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VOL. XXXIV.
CORVALIilS, BENTON COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1897.
NO. 26.
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Epitome of the Telegraphic
? . News of the World.
;TERSE ticks from the wires
An Interesting Collection of Items From
the Xew and the Old World In a
Condensed and Comprehensive Form
A fire in Philadelphia destroyed
,1600.000 worth of property. .
A Portland company baa offered to
build a sugar beet factory in La
Grande.
G. J. Layzell was killed and Claude
Hawthorne severely injured by a fire
on a launch in Astoria, Or.
Falls Company, manufacturers of
cotton goods, in Norwich, Conn., have
started up on full time, giving employ
ment to 500 hands.
The New Orleans health authorities
have sent out notice of a death by yel-
low fever in that city. Quarantine has
been declared by several Southern
cities.
A rich strike is reported in the
Schroder mine, in Yreka, Cal., on the
1,200-foot level, the vein averaging
' four feet in width, and running $130 to
the ton. .
Edward Lyons, a patient at the Ore
gon state insane asylum hung himself
; to a tree in the asylum grounds. He
V was committed from Multnomah county
last March.
In the Milford labor union, at its
games in Milford, Mass., H. S. Dono
van, of Natick, ran 100 yards in 9
seconds, breaking the world's record by
one-tenlh of a second, according to the
timekeepers.
George W. Clark broke the world's
high-dive record by jumping off the
railing of the Halstead-street life bridge
in Chicago, when the structure was
raised to an elevation of 165 feet above
the Chicago river. Thn diver was
taken out of the river nninjured, and
was placed under arrest by the police.
The, Washington Star says: It is
stated that S. D. North, of Boston, has
i f been selected as. superintendent of the
r . next census, and that his appointment
will be made as soon as necessary legis
. lation can be enacted. The president
is said to favor the establishment of a
permanent bureau on census, and is
likely to express some views on that
subject in his next message to congress.
Wild horses have become a nuisance
fn Northern Arizona, and Attorny
General Frasier has been asked if they
may not be legally slaughtered. That
vicinity has been overrun by several
large bands, hundreds in number, un-
. . branded and unclaimed by any one.
: They have rapidly increased in number
and have become wilder than deer and
vicious as well. The matter has been
referred to the livestock board. '-
A Phoenix, Ariz., dispatch says it is
expected that work will be resumed
within 60 days on the great Rio Verde
irrigation enterprise which is to redeem
200,000 acres of the finest land in the
Salt river valley. Of the 150 miles of
canals that will constitute the Rio
Verde irrigation system, 22 have been
dug, and a large amount of work, cost
ing altogether $200,000, has been done
'.-' at and near the headworks.
"We are on the verge of a great min
ing era," remarked Clarence King,
former ehief of the United States geo
logical survey, in Denver. "The time
is not far distant when a man can start
out of Denver and travel to Klondike,
stopping every night at a mining camp.
Already two American stamp mills are
pounding away on thfi border of the
Straits of Magellan, and the day is ap
proacihng when a chain of mining
camps will extend from Cape Horn to
St Michaels."
- The supreme court of Oregon has de
cided that a jury, cannot be discharged
on Sunday.
Mrs. John Drew, the famous actress,
died at Larchment, N. Y., after an ill
ness of three years.
Table cutters employed in the four
largest glove factories in Gloversville,
N. Y.j have struck for an advance in
wages. About 800 skilled men are out.
By a vote of 53 to 35 the Pennsyl
Tania state Democratic committee de
clared vacant the seat of William Har
rity in the national Democratic com
mittee. ,
At a Spanish cabinet council it was
decided to summon the next class of
80,000 reserves, 27,000 of whom will
be sent to Cuba and 13,000 to the Phil
ippine islands.
A landslide occurred at tunnel No. 4,
on the Northern Pacific, several miles
west of the summit of thepascades.
Eastbound and westbound trains were
delayed.
A genuine flying machine, it is said,
was seen at Sterling, Colo. , a few days
ago by G. A. Nenstein. Mr. Nenstein
noticed a large black object in the
southeastern part of the heavens, trav
eling rapidly toward the northeast. He
watched it pass clear across the heavens,
moving quite rapidly in a straight line.
He watched it nntil it passed out of
sight, and is convinced that it was a
bona fide flying machine.
. Another attempt has been made to
destroy the life of President Faure of
France. Three minutes after the pres
ident had passed the Madeline church
in Paris, on his return from Russia, a
bomb was exploded inside the railing
around the chnrch. An arrest followed
- immediately, and the railed field was
closed by the police, who began an ac
tive investigation into the outrage.
Nobody was injured by the explosion,
bat the affair, . following so closely
upon others of a similar nature, caused
the greatest excitement.
The weekly crop report issued by the
department of agriculture in Washing
. ton, D. C, says: "Early corn is ma
. taring in , Iowa, Missouri, . Kansas,
: Nebraska and South Dakota, but it hrfs
. made slow progress in Illinois, Indiana,
' Wisconsin and Michigan..' In Ken
tucky, Tennessee and Arkansas the crop
promisee to be short, owing to drought.
The spring wheat harvest is nearly com
pleted in Minnesota and North Dakota,
'' and threshing is general. In Washing
' ton and Oregon the weather has been
" ' ' especially favorable for threshing the
heavy wheat crop which has been grown
Jn those states."
HOPS SPOILING FAST.
A Few Growers Made an Attempt to
Pick in the Rain. '
Portland, Or.' Sept. 8. An effort
was made to pick hops in a few of the
yards in Oregon yesterday, but the
work was generally retarded by the wet
weather, and, in some sections, by a
scarcity of pickers The growers still
try to keep a stiff upper lip, but the
tenor of the reports indicate that the
hop crop in Oregon has already been
damaged enough to make it fall short
at least 25 per cent of the average
yield.
The opinion of most interested per
sons in the grain districts of the North
west is that wheat has not yet been
materially injured, and that, should
the weather clear up in a day or two,
farmers may put all their wheat where
it will be out of danger. .. In all of this
district, Forecast Official Pague, of the
United States weather bureau, at Port
land, Or.y in his 'report, made' up at 5
P...M.yesterdayr says -that iveavy
showers occurred and that the wind
prevailed from the south. His forecast
is that the weather is still unsettled,
and that occasional light showers may
be expected. His correspondents
throughout the district report as fol
lows: "The Dalles, Or. Weather cloudy;
strong north, drying wind; .02 of an
inch fell last night; threshing today."
"Weston, Or. Yesterday and today
.70 of an inch of rain fell; no damage
reported; work still delayed; ceased
raining; cloudy."
"Pendleton, Or. Temperature, 68
degrees; .37 of an inch rain fell;
weather clearing; great damage to
wheat." "
"Pomeroy, -Wash. Rainfall, 1.23
inches since yesterday noon, wetting
stacked and causing uncut grain to fall,
damaging some." v
"Hepner, 'Or. Rain since last re
port, .48 of an inch; occasional showers
today; clearing now." . . '-.
"Colfax, Wash. Rainfall, .69 of an
inch; .39 of an inch fell before grain
was injured, rain endangering whole
harvest of standing grain; very little
grain is stacked."
In Marion County.
Bntteville, Or., Sept. 8. Hops are
spoiling fast. Growers of experience
predict that should the present cloudy,
rainy weather continue, the hop crop
will be entirely ruined in a few days.
Hopgrowers here are quite short of
help to pick the hops. This is account
ed for by the fact that the Growers'
Association decided to pay only 30
cents a box, and did not raise the price
in time to retain many whom they had
engaged. J. S. Vaughan, A. Cone,
Peter Feller and a very few others have
full crews.
Salem, Or., Sept. 8. The prospect
of fair weather is more encouraging to
night than for the two days past.
There was a light shower today, but
little time was lost by hoppickers.
There is a considerable amount of hops
yet to be saved, if the'weafKer permits."
PANIC IN A THEATER.
San Francisco Orphenm Patrons Have
a Close Call With Fire. .
'" San Francisco,' Sept. 8. Fire in the
Orphenm theater just before the close
of the performance last night created
much excitement and a panic attended
with loss of life was narrowly averted.
The casualties were confined to slight
injuries to a few persons.
In the theater there is an electrical
apparatus known as the cinematograph
by which pictures are thrown on a
white ground on the stage. It is oper
ated from a small closet built on the
front of the gallery. The sides of the
closet were of muslin. This material
caught fire and began dropping on the
heads of the audience below. A cry of
"fire" was raised, and a rush for the
exits was made. One man pushed his
arm through a glass door and was badly
cut. An elderly lady was thrown down
and trodden on, but was revived and
taken away by her daughter. A man
jumped from a second-story window
and his head was cut in several places.
The fire was . extinguished before it
spread. Within a few minutes the ex
citement had subsided and the per
formance was continued to the end of
the programme with the exception of
the cinematograph pictures.
Mutilated Corpse in a Lonely Wood.
Washington, Sept. 8. The little vil
lage of Laurel, Md., 19 miles from
Washington, is much excited over a
murder mystery. A boy hunting in
the woods near the village this morn
ing found a nude human body. The
coroner of the county was notified and
went to the place. . He found that the
body was that of a woman in such an
advanced state of decomposition as to
make identification very difficult if not
impossible. The head bad been com
pletely severed from the body, as had
also the left hand and the left foot.
The hand and foot were missing, but
the head lay a short distance, from the
body.
It was impossible to estimate the age
of the woman correctly, but she seemed
to have been under 50. " The nails of
the right hand seemed to have been
well cared for and indicated that the
woman had not been accustomed to
hard work. "
As far as learned no woman is miss
ing in that locality, and the officials
have no clue as to the murderer.
' Worse Than the Spanish. -
' London, -Sept. 8. A special from
Madrid says that Mount Mayon, south
of the island of Luzon, Philippine isl
ands, is in a state of violent .eruption,
and that the streams of lava thrown
out by the eruption reach to the sea
shore, a distance of 20 miles. Several
villages have been destroyed - and 500
persons are reported to be killed. '
A man in South Dakota believes that
he has found uranium on his farm..
J ' Tried to Cremate Herself.
Owosso, Mich., Sept. 7. Miss Millie
Comstock, a music teacher, died today
from the effects of serious burns. She
placed a blanket saturated with oil
around herself and set fire to it. She
had been in poor health for some time,
and preparations were being made to
remove her. to an asylum, , v . . . s
London, Sept 8. The secretary of
state for India, Lord George Hamilton,
has invited tenders for India bills, pay
able in six or twelve months at the op
tion of the holders, to the amount of
112,000,000.
Caused Two Terrible Explo
" siioins In Indianapolis,
LOSS OF PROPERTY LARGE
Six Persons Were Burned to Death and
Thirty More Seriously Injured The
Scene a Heartrending One.
Indianapolis, Sept. 7. Broad Rip
ple, a" suburb of Indianapolis, 10 miles
from the city proper, was this morning
the scene of the most terrible disaster
that has ever visited'.this state. Six
people were burned to "death and B0
people are lying in the homes of neigh
bors, burned, scarred and racked with
pain from broken bones. . Four build-
wigs, .occupying r diock oi tne tow-nj-s
are in rums. " Of the six dead, nothing
but charred and blackened bones, with
hanging strips of foul-smelling flesh,
remain. Two of the dead are still un
identified, there being no way of identi
fication, except by listing those who are
missing.
At 10 o'clock a foul odor was noticed
in the drugstore of J. L. Watts, and a
lamp in the dark room, used for ama
teur photography, went out. It was
lighted, and as the burning match was
thrown to the floor, streaks of flame of
a bluish tint ran along the joints be
tween the boards, showing the presence
of escaping natural gas, and then up
'the walls.
The next instant, the explosion
came. The walls were hurled in every
direction and the top of the building
fell with a crunching, grinding sound,
covering everything. Fire broke out,
and shrieks could be heard from those
beneath. Of the seven persons in the
store, three were burned alive. The
rest are still alive and may recover.
A hundred persons were at work on
the ruins trying to save lives in Gresh
ke's grocery adjoining, pulling at the
ruins to save those buried beneath.
While thus engaged, and 20 minutes
after the first explosion, a second came
from beneath the grocery. It was a
mighty roar and hurled the building to
atoms. Forty people were knocked
senseless, strewn in all directions with
broken bones and bruised bodies, while
as many more escaped with small
bruises. The shock made the whole
town quiver. Beneath the ruins,
Phius Greschke, the groceryman, was
caught and crushed to death. His body
was recovered before it was entirely
burned. The ruins were added to
those of the building adjoining, demol
ished by the first explosion, and the
whole mass, together with a cottage
and a livery stable, was burned. Only
the bucket brigade was on hand in
time to do any good, and probably it
only prolonged the agony of the victims
who were burned.
. The disaster was -caused-by natural
gas leaking into the ' cellars of the
buildings from a three-inch, main that
ran into the street, and from which the
houses are supplied. -
.THE SUNSHINE MINE HORROR.
Further Particulars of the Explosion
- Near Glenwood Springs.
Glen wood Springs, Colo., Sept. 7.
The bodies of 12 miners who were
killed by a coal-dust explosion in the
Sunshine mine of the Colorado Fuel &
Iron Company were brought to this city
today and prepared for burial. Coro
ner Clark empaneled a jury, which
viewed the remains. The force of the
explosion had completely crushed each
bone in the 12 bodies, so that there
mains were, merely masses of flesh and
bones.
This mine is the oldest of the Spring
Gulch group. Two entries below the
one in whioh the . accident occurred
have been worked out. Those two cov
ered a distance of 600 feet above the
level of the creek. .
The stope which proved H;he death
trap of the 12 men is usually the work
ing place of 40 toilers. Yesterday the
main force were employed in the entry
250 feet above the level where the ex
plosion occurred. The explosion broke
away the stopage from the lower work
ed out stopes and the two working
b topes ' were at once filled with the
deadly black damp. An idea of the
force of the explosion can be had when
it is seen that timbers, many 22 inches
in diameter, were twisted and broken
as though they were mere pipestems.
Local Superintendent Ben Davis now
lies dangerously ill from the effects of
black damp breathed while bringing
out tne dead bodies.
Rockefeller's Generosity. . .
. Boston, Sept. 7. John D. Rockefel
ler, in pursuance of a promise to the
American' Baptist Missionary Union
and the American Baptist Home. Mis
sionary Society, has sent his check for
the balance of the f 250,000 to be given
by him on condition that the two so
cieties should raise $236,000. On Au
gust 1 the American Baptist Mission
ary Union, with headquarters in Tre
mont Temple, this city, received
Mr. Rockefeller's check for $121,267.
Now the American Baptist Home Mis
sionary ' Society, the headquarters of
which are in New York, has received a
check for the amount necessary to can
cel its indebtedness. This contribu
tion is the largest gift ever made to
the missionary cause.
Gale Damages Crops and Shipping.
- London, Sept 7. The thundei
storms and rains which have prevailed
all the week throughout Great Britain
and the Continent culminated" last
evening in a severe gale, which did
much damage to crops, resulting in
numerous shipping causualties in the
English channel and overflowing many
parts of the Thames valley.
The smiling fields are giving the
calamity shriekers the Ha! Ha! .,; ; .
' JSxeltement Among the Cherokees.
. Chesea, I.T., Sept. 7. r Parties ar
riving from the Eastern Cherokee na
tion in the Grand river bottoms bring
news that great excitement is in order
among the full-bloods. The Keetowah
Society held a big . meeting about 25
miles east of here yesterday, and, about
1,500 full-bloods were, present. ; Reso
lutions were passed condemning any
treaty action. ' The plan of emigration
to Mexico next spring was discussed. -
The various countries in the world
now use 18,400 different kinds of post
age stamps,
HORSES ' FOR ARMY USE. -A.
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Practical Test of Those From the Range
Has Demonstrated Their Value.
Chicago, Sept. 8. "No horses in the
world except the range horses, of onr
Western states are fit for military pur
poses, and I think the- trip just fin
ished by my cowboy friends proves my
assertion." : :..;:-. r,
The foregoing remark was made by
Dr. William A. Bruett, special commis
sioner of the bureau of animal industry
of the department of agriculture. He
was at his home in this city, and with
him were two stalwart, sunburned
young men, William and Bert Gabriel.
. "These young men," continued Mr,
Bruett, "have just demonstrated that
the bronchos and range horses of our
plains can . cover a distance of 2,400
miles in 90 days and subsist on grass
and water along the route, without
grain, and, more important still, from.
a military point of view, without being
8hd.v I can say without fear of . corrt
tradiction that no other horses in tne
world could have made the trip under
the circumstances.
"The route, beginning at Sheridan,
Wyo., and ending at Galena, this state,
covered all kinds of country, turf, sand,
rock, clay and mud. When they en
tered the last 100 miles the horses were
in as good condition in every way as
when they started from Wyoming, but
trom Dubuque to Waterloo, la., the
road along the Mississippi was either
over jagged rocks or through deep mud.
"The heels and frbgs of the horses'
feet were so badly bruised that, al
though they could have completed the
distance to Chicago, I telegraphed the
men to let the noble little animals stop
at Galena. Had the horses been shod
at Sioux City, as I telegraphed, know
ing the roads over whioh they would
have to travel to Chicago, they would
have reached here in first-class condi
tion on Saturday. The telegram failed
to reach the men and they brought the
horses through under my original in
structions. -
"As a test of the endurance of the
Western horse, I am sure the depart
ment of agriculture will be more than
satisfied with the result, as it demon
strates that the animal is all that has
been claimed. . As I said before, no
other horses in the world could have
made such a trip under such conditions.
I believe it will change the opinions of
foreign governments, who have felt
that our range horses were too light for
military purposes. ' 23
"It is a fact not known, as I said be
fore, that the range horse has in his
veins the blood of the thoroughbred and
the standard-bred Percheron, Clydes
dale, Hambletonian and other famous
strains. Stallions of these classes have
been sent to the ranches, and the result
is an increase in the size and quality of
the horse. Range hordes, as they are
called in distinction from bronchos,
range in weight from 950 to 1,150
pounds. The bronohos, which are of
Spanish origin and have no improved
blood in them," weigh from 750 to 900
pounds - - ' :""- '
"We believe the performance of the
two horses which have just come from
Wyoming will influence the German
and English army agents and exporters
for domestic purposes to try our West
ern horses."
CAPSIZED AND SUNK.
Wreck of the Schooner Agnes O. Grace,
With Four Big Guns. '
Savannah, Ga., Sept. 8. The three
masted schooner Agnes O. Grace, of
Bangor, Me., capsized and sunk this
morning 21 miles east of . Tybee. Her
crew came ashore and landed at War
saw island.
The schooner sailed from New York
August 28, with a cargo of salt for Sa
vannah and four 16 ton guns for the
Tybee fortifications. All down the
coast she was driven by a fierce north
easter, and on Saturday night she came
off Tybee laboring heavily in the gale.
An effort was made to bring her to and
save her being driven further south, but
when she brought to, the wind began
to toss the vessel, and the big guns,
which formed part of her deck load,
drifted loose from their lashings and
took possession of the deck. The crew
was driven into the rigging, and the
iron monsters plunged about as the
vessel heaved in the sea, making every
effort to recapture them almost certain
death. About 8 o'clock in the morning
an unusually heavy swell tossed all
four guns into the port scuppers, and
the vessel heeled under the immense
weight, tried to right, but staggered
as the green water broke fiercely in
over the bulwarks. She capsized and
sank. '
Blown on a Beef During a Storm.
New York, Sept. 8. A dispatch to
the Herald from Montevideo says: The
United States gunboat Castine, which
has been stationed in these waters for
some time, ran aground yesterday out
side the bay during a heavy wind. The
vessel was unable to pull away, and
the steamers Plata and Repnblica
finally went to her assistance. - The
Castine, with their aid, cleared the
reef and was towed into the bay. Just
what damage was done to the gunboat
is not known, but an examination is
now being made. .
Snow Storm In Scotland.
Edinburgh, Sept. 7. A snow storm
has swept over Scotland. The Gram
pian hills are completely covered with
snow.' -'" r
i Off Their Reservation.
Globe, Ariz., Sept. 8. About 1,000
Apaches are off the reservation, and
are scattered through the Pinal and
Superstition mountains, killing deer
and gathering wild fruits. None-of
them are provided with passes, and all
are armed. . They have committed
only minor depredations around the
ranches of the region, but the settlers
are alarmed and are on guard. - The
Apaches are all from the White Moun
tain reservation in the vicinity of San
Carlos. : ,
; A Smallpox Suspect's Fate. . -Columbus,
Miss., Sept." 8. A negro
woman named Ann Hughes, who has
been under guard and isolated, being
suspected of having coritracted small
pox, escaped and later attended a negro
church and created a panic among the
congregation. She was run out of the
church and nothing was beard of her
until she was found with her skull
crashed in an open field, v - : ' r
Sydney, N. S. W.f Sept. 8. News
has been received here that the govern
or of German New Guinea was killed
by natives on August 21,
Negotiations Upon the Sub
ject Now Pending1.
IT IS AN AUDACIOUS PLOT
The United States Is to Be Completely
Ignored It Is Suspected That Eng
land Has a Hand in It.
New York, Sept.- 6. A special to
the Herald from Washington says:
Japan, not content with an interference
in President McKinley's Hawaiian an
nexation policy, now has designs upon
the Nicarauga canal. According to
seim-official advices just received here
from Nicaragua, the Japanese govern-
intt5.ment.is" secretly negotiating, with the
diet of the Greater Kepublio of Central,
America, which recently met in Salva
dor, for the construction of the Nicara
gua canal, independently and in defi
ance of the interests of the United
States or other nations.
This action of Japan, taken in con
nection with her recent attitude in re
gard to Hawaiian annexation is of the
greatest significance, showing as it does
to the authorities that there is no limit
to the ambition of the nation, and that
her aggressive policy may yet get her
into trouble with the United States.
That the administration will resent
any interference with the Nicaragua
canal project as it did in the case of
the Hawwaiian annexation treaty goes
without saying.
If Japan can encompass it, according
to the Nicaraguan advices received
here, she would like to obtain the abro
gation of all treaty rights possessed by
the United States in relation to inter
oceanic transit and the forfeiture of the
American canal concessions from Nic
aragua,, and to immediately make a
treaty with the diet of the Greater Re
public of Central American giving her
control of the route through Nicaragua.
In the negotiations Costa Rica has
not been consulted, it being well known
that she would not assent to a violation
of a treaty right. It has been suspected
in some quarters that England, which
has always been anxious to acquire at
least a joint control of the canal, might
be working in collusion with Japan in
the "dickering" with the diet now un
derstood to be in progress, but nothing
has yet come to the surface to indicate
that she has encouraged Japan in the
move.
It is said that the agent of the Nic
aragua canal here has laid the facts be
fore Mr. Hitchcock, president of the
oanal company in New York, with the
suggestion that the department be ap
prised of the secret negotiations that
are now being carried on between Japan
and the diet.
Senor Zelaya, the president of Nic
aragua, it is understood, has admitted
lose - -pero nal friend -that- Japan is
now negotiating with' the diet, but in
each case he advised the strictest sec
recy.' A private letter just received in this
city from Nicaragua says:
'Among Americans in Central
America the belief is general that the
Greater Republic of Central America,
which is represented in diplomatic
affairs by a diet composed of three,
members, one each from Nicaragua,
Salvador and Honduras, was organized
principally in order that Nicaragua
might absolve herself from individual
responsibility as a nation, and thereby
abrogate her interoceanic transit treaty
with the United States. The so-called
Greater Republic, resenting the failure
of the United States to recognize the
Greater Republic (receiving Senor Rod
riguez) and in failing to accredit a
United States minister to the Greater
Republic, is likely to make a treaty
with Japan granting her a concession
for the construction of the canal. (
"The United States minister here
believes that when this news reaches
Washington the state department will
send a note to Japan asking if she is
seeking to interfere with our treaty
rights in the premises. The Americans
in Nicaragua believe that the United
States government will insist that her
interoceanic treaties with Nicaragua,
Costa Rica, Honduras and Colombia are
yet in force, although the diet claims
that Nicaragua and Honduras are no
longer separate and individual nations
and are therefore irresponsible." -
Although state department officials
will not admit that any . official news
has come to confirm the private advices,
there are reasons for believing that the
authorities have been watching Japan's
movements in Central America with
more or less suspicion for some time
past. .
Moving the Grain Crops.
Chicago, Sept. 6. A million dollars
a day at a low estimate is the amount
of money being sent out by . the banks
of Chicago to heip the farmers move
the big grain crops which they have be
gun to harvest. Fifteen million dollars
is a close approximation to the sum
which has been sent to the West and
Southwest during the past two weeks,
and yet the movement has only begun.
It shows signs of growing in strength
every day. The bulk of the. money
thus far sent out has gone to Kansas
City and Omaha, but large sums are
reported as going to Minneapolis and
Duluth and theNorthwest.
Burled in a Collapsed Building.
Geneva, Switzerland, Sept 6. A
dispatch from Montreuz, 14 miles from
here, announces that the asylum for
the insane, which was in course of con
struction, has . collapsed, burying a
number of workmen in the ruins. The
bodies of seven dead men have been re
covered. A Minneapolis genealogist reckons up,
four billions of persons between William
the Conqueror and one of his descend
ants now living.
From Preacher to Prospector.
Chicago, Sept. 6. "I have been
frozen put of the Presbyterian chnrch
and Btarved out of the People's church,
all in one year, and I am through with
preaohing," said Rev. Frank B. Vroo
man, oo-pastor of the PeopleV church.
"I am going to Klondike. '.'. .SMr. Vroo
m an, who has been associatetd with Dr.
W. H. Thomas, in the pulpit ,.,dl the
fashionable Parole's church foiome
time, has turned, his back on th pul
pit for good,, and has partly organized a
miming company for the Klondike re
MICHIPICOTAN GOLD FIELDS.
First Reports Confirmed by the Sault
Ste. Marie Party.
Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., Sept. 7.
The party of goldseekers on the yacht
Mary Bell returned from Michipicotan
last evening, after having been in the
new gold fields but three days. They
say the newly discovered Eldorado, is
as rich as reported. - There were 14 in
the party, and all are responsible busi
ness men of this city. Each secured
claims upon gold quartz promising big
returns. In all, the party will make
application for 4,000 acres, which were
prospected and staked out while they
were there. Many specimens of quartz,
in which free gold as large as a pin
head can be seen, were brought baok
with ' them. The specimens were se
cured from different places on their
claims, which are scattered about :
When (the , party . arrived .Tuesday
night there were but six prospectors on
the ground at
Lake Wawr,'ntlyMWOTvsnpplied withbogs.'sheep'
secured good locations. They are jubil
ant over their finds, and say that : the
auriferous deposit evidently is an im
mense one. Veins of beautiful white
quartz, carrying free gold, exist in the
River and Lake Wawa region. The
original find is an extremely large one,
beyond doubt. The returning prospec
tors say that where the veins are laid
bare, the gold particles can be seen
everywhere in the quartz.
When the party left Saturday, at
least 200 prospectors bad arrived, and
they passed several parties going in.
The shores of Lake Wawa were dotted
with tents, and within the three day3
they were there a lively mining camp
had sprung up. The distance from the
mouth of Michipicotan river to Lake
Wawa is not to exceed seven miles,
and the party experienced no difficulty
in getting in and out. With their
camp equipage, the trip was made in
about three hours. The road is, well
defined.
The reports the Mary Bell party
brought has set the two Soos wild with
excitement, and an exodus o Klondike,
jr., will begin tomorrow.
RICHER THAN KLONDIKE.
According to Reports From the Yaqul
. Indian Reservation.
Kansas City, Sept. 7. A special to
the Journal from Sedalia, Mo., says:
J. W. Corkins, a Sedalia capitalist, and
Leo Cloud, an expert mining engineer
of Cincinnati, representatives of a St.
Louis and Cincinnati syndicate, will
leave tomorrow for the west coast of
Mexico to practically verify the value
of gold placer and quartz mines which
have recently been secured by the syn
dicate. Messrs. Corkins and Cloud
will go direct to Hermosillo, and from
there to the gold fields in the new El
dorado located in the Yaqui Indian
country, which has just been opened to
entry to white men. This part of Mex
ico has been explored but little by the
whites, but, if reports of the syndi
cate's prospectors are true, . the inland
mountain ranges along the west coast
of Mexico are richer even than those of
the Klondike. The placer mines are
said to be marvelously rich in scale
and nugget gold, while the quartz rock
in the upper ledges contain veins of
free-milling ore which assays from $50
to $200 per ton. The syndicate suc
ceeded in keeping the discovery a se
cret while securing its patents and con
cessions, and, if the reports are sub
stantially correct, the syndicate will be
able to turn the tide of fortune-hunters
from the gold fields of Alaska to the
Eldorado of Mexico.
The Span Gave Way.
Santa Rosa, Cal., Sept. 7. A tele
phone message this evening from Dun
can's mills stated that the southbound
train on the Pacific coast road narrowly
escaped serious accident. A long
bridge crosses Russian river, near Dun
can's mills, and as the train, a mixed
freight and passenger, was crossing the
third span, one of the piers gave way,
owing to defective bolt. The greater
part of the train-had already passed the
spot in safety, but it is reported that
one of the freight cars went through
the gap in the long bridge, fatally in
juring John Blaney, one of the train
crew.
Four to Get Office.
Portland, Or., Sept. 7. The Oregon
congressional delegation have agreed
upon the following recommendations
for appointment to federal offices in
Oregon:
United States district attorney John
H. Hall, of Portland.
United States marshal Zoeth Hon
ser, of Umatilla county.
Appraiser of customs, Willamette
district, at Portland Colonel Owen
Summers, of Portland.
Register of United States land office,
at Oregon City T. T. Geer, of Marion
county.
Nitroglycerin in a Buggy.
Monongahela, Pa., Sept. 7. By ah
explosion of nitroglycerin this morning
two men and a horse were killed, a
buggy completely demolished and a
bridge across the Monongahela river
badly damaged. Windows in the vi
oinity were broken and residents for
miles awakened by the concussion. One
of the men is believed to be Charles P.
Rankin, foimerly superintendent of
the Watson Company. ' It is supposed
the men had nitroglycerin in the buggy
and that a sudden jolt caused the ex
plosion. , .
Murderous Chief Arrested.
Vancouver, B. C, Sept. 7. Skooka-
wak, an Indian chief residing in Lower
Nicolai valley, has been arrested after
a hot fight with members of his tribe,
by the provincial police, for tying his
aged squaw to a horse by the heels and
then having yonng bucks lash the horse
to a gallop with the result that he was.
dragged to death.
The ' latest thing in locks is one
where the keyhole is in the center of
the door knob, -
Cotton Crop, of Egypt.
Londpn, Sept. 7. The Alexandria,
Egypt, correspondent of the Times says
that the . Egyptian cotton crop just
closed has yielded about 684,390,000,
pounds, double that of a decade ago,
and 1,000,000 in value beyond that
of 1896,:--. - '"'-' - -;'
" New York, Sept. 7. Lieutenant
General Barker, governor of Bermuda,
arrived on the Orinoco, accompanied,
by his : aide de camp, Captain Piatt,
General Barker and wife intend to
make a tour of the United States and
Canada
OPINIONS OF EDITORS
ARE UNANIMOUS IN PROCLAIM
ING GOOD TIMES.
Mr. Bryan's Own State Speaks Xouldly
In Support of the Fulfillment of the
Promise of Better Times With the
Election of a Republican President.
. P. Pabsons, Special Correspondent.
Washington, D. C.--That genuine
prosperity has struck Mr. Bryan's own
state even without the free and unlim
ited coinage of silver is quite apparent
from the following letters which have
been received from time to time during
the past month by the literary bureau
of the Republican national committee
from editors in Nebraska:
Wymore, Neb., Aug. 6, 1897. Busi
ness is improving. The fruit and small
grain crop in Nebraska waajrood. The
and cattle, and the greatest corn crop
in the history of the state is assured.
Prices are 60 per cent better than last
year at this time and are getting better
every day. Railroads and factories of
all kinds are hiring new men every
week and prosperity is here to stay.
J. H. BURNHAM,.
, Editor Wymorean.
Madison, Neb., Aug. 2, 1897. Our
section is purely agricultural, but
there is a general, feeling that times are
improving and money easier than in
many months. "There has been shipped
from this station within the past 60
days $75,000 worth of cattle besides a
large number of hogs and a great
amount of grain. Our old creamery,
after lying idle for four years, has been
remodeled and is making 500 pounds of
butter per day and another one near
here will be in operation soon. Even
onr most calamitous Pops are beginning
to see an improvement.
CARL T. SEELY,
Editor Chronicle.
Ponca, Neb., July 24, 1897. Our
city is putting in an extension of water
works equal to 80 per cent of the pres
ent works, a telephone line has just
been completed to communicate with
Sioux City; the Milwaukee railroad is
talking of putting in a bridge at a cost
of $400,000. There is an apparent
ground swell that everybody feels and
money is more freely offered for invest
ment. , B. W. WOOD,
'
Editor Gazette.
Nelson, Neb., July 23, 1897. Not
withstanding the continuous wail of
our Popocratic friends, there is a grow
ing spirit of confidence here The pro
prietor of our brick making concern re
ports larger business in 1897 than in all
of 1894 and 1895. A large portion of
our 1895 crop is still here to be mar
keted, and the good crop of 1897,
coupled with good prices make pros
perity and activity certain.
F. A. SCHERZINGER,
.i . . - - . Editor Gazette. .
Weeping Water, Neb., July 25, 1897.
This is a farming and stock feeding
community and our only other industry
is that of stone quarrying. When Har
rison was president as high as 300 men
were employed, but for three years and
a half during the Cleveland adminis
tration the industry was idle. Work
has now been resumed, with prospects
for good business this fall. There is
plenty of work in the country and few
able bodied men who want work are
idle. Merchants say business is con
siderably improved.
J. X. KEITHLY,
Editor Republican.
Wilber, Neb , July 29, 1897. With
in the past three months a large steam
flouring mill which had been idle for
some time, has commenced operation
again. At Crete, 10 miles away, a
bank has been incorporated by local
capitalists with a capital stock of $50.
000 and all over the county much build,
ing is being done.
J. A. WILD,
Editor Republican.
Blue Springs, Neb., July 20, 1897.
Taking stock and grain and averaging
them with the prices received last year
and the two years prior, shows that the
farmers are receiving 33 1-3 per cent
more for their products.
J. H. CASEBEER,
Edtor Sentinel.
Gothenburg, Neb., July 22, 1897.
All men who desire employment are
now occupied at reasonable wages.
About 5,000 acres of land in a nearly
raw state was broken up this spring fur
nishing employment for a good number
of men. H. C. BECKER,
Editor Independent.
Neligh, Neb., July 20, 1897. Im
provement is seen in increased cash
sales of merchants, general employment
of labor and better collection than one
year ago. Heavy shipments of produce
are being made weekly. Outside of the
Populist ranks, the feeling is hopeful.
E. T. BEST,
Editor Leader.
Stuart, Neb., Aug. 2, 1897. We
have no manufactures at this place.
Eastern capital, however, is being used
in putting up a creamery here and no
one is idle; all hands are well-employed
and there are calls for more than can
be supplied.
J. M. STURDEVANT,
Editor Ledger.
Ainsworth, Neb., July 22, 1897.
Business of all kinds is improving rap
idly. Merchants are purchasing more
goods and selling almost double the
amount sold at corresponding times in
the past two years. The Excelsior
Lumber 4fc Milling Company haa
doubled its force in the past two months.
Manufacturing is not much of an in
duttry here, but the general better
feeling baa reached us without doubt
. J, a BERKLEY,
Editor Star-rJaurnal
Culbertson, Neb., July 24, 1897.
Business is improving in this section oi
the country very much. Of course the
Pops have control of Nebraska, but they
cannot last long where there are goods'
crops, so that we will get rid of most
of them in time. ' There is more money
in circulation now than for four years;
everybody at work here; anyone who
wants to can see improvement all over
the country,- The Cnlbertson Roller
Mills and elevators axe being refitted
and start coon.
ROBERT J. COLE,
Editor Era.
WEEKLY MARKET LETTER.
Downing, Hopkins ft Company's Review
of Trade.
We have had a week : of ner
vous, erratic markets, fluctuations
covering a wide range, but finally set
tling near the figures of a week ago.
Receipts are comparatively light, with
a good demand both home and abroad.
Exports for the week were again Tery
heavy (6,268,247 bushels), and that
ratio will probably be increased short
ly. The report of the Hungarian min
ister of agriculture estimates the deficit
in the world's wheat crop at about 826,
000,000 bushels. This a very bullish
estimate and will make itself felt in the
calculations of the grain trade. Thresh
ing returns from the Northwest, while
meagre as yet, are very disappointing,
the yield falling below even the latest
estimates, while the quality is very
poor indeed, and there wilt be a great
deal lograde anjte jected wheat on
'the market when the crop gets to mov
ing more freely. We feel very bullish,
indeed on the general outlook, and be
lieve that wheat will sell far above the
dollar mark before Christmas. It is
perfectly natural that we should have
reactions; it is a sign of a healthy mar
ket, but we consider we have had ours
after the late advance.
There has been a very firm undertone
to corn, and while it has reacted from
the sharp rally that followed the break
of last week, yet there is no sign of any
real weakness and there is a feeling
that it will seek a much higher level of
prices than those now prevailing. Re
ceipts have been large, with a good de
mand. The export demand still con
tinues to make itself felt, and clear
ances last week aggregated nearly 3,
000,000 bushels, and would have been
larger had there been vessel room to
ship it in. Crop news contineus prac
tically unchanged, the crop making fair
progress during the week. . , J
Portland Markets.
Wheat Walla Walla, 84 c; Val
ley and Bluestem, 87c per bushel.
Flour Best grades, $4.40; graham,
$3.85; superfine, $2.60 per barrel.
Oats Choioe white, 86c; choice
gray, 35c per bushel.
Barley Feed barley, $18; brew
ing, $1819 per ton.
Millstuffs Bran, $14 per ton;
middlings, $21; shorts, $15.50.
Hay Timothy, $12 12. 50; clover,
$10 11; California wheat, $10
11; do oat, $11; Oregon wild hay, $9 ,
10 per ton.
Eggs 13 14c per dozen.
Butter Fancy creamery, 47K85o;
fair to good, 8745c; dairy, S0 35c
per roll.
Cheese Oregon, lljo; Yonng
America, 12)c; California, 9 10c per
pound.
Poultry Chickens, mixed, $2.50
2.75 per dozen; broilers, $1.252.25;
geese, $44.50; ducks, $3 3. 60 per
dozen; turkeys, live, 10 1 lc per pound.
Potatoes. Oiegon Burbanks, 40 ;
45c per sack; new potatoes, 50o per
sack; sweets, $1.40 per cental. '
Onions California, new, red, $1.25;
yellow, $1 per cental.
Hops 10c per pound for new
crop; 1896 crop, 6 6c '
Wool Valley, 14 15c per pound;
Eastern Oregon, 10 12c; mohair, 20c
per pound.
Mutton Gross, best sheep, wethers
and ewes, 22c; dressed mutton,
5c; spring lambs, 5)4 per pound.
Hogs Gross, choice heavy, $4.50;
light and feeders, $34; dressed, $3
4.25 per 100 pounds.
Beef Gross, top steers, $2. 75 8;
cows $2.25; dressed beef, 45c per
pound.
Veal Large, 4o; small, 5o per
pound.
Seattle Markets.
Butter Fancy native creamery,
brick, 20c; ranch, 1012o.
, Cheese Native Washington, 10
11c; California, 9o.
Eggs Fresh ranch, 19 20a
Poultry Chickens, live, per pound,
hens, 10 11c; spring chickens, $3
3.50; ducks, $2.50 3. 76.
Wheat Feed wheat, $30 per ton.
Oats Choice, per ton, $22.
Corn Whole, $22; cracked, per ton,
$22; feed meal, $22 per ton.
Barley Rolled or ground, per ton,
$22; whole, $22.
Fresh Meats Choice dressed beef,
steers, 6o; cows, 5c; mutton sheep,
55o; pork, 7c; veal, small, 6.
Fresh Fish Halibut, 4c; salmon,
45o; salmon trout, 7 10c; flounders
and sole, 34; ling cod, 45; rock
cod, 5c; smelt, 24c.
San Francisco Markets.
Wool Choice foothill, 9 12c; San
Joaquin, 6 months' 810o; do year's
staple, 7 9c; mountain, 11 13c; Ore
gon, 10 13c per pound.
Hops 5 loo per pound.
Millstuffs Middlings, $1922;
California bran, $14 14. 60 per ton.
Onions New red, 7080o; do new
silverskin, $1 1.10 per cental.
Potatoes New, in boxes, 40 600.
Fresh fruit Apples, 40 65c per
large box; apricots, 2040o; Fontain
bleau grapes, 2035o; muscats, 40
50c; black, 3050o; tokay, 4060o;
peaches, 25 60c; pears, 40 50 per
box; plums, 20 40c; crab apples, 16
350.
Hay Vheat,$12 15; wheat and oat,
$11 14; oat, $10 18; river barley, ,
$7 8; best barley, $9 18; alfalfa,
$8. 50 10 clover, $7. 50 9. 60.
Cheese Fanoy mild, new, 8o; fair
to good. 7o per pound.
Butter Fancy creamery, 22)c; do
seconds, Sl22c; fancy dairy, 20c; .
good to choice, 18 20o per pound.
Eggs Store, 1518c; ranch, 20
24o;. Eastern, 14 17; duck, 16c per
dozen.
Citrus fruit Oranges, Valencias, ,
$33.00; Mexican limes, $56; Cali
fornia lemons, fancy, $3; do common,
$l8 per box.
A large flock of .pigeons has taken
possession of a grove in Shasta county,
Cal. .
A Dorie Temple Unearthed.
The war in Greece has been the indi
rect means of bringing to light a valu
able example of antique architecture.
A party of engineers at work on forti
fications on the hill of Hokomata in
the chain of the Oeta mountains, un
earthed the ruins of a Dorio temple
bearing a close resemblance to the tem
ple of victory on the Acropolis.
Seme moths have no months. The
insect, after attaining a perfect stage,
lives only a few hours and does not
take food.