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EUGENE CITY GUARD. I. L. OAMPBKLt, rrearletor. EUGENE CITY.... . .OREQO!f NEWS OF THE WEEK Interesting Colleetloa ef Correal Events In Condenaed Form From llulh Continent. The native of New (tuinea are iuur during Australian miner. Federal ami tate autlmritlc are gain in a tungle in Kama and a olali il Clpeitcd. The corn crop in Kansas ii now Mid to be damaged 60 per oent by the pre vailing hut weather. Senator Quay ami Morgan are to go to the Huixlwicli Island to pout them selves on the country and iti poasibil itioa. The internal revenue office lias issued order to local collector to seize, tobacco prize package under the provision of the new tariff law. Over 100 tramps and harvester took possession of a freight train on the Northwestern line, near Umaha, Neb. The train was aidetracked, and the sheriff and polio) were called Ukii for assistance. After an hour' delay the trump were dislodged. The sheriff had a desperate fight in trying to jail the men, hot was successful. Tlio sur rounding country it overrun with trump. The following ia an extract from a privule letter received in Hun Fran cisoo from .Manila, l'hilippine islands: "Hero tltinit" are in a frightful mess. Hputiinh dollura have lieen iutroductil at 10 ht cent less value than Mexican, Everybody wants to soil out. Native broker are all over the place trying to ell their poasession, and And no buy er. In the sugar province, cane plant are being burned up for luck of ruin." Samuel Wolf, a Jersey City contract or, offered a dish of cream to the Ixiy who would hold his arm the longcHt time in an ioe cream freezer. A num ber of buys who were around Wolf's tore coiitcHtud for the price. Willie Lnckwissl outdid tiieni all. Although suffering great pain, he held bis arm in tlie freezer for (our minute. When lie withdrew it the arm was frozen stiff, lie was taken to the hoHpital, where It wu suid it would be necessary to am putate the aim. 2 A letter receive. I in 1'urtlund from Juneau, Alaska suys: There are 600 people now at Dyeu, waiting to get over the puns. There are several more Steumer louds How on the wuy, louded to the guard. The Indian puckers at Dyca and puck animals have all the freight they can curry to the hikes by the time winter sets in. There will be hundred camping at Iyea ami on the lukes all winter, eating the provi sion they huve taken with them. Other purties bound (or the mines by this route have to carry their own freight over the mountain. The price for packing across the mountain huve riiH-n to 35 and 87 cents per pound, ami the packers are lndeeudoiit at that. Kansas and Missouri are again being scorched by li.at. Six persona were killed In a moun tain alide a lew mile from llerlin Sat urday. A non-union coal miner was shot and killed at Scottdule, I'a., during a quarrel with striking miners The Milters of Trenton, N. J., and tlie heet iron workers id Phillipshurg, N. II., now threaten to go on a strike. The monitor Puritan broke her rud der in New York and will be laid up for a month, mid will cost about $5,000. George II. Walker, a Washington, D. C, lawyer and former correspondent, bus liccn apimintcd assistant postmua-ter-generul. Four boys were drowned at Kansas City while in swimming, four in Win nipeg and two more at Hon ton, one o( w horn waa 80 years of ago. Illuejacket from the warship York' town and Huston were stoned and lcutcn by Japanese at Kobe, Japan, and somr of them were badly used up. Andreu' north pole balloon In report ed to have been seen in several places recently, but each time away off iti course. Many huve given him up ai lost. Professor Arlon, a professional high wire er(ormer, fell from his wire, a distance of 75 feet, while riding a bi cycle ut Itidgewood Turk, N. J., and was killed. The monthly statement issued by the director of tlie mint shows that during July, INl7, the coinage executed ut the United States mints amounted to $I70,N50. A Missouri 1'ucillo train ran into a freight stHuding on the main track at Yates Center, Kan., and Engineer Joseph Clown and Fireman t'al liowao were killed. Other persons Were in jured. Captain Oeneral Weyler has par doned forty poliiicul offondci under dentil and other hard sentences, at the suggestion o( the home government, and 1,000 Cuban exiles have been granted amnesty. Assistant Secretary Howell has ren dered a decision in which heboid that calfskins should lie clashed as "hide ol cattle," snd are therefore dutiable under the new tariff, but at IS r cent ad valorem. In the engagement of Chakdura the llrilish troops suffered but slight loss, hut the native loss wus heavy. Six thousand tiiU-smcn were preparing U attack the (ort when they were at tacked by the British column, undei Colonel Muikeljohn, and completely Muted. A cloucihurst occurred near Castlt Ibvk, Colo., doing considerable dam age to property. Due hundred bridge in one district were washed away. Ivory Ijiw, a well known young f irmer, of Shelbyville, Ind., returnee to the home of his sister, Mrs. Linai Mcl'herson, after a spree and was repri- j inuudcd by ber. Law grew angry and resented the words by going to a barn and securing a whip, with which he as-1 limited his sister, wearing it out iiin ' her. The woman was frightfully in-1 jured and will die. A crowd headed by the woman' husband is hunting fur 1 ' ' . I Law. MOVED THEIR CAMP. Ths Strikers Waa the Day at Tartle an surf f Creaks. Pittsburg, Aug. 0. Out of the 9,000 striker who camped at Turtle creek last Saturday, barely 800 now remain t Camp Determination. In addition to the large number turned out of camp snd shut off from the free food distri bution yesterday, many were drafted to Plum creek, where the great struggle fur supremacy between the striker and the New York St Cleveland (la Coal Company will be curried on. At Turtle and Sandy creeks "the striker have practically won. Turtle oreek mine, known as No. 4, is closed down a tight a the striker can ever ho to close it by their present peace ful mean of agitation. It is trim that a few men an.atill at work in the pit, bat they are not putting out any coal. The same holds good at Sandy creek. Iteport from Plum creek are conflict ing. Superintendent DeAunitt claims that 2SS men are still working, while the striker say they counted but SO go ing into the pit this morning. The deputies ut Plum creek are hav ing a hard time. Many are complain ing, and number huve resigned. They are Dp from before daylight unit! long after the inn ha set. They are on a constant strain. All the mine are con nected by private telegraph and tele phone wires, ami every stranger or body of stranger moving along the highway are rorted to the nearest office by scouts, and the foremen or managers of all the mines get notice. At the iioiut uikjii which any march thus reiMirtcd seems to be directed, there Is a stir among the deputies. As these marches are of almost daily oc ourrenee day and night in all direc tion, the deputies are in a constant atute of apprehension and activity. The feeding and hslging facilities are limited, and not udequate to the de mands niado upon them, and what adds to the deputies' discomfort i the fact that nuue of them are used to hard ship. TESLA'S WIRELESS SYSTEM. Stealages Majr Ha ent Ut Any Part ol ths Olobe. New York, Aug. 6. Nicola Test announced today the completion of his latest uisixvery, the simultaneous transmission of message by means of the earth' electrical currents to as many scattered points on the surface of the globe as may lie desired." This he regards aa by far his greatest achieve ment To few intimates he gave a thrilling demonstration of theoisTutiou of his device for arresting ami subject ing to control under natural laws the natural substance in and aliout the earth. Hi latest invention or discovery is to produce such a disturbuiicu of the electricity of the earth which can be felt and noted simultuiicously at all parts of the glulm. "I am producing," said lie in tlx oourse of hi demonstration, "an elec trical disturbance o( intense magnitude, which Is continuing throughout the en tire earth. In other words, I am pro ducing a disturbance of the earth's charge of electricity which can be felt to the uttermost parts of the earth." "And the result will la-?" "That is almost incomprehensible. This electrical disturbance by means of certain simple instruments, can lie felt and appreciated at any point of the gloltu. In this way messages can be lent tho entire earth around, ami be taken up at any part of the eaith with out the aid or intervention of wires in any way at all." Mo writ lliisa With t'aiinnii. Loudon, Aug. U. The l,oiidim News publishei a letter from a Calcutta vol unteer reiterating the statement thul during the recent rioting there the artil lery fired at a mob of 6,000 mill hands who were murchlng to join the rioters, with the result that 1,600 of the natives were killed. The scoretnry of state for India wus questioned In the house of commons July 9 as to thre accuracy of the native report that 1,600 crsons were killed during the rioting, which hud just oc curred in the vicinity of Calcutta, us one of the results of the stringent meas ures taken by government ofllciuls to prevent the spread of and stamp out the bnlxinio plague. He replied that ttbout seven persons were killed and '.'0 were wounded during the riots referred to. To oniilele lludaim IMver Tunnel. New York, Aug. I). The Hudson river tunnel project to connect New York and New Jersey has been revived. Plans are now being erfeeted to re sume construction w here it was dropped live years ago. Kngineeis suv that an expenditure of 1,600,000 will com plete the work. Four million dollars had already been snt before the work waa abandoned, at which time there were 3,910 feet of completed tunnel go ing east from the shaft in Jersey City. One thousand feet of this distance ex tends east of the middle, of the Hudson river. lrealdent Will Nut Com We.t. Han Francisco, Aug. 9. Mayor Pbelan today received a dispatch from Atlorney-Uonerul McKcnna, staling that President McKinley had assured him thst the proposed trip to the i'a clllo coast had been abandoned (or this year. Cslirnrwhi W heal rir llrsall. Washington, Aug. 9. The bureau of American republics had information that merchants of Uio Janeiro have chartered two vessel in San Francisco to take cargoes of California wheat to Mo. This is the tlrst time that such a thing hits occurred and is attributed to the short crop in the Argentine repub lic and Paraguay. The common house sparrow the rate of U'J miles an hour. tlie at Heavy Halnalurm Ntrlke 4 ulura.li. Denver, Aug. t). Heavy rains have rsusxd many thousands of dollars worth of damage in and uImuiI the city. Several bridge Boios Cherry creek have been washed awav. Patrick Murray, a laborer, was throw u into the ervck bv the caving id a bunk and was drow ned. Au unknown man who attempted to ford the creek oil horseback was also swept away. Our wisdom is often handicapped by our cumlersome knowledge, like a medieval knight scarcely able to iiioy in iii heavy armor. ORDERED TO THE FRONT Weyler Must Make an Effort to Crush the Rebellion. M0UE RAIDS BY INSURGENTS (a Killct Issued from Madrld-A Mora Active Campaign Must There fora Ha Inaugurated. New York, Aug. 9. A dispatch to (he Herald from Havana suys: It is rumored that (Jenerul Weyler ' de parture for MutsiiKa wu due to order lirect from Madrid, sending him to the front. Weyler made preparations to take the field some davi bko, but ac- ording to a statement made by an .nicer at the palace, he delayed his de parture in order to mature a plan to tntrup tieneral Castillo. 'The captain-general I severely crit icised for not having taken the field earlier. For three week now bands of insurgent have been swarming into Matanxas and even Havana. They liave raided small towns and made lenionHtrations before large town. They have raided landed extieditioni ind had time to organize. Yet Men sral Weyler contented himself with remaining on the defensive ami only retaliating on the insurgent by issuing Jecree that considerably aggravated the sufferings of the unfortunate recou 3entradoM. It was only w hen the insur gents boldly attacked the suburb of llnvuna that public opinion forced him to go. Public opinion with regard to Wey ler' policy is beginning to manifest itself, liusiness is at a standstill, and the merchant throw the blame upon the government. They say General Weyler's edicts practically restrict theui from doing business with the interior, rim' wholesale arrest that huve been lately inudo and the terror of the jieople jn the outskirts of the city help to well the feeling of uneasiness and (lis :ontent with the wuy the campaign is .'urried on. Insurgents recently entered Ksper nia, a railroad town of 8,000 persons. There they met with some resistance, tud there was considerable lighting in the streets. According to officiul uo jonnt the insuregnts left 20 killed when they finally retired. the com mander of the town was seriously wounded. He admits that the insur gents rubbed severul stores. Iiolondron, another smull town about eight leagues from Matanxas, was also ruided and uiany stores and buildings were do ttroyed. In Havana province on Sunday last insurgents attacked Santiago de las Vegas, five leagues from tho capital. A band wu playing in tho park at the time ami most of the citizens were out promenading. A panic was threatened, but the Spanish officer kept their heads and took prompt step to repel the in surgents. There was brisk firing in the street for a time, but eventually the insurgents were forced to retreat Several on both sides were killed. The. insurgents remained close up ull night to keep a fire oil the forts. Four hundred insurgeiits under Gen eral Castillo attacked La Chora, a town three miles nearer Havana, on the same night, but kept up a liro on the forts II night. Ho also used dynamite with great effect, throwing bombs into the town ami destroying several public buildings. Three bombs were tired from dynamite guns which were landed by a recent expedition. The Spuniurds .lid not venture out of the town. The authorities determined on the following morning to bo revenged on some one, and arrested the family ol Morales llottclus, because the daughter af the house was the affianced of Cas tillo's late chief of staff. Mr. and Mrs. Morales, their daughter and two children were taken outside tho town, ordered to kneel down and were tired upon by a squad of Spanish soldiers. Morales, his wife and one child were killed at the tlrst volley. The daugh ter and her 7-ycar-old brother were wounded and left on the ground. They will die. Several families huve moved from the towu. Malms to He Schlatter. Canton O., Aug. 9. A man who says he Is the original Schlatter has been creating excitement here. T. C. Snyde, formerly u state senator, walk ing alsmt tho streets, was injured l'J years ago so he has not walked without a crutch or cane since that time. Without solicitation fiom any one Mr. Snyder visited Schlatter. He has now laid aside his crutches ami the cane. His recovery is the talk of the city and Mr. Snyder is jubilant over the uid that has been given him. Another alleged cure is that of John Kruuso Ho had a leg broken and the meiiilHr when healed would not allow him to walk without aid. After Schlatter hud treated him he wus ena bled to get up and walk. tlliU Itrowued While Wading. Sigourney, la., Aug. . Four girls were drowned in Skunk river, near Ijincaster, this evening Three were daughters of Pierce Pumble, aged 7, 11 and lit, respectively, and the other was a Miss Adams. They were caught in the current while wading. Hemedle for Hard Times. liondon, Aug. 6. The royal commis sion on agriculture has issued a rexrt suggesting various palliatives for the existing depression in agriculture, which the commission attributes main ly to the general and persistent fall of price and the foreign competition which is not likely to abate. In cases where nature intend tlia insects shall fevd on flowers at night, the flowers they select are all of a w hite color. Itohher llated Hla Feet. New York, Aug. 9. John Kennedy. an old Jersey man. who has lived the life of a hermit ever since the death of hi wife and two children, was found by hi neighlmr half naked and hound to a chair, with his feet roasted so he will lie a cripple for lift. Kennedy lives in a cabin two miles from Stew' arisville. He is BO year of age aud was believed to have plenty ol money. He say the robbers got all he had. Imagination is the stairway which the mind use when taking tlx uieatur if coiue lofty projection. CLAIMS ARE ALL TAKEN. tlondyka Thronged With Disappoint. I.olp Ilontsrs. Sun Francisco, Aug. 9. Speaking of the Clondvke ontnut of gold, the chief clerk of the mint suid: "All the gold brought to thi city from tlie Alaskan roinea will not ex ceed tMO.000, and all that h been taken out this year ami sent to the other mint of the country will not ex ceed fa.OOO.OOO. The gold from that purt of the country i generally from 700 to 800 fine and some of it rate UOO, the average being worth from f 15.65 to $17 an ounce." J. C. Hutler, of the Pullman Car Company, is in receipt ol a letter from II. P. Taylor, a financial broker of Seattle. A few day ago Taylor re ceived word from some men whom he sent to the Clonrlyke region lust spring, in which they inform him that every claim within 160 miles of Dawson City ha been taken up, and that men are rushing all over tlie country look ing for locations, lie says that star vation ami hardship stare many of them in the face. Captain Niehaum, of the Alaska Commercial Company, who ha made a careful study of the situation, fears there will be a great deal of suffering in tlie mining regions this spring. He think the mop I u going are far in ex cess of the supplies that have been for warded. A letter from Hart Hiimher, a pros pector, dated Dawson City, June 18, just received, shows that the gold seek er jiecd plenty of capital. After reach ing Dawson and paying the heavy duty on his outfit, beside 30 cents a ound for getting it over Chilkoot puss, he w ill have to pay 25 cents a pound to get his stuff from Dawson to the dig gings. The rii"h to the Cloudyko gold fields is affecting the mineowners of the mother lode in the vicinity of Konoru, Jackson an I Sutter Creek, and if it con tinues will cause the closing down of the mines in Calaveras, Amador and Tuolumne counties, or their iqierutiou w ith depleted forces. In the past week 200 men have left Amador county alone for the gold fields ill the north unci other are preparing to follow. Some of them were hired by mineowners in Alaska, but many td them went on their own resources. The other counties have also sent ex pert miners in large numbers. An Kiirlltlon from llrnnklyn. New York, Aug. 0. A hull dozen ambitious llrooklyuites are organizing un expedition to Alaska to search for some of the Clondvke gold. David P. Watsons, of Brooklyn, clerk of the Ke puhlican general committee, is making up a party, of which he will be one, and which will leave eurly in February to seek fortunes in tho gold fields of tho North. Taroma Is tioiidyka Mad. Tacoma, Wash., Aug. 9. Desire to ru.-h off to the Alaska gold fields at once, w ithout waiting till nex' spiing is increasing ull the time. Fu;ieen steamers are scheduled to sail from this port between now and the Unit of September. TO LAY THE DUST. Navel Hi lienie of a New Jeney Hallway Knglneer. New York, Aug. 9. A dispatch the Herald from May' Landing, N. J., says: The recent discovery of taief Kngineer Nicholas, of the West Jersey & Seashore railway, that crude oi. ap plied to the ground along the railway tracks would effectually lay the dust, has proven ufter thorough tests to work far Irettor than was first expected.' Itoth line of truck leading from Cam den to Atlantic City ore being thor oughly saturated for u distance of six feet on both sides of the track. The oil ia applied on much the same plan as streets are sprinkled. A water and recently an oil train with sprin kling apparatus sprinkled more than 20 miles. The work will lie completed in u few days. One sprinkling a year at a cost of S0 per mile, it is claimed, will lay the dust effectually, but two applications may have to he made. The Pennsylvania system is to be sprinkled with oil as speedily us possi ble. A Mli'hlguli Tragedy. Oram! ltupids, Mich., Aug. 9. Last Apiil A. H. Dailey, of Jennison, sent a letter to Mayor Swift, saying he wanted a wife. The letter got into the newspapers, and as a result Dailey j received 500 answers. From among ' the offers he selected Mrs Hattie M. j Newton, a Chicago widow, and they i were married. Thev quarreled and I llmilly separated. Dailey gave his wife three days to return. The time was np in mniiugni last night unit she refused to return. Dailey forced his way into her hedehamlHT und shot her with a musket. Dailey was arrested, and on his way to jail was allowed to go into a saloon to drink, lie slipped strych nine into his beer and fell over dead in a few minutes. The woman will recover. Fatal Quarrel fer Cattle. Madera. Cul., Aug. 9. In a quarrel over cattle in Crane valley, at Mo Swain ranch, yesterday, letween Patsy Keurdon aud L. A. Woodford, the lat ter was shot und instantly killed. Keurdon gave himself up. Over Seventy Millions. Washington, Aug. 9. The latest offl cial estimate of the population of the United Stute is 77,000,008. This is made by the actuary of the treasury an officer whose duty it is at fixed intervals to report on the ier captia circulation of money in the United States. He estimates that the present holdings ol money are '.). 58 for every man, woman and child in the United States It is much easier to find the man you owe than the man who owe you. Inmrgents to Ha fthot. Key West. Fla., Aug. 9. Casala and Mende. two insurgent who surren dered, w ill be shot in a few day by order of Oeneral Weyler. The insur gent under Colonel Monteaguedo have attacked and destroyed the town ol r.norueij.'tila, Santa Clara killing many of the enemy. province, rrellinlnary Acceptance of Gunboats. Washington. Aug. 9. The navy de partiuent today directed the preliminary acceptance of the gunboats Marietta aud Wheeling, built at the Union iron works, Sao Frauclsoo. IA MOST TRAGIC FATE Gold-Seekers Perish Alaskan Ice Fields. Three in OVERTAKEN BY SEVERE STORM Ona of Tbam Left a aount of Their Note Olvlng an Ar Terrible Hurler- Ings From Cold and Hunger. Seattle, Aug. 9. There now remains no doubt a to the fate of Charles A. Bluckstoue, George Hatcher and J. . Malique, the Cook' inlet miners who have been missing since April. Black tone's body has been (mind, and on hi body was a diary staling his part ner had frozen to death. When the steamer Laknie sailed from Seattle for Cook's inlet, Alaska, in March, 1K96, she curried among her passengers Blackstone, Batcher and Malique. The men attempted to cross the portage glacier on a prospecting tour and were frozen to death. It is evident Blackstone made his way down the glacier to where it pitches into Prince William sound. His body was found at the foot ol the glacier, to gether with the remains of his dog. On his body was the following memo randum: "Saturday, April 4, 1SU7. This is to certify that (ieorgo Batcher froze to death Tuesday night, J. W. Malirpie died Wednesday foremsin, C. A. Black stone hail his ears, nose and four fingers on his right hand anil two on his left hand frozen an inch back. The storm drove us on before it overtook ns within an hour of tho summit, and drove us before it, and drove everything we had over the cliff, except our blankets and moose hide, which we all craw led un der. The temjMiruture is suposcd to have been -10 degrees below zero. Fri day I started for salt water. I don't know how I got there with tho out lit Saturday afternoon. I gathered up everything und have enough grub for ten days providing the bad weather don't set in. Sport was blown over the cliff I think I hear him howl every once in a while." It would appear that Blackstone went over the cliff with the intention of finding his dog. From his diary it seems that he found his dog, and finally in order to prevent starving to death he wus forced to kill and cat the animal, but it was of no avail; no relief came and ho starved or froze to death. On May 27. juut two months after the men left Sunrise City, the body ol Bluckstoue was found by Oeorge Hall, a prospector from Seattle, and the re mains were buried. Bluckstoue wus.ltl years old, was a native of Oregon and hail lived in Portland, Centralia, Wash., and Seattle. Batcher was a native of Montana, I was 38 years of age, und for many yeurs j lolloweil mining. Malique was a native of Indiana, was 88 years of age, was a graduate of Hamilton college, Mo., and was a prac tical miner. For many years he hud as a partner Mr. Hall, the hero of this story. FATAL CHICAGO FIRE. Fle Firemen Were Killed and Fifty Wounded. Chicago, Aug. 9. Five lives were lost in an explosion this evening dur ing a fire in the Northwestern grain elevator, at Cook and West Water streets. Four of the dead are firemen: the body of another fireman is thought to be buried in the ruins. From tlie force with which the explosion swept the sjsit on which they were standing, they must have been instantly killed. Either the bursting of a boiler or the explosion o( mill dirt caused the havoc. The four firemen, who were killed by the falling wails of the elevator arc: Jacob J. Schnur, Joseph Striknian, John J. Coogan und Jacob S. Strumer. An unidentified man was blown into the river, but the body was not recov ered. Besides these dozens of firemen and passers by were more or less cut and bruised by glass and flying dchiis. In 'ill 51 firemen were injured. A SLUMP IN SILVER. The I'rlre Declined One and One-Quarter Cents at New York. New York, Aug. 9. Silver bullion experienced today the most violent break of the season's decline. In Lon don, the price dropped '...d per ounce from yesterday's price, selling at 2534d per ounce, as against 27 Via month turn the few ork price fell to 55 3 ' R or,"ak 1 14 an ounce from yes- "' aim no within a month. At this price the bullion value of the sil a trifle more than 4:1 ver dollar is cents. London dispatches ascribed today's great weakness in silver to liquidation of New York holders of the bullion. Such a decline us today's has not been witnessed since June,"lS93. The India mints were closed to free silver coinage June 20 of that veur. On the news, bullion fell in London from 87ld per ounce to a price below U0,l but it rallied sharply later. A huge cypress tree in Tule, in tht state of Oxaca, Mexico, is 154 feet in circumference. Flour on the ItUe. Chicago, Aug. 9. Flour is rising ir price, and has reached $3 a barrel. Lai April it cost It. 10, the low price of the year. The advance has been stea.U since, and some of those in the tradi nun ii win continue until price prevail. wai-timt St. Petersburg, Aug. 9.Word ha been received that during the recent Hoods 3S tiersons were drowned bv the collapse of a bridge at Kertle, province ot Lsthouia. BatlleehlB Bent to Foreign Dork. Washington, Aug. 9. -The battleship Indiana sailed from Newport today for Halifax, where .he will be docked, cleans,! and painted. She is the firs WW. A"'. t. foreign form , ' i. i.. x I , . lliKKa facilities, l,ut U l. probable she must be followed by her ...ter ihips. the Massachusetts ,nd le. than . year. ,n, there i. o other SEVEN WIVES CLAIM HIM. Polygainou Bookkeeper eego Jail. la a (hi fi,i,..n. Aun. 9. A warrant clmrg ing bigamy has been served on David Ellsworth Bute in hi cell at the police nation. It wi sworn out by James L. xi.nhT. who aaid he was the futhcr ,,i Mr. Bates No. 8. The police say m. n,.tna married ut least seven women all'of whom ore living, and only one of them divorced. This makes tne lean and sallow-faced little bookkceiicr mil Vltltll 1st extraordinary. The fiillowinit women have so fur filed with the police their claim to Bates us husband: Mrs. Bates, formerly Miss Julia Mc Curthy, married in Chicago three year ,..,.i,i7j.d bv the prisoner lis his true wife, und dwelling at 840 West Kivir.tlrxt street. xir. Kate, formerly Mis Nettie Svvuim, married February 20, 1HU7, in and residing at U403 Bishop Bt,el't- .... . t ir Hate, formerly Miss Anna fc. Herbert. Pluillttcll. Mich.. U sister of his brother' wife, married Scpteiiilx-r ii IHHil. and now in Michigan. Hates, formerly Miss Nellie Howard, of Kalamazoo, Mich., married in 1KS0, and divorced two years later. Mrs. Bates, formerly Mi Mil Cader wood, of (lalcnu, III., who dwelt at 6 101 IWtiorii street, where she gave birth u iialir. Her home is not known to the police. Mrs. Biites, whoso identity is a my stery, hut kn pwii to huve dwelt at Forty-third and Wallace streets, where a child was born. A Wisconsin sheriff says Bates is really Austin ). Croven, who is under indictment at Wuiipauca, Wis., for the abduction of pretty 15-year-old Olive Voshurg sonic months ugn. Her photo graph was found in his coat. It is sug gested by the police that this girl imiy have been his wife. A PECULIAR COMPLICATION. Two ComiiilMloiier Appointed for the St. Mlclmels Otlli-r. Washington, Aug. 9. A peculiar complication bus grown out of the fill ing of the posts of United States com missioners for the district of Alaska, and two meir" now hold commissions for the same office at St. Michaels. The last sundry civil bill created four cominissionerships for Alaska, to bo located ut Circle City, Dyeu, Ung:i und St. Michaels. There were already four commissioner there, with office at Sitka, Juneau, Wrungel, Kodiuk and Unulasku. William J. Jones, a lawyer of Port Townscnd, was upiHiintoil to the St. Michael commissionership. The de partment heard he had withdrawn, und then chose L. B. Shepard, of Nebraska, for the place. .Meantime, Jones' bond and oath of office were received, al though ho was siipHised to have with drawn, but the second apnintee's 10 nmission had then been forwarded. Both men hold commissions and the department is at sea us to how to straighten out tho tangle. THE SWAUK DISTRICT. O. II. Ileiitnn Keaehes Seattle With aU.OOO In (iolil Nuggets. Seattle, Aug. 9. (4. B. Henton ar rived in this city tonight with over $1,000 worth of gold niiggests, the re mit of ten days' work on Williams creek placer claim on the Swank di trict, Kittitas county. One nugget was worth f.'UO, another tl'.'O; others 30 and (iiO and down to very small pieces. He has been working the claims since January, and since that time has taken out "i.OOO. The Swuuk placers are old and well known, but have been worked only in a crude way. One man who owns a claim there has been working it quietly for six years, during which time he has made 'about $50,000. Mr. Hen ton sunk a shaft 10:) feet to bedronk before he made his find. He says tlie t'londyke has no attractions for him. Fishing Srasiin to ( lose. Astoria, Or., Aug. 0. The fishing season closes Tuesday. It is utterly impossible as yet to make an estimat of the pack, but it will probably bo in the neighborhood of 500,000 cases. It is known that the fishermen's ui.'on cannery packed 30,000 cases. Of the other packers, some have made the usual packs, while others have fallen below last year's output. The tislicr u on the upper river have done com paratively nothing, the catches being very light. An up-river fisherman sus the men have barely made expense's. On the lower river the men have done better, and all cleaned up good wages. The high men on the lower river have 19 tons to the.r credit, valued at about $1,500. The seiners have made light catches, but tho traps have donu very well. Fish arc plentiful in the river at present. I nniiila Knrurren I.nlior l aw. Toronto, Ontario, Aug. 9. Canada has begun to take means to enforce the alien labor law against Americans. Commissioner McCreary is heie on business in connection with work on the Crow's Nest Pass railway through the Kin ky mountains, and lie informed the Canadian Pacific railway authorities that any American laUireis engaged for that work would be deported to-their own country again. McCreary has in mictions from the Canadian govern ment to strictly enforce the new law. Trouble on Turko-lr.l;u," Frontier. London, Aug. 9. A dispatch to the Daily News from Takriz, Ninth Persia, capital ot the province of Azerbaijani' ays that serious trouble has broken out on the Turko-Persian frontier, and that both government have dispatched n.ifjuuu guns to tlie scene of difficulty. the There ,s nothing that helps a man in his conduct through life more than the knowledge of his own characteristic Weakness. Demand for l aborer. F.lceed. Su,,,,!,. Tacoma. Aug. 9.-The immense crop now i being harvested, the great activity in the lumber and shingle mills, alw the exodns of men to the Clondvke makes the number of idle men in Wash! mgton, and especially in the Ptiiret eoun.l iiirtrK.,, have nrently Wn advanced, while the -"....m nir latx.rer exceeds the ply. 60 p. w get out of temper and Why we were ever born; tl.en Into good tenrner and wonder e to die. wonder ! I W ire! ; whv we 1 NORTHWESTBRHifl Evidence of Steady G and Enterprise. ITEMS OF GENERAL l-rem All the Cll M tha Thrt.lag g)tUr Oregoa. Ute, ' A largo cougar, iiielrin from tip to tip, was killej lust week ner.. The Oregon Press Aasnei., meet in Baker City 0 "1 and 18. Utl0,'lt,, V.uite a number of ths rB diuu ure in the OranJ Ifun,..! ".H Union oountydiggin-U.. Just outside of tho town of in. ""'J ' 20 Her f w tthif?! harvested, and the yield waiSJ k.71 to the uore. The salary of the princin., Itoseburg school bus !,. 1 $70, and the under-t,,.,.!. . V The janitor' salary u. .... I" $18fro.n$:!0. -"., Last week a piece of ,ri( ,- , 70 feet long and 40 inche. . ., wus cntatSuldun's rtnfr l lutskanie, for the Astoria p,.V V Itiver railroad. At the At tho custom house in A,t,U ou tlay last week $1,200 d.ityon-i? paid under the new tariff, 0r:W" than would have been riiii,.i . , the old law. Thirty-six bounty warrnni. rels and gopher sculsi were ii,uei b trion county lust week. Ti- .. for which the wurrants 1.-? amounted in the uggregutt tofjiii Mr. Mercy Simons, of fi.ljriii- aid to be the oldest s-rmn j jj county, and jK-rliups in the IUe f. is 105 year old. Mrs. Fili. U uujeura uiu, is me 0lUt resident u Albuny. llie Columbia river annul enco of the Methodist Kpiscoul ciw4 in uo neni 111 l enuietiin tluring; tbt week commencing August !5. TU-. fcrence bus alsiut H5 niiniiten iti more thun 90 charges. It it rirertsj mui iou visitors will lie Bishop r oss will preside. A dispatch was received in RiU City from Weiser, Idaho, aiinoancini the arrival of a smelter ami tint u same would Ik immediately forwardel to the Seven Devils. Thia ii the t move of importance toward opening thi vast copiier Ml. One cjrliaJJ sawmill machinery wus reitirnl it tit lame time. The smelter ia said to ta of 75 ton capacity, und one u ! matte will equal four tons of on. ii the Peacock ore average! 20 per mt coptH-r, tho lessees of the mine nptf to reap a rich harvest. Svvenl am trus are being put np (or the purpura! working some of the rich gold W, which abound in the same district Wanhlngton. Aostin lias a new (Inuring mill The State Bar Association wilt huU it next annual meeting in Spnkaiic. More than $1,000 was paid thcfll- nettcrs in Dluiue for one niglit'i catck The annual reHirt of the auditor! Adams county shows that the comtj only owe $5,000. John W. Troy, the alleged defaaltiaf auditor of Clallam county, hit brat taken back to Port Angeles. It u prod able that his case will he settled oat of court. The telephone line to OoUeoUla will soon be completed. Tho poletw all set, and the wire in place atf Winiins. The line will cruse twerim at Winuns' place, being etretolied be tween their big stationary tishsbrrli It is reported that the General t trio Company, of Portland, lue hJ Burvcy of the Klickitat falls ms'lete ceutly for the purpose ol liiniishim electricity for The Dalles anJ (Win dale und to build un electric line froai Lylu to Uoldendale. So many men are leaving fk' county that there is a (ear of crippling tho shinglu industry in this county, n tho manufacturers say they wn'l p enough men to keep the niille iiKM tion. Even the farmers cuiueto MoodI Vernon daily looking for helptowori in tho hay fields. The Walla Walla Statesman ! that when the petition of theComa ciaf Club of that place to the partment to have two troops of cav17 sent to Walla to replace those nt Fort Yellowstone was referred totM commanding officer of the deWrtswi of the Columbia, that official favorable report upon the petition. Mrs. Espey and lu-r daughter, Clirv of Kockfoid, SiH.kane oiiunty, walked all the way from '""T" New York city, returned a te. ago to their home. Hoth nilW' daughter report having 1,11,1 ' time, and declare that their liwli""" never better, although the lung J"0"' reduced them in flesh. Their'1 making tho trip was for the pwp of making enough money W mortgage from their farm. Tin". , iu demand nt tho various niusciinia other places, where salaries re them us curiosities. .. The receiver of the bank utJ Ji has received permission to ecll t ' estate and other assets of the tio"- . Lneret The retmrt of tnc '" .,u rUl. a ...I Hul.uri.ia recent!. V nil., iinin l.j .1 ., . .. . .....ut hue d snows null tne Km" , .iarin tributed in Washington ,lHle " ,u .1... a... 1 ii-n laritv" HIM -- black buss. 450 yellow p pen" . -arp. 7 .1. -ml ,...,!.. I.. 11.. I,., Jll.-. it-mil, III muni., -.." - rtrv 1,475 brook tnut. 400 yn'" 270 large-mouthed black ha1" 940,000 whitcfish fry. ifl The Bemis shingle mill, m ' county, which hasleen closed repair, will start np (.''" m next week. -net Judge Williamson, of lh "t court of Pierce county, has re ' leoision in the mandamus pn brought bv N. K. Swint'nm' - , Sheriff A. U. Mills, to test in '"' . sjer itv of the new mortgage law p . 1. rtl the last legislature, , ami ,,-,d The opinion 1 i,i.-n into effect June 9. j ' the case very thoroughly. JU v'"" . ""J '" t,'t " .! . Trior to rnntiart entered into t ' enactment of tho lw.