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Resume of Events in 'the
Northwest.
VIDENCE OF STEADY GROWTH
I finilwrod III All Hie Towns of
J Our lgli"r'B Stales Inijiiiivo
,,t v,,'..(l In All IniHitrle-".gi.i..
Mavville's now church is said to r,e
,e handsomest one in Gilliam county.
Ben Boss, of Gordon Creek, recently
jrned out 05 railroad ties in 10 hours.
There is quite u demand for home
leads in Lane county by intending sel
lers. The Siuslaw agricultural society has
ecided to hold a fair at Lorane hall,
n October 15 and 10.
The Western Union has received In
tstoria 125 miles of wire for the new
ine to be constructed between Astoria
mil i-'ortianu.
A rock-drilling contest for $250 a
iide has been arranged to take place at
inmuter between men of the Bonanza
fnd Kachaol mines.
Tttoanh in Wnllnwfl nnnnt.v. lms Inner
Veen without a saloon, but the council
L its latest nioetng voted in favor of
granting a license.
It is said that grouse and sage hens
kill r nlentiful in Grunt countv thin
hear. The season has been favorable
lor weir naicuuig aim rearing.
Tim Dalles has the firemen's tourna
ment this fall, and the enterprising
school board is talking of delaying the
ipening of school a week on that ac
count.
The steef cells and all neeossnrv ma
terial for making the interior of Grant
.aunty's jail secure have arrived in
Canyon City and are being put to
gether.
Five United States fish onmmisnion-
ers will soon visit Pelican bay and Har
ney lake, to make an examination of
those waters and see what the chanco
is for putting in fish.
There were shipped by the O. R. &
S. Company during the past shinrjinir
season 18,800 crates of strawberries
an increase over last year of 8.800
urates. One-third of the shipments
were made to Montana markets.
An Astoria naner savs the fact that.
the British ship Duchaiburn was una
ble to secure but about l.fiOO cne nf
salmon for England when she expected
to nave nail 10,0000 cases is good evi
dence that the price of salmon is on the
rise.
In 1891 the state of Oreoron hrnnolit
'nit against Baker county for back
taxes amounting to about $14,000. Af
ter five years of litigation Referee B.
F. Bonham, appointed by the supreme
rart, has rendered his findings to the
effect that Baker rnnntv mint mi all
hut about $3,000, barred by the statute
"lunations.
Washington.
The Ferndale cheese factory has be
gun operations.
Cosmonolis si.
East within one week.
Mature is TirPVIlliint aninnn ll.a ..nnnn
liorses in Garfield county.
The Ellensburir
making between
cheese a day.
A ClrCUB is Blflflrianinfr tlo nt
the small boys throughout the Big
Bend country.
LeRoi Mi
declared its fiftAenth HivMnnH tj.
dividend ie $25,000.
Ten-v C!nn
Buckley, was struck by a freight train
nd probably fatally injured.
A number of the nffiicnla mil in.
mates of the state penitentiary are sick
with toneilitis, but the epidemic is hot
feared.
Judge Richnnlann
', for Spokane, has deoided that a
wn cannot be incarcerated to be
"eld as a witness in a trial.
The receiver f thn rioninl U'osh.
IngtOn ejllimalaa ,... Al i. 1 Ml
- .wnKa niai, liiui, iuhu will
Haul at least i Knn nnn i,,1ui,..u
wheat from the Big Bend this fall.
Senator Wilson has telegraphed to
'"ends on Gray's harbor that tha
amount nf tha :.i t .u.
, cyyiUJ,! iniiuii 11113
l"y b harbor jetties is $350,000, and
touu.uuu, nor $400,000, as has
teen published.
State Grain T . lit - v.
. . 4noicuiur vtngiit is uun-
siuering the advisability of making
Provisions for inspecting corn importa
tions frnn, IT....!
- uaoLen, ouiit's. uuring ine
last year large shipments of corn have
come in, because the low price of that
Weal COtnnarerl with natu ml.inh n..
wuvo, II 1,..
not subject to inspection. The inno
Tation ib proposed both for purposes of
revenue j A.. t
L 7 w "overlain me amount
W grain thus consumed.
, .ause oi the oloudburst on Mill
". in walla Walla county, the fish
t, surface of th muddy water, appar
ently suffocating, and in a few minutes
eaves the water entirely to die by the
numlreds, on the roclcs, too exhausted,
"Wently, to return to the stream a foot
"'two away. The dead fish are thick.
ney are fine ones, too, many of them
12 and 14 inches long.
urn I weyler wants umot i,ru i
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Will Demand Sixty Thiiumuid
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New York, July 5. A dispatch to !
the Journal und Advertiser from Ila- '
vana says: ' i
General Weyler will require at least
00,000 more troops to conquer the east- !
em provinces and hold them for Spain, j
Colonel Garamundi, a member of Weyl !
ler's general staff, ami private secre- I
tary to tlie commander m chief, will
go to Mailrid this week, the bearer of
confidential dispatches to Premier Can
ovas and the Spanish war department,
in which the demand is made for 60,
000 additional recruits.
All regular troops that can be spared
from Pinar del Rio, the western tro
cha, Havana, Matanzaa and Santa
Clara districts, are being concentrated
at Sancti Spiritus, where Weyler has
directed the immediate organization of
14 columns, at the head of which he
will try to drive Gomez across the new
trocha and invade Puerto Principe
province, where Calixto Garcia's forces
are said to be massing.
Weyler expects a great pitched bat
tle when he meets Garcia, the result of
which may be the turning point in the
war. Should Weyler's army meet
with defeat, Spain will then be ready
to listen to President McKinley's offers
of intervention. If Spain wins, and
Garcia is routed, Weyler will assume a
magnanimous iole, proclaim general
amnesty, and offer the Cubans complete
autonomy and full personal and polit
ical guarantees under the Spanish flag.
Should these overtures be refused, it is
predicted that the war of extermination
will be waged to the bitter end.
El Commercio warns the government
that agents of the American sugar
trust are now in Cuba buying up all
the best plantations, and urges Weyler
to prevent by special decree foreigners
from buying or holding real estate
here in future.
A syndicate of New York men is
said to have repersentatives in Pinar
del Rio, purchasing tobacco estates
with a view to controlling the leaf mar
ket. Acting on the British consul's ad
vice, Miss Wilberforoe, the English
Red Cross representative, has aban
doned her original intention and de
oided not to attempt to reach the Cu
ban lines. She will confine her work
to the government hospitals in the
sities and towns.
A Manzanillo dispatch reports that
the Cuban chief, Jesus Rabi, is dead.
THE FOREST RESERVE.
Rules and Regulations Prepared by
Commissioner Hermann.
Washington, July 5. Much atten
tion has been paid recently by the gen
eral land office to the preparation of
rules and regulations applicable to the
government of the various forest re
serves, and Commissioner Hermann has
now formulated these for the approval
of the secretary of the interior.
Prospecting, locating and developing
mineral resouroes and forest reserves
are permitted. Lands for schoolhouses
and churches are provided and water
for domestic, mining, milling and irri
gation purposes are also allowed. Con
struction of wagon roads is authorized
and the right of way across reserves for
irrigating canals, ditches, flumes and
reservoirs is permitted.
Minearl lands of the forest reserves
are subject to location and entry under
mining laws in the usual manner.
Makers of mining locations are author
ized to fell and remove from their
mining olaims any timber growing
thereon, for actual mining puproses
upon their particular claim. Free use
of timber is allowed to bona fide set
tlers, miners, residents and prospectors
for minerals, for firewood, fencing,
buildings, etc.
The New Treasurer.
Washington, July 5. Secretary Gage
has appointed a commission to examine
the books of the present treasurer, D.
L. Morgan and to count the money in
the vaults. This is an enormous un
dertaking and will employ about 100
persons, including expert counters and
their assistants, for about three
months. Most of this time will be
taken up counting the vast stores of
silver.
Mr. Morgan's bondsmen will not be
relieved until the count is concluded
and all the money in his charge have
been fully accounted for.
Though Mr. Morgan received from
his predecessor about $700,000,000, he
will deliver to Mr. Roberts about $60,
000,000 more than that sum.
Bad Accident at Chicago.
Chicago, July 5. Five men were in
jured this morning by the explosion ol
the engine of an incoming suburban
train on the Chicago & Northern Paci
fio railway, while the train was going
at full speed between Morgan Park and
One Hundred and Thirteenth street
stations.
The injured are: John Fogg, engin
eer, terribly bruised and scalded; prob
ably fatally; John Latshaw, fireman,
crushed and scalded; will die. Three
men, names unknown, residing at Bins
Island, bruised; will recover.
The train was the suburban express,
consisting of five coaches filled with
passengers. The explosion was beard
for miles. The engineer and fireman
were thrown 60 feet. The cause of th
xulosion is unknown.
Senator Hoar's Itenort in tli
(iMlllIt
Washington, July 2. The report pre
pared by Senator Hoar in tlio ruHe of
a. W. Corbett, claiming a seat from I
Oregon by appointment by the gover- 1
nor, has been printed for the use of !
the committee. j
After reviewing the situation in tlio
Oregon legislature, the report contin
ues: "It is clear, whatever may have been
the nature of the organization of tliu
legislature, that it had been dispersed
and bad come to an end before March
1, 18U7, when the vacancy in the office
of senator, by limit of the term to
which Mr. Mitchell had been chosen,
and which he had held for six years,
occurred. Any choice or appointment
made after that time must be a choice
or appointment for less than six years.
"It is well settled, by a praotice
which has existed from the formation
of the government, that the vacancies
so occurring after the beginning of a
constitutional term maybe filled by the
legislature. If that is true, they may
be filled by the executive of the state
during the recens of Iho lugiol.ituic.
The legislature is only authorized by
the constitution to fill such vacancies
as might be tilled by the executive by
temporary appointment until the next
meeting of the legislature.
"So, if the executive has no power,
the legislature has no power. The
executive may lawfully make a tempo
rary appointment, and the legislature
fill that vacadcy when it assembles, or
the office must remain vacant for the
rest of the six years"
It has been said that a vacancy docs
not happen when it occurs by reason of
the expiration of a certain term, or
when the office has never been tilled,
but the report holds that this posi
tion is not well taken, and says:
"When the term of a representative
expires and the people have ailed to
eleot a successor beforehand, which oc
curred very often When a majority
was required for an election, the execu
tive has always issued a writ of elec
tion." "We think, theref6re," concludes
the report, "that the governor of Ore
gon was entitled to make the appoint
ment, and that Mr. Corbett is entitled
to the seat.
IN A MURDERER'S CELL.
Bookkeeper Flgel Arrested, Charged
With Killing Isaac Hoffman.
San Franoisco, July 2. Theodore
Figel is now in the city prison, charged
with the murder of Isaac Hoffman, the
wholesale clothing merchant, who was
found dead in his Battery-street office
with three bullet wounds in his head
four weeks ago. Late this afternoon a
warrant was issued for the rearrest of
Figel, who has been bookkeeper for
Hoffman, Rothchild & Co. At 5
o'clock Figel reported at the office of
Chief of Police eLes, and after being
closeted with that official 20 minutes
was taken to the city prison and booked
on six charges, namely, one of murder,
two of forgery and three of felony em
bezzlement The murder complaint
was sworn out by Htmry Hoffman,
brother of Isaac Hoffman, , Figol will
be arraigned on the new charges tomor
row. He had previously been out on
bail on three charges of embezzlement,
but the authorities are now determined
to keep him in prison, and no further
bail will be sanctioned.
After he was locked up this evening
Figel became exceedingly nervous, and
asked that he be left alone, requesting
that a newspaper reporter bear him
company until the arrival of his
friends. The newspaper man chatted
with the prisoner until first his friend
Taylor and then his father came to
cheer him up.
Bobbed the Baker City Postoffloe.
Baker City, Or., July 2. An un
known party or parties entered the
postoffleo here last night and broke
open the safe, securing about $1,000,
$750 in gold, and $250 in stamps, of 1,
2, 8 and 10-cent denominations. About
SO registered letters were taken, their
value being unknown.
A sledge hammer, chisels, drills,
and a brace and bits were used, all be
ing left in the office except the drills.
Two of the chisels were stolen from a
tool chest at the St. Elizabeth hospital
building, which is in course of con
struction. There is no clew to the rob
bers. Ohio Democrats.
Columbus, O., July 2. The Demo
cratic state convention today indorsed
the free and unlimited coinage of silver
at the ratio of 16 to 1, without co-operation
of any other nation. A large
gold cross having as ornaments a crown
of thorns and a clock indicating 16
minutes to 1 o'clock formed the center
piece among the floral designs about
the stage. Horace T. Chapman was
nominated for governor. There will
be at least six state pickets in the
field.
Suicide of Mother and Daughter.
Owensboro, Ky., July 2 Mrs. Pau
line Weltmeyer and her daughter
Pauline committed sucide by taking
carbolio acid last night. Both were
dressed in handsome clothes when
found. Notes reqeusting that they be
buried just as found were left on a ta
ble. They conducted a dyeing estab
lishment, and were in comfortable circumstances.
SHOT BY BOATPULLER.
!
A. Fatal
Ending to Fifthrrmen's Ounrrel
1h a Certainty.
Astoria, Or., July 1. A terrible
shooting affray occurred last night be
tween 8 and 0 o'clock, in a fishing boat,
as the result of which Louis Spina is
now lying at the point of death at St.
Mary's hospital. Spina and Antono
Tonich operate a fishing boat. After
laying the net Tonich wanted to lie
down ami sleep, but Spina objected. A
quarrel followed. Spina drew a knife
and started for his boatpuller, but the
latter picked up a Winchester rifle,
and, warning the captain not to come
at him, pulled the trigger. The ball
struck Spina in the left groin, lacerat
ing the intestines in a frightful manner.
The injured man fell into the river and
was rescued by the boatpuller, who has
tened with ull possible speed to this
city and reported the matter to the
sheriff.
Spina made a statement of the cause
of the shooting and exonerated Tonioh
from blame in the matter. lie said he
was wrong in objecting to the boatpull
er taking a rest, and that he attacked
him. When he started for him, Spina
oujii ho was warned, but wnVI pay no
attention to the boatpuller. He also
said the shooting was accidental, but it
is likely he wished to shield his part
ner. Tonich was lodged in jail, pending
further investigation into the oase.
Spina cannot possibly live. Internal
hemorrhage has set in, and death is
momentarily expected. Owing to the
man s injuries, fully four feet of lntes.
tines had to be removed.
The men had fished together for the
last four years.
THE EFFORT OF HIS LIFE.
Weyler Planning an Energetic
Cam-
palgn Against the Cubans.
Chicago, July 1. A Chronicle spe
cial from Jacksonville says: Weyler,
while in Cienfuegos, made a request
for 20,000 more colonial volunteers,
with the intention of starting an active
campaign, lie lias also demanded from
Spain 40,000 more troops to reach Cuba
by September 1. The rainy season will
be drawing to a close then, and it goes
to prove the assertion that lie will make
the effort of his life to conquer the in
surgents. The announcement that Gomez will
begin active operations is verified.
It is stated that a Spanish column
had had an engagement with rebels
under Stolongo, in the province of Ma-
tanzas. The insurgents are alleged to
have been dispersed, with a loss of 16
killed and one wounded. A Spanish
corporal was wounded. It is known
that the "engagement" was Bimply an
attack by the troops upon the defense
less pacifioos on a ranch, and that the
15 reported killed in battle were brutal
ly massacred.
Whalers In the Ice.
New Bedford, Mass., July 1. Let
ters received in this city today from
Herschel island bring the intelligence
that three of the stanchest steamers of
the San Francisco whaling fleet were
oaught in the ice off the mouth of. the
Mackenzie river last September, and
could not make a harbor. These ves
sels, the Mary D. Hume, Captain Wil
liam Haggerty; the Jessie II. Freeman,
Captain W. S. Porter, and the Fearless,
Captain James MoKenna, were frozen
in the ice while trying to make a har
bor. They were in no danger during
the winter, but the letters state that
during June, when the ice pack breaks
up, the vessels will have a hard time
of it, and the chances are that nil will
be crushed. If so, the lives of from
120 to 150 men would be in danger.
The whalers were short of provisions,
and the crews had to haul supplies
from Herschel island over the ice on
dog sledges to the vessels.
Day In the Benate.
Washington, July 1. Several hun
dred pension bills were reported to the
senate today as a result of the first
meeting of the pension committee since
the present congress assembled. Gal
linger stated that it had been decided
to report favorably all those bills which
had been formally passed by either
branch of congress, or had been favora
bly considered in the committee.
The general pension bills were
among those reported, two of them
amending the act of 1800 and another
referring to proof in pension cases. It
took half an hour to read the list of
private pension bills.
During the day the senate disopsed of
the lead paragraphs, the committee
rate of 1 cents per pound on lead ore
being agreed to, 80 to 13. The other
paragraphs considered were of compara
tively minor importance.
' The Anti-Trust Amendment.
Washington, July 1. The Republi.
can members say the committee on ju
diciary today had under consideration
the form of an amendment to be sub
mitted for control of the trusts. They
practically agreed upon an amendment
making it an offense punishable by fine
and imprisonment for one year for any
person or corporation to monopolize or
to conspire with any person or corpora,
tion to monopolize trading in any arti
cle protected by the tariff bill.
It is said that the Australian shep
herds can foretell the weather from the
condition of the wool on the backs of
their sheep. An increaet in cuilinesi
indicates better weather.
WEEKLY MARKET LETTER.
Downing, Hopkins & Company's Review
of Trade.
Considerable activity has been noted
in July wheat during the past week,
owing to the fear of manipulation by
the elevator men. Stocks of wheat In
Chicago are now down to 3,000,000
bushels, and this is firmly held by men
who believe in higher prices for spot
wheat during the next HO days. There
has been little doing in other options,
although September wheat has gained
two cents. The news has been some
what conflicting in many respects, re
ports of harvesting from the Southwest
tending to somewhat dishearten hold
ers, while the news in other respects
was bullish in tone, and indicated a
good demand for cash wheat. Receipts
have fallen off sharply in the North
west, and everything indicates that
from now on until the next crop moves,
but littile will be received. Foreign
crop news has been bullish in tone,
European advices confirming the re
ported damage to the Roumanian and
Bulgarian crop of 25 per cent. Condi
tions of India have improved but little.
Russian reports continue to speak ol
dnmnm to wheat in certain sections,
while in France there has been only a
slight improvement. Exports have
shown a moderate decrease under those
of the previous week. Bradstreet's re
ports them at 2,156,000 bushels, while
ocean passage deoreased 1,440,000 bush
els. Our visible supply deoreased
1,879,000 bushelB, and is now down
to 18,704,000 bushels, the smallest
in many years. Were there any
speculation we would see higher prices
at once, but the market is in a rut and
so narrow that it is at present con
trolled by a few professionals who are
scalping for small profits. While the
present dullness lasts, we hardly look
for a bull market, but our supplies are
getting so low that the short side IB
very dangerous to be on, and we advise
our friends to buy wheat on the little
breaks at present, and be satisfied with
small profits until speculation revives,
or there is a material change in the
situation.
Portland Markets.
Wheat Walla Walla, 6768c; Val
ley, 69c per bushel.
Flour Best grades, $3.603.75;
grahram, $3.40; superfine, $3.60 per
barrel. )
Oats Choioe white, 88 40c; ohoice
gray, 8780c per bushel.
Barley Feed barley, $16 16.60;
brewing, $1819 per ton.
Millstuffs Bran, $14.50 per ion;
middlings, $28.60; shorts, $16.60.
Hay Timothy, $10 18.50; olover,
$11.50(312.60; California wheat, $10
12; do oat, $11; Oreogn wild hay, $9
10 per ton.
Eggs 12 18c per dozen.
Butter Fancy creamery, 8085o;
fair to good, 26c; dairy, 20 25c per
roll.
Cheese Oregon, lljo; Young
America, 12c; California, 910c per
pound.
Poultry Chickens, mixed, $2.603
per dozen; broilers, $2(3)3; geese, $2.60
(S4.60; ducks, $2. 50 8. 50 per dozen;
turkeys, live, 10c per pound.
Potatoes. Oregon Burbanks, 40
60c per sack; sweets, $2. 75 per cental
for Merced; new potatoes, $1.00(91.10
per cental.
Onions California, new, red, 90o
$1; yellow, $1.60 per cental.
Hops 77o per pound for now
crop; 1896 crop, 4c
Wool Valley, 1012c per pound:
Eastern Oregon, 68c: mohair. 19(3
20o per pound.
Mutton Gross, beBt sheep, wethera
and ewes, 2)c; dressed mutton, 4
do; spring lambs, 67 per pound.
Hogs Gross, choice heavy, $4; light
and feeders, $2.503; dressed, $3
4.75 per 100 pounds.
Beef Gross, top steers, $8.60; cows
$2.603; dressed beef, 66o per
pound.
Veal Large, 8)4o; small, 4JQ
6o per pound.
Heattle Markets.
Buttor Fancy native creamery,
brick, 17c; ranch, 1012o,
Cheese Native Washington, 10
lie; California, Oo.
Eggs Fresh rano, 1416o.
Poultry Chickens, live, per pound,
hens, ll12o; spring chickens, $2.60
3.50; ducks, $4 6. ,
Wheat Feed wheat, $25 per ton.
Oats Choice, per ton, $20; feed $21
22.
Corn Whole, $20; oraoked, per ton,
$20; feed meal, $20 per ton.
Barley Rolled or ground, per ton,
$19; whole, $18.60.
Fresh Meats Choice dressed beef,
steers, C.V40; cows, 6c; mutton sheep,
6 Wo; pork, 6n; veal, Binall, 67.
Fresh Fish Halibut, 84c; salmon,
4 5o; salmon trout, 7 10c; flounders
and sole, 84; ling coad, 46; rook
cod, 60; smelt, 8 4c.
Ran Francisco Markets.
Wool Choice foothill, 9llc; Ban
Joaquin, 6 months' 810o; do year's
staple, 79o; mountain, 10 12c; Ore
gon, 10 12c per pound.
Hops 812o per pound.
Millstuffs Middlings, $18.60
30.60; California bran, $18 14.60 pei
ton.
Hay Wheat, $8 11; wheat and
oat, $7 10; oat, $68.60 river barley,
$5(36; best barley, $8.608; alfalf;,
$6 9 olover, $6 8.
Potato New, in boxes, 60 90c.
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