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DOINGS OF THE WEEK
. Complete Review of the) Telegraphl
vi of Thin and All For
eign Land.
A prominent Chinese physician of
Cleveland offers to enlist a company
of his countrymen, take them to oar
newly-won Philippine possesisons and
teach the Chinese there that American
rule ia what they need.
A special from Jacksonville, Fla.,
cays that three men were killed and
Lieutenant Hart, of the engineer corps,
was badly wounded by the explosion ol
a torpedo which was . being, placed in
the St Johns river about 18 miles
sooth of Jacksonville. How the acci
dent occurred the report does not show,
A Madrid dispatch save; A start
ling telegram from Governor-General
August! caused an impression that Ma
nila bad surrendered already or was on
the eve of surrendering. The latest
report is that Augusti, in a fit of de
spair tried to commit suicide, bat was
prevented from killing himself by Ad
miral Montejo and the generals who
wish to hold oct. The queen regent is
profoundly grieved and alarmed at the
news of the progress of the war, partic
ularly the report from the Philippines.
The war department has issned in
structions for the guidance of o filers of
volunteers dotailed to recruit their or
ganizations to fill them to the maxi
mum nnder the second call of the pres
ident for 75,000 men. Applicants for
enlistment mnEt be between 18 and 45
years old, of good character and habits,
able-bodied, free from disease, and
must be able to speak the English
language. Married men will be only
enlisted on the approval of regimental
commanders. Minors must not be en
listed without the written consent of a
parent or guardian. The term of serv
ice is two years.
Replying to a question in the house
of commons Friday as to whether the
British government or any of the Euro
pean powers have any intention of in
lei ven in g to secure the termination of
the Spanish-American war, Balfour,
the government leader, said: Her maj
esty's government will gladly take
any favorable opportunity for promot
ing a cessation of hostilities and nego
tiations for peace, but any action upon
its part for this purpose oan only be
undertaken if there is a reasonable
prospect that it will be well received
tv both parties and likoly to lead to an
agreement between them. Unfortu
nately there is not. sufficient grounds
for believing that this condition ex
ists." The president has in contemplation
the submission of a special message to
congress calling for the immediate
annexation of Hawaii as a military
necessity.
The Maiblehead on Monday, when
the insurgents bad pressed forward
west of Santiago, shelled the Span
iards, who fled to the mountains,
checkering the path followed in their
retreat with dead aud wounded.
Word has been received from Ottawa,
Canada, that a messenger has left there
with notice of the expulsion from Can
ada of Lieutenant Carnnza and Senor
Du Bosc, the Spanish officers, who
were recently attached to the Spanish
legation at Washington.
The Marblehead engaged and drove a
Spanish gunbout into Uunntanamo har
bor and shelled and reduced the anti
quated fortifications. The insurgents
co-operated on the land side. The place
is being held until troops arrive. It
is contemplated to establish a general
base there.
Sampson has offloially declared that
the purpose of the bombardment of
Santiago was to clear the way for the
troops. The object has been attained,
He personally commended Ensign
Palmer for approaching within 150
yards of the Spanish battery at night.
and learning thut the Spaniards were
mounting guns.
Suspootod of having furnished the
Uuited States with information regard
ing San Juan heritor, Walter Bott, sec
retary of the British consulate at that
port, has received his passports and
lias lieen banished from Porto Rioo by
order ol Uovornor-Ueuoral Maiicios.
Butt was imprisoned in a dungeon for
60 hours, and dining that time he was
subjected to gross maltreatment. Brit
ish Consul-General Crawford has made
a formal portost to his government and
serious international complications ore
imminent.
Tho Amorican naval commander
anxious to bring about the exchange of
Lieutonaut Hubson and his gallant
companions from the Merrimao. The
admiral sent tho Vixen with a flag of
truce to the entrance oi the harbor
Wednesdeay offorlng to exobange for
the lieutenant and his party sonio pris
oners taken from a prize of the Marble-
head off Cleiifuogos. Cervera ooiiBld
ered the matter all night, and sent
word today that he is powerless to act.
He re tot rod tho matter to the military
governor, who later in turn referred it
to Blanco. A long delay is drobuble.
There are believed to bo only 18,
00 Spanish troops in Porto Rico.
It is said that the populace ot Man
ila is reduced to eating horseflesh.
Spaniards in the Canary Islands live
in dread ot bombardment by the
American fleet.
The Russian Jew ot Cincinnati,
have started a rnovemont among their
countrymen thioughout the United
States and are raising money to buy
battleship tor the government,
LATER NEWS-
Twenty-three vessels, taken since the
war opened, are to be sold under tbe
hammer at Key West Monday.
Thirty-five hundred soldiers left
Camp Merri'.t Tuesday and marched
to the transport steamers which are to
take them to the Philippines.
A general order has been issued by
the war department to the effect that
no native Philippine islander shall be
enlisted in tbe army of the United
States.
The Neue Freie Press, of Vienna,
says Spain has requested the powers to
urge the United States to occupy
Manila should the town surrender, and
not allow the insurgents to do so.
The Porto Rico invaders will embark
within the next 10 .days. The entire
attention of the war department will
now be turned to getting this second
Atlantic coast expedition under way as
soon as possible.
Captain Pierson, of the. sohooner
Rnstler, which has arrived in Victoria
from Cook's inlet, states that the
schooner Alton, which sailed from
Tacoma recently for the North, carry
ing a crew of six men, ia believed to
have been lost dnring the severe gale
which occurred on May 27.
The captain of tbe schooner Lapwing,
which has just returned from Alert bay,
reports that nine sternwheel steamers
of the Moran fleet of eleven, were seri
ously damaged while attempting to
cross Queen Charlotte sound. The in
jured vessels put in at Port Alexander,
where.they will be repaired.
Advices from Shanghai to the Frank
fort Zeitung of Berlin, say news has
been received from Manila to tbe effect
that there is fighting every night
around tbe town. The insurgents, it
seems, are trying to capture Manila
and establish an independent govern
ment before tbe Americans land.
A dispatch from Admiral Sampson
dated at Mole St. Nicholas says: Lieu
tenant Blue has just returned after a
detour of 70 statute miles of observation
of the harbor of Santiago. He reports
that tbe Spanish fleet ia all there, and
that tbe Spanish attacked vigorously
the camp at Gnantanamo. An outpost
of four marines were killed and their
bodies mutilated, barbarously. Surgeon
Gibbs was killed.
There was a reneweal on Sunday o
the Spanish attacks upon the force of
marines' landed at Gnantanamo Friday
night. Tbe fighting is said to have
lasted all through Sunday night, Camp
McCalla and Crest hill being attacked
by greatly superior forces of the Span
ish. The battle-ship Texas, gunboat
Marblehead and collier Abaranda sup
ported tbe marines by directing fire
upon the coast and particularly the
bushes which all through these en
counters have served to screen the
movement of the Spaniards.
The steamer Skagit Chief ran against
rock in the Stickeen river and was
wrecked.
Tbe three Philippines expeditions
are to nnite at Honolulu and oonolude
their voyage in company.
The war department has no inten
tion of further increasing the strength
of the Manila expedition.
From 10,000 to 15,000 troops con
voyed by Sampson's battle-shir are ex
pected to constitute the invading expe
dition to Porto Rica
Mrs. A. Hummer, wife of Chief En
gineer Kummor, of the steamer Wild
wood, committed suicide at Port Town-
send by jumping off the wharf into the
Sound.
Word has been received at tbe navy
department at Washington from a high
though unofficial source that Admiral
Camara's Cadiz fleet has been found
unfit for sea.
When the Dauntless left Gnanta
namo bay Monday morning the cable
steamer Adria was grappling for the
llaytien coble. Tbe cable Is to be
spliced and Sampson will hold it for
direct communication with Washing'
ton.
Immediately upon information from
the White House that tbe wur revenue
bill bad been signed by tbe presidont,
Secretary Guge issued a circular ex
plaining to the publio the proposed
bond issue. That circular invites sub
scriptions for 200,000,000 ol 8 per
cent bonds.
It was formally announced at tbe
war department Monday morning thut
the first military expedition bad left
Key West at daybreak bound for San
tiago. A large foice of transports cod
veyed the troops under convoy of
strong squadron ol warships ranging
from immense battle-ships to tbe small
gunboats and armod fust sailing yachts.
Major-General Shatter, who commands
the expedition, has with him a foroe of
773 officers and 14,534 enllstal men.
Regular trooi8 make np the greater
part of the foroe, there being only
three volunteer organizations On the
ships. It was difficult to prevail upon
the mounted rihVaien to leave their
mounts behind, but this was matter
of necessity, it is said, owing to the
luck of accommodation for horsos on
ship board. The best the department
could do at this time in tho way of sup
plying the cavalry contingent for tho
expedition was to include among tbe
troops one squad of the Second United
States cavalry, fully mounted with nine
officers aud 280 enlisted men.
Marine insurance companies are
greatly agitated over Spain's new
threat ot privateering.
The wonderful submarine torpedo-
boat Holland has been bought by the
government.
The war has caused an immense de
crease in first and second-class ocean
travel.
A high fence has been erected all
around the Carpenter Steel works t
Heading, aa further protection
Iroui spies.
FROM SANTIAGO
A Disastrous Engage
ment Without Good
Results.
SPANISH ACTIVITY UNCHECKED
Marblehead Bender Valuable Aid to
tbe Insurgent Farther Detalli of
tbe Engagement An Ensign's Ac
tion Commended by Sampson.
Off Santiaog, June 15. Approxi
mately, $200,000 worth of ammunition
was expended on Monday's bombard
ment, but apparently it has not checked
Spanish actrvity-on tbe earthworks.
Monday afternoon tbe lookout men on
tbe Brooklyn saw a boat approaching
from a point about four miles west of
El Morro. The Vixen went out to meet
it, and brought to the flagship three in
surgenta.who asked for a vessel to shell
a Spanish force with which the insur
gents were then engaged near the shore.
The Marblehead, which had been do-
ins target practice, was sent on this
mission, and soon scattered the Span
lards, with the result that the insur
gents captured the Spanish camp,
tents and a quantity of amumnition.
One of the Marblehead's shells killed a
Spanish captain and a lieutenant,
ENTRANCE TO THE HARBOR AT SANTIAGO.
fatally wounded a surgeon ond injured
several soldiers. While the work of
arming and feeding the- insurgents is
pushed vigorously, the Spaniards in
Santiago ate reported suffering from an
incipient famine, and a Cuban officer
off shore yesterday asserted that the
guerillas were deserting in force to the
insurgents, yesterday, vjommanuer
Delhanty, with the gunboat huwonee,
armed 8,000 Cubans with rifles, am
munition and machetes. Today lie
landed 8,000 rifles, 80,000 rounds of
ammunition, a large consignment ol
machetes, a quantity of medioine and
several tons of bacon.
The Cubans are very active, express
ing tire greatest confidence and promis
ing to maintain a close blockade of San
tiago on the land side. The insurgents
represent their number as rapidly in
creasing. Certainly tbey have shown
their ability in the neighborhood oi
Guantanamo, where tbey have posses
sion of the railway termini. The hne
harbor there will make a good American
base.
The insurgents say they watched the
bombardment from the hills in tho
rear of Santiago, and as many as 300
Spaniards were killed, and several guns
were dismounted, lerriuie eecuuou
was wrought bv the 13-inch shells from
the Texas. If their statement can be
relied on, the .Spanish garrison at San
tiago is on half rations, and the town
itself is even much worse off, the mili
tary authorities refusing to sell citizens
provisions at any price.
On Sunday night, June o, tr.sign
Palmer took the New York's launch ou
harbor picket duty, ond another launch
was sent from the Oregon. Ensign
Palmer was obliged to go within 150
yard9 of tbe batteries. The Spaniards
opened a heavy tire, out rainier kept
his position regardless of the ehells.
Ilis orders were not to go nearer than a
mile from shore. Ensign Palmer and
the orew got back safely. hen Ad
mlral Sampson heard of the shooting,
be said to Palmer:
"You were ordered not to go nearer
shore than a mile."
Those were my orders," replied
Ensign Palmer, "but, sir, I was also
told to see that no torpedo-boats came
out With only two boats, I could not
be sure thut none came out, unless I
went right under the batteries."
The admiral replied:
"You were perfecftly right, Mr.
Palmer. That's the kind of stuff of
which officers of tho United States are
made."
Ambulance Ship Near By.
Washington, June 15. By a fortu
nate coincidence the naval ambulance
ship Solace arrived off Santiago yester
day, and was available at onoe to tuke
tho wounded marines who participated
in tbe fight at Crest hill. The dead
will be buried in Cuba. With actual
warfare going on, the usual methods
must bo followed, and it is said that
they will not permit the removal of the
dead from the point ot action.
Ilobson In Good Health.
Washington, June, is. in response
to an inquiry, General Linares, of the
Spanish army at Santiago, cabled the
following reply:
"llobson and the other seven prison
ers are well, and are in receipt of all
cablegrams sent to them."
Washington, June 15. The presi
dent signed the war tevenue bill at 8
P. M, Tbe measure having been pre
viously signed by Vice-President Ho-
brt and Speaker Rood, is now a law,
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Secretary Gate Calls for Subjcrlptlon
fur Two Hundred Millions.
Washington, June 15. Upon in-
formation from the White House that
the wai-revenue bill bad been signed
by the president, Secretary Gage issued
the following circular, explaining to
the public the proposed bond issue:
"Treasury Department, Office of the
Secretary, Washington, June 15, 1898.
The secretary of the treasury invite6
sbuscriptions from the people of the
United States for $ 200,000,000 of the
bonds of the 3 per cent loan authorized
by the act of congress approved June
13, 1898. Subscriptions will.be re
ceived at par for a period of 32 days,
tbe subscription being open from this
date to 3 o'clock P. Mon the 14th day
ot July, 1898. The bonds will be
issued in, both coupon and registered
form, the coupon bonds in denomina
tions of $30, $100, 500 and $1,000,
and the registered bonds in denomina
tions of $20, $100. $500, $1,000, $5,000
and $10,000. ".They will be dated
August 1, 1898, and by their terms will
be redeemable in coin at the pleasure
of the department 10 years after the
date of their issue, and due and pay
able August 1, 1908.
"The bonds will bear interest at the
rate of 8 per cent per annum, payable
quarterly; the interest on the coupon
bonds will be paid by means of coupons
to be detached from the bonds, as the
interest becomes due, and the interest
on the registered bonds will be paid by
checks drawn to the order of the payees
and mailed to their addresses. The
law authorizing this issue of bonds pro
vides that in allotting said, bonds the
several subscriptions of indviduals
I shall be first accepted and the subsorip
tions of the lowest amounts shall be
first allotted. In accordance with that
provision allotments to all individual
subscribers will be made before any
bonds will be allotted to other than in
dividuals. .
Allotments on subscriptions lor over
$500 will not be made until ufter the
sub8criptiion, July 14, and will then
be made inversely according to the size
pf the subscription, the smallest sub
scription being first allotted, theu the
next in size, and so on, preferences be
ing given individual Subscriptions.
Persona subscribing for more than $500
must send in cash oi certified checks to
the amount of 2 per cent of the sum
subscribed for, such deposit to consti
tute a partial payment, aud to le for
feited to the United States in the event
of failure on the part of the subscriber
to make full payment for bis subscrip
tion, according to the terms of the cir
cular. Allotments to subscribers for
more than SoOO will lie made as soon
as possible after tho subscription closes
In order to avoid a too lapid ab
sorption of funds into the treasury,
witb a possible consequent evil effect
on industry and eomninrce, any sub'
scribei for more than $500 will be per
mitted to make his allotment of bonds
in installments of 20 per cent, taking
the first installment within 10 days
after the notice of the allotment, and
the balance at equal intervals of 40
davs each, in four installments each of
20 per cent of the bonds ulotted.
"The 2 per cent dejiosit will apply
in the final statement. Any subscriber
may pay for the whole amount alotted
him within 10 days from the date of
tbe notice of his allotment. Interest
will be adjusted Irom the time ol ac
tual payment, whether paid in one sum
on its installments as permitted. Sep
arate subscriptions from one individ
ual, although mude from time to time,
will be aggregated and considered as
one subscription. The secretary will
receive in payment for the bonds post
office money orders, payable at Wash
ington, and ohecks, bank drafts and
express money orders, collectable in
New York, Bostou, Philadelphia, Bal
timore, Washington, Cincinnati, Chi
cago, &t. ixjuis, rtew urieans ana sau
Francisco.
"The bonds will be dated August 1,
1898, and they will be delivered to sub
scribers free of expense for transpor
tation as soon after date as possible.
The bonds will be accompanied by a
check, for the amount of the interest
due to the subscriber from the date of
his payment to August 1, 1898.
"All remittances and other commun
ications relative to this loan should bo
addressed to the secretary of the treas
ury, division of roans and currency
Washington. All subscriptions must
lw received at the treasury department
Washington, not later than 3 P. M
Wednesday, July 14, 1898. No sub
script ioiih!received after that date and
hour will bo considered.
"L. J. GAGE, Secretary.
Spain Fall of t
Madrid. June 15. A semi-official
note issued today emphatically ooutra
dicta all American reports of operations
in Cuba, and even denies that the
Americans effected a landing in Guan
tanamo bav or elsewhere. Ihe note
concludes: "The European powers will
make mistake in imagining that
Spain is discouraged and at the end of
her resources. On the contrary Spain
ia full of hope and determination to
continue tbe war."
THE NEW BONDS.
FIRST LAND FIGHT
JcirinCS at GuantanaillO
1
Attacked by bpan-
ish Troops.
FOUGHT ALL SATURDAY NIGHT
Oar Losses Were Four Men Killed and
Eleven Wounded Assistant Surgeon
Olbbs Among the Former The En
emy's Loss Is Not Known.
Off Guantanamo, via Mole St. Nich
olas, June 14 Lieutenant, R. W.
Huntington's battalion of marines,
which landed from the transport Panther
Friday and encamped on the hill,
guarding the obandonod cable station
at the entrance of the harbor of Guan
tanamo, has been engaged in heading
off a rush attack by Spanish guerillas
and regulars since 5 o'clock Saturday
afternoon
The fighting was almost continuous
for 13 hours, until 0 o'clock this morn
ing, when reinforcements were landed
from the Marblehead.
Four of our men were killed and 11
wounded.
The advance pickets, under Lieuten-
auts Neville and Shaw are unaccounted
for.
Among the killed is Assistant Sur
geon John Blair Gibbs, son of Major
Gibbs, of the regular army, who fell
in the Custer massacre. His home was
at Richmond, Va., but he has been
practicing in New York, and entered
the servioe since the war began. He
was a very popular officer.
The others killed are Sergeant Chns.
H. Smith, of Sinallwood; Private Wil
liam Dunphy, of Gloucester, Mass.,
and Private James McColgan, of Stone
ham, Mass.
Corporal Glass was accidentally
wounded in tho hand.
The Spanish loss is unknown, but it
was probablv considerable. The spots
of blood found at daylight at the posi
tion the Spanish occupied indicate
fatalities, but their comrades carried
off the killed and wounded.
The engagement began with desul
tory firing ut the pickets, 100 yards in
land from the camp.
Captain Spioer s oompany was doing
guard duty, aud was driven in, finally
rallying at the camp aud routing the
enemy by 5 o'clock.
The bodies of Private MoColgan and
Dunphy were f jund, "both shot dead.
The large cavities made by the bullets,
which, inside a range of 500 yards,
have a rotary motion, inditate thut the
victims were killed at close range. Tho
bodies were stripped of shoes, huts
and cartridge belts, aud horribly muti
lated with matchetes. "
When the marines were landed tho
whole battalion was formed on thiee
sides of a hollow square about the
camp on the bill buck of the buy,
where the warships were at anchor.
Back of the camp is a deep ravine, and
behind this aro steep hills. The adja
cent country is thick with bushes.
The skv wus blanketed with clouds
and when the sun set a gale was blow
ing seaward. Night fell thick und im
penetrable. Tbe Spanish squadron,
concealed in the chapparal covei, had
the advantage, the men furnishing a
fine target against the sky. The' Span
ish fought from cover till midnight,
discoverable only by tho flashes from
their guns. The repeaters sounded
like crackers in a barrel.
Tho Marblehead's launch, with a
Colt machine gun in her bow, pushed
up the bay enfilading the Spaniards,
and it is thought thut some were killed.
The marines trailed much blood
to the water's edge, and there lost it.
Sharks are numerous in the vicinity.
The ships threw their searchlights
ashore, the iwworful eyes sweeping tho
deep tropical foliage and disclosing oc
casionally skulking parties of Span
iards .
Each discovery of the enemy was
greeted by tho cracks of carbine fire
along the edge of the camp ridge or by
the long roll of the launch's machine-
gun searching the thickets with leaden
stream.
Shortly after midnight came tho
main attack. The Spaniards made a
gallant cnarge up the southwest slope,
but were met by repeated volleys from
main body, and broke before they wero
one-third of the way up the hill, but
they came so fur that at points there
was almost a hand-to-hand struggle.
The officers fired their revolvers.
The Spaniards got through the open
formation to the edge of the camp.
Colonel Jose Campaui, the Cuban lead
er, discharged his revolver and the Cu
bans, turning and finding themselves
without support, ran helter skelter
down the reverse side of the hill.
It was during this assault that As
sistant Surgeon Gibbs was killed. Ha
was shot in the head in front of his
own tent, the farthest point of attack.
He fell into the arms of Private Sulli
van and both dropped. A second bul
let threw dust in their faces. Surgeon
Gibbs lived 10 minutes, but did not
regain consciousness. The surgeons ot
the hospital corps then removed their
quarters to the trenches, about tho
Spanish stockade, north of the camp.
The attacks were continued at inter
vals through the rest of the night, with
firing by small squads in various di
rections. Toward morning the fire slackened.
Dawn is the favorite time for attack,
and as the east paled, the marines, ly
ing on their guns, weie aroused. Some
were actually asleep, as they had had
no rest for 43 hours, and tired nature
could no longer stand the strain.
FLEET IS OFF.
The Army of Invasion Sails From Key
West, Shafter In Command.
Washington, June 14 Under com
mand of General Shafter, (he first di
vision of the army sailed tonight from
Key West for Santiago do Cuba to be
Beige and capture that town. The con
voying warships, believed to number
10 or 19, will be ready for the voyage
by nightfall, and i with this powerful
force there Is no longer reason for ap
prehension that the transports can be
attacked successfully by any Spanish,
warships, even if such ships had es
caped the vigilant search of the naval
commanders at Key West and off Hav
ana
It Is believed here that the sally out
of Havana of the three Spanish gun
boats was intended to create the im
pression that they wero prepared to at
tack the transports. If so, the plan
miscarried, for the oraft were detected
immediately by Commodore Watson's
cruisers and driven back pell mell into
Havana harbor under the protection of
the guns of the shore batteries.
Even if these boats had escaped they
could have done no dumage, for the size
pf the convoy furnished for tho troop
ships is sufficient to warrant the belief
that they would have beej speedily de
stroyed had tbey bad the courage to
make an attack upon the fleet of Amer
ican ships.-" The Spanish boats are not
of formidable character, not one of
them being equal in power of the
smallest American cruiser, or even oi
such gunboats as the littlo Bancroft,
which may be used as General Shat
ter's flagship.
Everv precaution has been taken by
the government to insure the safety of
the troops en route to Cuba. The naval
war board was in session today making
the final preparations for the disposi
tion of the guardships. The transports
will be kept as closely together as safe
navigation will permit, and the war
ships will be disposed of ahead, astern
and on each flank. Tbe fleetest scout
ing vessels will be thrown far astern,'
ready to signal the heavily-armed
cruisers at the first sign of an approach
ing foe.
The troops should arrive off Santiago
by Wednesday night, supposing the
fleet proceeds at eight knots speed, and
landing oerationB Ehould begin by
Thursday, for General Shafter will not
keep his men cooped up on shipboard
a moment longer this necessary.
WRECK AT GLENDALE.
ltrakeman Stephen I). Willis Crushed
to Death.
Rosoburg, Or., June 14. North
bound freight train No. 81, pulled by a
large engine, was derailed about 11:45
A. M. today near tJnnel No.j5, eight
miles north of Glendale. Tbe engine,
tender and five cars jumped the track.
It is supposed the truck spread.
Stephen D.Willis, head brak9man, and
Al Veatch, brakemon, were riding on
the pilot. Willis evidently saw the
danger as the train rounded tho onrve,
Hnd jumped. He was stunned by the
full and the engine turned over on him
before be could escape. He was in
stantly killed. Veatch was thrown
ahead on the track and was only slight
ly bruised. Eegineer Dempsey and the
fireman were thrown from the engine
as it rolled over. Dempsey was bruised
and cut about the faoe, not seiiously.
The fireman was not hurt at all.
A wrecking train, with physicians,
and "William R. Willis, father of the
brakeman killed, left soon after the ac
cident occurred.
LAKES ARE CLEAR.
Navigation Opened on I.lmlemnnn
and
Uemiett,
Port To'.vnsend, June 14. The pas
sengers of the steamer Cottage City,
which arrived tonight from Alaska, re
port Lake Lindeman clear of ice. Two
steamers are running day and night
taking miners across. Eight scows
laden with supplies were smashed in
the ice on Bennett, losing everything
aboard.
Three hundred men have succeeded
in reaching the interior of Western
Alaska via Yukutat bay. Parties arriv
ing from there state rich diggings have
been struck on Alsace river.
Speedy justice has bfen meted out
to tlie murderers of Sam Roberts, a
gambler, at Dyea. He was killed
about three months ago, just as he was
entering his cabin. Fitzpatrick re
ceived a life sentence at San Quentin,
while Brooks and Corbett, his accom
plices, were sentenced to 10 years.
Protection for the Troops.
Washington, June 14. Senator Ba
con, of Georgia, had a conference with
the president today concerning the re
ported yellow fever in the South. Sen
ator Bacon advised tbe president to see
to it at once that the United States
forces in the South be removed from
the region of contagion. The matter
has been referred by the president to
Surgeon-Goneral Wyman, with instruc
tions to make a report on it at the
earliest possible moment.
South African War brewing.
London, June 14. The Cape Town
correspondent of the Mail says: War
between the Transvaal and Swaziland
may break out at any moment. The
Swuzi king has 20,000 warriors well
armed and drilled, and there is much
anxietT in tho Transvaal.
Pan Francisco, Cal., June 10. The
litigation waged for three years to a
successful issue b.r Alphonso B. Bow
ers against all builders and users of
Bteam river and harbor dredges is about
to be revived. Bowers recently brought
suit against the United States govern
ment for damage to the extent of $500,
000, alleging infringments of patents
as his cause of aotion. The govern
ment Is actively engaged in preparing
its defense, and the suit will soon be
brought to trial.