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t VOL. XXXIV. CORVAILIS, BENTON COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1897. NO. 27. Epitome of the Telegraphic News of the World. Terse ticks from the wires An Interesting Collection of Items From the Sew and the Old World In a Condensed and Comprehensive Form A dispatch from Madras says: A most serious accident has occurred at the Champion reef mines. Forty per sons are known to have been killed. The home of Thomas Hawkins, a farmer who lives near Greenwood, Cal., was destroyed by fire and his 5-year-old daughter perished in the flames. The Fraser river salmon pack is the largest ever known in the Northwest. Altogether 2,500,000 fish of thesockeye variety were caught off the mouth of the river during the season. The Japan Mail, discussing the silk trade, says: Prices in Japan are now steadily rising, orders on a large scale having been received from abroad by many foreign firms in Yokohama. The secretary of the treasury has given authority to Mee Lee Wah, a village company, to bring into the country 300 Chinese to take part in the trans-Mississippi exposition at Omaha. A tornado struck the town of Port Arthur, Tex., killing six people, and injuring several more, besides destroy ing much valuable property. The town was practically leveled by the cyclone. George F. Reginer, chairman of t" Democratic county committee, shot anu instantly killed Simon Fransdel, a young butcher, at Monmouth, 111. Fransdel had been paying attention to Beginer's daughter against her father'! wishes. The startling news comes from Fort Lockhard that the combined forces of the Afridis and Orakzais number 47. 000 men. They are now all collected near Khan-Khi valley, and a massacre is feared at any moment. John L. Sullivan, ex-champion pu gilist, has announced that he will run for mayor of Boston, and expected to poll 8,000 or 12,000 votes. Sullivan says his principal platform will be to license gambling places and disorderly houses. A later account of the Mexican hor ror, Bays: The people killed at Pan uelas quarry exposition, numbering 24, were asphyxiated by the dense gasses generated by .the explosion. Among . the .number were several horsemen, who perished with their horses, and the bodies of the men and horses lay together in a horrible maimer. '. Rev. E. F. B. Howard has escaped from the Ohio penitentiary, at Colum bua. He was a famous United - States prisoner from Tennessee. He was trusted in the front office and walked away. Howard was convicted at Clarks ville, Tenn., and sentenced for nine years and fined $1,200 on 22 counts of using the United States mails for fraud ulent purposes. Farther details of the capture of Victoria de las Lunas province of SanJ Hi ago de Cuba, say that the insurgents, after capturing the town, killed with the machete 40 guerillas for having made a etubborn resistance. It is ex plained that the Spanish hoisted the red cross flag over the hospital, and that the insurgents, mistaking it for a parliamentary flag, sent an officer in that direction. The Spanish claim bat the insurgent commander did not respect the flag over the hospital, and bombarded the building, killing or wounding 56 men. t A terrible explosion of nitroglycerine occurred in Cygnet, O., resulting in the death of six persons and the injury of a large number. It is said that John W. Mackay, the American millionaire, will lay a Cana dian Pacific cable from Vancouver, B. C, to Australia. Count Okuma, of Japan, has notified his minister at Honolulu of the terms and conditions of Japan's acceptance of the proposal to arbitrate the dispute with Hawaii. A New York Herald special from Barcelona says that it is stated on the highest diplomatic authority that the present Spanish government will go out within a fortnight, and that the liberals will come in. Customs inspectors at Laredo, Tex., have found an unclaimed grip on a train, containing $200,000 worth of diamonds, jewelry and other valuables. The papers in the valise indicate that it belonged to a Spanish officer. It is believed it was stolen by a man who lacked the courage to claim ownership. W. P. Atwell, commercial agent of the United States at Robaix, France, sends to the state department a report on the short wheat crop in ' France. He says the crop in France, and in fact all Europe, has fallen much below the average, and that it is estimated that the United States and Canada will be called upon to export from 120,000,000 to 130,000,000 bushels more than they exported to Europe last year. France will require about 60,000,000 bushels to meet the deficit in that country. 4 A Philadelphia & Reading wrecking engine crashed into a wagon at a grade crossing at Frush Valley, a few miles above Reading, Pa., and three lives were lost " The Marquis of Salisbury's proposal for the constitution of an international commitee representing the six powers to assume control of the revenues, with which Greece will guarantee the pay ment of interest for holders on old - bonds as well as payment of the indem nity loan, has been accepted by the powers. A government official who has been 12 years in Alaska, and who is now stationed at Dyea, writes to the depart ment at Washington, stating that if some measures are not taken to stop the rush, hundreds will perish there this winter. - - .. A serious accident happened on the Seattle bicycle track during the recent electric light meet there. , During the finals in the professional race one of the riders fell, resulting in a spill of those behind him. John Staver, of Portland, suffered probably fatal in juries, while four - of the others were seriously bruised. -- ' - . A CABINET MEETING. Important Matters Discussed at Execu tive Mansion. Washington, Sept. 16. Great inter est attached to the cabinet meeting to day on account of the various important questions pending and the fact that it was the first meeting in some weeks. Every member of the cabinet except Secretary Long, who is out of the city, reached the White House at 11 o'clock. The morning session was devoted al most entirely to consideration of the Union Pacific question. Members of ine cabinet were very reticent, an in junction having been placed on them not to talk of the matter at this time. Though there was a full discussion of the matter, it is learned that no decis ion was reached. Some differences of opinion on mat ters of detail developed between Alger and McKenna over the San Pedro har bor, and it was left to the two cabinet officers to adjust these differences" and then make a statement on the subject for the benefit of the public. With reference to the Klondike rush, Secretary Alger laid before the cabinet several telegrams urging relief for stricken prospectors, including one from the citizens' committee of Tacoma, representing that distress exists already at Dawson City; stating that starvation had begun and praying that a revenue cutter with supplies be sent to St. Michaels. The discussion made it evi dent that the cabinet was not quite clear that the government had a war rant of law for furnishing supplies, but Secretary Alger telegraphed Senator Perkins, who is interested in a line to Alaska, asking him if he would under take to deliver a shipload of supplies at St. Michaels. If it be found that the law will not permit the government to send supplies, then relief will be fur nished by private persons, in order that a horror may not grow out of the rush for gold. Neither the decision on discriminat ing section 22 of the tariff act nor the Cuban or . Hawaiian questions were mentioned at the morning meeting. The president is clearing up all im portant matters, on which cabinet con sultations are necessary, for the purpose of taking another vacation asTijjB as possible. ; BAD AS THE BENDERS. A. Terrible Story of Coldblooded Crime From Kansas. Columbus, Kan.. Sept.,-16. A story of crime, rivaling the deeds of the notorious Bender family, comes to light in a murder trial now in progress here in the district court. Ed and George Stafleback, brothers, and their mother, Mrs. George Wilson, are accused of the murder of Frank Galbraith in June last TheSidence was so direct that George Stafleback and his mother were speedily found guilty of murder in the first and second degrees, respectively, and the trial of Ed Stafleback is still in progress. The family were keepers of a dive in Galfa, Tex. Galbraith was killed and robbed in the place, follow ing a quarrel with the mother and sons over the woman's daughter. His body was thrown into an abandoned mine shaft ' Mrs. Cora Stafleback, wife of George, and two other inmates of the house gave testimony as to the murder, and from these witnesses evidence of an other triple murder at Galfa has been secured. The story is that two girls, from Western Kansas were visiting at the Wilson dive, accompanied by an acquaintance. Mike Stafleback, an other son of the Wilson woman, who is now in jail charged with burglary, be came enraged on account of jealousy, and murdered the man and the two girls with a hatchet. .. Their bodies were thrown into an abandoned shaft SPANIARDS FIRED UPON. An Exciting; Incident Occurs Off the Florida Coast. Tampa, Fla., Sept. 16. The Spanish consul here, Pedro Solis, is wrathy be cause the state patrol steamer Germ fired on several Spanish smacks. The Germ is a large trim launch belonging to the state health board, and is armed with small cannon. The Spanish smacks hover around the coast and sell Spanish liauors, etc., to the sponging and fishing vessels that come here, thus infringing on the quarantine laws. This practice is to be broken up, and the state health authorities have adopt ed stringent measures. Last week two were captured, and the American and Spanish vessels caught together were sent to qurantine. While the Germ was on her last trip she sighted two Spanish smacks and they put to sea. Finding she could not overhaul them, the launch sent a solid shot after them. The second shot brought them to, and they were sent to quarantine. The Spanish consul wired a complaint to Washington after the firing on the Spanish vessels, and the matter was brought to the attention of Dr. Porter, state health officer. Dr. Porter and Mr. Solis had a conference yesterday in which the health officer, who is a re tired naval physician, plainly told the consul that the smacks would be fired on and hit, too, if they did not stop when signaled. There was much feel ing over the firing, as the Cubans have made much ado over the matter of an Ameiican vessel firing on the Spanish flag, and jeered the Spaniards here about it The Pabit-Lemp Wedding. Ventor, . Isle of Wight, Sept. 16. Colonel Gustav Pabst, son of the Mil waukee millionairerewer, was married here today to Miss Hulda Lemp, a daughter of the millionaire brewer, W. J. Lemp, of St Louis. ' New Orleans, Sept. 16. At noon to day the board of health announced five additional suspected cases. These will be definitely classed later in the day after the board of experts has made its examination. Fire at Iron Mountain, Cal, Redding, Cal., Sept 16. A fire at Iron Mountain has destroyed property belonging to the Mountain Copper Com pany valued at nearly $200,000. Two men employed in the compressing room are believed to have lost their lives. Among the buildings burned were the residence of Superintendent F. E. Wil son, the assay-house, the oilhouse, the reading room and a row of seven cot tages. The origin of the fire is mi -known...-5 t'..-. .' ; ':' Russians make a pleasant drink from Bap of the walnut. , , ; ;, , GOLD 1MJE YUKON The Bella Homeward Bound With $500,000. SHE BRINGS NINETY MEN Seventy Are Miners Returning; With Their Stakes Others Are Prospectors Fleeing; From Dawson Famine. ' Seattle, Sept 16. The steamer Bella, of the Alaska Commmercial Company, passed the steamer Hamilton this afternoon. There are 90 passen gers on the Bella, 70 miners returning with their stakes, said to aggregate $500,000, and the remainder are pros pectors fleeing from the Bhadow of famine to come. , Louis Sloss, jr., of the Alaska Com mercial Company, who was on board, confirmed all the reports hitherto given of the shortage of food supplies. "We have been compelled to adopt measures," said he "to prevent single individuals from cornering the food supplies.. For this reason we have lim ited the quantity of 'grub to' be sold to each person. One sack of flour each week is all that any man is allowed to purchase. We closed our store for a time after the Bella arrived,' declining to sell to anyone until we found out what we had in stock and how far it would go toward supplying the orders we had already. We will not sell sup plies to either hotels, or restaurants, and as far as possible to miners only." Jack McQuesten, the Alaska Com mercial Company's trader at Circle City, who was one of the number on board the Bella, says there is not enough provisions in the Yukon coun try now to supply the demand. DENTISTRY AT DAWSON. Former Seattle Man Practices It and Is Making- Money. Seattle, Sept 16. Dr M. M. Cald well, a dentist, formerly of Seattle, now of Dawson City, writes his wife in this city under date of Dawson' City, August 8, as follows: ' 'I have opened an office here and am doing well. The 13th of the month will be two months since I started in business. I have made $1,357.50 up to this date. That will be about $700 per month. ' 'Moose meat and fish have been very plentiful here this last month. Fish at 25 cents per pound and moose at 50 cents. Most people like moose as well as beef. I don't go much' on moose. I think that I got hold of an old tough bull. It took all day to cook it- The Alaskan Indians live on such things for months, and are fat and healthy. As long as moose and fish hold out there need be no fear of anyone starving to death. ' I think that I will get quite a lot of crown work to do here. There is no one else here that can do it , I charge from $25 to $50 each. "The days are beginning to get a lit tle shorter now, as it gets dark between 11 o'clock and midnight . The last time that I saw any dark night was when we were camping on Lake La barge. That was June 1. Since that time the nights have been about as dark as a cloudy day. Cold weather will set in about September 15. I have just had dinner. The bill of fare was as follows: "Soup, dried spuds, with beef grease and salt; potatoes, with peelings on, 20 cents per pound; bread, baker's, three loaves for $1; butter, middling fair, 75 cents per pound; lemondade made from acid of milk: coffee that came from Seattle. Fresh potatoes cost $200per ton." "I think that late seven or eight for dinner today potatoes, not tons. V Trolley Cars Meet. Chicago, Sept. 16. Two electric cars on the Suburban electric railway collid ed while running at full speed along a stretch of single track on Harlem ave nue, south of Harrison street, in La grange, this morning. The accident happened just before 7 o'clock, when the traffic was heavy and nearly all the passengers with which both cars were crowded were injured. Motormen J. Murphy and John Jami son will die. On account of a heavy mist which hung over the tracks, the motorman of the south-bound car, which was to have passed the north-bound car where double track ends, failed to notice that he bad left the double track. Before he could reverse and run back, the north-bound car came up and collided with terrific force. Battle-Ship Indiana Damaged. New York, Sept. 16. A special to the Journal and Advertiser from Hali fax says: During the recent docking of the battleship Indiana her bottom hulged under the forward turret. The fault is attributed to Naval Constructor Bowles, of New York. He came here to see that the docking was properly done. The weight of the turrets was so great that the bottom sank enough to seriously affect the turret's supports. The dock officials say that they have docked British vessels much heavier than the Indiana, but critics in the Unitted States will be disposed to throw the blame upon them and accuse them of purposely trying to cripple one of the best vessels In the navy. AS Boy Mysteriously Murdered. Fargo, N. D., Sept. 16. A boy 17 years of age Was murdered west of the city last night. His body was found in a car with a bullet hole in the abdo men. Walter Douglass, who claims to be bis partner, says an. unknown man committed the crime and escaped. ' A Budapest physiologist finds that digestion is more rapid in the horse unlike that in man and the dog if fol lowed by active exercise instead of rest. Will Fight for Cuba Libre. ' New York, Sept 16. A special to the World from Atlantic City, N. J., says: Twenty-one members of Atlantic City's famous lifeguard force have agreed to stand by their captain, Charles Lake, and accept a handsome offer for their services, made by an agent of the Cuban junta. . In Germany when the vote of the jury stands six against the prisoner is acquitted. A vote of seven against five leaves the decision to the court, and in a vote of eight against four the prisoner if coBTioted. . . . . TROUBLE NOT ENDED. An Alarming Condition of Affairs at Eckley Mines. .! ,: Hazelton, Pa., Sept 15. At this writing troops are marching on the mines of Cox Bros., at Eckley, which lies in a valley about 18 miles .from here. Telegrams to brigade headquart iters late this evening indicated an alarming condition there. The re moteness of the situation will makeV difficult the securing of definite news from the scene before morning. ' The superintendent of the Eckley colliery telegraphed General Gobin for troops, but later the request was with drawn, the superintendent notifying him that the strikers had stopped marching. At 4 o'clock this afternoon Genera Gobin received telegrams that these miners had again assembled, had marched on the Eckley mines and forced the miners to quit work. - Ii was stated in this dispatch that the miners had been roughly handled. . General Gobin has ordered the city troops of PhiladeK. phia to the scene of the disturbance. The start will be made shortly after midnight, or just after daybreak. The troops will ride across the mountains, a distance of 18 miles,' to Eckley. Eckley is a small mining village, and lies in a valley. There are. a number of col lieries there, and fears have been enter tained for the past 48 hours that trouble would break out, as the men had been acting very ugly. J , The situation tonight in Hazleton district is one of unrest. The collieries in this distriot are apprehensive of danger. Requests have been pouring in to General Gobin from the various mines, asking that he send troops to I the places in order to prevent any pos sible outbreak. The general states that he will not send troops to any point unless an outbreak does occur. The general declines to give the names of the collieries, as all the men in them are still at work. The operators, how-; ever, are apprehensive of a strike, and want to be prepared for an emergency. Two mine superintendents in this immediate vicinity have asked Gen eral Gobin to place guards around their houses. This will be done. General Gobin will not make public the names of the superintendents who made the requests. Two actresses who are playing in a theater here overheard a conversation on the main street of Hazelton today to this effect: They were passing a" group of miners, and overheard one of them remark: "I've got the material, but I don't know how to mix the stuff.. If I did, I would blow them up 'tor night." This information was sent to General Gobin, and. as be had already heard mutterings from other sources, he de cided to send guards to the houses' of the two superintendents. The guards were not placed on duty until after dark. Today has been regarded as the tnrn ing point of the situation, because of the prohibition issued by Genefal Gobin. against the funeral demonstration. : A compromise was effected this morning, however, and the day passed off with out disturbance.- . In the meantime the Cox collieries were being watched with intense anxiety. It was known " that the 2,000 men employed at No. 7 had made a demand for a compromise, which was to be submitted to the operators todav, with the alternative of "strike." "From 5,000 to 10,000 men are employed at all the collieries, and such a movement would bring them all out General Gobin said: "The rumor that martial law has been declared has neen started by some vicious person. . There is martial law only so- far as a state of war exists. We are here solely to assist the sheriff in maintaining peace and order. Men come and go as tbey please, so long as they behave themselves. If there is the least infraction of the peace which the civio . authorities are uunable to handle, then we will render assistance." The commander added ' that neither Sheriff Martin nor any of the deputies would be arrested while the troops were' here. WIRE IN HIS AORTA. Novel Means Employed to. Save Adrian Hehortoge's Life. .. San Francisco, Sept. 15. A surgical operation remarkable in itself and wonderful for its so far successful re sult, has been performed upon Adrian Hehortoge, a veteran and skillful ma chinist of this city. Fifteen yards of silver wire, as large around as an ordinary hypodermic needle, have been introduced into and ooiled within his arota, the great arte rial channel leading directly from the heart. Those 45 feet of wire have been in there for three months and they have saved bis life. They were inserted at a time when death seemed oertain because of complications result ing from a severely injured aorta. Technically the patient's trouble was aneurism or saoulated tumor of the ar terial wall, and its development to a rupture of the aorta was only a ques tion of time with oertain and instant death as the result. The wire was in troduced into the aorta in order partly to fill it and form there a clot that in time would contract and be absorbed, thereby restoring the channel to its normal formation. Some butterflies have as many as 80, 000 distinct eyes. Colorado Springs, Col., Sept 15. Colonel H. S. Esvay, president of the Cripple Creek Consolidated Gold Min ing Company,, returned from Cripple creek tonight, ; bringing with him a piece of ore weighing over 100 pounds, which is literally alive with free gold, and which will carry values aggre gating fully $100,000 to the ton. The ore was taken from the new find Satur day on the May Queen claim, and is in many respects the most sensational ever made there. ' Four Were Drowned. Waterloo, la., Sept. 15. Rev. Scott Hyatt and wife, Royal McQueen and Miss Mae Tibbeta were drowned in the Cedar river at Waverly yesterday. The party went on an excursion yesterday. This morning the bodies of Hyatt, Mo Queen and Miss Tibbets were found in a deep pool, clasped together. About 10 o'clock today Mrs. Hyatt's body was found 800 yards below, caught in a bared wire fence. . The theory is that the women .were in bathing, and got beyond - their depth, and the men lost their lives in an attempt to save them,. OF I Pitt Seven Cases of Yellow in New Orleans. Jack TWO CONSIDERED SERIOUS Several Other Suspicions Cases Reported Authorities Take Prompt Steps to ' Isolate the Sufferers. New Orleans, Sept. 14. Shortly be fore noon today, the board of health officially declared six of the suspicious cases of fever on St Claude street to be yellow fever. Two hours' subse quently, the board announced another pronounced case Of yellow fever at Mirb and Esplanade streets, in the lower part of the city, a mile or more away from the infected square. The announcement of the six cases of yellow fever was not unexpected, al though it was hoped from the delay on the part of the experts that these cases were simply of bilious malaria. No geperal alarm was felt here, although the news rapidly spread through the city. The authorities -do not believe that the situation is materially worse than it was four or five days ago, and they are still confident of their ability, with modern sanitary appliances, suc cessfully to quarantine the infected districts.-' i. The official bulletin of the board of experts, declaring the St. Claude-street cases to be yellow fever, was received by President Oliphant -Soon after 11 o'clock. Dr. Oliphant immediately sent for members of the press and gave out the report, ' which was signed by Drs. Lemonioe, Touatre, Bickham, Pettit and Parham, of the board of ex perts, and Dr. Devron, the attending physician. The report was as follows: "We, the undersigned physicians, who, from time to' time, have exam ined the 12 cases of fever QjSt. Claude street, find six to be yellowiever, four of whom are convalescent. There are no other cases. " Of the 12 original cases, all of which had their origin from a case that had come from Ocean Springs, the six, other than those reported today as yel low fever, were announced this after noon to be practically well, up and walking about their homes. Of the six pronounced yellow fever, four are con valescent, and two were declared to be critically ill, one of these having suf fered a relapse since yesterday. Among the suspicious cases reported yesterday was that of. a boy named Roy, living at Miro ' and Esplanade streets. Three doctors were sent to make a careful observation of the case. This afternoon, they pronounced it to be unquestionably yellow fever, and as having apparently had its origin in Scranton, Miss., or in the vicinity of that town. . i , ..s soon as the report was received, the board of health took charge of the house, quarantined the inmates, placed guards so that no one might come in close proximity to the premises, and set to work to thoroughly disinfect the neighborhood. A brother of the 'pa tient, who had left the premises some time before the official announcement, was given a permit to return, but or ders were issued under no circum stances to let him or any member of the household again leave the premises. COLD-BLOODED MURDER. A Georgia Desperado Has His Revenge After Three Years of Waiting. Macon, Ga., Sept. 14. A special to the Telegraph fromValdos, Ga., says: The story of killing Sam Parker, a well-known citizen of Cecil, at Hahyra, this morning, by Shelton Dampier, shows it to have been one of the black est crimes that has ever stained the criminal annals of this country. Par ker was on his way to church, and had stopped on the street to talk to some gentlemen, Dampier being in the crowd. After a few minutes' conver sation, the crowd began to break up, and Parker, Dampier and the town marshal were left alone. Dampier drew his pistol at this' juncture, and, put ting it against the bosom of Parker, fired one shot. The ball passed through Parker's heart, and he sank to the ground without a word, dying instant ly. Turning to the marshal, Dampier waved his pistol in his face and defied him, threatening to kill him if he moved. The desperado then turned and made hio" escape. Every effort will be made to capture him. The cause of the tragedy is said to date back three years, when Dampier was prosecuted for stealing some meat from PaVker. Dampier was convicted and sent to the chain gang. He swore vengeance at the time, declaring he would kill Parker on sight, and today was the first time they have met since. Australian Mine Afire. Melbourne, Sept 14. A fire baa been discovered in the Broken Hill mine, between Jameson's and the Broad Ribs shaft Two hundred men who were engaged in efforts to extin guish the flames were overcome by poi sonous fumes. ' Fifty have been brought to the surface, and of these three are dead. Efforts to subdue the fire are being continued from the -top of the mine. , - - J . - Big Expedition Landed. . New York, Sept. 14. The World says: An expedition has landed near Havana. It is the one Minister de Lome led the revenue officers to expect would start from 'Bridgeport The ex pedition sailed from the Jersey coast without trouble. Three thousand rifles and 800,000 . cartridges - are now in the bands of the insurgents. - The population of Japan has .in creased at the rate of 27 per cent in the last twenty-four years. Confessed Criminal Lynched. ' Macon, Ga., Sept. 14. Early this morning Charley Gibson' and Joe Smith, both colored, 'quarreled, and Gibson shot Smith dead. Gibson fled and was pursued by the sheriff and a posse. The murderer was finally run to cover and surrounded. After a live ly exchange of shots, . Gibson - was brought down. by three bullets from Winchester rifles. When taken to town, he confessed to having raped Mies Chapman and committing numer ous thefts and burglaries. .The crowd seized a rope and,' swung him from s limb. Gibson was an ex-convict.' ; TALE OF SPANISH CRUELTY. Deported Prisoners in Transit Are bru tally Treated. ' New York, Sept. 15. The Press says: Two passengers who reaohed this port on the steamship Scandia tell tales of Spanish cruelty to prisoners. Their names are Juan Vivo and Albert Lopez. Vivo says that he and 12"5 others were deported in December, 1896. from Havana as political prisoners by order of General Weyler. They were to be confined on the Chaiarinas islands and were shipped on a steamer for Cadiz. On the voyage Vivo declares t'he treat ment they received was brutal in the extreme. They were huddled together like animals in the lower hold of the steamer, and were heavily manacled. Scarcely any food, and that not fit for human beings to eat, was given them, and only two pails of water a day were allowed for the 125 prisoners. Their thirst in the hot and reeking hold was torture. One of them objected to such starvation and was beaten so severely by the guards that he died the next day and his body was immediately thrown overboard. . Vivo was pardoned on the last birth day of the king of Spain and was re leased on August 2. He was sent to Malaga and from there made his way to Gibraltar, where generous merchants bought him passage to this city. Lopez was a suspect in Cuba, and in order to save himself from being thrown into prison he evaded the vigilance of the Spanish officers, went to Europe and reached Gibraltar, whence he took, passage for New York. He corroborates Vivo's tales of Spanish cruelty. . . ' HAWAII'S PART DONE. Annexation Treaty Probably Ratified at Honolulu. - New York, Sept. 15. A special to the Herald from Washington says: The senate of the national legislature of the republic of Hawaii has by this time ratified the treaty of annexation of the Hawaiian islands to the United States. This assertion was made to your corre spondent by Mr. Lor in M. Thurston, charge d'affaires to the United States. Mr. Thurston said that the senate of the Hawaiian legislature had been called to assemble on Septem ber 8, and that it is unanimous for annexation. He has no doubt that it has ratified the convention without a dissenting vote. Both the senate and house of the Hawaiian legislature are pledged to an nexation, according to Mr. Thurston. Just before the adjournment of the two houses last year, a joint resolution was adopted declaring it to be the sense of the legislature that the interests of Ha waii demanded her annexation to the United States. This resolution was adopted unanimously. As the com plexion of the senate and house has not changed since the adoption of the reso lution, Mr. Thurston has no doubt that, so far as Hawaii is concerned, all the steps possible have been taken. It is believed in administration cir cles that the effect of the ratification of the treaty by the Hawaiian senate will be to influence some of the mem bers of the United "States senate now in the doubtful column to vote for the convention next session. ' All that is now necessary is the approval of that body, and it is not believed that many members will be willing to shoulder the responsibility of defeating annexa tion and thus throw Hawaii into the hands of Japan. The authorities would naturally be pleased to have the controversy pend ing between Hawaii and Japan settled, because such settlement would tend to remove any objection which might be entertained by senators to bring into the United States a nation which has diplomatic differences with any coun try. It is their opinion, however, that the matter will not be adjudicated until after, annexation is accomplished. New York Wants the Grant Relics. New York, Sept. 13. A proposition has been made to obtain from the fed eral government the collection of Grant relics presented to the National mu seum by Mrs: Grant, and deposit them in the large room in the northeast cor ner of the mausoleum. Architect John H. Duncan intended the room for Grant relics, but everything which would appeal to visitors as having been owned by the general at some time in his career is in the National museum at Washington. . - Before Genearl Porter sailed for France Mr. Duncan discussed with him the possibility of the government relin quishing the mementos, but nothing has been done, Mr.-Duncan said: , '' "It was ordered to bold a meeting recently, but there are not enough members in town to hold it Of course the work is practically completed. It would be a good thing to . have the mementos as Riverside, but I know of nothing at this time to warrant the hope that they will be brought here," Uprising in Guatemala. 1 San Francisco, Sept. 15. The mem bers of the local Central Amerioan colony, especially those, from Guate mala, are greatly excited over the re ported political disturbance consequent upon President Reyna Barrois' coup d'e'tat in having himself elected by congress for a second term. The latest dispatches received .here state that the rebels are sure of success, and that Barrois will probably resign his office to avoid bloodshed. Train Robbers Frustrated. Lima, O., Sept 14. An- attempt to rob the Wells Fargo express train, on the Ohioago & Erie, near Foraker, by tramps, was frustrated today. ; The messengers opened Are on the tramps, when they escaped. It is not known whether anyone was injured. England's greatest woman appeared in the jubilee festivities, bnt England's, greatest man didn't. He was at home with his books at Hawarden. - ' Hurricane in Texas.' St. LouiB, Mo., Sept 15. A special to the Post-Dispatch' from Houston, Tex , says information has just been received there that a severe hurricane visited the towns of Port Arthur and Sabine Pass last night and blew down all the buildings and killed many peo ple. The storm which led to . the de struction "of the towns blew up about . 6 o'olock, and by midnight was so fierce as to produce a tidal wave all along the. coast, completely wiping out both places. ' Eight persons are known' to have bee killed And 80 wounded. . THE HOME MARKET THE. MAINSTAY OF THE AMER ICAN FARMER. Under the McKinley Law the American Consumption Was 188,000,000 Bush els of Wheat and 1,250,000,000 Bushels of Corn Per Annum ' Greater Than Under the Wilson Law. E. F. Parsons, Special Correspondent. Washington, D. C The last publi cation of the bureau of statistics of the treasury department at Washington gives some interesting information. Among other things it shows that fully three-fourths of our foreign commerce is with gold standard countries. Last year our foreign commerce amounted to $1, 817,000,000, two-thirds of which was with European countries, all of whioh are upon a gold standard, while but one-fifth was with the silver using countries of the world. This is a sig nificant fact in connection with the statement that the United States should adopt the silver standard. Other fig ures of this bureau which are not calcu lated to be acceptable news to the silver people show that Ohio wool, which -in August, 1896, was worth 17 cents per pound, was on July 80, 1897, worth 22 cents per pound, while silver, which in August, 1896,' was worth 69 cents per ounce-was on July 81, 1897, worth 58 cents per ounce. Some other figures of the treasury department showing the crop statistics during the period of prosperity prior to the operations of the Wilson law and the subsequent period of depression following the enactment of that law are not uninteresting. In 1891 the wheat produced in the United States amounted to 611,000,000 bush els. At the close of 1890 the consump tion of wheat was 6.09 bushels per cap-, ita. In 1894 it bad decreaesd to 8.41 per capita. The population of the United States in 1894 as shown by the school census was 68,275,000, making a loss by under-consumption of wheatjin 1894 as compared with 1890 of a little over 182,000,000 bushels. The con sumption of corn in the United States in 1890 was 82.09 bushels per capita. In 1894 it was only 22.76 bushels, or a loss of 9.33 bushels per capita, making a total loss of over 637,000,000 bushels of corn in 1894 as compared with 1890. In 1896, the last year of the Wilson law, the consumption of corn in this country was reduced to the low figure ef 14.73 per capita, showing a total shrinkage in the home market of 1,229, 286,000 bushels of corn. Statements which are yet occasion ally heard, that the exportation of American manufactures largely in creased under the Wilson law are easily met by an examination of statistics rel ative to the exports and imports under this law in comparison with those of its predecessor and are more than de molished by looking at the record of exports and imports during the last 50 years. In the first place the increase of importations of foreign manufactures during this period of the Wilson law in which our exportations of home'nran ufactures increased, was over three times as much as the growth in exports. Our own markets were filled with for eign manufactures of cheap goods at low prices, and our own manufacturers were either compelled to seek a market abroad at whatever they could get for their goods or else close their estab lishments. This they did not wish to do in view of the coming protective tariff law, and so they exported large quantities of goods, but at such low margins and profits as to signify any thing but prosperity in their business. But the effect of legislation cannot be determined by the study of a single year or- a short term of years. Take the imports and .exports of the country during the past half century and a gen eral idea can be gotten of the effect of tariff upon foreign commerce. In the last 25 years, which have been con stantly protective, with the exception of the three years of the Wilson law, the excess of exports over imports amounted to about 12,500,000,030, while in the preceding quarter of a century which was one of low tariffs with the exception of the war period, when practically no exporting was done, the excess of imports over exports w: $1,400,000,000 These figures, cover ing two 25-year periods, the first char acterized by low, tariff and the last by a protective tariff, how the general effect of the two systems upon the ex ports and imports of the country. Wheat during the past month has ad vanced at a rate not known in the mar kets for years. That the wheat out look for the Amerioan farmer is sur passing all hopes, is attested not only by market reports but by general news paragraphs and cartoons in the papers of all sections of the country. When wheat was down to 54 cents a bushel, the farmers naturally lost heart and were in a frame of mind to be con vinced of the assertion that wheat was dependent upon the price of silveit, and that silver being low, wheat must like-, wise be low and could not advance un til silver advanced. The silver orators talk much of "supply and demand," applying it to both silver and wheat. But now the actual supply and demand of the world has completely destroyed the silver theory itself and has ad vanced the price ot wheat to nearly double its last year's value and de creased the price of silver about 10 cents an ounce. - - ' The Cleveland Plaindealer, a daily Democratic newspaper of Senator Han na's - home, reluctantly admits that there is "some evidence of . returning prospertiy." It is moved to this ad mission by the fact that a single rolling-mill in that place which has been' silent for years has started up with 8,500 men,at work. An Ottawa (111.) youth who was struck by lightning is shedding his skin. ' - It is vain for the advocates of free silver coinage at the ratio of 16 to 1 to deny that their policy would include the silver standard, and will they ex plain bow it is that the silver standard of money the world over, from India to Mexico, and China to Spain inclu sive, means the degradation and abject poverty of workingmen? . A Pans dootor has discovered the mi crobe of baldness and has exhibited it at the St Louis hospital, together with a sheep innoculated with it which bar lost its wool. He is now hunting I the means of destroying the microti WEEKLY MARKET LETTER. OowningfHopklns Company's Review of Trade. ' The leading feature of the market1 during the week has been -the rapid subsidence of the speculation that in '. part caused the marked and sudden ad- r vance in values. The market is now once more upon a plane of action where supplies and demand can be expected ' to exert the controlling influences. -The forward movement of the winter i wheat crop has been fairly large and is . now about to Jbe supplemented by in- ; creasing receipts of spring wheat. Up to the present time export clearances have been sufficiently large not only to . prevent any increase, but to cause a de- -crease, in available stocks that were'al- ' ready reduced almost to depletion. The advanced values have checked export sales, and we may; with the larger re ceipts in the near future, look for in creasing stocks at centers of accumula tion. So, while the general situation remains as strong as ever, the advance . appears over for the time being, or at least until. the foreigners again become -large buyers of wheat. .' , In corn the week has resulted in some' marked changes. A large crop is no longer anticipated by anyone, and the ., only question is how smalt it may prove. We are justified, from all the . information obtainable, in claiming ' that the early planted corn promises well and is practically beyond damage . from frost. The planted corn is in an -entirely different position. Under the most favorable weather conditions it -can make nothing but nubbins and fod der. The final result promises not more than two-thirds of a crop, and frost within the next two weeks might -further reduce the yield. ; T'ae advanced values for wheat have attracted speculatiton to corn and re- -suited in some improvement in values. -A still further advance would have- taken place had it not been for the enormous receipts of corn sold to arrive before the extent of damage to growing crop had become known. Since then farmers have ceased selling freely and -receipts next week promise to be much smaller. The market, relieved of the selling pressure for country account, supported by an excellent cash demand, ' promises, with the aicT of the increas ing speculative support, to advance still '. -further. Portland Markets. . Wheat Walla Walla, 86 c; Val ley and Bluestem. 89c per bushel. - ," "- Flour Best grades, 4. 40; 'graham, $3.85; superfine, $2.50 per barrel. Oats Choice white, 87c; choice gray, 86c per bushel.. ., ' Barley Feed barley, $18 19; brew- : ing, $1920 per ton. Millstuffs Bran, $14 per ton; middlings, $21; shorts, $15.50. Hay Timothy, $1212.50 clover, $1011; California wheat, $10 11; do oat, $11; Oregon wild hay, $9 10 per ton. Eggs 17, 20c per dozen. Butter Fancy creamery, 50 60c; far to good, 40 45c; dairy, 80 35c ' per roll. Cheese Oregon, llo; Young . America, 12c; California, 9 10c per pound. Poultry Chickens," mixed, $2.50 . 2.75 per dozen; broilers, $1.252.25; geese, $5 6; ducks, $4 4. 50 per dozen; turkeys, live, ll12c 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, 80o per cental. Hops 10c per pound for new crop; 1896 Crop, 5 6c. ' Wool Valley, 1415c per pound; Eastern Oregon, 10 12c; mohair, 20c per pound. . ; - Mutton Gross, best sheep, wethers and ewes, 22c; dressed mutton, . 5c; 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. 75 8; cows $2.25; dressed beef, 4 5c per pound. Veal Large, 4c; small, 5 6c per pound. . Seattle Markets. Butter Fancy native oreamery, brick, 20c; ranch, 1012o. Cheese Native Washington, 10 . 11c; California, 9)o. Eggs Fresh ranch, 19 20a. Poultry Chickens, live, per pound, hens, 10llc; spring chickens, $2 3.50; ducks, $2.508. 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, 6c; cows, 5c; mutton sheep, '65c; pork, 7c; veal, small,' ft. Fresh Fish Halibut, 4c; salmon, 45c; salmon trout, 710o; flounders and sole, 34; ling cod, 45; rook -cod, 5c; smelt, 24c. San Pranelseo Markets. - Wool Choice foothill, 9 12c; San Joaquin, 6 months' 8 10c; do year'a staple, 79o; mountain, 11 13c; Ore gon, 10 13c per pound. Hops tt12o per pound. Millstuffs Middlings, $192S; California bran, $14. 50 IS per ton. Onions New red, 7080o; do new silverekin, $1 1.10 per cental. Potatoes New, in boxes, 40 60c. : ; Fresh fruit Apples, 40 65c 'per " large box; apricots, 20 40c; Fontain- -bleau grapes, 20 30c; muscats, 25 " 35c; black, 25 30c; tokay, 8540o; ' peaches, 40 75c; pears, 40 60 per box; plums, 2050o; crab apples, 16 r ' 85c - .' Hay Wheat, $14.50; wheat and oat, $1013; oat, $1012; ri ver barley, -$7 8; best barley, $9 12; alfalfa, $810 clover, $7. 50 ft. 50. , Cheese Fanoy mild, new, 9c; fair , to good, 78o per pound. Bntter Fancy oreamery, 26 27c; do seconds, 24 25c; fancy dairy, 22c; good to choice, 18 20c per pound. Eggs Store, 15 19c; ranch, 21 26o; Eastern, 1620; cluck, 1617opei doaen. t - Citrus fruit Oranges,' Valenoias, " . $1.50 3; Mexican limes, $5 6; Cali fornia lemons, fanoy, $4; do common, $1.502.50 per box. News comes from South America that ' a proposal is on foot to build an eleo- . trio railroad over the Andes, connect ing the republics of, Argentine and Chili. ' : . ' x.