OREGON CITY COURIER
OREGON CITY HERALD
CONSOLIDATED.
A. V. CHENEY Publisher
JKtomprehenslve Review of the Import-
. ant Happenings of the Past Week
1 Culled From the Telegraph Columns.
The Infanta Enlalie, aunt of
the
ting of Spain, is visiting England.
The president has nominated Ed
tnun D. Wiggin, of Washington, D.
C, to be register of the land office at
Weare, Alaska.
; The Borne correspondent of the Lon
don Times, referring to the rumor that
Italy is about to seize a port in China,
eays he believes it absolutely devoid of
foundation.
Advices reaching New Orleans leave
no further doubt of the loss of the
yacht Paul Jones. Parties are search
ing for the bodies of the unfortunate
members of the pleasure party.
Henry M. Hoyt, assistant United
States attorney-general, has been or
dered by the department of justice to
go to Santiago and advise General
Leonard Wood on legal questions.
The strike of the dock laborers at
Colon, Colombia, is fast assuming a
serious aspect. A batch of 46 Panama
dockmen arrived last night, and stones
and revolvers were fired at the train as
it neared Colon.
Sharkey, the pugilist, and his spar
ring partner, Robert Armstrong, were
arrainged in the municipal court at
Boston and fined $15 each for partici
pating in an exhibition which the po
lice maintained partook of the nature
of a prize fight.
A dispatch from London says: Arch
bishop Ireland, after his visit to Rome,
will oome here to consult with the
Frenon bishops on the subject ol Heck
erisra. The bishop of Orleans has in
vited the distinguished American ec
clesiastic to preside over the fetes in
honor of Joan D'Aio.
A recent dispatch says: The. real
truth as to the situution in the Congo
State is being hidden. The whole
couutry is in a ferment, and the rebel
lion is not being put down. The gov
ernment troops appear to fear the reb
els and the prestige of the whites has
been much impaired.
The greatest gathering in the history
of Alaska Indians is scheduled for Au
gust 10 next at Klawan, on the Chit
kat river. At this grand pot la tub, the
tribal war of the Wrangol and Chilkat
Indians, which has been raging for
many years, will come to an end. It
Is estimated that over 3,000 Indians
will be present.
Chatmcey M. Dopew was elected to
the United States senate from New
York.
Senator Lodge has been re-eleoted
from Massachusetts, and Senator Davis
from Minnesota.
Francis M. Cookrell was elected to
the United States senate by the Mis
souri legislatnie.
; A Are broke out in the Wheeler
mine at Denver, Col., on the night of
the 18th. All the miners escaped.
The fire in oonflned to one room.
A state funeral almost majestic in Its
ImpresBiveness was given the late Rep
resentative Dingloy in the house of rep
resentatives. The secretary of the interior, in
communication witli the house com
mittee on Indian affairs, said an in
vestigation shows the reports of a
threatened uprising of Indians of the
Northern Cheyenne reservation are un
founded. Reports from Pinar del Rio, Cuba,
say that the province is being ravaged
by bandits, who have broken away
from the insurgent forces. Thus far no
great damage has been done, and the
crimes committed are not of a serious
natuie, but the ranks of the outlaws
are constantly inoieasing, and the raids
are becoming mure daring.
At the annual meeting of tho Busi
ness Men's League at St. Louis, two
liundrod merchants and capitalists were
present. A resolution was adopted
iieartily endorsing the aotion of the
delegates from the Btates ami territor
ies comprised in the Louisiana pur
chase in deciding to comniomorate the
event o( tho purchase by holding a
world's fair in St. Louis, and pledging
full support to the undertaking.
The congressional snhconimission on
agriculture and agricultural labor of
the Industrial commission has made
pirblio its syllabus of the topioal plan
of Inquiry on the condition of labor
and capital employed in these pursuits.
The plan is divided Into threo general
heads, via.: Labor employed, capital
employed, and remedial legislation.
Under the general heal of eaoh are
questions on which the tubcomiuission
desires information. They embrace 60
in all, and thoroughly cover the field,
which the auboommisHion baa in hand.
Witnesses making responses to the
questions asked are requited to give
facts' rather than opinions except in
such instances where suggestions art
iuvited.
Minor News Item,
The Connecticut supreme court has
tendered a decision that the property
of Yale university is exempt from tax
ation. -A dispatch from Rio Janeiro states
that the Brazilian congress has ap
proved a treaty of extradition with the
United States.
Miss Virginia Evans, daughter of
"Fighting Hob" Evans, will make
her bow to society dating the present
Washington official season.
LATER NEWS.
The second annual convention tt the
.National Livestock Association is in
session at Denver. Nearly 1,000 dele
gates are present.
Governor Q. A. Culberson has been
elected by acclamation in the Tesas
legislature to be United States senator,
to succeed Roger Q. Mills.
Amalgamation Of the copper mine
interests of the Houghton, Mich., dis
trict and of Montana has been delayed
by the severe i'lnees of Levy Mayer,
Judge E. W. Woodbury, who framed
the first prohibitory liquor law enacted
by the Maine legislature, is dead at
his home in Bethel, in that state, aged
81 years.
The fourth annual convention of the
National Association of Manufacturers
is in session in Cincinnati. It is
thought a full attendance of 1,200
members will be present.
The Spanish minister of war has de
cided to abolish military marshals, to
retire half of the unattached generals
and to greatly reduce the number of
officers on the active list in the interest !
of retrenchment.
A dispatch from Washington says:
There is reason to believe that the va-
canoy in the Anglo-American joint
high commisson caused by the deatli of
Mr. Dingley will soon be filled by the
appointment of Representative Tawney,
of Minnesota.
The commissioners sent by the Cuban
assembly to Washington to learn what,
the Unitod States government will do
about paying the Cuban army, have
sailed for Havana. General Gomez'!
secretary, Captain Kohly, said that the
oommiscion had obtained a part of what
tbey asked.
No more names will be considered
for appointment to any branch of the
postal servioe in Cuba. The postofflce
department has been overwhelmed with
applications for these appointments, 1
and enough eligible names are now on
file to fill all possible emergencies for
five years to come. I
Heavy rains, unusual in this lati
tude at this time of the year, have in
jured the spring crop of sugar oane in
Nicaragua. The coffee crop in Nica
ragua, now being gathered, willVot ex
ceed half of the annual crop. Laborers
are asking high prices to gather the
harvest, and are indisposed to work.
A somewhat serious state of affairs
prevails on board the Philadelphia, !
now in the harbor at San Diego. Since '
the arrival of the vessel, nearly or quite !
80 members of the prew have deserted, I
and of these 18 have been recaptured.
The men say they were denied shore
leave at Central American and Mexican
ports, but promised it when they should
reach an American port, but since ar
riving here very few have been per
mitted to come ashore.
' Boston capitalists are said to have
made aq offer of $3,600,000, Spanish
gold, for the San Jose warehouses and
wharves at Havana. (
Hundreds of cattlemen are in Den
ver to take part in the convention of
the National Livestock Association.
The attendance will he large.
General Russell Hastings, of Massa
chusetts, has been chosen for appoint
ment as director of the bureau of
Amerioan republics, to succeed the lato
Joseph Smith.
Bank notes to the value of 00,000
have mysteriously disappeared from
Parr's bank, in Bartholomew Lano.
London, England. It is supposed that
they have been stolen.
A dispatch from Omaha savs: The
Twenty-second infantry has leceived
orders to move at once for San Fran
cisco. The regiment has orders to sail
from San Franoisco on the 28th.
A bill has been introduced in con
gress which provides that "no person
living in or practicing polygamy shall
beeligiDleto be a member of either
house of congress, nor shall such per
son be permitted to hold seat therein."
The secretary of war has completed
tho organization of a colonial commis
sion to undertake the adjustment ol all
matters of detail respecting the govern
ment of territories aoquired during the
war occupied by the United States
forces.
Rev. Edward H. Audd, who was
thought to have been lost on the Paul
Jones, is alive. The vessel was de
tained in Pass a La Outre so long by
foggy weather that Mr. Budd grew im
patient and left the party, roturuing to
New Orleans.
As a result of the assignment of the
battle-ships Iowa and Oregon to the
Pacific and Asiatio stations respective
ly, and the decision to dispatch the
cruiser Newark to tne raoitio coast, the
commissioned naval forceof the United
States is about equally divided be
tween the two oceans.
The treasury department has given
instructions to the customs officials at
Sitka and Skagway to stop the trans
portation of liquor under convoy from
Canadian ports through the White Pass
to tho Northwest territory. Informa
tion has reached the department that
Instead of being shipped across the bor
der into the territory this liquor has
been teturned secretly to the locality
of Skagway and disposed of thcte, cou
trary to law.
The two richest prima donnas are
Adeline Patti and Sibjl Sanderson.
Pensions have been granted to the
widows of Capt. Atlyn Capron and
Capt. Allyn K. Capron, father and
son, both of whom fell in tho war with
Spain.
Christ Monberger, wbo died in Buf
falo, N. Y., of a fractured skull at the
inch hospital, whistled merry tunes
all through the 100 hours of his mortal
illnets and was unconscious all thf
tin.
OREGON LAW-MAKERS
fVhalley's Grain Bill Is Attracting
More Attention Thau Any
Other Measure.
; Salem, Jan. 24. The bill that is re
ceiving the most attention in the house
just now is the Whalley bill, provid
ing for the creation of the office of
state grain inspector. The bill pro
vides for an appropriation of $2,500
for a commission. The commission is
to consist of three members, to be ap
pointed by the governor. One of the
three is to be the ograin inspector,
whose annual salary shall be $2,500 in
addition to all expenses. The other
two members are to receive $50 a year
each and expenses, as not muoh work
wil be required of them. The bill also
provides for a secretary at $1,000 a
year, a number of chief deputy inspec
tors at $1,800 a year and a number of
other deputies at $85 a month each.
In addition to establishing grain grades
and inspecting all the grain that leaves
or is brought into the - state, the duty
of the chief inspector will also be to
inspect scales at $5 each. . Liberal fees
are allowed for the inspection of grain.
A bill has been introduced in the
house for the protection of upland
birds. The bill is an amendment of
the general game law enacted by the
legislature in 1895. It provides that
every person who Bllall, within the
state of Oregon, between the first day
of January and the first day of Novem
ber of each year, take, kill, injure or
destroy, or have in possession, exoept
for breeding purposes, or sell or offer
for sale any pheasant, Mongolian
pheasant, quail or partridge, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor; provided,
however, that it shall be unlawful,
within the state of Oregon, to kill or
destroy any ring-necked Mongolian
pheasant, or any of the various kinds
of pheasants imported into this state
by the Hon. O. N. Denny, or any
auail, bobwhite or pheasant in that
part of the state of Oregon lying east
of the Cascade mountains. That every
person who shall within the state of
Oregon, at any time enter upon prem
ises not his own with intent to catch,
recover, take or kill any bird or ani
mal, or permit any dog, with which he
shall be hunting, to do so for such
purpose without permission of the
owner or person in charge, thereof, or
shall shoot upon any premises not his
own from any public highway, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor. That any
person violating any of the provisions
of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof shall be punished hy.afineof
not less than $50 nor more than $100,
and in default of payment of fine im
posed shall be imprisoned in the coun
ty jail at the rate of one day for each
(wo dollars of the fine imposed.
In the house this afternoon, the My
ers resolution donating $2,500 worth of
books to members was rescinded, and
indefinitely postponed. A resolution,
directing the sergeant-at-arms to gather
np and restore to the secretary of the
state the stationery and supplies at the
close of the session, was, after a spirit
ed debate, indefinitely postponed.
A bill has been introduced in the.
house touching on railroad taxation, is
being considered by Portland railroad
men. The bill firovides for the lioens-.
ing of railroads, as a substitute for the
established system of taxation, to ap
ply generally exoept on lands not occu
pied as a right of way. It is modeled
after the law prevailing in Wisconsin.
Twer.ty bills were read the second
time and referred to the proper com
mittees, and the following bills were
passed: To require doors of public
buildings to open outward; to provide
for the dissolution of municipal cor
porations upon the payment of all out
standing indebtedness; amending the
code relative to attachments so as to
obviate the necessity of posting notices
on property attached. A petition
was presented from 10 Polk county
lawyers, praying for the tetention of
the second circuit judge in the third
judicial district.
A petition from 129 oitizens of Wash
ington county, for a change in the law
so as to require householders instead
of voters on petitions for saloon li
cences was presented.
A petition praying that the state ap
point three commissioners to buy the
Mount Hood and Barlow wagon road,
the paper bearing the names of 64 resi
dents along the road, was introduced.
Haines, of the special committee ap
pointed at the special session to in
vestigate the Lowenbeig contract at
the penitentiary, submitted a long re
port, allowing that 37,009 was due the
Btate on the contract, part of which
was not secured. It recommended that
$32,600 be Accepted in full payment.
The report was adopted.
Mulkey, of the committee to exam
ine the affairs of tho secretary of Btate,
reported that he had found everything
accurate and satisfactory, and the re
port was tiled.
A joint memorial was passed, urging
the attorney-general and the United
States supreme court to advance oases
affecting the title of settlers to land
in the forfeited Northern Pacific grant
in Oregon.
A formula for the production of
crystal alumium bronze consists of a
powdered aluminum, powdered glass'
in "diamond dust," and sulphate ol '
lino in certain specified proportions.
He Duel Not Clerk Now.
A clerk in an Australian hardwaro
(tore bought the Australian patent
lights to the pneumatic bicycle tire for
$115, and after realizing a fortune
sold his interest for $200,000.
In a new form of drawbridge, aside
from tho c ening and closing mechan
ism, the . Jef feature of interest is, that
gates are provided that close the path
way when the draw is opeu, so it if
impossible to go thr""li
OREGON LEGISLATURE.
Considerable Business Disposed or Our- lt to Rforul Management of the State
ing the Past Week. Insane Asylnm.
Salem, Or., Jan. 21. The. house Salem, Or., Jan. 25. Josephi's bill
disposed of much business during the t reform the svstem of management of
past week, and many new bills were the state insane asvlum, putting the
introduced. Among the proposed institution in the hands of four trustees
measures are bills to change the name appointed by and to act with the gov
of the Ashland college to the Southern ' ernor, was passed by the senate this
Oregon State Normal school, and place j afternoon by a vote of 21 to 6, after a
it under state control, and appropriate I rfebate of an hour and a half. By a
$15,000 for its maintenance; to create Btjn iarger vote, Driver's bill authoriz
estate library commission and asys-ng county courts to employ county
tern of traveling libraries, and appro- prisoners on public roads was passed,
pfiate $5,000 for maintenance the first The defeat of Mulkey's resolution
year, and $3,000 annually thereafter; to limit the introduction of bills to
to exempt honorably discharged sol- the 25th day of the session and an in
diers and sailors from the operation of timation that the matter of the Loewen
the peddler's license law, and to ex-1 berg contraot at the state penitentiary
empt state products from the provisions wouj be le0pened were interesting
of the law; to prohibit altogether the. incidents of the senate proceedings.
sale of cigarettes or cigarette materials
on pain of a fine of $50. A bill incor
porating the town of Dallas was passed.
In the senate Chairman Fulton, of
the judiciary committee, submitted an
adverse report on the bill to add two
judges to the supreme court. Mitchell,
of the oommittee, dissented, but did
not submit a minority report; -
Daly of Lake's bill to extend the
time for counties to pay the state tax
from April 1 to June 1, was passed un
der suspension of the rules, as was his
bill to require , county clerks to ceitify
pension vouchers without charge,
there being no objeotion to either.
WASHINGTON LEGISLATURE.
Foster Ahead for Senator Other Legis
lative ews.
v.j.iip.e., 1 1 i j j . , vaui x. jl l V a
more fruitless ballots for senator were ,
nlvmr.ia tCTnal. 7,,., O 1 1?'. ..
taken in joint session of the legislature
today, each resnlting as follows:- Fos
ter 27, Wilson 27, Humes 21, Ankeny
7, Lewis 24.
Inoluding the one vote detained at
home by sickness, Foster practically
had 28 votes today, the highest num
bei yet attained in the senatorial con
test. In the house the committee on print
ing and supplies was, on motion oi
Kingsbury, instructed to thoionghly
investgiate the subject of state printing
with a view to cheapening the cost ol
public print.ng, it being desirable to
reduce greatly the cost, which is be
lieved to be out of all proportions in
its expensiveness.
House bill 23, making it lawful to
call to the witness-stand and cause to
testify the adverse party to a suit at
law without making him the witness
of his adversary, was passed by unani
mous vote.
Bills introduced were: To license
the keeping for Bale of opium, mor
phine, cocaine, etc.: prohibiting; the
taking of food fishes except with a hook j
and line, on any of the rivers of Puget
sound, whereon hatcheries are located,
or in Skagit bay; to enable receivers,
trustees, guardians, executors, etc., to
give regular surety companies as surety
on nonu; appropnatrng $o, 000 for con-1 pendent battalion, Washington volun
duoting the agricultural experiment ' teer infantry; appropriating $500 for
Btation at Pnyallup; providing for lo- fish ladder at Myers' Falls, Stevens
cal option on the question of hogs as county; appropriating funds to pay
free commoners; imposing a fine of 'employes' judgment against the state;
irom ao to $250 for spearing and dis-
posing of bass, piokrel, carp, trout or
other fish from any stocked lakes.
Killed Thirty Bills.
Olympia, Wash. Jan. 21. The ju
diciary commitfee oi the house today
completed a remarkable record. Out
of 31 bills referred to it for considera
tion, it hai killed 30.
Antl-Contraot Labor Law.
Washington, Jan. 23. The exten
sion of the anti-contract labor law to
Hawaii is strongly uregd in a report
made today by the house committee on
labor. It says thousands of contraot
labobrera, mainly Japanese, have been
taken into the islands since the rais
ing of the United States flag ovei them
On the day following the receipt of the j
news ol annexpation. 2,857 Japanese
laborers were admitted.
Opposed to Seating Roberts.
St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 23. Members
of the reorganized Church of Latter
Day Saints in St. Louis oppose the
seating of Congressman-elect B. II. L. j and providing lor aotion for its re
Roberts, of Utah, on the ground that newal after five years; prohibiting
he is a pronounced polygamist. A . blacklisting; creating a board of five
vote was taken, resulting in the adop- examiners for locomotive engineers at
tion of a resolution requesting congress-1 a salary of $1,200 per annum; making
men from this district to use their nt- it unlawful for any omployer to use
most efforts to prevent seating the any duress to prevent an emiilove from
Utah man.
Shatter In, Merrlam Out.
San Francisoo, Jan. 23. Today, Major-General
Merriam issued an order
relinquishing the command of the de
pFrtment of California. Immediately
thereafter, Major-General Shatter is
sued an order announcing his accession
to the command. General Merriam
will go to Denver to assume command
of the department of the Colorado.
Two Thousand Quakers.
Halifax, Jan. 23. The steamship
Lake Huron, with 2,000 of the 6,000
Quakers who are emigrating to the
Canadian northwest, arrived in quaran
tine tonight. Tomorrow afternoon the
steamer will "proceed to St. Johns, N.
B., where the passengers will land to
take rail to their future home.
Assay Otfloe at Seattle.
Washington, Jan. 23. Senator Wil
son's amendment to the sundry civil
bill, appropriating $50,000 for the
ereotion of an assay office at Seattle,
has been favorably leported..
Transporting Spanish 1'risoners.
Washington, Jan. 23. The war de
partment has issued an invitation for
bids from responsible shipping con
cerns of all nations, for transportation
of Spanish prisoners in the Philippines
from Manila to Spain. v
Favorable Report Ordered.
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Washington, Jan. 20. The enat
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be ambassador to Great Bntain. I
JOSEPHI'S BILL PASSED.
In the house, six bills were passed,
including one carrying an appropria
tion of $25,000 for building and operat
ing salmon hatcheries, and a bill to
appropriate $35,0000 for buying And
operating the flax mill at the peniten
tiary was introduced.
. Other bills passed were Stillman's
bills legalizing marriages contracted
within the six months' limit, and
amending the code relative to actions
for recovery of personal property so
that the defendant, where property is
claimed by a third party, may surren
der the same into the custody of the
court; the Ross bill to abolish private
seals, and Morton's bill to oure defects
in deeds heretofore made.
Many bills were put through formal
readings in both houses. This has been
by far the busiest day of the session,
and a great amount of work has been
" r- - "
accomplished.
Considerably out of the usual order
was the proposition of John H. Albert
to exchange an eligible full blook of
land adjoining the present blind school
for the state's former site of the blind
school, now occupied by the Salem hos
pital, so he might present the property
to the hospital, and the state would at
the same time get more room for the
aoommodation of the blind. The peti
tion went to the printer undei the
rules. The property is estimated to be
worth $1,750.
SENATE SPECIAL SESSION.
AH of Governor Rogers' Appointments
Confirmed.
Olympia, Jan. 25. All of Governor
Rogers' appointments during the past
two years were oonfirmed at a special
session of the senate this afternoon.
The voting for United States senator
today was exciting only when Gunder
son ohanged ..from Humes to Wilson.
Two ballots were taken, although an
effort was made by fusion members to
Hjourn after the 14th ballot. Ballots
today resulted as follows:
Foster, 25;
Ankeny, 8;
Wilson, 28; Humes, 20;
Lewis, 25; Houston, 1.
Bills introduced in the senate were
Appropriating $580 for the relief of
. Captain James Ross, company A. inde-
providing that escheats go to the state
school fund instead of the county school
fund; to rebate interest and penalties
on delinquent taxes assessed prior to
1899, if paid before November 8, 1899;
requiring fire escapes on all public
buildings; authorizing county commis
sioners to spend a portion of the road
fund within city limits.
In the Honse. ' -
In the house the bill prohibiting
betting and selling pools on elections
was reported for indefinite postpone
ment by the committee on elections.
The bill fixing railroad passenger
rates at 8 cents per mile wasreoeived
from the railroad committee oarrying
a 4-cent amendment, and the whole
niatter was referred to the judiciary
wmumiee.
Bills introduced were: Amendinc
the school law so as to enable sohool
boards to expend 25 per cent of the
district inc6me for public improve
ments; all of the Preston senate bills;
making sixyears thelife ofa judgment.
joining a labor organization, under
pain of $100 maximum fine and one
month's imprisonment.
Nominations Confirmed.
Washington, Jan. 2fi. The senate
today confirmed the following nomin
ations: T. A. Winter, to be postmas
ter at Colvillo, Wash.; II. A. Olseten,
register of the land office at Hum,
boldt, Cal.; F. A. Jones, of Ottuma,
la., to be commissioner to examine and
classify lands within the land-grant
limits of the Northern Pacific Company
iu the Helena, Mont., land district.
An Exposition Bill Shelved. v
Washington, Jan. 26. The ways
and means committee today indefinite
ly postponed the bill relating to the
greater America exposition at Omaha,
which was designated to show the re
sources of Cuba, the Philipdines. Porto
Rico and the Ladrones. Favorable ac
tion was taken on the bill permitting
spirits to be shipped in tins, whioh is
designed to secure a larger trade in
Japan.
Payment of Bounties.
Washington, Jan. 26. The whole
question of the payment of bounties to
officers and sailors who participated in
engagements whioh resulted in the de
struction of the Spanish fleets during
the war has been referred by the navy
department to the court of claims.
where the claims will be adjusted un-
der the Bowman-Tucker act. It is not
determined when the cases wi.l be
taken up by the court, but is more than
like,T it wiU be tWQ Tee
Every Available Male Is
Being Recruited.
THIRTY THOUSAND UNDER ARMS
The SoCalled Military Authorities ot
the Philippines Think the Ameri
cans Can Do Nothing.
Manila, via Hong Kong, Jan. 26.
The Independencia today issued a sup
plement containing a dispatch purport
ing to come from' Malolos, the seat of
the rebel government, lt comments
upon the appointment of the commis
sion, and says:
"The Filipinos naturally suspect
these as a new attempt to humbug
them. Both Dewey and Spenoer Pratt
promised us independence if the Fili
pino republic was Btable. The Fili
pinos are disillusioned. They believe
the commission is a l use to gain time,
until they have accumulated forces,
when America, abusing her strength,
will begin a war to ratify her sov
ereignty. "The purchase by the American an- ,
thorities at Hong Kong of a, number '
of steam launches for river work in the
Philippine islands is high handed, un
necessary and vexatious. Domiciliary
visits throughout Manila are exasperat
ing the Filipinos. Their suspicions
are aroused by such actions. The dis
patch of reinforcements is incompatible
with peace, and the appointment of a
commission is 'only a pretext to gain
time. The American seciet police is
acting offensively toward the Filipinos
at Hong Kong, who are British sub
jects." Every available male is being re
cruited, and arms depots are being es
tablished at San Bernardino, Union,
Trinidad and other large towns. The
sin rounding country is being levied on
for supplies, and the Filipino troops
are living on the fat of the land, while
the native villagers are compelled to
subsist on rice.
There is some friction between the
Filipino civil and military officers, but
they aie united on the question of in
dependence. It is estimated there am
fully 30,000 Filipinos under arms, and
it is said that there are nearly 60
Maxim guns at Malolos, some of them
being seoietly acquired.
Cubans Are Wrathy.
Guan'anamo, Cuba, Jan. 26. Cuban
Captain Zerafin, who applied for anj
obtained work on the Santa Cecilia
sugar plantation, near Guantanamo,
harangued the workmen at noon today
and ordered them to leave their work
under penalty of arrest and trial by
courtmartial of the Cuban army. :
The American troops who were guard
ing the plantation arrested Planch and
brought him to Guantanamo. On his
way he told them that he had acted
under the orders of his own officers,
though he refused to give names.
If They Take to the Woods.
Havana. Jan. 26. Should Cuban sol
diers take to the woods and turn ban
dits, the United States military au
thorities will know what to do. They
will be followed by a foroe of cavalry
and presistently pursued. The same
general method will be observed as
has been followed in dealing with the
Indians on the plains and mountains of
the West. The subject has been care
fully considered by old border fighters,
who are confident they could care for
the bandits, notwithstanding the cli
matic conditions.
A Battle In Bolivia.
Lima, Peru, Jan. 28. Acoording to
ad vioes received here from the Desa
guadero district, or inter-Alpine valley,
in Bolivia and Peru, a fierce battle
took place on Januaryl7, at Curibay,
13 leagues from La Paz, the nominal
capital of Bolivia, between the van
guard of the federalist troops, or insur
gents, who now occupy La Paz, and
the vanguard of the forces commanded
by president Alonzo. The latter was
defeated, with a loss of a colonel ami
43' men killed. The insurgents also
captured 60 prisoners. It is added that
desertions from the president's troops
are occurring daily.
Court-Martial Ready.
, Washington, Jan. 26. Ueneral Mer
ritt and most of the members of the
courtmartial which will hear the
chaiges against General Eaganare'in
the city. The court meets at the Ebbitt
house tomorrow morning, and it is not
expected that more than two or three
days will be necessary to complete its
work.
General Eagan will plead not guilty
in a general way, and then he probably
will enter the plea of justification.
Spain's Remaining Islands
London, Jan. 28. The Madrid cor
respondent of the Standard, telegraph
ing with reference to the bill to author
ize the sale of the Carolines or other
islands, says:
"The government, it is understood,
will give the cortes an assurance that
the islands will not be ceded to the
United States, Great Britain, or Japan.
It is expected that other .nations, be
sides Germany, will bid for naval sta
tions in the Mariana islands, and per-"
haps also in the Carolines.
Proclaims a Republic
Chicago, Jan. 28. A special to the
Tribune from Washington says: The
government has been notified that
Agninaldo took a decisive step and pub
licly proclaimed the republic of the
Philippines. The ceremony took place
at Malolos. and was witnessed by the
members of his cabinet. This news
comes from Manila, where the tidings
of Aguinaldo's procedure was received
with mblic demonstrations of a mild
sort.