VOL. XXXIV.
CORVALLIS, BENTON COUXTY? OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1898.
NO. 50.
GURRENT EVENTS OF THE MY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
Vii Interesting Collection of Items Froirt
the New !inl tlie Old World In a
Condensed and Comprehensive Form
Tlie Bethlehem Company's steel
mill, giving employment to 1,000
hands, lias resumed work, after an idle
ness of some months.
The Carpenter Steel Company, oi
Reading, Pa., is working a double turn
on orders from the navy department for
steel projectiles.
VV J. Sean lan, the once famous
Irish actor, died of paresis in a New
York insane asylum, where he had
been confined for five years.
Owing to the demand for the Klon
dike trade, Northwest ship builders re
port an unusual activity in their line,
many of them refusing further con
tracts. Luther C. Billings, pay director in
the United .States navy, has been founil
guilty of falsehood and scandalous con
duct by a court maitial at Washington,
and sentenced to dismissal from the
service.
The Great Commonwealth Develop
ment and Mining Company has applied
to the Dominion parliament for a rail
road charter from Kdmonton to the
Alaska line by way of Peace, Laird and
Pelly rivers.
The board of directors of the Eastern
Oregon & Washington Firemen's Asso
ciation have met in Walla Walla and
selected La Grande as the place for
holding the next annual meeting and
tournament of the associations, June 14,
15 and 16.
Western roads have assumed tlie ag
gressive in the war with tlie Canadian
Paeilie road. They have thrown that
road out of the Western immigration
clearing-house. The effect of this ac
tion will be that the Canadian Pacific
will be shut out from participation in
immigrant travel arriving at New York
or Boston.
A sweeping reduction of over $8, 000,
000 from the amount carried by the
current law is made in the sundry
civil appropriation bill, reported to
the house Tuesday, the aggregate ap
propriation carried being 44,749,893.
The total is $13,234,541 less than the
regular and supplemental official esti
mates made for the fiscal year 1899,
and $8,861,880 less than the appropria
tions made for the current fiscal year.
A Port Townsend, Wash., dispatch
says: As a consequence of the unfa
vorable criticism that has followed the
sinking of the steamer Clara Nevada
and the trouble that attended tlie de-
'irvJirs ft trio .AQrit.: i'3C!.ae iii'
north, carrying goijoekers, Colonel
FTnnst's. collector nf customs, has de
termined to compel vessels bound for
Alaska to carry only the number of
passengers allowed by the fedeftil per
mit. The new wharf at Tampico, con
structed by the Central railroad, under
government supervision, was totally
destroyed by fire Sunday. The caute
of the fire is unknown. The construc
tion of tlie wharf was commenced in
July, 1892, ami it was to ne one or tlie
finest on the Spanish-American coast.
Its length was 2,575 feet, and all is
burned. Tlie custom-house under con
struction and nearly completed, was
damaged to tlie extent of about $800,
000. The total loss on wharf, custom
house and merchandise is nearly $2,
000,000; full ly insured.
The secretary of the interior has dis
missed the appeal of the state of Ore
gon from the decision of tlie land office
holding for cancellation the indemnity
school selection of lands in The Dalles
land district of Oregon.
Authentic reports have reached
Shanghai of recent date from all sec
tions of tlie Chinese empire, indicating
that riot and attack upon foreigners is
the order of the day. The attacks
seem to be those of isolated ruffians
rather than a concerted action onthe
part of the populace.
. Another ricli strike is reported as
having been made in tlie Blue Jay
mini?, on Yorrison gulch, a tributary
of Coffee creek, Trinity count', Cali
fornia, by the Graves brothers. The
new pocket is said to be worth $ (50,000.
it will be remembered that a $40,000
strike by the Graves brothers caused a
rush to Coffee creek last summer.
The senate committee on education
and labor lias decided by a unanimous
vote to report favorably the bill pre
pared by the trainmen of the country,
and recently introduced in the senate
by Kyle, providing for the arbitration
of railroad strikes by a board of arbi
tration to be chosen by tlie strikers and
the interstate commerce committee.
A special from Washington says: A
cablegram received by tlie secretary of
state from Minister Woodford, at Mad
rid, announces that the government of
Spain has disavowed the letter of De
Lome to Senor Cunalejas. This dis
claimer, as the administration officials
are pleased to call it, is regarded as
satisfactory, and the president has au
thorized the announcement that the
incident is closed.
Lord William Neville, fourth son of
the Marquis of Abergavenny, who was
placed on trial in London, charged
with fraud in connection with the suit
of "Sam" Leads, the money-lender,
against Spencer Clay, pleaded guilty of
fraud, but claimed he was not guilty
of forgery. He was sentenced to five
years' penal servitude.
The stockholders in the Pacific Rail
way Company must pay the creditors
and bondholders of the corporation the
amount of the inflation of the stock.
The supreme court of Illinois has ren
dered' the decision in affirming the de
cision of the appellate court, which
held that tlie stockholders were liable.
The case is remanded to the circuit
court to prove up what is due tlie com
mittee, to compel the stockholders to
show the true value of their stocks, and
then to command them to pay to the
creditors the balance due. The amount
involved is said to be something like
$1,000,000, though the exact amount
has nevei been ascertained. The case
has been in the courts of Illinois for
several years. An adverse decision
was at one time rendered.
RECOVERING THE DEAD.
Special Telegraphic Service Has Been
Discont inued.
Washington, Feb. 23. Today's de
velopments in the Maine disaster were
of a negative character, greatly to the
disappointment of a considerable num
ber of persons, who were looking for
some startling discovery by the divers
working in the sunken hull.
What threatened to be another inter
national incident growing out of certain
alleged utterances by Lieutenant-Com-maodei
Sobral has been dismissed sum
marily as shown by the following state
ment given out at the department of
state:
"The department of state learns from
the Spanish charge d'affaires that Lieu
tenant Commander Sobral, to whom
unfavorable utterances respecting the
discipline of the United States navy
had been attributed in a newspaper in
terview, was relieved of his functions
as naval attache to the Spanish legation
in the United States some time ago, his
successor, Lieutenant-Commander Don
Ramon Carranza y Reguera having been
appointed on the 24th of January last
in his capacity. "
For very obivous reasons, Captain
Sigsbee at. Havana is making the most
strenuous efforts to hasten the recovery
of the bodies, probably 100 in number,
still imprisoned in tlie wreck of the
Maine. It was a knowledge of the cap
tain's desire that probably led Consul
General Lee to inform the navy depart
ment of the need of more divers. This
hail the desired effect, for the navy de
partment took action to send more help.
Admiral Sicard telegraphed from Key
West this afternoon that he had sent
live divers to Captain Sigsbee and asked
if that was sufficient.
The acting chief of the navigation
bureau, Captain Dickens, at once took
the sensible course of directing the
admiral to put himself in communica
tion with Captain Sigsbee and learn his
needs at first hand. The business of
the navy department is getting back to
its normal condition, as is evidenced by
the fact that an order has been issued
to discontinue the special telegraphic
service which was established with Key
West, and hereafter the office at that
place will close at 10 o'clock at night,
as formerly.
Commander Forsythe, the command
ant at Key West, has also asked permis
sion of the department to stop his daily
bulletins, and this has been granted,
with an understanding that he will re
port any deaths that may occur among
the sufferers in the hospital there. To
day he reported that they were all get
ting along nicely.
The exchange of official condolences
still continues. Today, Secretary Long
sent a telegram as follows to Captain
Eulate:
"Commanding Officer of the Spanish
Cruiser Vizcaya, Tompkinsville, N. Y.
I have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt of your telegram Of condolence
for the loss of the Maine and to thank
you for the exression of sympathy."
A rJ- :.-"-.r v.- a - j, vr4- r.;,l.- 'o -a
cablegram from Vice-Admiral Spann,
at Vienna, expressive of sympathy for
the terrible disaster to the Maine.
The social courtesies which the gov
ernment intended to extend to the offi
cers of the Vizcaya have been aban
doned on acsount of the Maine catas
trophe. As a result the stay of the Vizcaya at
New York probably will be materially
shortened, and she is likely to sail
within the next three days.
The ship will probably proceed direct
to Havana, not stopping at Charleston
or other ports, as had been suggested
during the earlier preparations. The
Vizcaya will not coal at New York, ac
cording to the understanding here, nor
will it be necessary for her to take coal
before reaching Havana. This deter
mination gives relief to the authorities,
as the taking of coal in time of public
excitement is attended with more or
less risk, the coal affording an opportu
nity to extremists for the secretion of
explosives, despite the utmost precau
tion that, may be taken.
Numerous letters and telegrams have
been received at the department from
individuals desiring to join the navy,
asking to be enlisted immediately. A
telegram was received this morning
from an organization in Detroit, offer
ing the immdiate services of 10,000
citizens of that city in case of war.
Patriotic offers also have been received
lrom other places.
Owing to the delicate situation, the
board of inquiry, which is now in ses
sion, has decided to make nothing
whatever public. It is not known
what the testimony may develop or
when, and it is only fair to the Span
ish government not to tell the public
the testimony until all has been re
ceived and the findings have been con
sidered. Untimely Indignation.
Dayton, O., Feb. 23. Great indig
nation was shown toward the Spaniards
today. The National Cash Register
Company is holding a convention of
agents from all over the world, and
among other countries Spain is repre
sented. In honor of the various na
tions, the different flags were displayed
at the factory. Objection was made to
the Spanish flag by the workmen and
12 Spanisli flags displayed about the
works were pulled down and torn into
shreds. President John H. Patterson,
of the company, ordered 24 Spanish
flat's nnt un to renlace the ones torn
down. This made the 2,000 workmen !
angry, and trouble is feared.
New York, Feb. 23. A dispatch to
the World from Havana says: The
divers have made only three descents
to the wreck of the battle-ship Maine.
Captain Sigsbee's state documents
were rescued from a private drawer in
his cabin. The keys to the magazines
were found just above the hook over
the head of the captain's bed, the usual
place. They had been floated upward
by the rising of the mattress. About
100 of the Maine's heroes are yet in the
wreck.
Bomb-Throwing in Havana.
Havana. Feb. 23. About midnight
last night while a masquerade ball was
in progress at the Irjoa theater, a bomb
was exploded on the second floor, de
stroying window blinds and the roof,
wounding several people. The explo
sion caused great confusion, and many
masqueraders abandoned the theater.
The Wreckage Appropriation.
Washington, Feb. 23. The senate
passed the house joint resolution appro
priating $200,000 for the recovery of
the Maine, and it will now go to the
president for approval.
House Adopts It by a Ma
jority of Twenty-Four.
SUBSTITUTE FOR NELSON BILL
It Contains Both the Voluntary and
Involuntary Features Amendments
Defeated Vote Stood 157 to 87.
Washington, Feb. 22. After four
days of consideration, tlie house today
passed the bankruptcy bill, reported
by the committee on judiciary as a sub
stitute for the Nelson bill, passed by
the senate at the extra session last sum
mer. The bill is known as the Hender
son bill, and contains both the volun
tary and involuntary features. It is
considered less drastic than the measure
passed by the last house by a vote of
157 to 87. The involuntary feature,
however, has but 16 articles. Today a
motion to strike out the involuntary
features was defeated by a majority
of 33, the vole being, ayes, 158;
noes, 125. Eighteen Republicans
voted against the bill and 12 Demo
crats for it. The Populists, with one
exception, voted against it.
CANAL IS FEASIBLE.
Conclusions of En plnrer Cooley , on His
Return From Nicaragua.
Chicago, Feb. 22. That the Nica
ragua canal, in the general plans of the
Warner Miller MaritimeOompany, is
entirely feasible, and that the difficul
ties have been greatly overstimated;
that tiiere is no reason why contract
ors on the Chicago drainage canal
should not undertake the work of con
struction, and finally that the harbors
of Greytown on the Altantic side, pre
sent no difficult engineering problems
which cannot be solved at a reasonable
cost, are the conclusions of L. E. Cooley
and E. F. Cragin, who returned to
Chicago last night from their trip
through the Central American states.
They were enthusiastic over the possi
bilities of the canal. Mr. Cooley
made the following comparison be
tween the Chicago drainage canal and
the Nicaragua canal:
Chicapo. Nicaragua.
Rock excavation, yds 13,000,000 16,0U0,(N0
Earth excavation 34,000,000 2m,oia,ooo
Masonry 400,000 1,50,000
Ureilging Slight 5fi,00o,0LO
Mr. Cooley's remarks about the en
gineers agreeing over the feasibility of
the plans for the canal in their general
outlines probably foreshadows the re
port of the United States commission.
The remark by him that the two gov
ernments would give anything to any
body who would build the canal is sig
nificant, as the concessions to the
Maritime company expire in 1900 and
1901.
A NEGRO'S ADVICE.
WSJle Closing Ballot Box Against Igno
rant, Open the Schoolhouse.
New Oreleans, Feb. 22. Booker T.
Washington, the prominent colored
leader and educator of Tuskogee, Ala.,
in an open letter to the constitutional
convention, now in session in this city,
in which, after explaining the motives
which prompt him to address the con
vention, among other things, says:
"Since the war, no state has had
such an opportunity to settle the race
question, so far as concerns politics, as
is now given to Louisiana.
"The negro agrees with you that it
is necessary to the salvation of the
South that restriction be put upon the
ballot. I know you have two problems
before you; ignorant and corrrupt gov
ernment on the one hand, and on the
other, a way to restrict the ballot so
that control will be in the hands of the
intelligent, without regard to race.
With this sympathy with you in your
effort to find a way out of the diffi
culty, I want to suggest that no state
in the South can make a law that will
provide an opportunity or temptation
for an ignorant white man to vote,
and withhold the same opportunity
from an ignorant colored man, without
injuring both men. Any law control
ling the ballot that is not absolutely
just and fair to both races will work
more permanent injury to the whites
than to the blacks.
"I beg of you further that in the de
gree that you close the ballot-box
against the ignorant, you open the
sclioolhouse. More than one-half of
the people of your state are negroes.
No state can long prosper when a large
percentage of its citizenship is in ig
norance and poverty, and has no in
terest in government.
"Let the very best educational op
portunities be provided for both races,
and added to this, the enactment of an
election law that shall be incapable of
unjust discrimination, at the same
time providing that in proportion as
the ignorant secure education, property
and character, they will be given all
the rights of citizenship. Any other
course will take from half your citizens
interest in the state and hope and am
bition to become intelligent producers
and taxpayers to become useful and
virtuous citizens."
Murderer Luetgert Sentenced.
Chicago, Feb. 22. Judge Gary today
denied the motion for a new trial and
formally sentenced Luetgert to life im
prisonment. It Depends on the Verdict.
London, Feb. 22. The Madrid cor
respondent of the Standard says: The
government is now convinced that the
Maine disaster, instead of estranging,
will tend to improve relations between
Spain and the United States.
Sunday Activity at Xorfolk.
Norfolk, Va., Feb. 20. Workmen at
the Norfolk navy-yard have been en
gaged all day on repairs to the monitors
Terror and Puritan. A draft of men
for the latter vessel arrived today.
Naval officers deny the rumors of
trouble.
Conrt Taken to Havana.
Key West, Feb. 22. The lighthouse
tender Mangrove, carrying the mem
bers of tlie court of inquiry in the
Maine disaster, left for Havana this
afternoon. The Mangrove will stop at
Tortugas to take on board Captain
Henry C. Taylor, of the Indiana. She
carries also air pumps, electric lights,
etc., for the divers.
All the land above
not fill up more than
Atlantic ocean.
sea level would
one-third of the
NEWS FROM SKAGWAY.
Miners and Packers Resist Troops
Several Shooting Affairs.
Victoria, Feb. 23. Three steamers,
the Danube, the Thistle and the Tees,
returned today from Skagway, each
with a few Dawsonites on board. There
was very little gold on board and no
late news. Passengers from Skagway
bring news of a blockade of the Dyea
trail by miners and packers, who re
sisted the demand of a detachment of
United States troops to go over the
trail before them. It was feared at
Dyea that trouble would arise over the
affair.
Another shooting affair occurred at
Skagway in front of a saloon. Tom
Ryan shot and wounded a newcomer,
whose name was not given. Ryan was
promptly arrested and taken to Sitka
for trial.
Mike Quinlan, formerly of Minneap
olis, has been appointed marshal of
Skagway. A jail is being provided.
Two men, whose . names are not
known, were detected robbing a cache
at Sheep Camp, and one of them, while
trying to escape, turned and fired at
his pursuers, who returned his fire
and dropped to the ground. Thinking
that he had killed them, the fugitive
turned the revolver on himself and sent
a bullet through his brain. The other
man was taken back to Dyea, with a
placard on him, setting forth that he
was a thief. He was afterward lodged
in jail.
Complaints are being made at Skag
way in relation to the number of men
arriving there by each boat without
means of subsistence.
Among the returning Dawsonites
was George Beldon, one of the last men
to go up the Yukon last fall. He was
one of a syndicate which purchased the
little steamer from the Creek mission
for $10,000, and made an attempt to
reach Dawson, but got only to Circle
City, where the boat stuck in the ice.
Beldon made his way by dog sled to
Dawson and thence to the coast.
TO FIGHT FOR THEIR FLAG.
British Troops Are Ready to Leave for
Africa.
London, Feb. 23. Great activity is
manifested at the colonial office in the
West African department, and among
high military officers who are going
out to Lagos Hinterland. The latter
are inclined to discredit the news
which reached the Akassa Niger coast
protectorate yesterday to the effect that
two French expeditions are advancing
towards Sokoto, the capital of the sul
tanate of that name, which is within
the British sphere of influence, but add
that if the news should be confirmed
it must be followed by a declaration of
war.
London, Feb. 23. The St. James's
Gazette, commenting on the West Af
rican crisis, says:
"If the invasion of Sokoto is directed
from Paris, it admits of but one in
terpretation. It would appear that the
i?ruich cabinet, foreseeing revolutions
which would be caused by the trial
of Zola, had determined to bring affairs
in Africa to a crisis to secure a renewal
of its popularity."
ON AMERICAN SOIL.
Another Wonderful Strike Made in the
Yukon District Below Dawson.
San Francisco, Feb. 23. News has
reached here from Dawson City of a
rich strike on American creek, 130 miles
down the Yukon river. The dispatch
adds that 75 men left Dawson for the
new diggings, which are on American
soil, 25 miles across the boundary
line.
Two Millions in Mines.
Tacoma, Feb. 23. Joseph Ladue,
recently from the northern gold fields,
says:
"The North American Transporta
tion & Trading Company is the only
one now buying claims in the Klon
dike. I understand that they are acting
as agents for the Rothschilds. I met
Mr. Cudaliy on the train from Chi
cago to San " Francisco, and he told
me that they had just received $400,
000 in drafts which had been given in
payment for claims there. He said
the company was acting as agent in
purchasing, and I learn that the Roths
childs are preparing to spend $2,000,-
000 for the purchase of mines. It looks
a little as though the great English
banking house would make stupendous
efforts to control most of the claims
on the Klondike."
Overproduction of OH.
Los Angeles, Feb. 23. It is stated
that the overproduction of oil in the
Los Angeles oil fields at the present
time is nearly 500 barrels a day.
Drowned Near Victoria.
Victoria, B. C, Feb. 23. Harold
Scott, a young Englishman, who lives
on one of the adjacent islands, and
Fred Smedley were drowned on Satur
day by the capsizing of their boat.
Federal Court Reversed.
Washington, Feb. 23. In the case
of William G. Rice and others, under
indictment in Texas for violating the
anti-trust law of that state, the United
States supreme court today held that
the federal circuit court had interfered
in granting a writ of habeas corpus
when no proper- exigency arose for such
interference, and therefore reversed the
decision, remanding the prisoners to
the custody of the state officials. The
court did not enter upon the merits of
the anti-trust law.
Albuquerque, N. M., Feb. 23.
Central and Southern New Mexico are
infested with cattle and sheep thieves,
and trouble is anticipated ' on ranges
east and south of this city, for the
stockmen are organizing and intend
ing to rid themselves of these depreda
tors. M. T. Moriarity, a shepraiser
in the Chilili vicinity, where there are
over 20(5,000 sheep, says that the big
flocks are being greatly diminished and
that the officers appear powerless to
stop the lawlessness.
Denver, Feb. 23. Special Master
Cornish today sold under first mortgage
foreclosure the road and appurtenances
of the Denver & Pacific Railway & Tel
egraph Company. The property was
bought by Lawrence Greer, on behalf
of the reorganization committee for $2,
000,000. There was no other bidder.
John Leonard, convicted of the mur
der of Jacob Malquist, July 18, 1896,
was for the third time sentenced to be
hanged at Colfax, Wash. The date of
execution was fixed for March 35.
Leonard had intended to make a state
ment, but was too nervous to speak.
FIFTY LIVESJfERE LOST
News of the Wreck of the
Clara Nevada Confirmed.
CAUSED BY BOILER EXPLOSION
Nothing but Some Wreckage Bearing
Name of the Illfated Ship Found
Identity of Passengers Unknown.
Nanaimo, B. C, Feb. 21. A special
from Juneau, Alaska, under date of
February 12, confirms the news of the
loss of the Clara Nevada, and'says:
The cause of the disaster was doubt
less the explosion of her boilers. Of 50
people on board none is believed to
have been saved. The wreck was dis
covered by Customs Inspector Mar
quarn, of Juneau, who ordered the
Rustler to Lynn canal, where the burn
ing vessel had been seen. Wreckage
bearing the name of the ill-fated vessel
was found, but there was nothing to
show the identity of the passengers.
It is thought she carried about 20
passengers, of whom two or three were
women. Several were bound for Ju
neau and the balance for Seattle.
Frank Whitney, of Cripple Creek,
Colo., was known to he one of the un
fortunates. Al Noyes, of Juneau, is
also supposed to have been on the Ne
vada. This is all that is known of the
victims.
The first report of the loss of the
Clara Nevada was brought here on
Monday evening, by the crew of the
steamer Islander, and was to the effect
that on February 5 the inhabitants of
Seward City, a town 30 miles south of
Skagway, saw tne steamer oft shore,
ablaze from stem to stern, and that
w'lile the witnesses to tlie awful sight
still watched the burning vessel a loud
report, as of an explosion of boilers,
w is heard, and that afterwards nothing
more was seen of the vessel or the luck
less persons on board of her, but that
t' e following day the beach in that
vijinity was strewn with wreckage.
In the absence of details of the catas
tiophe there is now no way of learning
tlie indentity of the passengers. The
crew, according to a dispatch from Se
a tie, whence the steamer sailed on her
f .tal voyage, was made up substantial
ly as follows:
Captain, C. H. Lewis, of Portland.
Pilot, Ed Kelly.
First officer, Smith.
Second officer, Harry Bowen, of San
Francisco.
Purser, George Forster Beck, of
Portland.
. Freight clerk, George Rogers.
Chief Engineer, D. Reed, of San
Francisco.
First Assistant, Thomas Williams.
Second assistant, Moser, of Seattle.
Carpenter, W. A. Jacobs.
JA.-sistant carpenter, L. Boyle.
Steward, O'Donnell.
Mess boy, Frank Bowen.
Two cabin boys, Perkins and Butler,
also known as Tascot.
There were also aboard, whose names
cannot be learned, four quartermasters,
two sailors, three firemen, three coal
passers, one nightwatchman, assistant
steward, four cabin boys, three cooks
(Chinese) and two helpers.
MISS WILLARD DEAD.
Founder of the W. C. T. D. Passed Away
in New York.
New York, Feb. 21. Miss Frances
E. Willard, president of the Women's
Christian Temperance Union, died
shortly after midnight this (Friday)
morning, at the Hotel Empire, this
city. At the bedside of Miss Willard
at the time of her death were her niece,
Mrs. W. W. Baldwin; Mrs. L. M.
Stevens, vice-president of the W. C. T.
U.; Miss Anna M. Gordon, Miss Wil
lard's secretary, and Dr. K. Hill.
Miss Willard had been ill for three
weeks. There will be funeral services
in New York city, and later in Evans
ton, HI., Miss Willard's home, where
the body will be taken.
(Miss Frances E. Willard, founder
and for four years president of the
World's Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union, and president of the Na
tional Woman's Christian Temperance
Union 12 years, was born September
28, 1839, at Churchville, N. Y. She
was a graduate of the Northwestern
university, Chicago. She took the de
gree of A. M. from Syracuse university.
In 1862 she was professor of natural
science at the Northwestern female col
lege, Evanston, 111. In 1866 1807 she
was preceptress of the Genesee V, esley
an seminary. Lima. N. Y.. and in 1868-
1870 she traveled abroad, studving
French, German, Italian and the his-
tory of fine arts, visited nearly every
European capital, and went to Greece,
Egypt and Palestine. In 1871 she was
president of tlie woman's college of
Nothwestern university, and professor
of aesthetics; she was elected corre
sponding secretary of the N. W. C. T.
U. in 1871, and in 1877 was associated j
with D. L. Moody in revival work in
Boston. She became president of the J
Illinois W. C. T. U. and editor of the
Chicago Daily Post in 1878, and in 1879
was chosen president of the National
Woman's Christian Temperance Union,
which position she has since held.
Miss Willard was an author of much
distinction, and wrote a number of
books.
Floodg In Palouse.
Palouse, Feb. 21. The Palouse river
was higher today than it has been for
years, and the lower part of the town
was flooded. The water reached the
floor of the bridge on Main ' street near
the depot and covered the street to a
depth of nearly three feet for several
blocks from tlie bridge. Houses and
barns on the fiats were surrounded by
water, and one family living near the
depot was forced to move out, the wa
ter reaching almost to the windows of
the house.
Regarded as Serious.
London, Fib. 21. -The dispatches
from the American correspondents of
the morning papers all commented on
the serious aspect of affairs between
the United States and Spain, but gen
erally express the opinion that Presi
dent McKin'ey's influence will be
sufficient to avert a conflict.
Cincinnati, Feb. 81. The big 'Niles
toolwbrks at Hamilton, O., is turning
ont 12-inch mortars for the govern
ment ships as fast as possible. Within
the last two days the work has been
greatly hastened, to all appearances.
QUESTION OF IDEMNITY.
Frederick E. Coudert Interviewed on
the Maine Matter.
New York, Feb. 22. The Herald
tomorrow will say: Frederick R.
Coudert, formerly counsel for the
United States before the Behring sea
commission, and a well-known author
ity on international law, was inter
viewed regarding the
demnity, if it can be
Spanish at Havana
proper precautions to
matter of an in
shown that the
failed to take
insure the safety
of the Maine.
"Spain should pay indemnity for
the loss of the Maine," Mr. Coudert
said, "provided the accident is found
to be due to the negligence of Spanish
officials. The vessel went to Havana
on a friendly visit and was entitled to
full protection. It was proper that
extraordinary precautions should be
taken to insure her safety. It was well
known that there were individuals be
longing to the Spanish nation who had
ill feelings towards the United States.
If any danger was knowrn to exist in
Havana harbor, it was to be expected
that Spain should inform the captain
of the Maine of the fact and use every
means to prevent any accident to the
vessel. If, on the other hand, a man
with a basket of dynamite should have
come aboard the Maine and blown up
the vessel, the fault plainly would
have been with the officers of the
vessel. It was their duty to keep the
strictest watch over everybody who
came on board. The destruction of the
Maine by accident or by the act of ir
responsible individuals would not justi
fy a declaration of war. Carnot, for
instance, was assassinated by an
Italian, yet France did not blame
Italy. Italian subjects were killed by
a mob several years ago at New Or
leans. Italy was justifyed in demand
ing an indemnity, which she received,
because the men when slain were in
charge of officers of the law, who
should have made every effort to pre
vent their prisoners from being killed.
It did not result in war."
SAILORS WANT REVENGE.
No Doubt in
Their Minds
Did It.
That Spain
Jacksonville, Fla., Feb. 22. A spe
cial to the Citizen from Key West,
says: Sajlors of the battleship Maine
suffering from wounds, in the Key
West hospital, are smarting over the
delay of the government in punishing
what they term a Spanish outrage. In
their minds there is no doubt as to the
cause of the explosion, and they think
the delay in taking summary action by
the president saying ho is morally cer
tain that there was an accident, is to
soothe Spaniards into a feeling of se
curity to secure time for his ultimatum.
If no action is taken, not a man among
them will again pace the deck of an
American man-of-war, but if business
is meant, it will take a strong force to
keept them from hurrying to the front,
wounded though they are, to take a
hand m what they look upon as per
sonal vengeance.
"We were warned not to go to Ha
vana," one said today, "being told
that danger awaited us there. When
we got there it was current rumor that
the harbor bottom was honeycombed
with mines. We first chose our an
chorage and rested there for several
hours, but the harbor master compel
led us to weigh and proceed to a spot
marked by a buoy. We were reviled
on the streets of Havana, sneered at
until our blood boiled, and found out
for our own safety that it was safer
for us to mal-e our visits to the city in
force. No man dared to go alone.
There was no knowing what would
happen to him. The explosion .itself
is the best evidence that it was annine
or torpedo. There were two sharp
and distinct reports. The first Was'
like a peal of thunder close at harrd,
and then darkness and chaos, made
more horrible to the screams of dying
men, the fierce shouts of those fighing
for egress and the moans of those
hemmed in to die by fire or by dro vn-
ing.
COMMANDER BARNET'S VIEWS.
Investigation May Show tho Magazine
Intact.
Havana, Feb. 22. Lieutenant-Commander
Barnet, of the coast survey
boat Bache, said to a press correspond
ent today:
"You want the facts. I cannot tell
you. There are 95 chances out of 100
that the investigation will show that
the forward magazine of the Maine did
not blow up first, if it exploded at
all, and that it was not the cause of
the terrific consequences that followed.
The condition ol the wreck when first
studied and a later careful scrutiny
make this
an almost absolute cer-
j tainty.
Chaplain Cliidwick has recovered
considerable sums of money with let
ters and other personal property from
tlie bodies taken from the wreck. In
the effects, the initials can be seen on
the coat lining and may serve to iden
tify the wearer, but the harbor water
is so filthy that the marks are nearly
all illegible) Chaplain Cliidwick is
one of the hardest-working officers, and
upon him devolves some of the met
revolving duties of the situation.
It is apparent that efficient work is
not possible with the divers and ap
paratus at hand arid the arrival of
others is anxiously awaited.
Father Power, of the Jesuits, arrived
yesterday from Tampa, and immedi
ately visited the Maine's wounded in
the hospital.
The lighthouse tender Mangrove
with the court of inquiry and addition
al divers and apparatus, is expected
here tomorrow. Neither Spanish or
Cuban divers will be employed. To
day divers recovered the cipher book,
the logbook of the Maine and many
offiical and private papers.
Tobacco is said to have been first
brought into England from Virginia in
1583.
No Word of Missing Fishermen.
Marietee, Wis., Feb. 22. Nothing
has been heard from the 12 fishermen
who started from the Green island fort
this city Saturday. The storm has been
so severe that no one has ventured on
the ice today. Friends of the mis
sing men believe they must have found
shelter in some of the shanties on the
bay. The Green Bay stage, which left
here yesterday, has not been beard
from. It should, have reached its des
tination last night. There were five
passengers and driver. All trains
today were six and seven hours late.
A Court of Inquiry to Look
Into Maine Disaster.
THE WRECK WILL BE RAISED
Many Absurd Rumors Afloat Concerning
Cause of Disaster Burial of the Dead
and Caring for the Wounded.
Washington, Feb. 19. The govern
ment has settled back into a waiting
attitude in respect to the terrible Maine
disaster in Havana harbor. The great
shock caused by the news has given
way to a calmer and more judicial state
of mind, and, realizing from the events
of the day that the court of inquiry is
the sole dependence in the search for
the cause of the Maine's disaster, the
naval officers are now resigned to await
the results of that inquiry by a court
opened today by the navy department.
There was little news to add to the sum
of information as to the disaster re
ceived during the forenoon. No tele
grams came, and the only news gleaned
was a denial of some absurd story or
other that had crept into piint or be
come current gossip. All the news of
the day came in- the late afternoon in
the shape of Captain Sigsbee's report
of the authorization of the funeral of
his dead sailors, and General Lee's
graphic story of the terrible struggle
for life in the dark hull of the Maine.
The officials at the navy department
devoted the day to the effort of correct
ing the list oi living and dead, to an
swering frantic telegraphic appeals from
relatives of men on the battleship,
and last, but not least, in meeting
with unwavering courtesy and patience
the exacting demands upon their time
by the press reporters.
The disposition of the survivors, Cap
tain Dickens, acting chief of the navi
gation bureau, has arranged for as well
is could be done from this distance.
The wounded sailors in the Havana
hospitals, on the Spanish flagship and
elsewhere, when not in condition to be
brought back to Key West, will be
carefully looked after by Miss Clara
Barton, who has been given carte
blanche to buy anything and everything
necessary, food and delicacies, and hire
nurses and physicians. The wounded
able to get across to Key West will be
taken care of in the marine hospital
there. The sound survivors will be
quartered in the army barracks there.
As for the Maine herself, notwith
standing discouraging reports from
Lieutenant Howe as to her condition,
the navy department will try to raise
her. They say they are bound to re
move the hull from the small harbor,
in any case, and it may be as easy, or
easier, to raise her as it would be to
destroy the hull and machinery by the
use of divers and dynamite. It i?-believed
the work can be done by private
wrecking corporations, and negotia
tions are already afoot for placing the
contract, based on work by the day, at
an estimated cost of $200,000.
At the navy department specific de
nial was given of the report emanating
from Madrid that a torpedo flotilla
was about to leave Key West for Cuba.
It was stated that only two torpedo
boats, the Gushing and Ericsson, are
at Key West, and these have not been
ordered, and will not be ordered, ac
cording to the present plans, to Cuba.
It was strongly asserted that no pres
ent purpose existed of sending another
warship there.
On the streets there was noticeably
less excitement than yesterday, when
the people were loth to believe that
the loss of the Maine could be traced to
other than Spanish, sources.
' i AH thfi flags throughout the city, in
cluding those on the Capitol and the de
partment buildings, are flyiAat half
mast, and among the others is con-
spictrously that of "Cuba libre," which
flies from the staff of tlie Hotel
Raleigh, the headquarters of the Cuban
junta.
Relieves a Harvey Torpedo Did It.
Chicago, Feb. 19. Emit Gathman,
the inventor, believes the Maine was
destroyed by a Harvey torpedo. He
is conversant with Havana harbor, and
from personal examination is familiar
with the equipment of the Maine.
Mr. Gathman served two yeats as a
naval apprentice aboard the training
ship Portsmouth when Captain Sigsbee
was her commander. Three years ago
he was a member of the engineering
corps which conducted the second trial
trip of the Maine.
The Insolence of Weyler.
Barcelona, Feb. 19. Lieutenant
General Weyler, who arrived here to
day, expressed the opinion, in the
course of an interview, that the dis
aster which had befallen the United
States warship in Havana was due "to
the insolence of her crew." He an
nounced liis intention to ask the gov
ernment's permission to go to Havana
and stand as a candidate for the cham
ber of deputies for the Havana district.
Divers and Wrecking Gear.
Key West, Feb. 19. The coast sur
vey steamer A. D. Bache arrived this
afternoon from Dry Tortugas in com
mand of Lieutenant Barnet. Early to
morrow morning she will leave for Ha
vana, taking divers and such wreckage
gear as is obtainable.
Major Myrick Not Surprised.
Savanah, Ga.,"Feb. 19. Major John
R. Myrick, of Fort Wadsworth, N. Y.,
here attending the Carter court-martial,
said today that he was not sur
prised at the explosion on the Maine, as
the Cincinnati came near suffering a
similar fate in almost exactly the same
spot in 1895, her coal igniting from
spontaneous combustion and eating its
way almost to the compartment for
storing explosives.
Dallas, Tex., Feb. 19. A telegram
from Galveston says the battleship
Texas and the cruiser Nashville here
received orders from the navy depart
ment to sail from Galveston at once.
Their exact destination has not been
learned, but it is accepted by the pub
lic that they go either to Admiral
Sicard's fleet off Dry Tortugas or direct
to Havana.
New York, Feb. 19. The Journal
quotes Assistant Secretary of- the Navy
Roosevelt as saying'.
I am convinced that the destruction
of the Maine was no. an accident. "
WEEKLY MARKET LETTER.
Trade Conditions in the Leading Cities
of the World.
In a newspaper interveiw Mr. Armour
is quoted as saving that wheat will go
to $1.50 if the Leither party do nothing
but sit still. Assuming that the short
interest in May is as large as conjec
tured, it is impossilbe to eliminate that
interest otl er than by delivering the
wheat or buying it back from the
clique. If the latter sit still on their
long line it will leave the shorts like
rats in a trap. They plunge about,
and one set of shorts may cover off
another set, Vat the shortage will still
remain. Mr. Leiter and his lieutenants
are firm in their belief that wheat
ought to go much higher on its merits,
and as time goes on they are confirmed
in their prediction. Of course the great
mass of traders believe that wheat is
already too high, and that it never
would have been selling at present
prices but for the Leiter manipulation.
It must be conceded, however, that
Leiter is now more strongly intrenched
than at any other time since he began
the deal. At one time he was deserted
by his allies, they having sold out on
him almost to a man. The market
reacted about 4c on this selling, but it
soon became stronger than ever, and the
young speculator now has a firmer grip
on the situation than at any time since
his famous campaign was begun. A
good many able and experienced com
mission men think he will ultimately
come to grief, but as he has success
fully overcome many seemingly insur
mountable obstacles encountered in the
past six months, perhaps it is as well
to concede that he is apparently not in
need of a guardian and may worry
through to the end as well as he has in
the past. Even if he should drop a
million or two the family would not be
come objects of charity, and as it is
the Leiter money that would be lost
others need not sit up nights and bor
row trouble over the impending cal
amity. As soon as it was known that
Leiter had arranged to ship his wheat
out of Chicago it was stated in our mar
ket letter that this clearly outlined his
policy, and it would be best for all
concerned to govern themselves accord
ingly. Ever since the market has been
rushing upward, and there is no indi
cation that it is anywhere near the top.
In fact Leiter says it has just begun
to advance. Though more than two
months away the May deal is now as
erratic as the December was near its
culmination.
Northwest receipts "are still falling
off, being 165 cars less than last week.
Portland Market.
Wheat Walla Walla, 77 79c; Val
ley and Bluestem, 80 81c per bushel.
Flour Best grades, $3.75; graham,
$3.30; superfine, $2.25 per barreh.
gray, S3 34c per bushel.
"-j v.j. . ... i.j', .fi.;.u, view
ing, $20 per tonw I
Millstifls B-r!,"'i! per torVwuid
dlings, $24; shorts, $20.
Hay Timothy, $12.50; clover,
$1011; California wheat, $10; do
oat, $11; Oregon wild hay, $910 per
ton.
Eggs 14 15c per dozen.
Butter Fancy creamery, 50 55c;
fair to good, 4550c; dairy, 3545c
per roll.
Cheese Oregon, 12c; Young
America, 12)c; California, 910o
per pound.
Poultry Chickens, mixed, $2.75
3.25 per dozen; hens, $3.003.50;
geese, $5.006.00; ducks, $4.505.00
per dozen; turkeys, live, 1012c per
pound.
Potatoes Oregon Bnrbanks, 40 50c
ack; sweets, $1.752 per cental.
Onions- Oregon, $2.252.60 per
sack.
Hops 416c per pound for new
crop; 1896 crop, 46c.
Wool Valley, 14 16c per pound;
LEastern Oregon, 712c; mohair, 20
22c per pound.
Mutton. Gross, best sheep, wethers
and ewes, 4c; dressed mutton,
7c; spring lambs, 5)c per pound.
Hogs Gross, choice heavy, $4.00;
lightand feeders, $3. 004. 00; dressed,
$4. 50 5. 00 per 100 pounds.
Beef Gross, top steers, $3.003.25;
cows, $2.50; dressed beef, 46c per
pound.
Veal Large, 55e; small, 6
7o per pound.
Seattle Market.
Butter Fancy native creamery,
brick, 27c; ranch, 2223c.
Cheese Native Washington, 13c;
California. 9c.
Eggs- Fresh ranch, 23c.
Poultry Chickens, live, per pound,
hens, 12c; spring ' chickens, $2.50
8 00; ducks, $3. 50 3. 75.
Wheat Feed wheat, $23 per ton.
Oats Choice, per ton, $23.
- Corfr Whole, $23; cracked, per ton,
$23; feed meal, $23 per ton.
Barley Rolled or ground, per ton,
$22 23; whole, $22.
Hay Puget sound, new, per ton,
$12 13; Eastern Washington timothy,
$18; alfalfa, $12.
Fresh Meats Choice dressed beef,
steers, 7c; cows, 63c; mutton sheep,
8c; pork, 6c; veal, small, 8.
Fresh Fish Halibut, 6 7c: salmon,
3c; salmon trout, 10c; flounders
and sole, 34; ling cod, 4 5; rock cod,
5c; smelt, 24c
Fresh Fruit Apples, 50c$1.75 per
box; pears, 2575c per box; oranges,
navels, $2 2. 75 per box.
San Francisco Market.
Wool Nevada 11 13c; Oregon,
12
14c; Northern 7 8c per pound.
Hops 12 16c per pound.
Millstuffs Middlings, $22 25; Cal
ifornia bran, $20.5021.50 per ton.
Onions silverskin, $2. 50 2. 75 per
cental.
Eggs store, llllc; ranoh, 12
18c; Eastern, 18 19; duck, 14c per
pozen.
Cheese Fancy mild, new, 10c; fair
to good, 7 8c per pound..
Citrus Fruit Oranges, navels,
$1.002.50; Mexican limes, $66.50;
California lemons, choice, $1.50
1.75; do common, 75c$l. 25 per box.
Hay Wheat, $16 19; wheat and
oat, $1618; oat, $14. 50 16. 50; best
barley, $18.5016; alfalfa, $10.50
11; clover, $1112.50.
Fresh Fruit Apples, 25c$1.25 per
large box; grapes, 25 40c; Isabella,
6075c; peaches, 50c$l; pears 75o;
$1 per box; plums, 20 35c
Butter Fancy creamery, 26c; do
seconds, 22j28o; fancy dairy, 22o;
good to choice, 2081o per pound.
ew, in boxes, 50cfl.2Q