The Corvallis gazette., June 25, 1897, Image 1

VOL,. XXXIV.
CORVAIiLIS, BENTON COUNTY,. OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1897.
NO. 15.
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Interesting Collection of Items From
the New and the Old World In a
Condensed and Comprehensive Form
An advance of 5 cents a pound on
bar iron has been announced. This is
the first tendency toward recuperation
that bar iron has shown in six months.
A terrible explosion of a torpedo on
the Mexican International, near Eagle
Pass, Tex., completely wrecked a loco
motive and killed the engineer and fire
man.
A sidewalk collapsed in Chicago and
100 people, mostly children were
thrown to the ground, ten feet below.
A number were seriously injured and
one fatally.
Mrs. Know, wife of J. W. Know,
living near Latah, Wash., gave birth
to three girls and one boy. Each child
is well formed and weighs 4J pound
Mother and children are doing well.
The walls of a saloon gave way with
out warning in Watertown, S. D., bury
ing a number .of persons in the ruins.
The place was crowded at the time.
The work of clearing away the debris
resulted in the finding of one body.
Five others were seriously injured
It has been discovered that the act of
the last session of the Colorado legisla
ture in regard to negotiable instru
ments, repealed the statute establish
ing the Fourth of July, Thanksgiving,
Christmas, New Year's, Washington's
birthday and Memorial day as legal
holidays.
A mob of 300 infuriated peasants at
Odessa, Russia, seized and savagely
lynched one Dunkirk, a murderer, who
was being conveyed by the police to
jail. Dunkirk was charged with the
commission of 13 murders. The po
lice have arrested 35 ringleaders of the
lynching party.
Alma Fullmer, 10 years old, has been
convicted of theft, and ordered sent to
the reform school at Whittier, Cat.
From the bottom of a mortar box she
took an old plank, with which to build
a playhouse. She was convicted of
petty larceny by an Alameda judge,
and now she is behind the bars await
ing her removal to the reform school.
A telegram received in Seattle from
United States Senator Wilson says that
plans for the fortifications at Magnolia
bluff, the army post near Seattle, have
been approved, and an assignment of
$400,000 made. General Weeks, quartermaster-general
United States army,
has been ordered to Seattle, and direct
ed to proceed with the work immedi
ately. The basement and entire lower por
tion of -the postoffice building in Fort
land, Or., was wrecked by a terrific ex
plosion of gas Monday. The head jani
tor, whose thoughtlessness caused the
explosion by taking a lighted candle
into the basement, was severely burned
about the head and arms. A clerk in
the stamp department was also hurt,
bat not seriously.
The president has appointed J. B.
Brady, of Alaska, to the governorship
of that territory.
George J. Hackett, a miner, was
crushed to death, as the result of an
accident in the Brown Bear mine at
Deadwood, Cal.
James P. Harlan, brother of Asso
ciate Justice Harlan, was accidentally
killed by being run down by a train in
Louisville, Ky.
Reports from all portions of Wash
ington anil Oreornn oast tf tli CT.ta-
cades, tell of the rainfall the past
-week, which has been general in this
section. The correspondents all agree
that the last vestige of danger to the 1
'97 wheat crop is removed. The crop j
yield, will be enhanced 25 per cent.
The ram has caused additional benefit
by wiping out the grasshopper pest.
Senator McBride, of Oregon, has been
making an effort to secure the restora
tion of the house rate of $3 per 1,000
on lumber, planed, grooved and
tongued, instead of $2. 60, as reported
by the senate committee on finance.
He says that the lumber dressed in this
manner is worth at least twice as much
in the Portland market as the sawed
lumber, which pays a duty of $2 under
the bill, as agreed to. Senator Mc
Bride says that the importations of
dressed lumber will quite seriously in-
terfere with industries in Oregon and
Washington.
The universal postal congress, the
fifth convention of the kind in the
world, has finished its labors in Wash
ington, D. C. The sixth congress will
be held in Borne in 1903. All the
countries ot the world were represented
at the congress just closed, with the
exception of Corea and the Orange Free
State, and these two sent word that
they hoped soon to enter the postal
union. The congress, among other
things, succeeded in establishing uni-
lorm colors ior postage stamps, ar-.
ranged for facilitating intermediary
transit rates and diminishing the tariff
quite materially on a graduated scale !
for the ensuing six years. r . '
The Salt Lake Tribune has published
a story that a party of desperadoes from
the notorious " Robbers' Roost," in
Southern Utah, have gone -to Wyo
ming and are located 'at Wamsutta, a
small station east of Rock Springs.
Their purpose, it is claimed, was to
hold up the Union Pacific express train j
or eise to roo uie paymaster oi tne
Sweetwater mines. .
Henry L. Buehler, of Baltimore, Md.,
the oldest Odd Fellow in the world, is
deal.
The London Times publishes a table
showing that in the ordinary course of
nature the future rulers of Germany,
Russia, Greece and Roumania will be
immediate descendants of Queen Vic
toria. C. P. Huntington is quoted as saying
that the Pacific Mail Company will put
on two new steamers of 10,000 tons
each, to ply between San Francisco and
China. The customs committee of the
French chamber of deputies has adopt
ed a proposal of M. Jonnart to impose
a duty of 12 francs per hundred kilo
go foreign pork.
THE PREMIER DENOUNCED.
Spanish Manifesto Demands That the
Cuban Reign of Terror Cease -
London, June 23. The Madrid cor
respondent of the Times says: The
Spanish liberals have adopted an atti
tude, which will probably create a pro
found sensation, both here and in the
United States, but which- is little cal
culated to improve the situation. At
a meeting of ex-ministers of the liberal
party on Sunday . Senor Sagas ta made
an energetio speech, denouncing the
home and foreign policy of the premier
and his conduct during the recent crisis,
which Sagasta insisted had led the peo
pie to criticise the decision of the crovn.
The meeting resolved to issue a man
ifesto, declaring that the liberals would
persist in abstaining from all relations
with the government, so long as the
Duke of Tetuan is retained m the cab
inet. The manifesto will also assert
that the liberals were the authors of
the first colonial reform scheme in 1894,
but curtailed it in 1895 in order to ob
tain the support of the conservatives.
The manifesto will characterize the
proposed reforms of Canovas as inade
quate and suggest the replacement of
Captain-General Weyler by a governor
who will continue the war in accord
ance with civilized practices, the stop
ping of the reign of terror and devasta
tion of property in Cuba, and the ap
pointment of a civilian as royal com
missioner, with full powers distinct
from the military authorities, to. exe.
cute reforms of the widest autonomy in
political, administrative, economical,
tariff and legislative matters, compati
ble with the preservation of the im
perial sovereignty.
The manifesto will promise to go very
far in the direction of a sacrifice of
Spanish commercial interests, and of
sharing the burden of colonial , war
debts in order to secure peace.
PLAN TO END THE WAR.
Sugar Trust Would Buy Cuban .Island
From Spain.
New York, June 23. A dispatch to
the Herald from Washington says: A
story is current that the sugar trust has
evolved or accepted an ambitious sug
gestion that Cuba is substantially for
sale, and might as well become a sugar
plantation for a gigantic corporation
supported by the sympathy and interest
of our country. In other words, that
we might have a West Indian Com
pany, as England had, and a Hudson
Bay Company, each of which aided in
the extension of British empire.
It is said the Spanish minister to the
United States cabled recently to Madrid
reports of the disposititon of our gov
ernment to decline to interfere by
force and also to support Cuban auton
omy, and that this cable prevented the
recall of Weyler, when a change in the
Spanish ministry was in the air, and
prevented sending to Cuba Campos,
who, having closed the ten years' war
with cash in band, might do the same
job now by the same means much
cheaper than Spain can keep 200,000
soliders in the field. " " "i "" "
- Colonel J. J. Cook is the gentleman
credited with the imagination to con
ceive the capture of Cuba with cash as
a measure of peace.
- In the House of Commons.
London, June 23. The house of
comomns was crowded yesterday, when
the first lord of the treasury, Mr. Bal
four, moved, and Sir William Vernon
Harcourt, liberal leader, seconded, an
address of congratulation to the qneen.
Dillon, chairman of the Irish parlia
mentary party, protested.
John Redmond, a Parnellite leader,
amid laughter from the conservatives
ai'.d unionists, moved an amendment to
the address, and caused an animated
scene. Redmond protested 'against
Great Britain's rule in Ireland, and
asked that house to adopt an amendment
to the effect that it deemed it a duty to
place on record that during the 60 years
of her majesty's reign Ireland bad suf
fered grievously from famine, depopu
lation, poverty and continued suspen
sion of constitutional liberties, with
the result that the Irish are discon
tented and are unable to join in the
celebration.
On San Nicholas Island.
Long Beach, Cal., June 23. After
nearly three weeks' sojourn on the
barren island of San Nicholas, a party
of relic-hunters reached Long Beach
today, loaded with skeletons, skulls and
ancient implements and ornaments of
stone and shells, the remains- of pre
historic tribes.
The party found 87 skulls buried in
the sand of the island, but were only
able to secure three entire. They made
one exoavation 20 feet square in which
they found nine skeletons in a crouch
ing attitude, as though men, women
and children had been buried alive. In
another place they found the remains
of hundreds of bodies that had been
burned.
Evidence was found that the island
was inhabited by two or more different
races, one of which was of great size, a
peculiar characteristic being gigantic
jawbones. '
Lees Thinks Fig-el la Guilty.
San Francisco, June 23. Chief ot
Police Lees has made the statement
that from the evidence so far brought
out at the coroner's inquest, it is,- in
his opinion, fair to conclude that Theo
dore Figel was immediately connected
with the death of Isaac Hoffman.
Half-Breed's Inheritance.
Seattle, Wash., June 23. Emma
Kromer, a half-breed Indian girl, poverty-stricken
and an inmate of the
refuge home in this city, today fell heir
to $35,000 through the death of a
brother In California, of consumption.
She is the daughter of a Boston, Mass. ,
white man named Kromer, who oame
West years ago to avoid a scandal in
his family affairs, and settled on 160
acres of land at Port Gardner, now the
oresent townsite of Everett.
. Minister to Spain.
Washingotn, June 23. The presi
dent has nominated Stewart L. Wood
ford, of New York, to be minister to
Spain. -
The president also sent the following
nomination to the senate: - Julius
Goldschmid, of Wisconsin, to be consul
general at Berlin. Howard M. Kutohin,
of California, to be agent of the salmon
fisheries of Alaska; also a number of
promotions in the army. -
Four-fifths of the world's supply of
cloves comes from Zanzibar and Pem
ba, Africa,
The President Determined to
Revive the Treaty.
fS PROFITING BY EXPERIENCE
A New Treaty Has Already Been
Drafted to Serve as a Basis for the
Coming- Negotiations.
Washington, June 22. President
McKinley has determined to revive the
general treaty of arbitration between
the United States and Great Britain.
He has already turned his attention to
the subject, and under the direction of
Secretary Sherman, the matter has pro
gressed to the extent that a new treaty
has already been drafted to serve as the
basis of negotiations. In the draft
which is to be used as the basis there
are said to be none of the objetcionable
points which caused the failure of the
Olney treaty. It is not in contempla
tion that the treaty will be submitted
to the senate before next December,
and there is reason to believe that the
attitude of the senate toward a new
treaty will be fully canvassed and un
derstood before the treaty is signed.
It is understood that the initiative in
the, present case will be taken by the
government, as the failure of the former
treaty, by the inaction of the senate,
left the subject in such condition that
the British government did not feel
disposed to renew negotiations until
first invited by the United States.
' Sir Julian Pauncefote leaves Wash
ington next week for Great Britain.
It was understood at first that the am
bassador would take a copy of the new
treaty with him, but this will not be
done. It is expected, however, that a
draft will be in- London at no distant
day, in whion case Sir Julian Paunce
fote will be in communication with the
foreign office to consider the terms of
the instrument.
SENATOR PERKINS VIEWS.
Prefer British Columbia to the Ha
- - wallan Islands.
New York, June 22. A dispatch to
the World from Washington says: Sen
ator Perkins, Republican, of California,
is strongly disposed to join his Demo
cratic colleague, Senator White, in op
position to the proposed annexation of
Hawaii.
"I am familiar with the islands,"
said he, "and I am very doubtful as to
the wisdom of this policy. There is
one feature of some moment that I have
not yet seen touched upon. Within
the last year or two there have been a
large number of merchant vessels built
pn the Clyde for the Hawaiian trade.
They fly the Hawaiian flag, but are
English vessels. Under the proposed
treaty those ships would naturally be
come entitled to American registry f for
they would come in with the islands.
There is nothing in the treaty to pre
vent them from coming in, nor to pre
vent the Englishmen from building
more vessels in anticipation of annexa
tion and claiming American registry
for all of them. In that case they
would probably soon take away all of
our coastwise trade and render idle for
some years our American shipyards.
"There is another, and perhaps more
important question involved. The an
nexation of Hawaii would, it seems to
me, utterly ruin the beet sugar indus
try that is now beginning to assume
considerable proportions in California
land .other parts of the West. With
coolie labor the Hawaiian! can produce
sugar and refine it for 2 cents a pound.
Beet sugar costs anywhere from Z to
4 cents a pound to produce, and we
could not compete. . Then, - too, the
planters of Hawaii have a trust just as
tyrannical and importunate as the
sugar trust, and it would not be long
before the two joined forces and had
the whole country at their mercy.
"I shall not set up my personal views
against those of the majority of the peo
ple, but I am far from being an enthu
siastic annexationist. The idea that we
need Hawaii as a coaling station is
foolish, because ships going from San
Francisco to Japan or China would
have to go 500 miles out of the way to
touch at Hawaii. It would be much
more convenient to establish a coaling
station at one of the Aleutian islands,
which already belong to us and are
within 75 miles of the path of ocean
travel..
"I do not appreciate, either, the
argument that we need Hawaii because
of its strategic value. The islands are
2,000 miles from San Francisco. Eng
land has at Esquimau a fortress which
she is every day rendering more and
more impregnable, and which is much
nearer, to San Francisco. I would be
much more favorably disposed towards
a proposition to purchase British Co
lumbia. It would be much more valu
able to us than Hawaii."
.A Deficiency In Pennsylvania.
Harrisburg, Pa., June 22. Deputy
Attorney-General Elkins gave out a
statement tonight on the condition of
the state finances, which shows there.
is a dehcit of .$ 3,500,000 in the state t
treasury. Mr. Elkins says the legisla- j
ture has for several years, appropriated i
more money than the net revenues of
the state, hence the present large de
ficiency. Beethoven Bust Unveiled.
Chicago, June 22. The bronze bust
of Beethoven was unveiled in Lincoln
Park today in the presence of a large
gathering of admirers of the famous
composer. ' j
Omaha, June 22. Engineer Hamil
ton was killed outright and his fireman
was seriously injured by a wreck of a
westbound Burlington train, at Cres-
ton, la., this morning. The train in
moving out of Creston, - ran into an
open switch, and was ditched.
Fatal Powder Explosion.
Windsor Locks, Conn., June 21. At
1:80 this afteroon a quantity of powder
in a building belonging to " the Hazard
Powder Company, at Hazardville, ex
ploded and . three men were killed.
The dead are: Richard May, a work
man; D. Stratton, head mechanic; R.
M. Pierce, overseer of the mills. The
building known as the cracker house
was blown to pieces.
. Mischievous boys distributed lighted
cigarettes among the monkeys at the
Paris boo the other day, and the animals
puffed away until the keeper intervened.
FREE LIST REACHED.
The Senate Is Making; Bapld Progress
on the Tariff Bill. '
Washington, June 23. The senate
made giant stretches on the tariff bill
today, covering 56 pages and establish
ing a record for progress during this
tariff debate. The last two schedules
of the dutiable list, covering paper and
manufactured sugars, were completed,
with the exception of the paragraphs
on hides, gloves, coal and some lesser
articles, which went over. This ad-,
vanced the senate to the free list, which
was taken up at 2 P. M. and completed
in three hours. Early in the day the
wool and silk schedules went over with
an agreement that wool would be taken
up tomorrow. After that the tobacco
schedule, the reciprocity provisions
and the internal revenue portions of
the bill, aa well as many isolated para
graphs passed over,' remain to be con
sidered. The progress was so marked,
however, that for the first time there
was a feeling that the end was not far
off.
There was little debate today, the
main topic of discussion being matches
and fuses. On the latter item an
amendment by Pettigrew, reducing the
rate to 10 per cent, came within one
vote of passing, against the protest of
the finance committee, the vote being
a tie, 24 to 24. While the free list
was under consideration Bacon gave no
tice pf an amendment placing cotton
ties on the free list, and McLaurin
gave notice of another amendment tak
ing raw cotton from the free list, thu3
completing the action heretofore taken
of placing a duty of 20 per cent on cot
ton. ;
: House Proceedings.
Washington, June 23. After the ap
proval of the journal the house, under
a special rule, adopted a bill appropri
ating $100,000 for the repair of drydock
No. 3, at New York, which recently
was discovered to be leaking badly.
Latimer asked unanimous consent to
have considered a hill declaring a state
capable of entirely controlling the
liquor traffic. This W. A. Stone said
was an outgrowth of a local fight in
South Carolina, in which the courts had
made a decision, and was not a proper
matter for consideration by the house.
He objected to its consideration.
Dingley, from the committee on ways
and means, presented a favorable report
on joint resolution providing that for
eign exhibitors at the Omaha exposition
in 1898 may bring to this country
laborers to prepare and have charge of
exhibits. Two amendments provide
that the secretary of the treasury shall
fix the number of laborers to enter the
country, and they shall leave the. Uni
ted States within three months of the
termination of the exposition. . '
Their Plot Frustrated.
- San Francisco, June 23. Twice
each day Convict William Prekie, serv
ing a sentence at Folsom, is triced up
by his thumbs.:.-. He is also
and water diet. This, treatment iias-H
been resorted to in order to farce Prekie
to tell the prison officials where a num
ber of firearms that were to have been
used in an attempt to escape from
prison are concealed.
.. The prisoners besides Prekie involved
in the attempted break for freedom are
Robert Kelly, who when sent to San
Quentin for burglary murdered a fellow
uonvict, for which he was. sentenced to
20 years and transferred to Folsom;
John Wilson, alias "Shy Red," one of
the most desperate of criminals, sent
from this city to serve 40 years for
burglary, and James Morton.
The men arranged to dig into the
yard from a dungeon, seize a number
of guns that had been cached by ' sym
pathizers and fight their way to free
dom, but the warden obtained knowl
edge of the plot.
Earthquake In Mexico.
Oaxaca. Mexico. June 23. Earth
quake shocks and heavy rains have ' delay of four years having abundantly
seriously. interrupted telegraph comma- ' sufficed to establish the right and abil
nication with the isthmus of Tehaunte- ' ity of . the republic to enter as a sov
pec during the last three days. - ereign government 'into a conventional
Advices were received here last night union with the United States, - thus
that the official commission sent to the realizing a purpose held by the Ha
city of Tehauntepec by President Diaz waiian people and- proclaimed by sue
to investigate the reported formation of cessive Hawaiian governments through
a volcano and the extent of the earth-1 some 70 years of their virtual depend
quake damages, has arrived at its desti-' enoe upon the benevolent protection of
nation and found-the condition of the United States,
affairs much worse than they had ex-1 "The report of the secretary of state
pected. The town of Tehauntepec con- exhibits the character and course of re
tained about 15,000 inhabitants, and is cent negotiations and features of the
completely destroyed so far as houses treaty itself. The organization and
and buildings are concerned, not one administrative details of incorporation
remaining standing. There were a ' are necesasrily left to the wisdom of
number of substanital and costly build- congress, and I cannot doubt that when
ings in the town. The people are liv-' the funciton of the constitutional treaty
ing in tents and in the open air on the making power shall be performed with
outskirts of the place. The earthquake the largest regard for the interest of
shocks continue to be felt at frequent this rich domain and for the welfare of
intervals, and the people are terrified
The heavy smoke and other indications
of an active volcano to the west of
Tehauntepec is no longer visible.
Their Brains to Science.
Chicago, June 23. Professor Fred
erick Starr's devoted pupils, forming
the grewsome autopsy of the university (
of Chicago, have entered into a secret ,
compact to give their brains to science
when they die.- Accompanying the
cerebral tissue will be a minute mental
history of the subject. This will in-
elude a truthful statement of . the per
sonal virtues and vices. - By a careful ,
examination of the brain tissue and the ,
written key it is believed that manifold
shades of character may be located in 1
their respective parts of the brain.
Both Sides Prepared to Fight.
Topeka, Kan., June 23. Both sides
in the suit filed by the federal govern
ment against the Kansas City Livestock -Exchange
to dissolve it under the anti- '
trust law, have filed briefs in the '
United States court for Judge Foster to ,
read. It is expected a decision in the j
case involving the charges for yardage
and feed by the Kansas City Stockyards.
Company will not be handed down, on- .
til August or September. - (
. Shot Another and Himself.
Waltham, Mass., June 23. Malone
I. Wilson, of this city, shot and 'dan
gerously wounded-. Maggie Hines, a do
mestic employed in the boarding-house
of Mrs. Moulton, Wilson's mother, - to
day. Wilson then placed the "revolver
to his head and discharged the weapon,
killing himself instantly. The motive
for the deed is not known. -
St. Petersburg, June 28. The Elver
Kur has overflowed its banks near the
railroad depot of Nawthig. Nineteen
men belonging to the Nijni Novgorod
dragoons were drowned.
TEXT OF SPECIAL ISM
Annexation of Hawaii
; New Scheme'.
No
PAST NEGOTIATIONS REVIEWED
Over Seventy Years Sine First Move
" Was Made President McKinley . Be
- views the Situation. '
- The following is the text of the mes
sage sent to the United States senate
by : the president to accompany the
Hawaiian- treaty:
- "I transmit hereby to the seaate, in
order that after due consideration the
constitutional . function of advice and
consent may be exercised by that body,
a treaty for annexation of the republic
of Hawaii to the United States, signed
by plenipotentiaries of the parties on
June 16. For a better understanding
of the subject I transmit in addition
the report of the secretary of state, re
viewing negotiations which have led
to this important result.
"The incorporation, of the Hawaiian
islands into a body polticus is a neces
sary and fitting sequel to the chain of
events which from an early period of
our history has controlled the inter
course and prescribed the associations
of the United States and the Hawaiian
islands. The predominance of Ameri
can interests in that neighboring terri
tory was first asserted in 1820 by send
ing to the islands a- representative of
the -United States. . It found further
expression by the signature of a treaty
of friendship, commerce and navigation
with the king in 1826. It was signally
annouoed in 1843, when the interven
tion of the United States caused the
British government to disavow the
seizure of the Sandwich islands by a
British naval commander, and to recog
nize them by treaty as an independent
state, renouncing forever any purpose
of annexing the islands or exerting
a protectorate over them.
"In 1851 the cession of the Hawaiian
kingdom to the United States was for
mally offered, and although not then
accepted, this government proclaimed
it its duty to preserve alike the honor
and dignity of the United States and
safety of the government of the Ha
waiian islands. . From this time until
the outbreak of the war of 1861 the
policy of the United States toward Ha
waii and the Hawaiian sovereign
towards the United States was exem
plified by continued negotiations for
annexation or for a reciprocal commer
cial union. : The latter alternative was
at length accomplished by the reciproc
ity treaty . of 1875, the provisions of
which were renewed by the convention
of 1884, embracing the perpetual cession
to the United States of the harbor of
' In 1888 a proposal for a joint guar
anty of the neutrality of the Hawaiian
islands by the -United States, Germany
and Great Britain was declined on the
announced ground that the relation of
the United States to the islands was
sufficient for the end in view.- In brief,
from 1820 to 1896 the course of the
United States toward the islands has
consistently favored their autonomous
welfare with the exclusion of all for
eign influences save our own to the ex
tent of upholding eventual annexation
as a necessary outcome of that policy.
"Not only is a union of the Ha
waiian territory to the United States
no new scheme, but it is the inevit
able consequence of the relation stead
fastly maintained with that mid-Pacific
domain for three-quarters of a century.
Its accomplishment lias been merely a
question of time. ' While its failure in
1893 may not be a cause for congratula
tion, it is certainly a proof of the dis
interestedness of the United States, the
the inhabitants thereof.
"(Signed) , WM. M'KINLEY.
Executive Mansion, Washington, D.
C, June 16."
Interested in Pingree's Scheme.
Lansing, Mich., June 21. Governor
Pingree's fame as the originator of the
potato-patch scheme for the poor has
crossed the ocean, and his plan is being
adopted in several European countries.
Letters have been received at the ex
ecutive office from Budapest, Hungary,
and from Nottingham, England, re
questing information regarding the
plan. Copies of the message which the
governor delivered to the Detroit com
mon council upon the subject when he
was mayor of that city, were sent to
the inquirers. : J
Davis 'Will a Forgery.
San Francisco, June 19. During the
trial of the Davis will contest today, a
sensation: was created by G. R. E. Max
well, paying teller of the First National
bank, of this city, who was called as an
expert to pass upon the signature of the
alleged will, by declaring the signature
a forgery and expressing the conviction
that the . forgery was committed by
Alexander. Boyd, partner of the dece
dent, who holds the same relation to
the legatees as did Davis.
- - : Threw Himself on the Tracks.
San Francisco, June 21. The decapi
tated remains of a man not yet fully
identified were found lying across the
Southern Pacific railroad - track at
Twelfth and Channel streets this morn
ing. The ' deceased had evidently
thrown himself '. in 1 front of an ap
proaching train during the night, and
had been run over unnoticed by the
trainmen. The only, clew to his iden
tity was a letter found in one of the
pockets, signed by ex-Mayor B. U.
Seinman, of Sacrameno, recommending
Charles Smith to a certain Frank
Bates.
CUBANS TAKE A FORT.
Aearly All the Spaniards Killed or Else
Taken Prisoners.
Havana, June 22. A few days ago a
party of soldiers arrived her from Fort
Mogoles, five leagues from the city of
Santa Clara. They say that an attack
was made upon the fort by a band of
insurgents and that most of the garrison
died defending the fort. All the am
munition was captured and all the sur
vivors of the garrison excepting them
selves were taken prisoners by the insur
gents. .. -. -.'..
Official advices state that a hot en
gagement occurred at Mantua, Pinar
del Rio. . The Spanish marines and in
fantry forces were largely outnumbered
by the insurgents, and after several
hours' fierce fighting, the regulars were
compelled to seek refuge in a near-by
town. They met with large losses in
killed and wounded, many of whom
were left on the field.
. From the Curaooa trocha come re
ports that large forces of insurgents
have approached the trocha with the
intention of crossing. They are be
lieved to be under command of Gomez.
Captain-General Weyler will go to
Santiago de Cuba by the end of the
present month to assume command of
military operations. He will take
with him 40,000 men.
The firm of Alejandra Gonzales, pur
veyors to the military hospital in Santa
Clara, have refused to furnish the hos
pital with supplies of provisions, owing
to the fact that they have not received
payment for their goods for seven
months. They claim the government
now owes them over $100,000.
There are actually 16,000 sick sol
diers "now in the government hospitals
and the authorities have been compelled
to reopen the Regla sugar warehouses
for the purpose of receiving the Buffer
ing troops. "
PUT OUT OF THE CHURCH.
A Woman Ejected When She Attempted
. to Defend Her Husband.
New York, June 22. Herman Wars
zawiak, the Christianized Hebrew who
has been seeking admission into the
Presbyterian church as a minister, and
who for a long time had the support of
Rev. Dr. John Hall, of the Fifth-avenue
Presbyterian church, was . today
publicly denounced before the congre
gation of that church as an immoral
person and guilty of gambling. He
was also suspended from the com
munion of the church. When the
judgment was read to the fashionable
congregation, Mrs. Warszawiak, who
was present, declared in a loud voice
that her husband was innocent. She
was put out of the church, while the
pastor announced a hymn to quiet the
congregation. Mrs. Warszawiak said:
"My husband is innocent. I cannot
hear him harshly spoken of before so
many people and not defend him."
The ushers, at a signal from Dr.
PritchardT-of Alexander chapel, who
-bad taken Drv-Hall's place for the day,
led Mrs. Warszawiak from the church..
The congregation had began to sing the
hymn. The lady at first resisted, but
was prevailed upon to leave. Not
withstanding the singing of the hymn,
the excitement, though suppressed, was
intense. After the incident the serv
ices went on as usual.
DRAGOONS IN THE AIR.
Successful Trials of . Flying- Machines
..in Germany.
' Berlin, June 22. Naval ' experts at
Kiel are now testing the practical use
of ' dragon-shaped airships, which may
be put on board vessels for use during
naval engagements and in reconnoiter
ing. Some of . the balloons rose 600
feet, remaining fast to the deck cf the
torpedo boat steaming 14 knots an hour,
enabling the balloonists to make obser
vation of stations of vessels at great dis
tances. The observations made were
communicated by telegraph or tele
phone from the balloons to persons on
the decks of the vessels below, enabling
them to change the course of the latter
accordingly. The whole series of
experiments occupied a fortnight, and
were eminently successful.
Oakland Bookkeeper Held TJp.
Oakland, Cal., June 22. Edward
Eliason, a bookkeeper, was within a
few doors of his home last night, when
a tall man leaped at him from behind
a clump of trees? The young man was
grabbed by the throat and thrown
down before he could give a cry.
Then the footpad searched his victim's
cloth tag, taking all his money and val
uables. The robbery was committed
about midnight, in a thickly settled
portion of the city, which is well light
ed by electric lights. As eoon as the
robber had secured his plunder he re
leased the man and watched him start
for his residence, having warned him
to make no outcry. -
Queen Begins Her Jubilee.
.London, June 22. Queen Victoria
began the celebration of her jubilee
Sunday, as was befitting her entire car
eer, before the altar of her fathers.
Throughout London, the United King
dom and the empire, in every cathe
dral, church or chapel of the Estab
lished Church of England, were held
services similar to those at St George's
chapel, Windsor, where her majesty
paid her devotions and offered solmen
thanks to God.
Window Glass Factory Destroyed.
Muncie, Incl, June 22. The window
glass factory at Orestes, 18 miles west
of Muncie, burned tonight. The "fac
tory employed 400 men, and the loss
will be about $100,000.
A Fatal X' Bay Operation.
Boston, June 22. Franklin B. Born,
of Medford, died at the Massachusetts
general hospital as a result of an opera
tion guided by X"-ray photographs for
the removal of a bullet from his brain.
An Insane Farmer's Deed.
Davenport, la., June 22. John Gu-
gleheimer murdered his wife by mix
ing strychnine with eggnog and giving
it to her to drink. He then committed
suioide in the same manner. Neigh
bors, last night found his body in the
kitchen . and his wife's in the cellar.
He was a farmer living eix miles from
this city, and had formerly been in
sane. " --'- ' - -
At 'Northampton, Mass., there is aa
artesian well, that has been sunk to a
depth of 8,700 feet and is still perfectly
dry.
MAKES GOOD .REPORT
SECRETARY GAGE IS PLEASED
.WITH BUSINESS OUTLOOK.
He Finds Improved Conditions and Good
Prospect of Their Continuance The
Cuban Question What Is Going on
at the National Capital. ; 1
. F. Parsons, Special Correspondent.
Washington, D. C. Secretary Gage
got good news, as well as giving it on
his recent trips to Cincinnati, Phila
delphia, Nashville and other cities.
His Cincinnati address brought great
encouragement to the country, and he
in turn was himself encouraged by
what other people said to him.
"The commercial clubs which met
at Cincinnati," said Mr. Gage, "are
composed of represenative commercial
and manufacturing men from four great
cities of the country, Boston, Chicago,
St. Louis and Cincinnati. They are the
heads of the greatest commercial and
manufacturing houses of these great
cities. Each one of them is in touch
with his representatives in all parts of
the country and obtains information
concerning business conditions all over
the United States. Take such a man
as Mr. Armour, for instance: he has
hundreds of representatives located not
only in all the great cities but the
smaller places of the country and of
course is in touch with them constantly
and is able to judge of business condi
tions the country over. The same may
be said to a great extent, perhaps, oi
Marshall Field, whose business lines
bring him in touch with every part of
the United States. Another Chicago
house represented there does a large
business in the manufacture of eleva
tors, engines and other products of that
class. Mr. Pullman reaches, through
his sleeping-car system, of course,
every part of the country, and is able
to accordingly diagnose business condi
tions and judge of business activity or
the reverse. The representatives of
other cities and other lines of business
have equal facilities for judging of busi
ness conditions and of the feelings of
the business public the country over.
"I was gratified to find a very satis
factory feeling among those gentlemen
who thus formed their opinions by their
contact with the business and commer
cial men in all' parts of the country.
They reported a better business condi
tion and better feeling than has been
realized for a long time. By this, I
mean not an extreme growth of activ
ity, but a marked improvement and
one which is accompanied by confi
dence on their part that it is the begin
ning of a permanent improvement.
We have, of course, seen in the past,
spurts of business improvement which
were only temporary, but the feeling
among these gentlemen was that the
improvement which they observed is
likely to be permanent and to continue
to increase with such legislation as will
assure them regarding currency as well
as tariff."
"Do you think that the free silver
sentiment is as strong as it was three
months ago?"
"Of course the people with whom I
came in contact represent the cities
only so that I could not judge so ac
curately from whalf they personally
know; but it is quite apparent, not
only from what I learn through them,
but from other sources, that the silver
sentiment is on the decline. Events of
the past few months have been decidely
adverse to it -and must have had a de
pressing influence upon its advocates
and upon the theory itself. Japan, for
instance, to which they called particu
lar attention during the campaign as a
shining example of free silver pros
perity, has adopted a gold standard.
So have Peru and Russia, and the ten
dency among other silver using coun
tries seems to be in that direction.
All these things, coupled with the con
tinuous fall in the price of silver, is
not only showing people the unwisdom
of the proposition which these leaders
so strenuously advocated, but are show
ing to these themselves the improba
bility of inducing the American people
to again support such a proposition."
. Bullion Silver Down.
Silver bullion continues to fall. It
went down to 60 cents an ounce several
days ago, the lowerst point ever touched
except for a brief period during the
panic of 1894.
The steady decline during the last
quarter of a century has attracted a
great deal of attention throughout the
world. South American silver coin is
fairly flooding European markets. The
price of silver has fallen to 76 rupees
in India, the lowest on record.
China was considered the stronghold
of silver and was one of the best cus
tomers the miners have had in late
years, but she is preparing for the gold
standard and only took one-tenth as
much silver this year as she absorbed
during the corresponding period last
year.
Following Pern, Japan, Russia and
Chili, the' Argentine Republic, as well
as other South American countries, is
preparing to adopt the gold standard.
The Republican senators who framed
the tariff bill have denounced as false
the published charges that the sugar
trust controlled the formation of the
schedules of the tariff bill relating to
its product, and have challenged a pub
lic investigation of the statement.
The Cuban Situation.
There is a right way and a wrong way
of doing things, and it is because the
right way is better than the wrong way
that the Republicans have been unwill
ing to pass the Cuban resolution in con
gress and force it upon the president
prematurely, when it is known that he
is working out a policy of his own. It
is believed that the reports of Special
Counsel Calhoun and Consul-General
Lee on the Ruiz case and conditions in
Cuba generally will lead to some defi
nite action by the president soon.
Business Improvement. ,
With farmers getting more for their
grain and cattle and hogs, with the
business handled by the merchants of
the country greater than for many years,
and with onr exports for 1896 $325,
000,000 in excess of our imports, condi
tions among the people of this country
cannot be so serious as the calamity
shriekers wonld make us believe. ' . -
-A company in Laoon, I1L, intends to
raise 100,000 oats next- year, The fur
market is demoralized at present, but
that company probably will be able to
ome to the cratch.
WEEKLY MARKET LETTER.
Downing, Hopkins Company's Review
of Trade
There were a number of considera
tions in the wheat market to unsettle
the ideas of traders. The uneasiness
over the July deal on account of the
small stocks has been one of the factors.
It was started by the discovery that
trades in July would not settle with
one of the prominent elevator concerns,
and the conclusion was at once reached .
that this concern had bought enough
July wheat to develop- an interesting
situation with local contract stocks of
wheat so abnormally low. Not only
are local stocks and the American visi
ble away below last year's level, but
the recent decreases have each week
been greater than expected. On account
of the good cash trade the local out
inspection has been heavy, and each
week a large percentage of the local
stock is moved out. The position taken
by the board of trade directory on the
elevator question was inclined to add
to the uneasiness regarding the possi
bility of a July squeeze.
Among the minor considerations
have been the changes in the weather,
the reports of locusts in the North
west, the good spring wheat flour trade.
In a general way the market has been
unsettled and easily influenced in either
direction by a comparatively small
volume of trade.
Portland Markets.
Flour Portland, Salem, Cascadia
and Dayton, $3.75; Benton county and
White Lily, $3.75; graham, $3.40; su
perfine, $2.60 per barrel.
Wheat Walla Walla, 70 71c; Val
ley, 72c per bushel.
Oats Choice white, 8840o per
bushel; choice gray, 37 39c.
Hay Timothy, $10.00 13. 60 per
ton; clover, $11. 50 12. 50; wheat and
oat, $10.00 11.00 per ton.
Barley Feed barley, $16.50 per ton;
brewing, $18 19.
Millstuffs Bran, $14.50, shorts,
$16.50; middlings, $23.50.
Butter Creamery, 85c; dairy, 20
25c; store, 1730o per roll.
Potatoes Oregon Burbanks,40 50c; ,
Garnet Chilies, 55 65c; Early Rose,
35 40c per sack; sweets, $2.75 per
cental for Merced; new potatoes, $1
"1.10 per cental.
Poultry Chickens, mixed, $3.00
3.25; geese, $2. 50 4. 50; turkeys, live,
10c; ducks, $2.603.50 per dozen.
Eggs Oregon,-11 12c per dozen.
Cheese Oregon, 11 c; Young
Ameriea, io per pound. .
Wool Valley, 12c per pound; East
ern Oregon, 6 8o. ,
Hops 7 8c per pound. 1
Beef Gross, top steers, $3.50;
cows, $2. 60 3. 00; dressed beef, 6
6Jc per pound.
Mutton Gross, best sheep, wethers
and ewes, 2Jc; dressed mutton, 4
5c per pound.
Hogs Gross, choice, heavy, $4.00
4.50; light and feeders, $2.503.00;
dressed $3.00 4. 75 per cwt.
Veal Large, 3 4c; small, 4)
6c per pound. f
Seattle Markets.
Wheat Chicken feed, $26 per
ton.
Oats Choice, $21 22 per ton.
Flour (Jobbing) Patent excellent,
$4.60; Novelty A, $4.30; California
brands, $4.60; Dakota, $5.65; patent,
$5.25.
Barley Rolled or ground, $20 per
ton; whole, $19.
Corn Whole, $20 per ton; cracked,
$20; feed meal, $20.
Millstuffs Bran, $15.00 per ton;
shorts, $18.
Hay Puget sound, per ton, $12.00;
Eastern Washington, $17; California,
tl314.
Feed Chopped feed, $18.00 per ton;
middlings, $22; oilcake meal, $30.
Poultry Chickens, live, per pound,
hens, 11c; spring chickens, $2.503.50;
ducks, $5 6.
Butter Fancy native creamery,
brick, 16c; ranch, 10 12.
Cheese Native Washington, 10
11c; Eastern, 11c; California, 9c.
Vegetables Potatoes, per ton, $10.00
11; Yakimas, $1213; rhubard
2o per pound; onions, $1; carrots, per
sack, $1; cabbage, native, per 100 lbs,
$1.752; new potatoes, lJlo pej
per lb.
Eggs Fresh ranch, 14 15c.
Fresh Meats Choice dressed beef,
steers, 6c; cows, 6o; mutton, sheep,
6o per pound; pork, deeper pound;
veal, small, 6 7c.
Fresh Fish Halibut, 84c;
salmon, 4 5c; salmon trout, 7 10c;
flounders and soles, 3 4c.
Provisions Hams, large, 11c; hams,
small, llc; breakfast bacon, 10c; dry
salt sides, 6c per pound.
Fruits Lemons, California, fancy,
$3.003.50; choice, $2.50; oranges,
seedlings, $2.50; Mediterranean sweets,
$33.50; bananas, shippjig, $1.75
2.75 per bunch; apples, $1.60 2 per
box.
, San Francisco Markets.
Potatoes Oregon-Bnrbanks, 60 75c;
Early Rose, 60 70c; River Bur
banks, 50 65c; sweets, $1.25 per
cental.
Butte'f Fancy creamery, 16c; do
seconds, 1515c; fancy dairy,
14 15c; seconds, 13 14c
Cheese Fancy mild, new, 88)c;
fair to good, 77c; Young America,
89c; Eastern, 14l6c.
Wool Choice foothill, 8 10c; San
Joaquin plains, 7 9c; do 12 months,
7 9o per pound.
Onions New, red, 60 70c.
Eggs Ranch,1216o per dozen.
Hay Wheat and oat, $7 10; best
barley, $6.508.00; alfalfa, . $58;
clover, $6 8; compressed wheat.
$6. 50 10. 00; straw, 85 60o per bale.
Tropical Fruit Bananas, $1.00
2.00 per bunch.
Citrus Fruit Oranges, navel, $2.00
2.60; seedlings, do, $1.25 2.00; com
mon lemons, 75c$1.60; fancy, $2.00
2.25 per box.
Apples $1.25 3 per box; Eastern,
$3. 50 .per barrel.
- No Will Contest In His Case.
There is a crusty old bachelor, of
considerable wealth, in Kentucky,
"What: will you do with your money
when you die?" some asked him re
cently. "Well," he replied, "I am
going to sell everything for cash, and
get all my money in paper. When I
find that death is near, I'll pile this
paper money on the floor, stick a match -to
it, and lie down on .it. - Then the
money and the house and I will all go
together. ! ' ',?.'' v-- ,
, . There are from four to six grains of
qneons humor in the eye.