VOL. XXXII
CORVALLIS, BENTON COUNTY. OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1895,
NO. 16.
TRANSPORTATION.
East and South
VIA
The Shasta Route
OF THE
Southern Pacific R'y Co.
EXPRESS TRAINS RUN DAILY.
6 15 p M Leave Portland Arrive 8:20 am
10 20PMlavo Albany Arrive 4:25 am
10:45 a m Arrive 8. Francisco Leave 7:00 f M
Abovj traiim a op at all stations from Port
laud to Albitnv, ala. at Tangent. Shedds Hal
sey, H rrisoHrg Junction City, Irving, Eugene,
f:oiutok, Drain and all nations from Bote
bur to Asnlaud, inclusive.
ROSEBHRG MAIL DAILY.
8:3J a m I Leave
li'5p 1 '.eave
6:40 r k ( Arrive
rortlaud
Alb-tny
Roe -burjt
Air ve - 4:30 pm
Arrive 1 12:a0 T u
Leave I 7 KM) A u
Pullman B iffet sleepers and second-class
sleeping cars attached to all through trains.
WIST SIDE
B1VISIOM.
Between Portland and Corvallis
daily (except Sunday).
Mall train
7'W i M Leave
12:li p m Arrive
Pur, la ud
Corvallis
Arrive 16 3PM
Leave 1 1.00 P M
At Albany and norvallia connect with trains
of ibe Oregon Pacific railroad.
EXPRESS TRAINS DAILY (Except Sunday).
4:J0pm1 Leave Portland Arrive : 8:25 A M
7:2o P m Arrive MoMinnvllle Ieave I 6:60 a u
Through tickets to all points In the Eastern
states, Canada and Enrone can be oota ned at
loweot rate from A. K. Miller, agent, Corvallis.
R. KOEHLER, Manager.
E. P. ROGERS, A. G. F. & P. A., Portland, Or.
E. McNElL, BeceiTer.
TO THE
EAST
GIVES THE CHOICE OF
TWO TRANSCONTINENTAL
ROUTE S
VIA
GREAT
NORTHERN RY.
SPOKANE
MINNEAPOLIS
AND
ST. PAUL
VIA
UNION
PACIFIC RY.
DENVER
OMAHA
AND
KANSAS CITT
LOW RATES TO ALL
EASTERN CITIES
OCEAN STEAMERS
LEAVE PORTLAND EVERY 5 DAYS
FOR..
SAN FRANCISCO
For full details call on or address
W. H. HURLBURT,
Gen'l Pass. Agent,
Portland, Ob,
OREGON CENTRAL
AND EASTERN R.R. CO.
Yaquina Bay Route
Connecting at Yaqnlna Bay with the
San Francisco & Yaquina Bay
STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
Steamship " Farallon "
A 1 and flrst-cta in everv respect. Balls from
Yaquina fir San Francis about every eight
aavs. rassenger ace mmoan"us nuuriii:i.
Shortest route between the Willamette ralley
and Jalifornia.
Proposed Sailing Days for Jane, 1895.
Lave
Ynqnina June fi, 12 M.
Bati F an, JuuelO, 10 a.m.
Yaqiln, June 13, 5 P.M.
Bin Fran, .lime IS 10 a.m.
Arrive.
Sin Fran, June 8, p.m.
Yaquina, June 12, P. .
Ban Fran, June 15, P.M.
Yaquina, June 20, a.m.
San Fran. Jane 24, P.M.
Yaqnlna, Jin-zz, ic m.
San Fran, June 26, !0 4.1
Yaquina, June 30. 12 M.
. Yaauina. June 28 a.m
Ban Fran, July 2, p.m.
aTare From Albany or Points
San rranclsco:
Cabin....- . $12 Pteersge
Cabin Ronni trip, good for 60 days..
West to
-..18
...18
For sailing days apply to
W. A. CDXMINOR, Aisnt,
Corvallis, Oregon.
EDWIN 8TONF, Manager, Corvallis, Oregon.
CH AS. CLARK, Bop't, Corvallis, Oregon.
THE NEW
RofAT .. .
iYnBTflEBS ail 0. B.
BAIL"
oliMo
To po'nts in WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA, DAKOTAS, MINNE
S.0T.At?.if.8 t and from CHICAGO. ST. LOUIS. WASHING
TON. PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK, BOSTON, and ALL POINTS in the
United States. Canada and Europe. . .
ti r 4. nn.kam Railwav in a new transcontinental line. Kuns bnnet-
librarv observation cars, palace sleeping
and first and second class coacnea.
xi. fc.haila.it track the Great
one of the chief annoyances of transcontinental travel.
Round trip tickets with stop-over privileges and choice of return routes. ;
t. - t iw.- ;..(..rmo tinn rail nnon or write.
,r .U.u. .- 0 g 8MITHr
0. C. DONAVAN, Gen'l Ag't, 122 Third
'When my little girl was one month old, aha
had a scab form on her face. It kept spreading
until she was completely covered from head to
foot. Then she had boils. She had forty on her
head at one time, and more on her body. When
six months old she did not weigh sevenponnds,
a pound and a half less than at birth. Then her
skin started to dry np and got so bad she could
not shut her eyes to sleep, bnt lay with them
half open. About this time, I started using the
Cdticcra Remedies, and in one month the icat
completely cured. The doctor and drug bills
were over one hundred dollar, the Ccticura
bill was not more than five dollar: My child
is now strong, healthy, and large as any child
of her age (see photo.), and it is all owing
to Cuticuha. Yours with a Mother's Blessing,
9. jHAJ. it. in i IV, JH.,
32 Walker St., Milwaukee, Wis.
Bold throughout the world. Fmn Drub and
Corn. Corp., Sole Props., Boston. "AH about
the Blood, Skin, Scalp, and Hair," mailed free.
Baby Blemishes, falling hair, and red, rough
hands prevented and cured by Culicura Soap.
WOMEN FULL OF PAINS
Find in Cntienra Anti-Pain Plata,
ter instant and grateful relief. It
Is the first and only pain-killing,
strengthening plaster.
DR. WILSON
Office over First National bank.
Residence, two blocks west of courthouse.
Office hours, 8 to 10 A. M., 1 to 8 r. M.
Sunday and evenings by appointment.
DR. L. G. ALTMAN
H0M0E0PATHIST
Diseases of women and children and general
practice.
Offlc3 over Allen & Woodward's drag store.
Office hours 8 to 12 A. M.. and 2 to 5 and 7 to 8
P. M.
At residence, eorner of Srd and Harrison after
hoars and on Sundays.
BOWEN LESTER
DENTIST
Office upstairs over First National Bank.
Strictly First-Class Work Guaranteed
Corvallis, Oregon
F. M. JOHNSON
ATTORNEY - AT - LAW
Cobyallis, Oregon
Does a s-eneral nractlce in all the courts.
Also agent for all the flrst-class insurance com
panies. NOTARY PUBLIC.
JUSTICE PKACK.
E. E. WILSON
ATTORNEY - AT - LAW
Office In Zeiroff building, opposite postoffice.
M. 0. WILKINS
Stenographer and Notary Public
Court reporting and
referee sittings made
type-writing and other
specialties, as wel
reu as
reporting.
Office opposite postoffice, Corvallis, Or.
K. HOLGATE.
Notary Public.
B. L. HOLGATE.
Jmstice of the Peace.
HOLGATE & SON
ATTORNEY S-AT-LAW
Corvallis
Oregon
J. R. Betsoic W. E. Yars J. Fbbd Yates
Bryson, Yates & Yates
LAWYERS
CORVALLIS
OREGON
WAY EAST
.H..C0.'S LIKES-The Short Rout:
and dining cars, family tourist sleepers
' " , ., . . . , .
Northern Railway is free from dust,
Occidental Hotel, Corvallis, Oregon, or
Street, rortiana, uregon.
SHOWING FOR A YEAR
The End of the Fiscal Year of
the Government
DEFICIT FORTY-THREE MILLIONS
This, Added to Last Year's Excess of
Expenditures, Makes Over a Hun
dred and Thirteen Million.
Washington, July 2. The treasury
deficit for the fiscal year just closed
will be found by the debt statement to
be approximately $43,250,000. This,
added to last year's deficit of nearly
170,000,000, makes the excess of ex
penditures over receipts since June 30,
1893, about $113,250,000. The total
receipts of the government this fiscal
year, exclusive of postal revenues,
amount to nearly $313,000,000 and the
expenditures $356,250,000, of which
pensions took $141,391,523. Last year
the aggregate receipts, exclusive of
postal revenues, were $297,722,091
and the expenditures $367,525,279.
The receipts this year therefore were
$15,278,000 larger than last, and the
expenditures about $11,275,000 less.
The postal service deficit is about $11,
000,000, which is . considerably in ex
cess of that of any recent year.
The internal revenue department of
the government has contributed this
year to the receipts nearly $143,000,-
000, as against a little more than
$147,000,000 last year. The customs
this year make a better showing than
last by about $21,000,000. Last year
the receipts from this source amounted
to nearly $132,000,000. Of this amount
sugar contributed about $17,350,000,
the imports for the rune and a half
months, during which the 40 per cent
ad valorem duty has been collected,
amounted to about 43,350,000 pounds,
of which 42,300,000 pounds were cane
sugar and the remainder beet.
During the fiscal year the number of
national banks in existence has de
creased from 3,775 to 3,722. Forty
one national banks have been organiz
ed during the year; sixty have gone
into voluntary liquidation and thirty
six have been placed in the hands of
receivers. ' The national bank circula
tion has increased $4,337,791 from
$207,353,244 July 1, 1894, to $211,
691,035 July 1, 1895. From July 18,
1894, to May 7, 1895, the nearest
dates to the year obtainable, the loans
and discounts of national banks have
increased from $1,933,389,352 to
$1,976,304,445, or about $43,000,000.
During the same time individual de
posits have increased from $1,677,801,
200 to $1,690,961,299, or about $13,-
000,000. The lawful money reserve
held by banks show a heavy increase
from $344,105,757 to $438,931,970, or
nearly $75,000,000.
RUSSIA AND JAPAN.
Eighty Thousand Men Are Now Massed
at Vladivostock.
Tacoma, July 2. The Norwegian
steamship Oscar II which arrived early
this morning, eighteen days from
Vladivostock, Siberia, brings news that
the indications are good for another
Oriental war. Captain R. Anderson
of the steamer says: .
'Unknown to the outside world Rus
sia has massed 80,000 men at Vladivo
stock and it is believed in Siberia that
preparations are being made for an ad
vance on Japan. Russia has been se
cretly but actively at workand in the
event of trouble with Japan is prepar
ed to hurl a formidable navy and land
fcrce into the coveted territory which
Japan has wrested from China These
ships and troops have been massed at
Vladivostock where the scene is decid
edly warlike. The entrance to the har
bor at Vladivostock is planted full of
torpedoes and no vessels are allowed to
pass without Russian naval officers on
board as well as experienced Russian
pilots who know where the torpedoes
are placed. My vessel was escorted in
this manner, both going in and com
ing out of the harbor. Inside the har
bor the entire Pacific fleet of Russian
warships is massed ready to steam
down the coast at a moment's notice.
In short 80,000 troops have been con
centrated and the inference is clear
that Russia is prepared far trouble in
case the Japanese give occasion.
Will Give to .Whitman College.
Chicago, July 3. J. K. Pearsons,
the great patron of colleges, is to give
$50,000 to Whitman college, Walla
Walla, Wash. The friends of tne in
stitution are collecting the $150,000
necessary to seecure the $50,000 gift.
Mr. Pearsons has given away $500,000
to various institutions.
JosarH H. WILSON.
Thomas S. Wilsou
WILSON & WILSON
ATTORNEYS - AT-LAW
v uiCB over r irn i muuiw u u , oui atiw, v
Will nrantiee in all the state and federal courts
Abstracting, collections. Notary public Con-
veyancing.
BENTON COUNTY
ABSTRACT : COMPANY
Complete Set of Abstracts
of Benton County.
Conveyancingand Perfecting
Titles a Specialty.
Money to Loan on Improved City and
liountry rroperiy. . ' i
J. B. MARKLEY & CO., Proprietors
Main Street, Corvallis.
JAPAN AND RUSSIA.
The . Japanese Consul-General In New
York Does Not Look for War.
New York, July 1. "I really don't
think war between Japan and Russia
is imminent," said Mr. Hashiguoh, the
Japanese consul-general at New York,
in an interview. He added:
"However, Japan will not be bul
lied. If Russia attempts to interfere
with affairs in Corea, Japan will insist
upon her rights. We are just begin
ning to recover from an exhausting
war, and are in no hurry to get into
another quarrel; but I wish to say em
phatically that Japan is not afraid of
Russia. I will go so far as to assure
you that there are Japanese, and they
are not carried away by enthusiasm,
who would not be astonished to see a
Japanese army in St. Petersburg within
the next two years.
"Mr. Waeber, Russian minister to
Corea, is a very clever man. He is
oevr 50 years old, and has been minis
ter at Seoul for more than ten years.
He was once Russian -consul at Yoko
hama. He is a skilled and experienced
diplomat, and I have no doubt he has
been greatly influenced in bringing
about the present situation.
"You see there is -no limit to Rus
sia's aggressve and grasping spirit. If
Russia could do ns out of the fruits of
our victory over China by intrigue and
threats, there is no doubt she would be
glad to do so; but Japan is not easily
scared. We know something about
war, and we realize that from a strat
egic standpoint Russia would find it
difficult to make ' much headway
against us."
THE CABINET COMPLETE.
Make-Up of the Ministry Organized
by
Of
Of
Premier Salisbury.
London, July 1.' The Marquis
Salisbury has completed the work
forming his new cabinet. The new
ministry is:
Premier and secretary of state for
foreign affairs, Marquis of Salisbury;
president of council, Duke of Devon
shire; lord high chancellor, Baron
Halsbury; lord of the privy seal, Vis
count Cross; chancellor of the ex
chequer, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach; sec
retary of state for home affairs, Sir
Matthew White Ridley; first lord of
the treasury, A. J. Balfour; secretary
of state for the colonies, Marquis of
Landsdowne; first lord of the admir
alty, George J. Goschen; secretary of
state for India, Lord George Hamilton;
president of the board of trade, C. T.
Ritchie; president of the local govern
ment board, Henry Chaplin; lord lien-
tenant for Ireland, Baron Ashbourne;
secretary for Scotlnad, Baron Balfour,
of Burleigh; chancellor of the duchy of
Lancaster, Sir Henry-James.
The other appointments are as fol
lows:
Financial secretary of the treasury,
Robert William Hanbury; under secre
tary for foreign affairs, George N.
Curzon.
A Cut by the Governor. .
Olympia, Wash., July 1. Governor
MoGraw today issued an order dis
banding eight companies of infantry
and two cavalry troops, upon recom
mendation of the new brigadier-gen
eral. The companies disbanded are:
Company H, First infantry, Van
couver; company 1, first infantry,
Port Townsend; company B, Second
infantry, Goldendale; company C, Sec
ond infantry, Centerville; company G,
Second infantry, Spokane; company I,
Second infnatry, Clyde; company. K,
Second infantry, Tekoa; first unat
tached company, Waterville; troop C,
First cavalry, North Yakima; troop D,
First cavalry, Spokane.
The commanders of the companies
disbanded have been instructed to col
lect and preserve all state property for
which they are responsible, until the
possession thereof is demanded by the
adjutant-general. The brigadier-general
also suggests the formation of a
new infantry company at Spokane. .
Da Gama'a Suicide.
Buenos Ayres, July 1. From one of
the rebels who escaped capture by gov
ernment troops after the insurgent de
feat near Santa Ana, Rio Grande do
Sul, Brazil, details of the last battle
in which Admiral Da Gama took part,
and of his suicide have been secured.
The admiral, at the head of a force of
400 sailors, was engaged by a brigade
of " government soldiers numbering
1,200. The battle lasted five hours,
and at least 300 men were killed or
wounded. Some of the insurgents ad
vised Da Gama to retreat, bnt he re
fused and they abandoned them. With
a handful of men the admiral repulsed
five attacks of the government cavalry,
but the struggle was hopeless, and see
ing that all was lost, Da Gama ordered
a retreat and cut his own throat. -
Da Gama's body was taken to Santa
Ana by the government troops and
there horribly mutilated. The throats
of many of the captured rebels were
cut by the victorious soldiers.
Will Return as British Subjects.
San Francisco, July 2. Volney F.
Ashiord and Fred Alnndenburg, who
were exiled from Hawaii for alleged
implication in the recent rebellion.
have annouoned that they will return
to Honolulu. They will not go as fili
busters, as has been reported, but under
the protection of the British flag. They
claim to be British subjects, and they
now say they have received assurance
from Great Britain that they will be
supported in their claim of a right of
residence in Hawaii.
: A Million-Dollar Kstate at Stake.
Parkersburg, W. Va., June 28 E.
E. McMahon, who claims to be the
onlv heir to the estate of Lord Alfred
McDonald Grenville, is in the city tak
ing depositions to establish his claim.
McMahon claims to be the son of Mrs.
Mary Bensley, deceased, formerly of
California. If he can prove this, an
estate worth more . than f $1,000,000
awaits him.
THE DANGER IN SUGAR
Some Interesting Facts Not
Known at Home.
UNCLEAN AND GERM - LADENED
Chinese Wares Being; Largely Con
sumed in Oregon and Washington
That Are Unfit for Use. -
Portland, Or., June 26. The steam
ship Tacoma arrived at Victoria re
cently from Hong Kong, China, with
the latest Oriental advices, and reports
the plague in that unfortunate country
again raging violently. It is said by
natives from Amoy that this awful
pestilence has suddenly broke out in
the Tungan district, China, with ter
rible violence, 40 per cent of the in
habitants actually dying of the disease
and few escaping the sickness. Those
who are able to leave are doing so only
to carry the plague elsewhere.
Referring to the report a well-known
business man stated to the press repre
sentative tonight that the Tungan dis
trict is one of the sources of supply for
raw sugar for the Hong Kong sugar re
fineries and as large quantities of these
sugars were shipped to the Dominion
of Canada and the United States that
the people hardly appreciate the fright
ful results that might follow the in
troduction of the plague into America
through the use of unclean merchan
dise.
In view of all this a recent article
published in a leading coast paper
which dealt exhaustively with the sub
ject is of general interest and is pro
duced below. After some general re
marks on household economy this
stated:
FIG. l.
The principal sources of sugar supply
are the refineries situated in the differ
ent parts of the United States; but a
very large portion of the stock that is
manufactured by these refineries is im
ported from Germany, the Sandwich
islands and the West Indies. Another
point of importance for refined sugars
is China, but the sugars from that
country are only used in any quantity
on the Pacific coast. Not less than
11,500,000 was sent to China for sugar
consumed on the Pacific coast during
the year 1894, and the business threat
ens to increase.
Now there are two very important
factors to the development of this
Western country. The first is to pro
duce these articles that are in demand,
and which can take the place of im
ported products for which our money
has to be sent away. The second is to
encourage the population in our im
mediate section to consume those ar
ticles that are produced as far as possi
ble on the coast.
There are several sugar factories in
Caliornia, doing a large business. In
1894 they spent for labor alone $500,-
000. While there is room for other fac
tories, there is plenty of sugar here to
supply the demand; and the importing
of China sugars has been carried on
simply because there is a tendency on
the part of our people, consumers and
merchants, to buy the cheapest article
that is offered, irrespective of quality.
We do not think the consumer is alto
gether to blame for this. The retail
grocer takes that sugar which will
afford him the greatest profit. Unless
the consumers are watchful, they can
not be sure that they are not eating su
gars that are manufactured by the
cheap coolie laborer of the Orient,
where hand labor, though nasty, is so
cheap that there is no inducement to
use machinery. Custom house figures
absolutely show that there were im
ported into the Portland and Port
Townsend (Oregon and Washington)
distircts in 1894, 11,000,000 pounds of
FIG. 2.
refined sugars from Hong Kong, and
all of this sugar was handled in a sur
reptitious way by our retail grocers
(for our wholesalers will not bny it,
the retailer getting his supplies direct
from the importer's brokers), and sold
as American sugars. Ask any grocer
if he handles China sugars, and he will
answer "No." .What has become of
the 11,000,000 pounds imported?
It probably goes without saying that
the Eastern, or Oriental countries, are
the hotbeds for the development of all
kinds of horrible, loathsome human
liseases, the cholera, small-pox, lep
rosy, eta In one instance, in 1892,
the steamer Palmas, which brought
3,000 to 8,000 bags of China sugar to
Victoria, had smallpox on board, and
there were later eases of the same dis
ease among the stevedores who helped
to discharge the vessel. In 1894, the
great sugar refineries of Hong Kong
were compelled to oease operations for
lackof labor due to the plague, and
now we are told that the black plague
has broken out this spring.
In view of the introduction of quan
tities of Chinese sugars, it may be as
well that the public is informed on
the very highest possible authority, of
the danger that may be attendant upon
their use. Professor Cameron, public
analysist, Dublin, a . gentleman who
has made it his special busineis to ex
amine all kinds of foreign sugars, re
fined and others, says that certain
kinds of them should never be used.
He states that they contain great
numbers of disgusting insects, which
produce disgusting disease. Their
shape is accurately shown in the ac
companying out, which is magnified
200 diameters. Figure 1 is the under
side and figure 2 the upper. The pro
fessor's description is as follows:
"The insect (the acarns sacchari) is
formidably organized, exceedingly
lively and decidedly ngly animaL"
Probably enough has been said here
to awaken some interest in this subject
and it is hoped readers of this article
will stipulate when they order sugar
that it is produced on the Pacific coast,
and show that they want sugars made
by home refineries,- which employ
white labor only.
Statistics show that this country has
sent abroad in a single year $116,000,
000 for sugar alone, or a per capita
consumption of 67 pounds. Of this
immense consumption 1,700,635 tons
were foreign sugars, and yet it has been
asserted by one of the most prominent
men connected with this business that
California alone, if the interest were
properly developed, would produce
enough raw beet sugar to supply the
demand of the entire United States.
What a boon it would be to Oregon if
we could locate in the central portion
of our territory a refinery for making
beet-sugar.
FISHERY RESERVATION.
Some Indians Refuse to Accept Their
Fro Rata of Proceeds of Its Sale.
Wena tehee, Wash., June 29. Mon
day evening Indian Agent Irwin ar
rived in Wenatohee for the purpose of
securing the names of all Wenatohee
Indians willing to accept their pro rata
of proceeds resulting from the sales of
the Wenatohee fishery reservation.
Tuesday almost every Indian in this
vicinity was in town, but not more
than half of them were willing to ac
cept their portion of the money. Chief
Felx and his band, consisting of about
thirty Indians, willingly handed in
their names, but the remainder, under
old Chief Halmilk, would not yield
unless their chief would accept. This
he would not do. Chief Halmilk
wants another reservation set aside for
their benefit, or the whole sum result
ing from the sale, $20,000 The reser
vation which they request, in lieu of
the Wenatohee fishery, commences at
the old mission and extends six miles
down the Wenatohee river. It is now
occupied by white settlers, who have
good improved farms. Consequently
Halmilk's request is next to impossible
for the government to grant.
Last spring Chief Halmilk, after de
ciding that he wanted a reservation set
aside from the old mission down the
river, went so far as to order the set
tlers, now occupying the land, to move
off, claiming that the land belonged to
him and his Indians. He carried the
matter to such a point that the settlers
became alarmed and appealed to the
department at Washington. Halmilk
stopped futher efforts to secure the
lands, however, and the settlers were
promised protection by the government
in case of trouble.
Would Not Discuss Publicly.
Washington, Jnne 29. Monsignore
Satolli returned today after an absence
of some time at school commencements.
Inquiry was made of him as to the
status of the difficulty between Bishop
Bonacum, of Nebraska, and Fathers
Murphy and Fitzgerald, who had
threatened to appeal to Washington
unless the bishop withdrew certain ac
cusations he had made in dismissing
them. In response to the inquiry,
Monsignore Satolli sent word that the
case was not one which he would dis
cuss publicly, further than to say that
the diocese was in a very bad condition
and the priests were in an unfortunate
position. He would not state what ap
peal had been made or what action
would be taken.
The Evidence Considered Insufficient.
Washington, June 29. There will
be no more attempts on the part of the
government to prosecute the 130 mem
bers of the A. K. U. in California,
charged with participating in the
strike of last July. The attorney-general
advised the United States district
attorney at San Francisco to use his
own discretion in the matter, and he
replied that he would dismiss the cases
now pending.
The reason for this action is that ev
idence against the men is insufficient.
The cost of the prosecution already tried
was $20,000, and no convictions were
secured. As there is no additional evi
dence to be used it is considered impos
sible to convict them.
sealing Bill Passed the I-ords.
London, June 27. In the house of
lords today the seal-fisheries bill passed
the second and third readings.
Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report
l x t mjemr sa
STRUGGLE WITH FIRE
A Heavy Loss of Property in
San Francisco.
BUSINESS PORTION ENDANGERED
Water Pressure Not Sufficient for the
Drain Upon It, and the Fire 11 a a
to B urn Itself Out.
San Francisco, June 29. Something
like $2,000,000 worth of property was
destroyed by fire in the lower part of
the city tonight. Almost three entire
blocks, covered with dwellings, lumber
yards and expensive manufacturing
plants, went up in smoke despite the
efforts of the firemen to subdue the
flames. A little while before 6 o'clock
the fire started in the rear of Carrick,
Williams & Wright's box factory, on
Fifth street, between Bryant and Bnx
ome, Fourth and Fifth streets, were re
duced to oiles of glowing embers.
Then, to complete the ruin, the fire
jumped Fourth street, fanned by a stiff :
breeze, and licked up the western half
of two blocks divided by Brannan, be
tween Third and Fourth. Fortunately
the breeze which prevailed during the
hottest part of the conflagration died
away or more of the town would have
been burned.
The water pressure was not sufficient
for the drain made upon it by the full
complement of engines, and in some
places the fire was left to burn itself
out. Everything possible was done by
the department, but the blaze was too
fierce for the fighters.
It was the worst fire in years and
one of the most stubborn that the fire
men had tried to handle in years. They
fonght the encroaching tongues of fire
in one place only to see them shoot up
in another. The dry, wooden build
ings were like so mu;h kindling wood,
and tall, three-story frames were snap
ped up in an instant.
Bnt one brick structure stood in the
path of the devastating element, and
that was St Rose's church, on Bran
nan, near Fourth. The church was
only partly completed, but was de
stroyed, with rectory and school house.
Several hotels, lodging-houses and a
hundred or so humble homes were
swept out of existence during the hours
the fire raged.
Probably 500 poor families have
been made homeless, besides losing all
their possessions. Another hundred or
more of small manufacturing establish
ments, such as box and furniture fac
tories, machine shops, etc., have been
destroyed. Three big wineries, .con
taining millions of gallons of wine,
wool ware houses, freight houses and '
railroad yards, docks, lumber and coal
yards, had narrow escapes. . Only one
fatality has been reported. Miss Gil-
roy was covered with burning oil and
perished.
During the first few hours of the fire
there was not much excitement in the
city, but when it grew dark and the
sky became a mass of flame, the people
from all parts of the city rushed to the
scene. The police could do nothing
with the mob that swept through the
fire lines, and the only impression made
on the crowd was when a fire engine
would come tearing along the street.
The mass of humanity would part,
fighting and struggling to get out of
the way.
Among the residents of the fire dis
trict there was a panic. Hundreds of
families tried to save their property,
and in many instances had to be driven
away from their homes by the firemen.
Last of Da Gama.
Buenos Ayres, June 28. Insurgents
under the command of Admiral da Ga
ma, in the province of Rio Grande do
Sul, Brazil, have been defeated, by the
government troops at Campos. Ad
miral Osario was wounded and cap
tured, and subsequently died.' Ad
miral da Gama, finding himself over
powered, committed suicide. General
Tayores assumed command of the reb
els. Saldanga da Gama was born in
Rio de Janiero and was descended
from a noble Portuguese family, the
most illustrious of whose members was
the celebrated Vasoo da Gama. He
was prominent in the revolution last
year, sharing the supreme command
with Admiral de Mello.
The Five Clvililized Tribes.
Eufala, L T., June 28 The inter
national council of the five civilized
tribes met here today, with W. A.
Duncan, of the Cherokee nation, in the
chair. The council took up the propo
sition of the Dawes commission. Chief
Harris, of the Cherokee nation, Gover
nor Brown, of the Seminoles, and
other chiefs spoke against any change
whatever in the tribal relations or land
tenure of the tribes, and against any
change as proposed by the Dawes com
mission. A German Coaling Station.
Caracas, Venezuela, June 27. It is
rumored that the German claims are to
be settled by the cession of one of the
islands to Germany for a coaling sta
tion. Semi-official advices here say
that Sir Vincent Barrington has strong
ly urged on England the importance of
the amicable settlement of the questions
pending with Venezuela.