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VOL. XXXIV.
COBYALLIS, BENTON COOTT, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1897.
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NO. 30.
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
In Interesting Collection of Items From.
' the New and the Old World In a
Condensed and Comprehensive Form
' The lumbering town of Austin, Pa. ,
was nearly wiped oft the map by fire.
Only five dwellings remain. Fully
BOO persons are homeless.!.
The Hotel Lafayette, at'Minnetonka,
Minn., the largest summer resort in the
West, ws totally destroyed by fire.
It was owned by the Great Northern
railway.
For the month of September the at
tendance at the Nashville exposition
was 253,724, and the total attendance
since the opening up October 1 amount
ed to 1,196.685.
The emperor of China has forbidden
all sorts of banquets and junketing be
cause an eclipse will occur on January
22, 189S. An eclipse of the sun is said
by the Chinese to be proof of the
wrath of heaven at the lack of virtue
in a ruler.
A $2,000,000 power plant is to be
established near Butte, Mont While
the plant will furnsh electricity for
Butte and power for general purposes,
it is being built chiefly to supply power
to several large copper mines, which
are located near Butte.
Five hundred thousand acres of fine
land along the Big Piney, Lebarge,
Fontanel le creeks and Green river,
which have recently been surveyed,
will be thrown open to settlement
under the United States land laws after
November 1, when plats of the land
will be filed in the local land office.
The lands comprise eight townships, all
in Uintah county, Wyoming.
A vessel carrying supplies of medi
cine, clothing, arms and ammunition
for the Cuban army has left Montreal
for Cuba. The scheme was not author
ized by the Cuban junta in New York,
but was undertaken on behalf of two
gentlemen, one a Canadian, who de
cided on running an expedition to the
coast of Cuba, and, if successful, iden
tifying themselves with the cause.
2 Neal Dow, the great temperance ac
vocate, died at his home in Portland,
Me. It was through his'efforts that in
1884 an amendment to the constitution
of Maine was adopted by a popular vote
of nearly three to one, in which it was
declared that the manufacture, sale and
keeping for sale of intoxicating bever
ages was forever forbidden, and com
manding the legislature to enact suit
able laws for the enforcement of the
prohibition.
v , The topic of the lay in Paris has been
the refusal of M. Lozo, French ambasa
dor at .Vienna, to accept the appoint
ment tendered him as governor Algeria,
on the ground that he does not desire
to leave his aged parents. He declares
that he will remain in Vienna, but the
Marquis d'Reversau has already been
appointed to replace him, and the cab
inet has decided that this appointment
must stand.v M. Lozo, therefore, will
bave to make an ignominious retreat.
The Orange-Judd Farmer, in its
final estimate of the year's crop, says
that figures, based on actual threshing
returns, indicate a total yield of 589,
000,000 bushels of wheat, of which
373,000,000 bushels' in winter, and
215,470,000 bushels in spring wheat.
The report says the corn crop is exceed
ingly disappointing, and an outside es
timate is 1,750,000,000 bushels.
Drought during the past two months
reduced the average condition from
82.3 a month ago to 78.9 on October 1.
An average oats yield of 28. 7 bushels
per acre suggests a crop of 814,000,000
bushels, 100,000,000 more than last
.year.
Three persons were killed on the Bal
timore & Ohio railroad tracks near
Chester, Pa., by a passenger train
crashing into a wagOn.
The Daily Mail laughs at the report
of the Canadian expedition in Hudson's
bay hoisting the Birtish flag over
Baffin's Land, to get ahead of the
Americans, and declares that the terri
tory has long been a British possession.
The first of the sealing fleet to re
turn to Victoria was the Casco.
She brought 1,064 skins, taken off the
Japanese coast and Copper islands. She
reports that the Calotta, with 1,400
ekins, and the Director, with 1,000
skins, are close behind her. '
Five men met a horrible death frcra
black damp, the after-accniAilation of
a fire in the Jermyn mine near Bend
ham, Pa. The bodies were discovered
by a gang of men who went down into
the mine with supplies for combating
the fire. Noobdy knew of their deaths
until the discovery of the lifeless bodies.
During the past month nearly $5,
000,000 worth of grain has left the Pa
cific ports for Europe. Besides this, 28
lumber vesses have sailed for foriegn
porta with cargoes valued at over $200,
000. As the month of August nearly
equaled September, the export of grain
and flour alone for the two months
would easily run into the ten-million
figures.
Commissioner Evans estimates that
the payments for pensions for the fiscal
year will foot up $147,500,000. The
appropriation was $141,263,880. The
high-water mark for pensions was in
1893 when the payments amounted to
$159,357,557, since which time they
have been kept down to the figures of
this year's appropriation. The pay
ments for pensions this year will be
within $30,000,000 of as much as the
entire receipts of the government from
customs last year, and more than equal
to the entire internal revenue tax.
Following up the agreement between
this government and Canada for a mail
service between Dyea and Dawson City,
the postoffice department has issued or
ders for a monthly exchange of regis
tered mail between the two points.
All sealed letters exchanged between
the two countries must be of the usual
and ordinary form. This is done to
prevent persons taking advantage of the
mails for securing the transportation of
merchandise at letter rates. This rate
is only 32 cents per pound from any
joint in the United States, an is less
than the packiag rate over Cbilkoot
SWEPT BY PRAIRIE FIRES.
Vast Tracts in Illinois and Indiana
- Ablaze.
Chicago, Oct. 7. Extremely hot
weather for October is prevailing in
this section. During the past 24 hours
the thermometer went up to 86 degrees,
and according to the signal service rec
ords this is the highest point that has
been registered for the month of Octo
ber in 27 years. Dense smoke aggra
vated the conditions. On account of
the drought the last two months every
thing is as dry ai tinder and forest and
prairie fires are numerous.
- Lake Michigan has been made al
most unnavigable on account of the
smoke and fog. Captains of vessels
have reported a most alarming state of
affairs. Many have not slept lor 48
hours on account of the watchfulness
that was necessary. Boats picking
their way through the Straits of Mack
inaw were particularly hampered.
Landmarks were utterly obliterated,
and the lights were indistinct at a dis
tance of a length of the vessel.
The smoke is attributed to forest
fires. Hunting parties, careless in
their camping, are thought to have
started the broad conflagrations.
Marine underwriters are apprehensive
of numerous strandings on account of
the somke, and bulletins from the low
er end of the lake are watched for with
anxiety.
Chicago's southern wards and sub
urbs are surrounded by prairie fires,
and dense somke overhangs a large part
of the territory lying south of Seventy-
fifth street. Hundreds of acres of pra
irie have been burned over, and thou
sands of feet of sidewalks and .fencing
have been consumed.
Firemen in this division of the city
are completely exhausted fighting
prairie fires by day and night. Most
of tne fires are started by sparks from
locomotives, and not infrequently by
mischievous boys, who set the grass on
fire for the excitement.
A dispatch from Bremen, Ind., says
the most disastrous prairie fire known
in the history of Marshall county is
now raging. Hundreds of acres of land
in the northern portion of the county,
comprising what is locally known "as
the "big marsh," is one vast smolder
ing waste. At times, when fanned by
a breeze, the heat . bursts into a blaze,
and darting across clover fields, corn
fields or meadows lays waste everything
in its path, only stopping when headed
off by plowed fields or highways. .
Many instances are reported where
cattle in passing over the treacherous
ground have broken through into the
burning heat and . perished. Farmers
are kept busy day and night fighting
the flames and preventing destruction
of their homes, and the lack of water
makes the battle almost hopeless.
Just west of Walkerton more than
1,000 acres have been swept of every
vestige of vegetation, many thousands
of tons of hay and miles of fences hav
ing been consumed. The large barn
of Joseph Kirlkey was in the path of
the 'flamesV 'and together witS its con
tents, composed of hay, grain and farm
machinery, was burned.
With fire on every side great anxiety
is bieng felt for the - safety of towns
without fire protection. Nothing short
of a drenching rain can possibly check,
the progress of the fire.
A Change for the Worse.
New Orleans. Oct. 7. After two days
of improvement and promise, the fever
situation, on the face of the record, took
somewhat of a turn today. For 40
hours there had been no deaths, and
yesterday the number of cases had
shown a material falling off from the
day before. Early this morning, how
ever, the reports of new cases began to
come in to the board of health office
.with considerable rapidity. By 1
o'clock there had been 16 cases report
ed, and by 7 o'clock tonight all previous
records of this season had been broken,
so far as new cases were concerned.
In a few hours three deaths had also
been reported to the board. The phy
sicians were not at a loss to explain the
increase in cases. They took the view
that it might be expected that numer
ous cases would still continue daily to
be reported. Dr. Ohphant said to
night: "The stern enforcement of the law
requiring all physicians to report
promptly - both suspicious and actual
cases of yellow fever, has a material
effect in increasing the number ' of
cases." -
A Million by Registered Mail.
New York, Oct. 7. The $1,000,000
in gold which was received from Austra
lia at Sam Francisco is : beginning to
arrive in this city. It is being sent
hither by registered mail. One bank
received $100,000 today, and a private
bank was in receipt of $40,000. The
gold was in canvas bags holding $1,000
each, in shape like a sausage. The gov
ernment, having 'declined to transport
the gold from San Francisco to this
city aCgovernment express rates, or to
pay out currency for it here, on tele
graphic transfer, and the importers
finding the ordinary express charges too
onerous, a cheaper plan of sending it
by registered mail, taking out policies
of insurance against loss, was adopted.
Ottawa, Oct. 7. The village of CaS
selman, 30 miles southeast of Ottawa,
on the Canadian-Atlantic railway, is
supposed to have been destroyed by
fire.. Fire is raging in the brush sur
rounding the village, and no trains can
pass either way.
Dr. Guiteras Quarantined.
Galveston,' Tex., Oct. 7. Dr. John
Guiteras, the yellow fever expert, en
route to Galveston from New Orleans,
via St. Louis, to exaimne health condi
tions here, was held up by the Houston
quarantine officers this morning, and is
now in Camp Detention at Spring sta
tion. .There is no objection to Dr.
Guiteras' coming into Galveston. He
will be escorted here by the health
board as soon as he is released from
Houston.
The Bank Refused His Order.
London, Oct. 7. According to a spe
cial dispatch from Madrid, Senor Cas
tellanos, the retiring minister for the
colonies, called upon the Bank of Spain
to furnish 50,000,000 pesetas for the
Cuban campaign. The committee of
the bank declined to make the advance,
whereupon the governor of the bank
invited the committee to resign. ,
John Huff died at Hyden, Ky , at
the age of 99, leaving 78 grandchildren,
142 great-grandchildren, and 14 great-great-grandobiJdren.
His immediate
family was a large one.
Annexation Is Already Prac
tically Accomplished.
SO DECLARES SENATOR DODGE
Ratification of the Treaty by the Sen
ate at the Next Session of Congress
Has Been Assured.
New York, Oct. 7. A dispatch to
the Herald from Boston says: "I look
upon the annexation of the Hawaiian
islands as practically accomplished,"
said Senator Lodge. "The treaty will
be taken up at once when congress as
sembles in December, and I think that
there is an easy majority in the senate
in favor -of ratification. It it should
appear probable that opposition is de
veloping sufficient to defeat ratification,
the remedy will be very simple. There
is a joint resolution of annextaion of
the islands on the calendar which does
not require a two-thirds majority, as is
the case on the vote of a ratification of
a treaty. A simple majority in both
houses will accomplish the same result;,
and that majority we have easily. If
it appears that the ratification may fail
we shall simply slip in the resolution
and act on that in place of the treaty."
"What are your views as to a form
of government for the islands after an
nexation?" "It is settled that we do not care to
admit Hawaii as a state into the Union.
Some form of territorial government
must be adopted, but just what it shall
be is not fully determined. I am in
clined to think we should give Hawaii
a form of government rather broader
than the ordinary territorial govern
ment. For example, I should give
the islanders power to continue their
legislative body in two branches,
whereas I believe a territory has a sin
gle house. A legislature in two bouses
will give them a government similar
to our states, but they will not have
the power to elect senators in congress.
The system of federal courts must, of
course, be extended to the islands with
district and circuit judges. The local
courts may be retained as the people
themselves desire."
"You would have the governor ap
pointed by the president?'
"Certainly; as the governors of terri
tories are appointed. I should prefer,
if I were to express a preference, that
the governor be appointed from the
islands. The question of suffrage
should be left to the government of the
islands to adjust as seems to it best,
within the limits of the constitution of
the United States beyond which no state
or territory can go. Before Christmas
I certainly expect that Hawaii will be
an American territory."
I N IS U R G ENTS JN GOO D SPJ I RJ Jj&,.:
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Officers and Hen Alike Are Confident of
Victory.
New York, Oct. 7. Tomas Estrada
Palma, chief of the Cuban junta, has
received a letter from General Gomez,
commander-in-chief of the Cuban army.
. "Weyler's successor in Cuba," writes
the general, "in order to cope with the
rebellion at its present standing, will
ba obliged to demand 200,000 troops
and $100,000,000, and even then he
will fail as ignominiously as Weyler
has failed. Our men were never im
bued with a more hopeful spirit than
they are at present. The campaign in
Las Villas has been an utter failure.
The Spanish soldiers avoided us at
every possible opportunity. This
seemed to encourage our men. If Wey
ler be recalled, his successor here, who
ever he may be, wiU be surprised to
see the spirit of victory which animates
the brave Cuban troops. We cannot
be subjected, and no one knows this
better than Weyler."
With the Gomez letter was one from.
General Calixto Garcia, who commands
the troops in the eastern provinces. It
gave some particulars concerning the
capture of Las Lunaa on August 30 last.
"The dynamite which was sent us,"
writes General Garcia, "played an im
portant part in the capture of Las
Lunas. Its destructive power spread
terror through the Spanish troops. We
besieged Lunas for three days, when it
finally surrendered. We found many
of the troops in a terrible condition.
At least 100 men fell victims to the
dynamite shells, a good many more be
ing badly wounded. The rest of the
500 men were in an utterly demoralized
condition,-and the Spanish flag was
hauled down. ' -
"Our losses numbered 60 men. All
the sick and wounded Spanish were
sent to hospitals and given every pos
sible attention. The prisoners were
all released. If we had a few more
dynamite guns we should soon end the
war. Reports of its destructive work
have spread all through Cuba and have
disheartened the Spanish soldiers."
San Francisco, Oct. 7. Adolph
Kuetner, one of the wealthiest and best
known residents of the San Joaquin
valley, has just returned from Europe,
and confirms the previously tele
graphed report of how he was barred
out of Russia because he is a Jew, and
because when a youth, at the time of
his departure, he sailed for America
without obtaining the permibsion of
the authorities.
Barney Barnato's Fortune.
tTilAn Ont. 7. Th lata Ttnmft
Barnato, who committed suicide by
throwing himself into the sea from the
steamer Scot, on June 14 last, while on
passage from Cape Town to Southamp
ton, leu a xortune amounting to 163,
865 8s 6d.
Montana has a new gambling law,
which not only prohibits the shaking
of dice for drinks, but makes playing
cards for prizes at social gatherings un
lawful." . -.
Mine Troubles, in Illinois.
St. Louis, Oct 7. While hundreds
of striking, miners from the surround
ing towns flocked into Edwardsville,
111., last night, there was no sign of
trouble -there in the vicinity of the
Madison Coal Company's shafts ....
At a conference today between the
leaders of delegations of miners and
Sheriff Burke and B. B. Bay, Governor
Tanner's representative, the former
agreed not to molest the men who
wanted to work. No further steps will
be taken by the strikers until James
Gordon, the president of the mine'
workers' union, shall arrive.
SUNK OFF THE RIVER.
Schooner Orion Cut Down by the Ship
'. - Fern. '
Astoria, Oct 6. Shortly after 4
o'clock this afternoon, just as she was
completing one of the fastest trans
Pacific sailing trips on record, the big
four-masted German ship Peru crashed
into the little coasting schooner Orion,
cutting her in two, and sending her to
the bottom immeidately.
When the little vessel was struck by
the big steel ship, the captain was
thrown across the deck, badly bruised,
and every one of his four men were
knocked about and more or less , seri
ously injured. They succeeded in grasp
ing ropes- of the German bark, and
climbed aboard, and thus made their
escape. Captain Nelson was loath to
sav who he thought was to blame for
the collision. He avers that his
schooner was on her course for Shoal
water bay. The weather was perfectly
clear and the sea smooth The acci
dent occurred north of the lightship,
some 12 or 15 miles off the mouth of
the river.
The tug Relief was towing the Ger
man bark, and the captain declined to
make a statement. The captain of the
schooner laid his case before the Brit
ish vice-consul here tonight, and the
matter will be thoroughly inevstigated.
The shipwrecked crew are now at a
hotel in Astoria, without a cent of
money or clothes other than what was
on their backs at the time of the colli
sion. .'''
The Orion was en route from San
Francisco for Willappa harbor in bal
last, and at the time of the accident
was on the starboard tack, steering by
the wind. While the reticence of the
men in charge of the vessel makes it
difficult to get at the exact cause of the
disaster, it is apparent from what little
information they volunteer that there
was a miscalculation as to the speed of
the vessels, which prevented their hav
ing sea room until it was too late to
avoid a collision.
The Peru being a heavy steel ship
could not be much damaged by the en
counter with the smaller wooden ves
sel, but she came out of the collision
with her jibboon and bowsprit cap
missing. The Peru was on her way to
Portland. The Orion was a small
three-masted schooner, of 117 tons reg
ister. The Pern is a steel ship of 2,093
tons net register, 275 feet long, 39.5
feet beam, 23.9 feet hold.
New Tukon Railroads.
New York, Oct. 4. A dispatch from
Montreal says: Application will , be
made to the Dominion parliament next
session for a bill to incorporate a com
pany for the purpose of constructing
and operating a railway from a point
near the head of Chilkoot inlet, on the
Lynn canal, to the rapids on the Yukon
river, following as closely as practic
able Dalton's trail, with power to con
struct and operate branch lines, bridges,
wharveSjTteleaph'and-lelephSnelines
steamboats and other craft on the lakes
and tributaries of the Yukon river.
The promoters are a syndicate of
wealthy men. V '-
Latest reports received at Ottawa of
the progress of the Crow's Nest pass
railway . construction are to. the effect
that work on the first 100 miles is very
far advanced, and that there is no
question but the company will be able
to realize its purpose of completing this
section before the close of the preoent
season.
Six People Killed.
Willow Springs, Mo., Oct 6.-A
prairie schooner containing seven per
sons was run down in Dead Man's cut
today by a train on the Kansas City,
Fort Scott & Memphis road. Six per
sons were instantly killed and sev
enth fatally injured. Those killed
were: Philip L. Wooten, Philip Woot
en, jr., Amanda Wooten, Dora Wooten,
Mrs. Frances Malbrey and infant child
4 months old. Philip Wooten's wife is
so badly hurt that she cannot live.
The train was stopped and the remains
of the dead and injured were brought
here. Conductor Hallaway says the
proper signals for crossings were given,
but were not heard. The persons killed
live in Texas county, Mo., and were on
their way to Arkansas to pick cotton.
Segasta's Ultimatum.
London, Oct 6. A special dispatch
from Madrid, published here this after
noon, gives the substance of an inter
view between a newspaper correspond
ent and an un-named member of the
new Spanish cabinet , The latter is
quoted as saying that Senor Sagasta
will carry out the Cuban reforms pro
posed by Martinez de Campos 10 years
ago, but would not consent to a cus
toms union between the United States
and Cuba, and if the former was not
satisfied, Spain' was prepared to fight,
as the Spanish navy is regarded equal
in strength to the navy of the United
States. : -
Seals Are Plentiful.
Victoria, B. C, Oct. 6. Captain
Cox, of the sealing schooner Triumph,
which has returned from Behring sea
with 1,159 skins, says skins are plenti
ful in the sea; there is as many there
this season as there ever were. But for
some cause or other they are very "Vest
less. In the Triumph's catch were
four or five skins from which the hair
had been burned off the back. They
were not branded, but there is an iron
mark from which the fur was burned,
seemingly by electricity. ;
Seed of a Fool.
Denver, Oct 6. About 10 o'clock
last night Thomas H. Burch shot and
instantly killed Thomas Martin. - The
shooting occurred on a ranch owned by
Burch, about four miles north of here.
Burch was watching for thieves who
had been stealing apples from his or
chard, and thinking Martin was one of
them, he fired at him with a double
barreled shotgun. Burch is a promin
ent man and is well to do. He gave
himself up. '. " : -
Cansed by a Split Switch.
Nashville,- Oct 6. A Montgomery,
Ala., special to the Banner says: A
passenger train on the Louisville &
Nashville, leaving here at 8:30 a. m.,
jumped the ' track at Riverside Park,
killing Gus Boyd, colored, fireman,
seriously injuring William Brown, en
gineer, and bruising Bill Glassier." a
postal clerk, of Nashville. . A split
switch, it is said, caused the accident
. The coarse gold deposits of the Aztecs
are believed to have been found where
the Acapulco railway crosses the Balsas
river. - .
IN
Thousands of Houses Demol
V ished,Many People Killed. ,'
THE WAR IN THE PHILIPPINES
General Revolt in Faropanga Province,
Owing to the Excessive Cruelty of
the Spanish Governor. . ' "
Tacoma, Oct - 6. The steamship
Victoria, wihch arrived here today,
brings news of a severe storm that pre
vailed over Japan last month, and at
sea taking the form of a typhoon. The
principal damage, so far as noted in
late papers, was at Tokio, where 376
houses were totally demolished, 7,728
partly damaged and 14,043 houses sub
merged. . o In Shidyuoka, there were
1,060 houses demolished, and 4,000
.rendered practically worthless. In this
district, 38 persons were killed and 42
injured. In the Gifu province, bridges
were washed away, the rice crop in
jured and other damage done. . In the
Saitam a prefecture, an embankment
broke and 15 villages were flooded.
Yejiri is practically in ruins. In Koishi
kawa, 1,500 houses were submerged,
and in Ushigome 185 collapsed. Hard
ly a house in the concession escaped
damage. The Presbyterian mission and
Baptist schools suffered the worst. At
Toyama, 170 houses were flooded. The
telegraph wires were prostrated and,
up to the sailing of the Viotoria, it had
been impossible to learn the extent of
the damage in the outlying districts,
v J-iate Manila advices by steamer Vic
toria report fighting still going on in
the Philippines. A party of liberators
attacked a convent at Paombong, which
was guarded by a detachment of Span
ish, and, after a hot fight, captured the
place, leaving 20 Spaniards dead on the
field.
At San Rafael a party of rebels, un
der General Natividad, met a regiment
of Spanish, and a desperate battle en
sued which lasted several hours, until
the royalists were obliged to flee,
throwing away their arms to save their
lives. The Spanish loss was 400 dead
and wounded.
: In the Pampanga province there is a
general revolt of the towns, owing to
the cruelties of Colonel Seralde, who
was recently promoted and made gover
nor of the center of Luzon. It is re-
ported that when the municipal officers
of the towns went to offer their homage
he ordered his troops to shoot them
down, and none escaped. The delega
tions in the rear fled and joined the
rebels.
y It is reported that the province of
Camarines has risen on account of the
executions of prominent citizens.
: s Colonel Denby, r minister for the
United States to China, who,.has been
seriously ill, is slowly recovering. ' " . "'
".'. The emperor of China has ; forbidden
all sorts of banquets and ' "junketing be-
cause an eclipse will occur on January
22, 1898..: An eclipse of the sun is
said by the Chinese to be a proof of the
wrath of heaven at the lack of virtue in
a ruler.
Owing to the recent advance in the
price of grain at Shanghai, the Yorodzu
correspondent " reports the Chinese
authorities have prohibited all export
of any cereals abroad.
A Nichi Nichi correspondent eays
that Mr. Speyer is trying to further the
Spread of Roman Catholicism in Corea,
and to cause the expulsion from the
country of American Protestant mis
sionaries. The rice crops in Toyama prefecture
have been so much damaged by the in
sect pestas to be one-half below. the
average. . .
It ia reported that 5,000 Chinese
have started a riot at Swatow, China,
opposing the founding of a Christian
church there. Braves to the number
of 1,000 have been dispatched from
Canton to pacify matters.
Mount Kirishima is reported to be
sending forth roaring sounds, but up to
the present no real eruption has oc
curred. Japan will enter the international
copyright alliance.
It is stated that the government has
determined to rescind its recently made
regulations for the payment of a bounty
to native exporters of silk.
Sufferers from dysentery throughout
Japan numbered 50,121 up to Septem
ber 14. In Tokio 22 per cent of the
cases have proved fatal.
Colonel John F. Gowey, the new
United States consul-general, has re
ceived his exequatur and assumed office..
The government has included the ex
pense of new legations to be opened at
Brussels, Madrid and Constantinople
in the next year's budget
Mr. Fuller, director of the sea pro
ducts bureau, and Professor Midsukeri
will be ordered to Washington shortly
to represent the government in the fish
ery conference.
The Chinese colonial department
has been abolished by imperial ordin
ance. ,
A census'shows there are 10,855 for
eign residents in the treaty ports of
China. There was also an increase of
63 business houses.
St Louis, Oct 5. Mrs. Lena Ripley
Waters, a bride of three months, com
mitted suicide today by hanging her
self at the home of her sister.
Labor Riots in Poland.
St. Petersburg, Oct. 5. A serious
labor dispute is in progress at Dam
browa, Poland. Forty-five hundred
iron-workers have gone on a strike and
have stoned the soldiers sent to quell
the disturbance. During the disorder
last evening the soldiers fired on the
strikers, killing three and seriously
wounding four. -
The latest things in locks is one
with the keyhole in the . center of the
doorknob. ' -
Bank Safe Blown Up.
Sterling, Kan., Oct 5. Robbers
blew open the safe in the bank at
Chase, Kan., last night, . About $2,4
000 is missing. Some of the -money
and currency was destroyed by the ex
plosion. Two men supposed to have
been the robbers were surrounded near
Allen by citizens of Chase, who were
aroused by the explosion. The robbers
escaped, however, in the darkness. '
,.....
News comes-rom South America that
a proposal is on foot to build an electric
railroad over the Andes, connecting the
republics of Argentine and Chili.
DECISIVE BATTLE IMMINENT.
Turning Point in the Guatemala War
at Hand.
' New York, 06t. 6. A dispatch to
the Herald from Guatemala says:
The government is -still mobilizing
is forces at Tolonicapan, and is prepar
ing to make an attack on the rebels,
who have taken a position on the
heights of Coxon, near Tolonicapan.
It is believed that there will be a big
battle there which will mark the turn
ing point of the war.
The rebels, safely placed in the hills,
opened fire on the city at an early hour
on the morning of September 29. The
fire proved ineffective, owing to the
great distance. The government forces
did not return the fire.
Dictator Barrios has issued a decree
granting amnesty to rebels who will
lay down their arms inside of ten days.
A dispatch to the Herald from Rio
de Janeiro says: The French minister
has demanded an immediate settlement
of the Amapa question and an explana
tion of Brazil's delay in the matter." It
is asserted that the French minister
has received practically an ultimatum
from his government for presentation
to Brazil, but has not thus far present
ed it because of 'his belief that the
question would be speedily settled.
France, is now, however, to occupy the
disputed territory.
The French cruiser Debordie has ar
rived here to look out for French in
terests. ; A dispatch from Lima says the com
mittee of deputies which was recently
appointed to agree upon a plan to set
tle the affairs of the Peruvian Corpora
tion have not been able to reach an
agreement. Several members of the
committee advocate a plan to authorize
the government by special act of con
gress to negotiate with the corpora
tion's creditors on a basis decided upon
by congress. Other members want the
committee to have full authority to
make any terms with the creditors and
the corporation, and have authority t
alter the terms of the cancellation of
the foreign debt, which debt the cor
poration assumed.
A dispatch from Valparaiso says it is
stated there that a powerful syndicate
of German bankers has offered to the
Chilean government a loan of $1,000,
000,000 in gold at 2 per cent and 2 per
cent amortization for the completion of
public works and railways.
Passenger Train "Wrecked.
Columbus, O., Oct 6. A special
from Piqua to the Dispatch says: A
Panhandle passenger train was wrecked
two and a half miles east of this city
this morning.' The train was coming
down grade at the rate of 40 miles an
hour, and in crossing the frog of a
switch at Jordan left the track. For
570 feet the engine .bumped over the
ties and then went into the ditch. The
tender went in the opposite direction
while the baggage car was thrown
across the track.. Two day coaches were
crushed together. Eli Carroll, the en
gineer, was hurled 50 feet and fell on
a portion of his cab. Fireman John
Baird was pitched 75 feet over into a
field. The engineer sustained a ter
rible scalp wound, remaining uncon
scious for some time. The fireman
was hurt internally. C. S. McCowan,
the baggage-master, was bruised by be
ing pinned in by the trucks.
A Trainload of Gold.
Colorado Springs, Cola, Oct. 6. A
novel scheme for handling the gold
output of the Cripple Creek mines will
be put into use by the operators of that
district. The. plan is to set aside the
output for one month, take the bullion
therefrom and ship it to the United
States mint' in Philadelphia in a sin
gle consignment. A special train will
be secured for the purpose of transport
ing it, the bullion will be placed in
charee of some express company which
can guarantee its safety, and' all neces
sary precautions will be taken to pre
vent accident while the consignment
is in transit.
As the present ontput of Cripple
Creek is about $1,000,000 per month,
this will be one of the largest ship
ments of gold bullion that ever crossed
the continent
Fight With Cattle Thieves.
Baker City, Or., Oct 6. Sheriff
Kilburn and posse had a hot fight last
night at 9 o'clock with two cattle
thieves on Lower Powder river. Forty
shots were exchanged. Fred Hull was
shot through the arm, but escaped to
this city. Earl Wheeler was not cap
tured. . Hull called a doctor to bis
lodging-house and was caught there to
day. ; The thieves had 80 cattle, which they
were driivng to Idaho across Snake riv
er, expecting to exchange them and
bring back strange cattle to the butch
er. The gang is suspected of having
operated for a long time.
Fatal Prairie Fire.
Miller, S. D., Oct 6. Persons from
20 miles north state that as a result of
the big prairie fire, one man has died
and others may die. Seven or eight
were badly burned, one family named
Preston all being in a dangerous condi
tion. ; Hundreds of tons of hay and
grain were destroyed. The fire was
caused by men making a fire break.
Four Fishermen Drowned.
New York, Oct 6. Four pound
fishermen of North Long Branch, N.J.,
were drowned today while about their
work, about 100 yards off shore.
'- Money for Weyler.
Havana, Oct. 6. The steamer Reina
Crista, which arrived today, brought to
Captain-General Weyler, $3,000,000, it
is asserted Ao be applied in military ex
penses. Tomorrow, 100 Spanish sold
iers sick or otherwise incapacitated,
will return to- Spain.
St. Paul, Oct. 6. -Samuel P. J. Mc
Millan, ; United States senator -from
1876 to 1888, died at his borne in this
city last night of anemia. He had been
ill for nearly a year.
Meat for Klondike.
Victoria, Oct 6. J. C. McArthur,
Dominion government surveyor, who
returned from the north, says there
will be no starvation at Dawson this
winter. When he left there were
2,000 sheep and 400 head of cattle on
the Dalton trail, whioh would reach
Dawson bewteen September 15 and 29
Near Pool, Rowan ; county, North
Carolina,', several nuggets have been
found recently and fanners have dis
covered they were the possessors of gold
vines. . : . f
CORN STILL RISING
PRICES 12 CENTS IN ADVANCE
" OF A YEAR AGO.
Notwithstanding Advancing Prices, the
European Demand Continues Strong
Secretary Wilson Reports " Good
. Things of the West.
E. F. Pabsons, Special Correspondent.
Washington, D. C. The general out
look for corn is full of promise. The
price now stands about 12 cents in ad
vance of last year. The foreign demand
had jumped the price up since July 1st
about 9 cents a bushel. Thus, on a
crop conservatively estimated at 1,800,
000,000 bushels the increased value
will amount to from $160,000,000 to
$165,000,000. This mere increase
amounts to half as much as the value
;Of thejwhole wheat crop of last year.
It makes the smaller corn crop of
1897 worth more in the- markets than
the vast crop of last year. The most
encouraging feature of the corn market)
is the fact that notwithstanding 'the
upward run in prices, the European de-i
mand still continues steady and the ex
ports enormous. It is estimated that
more than 200,000,000 'bushels of
American corn will be sold to the for
eign countries this year. In addition
to the large crop of the present year, as
compared with the yield of 1894 and
prior years, the granneries of the west
are still burdened with millions of
bushels of last year's crop. It is diffi
cult to estimate the additional wealth
of the farmers from this source. The
extent to which Europe is using corn is
a surprise to those who have looked
upon corn as a staple but somewhat
unprofitable crop. The great" crop and
low prices of 1896 forced corn abroad
and developed an European market, and
the reult is that the demand continues
even with the increased price, and it is
certain that . Europe will continue
to absorb far . more of this American
product than was the case prior to
1896. In the excitement incident to
the great advance in wheat the import
ance of corn has doubtless, by most
people, been overlooked, but it seems
entirely probable that the growing of
corn will be, during the next two or
three years, attended with considerably
more profit than of late years. The
European demand will tend to keep the
market steady and the revival of trade
and industry throughout the conntrv
will increase the demand for beef,
pork and other animal products depend
ent upon corn.
Secretary Wilson on Farm Prosperity.
Secretary Wilson, the head of the
agricultural department, has recently
returned from an extensive tour through
the far west. The secretary does not
believe in leaving everything to report
and so he visited for himself to see with
his own eyes the conditions in various
western states, Montana, North Dakota,
Idaho, Colorado, Wyoming,. Utah and
Iowa. The secretary corroborates the
'reports received from the west.
; "All through the west,"" .said he,
"the farmers are in good spirits. They
can look ahead out of the darkness
which has surrounded them the past
years. Monev is a wonderful leaven for
hard times and depressed spirits, and
as tne tanners are getting largely in
creased prices for their wheat, corn,
meats, etc., even now, tne enect is ap
parent. Not only this, but the price
of corn will rise still higher. An in
creased demand for corn will necessar
ily occur, by leason of the insufficiency
of the wheat supply for breadstuff's.
The crops of both wheat and corn will
not, however, be as large through the
west as many think. A large portion
of the corn crop is liable to get caught
by frost. Still the people of the North
west have enormous quantities of corn
left over from last year and this will
share the advance in prices. The gen
eral result of the whole condition is
prosperity for the country. The farmer
is at the bottom of it all. The mer
chant, the laborer and the manufac
turer are directly dependent upon him
for a market, and if you give him an
increased volume of money, you give it
as well to them. The farmer, when he
has money, spends it freely. He has
been scrimping himself badly of late
and now he has lots of things to buy
with his surplus cash. The merchants
in the large cities are beginning to feel
the effects. Every little country and
crossroad's store is stocking up to meet
the present and prospective demand.
"I saw some few people with doleful
countenances," continued the secretary.
"They were the pessimists and they
realize that they are playing in bard
luck, with all nature against them. I
heard a good deal, too, Jabout 'McKin
ley luck' and that sort of thing, but
the truth is that most of the people are
happy and thankful that the majority
voted for Major McKinley, realizing
the fact that while the direct rise in
wheat is of course not due to republican
administration, yet that the genera
confidence and prosperity all over cthe
country is due to nothing less than the
return to power of the principles of
protection and sound money. I was
much pleased with the interest which
has been manifested in sugar beets.
Over 22,000 American farmers are now
experimenting with sugar beets in
27 states."
The calamity shriekers are not taking
their vacation among the farmers this
year. . Tne farm weather is altogether,
too chilly for them.
"After a great smash like that of
1893 or that of 1873 there is nothing to
do but wait and let the business world
settle itself, carefully keeping mean
while the medicine men of finance with
their feathers and rattles out of the
way of the sick ' man. When
publio confidence is profoundly shaken
it .'must re-establish itself. It
has been shaken by causes, and
those must be removed,' Speak
er need on the .Business situa
tion. ; .
Mr. Bryan informs the palpitating
public that the foreign famine is re
sponsible for the increased price of
wheat in the face of the fall of silver,
but says nothing about advance in
cotton, tobacco, corn, meats, wool, and
other farm products. 1
"I bave been a large employer of
men, and I want to say now that I was
the first employer in Ohio to recognize
organized labor. . From that day I have
never refused to recognize it My pros
perity is theirs, and I ' cannot have it
without their oo-opcration. " From
Senator Hanna'e Burton, Ohio, speech.
WEEKLY MARKET LETTER."
Downing, Hopkins & Company's Review
of Trade.
We have had something of a slump
in wheat since we wrote you last, due
to several causes, chief among which
being the yellow fever scare, a decided '
slackening of speculation, and increased .
receipts from" both winter and spring ,
wheat sections. News, however, could
not in any manner be construed as"
bearish, and had not the bulls taken
fright so easily and dumped their hold
ings on a narrow market, we should
have seen an advance instead of a de- .
cline. Foreigners have been good
buyers again on the decline, and could
our people get rid of the idea that
wheat is high, and inaugurate a buying
movement, we should see a sharp and
rapid adavnee. Exports have been
large, amounting to 5,623,000 bushels
for the week. The world's shipments
amounted to 9,600,000 bushels, while
our visible supply increased 2,403,000
bushels. The "English visible also in
creased 126,000 for the week. Our vis
ible supply is now 19,000,000 bushels,
against nearly 50,000,000 a year ago,
while our exports are nearly 2,0000,000
bushels a month. Take these facts into
consideration, and note also that France
will have to import at least 80,000,000
bushels, Russia's exportable surplus on
the present crop is estimated at only
60,000,000 bushels, or less than half of
last year.
We have had a rather featureless
market in corn, and values have ruled
rather dull and lifeless within a narrow
range of price. Receipts of corn are
large, with a good demand. Exports
continue to be heavy, the clearances for
the past week aggregating 5,623,000
bushels, the low price proving to be
quite attractive to foreign importers.
The visible increaseed 1,860,000 bush
els for the week.
Provisions have not escaped the gen
eral dullness that has prevailed and the
market is very quiet, but has a firm
undertone that needs only a fair buying
movement to develop into a bull mar
ket. Receipts Of hogs are somewhat
larger than estimated and of good qual
ity. There is a good demand from
abroad for cured meats and lard, and
this will probably increase heavily as
'soon as cold weather sets in.
Portland Markets. ,
Wheat Walla Walla, 75c; Val
ley and Bluestem. 7778c per bushel."
Flour Best grades, $4.50; graham,
$3.70; superfine, $2.50 per barrel.
Oats Choice white, 82 34c; choice
gray, 30 32c per bushel.
Barley Feed barley, $1920; brew
ing, $20 per ton. .
' Millstuffs Bran, $14 per ton;
middlings, $21; shorts, $15.50.
Hay Timothy, $12 12. 50; clover,
$1011; California wheat, $10
do oat, $11; Oregon wild hay, $9
10 per ton. ,
Eggs 16 17K5 per dozen.
. , Butter Fancy creamery, 4547Jc;
fair to good, 35 40c; dairy, 25 35c
per roll.
Cheese Oregon, 11! Young
America, 12c; California, 9 10c per
pound.
Poultry Chickens, mixed, $2.00
2.50 per dozen; broilers, $. 1502;
geese, $5.50; ducks, $34 per
dozen; turkeys, live, 89c per
pound.
Potatoes. Oregon Burbanks. 40
45c per sack; new potatoes, 50c per
sack; sweets, $1.40 per cental.
Onions California, new, red, $1.25;
yellow, 80c per cental.
Hops 13 loo per pound for new
crop; 1896 crop, 67c.
Wool Valley, 1415c per pound;
Eastern Oregon, 1012c; 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, $5
5.50 per 100 pounds.
Beef Gross, top steers, $2.753;
cows $2.25; dressed beef, 45c per
pound.
Veal Large, 4t 5c; small, h 6c
per pound.
Seattle Markets.
Butter Fancy native creamery,
Drick, 2425c; ranch, r416c.
Cheese Native Washington, 10(5'
11c; California, 9c.
Eggs Fresh ranch, 22a
Poultry Chickens, live, per pound,
hens, 10c; spring chickens, $2.50
8; ducks, $3. 50 3. 75.
" Wheat Feed wheat, $28 29 per ton.
Oats Choice, per ton, $22.
Corn Whole, $23; oracked, per ton,
$23; feed meal, $23 per ton.
Barley Rolled or ground, per ton,
$22; whole, $22.
Fresh Meats Choice dressed beef,
steers, 6c; cows, 5c; mutton Bheep,
55c; pork, 7c; veal, small, 6.
Fresh Fish Halibut, 5c; salmon, '
3c; salmon trout, 710c; flounders
and sole, 34; ling cod, 45; rock
cod, 5c; smelt, 2J4c.
San Francisco Markets.
Wool Choice foothill, 812c; San
Joaquin, 6 months' 67o; do year's
staple, 79c; mountain, 10 12c; Ore
gon, 12 14c per pound.
Hops 1 1 14o per pound.
Millstuffs Middlings, $19.5020;
California bran, $1415 per ton.
Onions New red, 7080o; do new
silverskin, 85c $1 per cental.
Potatoes New, in boxes, 30 80c.
Butter Fancy creamery, 27 28c; do
seconds, 25 26c; fancy dairy, 23 24c;
good to choice, 20 22o per pound.
Eggs Store, 2026c; ranch, 82
34c; Eastern, 1825; duck, 20o per
dozen.
Citrus fruit Oranges, Valencias,
$1.503;Mexican limes, $4.505;Cali-
forma lemons, fancy, $2. 50;do common,
$13 per box.
Hay Wheat,$12 15; wheat and oat.
$1114; aoat, $1012; river barley,
$78; best barley, $10 12; alfalfa,
$8 9.50 clover$810.
Fresh fruit Apples, 65 70c per
large box; apricots, 20 40c; Fontain-
bleau grapes, 1525c; muscats, 20
35c; black, 20 30c; tokay, 20 30c;
peaches, 85 50c;- pears, 85c$l per
box; plums, 2040o; crab apples, 20 '
85c. , .
The hospitals of ; the Metropolitan
asylum in London have 3,000 beds set
apart for scarlet fever and only 700 for
diphtheria. - - - .A
In every mile of railway there are
seven feet and four inches that are not .
Gvered by the rails the place left be
reen them lor expansion. '