VOL. XXXIII.
COR VALLIS, BENTON COUNTY; OREGON. FRIDAY. NOV. 20. 1&!6.
NO. 36.
TRANSPORTATION.
East and South
-VIA-
The Shasta Route
OF THE
Southern Pacific Co.
EXPRESS TRAINS KUN DAILY.
H Leave Portland Arrive I 8:10 A U
12 10 a m lave Albany Arrive I 4:45 a M
10:46 a m Arrive 8. Francisco Leave 7:00 1
Above trains stop at Eatt Portland, Oregon
City, Wouuburn, Halem, Turner, Marion, Jeffer
n, Albany, Albany Janctlon, Taogi-nt, Shedds,
Haltey, llTisburg. Janctlon City, Bugene,
Creswel), Drains, and all stations from Bose
burg to Ashland, Inclusive.
ROSEBDKO MAIL DAILY.
rortlsnd Arrive I 4:40 r K
Albany ' Arrive 1 12 : 63 m
Boseburg Leave f 8 :0S A M
12.26 p m Leave
p I Arrive
-Pullman Buffet sleepers and aecond-cla
sleeping cars attached to all through trains.
6ALBM PASSENGER DAILY.
4:00 p m Leave Portland Arrive 1 10:15 A M
6:16pm Arrive Salem Leave! 8:00am
WBST SIDE BIYISIOW.
Between Portland and Corvallis. Mall train
daily (except Sunday).
- 7 -30 a m Leave Portland
K:15 P M Arrive Corvallis
Arrive It :20 pm
Leave I 1:85 pm
At Albany and Corvallis connect with trains
o(ibe Oregon Central & Eastern By.
FJCPRESR TRAINS DAILY (Except Sunday).
.m, i.eave foiliand Arrive I 8:25 A M
- r m ( Arrive. McMlnnvlUe Leave 6:60 A M
1 brough tickets to all poinu In the Eastern
state, anada and Europe can be obtained at
lowest rate from A. K. Miller, agent, Corvallis.
R. KOEHLER, Manager.
E. P. ROGERS, A. G. F. fc P. A., Portland, Or.
. TO THE t
EAST
GIVES THE CHOICE OF
" TWO TRANSCONTINENTAL
: BO'TTTES
v VIA ' VIA
GREAT UNION
NORTHERN RY. PACIFIC RY,
SPOKANE DENVER
MINNEAPOLIS
AND
ST. PAUL
OMAHA
AND
KANSAS CITY
XW RATES TO ALL
EASTERN CITIES
OCEAN STEAMERS.
alAVE PORTLAND EVERY 5 DAYS '
" " " ' FOR..
SAN FRANCISCO
? v "
For full details, call on or address ,, .
. W. H. HURLBURT. r ,
Gent Pass. Agent, Portland, Oregon.
OREGON CENTRAL
AND EASTERN R.R. CO.
Yaquina Bay Route
Connecting at Yaqalna Bay with tbs
San Francisco & Vaqaina Bay j
STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
Steamship "Farallon "
Rails from Yaquina every 8 days for San Fran
cisco, Coos Bay, Port Orford, Trinidad and
Humboldt Bay. Passenger accommodations
nnsurpassed. (Shortest route between the WiV
lamette valley and California.
Fare From Albany or rolnts West to
San Francisco:
Cabin I 9 Steerage ...... S
Round trip, good for 60 davs, SIS.
To Cnos Bay and Port Orford Cabin 6
To Humboldt Bay Cabin S
Yaquina Bay
Tbe most popular seaside resort. OB the North
Pacific coast. No undertow surf bathing abso
lutely safe.
For thnsH wishing to combine hunting and
f shins with acquatic sports, this resort has no
equal. Deer, bear, elk, cougar, brook trout and
saimon trout, can be iound in abundance with
in a few hours' drive of the bay.
Seduced rates to all points.
J. C. Mato. KDWIN STONE,"
T. F. A P. A. Manager.
H.T-WALDKM,Aent,. Albany. -
DR. L. G. ALTMAN
H0M0E0PATHIST "
Diseases of women and children and general
practice. ,
Office over Allen A Woodward's drag store.
Office hours 8 to 12 A. If., and 2 to S and 7 to S
P.M. -
At residence, corner of 8rd and Harrison after
hoars and on Sundays.
G. R, FARRA, M. D.
' : .. , -,
Office in Farra A Allen's brick, on the corner
of Second and Adams.
Residence on Third street in front of court
house. Office honrs 8 to 9 A. v., and 1 to 1 and 7 to
r. x. All cails attended promptly.
BOWEN LESTER
DENTIST
Office Upstairs over First National Bank.
Strictly F lrst-Ciass Work Guaranteed
Corvallis. Oregon
Til 1) & Vl
lyJoflioilMo
1 Ml OF. THE WEEK
From All Parts of the
. World and the Old.
New
OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS
Oamprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings of tbs Past Week
Culled Pram the Telegraph Columns.
It has been definitely decided by Su
perintendent Irwin that the holiday
lession of the Oregon State Teachers'
association will bo held at' Salem this
rear, beginning on Monday, December
18, and continuing for one week.
John S. Frye, a returned Alaska
niner, met an old schoolmate from
Germany in Taooma. They roomed
'.ogether one night, and in the morning
Frye missed $660 in gold, his sole pos
sesions. His old " schoolmate had
! itolen it and made his esoape.
An angry mob attempted to lynoh
m old German named Breckman in
Sherryville, Kan., for his brutal treat
nent of his daughter. She was beaten
.nto insensibility and died from her in
juries. The sheriff prevented the mob
Irom securing Breckman and he was
lurried to jaiL
A three-story structure at the corner
if Front and Davis streets, Portland,
rwned by the Ainswortb estate, was
partly destroyed by fire. The building
eras occupied by the Oregon Cracker
Company, whose ' plant was ruined,
antailing a loss of about 120,000. The
Jamage to the building will amount to
10,000.
The Cariboo Qold Mining Company,
Df Spokane, haB declared a dividend
)f 2 cents a share. - This makes a total
if 1125,000 paid in dividends since
February, 1695. This is the mine
whose manager was held up by a high
wayman and robbed of $11,000 in gold
bullion not long ago. The robber was
afterwards killed by the foreman of
the mine.
The board of fire commissioners in
Spokane has decided to request the
resignation of Chief Winebrener, of
the fire department. Mayor Belt, af
ter a long contest, has seoured control
of the commissioners, and extensive
removals are probable in the various
departments. It is thought that Claii
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 powder
when mixed with water forms an elec
tric battery, one cell of wbioh is Btrong
enough to run half a dozen lncandes
cent lights. With two cells a power f
fTItrv61tsclaffiM.TThe aiscover-rthe
era are a oolored man and a policeman
of Chioaco. The powder-is claimed
to be made of roots of trees. ' ' .-;
Burglars broke into the house of "John
Mirka," an old -miser, of Cleveland,- O.
He was known to have his money bid
'deriome where' about the premises and
the robbers tried to force : him to tell
them his secret hiding place. Here
'fnBed and they tortured him. He was
bound hand and foot and a lighted
lamp placed at his feet until the flesh
was literally cooked. The old man
writhed in his agony, but protested
that he bad no money. The fiends, then
applied the Same to his hands, then to
his body, until he 'finally Sank into un
consciousness, in wbioh condition he
was found in the morning. The bur
glars got nothing. : .
The British steamer Stratholyde,
from Calcutta for Galveston, went
ashore in the Calcutta river.
General Weyler has taken personal
charge of the Spanish army in Cuba.
He reviewed the troops at Mariol, and
then took up the march to the interior.
The Chicago Tribune; prints a,list of d
275 mills and factories' whioh have re
sumed business- within 'the past ten
days, giving employment to 155,495
men. .
A Constantinople dispatch says
while counseling American mission
aries to remain at their posts in Ana
tolia, Minister Terrell has advised the
removal of the children of missionaries
to places of safety.
Three men were injured by the burst
ing of a naptha retort in a straw fac
tory in Milford, Mass. Their injuries
proved fatal. The men were blown out
of the building, and when picked up
the skin peeled from their faces and
breasts.
- Fourteen buildings in the business
portion of Traverse City, Mich., were
destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of
$50,000. Ed Newberry, a hotel porter,
was burned to death. It is rumored
other lives were lost, but no other
bodies have been recovered. Thirty
guests escaped through the windows of
the Front-street hotel in their night
clothing.
From Greer county, Oklahoma, comes
the news of a", battle between officers
of Greer and Washita oounties and a
large body of Mexican horsethieves, in
whioh one robber was killed outright,
several . wounded - and - two officers
wounded. The Mexicans had been
stealing horses and committing numer
ous depredations in western counties in
Oklahoma.
It is understood the 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.
Jack Walker's saloon, in Baker City,
Or., was visited by four masked men,
who robbed the till of its contents,
$10, The robbers oornered the men in
the saloon with shotguns and pistols,
and made good their escape.
A Madrid dispatch says the govern
ment loan of 250,000,000 pesetas has
been greatly ever-subscribed, and re
ports from numerous towns in the prov
inces have still to come in. The Bank
of Spain has been obliged to engage
twenty special counters in Madrid, ow
ing to the crush of subscribers, num
bers of whom were only able to subscribe
for single bond. , Captialists in Ha
vana offered to subscribe 6,000,000
pesetas.'-.':''' , ' - ; . . -; ,
The state apartments, the . Albert
chapel and tbe Round Tower of Wind
sor oastle have been opened to the public.
" Bobbery Was the Motive..
The passenger train on the Louis
ville & Nashville railroad, bound for
New Orleans, was wrecked near Mont
gomery. Ala., in a very wild country
by trainrobbers. A rail bad been torn
up and nailed down again three or four
inches out of line. The train was com
pletely wrecked and the track was torn
up for 200 yards. Three persons were
seriously injured. Bobbery, was the
evident purpose of the wreckers.
About One Million Dead.
A strange disease is said to have de
veloped in the young salmon at the
Clackamas hatchery, by whioh about
half of the 2,000,000 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 Oaring: Jail Delivery. '
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 retting himself
to the ground with a quilt. Davis was
held for trial on the charge of murder
ing Marshal Baker, of North Balti
more, O., last August. ;
Used Cancelled Stamps.
D. N. Deeblaumford, a barber, of
Sissons, CaL, was fined f 100 by Judge
Morrow in the United States district
oourt for using cancelled postage
stamps. Seven indiotrjpepts . stood
against Deeblaumford, but he was per
mitted to plead guilty to one, and re
ceived only a fine.
. Fell Dead While Flylog" "Crape !
While playing "craps" at the Star
saloon gambling table in Colfax, Wash.,
an old man, who has been about town j
for some time, and who went by tfbe
name of Eugene Jaoques, fell dead
over the table as he was throwing the
dice. The cause is attributed to heart :
disease.
A Successful Expedition.
The expedition which recenlty left ,
New York for Cuba' conveying import
ant dispatches i from the New York
junta and rpunitjions'ofwar is repotted
w uave uraaea saieiy.
' Flht at Lead vllle.
A fight occurred in a saloon in Lead
villa in which five, men were ' stabbed,
one of whom at least will die. Fifteen
or twenty men were .engaged, in Aha.
affray. A party "of ustiiansSrert foil
lowed into the' saloon br Striking
miners, who called them "scabs."
The Austrians resented this. Then
the fight began in which knives were
the. -only weapons., Whentljie, police,
arrived, all the fighters had escaped
except those who were too badly
wounded to flee.
The Knlgntstof Labor.'' , .;
The general assembly of the Knights
oi Labor, in session in Rochester, N.
i .
x., adopted a
enaotment of a graduated income-
tax law. Failing to procure this Hit
.the hands of the next congress it is the
declared intention of the Knights to use j
all their influence to have a demand for .
suoh a tax incorporated into the plat-1
form of one of the tnreat political nar-r
ties, and failing in that they will set
up a new politioal party.
An Increased Appropriation, f 1
Estimates for the entire' Indian serv
ice for the fiscal year ending June 80,
1896, to be submitted to congress at
the opening of the session, call for an
appropriation of $7,290,000 in round
numbers. This is $100,000 more than
the appropriation for the Current fiscal
year. The increase is due to the policy
of the government adopted at the last
session of congress to abolish gradually
contract Indian . schools, and place all
the Indian schools absolutely under
government control. ;
A Graveyard Mystery. -
The dismembered body' of an un
known woman was found in a shallow
grave near St Joseph, Ma Two
enmloves at the a avium claim to havs
seen two men go into the field atnight,
dismount, and, after opening the
grave, ride away, leaving it uncovered.
The body has the appearanoe of having
been buried several weeks. The police '
are mystinea Dy tne nna, ana nave no
clue upon whioh to work.
A Train IMtched.
The Union Pacific passenger west
bound, No. 8, struck a broken rail near
Ogallala, Neb. A tourist car, two
chair oars and one Pullman turned 1
o wiff-
over in a ditcn. .Fifteen . passengers
were hurt, but none seriously. , One
woman oOmplains of severe pains in
her back and may be seriously injured.
One man was badly out on the head.
No others were seriously injured.
Postofflce in Paisley Bobbed.
The postofflce at Paisley, Or., was
robbed by two unknown men recently.
Deputy Postmaster Herbert Aldrioh
witnessed the robbery and fired at the
robbers as they left the . building,
wounding both, one so badly that he
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 up a gallon of the
explosive he had buried, was blown to
atoms by the pick he was using ooming
in contaot with the' chemical. 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.,
L 1 Saddler, a negro lawyer, attacked
and severely wounded Thomas H. Jones,
a prominent " attorney and ex-member
of the Kansas legislature. Saddler be
came enraged at sometibng Jones said,
knocked him down with an iron oourt
seal, and jumped- upon' him before
others could interfere. Saddler had
just been elected justice of the peace
on the Republican ticket. He is in jaiL
A Bloodthirsty Bedskin.
Several days ago, an Indian named
Charcoal, on the Blood reservation,
near Fort MoLeod, North' Dakota,
killed three people, another Indian,
his squaw, and- the farm instructor,
and escaped from the reservation. A
detachment of mounted police has been
in pursuit of him. They have several
times been held at bay by the desperate
Indian. Two policemen have been
wounded, and Sergeant Wilde, while
attempting to capture him, was shot
dead. Tbe orders are to shoot the red
skin on tight -
i fi in mi
Mrs. Craven - Withdrew the
Famous Pencil Will. .
TREMENDOUS SENSATION
A Settlement Said to Have Been Made
With tbe Children of the Late
Senator Will Be Admitted to Probate
San Francisco, Nov. 18. A tremen
dous sensation in connection with the
Fair will controversy was caused this
morning by Attorney Delmas,'., acting
for Mrs. Craven, the alleged 'contract
widow of James G. Fair, and for Mark
Livingston, named as executor oi the
so-called pencil will. Delmas, on be
half of these parties, withdrew the
pencil, will, which he had offered for
probata. . This, it is believed, practic
ally ends' the litigation, which bid fair
to be interminable.
It is understood now that the trust
will will be admitted to probate. The
trust feature of this will was declared
to be illegal so far as real property
was concerned. It is rumored that a ,
similar decision will be mde regard-
'ing the personal property, as governed
by the trust. If so, the attorneys say
that that would permit the estate to be
distributed to the Fair heirs direotly,
without being tied up in a trust and
managed solely by trustees, against the
wishes of the Fair heirs. The trust
will, with the trust features eliminat
ad, would be acceptable to the Fair
3hildxen. is said that the action of
Delmas tnis'inorning is the result of an
Agreement entered into by all the par
ties to the litigation, and that Mrs.
Craven, Mark Livingston and -.others
have been recompensed by the heirs for
any loss they might sustain through
abandonment of their position. Attor
ney Delmas said that his reason for
withdrawing the pencil willfoffered by
Mark Livingston and Mrs. Nettie Cra
ven' was to strengthen Mrs. Craven's
position as the contract wife of Fair
and the possessor of deeds to valuable
properties, alleged to have been signed
by Fair,' and termed forgeries by the
Fair children. Delmas said if the
pencil will should, be rejected it would
injure Mr; Craven and her allies will
concentrate their energies and strength
on the deeds and in establishing their
validity. . .
A SEVERE STORM.
Considerable Damage in Portland and
Throughout the Northwest.
Portland,; Or., Nov. 18 Crippled.
-street-car service, a damagea electric
system, flooded cellars and overflowing
Mi.iMm.M in him iiinv.. w Mm ini 11 u n ill 1 1 1 v i.n i
.... 1... n w.a1...4 n . Vn,An I
t.fota thrnahnnt Wfiar n,
tricta throughout Western Oregon and
Washington are some of the results of
the storm whioh is ooming to be known I
as a record-beater for violence and ;
longevity. :.. . j
'- Winter dropped down on Portland
last night unannounbed. The wind
veered around to a cold quarter and it
snowed intermittently.
The Willamette is coming up rapid
ly. - The guage showed seventeen feet
six inches this morning, which, by the
way, beats past records. It is the
highest water Portland has ever had in
November. . .
The up-country rivers are on a wild
"tear: The Yamhill river is forty-two
r feet above low water. The rivers east,
west and south are beyond their banks,
j. and the Columbia is sweeping over its
old grounds. All trains are more or
less late today, due to washouts on the
lines. Bridges on the Southern Paciflo
at the Santiam are out, necessitating
transfer of passengers, mails and bag
gage. The Northern Paoiflo train is
belated by washouts in Washington,
and the west side line of the Southern
Pacific is submerged. Much damage is
being done to property by overflows.
Water has washed out twenty-five
feet or more of earth filling beneath an
old Northern Paoifio trestle near Wes
ton, seventy-five miles from Taooma.
Several small brigdes have been washed
out between the Columbia river and
Tacoma. - All freight trains between
Portland and
abandoned.
Ellensburg have been
The Cowlitz river is tbe highest
""w" TsJu , n , XT
and flooded the town of Castle Book,
one foot deep.
The Clackamas valley between Port
land and Oregon City is under water,
and the East Side Railway Company
. oould not get their cars through in any
thing like schedule time today, owing
to water being upon the tracks. The
Clackamas has cut a channel around
the north end of the Gladstone dam,
and is eating a 'large slice out of the
big peach orchard.
' . Dynamite in a Hotel.
Boston, Mass., Nov. 18. An attempt
was made early today to blow up the
Hotel Highland, Roxbury, by the use
- of dynamite. - The hotel is a four-story '
apartment-house. The ohimney and
one of the upper stories were badly j
wrecked. After the explosion' the police
. found on the roof three unexploded I
sticks of dynamite eight inches in
. length. They think the intention was
to have the boms exploded simultane-'
ously, which would surely have caused
terrible destruction.
' Menelek to Faure.
- Paris, Nov. 18. Menelek has wired
. President Faure announcing that peace
is ' oonoluded between Abyssinia and
Italy, adding:
"It is my pleasure that our friends
should rejoice with us." . "
. Presidnt Faure replied: '..',," . .
"I congratulate you oordially on the
happy result and rejoice with you as
your neighbor and friend.1' ' . J
Some Polynesian languages have
only seven consonants. ;, -
Accused of Drowning His Family. -
Denver, Colo., Nov. 18. -Andrew J.
Spute was arrested today charged with
the murder of his wife and five chil
dren. On Sunday, October 25, Spute,
who runs a small .suburban grocery, '
took his family boatriding on Smith's
lake, a small .body -of . water In the'
southern part of the ' city. ; By - some
means the boat was upset Spute alone j
oould swim, and the others were
drowned. ' Shortly afterward it de-'
veloped that Mrs. Spute's life was in- j
sured for $10,000. This fact prompted !
XI 1 ..- 11 1 l. '
sue luveaugHMUu wiiiuu ronuiwu ui suw
man's arrest today.
CHAINED A LOCOMOTIVE.
How a South Carolina Sheriff Brought
;' All Transportation to at Slop.
Columbia, S. C, Nov." 18. Some
time ago a Fairfield farmer's horse was
killed by a train on the Charlotte,. Co
lombia & Augusta railroad. The
farmer sued the company and obtained
a jndgment for $109. The authorities
pf the road were in no hurry to settle,
and the matter was put in the hands of
the. sheriff. When the passenger train
from this city arrived at Winsboro,
the, oounty seat. Sheriff Ellison and
Deputy Elliott were on hand. While
idie latter presented a pistol at the en
gineer's head the former chained the
engine drivers to the track. . When the
south-bound New York and Florida
vestibule mail came up lod6d with
ajifingers-. it could , not pass. The
s J-n th-bound train from Columbia waa
also stopped.. -The town authorities
Started to arrest .the sheriff, who, be
coming alarmed,' finally removed the
chains for tbe arrested train to be side
ttitoked. - This the. oonduotor told him
he fould do himself.' '
.- After a blockade of six hours the
railor ad paid the. claim and all trains
were allowed to proceed. All mail and.
passenger connections were missed.
Aside from probable action by the post
office department, it is said that the
passengers will sue the county for dam
ages and the engineer will bring action
against the sheriff for theratening him
with a pistoL ' : y
M'KINLEY AND BRYAN.
Tote
Cast for Bach of Them
br the
' " . , , Counties of Oregon. I I
5 -The official canvass of the votes cast '
'irf. Oregon for McKinley and Bryan has
been made'in all oounties, and returns .
thereof received, excepting Curry, Har- '
ney? and Grant' From these three
counties complete, though not official, !
returns have been reoeived. The total
vote for Palmer and for Levering is:
Palmer 838,'Levering 817. These re-i
tferns give the vote by counties as fol- !
lows: ,
Counties. McKinley.
Baker ............. 957
Benton , 1,079 .
Clackamas ...... 2,665
Cla-tsop 1,849
Columbia 1,026
Coos .. .- 1,103.
Crook ..... 607
Currv .....;. ... SOO
Douglas. . ..... ... .1,918 ..
Gilliam . 652
Grant ,.. ..... ." f72
ryan.
1,836
992
2,386
: 1,135
831
' 1,558
,. 593
300
2,039
471
828
405
2,362
1,193
462
382
2,588
557
2,736
654
3,419
644
6,463
1,307
418
' 637
Harney .
218
Jaekaon:...Y;.
Josephine..
Klamath
Lake S.....
Lane...'.......
Lincoln........
Linn-
Malheur. ...1.
.1,387
. 843
846
, 350
.2,221
583
.... ; 2,064
. 313
..... ; 3,748
. 688
A.... 11,824
... 1,248
420
.. 691
1.863
Marion..
Morrow
Jiultnomah...
- Tillamook
Umatilla..
2,078
2,155
il.li
union.
1 1 i
iwa....
, 3g&
1,701 "t 1,367
W ashington
Yamhill
... 2.085
1,566
1,736
. 1,782
...48.679
Totals
McKinlef's plurality, 2.146.
46,533
THE' VOTE ; OF WASHINGTON.
Complete Returns From all Countfes in
the State.
Complete returns of the votes oast in
Washington November 3, 1896, official,
from all oounties except Kitsap and
Skamania, . give McKinley 89,481,
Bryan 50,900. For governor, Rogers
received 50,441 and Sullivan 88,890.
The vote by counties is in the table fol
lowing: Counties. McKinley. Bryan.
Adams ......... 243 863
Asotin . 214 254
Chehalis . 1,270 1,310
Clallam 700 764
Clark:..i. 1,497 1,497
Columbia. 777 843
Cowlitz 989 937
Douglas ..,......................i.. 331 . 726
Franklin . 30 . 105
Cat-field ........, 378 469
Island 206 181
JeEerson 704 600
King 6,413 7,497
Kitsap .j 653 662
Kittitas 1,044 1,022
Klickitat. -..j . . 876 664
Lewis 1,694 1,584
Lincoln . 781 ' 1,713
Mason ..... . 397 650
Okanogan .. 272 896
Pacific ..... -. 925 610
Pierce 4,641 , 6,394
San Juan..... -...m 411 283
Skagit ......... 1,567 1,268
Skamania.... .... 142 358
Knohomish 1,871 2,775
Spokane 2,706 6,024
Stevens...... 425 1,880
Thurston 1,052 1,364
V'ahkiakum... . 292 374
Walla Walla .. 1,596 1,652
Whatcom 1,949 2,149
Whitman....... .... 1,610 8,532
Yakima . 935 1,200
Totals ...39,481 j0,900
Bryan's plurality, 11,419. . .
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 the - explosion of a bomb he was
handling,, while., getting ready to send
aBarpbdn r into a big whale. The
whaling crew began work last week,
after an idleness of several months. A
whale was sighted, and the crew went
after him. When within shooting
distance a harpoon was shot into the
monster whale, whioh instantly sank,
dragging nearly all the line attached
to the harpoon: The whalers were
having a hard 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 piece striking him in the
stomach. .
A Frenchman, who has been herding
sheep for Mr. Barnhouse, in Grant
county, Oregon, until recently, shot
and Instantly killed a sheepman, named
Billy Wilson, near Rook Creek. The
tragedy occurred the 7th inst, while
the two men were riding horseback a
few rods from the main traveled road.
From all accounts the shooting was
malicious and without provocation.
Wilson was shot in the back, the ball
passing through the heart and ooming
out at his breast :' - -; -
Shipwrecked on Cuban Coast.
New York, Nov. 18. Among the
passegners who arrived today are Cap
tain Nelson and twelve of the crew of
the British ship Coils, whioh ran
ashore on . the Cuban ooast and was
wrecked. , One of the crew tells of an
adven tare with the Spanish there. He
and twf others were taken in charge by
a troop of soldiers, who believed them
to be Americans. They were beaten
and terribly maltreated on that account
'.'-. - ... . .
The word "lausuase" ocmes from
I the Lata "lin-rua," the tongue, .
IS NO IMMEDIATE DANGER
General Lee Talks of Chances
of War With Spain.
NO SUCH FEELING IN CUBA
Spaniards Have No Bight to Censure
tbe United States for Permitting
the Filibustering Expeditions.
Washington, Nov. 17, General
Fitzhugh Lee, consul-general of tbe
United States to Cuba, returned here
this afternoon from Virginia,, where he
has been visiting bis family. ' No time
has yet been fixed for his return to
Havana, but it is understood he has
been asked to remain here probably a
oouple of weeks longer, in order to
hold himself in readiness to. oonfer
with the president and secretary of
state on the Cuban question.
'General Lee talked tonight of the
Spanish-Cuban situation, and while not
denying the possibility of warywith
Spain, expressed the opinion, that the
reports that an open rupture was im
minent, and that consequent prepara
tions for trouble were being made by
both countries might be greatly exag
gerated. He said he had no knowledge
of immediate danger of hostility,
though, of coarse, there was 'great feel
ing among some Spaniards against this
country, as they thought that without
filibustering aid and comfort from here
the rebellion might easily be suppressed.
' He had no information as to whether
the Spanish were prepared or prepar
ing for war. . He said:
"I do not believe there has been any
massing of armament in Cuba, with a
view to possible trouble with the Unit
ed States, nor that the construction of
Spanish war vessels is to be attributed
to any such contingency. . The Spanish
army may be improving their defenses
wherever possible, but it does not neo
essarily imply expectation of war. The
United States is steadily strengthen
ing its fortifications and defense works,
and it is an old maxim that says 'in
time of peace prepare for war. '
''"About the war sentiment in Cuba?
The Spanish officials said nothing to
me that indicated any expectation of
; war'" The' only; thing that oould be
construed- to give that impression is
the .mounting of a battery of heavy
'seaooast guns on the ooast above Ha
' vana. There are from twelve to fifteen
of these that extend . perhaps a mile or
a mile and a half north of the limits of
the oity proper. These point to sea
and not toward the insurgents. In
case of an attack, it is possible these
might be made to supplement the de
fense given by Moro castle, Cabanas,
JtainaJiBiLjerjtorta-
iirpu anoit. oV.n,
The Spanish authorities rather cen
sure the United States for not striotly
enforcing the neutrality, laws, and
many think that, as the .sympathy of
this oouncry is more with tbe insur
gents than with the Spaniards, our1 gov-
eminent does not want to tak9 the
proper precautions to prevent expedi
j tions leaving the United States sea-'-'
ports and landing in Cuba. I told the
Spanish authorities that they must re
member that there was an immense ex
j tent of seaooast here with -innumerable
inlets and places where expeditions
could be concentrated and embarked.
From the trouble which they them
j selves had to prevent the landing of
! such expeditions on the Cuban coast,
notwithstanding their gunboats and
other vessels were constantly patroll
ing the ooast and on the lookout for fili
busters, some idea could be formed of
tne comparative ease with which the
United - States authorities could be
evaded. With the comparatively small
Cuban coast line, I knew of only one
big expedition, that of the Three
Friends, which bad been captured by
them. Yet this country had certainly
prevented the starting of at least a
half-dozen big expeditions for the
island. In view of this object lesson
of the difficulty of putting a stop to
filibustering, I contend that the Span
ish ought to be careful about oensuring
us."
RAILROADS IN CHINA.
Million Dollar Construction , Company
Formed in Chicago.
Chicago, Nov. 17. The Tribune
says: One million dollars has been
subscribed and plans are being matured
for the formation in Chicago, within
two weeks, of a gigantic commercial
enterprise to be known as the English-American-Chinese
Railway Construc
tion Company, which is to enter the
field of Chinese trade as the rival of
the American Trading ' Company.
The objeot of tbe company is to eventu
ally obtain control of the American
trade in the Flowery Kingdom. Twenty-three
miles of railway equipped with
the most improved appliances and roll
ing stock will be built Most of tbe
capital, it is said, will be put in by
Americans, and they will-also supply
the equipment of the road.
Two Englishmen are directing the
formation of the syndicate from oppo
site sides of the globe. One of them,
John P. Grant, is now in Chicago, con
cluding the deal, and the other, Louis
Spitzel, is in China. The former is a
railroad promoter, and the latter the
head of the firm of Louis Spitzel &, Co.,
London and Shanghai. .
Photographed, the Heart.
Professor Norton, of the Massachu
setts Institute of Technology, has suc
ceeded in ' getting Roentgen photo
sranbs of the liver, heart and lnnca
sufficiently plain to admit cf medical
examination.
French Imports and Kx ports.
London. Nov. ,17. Tho Timfls' Paris
dispatch saya . that the October trade t
returns show an inorease in the
ports and a decline in the exports.
im-
A Dynamite Explosion. "
;- Niagara Falls, N. Y. ,N6v. 1 7 ,-By the
explosion ox about tnirty pounds oi
dynamite in tbe office building of F.
D. Smith & Company, contractors, in
charge of the extensiou'of the wheel pit
and tunnel of the Niagara Falls Power
Company,! today, two men were' in
stantly killed.' one " fatally' -injured,
three others severely injurod, and sev
eral out and bruised by flying rooks and
timbers.''. The office building, a frame
structure, 40x50 feet, was totally de
molished and windows inany yards dis
tant were broknvhe rock.
WEEKLY MARKET LETTER.
Downing,
Hopkins & Co.'s
Trade.
Kevlew of
Portland, Or., Nov. 18. Wheat
fluctuations continue wide, something
to be expected after suoh an advance
and with the supply and demand posi
tions so unusual. The Speculative in
terest, however, is broadening. It
continues to be the fact that there is
praotioally no leadership to the market
for the reason that none is possible.
While there is more or less talk of
manipulation, there is no real belief in
any and no reason for any such belief.
The erratic course of prices is a proof
of the absence of any 'control on this
side and the independent and occasion
ally inexplicable conduct of Liverpool
is put as good proof of the laok of any
control over . there. The , market for
the present is leading the speculators,
and so far those who have essayed to
lead the market have not profited by
their efforts. . The 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 tbe natural effort of the world's
markets to adjust the prices to the
situation, and the . sharp dips, whioh
might in any other year be regarded
suspiciously as manipulative "shake
outs," are merely tbe wide swings of
a market violently agitated by the
baste in readjustment. The operator
who has assumed that there was some
powerful influence to tail after has
been bitterly disappointed. The most
successful man has been the one who
has pertinaciously operated within his
means only on tbe one side.
Tbe developments of the week were
the springing up of a surprising mill
ing demand at Chicago, the continu
ance of tbe drought in India, and the
falling off of the movement from first
hands West and Northwesfj. Primary
receipts last week were 2,000,000 bush
els less than the week previous and 3,-
i 000 00q
bushels less than in 1895.
Cables Saturday said the India famine
had been unbroken in all the distressed
districts. Nothing was more remark
able during the week than the large
cash wheat business done at Chicago
on days when the wildness and the
fluctuations might have been expected
to cause all cash buyers to hesitate.
The sales Friday and Saturday aggre
gated over 500,000 bushels. Another
noteworthy feature was that the out
side markets advanced faster than ChiJ
cago, showing that speculators were re
tarding rather than hastening the ad
vance. The very large increase during
October in wheat stocks ir Europe and
afloat, 20,300,000 bushels, against an
increase for the same month last year
of only 4,200,000 bushels, is not as
bearish as might be imagined at first
glance. Of this total the increase
afloat, 5,000,000 bushels, was con
tributed largely from this side, whence
Reimports have concededly -been larger
than can be maintained. The inorease
in Eussian stocks, 15,400,000 bushels,
is not so very different from the in
crease last year in the same month, 8,
500,000 bushels. The - extraordinary
advance in prices, 40 per cent within
sixty days, has accomplished all these
increases, the only thing of course, for
which the advanoe was instituted.
The exports of wheat, flour included
as wheat, from both coasts of the Unit
ed States and Montreal amount to 4,
'664,515 bushels, the heaviest week's
total since the second week of Septem
ber, 1893. This is an inorease of about
1,000,000 bushels over last week; of
more than 1,800,000 bushelB over the
corresponding week of a year ago; of
more than 1,700,000, as compared with
the like week in 1894, a gain of about
2,000,000 bushels as compared with
the corresponding week of 1893, and of
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
chance for serious international com
plications between tbe United States
and Canada over the troubles in the
Yukon district In places suoh as
Forty-mile creek, where the boundary
is supposed to pass, and where some
of the creeks are in American 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 district and the
washing of gold in Canadian waters,
the secretary of state says that this
state of affairs arises from the fact'
that the commissioners appointed to de
fine the boundary line between the two
countries have not yet submitted their
report to the government Tbe dis
trict alleged to have been invaded is a
Canadian town named Cudahy at
Forty-mile creek, and is the headquar
ters of the mounted police of the Yukor
district There is a United States post
office there, but it is net recognized by
the Canadian government.
The Canadians and tbe Americans
in the district of Yukon are anxiously
waiting for the offioialf . nement
which will define the Canadian terii
tory from that of the United States.
Dervish Haiders.
Suakim, Nov. 18. Dervishes have
ravaged the oountry in the vicinity of
Tokar, killing five men and looting a
number of houses. Troops have been
dispatched in pursuit of the raiders
. Private Iiettei boxes.
Washington, Nov. 18. The post-
office officials are anxious to secure
legislation during the next session of
congress to regulate the use of private ,
letter-boxes, ;3hich, it is said, afford
great facilities for persons engaged in
fraudulent enterprises. In Chicago,
New ' York, Philadelphia, Boston and
other large cities, the private letter' j
oxea naTe neoome a nxea institution.
They. are rented by anyone willing to
pay for their convenience. ,
'Bryan's Views on Bimetallism. '
Chioagp, Nov. 18. W. J. Bryan is
actively engaged in the preparation of
a work to be published about January
1. This work will embody a thorough
discussion of bimetallism and' its im
portance as an issue in the campaign of
1900: Mr. Bryan has authorized his
publishers, the T. W. B. Conkey Com
pany, of this oity, to state that one-half
of the royalties received from the sale
of the book wC'i'l used in advancing
tne cause of bimetallism during the
next four years. . The work will also
contain Mr. Bryan's views regarding
' & results of the ree?, of rtai'-Ta. ;
18 MASSING HER f
Russia Collecting; a Large
Force at Vladivostock. .
A MENACE TO ASIA'S PEACE
Many' Naval Teasels and Over One
Hundred. Thousand Men at the
Port Her Warlike Preparation.
. San Francisco, Nov.' 16. The Bulle
tin says: ' '
"A letter containing a duplicate of
mail advices sent by the regular corre
spondent of the Hong Kong Press, at :
Vladivostock, was received by the last
China steamer, and was turned over
to the Bulletin today. , The communi
cation shows that the ozar is massing
troops in the Vladivostock district, and
has a - large number of naval vessels,
in northern waters. - The principal de
tails of the situation are contained in
the following paragraphs:
" 'Although the Russian govern
ment explains that the massing of
troops in the Primorsk and Eastern
Siberia is due Jto "exchange of army
divisions," it is learned that in all the
divisions of Vladivostock there are not
less than 112,000 men of arms, whioh
monster army is looked upon as a men
ace to the peace of Asia.' "
"The correspondent commenting on
the situation, says:
. " 'While it is confessed that Rus
sia is entitled to some outlet to the-i
Pacific, the -continuous and warlike
preparations are anything but reassur
ing. The frequent presence of Russia's
engineers at Port Arthur, and their
operations in Manchuria, with the
tacit consent of China, are highly sig
nificant indications of tbe relations be
tween Fus-ia and China, and point
unmisti kabl' to the common object of
Russia's warlike preparations.'
" 'It behooves the British govern
ment to thoroughly investigate this
very important matter. "
THE EMPEROR TO THE RECRUITS
William's Oration to His Green Sol
diers. , London, Nov. 16. The Times' Ber
lin dispatch says: .
The ceremony of swearing in tbe re
cruits for the garrisons of Berlin,
Spandau, Carlottenburg and Gross-,
Liohterfield this afternoon took plaoe
in front of the royal palace. Emperor
William delivered an oration, in the
course of which he said:
"You have just taken an oath upon
the crucifix and the standard to me, t
your war lord, and to the Fatherland.
Just as the crown is naught without .
.the al tar Jiad.-tb cruoi f; JS He army
is nothing without the Christian relig
ion. You are called as soldiers in my
keeping to serve me in single-banded
allegiance. Ever remember you have '
received your weapons to protect the
crown and altar. In view of the gen' -.
eral mistrust now prevailing, . it is
especially your duty by obedienoe al- t
ways to set a good example. You are
entering the army in the year we cele
brate as the centennary of the birth of
the great Emperor William. Never -forget
what he accomplished. We are
in duty ,bound to maintain what he
created. His eyes rests upon the whole
army. God grant that at the call of ;
beaven we may appear worthily before
him." ,
The Daily Mail's Berlin dispatoh says: -
"The following words, held to indi
cate his personal feelings on the reoent
Bruswitz incident at Carlsruh,' oc
curred in Emperor William's speech:
" 'Hold your uniform in honor. The
man who insults your ooat insults the f
king; who assaults the king's ooat as
saults your chief lord. ' "
The Bruswitz incident, it will be
remembered, was that of a German
army officer who ran through the body
a workman, wbo inadvertently brushed .
against him in a cafe, and who de
clined to apologize, on the ground that
no insult was intended.
BATTLE WITH DESPERADOES.
Two Mexicans Were Killed and Two
Txsn Wounded
St Louis, Nov. 16. A special to
the Republio from Dallas, Tex. , says:
. Deputy United States Marshal Er
win and posse arrived in Dallas today
from a soout in the panhandle after
Mexioan cattle-thieves. Erwin give
details of a battle in Childress county,
Tex. , in whioh two Mexioans were
killed and two Texans wounded. The
Mexicans had . committed numerous
robberies, and several murders in Colo
rado and New Mexioo, and bad been
pursued into Western Oklahoma and
Texas. In the Kiowa and Commanche
reservations of Oklahoma, they stole
upward of fifty horses and several head
of cattle. The Indians, who followed
the Mexioans, solicited aid from the
sheriff of Childress oounty, who, with
a posse of deputies and citizens, over
took the Mexicans last Saturday after
noon. The Mexicans were armed with
Winchesters and pistols. Near the
boundary of Childress and. Hall ooun
ties a pitched battle took place, in
whioh two of the five Mexioans in the
band were killed and one wounded.
No livers will do for
gras but those of geese.
pate de foie
Horseless Mail Wagons in New Yolrk.
New York, Nov. 16. It was 'an
nounoed today at the postofflce that in
a week or two the first horseless mail
wagons ever used in the United. States
will be put upon the streets of this
city. They will be employed in the
collection of mail from letter-boxes
about the oity, and letters thus collect
ed are to be sorted, stamped and sent
to the proper railway station without
going to the general or any branch
postoffioe. .' ? -
Died of His Injuries. . '
Burlington, la., Nov. 16. Oounty
Treasurer Burrus, who was injured in
the reviewing-stand accident, together
with Vice-President Stevenson,, and
others on Governor's day of the Iowa
semi-centennial celebration, ; died last
night of his injuries. He was about 50
years of age, and was highly respected.
' Paper Mills Will Resume. '
Lima.O., Nov. .16. The Lima paper
mills, whioh employ 850 men and pay
out 110,000 a month,, will resume oper
ations December 1, after mouths of
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