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HILLSliORO, OREGON. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10. ll)fj.
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EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome ot the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TEBSK TICKS FROM TUB WIRES
An Interesting Collection or lUmirrea
Hi Two Hemlspheree Presented
la Condensed Form.
It has been definitely decided bv Su
perintendent Irwin that the holiday
fiNlon ot the Oregon State Teachers'
association will b held at Salem this
fear, beaitminK on Monday, December
18, and continuing for one week.
John 8. Frye, a returned Alaska
niiier, met an old lohoolraate from
Heriiiauy in Taooma. They roomed
maether one night, and in the morning
frye mimed $660 In gold, bii Bole pos
iefiofy, Hi old schoolmate bad
itoleu rt and made his escape.
An augry mob attempted to lynch
in old German named Breckman in
L'herryville, Kan., for his brutHl treat
mi lit of his daughter. She was beaten
In'o insensibility and died from her in.
uries. The sheriff prevented the mob
Irom securing Breckmau And be was
hurried to jail.
A three-story structure at the corner
of Front and Davi streets, Portland,
owned by the Alusworth estate, was
partly destroyed by Are. The building
was oooupied by the Oregon Cracker
Company, whose plant was ruined,
entailing a loss of about (20,000. The
damage to the building will amount to
110,000.
The Cariboo Gold Mining Company,
of Spokane, has deolared a dividend
of cents a share. This makes a total
ot 136,000 paid in dividenda sinne
February, 181)5. This is the mine
whose manager was held np by a high
wayman and robbed of f 11,000 in gold
bullion not long ago. The robber was
afterwards killed by the foreman of
the mine.
The board of Are commissioners in
Spokane has decided to request the
resignation of Chief Wlnebrener, of
the fire department. Mayor Belt, af
ter a long ooutest, has secured ooutrol
of the commissioners, and extensive
removals are probable in the various
. departments. It is thought that Clair
Hunt, of the water department, will be
the next one to go.
A new vegetable powder has been
discovered which will revolutionize
transportation methods. The powdtr
when mixed with water forms an eleo-
trio battery, me cell of which ia strong
Enough to run half a dozen incandes
cent lights. With two cells a power
of 110 volts is claimed. The discover
ers are a oolored man and a policeman
ot Cbioago, The powder is olaiuied
to be made ot roots of trees.
Burglars broke into the house of John
Mlrka, an old miser, of Cleveland, O.
He was known to have his money bid
den somewhere about the premises and
the robbers tried to foroe him to tell
them bis secret biding plaoe. He re
fused and they tortured him. He was
bonnd hand and foot and a lighted
lamp placed at his feet nntil the flesh
was literally cooked. The old man
writhed in bis agony, bnt protested
that he bad no money. The fiends then
applied the flame to his hands, then to
his body, nntil be finally sank into un
consciousness, in which oondition bo
was found in the morning. The bcr
glara got nothing.
The British steamer Stratholyde,
from Calcutta for Galveston, went
ashore in the Calcutta river.
General Wet lor has takea personal
charge of the Spanish array in Cuba,
He reviewed the troops at Mariol, and
then took np the maroh to the interior.
The Chicago Tribune prints a list of
375 mills and laotorles wmon nave re
sumed business within the past ten
days, giving employment to 155,405
men.
A Constantinople dispatch sayi
while counseling American mission
aries to remain at their posts in Ana
tolia, Minister Terrell has advised the
removal of the ohildren of missionaries
to places of safety.
Three men were injured by the burst
ing of a naptha retort ill ttraw fao
tbry in Miltord, Mass. Their injuries
, proved fatal. The men were blown out
of the building, and when pioked np
the skin peeled from theur faces and
breasts.
Fourteen buildings in the business
portion of Traverse City, Mioh., were
destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of
50,000. Ed Newberry, a hotel porter,
was burned to deatb. It is rumored
other lives were lost, but no other
bodies have been recovered. Thirty
guests escaped through the window of
the Front-street hotel in their night
clothing.
. From Greer oounty, Oklahoma, comes
the news of a battle between officers
of Greer and Washita oounties and a
. large body of Mexioan borsethieves, in
which one robber was killed outright,
several wounded and two officers
wounded. The Mexicans had been
stealing horses and committing numer
ous depredations in western oounties in
Oklahoma.
It is undersfpqdjtte next step in the
' Venezuela affair Will be that Venezuela
will empower her plenipotentiary to
settle and sign with the British pleni
potentiary a treaty referring the bound
ary dispute to arbitration. It is sug
gested that the treaty be signed in
Washington.
Jaok Walker's saloon, in Bakor City,
Or., was visited by four masked men,
who robbed the till ot its contents,
f 10. The robbers cornered the men In
the saloon with shotguns and pistols,
.and made good their esoane.
Robbery Wm the Motive.
The passenger train on the Louis
ville & Nashville railroad, bound fur
New Orleans, was wreoked near Mont
gomery, Ala., in a very wild country
by trainrobbers. A rail bad been torn
up and nailed down again three or four
inohea out of line. The train was com
pletely wreoked and the track was torn
up for 200 yards. Three persons were
seriously injured. Robbery was the
evident purpose ot the wreokers.
About On Million Dead.
A strange disease is said to have de
veloped in the young salmon at the
Clackamas hatchery, by which about
bait of the 3,000,000 brought from the
Salmon river have been destroyed.
The only visible sign of the disease is
a siaall white spot on the belly of the
fish.
A Daring Jail Itellvery.
Frank Crawford, alias Harry Davis,
broke jail in Toledo, O., by saw
ing his way through the Iron grating
at the top of the jail and letting himself
to the ground with a quilt. Davis was
held for trial on the oharge ot murder
ing Marshal Bakor, of North Balti
more, O., last August.
triad Oauoallad stamps.
D. N. Deeblaumford, a barber, of
Hlssons, Cal. , was fined f 100 by Judge
Morrow in the United States district
oourt for using oanoelled postage
stamps. Seven indiotments stood
against Deeblaumford, but he was per
mitted to plead guilty to one, and re
ceived only a fine.
Fall Daad While 1-lvylng "Craps "
While playing "craps" at the Star
Baloon gambl ing table in Colfax, Wash. ,
an old man, wbo has been about town
for some time, and who went by the
name of Eugene Jacques, fell dead
over the table as he was throwing the
dice. The oanae is attributed to heart
disease,
A Successful r xperlltlnn.
The expedition which reoenlty left
New York for Cuba conveying import
ant dispatches from the New York
jnnra and mnnitinns of war is reported
to have landed safely.
Ilht at Leatlvllle.
A fight occurred in a saloon in Lead
ville in which five men were stubbed,
one of whom at least will die. Fifteen
or twenty men were engaged in the
affray. A party of Austrians were fol
lowed into the saloon by striking
miners, who called them "soabs."
The AuBtrians resented this. Then
the fight began in which knives were
the only weapons. When the polioe
arrived, all the fighters had esoaped
pxneiit those who were too badly
wounded to flee.
The Knights of Labor.
The general assembly of the Knigbti
of Labor, in session in Rochester, N.
Y., adopted a resolution deolaring for
the enactment of a graduated income
tax law. Failing to procure this at
the hands of the next oongress it is the
deolared intention of the Knights to use
all their influence to have a demand for
suoh a tax incorporated into the plat
form of one of the great politioal par
ties, and failing in that they will set
up a new political party.
An Increased ppropriatlon.
Estimates for the entire Indian serv
ice for the flsoal year ending June 80,
1898, to be submitted to congress at
the opening of the session, call for an
appropriation of $7,300,000 in round j
numbers. This is $100,000 more than
the appropriation for the ourrent flsoal
year. The increase is due to the policy
of the government adopted at the Inst
session of congress to abolish gradually
oontraot Indian schools, and plaoe all
the Indian schools absolutely under
government control.
A ttraveyard Mystery.
The dismembered body ot an un
known woman was found in a shallow
grave near 8t Joseph, Mo. Two
employes at the asylum claim to have
seen two men go into the field at night,
dismount, and, after opening the
grave, ride away, leaving it unoovered.
The body has the appearanoe of having
been buried several weeks. The polioe
are mystified by the find, and have no
olue upon which to work.
A Train imohed.
The Union Paoiflo passenger west
bound, No. 8, struck a broken rail near
Ogallala, Neb. A tourist oar, two
ohair oars and one Pullman turned
n j.u T;.
1 were hurt, but none seriously. One
woman complains of severe pains in
her baok and may be seriously injured.
One man was badly out on the head.
No others were seriously injured.
Postofflce In Pauley Robbed.
The postoffloe at Paisley, Or., was
robbed by two unknown men reoently.
Deputy Postmaster Herbert Aldrioh
witnessed the robbery and fired at the
robbers as they left the building,
wounding both, one so badly that be
was subsequently captured by a sher
iff's posse. The other started away to
the south, leaving blood stains in the
road.
Deadly Nitroglycerin.
. Lewis Conn, a nitroglycerin sales
man, in Moundsville, W. Va., while
attempting to dig op a gallon of the
explosive he had buried, was blown to
atoms by the pick he was using ooming
in contact with the ohemioal. His re
mains were scattered for 100 feet.
An Enraged Negro Lawyer.
During the progress of a petty case
in the oounty oourt in Guthrie, O. T. ,
I. E. Saddler, a negro lawyer, attaoked
and severely wounded Thomas H, Jones,
a prominent attorney and ex-member
of the Kansas legislature.' Saddler be-
oame enraged at sometihng Jones said,
knocked him down with an iron oourt
aeal. and jumped upon him before
others oould interfere. Saddler had
just been elected justioe at the peace
on the Republican ticket. He is in jail.
NEW MARITIME RIVAL
Commissioner ot Navigation
Says Japan is Gaining.
RBC0MMIND8 A FIBS-SHIP BILL
atroagly Opposes the Proposed Die1
criminating Unties as Cargoes
Brought by Foreign Tassels.
Washington, Nor. 17. The report
of the commission of navigation for
1890, after referring to the necessity
tor the passing ot a free-ship bill, states
that our maritime rank on the Paoiflo
Is now threatened by a new rival, Ja
pan, whioh, under liberal and progres
sive laws, has just established a trans
pacific steamship line to the United
States, and with the oo-operation ot
American capital, is preparing to' ex
tend this servioe. In 1880, the tonnage
of American vessels entering the United
States from the ports of Asia and
Ooeauioa was 383,805, and of foreign
vessels, 443,251 tons. In 4805, the
American tonnage entering was 808,
481, the foreign 657,206.
The large and profitable carrying
trade once oonduoted between Asiatio
and European ports by Amerioan ves
sels, which seldom entered American
ports, has almost entirely passed away.
We have already seen the Amerioan
flag, the commissioner Bays, almost
wholly disappear Jfrom the mid-Atlantic,
save as borne by the mail steamers
of the Amerioan line, and the figures
tond to show that the carrying trade of
the Paoiflo is slipping from us. Before
it is altogether lost, Commissioner
Chamberlain suggests that oongress in
quire into the conditions of trans Pa
oiflo transportation. For the control
of this trade, the United States has
obvious natural advantages.
Witbin the last five years, Japan's
seagoing steel steamers have increased
frum thirteen', of 27,701 tons, to fifty
three, of 106,883 tons. The number of
Amerioan steel and iron steamers on
the Paoiflo ooast is forty-three, of 68,
625 tons
The report reooommends an immedi
ate extension of the act of 1893, under
whio the steamships New York and
Paris were admitted to American regis
ter, and the steamships St. Louis and
St. Paul were built, in the United
States. Under existing law, it ia im
possible to establish on the Paoiflo a
mail service even approximating our
Atlantio mail servioe, as equal condi
tions, whioh were neoessary to the re
cent creation of the latter, do not exist
there. The report oppose at length the
proposition to impose 10 per cent ad
ditional discriminating duties on all
cargoes brought into the United States
by foreign vessels. It points our that
for over eighty years, the United States
has followed the policy of reoiprooity
in shipping. Every other maritime
nation of considerable rank has adopted
and now pursues the same policy.
Our total imports for 1895 were
valued at $781,069,065, of whioh $590,
638,862 were brought in foreign vessels.
The discriminating duty bill would
put an aditional oharge of $59,000,000
on our international exchanges, based
on the figure! of 189, an amount ap
proximately equal to our entire ocean
freight bills on imports and exports.
In 1895 ooffee imports were $95,000,
000, of whioh $60,000,000 worth of
ooffee imported into tbe oonntry from
Brazil, of $54,000,000, came in foreign
vessels. For the extra sum, Mr. Cham
berlain says, whioh under tbe discrimi
nating duty project the Amerioan peo
ple would be required to pay for Braz
ilian ooffee alone, there oould be estab
lished steamship lines, including twenty-five
steamers, equal to the St. Louis
or St. Paul, or a much larger number
of the class required for South Ameri
oan, Asiatio and African trade.
The report quotes article! from our
treaties with the thirty-five principal
nations in the world, all of whioh, it ii
oontended, must be abrogated, at the
expense ot a disturbanoe of our trade
relations with the world, if th policy
of discriminating duties ia to be adopt
ed by the United States.
The report also favors the enaotment
of the omnibus bills relating to navi
gation and to Amerioan seamen, in the
form favorably reported by the senate
committee on oommeroe at the last ses
sion, rather than in the form in whioh
these bills passed the house of repre
sentatives. It renews the argument for
the repeal ot compulsory pilotage on
coastwise sailing vessels, and points out
that oongress has spent over $37,000,
000 in the improvement of seventeen
harbors, at whioh oompulsory pilotage
is still exaoted from domestio sailing
vessels.
By the abolition of useless registry
bonds, Amerioan shipowners have been
saved $80,000 annually, and Amerioan
lake shipowners about $16,000 annu
ally in Canadian charges imposed for
years, in oontravention of the polioy
of reoiprooity.
The adoption of the measurement
law, the report states, has effected a
saving of thousands ot dollars to
Amerioan shipping in foreign ports,
and in domestio licenses and oharges
based on net tonnage, besides bringing
our law on this subjeot abreast ot the
laws of the progressive maritime na
tions. Mo Foreigners Need Apply. -
St. Louis, Nov. 17. A speolal to
the Kepublio from South MoAlester, I.
T. , says the Creek oounoil has just
passed a law whioh provides a penalty
of $100 fine and 150 lashes on the bare
back for any oitizen of the nation who
shall hereafter give employment to any
nonoitizen or rent or lease lands or
property to a nonoitizen of the United
States.
The Sanskrit language ii said to have
about (00 root word
CHAINED A LOCOMOTIVE.
How Sooth Carolina Sheriff Brought
All 1 ransportatlon to a atop.
Columbia, S. C, Nov. 18. Some
time ago a Fairfield farmer's horse was
killed by a train on the Charlotte, Co
lumbia & Augusta railroad. Tbe
farmer sued the oompany and obtained
a judgment for $199. Tbe authorities
of the road were in no hurry to settle,
and tbe matter was put in the hands of
tbe sheriff. When the passenger train
from this oity arrived at Winsboro,
tbe oounty seat, Sheriff Ellison and
Deputy Elliott were on band. While
tbe latter presented a pistol at tbe en
gineer's head tbe former chained the
engine drivers to the track. When tbe
south-bound New York and Florida
vestibule mail oame up loaded with
passengers it oould not pass. Tbe
north-bound train from Columbia was
also stopped. Tbe town authorities
started to arrest tbe sheriff, who, be
coming alarmed, finally removed tbe
chains for tbe arrested train to be side
traoked. This the oondnotor told him
he oould do himself.
After a blockade of six hours the
railorad paid tbe claim and all trains
were allowed to proceed. All mail and
passenger connections were missed.
Aside from probable action by the post
offloe department, it is said that the
passengers will sue the county for dam
ages and the engineer will bring action
against tbe sheriff for theratening him
with a pistol.
M'KINLEY AND BRYAN.
Tote Cast for Each of Them by the
Counties of Oregon.
The official canvass of the votes cast
in Oregon for McKinley and Bryan baa
been made in all oounties, and returns
thereof received, excepting Curry, Har
ney and Grant. From these three
oounties oomplete, though not offioial,
returns have been received. The total
vote for Palmer and for Levering is:
Palmer 838, Levering 817. These re
turns give the vote by oounties as fol
lows; Counties. McKinley. Brvan.
Baker 937 1,(06
Benton 1,079 992
Clackamas V.665 2,36
Clatsop 1,8-19 1,13
Columbia ... l,i)26 8:u
Coos 1,109 1,K)8
Crook 607 69:)
Currv M am
Douglas 1,918 2,039
Gllllain f2 471
Grant 672 8:!S
Harney 218 4ai
Jackson l,:7 2,302
Josephine 84a 1,193
Klamath 316 402
Lake SSO ,. 32
Lane 2,221 2,588
Lincoln iM .V7
Linn , 2,004 2,738
Malheur 313 654
Jlarlon 8,748 3,418
Morrow 688 . 644
Multnomah 11,824 6,403
Polk 1,248 , 1,307
Hierman , 426 ' 418
Tillamook 61)1 637
L'matilla 1,863 2,078
Union 1,308 2,15.5
Wallowa 358 617
Wasco 1,701 1,367
Washington 2,085 1,506
Yamhill 1,782 . 1,736
Totals 48.679 46,533
McKlulcy's plurality, 2,146.
THE VOTE OF WASHINGTON.
I
Complete Returns From all Counties in
the State.
Complete returns of the votes cast in
Washington November 8, 1896, offioial,
from all counties except Kitsap and
Skamania, give McKinley 39,481,
Bryan 60,900. For governor, Rogers
reoeived 60,441 and Sullivan 38,390.
Tbe vote by oounties is in tbe table fol
lowing: Counties. McKinley. Bryan
Adnms 243
Asotin 214
Chchalt" 1,270
Clallam 7011
Clark 1,497
Columbia 777
Cowlitz 989
Douglas 831
Franklin 30
Garfield .. 878
Island 206
Jefferson 701
King -.. 6,413
Kitsap 653
Kittitas 1,044
Klickitat 876
Lewis 1,594
Lincoln 781
Mason 397
Okanogan 272
Pacific 92f
Pierce 4,641
San Juan 411
Skagit 1,557
Skamania 142
Snohomish 1,871
Spokane 2,706
Stevens . 425
Thurston 1,052
Wahkiakum 292
Walla Walla 1,596
Whatcom 1,949
Whitman 1,610
Yakima 985
PERILS OF WHALING.
A Premature Explosion Cost one of the
Crew His Life.
Santa Cruz, Cal., Nov. 18 Friday
evening a whaler named Antone was
almost instantly killed at Pigeon point
by tbe explosion of a bomb he was
handling, while getting ready to send
a harpoon into a big whale. The
whaling orew began work last week,
after an idleness of several months. A
whale was sighted, and tbe orew went
after him. When within shooting
distance a harpoon was shot into the
monster whale, which instantly sank,
dragging nearly all the line attached
to the harpoon. The whalers were
having a bard battle, but were gaining
the victory when Antone got a bomb
to make ready for the final thrust
with another harpoon. The bomb ex
ploded, a pieoe striking him in the
stomaoh.
A Frenchman, who has been herding
sheep for Mr. Barnbouse, in Grant
oounty, Oregon, nntil reoently, shot
and instantly killed a sheepman, named
Billy Wilson, near Rock Creek. The
tragedy ooourred the 7th inst, while
the two men were riding horseback a
few rods from the main traveled road.
From all aooounts the shooting was
malioious and without provocation.
Wilson was shot in tbe back, the ball
passing through the heart and ooming
out at his breast.
THE BILL MAY PASS
Good Prospect for Prompt
Tariff Legislation.
NO OPPOSITION IS ANTICIPATED
A Possibility That the Dingley Bill
Will Be Re-enacted Cleveland
Is Btlll a Free Trader.
Washington, Nov. 18. In view of
the recent statements of some of the
silver senators that they would not op
pose the Dingley tariff bill, and tbe
opinion of Senator Morgan that the
Democrats would probably permit the
legislation without obstruction on their
part, the prospects for tbe bill are
deemed fair, if tbe Republicans decide
to pass it. Upon the latter contin
gency there is a division of opinion
among Republicans. Senator Sher
man, of Ohio, takes tbe ground that
the passage of tbe Dingley bill at the
coming session would obviate tbe neces
sity for an extra session of oongress, as
it would furnish all the revenue need
ed for the present and would be suffi
cient for all purposes until oongress
shall meet in regular session and pre
pare a revision of tbe tariff oarefully
and deliberately.
Another reason advanoed in support
of tbe proposition for the passage ot tbe
Dingley bill at this time is the sugges
tion that the custom-house should be
locked as soon as possible by an in
crease of the tariff rates against the im
pending flood of oheap foreign goods
whioh come in through anticipation of
a certain increase in tbe rates at some
future day. The faot is reoalled in
this connection that just such a flood
of cheap goods poured into the oonntry
prior to the McKinley bill going into
effect, and in anticipation of - the in
creased rates carried by that bill. In
the single month prior to the taking
effect of that bill, tbe Importations
jumped to $78,338,183. This was an
inorease over the preceding .month of
$16,000,000 and of the same month a
year previous of nearly $26,000,000.
According to tbe arguments advanoed
the ill-effects of such a oondition are
obvious. It is beld that it discounts
the revenues of tbe incoming adminis
tration, because the market is surfeited
with goods and the importations would j
be light for tbe first few months of tbe !
tariff law. For the same reason it is
claimed harm is worked to the Ameri
can manufacturers and1 laborers, the j
people whom tbe new law is to benefit, i
for it outs off tbe market of the Ameri- !
oan product. However, it is stated
that President Cleveland would veto
the Dingley bill or any other tariff
measure passed at the ooming session
of oongress. His support of sound
money principles and his practical co
operation with the Republican 'party
in tbe eleotion just over can in no way
be oonstrued, it is said, as meaning
that the president is in any way in
smypatby with the party on other ques
tions. LITTLE CORINNE'S WILL.
Will Establish a Home for Aged and
Unemployed Aotresses.
San Franoisoo, Nov. 16. Corinne,
the actress, now playing at the Colum
bia theater in this oity, exeouted her
will yesterday. By its terms her real
estate, her jewelry, every oostume and
every bit of her personal property will
be sold for what it will bring. The
lump sum should aggregate $760,000,
and with it a good-sized traot of land
is to be purchased just out of New
York. Upon this the "Corinne Home
for Aged and Unemployed Aotresses"
will be built and future generations
of poor and discouraged women will
rise np and call the dancer with tbe
flashing teeth blessed.
Corinne has ohosen two Eastern men
ot unimpeachable reputation to be the
trustees ot the institution, and she has
planned many details in advance. Her
idea is that the home should be open so
that actresses oan go or come as their
necessities diotate. All religions and
nationalities will be weloome. The
home will be sufficiently endowed, but
made, so far as possible, self-supporting
by means of gardens and sewing that
the women may do. Corinne wants it
to be in all senses a home, and her idea
is to save girla who cannot find em
ployment from working into sin. She
wants to extend them a helping hand
until they oan struggle to their feet
again.
Death of an Alleged Murderess.
Medford, Wis., Nov. 16. Mrs. John
Deuts, confined in the county jail the
past three months awaiting trial on the
oharge of murdering John Dahlen, died
suddenly last evening. Her husband,
John Deuts, is also awaiting trial on
the same oharge. Deuts, his wife and
Arthur Wallner, their son-in-law, were
arrested for Dahlen'i umrder December
33, 1895. -
Poisoned by a Hlr.d Girl.
Oswego, N. Y., Nov. 16. Fanny
Sohofleld, a country girl, 18 years old,
has been lodged in the oounty jail on
the oharge of murder in the first de
gree in poisoning two small ohildren
of Albert Field, of Colose, whose hired
girl she was. An autopsy , revealed
arsenio in large quantities.
Boston, Nov. 16. A private cable
gram received in this oity from Ham
burg states that the first shipment of
apples, reoeived there from Boston, bad
just been disposed of, and netted from
$2.60 to $24 per barrel, aooording to
quality. These are considered remark
ably high prioes, especially as there
baa been a determined effort in some
quarters of Germany to keep out the
American produot by circulating
absurd stories about apples containing
germs ot disease.
WEEKLY MARKET LETTER.
Downing, Hopkins A Co.'s Keview ot
Trade.
Portland, Or., Nov. 18 Wheat j
fluctuations oontinue wide, something '
to be expected after suoh an advance
and with the supply and demand posi- '.
tions so unusual. Tbe speculative in
terest, however, is broadening. It '
continues to be tbe fact that there is i
practically no leadership to tbe market j
for the reason that none is possible, i
While there is more or less talk of
manipulation, there is no real belief in j
any and no reason for any such belief. 1
The emtio oourse of prices is a prooi j
of the absence of any control on this '
side and the independent and occasion- j
ally inexplicable oonduot of Liverpool
is put as good proof of the lack of any 1
control over there. The market for
the present is leading the speculators,
and so tar those wbo have essayed to
lead the market have not profited by
their efforts. Tbe upward rushes
whioh in an ordinary year might be
regarded as, in part at least, the handi
work of some great bull, are this year
merely the natural effort ot tbe world's ;
markets to adjust the prices to tbe i
situation, and tbe sharp dips, which I
might in any other year be regarded
suspiciously as manipulative "shake !
outs," are merely the wide swings ot
a market violently agitated by tbe ,
haste in readjustment Tbe operator I
wbo has assumed that there was some :
powerful influenoe to tail after has
been bitterly disappointed. Tbe most
suooessful man has been the one wbo
has pertinaoiously operated witbin bis
means only on tbe one side.
Tbe developments of the week were
tbe springing up of a surprising mill
ing demand at Chicago, tbe oontinu
anoe of tbe drought in India, and the
falling oft of tbe movement from first
bands West and Northwest Primary
receipts last week were 2,000,000 bush
els less than tbe week previous and 3,
000,000 bushels less than in 1895.
Cables Saturday said the India famine
bad been unbroken in all the distressed
districts. Nothing was more remark
able during the week than the large
oash wheat business done at Chicago
on days when the wildness and the
fluctuations might have been expeoted
to cause all oash buyers to hesitate.
Tbe sales Friday and Saturday aggre-,
gated over 600,000 bushels. Another
noteworthy feature was that the out
side markets advanced faster than Chi
oago, showing that speculators were re
tarding rather than hastening the ad
vanoe. The very large inorease during
Ootober in wheat stocks ii Europe and
afloat, 20,300,000 buBhels, against an
inorease for the same month last year
ot only 4,200,000 bushels, is not as
bearish as might be imagined at first
glance. Of this total tbe inorease
afloat, 6, OOOrCOQ bushels, was con
tributed largely from this side, wbenoe
the imports have concededly been larger
than oan be maintained. Tbe inorease
in Russian stocks, 15,400,000 bushels,
is not ao very different from the in
crease last year in the same month, 8,
600,000 bushels. The extraordinary
advance in prices, 40 per cent within
sixty days, has accomplished all these
increases, the only thing of oourse, for
which the advanoe was instituted.
The exports of wheat, flour inoluded
as wheat, from both ooasts of the Unit
ed States and Montreal amount to 4,
664,615 buBhels, the heaviest week's
total since the seoond week of Septem
ber, 1893. This is an inorease of about
1,000,000 bushels over last week; of
more than 1,300,000 bushels over the
corresponding week of a year ago; of
more than 1,700,000, as compared with
tbe like week in 1894, a gain ot about
S, 300,000 bushels as compared with
the corresponding week of 1893, and ot
more than 700,000 bushels as contrast
ed with the like week in 1892.
THE ALASKA BOUNDARY. .
Possibility of International Compli
cations. Ottawa, Nov. 18. There is a good
ohanoe for serious international com
plioations between tbe United States
and Canada over the troubles in the
Yukon distriot. In plaoes suoh as
Forty-mile oreek, where the boundary
is supposed to pass, and where some
of the creeks are in Amerioan and some
in Canadian territory, it is impossible
to determine those which belong to
Canada and those which do not.
In reference to the charges concern
ing United States trespassers on British
territory in the Yukon distriot and the
washing of gold in Canadian waters,
the secretary of state says that this
state of affairs arises from the fact
that tbe commissioners appointed to de
fine tbe boundary line between the two
oountries have not yet submitted their
report to the government. The dis
triot alleged to have been invaded is a
Canadian town named Cudaby at
Forty-mile oreek, and is tbe headquar
ters of tbe mounted police of the Yukon
distriot. There is a United States post
office there, but it is not reoognized by
the Canadian government.
The Canadians and the Americans
in the district of Yukon are anxiously
waiting for the offioial announcement
which will define the Canadian teni
tory from that ot the United States.
Dervish Knlders.
Suakim, Nov. 18. Dervishes have
ravaged the country in the vioinity of
Tokar, killing five men and looting a
number of houses. Troops have been
dispatched in pursuit of the raiders.
Private Lettei boxes.
Washington, Nov. 18. The post
office offloials are anxious to secure
legislation (during the next session of
oongress to regulate the use ot private
letter-boxes, whioh, it is said, afford
great facilities for persons engaged in
fraudulent enterprises. In Cbioago,
New York, Philadelphia, Boston and
other large cities, the private letter
boxes have beoome a fixed Institution.
They are rented by auvone willing to
pay for their oonvenienoe.
NORTHWEST BREVITIES
Evidence ot Steady Growth
and Enterprise.
ITEMS OK GENERAL INTEREST
from All the Cttles and Towns of the
Thriving Sister States
Oregon.
Blaokleg, a fatal disease among oat
tie, is reported as being tbe eause of
the death of stock in many localities in
Grant county.
Morrow county's warrants will here
after bear upon their face a photolitbo
graph ot Hon. J. L. Morrow, "the fa
ther of the county."
Lane county warrants have all been
called in up to Maroh 23, 1896. There
are now about 1,450 warrants outstand
ing. They sell readily at par.
The Beaver Hill Coal Company baa
a foroe of men at work at Beaver Hill,
Coos oonnty, laying the mains for a
oomplete system ot water works.
It is estimated by those in a position
to be fairly accurate, that 40,000 head
of oattle from the Harney country have
been shipped from Ontario this season.
The plaoer mining season is rapidly
drawing to a dose. The ontput in
Eastern Oregon bat exceeded all ex
pectations, and indications point to an
increased output next season.
Farms for renting in Coos oounty
are hard to get bold of this fall, and
many men wbo desire to rent have been
unable to get places. Usually there
are more farms tban renters.
J. Bloodsworth, of tbe Flat, Union
oounty, lost two ot his beat fattening
hogs recently by feeding them dry
barley. Tbe barley beards collected
under their tongues nntil the hogs were
choked to death.
A number' of quail and Denny
pheasants have been turned loose on
the John Day river and Canyon oreek,
in Grant oounty. As the law strictly
forbids their destruction in the ooun
ties of Eastern Oregon, it is presumed
these birds will be given a ohanoe to
multiply and stock the valley.
The Astorian says that the Foard &
Stokes Company, ot Astoria, received
from Dublin, Ireland, a letter from a
wealthy firm in that oity ordering
1,000 Oregon draft horses to be shipped
to Ireland as soon as the horses oan be
secured. The letter specifies that the
horses must be without mark or blem
ish. Mustangs or branded horses will
not be reoeived.
A resident of Coos river, who is in
terested in the fishing industry, informs
the Coos Bay Mail that great numbers
of salmon are wantonly killed every
fall in Daniels oreek, and, in fact, in
nearly all the creeks whioh empty into
the main river. The salmon go np
these oreeka to spawn, where they
prove an easy prey to boys, who kill
them with olubs or throw them on the
banks with pitchforks, just out of pure
"cussedness," as tbe fish are unfit for
food. Everybody on tbe bay is more
or leas interested in the fishing indus
try, whioh annually puts a large sum
of money in circulation, and steps
jhould be taken to see that tbe law ii
enforced, and that the salmon are pro
tected during the olose season.
Washington.
The oity marshal of Walla Walla
has been authorized to oolleot poll-tax
from Chinamen, and 10 per cent was
allowed him for an interpreter.
Fewer than 100,000 bushels of wheat
remain in the warehouses in Garfield,
and what there is, is the property of
large wheatraisers, who oan afford to
hold.
Biuoe Belknap shot a catamount on
Long Prairie last week. The brute
bad beoome quite bold and bad de
stroyed considerable poultry in that
vioinity.
The much-diBouised deal of the
Northern Paoiflo Railway Company
for a location for a depot of its own in
feittle baa been consummated, and the
deeds to the property filed.
Sinoe the recent fall of snow upon
the Huckleberry and Caliapel ranges,
many deer have been seen along the
foothills overlooking the Colville val
ley. Tbe snow storm has also oansed
other animals to approaoh the settle
ments. The farmers of tbe Colville valley
are shipping large quantities of hay,
potatoes, cabbage and eggs to British
Columbia. Shipments from farm pro
ducts from that valley this year will
show up as largely aa from any other
section on the Northern railway.
A large number ot Bheep were killed
at the Mission-street orossing of the
Great Northern in Spokane tbe other
evening, and were the next day taken
out beyond Hillyard and buried with
all due oeremony. The railway oom
pany furnished a oar and locomotive
for the oooasion.
Hill oreek, a tributary of Coal oreek,
in Cowlita oounty, was flooded tbe
other day and several hundred thousand
feet of logs were splashed into the main..
stream. It is a great sight to witneaa
the flooding of logs out of a mountain
stream, and the neighbors always turn
out to see it.
.
Judge John N. Soott, brother-in-law
of ex-President Harrison, la spoken of
already aa oolleotor ot the port of Port
Townsend. 2- ,
The sloop Surf Duok, trading be- '
tween Aberdeen and Qoeets, was found
outside the bar early last week upset.
Tbe tug whioh discovered her and tow
ed her in found no trace ot her owner,
Captain Hank, and he was undoubtedly
drowned. The sloop must have been
caught In a squall and thrown on bar
beam ends.