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IIILLSBORO. OREGON. THURSDAY, MAY 21. 18.
NO. 9.
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News ot the World.
TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Interfiling Culleetlon of Items Fruiu
the Two Hemispheres Presented
In Condensed Form.
Dr. Salmon, the oldest Freemason
in the world, died in London, tie was
108 years old.
The lust olean-up o( the Apollo mine
at Uuga, Alasku, wai $87,600, the
product of a three months' rnn.
Aooordlug to the monthly crop report
just issued, the average condition oi
, winter wheat is 83.9 in May, 18U5.
A tiH.mittninniirw visit 11 ttauA Vivnlran
oat in Klaug Yiu. The UlrtUh miaaion
wai looted and burned. ' The mission
ary escaped.
The dockers' strike iu Rotterdam
has aaaumed an ugly aspect The oivio
guard, polioe and marinei have been
called out to protect the workers.
William Deering, the reaper manu
facturer, ha made a donation to the
Northwestern university amounting to
$316,000. The gift is in real estate
and bonds.
D. W. Watson, a wood-dealer, was
instantly killed in Seatlte in a runa
way. Iu falling off bis leg was eaught
aud torn off. His body was dragged
about 100 feet, his leg being left be
hind, tie died instantly.
The increase in the price of bolts
and nuts in the iron trade the past
three weeks is the evidenoe of a report
ed gigHntio pool ot manufacturers in
these goods, the organisation of which
is now in progress in Boston,
While the 9-year-old daughter of
William Asbby, of Pine valley, was
crossing Pioneer creek on a footbridge
in oompany with another child, both
were precipitated into the water and
the Ashby ohild was drowned.
At Can de Vie, Mo., while sitting
up with her aiok ohild near the open
flreplaoe, Mrs. John Edwards' clothes
caught flro, and the flames oommuni
oated to the oradle. The baby was ore
mated aud the woman seriously burned.
A convention of the Western Federa
tion of Miners met iu Denver, Colo.
Colorado, Idaho and Montana were
largely represented, and delegates were
present from most ot the Western
states and from British Columbia.
Over 500 union oarpenters in De-
1 troit. Mioh., struck for eiuht hours a
day at 25 ocnts per hour. The bosses
are willing to make the minimum
wages 20 conts per hour and promise
to oonoede the eight-hour day on Janu
ary 1 next.
Ex-Police Captain Edward B. Car
penter, ot New York has been sen
tenced to three months in the peniten
tiary and to pay a fine of 1,600. Car
penter pleaded guilty to haviug receiv
ed bribes of (1,000 from the Liquor
Dealers' Association.
An effort was made to burn the large
Bunker Hill concentrator at Wardner,
Idaho. The concentrator was fired and
a portion of the flume blown up at the
same moment, extinguishing the lights
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and stopping all the machinery. The
fire was promptly extinguished by one
of the mill hands. Mo arrests have
been made.
Hank Bonkolkan, while Ashing in
the lake at West Lake Park, near Los
Angeles, brought to the surface the
body of a well-dressed young woman,
about 20 years of age. The body had
evidently been in the water only a
short time. The identity of the girl is
not yet discovered.
The strike of forty-four firemen of
the Armour paoking plant, in Kansas
City, has assumed international pro
portions, and there ia no telling where
or bow it will end. The strikers have
already petitioned the national oounoil
of the Federation of Labor to deolare
an international boycott against the
Armour produots.
All roads in the Central Passenger
Association will hereafter carry bi
cycles free.
Alfred C. Field, a negro, oonviotea
of the murder of Mrs. Randolph, was
banged in Chioago.
The sohooner Mary Ayer was sunk
in collision with the steamer Okano,
in Lake Miohigan, off Grosse point,
and five of her orew were drowned,
two being saved.
An explosion at Bida, in the Nupe
oountry, west ooast ot Africa, on the
Niger, has rased to the ground the
palaoe of the Emir Meleki, and has
killed 200 people.
The Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern
railroad was sold at auotion in Seattle
and was purchased by Judge H. G.
Strove, representing the bondholdesr'
oommittee, for $1,000,000.
Ties piled on the Chicago, Milwau
kee & bt Paul railroad at Waldo, a
few miles south of Milwaukee, Wis.,
derailei a south-bound freight train.
Three men were killed and two injured.
At the Eliot Square building in
Buffalo, N. Y., Thomas Purdy and Val
Jenly were working at the bottom of
the elevator shaft when worklngmen
at the top dropped down an iron bolt,
killing both.
In Uueretaro, Mexloo, a cave-in oc
curred at the opal mines and ten men
were buried with earth and stones.
Word was brought from the scene that
four of the miners were killed and
several others injured.
The Oaulois published in Paris, says
that Seuor Canovas del Castillo, the
Spanish premier, is about to ask the
intervention of the European powers
with regard to the interference of the
United States in Cuban affairs.
At the lEeotroial Exposition in pro
gress in Mew York a message was
Hashed over the wires of the Western
Union and Paoiflo Postal companies,
covering a diatanoe of 15,000 miles,
and a reply reoeived in four minutes.
The fruitgrowers of Snake river are
considering the formation of a union,
so that fruit oan be handled at smaller
oost than previously. The plan is to
have a Spokane oommiasiou house
handle the fruit direot from the river.
Forty men iwere let out in the Gem
mines, in Wallace, Idaho, and will not
be re-employed until development work
is finished. This is said by some to be
sisnifloant on aooount of the reoent ex
olosion at the Bunker Bill and Sul
livan mines.
Catherine A. Lacy, 82 years of age,
of Phoenix. Ariz., was burned to
death. She had risen at 4 o'olook, and
in lighting a fire ignited the curtains,
From this her clothing oaught, and
before help arrived she was fairly
oooked, dying in a few minutes.
A dispatch from Vladivostock says:
Quiet has been restored at Seoul,
Corea, and the king will return to his
palaoe from the RusBian legation,
where he has been since the disposi
tion and massacre of the late ministry,
The Russian marines are returning to
their vessels.
The steamer Mexioo just arrived in
the Sound, brings the following AlaS'
ka news: The North Amerioan Com
meroial Company's sohooner Seventy'
Six. which left Kodiak December 11
last for Wood island, is lost with all
hands. A heavy gale Sprang up just
after she left, and she hat not been
heard of sinoe.
Trouble between the Indians on the
Tongue river reservation, in Montana,
and the white settlers in the neighbor'
hood is probable, and troops have been
asked for to avert a possible outbreak:,
This is the result of depredations com
mitted bv the Indians on the cattle
of the whites.
Nearly halt the business portion of
the suburban town of blue island,
near Chicago, ui , was aescruyeu oy
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fire. Altogether twenty-six buildings
were oonsumed, entailing a total loss
of about 1150,000. A shifting wind
was blowing almost a burrioane at the
time of the. tire, and it spread rapidly .
O. J. Curits, editor of the Weekly
Herald, of Astoria, Or., and W. H,
Weeks, candidate for reoorder on tne
Populist tioket, engaged in a tistio en
oounter, in wbiph Curtis oame out seo-
ond best. Weeks was the aggressor,
and the provocation waa an artiole in
the Herald in whioh weeks was tne
victim of an abusive attack.
iBeoretary of State Price has just re
oeievd the diploma medal awarded the
state of Washington at the world's fair
for grains and grasses. The medal is
bronze piece, on the faoe of whioh is
the figure of Columbus, inclosed in
handsome aluminum case. The diplo
ma is awarded for the yield and gy
eral excellence of variety of grains and
grasses exhibited.
At a meeting of the Columbia River
Fishermen's Protective Union held in
Astoria, it was decided unanimously to
rbjeot the proposition of the Soandina
vian Packing Company to give i
cents per pound for salmon. , The sen
timent of the meeting was strongly
against any compromise, the men re
maining just where they stood at the
opening of the season, and were firm in
their demands for 5 oents per pound,
DEATH IN IIS TRACK
Sixty Persons Killed in Sher
man, Texas, by a Cyclone.
OVER A HUNDRED WERE INJURED
Must of Those Will Also Die -The Tor
nado 1 ssit Without Warning
Plowed Through the Town.
Sherman, Texas, May 18. Just a few
minutes before 5 o'olook this afternoon,
cyclone, not exoeeding two blocks in
width, but carrying widespread destruc
tion and death in its wake, swept
thorugb the western half of the oity,
traveling almost directly north. The
pproaoh of the terrific whirlwind was
announced by a deep rumbling noise,
not nnlike reverberating thunder. A
fierce and driving rain aooompanied it
It is very conservative to estimate
that the list of fataliites will reaoh 60,
while the injured will reaoh 100. At
least fifty bouses are wreoked. Most
of them were small cottages, exoept in
Fairview and Washington avenue,
where the handsome residences ot L.
Ely, Captain J. G. Sailer, Mrs. Pat
Mattingly and James Fallas also suc
cumbed. The loss will reaoh at leaBt
150,000, and but little if any of it
was covered by oyolone insurance.
About the most graphio description
given by any of the injured was that
of W. 8. Bostwick, who said:
"I was at John Irvine's house when
heard the noise of the approaching
storm. Just as I looked out, I saw
Captain Berge's house blown into the
air, aud then Mr. Shearer's house.
The air was filled with great trees and
timbers and every conceivable artiole.
It waa a blaok, serpentine olond, twiBt-
ing, writhing in the center, but at the
bottom it seemed to be moving stead
ily. Then came an awful orash, a
sense of suffocation, and when it was
over the house was gone and myself
and family were scattered about the
yard and under the debris."
St Louis, May 18. A special to
the Republio from Denison, Texas,
says: Additional particulars of the
oyolone have been, reoeived. After
passing over Sherman, it went south
east At Carpenter bluffs, seven miles
east of here, the dwellng of John De
vant was blown down and Devant and
wife, his hired man, named Armour,
and a little ohild received in juires from
whioh they may die.
Howe, Texas, May 18. Today's ter
rible oyolone struck this town, leaving
death and ruin in its wake. The path
of the oyolone at this point was a quar
ter of a mile wide. Ten farmhouses
and as many barns were wreaked.
Eight persons were killed outright and
many injured. Bark was ripped from
trees and much stock was killed.
Denton, Texas, May 18. A oyolone
struok the town , of Gribble Springs,
eighteen miles north of Denton, this
afternoon. Several persons were killed
and many wounded so badly they oan
not live. The property loss is great.
WEEKLY TRADE REVIEW.
Business Continue! Dull and Feature'
leas iu All Parts of the Country.
New York, May 18. Bradstreet's
weekly review of trade says: General
trade throughout the oountry remains
quiet, wholesale merchants oontinue
conservative and distribution of gen
eral merchandise is almost of a hand-to-month
character. South and South
west both remain dull and featureless
and nnohanged from last week. At
larger Eastern oenters travelers are
preparing to start out, but unfavorable
features in reoent weeks with respeot
to ootton and woolen and steel and iron
industries show no obange. Collec
tions in most directions oontinue satis
factory. Demand for iron and steel is
disappointing and quotations for Besse
mer pig have been shaded.
Exports of wheat, flour included as
wheat, from both coasts of the United
States, this week amount to 1,827,000
against 1,188,000 last week; 2,897,000
in the corresponding week one year
ago, 2,420,000 two years ago, and as
oompared with 8,887,000 in the like
week in 1898. The reoent average
weekly commercial death rate is con
tinued at a total of 263 business fail
ures throughout the United States this
week, against 265 last week, 210 in
the week a year ago, 186 in the corre
sponding week ot 1894 and as oompared
with 268 in the like week in May,
1893.
There are 84 business failures
troughout Canada this week. Last
week the total was 88.
Canadian Stock Shippers.
Toronto, May 18. Cattle exporters
here are making a vigorons fight
against an attempt now being made to
ship Amerioan cattle to European ports
by way of Montreal. It is olaimed
this would seriously injure the Cana
dian export trade in France, where
Canadian live oattle are now permitted
to be landed. Some Canadian oatlte
have been shut but of England, and
exporters have built up a large trade
with France. This, they say, will be
entirely mined if Amerioan oattle are
shipped with Canadian stock. The
Cattle Feeders' Association met in
secret today and decided to send a dep
utation to Ottawa to lay before the
government an empbatio protest against
tbe admission of Amerioan oattle
into
Canadian ports.
Con Kress of Amerioan Bepublics.
London, May 18. The Times Rio
de Janeiro dispatoh says the presi
dent's message on the opening ot oon-
gress supports the idea of a oongress
, ...
Amerioan repnblici.
WILL INJURE TOBACCO TRADE
KfTect In This Country, of Weyler(
Latest Order.
New York, May 20. Importerts of
tobacco from Cuba were inolined to
doubt today the authenticity of the dis
patch from Havana that General Wey
ler has forbidden the exportation of to
baooo from Cuba. General Weyler, it
is understood, has taken this step be
oause of the finanoial assistance ren
dered to the cause of the rovolution in
Cuba by the Cuban and Spanish cigar
makers in this oountry and presumably
elsewhere out of Cuba. A member ot
a wholesale grocery bouse that Imports
more tobacco and cigars from Cuba
than any other firm, speaking of tfrit
latest alleged order by the Spanish
commander-in-chief in Cuba, said to
day: "It the telegraphic dispatches con
cerning this matter are correct, the
whole manufacturing tobacco trade in
this country will be demoralized. The
prioe of Havana cigars constantly fluc
tuates, as far as the dealers are con
cerned, although the consumers perhaps
do not know it. There has been a
gradual increase in the prioe of tobacco
the last two or three months, but it is
impossible to say how much the prioe
of domestio oigars is to be increased by
our failure to get tobacco from Cuba.
Some Sumatra leaf is used in making
cigars, but it is not so satisfactory of
oourse, as the Havana. The enforce
ment of General Weyler's decree would
greatly interfere with the factories in
Florida. But it is early yet to proph
esy. I think tne manufacturers in this
country bave Cuban tobaooo on hand
sufficient to last a few months. The
importation of leaf tobaooo from Cuba
ran from 10,000,000 pounds in 1886, to
21,000,000 pounds in 1893, falling to
20,000,000 in 1895. The value ot the
tobaooo ranged from (4,000,000 in
1886, to $9,000,000 in 1893 and $7,
000,000 in 1895. The value of manu
faotures of tobaooo (oigars) imported
from Cuba in 1886 was (3. 100,000, and
the importations gradually inoreased
until 1890, when their value was $3,
900,000. Then the importations or
"values," decreasd until -in 1895, the
total value of the manufactures of to
baooo (cigars imported) was only $2,
040,000." BAD FIRE IN WASHINGTON.
Three Firemen Killed and a Quarter o
a Million in Property Burned..
Washington, May 20. A conflagra
tion, which resulted in the loss oi
almost $250,000, in wbioh three fire
men were killed and four seriously in
jured by falling walls, occurred in this
oity about 8 o'olook tonight. Twenty
two buildings, with their contents,
were destroyed in two honrs. The
burned dietrct consists almost entirely
of commission and wholesale jobbing
bouses, in the square bounded by B
street, Louisiana avenue, Ninth and
Tenth streets. Thomas Griffin, Daniel
Conway and Assistant Foreman Guiles
were the firemen killed. '
The fire started in a Postal Tele
graph Company's bvanch office, located
on B street, and is supposed to have
been oaused by lightning, a severe
thunder storm having just passed over
the oity. The buildings were filled
with a mass of inflammable material,
whioh made it diffioult for the firemen
to oope with the progress of the flames,
which spread with great rapidity. Af
ter two hours hard work the flames
were under control.
A rough estimate plaoes the loss on
the buildings "n Louisiana avenue at
$75,000. The other losses are mostly
on stock. Muoh of the property iB
held by the Van Ness and Semmes
estate, and is believed to be well in
sured. ,
Forty Indiana Reported Killed.
Omaha, May 20. A speoial to the
Bee from Humboldt, Neb. , says: The
train arriving here this evening brings
reports of the frightful results of the
oyolone on the Pawnee reservation, ad
joining this county. They assert that
40 persons were killed by the oyolone
on the reservation. No particulars are
obtainable, as all communication by
wire is out off. Those killed are sup'
posed to be Indians, as there are few
whites on the rservation.
County's Exemption.
Olympia, Wash., May 20. Opinions
were handed down today . by the su
preme oourt in the oases following
State of Washington ex tel. J. Summer
field, appellant, vs. H. W. Tyler, au
ditor -of Spokane county, respondent
In this proceeding the relator sought to
oompel the payment of a .. judgment
against Spokane county. Suoh a show
ing was made as to entitle the relator
to the relief sought, it judgment was
suoh that it oould be enforced against
the oounty. The supreme oourt holds
that munioipal corporations, and es
peoially oounties, are not liable to
garnishment, unless made
so by ex
Aotion of
press statutory provisions,
the superior oourt affirmed.
A Hot-Headed Spanish Senator.
Madrid, May 20. In the senate to
day Senor Giron, liberal, protested
against the slanders on Spain, whioh
were uttered in the United States sen
ate. He intended, he said, to denounce
the intolerable oonduot of pirates and
brigands against Spain. The day had
oome, he said, when we should bave to
oonsider the wretched aots of intoler
ance ot the dollar princes, with the
affairs of Spain. He protested also
against the Washington slanders
Kalnst tne Ween regent, The Duke
ot Tetuan, minister of foreign affairs,
replied to Senor Giron that the govern
ment might join in the latter protest,
but that they oould not approve the re
mainder of Senor Giron's remarks.
President Cleveland and the United
States government had given proof ot
of i their respeot lor the principles of Inter-
I . . I 1 1 ! . '
I national law, he maintained,
GROWING NORTHWEST
Progress and Doings in the
Pacific States.
CONDENSED BUDGET OF NEWS
From AU the Cities and Towns of the
Paelflo States and Territories
Washington.
Steps bave been taken for the forma
tion of a mining stock exchange in
Spokane.
An ordinance prohibiting gambling
was defeated by the Olympia council
last week.
The Blankensbip mill at New What-
oom has been ordered sold to
claims amounting to $9,000.
A six-pound howitzer has been sent
over from Olympia by Governor Mo
Graw to tiie militia at llwaco.
Cashier Taylor, of the Puget Sound
National bank, of Everett, has prao
tioally arranged with Controller Eckels
to take the bank out of the hands of
Receiver Churoh in the course of a few
months.
A reoent decision of the superior
oourt in Clallam county was to the
effect that school directors could employ
teachers beyond the term of office of
the directors with whom the coutraot
was made.
The Walla Walla firemen are making
great preparations to attend the annual
meeting and tournament of the Eastern
Oregon and Washington Firemen's As
sociation, whioh will be held in Pen
dleton June 2, 3 and 4.
Hal Dickson, of Pomeroy, Wash , is
packing a large number of eggs accord
ing to directions given him by Rev.
Sproat, who says they will keep two
years it desired, and then no one oan de
tect them from a fresh egg.
The May term of the United States
distriot oourt oonvened in Walla Walla
last week, Judge Bellinger, of Port
land, presiding in place of Judge Han
ford. There were four oriminal oases
on the docket and several oivil suits.
J. C. Wallace, of Chelan Falls, will
experiment with sorghum this season.
He will plant seven or eight aores,
and several of his neighbors will plant
from one to four aores each. A full
manufacturing plant has been ordered.
The Whitman oounty commissioners
recently offered $300 for the arrest and
oonviotion of the party or parties guilty
of administering poison to horses in the
Creston neighborhood, which seems to
bave had the effect of stopping the
deadly work.
About 300 trout were sold on the
streets of Ellensburg last week by two
Indians, for 40 cents for the lot They
averaged about three and a half inohes
in length and the venders claimed to
have canght them with hook and line,
but an investigation would probably re
veal some oarefully concealed traps in
the waters about town, says the Capital.
Dayton is proud of her water works.
For ordinary use tbe supply well at the
Bprings three miles above the oity fur'
nisbea all the water needed by a oity
twice the size. In oase ot fire, the
reservoir holding 700,000 gallons is
made use of. The water has a fall of
more than 160 feet, and the force is so
great that three men are neoessary to
hold the nozzle of the fire hose.
Senator Squire telegraphed to N. H.
Bloomfleld, of Portland, that the appro
priations for all river and harbor im
provements in the state of Washington,
as reported from the oommittee on com
meroe, had passed the senate, includ
ing the full amount, $67,000, for the
Columbia river at Vanoouver. A
small amendment was adopted extend
ing the survey of the north fork of the
Lewis river to the head of navigation,
or Etna.
Treasurer Mish, of Snohomish ooun
ty, Bays that he will soon be able to
turn over to the oounty all but about
$5,000 of the money whioh was tied up
in the failure of the Puget Sound Na
tional bank. This will have a good
effect on the oounty 'a credit The com
missioners had entered an order remov
ing the treasurer from office on May 1,
but this showing is so good that they
have oonoluded that it is to the coun
ty's interest that Mr. Mish remain.
E. W. Purdy, treasurer of What
com, has begun suit against the per
sons on the gurantee bond for the coun
ty money deposited in the Bellingham
Bay National bank. Tbe amount
looked up in the bank is $7,898.18.
The parties who stood good for this
amount and bonded themselves for its
repayment to the amount of $25,000
are J. J. Donovan and wife, J. J.
Eden and wife, M. MoM token and
wife, J. W. Morgan and wife and C.
P. Wheeler. Eaoh of these is held for
$5,000.
United States Sealskin Inspector
Fowler baa been busy at Port Town'
send, inspecting the oatohes of six Iu
dian sealing schooners that have just
returned from the oape. The oatoheB
are not large, but the weather has been
so rongh that it has been impossible
for the sealers to set more than 25
miles off shore at any time, and the
best hunting grounds have therefore
not been visited by them. The skins
are all prime ones, and the sealers are
satisfied with their work, considering
the unfavorable weather.
Oregon.
Umatilla oounty has $14,809 in its
treausry.
A map of Jackson oounty has just
been completed and published.
Baker City wants the next meeting
of the State Press Association.
Subscriptions are being asked in the
improve the road from the summit of
the Cascades to Crater lake.
Citizens of Cottage Grove have be
gun active work on the Bohemia wagon
road.
Tbe contract has been let for the
erection ot a Presbyterian churoh at
Brownsville.
Walter Denny, an Ashland boy, ex
pects to be a fireman on the new battle-ship
Oregon.
A tie train recently took about 8,000
ties from Henderson to the creosote
works at Latham.
Klamath Falls is setting a good ex
ample to more ambitoua towns in
Oregon by forbidding bicycle riders to
ride on sidewalks under penalty of fine.
Lane oounty warrants are now in
demand. Local capitalists are paying
1 per cent premium for them. This
has happened occasionally for the past
three years.
The trapdoor tf an Astoria streetcar
was carelessly left open one day last
week, and Mrs. J. P. Swenson, carry
ing a little ohild in her arms, boarded
the car. She stepped into the opening,
injuring herself severely.
The new flume of the Klamath Wa
ter Ditch Company is progressing
rapidly. The ditch is being raised to
run around tbe foothills, and 126,000
feet of lumber has been sawed at Carr's
mill, to be used in the flume, of which
23,000 feet is already on tbe ground.
The sewing machine oompany that
threatened to contest the right of the
city of Aashland to impose a peddler's
license fee on its agent baa compro
mised by taking out a license for three
months, under protest, to give it an
opportunity to fight the ordinance later
on.
R. C. Kiger, Benton oounty'a stock
inspector, is urging upon sbeepraisers
the necessity of dipping sheep in or
der to eradicate soab. There are sev
eral bands in Benton yet afflicted with
tbe scab, and these Mr. Kiger wants
dipped a few times immediately after
shearing. If this matter is given
proper attention now, he says the dis
ease oan be entirely wiped out
Thoams G. Keene has petitioned the
Marion oounty court to refund the
taxes paid by him in the years 1893
and 1894, on the southeast quarter of
section 22, township 10 south, range 3
east It appears that laboring under a
misapprehension, he paid taxes to the
sheriff of Marion oounty instead of
Linn county, in which the land lies.
Meanwhile the land has been sold for
taxes.
The Prineville Review says the oity
fathers are very economical, judging
by the furniture in the oity halL A
Review man was in attendance at a
case before the reoorder one day last
week. The only artioles in the room
were two benches, one table, two pine
boxes and a goods box with shelves in
it, used for a secretary, and a good
stove, so that a person oan keep warm
if the marshal succeeds in capturing
enough old sidewalk boards for fuel.
Umatilla county is to follow Mult
nomah oounty in making a test of the
salary law. Aotion has been brought
whioh will bring a decision on a direot
issue as to whether the sheriff is en
titled under it to draw from the ooun
ty treasury mileage and fees in execsB
of the $2,500 salary allowed him by
law. Suit has been commenced in the
oirouit oourt, injunction being prayed
for to stop the county oourt from allow
ing, ana tne cierK irom issuing scrip
lor such pay. Charles Brownneld has
sued out the injunction.
Idaho.
Star mail service has been estab
lished from Bruneau Valley to Wioka
honey, thirty-one miles and back onoe
a week, by a schedule of not to exoeed
ten hours running time each way.
This is operative from July 1 next to
June 80, 1900.
The miners employed in the De La
mar mine are ont on a strike, and ask
that their wages be restored to the
amount paid them before the cut two
years ago. No disturanoe ia anticipat
ed, and the Miner s nmon says that none
will be tolerated by them.
The Idaho Mining Journal says that
the mining outlook in the various
camps tributary to Boise is very en
oouraging, although on aooount of the
rains and cold weather, work is several
weeks behind. Those mines that are
being developed are reporting their ore
veins wider, richer and better defined as
work progresses. To hear of a rioh
strike in this mine or that mine is an
every day oocurenoe.
The old Nioolia mining camp whioh
has lain comparatively idle for the past
seven years, will make quite a respeot-
able output of ore. The original Viola
mine, owing to its being in litigation,
will probably remain idle, but there
are own mines .u sws yunniiy wnwn
have produced sufficient ore during the
past winter to justify the letting of
contracts to freight the output to Du
bois, where it will be shipped to Den
ver. Montana.
The reoent rich strike in the Helena
mining district in the Overland mine
has to a great extent aroused some of
the old-time spirit of enterprise. Hel -
ena will yet be a mining camp in all
its glory.
The Rossland Miner says that it is
now definitely decided that the C. P.
R. will build directly into Rossland
this year. It will build from opposite
Robson to Trail and will utilize the
narrow gauge for whatever Rossland
business it may get. It is proposed to a strong current of natural gas was
lay a third rail on the ties of the nar- encountered. When stmok, it created
row gauge and haul standard gauge a noise like thunder, and when a
oars over the road with the narrow 1 mtoh wss applied to the month of the
gauge engines of the Columbia & West-! well it flamed up. The And will be
ern" ' jdeveloped. "
Australia has furnished morel Tb planet Mars resembles the
orimes and disasters this year than in earth more olosely than any other ot
aiy previous year for over a quarter
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
Daily Proceedings in Senate
and House.
IMPORTANT BILLS INTRODUCED
nbatanee of the Measures Being Con
sidered by the Fifty-Fourth
Session Senate.
Washington, May 16. The Dupont
case, involving the right of Henry A.
Dupont to a seat in the senate from the
state of Delaware, was taken up in tbe
senate today, with a view to conclud
ing the debate and taking a final vote.
A brief colloquy between Gorman and
Mitchell developed that a difference ot
opinion existed as to the character of
the vote to be taken. When Gorman
spoke of tbe unanimous agreement to
vote, Mitchell admitted tbe correctness
of the statement, but added significant
ly that the character of the vote would
be determined when the vote was
reached, which was open to the mean
ing that the case would be postponed
until next session. Piatt spoke in sup
port of Mr. Dupont's claim.
Washington, May 18 By a vote of
31 to 30, the senate determined today
that Henry A. Dupont waa not entitled
to a seat in the senate from Delaware.
This closed a long and animated con
troversy, whioh bad been one of the
most notable contests of its kind in the
history of tbe senate. The result was
in doubt up to the last moment, and
this lent added interest to the final
vote. There had been some question
as to the direction of Stewart's vote,
but it was with those of the Democrats
and Populists, and was the decisive
vote in deolaring Dupont not entitled
to a seat Before taking tbe vote,
Piatt spoke for Dupont, and Vilas
against him. Bacon spoke against the
issue of bonds without authority of con
gress. Resolutions were proposed by
Morgan for an inquiry as to our treaty
rights with Spain, and Gallinger relat
ing to the need of additional enact
ments. Washington, May 20. The conferee
on the river and harbor bill expect to
have their first report ready tomorrow
night Of the senate amendments so
far passed upon, the house has yielded
about one-half. The main question in
dispute is the additional contracts au
thorized by the Benate. The senate
amendments authorizing oontracts to
the extent of $1,753,000 for bayou
Plaquemine, La. , and the house -provision
of $315,000 for the Calcasieu riv
er, Louisiana, together with the Dela
ware river projects, the boat railway
on the Columbia river and the Lakes
Union and Washington oanal at Seat
tle, are still in dispute. The fight
over the Santa Monica and San Pedro
deep-water harbor has been resumed in
the conference.
' House.
Washington, May 16. The house
oommittee on coinage, weights and
measures today decided by a unani
ous vote to authorize a favorable re
port on the resolution introduced by
Representative C. W. Stone providing
that the president be authorized and
requested to invite an expression from
other principal oommeroial nations of
the world as to the desirability and
feasibility of the adoption of interna
tional ooins, to be current in all coun
tries adopting them at a uniform value,
and to be specially adopted for invoice
purposes. If expressions thus obtained
from other nations are suoh as, in the
judgment of the president,' render '
conference desirable, he is authorized
to invite it at a time and place to be j
designated by him to oonsider and re-,
port a plan for the adoption and use
of such coins, composed of either gold
or Bilver, or both. Tbe president is
authorized to appoint three representa
tives, subject to confirmation by 1 the
senate.
Washington, May 18. The house to
day occupied itself in passing the pri
vate pension bills, which were favor
ably acted upon during the two speoial
days given to their consideration. Erd
man and Talbert threw snob obstaoles
in the way as they oould. Thirty-four
bills were ' held up because they were
not engrossed, but 100 were nassed.
leaving about sixty yet undisposed of.
At the opening of the session Howard
rose to a question ot privilege, to de
nounce the fabrications some newspa
pers printed five months ago, that be
had entered the hall of the house in an
intoxioated condition, and bad been
oarried out by two colored porters.
Washington, May 20. The bouse
oommittee on ways and means today
decided to report favorably on the bill
to permit oustoms offloials to deliver
j paokageB not exceeding $5,000 in value
, t0 reM comoani " A nth, ,,.,,
carriers, under bond, after an appraisal
on the wharves. Jewelry and nreoions
stones are excepted. It also authorises
Evans to call up in the bouse, under
a suspension of the rales, a bill to per
mit tbe bottling of spirits nnder bond
in distilleries. The committee on
i " "u" "7 aay aeowed to
1 deflnltoly Mndou the attempt to report
1 1.4 J . . .. .
Tnw" Dn"8 om this session, and
the oommittee adjourned until the next
session of congress.
Natural Oaa Discovered.
Ardmore, L T., May 18. While
workmen were engaged in boring a
well on the farm of J. S. Wheeler,
about twentv-five miles weat of here.
of the solar system that we know snyt