and low.
The doctor oalled at 5:30 o'clock and
reported that he found a material
change for the worse, such as he regard
ed as certain to bring about final disso
lution during the night. He had not
even a faint hope that she could live
until morning.
AN IMPROMPTU COURT.
trying to Fix the Ilesponsibity for the
Smith Murders.
Hazelhurst, Miss., Dec. 14. In an
open field, without a house in sight, on
a high hillside, with a crowd of eager
men waiting to avenge the terrible
murder that has taken place in Law
rence county, in case a conviotion was
reached by the impromptu court, the
scene lighted by flaring pine-knot
torohes held aloft in the hands of the
waiting mob, the three negroes, Giles
Berry, Will Powell and Tom Wallen,
were standing trial for their life last
night at Bankstone Ferry.
The negroes were arrested with
Lewis, who was lynched Friday, at the
place of the original crime, but were
released on their'promising to appear
next morning as witnesses. They did
not put in an appearanoe when the
trial was ready to begin. Search was
made for them by the mob, and the
negroes were caught and brought baca.
Then the suspicion that they were im;
plicated in the original crime aros
According to their own story, they
were with Lewis the night before. The
three men testified that they slept in a
cottonhouse a mile and a half from the
Smith house, where the terrible butch
ery took place, and that Lewis was
with them all night; at least he was
there when they went to sleep and was
there when they awoke the next morn
ing. There are about 200 men in the mob
constituting a committee of the whole
for the trial. Reliable reports today
from a messenger who was at the socne
say that the mob is very moderate in
its aots, and has cooled down consider
ably. Berry and Wallen, though badly
scared, maintain their denial of any
complicity in the crime.
A telephone message from Hon. Wal
ter Catchings, of Geogetown, states that
two other negroes have been arrested
on suspicion.
Wesson, Miss., Deo. U. The three
negroes arrested in tho Monticello
neighborhood in connection with Char
ley Lewis, the negro lynched for the
quintuple butchery of the Smith family,
after a long trial were declared not
guilty, but were given until Monday to
leave the county.
Convicted of Wife Murder.
Bakersfield, Cal., Dec. 14. David
Davidson, the Randsburg wife-murderer,
was today convicted of murder in
the first degree, with the penalty of
life imprisonment. He is said to be
the son of a prominent St. Louis phy
sician. The defense wis insanity, and
during the trial Davidson appeared ob
vious to his surroundings, but experts
declared that he was shamming.
Kducation of Dcjf Children.
Washineton. Deo. 14. Tim hnnsA
committee on education has reported
favorably the bill to aid the educators
in the states and territories in teaching
articulate speech and vocal lanuuaite to
deaf children before the are of school
age.
A Mexican Execution.
Matamoras, Mex., Dec. 14. Panta
eon and Victoriano Guillen were shot
in the jailyard this morning for the
murder of Dr. Manuel Carpio. Five
policemen were in the firing platoon,
and neither man was killed by the first
discharge. '
Antigo, Wis., Dec. 14. L. E. Buck
nan, cashier of the defunct Antigo
bank, was arrested today, on a charge
of embezzlement. His shortage will
reach $13,000.
THE ELLIS ISLAND FIRE
Is Supposed to Have Been
Set by Incendiaries.
INVESTIGATION WILL BE MADE
ten Millions of Railroad Tickets Were
Thought to Have Burned One
of Them Turns Up.
New York, Deo. 13 Facts have
come to light that suggest the possi
bility that the mysterious fire that de
stroyed the great immigrant buildings
on Ellis island a few monthB ago, was
started by thieves, who had carefully
planned a $10,000,000 robbery, says
the Journal and Advertiser today. Ten
of the trunk lines leading to the West,
including the New York Central, the
Pennsylvania, the Erie, the Delaware,
Lackawanna & Western and the New
York, Ontario & Western, unite in
maintaining a railroad on the island,
and at all times there are quantities of
tickets there.
General Ticket Agent Robinson, of
the Ontario & Western, says that on
the night of the fire a conservative es
timate would place the value of tickets
in the island office at $10,000,000.
The tickets, with much cash, were
locked in drawers in wooden cases and
desks, and the entire parcel was sup
posed to have been totally destroyed.
The different roads posted notices that
if tickets of a certain form and Beries
should be presented, they should be
taken up and fare demanded.
A few days ago a ticket issued by
the Ontario & Western from Chicago
to Kansas City was received from a pas
senger and found to be one of the tick
ets supposd to have been burned. The
part of the ticket calling for passage
from New York to Chicago has not yet
been presented.
Now the officials are asking how
many other tickets out of the $10,000,
000 worth are in existence. It is
deemed not impossible that the entire
lot was stolen and held until conductors
should forget the warning.
Commissioner Senner, who was in
oharge of Ellis island at the time of the
fire, deems the hypothesis by no means
improbable.
"The origin of the fire was never
learned," he said. "It began in a
towfir of the main building some dis
tance from the offices occupied by the
railroad people. Every one of the gov
ernment guards were busy getting the
immigrants safely out. It is not im
possible that thieves deliberately start
ed the fire in the expectation, justified
by events, that the ticket office would
be quickly deserted."
General Ticket Agent Robinson said
ho could scarcely believe that any such
wholesale robbery had taken place.
"I have communioated with other
roads, and they have had no such tick
ets presented as yet. I think it more
likely that the report of sales for the
day preceding the fire was not correot.
Of course, though, if someone had used
that ticket, if it was honestly disposed
of, it should have turned up sooner.
An investigation will be made."
TRAIL TO KLONDIKE.
Sereral Lives Lost In White Horse ,
Rapids. j
Victoria, Dec. 13. Five or six, and j
perhaps seven, lives have been lost in !
the White Horse rapids, Lewis river, '
during the last two months, acoording j
to John Hepburn,' who arrived from 1
there today. A boat built for four or
six men was found below the rapids one
morning, but there was no trace of the
occupants. They must all have been
droSFned. Other parties lost their out
fits, but managed to save their lives.
There is now very little open water
between the rapids and the lakes, most
of it being frozen over. j
At White Horse rapids there are
about 30 people, and there are 85 at the
foot of Marsh lake. There are at least
100 more below White Horse rapids,
and many others have gone into the
Hootalinqua country to prospect during
the winter. Hepburn had heard of no
strikes being made on the Hootalinqua
or tributaries, but a man named Davis
washed $1,600 from the river bars last
summer. Hepburn believes that rich
strikes will be made on the Hootalin
qua this winter.
At Tagish house, the weather was
bitterly cold, the thermometer regis
tering 42 degrees below. People were
met making their way down all 'along
the route to head of Lake Bennett.
Among the goldseekers was a woman,
who was pulling her sled all alone, and
she was making fair time.
Lake Bennett was still open 15 miles
from the foot, on November 17, and
the mercury stood at 24 below.
Attempt on the Sultan's Life,
London, Dec. 13. The Athens corre
spondent of the Chronicle says that on
Monday last, two soldiers in the im
perial service at the Yildiz Kiosk, the
palace of the sultan, made an attempt
on the sultan's life. This was frus
trated by the attendants of the sultan.
The sultan had the men tortured in the
hope of extracting the names of the
instigators, but both succumbed with
out revealing anything.
China Gives In.
London, Deo, 13. A dispatch from
Pekin says that today the tsung-li-yamen
telegraphed the viceroy of the
province of Pe-chi-li, north of the prov
ince of Shan Tung, that China, having
complied with her demands, Germany
undertakes to evacuate Kiao Chou at a
date to be fixed hereafter, and will 're
ceive instead as a coaling station the
Sam-Sun inlet, in the province of Foo
Kien, over against the island of Formosa.
THE ALASKA RUSH.
Western Roads Preparing to Ignore the
Canadian Pacific.
Chioago, Dec. 13. The Western
roads have for some time been figuring
earnestly on the business that is ex
peoted to set in in the late winter and
the early spring toward Alaska. They
have been doubtful whether the pur
chasers of transportation would wish
to buy tickets through to Dawson City,
or only to the ports on the coast, and
today the roads took their first action
hearing on the question of Alaska rates.
They have decided to get out their rate
sheets showing the rates to Alaska and
will ignore entirely the olaims of the
Canadian Pacific for the differential on
the business. The rates of the Cana
dian Pacific will not be shown on the
sheet at all.
In the days of the old Transconti
nental Association, the Canadian Pa
cifio was allowed a differential of $5 on
its Pacifio coast business, and it claims
the same now, but the roads of the old
association, and those of the Western
Passenger Association, after the pro
mulgation of the supreme court deci
sion regarding the formation of pools
and associations, absolved them from
all further obligations to allow the
differentials of the Canadian Pacific.
The 'latter road has never seen the mat
ter in that light and it will make a
fight that is very likely to demoralize
the rates to Alaska, and North Pacifio
coast ports.
FIGHT ON THE BORDER.
Three Mexican Guards and One Des
perado Killed.
Denver, Dec. 13. News is received
of a desperate fight that occurred near
the border of Arizona and old Mexico.
Three guards of the Mexican service
and one desperado were killed. The
latter was Franco Phallard, one of
Black Jack's gang, and an outlaw from
Texas, whose two brothers were killed
while members of Billy the Kid's gang.
A tew days ago the border guards
learned of a raid that was designed by
Black Jack to loot a town across the
river. A start was made from Leander
Springs, and the guards had no diffl
ovdty in finding them. The two foroes
met face to face at a turn in the road.
There were eight outlaws against three
o'ficers, but the latter opened the at
tack with orders of "hands up." Two
of the outlaws turned their horses for
the hills, but Phallard dismounted,
and drawing his Winchester, o)eneJ
fire and killed the three officers before
he fell with a wound in his side which
proved fatal.
Phallard is the last of the Sam Bass
gang of trainrobbers, who cleaned out
Custer City many years ago.
HIS LAST HOPE GONE.
The California Supreme Court Decides
Against Durrant.
San Francisco, Dec. 13. Late this
afternoon the supreme court dispelled
the last hope of W. H. T. Durrant, the
murderer of Blanche Lamont and Min
nie Williams, by disposing in a sum
mary manner of his two appeals.
' In a written opinion, from the pen of
Chief Justice Beatty, which is con
curred in by all ' but one of his col
leagues, the oourt affirms the judgment
of Judge Bahrs, in remanding the pris
oner to San CJuentin until the time set
for his execution, but reverses that sen
tencing Durrant to be hanged on Novem
ber 11, and remands the case to the
superior court, with instructions to pro
ceed according to law.
As the remittur was ordered issued
forthwith and the court holds that ex
ecution can only be stayed now by the
issuance of a certificate of probable
cause, it only remains to resentence the
condemned murderer, which will prob
ably be done tomorrow.
Justice Garoutte alone dissented from
this opinion, maintaining that Dor
rant's appeals should have been dis
missed, as the time required by law for
their perfection had been allowed to
lapse.
BRAVE PORTLAND GIRL.
Rescued a Woman From a Burning
Victoria Lodging House.
Victoria, B. C, Dec. 13. Through
the courage and promptitude of Lijy
Baldwin, a Portland girl, a life was
saved here under sensational circum
stances, yestorday evening. There had
been an explosion of gasoline in the oil
tent factory of Tryon . Co., ard the
entiro premises were soon blazing. Ou
the upper floor was the American lodging-house,
whose proprietress, Iv'rs.
Fox, was ill in bed. In the confusion
she was forgotten until the Portland
girl, a lodger, remembered her. sa
ran upstairs and carried down the
landlady, who by that time was uncon
BoioiiM from suffocation. Both escaped
with slight burns, although their dan
ger was imminent.
Rich Strike In Montana.
Butte, Mont., Doc. 13. Reports
from the Lowland mining district are
that a rich strike of gold and silver
quarU has been made in the Ruby
mine, and that over a million dollars'
worth of ore is in sight. The owners
are taking out over $2,000 a day. The
property was purchased last summer
from Adolph Moudehauer, of San Fran
cisco, for $90,000, the principal owner
being M. E. Graves, a New York man.
New York, Deb. 13. The largest lifa
Insurance policy ever issued has been
written in this city, callingfor $1,000,
000 insuranoe upon the life of George
W. Vanderbilt. The policy is what is
known as a 20-payment life contract,
and provides for a premium of $35,000
year. After Mr. Vanderbilt has paid
that sum yearly for 20 years the pay
ments cease and the principal becomes
due at his death. The next largest
policy ever written is said to have been
for 100,000 ($500,000),
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