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I v I I i I I 1 ' I ora a- a. ws KhHhLV Eugene City Guard. I. I OAHniLL, rraarUtar. KUUKNK CITY OtKOON EVENTS OF THE DAT All Ifitrrnltlng 4'ollfrtlmi tit I - Fran til Two M i i 1 Ia! In n i. l . i t .. n, Cuba ii inffeiing Irom long con -timiS'l drought. Tli Naihville will nat be rit te Venezuela till needed. Chins tlx proiMUd agaiuit Oeneral Otit' exclusion order, Japan ia lifting uiged tn icur rail Way UOnOfJlloni from China. James M. If IBM, a MM fainooi showman, ia deed iu Now York. Tiio battloahip Kentucky will hate hoi first run annul tha 1st of October, Th Indian hopplokiti In Pnyallup valley, Washington, arit auu ilaoi:ing. Almost the cut ire bnitiicai acntlon l Farnlnin, N. Y., wai wiped out by Are. Tim aovereign grand lodge ol Odd ftllowl met In Detroit, Mich., in an mi ll session. Tlia atiuiinnr Alpha ha anivod fioin Alaska witli WO paMMgan and half a ton ot gold. Tim American aliip Ocoign fiction wai burned at Looch.si, China. No loaa of I. If Limited from the disaitor. .Major Jonoa, who luia btflfl quarto, master at Manila, bai returned, lla tiiinka bo.uoo moil will bo needed ii tlio inlanda for 10 yitara. lion. Daniel Krinciiltoiit, rongreii MM '"ini tha aiitii congressional die tlbt of Pennsylvania, Ii dMtl He wa acrivng hia ailth term. Officials aay that Admiral BaupMM will not be impended hy Admiral How, son and that till newspapcii are making a muiintain out of Boll hill. chief of Engineer! Willaou will iub- Init to oongress n cnmpiehounive scheme foi the defame ol l'ort'i Itico. The Hpauiab worka will he utilized in part A boat containing tho captain and II men from the French ateamiir Dtiura la Indi. ved to have been loat neur the i lu ii-1 of Klhu iu tho Mediterranean tea. Thirty trnnaporti are icheiluled to aail foi the l'hiliipinea beloie Novum bra I, and It ii predicted that the sol dier! of the new lelgBaOntl will oat Chrialmai dinner ut Maiiilu. The time haa DOl been lltindod and ihoep mint he off the Kainier reserve by the - th of th a month. Hlnckniun av they will move to Montana or Idaho unless favorable legialutlon ia edited. Circle City, Alnaka, now haa a sipu lation of but 100. A big yield of wheat ii reported In the Wall Willi valley. The Nevada!, Iowa, and T. .i.. . will 100,1 be on theii way home, Bii negroei were killed in a tint be tween white and mimed mliieia al Car teiville, III. Oi A. Plllkhury, the gieat Mooring mill king of MiniieKiita, la dead ut bit bona In Minneapnlii. The Dreyfua meeting held iu London waa epiritleaa nlTuir IntilMl in the iiihjccl aeemi to be lugging. The plant of the Ameiicuu FUheriae Ctiinpany, 1'romiaed Land. I. 1 , wai destroyed by fire; Iohi, f&(H),000. The Bfttlah admiralty haa prepared a war map of St. John', N. V , aa a pieiiminnry to fortllving the town. An adobe houae, llvo milea from Morn, N. M . collapsed and killed Man uel Cordova, hia wife and mix children. Tho memory .( the martyred yrcil dent, Juinea A. Omlield, waa honored In San Francisco with a paiade and eterciaea ai Hidden Unto I'nik. The Hungarian novelist, Maurii Jokili now in hia ?Mh ear, waa mar i n il at Vienna to tho Hungarian act-ii-i, Atuhellu Otoisnagv, a lrl of 18. Tom Dead haa published hia farewell to hia friends of the diet Maine ilia trlot. Me aava publlo 00 Oi ia man 'a opportunity, not a ribbon to titick In the coat. The reply of the Trunavaal ia very unsatisfactory to the Billies, and Mr. t'hamhei lain declare! tt will compel the impel ml govei iimeiit to uontldei the addition afresh. A Manila dispatch anva theoiuiiet Charleston boaiinlid tba fort at Subig hay. Little or no injuiy was done. The Moiiteiey and CoUOOrd were sent to continue the bomarduient. A Wu h , ng ton dispatch aa va the Tar tar recently delayed in the Orient, waa not overcrowded, that she had lit leaa than bil capacity, und that the tiouhl waa entnely due to gi molding. Leaders of the difteient i iilma l em ploye! orgnniaationa are dieciLiing plana with a view to establishing em ployes' grocery atoret at the division I ta of the Tatioua lines. II success (ill in thii line other dcpurttuc ula will he taken up. Kiank H Burton), a IS-ycar-old boy, has been adiuitled to the bar in Outli ne. O. T. Two dilDll7 atuilenta are working their way through Yule by doing Job printing. The nauie ol the Htm Ii (Turk ft Walkim. At the coming session ol congieia Hawaii will be represented by Wiiliatu 0, Sinltli, funnel ly attoiner general of that coutitiy. He will be appointed by l'resldeut Hule. Cupe are now being made with small theruiouietera which tell the degree of letupeiatnre of the cocoa or ootfee they hold. Secretaty of Agricultdre Wilson ia arranging for an cihatistive scieolitio investigation of the abandoneil (anna of New K.ngland, with a view to their reclamation. David Rankin, ol Talkio, Mo., who ia aaid to lie the richest faimei lu tha world, made hia begtmiii.g wtthiiouth-t-r capital than a liorae. He now owna, at tha aga of 47, aa,W acrea ol laud, Worth from oO to 1100 an acre. LATCH NEWS. Hmperor William ll on a vlilt to fcweden. A big itrike for an eight-hour day ii anticipated in Cuba. A rfctfirm-nt o( t auadian desire to i aent to South AfriiJilu theeveut of war with the Loera. ('hecka for 1.1,000,000 have len la aued by the pTtmiMllt (or the Utdl l pated OctObil lutereat. The )artnaui'Ut organization i)f the Ameriian Hide A Laathal Company was effected in New York. The Crown OOttOfl mills, of Dalton, (la., haa eaUldisheil a world'i re-ord by paying a dividend of 13 jer cent. The state grain rommlaaion of Wash ington has reaflirme-l the grades adopt ed laat year, und made them H-rnmuent. The nuvy depurtment ha-, directed that the Kugli- und Yankee he accepted ut the Portsmouth nuty urd by Ot tu ber 17. The navy department hus awarded the contract for building the Ports mouth dm k to John PitrOO, ol No York, at 11,890,000. Li-ln s of Spanish rule in Cuba aie to l,c tlisisfl of. The property ol Cu bans that wita confiscated by the Span iards will be returned. The Insurgent leader, OOBiTil de Castro, ia making much progress in Venezuela. He is following the course pursued by the revolutionists in 1S2. A passenger train collided with u freight train IS miles southeast of Kuu aaa City, l'our pBOpli were killed and four others more or less seriously in jured. News has been received from Alaska tir the effect that the front of the Taku glacier waa shuttered by a recent earth ipiakc. Thousands of bins of ice were precipitated into the sea. The muster of the Norwegian cutter Murtha, resirta thut on September U, on the north const of King Chulrea ia land, he picketl up all anchor and buoy murknd "Andrce l'olur Lzpetlition." It is pnibuble that after the first of the coming year railroad employes will have to pay (are when traveling over any but their own lines, lurliicntiul HhipM-ra will ulso be obliged to pur t liase their tickets. The steamer Kohn Muru foundered in a typhis Hi off the .lapanese const, going to the Isittom like u stone. She hud fiO lataaengars on Isiiird, the inajur itv being women and children. Twilvt of these were diovwicd and two fatally iujiiretl. Captain Dreyfus has been pardoned by the council of ministers. Colonel John Miley, lusioctor-gen eral of volunteers, ia dead ut Manila. Hawaii will endeavor to secure set tlers from northern Italy and Sweden Mark Huniin says it mold be more than disgrace for us to n il the Phillip1 pities. At a lumber ynrd fire iu ls Angeles three men, were iujiiretl, two of them fatally. Due battalion ol the Thirty-lifth will sail Iron Portland on the Bww wtthii in ilaya. Si henrer Keslner. chief igpOIMIll Ol the MOMoi Driyfoi, lb'd on the day the captain wua pardonod, A prominent 1'ilipinn has approached tieiieral McArthnr in the matter ol rtltntlng tha AntaricMi prlaonori, The einpreKM dowager of China if said to le Keriously ill ami I. ail Li Hung Chung hus been reculleil to jsiwer. President Kruger has been Informed that the will receive uo help (nun tier tunny iu the event of wur with t,ircnt Britain, Lebor unions have ordered all work III connection with the Chicago full fes tival slopped until au agreement ll reached. After a six weeks' siege Jules Guor in, the French antlBemltlo agitator, surrendered when the army area about to at tin k his fort. Mrs. Mnry Urvsiks, who hus been in a Michigan prison for IS yean has beet pardoned, she Immediately narrio the man who had her convicted. Representative Dnlzell, of Pctiiisyl vanta, says that both the senate and house will present bills in icgnrtl to currency legislutiou ut the licit session of nmgroae, 0, N. Peck, a prominent fanner liv ing near Lexftigtoii. Morrow county. Or agon, died from hemorrhage of the lungs. The neighbori thought he hai BiallpOS, became frightened and re- htaed to bury him, and two phyilolani l ar form ad the task unaided, i her 1,000 persons are dead und nil--mg ns a result of the recent ty uhooni ill the Orient, Much damage to ihipplni is reported. The appalling subsidence of th ellesslu mini ill the islatnl of Shlkoku entailed the lOM "( tlM) lives. Prom some pints of the south re-its still come in of thousands i t-ii thousands of houses destroyed, while every prefecture oouuU by bun dredi Its dead, An Intereatlng Inci dent iu the Beahl mine oataatropha was the tlnal laving of live mincis, who had been ImprUnnod iu the earth for six days b) the caviug 111 of the en laanoe, Daniel LanOnt'l prlvtti fortune is now mid to reach 10,000,000. The iiavv department has taken -t lot the opening of a naval recruiting station at llutfalo, N. Y. The qoean tegetit of Spain Inn signed a decree calling out (0,000 men ol the lso.ui class (oi military acrvlce. Alriandcr llaiideiion, of Syracuse, has acted aa pall bearer at the funeral of ITI of hit friendi dnriug the laat &i veara. H li eitutnte ' that about 100,000 acrvi of land In tho United Statei are planted with vines. At the convention in Marinette. Mlab., of the Weiteru Hay Kever As- toelaUon. w a. Rowe, ot Pes Molaee, wai elected president. The fJMBMt Spanish criiiMU Reina Meroedea nay t m the lug water pa raila at New Ymk this uit ctli in honor if Admiral Dewey'i icuirn. William Henry Ijarui, who has re- nwigned as iiaeiaiai of the BelttMore A Ohio Bailraad Ooaapaay, waa m the ai vice ol that oorporallon lor 111 yeara. Decree Was Signed by Court, cil of Ministers. CAUSED 10 EXCITEMENT IS PABU win r ... ' r Hm ImI ibreaal Oaf an PlWMlgatlaa t Hia I'ar.t.ili lu Avt.l.l llrrii.,ulrtl..ne. Paria. S. pt 21. The council of min isters derided today to pardon Oaptain Alfred Dreyfus, in principle. The par don will take effect in a few days. Dieyfus hus relinquished his aprx-al (or a rove real of the Judgment of the court martial. "In principle" is an Idiom some times used in ae mi-ofhvinl announce mentioi forthcoming actiona. it seeun to huve but slight Is-uring on the mat ter, except, s rluips. thut it employ! the fulfillment of various formalities before the pardon is actually issued, thereby qualifying the announcement of the pudou with alight teututiveiieas. It is not known yet whether tho par don Include! amnesty. There ia much remark here on the strange coincidence ol tha death oi Bekenmr Keatner, the first champion of Dreyfus, ami to whom Dreyfus will virtually owe his freedom, on the very day the cabinet decided to pardon the prisoner. The announcement that DroyflU waa to ! pardoned hHd already is-.-n dis counted by predictions, anil there waa absolutely no excitement along the boulevards when newsboys ran along at about BtlS P. M. with tin- hist till Huns containing the statement thut the cabinet hull derided to pardon Dreyfua. Everyone expected it, and the decision met w Ith no oppoaitlon, The Droits del Homme, socialist organ, anys: "Our task remains the same nfter aa Is-fore the liberation of Dreyfus, to continue the campaign against ull those who are toaponabila for the lamentable affair, ami unmnsk the forgers, truitorsund alae witneaaec, ev.-n though they may Is' covered with glittering decorations. " It ia said thut Dreyfus will ta- sent nbroud Is-fore the promulgation of his pardon, in order to avoid tleinoiistrn- ttone. Dp t B o'clock this evening the ut most calm prevailed throughout Paris. Tile decision of the Cabinet Seemed to huve peaied unnoticed. The only it mark was, "We expected it." YELLOW FEVER. Hlluallon In Cuba Una lniinunl. al Krj Weal It la W.irae. Washington, Sept. II, Surgeon General Sternberg has r lived a dis puted from Havana laying that the yellow fever outbreak is fully under control. Ill ull the hospitals of Ha vana there are but nine soldiers und 1 1 civilians siitfc ring from the disease. There have been OO UeW cases ut Ca- benaa garriaon since the nth. The sit nation at Key West La regard ed aa grave, since the first cans wai reported alsuil three weeks ago, the epidemic has been steadily grow lie until today there are almoil loo caiei New cases ure appearing ut the rule ol iobo! -10 a day, but the mortality is low. l-'ifty-four cases ami two deaths were reported for Sunday und Monthly. As Key West is hit uu tell below tho frost line, the epidemic will have to run its course. The murine hospital service has been directing its effort! to couliii ng the epidemic to the island, and has been rewarded with signal sue. ess. Only one Infected penonii known to have escaped, and he was discovered at Miami und isolated. He has since re covered, tine new case waa reported from New Orleans today. An rmtratanllii PaiilMe Pretoria, Sept. 11, The reply of the government to the latest iintisii not,, is variously commented upon, but th? Pretoria Press, printed in Kngliah anti Dutch, and other npers. profess to be lieve that n joint commission will yet be hcltl. and there Is still u pomihtlltj thut an undent tending will be reached. The Yolkstcin declares that in the even of wur, lloihiiul will sciul un ambU' lance corps to the Trausnial. The volkaraad, as a matter of urgency, today referred the new tlraft law, providing for the conflacatioa ol the property of persons found guilty of treason and lese majeste, to a ipe rial committee for conaideration ami resrt. At the reiptest of President Kruger, the chamber then went into ecret aoailon. i . . 1 1 .. i .... i Dalai in Denaai, New York, Sept. II, A Iperial to the Herald from Washington lay!! Fractional silver coina are in almost as great demand ut the trailUry as me smnll bills. The revival of business all over the iVuntiv bus abaorbed the supply of dimes, quarters ami half dol lars so rapidly that the treasury will -.ii la entirely out of coins of these delioiuinat lens By a joint resolution of congress, paaeed in i Tit, providing for the re- tleiuption of the fractional pas r cur nncy then in circulation, the mi ratify of the tn-usury wus nuthoriiecl to pur chas stiver bullion, and OOin fractional silver to la issued in redeeming the fractional .as'r. The reaiimptiou of tpatW payments brought the obi coins out again, and it was estimated that with the new coins the total amount in circulation was (f 6,000,000, Secretary Qega last year recommend. ihI to itmgnvss letgslatioii iUthorlilng the rjoinag! of additional fractional sil ver, but no action was taken Both he and Mr. Roberta, the director of the mint, will make urgent recommenda tions this year that authority be given to IncraajM the supply. CRIME OF JEALOUS MAN. Killr.1 Hia Wir, Ilia Mr..tlir anil Than laUhflf at U alia Walla. Walla Walk, ept II Cn ler the row of a bill a lew hundred yardi irorn the state penitentiary, a triple tragedy t.sjk place between 2 nd 3 .flock this afteruis.n, re-ulting in the loath of one woman an I two men. It waa one of the meet t. rn' le crimes -ver committed in this city. O. B. Byland arrived here yesterday from Pomeroy, Wash , in seurch of hi wife, who, at the Initanoi .f her DDOth it. Mrs. Kilgore. bad d rtid him. She came several weeks ago, since which time she haa Iwii living with h.-r mother and Grant Byland, a broth- r of (i it. I'.vland. The latter learned if the situation, an I iu a tit of jealousy and luitnsl he determined to kill them ill. A letter was found on his tssly addressed to Coroner I'.lalock, ending with the following word!! "I got to kiss my wife fo the last time, and now 1 am going to kill 1 1 runt Byland and Mn. Kilgore, and then I am going to kill my wife; then will kill myself, and put uu end to us all. "I rank (rustaf-h n. of I'omerov, IWM me alsmt $10. lot that to bury mo and my dajUng wife. So I will olOM May the Lord thy Hod have mercy on me. "ORES BAKER l'.YLAN'D." After writing th. lettOT, he procured i pi-tol. and went quietly to the house where his wife and brother were. (Jpon bring re fuied admittanoe, he shot ins brother through the heart, who run Ml of the honae und dnrppe.! dead. Not Boding Mrs. Kilgore, he turned m his wife, whom he cliased into the vacant lot t ack of the home. When a hort diatance behind her, he shot her in the buck Although bleeding and weakened from the wound, she urose from the ground, und a terrible strug gle ananed between hniband and wife. I or -eieral minutes they zigzuged over the lot, he ibooting ftiitl rtrlking while -he made adeaperate attempt to wrench the piltol bom him. She ugain fell, and, after slasiting her in the face, lunttlating it beyond recognition, the hnahand, lay down beside hia wife und thot himself, blowing tho top ol his dead off. The thns- bo lies lay within n radius nf 20 feet, und presented a horrible light. Their home waa ut Pomeroy, Wash., and from what is learned ol them they were fiivornhly known iu 'that locality, The coroner's inquest aril! be held tomorrow morning. REBELS DITCHED A TRAIN. Kin. I t A marl earn mi Wuuntlf.it t-'tvt. Near Aiicrlra. Manila, Sept. 2:i. A party of insur gents ditched a railroad train a mile UkJ a half south of Angeles this morn in.'. and then opened tire on the do railed cars from a humUsi thicket close to the track, killing two Americans ind WOUlding live others Lieutenant Lome mid live of his scouts, who wen Ml the train, made a vigorous defense, ind caused the enemy to flee. Six lead rebels were afterward found in the thicket from which the rebel lire Damn, tieueral Whenton. with six compan ies, proceeded from Caltilet to the re lief of the truiu, but his forced were not nee. lis I. MINDANAO Only Four Hundred Hostiles at Zamboanga. CITY PKACTK'ALLY DESERTED Oil l l.i.l lltirnf.,1. Vancouver, it. OL, Bapt si The plant OWMd by the Kraser River Oil A QttiM syndicate, situated opposite ladder's bnfldtaeti caught tire early this morning and was almost totally destroyed. II. Wymonde, manager ot the TlftlHpnBT aays the m aioadi foi', iHHt, OOVOred by insurance. Vlrllma .r lh Ureal llitrrlraaa. St. Johiil, N. K . Sept. tl ITaatoiti received tislay add Ut livea to the death roll leiulting from Friday ' hur- gaaa oirt'i t-'nt. Tillamook, tr., sept. 98. Word wai received in Tillamook this morning h it Delta, the 18-year-old daughter ol K. K. Boo veil, hud been missing from her home, ut Nehalem, since Tneeday evening. Searching parties were organ ized und this morning her body wus found at low tide in the north I'ork ol the Kehalem river, with a stone tied to 1 roM' nround the neck, Coroner Tut tle left this afternoon to hold uu In juest. Klvc rerann Parllhatt. Norfolk, Vn., Bepi 2H. St. Vin elite de Paul hospital wus destroyisl by hie ut anearly thii morning, The i.o.iy of mi aged woman, Mrs. MoGnne, ind the body of u lad have been found, three other botliea were taken from tin- ruins, but they have not been iden tified, r'iremau Itnird, who wus in ured, tlied this afternoon, The prop erty loss, it is estimated, will reatdi 1300,000 with small insurance. The InatitUtioDn was one of the best equipped of its kind 111 the south. Ktr In Chicago Itnekyardl. Chicago. Sept. 28. Fire this after iiisiii did $875,000 damage to buildings iu the stockyards district. There were 1,400 horses in the stables at the time the tiro broke out, but none of them w. re in juns 1 . The pavilion when the lire originated Wai a bug! stable, with in amphitheater where exhibitions of horoughbred stock were held. DaeMei in I'mr of - otir. Caraon, Nov., s.pt 88. The an pn nio court has randreod 11 decision in the governorship conteat. Hy the del-ion. Sadler wins the case, having 60 plurality, an Incieaae of 40 votes ovei the original count. The decision it voluminous mid covers 40 pages. I'.ach point l" argued iu full. Urcvrtia la l-'xe. Uetines sept. 22 Captain Alfnd Dreyfua at 8 o'clock this morning h it I the priaon in Which he had been con fined sin. e his return from Devil's is- 'bind, ami proceeded to Varna, when he tis.k a tram lnund for Nantes. IU departure was completely unnoticed. Ilsnkrsibbvr l.awlon Heail. Chicago, Sepi, 23. The nan who, under the name of Walter Ijiwtou, yes tcrlay Inflicted fatal injuries upon Frederick .1 KilUrt, the ngisl cashtei 01 a private Umk in ralatiue, a towu near hcii'. died today from a gnnahot wound uiilictisl hy Mr. I'Ligge, whe went to the iaaiatanoe of Pllbaci A bill haa been tntiodtieed by a ChiokaaatB lawmaker raising the prict of marriage license from 50 to 81,000. i'h. Oregon Uailroad A Navigation Company has given the government a right of way for the Nat railway U- twocn The Dallaa and Oelilo, That i to the iatlrvad company has agrvsnl m writing to allow Its track l-etween the point! mentioned to I chaugesl m- that there w ill lst ample room for the boat railwac. 0 On! of the MOM remarlable religicua InatltvUoM in the eoniitiy, the Monaa lery and College of the Holy Land. wa , dedicate! with impoaing ceremon lea br I the prominent Catholic clergy ot tun Icouiiuy at Washington. Th Mnroa ol rillplaoa r Unfrlandlj aud Ulalurbsnr.s ll.larn Thaiu Are Liable lo Ueeur. Manila. Pept. 2.-'alde reports hwn Hollo . oncer uing the result of l.eiierul Ilatea' si-oudtrip among the southern Islands indicate thut only altout -luo rells ut Zamlaiaiiga refuse to recognize Ameii.au authority. Pending the outcome iu tbeialandol Luzon the city "I Zamboanp Li i mc ticallv rleserted. The rebels ure in camp' four miles in tho country. The ...1 railiatlMMi 1. ff ntifrienilll'. .vionis ami r iiij. - and disturbances betwaan them ure liable to is cur. Join Is quiet iiii" i"' natives continue friendly. Olbkeai l ' While llotia. Washington, Sept. 22. Cardinal tiiblsms liud luilf an hour'a eonlercucw with the president today. H u u'" companiad by Father Stafford, ol this city. Further than to admit that the comersation related to the Philippine condition, Oardinal Oibboni i lined to make 11 statement regarding the con ference. A few of the Catholic clergy have la-en very much exercised by the rerortfl trf the rlesei ration of chin rh property in the Philippinei by our sol- titers, ami it is presumed this, together with other sul.iecls relating to the Catholic church iu the Philippine!, wero dist ussed. Trih...oi at Haella. Wushingtoii, Sept. 22. The wur de purtment haa received the following dispatch: Manila, Bepi a Adjutant-General, Washington: Typhoon prevail ing. Ilainfall. 4H hours, x.3 indies. Iaist 24 hours, ti ll in- lies. Deluy ship ment oi trolunteeo. Iowa probably sail tomorrow. Tcnuessees detained by storm." SHIPS DESIGNATED. Oily or iti.. .to Jaealra ami sifch win Traaapart the Tinny ttrti.. Washington. Sept. 22 The ehiptt which will curry the Thirty-fifth regi ment to klanili will be fitted out for the voyage at Portland, and all ntp pliei which are necessary will bo pur . haaad in thut city. This waa the instruction which Sec returv Itiait gave to the atljutunt-gene- ral totlay in the presence of Senator Simon. The senator arrived in Wash Ingb n iilsiut noon. At 2 o'clock he saw the secretury of war, and after ho j hud explained the situation, the deairei of the ssq.le of Portland, and the' facilities for fitting out the trulisjiorts, I the secretary gave tho order. The secretary mude only one proviso that outfitting ut Portland should oe carion no delay. Senator Simon told im there would be no occusion for de- .. as neceaaariei could be readily pro tied in Portland. WAR PREPARATIONS. Naithr RRglaag Kevtha Vraaaveal win It,. I'muhIi! Napitltiff. London, Sept. 22. Despite all out ward show of culm, Greet Britain is in practically the tame condition today as was the t'nited Metes a few weeks before the opening of the war with Spain. Beneath the crust of diplomatic reserve, the ofliciuls ure winking night ami day preparing for the signal to be gin hostilities, whether that comes or hot. l'ngliind is not going to be caught napping any more than the Transvaal. 1 While Iiord Salisbury is quietly at home in Hatfield house, Mr. Chamber-, lain is buried iu work lit the colonial office, und double forces lit the nyul arsenal und doekyurds ure straining every nerve to equip und trail! port troops to the ( lape. It may he said for certain that Great 'ri tain will do nothing to precipitate itters, and the colonial office is fa: "in ndmitting that the case is hopoleaa, lrtaritlun fruru tlreyfua. Paria, Sept. 88. The Aurore pub lilhei tlie following declaration from Captain Dreyfus: "The government of the republic hui given me my lilierty. Hut liberty i nothing to tne without honor. From today 1 shall continue to seek repara tion from a frightful judicial error of which 1 remain the victim. I wish France to know by a definite judgment that I am innocent. My heart will only bent ut rest when there remains not a single Frenchman w ho impute! to me the abominable crime perpe trated by another. "ALFRED DREYFUS." I uaa aa Mulldlna and lrula Abual I Ml, OOO. rw unt aa. The mill and raiv.ii, v.., -1 - - ..u. ut..r u-urvhouse of the Salem Hour ing Mills Company, locate.1 at tne .. .....r..t I 'omn.t-rc - i ii- were destroyed by lire at 4 u clock thia morning. The total KM ll.'.o, , a large part of which will (all on farmers who nan gram aurr.-.i at the mills There was .o.-r W... L.k.i. .j ahr stored in the build- UIUIW.B v. " ... M tugs, OBlf uls.ut 28,000 bushels of which Irelunged t.. the mill company, ii... c,r.. ..u- ,.iiaed bv adust exirlo- ion mar thecleauers on the thirl fhair of the mill, aud it spread mpiiiy. I he 111-uraiic. on the u.i:i company's huildlngi and tnaoninary, wnran an almost a total loss, 1- alsmt 8tlo. 1, while their value is placed at alsmt T.-,,noo. Only alsjut 10, 1 bOihiUl of the tons grain was in-ured, n the loss to the owner is greut. Coti-ider-tbll "I the grain not duuuiged by water, it ia thought, can 1st cleaned and sold for ulaiut half price, and the mill com pany will take immediate -topa to save all that poaribly call lie aavod. The mill, which was run as an in dependent concern by men interested in the Portland flouring mills, may inner be rebuilt, as the Portland Flour ing Mills Company own-, another mill ill Salem. The lire was ono of tho lurgest ever seen 111 Salem. OUR HEAD IS TURNED. !o tiara OeMwIa Bailihi tvhu ffelaki iirwr la OeefeatlwaiedJi Toronto, (hit . Sept. 2.1. Gold win Smith, writing in 11 local iia-r, says: "Nothing could :diow the extent to which the head of Columbia haa been turned by the war more than her ador ation of the hero Dewey. What did the hero Dewey und his eomrmlci do? They sat iu almost perfect safety und destroyed at long range a line of help-le-s tiibs, with some huudrcds of the jsir Spaniards who manned them, uud who alone had any opportunity oi ..I in.. n..M.iu... it... oeCllillll. Stl f.l.. ...k .VMM " .III a?rfectly secure did the American! fed that they adjourned t break (aat in the middle of their ssirt. There wa among them a single casualty, nnd ha. they all gone tiger hunting one ca-iial-ty at least probably would have oc curred. "For this, however, Dewey, is de clared to be the equal of the great -oilmen who conquered in the terrible days of Alsmkir, Copenhagen, Trafalgar. If he were so inclined he might probubly be elected president of the 1'uitod State!. "Canada cannot possibly take part in the celebration of Dewey's triumphs without evidence of discourtesy toward Saiu, a friendly nation, which haa done Canada no wrong. Spain, let it he remembered, though deprived of her aisessioiis in this hemisphere, ia still a Mediterranean power, decayed at present, but capable of re-torution. The llrittsh government will lmrdly thank the Canadian government for making her au implacable enemy." HOOTED OFF THE PLATFORM. l.ri aiuipann'a I'ralait ftf Agulnaldu Waa Tiro Much for Ilia Hfarcra. Kansas City, Sept. 25. A dispatch to the Journal from Wichita, Kan . says : Kx-Congressmnn Jerry Simpson was limited off the platform hero this even ing while addreeatng a local u. A. H. reunion. Mr. Simpson said: "I glory iu the spunk of Agninnldo's men. They ure limply lighting to re giiiu the bind the Catholics took from them. A local pu-r has asked: 'Who is John Brown ' soul marching with Otis or Aguinaldo?1 I ladievo John Rrowu's soul is inarching with Agui naldo." Mr. Sipmsnn said in substance that he woultl rather be with Aguinaldo than with tieueral Otis. An old sol dier iu the iiu.licnoe rose und said that tn.- sH'och w.i- drifting ttsi much into politic!, This was applauded and greeted with cries of "Throw himOUt!" anil "Kick Simpsou off the platform I" Men and women arose nnd blued, and the men kept crying, 'Tut him OUtt" Simpson appealed to the crowd to sit down. "I 11111 coming to my jK'rorn tion," he said, although he had been speaking only 15 minutes. Cries ca , "Take your peroration to Agulhuldo. " Simpson attempted to go on, but no one could hear him 10 feet tiwuy. The band struck up "The Star Spangled Banner," and Mr. Simpson left the platform. His retirement was greeted with prolonged cheers. Drajrfai Gatalag tn Amariea. London, Sept. 22. The Times pub liahea the following dli patch from Nh ples: A quantity of luggage hus ar rived here from Havre and Folkestone addressed to Mine. Dreyfus, uud rtsims have alao been taken at a local hotel. The luggage Is marked for New York, and it is lUppoeed that Drey fui is goiug to America. Cannot T.n.rr Hawaiian I.anda. Washington. Sept. 22 The presi detn has issiietl a proclamation declar ing that the local Hawaiian officials are without power to tranifar title to public lands 111 Hawaii panning hyis latiou by congress. Smynw, Asia Minor, Sept. 22. There was a disastrous earthquake this mo iling at Aidin, a town on the Men tor s miles southeast of this place. Hundred! ol peraoni were killed in the valley of Meuderei. Sniallpot al tho fl W. Ban Kra11. is.t1, Sept. 22. There are now two arell-doveloped cases of smali- l-ix and 14 sussvtod caaea in the lltaranttM hospital at the Preaidio. The caaea an- in charge of the general hospital, and the offlciala are using tiarst strenuous efforts to prevent an epidemic. The devclopesl cases are all Uiperta from the Thirty-tirst regiment. Jtitinina In ( harg. Chicauo, Sept. SO John O. Johnton, of 1'ealsj.ly, Kan., uvlay wai made the executive oftioer of the Democratic na tional committee. aMaaoaton itoiter Bapectlllea, Seattle, Sept. 25. Moved at last by the upieals of the relatives and friends of the miagnided man, so mnny of whom met denth or encountered hnrd shipe and sufferings almoat beyond hu man eu.turuuce, 1 nnu.llnn otttciuls have dispatched a relief expedition over the Edmonton trail route. The rescuers left Dawson early in September. It is a splendidly equipped laxly, lod by Conairal Kerving and Constable Hoke The voyage will probably require seven mourns, me exixstitiou lett Daweon, going down the Yukon to the mouth of PoronpUM river. Thence the voyagers go up the Porcupine to the portage of Hell and West Bat rneiN, w here they croai the mountain! to the Pally river, thence portage to the Mackenzie an.i lowu thut stream to Kort Mcl'herson. facta fnllla Out It. San Francisco, Sept. 25, The Chron icle says: Definite and reliable infor mation sent to the Chronicle from the l ast sets at rest the rumors about the sale of the Crocker holdings of South ern Pacific stock, aud cuds speculutiou aa to the purchaser. The Crocker shares, numbering 840,000, and valued approximately at 110,000,000, have been bought by a ayndloate of which 0. P. Huntington was the promoter anil is the head, and of which the leyers, ot New Wk, nre the bankera. It is also certain that the receut visit ot James -.peyer to this coast had much to dO with the Crocker deal. ' 1'. Huntington is now- virtoullr in control of the Southern Pacific, other outside holdings are also said to have Wn purchased by the same syn dicate in sufficient amounte to secure to Huntington the absolute control ot the road. Ordarrd a ftawry SaluU. Sacramento, Sept. 25 (rovernor "ae t.slay issue.1 orlew to the ad jntant general to fire .aiut) 0( 17 gum upon the 0 arrival of Admiral Dewey In New York. EXPOSITION ) Mammoth Exhibit 0f p, ucts of the Northwest INFORMATION AM, the r.tr i.,,, H.lrlhmr - i-r -...I Bv. " Oelubar aa. The Oragon Industrial r., , ortland this ,,.ar U rrand combination of f,r , ,'t and thrill,,,, pwfo world-renown... .... k " , 'iiiier. All th.- prodn, ,. ,,, ,1.,. ,, west will la, attractlvelj Z? t irauis. L'rmtwia fi-..i. .1 uir.ai bles, etc.. will all b- '.,.'.'. "w. nfui turisl unit ies will 1 '"m " irajj urrunged. The amateur nboio l. . world will make .'J., . work, and cash prize. Tjllw ,.. a-r. .in 1... ,r'"'s'itK (, , T. n,,, HWir.. TV exhibit ia going to be a great H.m an.i amuteura evervwh.-re r.r" Ur contribute to it. The music at the lan.l thia yer is going , t, very best. Dennett's fulla band will give Is,,), eb,,...! lar concerts avery afternoon tJZ. lag, and its muaio ia really gruvi While the -11 . ....... , "" "' 'nmtm an 111, 1 1 1 tail 1 11 ri.y 1 , 1 ,. and uninteresting feutures arecirriZ cut out, and even,.,,,,,,. '"teres,,,,,. The .,1,,u.,M1entT ture eomprlaai ia-rf.,n.,aiices by rj, great l lorenz troua., this !.,.. oZ first iltiia-iiram-.. o, , " ' - ... .iiurriea. n wonderful sister- Macarte will Z inn,, n la-rformunces even . venin, Ud Mnjor,.,,,,,., th, small,:, nm B the world wU 1 o nhil ltka there will I m illllm,1M. n roiin-l for the children. There will la uo laca 01 nealtfiful amii-ements. The immense ex,siti,i (mil In, . 1 ecu mad,- as pretty s picture ui you can imagine what a icene u( nln lor it will present when illumuutei by its 3,5,10 electric lights. A new feature this year i , p. luction of Multnomah falla, the pn 3f all Oregon. It is so fa, hiA hl the same rustic bridge t tbton:itul, ind is worth COmlttg miWioajr. Portland is a tine cirt v, ijbj ,ni th, re an- thousands ol -igtita to m aud you can see tunny nl tW t cents by rid in, ull over town onthi electric cars, which run evt-rywhirrt;. The price of admission tn the upm. lion ia ken, down ,11 U i-.-nr. an.! til the rallroa.ls and steamlMits will cam people during the (air ut specially Inw rates. The Oregon InduMrial Expisitinn at Portland ia going tobaOMOl the events ol the year, unit it 1- '.- in every respect. It apnreri no exww t 1 1 - - - 1 ... ..... .. ..j III ' fin, llliervsuui: 1111 1 it o 1 .1 . . '.. has solid business men Isrhiud it. ll general committi i compriscr the following weU-kniti gentle, net,: H. C Ilrecden, presblent; li Fleiichner, vice-president; kl Ilolmi-a, treasurer, W. S. MruMr . .. . L- l1 1 .fct..ii .. , i -r of ll-UII I , I.. . '. o tary; II. K. Dosche, auditor; '-? T ll..l.n u...u.i..t.,n.1.ili. I P Va xj. raawi .............. . m. .. shall. Hen Selling, 11. L. PitkriJ Solil Cohen, C. 1!. Willains, Du Ik-, Allen, A. It. Steinbach. .1. E. Thiebtw. j D. M. Dunne, R. 0. Jndioa, L M. Spiegl, Sig. Sichel. H. D. Kimalfll.1 t. o t) , 11 C.i.irnwn W 1 n. r-. 1 ague, uaunai . . u... onel I. N. Day, licorge Fuller, t. i Edwardi. THE FIRST MONTrtM- All Companies lletnrn OB tltmt Bealaadla. San Francis, o, Sept. 25-Tbe f ted States transport Zealand0 from Manila via Yokohama ing on laiard six comiiaiitesoftlvi Montana volunteers. A 11 . waa exten.letl to the Wturntnil whose aafe arrival was .tim-""' the blowing of steam w histle f 1 w dlaoharge of cannon. Notilicatiouof the Zelun ll ing was promptly given, and ,u'-'"r' out to greet the trawport. I'lictii:- on board number of ofBctotooi fornin and of San FranclaCO, UTS of the local reception reuforoad by a brass hand- The m carried Qovernor Bmitb, ol .u"' l'uite.1 States Senator arter ath partv of Montanani, who rew ' I oui in their joy at beholding ttawi .Her kith and kin once more. The health of all mi l-ard 1 lent, and there was but one owaj the voyage, thai ol Jamei Fourth United States cavalry. ' Septenila-r IS ol pneumoriia. T from this case there was noumr Is.ard th,. tr.,i,s,sirt diirin: tlwrnc oil. ic....- New York, Sept. 23,-ArJJ charge of vanilaliom 111 churches in the PhtllppiW, J can sobliers, a corre-'"' t Times culls attention w vt in a ret nils attention to asntly pnbliaheil I lit fsthiT a li"1 ' ' ..nV l'uulist father B Converts troin" rf0l ana 1 - .Va ism," in which appear. gafl. Colonel B. S. Otis, lnitf!"' The Vanaauelan """'"'.ta V New York, Sept. 25. A ,u' .1,1 V Mai IT 1 MM I 1 ' ' I ,unt- .nl says: The Venezuelan -"t,,i,ty concentrating its aaitern IW am to meet he reVOIUli .b r Qatwral Mntu. A dew nient is exected W 'v tn soon. It is reported that 1 a.. I I.. lirlH'I 1 aW axil a VI r I. T-. 10 be in sympathy with ists, . rt.T.ian.i iueea-ce' Djr" tf ,y Cleveland. O., Sept. ' Bi Oonaolidated street ea mited tonight Theex nfl. on the W ade Park line, place near the city Umiw- n,t -inn amaahixl the front w-"... 1 ..... ,r-i. the gutter of the stive' .,4 onlv two pas-eiig. r-. an (D,yl eecape.1 injury. Nobody .fl the place where the- n8 and there is no clew t. tun. aide. The car ju,up-' 'i,.,pPi aenwa the other track V ajgl