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VOL,. XXXIV.
CORVALLIS, BENTON COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1897.
NO. .25.
A COLLEGE "RUSH."
CUBA'S FIGHT FOR LIBERTY.
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THE TRAIL IS OPEN.
PROSPERITY AGAIN
WEEKLY MARKET LETTER.
Epitome of the Telegraphio
News of the World.
TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
Am Interesting Collection of Items From
- tfce Hew and the Old World la .
' Condensed and Comprehensive Form
The fund raised in Canada for the
India famine sufferers has been closed.
The amount contributed was $179,161.
Ten, saloons in Kansas City, Kan.,
were raided by the police and $3,600
worth of liquors seized and poured into
; the gutters. Saloon furniture and fix
atures filling ten big drays were seized
, and carted to police headquarters. where
it will be burned.
A dispatch irora Buenos Ayres says
the wheat crop in the province of,,
Santa Fe is calculated at about lO,Kii&
tons, scarcely more than enough to
supply I the pro.ince for the year.
What is true in Santa. Fe province, is
said to be true in the other provinces,
that is, none will furnish more than
enough for home use.
; The jewelry store of W. H. Finck,
at Seattle,' was burglarized and goods
to the amdfcmt of $10,000 taken. By
sawing the iron bars -off the window,
the burglars secured an entrance to the
: store. '. With a -seven-pound sledgeham
mer and an eight-inch punch they
broke the handle off the outside door
of the safe, and then easily pried the
door open-..
Five orphan children have been
. shipped from Honolulu to San Fran
cisco. The government officials .will
j. no,t permit them to land unless $500
bonds 'are furnished for each of. the
quintet as a guarantee that they shall
not become public charges, but so far
the necessary amuunt has not been
raised by the Salvation Army officer to
. whom they were consigned.
Official information received at Ma
nila confirms the reports previously
published as to the disastrous character
of the emption of the Manyon volcano.
Several villages -were completely de
stroyed. At Li bog 150 bodies were re
covered and buried, and more remained
in the lava. At another place 200 per
sons were missing. Some of the bodies
recovered were so completely calcined
as to be unrecognizable. ".
Advices from Rio de Janeiro, state
that the fanatics attacked several con
voys of provisions and ammunition in
the interior a few days ago and a bloody
battle, followed. . The fanatics were
' forced to retire after severe losses., The
Brazilian troops had 28 officers wound
ed. The fanatics are now reorganizing
their, forces and another attack, on con
voys is expected, as the fanatics are in
need of ammunition.
Involved in the question of inter
- preration of section 22 o? the new tar
iff, with regard to the 10 per cent dis-"
criminating duty on foreign goods com
ing to the United States from Canada
or Mexico, which i now betore the at
torney general for decision, is another
question of equal if not greater magni
tude. It involves the question of
whether this discriminating duty of 10
per cent does not apply to all goods im
ported in foreign . vessels landing at
United States ports which are not ex
empt from-discriminating tonnage taxes
by express treaty stipulation.' -The
matter is now before the attorney-general,
awaiting an. interpretation.
- Two young ladies from Alameda and
San Francisco have gone to' Trinity
county upon a prospecting tour They
are equipped with complete miners' out-
fits and are determined to work bard to
find a paying claim.
' . Edwin Corbin, of Chicago, has closed
a deal amalgamating the United States
and- Canadian Lakes Fisheries Com-,
."pahies, whereby the control of 20 com
panies passed into the hands of the
British company with $5,000,000 cap
ital. The British, Russian and French
ministers to Greece have notified their
respective governments that it is im
possible for Greece to pay an indemnity
exceeding 3,000.000 Turkish. It is
understood that negotiations are on
foot, to induce Turkey to -accept a
smaller sum than the amount originally
demanded. "
The county recorder in Great Bend,
Kan. , tias reported the release of over
$60,000' in chattel and real estate mort
gages since August 1, and half of the
crop has not been threshed. It is pre
dicted that bythe new year the county
will be in better shape than ever before
and will look back on the largest acre
age of wheat in the history of the
county. -
Paui J. Henning, who has just ar
rived in San Francisco, says the Amer
ican flag ia flying on Clipperton island.
He has been living on the island with
two other men and they successfully
blocked the attempt of Captain Murt
ray of the ship Kinkora,. to hoist the
British flag there ttiree months aeo.
The Kinkora was wrecked and the three
Americans held as wreckage nearly a
million feet of lumber, which was
, washed ashore. . H. M. S. Com us vis
ited the island later, but 'did , not dis
turb the Stars and Stripes nor enter a
claim for the lumber.
S. J. Hatchett, formerly secretary of
the. Los Anglees chamber of commerce,
who had charge of the Los Angeles ex
hibit at the world's fair and mysteri-
ously disappeared before the exposition
closed, is said to have been seen in
Chicago. His wife has mourned him
as dead. The informant states that
Hatchett told him he had concluded to
drop out of sight, and cautioned him -to
Hay nothing about having met him.
President McKinley spoke at the
Grand Army encampment at Buffalo,
N. Y.
One of the Grand Army delegates to
the national encampment at Buffalo
has made a proposition for united action
to urge the government to raise the
ironclad .Monitor, which defeated the
rebel ram Merrimac, during the war,
The Monitor foundered off Cape Hat-
t eras December 31, 1862. It is thought
- that it will require the expenditure of
,$500,000 to raise the vessel.
Aaron C. Conn, a board, of trade
operator in Detroit, Mich., committed
suicide by knotting a handkerchief
around trs neck and then twisting it
with a lead pencil until he succeeded
in strangling himself.
Result:! Seriously to Three Berkeley
Freshmen.
Berkeley, Cal., Sept.' 2. There will
be no more "rushes" at the university
of California, if President Kellogg's
latest mandate is obeyed. - . '
Half dazed, his jaw broken, his face
a bleeding mass, Benjamin: Kurtz, a
newly entered freshman, was ' found
wandering about the campus 03 Mon
day night after the rush between the
two lower classes. ' In the struggle
some one put his heel on Kurtz's face,
and may have sustained an injury of
the brain. An examination showed
that a piece of flesh had been torn from
one nostril. The upper lip bung by a
shred, and the ragged nature of the tear
made the injury more serious. All the
front teeth were gone. Four teeth had
been knocked out of the lower jaw and
the bone in which they had been im
bedded was broken out with them.
Both upper and lower jaw were smashed
and the .flesh of the face was-crushed-!
and bleeding.
iThere were two other serious casual
ties. Frank Marshall, a freshman, had
his right leg broken just above the
ankle. Conlon, another freshman, .also
came out of the combat with a broken
leg. '-- ' v , -
ATTACKED BY MOONSHINERS.
Deputy Marshals Ambushed and Shot
in Arkansas. -
Little Rook, Ark., ' Sept. 2. Two
deputy United States marshals are dead,
two seriously wounded and two more
missing as a result of an attack upon a
posse of officers by a gang of desperate
moonshiners in Searcy county.' The
dead are: B. F. Taylor, of Searcy
county and Joe Dodson, of. Stone coun
ty. The wounded men are the Renfrew
brothers. The names of the missing
men were not given, but they are sup-'
posed to be deputy sheriffs of Searcy
county.' ' : - -
Taylor, one of the murdered men,
was" 60 years old and was one of the
wealthiest men ha Searcy county. Dod
son was a well-known deputy and has
been a terror to moonshiners. He was
leading a raid when the terrible affair
occurred.
The officers had approached to within
80 yards of an illicit distillery, when
they were fired upon from ambush.
Taylor and Dodson fell at the first vol
ley, dead in their tracks. The shooting
occurred 35 miles from Russellville, at
a point 10 miles south of Witt Springs.
The locality is in the mountains, and
has for many years been a favorite ren
dezvous for moonshiners and counter
feiters. News of the tragedy was
brought to Russellville this morning
by Dr. Pack, who came after the cor
oner. ,
The men who did the shooting are
supposed to be a gang of moonshiners
led by Horace Bruce and John Church,
two of the most desperate characters in
that part of the state. ..
A Ghastly Experiment.
" ' Chicago, J5ept.2. Thai trial oi
Adolph Luetgert for the murder of his
wife, began in earnest today, the pre
liminary work of securing the jury hav
ing been completed.
Contrary to the expectations - of the
state, the jury will Be asked by the de
fense to witness an experiment in the
vat in the basement of the sausage fac
tory. This is to be the result of an ex
periment conducted by Lnetgert's
attorneys Saturday and yesterday. The
body of a man of about Mrs. Luetgert's
age and weight, who met death by vio
lence Thursday, was taken to the fac
tory on Diversey avenue and immersed
in a solution of caustic potash. Experts
reported that after boiling the body in
a 15 per cent solution of potash for the
same length of time as the state alleges
Luetgert disintegrated the body of his
wife, the complete skeleton of the
cadaver remained intact and the solu
toin . had but little effect ' upon the
clothing. ,
- As. a result of the test, the defendant
will, it is said, ask Judge Tuthill to
remove his court and jury to the base
ment of the big sausage factory for a
few hours and witness another experi
ment which the defense claims will
completely disprove the state's theory
of disintegration.
Theatrical Train Wrecked.
St. Louis, Aug. 31. The passengers
and train crew of the midnight special
of the Chicago & Alton, which arrived
in this city at 7:45 A. M. for Chicago,
narrowly escaped death in ..a wreck
near Alton this morning. The engine
was derailed while proceeding at a
high rate of speed by spreading rails,
and went down a 45-foot embankment.
The tender, three baggage cars contain
ing scenery and wardrobes of the Digby
Bell company and Hopkins theatrical
company, and a postal car, followed
and rolled on top of the engine. Peter
Rafferty, of Bloomington, the engineer,
was taken out fatally injured. Fire
man Charles Johnson of Bloomington;
Mail Clerks Robert Maltimore, of Jer
seyville, 111., and W. F. Simper and
Samuel Grebbs, of Chicago, crawled
out of the wreck severely hurt.
' - Fatal Collision In Germany.
Berlin, Sept. 1. A collision between
passenger trains took place near Voh
winkel at midnight. : Three locomo
tives and six carriages were wrecked,
two persons were killed and 14 injured.
Of the latter, it is thought probably 12
will succumb to their injuries.
. - : Strike in Ohio Settled.
Columbus, O., Sept 2. The coal
strike is considered settled here. The
plan is to resume at 64 cents and work
pending arbitration. The direct par
ties in the conference adjustment are
President Ratchford, of the miners, and
the executive committee of the opera
tors. A number of the latter were- in
the city today, and the result is that a
decision may be looked for at any
moment. '
' . The Rodgers Failed. , .
Annapolis, Sept. 2. The torpedo
boat Rodgers returned to this port late
this afternoon, having failed to make
the required speed of 24. 5 knots per
hour on her trial trip. The defective
working of her blowers is said to have
made the Rodgers fall short of her re
quirements.. She will be given another
trial on next Friday." ' -' ' ' :
. England is dependent . for 70 per cent
of her food, and raw materials upon
foreign lands. - .
From 1871 to 1891 2,000,000 Ger
man left their native, land.
Resolutions Committee Make
a Sensational Report.
FEDERAL COURTS DENOUNCED
Protest Against Government by Injunc
tionFriends of Labor Asked to Give;
Financial Support to the Miners. "
St. Louis, Sept. 2. The labor con
vention was .called .to order .at 10
o'clock this morning to listen to the re
port of the committee on resolutions.
Mr. Bergen in presenting t the resolu-r
tions said the report was the best the
committee could do under the circum
stances. The report, which is very
lengthy, Btarts off by saying- :
."The fears of - tbejDewtf-waMbfuI fa
thers of the republic have been justified
and the judiciary has become supreme
with the republic prostrate at the feet
of a judge appointed to administer the
laws. '
5 "Under the cunning form of injunc
tions, the courts have assumed to enact
criminal laws, and have repealed rights
and denied the accused the right of
trial by jury. The exercise of the
commonest rights of freemen, the right
of assembly, and the right of free
speech . have ' by legislation under the
form of injunctions, been made a crime.
Having drawn to themselves all the
powers of the federal government until
congress and the president may aot only
by judicial permission, the federal
judges have begun the subjugation of
the foreign states.
"The pending strike of coal miners
who starved by reason of the scant
wages paid for arduous and dangerous
toil, the pending strike for the right to
be fed enough to make labor possible,
has been prolific of judicial usurpation,
showing the willingness of judicial
despots to resort to the most shameful
defiance of decency as well as of the
laws of humanity, in order to enable
heartless avarice to drive its hungry
serfs back to the mine to faint and die
at their drudgery, and there remains
today not one guaranteed right of
American citizens unaffected ' by these
subversions of constitutional liberty.
"We have met to counsel together,
and have come to the following conclu
sions: "That, Whereas, the present strike
of the coal miners has again demon
strated the fact that our so-called free
dom is but a Stupendous sham while
hundreds of thousands of men, women
and children are starving in hovels and
on the public highways;
"Whereas, Appeals to congress and
the courts for relief are furitless, since
the judicial powers are under the con
trol of the capitalistic class, so that
while cattle and swine have the right
to the public highways, Americans, so
called free men, have not. . .;
Whereas," Our eapltalistlo class--w
armed and has not only the policemen,
marshals, sheriffs and deputies, but
also the regular militia in order to
enforce government by injunction, sup
pressing lawful assemblage, free speech,
and the right to the public highway,
while on the other hand the laboring
men of the country are unarmed and
defenseless, therefore,
"Resolved, That we hereby set apart
Friday, the 3d of September next, as a
'Good Friday' tor the cause of suffering
labor in America and contribute the
earnings of that day to the support of
our struggling brothers, the miners, and
appeal to every union man and every
friend of labor throughout the United
States to do likewise.
"Resolved, Tbat if the strike of
miners is not settled by the 20th of
September and an announcement made
to that effect by the president of the
United Mine Workers, a general con
vention be held at Chicago, September
27, by representatives of all unions,
sections, branches, lodges and kindred
organiations of laboring men and friends
of their cause for the purpose of consid
ering further measures in the interests
of the striking miners and labor in gen
eral. "Resolved, That public ownership of
all railroads is one of the most . neces
sary reforms of our body politic.
"Resolved, That we most emphatic
ally protest against government by in
junction, and be it finally resolved tbat
no nation in which the people are
totally disarmed can long remain a free
nation; and therefore we urge upon liberty-loving
'citizensa to remember and
obey article 2 of the constitution of the
United States, which reads as follows:
'The right of the people to keep and
bear arms shall not be infringed.' "
As soon as the platform was before
the convention dozens of delegates were
on their feet clamoring for recognition.
Delegate Osborn, of Atlanta, Ga. ,
offered a resolution to the effect that it
was the sense of the meeting that all
unemployed men in the United States
should apply for-admission to the poor
houses of their respective'eounties. No
action was taken on this resolution, and
the convention went off. in a desultory
debate. regarding the resolutions.
Port Townsend, Wash., Sept. 2.
The 25-ton fishing schooner Bow Wow
broke away from .her moorings here last
night, drifted out and was broken up
before being recovered. She is a total
loss.
A Discriminating; Dentist.
San Francisco, Sept. 2. Mrs. Annie
S. Kirk and her husband, W. S. Kirk,,
have sued W. A. At wood, a dentist, for
$250 damages, alleged to have been sus
tained because he" positively refused to
examine the lady's teeth after he had
agreed to put them in, good condition.
The reason for his refusal was that she
came to his ; offiee on her bicycle and
wore bloomers. She complains that he
drew the line at her attire and expressed
himself too freely before other people
in his reception room.
Wheat Across the Border. "
Toronto, Sept. 2. Advices report
that by tonight all of 25,000,000 bushels
of wheat in Manitoba will be cut.
There has been no frost sufficient to
damage the- wheat in Manitoba this
season, and next week will probably see
the bulk of the wheat threshed.- The
crop will be the largest in. the history
of the Canadian Northwest, The yield
will run as high as 35 bushels to the
acre, while in Ontario it is as high as
40. The total wheat crop f Canada
this year will be fully .60,000,000
bushels of prime wheat. ' - .
Qulnton Banderas Tell of the Progress
of the War.
'.New York, Sept. 1. The Journal
and Advertiser says: The sensationally
victorious march of the Cubans under
Maximo Gomez and Antonio Maceo,
the entire length of the island, in Mar
tinez Campo'B time, has just been
duplicated by Quintin Banderas. The
negro war captain, than whom no Cuban
of the colored race, excepting only
Maceo, perhaps, has won greater honors
in the struggle for independence, led
12,000 men from the eastern end of the
island, where the patriots in arms are
strongest, to the western end, where,
since Maceo's death the Cuban cause
has not prospered so well.- Those 18,V
900 men represented all branches of the
Cuban army service & They penetrated
into the provinces of Matanzas, Havana
and Pinar del Rio, strengthening the
existing forces in each of these provinces
to such an extent that the coming win-
ker campaign there may be expected to
be even as disastrous for the Spanish as
in' the times of the redoubtable Maceo.
The news of the brilliant achieve
ment was brought to the Journal and
Advertiser by the mail from Havana in
an autograph letter from Banderas him
self. In it he requests the publication
of the proclamation that he issued on
taking charge of the department..
Banderas says that the second invasion
of the west was made in compliance
with plans that were completed by
Maximo Gomez, the general-in-chief
himself, in June last, and that the
march was effected with little or no
trouble or molestation from the Spanish
troops. The proclamation intimates
that there have been wholesale deser
tions from the Spanish army in Havana
province into the Cuban service.
The rest of the proclamation is di
rected "To the Men of My Race," and
is as follows:
"It only remains for me to appeal to
the men of my race, to point out to
them that we owe the liberty of our
fathers to the revolution of 1868, and
it is my duty to present to them the
example of that noble figure, Major
General Antonio Maceo, who died on
the field for the liberty of his country!"
Spain Will Never Yield.
Denver, Sept. 1. Count Henri Pen
aloza, of Paris, is spending a few days
in the city upon mining business. The
count is an American by birth, a Span
iard by descent and a Frenchman by
adoption. He was born in San Fran
cisco in 1869, while his parents were
spending the winter in California. - In
the course of an interview Count Pen
aloza said:
' "As long as Spain has a man or a
penny in the treasury the Spanish gov
ernment will not consent to the inde
pendence of Cuba. A countrygwhose
call for military funds was subscribed
four times over and which has sent
200,000 soldiers to- Cuba, is not in the
impoverished condition so often .de
scribed.". , . .. 'J ';,. ' '
. .Count Penaloza.. is exiled from his
native country on account of the Carlist
proclivities of his family. - ,
IN BEHALF OF INDIANA MINERS.
A Laife Relief Fund Subscribed at
Lebanon.
' Denver, Sept. 1. A special to the
News from Lebanon, Ind., says: An
immense meeting was held last night
at the opera house in behalf of the
starving coal miners in Indiana.
Thomas J. Terhune made a statement
of the condition of the miners as he
found it while making his investiga
tion as Governor Mount's special com
missioner. He said: ,
"There are 8,000 families in this
state in destitution. Thirty .thousand
people are literally starving. A. few
years ago they received $1.25 per ton;
now the average price paid is about 35
cents per ton. A good miner can make
$1 a day and is allowed to work two
or three days each week. They are
compelled to trade at company stores
and the prices they pay are left entire
ly to the mine operators. The miners
admit that they cannot live upon the
present scale of wages. "
A' large subscription to the relief
fund was raised.
E. V. Debs left Terra Haute for St,
Louis last night to attend the confer
ence called by the national exeoutive
board of United Mineworkers. He
says there has been a remarkable change
in public sentiment on the injunction
question; that whereas three years ago
there was hardly any dissent from the
course of judges who were issuing re
Btraining, orders against the strikers,
the preponderance of. sentiment how is
in opposition.
A Convert to Buddhism.
New York, Sept. 1. A most unnsual
ceremony will be performed this even
ing upon the platform of New Century
hall, on Fifth avenue, when Countess
M. de Canavaro will be received into
the Buddhist faith by Dharmapala, a
priest of the Brahma-Somaj sect. The
priest will repeat in his native language
the formula of the oath of Buddha,
which will be repeated, by the prose
lyte. This will be but the second cere
mony of the kind ever performed in
this country.
Countess de Canavaro is an American
woman, about 45 years old, a native of
California, who- married a foreigner.
Further than that she will say nothing
whatever about her family affairs. : .
;; Thinks Andree Will Return.
New York, Sept. 1. Evelin B. Bald
win, an Arctio explorer of some note,
when seen by a reporter in Brooklyn'
last night; declared his belief that An
dree will come back safely from his
journey in search of the north pole. Mr.
Baldwin has just returned from Europe,
where he talked with leading scientists,
all of whom tohare his belief.
Friendship, Me.; has a great grand
mother but 63 years old. .
A Campaign Against the Weak.
Chicago; - Sept. 1. Maude May
aard Noel, a young Chicago woman,
herself beautiful and in perfeot health,
has begun a campaign which has for its
aim the slaughter of- all- the Weak,
whether physically or mentally incap
able. She would relentlessly kill them
by a painless -death if -possible, and
holds that the end would justify the
means, for.it would benefit the human
race. ' ': : ' " ' "v" ", .
About $10,000,000 in gold is now con
waled in the teeth of the people in the
irorld. .. - '.:,
Star PointeT Paced Exhibition
Mile 'In 1:59 1-4.
RECORD MADE AT REEDVILLE
Grandstand Watches Caught the Time
Kven Faster Performance Was Wit
nessed by an Excited Crowd.
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Reedville, Mass., Aug. 81. The pac
ing stallion Star Pointer, owned by
James A. Murphy, today wiped out the
two-minute mark, and ended the con
troversy which has been going on for
years as to the speed qualitites of the
light harness horse.. Accompanied by a
runner, the big bay Tennessee-bred
stallion wiped out the mark and had
three;quarters ofji second to spare when
he went under the wire. This wonder
ful performance was witnessed by about
8,000 persons. It was the more won
derful for on Friday Joe, Patchen, with
Geers behind him, had made a try at
the mark made by John B. Gentry last
October, and had failed by a second
and a half. Because of this, it was not
thought that his greatest rival in the
race line would get down below the
even time mark.
The day was perfect for record-breaking.
Not a breath of air was . stirring
when at 4 o'clock the horse came out
with a running horse to make the trial
for a world's record. The first two
scores were not satisfactory to MoCleary
and he worked the horse way down be
low the turn. The second score was
even worse than the first, for while at
scarcely a two minute-clip he went to a
break right under the wire. This made
the friends of the horse more than a
trifle nervous. The horse was acting as
if a little sore and not up to the task.
But the third time down there was no
hesitancy. McCleary nodded for the
word, and off the pacer went.
The first quarter was at a two-minute
gait, 30 seconds, and then, as McCleary
called on his pacer to move, there was
a great cheer, for he was beating two
minutes and got to the half in 0:59,
with the second quarter in 0:29.
The third quarter was-the fastest of the
mile, the distance being covered in
0:29 seconds, a 1:57 gait.
.. ; Around the turn Pointer seemed to
waver the smallest fraction of a second,
but McCleary had him right almost be
fore one could think, and he straight
ened out into the stretch, the runner
moving up closer. Both pacer and
runner were asked to step along. Mc
Carthy laid the whip on the runner,
but McCleary only spoke a word of en
couragement to his horse.
) At the drawgate Pointer was reefed
a little, and, coming stronger from the
distance, the great pacing stallion ap
peared to freshen in the last few
strides, gathering fresh courage as he
neared the wire, and finished like a lion
in; the. record-breaking tinra f-ir58 Jf.
A mighty shout went up. Men yelled
as though possessed. In the grandestand
the owner of the horse had his hand
wrung until it ached. Over the fences
jumped men who knew the horse and
driver, or who were carried away with
the enthusiasm of the moment.
Hardly had McCleary brought the
horse to a standstill before they had
him on their shoulders, and he was
borne along the stretch to the judge's
stand and there, as the band played
"Hail to the Chief," he was introduced
to the throng, and then renewed ap
plause for horse, owner and trainer
rang out
A fairer mile was never timed. There
was not a watch in the stand but what
agreed with the time announced, while
on the other side of the stretch, the
watches in the grandstand caught it
equally fast or better, not one slower.
C. W Marks, also of Chicago, the
owner of the greatest rival of Pointer,
looked at his watch earnestly and then
remarked:
"If anything, the mile was faster
jrather than slower. It was a 1:59 per
formance. " -
SWEPT BY A HURRICANE.
The Coast of the Gulf of California Is
: Devastated.
' Denver, Aug. 31. A special to the
News from Nogales, Ariz., says: Ad
vices from Guaymas state that a hurri
cane visited the Gulf of California and
the lower Mexican coast on the 22d
inst., and that information of the dam
age done is beginning to arrive at that
port. At Las Guacmas, near the
mouth of the Yaqui river, the region
for miles around was inundated, and
the town swept away. Three lives were
reported lost and great damage done to
crops. The steamer Carmen is sup
posed to have left Agiabampo . for the
south just as the hurricane was coming,
and fears for her safety are entertained.
The storm has prostrated the wires all
along the coast, and no particulars can
be learned. It is feared that a number
of vessels have been lost.
Arsenic and Whiskr.
Vancouver, B.- C, Aug. 81. James
Hardman, aged 90 years, is dead at
Westminster from the effects of a dose
of" arsenic. The deceased had been ill
for a long time. . Chief . Sewish, a west
coast Indian, was drowned at Westmin
ster by falling out of a canoe while
drunk. - ,
, Smuggling; on the Isthmus.
New York, Aug. 81. A special to
the World from Colon says: Cases of
goods - shipped here from- the United
States will be opened to preyent the
smuggling of tobacco, the protective
duty on which is so high that mer
chants do not openly import it. The
authorities have seized , several' cases
marked "lard" which contained to
bacco. . '
. Ten reigments in the British army
publish each their own newspaper. -
J. New Warships for Spain.
Madrid, Aug., 31. The Spanish
government will immediately construct
one large irconlad and six cruisers of
6,000 to 7,000 tons to form the nucleus
of three squadrons. ..The government
is arranging for a fresh Credit, with a
view to strengthening' the navy.
Ohio Miners Starving. ' - ' '
'' Nelsonville, 0.,- Aug. 81. The des
titution among the miners here is very
great Manager Buckley says 1,260
persons, the entire 'mining population
of the town have absolutely nothing to
eat, and 100 of these are sick. . t
A Few of Those Gathered at Skagnay
, , Can Now Escape.
Seattle, Sept. 1. The following let
ter was received - per steamer Utopia,
which arrived in Seattle today:
Skaguay, Aug. 25. The jam is broken
on the Skaguay trail. A number of
outfits have gotten over, and there is a
eteady stream of moving humanity,
mixed up in an almost indescribable
mass of horses of all sizes, ages and
conditions, mules, steers, -milch cows,
goats and dogs, also vehicles of every
description and kind to be imagined.
Three steamers are now unloading on
lighters, which convey the freight as
near the shore as possible, where it is
loaded on wagons or carried above high,
tide. The Utopia is unloading at the
only wharf a very shaky structure.
Two piledrivers are at work on another
dock, which is intended to be a sub
stantial one.
A new sawmill got np steam for the
first twe this morning. Rough lumber
is worth $27 per 1,000, but cannot be
got half fast enough at any price. The
city of tents is not being displaced, but
reinforced by a city of "shacks" of all
sizes and degrees of finish. Skaguay is
the boom town of Alaska. Every man
whose heart failed him when he en
countered the first hardship lias turned
townsite boomer. Four weeks ago
Skaguay was not known; today there
are not less than 3,000 people here, in
addition to those on the ships in the
harbor. They have surveyed off the
townsite,. the first comers having first
choice. The United States commis
sioner is issuing some kind of a certifi
cate for a fee of $5; then the squatter
sticks up his tent, shack, or corral, and
is ready to "skin" the first tenderfoot
that comes along. . Transfers by quit
claim are quite common, and as high
as $200 has been paid for a choice loca
tion. Skaguay has all theusuai accompani
ments of a frontier mining town.
Dance halls and scarlet women are
plentiful, while roulette, faro, and stud
poker and craps find devotees ready to
tempt fickle fortune's smile.
There is no danger of a famine here,
though there may be shortage in certain
lines. On all sides, "smiling plenty
as if conjured by some enchanter" here
abounds. Great piles of hay, grain,
flour, bacon, sugar and all the necessa
ries are in stock apparently enough to
last for some time to come. There are
not less than 2,000 horses at work on
the Skaguay trail, but it is hard to get
anyone to contract to deliver you over
the summit at any price but you can
get over for about 80 cents a pound, if
you are willing to wait and contract by
sections. The packers at this end of
the trail do not like to contract farther
than the first hill, six miles out, then
one has to hire another outfit.
At Dyea the Indians are moving the
freight in an almost unbroken stream
from the landing to Lake Lindeman,
and it ia no trouble to contract to get
one's entire outfit over at one trip for
80 to.. 35 . cents . per . pound; -. - No one
should come expecting to get over this
fall for a less rate, and no one should
bring boats. There are boats, set up,
knocked down, in sections, and single
boards on both trails from the landing
to the base of the summit, but not one
has yet been taken over.
Another Rich Strike.
Tacoma, Wash., Sept. 1. A letter to
the Ledger has just been received from
the north fork of the McMillan river,
Alaska, from George Lemmon, addressed
to his wife, in South Tacoma, giving
particulars of a fabulously rich strike
on this tributary of the McMillan river.
He and his partner went there from
the Yukon on information from an In
dian, who accompanied them, last
spring, and he says they have struck a
locality richer than the Klondike. In
three months they have made a cleanup
of $55,000. He says they have a lard
bucket and a bean can full of nuggets,
and although they have no scales, they
believe it will run at least the amount
named. They have staked off five
claims, and he tells his wife to send up
four friends, whom he designated, as
quickly as possible, to locate the ad
joining properties, the law being that
one man can locate only one claim.'
The letter was sent down by the In
dian, who takes $500 or $600 wortfrofl
nuggets to lay m a fresh supply for the
winter. Lemmon says be will not be
out before next summer, and thinks his
friends can reach there by the middle
of October over the Chilcoot pass. Mo
Millan river is between 200 and 300
miles south of Klondike, and until
lately has been an unexplored region.
He expresses fear of scurvy breaking
Out this winter unless they can get some
green vegetables in, but adds that
nothing would induce him to leave the
diggings until next year, as by that
time they "are confident of having sev
eral hundred thousand dollars.
Flour Pays No Dutya
Washington, Sept. 1. Consul Fow
ler, at Chee Foo, China, reports to the
state department that foreign flour pays
no import duty in that country. He
says that one-third of the flour import
ed goes to Canton. About 860,000
pounds of flour from California is ' sold
in Chee Foo yearly. The Chinese, in
that part of China consume corn food
mostly.
Philadelphia, Sept. l.--Twelve hun
dred trousers-makers struck today for
shorter hours, better pay and abolition
of the sweat system. -
' American Manufacturers Excluded.
- Hamburg, Sept. -1. The agreement
arrived' at between the leading Amer
ican dynamite companies and the Nobel
trust has been ratified. Its provisions
exclude American manufacturers of
dynamite ' from , the South African
market. .' . ' : y - '.
Ms'. y.i - A Fatal Fire.
?j Veree, Sept. 1. A great fire oc
inVra'" today, and it is believed nine
m&i',we're 'burned 'to death and that
their ixidles'are buried in the debris.
Blew the Vault to Pieces. .
. Kansas ity, Aug. 81. A special to
the Times. from Elmdale, Kan., sayi:
Shortly after midnight, cracksmen
literally , blew the vault of the Ex
change bank to pieces. Citizens sur
rounded the bank and fired into it.
During ti e excitement the robbers es
caped from , a rear door, taking with
them $1,800 in money and $700 worth
of drafts. ' . ' -' - ; - -t;i
' A naturalist states that the puffing
up of frogs and toads on being disturbed
is an instinctive device for terryfying
their foes. 1
A-L SECTIONS REPORT INCREAS
: ING BUSINESS ACTIVITY.
Letters Are Being Received by People in
Washington Showing a Satisfactory
Condition, and that the Country is
Getting Back to Its Normal Condition.
Washington; D. C. Letters received
by members of congress, officials of the
various departments of the government
and newspaper men here indicate the
very general ' return of prosperity to
nearly all sections of the country.
While all are good reading, it is possi
ble to call attention to but a few, and
permission has been given to present
extracts from some of the most interest
ing, especially relating to the advance
in farm products and the general im
proving - condition of the farmer.
They are as follows:
, W. T. Yoe, of Independence, Kan.,
Says: ! jhpre i& a general increase in
business here. Our wheat crop is 1,
000,000 bushels in this county, and the
price is 80 per cent above a year ago.
Kansas will share in the returning
prosperity."
L. P. Bisell, Charlotte, Mich., says:
'Farmers have harvested excellent crops
of wheat and hay, with fair prospects
on other cereals. The greater part of
the depression here was due to poor
prices on agricultural poducts, and as
fair returns in both quantity and qual
ity and in price are now assured, we
have reason to hope that better times
are on the verge of the wall surround
ing us."
W. H. Goetzinger, Elbow Lake,
Minn., says: "There is a marked and
substantial evidence of return to better
times. Farmers have done more build
ing this spring than for a number of
years past, and have bought more bug
gies and windmills than ever before.
Merchants carry larger stocks, tramps
are fewer in number, and in general
a better feeling prevails."
F. E. Adams, Mansfield, Mo., says:
"The most noticeable improvement here
is in price and demand for sheep. For
this stock the price has almost doubled
and the demand at the higher price
trebled, which means prosperity fbr
many farmers. The demand for horses
and mules has been . good and the
price higher than for several years.
Price of wheat here has almost doubled,
benefiting many of our farmers. From
the statements of our county banks, the
deposits of many of them have doubled,
showing that there is more money in
the country than ever before. Cattle
are high and fanners have sold more
cattle, sheep, horses and mules than
ever before in the history of the country.
It looks to me as though a renewal of
activity has certainly come or is about
to come to our country."
J. A. Doty, Southwest City, Mo.,
says: "Two industries here, flour mill
ing and distilling after two years of
idleness .opened for bu juesaluly 1. and.1
other business enterprises that have
been under a strain to keep going have
taken on new life and are employing
additional help. There is a marked
improvement not only in this place but
in surrounding towns and country.','
Allen C. Bragg, editor and general
manager of the Gazette Publishing
Co., Reno, New, says: "The outlook
is encouraging here and a better feeling
is undoubtedly about in the state.
The livestock interest, beef and mutton,
are looking up, wool is 3 and 4 cents a
pound higher, gold mining has taken
on new life and much prospecting is
being done with a degree of success
that is encouraging. Take it all in all
the indications are. excellent for a re
vival of business. Nevada is not a
manufacturing state, but I regard the
outlook for livestock and mining as
brighter than it has been in the past
ten years."
J. Dawson, Eutaw, Ala., says:
"Our town has just completed electric
lights, and water works and the great
talk now is the building of a cotton
factory. Business is improving daily. ' '
J. W. Baker, Columbia City, Ind.,
says: -B anners nave gatnerea a tairiy
good wheat crop, a bountiful hay crop
and a good oat crop, which indicated
renewed prospertiy for them. A;new
factory has just been erected here with
a capacity of 809 employes and a large
new lumber company has just started.
Our idle men are now generally em
ployed, some at increased wages, some
at prices formely paid."
W. A. Smith, of the Decatur County
Abstract Company, Oberlin, Kan.,
says: "I have lived in Northwest
Kansas for over 18 years and we are
now in a more prosperous ..condition
than we have been at any time during
that period. We have had boom times
wherein business was greater and more
people were engaged, but like most
booms the bottom dropped out. We
are now on a solid basis. There are
more farmers working on their own cap
ital in this county than ever before to
my knowledge. Our wheat crop has
been very fine and the corn will un
doubtedly be as heavy a yield as we
have ever had. Alfalfa culture is be
ing introduced; also the Campbell
method of cultivation with good effect.
The machinery for a full creamery has
been ordered and will be in full opera
tion by September. Since January,
Oberlin has shipped 42 carloads of cat
tle and 122 of hogs. Many mortgages
will be paid."
i
It is a great thing for this country,
now that there is an existing standard
of value, that while we have an abund
ance of silver,. $521,000,000, in the
treasury, we have so limited it that it
we have the use of both money metals
without fear of the depreciation of
either.
People who were favorably impressed
with the "wheat and silver" theory
last year are now wondering how they
could have been so easily fooled. .
The people are utilizing the first
fruits of McKinley prosperity in paying
off Cleveland mortgages. Wise people I
The horrible plot of the sound-tnoney
men to ruin the country'by putting up
the prices of farm products still goes on.
' The most encouraging feature of the
report showing the return of business
activity is that they come from small
as well as large places. When every
community; finds itself - busily em
ployed the professional ' agitator finds
his occupation gone and the country
prosperous.
Downing, Hopkins tt Company's Review
of Trade.
' An inquiry into European crop con
ditions conducted by the Orange-Judd
syndicate of agricultural papers, includ
ing the American Agriculturist, of New
York, the Orange-Judd Farmer, of Chi
cago, and the New England Homestead,
of Springfield, Mass., indicates that the
food crop situation abroad is very grave.
Estimates of Europe's (including
England) need of wheat imports range
all the way from. 800,000,000 to 400,
000,000 bushels. . Europe's wheat crop
for 1895, 1894 and 1893 averaged 1,
500,000,000 bushels. In 1891 the fam
ine year, it was only 1,200,000. The
impression is gaining ground that Eu
rope's wheat this year is even less than
in 1891. But this is not the worst of
it. Europe usually- produces as much
rye as she does wheat. - It is the bread .
grain of the masses. The rye crop of
the principal European countries has
averaged above 1,300,000,000 annually,
for 1896, 1895, 1894 and 1893. This
season the rye crop of these countries
cannot much exceed 875,000,000 buBh
els. Quite as bad is the potato pros
pect. Only about 1,850,000,000 bush
els of potatoes will be harvested in -these
countries this year. Without re
gard to the United Kingdom or other
European countries, there is a shortage
of 8om million bushels of potatoes.
The European shortage, compared with
the average, follows:
Wheat, bushels 300,000,000
Rye, bushels ... 835,000,000
Potatoes, bushels J ,000,000,000
Total 1,635,000,000
The Hungarian department of agri
culture says: "The favored countries
are the United States and Canada.
The latter will soon be one of the most
important of the exporting countries, its
excess over last year's production being
70,000,000 bushels of wheat, and 20,
000,000 of corn. Its output of all sorts
of grain was 270,000,000 bushels. The
yield of wheat in Great Britain this
season ia 00,000,000 bushels against -63,000,000
last year. The wheat area
of British India is reduced from 23,
000,000 acres to 18,000.000, and the
wheat yield from 234,000,000 bushels
to 202,000,000 bushels. . .
The United States, which has re
duced its area sown in oats by 2,000,-
000 acres, that for corn by 1.000,000
acres, while that in other grain re-.
mains unchanged, will nevertheless dis
pose of 534,000,000 bushels of wheat,
against 434,000,000 bushels last year. .
Portland Markets.
Wheat Walla Walla, 80 82c; Val
ley and Bluesteni. 84 85c per busheL
Flour Best grades, $4.50; graham,
$3.85; superfine, $2.50 per barrel.
Oats Choice white, 85 36c; choice
gray, 34c per bushel.
Barley Feed barley, "$18; brew
ing, $1819 per ton. ,
Millstuffs Bran, $14 per ton;
midd lings, $21; shorts, $15.50.
Hay Timothy, $12 12.50; olover,
410 a llI-JalifojcDlawlieat. SlQja
11; do oat, $11; O egon wild hay, $9$ -10
per ton.
Eggs 12 c per dozen.
Butter Fancy creamery, 4550o;
fair to good, 35 40c; dairy, 25 30c per
roll. " '
Cheese Oregon, HKi Young
America, 12c; California, 9 10c per
pound.
Poultry Chickens, mixed, $3.50
3.75 per dozen; broilers, $1.502.50;
geese, $34; ducks, $33.50 per dozen;
turkeys, live, 10llc per pound.
Potatoes. O.egon Burbanka, 35
40c per sack; new potatoes, 50c per
sack; sweets, $1.75 per cental.
Onions California, new, red. $1.25;
yellow, $1.50 per cental.
Hops 10llKo per pound for new
crop; 1896 crop, 46c.
Wool Valley, 1415c per pound;
Eastern Oregon, 10 12c; mohair, 20c
per pound.
Mutton Gross, best sheep, wethers
and ewes, 2.2)c; dressed mutton,
4)c; spring lambs, 5 per pound.
Hogs Gross, choice heavy, $4.50;
light and feeders, $34; dressed, $3
4.25 per 100 pounds.
Beef Gross, top steers, $2.753;
cows $2.25; dressed beef, 45c per
pound.
Veal Large, 83Ks; small, 4
per pound.
Seattle Markets.
Butter Fancy native creamery,
brick, 20c; ranch, 1012c.
Cheese Native Washington, 10
11c; California, 9o.
Eggs Fresh ranch, 1920a
Poultry Chickens, live, per pound,
bens, 10 11c; spring chickens, $2
3.50; ducks, $2.50 8. 75.
Wheat Feed wheat, $30 per ton.
Oats Choice, per ton, $23.
Corn Whole, $22; cracked, per ton,
$22; feed meal, $22 per ton.
Barley Rolled or ground, per ton,
$23; whole, $22.
Fresh Meats Choice dressed beef,
steers, 6c; cows, 5c; mutton sheep,
6c; pork, 7c; veal, small, 6.
Fresh Fish Halibut, 4Jc; salmon,
45c; salmon trout, 710c; flounders
and sole, 34; ling cod, 45; rock
cod, 5c; smelt, 24c.
San Francisco Markets.
Wool Choice foothill, 912c; San
Joaquin, 6 months' 810o; do year's
staple, 79o; mountain, 11 13c; Ore
gon, 1013c per pound.
Hops 610o per pound.
Millstuffs Middlings, $1922;
California bran, $14 14. 50 per ton.
Onions New red, 70 80c; do new
silverskin, $1 1.10 per cental.
Potatoes New, in boxes, 4060ol
Fresh fruit Apples, 40 65c per
large box; apricots, 20 40c; Fontain
bleau grapes, 20 35c; muscats, 40
50c; black, 8050o; tokay, 40 50c;
peaches, 25 60c; pears, 40 50 per
box; plums, 20 40c; crab apples, 15
35c ,
Hay Wheat,$12 15; wheat and oat,
$1114; oat, $1012; river barley,
$78; best barley, $912; alfalfa,
$8.50 10 clover, $7. 50 9. 50.
Cheese Fancy mild, hew, 8o; fair
to good, 7)o per pound.
Butter Fancy oreamery, 22 Jc; do
seconds, 2122c; fancy dairy, 20c;'
good to choice, 18 20o per pound.
Eggs Store, 15 18c; ranch, 20
24o; Eastern, 14 17; duck, 16o per
dozen. '
Citrus fruit Oranges, Valencias,
$3 3. 00; Mexican limes, $5 6; Cali
fornia lemons, fancy, $8; do common,
$12 per box.
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K merchant in Copenhagen was fined
10 crowns for having used the Ameri
can flag as an advertising medium.