IHE STTNDAX OREGOSTCAW, PORTLAND JAmTARY 18. 1895.
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KELTS UP IX IOWA.
Tlte Robbery Was Carefnllr Planned
iind Coolly Carried Out by Two
Very Hold Men.
OTTDMWA, la.. Jan. 12. Highwaymen
got in their work tonight. It -was one of
tho most daring train robberies ever at
tempted. It wes executed on the Burling
ton passenger train No. 4, near this city,
tonight. No. 4 is the Burlington's through
passenger train .from Denver to Chicago,
and carries large quantities of mail and
baggage. It was not generally known
that the train carried a more valuable
cargo of mail or express tonight than
usual, but it seems that two bold robbers
knew that the express would make a
valuable haul, and they planned to bag
it. They held up the train, but molested
nothing but the express. After they had
finished this Job they stood for 10 minutes
and waited for tho train to start long
enough to have robbed the mall cars or
passenger coaches. The agent at Chllll
cothe, a small village several miles west
of here, says he saw two men about the
depot in the afternoon, and when No. 4
arrived, at 6:30, they were on the platform,
but disappeared while the train was stand
ing at the station. "When the train began
to move out of that station, Express Mes
senger John Page stepped to the end door, at
the front of the car, to lock it, and was
just about to do it when the men sprang
inside. The express messenger, his as
sistant, mall clerk and baggageman were
covered and overpowered. Then the rob
bers looted the safe at leisure and filled
a sack of coin. They left the train as It
slackened speed at a crossing, and es
caped. The express officials say only $8000
was taken, but It Is believed the robbers
secured more.
HE GAVE I1I3ISELF UP.
Coxliln, the Alleged Smuggler, "Sore
Out on Bond.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 12. D. M. Cash
In, ex-customs inspector, charged with
complicity In the Neuberger-Krelss frauds,
who fled to British Columbia, returned on
the steamer Walla Walla this morning
and declares he can prove his Innocence.
It is believed the government has made
some arrangement with Cashln which will
result In his escaping punishment. Cash
in delivered himself up to the United
States marshal this morning and was
Immediately released on bonds of 510,000.
There aro five Indictments against Cashin,
but ho will be tried on but two of them.
His bail, which was originally fixed at
550.0M on each count, was recently re
duced to S10.0QQ.jfl.na It was agreed that he
should be alloJcoto go on his own recog
nizance on three of the counts. Cashln's
alleged crimes were malfeasance in ofllce
and smuggling. It was pretty clearly
shown that ho was Involved in the smug
gling operations of both Neuberger, Reiss
& Co. and Liebes Bros. He was indicted
April 20, 1S94, and again on the 25th. The
evidence was that he had lent himself, as
deputy collector of customs, to the ex
tensive operations of Neuberger-Reiss, by
which that firm evaded duty on importa
tions. In the same month he was jointly
indicted with Reiss twice for defrauding
the government. The cases against Reiss
were compromised, and he was let off
after being mulcted for $5000. The joint
indictment of Cashin, Jacob and Louis
Llebcs, for smuggling high-grade wrap
pers In the guise of cheap tobacco, was
begun in February last, and the charge
was conspiring to defraud the govern
ment. The case Is still pending. In view
of tho leniency extended to Reiss, the
friends of Cashin think he will escape
very lightly. District Attorney Knight
said this morning that he had not yet
decided on which of the counts Cashin
will be tried, but It would be one for mal
feasance and one for smuggling. There
is a tacit agreement that the three other
counts should be dismissed.
A Clmse After McLean.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 12. The chase
after E. W. McLean, the manager of the
Emerald gang cf smugglers, promises to
be a lively one. He was followed to the
Sound, but went over to Victoria, and
thence to Honolulu on the Miowera last
November. His departure was reported to
the federal olflclals here, and Marshal
Baldwin sent a warrant for his arrest.
"Word was received from the islands today
that McLean had left for Victoria on the
Warrimoo before the warrant reached the
islands. The lookout for smugglers on the
islands Is just now keen, and considerable
dillieulty attends the landing of contra
band opium. The Norma, 45 days from
Victoria, was recently sighted off land,
but she failed to land, and it is thought
that she has given up tho attempt.
SOUTH DAKOTA'S TREASURER.
It Is Now Snppo.xcd That Tnylor Took
:i Great Denl of Cash.
PIERRE, S. D., Jan. 12. It was ascer
tained that the actual shortage which
would have been revealed when W. W.
Taylor, the defaulting state treasurer,
came to transfer his office to his suc
cessor, was about $170,000 In cash. There
fore It Is believed he must have appro
priated about 5200,000 mpre when he found
out how matters stood, on the theory
that h'was in for it anyway. Another
sensation was sprung today, which ac
cuses Mayor Ruth, of the school-land com
mission, with complicity with Taylor. In
June last, It is alleged, he held back his
semi-annual apportionment of school-land
funds for several months, and then only
pakl over a part of It. When the No
vember apportionment bill became due, he
refused to pay that until December 27.
Then it was too late for the county treas
urers to make requisitions, and $99,000
went with Taylor. They were close busi
ness associates;
FRISCO'S FESTIVE BURGLAR.
He First Fonstcu and Then Robbed a
House of Its Valuables.
SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 12. The three
men who so boldly robbed the house of
Julius Franklin Friday morning, are still
at large, but the search for them has
brought to light another burglary equally
as daring. The houe of Thomas Brown,
cashier of the California bank, was en
tered three weeks ago, and valuable art
icles were taken from every room in the
house, except the sleeping apartments.
Clothing was found which answers the
description of that worn by the men who
entered the Franklin house. In the Brown
residence the burglars lighted the gas in
the dlnlng-reom. brought wine from the
cellar and had a feast. They also smoked
some choice cigars which they found. The
police carefully kept the knowledge of
this robbery to themselves. In the hope of
catching the thieves, but the plan has not
proved successful.
OTHER CRIME XEWS.
Senator Foley's Slayer Sentenced.
RENO. Nov.. Jan. 12. In the district
court today, Alice M. Hartley, who had
been convicted of the murder of ex-Senator
Foley last July, was sentenced to H
years In the penitentiary. A motion for a
new trial was denied in a lengthy deci
sion. Mrs. Hartley appeared in court, ac
companied by friends and a nurse, who
carried the 2-months-oId child of the de
fendant The sentence was received
quietly Her attorney made a motion for
a stay of execution, pending appeal to the
supreme court. Judge Cheney finally de
cided to admit Mrs. Hartley to ball in the
sum of J35.W. pending an appeal, her bond
to be approved by the court.
Anotbcr Lynching: in Louisiana.
NEW ORLEANS. Dec 12. A negro
named Edgar, who shot and dangerously
wounded Manager Kirth. on the Kirth
landing plantation, a few months ago, was
found hanging at the end of a grass rope
yesterday In front of Bartholomew's
church, nine miles north of Bastrop. The
coroner's jury has not as yet reported on
the death, and it is not probable that it
will be discovered who the men were who
lynched Edgar.
An Escaped Convict Returned.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 12. The state
prison directors met today at San Quen
tln. It was noted that a burglar linown
as "Fatty Ohio" had been returned, hav
ing escaped in 1SSS, with 9 years to serve.
He Is wanted in Chicago on many charges
and at Joliet, from which he Is also an
escape. He was arrested in Los Angeles
as a su'pect in connection with the On
tario robbery.
The Indian Territory Outlaws.
MUSKOGEE, L T.. Jan. 12. Last even
ing Deputy Dobson, of Fort Gibson, wired
to Muskogee that Cook, French and five
confederates were riding up and down
the main streets, flourishing their six
shooters and Winchesters. Dobson asked
assistance in driving the bandits out. The
deputy marshal decided it was too dan
gerous, and did not go.
STEAMER CHANGES.
The Queen Will Take the State of
California's Place.
The steamer Queen, of the Pacific Coast
Steamship Company, has been placed on
the Portland and San Francisco route in
place of the State of California, which
was disabled on her way north last
Thursday and was towed back to San
Francisco by the Oregon Railway & Navi
gation Company's steamer Columbia. The
Queen sailed from San Francisco yester
day with the State's passengers and
freight, and is due here Monday evening.
She will leave on the return trip Tuesday
night, two days later than the schedule
sailing time. The Queen will remain on
the route until the State is entirely re
paired. .
Report of the Benninjrton.
SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 12. General W.
H. Dlmond, president of the San Francisco
Chamber of Commerce, has received the
following official report of Rear-Admiral
Beardslee of the search made by the
United States steamer Bennington for the
missing colliers Keweenaw and Montser
rat: "The Bennington, which has been en
gaged In the search for the missing col
liers Keweenaw and Montserrat for two
weeks, returned last evening. I send to
you, to be used In such manner as may
seem best to you In showing to the rela
tives of the men who were probably lost
with these steamers, a chart, on which
data concerning the efforts for their re
lief is given, and the area of ocean, some
20.000 miles, which the Bennlgton has ex
amined, is graphically shown. In this
connection, I would say that the zeal,
energy and thoroughness exhibited by
Commander Thomas In conducting this
search is, in my Judgment, worthy of
high commendation."
The Prescott Thought Lost.
LONDON, Jan. 12. The British steam
ship Prescott, from Sunderland, for Mar
seilles, Is believed to have gone down
in the recent storm. No news of her
has been received since January 4, and
a lifeboat, filled with water and marked
"Prescott," was seen January 8, floating
about six miles off Spunhead on the coast
of Yorkshire. The Prescott was a 1200-ton
vessel, and carried a crew of 23 men.
ARrnnml in Chesapeake Bay.
BALTIMORE, Md., Jan. 12. The British
stpamer Londonderry, bound from Balti
more to Dublin, ran aground at Windmill
Point, Chesapeake bay, this morning.
Boats have gone to her assistance.
Refuse From the Gale.
QUEENSTOWN, Jan. 12. Over 12
steamers have sought refuge here from
the force of the gale. A terrific heavy sea
is running outside the harbor, and the
shore is strewn with wreckage.
Marine Kotes.
The Marion Ballantyne ioaded flour at
the mill yesterday.
The British ship Sierra Parima entered
out at Liverpool December 20, for Port
land. Ships working ballast yesterday were
the Glenlin, at the elevator; Clackman
nanshire, at Shaver's dock: Scottish
Dales, at Sand dock, and Harland, at
Greenwich dock.
The City of Hankow took wheat stif
fening at Montgomery dock. Other wheat
ships working were the Samaritan, at the
elevator; Bracadale and Auchencairn, at
Victoria dock, and Donna Francisca, at
Greenwich dock.
Domestic and Foreign Ports.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 12. Freights
General Fairchid, 1356 tons, and Rufus
E. Wood, 150S tons, coal from Nanalmo
for this port.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 12. Arrived
Australia, from Honolulu; Belgic, from
Yokohama and 'Hong Kong; Areata,
from Coos bay; barkentine North Bend,
from Gray's harbor. Cleared Willamette,
for Nanaimo; Queen, for Astoria; bark
General Fairchlld, for Nanaimo; schooner
Sophia Sutherland, hunting and fishing.
Departed Arawa, for Honolulu and Syd
ney; Al KI, for Tacoma; Oregon, for
Astoria; ship B. P. Cheney, for Seattle;
ship John C. Potter, for Nanaimo: bark
Rufus E. Wood, for Nanaimo; schooner
Webfoot, for Gray's harbor; schooner
Sailor Boy, for Gray's harbor; schooner
F. M. Merchant, for Coos bay.
NEW YORK. Jan. 12. Arrived Umbria,
from Liverpool; Paris, from Southampton;
Weser. from Bremen. Sailed Furnessia,
for Glasgow; Auranla, for Liverpool: La
Champagne, for Havre: Scandia, for Ham
burg: Maasdam, for Rotterdam. Sailed
for New York La Borgogne, from Havre;
New York, from Southampton; Saale.
from Bremerhaven: Amsterdam, from
Rotterdam. Arrived out Baumwell, at
Naples; Werkendam, at Rotterdam.
Sighted La Gascogne, from New York
for Havre, passed the Lizard.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
Nine deeds, aggregating 5TSS2. were filed for
record yesterday with the county recorder, as
follows:
Riverview Cem. Ass'n to L. P. Vial, lot
07. sec. 9, Rlvervlcw Cemetery $ 500
It. AVeelca and wife to same, part Wk 79,
Carter's add 3,259
D. V Hoelblng and xvlfe to F. Itekate.
lot 7. Germantown COG
I. Horer and wife to H. Keene. Jots 1. 2,
3. -I. blk C: lots 5. C. Mk 5. Harlem 1,200
lav. Co. to J. M. Mead, lots 0, 11. 13. 13.
blk 21. IrUngton Tark 675
Same to J. II. Damn, lots 21. 23. Mk 23.
same GOO
Same to K. B. Totvnsend. lots 34. 30. blk
32. same 400
A Barman ana husband to SI. L. Van
Houtcn. lota 7. S. Mk 11; let IS. Mk 12.
Good Morning add 1
C K. Henry and wife to L. E. Kern, lots
3. 4. 5. blk 1. Henry's Fifth add 1.200
Total 57.SS2
Titles Exnmlned and Insured.
Money to lend on Improved city property.
The Title Guarantee & Trust Company,
Chamber of Commerce.
Disastrous KlRlit for Shannon.
In a fight resulting from a heated argu
ment between lodgers In a cheap-bed house
on North First street. Dan Shannon had
his arm broken, about midnight. Two
men Quarreled with Shannon, and as both
used clubs in the fight he cannot say
which Is responsible for his Injury. Both
men escaped from the house before Offi
cer Endleott arrived to quell the disturb
ance. Shannon was taken to the Good
Samaritan hospital.
m
The merit of Hood's Sarsaparilla is
proven by its many wonderful cures.
THE EYES OF RUSSIA
EVERY XA.V IK THE E3IPIRE T3DEB
POLICE SURVEILLAXCE.
Her Secret Service Is Conducted "With
the Greatest Mystery and the
Highest Skill.
(Copyright. 1S35. by S. S. McCIure. Limited.)
The St. Petersburg correspondent of the
London Chronicle wired to his paper a few
days ago that Nicholas II intended to
abolish the secret police. If the czar car
ries out what is thus proposed It will be a
long step forward toward Russian per
sonal liberty a much longer step than
that which Loris Mcllkoft proposed in
1SSL in the shape of constitutionalism, or
that which Ignatleff endeavored to intro
duce, under the name of parliamentary
government, at a somewhat later period.
One of the largest suites In the public
offices of St. Petersburg is occupied by
the minister of foreign affairs. Almost
Immediately adjoining it are the depart
ments of the minister of the Interior. Be
tween the two suites are two small rooms,
one an inner room opening into the vesti
bule, the other looking out upon the
Nevski Prospect. These two rooms are
devoted to the use of the chief of police
"The White Terror," as he is called and
his personal staff, consisting of a private
and two ministerial secretaries. The po
lice system of Russia may be divided Into
three sections. The first section consists
of the ordinary "gendarmerie" (the com
mon metropolitan police of the cities),
whose duties do not differ materially from
those of our own municipal police. The
second section, consists of the rural po
lice (the uriadniks, appointed by the state,
and the sotskl and deslatskl, appointed by
the peasants). The "third section" con
sists of what are called the political po
lice (originally Instituted by Nicholas to
control corruption among officials, but now
a vast organization having its representa
tives In almost every city of the world),
and with Its spies in every house, in every
town, and almost in every family.
There Is no country in the world where
the police play such an important part in
the every day life of the richest and of
the meanest, the nobleman In his palace
and the moujik in his hovel. They are the
omnipresent and omnipotent regulators of
all human conduct a sort of Incompetent
bureaucratic substitute for Divine Provi
dence. The present Russian police force,
with the minister of interior at its head,
control, by means of passports, the move
ments of all the Inhabitants of the em
pire. They keep thousands of "suspects"
constantly under surveillance. They as
certain and certify to the courts the lia
bilities of bankrupts. They conduct pawn
brokers' sales of unredeemed pledges.
They give certificates of identity to pen
sioners and other persons that need them.
They superintend repairs of roads and
bridges. They exercise supervision over
all theatrical performances, concerts,
tableaux, theater programmes, posters and
street advertisements. They collect statis
tics and enforce sanitary regulations;
make searches and seizures In private
houses; read the correspondence of sus
pected persons; take charge of the bodies
of persons found dead; admonish church
members, who neglect too long to partake
the "Holy Communion," and enforce
obedience to thousands of multifarious
orders and regulations Intended to pro
mote the welfare of the people, or insure
the safety of the state.
The "uriadniks," or rural state police,
are supposed to wear uniforms and are
armed with sabers and revolvers. The
salaries they receive are simply miserable
from $50 to $100 a year for a private, and
from $200 to $300 a year for a chief of the
district. II va sans dire that they are
expected to make up their income by
"bribery and corruption," and it Is quite
unnecessary to state that they generally
succeed in doing this to perfection.
In New York city every morning of the
year all the members of the detective
force either collect personally in Super
intendent Byrnes' office, or are so near
to him that he can summon any one of
them before him and direct him to attend
to certain Important business. But in
Russia It Is not arranged in this way at
all. There is no such thing as a dally
marshaling of the police at the office of
their chief. They are scattered all over
St. Petersburg at their own homes. They
are all the time "on call"; but It Is only
when a plain yellow envelope comes to
them, making an appointment for their
immediate presence somewhere, that their
active duties begin. It may be that they
are directed in the inclosed order to call
at a certain dictrict station and get their
instructions from the pristav, or from
some other inferior officer of the law. Or
it may be that they are summoned to the
house of some high official. The most ex
traordinary part of it is that nine-tenths
of these secret police agents do not know
who the tenth man is or what he is doing.
It is the policy of the whole system to
prevent the dissemination of knowledge
of their individual movements among its
employes. Panln, the most adroit detect
ive on the force, disappeared mysteriously
about a year ago, and nothing has been
known of his movements since. There Is
no knowledge of his death, and, although
he was one of the best known on the
force, it has become oi.ly too apparent
how little he was known.
Of course, this ability to at once pick
out and possess adroit and skillful detect
ives and have them perform services re
quiring the utmost tact and shrewdness
without being known to each other or to
the public at large shows a high degree of
skill in the police management of the
Russian empire. And this very fact that
they are kept apart as much as possible;
that they never all collect together; that
messages are sent to them In a secret
way, giving them a mysterious appoint
ment all this shows how admirably ap
pointed is the service to best discharge
the purpose for which it is intended.
In case of war between Russia and any
foreign country, and much indeed in the
form of preparation for such work, the
services of this secret police force become
invaluable. Scattered all through the
large and small cities of Europe they shad
ow high officials and diplomatic agents
alike: obtain cognizance of the existence
of state papers of importance; secure
copies of such papers, if possible, or ac
quire their gist in some adroit manner;
and transfer all their knowledge rapidly
either to local underlings of the chief of
police, or to that official himself in St.
Petersburg.
In time of war there is also a certain
number of the force drafted out of the
main body to play the part of a Russian
secret service, who live in arsenals, biv
ouacs and beleagured towns, and report to
what is known as the head of the "In
telligence Service" of the Russian army.
Much misapprehension prevails as to
the exact course pursued In the detection
and imprisonment of criminals and polit
ical suspects. Crime, as a general rule.
Is ferreted out by the common uniformed
gendarmerie, but where the criminal is
exceedingly able and elusive, the matter
of his discovery and Imprisonment is en
trusted to the secret police. Photographs
of him, if possible, are obtained and dis
tributed broadcast throughout the empire,
and in other countries. His known haunts
are hunted up and watched. And the
very secret organization of this secret
police is an immense help In point of
time.
The method of procedure as regards po
litical suspects is much the same. But
this Is entirely under the management
of the secret police. Some nihilist 13 sus
pected of plotting against the life of the
czar, or some high personage has in
cautiously given rise to the belief that he
is in league with the nihilists; or he may
really be in league with the nihilists; or
some enemy of his. In high quarters, may
"trump up" a charge of nihilism against
him. Under any of these circumstances,
his whereabouts are discovered, an Impe
rial warrant is served upon him, and he
Is at once transported to that dread
dungeon, "the Schusselberg." This kind
of imprisonment is what is known as
"prevention- or "preventive imprison
ment." The man thus imprisoned, be he high
or low, lies for a certain amount of time
In jail, just like the common criminal.
But a time comes sooner or later, soon
er if he Is Influential and later If he Is not.
when he is brought before the high of
ficialshis judges, and either convicted
or acquitted of what he has been charged.
If convicted he may be indefinitely im
prisoned in this same dungeon, or he may
be sent to Siberian mines.
If acquitted, and yet still suspected by
the police, he may be exiled to some Si
berian town by what Is known as "ad
ministrative process," and compelled to
stay there, though not "in durance vile."
There is probably just as much justice
In Russia as anywhere else, though It Is
not unlikely, from the cumbersome nature
of the machinery and from the Immense
territory over which its ramifications ex
tend, that Its processes are unusually
slow. What I mean to say Is simply this
that in the majority of cases those arrest
ed for political causes are really and prop
erly chargeable with the offenses set down
against them. But when a man Is unjust
ly Imprisoned, either because the suspi
cions which he has aroused are unfounded
or because the charge upon which he has
been seized has been "trumped up," the
time invariably comes, quickly in the case
of the powerful, and more slowly In the
case of the insignificant, when that man
has a perfectly fair opportunity to prove
that he has been falsely arrested and
incarcerated. And he is discharged. And
if his accuser has been shown to have
acted with entirely malicious Intent, he is
seized and thrown into prison, and has
just as little mercy shown to him as was
shown to his temporary victim.
The fund at the disposal of the Russian
department of secret police is absolutely
without limit. Valuable information is al
ways acquired, regardless of cost. The
chief does not hesitate to pay fabulous
sums to gain the sympathy and assistance
of the powerful and of the trustworthy.
The agents of the force are recruited In
all ranks of life. They haunt the rose
and orchid bowers of the "winter palace,"
as well as the squalid hut of the meanest
moujik. Nor Is its membership confined
to Russian subjects' alone. The hand
some and clever women of all nations are
among the most efficient members of the
service. Englishmen, Frenchmen, Span
iards, Italians and Americans all may
draw their pay from the same source.
S. MILLINGTON MILLER, M. D.
YESTERDAY'S MARKETS.
Condition of Locnl, Eastern and For
eign Business.
The only important change in local Jobbing
circles yesterday was an advance of c per
pound In package coffees. This rise Is the re
sult of the remarkable firmness in all grades of
coffee. The cgetable market is almost bare, in
consequence of the delay of the California
steamer. Oregon eggs were generally sold at
22c yesterday, and the market was weak at
that. Poultry quotations were unchanged.
The local wheat market did not show the ad
vance which was expected in some quarters.
Quotations remained about steady at 70c per
cental for Walla Walla, and 77"47S&c for Val
ley. At San Francisco, the market was quiet,
with the prices quoted: S7c per cental for No.
1 shipping, and 8StIo for choice; milling quali
ties, 0297c; Walla Walla wheat, 7576ic
for fair average quality, SOSSTic for blue-stem,
and 7072VJc for damp. Beerbohm's Liverpool
report was as follows: Wheat Steady; Califor
nia spot lots, 5s 2d5s 3d; cargoes off coast,
quiet but steady: on passage, dull; wheat and
flour in Paris, quiet. At Chicago, the wheat
market opened rather sluggish and with very
little change from the closing price of the day
before: but very soon a number of buyers
started up, and the price rose buoyantly and ad
vanced steadily from 3S&Q-3Siic at the opening
to 5S'i5S'ic in the course of the next 40 min
utes. The statement by Bradstreefs, confirm
ing to some extent the views expressed Thurs
day by the Cincinnati Price Current, with ref
erence to the smalln'cs3 of the visible supply
this year, compared -with the year before, was
the principal causeifor the firmness. The other
marked influences werevof a mixed character.
Foreign markets were quoted about steady, and
the export clearances of wheat for the
last 24 hours from Atlantic ports and
New Orleans were the lightest that have been
recorded for a very long time. Receipts were
light. The market ruled strong all day, and
May closed at &S2s3SMc bid. January closed
at S5c
At the New York Stock Exchange, stocks at
the opening were dull, except for Chicago Gas,
which ran off from 77 to 75 on liquidations,
said to be for account of Interests about to re
tire from the directory. Lackawanna also
dropped -Vi per cent to 159, but the stock
quickly bounded to 1C3',J. The rise In the stock
straightened Delaware &. Hudson and New Jer
sey Central, the former moving up from 130 to
132, and the latter from 91 to 93"-;. No new
reasons were assigned for the improvement In
the stocks. Reading was quiet, and sold at 13't
13. The unfavorable report for the year had
absolutely no effect on the stock. The grangers
were firm on the belief that the senate will
take up the Patterson pooling bill Tuesday and
It will soon thereafter receive the approval of
that body. The moderate exports of gold, and
an impression that there will be no currency
legislation at this session on the lines hereto
fore announced, led to some covering of short
contracts. While the bank statement was not
considered favorable, it had no Influence on the
Inactive stocks. Speculation closed firm, with
prices for the prominent issues anywhere from
J4 to 1 per cent higher than on Friday. Chi
cago Gas. Sugar and Distilling & Cattle Feed
ing lost U to per cent on the day. The clos
ing bids were:
Atchison
Chi., Bur. & Q...
Canada Southern.
Canada Pacific ...
Central Pacific
C. C C. & St, L..
l&IXorth Am. Co 3
71iKorthern Pacific... 5A
4Vi do pref 17
50 (Northwestern ... 1)6
13iiOregon Nav 19ft
37a-4,Oregoa Imp 11
D. L. & W. 162Pacinc Mail
ziyj
eric ...... U7i!neauuig ....
Wclls-Fargo Ex.. .103 Rock Island ....
Gr. North, pref... 103 St, Paul
Lake Shore 137 Texas Pacific ....
12
56
Louis. & Nash.... 33Unlon Pacific .,.
N. Y. Central 9S"i Western Union
87,
N. X. Sz N. Eng... 32:t
The official closing quotation? for mining
stocks at San Francisco were, as follows:
Alta ...- $0 4S'Justice $0 24
Andes 41Gould & Curry... 40
Alpha Con lOiHale & Norcross... 1 00
Belcher
COKentuck
Con.
0
Belle Isle ,
Best & Belcher..,
Bodie Con
Bullion
Bulwer Con
Caledonia
Challenge Con...
Chollar
Confidence
Con. Cal. & Va...
Con. Imperial ...
Crown Point ....
5 Mexican
1 lOlMono
SO Mt. Diablo
1 03
10
lSlOphlr 2 10
10,Overrnan iO
OJPotosl 03
41 .Savage
47, Sierra Nevada
SO.SIlver Hill ....
4 OoiUnlon Con
l'Utah Con
C5!Yeliow Jacket
A Survivor of the Grand Army.
London Daily News.
It is seriously stated In the Russian pa
pers that a survivor of Napoleon's grand
army which went to Russia on the disas
trous campaign of 1S12 has died at Sar
atoff, on the Volga, at tho age of 125 years.
The man's name was Nicholas Savin. He
was captured by Cossacks during the re
treat across the Bereslna. It is said that
he was born In Paris on the 17th of April,
176S, that his father was In the regiment
called the Gardes Francalse3 In the reign
of Louis XV, and that he was educated
at the Jesuit college at Tours. He used
to speak of the reign of terror and the
execution of Louis XVI, which he well
remembered. After his release from cap
tivity Savin settled down in Saratoff,
where he is said to have been greatly re
spected. In 18S7 the late czar presented him
with 1000 rubles on his birthday.
Harmless Chimney- Blaze.
A chimney blaze at Fourth and Ankeny
streets occasioned an alarm from box
54. about 1:15 o'clock this morning. Owing
to the high wind, the box did not ring in
correctly, and the department was sum
moned by telephone. No damage was
done.
Frightened by Earthquakes.
ROME, Jan. 12. Several earthquakes
shocked Southern Italy and Sicily today.
The Inhabitants of many towns are so
frightened that they are erecting huts in
the fields, where they Intend to pass the
rest of the winter.
Dvsnensla's victims find nrompt and per-
i manent relief in Hood's Sarsaparilla.
A SHABBY OLD TOW
CITY OF KINGSTON, THE CAPITAL
OF JAMAICA.
StreetScenes Eccentricities of Head-
gcar Historic Catastrophes
Engllah as She Is Spoke."
KINGSTON, Jamaica, British TV. I.,
December 1, 1894. Special Correspond
ence.) Itwould be hard to find another city
which illustrates so forcibly as this the
oft-quoted phase, "'Tis distance lends en
chantment to tho view." Situated on a
sloping hillside, in the far recess of the
lagoon. Kingston is seen for hours from
the deck of an Incoming steamer before
the circuitous passage is traversed; and
with the untroubled blue of sea and sky,
and the Impressive background of the
Liguanea mountains, wreathed in mists
and clothed in changing colors, the town
Is transfigured int.o surprising loveliness.
But once ashore you find it dull, unplc
turesque and shabby, with few trees and
Httle display of tropical vegetation, ill
designed buildings, mostly of wood, fouled
by the slime of open drains. Kingston
has been many times devastated by fire,
hurricanes and earthquakes, and after
each disaster has been rebuilt in the same
inartistic, ramshackle fashion. About 12
years ago a conflagration swept the busi
ness portion of the city, and since then
two terrific wind storms have made addi
tional havoc; so that now square after
square Is filled with masses of debris,
with here and there new buildings of the
most common-place architecture set hap
hazard among the ruins. A great many of
the houses are unoccupied partly, no
doubt, because in Jamaica empty build
ings are not taxed. The saying, "An
empty house is better than a bad tenant,"
may have originated here. At any rate,
the law is no tenants, no taxes, and the
occupants are required to pay assess
ments and water rates. The thorough
farespoorly paved or not paved at all,
and dimly lighted by gas are generally
ankle-deep In dust, notwithstanding a
faint effort to. sprinkle them, which leaves
traces like the ineffectual discharge of a
poorly perforated pepper-box; while the
few sickly trees and ornamental shrubs
In the parks and gardens bear luxuriant
layers of accumulated dirt. Our English
cousins have not done well In all respects
by Jamaica, nor made its capital to com
pare with those of tho French and Spanish
islands; but at least they have built an ad
mirable system of wharves along King
ston's water front, where steamers can re
ceive and discharge their cargo with
facility, and passengers have nothing to
do but walk ashore over a gangplank,
without being put to the danger, annoy
ance and expense of a canoe-ride between
ship and shore, as is the case at most
Spanish-American ports. Hardly has the
steamer approached the wharf before a
rlngular procession comes swarming upon
her hundreds of female stevedores in
line, each with a great basket of coal on
her head, prancing up one plank and down
another that have been thrown at a steep
incline between the ship's deck and the
coalyard. The baskets, when filled, weigh
from 80 to 100 pounds; but the women
swing them lightly to their heads and
march erect as statues, with a step a&
elastic as a race norse's, laughing and
shouting jokes to one another as If it were
the greatest frolic In the world. Round
and round they go, all the long summer
day in the blazing sun, keeping up the
jolly clamor as if weariness were a thing
unknown. Seven or eight shillings apiece
is the day's wages for those willing and
happy beasts of burden; and the earnings
of most of them will be spent before mid
night by their lord and master for rum.
The principal landing-place leads into
Victoria market, at the foot of King
street. Directly in. front of you is a hand
some bronze statue of Admiral Rodney,
who achieved a victory oyer the French
fleet of De Grass, in 17S2. The market,
built about 20 years ago, is the pride of the
island It is surprisingly clean and well
ventilated, with stone floor and well-arranged
stalls for meat and vegetables.
Printed placards are posted all around the
walls, warning buyers against being
cheated In weights. Among the stacks
and cords of fruits and vegetables, yams
are particularly conspicuous, most of them
being big enough for backlogs In an old
fashioned fireplace. The venders are most
ly women, black and greasy, as only Ja
maica negresses can be. Occupants of
stalls pay fixed prices per diem, propor
tioned to the quality of meat or vegeta
bles vended, those selling the best quality
paying the most; thus, as It seems to the
unsophisticated, putting a premium on
poor food supplies.
Kingstreet.theprlncipal thoroughfare in
Kingston, runs straight up the slope to
the parade-ground a central square which
Queen street crosses at right angles, Har
bour street (spelled with a "u" because
"so English, you know") running parallel
with Queen street, but down near the
water-front, is the principal retail busi
ness section; while Port Royal street,
farther up. Is the quarter of the wholesale
merchants. The heat is intense seldom
less than SO deg. in the shade in Kingston,
and the uphill streets are full of inequali
ties as Chicago was before the great fire,
making sightseeing a wearisome under
taking; therefore it is best to take a 'bus,
as the common vehicle of transport is
called, dozens of which stand waiting for
customers just outside the market place.
They are rather shabby concerns, with
rheumatic springs and melancholy-looking
horses; but their modest charges are only
an English shilling to any part of the city,
and $1 an hour for country excursions.
For a city of more than 40,000 inhabiants,
Kingston has remarkably few attractions.
Though one of the largest centers of popu
lation in the British possessions in tropi
cal America It is the most backward and
least attractive of southern cities. I know
of no coast town of equal pretensions in
all Spanish-America where the streets are
so badly paved and lighted, the majority
of buildings being poor, and the sanitary
conditions so utterly neglected.
The longer the foreign visitor remains
in this Island which nature made so lovely,
the "more is he impressed with the fact
that Anglo-Saxon civilization is a failure
in the tropics, compared with that of the
Latin races.
Not one of Kingston's public buildings
is worth a visit, unless It be the small
library and miniature museum, on East
street. The museum contains a fair col
lection of the animals and plant-life of
the island, and many relics and curiosities.
Among the latter is the cracked bronze
bell that hung in the church tower at
Port Royal at the time of the famous
earthquake which killed nearly all the
people, and an Iron cage with cruel spikes
in it, such as were sometimes used by
plantation overseers In which to hang up
refractory slaves. The spikes were thrust
under a rib, and the wretched creature,
with hands and feet securely tied, was
suspended inside the locked cage, to die by
slow torment, as a warning example to
others. When this cage was dug up It had
three human skeletons in it. Architectur
ally the courthouse Is, perhaps, the best
building of the lot. You should take a
peep Into the law library; the court of
vice admiralty; the colonial offices; the
great hospital with its 230 beds, and the
chancery reglstar's office, where you will
see a curious piece of tapestry, represent
ing the royal and Island arms, which used
to be carried before the governor on state
occasions. Following King street up to
the broad open space crossed by Queen
street, you come to the parade-grounds
and a quaint English church, the oldest on
the island, built in 1692. In the burial
ground behind Is the grave of Admiral
Benbow, who died In 1702, and the tomb
of William Hall, bearing date 1699. The
streets are swarming with black soldiers,
the First West India regiment, in zouave
uniform. They are small, hardy-looking
men, not unlike the French Chasseurs
d'Afrique In appearance, and reputed to
be savage fighters. Their barracks on the
hills just opposite the city are spacious
buildings, with extensive grounds. The
white troops at present a regiment of
Royal Scots are In cantonment at New
castle, far up In the mountains a pictur
esque nook inaccessible to wheeled ve
hicles and said to be so delightfully cool
that blankets are needed every night la
the year, though the city is so hot that
the people are longing to "sit in their
bones."
The most astonishing thing you will
find in rambling around the streets of
Kingston is the endless variety of curious
headgear, and a hundred times a day
the slang expression of the American ga
min. "Where did you get that hatr
comes to your mind. A certain amount
of license in regard to clothing is always
allowed in a tropical country, and no
clothing at all for the younger ,memben
of society; but Jamaicans know nothing
at all of any restrictions in taste, and
certainly a more fantastic display of
head covering was never gotten togeth
er in any part of the world. Almost ev
ery person you meet has a different fash
ion of hat or turban, and no matter how
atrocious its style, it is always quite
"correct" here. Perhaps the most pic
turesquely ugly in design and general
appearance are the pith hats and helmet3
supported by newly- arrived Englishmen,
Colonial officials and their haughty or
humble imitators among the blacks and
Creoles. For those whose business
keeps them much out In the sun, the
pith hats are the best possible protection
(next to a wet cabbage leaf), being from
half an Inch to an inch thick, but very
light. They are in all shapes and sizes
some like the ordinary policeman's hel
met, but with an abnormal development
of brim; others measure 20 inches or
more fore and aft; others, circular discs
the depth of a washtub, with a small flat
crown; others huge pieces of pith with
no crown at all, like an exaggerated clam
shell; and others resemble nothing so
much as a big snowshovel. They are
generally covered with linen, white,
brown or gray, twisted around, festooned
or tied in bow-knots, according to the
taste of the wearer, with long ends dang
ling down the back or flapping in the
breeze, and others trimmed with an ad
ditional band of pith, an inch thick,
around the crown. These nightmares
of the hatter's imagination do not fit
snugly, but have a framework Inside
that allows a wide space all around the
head for ventilation; so that the man
who wears a No. 7 Derby requires a 10
or 11 pith hat, and it gives its wearer the
appearance of an overgrown mushroom.
There are sun helmets and dress hel
mets, and official helmets and helmets
of every variety. The swellest Jamaicans
affect the big white felt sombrero, with
a highly colored silk scarf tied around
the crown. The West India coolie men
hang around the street corners with their
heads swathed in immense white turbans,
and the coolie women wear several yards
of white cloth picturesquely draped over
their blue-black hair, with the ends float
ing out behind. The negresses envelope
their wool In gaudy bandana handker
chiefs, and on top of that perch an old
derby or straw hat, or any sort of hat,
male or female, they can lay hand on;
while the coaling women crown their
heads with a twist of straw, when at
work, and with a half-gourd shell when
off duty. On Sundays and fete days the
colored ladles often appear In truly mar
velous creations of millinery, but always
as a secondary adornment with the ban
dana. Occasionally one sees a tall silk
hat of antique design, or an old plug
with a band of bright calico streaming
out behind, on the head of some proud
darkey. The policemen wear little round
peaked caps, and the black soldiers an
extremely becoming zouave turban of red
and white, with a yellow tassel.
All the negro sentences appear to be
constructed on the "baby talk" plan, and
it rolls out in an oily stream from their
thick lips, wholly unintelligible to the
newcomer. The poorest of them are very
polite to one another, as well as to
strangers, and It is amusing to hear a
.half-naked wretch, hatless and shoeless,
bowing low to another in the same con
dition, and saying, "How do dis morn,
marm; hope um do be well, marm?"
and the response invariably is, "Quite
well, um, dis morn, sar, tank um, sar."
The use of "um" Is not understood, but Is
constant, and it is always "sar," Instead
of "massa," as In slavery days.
FANNIE B. WARD.
BUSINESS ITEMS.
If Baby Is Cutting Teeth,
Ba sure to use that old and well-tried remedy,
Mrs. WInslow'a Soothing Syrup, for children
teething. It soothes the child, softens tho
euros, allays all pain, cures wind colto and
dlarrnoea.
is largely an
"outdoor
product.
Fresh air
and exercise
usually pro
duce sound
appetite and
sound sleep.
Sickly chil
dren obtain
great benefit from
of cod-liver oil with Hypo
phosphites, a fat-food rapid
of assimilation and almost
as oalatable as milk.
Prepmd b Srntt&BowpB.y. Y. All druggists.
If You Have
Scrofula,
Sores, Boils, or
any other skin disease,
take
the Superior
Blood-Purifier
and Spring Medicine.
Cures others,
cure you
CURES QUICKER
THAN ANT OTHER REMEDY.
Tarrant's Extract of Cu
bebs and Copaiba Is a safe,
certain and quick cure for
gonorrhoea and gleet, and
is an old-tried remedy for
all diseases of the urinary
organs. Combining in a
highly concentrated form
the medicinal ilrtues of
cubebs and copaiba. Its
portable shape, freedom
from taste and speedy ac
tion (curing in less time
than any ether prepara
tion) make it the most val
uable known remedy. To
nrevenr fraud, sec that ev
ery package has a red strip across the face of
label, with the signature of Tarrant & Co.. N.
J Y., upon It. Price ?1.0O. Sold by all druggists.
U2-M U-J ey
SARSAPARILLA
THE FKLKTI75L
OHHII BUILDING
DIRECTORY OF OCCUPANTS
Rooms.
AMOS. DR. VT. F.. Physician and Surgeon.
604-C03
AIUSTOS SOCIAL. CLUB Jill. 212. 213. 21i
ASSOCIATED PRESS. E. L. Powell. Man
ager .... . S03
BARBER. DR. S. J.. Dentist 60S-609
BECKWITH. H.. Route Agent Pacific Ex
press Company ... 204
BISHOP. DR. J. S.. Surgeon 713
BELL. DR. J. F.. Physician and Surgeon.
- 711-713
BINSWANGER. DR. O. S.. Physician and
Surgeon 411-413
BROWN EROS. CO.. "Continental Nurser
ies" C12-G1S-GU
BLANDFORD. S. M.. 17. S. Weather Bu
reau ........... ..000
BUILDERS' EXCHANGE S0O
CATLIN. W. VT.. Receiver Oregon Natlom.1
Bank 305-300
CAUKIN. G. E.. District Agent Travelers'
Insurance Co. ,. 703
CARDWELL. DR. HERBERT W.. rhysl-
claa ... . 7oa
CARDWELL. DR. J. R.. Dentlst....S08-S09-SlO
CHAPPELL BROWNE. P.. Architect. 700
COLUMBIA TELEPHONE CO . 600
CUilMING. DR. WM., Dentist. ... .403-403
DICKSON. DR. J. F.. Physician. 713-711
DRAKE. DR. H. B.. Physician 512-313511
EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCI
ETY, J. B. Wrangham. Cashier 600-510-511
EVENING TELEGRAM 325 Alder SU
FENTON. DR. J. D., Physician and Sur
geon . .... . . 310
FENTON, DR. HICKS C., Physician and
Surgeon .... ......... 303
FENTON & FENTON. DRS.. Surgeons.SOS-lO
FENTON, DR. MATTHEW F., DenUst 303
FERRIS. DR. FRANK E.. Dentist- 311-312
GIESY, DR. A. J.. Physician 710
GIESY & CARDWELL, DRS.. Physlclans...703
GODDARD. E. C & CO., footwear, ground
floor -.. 120 Sixth St.
GRAVES, DR. J. L.. Dentist S01-805
HELMBOLD. R. P.. Special Agent Manhat
tan Life........ .... ......... ...203
HURD. DR. EVERETT M., Dentist-. 403
MACKAY. DR. A. E.. Physician and Sur
geon .............................. ...704-703
MAXWELL. DR. W.E.. Physician and Sur
geon ....... ... 701-702-703
MORRIS. E. C. Secretary and Manager
Brown Bros. Co... ......614
MOSSMAN. DR. E. P., Dentist 512-513-514
MANHATTAN LIFE ASSURANCE CO.. of
New York. S. E. Mulford. Managcr.20S-20!)-21GI
McELROY, DR. J.-O., Physician and Sur
geon ... . .701-702-703
McMILLAN. N.. Reat3state, Loans 501
M'GULRE. H. D., State Fish and Game Pro
tector ... . . . . . .... ,.81t
MILLER, DR. H. C Dentist . . .408-403
MULFORD. S. E., Manager Manhattan Life
... . . -. . .208-209-210
MFADEN. Miss Ida E.. Stenographer and
Typewriter ... . . .. ..... 203
OREGON NATIONAL BANK. W.W. Catlln.
Receiver . . . . . . . . .305-303
PACIFIC BANKER AND INVESTOR, L.
Stagge. Editor . .. . .... ....803
PAGUB & BLANDFORD. Attorneys - at -
Law ........ . . .".... ...713
REED & MALCOLM. Opticians, ground floor
..... . ..... ..131 Sixth St.
RIGGS. DR. J. O., Dentist . . . . ....60S
ROBERTS, A.. Merchant Tallor.131 Sixth St,
RELD, JR.. R. R.. Special Agent Equitable
Life . . . 51$
SAMUEL, lb. Special Agent Equitable Life
. 511
SCHMIDT & ROBLTN, General Agency ...303
STOLTE. CHARLES EDWARD . 808
STUART. DELL. Attorney-at-Law. . 616-617-613
STUART & YOUNG, Attorneys-at-Law
. . -. 616-617-613
STEVENSON. W. R. and HELMBOLD. R.
P., State Agents Manhattan Life 203-200-210
SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE . . 203
TUCKER. DR. GEO. F., Dentist 610511
U. S. WEATHER BUREAU 007-90S-900,
WILSON, DR. EDWARD N.. Physician and
Surgeon . . . . . .. . . .304-305
WILSON. DR. HOLT C, Physician -...507-503
WRANGHAM, J. B., Cashier Equitable 500
WHITING, DR. S., Physician and Surgeon
.... ....... 504-505
WHITE, LEVI .-. -."1.- 40?
WOOD, DR. JAMES B.. Physician and Sur
geon . . . . . ..312-313
WOOD. DR. W. L., Physician 413-414,
YOUNG, GEO. D., Attorney-at-Law.C16-61T-013
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