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Vol. XXVII.
ROSEBURG, OREGON, MONDAY,
'1896.
No.
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TELEGRAPH NEWS
Spain is Fearless.
Madrid, June 20. The staleincut
contained in the Daily Mail telegram, lo
the effect that tho platform adopted by
tho St. Louis convention causes uneasi
ness in Spain, and that it is feared that
aconllict with tho United States has
now almost a fixed date, is misleading.
While there does exist a certain feeling
of unrest, on account of the declaration
of tho convention -touching, the Cuban
question it must not be imagined that it
is dictated by fear, but rather epringe
from a very natur.il desire to know the
worst at once.
Thero can be no question that Spain is
making preparations for eventualities,
but she is certainly not doing eo with any
intention of making war, but iu order to
Ik; in as good a position as jossiblc to
defend herself if attacked. Tho pur
chase of ironclads can scarcely be said to
have been the outcome of any immediate
scare, as this stop has been in contem
plation for come time, but there is no
doubt that the action of the government
has been hastened lv recent events.
The chief idea in strengthening tho
navy is to bo able to put a stop to ulibus
tering ami privateering. There is not
any great apprehension- that Mr. Mc
Kinley will, if elected president, net very
differently in that capacitv than .Mr.
Cleveland has done.
The Act Completed.
Canton, O , Juno 29. Ex-Governor
McKinley was officially notified today et
his nomination by the republican party
for the office of president of the United
states of America.
The notification speech wjs made by
Senator Thurston, who was wildly ap
plauded daring the course of his remarks
by the vast which had gathered from far
and near to do honor to Ohio's favorite'
son upon this, the occasion of the great
est triumph of his life.
Governor McKinley, in au ableseeeh.
responded to Senator Thurston's address,
and heartily thanked the notification
committee and the constituents of the
republican party at large for the gracious I
honor tendered him.
Many thousands of people witnessed
the ceremony, not only residents of Can
ton, but people from distant points who
had been coining into the city for the
past three diys upon excursion trains,
and all wero enthusiastic in their ap
plause of the man who will bear the re
publican standard daring the coming
campaigu.
Will Use; Dynamite.
Havana, Jnne 29. The revolutionists
have formally served notice cn the
people of Havana that plans have been
completed and will be carried into exe
cution this summer to nips out every
vestige of the city by means of dyna
mite if it be necessary to go to that ex
treme, to drive Spain off the island.
Copies of a circular conveying this an
nouncement have been left at the
houses of well to-do people of the city.
It is entitled "Dynamite Circular to Cu
ban Families," and reads as follows :
"The summer campaigu is to be sap
ported in large towns by the revolution
ists residing therein, and to Ihia end
terrible means must be resorted to the
ployment of dynamite.
"The inhabitants of Havana are fully
a wire that tho announcement of this is
no vain threat, as the plans agreed upon
for the explosions haye already begun to
materalixe: The edifices doomed to be
blown up LaJe been selected and one-
after another shall fall. The revolution
ist party cannot retrace its step3, and if
it is necessary to totally destroy the city
of Havana for tho purpose of extolling
Spain, it shall be dee troy ed.
"Therefore, our 1 compatriots' families
must become fully aware of tho import
ance of hurriedlv abandoning the coun
try, and to those who cannot, we chargo
them to be ever on tho alert and em
ploy constant and indeiatiirable vigilance
proper to inose who una luemsctves
next to a mine loaded to the utmost."
Hope Is Abandoned.
JViLKisijarre. Pa., June 29. Excite
ment at the Twin shaft in l'ittstou,
wh'ero nearly 100 miners aro entombed,
continues today. At tho mouth of the
shaft, besides the wives and children of
tho entombed menr thero are hundreds
of persons, not residents of Pittston
alone, but visitors from Scranton and
Wilkesbarre. The wives and children
of tho entombed men stand near the
opening ol I lie death chamber urging
tho rescuers to greater elTorts.
Practically nothing has been accom
plished toward tho recovery of the men.
Thero is scarcely an old miner about the
opening of the mino who does not be
lieve tho men aro all dead. The rescu
ing party which went into tho mino at 1
o'clock came out at 7. Tho foreman re
ports that the timbering is going on as
as rapidly as possible. The work is
necessarily slow, owing to tho danger of
falling rocks loo3ened by the explosion.
It is hardly possible, that actual digging
will begin before late this afternoon. If
the elopo is not completely choked with
dobris, tho rescuers may possibly bo able
to reach tho men within 21 hours.
Otherwiso it may be two or tin todays.
Tho rescuing party is 2000 feet from
whero tho cavc-in occurcd. Gas contin
ues to accumulate, and the roof, which
weakened by the explosion, is in danger
df (ailing at any moment. A survoy of
tho interior of tho mine this morning
shows, that (ho main slops is blocked
worse than the officials will admit
Fully CO feet that had been cleared up
y CEterday afternoon is blocked by another
fall that occurcd before 4 o'clock this
morning. - -
Tho fire bo33 said: "It is my belief
that the air current in the Twin shaft
was shut off tho moment the caye-in oc
cured. . Then if the men were not killed
by tho falling rock and coal they may
have lit el some minutes before being
suffocated or, if tho epace where they,
wero was left cloar, the gas. may haro
accumulated and exploded, hich would
of course, have burned the men to death.
It is not likely that it will bo known
how the men died until tho bodies are
found."
Tho damage to the mine is estimated
at$23,0C0and the expenses of getting
tho bodies out may reach $20,000. The
company is censured for sending the
men in:o the mine when it was in a
dangerous condition. In answer to this
the company said they either had to do
it or close tho mine, which would have
meant the loss of all the capital in
vested. Water has been ouring into the slope
and threatens to drivo out tho rescuers.
It is thought to bo surface water, and
will soon ceaje llowing, while others
think the water come3 from tho Susque
hanna river. If it is the river water,
the whole mine will be flooded in a
short time, and it will be months before
the bodies can ba tol out.
A Royal Zulu.
New Yoi:k, Juno 29. John L. Uube,
a native Zulu, has just arrived from Af
rica. Ho is the grandson of a chief of
of his tribe and a ton i-f tho first
native preacher of Christianity in South
Africa. Mr. I'ube has come to this
country to complete his theological
studies so that he may enter the field zs
a mission uy to his people.
"My grandfather was," said he, "one
of the chiefs of the tribe under Chaka,
the cruel head of the Zulu nation. I am
told that my grandlather was very pop
ularwith his people, and that Cbala,
owing to ms great cruelty, was very un
popular. In that way my ancestor in'
t . . .
curred the enmity of his superior, and
the latter plotted to kill him. He and
his men were treacherously, attacked
and killed. My graudfatlfeY'iled with
my lather to .Natal, lie became a
Christian and refused tbo chiefsbip of
his nation."
Of the Matabele uprising he said :
"This has been caused by the treat
ment given to the natives by the Eng
lisli. Rhodes and the other officials of
the South Africa Company, we have
found by fearful experience, are trymg
to put all they can in their pockets by
killing and plundering U3'. Iam afraid
that 'unless the company changes its
methods of treating the nrtives there
will be war for many years to come."
Altgeld Replies.
Si-rinuhele, 111., June 2?. Governor
Altgeld was asked tonight what he
thought of the interview given by Wm
C. Whitney. He replied;
"The American people are not yet
ready to become the vassals of the Eng
lish monev-lender, and his American
agent. The jtolicy which the govern
ment has pursued for more than 20
years, at the instance of those Eastern
speculators, compels the producers and
consumers of this country, who bear all
its burdens, to give those English
moner-lenders $2 worth of labor, $2
worth of property and $2 worth of their
life's blood for each dollar they get from
those Englishmen. This is destroying
our country, and the democratic party
intends to condemn this policy in most
emphatic terms, and, no matter how
much these Eastern capitalists and spec
ulators may be willing to spend, they
arc going to haye a very difficult time in
trying to prevent the parly from express
ing its honest convictions on this sub
ject. That is all I care to say about this
matter at this time.''
A Reservation Tragedy.
Helena, Juno 23. Two men and ouo
woman dead and a man under arrest as
accessory to the murder, ia tho result of
a woman's unfaithfuluea ami a man's
perfidy. The dead are: Paul Viuette, a
half-breed ; his wife, and Took-a Fine
Gun, a full-blooded Indian. The man
under arrest ia Makes-tbeFire, a brother
of the dead Indian. Tho scene of the
murder was tho Blaekloot reservation .
Took-a-Fine-Gun had been payiug atten
tion to Vinnette's wife, in spite of Vin
etto's protests. Wednesday, he caught
tho couple together, and look a shot at
the Indian, who escaped uninjured, vow
ing vengeance. Next dav, Vinctto
mounted his horse to hunt lor missing
cattle. Ho had not proceeded far when
two shots were heard, and Vinstte'a horse
camo back riderless. Took-a-Fine-Gun
and Makes-thc-Firo rodo up, saying they
had killed Vinette. Thou, with .Mrs.
Viuette, tho trio road away. Mounted
pjlico followed, and the next morning,
two shots were heard in n dump of
bushes. An investigation revealed the
bedics of Mrs. Yinetto and Took-a-Fino-Guti.
Ho had killed her by shooting her
through tho head, and then committed
suicide in a liko manner. Makes-tho-
t-iro was capuirod iDier, and locked up
on tho chargo of murder. The bodica
wero buried nl once lo keep tho Indian?,
who wore growing revengeful, from ex
citement, and from attempting to take
the life of the man under -unrest.
Indian Uprising Feared.
Redding, June 30. Great exci:ement
lias been caused by the receipt of a letter
containing news of a threatened rising of
the Pitt riyer Indians. Judge Edward
Sweeney, of Redding, received the mes
sage and the author is W. Bailey, a far
mer, living with his family in the Big
Bend of Pitt river, about CO miles north
east of this city.
Bailey states in tho letter that a
friendly squaw came to his houso and in
formed him that tho warriors of the Pitt
river tribe intended to haye a great pow
wow near his farm on July 4, gathering
as many braves aa possible and designed
to follow their savage orgies by a mass
acre of all the white settlers who live
along the north banks of the Pitt. Mr.
Bailey's letter was brought by a messen
ger as rapidly as could be, and Judge
Sweeney was urged to acf promptly.
The judge referred the letter to Sheriff
Houston, who is organizing an expedition
to hurry on to the threatenel region.
He will leave here July 2 with a strong
force of heavily armed men.
This tribe is the most powerful and
thoroughly organized in nothern Calilor-
ni i.
Red Renegades on a Raid
Neosho, Mo., June 30. Four Indians
roda into Neola,a small town 20 miles
south of here, jjlast evening'an robbed
the town, It is impossible to ascertain
the amount taken. No livca were lost.
The marauders started toward Sulphur
Springs, Ark., and will probably be ar
rested. Teller is Hopeless.
New York, June 30. Senator Teller
last night at Morrison, III., intimated
that he recognized the fact that the com
ing democratic convention would not
take up with any republican or populist.
In an interview, he said:
"It is now clear that the democratic
convention will nominate a straight hue
silver democrat for president. I had no
idea after the St. Louis convention that
any number of silver men among the
democrats would turn to me, although a
good many of my friends made that pre
diction. I waa right, however. The
silver men have so strong a majority in
tho democratic convention that they are
bound to have their own way and nomi
nate one of their own men. I am not
disappointed."
Senator Teller believes that a free-sil
ver candidate will carry Indiana, Illinois,
Iowa, Nebraska, North and South Da
Kota, and every other state west of the
Mississippi and south of tbo Potomac
and Ohio rivers.
In reply to another question, he main
tained that if theJUnited States should
coat its lot with the other free silver
countries its influence would speedily
bring aboul a parity between gold and
silver at the ratio of 10 ounces of silver
to one of gold.
Mills Will Close.
Younustowx, O., June 30. Every
mill in tho Mahoning valley, including
Youngstown, WarrenrNiles, Girard and
Struthers. will close today pending the
settlement of the rate per ton for boiling.
Manufacturers offer to sign a scale at $ i
per ton, while the Amalgamated Associa
tion is holding out for $4-30- Eight
thousand five hundred mill workers will
be out of employment until a settlement
ia reached.
British Company Wins.
Caracas, June 30. A special cabinet
meeting was held on 'Friday at which it
was decided that the title of Mr. George
Trumbull, representing British capital
ists, to valuable iron mines situated
near the Delta territory, was perfect
lilts is regarded in othcial crclcs as a
death blow to the Manoa company.
Tho Manoa company, of Brooklyn,
was organized about 10 years ago. It re
ceived a largo grant of land in Venezuela
near the territory which ia now claimed
by the governments of that republic and
Great Britain, from General Guzman
Blanco. The land which waa thus con
ceded included an asphalt lake. Tho
concession was afterward withdrawn
but through the efforts of Donald Grant
of Faribault, Minn., waa soon restored
Tho company was unsuccessful in its en
terprise, howover, and in August, 1S93,
a meeting of creditors and bondholders
waa held in this city. They found that
the company possessed no money and
had a floating debt of $30,000, and a
mortgage debt of $2,C00,000. A motion
was mado before Judge Clement, of tho
supreme court, iu Brooklyn, in February
last, by ouo of the stockholders, to ap
point a receiver, which was granted by
tho court. James A. Radcliffo was ap
pointed receiver.
Plans of the Insurgents.
New York, Juue 30. Sjvoral CubanB
who arrived here last night from Ha
vaua, on tho steamer Saratoga, brought
with thorn copies of a warning circular
addreese I to Cubans, informing them
that during tho summer there would be
many explosions in the towns of tho
island, caused by dynamite. The circu
lar advised all Cubans to abandon the
threatened region whilo this campaign
of destruction wan in progress. The cir
culars iu Spanish wero dated Juno 13,
and were printed upon white tissue pa
per. Many thousands of tin so were said
to be in circulation in and about Havana
when the steamer left that part.
At the Cuban junta headquarters,
yesterday, it was said that the destruc
tion of Havana in this way had been un
der contemplation for a lon time, and
that private buildings and property
owned by Spaniards, who are opposed to
the independence of Cuba, would be
sacrificed as well as the public 'edifices
occupied by the Spanish.
New Party In Line.
Alliance, 0-, JJune 20. During the
coming months conventions of the new
national parly will be held in over 20
states and complete state tickets and
presidential electors nominated. The
Indiana nationals held their state con
vention in Indianapolis last Wednesday.
J. M. Dunlap, of Franklin, was elected
state chairman. Tho same day ICansas
had a bi-slate conference at Ottawa. A
Btate organization was effected with J.
W. Forest as chairman. Trie nominat
ing convention will be held at Topeka
July 28, Iowa will have a state confer
ence in Marshalltown July 4. In Colo
rado Chairman derrick has called a state
convention for Denver July 23. In Ohio
a state convention will assemble in Co
lumbus July 21 and 22.
Among the prominent men in the
Southern Stales who have announced
their adherence to the national party are
Ed Rogers, of Hillsboro, Tex., and Rev.
S. P. Benbrooke, of Meridian, Miss., the
well known evangelist. In Virginia J.
Rush Miller, of Pulaski City, prohibition
candidate for governor in 1S93, refuses
to act longer with that party on account
of its silence on the money question.
Will Sweep the Country.
St. Locus, June 30. H. E. Taubeneck,
chairman of the national executive com
mittee of the people a party, haa re
turned from Chicago, where he has been
in consultation with leading populists
from Illinois, Indiana and Iowa.
He said :
"So sure as any candidate at Chicago
gets tha nomination by the suppoit of
the gold delegations, Uie people's party
will get the solid indorsement at the
polls of every friend of silver in the
country, regardless of party lines, and it
will sweep the country. In the light of
the last few days, I think Bland's or Tel
ler's nomination at Chicago is the only
thing that can head off a separate ticket
at St. Louis."
Headquarters In Two Places.
Chicago, June CO. The supporters ol
Bland have decided upon a plan of cam
paign. Every effort will be made to
capture the delegates when the various
states arrive, and for that work it was
determined to havo headquarters at the
Palmer house a3 well aa at the Audi'
toriuni. The name of Bland will be pre
sented in the convention by Senator
Ve3t, who is now preparing his spsech
Governor Stone will be the member from
Missouri on the platform committee
Senator Cockrell will be a member of
the committee on credentials.
HERE'S A STATE OF THINGS.
The
'Catholic Citizen's League" and
the Democrats.
The following from a democratic cor
respondent ot the Oregonian lets the
cat out of tho b3c, and shows that the
A. P. A. is not the only "secret oath
bound political society". Also, that the
Catholic dark-lantern brigade "had the
sympathy of liberal gentlemen of all
nationalities and creeds." The correa"
pondent says;
"Several days ago in the local col
unins appeared an undisputed article,
showing how the democratic county and
district tickets were so overwhelmingly
deleated by the united action of a politi
cal, oathbound religioua organization
known as tho Catholic Citizens' League.
A further investigation of the methods of
this league show that it haa outdone, by
clandestine maneuverings, its arch
enemy, tho A. P. A. The dark-lantern
doinga of the A. P. A. are equaled, if not
excelled, by this new secret political so
ciety.
"It is justice to this new (society to
state that the original founders of the
same instituted it as a defensive organi
zation, to counteract the political
schemes and designs of the A. P. A.,
whose objective point is to root Catho
l'cs out of official fife and destroy their
private business ventures. The original
organization had the sympathy of liberal
gentlemen of all nationalities and creeds,
as tho sctiool election of last March illas
trates. But unfortunately lor tho organ
ization, mercenary men got control of it
and made it an aggressive political ma
chine and operated it aa such at tho
late election, throwing their entire
strength to the populist congressional
nominee, to the Mitchell legislative
ticket, to tho district ticket and to
nearly all of the Mitchell county ticket.
When one of their number waa a nomi
nee, as in case of T. 15. McDevitt, tho
league gave him unanimous support.
"As a matter of fact, nine-tenths of
this Catholic league are democrats, and
una united support explains bow so
many Mitchellites were elected and why
M. L. Pipes, G. E. Chamberlain and tho
democratic ticket wero so unmercifully
slaughtered."
It will bo noticed that "nine-tenths of
this Catholic league are democrats,"
which probably accounts for their recoiv
ing the "sympathy of literal gentlemen
of all nationalities and creeds," while
the A. P. A. being a mixture of republi
cans, populists and democrats are Jit sub
jects to be "stamped ont of existence."
MUZZLING THE PRESS.
It was said by Daniel Webster: "The
license of the press ia the paladium-of
American liberty." With some, so long
aa their party press ia villifying some
one of the opposite party, this press li
cense is all right, but the moment
the opposite party press says
anything that is not the most flattering
to their reputation they at once invoke
the power of tbo law to hold them up
and vindicate their unsavory reputation.
The Plaindealek during the late elec
tion campaign steered clear of printing
anything disparaging to the good name
of any candidate on the opposite tickets.
It nttered not one word of censure of any
man a candidate for an office by the gift
of the people, while our c ontemporary
was maligning and falsifying the candi
dates on the .republican ticket. This
course, on the part of the Review,
appeared to suit one Story Sheri
dan, who manifested much interest in
the result of the election, notwithstand
ing he holds a $3000 job in the United
States land office, who, .under civil ser
vice rules, is supposed to keep out of
politics.
Daring the heat of the contest it was
rife on many tongues and was generally
understood, in fact it waa an open secret
that money waa being freely used by the
democratic party to carry the election.
While party strife was at fever heat one
Tom Dine made affidavit that R. Story
Sheridan had offered him five dollars to
vote the democratic ticket. Thia affi
davit waa presented in this office for
publication and was published as an
item of current news. The affidavit waa
made and subscribed to before the
county clerk, and, being generally talked
of upon the streets as a matter of cm-
rent news, the Plaindealek printed it.
For this act of printing a matter of news
R. S. Sheridan haa gone, before the
grand jury and had tho editor of thia
paper indicted for libel.
This, the affidavit of Dine, Mr. Sheri-
dau alleges in his complaint, was a false
and slanderous libel, with the intent
then and there to wilfully injure the
good name and reputation of the said
Story Sheridan. It is easy to charge
what one's intent ia, but it ia another
thing to prove it.
The whole animus of this matter
ehows that it was evidently done for the
purpose of injuring the editor of the
Plaindealer because the Piiandealer
waa fighting manfully and with some
show of crippling the unjust, assaults of
the Review. If the Plaixdealee could
be silenced by an indictment before the
grand jury, it was greatly to be desired.
Mr. Sheridan had'not counted upon a
lite charge against his henchmen, the
managers of the Review.
They have also been indicted by the
same grand jury. It the indictment
against the editor of the Plain-dealer.
stands good, the managers of the Re
view, Fisher and Wimberly, will share
the same fate, for they are upon like
charges of a libelous character. Wa
would remind Mr. Sheridan that he who
ia without sin should thrjW the first
stones.
WHAT ARE JURIES GOOD FOR?
We have read and reread the decision
of Judge Bellinger, setting aside the
jury's verdict in the case of Case and
Pool, convicted of robbing the United
State3 mail in Cow Creek canyon, July
1st, 1S93, in Judge Bellinger's court.
With that peculiar sentiment dominant
in the mind expressed in biblical lan
guage, "submit to the powers that be,"
we submitted; but in spite of tbis sub-
missivenes3 this quesiion would unbid
den rise. Of what use ia a jury, if a
judge has the authority to set its venlicC
aside? And, iu spite of our knowing
that we are wanting in legal lore do not
understand the mysteries of the law
that question like Bjn-uo'd ghost will
not down at the bidding,
We can understand that when the de
feated party to a suit applies for a new
trial, by making a reasonable and proper
showing, the court has authority of law
to grant a new hearing, but if any court
has power to set aside a jury's verdict,
after a trial of a cause before it, it is a
perfect farco, and the boasted jury sys
tem, which haa been landed to the skies)
by able jurists as the bulwark of liberty,
is a mockery.
In thia stricture upon the judge we do
not bring iu question the guilt or iutio
cense of Casa or Pool. They may be aa
innocent as mewling infanta of any
knowledge of the affair. That cuts no
figure in the cose. It ia the principle in
volved, we contend for. If the judga
can set aside a verdict of a jury and dis
charge an innocent porson, ho can also
set aside a verdict to punish a guilty
one, should ho so des'ne. Ve cau only
rely upon tho honesty of the judge.
What uao havo we Americans for juries
any way, if jndgej can set aside their
verdicta? In theory the jury svstem is;
a good one but in practice it ia suscepti
ble of gross abujo and who will dara say
it is not a'.tmed eveu i i fair Djunglxl
county? Thero aro e.uea which giva
causa to doubt its beiug observed in it!
trno intent and purpose.
Now is the time to subscribe.