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.