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CORVALLIS, BENTON COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1898.
NO. 33.
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Happenings Both at Horn?
and Abroad.
WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSEL
nteresting Collection of Items From
Many riacea Colled From the Press
,;- of the Current Vwk.
glass
The lockout in the window
trade at Pittsbnrg is ended.
Yellow fever has been completely
stamped out at Uuantanamo.
Charles Kugadt was hanged at IIous
ton, Tex., for the murder of his sister.
x'uiiy iu.uuu people participated in a
reception to General Shafter at Lima, O
The independent battalion of Wash
mg.on volunteers has been mustered
out.
lix-Governor Charles Sheldon, of
South Dakota, died at Dead wood of
rheumatism.
Superintendent Lukena, of the Chi-cago-Virden
Coal Company has been
released from custody on bonds.
The wiroworkers' strike at Cleve
land, O., has failed, and a general re
sumption of work will soon follow.
The Colorado supreme court has de
cided the silver Republican factional
quarrel in favor of the anti-Telleritea,
who are given the right to the title and
emblem of the party.
Battery B, Oregon volunteers, has
been mustered out of service, and its
members returned to private life with
out having the much sough t-f or chance
to battle for their country.
Agoncillo. envoy of the Filipinos,
hag reached Paris, In reply to a Span
ish statement, the American peace com
missioners have declared that the
United States refuses to assume
sovereignty over Cuba.
A Havana dispatcli says: An agree
ment between the two commissions as
to the date of evacuation again seema
probable. The American ultimatum
fixes upon January I, and this date
will be finally accepted by the Span
laiua.
ijieutenant Peary's vessel is caught
in the ice, and there is little prospect
that it will get out this year. The
present position of the steamer is much
farther north than whalers usually go.
xne vessel will return safely next
spring after the ice thaws.
A sensational story comes from Ha
vana to the effect that Captain-General
Blanco together with other prominent
c- : , i i t i , . .
,! ..n.!.-, nau iurmea a piot to set up
a repuunc in iuDa, and eventually turn
the island back to Spain. Their plana
were upset by the signing of the peace
protocol.
Rev. Chas. Heath, colored, is dead at
nis home in New York city, aged 101
years. The first notable event in his
life was in 1799, when his mother car
ried him to the funeral of George
Washington, so that he could always
say that he had attended the burial "of
the hrst president of his country.
rraiuBui jucrnniey addressed a
large body of railway emploves before
leaving Chicago.
Advsces from Porto Rico says all
high officials there have taken steps to
Decoine naturalized Americans.
lhe British ship Blenfeld burned
at the mouth of the Thames river, and
14 of those on board lost their lives.
The Spaniards at Havana are becom
ing insolent, and disregarding the
American demands. Blanco has auc
tioned off cannon which rightly be
longed to the United States.
in the annual report of the third
assistant postmaster-general a strong
recommendation is made that negotia
tions be opened looking to the reduc
tion of the international rate to 2 oenta
a half ounce or fraction thereof.
in a ternble typhoon off Formosa
hundreds of lives were lost. Among
me snips lost was the American bark
comet, lhe crew was saved. Homeward-bound
passengers say they passed
numerous abandoned vessels. The loss
of life must have been enormous.
lhe coal-mining town of Welling
ton, Vancouver island, has been the
scene of several subsidences, and there
is general alarm there owing to indica
tions that another is likely to take
place. The whole town is under
mined, owing to the extensive opera
tions for coal mining.
A dispatch from Manila says: The
insurgent general, Pio Pilar, has agreed
to evacuate Paco Paco, the last suburb
of Manila held by the Filipinos Tues
day. This completes the American
conquest of the city. The last rebel
has left Cavite and Manila, the rest of
the island of Luzon being in the handa
of the insurrectionist faction.
Disastrous typhoons, sandstorms and
floods have caused fearful loss of life
and property in the Orient. In the
district watered by the river Feng, in
japan, hundreds ot villages have been
swept away and 2,000 people drowned.
Another report says 250 towns are un
der water. Thousands of refugees are
flocking to the cities. The Ishkarie
river also overflowed, drowning over
1,000 people.
Chanoine, the French
rar, has resigned.
The total registration of voters in
New York was 556,889, as against 576,
192 in 1897.
Fire broke out at pier No. 89. East
river, Brooklyn, and did damage to the
amount of $500,000.
John H. Dialogue, head of the ship
building firm of that name, is dead at
his home at Camden, N, J.
A great improvement is reported in
the health of the Spanish troops at Ha
vana during the paitt ten days.
A movement to restrict the town of
Pullman. 111., to its charter limitations
has been approved by the supreme court
of that state.
Another demonstration has been
made in Havana by city officials who
have not received .heir salaries for
many months past.
The steamer Reina de Los Angeles
has returned to Santiago after carrying
the Garcia and Cespedes factions to
Santa Cruz del Sur to attend the Cuban
assembly.
American exports are increasing
more rapidly than those of-any other
countiy. In 1870 we had 7 per cent
of the world's commerce; now we have
13 per cent.
Naval Constructor Richmond P. Hob
son has arrived home again. He be
lieves the sunken Spanish warship Viz
caya can be saved, but it would cost
$1, 000,000 to raise her.
Emperor William has designated a
large fountain which he proposes to
erect in Constantinope as a gift to com
memorate his visit and that of Empiess
Victoria to the sultan's capital.
The steamship Victoria brings news
to Tacoma that two more battles have
been fought in Formosa between Japan
ese troops and the native savages, who
seem bent on exterminating all the
Japanese on the island.
Overwhelmed by Tide Ripd
in Turnag-ain Arm.
NINE MEN WERE DROWNED
Two Searching: Parties Have Been Sent
Out to Find the Missing Men I in
possible to Swim Ashore.
Aguinaldo is desirous of going to
Paris for the purpose of appearing be
fore the peace commissioners, savs a
Manila dispatch, but he is prevented
from so doing by the jealousies existing
between the insurgent leaders.
The principal fact brought out by the
newest British blue book is that no
offer to negotiate on the matter of pos
session of Fashoda was ever made. The
French papers now seem hopeful of a
peaceful solution of the dispute.
The oanal route survey has been
completed and there is an exodus of
civil engineers from Nicaragua. Louis
Wickman, who has just arrived at New
York from Greytown. thinks Zelaya's
opinion as to the time of the expiration
of the Maritime Canal Company's con
cession is faulty.
Time to the Yukon will be short
ened as the result of the discovery of a
new channel for vessels. Steamers of
moderate draught may enter the mouth
of the river and ascend four or five
hundred miles before trans-shipping.
Expansion of territory under tho new
survey is important.
The last detachment of Spanish
troops have sailed from Porto Rico and
evacuation is complete.
The Utah troop of cavalry, which has
been doing guard duty in the Yosemite,
has been ordered to the Presidio.
Major-General Weslev Merritt. IT.
S. A., was married privately in London
to Miss Laura Williams, of Chicago.
News has been received in Washing
ton of the launching at Havre of the
cruiser Rio de la Plata, which is to be
presented to Spain by the Spanish resi
dents of Argentina.
j-iiB juim irunic association has re
ceived a death-blow by the United
states supreme court, which has iust
decided that its existence is unlawful
and the anti-trust law is being violated.
A Madrid dispatch to the New York
World says that leading men at Madrid
cuncuuo mat America will not assume
the Cuban debt, that the Philippines
will probably be lost and that the
American commissioners' demands in
all matters will be acceded to.
Secretary Long has taken the initia
tive steps to make San Juan de Porto
.Kico the first naval station in the West
Indian waters. Congress will be asked
to appropriate money enough to make
it one of the best equipped naval sta
tions the United States has.
Serious trouble is brewing among the
Comanche, Kiowa and A cache Indiana
or 30 years, since the Medicine Lodee
treaty, the government has fed these
Indians, but that treaty-expired Jnlv 1.
They have commenced killingcattle be
longing to Texas cattlemen, and a
crisis is near.
The California superior court has
decided that Mrs. Botkin, accused of
the murder of Mrs. John' P. Dunning
and sister, ot Uover, Del., is not a fugi
tive from justice of Delaware. Mrs.
Botkin has been remanded in custodv
of the chiet of police of San Francisco,
and the date of her trial will be set
later.
The president has approved the
recommendation of General Wade, at
Havana, that the Spaniards be allowed
until December 1 to evacuate Cuba;
meantime, however. United States
troops now in Cuba and others to be
dispatched will take possession of the
territory as fast as the Spaniards vacate
it, probably leaving Havana last.
Minor Mens Items.
The Kentucky court of appeals holds
the separate coach law valid.
Commodore W. P. McCann says Gen
eral Blanco is the man who ordered the
Maine blown up.
T. P. Gore, a blind man, has been
nominated for congress by the Populists
of a Texas district.
Just at present two women Queen
Victoria and the empress of China
rule over one-half the world's popula
tion. Two prominent members of tne Mis
souri legislature are A. T. Sober, of
Carthage, and A. L. Booze, of Marys
ville. Ignacio, the aged chief of the Utea,
has been paying his second visit to
Denver. When he was there before only
one white man lived there.
A San Francisco character is Captain
Goddard E. D. Diamond, who claims
tfl Kn 100 -d.l wl .u.ta 1. 1 n !jtnn
" JWOIO VIU H1IU gcto UIO UT
as a book agent.
D&Ffi Richardson, the divorced child
wife of General Cassius Mareellus Clay,
orocK, 24 years old.
Rear Admiral Phelps is the only sur
viving member of the first graduating
class from the naval academy. There
were 47 members in the class.
The grand camp, United Confederate
Veterans of Virginia, has placed itself
on record as claiming the right to se
cede from the uniotwt will.
Queen Liliuokalani will leave Hono
lulu for Washington about the middle
of November, it is said, to present her
claims against congress for remunera
tion for tho loss of her throne.
Miss E. Bonomi, who has received
the M. D. degftto from the University
of Genoa, is said to be the first woman
to secure a degree from any Italian uni
versity. The voyage of the Oregon and Iowa
from New York to Manila by way of
the straits of Magellan will be the
longest continuous voyage ever made by
any warship.
John D. Rockefeller has let the con
tract for the largest monolith ever
quarried in the United States. It will
mark the family lot of John D. Rocke
feller in Lakeview cemetery, Cleve
land, u. l
Sunrise, Alaska, Sept. 28. A small
sloop was wrecked in Turnagain arm
early in the morning of September 16
and nine men lost their lives by the ac
cident. The men were: Kit Carson
Payne, of Portland, Or. ; Frank L. Rob
inson, of Santa Crnz, Cal.; A. M
Adams, of Bellevue, Pa.; Louis E. Zim
mer and J. M. Bonner, of Pittsburg
Pa.; M. Walcott and his son Oliver, of
New York; Mr. Scott, of Scottsburg,
III., and Chris Johnson, of Sunrise
City, owner of the sloop.
This three-ton sloop left Peter's
Creek landing, on Kulk arm, the even
ing of the 15th, bound for Sunrise City
near the bead of Turnagain arm. She
was overloaded so that her deck was
only six inches above the water, and
some of the men objncted to making
the trip with her on that account, but
they all started finally. She left with
favoring wind and smooth water. At
about 12 o'clock the sloop passed Fire
island and steered toward the entrance
to Turnagain "arm, some 20 miles away.
This was the last that was seen of the
Johnson sloop or her passengers
Somewhere between the island arm the
tide rips overwhelmed and swamped
the overloaded boat. The dog belong
ing to the sloop swam to the south
shore and made its way to the mining
camps on Bird creek, and was brought
from there to Sunrise. The steamer
Pery brought in the small skiff belong
ing to the sloop, which was found float
ing bottom up near Tyonic. Broken
pieces of the sloops's cabin and several
small articles were found on the north
shore by Mr. Duncan, of this place.
Two searching parties have been out
from this town, where the men have'
many friends and acquaintances, but
none of the bodies have been found. It
is probable that all the men but John
son were asleep in the hold when the
sloop was swamped, and were carried
down with it. It would have been im
possible for a man to swim ashore from
the middle of the rough channel where
the disaster occurred. Several of these
men had just teturned from the Copper
and Tanana rivers, by way of the new
trail just opened by Captain Glenn's
party. They were feeling jubilant over
the discoveries they had made, and
were going back with supplies this
winter.
The entrance to Turnagain arm, at
the northeastern extremity of Cook
inlet, is known as the most perilous
water in this pare of the worluT TBS
arm is really a rocky cayon, and three
to five miles wide. With precipitous
mountains rising abruptly on each
side, it extends nearly through the
Coast range of mountains. In fact the
large glacier at the eastern end extends
over the narrow ridge of mountains
and joina that from Portage bay on
Prince William Bound. Through this
deep and rocky gorge the wind and
tide rush with terrible force. The tides
rise and fall some 50 feet and run like
a torrent over miles of mud flats and
reefs of ragged rock. A powerful
steamer can make no headway against
them, and a sailing vessel entering the
arm is entirely at their mercy, unless
the wind happens to be very favorable.
Here, when the wind is in certain di
rections, the waters pile up and a tidal
wave sweeps in like a rushing wall of
water.
Adams, Bonner, Payne, Zimmer and
Scott left for the Copper river country
last February, going over the Valdes
glacier and thence 90 miles up Copper
river. From there they followed the
Nalcheena waters of the Matamuska,
which flows into Knik arm. There
they built a double-end scow, 24 feet
long and 6 feet wide, and started for
civilization. They made the 175 miles
to Knik in just 12 hours, so swift is the
stream, and called at Stone's camp,
known as Knik City. They arrived
there the latter part of August, and
remained until they started on the voy
age that ended in their death, and the
death of the four others who had joined
them there. Robinson was a well
known baseball player in California.
The Walcotts had intended starting a
store at Sunrise City.
Several parties have made quartz and
placer locations in the mountains west
of the Matamuska river, and will send
in their supplies this winter. Many
miners from this district will try to
sled their outfits over the new trail as
far as Copper river this winter, and
many others will pack in their sun-
plies with horses next spring.
Nejjroes and One
Dead at forest.
New Orleans, La., Oct 26. The
Picayune's Forest, Miss., special says:
Eleven dead negroes and one dead
white man, and one negro and three
white men' seriously wounded, is the
result at this writing of the bloody war
being waged between the white and
black races in the Harpersville neigh
borhood, of this (Scott) county. Sev
eral of the rioters have been captured
and lodged in jail at Forest today, but
the others escaped into the a warn p.
Large crowd of white men are in close
pursuit, however, and more names are
hourly expected to be added to the
death list.
It is impossible to obtain a full list
of the killed, for the reason that some
of the negroes were shot down in the
woods and were hurriedly buried by
the whites where they fell.
Governor McLanrin went to Harpers
ville last night and appealed to the
whites not to molest the prisoners in
the custody of the sheriff. He finally
persuaded the crowd to permit the fher
iff to take the prisoners to jail. Sheriff
Stevenson had placed additional guards
at the Forest jail to prevent the lynch
ing of the r'oters now in custody. The
negtoeB who are under arrest have made
full confession.
Being
Planted in
Agitators.
Cuba by
DIRECTED AGAINST AMERICANS
Insurgent Officers Preaching; a Holy
War Against the Kew-Couiers
Garcia Also Denounced.
WHAT THE WAR COST.
Uncle Sam's Expenses Something; Over
a Million Dollar! Per Day.
Chicago, Oct. 26. A special to the
Tribune from Washington says: Uncle
nam s expenses lor tne Spanish war
sink into insignificance when compared
with the cost of the conflict between
the states. Thus far the war with
Spain has cost $167,529,941, or a frac
tion over $1,000,000 per day since the
beginning of hostilities April 21
against the enormous -sum of $3,065,
4io,jloo during me civil war, or an
average of $1,685,156 per day.
iiio largest amount paid out in a
single day during the war with Spain
was $4,110,000, July 28, or nearly
enough to construct and equip a first
class battle-ship. The next highest
days were September 19, when $3L775,-
uuu was spent, and July 19, with a to
tal of $3,770;0O0, but the daily ex
penees frequently run above the $3,-
000.000 marji. The budget for the
four months of the present fiscal year
wao $125,112, 540, while the exepndi-
tures for the whole fiscal year of 1897,
were only $83,511,713, and for this
month the average of $1,000,000 per
day was maintained.
In April the expenses for the armv
and navy were considerablv above nor
mal figures, when they reached $19,-
000,000. May showed a perceptible
increase, when $26,000,000 was spent.
une was a further increase, $29,000,-
000 passing over the tieasury counter.
and July showed the highest expend-
ture of $43,000,000. The next month
witnessed a decreases-only $31,000,000
being spent, but September reached
nearly fo3;OuO;OUO,-and for "the 2
daya of October the expenses were
about $19,000,000, or nearly $1,000,
000 per day. The total disbursements
of the government for the four months
of the present fiscal year, which in
cluded the civil list, pension payments
and interest on the public debt, was
$223,587 114. The total receipts were
only $153,754,445, showing a deficit of
$69,0000.000 for the fiscal year. The
$3,000,000 spent on the operations of
the army and navy during the war of
the lebellion includes the period of the
first three months of 1881, when active
preparations for hostilities were being
made, and the last nine months of
1865, when the expenses of the govern
ment weie unususally heavy.
Bawaiians Want a Cable.
Washington, Oct. 26. Of the sev
eral commissions adjusting the rela
tions of the United States towards its
newly acquired possessions, the Hawa
iians will be the first ready with a bill
for the consideration of congress.
This, of course, will make provisions
for the government of the island, but,
aside from this matter, there will be
another of the utmost importance. It
will provide for the construction of a
calle between the Hawaiian islands
ant' the United States. Owing to the
growing trade with this new territory
and the necessity of having quick
means of commnnication with its offi
cials there, congress will probably sub
sidize a cable.
Havana, via Key West, Fla.. Oct. 25.
Pazy Libertad, one of the daily
papers of Cienfuegos, published with
the junction of the government, prints
a mjBaifesto with over 300 signatrues, a
great many of which are Spaniards,
openly proclaiming Cuban independ
ence. About 50 Cuban patriotic clubs have
been organized in Havana under the
management, in a large number of
oases, of physicians, lawyers and pro
fessional men. Many members of some
of the clubs attended the first meeting
wearing the Cuban and Amerioan flags
crossed. The presiding officers of sev
eral of the clubs, noticing the insignia
in the buttonholes of the coats of the
members, ordered that in future only
the Cuban flag should be worn. In
many instances this order waa complied
with.
The Cuban general, Rego, haa ar
rived at Havana from Puerto Principe,
and is preaching in the Havana cafes
and the insurgents camps near the
city a holy war against the Americans.
He has interviewed many of the leaders
of the Cubans and has urged the carry
ing on of war against Americans if in
dependence is not at once granted to
Cuba.
The Cuban colonel, Torriet, has also
arrived from Havana at the east, and is
carrying on a strong campaign against
tho Americana and Calixto Garcia,
whom he professes to look upon as a
traitor to the Cubans who has been
bribed by American gold. The col
onel, in an interview with one of the
let-ding newspapers in Havana, made all
sorts of charges against Garcia and the
Americans, but the censor would notL-
allow an account of the interviow to be
LI' 1 . J r i . i ...
puuutjiieu, leanng mat it mignt give
rise to disturbances.
A seoret circular has been sent to the
presidents of all the Cuban patriotic
cpmmittees, denouncing a large num
ber of Cubans, who are looked upon aa
traitors to 'the cause of Cuban inde
pendence, and are charged with beina
attached to the Americans. Tke circu
lar recommends a vigorous ronlpat
against not only Spanish residents, but
against the Americans as well, "who
aie endeavoring to steal the Cubans'
victory."
The Spanish colonel, Cerveia, mili
tary governor of Mariano, pays daily
visits to the insurgent camps in his dis-
cg.v.,- acv;3lng the Cubans net to sur
render their arms and to make resis-
tence until the independence of the
island is declaied. Colonel Cervera
an intimate friend of General Pariado
Attitude of Philippine Insurcents Is
Menacing- Dewey and Otis Prepared.
Manila, Oct. 25. The attitude of
the insurgent troops has become very
menacing. Their supplies are growing
scarce, and they are becoming desper
ate. Their leader assured the troops,
who have had no pay for months, that
they will soon capture Manila,
The Filipino newspapers insist upon
absolute independence, and denounce
annexation to the United States or any
protectorate with equal energy.
The American authorities, naval and
military, are taking precautionary
measures, although no immediate
trouble is anticipated.
The commission of Spaniards sent
here reoently by General Rios, Spain's
chief representative in the Philippines
and governor-general of the southern
portions of the archipelago, arranged a
temporary commercial convention. Ac
cordingly inter-island traffic was re
sumed, hut it is now again interrupted,
this time by orders from General Rios.
The steamer San Nicholas, which left
Manila yesterday flying the American
flag, was compelled to return by a
Spanish gunboat, whose commander
offered as a plea for his action that the
crew consisted of Filipinos, who might
smuggle contraband articles. The San
Nicholas, after reporting her experience,
sailed again, followed by the United
States gunboat McCullooh.
The insurgent steamer Muirola en
tered the harbor flying the insurgent
flag, which was promptly hauled down
by the Americans.
Yesterday the British consul at Ma
nila convened a meeting of merchants
to discuss the commercial deadlock.
British capital to the amount of $200,
000,000 has been lying idle here for six
months. In the existing conditions,
business relations with the provinces
have been in many cases directly sus
pended. The meeting resolved to make
an urgent appeal to the British govern
ment to endeavor to hasten a settle
ment of pending issues.
of General Interest Gleaned
From the Thriving Pacific
States.
This year is a great one for the fish
ermen on the Coqnille river.
The total attendance at the Spokane
fruit fair this year was 72.250.
Steps have been taken at Salem to
contest the Wright branch asylum site
Reported by Downing, Hopkins & Co., Inc.,
Board of Trade Brokers, 7J1 to 714 Chamber ot
Commerce building, Portland, Oregon.
BRINK OF WAR.
France Preparing for It England Ready
Only Diplomacy Can Avert It.
Anarchists Follow Emperor William.
Haifa, Palestine, Oct. 26. The police
made an important arrest of a well
known anaichist here yesterday. Ex
troardinary precautions are being taken
to insure the safety of Emperor Wil
liam and Empress Augusta Victoria.
During the time that they are here
veiled women will not be allowed in
the streets, as the police fear that an
archists might assume these disguises.
To Save the Tizcaya.
Santiago de Cuoa, Oct. 25. It is re
ported from Guantanamo thatf Naval
Constructor Hobson. who left there
early last week for Jamaica, is going
to Washington to obtain an appropria
tion, if possible, of $1,000,000, for the
purpose of raising the sunken Spanish
cruiser viscaya. The plans for raia-
ng the Cristobal Colon have been per
fected, and the work is progressing in
accordance with the instructions of
Hobson, who expects to return home
within a month.
Four New Records.
Norwood, Mass., Oct. 26. Four new
American bicycle road records were
made today over a measured mile by
Frank Ourish, of Dorchester, Mass.
The first was the paced mile, flying
start, which was covered in 1:41 1-5,
the previous record being 1:45, made
by V. H. Dodge, of Lowell. Ourish
next' made the mile paced, standing
start, in 1:45 3-5, the old record being
held by Dodge in l;53. The third re
oord was the one-mile unpaced, stand
ing start, which was made in 2:11 1-6,
the previous record being 2:16 4-5, by
C. A. Foster of Terre Haute, Ind.
With the aid of F. Wold, Ourish broke
the tarBein mile paced, standing start,
in 1:541-5, the old record being 1:55 1-5,
made by Hulman and Ferguson,
also of Terre Haute.
To Lodge Her Troops In Schoolhsuses.
Paris, Oct. 26. The municipal au
t hoi i ties of Toulon have been notified
that that plaoe will be the center of im
potant naval and military preparations,
and have been instructed to arrange for
the immediate reception of four battal
ions of infantry, 1,500 marines and 600
artillerymen. The municipal council
baa decided to close the schoolhouses,
and they will be used to lodge the
troops in.
The naval authorities have been or
dered to expedite the preparations for
the outfitting of the new squadron.
Controller Treadwell, of the treasury
department, haa decided that postoffice
inspectors are entitled to a per diem of
$4 for expenses only when on duty out
side of offices.
Two Trespassers Killed.
Leadville. Colo., Oct. 26. While
walking on the tracks of the D. & R.
G. railroad, on their way from church,
Mrs. Cornelius Shea and daughter,
Margaret, were struck by a passenger
train and almost instantly killed.
Rich Treasure Ship.
Sydney, N. S. W., Oct. 26. The
British steamer Moanoa, which sailed
from here for San Francisco yesterday,
nad on board 2,000,000 sovereigns in
gold.
Plague Panic In Vienna.
Vienna, Oct 26. The death of Bar
isoh, the employe in the bacteriological
department of Professor Nethnagel's
establishment, who contracted the bu
bonic plague while assisting in culti
vating the plague bacilli for purposes
of scientific investigation, has almost
created a plague panic in Vienna. Bar
isch's two nurses have devloped alarm
ing symptoms. They have been iso
lated. Paris, Oct. 36. The building strike
is ended and the troops have been with
president of the evacuation commission
During the last two weeks, several
hundred Remington carbines and large
quantities of ammunition have been
sent from Havana, it is presumed, bv
some ol trie Spanish chiefs. The Span
ish residents, manufacturers, merchants
and planters are somewhat alarmed
and criticise in very serore terms th
behavior of some of the Spanish ohiefs,
who, it is alleged, are acting susnio
iously in many places, and are working
in lavor oi Uuoan Independence, advis
ing the Cubans to persist in their levo-
lutionary attitude. For this reason
many of the Spanish residents here
have written long letters to friends
Madrid in order that the home govern
ment may be acquainted with what is
happening in the island, and have re
quested that on behalf of Spain's inter
ests and the part of the Spanish resi
dents, the evacuation may be completed
as soon as possible, so as to avoid pro
longing the existing dangerous condi
tion of affairs.
Owing to the fact that Spanish offi
cers are selling commissary stores at
any price obtainable, the army supplies
are now 'a drug on the market in the
interior, making legitimate trade im
possible.
It is asserted as the Spanish rule in
Cuba draws to a olose, corruption and
robbery daily become more open and
wholesale. The committee on tranapor
tation, charged with furnishing pas-
sage tickets to Spanish officers return
ing to Spain, are charging an arbitrary
rate ol $4 each for a berth. If the vie
ym refuses to give up, he is made to
wait several steamers, the commission
claiming there is no room. Generally
the officer is glad to pay the tax in or
der to get away. This abuse is openly
spoken of, but the present situation
is a freo-for-all, grab-as grab-can
game, and every one appears eager to
make money while the Spanish sun
shines.
The official report of the burials in
the city of Havana since the first of
the present year shows that there have
ueen 10,021 interments, rne average
death rate keeps on steadily at 47 per
day.
Great discontent pievails among the
Spanish trooops because of nonpay
ments, in some cases for six months,
in others for aeven montha, and in still
others for eight months, and the sol
diers fear that they will be embarked
for Spain without receiving their pay.
A Corrupt Chief of Police.
Omaha, Oct. 24. The jury in the
inquest over the body of William
Walker, the Omaha prizefighter killed
in a fight at South Omaha by Andy
Dupont, returned a verdict today hold
ing Dupont as principal and Chief of
Police Carroll, of South Omaha, acces
sory to me killing.
The testimony shows that Carroll ac
cepted money to allow the fight to pro-oeed.
London, Oct. 26. Never since Great
Britain and France bsgan to dispute
over Egypt, nor during the most acute
stage of the Niger differences between
those countries, has the situation
looked so ominous as today. In spite
of the hope expressed in the journals
of both countries that the matter
would be amicablv arranged, it ia n
faot that the French naval and military
aumorities are making feverish prepar
ations forwor, and, though calm reigns
at the British dockyards at Portsmouth.
Chatham sn-J Derpnport, it is only the
calm of preparedness.
Significant orders have been arriving
there from the admiralty, indicating
that Great Britain and France are on
the brink of war. The admiralty has
ordered every seagoing warship to have
its crew made up to the full comple
ment, as ordered in case of mobiliza
tion. The order rjraoticallv means tha
complete filling prospectively of every
ship's company in detail. Four torpedo-boat
destroyers whioh were about
to be fitted with new water-tube boilers
have had their orders countermanded,
and will be instructed to redraw their
stores. Officers on leaves of absence
and unemployed have been notified to
hold themselves in readiness to com
mission reserves if required.
The French statesmen, however, still
cling to the hope that the Marquis of
i&aiiabury will offer some exohange.
NINE BLACKS KILLED.
One White Man Lost His Life and Three
TV ere Wounded.
Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 25. A special
to the Commercial-Appeal from Forest,
Miss., says: As the result of an at
tempt to arrest a negro near Harpers
ville, Scott county, in the eastern part
of the state, one white deputy was
killed, three wounded, and, according
to the latest report, nine negroes were
killed by the citizens of the Harpers
ville neighborhood and the sheriff's
posse combined.
The pursuit of about 50 negroes, who
had joined the original offender, with
the avowed determination to prevent
his airest and capture, and who am
bushed the party attempting the arrest,
continues, and by morning the number
of fatalities will undoubtedly have aa-
sumed large proportions. The whole
country is terribly aroused, and the
sheriff's posse has been reinforced with
men from all the neighboring towns.
Governor McLaurin has gone to the
scene, which is about 10 miles north of
Forest, the nearest railroad point.
DIED ON THE VOYAGE.
Retnrn-
Duck Hunters Drowned.
Chicago, Oct. 25. A small skiff in
which were Louis Baban, a son of a
wealthy brick manufacturer of Evans
ton, William Schaefer and another
man whose identity has not yet been
established, capsized in Lake Michigan,
about five miles off Wilmette today,
and all were drowned. The men weie
out dock hunting.
Brown Powder for Manila.
Santa Cruz, Cal., Oct. 17. Five car
loads of brown powder were today
ahipptad to Manila from the powder
worka here.
Death of Seven Sick Soldiers
ins; From Manila.
San Franci8co, Oct. 25. The United
States transport steamer Rio de Janerio
arrived here today from Manila, via
Hong Kong and Nagasaki. She has on
board 140 sick soldiers, and 24 dis
charged men. Seven men died on the
voyage. They were:
Private Eliot W. Ordway, company
H, Second Oregon; Private Henry H.
Stube, company F, First California;
Sergeant John A Glover, company A.
First Nebraska; Private Frank W.
Tucker, company C, Twenty-third in
fantry; Private Lewis D. Passmore,
company I, Fust Nebraska; Private
Henry P. Shuter, Astor battery; Prf.
vate J. Fiske, First California
All the dead were buried at sea, ex
cept Ordway, Fiske and Shuter.
Race War in Texas.
Fort Worth, Tex.. Oct. 24. Trouble
between whites and blacks over politics
culminated in a fight in whioh Hope
Adams, independent candidate for
sheriff and leader of the independent
movement against the White Men's
Union Association, was shot and killed.
The sheriff has wired Governor Culbert-
son that he is unable to preserve order
and wants troops sent to the scene
at once.
Three "Were Drowned.
Seattle, Wash., Oct. 26. A Post-Intelligencer
special from Sunrise City.
Alaska, confirms the report printed
this morning of the loss of a small sloop
and the drowning of three men near
Cook Inlet last September. The men
drowned were: A. M. Adams, of Belle
vue, Pa.; M. Wolcott and son, and
Oliver Wolcott of New York.
General Brooke haa been placed in
supreme command of the government
of Porto Rico, pending the completion
of a permanent plan of government for
the Island.
Lane county's potato crop is short
this year, and the farmers look for high
prices.
Winter apples are more plentiful in
Kittitas valley than ever before, and
tne quality is hrst-class.
.there is an unusual amount of sick
ness in Palouse at present, most of the
patients having typhoid fever.
lwo men who made a voyage from
Lynn canal to St. Michaels A an open
Doat nave arrived at Victoria.
The run of silverside salmon in the
Lower Columbia river continues heavy,
and tne fall pack will be unusually
large.
News has reached Victoria of the ap
pointment of C. C. Sinkler, of Nelson,
as gold commissioner for the Yukon
district, vice Fawcett, removed.
un me sceamsnip uoric, which ar
rived at San Francisco from the Orient,
was brought in opium valued at $270,-
000, on which a duty of $100,000 will
be oollected.
The value of improvements in Walla
Walla county, exclusive of cities, ac
cording to the revision of the board of
equalization, amounts to $380,324; per
sonal property, $1,875,382.
The Lincoln county (Wash.) commis
sioners have fixed the tax levy for all
purposes at 14 mills, on a valuation oi
$5,6,66,732. The levy for road pur
poses was increased from 0.82 to 1.25
mills.
The floating indebtedness against the
new town of Kent, Wash., will be paid
off January, after which the city's in
oome will be sufficient to pay all cur
rent expenses and leave a handsome
surplus.
The prune crop of Clackamas county,
Oregon, has been gathered and mar
keted with very little loss, and growers
are elated over piesent " profits and
future prospects. At Clackamas sta
tion, 82 tons were evaporated.
A cargo of 100,073 bushels of barley
waa shipped from Tacoma the week be
fore last direot to England. Tho barley
was all raised in Columbia county,
Washington, and being of prime qual
ity, netted the producers a good price.
The charter has been granted for the
building of the Goldon-Fort Steele, B.
C, railroad, and work will be sta.-fid
in early spring. The contract for the
Nelson & Bedlington railway has been
let to Larson & Foley, work to .com
mence this month.
Controller of the Currency Dawes
has decided that he has no authority to
charter a national bank in Honolulu
until congress passes laws for the gov
ernment of the islands. Consequently
Perrv S. Heath and San Francisco capi
talists will not have their application!
granted at present.
The Carbonado coal mines shipped
85,000 tons during September, beat
ing all previous records. Roslyn had
held the record with 80,000 tons. The
Carbonado mines, owned by the South
ern Pacific Railroad Company, are run
ning full time and employ 600 men,
averaging $3.29 a day wages.
The Scully Steel & Iron Company, ol
Chicago, has just closed a contract for
the delivery of 25,000 tons of steel
plates at Victoria, B. C, to be used in
the construction of five British steam
ships by one of the largest shipbuild
ing firms at that point. The value ol
the contract exceeds $100,000.
A scheme is on foot to construct a
logging road about three miles in
length from the head ol Gray's liver,
Oregon. It will be operated by A. L.
Saldren, who has in operation a simi
lar road at Clatskanie, and will tap a
district of 5,000 acres of spruce timbei
belonging to C. H. Green, of Saginaw,
Mich.
The new association does not con
template any general regulation of
coast, lumber valuea. Its aims are
simply to control the situation at San
Francisco, where the trade has been
for some time in a badly demoralized
condition. Puget Sound values, foreign
trade or other departments of the lum
ber business, are not affected.
Henry Miller, of Cathlamet. Wash.,
has-contracted to furnish the North
Pacific mills, at Portland, over 2,000,
000 feet of spruce and fir logs this sea
son. The Astorian says that this ont
will come from Eulokium, the principal
logging stream flowing into the Colum
bia, w here over 150 men were employed
at logging during the past summer.
According to the Lumberman there
ia a good field on (he coast for a small
turpentine faotory. There are two
epecies of wood rich in turpentine and
allied porducts, Douglas fir and "bull"
pine, wood alcohol, pitch and other
so-called naval produots. The vield is
by no means as large as the pitch pine
of the South, but there is certainly
room for a factory that will utilize the
stumps and refuse of pitch-bearing
trees on the coast.
Harvesting in the Palouse country
has been completed. Every threshing
machine has pulled in, and the haul
ing of grain to different shipping points
will be finished by November 1, or per
haps a little sooner. So far this season,
the total shipment of new wheat has
not exceeded 275,000 bushels, most of
this being to Spokane for milling, and
to the Sound. Since the completion of
harvesting, farmers and gialndealers
have concluded that the crop of this
year is the largest ever haryested in
the Palouse country. Although the
average yield is less than in 1897 and
several other former seasons, the aggie
gate yield has been greater.
One feature of the new fishery law
enacted oy tne Oregon legislature in
special session, is liReiy to receive con
siderable attention. It is that "the
Esona appointed to the position ol
commissioner shall hold the office
sin provided for for the period of
fpor years from the time of his appoint
ment." This wonld make the appoint
ment by Governor Lord, for the law
carries the emergencoy clause, hold
nearly through the term of Governor
Gear.
The wheat trader's success last week
depended upon the direction in which
he happened to be faced. If he looked
toward the west he made no money out
of the market. The influence of the
largest primary receipts on record kept
him off the buying side. He was lucky
if he resisted the temptation to put out
a ahort line. The operator who kept
hia eye on the seaboard was the lucky
one. He saw there the largest export
engagements ever known, about a mil
lion wheat a day. If he did not have
some money to the good at the close
Saturday night it was because he haa
no aptitude for the opportunities.
Chicago was incliend to be skeptical
of the export figures. It was not doing
much itself, but the man who was
closest to the shipping position knew
that Duluth was, quality and freights
considered, cheaper thaii this maiket.
and that the seaboard also had grain of
its own bought on cheap freights that
could be sold ahead of Chicago offer
ings. The best export authorities
agreed aa to enormous sales abroad.
Consequently there is no room for de
nial or for pretense that it is largely a
matter of exaggeration. Lohrke, whose
word is to be accepted in this matter,
in an interview yesterday, said the
business accomplished during the past
fortnight was on a scale probably never
exceeded. This authority, when asked
as to the probable permanency of the
foreign demand, in an interesting ex
planation showed how the foreigners
themselves were so uncertain of the sit
uation they were not venturing to specu
late any on the bull side.
The wheat price this year is to be a
matter of mood the mood of the farm
er the world over. If it were to be de
cided by the facta aa to supplies, the
bull, to have any success, would need
to make his purchases on the very
weak days. Every authority is agreed
that the world's harvest last season was
the fullest ever known, and with that
alone in mind the speculator might
make comparisons with the low prices
of the otlmr years of great crops.
Fortland Market.
Wheat Walla Walla, 63c; Val
ley and Bluestem, 6567c per bushel.
Flour Best grades, $3.45: graham.
$3; superfine, $2.25 per barrel.
Oats Choice white, 89 40c; choice
gray, 37 38c per bushel.
Barley Feed barley, $2122; brew
ing, $23 per ton.
Millstuffs-Bran, $15.50 per ton; mid
dlings, $21; shorts, $16; chop, $15.50
per ton.
Hay Timothy, $10 11; clover. $9
10; Oregon wild hay, $9 10 per ton.
Butter Fancy creamery, 60 55c;
seconds, 40 45c; dairy, 4045o store,
25 35c'
Cheese Oregon full cream, ll12o;
Ybui.g America, 12ac; new cheese,
iuc per pov-'
Poultry OhicKa
per dozen;
$1.253; geese, $5.006.00' for old.
?4.505 for young; ducks, $4.00
5.00 per dozen; turkeys, live, 12a
123'c per pound.
Potatoes 50 60c per sack; sweeta,
22c per pounn.
Vegetables Beets, 00c; turnips, 75c
per sack; garlic, 7o per pound; cab
bage, $1 1.25 per 100 pounds; cauli
flower, 75c per dozen; parsnips, 75c
per sack; beans, 8c per pound; celery,
70 75c per dozen; cucumbers, 60c per
ry ChicK-a mix;,;, $'2.50 3
cn; bensjou jP"! 5 JP
ft Funi;.i 4k nni! trJ e i .1
box; peas, 33c per pound.
Onions Oregon, 75c$i pereack.
flops ll16c; 1897 crop, 67c. '
Wool Valley, 10 12c per pound;
Eastern Oregon, 8 12c; mohair,
25c per pound,
Mutton Gross, best sheep, wethers
and ewes, 3c; dressed mutton. 7c;
spring lambs, 7c per lb.
Hogs Gross, choice heavy, $4.75;
light and feeders, $3.004.00; dressed,
$5. 50 6. 50 per 100 pounds.
Beef Gross, top steers, 3.50$3.75;
cows, $2. 50 3. 00; dressed beef,
56c per pound.
Veal Large, 56c; small, 6
7c per pound.
Seattle Markets.
Tomatoes, 20 60c per box.
Cucumbers, 1015cpei doz.
Onions, 8590c per 100 pounds.
Potatoes, $10 12.
Beets, per sack, $1.
Turnips, per sack, 50 65c.
Carrots, per sack, 65c.
Parsnips, per sack, $1.
Beans, green, 2 3c.
Green corn, $11.25 per sack.
Cauliflower, 75o per doz.
Celery, 4050o.
Cabbage, native and California
$1.25 1.50 per 100 pounds.
Apples. 50c 65c per box.
Pears, 75c$l per box.
Prunes, 50c per box.
Peaches, 75c.
Plums, 50c.
Butter Creamery, 27c per pound;
dairy and ranch, 18 20c per pound.
Eggs, 30c.
Cheese Native, 1212c.
Poultry Old hens, 10c per pound;
spring chickens, 10c; turkeys, 16c.
Fresh meats Choice dressed boef
steers, prime, 6)7c; cows, prime,
6c; mutton, 7c; pork, 78c; veal,
6 60.
Wheat Feed wheat, $192n.
Oats Choice, per ton, $22 23.
Hay Puget Sound mixed, $9.50
10; choice Eastern Washington tim
othy, $13.
Corn Whole. $23.50; cracked, $24;
feed meal, $23.50.
Barley Rolled or ground, per ton.
$2425; whole, $22.
Flour Patent, per barrel, $3.60;
straights, $3.25: California brrnds,
$3.25; buckwheat flour, $3.75; graham,
per barrel, $3.70; whole wheat flour.
$3. 75; rye flour, $4.
Millstuffs Bran, per ton, $14;
shorts, per ton, $16.
Feed Chopped feed, $1721 per
ton; middlings, per ton, $17; oil caku
meal, per ton, $35.
San Francisco Market.
Wool Spring Nevada, 11 14c per
pound; Oregon, Eastern, 1012o; Val
ley, 1517c; Noithern, 9llc.
Millstuffs Midd lin?s, $1 7 2 1. 00;
bran, $15.00 16.00 per ton.
Onions Yellow. 30 40c per sack.
Butter Fancy creamery, 28c;
do seconds, 2527c; fancy dairy, 21
22c; do seconds, 2024c per pound.
Eggs Store, 1822c; fancy ranch,
8034o.
Citrus Fruit Oranges, Valencia, $2
2.50; Mexican limes, $6 6.50; Cali,
fornia lemons, $2.00. 800; do choice
8. 50 4. 60; per box.