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-- s The i JniILLSBR VOL. .5. 1IILLSBORO, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 30. 18. NO. 6. ''3 Con- UK INTEREST TO ALL READERS Unit of Importance Vroin Domutlr ad Foreign Bournes Vream of the Dispatches. Captain -Generul Weylor bas decided to release Rev. Alberto Dial and his brother Alfred from oustody, on con dition thatthey will leave Cuba inline dintujy. The trial ot Boott Jaoksou for the murder of Peurl Dry an hag com mouoed at Newport. The Hpeed made in securing a jury astonished the court aud the counsel on both sides. A dispatch from Panama Bays: Borne fears are entertained here that trouble will ooour when the elections for deputies take place. Tho members of the liberal party will vote for the first thue siuoe 1885. 'A dispatch from Ottawa to the Lon don Times says: Bir Mackenzie Bowell, the premier, has announced the resignation of the ministers will be handed in iu a few days. It is expect ed Bir Charles Tupper will be the new premier. Estrada Palnia, president ot the Cu ban junta, iNHued un address to the peo ple of the United Btates, in which he declares that the introduction now of reforms in Cuba by the Spanish gov ernment will have no effect npon the revolution. The Home Tribuna, commenting npon the rupture of the peace negotiations between Abyssinia and Italy, violently attacks the government, declaring the miuiitters to bo responsible for the "dis honor Buffered by Italy through King Meuelek's attitude." An official dispatch from Batavia says the endangered post in Achin ter ritory has been relieved, after a fight with tho rebels under Toekodjohan, who lost TO killed aud bad 300 wound ed. Tho Dutch loss was one officer wounded and 83 soldiers killed and wounded. The house committee on military affairs have decided to report a resolu tion authorizing the speaker to appoint a committee of five members to investi gate the charges of mismanagement of the soldiers' home at Leavenworth, Kan., made by Representative Blue of that state. The schooner Prosper, Captain Hulin, returned to Ban Francisco to have a lenk repaired. Bho stutred for Cook's inlet on April 0 with a number of goldhunters, aud was about 800 -l lies up the coast when a leak was ' brume forward, on the evening ot Vpril 17. Huron von Hummerstein, the former editor of Beuz Zeituug, Berlin, and leader of the conservative party, was sentenced to three years penal sorvi tude, to bo deprived ot oivil rights for five years aud pay 1,500,000 marks. The charges against him were forgery, fraud and breach of trust. While leaving work at look 0, a skiff which ooutained nine men, up set and three were drowned at Charleston, W. Va. The dead are: Henry Marian, colored, of Oallipolis, O. ; Richard Dickinson, colored, former home unknown; Jordan, white, 10 years old. The other six swam ashore. A movement is on foot in Chicago for the purpose of crystallizing public opinion against an exolusive arbitration treaty with Grout Britain. The meas ure 1b being vigorously pushed by many prominent citizens who desire chut ar bitration treaties Bhall be made with every nation, instead of England alone. Tho committee on text books of the board of eduoation, of Omaha, Neb,, has determined to introduoe a book of Bible selections into the public schools. A majority ot the school board is in favor of the movemont. The commit tee will submit its report at the next tegular meeting, and its adoption is regarded as a certainty. Colonel Caleb Dorsey, of Oakdale, Cal . a wealthy and prominent mine owner and rancher, was shot and killed at the Dorsey mine, 11 milei from Co lumbia, at 9 o'clock Wednesday morn ing, by his mining partner, J. T. New cftiner, over a dispute that ensued upon Dorsey' s oharging Newcomer with oleauing up and misappropriating the amalgam without the colonel's knowl edge. Chief Washakie and the principal men of the Shoshone tribe and Chief Sharp Nose and the leading men of the Arapahoes have just closed their council with Indian Inspector Mc Laughlin regarding the purchase by the government of the Big Horn hot prings. The two tribes have agreed to aoept f 60,000 for the territory five miles by ten, embracing the springs. It is again positively denied that negotiations are in progress between Madrid and Washington on the subject of granting home rule to Cuba. Benor Canovas de Castillo, the premier, says the reforms projected for Cuba will be applied only when circumstances are in favor of such a movement. The premier also says the reforms would not be applied to Cuba until asked for by Captain-General Weylpr who has said nothV.pn the subjeot.'n.ist e Castillo Jays he will not be a party to a bourse maneuver by keeping silent re garding this report. Wesley Dawes and C. S. Givens, of Jefferson county, Tenn.. aooused of the murder of Givens' wife, have been lodged in the Knox county jail for safe keeping, as violence was feared unless Events ot the Day in a densed Form. the prisoners were removed from the soone ot the orime. Dawes is nephew ot Givens, and has made a o nfeesi m of the murder, stating that he baa een persuaded to do it by bis uncle, who bad tired of bis wife and was infatu ated with another woman. The deed was committed with a double barreled shotgun while Mrs. Givens was at her window sewing, having been enticed there by her husband. The New York Herald says: Through special correspondence, news of important executions in San Domin go has reached the United States. The minister of war, General Ramon Cas tillo, and Jose Estay, governor of the province of Maooris, were executed at Maooris, on Maroh 28, by order of UlyBis Hereaux of, San Domingo. The governor ot Ban Domingo, General Picardo, boarded the steamer Preai dente with 160 soldiers, went to Ma- cons, and at 6 o clock in the morning of the day mentioned, had the officials shot. About 7,000 Cubans have fled to Ban Domingo during the last six months. From Menominee, Mich. , oomes word that the Menominee and Fence rivers are out of their banks, and the floods are causing heavy losses to logging in terests. The logging oamp of Isaac Monroe, on Fenoe river, has born flood ed, oauBed by a log jam, and the em ployes barely escaped. The oamp with its equipment and provisions was swept away. Many farmers in the Menominee valley have been driven from home, and have suffered great loss in stock and orops. One hundred men are guarding the log booms at various points on the river. The back water iu t'nis city has driven sewage into the oity water mains, and B0 oases of typohid fever have resulted. There was a large increase in Berlin during the past week of deaths from influenza aud pneumonia. The conference for international ar bitration held in Washington, which has been a very harmonious one, has just olosed. Russia baa ordered seven ironclads and ten ornisers for her Puoiflo fleet, in view ot Japan's extensive naval prep arations. The battleship Massachusetts made 10.15 knots on her trial trip in Boston harbor, and her builders win a bonus of 1 100,000. In Glasgow, Sootland, the steamer Marsden collided with the British bark Firth ot Solway, near Kish lightship, causing the latter to sink. A crap game on Grant avenue in Ban Franoisoo was held up by two meu. About $150 was taken. They were captured by the polioe soon after. Miss Laura White created a sensa tion in Ardmore, I. T., by publicly horsewhipping Professor Liun, a drug' gist, beoause he had oharged her with theft. 1 A Rome dispatoh says the cabinet has deoided against reopening the cam paign in Abyssinia in the autumn, on the gTound that such a course would be disastrous to Italy, It is said in Washington that there is a strong possibility that the dele gates from territories who have state' hood bills in charge will not attempt to secure congressional aotion until the next session. A serious oonfliot between Christians and Turks has occurred at Episkopi, island of Crete. There were two days' fighting, and fifty persons were killed and wounded. The Cretans have ap pealed to Greece for aid. In Houghton, Mich., sixty trammers have struck in Quinoy mine to enforce a demand for higher wages. The mine is still in operation, but the trouble will probably extend to the miners of the Quinoy and other mines. The London Chroniole has a diBpatoh f.'Oin Brussels, whioh says that the Baroness Herri, a lady 80 years old, was strangled, her body mutilated and her house robbed at Ixells, a fashion able suburb. The murderer escaped. The treasury deficit for the fisoal year ending June 80, 1896, will be approxi mately $25,000,000. This is the opin ion of offioials and others best qualified to make an intelligent estimate of the result of the fisoal operations , of the year. A Madrid dispatch Fays the minister of finance, Senor Juan Navarro, has notified the cabinet of the neoessity of relief measures on account of the pro longed drought, whioh has oaused a rapid rise in the prioe of cereals, also injuring livestock. A $10,000,000 bicycle trust is being formed in New York. A prominent member sayB the trust will out the prioe of high-grade wheels from $100 to about $05, eliminating jobbers' profits and advertising expenses, and will make money at that. Senator Warren, from the oommittee on claims, nas reportea tne amena ment to the sundry oivil appropriation bill for the payment of the French spoliation olaims, whioh have been al lowed by the court of olaims. It oar ries an appropriation of $1,020,000. The two associations of manufao turers of wire and out nails have olosed a three days' conference in Chioago. In oonaequenoe of the rise in the steel market, it was deoided to raise the price of both wire and out nails 15 oents per hundred weight, to take effeot May 1. A Louisville & Nashville fruit train and the Evansville & Terre Haute pas senger train collided at a crossing nrar Mount Vernon, Ind. Alexander Dris coll, a brakeman, was killed; James Covintgon, an engineer, and F. R Thompson, a brakeman, were seriously injured. A mob of armed men, about fifteen in number,entered the jail at MoMinn ville, Tenn., dragged the jailer from his bed and foroed him to give up the keys. William and Viotor HolliB were taken from the jail,, carried on horsebsaok five miles from MoMinnville and hanged. A FORECLOSURE SALE Decree in Northern Pacific Case Will Be Signed. DIFFERENT INTERESTS AGREED The Hal Will Take llace at West superior at a Date Vet to Be Fixed. Milwaukee, April 29. The decree of Bale of the Northern Paciflo railroad under the consolidated mortgage of the Farmers' Loan & Trust Company, has been deoided on, and will be signed by Judge Jenkins, of the United Btates circuit oonrt, in a few days, as soon as it is printed. Special Master Alfred Carey will conduct the sale and arrange the preliminaries as rapidly as possible. All the different interests have agreed to the decree. The matter was set tled in the United States circuit court this evening. The sal is to take place at West Superior, Wis., at suoh time as shall be fixed by the special master. The Northern Paoifio road will be given ten days in whioh to pay the olaims againBt it, but there is no ex pectation that this will be done. The property is to be sold in three parcels, for whioh separate bids are to be made, whioh must aggregate not less than $12,500,000. Tbe Receivership Hatter. Milwaukee, April 29. A stipulation in the Northern Paoifio reoeivership matter was agreed to late this after noon and signed by all the parties and approved by the court. It in effeot sanctions all the payments that have been made by the receivers. The necessity for an accounting between the reoeivers of tbe two oourts is done away with, and their disposal of the moneys is not to be further inquired into, beyond the usual inspection of Master Carey. The stipulation states that, owing to the expectancy that a decree of sale is about to be made, it is desirable to avoid the expense and the difficulty attendant upon a separation of the funds, so that all payments made and to be made are approved. The parties to the stipulation, however, may withdraw at any time. Notwithstanding the apparent unan imity of all the factions, there is a de oided objection to the deoree at this time, and in place of getting through with it and securing the signature of the court in a few hours, it promises to be a number of days before the mat ter is satisfactorily arranged. Judge Jenkins evidenced opposition to the course adopted by the attorneys, and is apparently determined to thoroughly dissect the proposed deoree, having orj dered that it be gone over section by setoion. A SPANISH BUTCHER. Bloody Work Done Near Havana General MelquUo. by Key West, Fla., April 29. A letter from Havana, dated April 25, says: While Delgado, the American, is slowly convalescing from the wounds iu fl 10 ted on him by Spanish soldiers under General Melquizo's bidding sev eral weeks ago, the brutal Spanish offi cer is still butohering people in Havana provinoe. Although offioial investiga tion shows that Melquizo is guilty of all the charges against him, he has not been suspended from his oommand. He is said to possess enough influence in Madrid to make it exceedingly unoom fortable for any superior officer who might endeavor to bring him to punish ment News received here tells of his oon- duot during the past two weeks. Near Campo Florido, so the information runs, Melquizo arrested nine peaceable oountrymen and by his orders they were killed. At Minas.nmeteen ' paoifioos" fell into his olutohes and were shot. Near Baibo he razed ten farms and gathered in forty laborers who were killed in cold blood. The most hor rible phase of the last butohery is tbe fact that women and ohildren were among those massaored. In the vioin ity of Juaraoo, Melquizo ordered the slaughter of forty-seven persons who were taken from fields where they were at work. In Melquizo's territory the people are flocking to Havana to escape mm. ROYALTIES ON FUR SEALS. Decision Against the North American Commercial Compaujr. New York, April 29. In tbe suit of the United States against the North Amerioan Commercial Copmany, lea sees of the Pribyloff islands, and the isles of St. Paul and St. George, Alaska, for $182,189, with interest, for the rentals due under the contract, and also for royalties and taxes on 7,600 seals taken during the season whioh ended in April, 1894, Justice Wallaoe, of tbe United States oourt, today deoided in favor ot the United States. He holds however, that the modus vivendi with Great Britain was a breaoh of oontraot on the part of the United States with the North Amerioan Commercial Com pany, and therefore awards judgment for only $94,687, and says that the North Amerioan Commercial Company has a claim against the government for about $140,000, to be oolleoted through the oourt of olaims. The modus vivendi ended in 1894. The effeot of this de oision will be to enable the government in other suite to oolloet about $200,000 from the North Amerioan Commercial Company, for the year of 1895 1896, Louisiana Election Troubles, New Orleans, April 29. The gov ernor has ordered two companies of militia from this oity to Natchitoches. Trouble is threatened there on aooount of the refusal of district election offio ials to proclaim the result of the elec tion according to the ballots oast. CONGRESSIONAL NEWS. Condensed Record of the Doings of the Nation's Lawmakers Senate. Washington, April 25. Several mi nor bills were passed at the opening of the senate today. Prior to taking up the Indian appropriation bill Call asked for an agreement by which the senate would take up bis resolution directing the president to dispatch a naval force to Cuba for the protection of American interests, but on appeals not to inter rupt the Indian bill be withdrew, stat ing that be would call up his resolution later. The Indian bill was then taken up, the question being on Piatt's amend ment extending the services of the Dawes oommittee, with a view to the making of a roll of the Cherokee and kindred nations. The oommittee is given directions toward terminating the tribal relations of the Indians and dividing their lands in severalty. The debate was protracted. The Indian appropriation bill, as thus amended, was then passed. At 6 o'clock the senate went into executive session, and soon after adjourned. Washington, April 27. The move ment for international arbitration was referred to in the prayer of Rev. Hugh Johnson, in the senate today: "Let the armies be disbanded; let the world be at peace," he invoked. The sundry civil appropriation bill was then taken up. At 2 o'clock the bond resolution was laid before tbe senate, and Peffer, its author, proposed amendments to meet the criticisms in the recent speeoh of Hill. A Vene zuela debate came up when the item of the sunrdy civil bill was reached, au thorizing the Venezuela commission to pay rent for its quarters out of the $100,000 appropriated tor its expenses. Gorman suggested that legislation was In order. In great haste and a great emergency, congress had appropriated $100,000, at tbe suggestion of the presi dent, for tbe purpose, as was supposed, of preventing a war. But now it ap peared that the legislation was not effective in getting quarters for the commission. Washington, April 29. Chandler presented a supplemental report con cerning alleged election frauds injAla- Dania, ana the naval appropriation bill was then taken up. The main features of the bill are the items for four seago ing coast-line battle-Bhips, designed to carry the heaviest armor and most powerful ordnance, and to cost $3,750, -000 each; three torpedo-boats having a speed of thirty knots, to cost $800,000, and ten torpedo-boats to oost $500,000. Quay offered an amendment increasing the appropriation for reserve guns for auxiliary cruisers from $250,000 to $400,000. Goramn commented on tbe delay in furnishing guns at the Wash ington navy-yard. Stewart remarked that there was $280,000,000 cash bal ance in tbe treasury. "Yes, and con siderable silver also," said Gorman. After further debate, Quay's amend ment was agreed to. House. Washington, April 25. The house today, on motion of Talbert, unanim ously adopted a resolution calling on the secretary of state for all informa tion relative to tbe arrest and imprison ment in Cuba of Rev. Diaz. Consider ation of the Pickler general pension bill was resumed, and McClellan 3 in opposition to the measure as intended to be a republican sop to the senators, and a reflection on the ad ministration and pension laws by the present executive officers. Tbe best the majority could do for the old soldier, he said, was to bring in this bill, which is reported to put upon the pen sion rolls the names ot bounty jumpers and men who had deserted from the ranks of the Confederacy. Washington, April 27. This was private bill day. By unanimous con sent bills were passed empowering the oity of Tusoon, A. T., to issue bonds to the amount of $100,000 for the oon- struotioa of a water and sewer system, and to authorize the return, free of duty, of articles exported for exhibition purposes. Jones presented a report on the contested election case of Cornett vs. Swanson, of the fifth Virginia dis trict, in favor of the Democratic sit ting member. The pension bills whioh were favorably acted upon Friday night were passed. .-Among them was one to pension the widow of the late Brigadier-Geaeral Ferdinand Vander vere, at the rate of $50 per month. The house then proceeded with the de bate on the pension bill, and adjourned at 6:80. wasmngton, April aa. This was District of Columbia day in the house, and the general pension bill was side tracked under an arrangement to give the district the first two hours. Several district bills were passed. Henderson, chairman of the committee on judici ary, gave notioe tnat he would call up the bankruptcy bill tomorrow as soon as the pension bill was disposed of. nenuerson, irom tne oommittee on rules, then, at 1:80 P. M. brought in a speoial order for the consideration of the Fiokler pension bill for one and one-half hours this afternoon, under the five-minute rule, the previous ques tion then to be considered as ordered on the bill and pending amendments, with a provision for a final vote tomor row, immediately after the reading of the journal., - 8ol rA---r of Defender New York, April 27. The Herald says: Mr. William K. Vanderbilt, the head of the syndicate that built and f flipped Defender, has beoome the sole owner of that yacht. Mr. Vanderbilt has bought out the interests of the others, as it was agreed in the plans that he had a right to do, any time at ter the Amerioa's cup matter had been decided. What Mr. Vanderbilt will do with the famous oraft is merely a mat' ter of conjecture. Ashes and oharooal should be kept handy for the hogs. PACIFIC NORTHWEST Items ot General Interest From All Sections. DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS All the Cities and Towns of the Pacific Btates and Territories Washington. The first number of the Cheney Free Press has been issued. A hat manufactory is to be started up at Spokane, employing 16 men. Harry F. Rudd, a paper hanger, dropped dead in Seattle last week from heart disease. The town of Ritzville is advertising for bids for its funding bonds, in the sum of $5,700 on May 19, 1896. Young & Chandler shipped 500 hogs from Dayton to Nebraska, and five car loads of cattle to Taooma last week. The Sunset Telephone Company is surveying the right of way for a new line between Montesano and Tacoma. A house belonging to Charles Bolt burned near North Yakima. It was worth about $1,200 and was insured for $500. T. G. Williams, of Kelso, has re ceived a contract from the Northern Paoifio to supply that road with 6,000 oedar fence posts. Troop A, of North Yakima, is can vassing the project of purchasing appa ratus for a gymuasium, to be located in the armory in that city. The Meeker hopyard, at Puyallup, on the west side of Ackerson street, south of the electric line, is being plowed up and will be sowed to grain. The number of Spokane ladies who remove their hats when attending the theater is estimated to be three times as great as it was three years ago. It is claimed that over 1,000 head of cattle have been bought by Montana stockmen from Big Bend farmers, for shipment from Davenport this spirng. The names ot Bender and Barnes, two stations on the line of the North ern Paoifio, below Prosser, have been changed respectively to Gibbon and Chandler. At a meeting of the Spokane Bar As sociation, the proposition for holding two terms of the United States circuit court of appeals each year at some place outside of San Franoisoo was indorsed. The city oouncil of Spokane has voted not to allow the claim of Huber & Rib' let, for $19,400, for servloes as consult' ing engineers on the new water works and a lawsuit will in all probability follow. The reoeipts of the Aberdeen post office for the fisoal year ending Maroh 80 were $3,060, an increase of 20 per cent over last year. This will entitle Postmaster Clark to an inorease in sal ary to $1,400. Louis Eluckow, a young rancher aocused of assault with intent to kill on Alfred Conrad, was found guilty in the superior court at Taooma. The penalty is from two to fourteen years in the penitentiary. Three sober oitizens are reported to have seen a reptile, in Silver lake, near Medical lake, with a head and face of monkey, large eyes that shone like balls ot fire, and with a row of fins on its back webbed together. The oity physioian of New Whatoom thinks that diphtheria was brought to that oity by dogs. There are several dogs going back and forth every day between Whatcom and Lnmmi, where there has been diphtheria. The United States oivil service com mission has ordered that an examina tion be held by its local board in Walla Walla Saturday, June 6, commencing at 9 o clock a m , for the grades of olerk and carrier in the poatoffloe ser vioe. Robert MoRae, of Harrington, has made a record, of whioh he says: "Be jabers, I defy ony mon in Linooln oounty to bate it " He is 54 years old, and, with three horses, aged 25, 20 and 17 years, respectively, put in 70 aores of wheat in 14 days, sowing it by hand. Klickitat county presents a prosper ous appearance. A vast acreage of grain has been sown this season, and all bids fair to produce an abundant yield. One observer estimates that the wheat orop of Eliokitat county will this year be somewhere near 1,000,000 bushels. William Green, an engineer on the Great Northern, while passing a little way station near Wilaon creek, uncon sciously put his hand out of the cab window, when the hand oame in vio lent oontaot with the mail catoher on the depot platform, breaking several bones, besides tearing the flesh badly. The Spokane Chroniole says: "Imag ine a line of squirrels ranged side by side as closely as they oould be placed, extending from the corner of Howard and Riverside to the old Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern traoks a mile beyond the month of Hangman oreek imagine that kind of an invading army, and you have a pretty good idea of the 92,000 squirrels for whioh Spokane oounty commissioners have already paid a bounty this spring. And yet there are plenty left. ' Oregon. Sheep-shearing bas begun in Morrow oounty. Sheep buyers have begun to arrive in Crook county. The gypsum plant near Huntington will be in operation soon. Benton oounty is calling in warrants issued prior to July 28, 1890. A little child of German parents fell into a pond of water, near Middle' ton, in Yamhill oounty, recently and drowned. The name of Willows Junction has been changed to Heppner Junction. The Queen City concert band, organ ized in Baker City, has begun blowing with a will. Curry oounty is advertising for bids from nonresidents to expert the books of the county. Crook county's liabilities are $37, 805.05, and her estimated resources $51,226.81. Brownsville Presbyterians are asking bids for the construction of a new church building. JjLane county's indebtedness is now about $17,000, while three or four years ago it was about $45,000. Superintendent R. Recknagel ar rived in Baker City, with a $6,000 gold brick, the product of two weeks' run at tbe North Pole mine. The owners of the Peacock and other properties in the Seven Devils country are letting contracts for the hauling of 1,600 tons of copper ore to the nearest railroad point Recently a lot of tobacco, two bolts of outing flannel, candy, and a number of pocket knives, in all about the value of $50, were stolen from the store of J. 1. Mayes, in Riddle. There will be dozens of new dwell ing houses required in Cottage Grove and Lemati to accommodate the great flow of immigration to South Lane this year, says the Leader. Ed. Joy's right leg and shoulder were broken and he was injured inter nally by being struck by a falling tree while at work logging on Lake creek, in Harney county recently. The gang of tramps along the O. R. & N. east of the mountains struok The Dalles and made nuisances of them selves. There are now three in the city jail locked up for vicious conduct A large amount of wheat is being received daily at the warehouses in Tbe Dalles. It is part of last year's crop that was held by the farmers who were not satisfied with prices last fall R. J. Newman, a sheep herder near Ashland, was found sitting in an out house on J. J. Murphy's ranch. His head had fallen forward, and life was extinct. Newman suffered from neu ralgio troubles. A. R. Graham has been endeavoring to secure the establishment of a beet' sugar faotory in Coos county, and the Mail says that there is a fine prospect that such a factory will be located on Coos bay or the Coquille. The residence of Mrs. Annie Urqu hart, in the pines near The Dalles, burned to the ground, and nothing was saved except an organ and a sewing machine. There was $1,050 insurance on tbe bouse and oontents. An addtion is being built to the Eugene sawmill for the purpose of making boxes. A number of boxes of different sizes have already been made at the mill, and it is expected that the local trade will be supplied. George F. Davis, a wool buyer well known in Idaho, Oregon, Washington and California, died recently in Bakers field, Cal. Mr. Davis had personally attended to the business of Eoshland & Co. at Pendleton during wool seasons. Idaho. J. B.-Perry, who killed his mother at Wallace with a hatchet, has been bound over without bail for murder in the first degree. He was taken to Murray. Peabody, who has been connected with the Oregon Steam Navigation and the O. R. & N. companies since their organization, and agent at Lewiston for ten years, died of Bright's disease. He leaves a wife and three grown chil dren. Ibaoh, a new mining camp on Indian oreek, is attracting considerable atten tion just now, and already a number of new prospectors have gone into that district. It is reported that two noted experts will visit the camp in the course of a month for capitalists The contractor in charge of the grad ing on the Lewiston Water & Fire Company's ditoh, neir Lewiston, bas imported Italian laborers, who take the plaoe of resident laboring men. Threats have been indulged in, but no demon strations on the part of the disap pointed men have been made. The company is not responsible for the aotion of the oontraotor. Montana. Nearly 100 tons of ore are treated eaoh day from which bullion valued at from $1,200 to $1,600 is realized. The Iron Mountain Mining Company is asking for bids to run a tunnel 6,600 feet in length on their properties in Missoula oounty. The Boston & Montana Company of Butte has for sometime past produced 6,600,000 pounds of copper per month at its Great Falls plant Colonel Brown, who bas published the Basin Times for the past two years, has decided to remove to Butte and will publish the Butte Times. All the bodies of the six unfortunate men who were killed by the explosion in the St. Lawrence mine have been reoovered, but just how the terrible oatastrophe happened will probably never be known. The Montana Stuooo Company, whioh has recently put in a plant at Kibbey to develop and put to use one of the natural mineral produots of the oounty, is meeting with great enoouragement Their product, consisting of plaster of paris, has been demonstrated to be of suoh purity and excellence that a St Louis firm, to whom was consigned a sample, has notified the oompany that they will purchase regularly a suffi cient quantity to keep the plant already erected and another just like it busy day and night to fill the order. THE MILITIA IS GONE Tents Folded at Midnight and Sand Island Evacuated. HELD BY UNCLE SAM'S SOLDIERS It Is Reported That Traps In and Bor dering Upon the Island Will Also Be Removed. Astoria, Or., April 27. The Wash ington militia was ordered off Sand island, the order demanding their withdrawal coming from General Otis, commanding the department of the Columbia. Tbe orders reached Major Eenzie, in oommand at Fort Canby, late last evening, and in less than an hour after ward the militiamen found themselves at Ilwaoo making preparation! tor a quick return to Seattle and a per manent cessation from imaginary hos tilities. After dispoer easing the militia, Major Eenzie left his troops in posses sion, but how long they will remain cannot now be stated. It is possible, however, that as soon as all traps fring ing the shores of the Island have been removed, the soldiers will return to the quiet i outine of barracks life at Fort Canby. The full import of the orders received by Major Eenzie has not been learned, but it it understood that they lnolude the removal of all the traps in and bordering upon the shores of the island. The dismissal of the militiamen, al though claimed by resident! of Wash ington to have been due to the aotion of the citizens ot this state in protest ing against the construction of the traps, was in reality brought about by the freedom with whioh the militia men made themselves at home at Fort Canby. During the time they were encamped on Sand island, they used the government buildings a$ Fort Canby for sleeping quarters.1" Com plaint was made, with the result that the matter was laid before General Otis. Instructions were at once tele graphed by the latter to Major Kenzie to demand the immediate withdrawal of the militia. Upon proceeding to Sand island with a detachment of troops, Major Eenzie asked the captain ot the militia by what authority be was oooupying the island. The reply was: "By virtue of authority vested in me by the governor of the state ot Wash ington." "Are you aware of the faot that you are occupying a government reseivi'i' asked Major Kenzie. "I am," answered the militia offi cer, and my orders are to proteot the lives and property of the oitizens ot the state of Washington." "In this instance," said Major Ken zie, "I am the agent of the United States government, and, as inch, I shall allow you just twenty minutes in whioh to vacate. In the event ot your failure to do so, my orders are to place the detachment under arrest." This conversation took plaoe about midnight, and the militiamen were hastily summoned from their beds and ordered to pack their tents. The mili tia on Chinook beach, whioh is also a government reservation, were also or dered to move. There is much rejoioing here among the fishermen over the aotion of the federal authorities. It seems to be gen erally believed that Major Kenzie will not stop with the ejection of the Wash ington troops from Sand island, but will also cause the removal of the fish traps, as well as all other tiaps whioh now surround the shores of the island. A FOUR DAYS' SIEGE. Defense of a Spanish Fort by a Small Body of Troops. Havana, April 27. Dispatohes re ceived here from Manzanillo, provinoe of Santiago de Cuba, give the details of the gallant defense of Fort Seanja by a small force of Spanish troops. The fort, it appears, was beseiged by about 8,500 insurgents of the provinces of Puerto Prinoipe and Santiago de Cuba, commanded by Roderiguez, Pabi, Capote and other. The attack of tha insurgents was carried on with vigor for four days, during whioh the detaohment of troops defended the place day and night, although the sol diers suffered terribly from lack of water. The insurgents had with them two rapid-fire guns, one of them belonging to Pabi's oolumn. The other was re cently landed near Guayaja, and was manned by Amerioan gunners. The latter made excellent praotioe, firing about 215 shots from their piece and destroying the small reservoir used for the storage of water, riddling the bar raoks, beating down tbe store house and doing great damage to the fort Three times the insurgents sent mes sages to the fort offering to accept sur render of the garrison with honor, but the Spaniards refused to give up the fort and continued fighting with great enthusiasm. They announoed their in tention of accepting death before sur render. News of the siege of Fort Seanja was oarried to Manzanllo, and General Nunez, with a oolumn of troops, soon afterward left that oity on board four small gunboats and two tugboats, for the Rio Canto, and, protected by the guns of the warships tbe troops were landed at two points in the vioinity of the beseiged fort. The insurgents no sooner saw the troops landing than they beat a retreat The Grecian government has is sued permit allowing the Amerioan school of archaeology to conduct exca vation at Corinth for historical and scientific purposes.