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EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News ot the World.
TKRSK TICKS FROM THK WIRES
An
nterr.tlng Oull.rttlon of It.nn From
III. Two llinl.here. 1're.eliled
In a Vouil.uii.il form.
Since the oollapie of the "brlok
trust" at the close of Mar. the local
brick market In Chioago has been de
moralized. The demoralization has
reached luoh a point that oommon
brick were told at 4.10 per 1,000.
While two dozen people orowded on
a portico were witnessing a oiroot
parade in Ottawa, Kan., the structure
gae way, precipitating men, women
and children fifteen feet to the walk
bolow. Seventeen were injured Mrs.
David Day, ot Rantoul, will probably
' die of injuries.
N, An Astoria dispatch says the body of
Hub Norburg, foreman of the Fisher
mnu's oauuery, who was reported miss
ing, and also that of a Russian Finn
named Uviok, who is snpposed to have
been out in the river with him, were
found in the river below Tongne Point
It is nut so far known how their deaths
occurred, but the conjectures ii that
they were both aooideutally drowned.
The emperor of China has testified
his appreciation of the gallantry shown
by the bluejackets of the American
warships in resouing drowning persons
in the reoent terrible disaster resulting
from a oolllsion at Wooniung between
the steamers Onwo and Newobwang,
by presenting to the oaptain ot eaoh of
Uncle Barn's cruisers in Aslatio waters
an elaborately engraved and highly
complimentary testimonial.
The onoe beautiful little village of
Lake City, Cal., at the head of Bur
prise valley, in Modoo oonnty, is a
scene of devastation, ruin and disaster
What was onoe a brisk and lively burg
of 200 inhabitants with neat and cosy
dwellings is now bnt a vista of tangled
wreckage, nearly every building in
town being wholly or partially de
molished. It wns struck by a water
spouta veritable water oyolone.
The National Brewer's Association
has voted to contribute f 50,000 tor the
St. Louis storm sufferers.
A dispatch from Constantinople says
Russia has warned the porte that a
Christian masaaore in Crete would
unite the whole ot Europe against
V . Turkey.
li'l, -" News is received of a disastrous cy
done in Eastern Colorado that blew
, down the postomoe at Lansing. The
' nhoolhouse and a number of residences
t Mfi inhere also damaged. A lady was seri
ally injured, but will recover.
A two-story building in Astoria, Or.,
was gutted by fire. The occupants of
the upper floor barely esoaped with
their lives. The loss on the building
is $3,000; insurance, 1 1,000, and the
loss to the tenants is about $10,000.
At Wallaoe, Idaho, while a work
man named Hutchinson was engaged
in wiring a house for eleotrio lights, a
joist on whioh he was standing broke,
aud be fell to the floor, sustaining in-,
juries whioh will probably prove fatal.
.
It is alleged that George Hlokoy, a
constable ot Oakesdale, Wash., has ex-1
torted money from merohants of that '
town, ty threatening to arrest them
for having sold lemon extract to In
diiins, whioh, he claims, is in violation
of the liquor-selling laws.
The body ot the late James O. Blaine
will be taken from Oak Hill oemetery,
Washington, and will be brought to
Augusta, Me. Mrs. Blaine has de
cided to have both the body ot her hus
band and her son, Walker, buried
there, and the removal will occur prob
ably this month.
A Pretoria dispatoh says President
Kruger is anxious to commute the death
eentenid of the reform leaders to a
heavy fine, but the other members of
the exeoutive council objeot on 'the
. ground that the government would be
charged with meroenary motives.
They suggest that they should be con
fined for five years in prison.
The work of relief and restoration
goes on in St. Louis. Contributions ot
money, olothing and provisions are be
ing sent there, and all the destitute are
Deing cared for. The losses caused in
directly by the tornado are just be
ginning to reveal themselves, and will
be nearly ai oruel as the immediate
effects. Beoause the tornado ruined
many mills and factories a large num
ber of men will be out of employment
for weeks and months.
The glorious Fourth will he cele
brated in Portland, Or., this year as
never before. The patriotism of the
oitizens has been aroused thoroughly
and the oommittee appointed to arrange
the celebration has met with, spontane
ous encouragement on every hand. The
celebration will begin Wednesday, and
continue uninterruptedly for four days,
ending in a blaze ot glory Saturday
fiigut Eaoh day will be orowded as
'- lull as it win noia wun events oi an
kinds. .
A Cat In Biourilon Rates.
vtaiiv Via. trlvAti nnHnA that it InfAfirl.
to ignore the aotion of the other trans-
oontlnental and Western roads in da-
nitnino n molrn a mrinned rate fn tha
Utah achoolteaohers, who are anxious
to come East to spend their vaoation.
It will take independent aotion in the
matter, and will make a one-fare for
the round trip for the teaohers.
New Shah Knthron.d. f
Teheran, Persia. Muzaffer Eddin,
the new shah ot Persia, has been form
ally enthroned,
Thiede, who was oonvljted of the
murder of his wife in Bait Lake, mu
bang. This is the decision of the
Utah supreme oourt
Fire destroyed the Boylston brewery
and mammoth icehouse, in Boston, and
damaged many buildings. The total
loss is $78,000.
An emergenoy club has been organ
lied in Des Moines, la., its objeot be
ing the oare of sufferers from tornadoes
and aimilar publio calamities.
The French Nigor expedition from
Balaga, West Africa, has been routed
and many ot its members killed by
poik ued arrows, in the Borgeo coun
try. The body of Jacob Baer, one of the
pioneers ot the oity, was found float
ing in the waters of West Lake Park,
Los Angeles. He undoubtedly com
mitted suicide.
Two midguts, each less than four
feet high, were married in Niagara
Falls. They are M. L. Comfort, of
Oswego, N. Y., aged 63, and Miss Eva j
a. White, of Monroe, Mich., aged 44.
They have known each other for twen
ty years. They met by appointment
and are spending their honeymoon
there.
A hare-knuckle fight to a finish be
twetu two youths was successfully
brought off in a vacant store near the
Olympio Club's ground, San Franoisoo.
Bad blood had existed owing to an ex
change ot compliments over a dog fight,
and the youths met to settle their dif
fereno s in acoorchtnoe with an agree
ment then made.
Manacled, but struggling fleroely
with guards, Joseph Windrath was
executed in Chicago. Even to the last
second Windrath feigned insanity,
orying, "bang upMannow,"eto. Not
until the drop fell and the rope tight
ened the last time around Windrath's
neck were the awful ories stilled. It
was fourteen minutes later before the
heart ceased beating.
Nearly all the settlers on lieu lan ds
in the neighborhood of Qaifield.Wasb.,
have received notice to prepare to
either buy or vacate their homes. The
notices state that under date of April
2, 1896, the government issued patents
to the Northern Pacific Railroad Com
pany for these lands. Thj railroad
oompany offers the lands to settlers for
$3 an acre to be paid in either five or
ten annual payments with interest at
0 per cent.
A Cape Town dispatch says that in
the assembly Mr. Spring in announo
eing the badget said that the available
urplus was 1,200,000, estimated sur-
plus net for the year, 832,000. He
also produced statistics showing an un
preoedented prosperity in all directions
and expressed the opinion that the high
prioe of Cape stock was partly due to'
the faot that the colony was a part of,
the British empire, and he added that;
the- power whioh oommands the sea
must dominate South Africa.
The American line steamer St Paul
has again broken her record aoross the
Atlantic The St Paul left Southamp-j
ton at noon May 80 and passed Thai
Needles about 1 :25 P. M. June 5. Her)
time for the trip was S days, 5 honrst
and 85 minutes, beating all records by(
over hours. The best previous;
western record of the St. Paul, made
on her last voyage, was 6 days, 9 hours
and 6 minutes. She has, in the pres
ent trip, reduoed that time hours,
and also made a new western record,
from Southampton.
Alarming? news reorardinir the rjlaorne
whioh is raging in China and other
oountiies of Southern Asia was brought
by the steamer Peru, whioh arrived
from Hong Kong and Yokohama in.
San Franoisoo, seven days late, on ao
oount of being detained at quarantine
at Nagasaki. Deaths are ocourring by
hundreds in the Orient. At Canton
there were 815 deaths in one week re
oently. At Hong Kong, when the
Peru sailed, May , 617 persons were
down with the cholera, and new oasf
were being reported at the rate of 25
a day.
Manager W. R. Bust, of the Taooma
Smelting & Refining Company, has re
turned from New York, where he made
arrangements to raise $250,000 to be ex
pended in making the Taooma smelter
one of the largest in the United States. ;
Two new staoks, aix roasters, and a re-;
finery, oosting over $100,000, are to be
built, increasing the plant to four
staoks and eight rosters, with a ca-'
paoity of over 200 tons of ore per day. j
ine oiner fiou.uuu win do naea as
working oapital. The need of an in
creased oapaoity la brought about bv
the great mining development inAl-!
SBka and British Columbia.
James MoKinney, of the commission
firm ot MoKinney Bros., of Kansas
Oity, has praotioally oornered the po
tato market. MoKinney is said to
have more of the produot to sell than
all the other potato broken in the
West Within the past four days, Mo
Kinney has raised the prioe of potatoes
96 pents, and a further rise is antici
pated. Twenty days ago MoKinney
oontraoted for the only available po
tateoi now in the West, 100 calroads,
from Greeley, Colo.- MoKinney is saidl
to have oornered the market five years!
ago, when he raised the piroe from 25i
oents to $1 a bushel.
Asano. one of the chiefs in the
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naval department ot the government ofl
Japan, will arrive on the next steamer
from the Orient in San Franoisoo. An!
important matter oonneoted with tne'
coming visit ot S. Asano to the Paoiflo
coast is the opening of a new steamship
line
between Tokio and the Paoiflo
coast In heralding- the advance of
" new line Asano will say tnat it
will handle freight cheaper than either
of the lines running from San Franoisoo,
"nd Poget Bound, and that the landing
Plaoe on tni9 ooaBt wlu a Portland,
The Japanese legislature reoently ap-
propriated $5,000,000 to float the oom
pany, and seleoted Portland as being
the most central point Freight will,
be carried at 18 yen, or $9, per ton,,
and the passenger rates will be at
gjtuitly reduoed rates. i
IN CUBAN DUNGEONS
Americans Imprisoned
Filthy Quarters.
in
CASE OF THOMAS II. DAW LEY
Conaul-General Lee Is Inreitlg atlng
the Condition of th. Prisoner. -D.wl.jr't
Latter.
Havana, June 10. A local paper
prints an interview with Consul-Gen-eral
Lee on the subjeot of his mission,
in which be is quoted as saying that
he came to inform himself on the prob
lem presented in Cuba, and would re
port to Washington with strict im
partiality and justioe.
The reasons why he was seleoted
were, first, bis great friendship for
Cleveland, with whom he is identified
in ideas and sentiment; and, second,
having commanded General R. E.
Lee's cavalry and been aocustomed to
reoonnoitre, he better than anybody
else is able to understand the kind of
war the insurgents are waging.
Consul-General Lee has visited the
several Americans imprisoned in Ca
banas fortress. He found the com.
petitor men very wretched and in filthy
quarters. He will apply for their re
lief at once.
It is reported that no formal change
baa yet been made in the case of
Thomas R. Dawley, the correspondent
of Harper's. It is expeoted he will be
released soon. He complains that his
arms were tied behind him when he
was arrested, and that he was threat
ened with death because he could not
carry baggage. General Lee has re
ceived this letter from Dawley, written
in prison:
"Sir I have the honor to call your
attention to the fact that I am an Ameri
can citizen, and am now imprisoned in
military prison without having bad any
hearing. I took up my residence in
Artemiea about the 1st ot May last
The oelador of the place threatened me
with arrest at the time because I was
an American. I obtained permission
from the officer in command there to
remain. About a week ago this officer
came to Havana and General Melquiso
went to Artemisa. The oelador then
tried again and suooeeded in having me
arreBted. I am confined among poll-
I tioal prisoners who are awaiting court-
, martial."
irusnngwac you wui give your
immediate attention to this case, I am
your obedient servant,
"Thomas R. Dawley."
General Melquizo, who had Dawley
arrested, is the came general who is
charged with the responsibility for
many murders of "pacifies."
General Arolas, whom he suooeeded,
has recently gone back to Artemisa to
resume oommand of the trocha.
Notwithstanding the reluctance of
the American government to acknowl
edge that war exists here, General
Weyler and the Madrid govenrment
seem to recognize it In denying Gen
eral Bradley permission to visit Daw
ley in Morro, the captain-general used
these signiiioant words:
"Under Spanish laws, no foreigner
oan enter a Spanish fortress in time of
war."
The words are muoh oommented on
in Havana. They are oommendod to
the consideration of Mr. Olney.
COCOS ISLAND TREASURE.
Dick Armstrong Bays ihe Bnydlcnte
, Stole It.
New York, June 10. The World to
day says: After twenty 3 ears spent in
organizing and accompanying expedi
tiong t0 ,he uninhabited Uiani ol
Cooos, four hundred miles southwest of
Panama, where he believed he would
find the tens of millions ot treasure
whioh the pirate Morgan is said to
have buried there, Riohard W. Arm
strong, of San Franoisoo, has come
East to sue a wealthy Boston man, who
he says, stole his maps and discovered
his treasure. Waldor H. Phillips has
taken his oase. In the 40s, Armstrong
says his father met an old Spaniard,
sick and without friends. He provided
for him, and on hia deathbed, the
Spaniard confessed that he had been
one of Morgan's band, and gave Arm
strong a drawing of Cocos island, by
wiohh, be said, the treasure could be
found. The father died and several ex
peditions were fitted out, but failed,
through fights among themselves.
Two years ago, Armstrong says an
agent of the Eastern men stole his
maps. An expedition was fitted out,
he says, and the treasure, worth more
than $20,000,000, was secured. Neither
Armstrong nor his lawyer would tell
who the Eastern parties are. Celilo
del Gado, oonsul-general of Costa Rioa,
says it was reported some time ago that
an expedition had suooeeded in getting
the treasure whioh Morgan's men had
hidden on the island of Cocoa.
Freneh Socialists Defeated.
Paris, June 10. A socialist attaok
ujiuu inn guvoiiiuiuuv niw uokwiou ii
tne chamber of deputies today, the or
upon the government was defeated In
der of the day being adopted by a vote
of 818 to 238.
Forged Kallroad Tloketi.
New York, June 10. Eugene Barnet
and Jeps Wener, railroad tioket specu
lators at New Orleans, were convicted
in general sessions oourt today of forg
ing tiokets of the Southern Paoiflo
Railroad Co. It is alleged that, had
the plan of Barnet and Wener been
successful, it would have oost the
Southern Paoiflo company $50,000.
General Defloiency Bill Signed.
Washington, June 10. The presi
dent this evening signed, the revised
genearl deficiency bill, whioh. had been
amended to meet his objections.
THE SEAL FISHERIES.
Behring
Sea Treaty 'With
Had. Publio.
En (land
Washington, June 10. President
Cleveland and (he queen of Great
Britain will officially proclaim within
a few days the Behring sea convention,
whioh their respective governments
bave entered into. The senate made
publio the text of the treaty whioh pro
vides for the appointment of a joint
commission to afoertain the amount of
damages by the owners of British seal
ing vessels seized in Behring sea by
United States revenue cutters before
they bad authority to do so under the
terms of the modus Vivendi or the ap
proved decision of the Paris arbitration
tribunal.
No definite selection has yet been
made so far as learned, of the United
Statei representative on the commis
sion. It is thought Professor D. F.
Dal, an expert in seal life, who is con
nected with the naval museum here,
has about the best chance of securing
the place. It is not believed that Great
Britain will be far behind the presi
dent in making its selection, as it is
the desire of both governments to have
the matter settled as soon as possible.
The long preamble of the convention
recites the facts of the treaty of 1892,
and the failure of the tribunal of arbi
tration provided by it to amicably set
tle all matters in dispute and specify
the additional British scaling vessels
whioh have claims against the United
States.
The convention proper provides that
all olaims arising under the treaty of
1802, and the award and findings of
the tribunal of arbitration, shall be re
ferred to the commissioners, one ap
pointed by Great Britain and the other
by the United States. The commis
sioners are to meet at Victoria, B. C.
If either so requests, they shall also sit
in San Francisco. Decisions reaohed
by the commissioners in each claim
shall be accepted by the two govern
ments as final They are given full
authority to examine under oath every
question of fact not found by the tri
bunal of arbitration, and shall have
power to procure or enforce testimony,
as may hereafter be provided by legis
lation. If in any case the commission
ers fail to agree, the differences shall
be referred for final adjustment to
an umpire, to be appointed by the two
governments jointly, or in oase of a
disagreement, to be nominated by the
president ot the Swiss confederation.
The amount awarded to Great Britain
under the convention is to be paid by
the United States within Bix months i
after the award is made.
A BOMB THROWN.
SIz Persons in a Crowd at Barcelona
Were Killed.
Barcelona, June 9. A bomb was
thrown into the crowd during the I
Corpus Christ! parade today, and its !
explosion resulted in the killing of six i
persons and the injury of forty. The
perpetrator is not yet known, and bis
motive is equally a mystery.
News of the throwing of the bomb
spread like wildfire over the city, and
caused a panio among the crowds
drawn to the streets by the religious
festival and the Sunday merrymaking
usual to the oity. The explosion occur
red jqst as the Coprus Christi poroes
sion was entering the beautiful and
anoient ohuroh of Santa Maria del Mar.
This is one of the most thickly populat
ed portions of the oity. The sound of
the explosion and the distressed cries of
the injured and the friends of the killed
created an indesoribable panio among
the great crowd in the procession and
the lookers on. The people were terror-stricken
with dread of other bombs
being thrown and it was with difficulty
that they were restrained from stam
peding. A terrible scene ensued after the ex
plosion of the bomb. Several oorpses
and forty persons who were severely
injured were found to be lying around.
The great excitement continues unabat
ed throughout the oity. The polioe
have picked up thirty fragments of
bombs in the streets.
A Reservoir Dam Gay. Way.
Brigham City, Utah, June 9. Early
this morning a big reservoir in Three
Mile oanyon, south of Hyrum City,
burst its banks, and a soild wall of wa
ter sixteen feet hi h rushed down the
oanyon into the valley, carrying de
struction before it for a distanoe of
thirty miles. Boulders weighing tons
were carried along like feathers, and
deposited in the fields of farmers, who
today find thier fertile aores oovered
from one to four feet deep with sand,
trees and boulders. The entire valley
presents a desolate appearanoe.
A Call Itiued.
New York, June 10. The treasury
department has issued a oall on the
depository banks for the balanoe of
their holdings of government money.
The amount involved is about $4,500,
000. The oall is payable on or before
June 15.
Actor Frank Mayo I. Dead.
Omaha, Neb., Jnne 10. Frank
Mayo, the veteran aotor, died at Grand
Island today. Mayo died on the train
shortly before reaching Grand Island.
The body will reach Omaha about 4
o'olook and be prepared for shipment
East. Death resulted from Paralysis
of the heart
A Terrible Termination.
San Franoisoo, June 10. John W.
Hay, aged 26, assistant editor of the
Journal of Commerce, was shot
through the left breast by Mrs. Mina
MaoDougall, said to be the wife of a
drummer for a Chioago barbed wire
oompany, at the boarding house of
Mrs. Quinn, on MoAllister street, at
11:10 o'olook last night The woman
then shot herself through the heart,
i dying instantly. Hay was removed to
the receiving hospital. The doctor
says he cannot live.
BATTLE OF FIERKET
Dervish Stronghold Taken by
Egyptian Troops.
KHALIFA LOST A THOUSAND HEN
Th. Attack Wki a Complete Surprise,
but th. D.rvl.he. War. Finally
Pat to Bout.
Fierket, Egypt, June 9. This point
was taken by Egyptian troops at an
early hour this morning, snd their
manner of acquitting themselves in
this, the first engagement of the Nile
campaign, has given great satisfaction
to the British officers in command of
them. The Egyptian forces left Aka
sheb last evening, and the movement
was a surprise, as it seemed to nave
been determined to hold Ahasheh as an '
outpost nam uie season was paBeu iuu
the period arrived for the advanoi upon
Dongola in the latter part of August
or in September. The force responded
promptly to orders, however, and was
soon under way for this point The i
distanoe is twenty miles. The greatest
secrecy had been maintained as to all
the arrangements, and precautions
were taken to prevent the news of the
advance from leaking out i
The long night march was pursued '
in absolute silence, in consequence of
which the arrival of the Egyptians at
the dervishes' camp took the enemy
oompleely by surprise. They quickly
rallied, however, and rushed to arms, j
Far from being routed in the first skir
mish of the attack, they stood to their
positions and made a stubborn defense
of the camp for an hour and a half,
during which there was bard fighting.
The dervishes were finally put to
rout by a flank movement, executed by
the cavalry. Seeing themselves in dan
ger of being surrounded, the forces of
the khalifa took flight to the southward
toward Suarda, pursued by the cavalry. '
Suarda is nearly 100 miles south of
here, but is strongly held by a force of
several thousand dervishes.
Reports received indicate that the
loss to the dervishes will amount to .
1,000 men. Among those killed is the I
Emir Hammuda, who was their com
mander, besides many important ohiefs. .
Hammuda was in command of the
largest foroe at Suarda. He was one of
the tribe of Hibbania, and was well .
known to Slatin Pasha while the later
was a captive of the khalifa in the
Soudan.
! The officers in oommand of the Egyp
tian force express great gratification at
the oonduct in this morning's fight of
had been felt, and the Soudanese who
had been depended on for good fight
ing. They displayed great steadiness
and dash. The Egyptian loss in the
fight waB twenty killed and eighty
wounded. Hundreds of dervishes were
taken prisoners.
ALL KINDS OF STORMS.
Heat, Cyclone, Bail. Rain, Gravel, Fl.h
and Turtle..
Chicago, June 9. Severe storms
prevailed throughout Wisconsin, Iowa,
Kansas, bebraska, South Dakota, Illi
nois and Michigan today, and there
was heavy rain, with cyclone manifesta
tions. Three heat storms passed over
this city, accompanied with heavy rains
and hail. Hailstones fell in some
plaoes in this vioinity so thkk they
could be taken up by the shovelful
After the rain in Hyde, nearly a peok
of shells and gravel were picked up.
In one place in this suburb, small fish
and turtles were found in large num
bers. Of this remarkable occurrence,
Observer Cox states that the transplant
ing of fish, shells and water gravel
from their original resting place to
points miles away was due to vacuum
whirlwinds and straight winds, whioh
have prevailed throughout the West
for a week past.
A sailboat capsized on the lake this
afternoon and its four occupants barely
esoaped drowning. Up to a late hour
tonight, no fatalities had been report
ed. At Peoria, a heavy rain did con
siderable damage. At the union stock
yards, the storm played havoc. Base
ments and first floors were flooded and
the big packing house firms were
heavy losers. Soores of windows were
blown in and the rain, entering, spoil
ed tons of beef whioh had been pre
pared for oanning.
At Vigil, S. D., a oyolone leveled a
number of houses. Irvin Daly was seri
ously injured. From this point, the
funnel-shaped cloud took a northeast
erly direction, devastating everything
with whioh it came in contact Four
persons were drowned, and it is report
ed much damage was done to property
in Leavenworth.
Springfield, 111., was visited by a
terrifio storm. Trains on all lines are
delayed by washouts in Chadorn, Neb.,
the result of a storm.
A Bystander Killed.
St. Louis, June 9. A street fight oc
curred tonight between Andrew Smith
and Peter Pete.ton, a prizefighter,
otherwise known as the "Terrible
Swede." The result was that Smith
unintentionally killed James Hiokey,
a disinterested speotator.
Terrible Riot in St. Petersburg.
London. June, 9. A dispatoh from
Vienna to the Daily News says that ao
oording to a Polish Galioian paper,
there was a riot in St Petersburg on
the evening of the ooronatlon day. A
drunken orowd, it is alleged, filled up
with strong drink and beoame unman
ageable, whereupon Cossacks galloped
into the orowd, whioh responded by
throwing stones. The Cossaoks, it is
further said, used their sabers and
finally fired inbve orowd, of wnich
250 person'' d and wounded
and r-
OREQON STATE NEWS.
Interesting Coll.ctlon of Item. From
Town and Count.
Baker City will celebrate the na
tion's birthday.
The telegraph office at Jacksonville
has been temporarily closed.
The Coquille creamery is receiving
15,000 pounds of milk daily.
Herrick's cannery, at The Dalles,
has started up. The run of fish is im
proving. Some $3,300 in gold, aooording to
report, has been taken from the Salmon
mountains mines the hist six weeks.
The Yamhill County Pioneer Asso
ciation has decided to hold its annual
meeting at MoMinnville June 26
and 27.
Independence boasts of a young man
not yet 20 years of age, whose height
is 6 feet 9 inches. Charles Bicker is
his name,
A great amount of snow has fallen
In the Blue Mountains during this
month, which insures a lonsr season for
jjje placer miners.
The waterspout in Gilliam county
last week did a great deal of damage
on Pine creek, destroying gardens and
filling up irrigation ditches
Three feet of snow is reported on the
Mount Adams ranges this month,
where, last year, earlier than this,
grass was abundant and fifteen inches
high.
Dan Ryan, a miner, died in Grant's
Pass last week from the effects ot chlo
roform administered during a surgical
operation to remove a canoerous growth
from his lower jaw.
The Oregon and Eastern mails for
Lake and Klamath counties now reach
their destination one day earlier sinoe
the establishment of the mail route
from Ashland to Klamath Falls.
Coal mining and shipping will begin
on the Illinois this week. R. D.
Hume, ot Wedderburn, will get 100
tons as a starter. The steamer used
carries only four tons to tha load.
There was a waterspout at MoKay,
in Umatilla county, last week, and an
other two days later. They did muoh
damage, washing out potatoes that
were planted and doing other damage
to crops.
Notices of appeal to the supreme
oourt have been filed in the oases of
Marcus S. Koshland vs. Hartford Fire
Insuranoe Company and Marcus S.
Koshland vs. Home Mutual Insurance
Company, from Pendleton.
Thomas Thomason, inspector of
horses for Umatilla county, had a big
round-up of diseased horses on the
Umatilla reservation, and many of the
animals were killed. The diseased
horses were suffering from mange.
S. Price, who came from Indiana to
Oregon in 1852, brought with him at
the time a $1 bill, which he exhibited
the other day in The Dalles. It was
ifsued by the state from the Miami
county, bank at Troy, and at the time
was good in Indiana, Ohio and a por
tion of Kentuoky.
The Byers flouring mill, in Pen
dleton, has just finished loading a ship
ment of three oarloads of flour, bound
for San Salvador. The mill ships to
Central Amerioa and China, and the
Chinese insist on having their flour in
green sacks, while the San Salvadorana
will only take theirs in blue bags.
Mrs. Mary Ann Chllds, a colored
woman, 57 years of age, visited the
Chemawa school lart week. She hails
from Louisiana, and has been traveling
for the last four years. She left
Louisiana, and traveled on foot to New
York, 'from there to Washington and
from that oity to Florida. She then
started West
Plans have been prepared for a new
building at Bingham Springs station
for 'the oonvenienoe of tourists and
others. It will be built of fir trees in
old-fashioned style, with doors and
windows as used years ago. The out
side will be left with rough rustio ap
pearance, but the inside will be fitted
up in modern style.
Muoh wool is now being received at
Pendleton by rail and team for the
scouring mill and commission men.
Dealers are not anxious to buy, and
there has been but little selling or ship
ping. Mr. Koshland has so far shipped
four crloads to Boston and one to Port
land. A large quantity is arriving by
rail from Eastern Washington points.
The loss of lambs this season In Mal
heur oounty, consequent upon the con
tinued cold spring weather, has been
very great, the loss in a few instances
xeoeeding 50 per cent ot the crop, says
the Vale Gazette. The sheepmen, how
ver, are not any losers on the aggre'
gate season s profits, lor the reason
(hat an easy winter did away with the
necessity of muoh feeding, so that the
loss of a part of the inorease will not
seriously affect local sheepmen,
The Smithsonian Institution - has
donated a collection of 815 duplicate
speoimens of fishes to the university
of Oregon. This collection ia from the
upper part of the Columbia river basin,
in the state of Idaho, and the sped
mens of fishes were seleoted from the
national museum at Washington, D,
C, and transmitted to the homeunl
versity, in conformity with the usage
of the Smithsonian Institution In the
distribution ot duplicate material.
Th. Mining World.
Recent cable advioea; from London
show that there is on hand less than
two months' supply of copper, and that
both London and Paris are taking all
they oan get hold ot. . It now seems
possible for copper to go to 12 oents.
Most of the capital in this country
is in the East and the good mines are
in the West While some portion of
this oapital is being oontinually invest
ed in mining, the amount is not as
great as the needs of the mining dis
triots demand, or as the opportunities
lor profitable Investment warrant
HIE NATIONAL CAPITAL
Daily Proceedings in Senate
and House.
IMPORTANT BILLS INTRODUCED
Sub.tance of th. H.a.urcs Being Con
sidered by th. Fifty-Fourth
Bexlon Senate.
Washington, June 6. The senate
had one of the busiest sessions of this .
oongreBS today Late in the day the
filled -cheese bill passed, as it came
from the house, by a vote of S 7 to 13,
thus completing the legislation on this
subject The measure is analogous to
the oleomargarine law. The bill de
fines "filled cheese" to embrace "all
substance made of milk, or skimmed
milk, with the admixture ot butter,
animal oils or fats, vegetables or any
other oils or compounds foreign to such
milk, and made in imitation or sem
blance of cheese." Manufacturers of
filled cheese are taxed $400 annually;
wholesale dealers, $250; retail dealers,
$12. In addition to these taxes, the :
product itself is taxed 1 cent per pound,
and, if imported, filled cheese is taxed
8 cents per pound in addition to the
import duty.
Washington, Jnne 8. Morgan gave
the senate a spirited revival of the Cu
ban question today, after most of the
day was spent in waiting for conference
reports on appropriation bills. Mor
gan urged the adoption of his resolu
tion, calling on the president for in
formation in regard to the Americans
taken from the Competitor and now
under sentence of death in Havana.
He said the president's action was a
violation of law. Morgan declared
congress should not adjourn without
requiring the president to send war
ships to Cuba to demand the release of
the American prisoners. On the sug
gestion of Sherman, chairman of the
oommittee on foreign relations, the
senate went into secret session, and,
after agrument by Morgan, his resolu
tion was plaoed on the calendar, a pre
liminary movement equal to postpon
ing aotion.
Washington, June 10. The senate
made but little progiess today toward
final adjournment The new deficiency
bill, framed to overcome the objections
of the president, by omission of claims,
was paasea. An enort Dy u arris to
add war claims under tbe Bowman
act, aggregating $500,000, failed on a
point of order. A final report on the
postoffice appropriation bill was agreed
to. The immigration bill was before
the senate after 2 o'clock, but Morgan
diverted the debate into a discussion
on Cuba. He took occasion, during his
speech, to disclaim having made harsh
criticisms of the queen regent of Spain.
Rons.
Washington, June 6. By a vote of
153 to 33, the house today decided
against the claim of William Elliott,
from the blaok or "shoestring" dis
trict of South Carolina, and gave tbe
seat to George W. Murray. Murray is
a oolored man, and in the fifty-first con
gress was seated in plaoe of Mr. Elliott
The latter had 1,374 majority on the
face of the returns, but the committee
found the former had carried the dis
trict by a majority of 464. Murray
was given a round of applause when he
oame forward to be sworn; in. Elliott
is the ninth Democrat unseated by the
present house. The final conference re
port on the general deficiency bill was
agreed to, and also a partial report on
the District of Columbia bill. The
senate amendments to the bill to retire
Commander Qnackenbush were adopt
ed. The conference report on the bill
to pension the widow of the late Sena
tor George Spenoer, of Alabama, was
agreed to.
Washington, June 8. The house to
day unseated two more Democrats,
Lookhart, from the seventh North
Carolina district, and Downing, from
the sixteenth Illinois district, and
seated in the plaoe ot the former, Mar
tin, a Populist, who had been indorsed
by the Republicans, and in place of
the latter, . Rinaker, a Republican.
Downing was the only Democrat from
Illinois. A good deal of partisan feel
ing was aroused among the Democrats
by the ruling of Panye, who was in the
ohair, and on one or two ocasions,
there was a mild reminder of the tur
bulent scenes of the fifty first congress.
The Democrats left the hall in an effort
to break a quorum, but Payne deolined
to recognize the point of no quorum or
to entertain the appeal from that de
cision. Washington, June 10. In order to
guard against a failure ot a quorum in
the few hours ot the session today, the
house revoked all leaves of absence and
ordered the sergeant-at-arms tu tele
graph absentees to return at once. The
final conference of the postoffice appro
priation bill was agreed to. This left
. ut four appropriation bills in confer
ence. The ebmpromise relative to the
old settlers' olaims in the Indian bill
was agreed to also, leaving only the
sectarian sohool question in this bill
open. Bills and resolutions were
passed calling on tbe secretary of tbe
treasury for information as to steps to
be taken to procure a settlement of the
disputed question of the liability of
Virginia or West Virginia for $540,000
worth of bonds in whioh the Indian
funds are invested; for the establish
ment of a site for the erection of a
penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth,
Kan.; for a scientific investigation ot
the fur seal fisheries; to amend the act
for the proteoitbn ot ea'mou fisheries ot
Alaska.
In London ho fewer than 188,000
people live four and more -to the room,
and of these 8,000 are packed to tbe ex.
tent of eight or more to the room. -