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Newspaper Page TextVOL. XXXIII. CORVALLIS, BENTON COUNTY. OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1896. NO. 7. TRANSPORTATION. East and South -VI4.- The Shasta Route OF THE Southern Pacific R'y Co. EXPRESS TRAINS RUN DAILY. 18:50 P M Leave Portland Arrive I 8:10 A 11 2:10PM Leave Albany Arrive 4:60 ah 10:45 H j Arrive 8. Francisco Leave 6:00 p M Above trains atop at Eart Portland, Oregon City, Wood bum, balem, Taruer, Marion, JeSer on, Albany. Albany Junction, Tang -nt, Shedds, Halsey, Harrisburg. Junction City, Irving, Ka cene, Creswell, Drains, and all stations from Kuosbar to Asbland, inclusive. ROSEBUEQ MAIL DAILY. 8:30 A H Leave 12:46 p m I Leave 6:20 p K Arrive Portland Albany Roiiburg Air.ve ,. 4:4(1 pSi Arrive! 1:15 P M Leave I 6:00 a m Pullman B iffet sleepers and second-class sleeping cars attached to all through trains. 8ALEM PASSENGER DAILY. 4:00 ph Leave Portland Arrive 1 10:15 a u 6:16 P M Arrive Salem Leave I 8:00 A WIST BIDE DIVISION. Between Portland and Corvallis Mail train dally (except Sunday). 7-30 a u Leave 12:15 P M Arrive Portland Corvallis Arrive 6:20 p M Leave 1 1:36 P m At Albany and Corvallis connect with trains of tbe Oregon Central & Eastern Ry. EXPRESS TRAINS DAILY (Except Sunday). Portland McMinnville Arrive : 8:25 A M Leave 6:50 A M 7:25 PM I Arrive Through tickets to all points In the Eastern states, Canada aud Europe can be obtained at lowest rate from A. K. Miller, agent, Corvallis. R. KOEH1.ER, Manager. E. P. ROGERS, A. Q. F. A P. A., Portland, Or. E. McNEIL, Becelyer. TO THE EAST GIVES THE CHOICE OF TWO TRANSCONTINENTAL E O .TJ TBS VIA GREAT NORTHERN RY. SPOKANE HINNEAF0LIS . ' - AND " VIA UNION PACIFIC RY. DENVER ' 0ELAHA - " AND ' - lttNSASCITT sr. rAUii .... LOW RATES TO ALL EASTERN CITIES OCEAN STEAMERS LEAVE PORTLAND EVERY 5 .FOB DAY! SAN FRANCISCO For full details, call on or address W. H. HURLBURT, Gen'L Pan. Agent, Portland - - - Oreema OREGON CENTRAL AND EASTERN R.R.CO. Yaquina Bay Route Connect! ag at Yaquina Bay with the San Francisco & Yaquina Bay STEAMSHIP COMPANY. Steamship "Farallon if A 1 and flrst-clas in every respeot. Sails from Yaquina for San Franols so about every eight days. Passenger aco .mmodatlon unsnrpasaea. Shortest route between the Willamette valley and California. Fare From Albany or Points West to San Franeleeo : Cabin 112 Steerage Cabin Round trip, good for 60 days.. .. it For sailing aays appiy to W. A. CCH1WINGS, Aarn CorvallU, Onfoa. EDWIN STONE, Manager, CorvallU, Oregon. CHAS. CLARK, Sup't, CorvallU, Oregon. BENTON COUNTY ABSTRACT : COMPANY Complete Set of Abstracts of Benton County. , Conveyanclngand Perfecting Titles a Specialty. Money to Loan on Improved City and VX)unuy irroperty. V. E. WATTERS, Prop. Office at Courthouse, Corvallis, Or. Olio JL i o DR. L. G. ALTMAN H0M0E0PATHIST Diseases of women and children and general practice. Offics over Allen A Woodward' drug atore. Office hoara $ to 12 A. M., and 2 to 6 and 7 to P.M. At residence, corner of 3rd and Harrison after hoars and on Sundays. G. R, FARRA, M. D. Office in Farra & Allen's brick, on the corner of Second and Adams. Residence on Third street in front of court house. - Office hours 8 to 9 A. M., and 1 to 2 and 7 to p. m. All ca.ls attended promptly. BOWEN LESTER DENTIST Office upstairs over First National Bank. Strictly First-Class Work Guaranteed Corvallis, Oregon F. M. JOHNSON ATTORNEY - AT - LAW COBVALLIS, ObBOON Does a general practice in all the courts. Also agent for all the first-class insurance com panies. NOTARY PUBLIC. JUSTICE PEACE. E. E. WILSON ATTORNEY - AT - LAW Office in Zeiroff building, opposite "postofflce. Jossph H. WILSON. Thomas E. Wiusox WILSON & WILSON ATTORNEYS -AT-LAW Office over First National Bank, Corvallis, Or Will practice in all the state and federal courts Abstracting, collection. Notary public. Con veyanciug. E. HOLGATE. Notary Public. H. L. HOLGATE. Jaatice of the Peace. HOLGATE & SON ATTOBNEYS-AT-LAW Corvallis Oregon W. E. Yates LAWYER CORVALLIS OREGON Capitol Building- Warrants Sold. ... . Olympia, Wash., April 27. News baa jnst reached this city that the sale of the capitol-building warrants has been consummated, and this vexatious question, whioh has so long delayed the signing of the contract with Goes, of Taooma, for the erection of the capitol, has been finally settled. The capitol commission will be convened early next week for the purpose of closing the contract and issuing the warrants. There is now no apparrent obstacle to the beginning of active building ope ra tions by tbe middle of May. The de tails of the sale have not been made public, but doubtless will be in a few days. The Costa Kica. Washington, April 27. The bureau of American republics is informed that the Altantio road, of Costa Rica, the first railway line built to the Atlantic in Central America, is now completed to within 80 miles of tbe Pacific, and terminates at Alajnela. The end of the track of the Atlantic line is at present at Ala juela, 14 miles northwest of San Jose, but the company purposes making the junction of the new road at San Jose, and thenoe in a westerly direction to the Paoiflo ocean. The county board of Outagamie county. Wis., has appropriated $1,600 to build a workhouse where tramps will be sent to hard labor. The county has been . overrun with tramps for sev eral years, and tbe cost of maintaining them in idleness has been from S 10, 000 to $12,000 yearly. The workhouse plan is expeoted to airreot this. The crop bulletin for the northern part of Idaho indicates that in a gen eral way the wheat crop will be late, and the fruit crop good this year. Cold and unfavorable weather has checked tbe growth of vegetation. Over tbe greater portion of tbe state ice formed nearly every night the past week. The county board of Outagamie county, "Wis., has appropriated $1,500 to build a workhouse where tramps will be sent to hard labor. The county has been overrun with tramps for sev eral years, and tbe cost of maintaining them in idleness has been from $10,000 to $12,000 yearly. The workhouse plan is expected to correct this. Senator MoBride has scoured a pro vision appropriating $50,000 for con' tinning the work at the Cascades, $20,000 of which shall be used for ex tending the walls of the lock, so that it may. be opened for commerce. The appropriation is intended to secure the building of another lock. The ten days' allowed the president for the consideration of the agrioultu e bill has expired, and that measure will become a law without his approval. The measure oontains some features supposed to be objectionable to the president, but they are not sufficient to cause him to veto the whole bilL TELEGRAPHIC RESUME Events of the Day in a Con densed Form. OF INTEREST TO ALL READERS ftema of Importance From Domestic Foreign Sources Cream : of the Dispatches. . Captain-General Weyler has decided to release Rev. Alberto Diaa and his brother Alfred from custody, on con dition that.they will leave Cuba imme diately. . - The trial of Soott Jaokson for the murder of Pearl Bryan has com menced at Newport. The speed made in securing a jury astonished the court and the counsel on both sides, A dispatch from Panama says: Some fears are entertained here that trouble will occur when the elections for deputies take place. The members of the liberal party will vote for the first time since 1885. A dispatch from Ottawa to the Lon don Times says: . Sir Mackenzie Bowell, the premier, has announced the resignation of the ministers will be handed in in a few days. It is expeot ed Sir Charles Tupper will be the new premier. - Estrada Palma, president of the Cu ban junta, issued an address to the peo ple of the United States, in whioh he declares that the introduction now of reforms in Cuba by the Spanish gov ernment will have no effect upon the revolution. . The Rome Tribuna, commenting upon the rupture of the peace negotiations between Abyssinia and Italy, violently attaoks the government, declaring the ministers to be responsible for the "dis honor suffered by Italy through King Menelek's attitude." An offioial dispatch from Batavia says tbe endangered post in Achin ter ritory has been relieved, after a fight with the rebels under Toekodjohan, who lost 70 killed and had 200 wound ed. The Dutch loss was one officer wounded and S3 soldiers killed and wounded. J The house -committee on military afiairs nave decided to report a resolu tion authorizing the speaker to appoint a committee of five members to investi gate the charges of mismanagement of tbe soldiers' home at Leavenworth, Kan., made by Representative Blue of that state. . , . -'Jtv. "The schooner Prosper, Captain Hulm, returned to San Francisco to have a leak repaired. She statred for Cook's inlet on April 6 with a number of goldhunters, and was about 300 miles up the coast when a leak was sprung forward, - on the evening of April 17. Baron von Hammers te in, tbe former editor of Beuz Zeitung, 'Berlin, and leader of the conservative party, was sentenced to three years penal servi tude, to be deprived of oivil rights for five years and pay 1,500,000 marks. The charges against him were forgery, fraud and breach of trust. While leaving work at lock 9, a skiff which contained nine men, up set and three were drowned at Charleston, W. Va. The dead are: Henry Mahan, colored, of Gallipolis, O.; Richard Dickinson, colored, former borne 'unknown; Jordan, white, 16 years old. The other six swam ashore. A movement is on foot in Chicago for the purpose of crystallizing public opinion against an exclusive arbitration treaty with Great Britain. The meas ure is being vigorously pushed by many prominent oitizena who desire that ar bitration treaties shall be made with every nation, instead oi juigiano alone. The committee on text books of the board of education, of Omaha, Neb., has determined to Introduoe a book of Bible selections into the public schools. A majority of the school board is in favor of the movement. The commit tee will submit its report at tbe next regular meeting, and its adoption is regarded as a oertainty. ' Colonel Caleb Dorsey, of Oakdale, CaL, a wealthy and prominent mine owner and rancher, was shot and killed at the Dorsey mine, 1 1 miles from Co lumbia, at 9 o'clock Wednesday morn ing, by his mining partner, J. T. New comer, over a dispute that ensued upon Dorsey s charging Newcomer with oleaning up and misappropriating the amalgam without the colonel's knowl edge. ... - Chief Washakie and tbe principal men of the Shoshone tribe and Chief Sharp Nose and the leading men of the Arapahoes have just closed their council with Indian Inspector Mo Laughlin regarding the purchase by the , government of the Big Horn hot springs. The two tribes have agreed to aoept $60,000 for the territory five miles by ten, embraoing the springs. ' It is again positively denied that negotiations are in progress between Madrid and Washington on tbe subject of granting home rule to Cuba. Senor Canovas de Castillo, the premier, says the reforms projected for Cuba will be applied only when oiroumstanoes are in favor of such a movement. The. premier also says the reforms would not be applied to Cuba until asked for by Captain-General Weyler, who has said nothing on the subject. Senor de Castillo says he will not be a party to a bourse maneuver by keeping silent re garding this report, Wesley Dawes and C S. Givens, of Jefferson county, Term., aooused of tbe murder of Givens' wife, have been lodged in the Knox county jail for safe keeping, as violenoe was feared unless the prisoners were removed from the scene of theorime. Dawes is a nephew persuaded to do it by bis uncle, who I had tired of his wife and was infatu-! ated with another woman. The deed was committed with a double barreled shotgun while Mrs. Givens was at her window sewing, having been enticed there by her husband. - The New York Herald says : Through special correspondence, news of important executions in San Domin go has reached the United States. The minister of war, General; Ramon Cas tillo, and Jose Estay, governor of the province of Macoris, were executed at Maooris, on March 28, by order of Ulysis Hereaux of San Domingo. The governor of San Domingo, General Pioardo, boarded the steamer Preai dente with 150 soldiers, went to Ma ooris, and at 6 o'clock in the morning of the day mentioned, had the offioials shot. About 7,000 Cubans have fled to San Domingo during the last six months. ; From Menominee, Mich., comes word that the Menominee and Fence rivers are out of their banks, and the floods are causing heavy losses to logging in terests. The logging camp of Isaac Monroe, on Fence river, has been flood ed, caused by a log jam, and the em ployes barely escaped. The camp with its equipment and provisions was swept away. Many farmers in tbe Menominee valley have been driven from home, and have ; suffered great loss in stock and crops. .; One hundred men are guarding the -log booms at various points on tbe river. The back water in this city has driven sewage into the city water mains, and 50 cases of typohid fever have resulted. - There was a large inorease in Berlin during the past week of , deaths from influenza and pneumonia. . 1 The conference for international ar bitration held in Washington, which has been a very harmonious, one,- has just closed. ; f- ; : Russia has ordered seven ironclads and ten cruisers for her Pacific fleet, in view of Japan's extensive; naval prep arations. -..-. -'i'i-'M ? The battleship Massachusetts made 16.15 knots on her trial trip in Boston harbor, and her builders win a bonus of $100,000. In Glasgow, Sootland, the steamer Marsden collided with the British bark Firth of Solway, near Kiah lightship, causing the latter to sink, A crap game on Grant avenue in San Franoisoo was held ' up by two men. About $150 was taken. They were captured by the police soon after. ' Miss Laura White created a , sensation-in Ardmore,"rL "T.", by publioly horsewhipping Professor Linn, a drug gist, because he had charged her with theft, j " V- : - ' v.- A Rome dispatch says the cabinet has decided against reopening the cam paign in Abyssinia in the autumn, on the ground that suoh a course would be disastrous to Italy. It is said in Washington that there is a strong possibility that the dele gates from territories who have state hood bills in charge will not attempt to secure congressional aotion until the next session. A serious conflict between Christians and Turks has occurred at Eplskopi, island of Crete. There were two days' fighting, and fifty persons were killed and wounded. The Cretans have ap pealed to Greece for aid. In Houghton, Mich., sixty trammers have struck in Quinoy mine to enforoe a demand for higher wages. - The mine is still in operation, but the trouble will probably extend to the miners of the Quincy and other mines. ... The London Chronicle has a dispatch fvom Brussels, whioh says that the Baroness Herri, a lady 80 years old, was strangled, her body mutilated and hsr house robbed at Ixells, a fashion able suburb. The murderer escaped. The treasury deficit for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1896, will be approxi mately $25,000,000. This is the opin ion of offioials and others best qualified to make an intelligent estimate of the result of the fiscal operations of the year. A Madrid dispatch says the minister of finance, Senor Juan Navarro, has notified the cabinet of the necessity of relief measures on aocount of the pro longed drought, which has caused a rapid rise in the prioe of cereals, also injuring livestock. ' A $10,000,000 bioycle trust is being formed in New York. A prominent member says the trust will, out the prioe of high-grade wheels from $100 to about $65, eliminating jobbers' profits and advertising expenses, and will make money at that Senator Warren, from the committee on chums, has reported the amend ment to the sundry civil appropriation bill for the payment of the French spoliation claims, which have been al lowed by the court of claims, - It car ries an appropriation of $1,020,000. The two associations of manufac turers of wire and out nails have olosed a three days' conference in Chicago. In consequence of the rise in the steel market, it was decided to raise the price of both wire and out nails 15 cents per hundred weight, to take effeot May 1. - A Louisville & Nashville fruit train and the Evansville & Terre Haute pas senger train collided at a crossing near Mount Vernon, Ind. Alexander Dris- ooll. a brakeman, was killed; James Covintgon, an engineer, and F. R Thompson, a brakeman, were seriously injured. . v ' A mob of armed men, about fifteen in number, entered the jail at MoMinn ville, Tenn., dragged the jailer from his bed and forced him to give up the keys. William ' and Victor Hollia were taken from the iail, carried on horsebsaok five'miles from MoMinnville and hanged. i CADm ACTIDU CHE Decree in Northern Pacific Case Will Be Signed. DIFFERENT INTERESTS AGREED Tbe Sale Will Take riaoe at West ; Superior at a Date Yet to Be Fixed. - Milwaukee, April 89. The deoree of sale of the Northern Pacific railroad under the consolidated mortgage of the Farmers' Loan & Trust Company, has been decided on, and will be signed by Judge Jenkins, of the United States circuit court, in a few days, as soon as it is printed. Speoial Master Alfred Carey will conduct the sale and arrange the preliminaries as rapidly as possible. All the different interests have agreed to the decree. Tbe matter was set tled in the United States oirouit court this evening. The sale is to take place at West Superior, Wis., at suoh time as shall be fixed by the speoial master. The Northern Pacific road will be given ten days in whioh to pay the claims against it, but there is no ex pectation that this will be done. The property is to be sold in three parcels, for whioh separate bids are to be made, whioh must aggregate not less than $12,500,000. " The Receivership Matter. Milwaukee, April 29. A stipulation in the Northern Paoiflo receivership matter was agreed to late this after noon and signed by all the parties and approved by the court, It in effect sanctions all the payments that have been made by the receivers. The necessity for an accounting between tbe receivers of the two courts is done away with, and their disposal of the moneys is not to be further inquired into, beyond the usual inspection of Master Carey. The stipulation states that, owing to the expectancy that a decree of sale is about to be made, it is desirable to avoid the expense aud the difficulty attendant upon a separation of the funds, so that all payments made and to be made are approved. The parties to the stipulation, however, may withdraw at any time. ' Notwithstanding tbe apparent unan imity of all the factions, there is a de cided objection to the decree at this time, and in place of getting through with it and securing the signature of the court in a few hours, it promises to be a number of days before the mat ter is satisfactorily arranged. Judge Jenkins . evidenced., opposition, to the course adopted by the attorneys,' and is apparently determined to thoroughly dissect tbe proposed decree, having orj dered that it be gone over section by setoion. A SPANISH BUTCHER. Bloody Work Done Near Havana General Melquizo. by Key West, Fla., -April 29. A letter from Havana, dated April 25, says: While Delgado, the American, is slowly convalescing from tbe wounds inflicted on him by Spanish soldiers under General Melquizo's bidding sev eral weeks ago, the brutal Spanish offi cer is still butchering people in Havana province. Although offioial investiga tion shows that Melquizo is guilty of all the charges against him, he has not been suspended from his command. He is said to possess enough influenoe in Madrid to make it exceedingly uncom fortable for any superior officer who might endeavor to bring him to punish ment. " News received here tells of his con duct during the past two weeks. Near Campo Florido, so the information runs, Melquizo arrested nine peaceable countrymen and by his orders they were killed. At Minas, nineteen paoiflcos fell into his clutches and were shot Near Baibo he razed ten farms apd gathered in forty laborers who were killed in cold blood. . The most hor rible phase of the last butchery is tbe faot that women and children were among those massaored. In the vicin ity of Juaraoo, Melquizo ordered the slaughter of forty-seven persons who were taken from fields where they were at work. In Melquizo's territory the people are flocking to Havana to escape him. ROYALTIES ON FUR SEALS. Decision Against tbe North American Commercial Company. ' New York, April 29. In tbe suit of the United States against the North American Commercial Copmany, les' sees of the Pribyloff islands, and the isles of St Paul and St George, Alaska, for $132,189, with interest, for tbe rentals due under the contract, and also for royalties and taxes on 7,500 seals taken during the season whioh ended in April, 1894, Justice Wallace, of the United States court, today decided in favor of the United States. He holds, however, that the modus Vivendi with Great Britain was a breach of oontraot on the part of the United States with the North American Commercial Com pany, and therefore awards judgment for only $94,687, and says that the North American Commercial Company has a claim against the government for about $140,000, to be oollected through the court of claims. The modus Vivendi ended in 1894. Tbe effeot of this de cision will be to enable the government in other suiti to oolloet about $200,000 from the North American Commercial Company, for the years of 1895 and 1896. ' " " ' - - - Louisiana Election Troubles. New Orleans, April 29. The gov ernor has ordered two - oompanies of militia from this city to Natchitoches. Trouble is threatened there on acoount of the refusal of district election offio ials to proclaim the result of the elec tion according to the ballots oast CONGRESSIONAL NEWS. Condensed Record of the Dolns;s of tbe Nation's Lawmakers-Senate. Washington, April 25. Several mi nor bills were passed at the opening of the senate today. Prior . to faking up the Indian appropriation bill Call asked for an agreement by which the senate would take up his resolution directing the president to dispatch a naval force to Cuba for the protection of American interests, but on appeals not to inter rupt the Indian bill he withdrew, stat ing that he would call up his resolution later. The Indian bill was then taken up, the question being on Piatt's amend ment extending the services of the Dawes committee, with a view to the makingjof a roll of the Cherokee and kindred nations. The committee is given directions toward terminating the tribal relations of the Indians and dividing their lands in severalty. The debate was protraoted. The Indian appropriation bill, as thus amended, was then passed. At 6 o'clock the senate went into executive session, and soon after adjourned. Washington, April 27. The move ment for international arbitration was referred to in the prayer of Rev. Hugh Johnson, in the senate today: "Let the armies be disbanded; let the world be at peace," he invoked. . The sundry oivil appropriation bill was then taken up. At 2 o'clock the bond resolution was laid before the senate, and Peffer, its author, proposed amendments to meet the criticisms in the recent speech of HilL A Vene zuela debate came up when the item of the sunrdy civil bill was reached, au thorizing the Venezuela commission to pay rent for its quarters out of the $100,000 appropriated for its expenses. Gorman suggested that legislation was in order. In great haste and a great emergency, congress had appropriated $100,000, at the suggestion of the presi dent, for the purpose, as was supposed, of preventing a war. But now it ap peared that the legislation was not effective in getting quarters for the commission. Washington, April 29. Chandler presented a supplemental report con cerning alleged election frauds injAla bama, and the naval appropriation bill was then taken up. The main features of the bill are the items for four seago ing coast-line battle-ships, designed to carry tbe heaviest armor and most powerful ordnance, and to cost $3,750, 000 each; three torpedo-boats having a speed of thirty knots, to cost $800,000, and ten torpedo-boats to cost $500,000. Quay offered an amendment increasing the appropriation for reserve guns for auxiliary cruisers from $250,000 to $-f00,000." Goramn commented on the delay in furnishing guns at the Wash ington navy-yard. Stewart remarked that there was $280,000,000 cash bal ance'in the treasury. "Yes, and con siderable silver also," said Gorman. After further debate, Quay's amend ment was agreed to. - : House. Washington, April 25. The house today, on motion of Talbert, unanim ously adopted a resolution calling on the secretary of state for all informa tion relative to tbe arrest and imprison ment in Cuba of Rev. Diaz. Consider ation of the Pickler general pension bill was resumed, , and MoClellan spoke in opposition to the measure as intended to be a republican sop to the senators, and a reflection on the ad ministration and pension laws by the present executive officers. The best the majority could do for tbe old soldier, he said, was to bring in this bill. whioh is reported to put upon the pen sion rolls the names of bounty jumpers and men who had deserted from the ranks of the Confederacy. Washington, April 27. This was private bill day. By unanimous con sent bills were passed empowering the city of Tuscon, A. T., to issue bonds to the amount of $100,000 for the con struction of a water and sewer system, and to authorize the return, free of duty, of artioles exported for exhibition purposes. Jones presented a report on the contested election case of Cornett va Swanson, of the fifth Virginia dis trict, in favor of the Democratic sit ting member. Tbe pension bills whioh were favorably acted upon Friday night were passed. Among them was one to pension the widow of the late Brigadier-General Ferdinand Vander vere, at the rate of $50 per month. The house then proceeded with the de bate on the pension bill, and adjourned at 5:30. Washington, April 29. This was Distriot of Columbia day in the house, and the general pension bill was side tracked under an arrangement to give the distriot the first two hours. Several district bills were passed. Henderson, chairman of tbe oommittee on judici ary, gave notice that he would call up tbe bankruptcy bill tomorrow as soon as the pension bill was disposed of. Henderson, irom the committee on rules, then, at 1:30 P. M. brought in a speoial order for the consideration of the Pickler pension bill for one and one-half hours this afternoon, under the five-minute rule, the previous queB' tion then to be considered as ordered on the bill and pending amendments. with a provision for a final vote tomor row, immediately after the reading of the journal. Sole Owner of Defender. New York, April 27. The Herald "says: Mr. William K. Vanderbllt, the head of the syndicate that built and equipped Defender, has become the sole owner of that yaoht Mr. Vanderbilt has bought out the interests of the others, as it was agreed in the plans that he had a right to do, any time af- j ter the America's cup matter had been decided. What Mr. Vanderbilt will do with the famous craft is merely a mat ter of conjecture. - Ashes and charcoal should be kept handy for the hogs. THE MILITIA IS GONE Tents Folded at Midnight and Sand Island Evacuated. : HELD BY UNCLE SAM'S SOLDIERS It Is Reported Tbat Traps in and Bor dering Upon tbo Island Will Also Be Removed. Astoria, Or., April 27. The Wash ington militia was ordered off Sand island, the order demanding - their withdrawal coming from General Otis, commanding the . department of the Columbia. The orders reached Major Kenzie, in command at Fort Canby, late last evening, and in less than an houi after ward the militiamen found themselves at Tlwaoo making preparations for a quick return to Seattle and a per manent cessation from imaginary hos tilities. After dispossessing the militia, Major Kenzie left his troops in posses sion, but how long they will remain oannot now be stated. It is possible, however, that as Boon as all traps fring ing the shores of the island have been removed, the soldiers will return to the quiet i outine of barracks life at Fort Canby. Tbe full import of the orders received by Major Kenzie has not been learned, but it is understood that they inolude , the removal of all the traps in and bordering upon the shores of the island. The dismissal of the militiamen, al though claimed by residents of Wash ington to have been due to the action 1 of the citizens of this state in protest- ing against the construction of the traps, was in reality brought about by the freedom with whioh the militia men made themselves at home at Fort Canby. During the time they were encamped on Sand island, they used tbe government buildings at Fort Canby for sleeping quarters. Com plaint was made, with the result that the matter was laid before General Otis. Instructions were at onoe tele graphed by the latter to Major Kenzie to demand the immediate withdrawal of the militia. Upon proceeding to Sand island with a detaohment of troops, Major Kenzie asked tbe captain of the militia by what authority he was occupying the island. The reply was: "By virtue of authority vested in me by the governor of the state of Wash- ington.'?. ; ; .-w i. i "Are you aware of the fact that you are occupying a government reserve?' asked Major Kenzie. "I am," answered the militia offi cer, "and my orders are to protect the lives and property of the citizens of the state of Washington." "In this instance," said Major Ken zie, I am the agent oi the United States government, and, as suoh, I shall allow you just twenty minutes in which to vacate. In the event of your failure to do so, my orders are to place the detaohment under arrest" This conversation took place about midnight, and the militiamen were hastily summoned from their beds and ordered to pack their tents. The mili tia on Chinook beach, whioh is also a government reservation, were also or dered to move. There is much rejoioing here among the fishermen over the aotion of the federal authorities. It seems to be gen erally believed that Major Kenzie will not stop with the ejection of the Wash- in g ton troops from Sand island, but will also cause the removal of the fish traps, as well as all other ttaps whioh now surround the shores of the island. - A FOUR DAYS' SIEGE. Defense of a Spanish Fort by a Smalt douj or xroops. Havana, April 27. Dispatches re ceived here from Manzanillo, province of Santiago de Cuba, give the details of the gallant defense of Fort Seanja by a small, force of Spanish troops. The fort, it a r Dears, was beseiared bv about 8,500 insurgents of the provinoes of Puerto Prinoipe and Santiago de Cuba, commanded by Roderiguez, Pabi, Capote and others. The attack of the insurgents was carried on with vigor for four days, during which the detaohment of troops defended the place day and- night, although the sol diers suffered terribly from lack of water. The insurgents had with them two rapid-fire guns, one of them belonging to Pabi's column. The other was re cently landed near Guayaja, and was manned by American gunners. The latter made excellent practice, firing about. 216 shots from their pieoe and destroying the sman reservoir usea ior the storage of water, riddling the bar racks, beating down the store house and doing great damage to the fort Three times the insurgents sent mes sages to the fort offering to accept sur render of the garrison with honor, but the Spaniards refused to give up the fort and continued fighting with great enthusiasm. They announoed their in tention of aooepting death before sur render. News of the siege of Fort Seanja was carried to Manzanllo, and General Nunez, with a column of troops, soon afterward left that city on board four small gunboats and two tugboats, for the Rio Canto, and, protected by the guns of the warships the troops were landed at two points in the vioinity of the beseiged fort . The insurgents no .sooner saw the troops landing than they beat a retreat The Grecian government has is sued permits allowing the Amerioan school of archaeology to oonduot exca vations at Corinth for historical and scientific purposes.