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Oregon City Coarier, A- W. CBINITi PnblUher. OREGON CITY OREGON MS OF THE WEEK rtnilng Collection of Corret E-veass Im Condeneed Form From Bath Continents. fttieepmen in Southorn Colorado arn losing thousands of sheep by snow and -wtremely oold weather. The Northern Pacifio Railway Com--pany has reduoed wages of car repairers . t Superior 25 cents a day. The schooner Bailors Loherman, Captain Plummer, from South River, N. J., for Boston, foundered without Tram i lift Sunday morning off Highland Lights. No lives were lost. Charles W. Winkler, a brnkeman on the Columbia & Puget Sound railway, wan run over by a coal car and killed in the Seattle yards. Winkler form erly lived in Butte City, Cal., where lie has relatives. A bomb, made of gas pipe and filled with powder, was exploded in the Ger man theater, in Olatuez, Monrovia, little damage was done, but the inci dent caused great excitement among Hie German residents. The Turkish government, replying to Hie representations of Greece, has ex plained that the firing upon the Greek gunboat Actium by the Turks at Per vaasa, on Saturday last, as the vessel was leaving the gulf of Ambraoia, was due to a misunderstanding. Aunt Judith Moore, the first colored woman admitted to membership in floury Ward Beeeher's church, is dead t her homo in Brooklyn, aged 74. It .is mud that Mr. Beeoher in his will re peated that she be care for. She is tie of the original members of the tibristian Endeavor Society. Jacob Sarigs, of Ooramiah, Persia, ow in Cincinnati, giving talks on Persia and Armenia, has just received - a lettor from friends in his Persian home, informing him that a band of ravlers from Koordestan had massacred ail the inhabitants of a Persian Chris tian town, BOO souls, near Salinas, rorsia. Peter Prenoh, a prominent cattle man and landowner of Harney county, Oregon, was killed by a man mimed Oliver. It is reported that the deed waa a oold-bloodud murder. The vic tim was shot in the' back of the head, m bullet coming out between thoeyos. -A land dispute is said to have been tho Mine of the trouble. The Overman Whool Company, of 4kioopee Falls, Mass., has made an as signment for tho benefit of its oreditorB. Ifonry B. Bowman, president of the iriiigliold National bank, hns been ((jointed trustee. Albert H. Over an is president of the company, and -Hie principal owner nnd has given out a statement showing that, on Novem ber 10, last, the assets were f 1, 318,000 and the liabilities 1(5:10,000. Prank G. Farley was accidentally .feet and instantly killed by Ed. Alvord, & Tokoa, Wusb. Both men were O. Jt. & N. conductors. At the oorouor iuquont, the evidniico showed that Al Tord was turning the cylinder of a ro Tolvcr so the hammer would not rest on a cartridge. Tho weupon wusdis h urged, and Farley foil and expired without uttering a word. The jury ex aerated Alvord. The long-continued oold and heavy .mow of the past month are beginning M have a serious effect upon shoep in Wyoming, and it is feared that, unless shore la a break in the weather soon, tiia losses will bo heavy. Sheepmen import that a number have ulrealy poriahod. Mr. Colli n, tho acting controller of the ourreuey has called attention to the fact that the retirement of national bank astos during the first 30 days of Decem ber reached the sum of $11,000,000. This is said to he the llrst time during As lust 10 years that the voluntary re tirement bus reached this amount in any one month. After a week of conference in linn ton, Justices Putnam and King, the oiuiniHsioners for the United State ad Canada, respectively, in the arbi tration of the Behring sea claims, have omplotod their work for tho present, and it is understood will soon begin (lie preparation of their roorta to their Miapoctive governments. Tho first meeting of the National Building Trades Council was held at Ut. Louis, and was marked by a scath ing denunciation of the American Fed eration of Labor for huving pawed a resolution at Nashville opposing the formation of the nallonul council. ' The Federation of Labor opposed the new organisation as tending to create a fur titer division iu the ranks of lulxir. Fireman Martiu J. Oakley was killed at Are iu a five story tenement on Kant Forty-fourth street, New York ity. Uakley waa suffocated by smoke and escaping gas. Assistant Fireman Thrnnus Head, James Davis and Peter Connolly, of the same company, were rendered unconscious hy inhaling moke and gas, and were with diftl nlty revived. They are in hospitals, ad their condition is serious. Secretary Alger has cabled to Wil iiaui Akellman, chief government rein deer herder, who is now in Norway, to inform tho war department immediate ly how soon 000 reindeer cuu be shipped to this oountiy. These uie wanted for nse as draft animals in getting supplies to the miners Iu the Klondike region. They must be transferred ut New York to railroads, and in that manner car ried across the continent, and again hy sea from the Pacillo coast up to Dyea', or some other point that may be select' d aa a baso of oporatioui. REINDEER WILL DIE. Dr. Nanaen's Views Upon Alger's Klon- dike ICelief 11 an. Binghamton, N. Y., Deo. 30. Dr. Naneen, the Arotic explorer, was asked what he thought of the plan of bringing reindeer for taking relief to the Klon dike miners. He said if the reindeer were taken overland aoross the country they would probably reach Alaska in 'time to accomplish the desired object, and if they could reach Alaska they would be of great assistance in the re lief work. The difficulty would be to get the deer transported. Dr. Nansen said the moss on which the deer fed was about the only food they would eat, and they would starve before they would eat much of any thing else. They had sometimes been trained to eat bread, but not very suc cessfully. While there was an .abund ance of moss in Norway, he thought it would be impossible to gather it in such quantities as would be necessary for the feeding of 500 deer in transpor tation from Norway to Alaska. The deer themselves seemed to know bow to gather it better than human beings. He believed that if 500 reindeer were shipped from Norway it would be im possible to keep more than a small per centage of them alive until Alaska should be reached. According to his opinions, Iceland horses would be better for this work, for they would subsist on the moss of the Arotio regions and also on hay or other provender. They were also hardy, and would do the work after they reached Alaska almost as well as the deer. It would be much easier to transport them, he said. HAWAIIAN ANNEXATION. Recent Event! In the Kant Will Prob. Mr Uaaten the Event. Washington, Deo. 80. "Affairs in China and the East generally," said Senator Cullom, "have put an entirely different complexion upon Hawaii's prospects for annexation. Since con gress adjourned for the holidays there has been a marked change of sentiment concerning Hawaii, and it would not surprise me if the pending treaty should be ratified by the necessary two thirds of the senate. "It would be the height of folly to let such an opportunity slip as Hawaii prosentj to the United States at such a critical time. Here is a most desirable piece of property only waiting for a nod from Uncle Sam to become his own, without firing a gun or precipitat ing any troub.e. "As son as congress meets we will .get at the treaty, and my impression is that a number of senators who have hitherto been against ratification will be found on our side. It has always been my opinion that we ought to'have Hawaii, and I am confirmed in this be lief more than ever by the recent course of events in the Orient." FIRST COLONY READY. Prog-reei of the Salvation Army' Work In California, i New York, Dec. 80. Commander Booth-Tucker has started for California to complete the work of founding the first of the Salvation Army colonies in this country at Solodad near Monterey. Most of the cottages have already been built and the work of cultivation is well installed on the farm of 500 acres, but numerous applicants are ready to start the moment Booth Tuck er reaches San Francisco. Tho commander said that there was no doubt that the experiment would prove a great succoss. Claus Spreokles, be said, is erecting a million dollar beet-sugar factory in the immediate neighborhood, which will be able to consume all that the colonists can pro duce, and the product of as many farms as they may care to start in the neighborhood. "I shall spend several weeks In the West and take a look at our Colorado farm in the Arkansas valley before I return," said the commander. "A del egation of men connected with a tin ning establishment in Chicago recently came to me and asked that I establish a farm neur that city. Thoy were not out of work, hut said they would rather go into something that promised a permanent occupation than to remain where they were." ln TUly'a Bail Pall. Boston, Doc. 80. Dan Daly, the popular comedian, and one of the lead ing lights in tho "Belle of New York" company, received probably a fatal in jury at the Park theater last night. At the close of the first act Daly makes a "flying entry," sliding iu on an in clined wire. In some way either the wire or handle broke, Daly falling to the stage, striking on the Bhoulders and buck of the head. Two physicians were summoned from the audience, ami worked over him half an hour, but could not bring him back to consciousness. He was then sent to the Massachusetts general hospital, and at an early hour he was still unconscious, the physicians believ ing ho was suffering from concussion of tho brain. Utica, N. Y., Deo. 29. A special from Amsterdam says that one of the engine houses of tho Sanford carpet mills was wrecked by an explosion, presumably of dynamite, ut 10:30 o'clock. Duly two walls were left standing. Few facts can be ascertained. Liberty, Mo., Dec 29. A wreck oo curred at the Memphis toad depot here lust night. Local train No. 58 broke in two on the down grade coming Into town, and the two sections came to gether in froiH of the station. Fivs persona were injured, two seriously. The injured are: Miss Tilly Smither, of Libeity; Mrs. Shelton, Colonel Jesse Poor, of Golden City, and Floyd (juinthurd. Miss Smither is still un conscious. The conductor and brake man wors slightly injured. FOOD RUNNING SHORT Dawson City and Fort Yukon on Reduced Rations. SAYS JOHN LINDSAY OF OLYMPIA Yukon Plied High With Ice, Making Teaming by the River Koute an Iiuposibility. Port Townsend, Dec 38. John Lindsay, of Olympia, Wash., who has just arrived here from Dawson, says that there will surely be starvation there this winter. He examined into the food situation in a thorough manner, he says, and after satisfying himself that there would bo starvation, he sold his outfit and, in company with Frank Ballaine, of Olympia; Tom Stoney, of Victoria, and Bob Qlvnn, of Seattle, started out on foot, each man drawing a sled carry ing about 140 pounds of provisions. Lindsay says the Dawson people de clare that there is no great amount of food at Fort Yukon, as has been al leged. The river rose sufficiently and remained open long enough to enable food supplies to have boen brought from Fort Yukon, had there been any there, so the majority of the people at Dawson refused to go down to tho camp, preferring to remain in Dawson. Not more than 800 or 400 peoplo took advantage of the transportation com pany's offer to take the people to Fort Yukon free of charge. When the miners at Dawson found that no more provisions would reach the town by tho river route, they an nounced that a meeting would bo held to take steps for an apportioning of thi provisions in the town. Those that had plenty, they said, must share with, those who had not Captain Constantino, of the North west mounted police, interfered, and told the miners that no such thing would be permitted. The meeting was not held. Lindsay says the output of the mines will be greatly curtailed this winter because of the scarcity of food and light. Coal oil sold for $45 a gallon, and candles as high as $150 per box of 100. Even if men are able to work their claims, they cannot get light to do so. These statements are borne out by all returning Klondikers, quite a num ber of whom have reached here in the past week. Few of them, however, take as gloomy a view of the situation as does Lindsay. ' Dr, B. L. Bradley, of Eoseburg, Or., says thut food is scarce, but he does not think that there will be actual starvation. Neither do W. B. King, of Merced, Cal.; P. J. Holland, of Butte, Mont; Thomas Stoney, of Vic toria, or Robert Glynn, of. Seattle, all of whom arrived this week from Daw son. Most of them left there Novem ber 2. As an eivdonce of the scarcity of food in Dawson, Lindsay relates the case of Dr. Van Sants, formerly of. Spokane. Van Sants is an elderly man, and be ing without provisions or money, he offered a gold watch for a sack of flour. He could not get it, and he re marked to Lindsay; , "God only knows how I am to keop body and soul together." Lindsay says 200 or more miners are prospecting at the month of Stewart river, but as yet, it is not known what, success they have achieved. Henderson creek, five miles below Stewart river, and 40 miles from Daw son, is a promising stream that is being developed this winter. The weather about the Stewart and Big Salmon rivers has been bitterly cold, 70 degrees below zero being recorded at Major Walsh's cump, 12 miles below the Big Salmon, on November 17. The Yukon river between Dawson and Fort Pelly, froze completely over No vember 18. The river is piled full of ice in great ridges, as high as an ordi nary house, and a roadway will have to be cut through it before the dog or horse teams can operate upon it. The outlook, therefore, for taking supplies down to Dawson in the immediate fu ture 1b not good. Inspector of Mines McGregor left here a week ago with a number of dog teaniB and horses to make the attempt to reach Dawson with about 20 tons of provisions, but nothing has since been heard of him. I'eary'a Next Trip. New York, Dec 28. A dispatch to the World from Washington says; Lieutenant K. E. Peary, the Arctic ex plorer, who returned from Knglund ou the St Paul, immediately un his ar rival in New York, took the train for Washington, Lieutenant Peary tonight was enthusisatic over his reception in England, and the gilt to him by Alfred C. Hurmsworth. the wealthy English man, of the Windward, a line ship, which the explorer will use in his trip to the Arctic next year. Mr. Harms worth also furnished funds for the ex pedition. Lieutenant Poary said the Windward will be sent to New York early in the spring, and he will sturt north the latter part of July. Lieuten ant Peary started for New York tonight to finish work on his narrative which is in the publisher's hands. Heavy Fog In England. London, Doc. 28. Heavy fogs pre vailed in the district of London and over the British channel, the Mersey, the Clyde and the Tyne. There have been numerous shipping accidents, and much inconvenience has been caused to traffio by delays and stoppages. It Is feared that several lives have been lost Muskets were first used in 1(11 by the French army. ACTUAL STARVATION. Thousands of Cuban Are in the Dlreat Ilatrea. Washington, Deo. 29. The most profound distress prevails among many thousands of people in Cuba. Starva tion not only impends, but is an actual faot The president has been informed of the facts from sources whose reliabil ity cannot be doubted. He has gone to the length of his constitutional power in calling the state of affairs to the at tention of the American people. The state department has used all of its authority to mitigate conditions, and the letter to the public sent out by Sec retary Sherman the day before Christ mas pointed out the way to further alleviate the miserable condition of the ooncentradoes. Today the sum of $5,000 was received by Assistant Secre tary Day from certain charitably dis posed persons, whose names ' are not disclosed, and this sum will be remit ted by telegraph tomorrow morning to Consul-General Lee for disbursement among the more pressing cases. It is hoped by the department of state, that the Americi a people will come to the relief, and' promptly, by subscrip tions of money, clothing and snpplies of various kinds. The newspapers are expected to lend a generous aid in carrying forward this movement The machinery for distributing has been provided by the state department, and Consul-General Leo has undertaken, with the aid of the American consular agents in Cuba, to give personal atten tion to the alleviation of distross by the distribution of the gifts of the Amer ican people. One line of steamers ply ing between New York and Havana the Ward line it is said, has under taken to forward any contributions of goods to General Leo, at Havana, and it is believed that the American rail roads will do their part by carrying the goods to the seaboard. The Spanish authorities have con sented to remit all duties on relief sup plies so forwarded. The state depart ment directs that they be sent direct to Oonsul-Goneral Lee, either money draft, or check, or goods. Consul General Lee tonight cabled the state department just what is wanting at this juncture, and his list is as follows: Summer olothing, second-hand or otherwise, principally for women and children; medicines for fevers, includ ing a large proportion of quinine; hard bread, corn meal, bacon, rice, lard, potatoes, beans, peas, salt fish, prin cipally codfish; any canned goods, es pecially condensed milk for the starving children. Money will also be useful to secure nurses, medicines and for many other necessities. BURNED, TO DEATH. terrible Fate of a Woman and Het Aged Mother. Pittsburg, Dec. 29. During a fire at New Haven, a suburb of this city, in the resideuoe of Mrs. Mary Ann Browdy, this evening, Miss Nancy Browdy, aged 40, was bunred to death, and the mother, aged 70, was so badly burned that she cannot survive the night. Miss Browdy, who came hero about a month ago from Butte, Mont., to visit her mother, lost her life in try ing to save some personal property. She went to the upper floor after the flames had made good headway on the structure, and was suffocated. When the house hud been gutted, the body of Miss Browdy was seen hanging over a joist, and, in the presence of about 500 people who had gathered at the Bceue. was literally burned to a crisp. The mother threw herself into the burning building twice in an endeavor to save her daughter, but each time was dragged back, not, however, until she was so badly burned that the physicians Bay she cannot recover. f THE CZAR ADVANCING. Klnehau, a Remarkable Point of Vant age, Now Occupied. St. Petersburg, Deo. 29. The Rus sians have occupied Kinchau, north of Port Arthur. Can Iefy the World. San Francisco, Dec. 29. E. L. Shop hard, who rccentiy returned from China, where he had an official posi tion, commenting upon the reported occupation of Kinchau by Kussia, said today: "Kinchau is an important walled city (not an open port), at the head of the gulf of Lull Tung, and it commands tiie mouth of the liver Yalu, where the battle between the Japanese and Chinese was fought, and the other im portant rivers which flow into tho gulf. It is about equally distant between the mouth of the Yalu river and the ter minus of the great wall of China. It commands the railway system recently constructed from Tien-Teen to the cap ital of Manchuria, and is of pre-eminent importance as a strategic post. "The seizure of the point shows that Kussia has practical ly taken possession of Corea, Manchuria and the gulf of Lau Tung, and possesses a siguilioance which will cause consternation among the diplomats in tho Old World. Its situation is such that its possession practically places Russia in a position to defy the world." The gizzard of a hen recently killed at Caivington, Ou., contained 21 brass tacks, 31 birdshot, two pins, a tiny brass ring, bit of steel and some crushed brass caps. Pittsburg, Dec. 29. Captain G. B. Hayes, aged 68, on Friday night while walking from Osborne to Haysvillo, was overcome by the oold and fell and was rapidly freezing to death. He was found by John and Harry Bishop, 'and carried to their stable, where he re mained all night Later he was re moved to his home. At New Orleans in 18C1 Captain Hayes hauled down the Pelican flag of Louisiana and ran tip the Stars and Stripes. This act oat him his steamboat TOE"SEAUNC AWARD T Findings of the Commission Reach State Department, TOTAL NEARLY HALF A MILLION Damage for Prospective Catch Were Not Allowed Don grem Will Be Anked to Pay It. Washington, Doc. 27. The findings of the British-American commission chosen to assess the damages for seiz ures of British ships in Behring sea have been received by the state depart ment and the British embassy. The strictest reticence is maintained, how ever, on the general character of the findings, though it is admitted the total award against the United States is 464, ft00, which includes principal and in terest. The finding ayaiust this gov ernment is no surprise. The controversy has occupied the at tention of the authorities here and in London for the last 11 years. At the outset the tone of the controversy was belligerent, suggesting a possible re sort to arms. This was following the seizure, by the United States steamer Corwin, of the British sealers Carolina and Thornton, on August 1, 1886. 'The facts of the seizure were not known until some time later, and in the mean time, tho Corwin had taken the On ' ward and Favourite. The same policy of seizure and confiscation occurred during the next sealing season, despite the protosts of Great Britain, the United States steamer Rush taking the Sayward, Grace, Anna Pack, Dolphin, Alfred Adams, Triumph, Junita, Path finder, Black Diamond, Lilly, Arctic and Kate and Minnie, and the cutter Bear taking the Ada. The claims for these seizures took a wide range, beginning with the value of the vessels and outfits, and includ ing not only the value of Bealskins con fiscated, but also the skins which might have been taken if the ships had hot been seized. This last feature of prospective damage caused the main contention. In the case of each Brit ish ship, the largest item of the claim was for estimated future catch. For instance, in the case of the Carolina, the claim for the ship was only (4,000, while that for skins which might have been taken that year it she had not been seized was $16,067. Each ship estimated a prospective catch of from 8,500 to 5,000 skins, the value being from $3.50 per skin in 1887 to $12.35 in 1889. The total of the claims, without interest, amounted to $439, 161, and with interest at 8 per cent and other charges, the total reached $786,160. The only official statement that could be secured here of the judgment reached by the commissioners is con tained in the following announcement given out at the state department: "The award of the Behring eea claims commission has been filed in the department The claims a pre sented by tho British government on account of British vessels seized in Behring sea, aggregated, with interest, $1,500,000. These included several oases not embraced in the settlement proo.ied by Secretary Grushain. The award now made amounts to $294, 181.91, to which will increase the total about 50 per cent The award is final, und disposes of all cases before it. Pay ment under the treaty must be made within six months." The departmental officials, it is as sumed, will proceed at once to prepare a bill or an amendment to one of the appropriation bills for submission to congress, covering the necessary appro priation to pay the judgments, for, be ing bound by treaty not only to pay any judgments rendered, but to pay them promptly, the government is in honor bound to take the remaining steps toward a settlement in short or der. Timre appears to be little doubt that the United States carried its point on the question involved, as the prospec tive damages were evidently Boaled down to an insignificant amount, or rejected entirely. While the depart ment officials will make no definite an nouncement to this effect, intimations are given that the Bmallness of the award precludes the possibility of any allowance having been made on account of prospective damages. The Ameri can claims commissions established the precedent thut no prospective damages could be included iu a claim, and the present award is evidently on the same line. General J. W. Foster, who is now in general charge of Behring sea affairs, said tonight, us to the award, that he was not surprised at the result Presi dent Cleveland having officially de clared that $125,000 was a just and equitable sum iu settlement, and hav ing appointed as the American commis sioner to adjudicate the claims a close personal and political trieud, it could hardly be expected that the latter would strenuously contend for an award of a less amount. Mr. Foster was absent from the country in Japan when congress took action on Presi dent Cleveland's recommendation, but he regarded the commission as the proper method of reaching a settle ment, ami tho only one which would satisfy the country. Slain by Congo Native. Lisbon, Dec. 27. A dispatch from St. Paul de Lonada, Portuguese Lower Guinea, says that the natives of the II umbo plateau, in the Portuguese col ony of Angola, have massacred a Port uguese officer, a sergeant and 13 men. Reinforcements have been sent from St. Paul de Loauda. Angola is south of the Congo Free State. The colony has been held by the Portuguese since 14S6, and they have a number of forts and commercial establishments. SENSATION AT THE CAPITAL. Spain's Wrath Over Woodford's Not Uncalled for. Washington, Dec. .29. Officials here are somewhat surprised at the ex hibition of feeling at Madrid over the latest note of Minister Woodford de livered to the Spanish foreign office the day before Christmas. While the not itself will not be made public at pre sent, it is said that there is no rousnn whatever why it should be withheld, save the fact that preceding steps in the negotiations have not yet s'wn the light of newspapers and it is desirable when publication is made to preserve a complete chain of events in their nat ural order. Possibly the correspond ence will be shortly called for by con gress, in which case it is not likely to be withheld on the ground of public policy. The last note presented by Minister Woodford was in answer to the Spanish note, called forth by Woodford's very first note upon his arrival at Madrid. In his initial note the United States minister pointed out the interest of his country in the early termination of the present struggle in Cuba and asked when such conclusion could be expect ed. The Spanish government iu its reply acknowledged our interest iu the matter, but suggested after stating what it intended to do to ameliorate the con ditions in Cuba, that the United Stutes could best exercise its good offices by stopping filibustering. To this Wood ford responded with his note of last week. It is said to be a purely argu mentative statement of the position taken by the United States, and the facts set forth are those so strongly drawn in the president's message to oongress, of which it was supposed th Spanish public had been fully advised through newspapers. The most foroiblo statement in the note is based upon facts collected. and published recently by the United States treasury .department, exhibiting the great expense to which the United States had boen put by reason of its efforts to patrol the enormous coast lin in pursuit of a few filibustering expedi tions and the remarkable suooess of gov ernment officials in stopping these ex peditions as contrasted with the feeble efforts of the Spanish authorities to maintain a patrol around the island of Cuba. All these facts were included in Woodford'B note, and while he put them in his own language in presenting them to the Spanish foreign office, it is said the statements conoern only th events which have already been touched upon. FOOLHARDY PROJECT. Captain W. C. Oledrlve, of Boston, to Walk Acroa tbe Atlantic Chicago, Dec. 29. A special to the Times-Herald from New York says: Captain W. C. Oledrive, of Boston, lift planned to walk across the Atlantis ocean. He will begin his journey July i and will be accompanied by Cuutaia W. M. Andrews, famous by reason of iiis voyage aoross tiie Atlantic iu a small boat. It is nothing new for Cap tain Oledrive to promenade the waves. That has been his pleasure and profit these ten years. Captain Andrews, who is to be the companion of the wa ter pedestrian, will journey in a brand new 14-foot small boat and iu this merely repeats a feat performed in 1878 anil again iu 1893. Captain Andrews is the man who has brought about the whole affair. Here is his own state ment: "Inoredible as it may eamn, next year we are really going to walk ami sail down Boston harbor, out onto the oceun and over to Havre, France, through the great bore of the river Seinegand up to Paris, to be there to at tend the exposition of 1900 in our new seagoing shoes and the smallest, fastest und best boat thut ever crossed the At lantic ocean, the Phantom ship. Every vessol we speak on the ocean will re port one of us walking and sometimes towing the bout in culm weather. "The seagoing shoes of Mr. Oledrive are the most wonderful part of the whole affair. They are a pair of cedar boxes five feet long with fins on the bottom and sides. They are very light and capable of sustaining 140 pounds, and as Oledrive weighs only 130 pounds they are as good to him as a steamer's deck." PENSION OFFICE ORDER. It Dealgn Ml to Expedite Dtapoaltlon of Tending Claim. Washington, Dec. 29. A new or der, the enforcement of which it is be lieved will expedite the disposition of pension claims now pending has been issued by Cvmmissiouer Evans. It is as follows: "Hereafter claims for increase of pensions will not be considered within 13 months from the last action, allow ance or rejection." "The necessity of the new order," eaid an official today, "grows largely out of culls mado on the office for state ment of the status of pending cases by means of congress. These culls have been answered to the exclusion of other claims pending, which, it is said, have been taken up in their order. It is only fair to these cases which have not had any consideration that they should be taken up aj promptly as pos sible. San Jose, Cal., Deo. 39. As a result of a Christmas debauch, Lagora Molina, a Chilean woodchopper, met a terrible death near Los Gatos. He drank deeply and with three fellow-workers caroused in his cabin until far into the night Then he took a lighted lump and went into the yard. He stumbled and fell, the lump exploded and tho burning oil ignited his clothing. Ho was burned to death, but his fate was not known until morning, when bis charred body was found.