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THE MOBNING OKEGONIAN, SATURDAY. JULY 21", 1900. KEYNOTE OF THE- TRADE .IMPROVED CROP CONDITIONS ARK THE GREAT FACTORS. Beslnning; of Fall Trade Noticed In , tke West Iron and Steel Lovrer Wcelcs Banlc Clearing. NBT YORK, July 20. Bradstreetfs to morrow will say: Improved crop conditions furnish the keynote of the trade and price move ment As a result of them nearly all staple agricultural products are lower In price, and at the same time a percep tible livening up of demand for Fall de livery is noted Jn the West. Northwest and South. The beginning: of Fall trade is consequently more clearly visible in the sections mentioned, while at the East the markets are slow to experi ence this improvement and are conse quently reasonably dull. Bank clearings as yet fail to reflect Any perceptible im provement in distribution, and railway earnings, though of large volume, are. owing to comparisons being made with exceptionally good results last year, showing "less notable increases both in gross-and net returns. An increased cost of repairs, better ments, fuel and wages are unitedly re sponsible for this latter feature, because gross receipts for later periods reported show continued though small gains. Hog products have gone lower with corn, as has also wheat, in which con tinued liquidation has been noted, with the result of inducing partial returns of the export inquiry banished from the mar ket by the recent heavy rise. On the basis of a crop of 50,000,000 bushels, the outlook -.is that an export of 132,000,000 to !UiUjR bushels will be possible without reducing the visible and farm supplies materially from the totals estimated on July 2. Iron and steel prices are evidently scraping on bottom, if reports from lead ing centers of cost of raw material and wages are correct. Bessemer pig at Pitts burg is on a ?17 basis, with hillets at 521 against respectively J30 and $33 a year ago, so that much of the "boom" prices have been cut. Eastern and Southern iron markets are lower than a week ago, No. 1 Northern foundry being off $1 per ton and low-grade Southern iron is accumu lating. A favorable feature is the In creasing number of inquiries from Eu rope. Soft coal is going abroad too. & cargo leaving for London shortly. Tin is cornered locally and higher on the week, while copper is liner. Anthraclto coal is steady and confidence In future prices is notable. The textile situation is a mixed one. Present prices for raw cotton and finish ed material do not harmonize. Chinese troubles have checked export trade in brown cottons and a Summer shut-down of mills producing these goods and print cloths is looked for. An encourag.ng feature of the wool mar ket is the rather better Inquiry for raw wool at Boston, but manufacturing will not apparently do much until the light weight season opens. Advices from the London soles are that that market has ' regained most of the loss shown early In the season. "Wheat, Including flour, shipments, for the week, aggregate 3.029.SS1 bushels against 2,829.910 bushels last week, 3,408. 073 bushels in the corresponding week of 1899, 2,303,463 bushels in 1S9S, 1,978,828 bush els In 1S97, and 3,073,780 bushels In 1896. From July 1 to date tills season wheat exports are 8,S78,123 bushels against 10, 430,803 bushels last season and 7,942,938 bushels in 1S9S-99. Business failures for the week number 2p2 against 221 last week, 174 In this week a year ago, 188 In 1898, 230 in 1897 and 230 in 1895. Canadian failures for the week number 28 as compared with 19 in this week a Xear ago. MIDSUMMER TRADE. Luxnber and Iron Are Suffering: From Light Demand. NEW TORK, July 20. R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade tomorrow will say: The midsummer vacation has already disposed of the prophets who gave it a "week or two," but there are few signs to indicate Its probable duration. The compact of lake ore producers, in order to sell standard bessemer ore below $5 50 at lower lake ports this year, with coke held at $2 GO. much lessens the probabil ity that the market will wait for Bes semer pig to go far below 515, and some Increased buying already appears by mak ers of Implements not as yet In season contracts, but bought to give hope. Not much beyond waiting Is possible until wages for the coming year can be set tled. The same extensive building strikes which have cut oft the use of much structural steel have also prevented a vast use of lumber, which was. like iron, extraordinarily advanced in prices. The Eastern association tried without avail to hold prices, and the North Carolina association caused extensive curtailment of output, while the Lake association two weeks ago resolved to maintain prices, but the need of the market does not appear. When cotton had been easily held above 10 cents and then had dropped sharply, a Liverpool speculator again showed how easily Americans are induced to accept higher prices for the quantity they have left for sale. The dry-goods market, quite embar rassed at the best. Is not helped by such vagaries, and the closing of important mills was the more meritorious because It gave occasion at the end of a session with an over-supply here both of goods and material, to rest until Europeans have settled their affairs. Without formal agreement the woolen industry adopted in part the same course. Many mills have stopped or reduced force, so that experts believe that less than hair the capacity is now at work, because the nature of the next season's demand does not yet ap pear. There has resulted more willing ness to sell wool, especially where ware houses are not plenty, and prices average fully 2 cents lower than In February, but dealers are Inquiring more earnestly just now to find out what goods they can sell than where they can get materials. Further Important changes, the exact nature of which may not be fully re ported, are appearing in the heavy de cline of packer hides at Chicago, ranging from to Vt cent, with sales said to be from 40,000 to 0,000, and also in heavy ales of leather to manufacturers. The sharp fall of 2 cents In wheat and 4 cents in corn appears to reflect public conclusions, after hearing much evi dence, official and unofficial, regarding the extent of injury to the grains. The shipments go on at a quiet and moder ate pace. In three weeks from Atlantic ports 5.661.G01 bushels of wheat, flour In 'cluded, against 6,505,393 last year; from Pacific ports, 1.69L597 bushels, against L27S.64S last year, and corn 9.620,563 bush els, against 9.2S9.999 last year. Failures for the week have been 231 in the United States, against 145 last year, and 27 in Canada, against 23 last year. .' THE FINANCIAL SITUATION. Trouble In China I the Orershnd ovrinjc Factor. NEW YORK, July 20. Bradstreefs re view of the New York stock market to morrow will say: The stock market has been strong. In the face of dullness and of the Chinese situation and other adverse factors of ex ternal origin. The renewal of gold ex ports and the appearance of hardening tendencies in money, caused, however, somewhat weaker tone to prevail in the last few days, and the market seemed mpre disposed to pay attention to- the grave international complications which may result from the trouble In China. The reactions which were occurring in Russian and other governemtnal securi ties, as well as In those of China,, havo again unsettled the foreign markets and led to London being a heavy seller of stocks here. The advance in the Bank of England rate from 3 to 4 per cent on Thursday, and the shipment of $2,000,000 gold from New York to Paris points to the fact that Europe is preparing for financial pressure, and will use all means to attract gold from this country. Our market is certainly inclined to regard the gold cxportations wltnout fear, par ticularly in view of the large Influx of the metal from Alaska, and the news of heavy specie shipments in progress or in prospect from Australia to San Fran cisco. It is recognized that American money Is relatively too low, and that higher In terest will afford protection against Euro pean demands, although with the abun dance of capital In the country there Is no apprehension on the part of Wall street regarding any serious disturbance of money rates, even if European Jor rowings here should assume much great er proportions. The news from Pekln on Friday announcing the safety of tht Americans and other Ministers, had a fa vorable effect on the market at large, and caused advances throughout the list, with a strong tone at the close. Bank Clearlnps. NEW YORK, July 20. The following table, compiled by Bradstreet, shows the bank clearings at the principal cities for the week ended July 19, with the per centage of increase and decrease, as com pared with the corresponding week last year: Inc. Dec New York S42.786.000 .... 19.4 Boston 116.7S3.0O0 .... 24.8 Chicago 139.163.000 12.7 Philadelphia SS.424.000 .... 2.2 St. Louis 33,496.003 .... 9.9 Pittsburg 30,750.000 20.S Baltimore 19.340.003 .... 17.9 San Francisco .... 22.653.000 .... 7.8 Cincinnati 16.706.000 49.9 Kansas City 15.117.003 38.9 New Orleans 9.O25.O00 43.9 Minneapolis 10,890,033 2.3 Detroit S.945,000 9.6 Cleveland 11.834,000 8.S Louisville 7.9S5.000 Providence 6.22S.O00 .... 3.9 Milwaukee 5,721,000 .... 6.4 St. Paul 5.1S1.0M 17.9 .... Buffalo 5.011.000 5.7 .... Omaha 5.S5S.O00 .... 1.5 Indianapolis 6.489.000 2.5 .... Columbus, O. .... 5.257.000 4.5 .... Savannah 4,697.000 122.7 Denver 4.135,000 24.1 .... Hartford 3.127.000 6.4 .... Richmond 2.645,000 .... 21.2 Memphis L740 0M .... 5.1 Washington 2.338,003 Peoria 1.S20.000 .... 10.1 Rochester LEO3.CO0 .... 5.4 New Haven 1.68S.O00 .... 5.2 Worcester 1.457,000 .... 7.8 Atlanta .... : 1.609,003 9.6 Salt Lake City.... 2.4S3.000 4.7 Springfield. Mass. 1.402.000 .... 15.1 Fort Worth 1.K8.000 .... 9.6 Portland, Me. .... 1.107.000 .... 29.9 Portland, Or. 2.712.000 34.3 .... St. Joseph 4.509.000 23.0 Los Angeles 2.371.000 41.2 Norfolk 1.37S.O0O Syracuse .' 1.807.O30 6.0 .... Des Moines 1,500.030 .... 1.1 Nashville 1.221.003 Wilmington, Del.. 1,030.000 16.9 .... Fall River 647.000 .... 16,5 Scranton "... 926,000 9.6 Grand Rapids .... 1.264 000 30.1 .... Augusta, Ga. 718.000 5.5 Lowell 572.030 .... 10.3 Dayton. 0 L28.000 23.6 .... Seattle 3.006.0X) 61.7 Tacoma 05,000 26.5 .... Spokane LHO.OOO 6.1 .... Sioux City 909.030 9.1 .... Nev Bedford 353.000 .... 60.1 Knoxville. Tenn.. 481,000 .... 12.7 Topeka 1,034.000 72.3 .... Birmingham 6S3.000 .... 1.1 Wichita 4C6.000 6.1 .... Blnghamton 423.0"0 1.9 .... Lexington. Ky.... 4SS.O0O 2.9 .... Jacksonville, Fla.. 2T.000 33.1 .... Kalamazoo 330.003 .... 10.o Akron 4SL000 .... 3.5 Chattanooga 387.0C0 32.3 Rockford, 111 3S2.000 .... .... Canton. 6 315.CO0 1.2 .... Springfield. 0 27LO0O .... S5.3 Fargo. N. D .-. 235.003 .... 9.0 Sioux Falls. S.D.. 1R3.000 .... 2.2 Hastings, Neb. .. 177.000 65.4 .,.. Fremont. Neb. ... 154.W 23.2 Davenport 826,030 6.3 .... Toledo UfS.OOO .... 34.5 Galveston 3.S31.000 .... Houston 4.KW.O00 2.2 .... Evansvllle 937.000 16.8 Springfield. Ill 477.O00 14.3 .... Little Rock S96.O00 22.6 .... Macon 555.000. 42.3 .... Helena 779,000 40.3 .... Youngstown. O. .. 321.000 12.2 .... Totals. U. 8 Jl.471.631.000 .... 12.5 Outside N. Y. 628,865.003 .... 1.3 Dominion of Canada Montreal SftSK i'i 6'5 Toronto . M. 3.3 .... Winnipeg JES '5 "" Halifax -I? 8-P Hamilton 790.000 .3 .... St, John. N. B 0.000 .... 24.9 Vancouver -SS a's 'Z Victoria 755,000 .... 9 Totals J S1.187.O0O 4.9 .... DAILY CITY STATISTICS. Real Estate Trnnferfi. William M. Ladd and wife to Nathan Rybert. lot at Twenty-first and Wll mn streets. July 18. ........ ........... & Laura A Buckmon and A H. Buck man to Anna Van Rensselaer, east V, of lots 5 and 6. block 235, East Portland. July 12 .12a0 Ernt Jean Baptist to J. J. O'Con nor, lots 5 and 6. block 5, Germania addition. June 20, 1899 150 J. J. O'Connor and wife to Robert L. Pollock, lots 5 and 6. block 5. Gnrmanta addition. June 15 250 Llllle Acker to B. B. Acker, lots 4. 5. 6. 13. 14 nnd 15, block S. Mor gan's addition to Glenhaven Park, July 20 1 Anna R, Hansee to L. J. Edmonds, lot 10. block 22. Sunnyrlde, July 10. 1 T. J. Lucy et ux. to John F. Lucv, lot 1. block 1. Hawthorno Place au dition. May 2 500 A B. Manley to Joseph John Price, lot 6 and all that par: of lot 5 north of tlv dividing line separating; tho donation land claim of Jacob Wheeler and William Irving in block 199. Holiday's addition, July 30 5 J. O. Walrath. et ux. to Sarah E. Hunter, northeast 4 of 4 acres be ginning at northwest corner of southeast of ecuthast 4 of sec tion 14. township 1 north, range 1 east, July 10 $00 Franklin R. Anson and wife to John F. Hawkes. block 29. Sullivan's ad dition, subject to S1500 mortgage, June SO i Building: Permit. A. Kreegan, cottage. Beech Vrtreet, be tween East Sixth and East Seventh, $950. Birth. July 12, boy to the wife of James W. McHolland. 674 East Nineteenth street. Deaths. July 18, Anderson Ragedale. age 48 yeans. Count- Hos"-' al. acute mania. Jury 20. .ertlzabeth H. Durgln. age 66 years 5 months, 214 Thirteenth street, acute gastritis. July 19. Charles Van Campen. age 1 year. 174 Third street cholera Infantum. July 18, Delora. Mabel Root, age 4 years 4 months, 505 Gantenbein avenue, entero colitis. July 19. Violet Betz. age 8 months, 292 Sellwood street, cholera infantum. ContnjrlouK DlaenseM. Jennie Corletta, aged 8 years, Mill, be tween Water and Front rstreetft diph theria. Son of Mrs. Augustine, 308 Carruthera street, diphtheria. LOOKING FOR A COOL PLACE? Then take the O. R. & N. special train from Union depot at S:30 A. M. Sunday and go to Bonneville. Special low rate of 50 cents for the round trip. Refresh ments to be had on the grounds, or take a basket lunch with you, and escape the heat of the city. Cool groves, magnifi cent scenery, good music, first-class per formance, all free. Remember the time, 9:30 A. M. Sunday, Union depot. "Heavens bless him! He showed con fidence in me when the clouds were dark and" threatening.' ."In what' way7" "Ho lent me an umbrella." Tit Bits. THIEF AND REBEL RIFE BESET SOLDIERS AND ! HOW TKEY CITIZENS IN THE PHILIPPINES. Operations of Captain Willi' Com panyThe Desperate Fight at Cntnbijr on Island of Saninr. I LIBMANAN, P. I., May 17. We still have the ladrones and Insurgents all about ' us. and are out chasing them every day or two. It Is tho same way all over the province. Captain Warrick, with M Company, is at Pamplona. He ran up against a body of Insurgents Intrenched a few days ago, and although the com pany gallantly carried the trench, they were unfortunate In losing two men. Corporal Day was killed and Private Gray badly wounded. His arm was am putated In the endeavor to save his life, but he died soon afterward. Down at Iriga, where Colonel Dorst has the head- quarters of the Forty-fifth, the native i local Presldcntc was discovered to be plotting with the insurgents. He was promptly deposed ' and placed in the guardhouse and another Presldente ap pointed. Captain Lee captured an In surgent Lieutenant after following him GALLERY OF NEW MEMBERS C. B. 3IONTAGUE, A REPRESENTATrVE FROM LINN COUNTY. C B. Montocue, a Representative from Linn County, was born In Scotland, In the early '30s, and came to the United States nearly 50 years ago. and to the Paclflc Coast In 1853, landlnc In San Francisco, February 5 of that year. He returned to Europe In 1SS4, for tho purpose- of taking- part in the war of the allied forces acalnst Russia, known as the Crimean war, and served with Sir Colin Campbell's Nlnoty-thlrd Regiment, Scotch Grays, taking part in tho battles of the Alma. Inkerman, Balaklava. and In the siege of Sebo.i(opoL He returned to Oregon In 185S, locating In Marlon County. In November, 1SG1. he enlisted In Captain E. J. Harding's Troop B, First Oregon Cavalry, serving In that regiment for three years. At the close of that service he received an appointment in the Quartermaster's Department, an chief clerk, under Colonel George H. Weeks, U. S. A, lately retired, serv ing at Vancouver and San Francisco. He was ordered to Alaska with the first expedition sent to that newly acquired territory. In 1SC7, under command of General Jeff C. Davis, remaining there nearly three years, when he resigned, coming from Sitka to Portland, and thence to Linn County, In 1870, where ho has since resided. He was engaged In the mer cantile business In Lebanon from 1872 until 1803, during which period he served five terms as Mayor of .Lebanon. In 1S08 he ran for County Clerk of Linn County, and w&s e'lected by a small plurality, and In June, 1900. he was elected on the Demo-Peoples ticket as a Repre sentative from Linn County by the largest voto ever given any candidate for that office In Linn County, leading his own ticket by over 100 votea. for several days. The Lieutenant had JG00 with him when captured. All of the American ladles In Nueva Caceres have gone away. It was not considered a safe or desirable place for them. On the same day that Captain Warrick lost his two men I started out with 20 soldiers, and five police, M of them mounted. We carried two days' rations and scouted the country south and west of Libmanan. It was a general move ment, ordered by General Bell with ex peditions from Pamplona, Pasacao and Libmanan. Near BIcol. a small village on the river, we found the trails set with traps to shoot sharp-pointed bamboo ar rows. A small string is stretched across the trail, which. If you strike with your foot, springs the trap. They wore set in thick brush and were very numerous. We found and cut 40 or CO of them. In the evening of the first day we were fired upon from a "hilltop by five or six rifles. We returned a hot fire and charged the hill, but the insurgents vamoosed. The next day. as we were skirting the hills southwest of Libmanan we saw some In surgents at a distance. They were just vanishing into the cocoanut trees which line the river bank.- I sent the dismount ed men to the right and the cavalry to the left, thinking to hem them in on the river bank. The cavalry got there first, and completely surprised them, while they were raiding a native ranch. The women and children wero screaming and holding up pictures of the Virgin Mary for protection. The men of the ranch had their hands tied behind them. We killed three of the rascals, one of them, an of ficer. He had a revolver and a dagger, but threw the revolver away, presumably Into the river, as we were unable to find 't. The -o0le were grateful for their Tescue, cooked rice and chickens for the men and came Into Libmanan with us. Innurgcnta Murder Prisoners. On May 10 word came in that the in surgents had seized, bound and carried away 10 men, who were hauling rice to town. It was too late to start that day. The next morning early, however, taking the mounted detachment and five police, I started after them. At Cabusao we found one of the men who had escaped from the Insurgents. He reported that five of the prisoners had been killed. Using him as a guide, we followed tho Insurgents up tho river and captured five of their ponies, which they had concealed in a thicket, but could not find the In surgents. In the dark and dense under brush of the Jungle, we discovered the mangled bodies of the poor natives. There were five of them. All had their hands tied behind them and all had their throats cut. The head of one was cut en tirely off. Turning from the ghastly sight we destroyed their quarters, with a large storehouse of palay and returned. Tho Insurgents sent in a report, the other day that badly frightened the Pres ldente and many other natives. It was to the effect that 100 Insurgents from Ca busa and an equal number from across the river would attack Libmanan during the night We didn't credit the report. Nevertheless, we made preparations to receive them, and If they had come they would have known that they had beon to a fight after It was over. Afterwards it was ascertained that they were circu lating these reports in many of the garrl. soned towns for the purpose of alarming the people and the troops. We get fine fish here, besides crabs, shrimps, etc There are miny varieties of fish, and they are all good eating. We get fine pompano for 20 cents Mexican, than which there are few better fish that swim, as far as eating is concerned. Toothsome shrimps are only 5 cents a dozen, Mexican. Everybody eats fish, and they are all very healthful In this cli mate. Many of the fishermen are afraid to ply their trade on' account of the In surgents. SU11 the markets are fairly well supplied. Caleusao, at the mouth' of the Blcal River, and on San Miguel Bay, is only about six miles away, and there Is fine fishing there. A report has just come to hand of the gallant defense made by a detachment of the Fortv-thlrd Infantrv. At Catuhle-. on the Island of Samar. Catublg was the I soutnern outpost or tne .American forces in the northern part of Samar. It was garrisoned by 30 men. under First Lieu tenant Joseph Sweeney, who made such a brave stand In the mountains between Catublg and Calbayog. In a fight that ! lasted from March 5 to March 13. The garrison at Catublg was- attacked by several hundred insurgents, under the bloodthirsty leader, Ahougul. The llttla band qf CO took refuge! . In the church, a"d the fighting was continuous for two 1nita vnilntainA1 T 4ftA A. few nl am wttli. . .an ' ?" " "7 JV " out- rest or sleep. On the third day tho ; j reDeis sei nre io uic cnurcn. ana tne -burning roof fell In upon our men. But from behind the mined walls of the build' Ing they continued fighting, and defend ing their position for three days longer. A large number of the rebels were killed, and the dead lay piled around the church. There was no cessation of the fighting, and the dead bodies lay there till the stench became offensive,' This brave band declined time after time to surrender. When at last reinforcements, arrived they were utterly exhausted, and were Just about out of ammunition andiratlons. The report adds that 19 of their number were killed. A Victory at Tayauaa. Major Hartlgan. with a battalion of tho Thirtieth Infantry, won a brilliant vie OF THE OREGON LEGISLATURE tory over the Insurgents recently in Tay abas. After following their trail Into the mountains for several days, he made a night attack on their stronghold, with complete success. Tho rebel General Malolas was In command here, and deemed his position unapproachable. The Americans climbed the mountain on a dark night, surprised the rebel camp, killed 23 of them, wounded 71, captured 40 rifles and 120 bolos. The rebel Gen eral, who. besides being a bloodthirsty ruffian, was also a coward. Jumped out of the window of his quarters and fled at the first fire. All his personal effects, his correspondence and official papera were secured, containing much valuable Infor mation. This action received official mention and praise from Generals Schwan and Wheaton. General Summers' old orderly and mu sician, Purdy. did not go with the For tieth to Mindanao, as expected. He Is now conducting an army canteen at Nueva Cnpprps. nnd Is mnVlnir mnnnv fast. There Is a scarcity of news from Mindanao. No one seems to know what Is going on there. In Northern Luzon, Panay, Samar and Cebu, as well ns here, the same system of guerrilla warfare Is TSelng waged. A great many insurgents "have been killed within the past month, with slight losses for tho Americans. But they still persist In harassing and attacking weak posts and convoys, and It will probably be some time before this guerrilla warfare can be stopped. They are fighting in Indian style, separating Into small bands and uniting again when occasion requires. CAPTAIN PERCY WILLIS. Forty-fifth Infantry, U. S. V. Pnele Senlera Combine. (VICTORIA. B. C. July 20. The sealers have Just formed a Joint stock company, and will control 47 schooners now In the business. They have a capital of J500.000. Their object is to regulate wages and keep up the price of skins. News received from Ottawa says the Russian Government will compensate Ca nadians as well as Americans whose schooners were seized by that government In 1893. ::. "f - . V v THE JULY WHEAT FLEET RICKMER RICICMERS CLEARS WITH A BIG CARGO. Strike Will Reduce the Size of This Month's Fleet Lacuna "Wrecked Again. The German ship RIckmer Rlckmers cleared yesterday with 111.630 bushels of wheat, valued at "S64.200. She was dls- natched bv Balfour. Guthrie & Co.. and unless there should be a change In the strike situation, she will probably be the last July ship to get away. This will spoil the excellent showing which we promised to have for the first month of the cereal year, but exporters do not seem disposed to rush matters at pres ent. According to the charters under which all the ships In port are loaded, lay days do not take effect so long as a strike Is in progress. The departure of the Rlckmers leaves but four vessels In port to finish, but several others are very close at hand. The Penthesilea, which I sailed from London for Portland by way of Port Los Angeles, arrived at the Call- J fornia port last Friday, and will be ready to sail north again In a few days. The Deccan. which left Hamburg the same day that the Penthesilea left Lon- Hftn. hn Tint vnt r,Mr In on nnnAAfaniiA of- Rlversdale, from Hamburg, is out 143 days, and there are two or three ballast ships which are not more than a week or two distant from the port. The round-the-Horn cargo ships coming this way have undoubtedly been bucking against the winds which were sending the outward-bound fleet home In such good pas sages. "It's an III wind that blows no- bod good." and as more ships were going the other way than were coming In this direction, old Boreas die the best ho could under the circumstances. INDIAN EMPIRE'S FATE. Her Coal Cargo Cnaeht Fire and She Periithed at 'Callao. Callao seems to be a hoodoed port for the British ship Indian Empire. This vessel was caught In a gale soon after siillng from there for Portland two years ago. and narrowly escaped destruction. T i, u ra"c,scf lT repairs. and finally reached Portland. A few months ago she again put into Callao with her coal cargo on fire, and Captain Harrison, of the British bark Senator, which has Just loaded lumber at Moody ville, relates the following storv of her fate: "The Indian Empire came sailing in under a cloud of canvas, and we all admired her. She had a cargo of coal, and we did not know then that thewhlte fumes were already beginning to ooze up from below In her. The coal enrgo was heated. The master. Captain Allen, hur ried to the agent he did not want to act on his own responsibility and asked per mission to run th vessel on the beach. Tills the agent refused. It might Injure the ship, ho thought, and anyhow It would cost money. He demurred some what, too, to putting water below on the heated coal, for It might spoil the f,IIC ?rlt0J?rn. "When Captain Allen came back to the vessel, about 10 o'clock at night, he found the mate on the poop-deck waving a blue llght-a signal of distress-and hardly had he stepped on deck when the after h.-tM, m.w n tvhr.n th hntnh -cm hatch btew up. When the hatch was driven Into the air by the spitting coal, which was taking fire then, the sailors took to the boats, and a few minutes later the ship was on fire. All then left her. An attempt was made to save her. a French man-of-war blowing up her cables with dynamite and endeavoring to tow her to the beach. This effort to jjut her ashore, though, failed. It seems that the masts went by the board while the war ship was working her in to tho beach, and the broken-off masts anchored the vessel In the bay, where she burned to the water's edge. In front of the town. The agent stood on the roof of one of Callao's buildings and watched her burn. Not a stick or spar was saved. In four hours the vessel's Iron hull, blistered and bent, alone remained of the Indian Em pire a vessel which before the fire was valued at 20.000. There was no insur ance, and both ship and cargo were a total loss. The hull was afterwards fitted up as a hulk, and Is now one of the coal hulks of Callao." LAGUNA WRECKED AGAIN. Unfortunate Stenm Schooner Aban doned Off Crewcent City. The fates seem to be against the coast ing steamship Laguna. which went ashore at Tillamook several weeks ago. After the expenditure of considerable labor and money, the craft was floated last week, and In tow of the steamer W. H. Kruger started for San Francisco last Sunday for permanent repairs. Yes terday the Merchants' Exchango received advices stating that the Kruger lost her tow during a stiff northwest gale Tues day, while about 10 miles southwest-quarter-west from Crescent City. The Laguna was abandoned by her crew dur ing the height of the gale, and all hands were taken aboard the Kruger and car ried to San Francisco, the Kruger reach ing that port yesterday morning. The Laguna, when she was finally hauled off the spit where she had rested for so long, was reported to be in fairly good shape, and she may yet be a good prize for the vessel which finds her drifting round the ocean. The -Windward Leaves. NEW YORK, July 20. Secretary H. T. Bridgeman, of the Peary Arctic Club, of this city, received a message from Cap tain Bartlett. of Sydney. C B., to the effect that the Windward was Just leav ing port for Etah, North Greenland, headquarters of the Peary expedition, and that all on ljoard are well. The Windward left this port July 12 with pro visions and munitions for the Peary headquarters. Wheat Crop Short. STOCKTON, Cal.. July 20. Experts In ABSOLUTELY PURE Strongest, purest, and. healthful of all .: . i ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., thls city say that the wheat crop in Cali fornia this season Js going to fall beljw the estimates made six weeks or two months ago. This shortage Is said to b' due In some localities to several days of hot weather that swept over the state about the time the wheat was what is termed "in the milk." In other sections an Insect worked on the roots of the plant until It reduced the sap in the stalks and affected the grain. Three Steamers Wlthdrarvn. The Santa Fe liners Belgian King and Thyra. both of which were reported under engagement for loading In the regular Oriental service, have been chartered for the Government transport business. The Strathgyle, which Is also one of the Santa Fe liners, was taken up by the Government at San Francisco, and their line to the far East must be reduced to pretty small proportions by the retire ment of so many steamers. Injuries "Were Serious. SAN FRANCISCO, July 20. The collier Tellus, which was In collision with the transport Belgian King, is being rapldly dlscharged of her cargo. A rough esti mate by an export places the damage to the Tellus at $30,000, while S10.COO will have to be spent on the Belgian King In re- pairs. The owners of the Belgian King hero .filed a libel suit against the Tellus for salvage in towing the disabled steam- er to. this port. Domentlc nnd Forcism Porta. ASTORIA. Or.. July 20. Arrived United States steamer Manzanlta. from a cruise. Sailed Schooner Louis, for San Fran cisco. Condition of tho bar at 5 P. M., moderate; wind north; weather clear. San Francisco, July 20. Arrived Schooner Ida McKay, from Gray's Har bor; schooner S. Danlelson. from SIus law; steamer Empire, from Coos Bay: steamer W. H. Kruger. from Tillamook; steamer Progreso, from Tacoma; steam er Ohio, from Seattle. Sailed Schooner Berwick, for Siuslaw. racoma Arrivca juiy w amp i-iorence. ' f.nn TTAnnltiln tf InnA fnr Wnnnllllll Seattle Arrived July 19 British stcam- er Athenian, from Nome. j Glasgow, July 20. Arrived State of rseDrasKa, rrom sew xorK. Southampton. July 20. Sailed Kaiser Friederlch. for New York. London Sailed July 19 Minneapolis, for New York. Port, Blakeley Sailed July 19 Barken- j R0J!a for payta Peru I QUcenstown. July 20.-Arrivcd-Cam- pnnIa from New York, for Liverpool and I L ..- proceeded. New York, July 20. Arrived Lucanlo, from Liverpool and Queenstown. Havre. July 20. Arrived La. Gascogne, from New- York. Cherbourg, July 20. Sailed Kaiser Friederlch, from Hamburg and South ampton, for New York. Kinsale, July 20. Passed Campania, from New York, for Queenstown and Liverpool. JESTER LOOKED SAD. Damnclnff Evidence Against the Old Prisoner. ST. LOUIS, July 20. A special to the Post-Dispatch from New London, Mo., says: ! clal examiners of the Pension Bureau. tf. f ff"d , lJlll trla.1 todof- JIe Identified the certificates ! V)d aPPWcatiotis for pension made by loe"??r Jes.teJ: allas : . S,111-, Bl I f "". ,"n5"' ".;,?.. the Second District Court, testified that he knew the prisoner as W. A. Hill and had assisted him In getting a pension and also a divorce. When first arrested at Shawnee, Okla., Jester claimed he was not Alexander Jester, who traveled through Kansas and Missouri with Gil bert W. Gates. Attorneys for the prisoner made a fight to keep out the pension papers, as they prove conclusively that Jester has been known under two names. The Judsre nd- I mltted the evidence, and the letters Jes ter had written to the Pension Depart ment and the application he made were read. It was a decided victory for the stat and made the old prisoner look very sad. In the following letter to the Pen sion Department, Jester explains how he assumed the name of Hill: "Hill was my own father's name. Jes ter was my stepfather's name I was about V& years old when my mother mar ried Jester and I went by the name of Alexander Jester until lafter the war closed, when I took up my own namo. Respectfully, W. A. HILL." Taken In connection with a divorce suit in Oklahoma, It appears from the pension papers read that Jester was married to Delia H. Jester probably In the '50s. She went to Kansas and died In 1S78. However. June 18. 1S70, Jester swears he was married In Texas to Julia Reynolds, who bore him three children, j. her ho secured a divorce at Sher- man. Okla., November 24, 1KH. May 24, 1896, he was married to Margaret E. Brown. In a series of questions submitted to Jester by H. Clay Evans, the Com missioner of Pensions, Jester claimed that he had three children, while in fact Jie had at least eight at the time the statement was made. In the same series of questions he made. mention of only one wife, while the court records show him married three times, at least. J. B. Roark, W. S. Copp and Charles Bates, of Denton, Tex., testified that they knew Jester In Texas under the name of William Hill. Archb!nhop Krone's Appointment. NEW YORK, July 20. A dispatch to the Journal and Advertiser from Rome says: The appointment to the Archbishopric of Duhuque of Archbishop Kenne. former rector of the Catholic University at Wash ington, is confirmed by the Pope. Arch bishop Katzer, of Milwaukee, sent a strong letter In opposition to the ap pointment, lt was the most violent epistio ever received at the "Vatican. Archbishop Keane is now at Brussels under treatment for his eyes. He will come Immediately to Rome and as quickly return to the United States, where he will take possession of the See. This appoint ment is the fastest on record, coming only six .weeks after his name was pre most economical leavening agents. There are many imitation baking powders sold at a low price. . They are made from alum, a. corrosive acid which is poisonous in food; ' 1C0 YIU1AM ST.. NEW YORK. IS LI TREACHEROUS? SAID TO BE INTRIGUING RUSSIA AND TUAN. T7ITK Known to Be the Bitter Opponent of AH Forelirn Interests Should Have Been Detained. NEW YORK, July 20. A dispatch to th Tribune from London says: The wildest rumor in pgnt Is a story that Russia has been secretly Intriguing with Prince Tuaa and that Li Hung Chang is behind these negotiations. The Chinese camarilla which has defied the civilized powers will be anxious to create discord among them. Rumors of this kind will be started wher ever there Is a press writer at a Chines seaboard credulous enough to cable them to Europe or America. The Czar reigns over Russia and he cannot have rushed into the embrace of a red-handed assassin like Prince Tuan. The anomalous condition of de facto warfare Which has not been legalized by a declaration of war Is illustrated by Lt Hung Chang's Journey northward after a consultation with the British officials at Hong Kong. He cannot be regarded aa a friend of England, for he has dis patched black-flag bandits and ruffians to the northward to disturb the peace of' the Yangtse region: nor is he a trust-' worthy peacemaker, since he Is known tOj be a bitter opponent of all foreign Inter-' ests, yet he Is allowed to proceed on hi, Journey to Taku, and probably will pas from the camp of the allies at Tien Tslaj to the capital, where he will assume th Governorship of Pe Chi U during tho pe riod of foreign Invasion. Practical men are asking whether ha would not be a more useful peacemaker" and negotiator if he were detained on' r.ovnc vessel of war, and whether the' powers can afford to allow him to go in land, whero he would be compelled to act with the Empress Dowager and Princa' Tuan? It is not clear that anything is galnedl by the shallow pretense that the civilized' powers arc not at war with the Chinese Government, which Is either openly di recting the anti-foreign movement or Is utterly unable to control It. There is every reason to believe that the blood stained camarilla at Pekln has ordered LI Hung Chang to Pe Chi LI in order to employ him in setting one foreign power' against another, and in breaking concert ed action. He will be a diplomatic acccs-. sory after the fact, and will be passed' throush the allied fleets and camps t" the capital, where his head will be cutl oft if he declines to serve the Government! of assassination. Men who have passed many years ia China are utterly hopeless in their com ments upon the present situation. Theyl assert thnt the Manchu dynasty Is fight ing for Its life and power, and that it will' not spare any effort to set the furious' mobs in motion against the foreign con cessions at Shanghai. Nankin, Han Kow, Che Foo and other places. Some of the beat-Informed men favor united action of the powers, by which Nnnkln shall be pro claimed the capital so the capital can be maintained by the Chinese themselves against the despotic and arrogant Man chu race, but they admit In the next breath that this policy cannot be carried out, since both Russia and Japan will not consent to the degradation of Pekln when each hopes ultimately to occupy and to hold It permanently. No power, except Japan, apparently knows Its own mind, and, while battalions and naval brigades are going out, there Is no settled policy, but a general reluctanc to substitute de Jure for de facto war fare, and break off diplomatic relations with a government which has virtually decreed the expulsion of foreigners and the destruction of all alien Interests. Sheng Ik still giving out contradictory messages rospectlng the Legations, and there are highly Imaginative estimates of tho strength of the Chinese armies in the field. The real trend of events dis closed by two facts first, that tho Chinese Government Is forcing the for eign powers to stand together and fight by Its own aggressive action, and, sec ond, that the powers, while banding to gether, have their eyes fixed upon spheres of Interest where each must ulti mately assume the responsibilities of ad ministration. This was Illustrated by Mr. Broderick's admission that the Consul General at Shanghai had been empowered to give assurances of British support to tho Viceroys In tho Yangtse region. A Soldier's Letter. MANILA. P. I., June 20k (To the Edi tor.) Today I found a piece of paper thati had been blown up against some brush,, and to my surprise and delight it was sheet from a February number of thoi Weekly Oregonlan. Oregon Is my mtlvs state. I lived most of the time in Crooks and Wasco. I belong to the Lowe Scouts, at present being a civilian scout. Just now things are quiet, with occaH sionally some fighting. The rainy sea-i son has set In. Thero are two more Oregon scouts la) the Philippines, and they, like myself, . are about worn out and want to get hacki to good old Oregon again. We will corns' home next year. I might mention that James Harrington' was an Oregon boy, from Eugene. I think they made him chief of scouts of the Phil ippines. He was shot and killed in Bant Isldro last Spring. He was very brave, and was at tho head. of,ri6e" advance all' tho time. 1l " " ' Please end me an Oregonlan. if VtX would not bo a trouble to you. JAY P. HUGHES. A IIore' Misadventure. McMlnnville Reporter. Sunday was the first day of the opea' season for deer. Fred Hlbbs, Ed Tyler, Matt Redmond and George Snyder suc- ceeded In killing two in the vicinity of! Bald Mountain. A funny thing happened? as they were ferrying back across Meadow Lake. The venison was on the', back of one of Tyler's horses, which tookj' a notion to jump off the ferry. George) was holding the horse and let go his hol(L The animal swam the full width of th lake and brought the venison safely te camp. i K