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,aHnSS?!wSS!BBj5 SflFS The Nfi f -aprf ' PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1900. . JjJL.. NO. 5. jpJjrlTy'''jl??,Vj'''l','''-tJ- gc '- --' :.JkiJ'i J -. - j, f -. . ' -" jrf'-IWi&.miiiXtyJ&:i. ..-t.,i)..i,. tauigaB m9BKKW9lftSfWmm r!'' Z- - : " ' '"7 '& l gMT Mat MMMr ' ' K i$y ... . - fl ; VOL. V. : : m. 1 M. - -- 1 . . !. l 1 - ' I ,- a KB& IK WiWk.J FIRST NATIONAL Delimitated Depositary and Financial Agent of the United fltatne. rrestaent, M. W.Corbettj cashier, E. 0. Wlthliigtoni aml-.tant caahter, J. W. Newklrkt iecqie assistant caihicr. W. C. Alvord. Lettereef eredlt Ued, atalUela In Kurepe and the Eaatern Btstta. Bight exchange ana leUgraphlo transfers aold on New York, floaton, Chicago, St. Paul, Omaha, Ban FrancUco, and the principal points In the Northwest. Sight and time bill, drawn in lumi to autt on London, Parfi, Berlin, Frankforl-on-the-Maln, Hong Kong. Colleoiloni made on farorable terma at all accesilbla polnti. LADD It TILTON, BANKERS SSKotf! established In I860. TRANSACT A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS. Interest allowed on time deposits. Collection! made at nil polnti on farorable tormi. Letters ol oredlt Issued available in Europe and the Eaitern.atatea. 8lht aiohango and Telegraphlo Trnniferi cold on Now York, Waghlngtca, Chicago, 8t. Louie, Denver, Omaha, San Francisco and variona points in Ore ion, 'Washington, Idaho, Montana and British Colombia. Exchange sold on Loudon, Parle, Berlin, Fraflkfort and Hong Kong. The United States National Bank Transaots a General Banking Business. Drafte Issued available in all cltica of the United States and Europe. TYLER WOODWARD, President. JACOB KAMM, Vice-Tre.la'aat. F. C. MILLER. Caahier. aeaaM Vaaaaaf i flaP- aeaaaaaaNeVVB tsMP tv Blumauer-Frank Drug Co., wnoicsuc uistributors, OF ALL Plonr Mill and Warebouse MacMnery Silk and Wire Bolting: Cloth of all numbers. Cotton, Leather and Chain Belting- of all sizes. The only Exclusive Mill Supply House. CROFUT, M'AYEAL & CO., Telephone Grant 861. 49 FIRST STREET. ii KUSALANA" Is the very finest grade of CEYLON TEA. Other brands are not JUST AS GOOD. KUSALANA k packed In one pound lead packages, put up In. Ceylon, while the - tea is tull Vtun and AKOWA l iU U Corbitt $c Macleay Co.. Tea Importer. Usd and Immigration Agents M L. CAUSEY, The Causey Real Estate Co. Farm, Fruit and Timber Lands, Stock Ranches, Mining Properties. J J o j J Office: Foley-Roche Building. NO MORE BACKACHE! OREGON KIDNEY TEA Cures Backache. Kidney, Uver and Bladder trouble. Non.Hetentlon of Urine. BrlckOust Ibebowela and aiding nature In throwing oft that vrhloh make. yellow skin, the effect os the COMPLEXION ti quite pronounced, as a few days' uae will demonstrate. OVERLAND WAREHOUSE Finest and Most Central A GENERAL STORAGE BUSINESS Storage Rates SPENCER-CLARKE CO., L.e... J3pgafHB3ggMsgS2sl v a lama nMSICIU 29 t 8 First Street, POSTLA Ml (Alum m DVTIbll 84aa8 BANK 0,Ktf.ND Beau Brum me! The Best 5 Cent Cigar Made For Sale bg All Dealers. 144-146 Fourth Street. PORTLAND, OR. KIINDS your deaUr bas not eot It be can eat It trom us. PORTLAND, OR. teaa aad Iosurauce AgtaU General Manager. LA GRANDE, OR. Storehouse in the City. TRANSACTED. Cheap Im Reasonable. Cor. Fourth and Davis. ENGINES,BOILERS, MILL SUPPLIES. WORTHINGTON STEAM PUMPS, Pumping- Plants or any Capacity, Wllfrey Concentrators, S. P. Air Compressors and Giant Drills, Mining- Hoists, Cars, ate.. Hoe Chisel Tooth Saws. Saw Mills, Shingle Mills and Woodworker Machinery. Pittsburg- Boiler Scale Resolvent, (No charge If not satisfactory), ALBANY CREASE. Frtmont St., S. F. ' 1 NEWS OF-1 Wi From All Parts of the New World and the Old. OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS Oomprnhan.lve Itoi lew of the Import, ant Ilnppcnlng;. or the Vast Week Culled From the Telegraph Column Tho Boer peace commlBglon 1b coming to America. General Olivier is reported to be wounded. President MoKinley signed the Hawaiian bill. ' Governor Plngreo, of Michigan, Iihs turned Democrat. Four deputy fleh comnUaslouora are watching tho (JlnckaniaB rivor. It 1b now known that Captain Carter's gigantic steal will roach S3, 000,000. Many thousands of peoplo grootod Admiral Dowoy ou his arrival at Chi cajjo. dovornor Taylor has returned to Kentucky. No warrant was served on him. Washington courts have dcclarod ffiO.OOO worth of Olympla warrants to bo illogul. Nino pooplo wofo killed by tho fall ing of a condemned bridgo at tho Paris exposition. llobortH mtist havo moro horses bo foro ho cau advance Loudon complains of his slowness. By a voto of '.'0 to 20 tho sonnto ro fuBed to consider tho resolution of sym pathy with tho Boors. Charles lucersoll, ol Uhlca, N. Y., an embezzling county 'treasurer, was arrested in Sun 1'ranolsco. Goriuan ollloiuls at Washington think that Secretary Hoot's BK)ocli on tho Monroe doctrine was aimed at thoir country. Torost fires aro raging furiously north of Fish, Mich,, and the. property dam age will be .largo. Tho town of Amoa baa been wiped out. a . "The Boor forces hare amoved' from Tlmbanchu to h 'stronger position, and General French has abandoned the effort to capturo tho burghers. Tho American chamber of commerce at Manila has entered a protest against tho oxcessivo taxation oxaatod by tho military government under General Otis. William F. Miller, manager of tho Frauklin syndicate, who was recently couvictod of grand larcdhy, was sou- toucod in Brooklyn to 10 yearn' im prisonment. Tho first batalllou of tho Fourtoenth Unitod States infantry, which has beoa in quaraatino, has hiudod at the reser vation wharf at tha'Presidio, San Fran cisco, after two years of continuous fighting in tho Philippines. Three persons wore drownod at Port Gamblo, Wash., by the cupsizing of a sail boat. Firo destroyed tho building occupied by the Atlas Brewing Company, of Chi cago. Loss 200,000. At an Indian faiuinomass motting in Now York, $1,007 was contributed. Helen M. Gould plodgod $200. Georgo O. Tod, formerly of Ken tucky, a brotlior-in-law of President Lincoln, dlod at Bnruwoll, S. C. Desk Sergeant Timothy fi. O'Connoll, of the Wood lawn polico station, Chi cago, was shot and killed by footpads. Mayor Harrison -has issued an appeal to citizens of Chicago to use their in fluence in settling the labor troubles thoro. Tho Berlin prera says Lord Roberts has blundered in believing that the southern half of Orauge Free State was fortified. Senor Perfecib Lacosto has accepted the office of secretary of agriculture or Cuba, made vacant by the resignation of General Ruiz Rivers. British ammunition wagons passing through Basntolaud were stopped by Jiasutos, who informed General DeWet. Tho British were forced to retire. The British government has issued ordors for tho clearing of all the hos pitals at Cape Town, with u view to providiug for future contingencies. Mrs. M. I. Warfleld Clay, the dl- 'vorced wife of Hon. Casslus M. Clay, sage of Whitehall, died, 80 years old. She was the mother of iirutua J. Clay, Floods in Texas continue unabated, and hundreds of families are moving from the submerged district. The rainfall has been the heaviest siuoe 1853. In the accident at Matanzas, Cuba, which resulted iu tho death of the wife of General Wilson, governor of the de partment of Matauzas, Santa Clara, the daughter, who was driving with her, was also burned, though not seri ously, while endeavoring to extinguish the flames. Mrs. Wilson's hands were so badly swollen before death that it was fo"und necessary to cut the rings from her fingers ia order to give bet relief. LATER NEWS. Four.minors perished iu a fire in n nine Bear Roanoke, Va. Mankacsy, tho celebrated painter, diedjat'Bonn, Gonnauy. Michigan Democrats want Charles A.,Towno for Bryan's running mato. AB.eight'hour day has been secured by Ney England building trades jour neymen. Salt Lake capitalists' have bought tho Iowa'ttroup of mines in tho Baker city district for S80.000. A dozen vessels havo already loft Seattle for Capo Nomo. Opinions vary as tovhon thoy will got thoro. SUn Secretary IWtz, of th'o Trans- vaalJJsAyfl tho Boors will movo to America if dofcatod. -ar . Twenty.two shops in Chicago aro completely tied up, owing to the boiler makers' strike .'Roberts will advance on Pretoria front Kimbcrloy, Bloemfontoin and Na tal, simultaneously. Twenty Americans w'oro killed in an engagement with insurgents at Catu big, oa tho island of Satnar. Senator Hanna believe the Republi cans will havo fully "as hard a battlo this year as thoy had iu 1800. Bankors eatitnato that Americans will spend $40,000,000 moro tlmu us ual a bi'o'nd this year, owing to tho Paris exposition. D. J. Sinolalr, postofllco inspector connected with the. St. Louis forco, has been appointed chief postolllco inspec tor of, Porto Rico. General Mcnfit's roqnost for rotiro moutlias boon granted, Genoral Brooko succeeding him as commander of the department of tho Fast. Many small yachts and tugboats bought for uso during tho Spanish war, are rotting in tho navy yurd and tho government will sell thorn. The Northwest Episcopal genoral conferee ce, by a unanimous voto, do ilded to admit equal lay representation o all Methodist conferences. Two hundred Klondike miners are stampeding up White river, Alaska, to the scene of tho latest gold discovery. The iBii'was made ou a nameless tribu tary of the above river last winter. Andrew Carseute. who refusod to 'eontrlfctyWhto the Dewey aroh fund, nas given fi,uuu-to tne lumi.iortne widow of Sergeant Douglas, who was killed at Croton dam during tho recent strike In sending the chock, Mr. Car negie wrote: "Sergoaut Douglas fought not for foreign conquest, but for peaco and order at homo." Prosldent McKinloy has Boloctod Dolo to be tho first governor of Hawaii. x-Ministcr Dcnby gives Amorican miaeiouarlea credit for tho oou door iu China. Fire at tho town of Gladwin, Mich., destroyed 10 buildings, causing a loss 3f 150,000. The north halfpf thoColville, Wash., Indian reservation, lias been opened fo'r iottlement. Chicago landlords have formed a combination and routs advanced 16 per cent immediately. Charles H, Allen was inaugurated as governor of Puerto Rico with impres sive ceremonies. The, customs feature of tho Puerto Rlcan tariff and government bill hat gone' into operation. Fire destroyed the Hasting shingle mill (it; Goshen, Wash., togethor with 1,000,000 shingles. The transport Shorman arrived at San Francisco from Manila with 22 In sane soldiors on board. Carpenters of Omaha are out on a strike. Thoy demand au eight-hour day and increase of wages. Five men woro killed and throo in jured by a boiler explosion in tho mill of J. V. Bray & Co., Tiftou, Ohio. At the Hrrcule Athlotio Club, Now YorkiBob Fitzslmmons knocked out F.d. Dunkhorest, tho Syracuse giant, in two round:, Joseph Gurtar Rampon, a formor famous bandmaster, leader of tho Old Guard band, is dead at ,New York, agod 57 years. The' United States navy will not bo sent'tq Turkoy. As tho sultan has made 'some concessions, ho will bo given more timo to study tho mattor. Aa a sequel to tho Johannesburg ex plosion, the Transvaal government has ordered British subjects, with a fow exceptions, to leave tho republic with In 48 hours. Aa engiuo and 70 empty cars of tho Santa Fe were .brown jnto the bay frosa the new Santa Fu wharf at Fun Fraacisco, by tha breaking of an apron. No one was killed m fur as known. Frank II, Peavoy, of Minneapolis, Minn., has obtained insurance iu the Mutual Life Insurance Company, ol New York, to tho amount of $1,000, 000, the annual premium on tho policy being $48,300. , Aatlvn tirnruirAtlnnfi urn holncr rnnila for a world's fair, to tako pluco in Sun j Fnaoisco in May 1001, which will coatlnqe for six months, It is to be knewn as the Pacific Oceau and In, teefjattonal Kxposltlou. ' RED Horrible Mine Disaster at . Sooflold, Utah. WRECKED BY AN EXPLOSION No limn Wm I.ot In lle-tlnnlng the Work of ltfriif, Which la HUH rro c veiling-137 lloillea ltecoveretl, Salt Lako, Utah, May 0. -A special to tho Tribuno from Scofiold, Utah, says: . Tho English language cannot do soribo tho appalling disaster which occurred hero at 10:25 this forenoon by an explosion in miuo No. 4 of tho Pleasant Yalloy Coal Company, and by which certainly 200 men and upwards havo lost thoir lives, At this hour 187 bodies havo boon recovered, and the work of roscuo is still proceeding and will continue nutil all bodlos aro brought to tho surface Thoro aro will iug.hands at work, ami as fast as tho bodies aro reaoed thoy aro brought down to tho boarding houses and othor company buildings, whore thoy aro drossod and proparcd for tho coroner's inquest. Those buildings aro .numer ous and in each aro from 10 to 05 bodies. Whon a corpse is brought out It is usually carried to the place of do posit. Hero there is 11 corps of men, from four to 10 iu numbor, with sponges, hot and coll water in tubs and othor receptacles. Tho clothing is first removed, "tho soot and powder burns washed from thoir faces, tho bodlos prepared and laid out in long rows to await identification by relatives or friends. Tho removal of tho bodic's began at 13 o'clock today and overy diligence is usod to got tho chariod and mangled roiuaius out from tho mino. Many hundreds of men have freely voluntoorod thoir services, and as fast as ono set or force is tired or worn out others 'tako thoir places. While tho stench of smoko and powdor is sickening, re sombling much that of a dissecting room, there aro brave-hearted and brawny-won of musolo who havo boon continuously at work slnco tho moment of tho explosion. As soon as tho acci dent was known, oflloials of tho coal compaay.at Saltv.LaJce City and also tho railroad company were notified, and though Iho number of dead was report ed lower than it really is, it would ap pear that ovorytliiug iu thoir power was done, 'Ijio injured, eight in number, wero taken 'on a spoolal train to Salt Lako, leaving hero at 7 o'olook this ovonlug. Thoro are ono to throe of tho injured that will not survive tho trip to tho hospital. J no theory Is. that tha explosion oc curred by powdor being carried into tho miuo by tho workmen. Tho work of rescue wan dolayod by aftor damp, the (load being piled up iu heaps, in (Heating that they hud prepared for death from damp, which thoy know was inevitable DEWEY IN CHICAGO. Windy City's Wurm Welcome Ail ml ml. to the Chicago, May J. "I like your west ern hospitality," said Admiral Dewey. "I came on to keep social engagements made six months ago, and my first day of it bus boon eujoyablo in every re spoct. Yos, this is a littlo different than two years ago. I was moro en gaged then than I am now, and not. so certain as to whero my jouruoy would end. My hoalth is oxcollout. I am lloshior' than when 1 laudod iu Now York last Septemlter, but I have hot had so much to do slnco then. Thin commemorating of what you now call 'Dowoy Day' pleases mo. It makes n now national holiday, and it ulds iu building up patriotism." Tho admiral was in his best mood. Ho mot tho mayor audcolobrutloucom mlttco just beyond South Chicago. Ho had a triumphant drivo ou Jackson boulovard, a breakfast at tho Audi torium anuox, a mooting with somo of tho old members of tho Manila bay squadron, a cordial greeting from Canadian-Americans, u reception of the naval ofllcors now in Chicago, a sight of tho lako front illumination, uu hour at the Dowoy ball, aud then retirement. Ho shook hands with over 1,000 people, talked with 100 or moro in nfMittnd fashion, who cheered heartily whenever ho nppoared In public and wus made to feol that, as oluof of tho American navy, a man who hud proved his cour ago und a geniaf gentleman, ho has to be thoroughly "at homo" during his eiitiro stay iu Chicago, Fourth Town De.troyeil. Menominee, Miohr, MHy 8. Tho town of Arnold hos been wiped out by forost f)res. Tills makes the fouith town to bo destroyed. A pusseuger train reached hero today, being tho first in two days. The wires are all down and railway trufllc is suspended. Tho foiest fires covor an area of 80 miles, extending westwuid us fur as Kwausou und nortlnvurd to Carltondalo, Mich. They aro spreading, Much concern is felt for small towns iu Menominee county along tho Northwestoru, Wis consin & Miohigun aud Northern Pa oiflo roads, Serious damage muit ro suit ait hieh winds, urovail NEARLY ANNIHILATED. American Onrrlann In Pnmitr AttnchetV by ItebelR. - Manila, May 4. Tho American gar rison of Catuhlg, island of Satnar, con ilstiug of 80 men, belonging to tho Forty-third rcglmout, has boon attacked by rohols. Twenty of tho American wore klllod. Tho remalndor wero res cued. Tho AmoricniiH wero quartered I11 Catubig church, which tho enemy, numbering several huudrod mon, sur rounded, and llorcely attacked. Tho Americans fought for two dayjt, and then tho robots managed to ignite tho roof of the church, and it burned away, and finally fell upon those insldo tha sdiflco. Tho walls remained intact, however, snd wero usod an a shelter by tho bo liogod Americans 'for 'fcurto. days longer, tho enomy attacking tho building on all sides at ouco. Tho Americans con tinued firing from tho wjudows and doors of tho church and did good xe oution among tho Filipinos. It is esti mated that over 200 of tho latter were killod, many dead bodies having been romovod fiom tho sconoof the fighting. Aftor live days' resistance by tho Americans, a lieutenant and olght men arrived from Laou and cngagod tho be slogors, who thereupon rotirod, Tho (ortuuato arrival of theso reiuforco nients proventod the annihilation of tho American forco ontrenchod in tho church, who had repeatedly docllnod'to iurrondor whon ordorcd. Tho 10'sur vivors wero without food, had littlo ammunition, and woro oxhaustod whom rol loved. . Tho tight has qiicouragod tho Filipi nos, who aro now acting in an aggres sive manner and threatening that sec tion of tho i'6Ht, particularly tho town of Cutarman, whonco tho garrison will probably bo withdrawn to Laou. . Genoral Fuustou has discovered a re bel warehouBo near Cabanutoau, prov ince of Now Keiji, containing all the nrchlvos of tho Malolos government,.. Agulnaldo's corrcspondonco up to tbe timo of his flight and much valuablf historical matter. SCOFIELD CALAMITY. The Worst Illaaster In the llletory ! American Mining. Salt Lako, May 4. F very house iu the littlo town of Scofiold is a house of mourning.. Tho nwful scene of yes terday had passed away when the day dawned this morning, aud tho nwful calm of despair hud taken its place. Tho agonized shrieks of tho widows and tho moans of tho fatherless woro no longer heard. Tho stricken ones wort boyond all that, and thoir grief could fludo no utterance Whon tho removal of tho bodlos from tho miuo began yes terday, hundreds of mon voluntoorod thoir services lor tho purpose . Theco rescuers came, from other mines und towns surrounding, and worked inces santly to bring out tho burned and mangled roiuaius of tho dead miners.. Tho bodies wero taken to tho company buildings as fcoon us thoyworo brought out of tho mino, and wero thoro dressed and laid out preparatory to tho coro ner's inquest, und tor identification. Many of tho rosouors canto near los ing their lives from tho fatal a f tor dump, but tho work was continued in tho fuco of till danger; und most of tho bravo follows romaiuod at thoir posto uutil thoy woro almost ready to drop from physical exhaustion and tho dead ly effects of tho poisonous fumes. Throo huudrod and ninety-eight mem onterod tho mine for work yesterday morning, and a groat majority of theso huvo perished. It will not bo surpris ing if tho total death figures uggreguto 800. . FUTURE OF THE BOERS. Jinny of Them Will Ktulgrutn tor America. New York, Muy 4. A Pretoria let ter to tho World, dated March 28, suys: Although tho mnjoirty of tho Room stL-bollvo that tho independence of the republics will remain aftor tho war, hundreds of them ttro tuking tho oppo site view, und uro casting about for & suitable country to which they can emigrate. Stuto Socretary Roltz said today: "If tho English take theso re publics and ralso tho Union Jack over tlkoiu, I will tako my family to America. Aud scores of other burgh ers huvo said tho sumo thing to roe. ' Maur of tho older Boers will trek to German West Africa, where thoro aro thousands of square miles of fertilo ter ritory, and thousands will emlgruto to othor countries," Au old Boer in tho Freo Stuto sev eral days ago asked concerning the rater of puBnugo to Ameiicu. "You mjo," suid ho, "wo uro going to fight hard fur our country, but if it in taken away from us, wo wuut to go somewhere whero there is 11 republic," The friends of President Kruger say that if the Truusvual loses her inde pendence, ho will spend tho last yoamv of his life iu Holland or Germany. Mtixlcnn CI, II Chief Arretted. City of Mexico, Muy 4. -An import ant unrest has been imtdo in Ghllipa. stuto of Guerrero, tho prisoner being no loss a porson than Colonel Vega, who is civil chief of tho district, a position resembling Homowhut that of tho Uui tetd States murshul. Ho is believed to liuvo knowlvdgo of facts in tho cano of tho assassination of two prominent Frenchmen la that district somo months Mgo, tit Ml VM ii rfj