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VOL. 2.
IIILLSBORO, OREGON. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19. 1895.
NO. 26.
DAY OF THE MURDER
Tracing the Movements
Theodore Durrant.
of
TUB CHAIN IS NOW COMPLETE
The Murderer mid III. Victim Traced
From the I'wwell Street Hnhool
llmi.e to tlie "MUdIuii."
Sim Frauolaoo, Sept. 18. Slowly
the pnwuoutiou is taking Theodore
Durruiit up to tliu Emanuel church
door with Blanche Lamout. Another
long stop was taken today, and the two
wore traced to the "Mission" to the
corner of either Valencia uud Twouty
first streets, or Vnluuoiu and Twenty
second streets. If they left tho car at
Twouty-soooud street thuy were withiu
1)00 feet of the churoh door. Now the
next move in the progression ' will be
undoubtedly to bring out the testi
mony of Murtiu Cjuiulau, who says he
saw Durrant and the girl at Twenty
second and Uttrtlott Htreots. Then will
probubly ooiue the story of Mrs. Leak,
who hiiw them enter tho church, and
thou the reluctant tale of Organist ,
King, to whom Uurraut appeared Huh- j
tured nud houted, aud said he had been ;
overcome by Kan, After this there is,
still the pawnbroker's story of the at-,
tempt to pawn the dead girl's ring and I
the other bits of corroborative evi- i
deuce to bolster up the main case.
Aud after all that is over the defense (
will begin the work of tearing the :
whole fabric to pieces, rending the I
chain link from link, proving inno-1
ceuce iu tho face of an appearance of
guilt, or of leaving the whole case be j
clouded with doubt aud conjecture.
Tho lawyers for the defeuso, iu the face
of all that is piled up agaiust them,
are easy and ooiitldent.
"We will clear him in throo min
utes," i an expression said to have
boon dropped by one of thorn.
Those who are admitted to the court
room sit through the tedious hours in
a reeking atmosphere and hear little or
nothiug.
Today they were fairly well reward
ed. They saw one exoitablo woman,
with a Herman accent, step down from
the witness stand and point out the de
fendant with a gesture that would have
done credit to the most thrilling of
melodramas. They also saw a feeble
old woman brought in, bent aud totter
iug, to cast her condemnation iu the
prisoner's face, to tell her story from
tho briuk of the grave. But it did not
seem to distrub the prisoner much. He
frequently smiled at his mother during
the day, as if amused at tho broken
English of Mrs. Vogel, or pleased with
the efforts of his cross-examiners.
The mother smiled in return, but it is
evident that the showing of the prose
oution is worrying her. She looks
worn. The few white hairs in her
head seem to show more. She is thinner
than she was Her solicitude is shown
in tho iuorease of hor attentions to her
sou. When the testimony seems xnoBt
damaging she can hardly keep hor
hands off him. One hand will con
stantly steal up along his back, a ca
ressing, solicitous hand, as if she
yearned to take him to hor heart and
balm his woes as she used to do when
ho was a boy.
There is no disturbance apparent in
his demeanor all this time, however.
Even in the morning, when the women
iu the oorridors had broken through
the cordon and were being ordered
back, his was about the only head
which did not turn toward the door.
The sounds were tho sounds of a riot,
but riot seemed to matter not to the
luiiu most oouoerned in the outcome of
such an affair. During the day a
mauiao shrieked wildly while being
put in a prison van in the area below.
All eyes, except those of Durrant, were
a-pop with inquiry. Whon family
friends come iu he greets them cor
dially. .
"He does the honors -of the place
with a freedom that is really charm
ing," said one who had watohod him
much with a oritio's eye.
Graveaeml'a Former Bo...
Now York, Sept 18. The Advei
tiser says it has been learned from an
authoritutive source that John Y. Mo
Kane, the ex-chiof of police of Graves
end, is not likely to live long enough
to serve out his sentence in Sing Sing.
Indoed, it is deolared, although -efforts
have been made to prevent the knowl
edge of his oondition from being made
public, that he is a sick man and that
it would be no surprise to those of his
friends, who know of his oondition, to
hear at any moment that he was pros
trated in the prison hospital.
Impeded Fort Walla Walla.
Walla Walla, Sept. 18. Lieuten
ant Colonel Burton, inspector-general,
U. S. A., stationed at the Presidio,
California, arrived in Fort Walla
Walla this morning, and inspected the
troops. Then he visited the quarters
and examined them, In the afternoon
dress parade was held, after whioh the
troops passed in review of the inspeo
tor. Colonel Burton is making the an
nual tour of the posts in the depart
ment of the Pacific, and will leave to
morrow for Forts Spokane and Sher
man. A Urltl.h-llelglan A Hair,
London, Sept. 18. The Daily Tele'
graph this morning publishes a tele
gram dated Uganda, Sepjtejriber 6,
whioh states 100 of Stake's Ullowers
were shot by Belgian troops after
Stokes had been executed. Stokes,' it
will be remembered, is the English
man who was hanged by the Belgians
for alleged participation in the slave'
trade, aud whose exeoution has since
formed the subject of negotiations be
tween the British government and Bel
giura.
SPREAD OF CHOLERA.
Ecteut of the I)lu In Hawaii
China a. Tuld by Seamen.
San Frauoisco, Sept 18. The
steamer Kio Janeiro, which arrived
from China and Japan by way of Hono
lulu today, is being held in quarantine
off Black point Theie is no sickness
on the vessel herself, but as she came
from an infected port, it was deemed
boat to hold her in the bay until all
danger of bringing the disease into this
city is pust. Tho Rio Janeiro left Yo
kohama August 24, and reached Hono
lulu the 9th of this month.
As cholera was ragiug there she did
not onter the harbor, but remained out
at sea. Tho passengers who were
booked for the islands were lauded in
small boats, and no mail or anything
else was taken aboard. There were
many passengers who wanted to come
to this city, but the captain absolutely
refused to take any of them aboard, ex
cept a Mrs. Baoon, who was taken in
the cabin. Captain Smith, of the
steamer, took all precautious necessary
to prevent the dreaded disease coming
aboard his ship He oven refused to
take water aboard, though the supply
on the ship was exhausted, aud on the
trip up all the Water used on board
was that furnished by the ooudousers
of the engine room.
, When the vessel loft Honolulu, forty-one
deaths had been reported from
cholera, aud eight cases had just broken
out. The disease, the crew of the
steamer said, had a firm foothold on
the island, and seemed to be spreading
fast. It had not, however, yet come to
an epidemic. The disease had so far
attacked only natives on the islands.
When the steamer left Hong Kong,
that city was in a more healthy condi
tion, though there were several cases
of cholera within the city limits. Tht
Amorioau consul at that port gave the
steamer a olean bill of health when it
loft there.
Captain Smith says the disease is
spreading very rapidly in Northern
China. In many of the provinces hun
dreds of deaths occur daily, and the
authorities have no control over the
epidemio. At Chee Foo the disease is
attacking whites aud natives alike.
The Russian fleet there in the harbor
haB already lost over fifty men, and
tho disease has attacked many of ' the
remaining sailors. The epidemic seems
to be going toward Northern China. It
has already crossed the frontier aud in
vaded Russia. At Vladivostok it has
taken a firm hold on the poorer classes,
and deaths are occurring by the dozens
daily. The Russian government haB
taken a deep interest in its Buffering
people, and it is doing all it can to
allay the plague.
At a meeting of the board of health
today, the ports of Nagaski aud Yoko
hama, Japan, wore declared infected,
aud the Rio Janeiro was ordered to re
main in quarantine nntil the passen
gers, mail and cargo could be fumi
gated. The board also ordered all
mails from iufeotd or suspected ports
to be fumigated at the quarantine sta
tion before being allowed to enter the
oity. '
WHY EZETA REMAINS.
lie Ha. Not Sufltelent Money to Pay HI.
Hotel BUI.
San Franoiaoo, Sept. 18. General
Antonio Ezeta had another fit of home
sickness the other day and ho has
again made up his mind to return to
Sulvador. For months he has been on
the point of departure, but his going
has been of the auction variety, being
anuounoed twioe or thrice before a ser
ious determination was reaohed. It is
now understood that Ezeta is to be a
passenger on the steamer whioh leaves
here next Wednesday for Central
America. He has not notified the
manager of the California hotel of this
resolve, but it is taken for granted at
that hotel that he intends to emigrate.
Ezeta has been a guest at the Cali
fornia during his stay here. He
brought expensive tastes without
enough funds to satisfy them. His
maintenance was costly and his bill
at the hotel soon amounted to thou
sands of dollars. It has been said that
the onoe mighty Ezeta, who oould re
plemsh his coffers in Salvador very
easily, was reduced to tha necessity of
remaining in San Francisco, as a hos
tage for his creditors, aud that if he
oould have raised enough cash to settle
his aooounts he would have gone from
this oity months ago.
THE CRICKET MATCH.
ITnlventty o Fenn.ylvanla Defeated
Oxford and Cambridge.
Philadelphia, Sept. 18. The Uui
versity of Pennsylvania today won the
most oonspiouous viotory over Oxford
and Cambridge, past or present, in the
first international oollege orioket
match played in this country, winning
by 100 runs. The match began on
Friday last, the Englishmen going first
to bat, and finishing their innings with
the total of 284. Then the Pennsyl
vania boys took the wiokets and, under
the speedy trundling of the foreign
bowlers, lost four wiokets for 88 runs
before stumps were drawn, and. fin
ished their innings for 188 next day,
being obliged to "follow on." It was
in the seoond inning that they retrieved
their lost fortune, piling np the score
of 807.
When the heavy-hitting Englishmen
went to bat their seoond innings to
day. interest was at a high pitch, al
though it was thought little short of a
miracle oould let the Pennsylvania
team win. The miraole happened,
however, for inside an hour and a half
the visitors' ten wickets were down for
the paltry soore of 61. The totals
were: Oxford and Cambridge; 845;
University of Pennsylvania, 455.
Dl.inl.Red by Supreme Cdurt.
Olympia, Wash., Sept. 16. The su
preme oourt has dismissed the case of
the Northen Counties Investment Com
pany, appellant, vs. Henry Hende, re
spondent, (or Garfield oounty.
SUMNER'S NEGLIGENCE
Will Be Suspended From Duty
for Six Months.
THREE CHARGES ARE PROVED
Tha Columbia'. Injuria. Due to the
Captain's Carele.anea. In Docking
Her at Southampton.
Washington, Sept. 17. The navy
department today made public its no
tion in the case of Captain George W.
Sumner, late commander of the United
States orniser Columbia, who was tried
by oourt-martial at the Brooklyn navy
yard on charges growing out of the in
jury sustained by his vessel in docking
at Southampton in July.
The first charge was culpable ineffi
ciency in the performance of duty. The
court found him guilty in a less degree
than that charged, in that he did not
have proper preparations made for
docking. The oourt ignored that por
tion of the charge alleging that as a
oonsoquunce of that failure the boat
was subjected to severe strains, causing
damugo to her hull and necessitating
repairs costing about $1,000.
The captain was found guilty on the
secoud charge of suffering the vessel to
be hazarded iu violation of naval regu
lations. He was found guilty of the
third charge of neglect of duty, and
the spcification that he paid the charges
of docking without protest was proved.
The sentence of the oourt is as fol
lows: "To be suspended from duty
only for a period of six months on
waiting orders at half pay, and to be
reprimanded by the honorable secre
tary of the navy. "
THE
ATLANTA
EXPOSITION.
A Frote.t From Washington In Behalf
of the Negroes.
Washington, Sept. 17. J. E. John
son, secretary of the Atlanta exposition
commission, lor the ooiorea people oi
the District of Columbia, has written
an open letter to the exposition author
ities in Atlanta, protesting against the
granting of a concession for the sale of
cheap whisky in the negro building at
the exposition. Mr.. Johnson says, in
part:
The entire commission having in
charge the exhibit of the oolored people
from the city of Washington are sur
prised and chagrined to learn that all
of its work to procure for your exposi
tion a good display of the articles collect
ed must be placed in an exposition
groggery. You should have advised us
long ago if such were the aims and ob-
jeots of your commission. Why did
you not have this whisky-guzzling an
nex placed in some of the other build
ings? The whole management must
have known, where you crowd to
gether, as it is hoped to do at Atlanta,
thousands of oolored people of all
olasses in a cheap barroom, trouble is
bound to ensue, perhaps in the, shape
of murder or lynohing. If this conces
sion must stand, then you ought not to
expect the white and colored press of
the oountry to induce our people to go
to the exposition. On the contrary,
every respectable and influential news
paper will vigorously advise all oolor
ed people to remain away."
TWO WERE KILLED.
The Re.ult of a Po..e'. Encounter With
a Pursued Murderer.
San Diego, Cal., Sept. 17. News is
just received that the posse that has
been in pursuit of Isidor Reuteria,
who shot Ramon Araiza near San Luis
Rey a few days ago, overtook the fugi
tive at night near Mesa Grande, fifty
miles northeast of this oity, and a
bloody enoounter ensued, in whioh
Reuteria shot and killed a Mexican
constable and was himself shot and
killed by Constable Ben Hubbert, of
Ooeanside, who was in oharge of the
posse.
When Renteria fled, after shooting
Araiza, he was traced to the Montser-
rate ranoh. There a posse composed of
Constable Hubbert, Juan Castro and
the Freeman brothers, mostly Ocean
side men, made a determined effort to
head him off so that he oould not reaoh
Lower California. The posse followed
him into the heavily wooded oountry
about Mesa Grande, getting so olose at
times that shots were exchanged be
tween them. Saturday afternoon Hub
bert and Castro came upon Renteria,
who was hiding in the brush. The fu
gitive, who is an old man past 60
years of age, and a sure shot, opened
fire and killed Constable Castro. Hub
bert immediately shot Renteria dead.
Coroner Risdon and District Attor
ney Sweet have started for Foster's
station, where the bodies were taken
today, to hold an inquest. Hubbert
gave himself up after the shooting.
A Life for a Life.
Shanghai, Sept 17. Chinese offi
cials at Ku Cheng are proving obsti
nate over the results of tho inquiry
into tbe outrages upon missionaries
and are unwilling to sentenoe the
guilty. They offer one life for eaoh
European who was killed, and no
more.
New York, Sept 17. A World spe
oial from Foo Chow says: The Chi
nese refuse to exeoute a single mur
derer implicated in the massacre of
misionaries unless they are assured
that with the execution of the men ao
oused all other demands shall cease.
The work of the British and Amerioan
joint commission is therefore stopped.
Without the presenon of a foreign fleet
no punishment for the massacre is
probable. The vegetarians are rely
ing on official sympathy to begin seiz
ing and torturing Christians.
CLAIMS AGAINST CHILI.
Tlio.e of McKln.try aud Shield. Again
Attracting Attention.
San Francisco, Sept. 17. The claims
of Andrew MoKinstry, and the heirs
of Patrick Shields against the Chilian
government are once more arttacting
attention here.
McKinstry and Shields were sailors
on the American ship Keeneewa and in
1891, while in Valparaiso, they were
brutally beaten by Chilian police.
Shields afterward died from his injur
ies. .A claim for damages against
Chili was instituted by the United
States in behalf of the injured sailors,
and President Harrison, in his annual
message, made special reference to the
oases. The cases Were considered by
a tribunal in connection , with the
United States steamer Baltimore sail
ors, but it was fonnd that McKinstry
and Shiolds were British subjects,
though serving on an American ship.
Consequently their claims were thrown
out. Lord Rosebery, the late premier
of Englaud, championed their cause,
however, and another tribunal, com
posed of Germans, British and Chili
ans, is now considering the claims in
Valparaiso. . .
A copy of the demurrer of the Chil
ian government has been received here,
and the endeavors of Chili to avoid re
sponsibility are considered remarkable.
In the demurrer, the attorney for the
government states that the police rec
ords of Valparaiso contain no mention
of the beating of the sailors, or of the
reasons for such treatment, if they
were injured. Chili also objects to a
foreign tribunal to try the cases, as it
is considered humiliating to Chili.
The allegation is also made that the
sailors, the day they were arrested,
drank a bottle of pale beer in a saloon,
and that possibly their minds became
clouded so that they imagined that
they had received injuries when in re
ality they bad not been hurt at all.
This statement is made in spite of the
faot that the men Were covered with
wounds and bruises from which they
never reoovered. '
A DETECTIVE'S SUICIDE.
One of San Franebico'. Ablest Police
Officer. Kill. Himself.
San Francisco, Sept. 17. Detective
Daniel Coffee killed himself shortly be
fore 8 o'clock tonight His family are
unable to ascribe any motive for the
deed. The detective had been quieter
than usual at the dinner table, and had
gone upstairs afterward to his room.
He had undressed, but had not gone to
bed. Instead, clad only in his under
clothing, he had gone to the bathroom
and lighted the gas. Apparently he
had sat on the floor and shot himself.
His head had fallen baok and death
was iustantaneons at the seoond shot.
The first shot had missed.
Detective Coffee was one of the
ablest members of the San Frnoisco po
lice force, and many of the most des
perate oriminals who are now serving
sentences in the state prison owe their
oaptivity to his untiring efforts to put
an end to their wrong doing. He was
born in Limmerick, Ireland, January
16, 1840. When a boy he came to
America. Eearly in the '60s he arriv
ed in San Francisco After serving an
apprenticeship as cooper, he obtained
employment in the oooperage depart
ment at the old sugar refinery at
Eighth and Brannan streets. He
worked there at his trade until ap
pointed on the police force in 1869.
Nine years later he was made a detect
ive. Import, for August.
Washington, Sept. 17. A bulletin
issued by the bureau of statistics of the
treasury department shows an exoess
of imports of merchandise over exports
for August of 115,215,529, and for the
eight months ended August 21 of $26,
505,518. The same period last year
showed the exports to be in excess by
19,058,075, and $64,777,257, respect
ively. Gold to the value of $16,667,
261 was exported during August, mak
ing $55,766,217 for the eight months
of the year. The excess of exports over
imports is placed at $15,159,582 and
$27,702,341, opposed to $1,915,303 and
$54,233,281 for the corresponding per
iods of 1894. Gold ore showed a total
export for the eight months of over
$1,000,000. The silver export inolud
ing coin, bullion and ore, was $4,500,
000 and $35,000,000 opposed to $4,500,-
000 and $29,000,000 for 1894.
The immigrants during the month
numbered 27,199, and for the year to
date 23,733, as opposed to 17,448 and
166,581 during 1894, respectively.
Italy I. Celebrating.
Rome, Sept. 17. The fetes in ceta
bration of tho twenty-seventh anuiver
sary of the occupation of Rome by Ital
ian patriots began today. The aotual
date of the entraoe of the troops under
Cadoran is September 20, but the
events immediately leading up to the
occupation are included in the celebrft
tion. A procession marched to the
Phanteon to visit the tomb of Viotor
Emanuel. The fetes continue till Sep
tember 29. There are to be oongresses
of different kinds, including tho Ital
ian Historic society, the patriotic vet'
erans and the retired soldiers, lasting
from the 19th to the 25th. The 20th
the column at Porta Appia and the
monument to Garibaldi will be dedi
oated.
What Dan Stuart Says.
Chioago, Sept 17. In sporting oir
oles here it is reported that it Fitzsim
mons adheres to his determination to
claim a part of the proceeds on the var
ious concessions or refuse to go into
the ring, there is a probabilty that the
big fight between him and Corbett
will not take place at all. Dan Stuart
says that the picture privilege had
been sold to W. A. Brady when the ar
tides of agreeement were signed. The
other privileges are his own, and he
would not surrender a part of them to
any one, no matter what the conse
quenoes.
PACIFIC NORTHWEST.
Condensed
ports ot
Telegraphic Re
Late Events.
BRIEF SPARKS FROM THE WIRES
I'appening. of Interest In the Town, and
Citle. of Oregon, Washington
and Idaho.
There are now said to be 125,000
fruit trees in Hood river valley, 90,000
of which are apple trees. .
O. M. Moore, of Seattle, has bought
the Pythian Herald, and will remove
its publcation from Ritzville to Se
attle. It is said that the board of regents of
the Oregon agricultural college will
"dock" teachers whenever they are
absent.
Thomas W. Potter, the new superin
tendent of the Indian training school
at Chomawa, Or. , is expected to take
charge in a few days.
The Tacoma city council has passed
an ordinance prohibiting the employ
ment in city work of any person not a
citizen and voter of Tacoma.
The consolidation of the Bellingham
bay, Wash. , towns is still being talked
about There is not much sentiment
in favor of it apparently outside of
Fairhaven.
George W. Van Fassen, of Taooma,
has bought forty acres of land in the
Puyallup reservation, and proposes to
divide it into five-aore tracts and sell
it to his A. P. A. friends for homes.
In Tbe Dalles the Oregon Railway &
Navigation Company has a gang of
men repairing the bridge from First
street to the company's house. All
the piles are being replaced by new
ones.
C. P. Moody is under arrest in
Pendleton charged with forging 'two
checks, one for $14 and one for $16,
drawn in the name of George Por
ringer, of the First National bank of
Pendleton.
Work of ditch construction is to be
commenced at once at the Travillon &
Mann gravel mines at Parkersville.
Tbe length of the ditch is to be about
two miles, and it will be an extension
of a big ditch already built
The Spokane council in a spasm of
economy, took out of commission the
North Side's chemical engine, and now
the insuranoe companies give notice
rates will be advanod 20 per cent un
less the engine is replaced.
A colony of North Dakotas, with six
prairie schooners and thirty head of
cattle, passed through Palouse, Wash.,
Tuesday on their way to the Nez Peroe
reserve. They report that hundreds of
families are leaving the Dakotas for
the West
Whitman county's assessment roll
has been made up and equalized by
the oounty board, and shows: From
realty, $5,635,185; railroad track,
$1,741,648; town real property, $1,-
653,872; personal property, $2,205,
670; total assessed valuation in coun
ty, $11,236,375.
Judge JJenny, of the supeiror oourt
in Snohomish oouuty,. Wash., has de
cided that United States court com
missioners have no authority in the
state to make acknowledgement of
deeds, or similar instruments, and no
authority to administer oaths outside
of United States oourt matters.-
It is said there are 16,000 sheep scat
tered along the hills from Catherine
creek to Cornuoopia, without a sheep
herder, the herder having notified the
owner by posting a notice on a tree
that he had better get another herder,
and then left the sheep. The owner
is said to live in Umatilla county. Or.
Hillyard, Wash., has two sets of
school teachers and a promise of much
litigation on hand. Three of the
teachers hold oontraots from the old
board, while the new board have em
ployed others. Those holding the old
oontraots have demanded their full sal
ary, after expressing willingness to
teach.
Rev. Francis L. Palmer, the coming
rector of St Paul's Episcopal ohuroh
of Walla Walla, will be married about
the 1st of October to Miss Payne, the
accomplished daughter of a wealthy
manufacturer of Oshkosh. Wis. Mr.
Palmer, accompanied by his wife, are
expeoted at Walla Walla about Oc
tober 15.
Deputy Fish Commissioner Hawkes
arrested three Puyallup Indians Tues
day for maintaining a net in the Puy
allup river contrary to the state law.
The Indians will fight the case on the
grounds that under their treaty rights
they are entitled to hunt and fish re
gardless of the state law. Just such a
question was the oause of the Jaokson
Hole trouble.
Some large horses were shipped from
Benton oounty Tuesday for heavy work
in the coal mines around Seattle. The
largest of the five animals was a mare
sold by James Edwards for $80, and
she tipped the beam at 1,810. Henry
unnn sold one horse that weighed
1,560 pounds for $110, and Fred Whit
by's horse, weight 1,635 pounds,
brougth $80.
Engineer C. M. Foster.of Baker City,
Or., is surveying the Grande Ronde
river between Island City and Oro
Dell, for the purpose of compiling a
plat of the river channel, irrigating
canals and other data in behalf of the
Island City Milling & Mining Com
pany for use in the suit recently insti
tuted by the oompany to determine the
status of water rights along the river,
THE STATE OF TRADE.
Little Confidence in She
Government
Crop KeporU.
New York, Sept. 16. R. G. Dun &
Co., in their Weekly Review of Trade,
say:
A slight setback, which may mean
much or nothing, according to the final
outcome of the crops, is not unexpected
at this season. If the government crop
reports were correct, the situation
would not be encouraging, but not
much confidence is placed in the re
duced estimate of corn, none at all in
the estimate of wheat, and even the
most enthusiastic bulls do not think it
worth while to quote the government
as to cotton. The fact is that we are
beginning to market not far from
2,200,000,000 bushels of corn, though
about 500,000,000 bushels will not be
moved from the counties where it is
grown; about 450,000,000 of wheat, of
which the farmers are unwisely hold
ing back a large proportion, and about
7,200,000 bales of cotton, if the cotton
estimates are not erroneous, as they
may be, to add to the stock carried
over. Tbe commercial stocks of cot
ton September 1, here and abroad,
amounted to 2,100,538 bales, and do
mestic mill stocks were 360,618 bales,
allowing not a single bale of increase
of stocks at Southern mills. Prices
have settled back a little during the
week, notwithstanding the gloomy de
partment reports.
The wheat crop is evidently larger
than the department has estimated,
though nobody knows how much
larger, and is coming forward with
more encouraging rapidity. The price
declined sharply about 2o per bushel,
with little indication of recovery. The
price of oorn has also yielded, with a
prospect for the largest crop ever
grown, and at 38o at New York, a
large proportion of the crop will be of
little profit to fanners. If we are to
have a large crop of grain and a small
crop of cotton, it is natural to infer
that manufacturers may find large
transactions at the West and South.
There is in fact a very large demand
for goods at the South, and west
bound shipments are unusually large.
The market for finished products is a
little weaker, with indications of hes
itation on the part of buyers at Phila
delphia and Pittsburg, although prices
are on the whole fairly maintained.
There is a weakening in the prices of
structural products and plates, but bar
iron is still quoted at Pittsburg at 1.45
cents, and tank steel at 1.19. The
rapid shipments of Marquette ore dur
ing the past week have some influence
on prices of Bessemer products.
Nothing of importance has occurred in
the minor metals, although tin has
been stronger at times, with London
buying, and copper has been helped by
the report of a bigger' sale ot lake at
12 1-4 cents.
Sales of wool have been 6,147,900
pounds for the week, against 11,311,
2d0 pounds for the same week in 1892,
and there are indications that the do
mestic market is quite overloaded by
the speculative purchases made some
time ago.
Failures for this week were 187 in
the United States, against 219 last
year, and 84 in Canada, against 44 last
year.
FISHERMAN'S RIGHTS.
They Cause Little War at Tumwater
Oppo.ite Celilo.
Goldendale, Wash., Sept 16. At
Tumwater, opposite Celilo, on the Co
lumbia river, in Klickitat, - there has
been during the last few days turmoil
among the fishermen. - It seems the
right to fish for salmon at that point is
in dispute between Bunnell Bros, 'and
Seufert Bros. The former reside in
Klickitat and the latter on the Oregon
side. It seems the Seuferts have fished
and realized great profits hitherto from
this point, ana it is with great re
luctance that they gave way to the
Bunnells, who are said to have acquir
ed rights from the state that they are
now exercising. From the catch the
Bunnells made Septemebr 10 they real
ized $1,000. Seufert Bros, sent their
guard yesterday to prevent John Bun
pell by physioal force from going to his
nets; but John Bunnell was equal to
the occasion and succeeded in pummel -
ing the guard and giving F. A. Seufert
a Columbia river bath. It seems about
this time a boatload of twenty-five
fishermen came over from Seufert's and
later guns were drawn and the oombat
was said to have been a draw for the
time being. It is feared by friends of
both parties that blood will be shed be
fore the disputed rights are settled.
Some friends of both parties are trying
to have the difference left to an arbi
tration committee.
Captain Slocum and the Spray.
Washington, Sept 16. Captain
Spragne, writing from Gibraltar to
the state department, reports the de
parture from that port of the small
sloop Spray, in whioh her owner, Cap
tain Slocum, started from Boston to
oiroumnavigate the globe alone. He
arrived at Gibraltar August 24. Slo-
oum sailed from Boston to Gibraltar in
thirty-two days, and oould have made
better time. He had intended contin
uing his journey through the Red Sea,
Dut naa aeoiaea to onange his course
on aooount of his fear of thieves after
passing the Suez canal, and to go via
Cape of Good Hope.
An Helre.. to a Large E.tate.
Los Angeles, Sept, 17. Mrs. Charles
Jenkins, wife of the chief clerk of the
Hollenbeck hotel, has discovered that
she is a direct descendant of the late
Lord Antrim, of Canada, who left an
estate of $80,000,000. She will leave
for the East at once to establish her
claim to a portion of the vast estate.
Mrs. Jenkins says she has absolute gen
eaiogioai proois. Mr. Jenkins is one
i.of the best-known hotel men in the
West
A RESPITE FOR KRUGG
His Case Will Go to the United
States Supreme Court.
WASHINGTON'S EX-TREASURER
The Federal Question I., Doe. Seattle
Derive Power From the Enabling
Aet or State Constitution?
Olympia, Wash., Sept 14. James
Hamilton LewU was in the oity today,
and has succeeded in securing an appeal
to the supreme oourt of the United
States of the case of Adolph Krugg,
the defaulting treasurer of Seattle.
Pending appeal, Krugg will be allowed
to go on $10,000 bail. The case was
first argued here on the ground of the
unoonsitutionality of the laws under
which Krugg was indicted.
Three members of the court decided
that the prosecution was legal and the
laws valid. Judges Anders and Gor
don held that the indictment was in
valid. Judge Hoyt concurred with the
three judges, except that he was of the
opinion that cities of the first-class de
rive their powers from the constitution,
and not from the legislature. Lewis
contended for an appeal on the ground
that laws concerning the government
of the city of Seattle were derived from
the act of congress admitting the state
into the Union, and not from the state
constitution; that, such being the case,
the test of the sufficiency of the laws
under which Krugg was indicted was
whether or not they complied with the
federal constitution, aud that the laws
were in violation of articles vi and xiv
of the United States constitution; also,
that as the decision by this oourt was
based on a construction of the federal
constitution by a divided oourt, this
raised a doubt as to its correctness in so
far as the federal question was con
cerned, and the whole case, under such
a state of affairs, must be sent to the
supreme court of the United States.
One judge said today that ordinarily
he would not grant a writ of error, but
in this case he was satisfied of the exis
tence of a doubt as to ' the validity of
the laws under which, the prosecution
was conducted, and, also, as to whether
or not they were sufficient under the
federal constitution. This is the first
tppeal of this nature from this oourt
on the grounds urged, and will prove
an embarrassing precedent if sustained.
Military Training in Public School..
Chicago, Sept 14. Patriotio train
ing in a most acceptable form was
added to the curriculum of the Chioago
public schools last night when the
board of education decided that an op
portunity be given to the male pupils
of the high and preparatory schools
who may desire to obtain instruction
in military drill.
In taking this step forward the board
has only placed Chioago in line with
New York, Boston and other Eastern
cities where instruction in military
tactics has been found to be valuable
adjunct to the ordinary educational
course.
In the West, too, the new movement
is proving popular. Denver has had
her high school pupils organized into
cadet companies and battalions for
about six years, and no big parade in
that oity is oomplete without having
these cadets in line.
The Exportation or Meat..
San Francisco, Sept 14. Collector
Wise has received important instruc
tions from the secretary of the treas
ury as to the exportation of meats
from this port The circular provides
that on and after next Monday the col
lector must withhold clearances for all
vessels of every character whioh have
on board any meats not accompanied
by an elaborate certificate by the meat
inspectors of the agricultural depart
ment In the absence of a certificate
the packages must be so marked as to
show that the goods are not within the
laws of provisions. The meat inspec
tor's tag must show that animals from
whioh the export meat was obtained,
were free from disease and that meats
on board are wholesome.
May Leave the Re.eryatlon.
Washington, Sept 14. The Indian
bureau has granted permission to Agent
leter, at tne Jf'ort iiall reservation, in
Idaho, to allow certain Bannock Indians
to go into the Jackson's Hole settle
ment, under military escort in search
of property abandoned there by them
on the occasion of the attack made by
settlers upon them. Agent Teter re
quesed permission to grant passes to ,
these Indians for the purpose indicated,
and his request was referred to General
Coppinger, who approved it The In
dians probably will be allowed to go
soon, and will be accompanied by a
troop of cavalry. The question of
hunting game is not involved.
The Wl.eon.ln Firebug..
Kenoshsa, Wis.. Sept 14. Imao
Robinson, who is under arrest in con
nection with the burning of the works
of the Chioago Bedding Company, has
maae a ooniession, which, the district
attorney says, implicates all the men
now under arrest This makes the
fourth confession since the case was
pushed. Barney I. Blooh, one of the
men held on the same oharge, who act-
ed very strangely in the jail the past
few days was visited by his mother
yesterday, but he failed to give her
any sign of recognition. He also re
fuses to eat and is gradually wasting
away.
A Dog Tax Cau.e. m Blot.
Mexioo, Sept 17. The imposition
of a dog tax at Rosario, state of Sina
loa', has caused a riot in whioh 500
men took part The rioters were arm
ed with rifles and a regular battle oc
curred, in whioh many people and po
lioe were wounded.