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VOL. XXXV. COKVALL.IS, BENTON COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1898. NO. 26. Happenings Both at Home and Abroad. A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED Interesting Collection of Items From Many Places Culled From the Press Reports of the Current Week. General Shatter says the surrender of Santiago was a great surprise to him. Retribution is not quite complete. The Cuban commissioners will make an attempt while in Havana to ferret out the persons who destroyed the Maine. Orders have been issued by the war department that all the regular army regiments now at Montauk, which were started previously east of the Mis sissippi river, shall return to the same stations. A semi-official note fiom Berlin says that peace having U-en re-established between the United States and Spain, orders have been iiiven that the German naval force at Manila be at once reduced to one or two ships. A report is current in London that Great Britain and Germany have signed a treaty of alliance for Germany's sup port in Egypt. England will recog nize Germany's claim to Syria as an outlet for hei surplus population." Reliable information has been ob tained by the Associated Press to the effect that Russia intends to convene the international peace conference at St. Petersburg one month after the ad journment of the Spanish-American peace conference at Paris. The monthly statement of the public debt, shows that August 31, the public debt less cash in the treasury, was $1,012,470,717, which is a decrease for the month of 134,789,711. This de crease is accounted for by a correspond ing increase in the cash on hand, due to the receipts from the war loan. The Chicago Tribune prints statistics showing the number of soldiers who have been killed in battle and have died of diseases in camp during the war with Spain. While 350 officers and men have been killed in battle or died of wounds received, there have died of disease in camp between 1,200 and 2,000 volunteers and regulars. A Madrid dispatch says: All Cata lonia protests against the continuance of tbe special war taxes, and insists upon their immediate repeal, threaten ing to close all the factories if the de mand is not complied with. The lower classes are deeply and perhaps danger rusly impressed by the ghastly appear ance of the repatriated soldiers from Santiago de Cuba. Lighthouses in Southern Philippines have been re-established. r Foreign vessels will be allowed to enter the ports of Hawaii as usual, pending revision of the United States laws. Schley and Gordon, commissioners to settle the conditions for the Spanish evacuation of Porto Rico, have sailed for San Juan. Being out of work and without means to support his family, a Chicago drug clerk turned highwayman, and in at tempting to rob a saloon was forced to shoot the proprietor. Several vessels of the "Mosquito" fleet are useless. The board of survey has found upon examination that their machinery and boilers are badly worn, and will make a report condemning them. The annual session of the National Irrigation Congress opened at Chey enne Thursday. Ex-Senator Carr, the president, delivered the annual ad dress, urging the necessity for extend ing irrigation facilities. Eight lives were lost and considera ble damage wrought by the Georgia storm, which was more serious than first reported. Lieutenant Morgan and a crew of six were diowned by the up setting of a yawl off Tybee island. The mate of an Italian ship lost his life. The American ship Baring Brothers, from New York, has been burned in the harbor of Kobe. About 3,000 tons of matting was also destroyed. It ia intimated that the lire was of incendiary origin. When the vessel arrived at Kobe from Yokohama six of the crew were in irons. Four were afteiward liberated. Orders have been received in An napolis from the president directing Cervera to make arrangements to pro ceed with his officers and men back to Spain immediately, in accordance with instructions issued by the Spanish ministers of marine. The officers were very enthusiastic when they received the news. A passenger train on the New York, Ontario & Western railroad, was wrecked at Inalls, near Saratoga. The wreck was doubtless due to the dastard ly work of tramps, who threw open tbe switch at which the train was wrecked. The dead are: Engineer B. C. Dowd, of Oswego; Fireman William Hall, of Norwich; Brakeman A. L Osborne, of Walton. Eight were injured. .Minor News Items. The United States government has placed an order in England for 10,000, 000 cartridges. Regulations have been issued con cerning military taxes to be collected in the Philippines. Sir William Augustus Frazer, bart,, the author and one of the queen's body guard for Scotland, is dead. The subsistence department will have plenty of supplies ready to forward to Cuba in case it is found necessary. Horace Adcock, 12 years of age, died from fright received during a heavy electrical storm at Macomb, 111. New York capitalists will start a bank at San Juan, Porto Rico. It will be capitalized at $500,000. Tbe conference of state and provincial boards of health in session at Detroit, declared tuberculosis to have killed more people than any other affection. A syndicate has been formed of all the alleged heirs of the late merchant prinoe, A. T. Stewart, and they have determined to mike one more fight for the money they claim to be entitled to. LATER NEWS. Memphis, Tenn., has been quaran tined. Governor Lord has issued a proc lamation, calling the Oregon legislature is extra session September 2 (3. The steamer Lewiston ran ashore while carrying sick soldiers from Mon tauk Point to Boston, and it is feared many men will die as a result of the axposure. A slight clash has occurred at Daw son. United States Consul McCook was compelled by a Canadian officer to remove the Stars and Stripes from the Alaska Commercial Company's store. The United States gunboat Benning ton has been ordered to Pango-Pango bay, Samoa, according to Mare island reports, to make a survey for a coaling station. Upon finishing the survey she will proceed to Manila and relieve the Concord, which will come to Mare island and go on drydock, the English docks not being available. There has been another series of fatalities in the Austrian Alps. One case, that of a newly married couple, was particularly sad. The bride lost her footing and fell; the rope broke, and she went to destruction. The hus band deliberately threw himself after her, and was killed. A gentleman who visited the spot two days later lost his balance and fell, being killed instantly. A Havana dispatch says: Senor Fer nandez de Castrazo has directed a dis patch to the mayors ot the provincial towns, instructing them, in order to avoid mistakes, to "correct the igno rance regarding the origin of the relief supplies now being sent into the in terior from Havana," and to take steps to inform eveiy inhabitant that the supplies are "bought, paid for and die tributed by the colonial government, unaided by any .. foreign help or sub scription." The whaling fleet has been lost in Northern waters. At least three anil I probably eight vessels were caught and crushed in the ice above Point Barrow. No news of the crews has been re ceived, but the general belief, however, is that no lives were lost. The Belvi dere got out. The Wanderer is also said to have reached Herschel island. The vessels lost, therefore, were the Newport, Fearless, .leannie, Belana, Qrampus, Beloga, Norwhal and Mary D. Hume. It has been decided to abandon Camp Wikoff within the next three weeks. James Wilson, "King, of Tramps," has been commended for his bravery at Santiago. Fifty deaths and over one hundred prostrations is the result of one hot day in New York. John Hills, a well-to-do New York ice dealer, his wife and his sister-in-law, Mary Conlin, have been poisoned by whisky sent through the mail. Private letters from oui consuls abroad indicate that the Philippine; must be retained if the United States desires to maintain its position in the world of nations. The Iowa met with an accident in the Brooklyn navy-yard dock. The engine rooms are said to have been partly flooded during the process of floating the big battle-ship. The French minister of war, M Cavaignac, has resigned. The resigna tion is due to a disagreement with his colleagues, who desire a revision of the Dreyfus case. Thus a revision of the case seems assured. Oriental advices say that the rf cent assaulting of an American missicnary in the Karachi district, Japan, is caus ing considerable excitement, especial ly since the new treaties will spread foreign residents all through the in terior. More soldiers are soon to Vjave for Honolulu. General Miller says three regiments will sail from San Francisco within a month. The First Tennessee, Fifty-first Iowa and Twentieth Kansas are the lucky men The 6th and 7th California and California heavy artil lery are to be mustered out. According to native Japanses papers, received in Seattle on the Kinshn Maru, Marquis Ito's visit to China is liable to result in his changing residence. It is said that he has been offered a princely salary to become general adviser to the emperor. Spanish soldiers have demanded their pay, and they object to leaving Cuba without it. Posters exhorting the troops to refuse to leave Havana unless the money is first forthcoming, were ! circulated in Havana. The prevailing sentiment ia one of animosity toward Madrid. A Madrid dispatch says: General Jademes, ad interim governor of the Philippines, replying to the govern ment's request for information as to the true situation of affairs in the archi pelago, reports that to resume establish- ; ineut of Spanish sovereignty over the islands would require a fleet and end less quantities of material. At least $1,000,000 prize money will be distributed among American sailors as a result of the war with Spain. Rear Admiral Sampson of the North Atlantic squadron will receive $40,000, Dewey and his men are to receive $187, 500 head money. Appropriations lor the purpose will likely be made at the next session of congress. Andrew Carnegie has offered the town council of the town of Dumfries, Scotland, the sum of 10,000, to build a public library. The attorney-general of Ohio has de sided to bring an action against the American Steel and Wire Company, under the anti-trust law. The reported death of Mrs. Terrisa widow of the MCtor who was murdererf by Riohard Arthur Prince December 1 last, proves to have been an error. Mrs. Terriss is seriously ill in London. The death of Dr. Zeller, the musical composer, is announced at Berlin. The French ambassador and his staff recently paid a visit to the tomb ot Washington at Mount Vernon. The 12th biennial convention of the Bavarian societies of North America has closed at Pittsburg. Cincinnati was chosen for tbe next meeting place. The express companies have been in formed that the law does not state whether tbe company or the shipper shall bear the revenue tax, but that the company shall be held responsible for its payment. Train Dashes Into a Trolley Car at Cohoes, New York. EIGHTEEN PASSENGERS KILLED Several Seriously Injured Happy Pick nickers Suddenly Hurled Into Eter nityAccident Occurred at a Grade. Cohoes, N. Y., Sept. 7. An appall ing disaster occurred in this city to night. Shortly before 8 o'clock a trolley-car of the Troy City Railway Com pany was struck by the night-boa? special of the Delaware & Hudson at a crossing at the west end of the Hudson river bridge, which connects the oity with Lansingburg, and its load of human freight was hurled into the air. Eighteen of the 35 passengers are dead, and at least 10 of the remainder will die. The ears entering the city from Lan singburg were crowded with passengers from a picnic at Rennsaelaer's Park, a pleasure resort near Troy. It was car No. 192 of the Troy City railway that met with disaster. It came over the bridge about 7:30 o'clock laden with a merry party of people, fresh from the enjoyment of the day. The crossing where the accident oc curred is at a grade. Four tracks of the Delaware & Hudson River railroad, which runs noith and south at this point, cross the two tracks of the trol ley road. It was the hour when the New York bat special, a train which runs south and connects with the New York city boat at Albany, was due to pass that point. Tracks of the street lines run at a grade from the bridge to the point where the disaster took place. In consequence of this fact, and a fre quent passage of trains, it has been the rule for each motor-car conductor to stop his car and go forward to observe the railroad tracks and signal his car to proceed if no trains are in siglit. It cannot be ascertained whether that rule was complied with on this occasion, for all events prior to the crash are foi got ten by those who were involved. The motor car was struck directly in the center by the engine of the train, which was going at a high rate of speed. The accident came without the slightest warning. The car was upon the tracks before the train loomed in sight, and no power on earth could have saved it- The motoiman evidently saw the train approaching as he reached the track, and opened his controller, but in vain. With a crash that was heard for blocks the engine struck into the lighter vehicle. The effect was horrible. The motor car parted in two, both sections being hurled into the air in splinters. The mass of humanity, for the car was crowded to overflowing, was torn and mangled. Those in the front of the car met with the worst fate. The force of the collision was there experienced to the greatest de gree, and every human being in that section was killed. The scene was hor rible. Bodies had been hurled intc the air, and their headless and limbless trunks were found, in some cases, 50 feet from the crossing. The pilot of the engine was smashed, and amid its wreckage were the maimed corpses of two women. The passengers of the train suffered no injury, except a shock. The majority of the passen gers on the trolley-car were young people. They included many women. The train of the D. & H. R. R. acci dent proceeded to Troy. The enigneer stated that he did not see the car until he was upon it. He tried to prevent his train from striking the car, but his efforts were fruitless. His train was going at a very high rate of speed at the time. He was some minutes late, and was trying to make up lost time. In consequence of the caution taken by the trolley road to ascertain if the tracks were clear at this crossing, the engineers of trains have always felt safe in running by at a high rate oi speed. The engineer says that the first he knew that the car was coming was when it hove in eight at the corner of the street, at which the crossing is situated. He was bat a short distance from the car at the time. It was utterly impos sible to bring the train to a standstill. He thinks that the motorman, when he saw the train was upon him, tried to get beyond the danger line. The grade of this crossing and the speed at which his car was going also made it impossi ble for him to stop before reaching the tracks. It was the front end of his car that was caught and crushed, and he was kill! outright. The following bod ies were identified: Archie Campean, James Temple, Ed ward Baiuey, Mrs. John Craven, Miss Kittie Craven, Mrs. John W. Sutcliffe,' Joseph Sense, NeHie Swett, 15 years of age, Mrs. Eliza McElroy, Mis. James Taylor, Miss Winnie Craven, James Linez, Mrs. Ellen Scaw and John Tim mius. Drowned in Iake Erie. Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 7. Frank and John Mane, 16 and 17 years old, re spectively, and Geo. Grass, 14 years old, were drowned while bathing in Lake Erie. There was a heavy sea on and the boys were caught by a receding wave and carried into deep water. Wind and Hail. Iowa City, Ia., Sept. 7. A severe wind and hail storm caused damage to the amount of $50,000 in an area three miles wide and 12 miles long, six miles north of here. The hail was exceeding ly heavy and many persons were in jured. Many small buildings were wrecked, and the corn crop was" com pletely destroyed in the region Of the storm. The cells composing the epidermis are 1-1600 of an inch in diameter. Another Treasure Ship. San Francisco, Sept. 7. The steamer Portland arrived late tonight from St. Michaels with treasure, estimated at from $1,500,000 to $2,000,000. She brought down a large number of pas sengers, most of whom were carpenters who had been employed at St. Michaels in putting together river boats. There were about 35 or 40 miners on board, nearly all being Well supplied with gold dust and nuggets. . Sound is a vibration of the air, some other gas or of a liquid or solid set np by the vibration of some sounding body. HOMAGE TO THE QUEEN. Holland's Tonne Sovereign's Enthusi astic Greeting. Amsterdam, Sept. 7. Queen Wil helmina arrived at the railway depot in Amsterdam at 2 o'clock, and was en thusiastically received. The burgo master delivered an address of wel come, to which her majesty replied: "For a long time past I have been looking forward to this moment, which is the most Ecierun of my lite." The queen briefly addressed the va rious crowds assembled to welcome her. The burgomaster's daughter presented her majesty with bouquets of orange flowers tied with native ribbons. The entire court, in carriages, participated in the procession to the palace. "A guard of honor, composed of generals, escorted the royal carriage. After the burgomaster had delivered a speech of welcome, the queen drove to the Damplatz. The uniformed guards lined the entire route, and kept back the throngs. After Burgomaster Vandenhoven, governor of the province of Northern Holland, had offered the province's homage, in the course of his speech referring to the ties that for more than three centuries had bound the provinces and house of Orange, the queen repliod: "I am glad that this day has ar rived." Six hours before the queen arrived, 200 000 people had assembled in the streets and around the palace. Her majesty appeared at 2:30 o'clock, P. M., preceded by 30 divisions, including representatives of the army and na'Vy, governmental and municipal officials, and princes from Holland's East Indian colonies, who came here expressly to witness the enthroning of the young queen. The royal coach was of white, orna mented with gold and drawn by eight black horses. Queen Wilhelmina, who looked pale and tired, bowed and waved her handkerchief continually. In front of the palace, the army and navy were drawn up in the form of a great square. The coach passed along the four aides of the square before drawing up at the entrance to the palace. A few minutes later Queen Wil helmina appeared upon the balcony and bowed repeatedly to the 60, 000" people who approached the palace waving handkerchiefs, hats and flags. Meanwhile many bands were playing national airs, chimes of bells were ring ing and steam whistles shrieking their salutes to the young sovereign. FIERCE STREET DUEL. Mississippi Men fight to the Death, Showing Poor Marksmanship. New Orleans. Sept. 7. A special from Meridian, Miss., says: The most desperate duel in the history Cjf Merid ian occurred this morning beween Jim Firmer and Aleck Webb, his son-in-law. Both emptied two revolvers. Webb re treated into a jewelry store, followed by Finner, still shooting. The daughter of Finner attempted to kill the officer whdiwent in- to arrest .the, rnaa.A fu sillade passed between Finner ancThis daughter and Webb and his daughters in the store. Webb was shot three times. - He will die. Finner was hit three times before he was killed by Citizen Burgess. Webb, three weeks ago, was shot by Finner, who waylaid him, and this morning ended the trag edy. Webb married Finner's daughter, and bad blood has since existed. Strikes at Manila. Manila, Sept. 7. There have been several labor strikes here, the demand being for excessive wages. Because the American authorities in the early exi gencies of the situation agreed to ex travagant demands of the laborers, it has been difficult to return to an equi table basis. One of these strikes caused the suspension of traffic on the tram ways of Manila for three days. Copies of the new tariff have been circulated heie, but it has not yet been enforced. Pending the receipt of in structions from Washington, it is esti mated that under the American tariff there will be an average reduction of one-third, as compared with that of Spain. An insurgent newspaper print ed in the Spanish language appeared here today. British Fle Flying. London, Sept. 7. The war office re ceived this evening the following dis patch, dated at Omdnrman yesterday, from General Sir Herbert Kitchener: "This morning the British and. Egyp tian flags were hoisted with due cere mony upon the wails of the palace in Khartoum. All the British wounded have left for Abadia in barges towed by steamers. 'J saw them before Jeaving. Tliey wer-e all doing well anI were com fortable. The cavalry sent in pursuit of the khalifa were compelled to aban don the attempt, owing to the exhaus tion of the horses, but I have ordered the camel squads to continue the pur suit." Two British Officers and 23 Men Killed London, Sept. 7. The official list gives the number of British officers killed in the capture of Omdnrman as two, while 13 were wounded. Of the men, 33 were killed and 99 wounded. The losses sustaiued by the Egyptian officers' were one killed and eight wounded; men, 20 killed, 221 wounded. Dispatcnes from Omdurman relate that a newspaper coriespondent named Howard, who was afterwards killed, participated in the gallant charge of the Twenty-first Lancers. Was It A ii dree. Chicago, Sept. 7. A special to the Times-Herald from Winnipeg, Mani toba, says: Indians reaching Danphin from the far north report meeting an Eskimo who told of the appearance among them of a strange man, who de scended from the clouds on the shores of Hudson bay. The opinion among the. whites is that the man is Andree, the Arctic explorer. The English Federation of Engine men consist of 10,000 men. --' Cervera Leaves Annapolis. Annapolis, Md., Sept. 7. Admiral Cervera, of the Spanish navy, accom panied by Lieutenant Cervera, his son, left heie today for Norfolk for the pur pose of completing arrangements for the transportation " to Spain of the prisoners now confirred-at -Portsmouth, -N. H., who were captured in the-naval fight off Santiago. Admirai Cervera and bis son" Were driven to-the railway station in Admiral MoNair's carriage. The smallest theater is: the world is rofessor-Hepkomer's in England. It Seats onjy .1 SO person s. . MY BATTLE IN EGYPT Taking of Omdurman the British. by COMPLETE ROUT OF DERVISHES Massed Tribes Unable to Withstand tbe Withering; Fire of Modern Ordnance Gallant Charge of the British. Omdnrman, Opposite Khartoum on the Nile, Nubia, Sept. 6. The sirdar, General Herbert- Kitchener, with the khalifa's black standard captured dur ing tbe battle, entered Omdurman, the capital of Mahdiam at 4 o'clock this afternoon,' at the head of the Anglo Egyptian column, after completely routing the dervishes and dealing a death-blow to Mahdim. Roughly, our losse.-. were 200, while thousands of the dervishes were killed and wounded. Last night the Ang'o-Egyptian army encamped at Agaiza, eight miles from Omdurman. The dervishes were three miles distant. At dawn today, the cavalry patrolling toward Omdur man discovered the enemy advancing to the attack in battle array, chanting war songs. Their fr nt consisted of in fantry and cavalry, stretched out for three or four miles. Countless banners fluttered over their masses, and the copper ami brass drums resounded through the ranks of the savage war riors, who advanced unswervingly, with all their old-time ardor. Our infantry formed up outside the camp. At 7:20 A. M. the enemy crowded the ridges above the camp and ad vanced steadily in enveloping forma tion. At 7:40 our artillery opened tire, which was answered by the dervish riflemen. Their attack developed on our left, and in accordance with their traditional tactics, they swept down the hillside, with the design of rushing our flank. But the withering lire maintained for 15 minutes by all our line frustrated the attempt, and the dervishes, balked, swept toward our center, upon which they concentrated a fierce attack. A large force of horsemen, trying to face a continuous hail of bullets from the Cameron Highlanders, the Lincoln shire regiment and the Soudanese, wai literally swept away, leading to the withdrawal of the entile body, whose dead strewed the field. The bravery of the dervishes can hardly be overestimated. Those whe earried the flags struggled to within 100 yards of our fighting line. When the dervishes withdrew behind the ridge in front of their camp, the whole force marched in echelon of bat talions toward Omdnrman. As our troops surmounted the orest adjoining the Nile, the Soudanese on our right came into contact with the Remick, who had reformed under cover of a reeky eminence, and had marched benefit,, the block standard at the kha lifa in order to make a supreme effort to retrieve the fortunes of the day. A mass IS, 000 strong bore down on the Soudanese. i General Kitchener swung round the center and left of the Soudanese and seized the rocky eminence, and the Egyptians, hitherto in reserve, joined tbe firing line in 10 minutes, and be fore the dervishes could drive their at tack home. The flower of the khalifa's army was caught in a depression and within a zone of withering cross-fire from three brigades, with the attendant artillery. The devoted Mahdis strove heroically to make headway, but every rush was stopped, while their main body was literally mown down by a sus tained cross-fire. Defiantly the dervishes planted their standards and died beside them. Their dense masses gradually melted to com panies, and the companies to driblets beneath the leaden hail. Finally they broke and fled, leaving the field white with Jibbah-clad corpses, like a snow drift dotted spot. . At 11:15 the sirdar ordered an ad vance and our whole force, in line, drove the scattered remnants -into the desert to Omdurman. Among the chief incidents of the bat tle was a brilliant charge ; by tbe Twenty-first Lancers.nnder Lieutenant Colonel Martin. Galloping down on a detached body of the enemy, thej' found the dervish swordsmen massed behind, and were forced to charge home against appalling odds. The landers hacked through the mass, rallied and kept the dervish horde at bay. Lieutenant Grenfelt, nephew of General Sir Francis Grenfelt, was killed, fonr other officer a were wounded, 21 men were killed and 20 wounded. The Egyptian cavalry were in close fighting throughout with the Baggara horsemen. For a short period the enemy captured and held a gun, bnt it was brilliantly retaken. The heroic bravery of the dervishes evoked universal admiration. Time after time their dispersed and broken forces reformed and hurled themselves, npon the Anglo-Egyptians, their emirs conspicuously leading and spurning death. Even when wounded and in death agoniesthe raised themselves to fire a last shot. Among the wounded ia Colonel Rhodes, the correspondent of the Lon don Times, and a brother of Ceoil Rhodes. Four Young Women Drowned. Erie, Pa., Sept. 5. By. an acci dental jibing of the sail of the pleasure yacht Carmenca, on Presque Isla bay this morning four young women were swept off into the water and drowned before assistance could be rendered them. Therr names are Mary, Delia and Ella Paradine and Jessie Moore. Madrid. Sept. 6. The government has decided to pay the next coupon of the Cuban debt, pending the settle ment' with the United States. Newark Celluloid Works Destroyed. New York, Sept. 6. Fire in the Newark celluloid works and the neigh boring tenement houses, in Newark, N. J., did tally $200,000 damage to night. The flames were confined to the block bounded by West Scott, Darcy, Magazine and East Ferry streets. Fourteen persons were in jured and taken to the hospitals, some of them being seriously hurt. The largest theatre in tbe world is the Grand opera house of Paris. It cover more than three acres of ground nd cost 88,000,000 franca. - PRESIDENT AT WIKOFP. Cheered the Sick Heroes of the San tiago Campaign. Camp Wikoff, Montauk Point, N. Y., Sept. 6. President McKinley spent five honrs in the camp today, bare headed most of the time, visiting the sick in the hospitals and inspecting the well in their cantonments. He made a speech to the assembled in fantrymen, reviewed the cavalrymen, expressed his opinion of the camp to the reporters, and issued an order di recting the regiments to return to their stations east of the Mississippi. With the president were Vice-President Hobart, Secretary of War Alger, Attorney-General Griggs, Senator Red field Proctor, Brigadier-General Egan, commissary of the army; "General Lud ington, quartermaster of the army; Colonel Henry Hecker, and Secretaries to the President Porter and Cortelyon. The ladies of the party were Mrs. Al ger and Miss Hecker, a daughter of Colonel Hecker. General Wheeler, his staff, and nearly every officer of prominence in the camp met the president at the sta tion, except General Shatter, who is still in bed, and General Young, who fell and broke his arm last night. After greetings and introductions on the railway platform, the president took General Wheeler's arm and went" to a carriage. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, of the rough riders, was among a group oi horsemen nearby. Mr. McKinley saw him and got out of the carriage to speak to him. Colonel Roosevelt has tily dismounted and ttisseled with a gauntlet for 15 seconds, so that un gloved he might shake hands. The column of carriages wound up a hill, escorted by the Third cavalry reg iment, and the mounted baud of the Sixth cavalry. The party paused a moment on the hill, and the president looked out on the wide, undulating oamp, water bounding each side and whitened on the levels and hilltops by the tents of 18,000 men, laid out in geometric lines. Mr. McKinley drove to General Shafter's tent in the detention camp. The general, who was flushed and weak from a mild case of malarial fever, was in full unfiorm, sitting in a ohair at the door of the tent. He tried to rise, but President McKinley said: "Stay where you are, general; you are entitlted to rest." The president congratulated General Shatter on the Santiago victory, and after a few minutes' rest, proceeded to the general hospital. The soldiers re cently arrived on the transports and detained in the detention section of the camp lined up irregularly on each side of the road and cheered. The president took off bis straw hat then, and scarcely more than put it on for more than a minute or two at a time during the remainder of his progress through the camp. Miss Wheeler, a daughter of the gen eral, happened to be in the first row of the hospital tents, and she showed the president through her division. General Wheeler announced in each ward: "Boys, the president has come to see you;" or, "Soldiers, the presi dent of the United States." Some of tbe soldiers slept uncon scious, some listlessly raised npon theii elbows, others feebly clapped their hands. Mr. McKinley gently shook hands with many, and at every cot he paused an Instant, and if he saw the sick man looking at him he bowed in a direct and personal way. In the second ward the president en tered. Sergeant John A. Alexander, company D, First Illinois, who has a tever, was rather startled to hear Gen eral Wheeler announce the president. The seigeant half raised upon his cot. Mr. McKinley, attracted by the move ment, took Alexander's hands and said: "I am sorry to see you so sick. I hope that you are getting better." "Thank you; I think I shall get well." "Do you wish for anything?" asked General Wheeler. "No, I have everything good for me, I guess," Alexander replied wearily, "bnt I wish I were home." "I hope that we may soon get you there," said Mr. McKinley. He had many such bits of talk with the men, and seemed to be in nc hurry. He almost outwore the pa tience of all his party by Miis slow going through ward after ward. Ambushed by Indians. Tacoma, Wash., Sept. 6. The schooner J. M. Coleman, which arrived on the Sound today from St. Michaels, brings news that two prospectors were ambushed while drifting down the Yu kon in a boat. Indians fired on the boat, killing one and wounding the other. The wounded man escaped, and reached a police camp. Police started, and found the Indians enjoying the prospectors' supplies. They were brought to Dawson, where one of the Indians made a confession. Mr. Frank, who came on the Cole man, says, when he left Dawson there was a stampede to Dewey and Samp eon creeks, from which fine reports came. Both are in American territory. Trouble in Ladroneg, Madrid, Aug. 80. Negotiations have been opened with Washington to obtain permission for the Spaniards in the Ladrone islands to go to Manila, as the situation in the Ladrones is extremely ! critical. Blown Up by a Torpedo. New Olreans. La., Sept. 6. The gov ernment steamboat John I. Meigs was today destroyed by an explosion at St. Philip She had aboard Lieutenant Jervey and a party engaged in remov ing the torpedoes laid in the Mississip pi liver daring the beginning of the war. Lieutenant Jervey had a narrow escape. The killed are: Ornrrles Starr, commander of the boat; Sergeant John Newman, of the engineers; Pat Carlos; Ralph Rogers. Those wounded are: Frits Koch and D. B. Reddy. They Want to Come In. Manila, Sept. 6. A delegation, rep resenting the Southern Philippines and consisting of tbe best and richest na tives of Panay, Mindora, Ceuba and Mindano, visited United States Consul Williams and urged that every effort be made for annexation of the Philip pine islands. The deputation claimed that all olasses, warlike moun taineers, as well as those engaged in mercantile pursuits, would welcome the Stars and Stripes. They also said there are 4.000 men armed With rifles ' near Ilioilo ready to support the Amer ' leans. - . Conditions in the Army Are Not So Bad As Painted. SOLDIERS ARE WELL TREATED He Blames the Newspapers for Their Stories of Cruel and Horrible Treat ment at Wikoff. Camp Wikoff, Montauk Point, N. Y., Sept. 5. Major-General Joseph Wheel er gave the following to tbe tress to day: "Headquarters United States Forces, Camp Wikoff, Long Island, Sept. 6. The following is a sample of the letters which are constantly received regarding the soldiers in the camr : " 'In regard to my stepson, we feel very uneasy about hiin on account of the newspaper reports of the privation and suffering inflicted upon the pri vates. Although he has never uttered a complaint since he has been in the army, we hear from other sources of the cruel and horrible treatment inflicted upon our soldiers under the pretense of humanity for our neighbors, and the whole country is in a state of terrible excitement. I should not be surprised if the feeling should lead to a revolu tion of some kind, for I assure you I hear on all sides the most violent and bitter denunciations of the war depart ment and the administration. It is, indeed, a great pity that the glory of our triumphs should be dimmed by such a shameful thing as the ill treat ment and starvation of our brave soldiers, while the Spanish prisoners have the best treatment that the coun try can afford.' "It will be seen that this letter says that not a word of complaint has been received from this soldier, and so far as my investigation goes, no complaint has been made by any of the brave soldiers who have added glory to our arms in the Cuban campaign. "A great many anxious fathers, mothers, brothers or sisters, arrive here from all parts of the Dnited States to look after their relatives, whom they say the papers tell them are suffering, and many of them have heard that their relatives are in a condition of starvation. Most of these people are little able to expend the money for such a journey, and they are surprised when they come here to find their relatives surrounded with everything to eat which can be produced by money, and, if sick in the hospital, they are grateful and surprised to find that they are given every possible care. "Every officer and soldier who went to Cuba regarded it that he was given a great and special privilege in being permitted to engage in that campaign. They knew they were to encounter yel low fever and other diseases, as well as the torrid heatot the country, and they were proud and glad to do so. They knew that it was impossible for them to have the advantage of wagon trans portation, which usually accompanies an army, and yet officers and men were glad to go, to carry their blankets and their rations on their backs and be sub jected, without any shelter, to the sun and rains by day and the hecvy hazes by night. They certainly knew that the Spanish had spent years in erecting defenses, and it was their pleasure to assault and their duty to capture the Spanish works. "They were more than glad to incur these hardships and these dangers. They went there and did their duty, each man seeming to feel that Ameri can honor and prestige was to be meas ured by his conduct. The brave men who won the victories did not complain of the neglect of the government, but, on the oontrary, they seemed grateful to. the piesident and secretary of war for giving them the opportunity to in cur these dangers and hardships. They realized that in the hurried organiza tion of an expedition by a government which had no one with arry experience in such matters it was impossible to have everything arranged to perfec tion; and they will testify that under the circumstances, the conditions were much more perfect than any one would have reason to expect, and that the president and secretary of war and others who planned and dispatched these expeditions deserve high com mendation. "I have just finished my daily in spection of the hospitals. With rare exceptions the sick are cheerful. I have nurses and doctors to care for them, and in all my tours I have not found a single patient who made the slightest complaint. It is true there has been great suffering. The climate of Cuba was very severe upon all our soldiers, bnt instead of complaining the hearts of those brave men are filled with gratitude to the people for the bounteous generosity which has been extended to them." The Gold Reserve. Washington, Sept. 5. The gold re serve in the United States treasury reached the'higbest point in its history today, with a total reserve of $219,320, 872. The highest previous amount was $219,000,000, which was recorded in March. 1888. The reserve was estab lished in 1879, with $116,000,000. It first reached $200,000,000 in October, 1897. The lowest ever touched was $4,000,000, in January, 1895. In June, 189T, there was$r4Oi000-,000, and one year later the amount waa $167,000,000. GEN. J04KPH WHEELER. A Sample of a Good Moro. Prof. Dean C. Worcester contributes to the September Century an article on "The Malay Pirates of the Pnilip pines." Speaking oi his guid Profes sor Worcester says: Toolawee was considered a good Moro, and we were therefore interested in certain incidents whieh gave us an insight into his character. After sat isfying himself by observation that we could use our rifles with some effect, he made us a rather startling business proposition in the following words: "You gentlemen shoot quite well with the rifle." "Yes; we have had some experience." "You desire to get sam ples of the clothing and arms of my countrymen for your collection?" "Yes." "Papa (General Arolas) told you, if you met armed Moors outside the town, to order them to lay down their arms and retire?" "Yes." "Papa does not understand my people as I do. They are all bad. When we meet them, do not ask them to lay down their arms, for they will come back again, and get them, and probably at tack us. Just shoot as many of them as possible. You can then take their arms and clothing, and I will cut off theii heads, shave their eyebrows, show them to papa, and claim the reward for killing juramentados. " Henever real ly forgave us for refusing to enter into partnership with him on this very liberal basis. A Friendly Ceremony In Old Cuba. The Century for September prints an article on "Life and Society in Old Cuba," being extracts from the journal of Jonathan S. Jenkins, an American painter of miniatures, written in 1859. Mr. Jenkins says: When an acquaintance visits a pri vate residence, cigars are handed round on a silver salver; if the visitor be an intimate friend, orre of the young girls of the tarnily, called a "donzallia," lights a cigar and giving it a few draws to get well lighted, gracefully presents it to him. If the guitar is brought in, as usually occurs (for there is one in every house), and the visitor plays, his cigar is kept lighted by the donzalia, and at each pause in the music she po litely hands it to the guest. This may occur several times in an evening, and this friendly ceremony is pleasant enough when the cigar comes from the pouting lips of a rich Spanish beauty just ripening into womanhood, but in any case it must be thankfully accepted. PACIFIC COAST TRADE. Portland Market. Wheat Walla Walla, 54c; Val ley and Bluestem, 57c per bushel. Flour Best grades, $3.85; graham, $2.85; superfine, $2.25 per barrel. Oats Choice white, 3637c; choice gray, 34 35c per bushel. Barley Feed barley, $20; brewing, $21 per ton. Millstuffs Bran, $14 per ton; mid dlings, $21; shorts, $14; chop, $13 per ton. Hay Timothy. $10 11; clover. $9 10; Oregon wild hay, $tt 10 per ton. Butter Funcy creamery., 4550o; seconds, 40c; i'.siy, B540o store, 22)25o. - ..W. Cheese Oregon full cream, 1 1 12c; Young America, 12jo; new oheese, 10c per pound. Poultry Chickens, mixed, $8(33.50 per dozen; hens, $4 00; springs, $1.50 2.50; geese, $5.00 6 00 for old. $4.505 for young; ducks, $4.00 5.00 per dozen; turkeys, live, 10 12,'c per pound. Potatoes 45 50c per sack. Onions California red, $1.25 per sack; silver skins, $1 25 1 40. Hops 512c; 1896 crop, 46c. Wool Valley, 10 12c per pound; Eastern Oregon, b 2c; mohair, 25c per pound. Mutton Gross, best sheep, wethers and ewes, 3)c; dressed mutton. 7c; spring lambs, 7Jc per lb. Hogs Gross, choice heavy, $4.75; light and feeders. $8.004.00; dressed, $5. 50 6. 50 per 100 pounds. Beef Gross, top steers, 3.50$3.75; cows, $2. 50 3. 00; dressed beef, 56'c per pound. Veal Large, 65)c; small, 7c per pound. Seattle Markets.. Vegetables Potatoes $12 14 per ton. Beets, per sack, $1; turnips, 75c; carrots, $1; radishes, 12c; new Cali fornia onions, $1.00; cabbage, l2c. Fruits California lemons, $6.50 7.00; choice, $3.50; seeding oranges, $2.50 case; California navels, fancy, $33.25; choice, $2.502.75; ban anas, shipping, $2.252.75 per bunch; peacnes, Yakimas, 75 90c; Wenat chees, small, 60 65c. Butter Fancy native creamery, brick, 25c; ranch, 1520c; dairy, 16 20c; Iowa, fancy creamery, 25c. Cheese Native Washington, 1 1 12 i 12c; Eastern cheese, 1 1 1 2c. Meats Choice dressed beef steers, prime, 7c; cows, prime, 6o; mut ton, 7c; pork, 77o; veal, 58c. Hams Large, lOc; small, 11c; breakfast bacon, 11. Poultry Chickens, live, per pound, 14c; dressed, 16c; spring chickens, $3.504.00. Fresh Fish Halibut, 34o; steel heads, 45c; salmon trout, 9 10c; Bounders and sole, 34o; herring, 4c; torn cod, 4c. Wheat Feed wheat, $2021. Corn Whole, $24; cracked, $24; feed meal, $23.50. Barley Rolled or ground, per ton, $24; whole, $22. Feed Chopped feed, $1721 per ton; middlings, per ton, $17; oil cake meal, per ton, $35. Flour Patent, $3.80, bbl; straights, $3.60; California brands, $4.00; buck wheat flour, $4.00; graham, per bbl, $3.70; whole wheat flour, $3.75; rye flour, $4.50. Millstuffs Bran, per ton, $14; shorts, per ton, $16. Hay Puget Sound mixed, $9 10; choice Eastern Washington timothy, $18. Eggs Paying 1920, selling 21o. San Francisco Market. Wool Spring Nevada, 10 14c per dound; Oregon, Eastern, 10 12c; Val ley, 1517e; Northern, 1415c. Millstuffs Middlings, $1820.00; bran, $15.50 16.00 per ton. Onions New. 70 80c per sack. Butter Fancy creamery, 24 25c; do seconds, 2324c; fancy dairy, 21 22c; do seconds, 19 20c per pound. Eggs Store, 1417o; fancy ranch, 2225c. Citrus Fruit Oranges, navels, $2.00 2.85; Mexican limes, $9 10; Cali fornia lemons, $2.003.00; do choice, 8.504.50; per box.