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VOL. 3.
IIILLSUORO, OREGON. THURSDAY, JULY 2. 18.
NO. Ik
THE DAY
Epitome ot the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
All Interfiling Collection of Item. From
tlio Two Hemisphere. Pre.ent.d
In a Condensed Form,
Catherine Rosohey, an inmate ot the
Insane asylum at Huloin, waB killed by
iuuiiiiK form a third-story window of
the (turn building of the asylum.
Grout excitement hns been canned In
Keririing, Cal i by the receipt of a let
tor tliuro ooutaining uewa of a threat
ened uprising of the Pitt river Induing.
The British steamer Bautireuz,
bound for Pnru, Bruzil, was anuk in a
collision with the four-masted British
ship Duudoiiulil, from Sun Franoisoo.
No Uvea were lost,
, At Gig Harbor, Wash., the Shiugle
mill owned by E. S. Prentiss, together
with 1,000,000 newly-uiade Blnnglo",
wiib destroyed by Are. The loss ii
$2,51)0, with no insurauoe.
Two yooug men, named Riley and
Young, hail a quarrel at Mossy Ko3k,
which ended in Young being struck ou
the neck and badly out with au ax
which was manipulated by Riley.
A report from Walla Walla says that
the wheat orop in that section, which
it was feared bad been Injured by the
hot weather of last week, has not betn
damaged to any considerable extent,
and a full yield is confidently expeoted.
The run of salmon in the Columbia
river continues light, uo large catches
having been made of late by any of the
boats, It is th jught that small catches
will be the rule now until the regular
July run begins, which will be in
about a week or ten day.
Nathan Phillips, a pawnbroker of
Monte Cristo, Wash., was fatally shot
by David Leroy, who attempted to rob,
Phillips of a satchel full of Jewelry
which he waa carrying, and upon be
ing resisted, opened fire upon the
pawnbroker with the above result.
Leroy escaped.
Asa result of the oonferenoe between
the president and Secretary Lamont or
ders have been issued by the war de
partment for the immediate execution
ot the provisions of the tiver and har
bor appropriation bill, with the ex
ception of those sections providing tor
the making of con tracts for the con
tinuation and completion ot the work.
Tho opposition has decided to re
quest the Spanish government to in
troduce a bill providing for sufficient
resources to prosecute the campaign in
Cuba. , ,
Miss Lansing Rowan, an aotrcss, of
the Frawley oompany, playing in an
Francisco, hns challenged Champion
Corbett to meet hor in a scientific spar
ring contest. ., .
Henry Gardner, a farmer, living
near Mount Dale, Washington county,
Or., was accidentally killed by being
truck in the stomach by a falling"
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wnicn ne nuu just cut nowu.
A oyclone swept a section of c
four miles south ot Ulayton, Wis., am
a number ot dwellings and bnrns were
' demolished. One man, name un
known, was fatally injured.
A Constantinople dispatoh says dis
turbances of a serious character occur
red at Van. Many Armenians were
killed, Many sought rofuge nt the
British consulate. It is estimated that
400 persona were killed on both sides
in the rioting last week.
It is now believed that tho skeleton
recently discovered at Dry creek, near
Pendleton, is that ot J. Keith, who,
about a year ago started with Ben
Bowers to go to the higher mountains
and was never eeen again, although
Bowers soon returned. Tho two men
are known to have had some trouble
over a woman.
A London paper says that Great
Britain and the United States have
agreed to publish simultaneously,
within a fortnight, all the arbitration
correspondence exchanged between the
governments ot the two countries. Its
publication hag been delayed pending
the arrival of Secretary Olney's latest
communication.
In a collision between Chicago,
Minneapolis & St. Paul and Chicago
& Burlington trains at Davis Junction,
Jill., in a deep out, thirty-five cars were
piled in a heap and burned fieroely all
day. Thomas a. Moran, a nreuian,
was instantly killed, and Fred Blair, a
hrakeman, fatally hurt. Engineer
Daly was injured.
Controller Eckels, a Washington dis
patch says, has undertaken an extensive
Inquiry to learn the various kinds of
credit instruments and money held by
all the banking institutions in the
United States. He has sent out 21,000
letters to national banks, state and pri
vate banks and loan and trust com
panies asking for information on these
points. A year ago the controller made
an investigation of this kiud, but he
confined it to the 6,000 national banks.
The returns will be published in his
annual report wihoh issues in Decern
oer' Parla Award Vphnld.
San Franoisoo. The United States
oourt of appeals has deoided that the
Paris award, on matters pertaining to
sealing In Behring sea, must be upheld
a the supreme law of the land, and
that the United States government has
no right to make special laws govern
ing its citizens in hunting seal that do
not permit them equal privileges with
citizens of foreign countries on. the
sealing grounds. The decision 1ff"im
portant, as it defines clearly, .for "the
first time, the restrictions to be placed
upon Amerioan seal hunters in Behring
orlp Mad Oood.
At Baker City Judge Eukln deoided
that the warrants issued by Baker
oounty were valid, and thus made good
about $200,000 worth of oounty scrip.
Avoidant to a Minor,
Andy Benson, a miner, in' attempt
ing to fire a salute to Colonel Taylor,
a mine-owner, who waa passing on a
train near Glendale, accidentally ex
ploded a stiok of giant powder in his
hands and was so badly mangled that
he will probably not reoover from bis
injuries.
Vuknowu floater Found,
An unknown floater was found near
the Morrison street bridge in Portland.
The remains were fearfully decom
posed, and almost fell to pleoes as they
were being placed in a reoeiving oasket.
The body bears the appearanoee of
having been in the water several
mouths.
Revolt In Armenia.
Another sanguinary outbreak has oc
curred at Van and 400 are reported to
have been killed. The Persians are
promoting the disturbances and foment
ing the revolt throughout Armenia.
The Druses have now received Bedouin
support and are driving out the Turks.
Diplomatic press is being brought to
bear on the porte, increasing the
chauoes ot peace.
W ire-Murderer Hanged.
Carl Aubrecht, the wife-murderer,
was banged in the jail yard at Marsh-
field, Or. Life was pronounoed ex
tinct within a few seconds after the
drop fell. The execution was the first
that ever took place in that city, and
was witnessed by those legally entitled
to be present. Aubrecht retained his
nerve to the last. He left word of
good-by to bis friends.
A I.ady Suffocated In a Vault.
Miss Rosa Caudill, ot Barbonrsville,
Ky., was looked in her father's vault
for fifteen minutes and when taken out
was nnoousoious, but under the care of
physicians soon reoovered. A gentle
man friend locked her in for a joke,
but not having the combination, was
unable to release ber until her father
was found. His action is generally
condemned, and he is considered a fit
subject for the fool-killer.
Failure, Then Death.
The body of Joseph C. Powell, a stu
dent in the Oregon medioal college,
was found floating in the river, oppo
site the O. R. & N. freight warehouse,
in Portland. A rope was fastened
around the neck, to which was firmly
attaobed a granite rook, weighing
about 13 pounds. Powell was one ot a
class of students in the medioal oollege
that was presented for final examina
ion last March. He failed to pass, and
in despair, committed the rash act.
He had been missing for three months.
A Big Railroad Deal.
The Chioago Evening Post has a
sensational pieoe ot railway news to
the effeot that Henry Villard, baoked
by European capitalists, has about
completed a deal which will give them
a through line from the Atlantio to the
Paoifio seaboard. The intention of the
Villard syndicate is to buy the North
ern Paoifio road, then the Baltimore &
Ohio, at. the receivers' sales. It is said
link between " the Baltrroei
and the Northern Paoifio.
Photography In Colon.
Photography in oolora is assured.
James W. MoDonough, of Chioago, and
Professor Joly, of Dublin, who were
attempting to secure patents, agreed
that the successful one should pay the
other a fee, and the capitalists in the
undertaking would support the success
ful man. MoDonough won after a con
test. A oompany has now been incor
porated in Riohmond, Va., with a
oapital of $700,000 for the purpose of
pushing the new invention.
A Cloudburst In Ohio.
A oloudburst took plaoe near Mari
etta, O. The water oovered a wide
area of territory and was the most de
structive ever known there. Houses
were swept away, stock drowned and
many persons narrowly escaped death.
In some streams the water rose twenty
feet in ten minutes, The flood came
almost as suddenly as did tbe Johns
town flood. Crops are ruined on the
Little Muskingum for twenty miles,
and on many small tributaries of the
Ohio above there. .
Be Was a Clever Swindler.
Edward Trask, a former partner of
Murderer Holmes, and who was sen
tenced to the penitentiary from Chi
oago in 1893 for eighteen years for bis
gigantio real estate swindles, is dead.
He suooumbed to consumption. Trask
was notorious tor the daring of his
ventures. -
Lyman Trumbull Is Dead
Ex-United States Senator Lyman
Trumbull, tho distinguished jurist,
died in Chioago. He had been ill a
long time, but rallied at intervals,
oausing hope that be might eventually
reoover. .
Crops Failure.
Reports from Polk oounty, Or. , say
that the apple and prune oorpa of that
section are almost a total failure this
year, and that there is a large shortage
in the yield of other fruits.
Fight With Druses.
Constantinople. A dispatoh from
Beyrout, Syria, says that during the
reoent fight between the Turks and in
surgent Druses in the Hauran district,
the former lost fifty-five men killed.
Injured by Dynamite.
. Tom Strang, the son of R. L. Strang,
of Woodburn, Or. , was playing, with a
pieoe ot dynamite one day reoently
when the stiok exploded, badly burning
the young man's face, and causing
both of his eyes to be tightly olosed for
LBeyeral days. . , . ,
Report of the Geological Sur
vey for the Calendar Year.
INCREASE OVER THE PAST YEAR
Tho Quantities and Value, of th Vari
ous Products In th Min
eral Kingdom.
Washington, June 80. The mineral
produots of the United States for the
calendar year of 1895 are reviewed at
length in the mineral resources report
ot the United States geologioal survey.
The report, whioh was oompiled by
Dr. David T. Day, chief of division,
shows the total value of the produots
to be $611,795,290. This stands
against a production valued at $527,
808,594 for 1984. This is an increase
of $80,000,000.
The report in summarizing condi
tions, says:
"The general increase is a long step
toward reoovery from the depression to
which the mineral industry, like all
others, has been subjeoted. The total
value is slightly less than the greatest
we have known, whioh was over $048,
000,000 in 1892. In terms of quanti
ties produced, instead of value re
ceived, 1895 is greater. In other
words, prioes are lower. Considering
the reoord of the total value in these
reports sinoe 1880, the increase, whioh
is from $350,819,000 to $611,795,290,
is significant, and the average for
these sixteen years gives a fair approxi
mation of what our normal mineral
porduct should have been half-way be
tween these dates, or in 1888.
"The United States Bhared in the
general increase in gold prodnotion,
the inorease being shown in nearly all
the gold-producing states, but ooming
principally from Cripple Creek and
other new camps ia Colorado. The
gain in the quantity of petroleum and
especially the phenomenal increase in
its price, was one of the great features
of the year. The steady increase in
gold products since 1892 was kept up
duinrg 1895, increasing from 1,018,816
ounoes in 1894, to 2,273,029 ounces in
1895, the valuation ot the latter being
$49,500,000.
"Silver production fell to 47,000,000
ounoes from 49,601,122 ounces in 1894,
with ooining values respectively of
$60,766,300 and $640,000,000.
"Copper, domestio ore production,
followed the upward tendency of the
other metals and increased over 20,
000,000 pounds, or $5,500,000. The
rapidly increasing product of zino,
which was checked in 1893 and 1894,
was resumed. The declining tendency
in iron and steel production in 1894
was changed in 1895 to one of the most
remarkable increases in the production
of pig-iron in the history of the indus
try of the United States. It rose from
6,657,388 long tons in 1894 to 9,416,-
808 long tons in 1895, or nearly 42 per
cent. This is the largest produot ever
attained in this country, the nearest aj
proaoh to it being in l9Qt
jeWMf Washington Ineligible for
Any Other Office.
Taooma, Wash., June 80. It has
been discovered that, under seotion 15,
article IV ot the state constitution, the
judges of the supreme court and su
perior oourts are ineligible for any
office, other than judicial ones, for the
full term for which they are eleoted.
This seotion bars three of the moBt
prominent candidates, Judge N. H.
Pritchard, of Taooma; Judge Richard
Ballinger, of Port Townsend, and Z.
T. Moore, of Spokane, from the guber
natorial race. Its disoovery has creat
ed quite a flutter In the political cir
cles ot this state. The seotion reads:
"The judges of the supreme oourt
and the judges ot the superior oourt
shall be ineligible to any other office
or publio employment than a judioial
office or employment during tbe term
for whioh them shall have been eleot
ed."
Yaohting Party Drowned.
Shawnee, Wis., June 80. Word has
reached here of the drowning of six
persons, at Shawnee lake, during a gale
this evening. A paity started from
Ceoil about 6 o'olock in a yacht for a
few day's outing on the north shore of
the lake. When about three miles
from the shore, the boat was capsized
by a sudden squall, and the party pre
cipitated into the water. Mr. Risum
and Dr. Draoker olung to the oapsized
yacht for several hours, the latter hold
ing the olhld in his arms, when they
were rescued by parties from Cecil who
were attracted by their ories for help.
The bodies of the other six have not
been reoovered.
Two Boys Drowned In Muddy Lake.
Addy, Wash, June 80. The 8-year-old
son of H. Alby, while riding on a
raft in Muddy lake, near Summit
sohool-house yesterday afternoon, fell
in. A number of other boys were on
t'ie raft, and the affair went to pieoes.
Harry Newell went to the resoue of the
other boys, and was oaught about the
neok, and both boys drowned.
Topeka, Kan., June 80. P. M. Ar
thur, chief of the Brotherhood of Lo
comotive Engineers, is here visiting
Topeka members of the order. He said
that in his opinion, strikes would not
be so frequent in the future as in the
past. He is working with the leaders
of the different politioal- Organizations
to build up a sentiment in favor of a
law for the arbitration ot difference
between railroad companies and their
employes, and believes that congress
will enaot snob a law in the near fu
ture. Mr. Arthur .addressed a- meet
ing ot enigneers duting the day.
RESCUE IMPOSSIBLE.
Unavailing Effort, to Bring tTp th En
tombed Miner..
Wilkesbarre, Fa., July 1. It is a
settled fact tonight that, of the small
army of men who entered the ill-fated
Twin shaft at Fittston on Monday, not
one survives. Not only is every ap
proach to their dark tomb barricaded
by enormous masses of rock and debris,
but it is known that in the mine there
Is a large quantity of water, which is
increasing in volume every minute.
Thus the chances of recovering the
bodies are more remote than ever.
Prominent offioials say that weeks or
months may be oonsumed in clearing
away the fallen coal in order to reach
the bodies of the victims. A mine
superintendent of thirty-five years' ex
perience thinks the unfortunate men
have met the same fate that befell the
twenty-six miners who perished in No.
8 slope of the Susquehana Coal Com
pany in December, 1889. The men
were oaught in a "rush" of culm and
water from the surface. The bodies
were buried under a mountain ot coal
refuse. Three hundred men labored for
more than two weeks to rescue them,
but the more debris they took out the
more rushed ui from the surface open
ing. As the task was a hopeless one,
it was finally abandoned, and the por
tion of the mine where the men died
was olosed.
Excitetment at the Twin shaft in
Pittston, where nearly 100 miners are
entombed, continues today. At the
mouth of the shaft, besides the wives
and children of , the entombed men,
there are hundreds of persons, not resi
dents of Pittston alone, but visitors
from Soranton and Wikesbarre. The
wives and children of the entombed
men stand near the opening of the
death chamber urging the rescuers to
greater efforts.
Practically nothing has been ao-
t oomplished toward the reoovery of the
men. There 1b scarcely an old miner
about the opening of the mine who does
not believe the men are all dead. The
rescuing party which went into the
mine at 1 o'olock came out at 7. The
foreman reports that the timbering is
going on as rapidly as possble. The
work is necessarily slow, owing to the
danger ot falling rooks loosened by the
explosion. It is hardly possible that
the actual digging will begin before
late this afternoon. If the slope is not
completely choked with debris, the res
cuers may possibly be able to reach the
men within twenty four hours. Other
wise it may be two or three days.
FELL INTO HOT WATER.
A Child Scalded In Aorla-Two Fish
etuien Reported, Drowned.
Astoria, Or., July 1. The infant son
of T. Raokkouen a fisherman of this
city, met with a shocking death this
morning. Shortly after the breakfast
hour, the child's mother made prepara
tions to give him a bath and half filled
the bath tub with boiling water after
which she left the room temporarily.
A few minutes later the shrieks of tbe
child were heard and hastening to tbe
mother found her child
of no avail andTie"e5Xpirjo:
later.
A boat belonging to the Scandinavian
Packing Company was reported to have
been capsized in tho breakers today at
Peacock spit and the occupants lost.
The accident was witnessed by the men
in another boat but before the life-saving
crew could be notified the breakers
hud added two more to their list of vic
tims. This afternoon, Roy Ferguson, a 12-year-old
boy, fell from Exchange street
'to the beach, a distance of twenty feet,
and had a miraculous escape from
I'leatb. Iu falling the boy turned a
complete somersault alight'iij upon his
fet t and escaping with a badly sprain
ed ankle.
.lefTerson's tiranddaush'er Married.
Buzzard's Bay,' Mass., July 1.
Amid showers ot flowers and unaerthe
spreading canopy of a large marquee
ereoted on the most prominent and
beautiful elevation of land on the shore
ot Buttermilk bay, Miss Josephine,
daughter of Charles B. Jefferson, and
granddaughter of Joseph Joft'erson, ao
tor, and Charles ,1. Rolfe, son ot Will
iam Rolfe, a Shakespearean scholar of
Cambridge, were married today. There
were about sixty guests, including Jo
seph Jefferson and Mrs. Cleveland.
Sawmill Holler Burnt.
Plaoerville, Cal , July 1. A boiler
oxplotlon occurred at the sawmills of
Snow Bros., about four miles from this
city, The mill building was torn to
pieces, but miraoulously only one man
of tbe four in the building at the time
was seriously hurt. Daniel Kenirk, of
this place, sustained injuries about the
head, a broken jaw and a fractured
hand.
A Pier CulUtpsed.
Boston, July 1. The pier at Marine
Park, used as a landing for ferry-boats
that ply between City Point and Gov
ernor's island, was overorowded today,
and oollapsed. There were more than
100 persens on the pier. Thirty were
thrown into the water; twenty-eight
were resoued, and two were drowned.
Christian Scientist. Convicted.
Toronto, Jnly 1. Mrs. Beer, a
Christian soientist, and David Goodson
and his wife were tonight found guilty
by a jury of feloniously negleoting and
thereby causing the death of Adelaide
Goodsori, a daughter of the Goodsons.
She died ot diphtheria, having been
under the care ot Mrs. Beer.
General Amnesty for Cretan..
New York, July 1. A speoial from
Constantinople says that tbe sultan has
accorded a general amnesty to the Cre
tans.
HELP FOR COMMERCE
Money for Northwest Rivers
and Harbors.
THE RIVER AND HARBOR BILL
IJaho and Alaeka Greatly Benefited
Congre..' Generous Treatment
of Gray' Harbor.
Washington, June 29. The follow
ing is an offloial statement of the ap
propriations for government works in
tbe states ot Washington and Idaho,
and in Alaska, contained in the river
and harbor bill passed by oongress
over the president's veto:
Improving Gray s harbor and bar en
trance in accordance with plans sub
mitted In the annual report of the ohief
of engineers, for 1895, $20,000; pro
vided that contracts may be entered
into by the secretary of war for such
materials and work as may be neces
sary to oomplete said improvment, to
be paid for as appropriations may from
time to time be made by law, not ex
ceeding in tbe aggregate $980,000, ex
clusive of the sum herein appropriated,
and the secretary of war may, in bis
discretion, transfer the government
plant or any part of it, now at the
mouth of the Columbia river, to
Gray's harbor.
Continuing improvement of Olympia
harbor, $32,000, and that a survey be
made of Deschutes river, at its entrance
into Olympia harbor, and the cost of its
improvement be estimated.
Continuing improvement of Everett
harbor, $20,000.
For survey ot Portland channel,
Alaska, $5,000.
Continuing improvement of Upper
Columbia river, including Snake river,
as far as Asotin, $5,000.
For continuing improvement of
Clearwater river, Idaho, $25,000.
For completing improvement of Koo
tenai river, Idaho, between Bonner's
ferry and international boundary line,
$5,000.
Improving Puget sound and tributary
waters. Continuing improvement, in
cluding the rivers Skagit, Nooksack,
Duwamish and Puyallup, $75,000, of
which sum so much thereof as may be
necessary may be used for the rebuild
ing of a snagboat.
For dredging Salmon bay, and Im
provement, of the waterway connecting
the waters of Puget Sound with Lakes
Union and Washington by enlarging
the said waterway into a ship canal,
with the neossary locks and appliances
in connection therewith, $150,000; pro
vided that no part of said amount shall
be expended on the improvement of
said waterway until the entire right-of-way
and a release from all liability to
adjacent property-owners have been se
oured to the United States, free of cost,
and to the satisfaction of tbe seoretary
of war; said canal to be constructed
either by the Smith's cove route Or by
the Shilshole bay route, in the discre
tion of the seoretary of war.
Improving Chehalis river by snag-
ing plan, $25,t)D11.''M
Continuing improvement ot
river, $3,000.
VU Willi
Attempted Bank Robbery.
Los Angeles, June 29. An unsuc
cessful attempt to rob the First Nation
al bank of this oity, by means ot an
underground tunnel, has been brought
to light The affair is remarkable In
the history ot crime in California for
tbe reason that it has been going on
for months and Involved an effort to
carry off about $500,000, and was only
dlsoovered by the merest accident.
James Stevens, who Is known to the
police as an all-around crook, has been
arrested for oompiloity in the attempt
ed robbery. Another crook, named
Brown Mathery, is eagerly sought after
and the polioe are convinced that two
others were in tbe job. The bank is
located near the corner of Main and
Commercial streets, and just around
the corner ia a saloon owned by Fred
W. Jones, who disappeared a few days
ago. It was in the oellar of the saloon
that the would-be robbers started the
tunnel.
Blew Hi. Bead Off.
Chewelah, June 29. When the pas
senger train arrived this morning the
crew and passengers reported that near
South Switch, lying fifteen feet west ot
the railroad traok, was the body of a
man about 6 feet 10 icobes in height,
light build, with the head completely
gone. He was dressed in overalls and
inoocasins, a striped cotton shirt, blue
jumper and grayish coat, almost new.
He came to his death by suicide from
a dynamite cartridge plaoed within his
mouth.
Helena Newspaper Bold.
. Helena, Mont, June 29. The own
ership of the Helena Independent has
changed hands. A. W. Lyman has
sold a controlling interest to George
W. Graham, the business manager.
W. G. Eggleston, formerly of the Chi
oago Herald, assumes editorial oharge.
The paper will advocate tbe tree and
unlimited ooinage of silver.
Caught In a Swamp.
Arlington, Minn., June 29. The
two tramps who murdered Sheriff
Rogers laBt night were oaught today in
a swamp. Two hundred men surround
ed them. The tramps were taken to
Glenoo, Minn .where they were lodged
in jail. There has been some talk of
lynching them.
The oyster grows from the inside by
throwing out every year rings or uir
'cles of a calceroua substance and ex
perts oan tell where the growth begins
and ends tor the year.
BALDWIN'S TESTIMONY.
Comp.ll.d to Tell of the Tl.lt to
Corooado.
San Franoisoo, June 29. E. J. Bald
win, who is on trial in a breaoh of
promise suit brought by Lillian Ashley,
was on the witness stand today, and for
several hours did not have a particu
larly enjoyable time, as the plaintiff's
oounsel, upon cross-examination, prob
ed into the millionaire horseman's
private life and used his best endeavors
to release tbe defendant's family skele
tons from their closets. Baldwin de
nied most emphatically that he had
ever offered or promised to adopt the
plaintiff, legally or any other way,
either orally or in writing. He denied
that the scene alleged to have occurred
at the Boston depot was enacted there,
but admitted that, upon bidding the
fair Lillian adieu, he drew her up to
him with the intention of kissing her,
but as she demurred, he did not insist.
His version of the scene at the Bald
win hotel, upon the night of Miss
Ashley's arrival from the East, was
totally at variance with that related so
dramatically by the plaintiff. Baldwin
said he had been married four times
and divorced once. j
Attorney Crittenden compelled the
defendant to reiterate every detail of
tbe scene in Miss Ashley's room at the .
Baldwin hotel. Then the visit to Coro
nado was gone into, and Attorney Crit
tenden compelled the defendant to
admit that he had deliberately gone to
a respectable hotel and falsely regis
tered, with the expresj purpose of act
ing dishonestly.
He was also oompelled to admit that,
although 66 years of age, and the pro
prietor ot one ot the largest hotels in
this city, he had deliberately violated
the rules of another establishment He
admitted that, to the best of his reool
leotion, he had introduced Miss Ashley
to E. 8. Babcock, the proprietor of the
Cornado hotel, as his daughter. The
defendant stated that he did not in
tend to take Miss Ashley to Cornado,
but, upon going to the train, found
her awaiting him on the cars. He was
then asked, if that was the case, to ex
plain what he meant by writing to the
plaintiff that he would take her to 'San
Diego, prior to March, 1893. He de
nied that be bad done so, but was con
fronted with one of his letters to her,
and admitted that he bad written to
bat effeot.
PRELIMINARY INFORMATION.
Thirtieth National Encampment Grand
Army of the Republic.
St. Paul, Minn. In order to more
fully and quickly reply to inquiries re
lating to the thirtieth national encamp
ment G. A. R., to be held in St Paul
during the first week in September
next, the following general informa
tion has been prepared and sent out
from headquarters, signed by Edwin
C. Mason, U. S. A., president, and
John S. Pinney, general secretary:
The question of railway rates to the
encampment has been settled by the
Western Passenger Association, giving
the one-cent-a-mile rate and tbe usual
limitation, and the St. Paul transporta
tion ownmittee feels confident that sat
isfactory rates will be allowed by all
assenger associations. Detinue in-
QOn this matter
quarters in the kamn,
or mattresses will be
furnisbed"In
these free
quarters, but no blankets. '
Hotel rates will not be changed, and
will vary from $1 to $5 per day. The
accommodations oommittee will funrish
a list of hotels and boarding houses on
request Early and definite informa
tion is deisred as to the number of com
rades from eaoh department who will
expeot free quarters during the encamp
ment A veterans' camp will be established
at University avenue and St Albans
street, near four lines of streetcars. It
will be equipped with water service
and other conveniences, and good meals
will be served at reasonable rates.
Space will be provided adjacent to the
vetearns' camp, tor those who desire to
bring tents, eta, for private oamplng
parties.
Mr. C. W. Horr is chairman ot the
accommodations committee, and Joe
L. Brigbam is seoretary. Their mail
address is room 520, Endioott building-National
headquarters will be at
Hotel Ryan, corner of Robert and Sixth
streets.
Mrs. R. M. Newport Is president of
the ladles' committee. Ladies' head
quarters are located in the large man
sion overlooking the oity, oorner ot
Summit and Dayton avenues.
The route of the G. A. R. parade
September 2 is fixed. It embraoes por
tions of the best residence and business
streets, 1b less than two miles long, all
down grade, on asphalt pavements, and
free from street oar tracks exoept at
two or three street orosslngs. Divisions
will form on shaded resideuoe streets.
Bid. for Battle-Ship..
Washington, June 29. The navy
department has issued advertisements
calling for proposals for oonstruoting
three battle-ships ot about 11,000 tons
displacement The bids are required
to be submitted by Monday, September
14. The features ot the new ships
have been made publio already.
Portland Mill. Buying Heavily.
Garfield, Wash,. June 29. The
farmers' warehouse negotiated a sale
ot between 20,000 and 25,000 bushels
of wheat this week. The price reoeived
was 40 oentB a bushel f. o. b. , which is
several oents better than the general
market The Portland Milling Com
pany was the buyer. This waa about
half ot the wheat remaining in the
warehouses of Whitman oounty.
Secrecy of th Confessional.
Montreal, June 29. The superior
oourt deoided today to uphold the
1 secrecy of the oonfesslonsL
NORTHWEST BREVITIES
Evidence ot Steady Growth'
and Enterprise. :
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
From All th Cities and Town, of th
Thriving Slater State.
Oregon.
The Dalles Chronicle says that a set
tlement has been effected with the Mo-
Coy ditch laborers for 60 cents on the
dollar.
The Southern Paoifio Company has
put in eleotrio lights at Its plant at
Latham, and now runs the creosoting
works day and night
The bicyole track north ot the town
of Coquille City has just been com
pleted. Tbe track Is five laps to tbe
mile, and la an excellent raoing course.
There are two companies engaged in
egg gathering near Port Orford, and
the rocks are being hunted very closely,
over 1,000 dozen having already been
gathered.
Millions of young grasshoppers have
made their appearance on Tygh ridge,
and farmers in that section fear they
will do considerable damage to grow
ing crops before the "critters' ' wings are
sufficiently large to carry them out of
the country.
Joseph Adams, a son of John Ad
ms, an Indian living on the Siletz,
was one of the graduates of the Carlisle
Indian school this spring. Mr. Adams
has graduated as a full-fledged doctor
of medicine, and will practice his pro
fession in the East
An old soldier tramped through The
Dalles last week, bound for the Soldiers'
Home at Kansas City. He was old and
feeble, but was neatly dressed, and
wore a pair of new, but obeap shoes.
He proposes to walk the enire distance,
unless invited to ride.
The lessees of the plant and placer
mines of the Siskiyou Gold Mining
Company, on Elliott oreek, commonly
called the "Joe Bar diggings," have
fully oompleted the opening and equip
ment of them, and are piping day and
night with assuranoes of an uninter
rupted water supply.
The sales of cattle from the Eagle
valley range have been quite active re
oently, and upwards ot 1,300 head will
be delivered in Baker City during the
next few days for shipment to Montana
and Wyoming. The Bales amount to
about $15,000, a very neat Bum in the
hands of the stookraisers of one local
ity. Assessor Cowan, of Union county, is
assessing all property in the county be
longing to religious organizations and
not used exclusively for worship; that
is, only ohuroh buildings and the lots
upon which they stand are exempt.
Heretofore all property belonging to
the church, including houses, school
buildings, town buildings, town lots
and farms, nave been exempt Private
school buildings and property will also
Le assessed.
Washington.
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At Barlow Pass, the buildings are
being put in order as rapidly as pos
sible to accommodate the traffic to the
Great Lake mines, and supplies are
ooming by every train.
The diploma and medals awarded the
Seattle school exhibit at the world's .
fair have been reoeived. Tbe exhibit is
now at the Philadelphia educational
museum, and has led to many inquiries
for information of the oity superin
tendent Elder Van Dusen, of Spokane, who
has been visiting Lewiston, says that
in driving along any road out of Lewis
ton to the reservation, prairie schooners
and other vehicles oan be passed, all
loaded to the guards, and all bound for
the reservation.
Mr. Wooten, of Starbuck, says that
he has discovered a new variety ot win
ter apple in his orchard, which he .
thinks is going to take the lead in the
Northwest It ia a large, red apple,
fine flavored and a good keeper. He
planted the seed five years ago. Last
year the tree bore 150 pounds of apples.
A conference of , commercial bodies,
at Taooma, accepted the offer of a Phil
adelphia museum for a display of the
state's resources. A oommittee of
three, one from Seattle, another from
Taoom, and a third from Gray's har
bor, will be appointed by President
Mottet to prepare a lumber exhibit.
Another oommittee will be appointed
to prepare a general exhibit
The injunction which was asked was
denied and the work on the reservation .
ditoh near North Yakima will now go
forward. In denying the application.
Judge Hanford stated that the peti
tioners were not entitled to oome into
oourt, inasmuoh as no one of them
showed a claim of $2,000. Judge Han
ford also said that be knew of no oase
in whioh an Indian bad been allowed
to bring Buit against the government,
whioh waB his guardian.
Commissioner of the General Land
Office Lamoreauz says that the north
half of the Colville reservation will
be thrown open to settlement within
forty days. It is probable that a force
ot surveyors will be put to work on tbe
reservation within a few days. ' ' ,
The lowering of the waters in the
Davenport oreek dicloses Vie fact that
a large number of big trout found their
way up the stream during high-tide,
whioh find the waters too shallow for
comfort now, and the town boys are "
fishing after them with sticks with
pretty good suooess.