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ENGINEERS SPENT
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ffwhlBBton, Oct. ".-The etate
t made by General John AI. Wil
3 tiie chief of engineers, to the com
mon investigating the conduct of
was made publio today. Dur-
J.tbe progress of the war, the follow-
au(ilWU"B'"v"
f armament:
Armament was placed in positioin
f,ixl2-inch guns, 29 10-hich, 50 12-
,h mortars, ana oo rapia-nre guns
lj additional platforms were made
for a still larger number, and ad-
iional emplacements are unaer con-
action for still more. According to
its report, when all the works begun
fe completed, the armament will con-
;tof 80 12-inch mortars, and 7U rapid-
'J tt?
nstruotion at 25 different harbors
oeust&l. and mere WorocGSDiC stilts
Liking at each place.
lie total expenditures on account ol
i - i. ... i j : ii..
riodof tho war amounted to $4,821,-
130.
Among the purchases for harbor de
nse were 400 miles of cable, 150 tons
(bigh explsoives, 1,650 new torpedo
ises, 44 searchlights, eto. Twenty
ight harbors were mined, 535 mines
eing planted. The expenditures on
arbor defense tor the period were $1,-
k'31,000. Intrenching tools were pur-
ased and stored at Willet's point
affioiont for an army ol 80,000 men.
Ilcmpitals In Chlckamauga.
Washington. Oct. 15. Lieutenant-
JColonel L. J. Hoff was before the war
instigating commission at the fore-
jtoon BOBSion. lie Is a regular army
jofficer, and was chief "surgeon in the
tmi J - i v-si
iniru uriny corps at uniCKamauga.
lion am not consider tne camp to have
been in the best Banitary condition, but
'expressed the opinion that it could not
be better, under the circumstances. In
the beginning, the camp was short of
medical supplies, due to the expecta
tion that arriving troops would bring
supplies of medicines.
Continuing, Dr. Hon said the capa
city of the division hospitals was often
doubled and trebled. It sometimes oc
curred that there were eight men in
tents which were intended to accommo
date six, because of delay in securing
tentage to care for the increase of dis
ease, which was unexpectedly rapid.
On one or two oocasions patients were
necessarily placed in beds made upon
the floors, because of a temporary de
flceincy in cots. As a rule the nurses
I were without training, and this fact
occasioned some difficulty in dealing
witn typhoid oases. Yet he knew of
no specific cases of suffering on this ac
count. He specified the case of a man
afflicted with an infectious disease, who
bad been compelled to lie in the open
air one night on account of lack of tont-
age. Tho doctor was sure that no in
jury resulted, as the weather was pleas
ant. Dr. Hoff said that the shortage
in medical supplies had continued for
several weeks, but there was generally
sufficient to meet the immediate de
mands. He also said that some requisi
tions bad been returned by the Wash
ington authorities because Improperly
filled, and he was under the impression
that there had been complaints of some
Oriflr.. ...
uuring on tins account. There was
considerable delay in securing flooring
wr the tents.
ORDERS TO DISBAND.
Mao Win Bend the Cuban Soldier
uome by Request of Colonel Kay.
Santiago de Cuba, Oct. 15. Sonor
Eartolorne Masso, accompanied by two
Members of his staff, arrived this morn
ing at Manzanlllo from Santa Cruz del
our. in Puerto Principe, about 75 miles
"Otn Manzanillo, where tho Cubans
now have their headquarters, and
Where, Oo'ober 20, the Cuban assembly
will meet to elect a new president and
w decide as to the plans for disband
ln8 the army, if disbandment is con
sidered advisable, and as to other im-
ruuit matters.
Ho called at onoe on Colonel Kay,
who received him courteously, expressed
Pleasure at the opportunity ol an in
terview, and said he hoped Sonor Mas
so would arrange for disbanding the
Cubans under General Rios in the
neighborhood of Manzanlllo, so that
wrk in the field could begin. He
nhso earnestly advised the president ol
the Cuban provisional government to
sbaud the Cuban troops at all points
Jow in possession of the United States
rrce9, in order that tho men might
8've the assistance so greatly needed to
Phiee the oountry in a position to re
;vor from the evlla of the three-year
.Vmor Masso readily agreed to oarry
Colonel Ray's request, and said
that Genoral Rios would receive orders
mediately to disband his mon.
'I believe," said Senor Masso, In
rniinating the interview, "that Cuba,
jn two years, will bo more prosporoui
Uiau ever before."
SHAFTER AT OMAHA. ........ ..,.. ,,,-
He Told Dow the Spaniard, Lost
Santiago.
Omaha Oct. 17Major-General
William R. shafter was accorded a
most generous welcome bv Omaha to
day. When his train arrived in tho
morning a largo number of people had
gathered at the station to greet the
hero of Santiago. Later, upon the ex
position grounds, the manifestation of
love and respect for the general were
everywhere in evidence. This after
noon, in the auditorium, General Shat
ter addressed an audience that filled
every inch of available space in the
great building. His address was a
plain, matter-of-fact discussion of the
Cuban campaign, and the simplo pre
sentation of facts was far more effective
than the most exalted oratorical effort
from one who had not participated in
the struggle.
One or two statements made by the
general are new. He said that with
the capture of El Caney tho campaign
was practically over. It was simply
necessary, he said, to convince the
Spanish commander that his case was
hopeless,
"Why the Spaniards surrendered
when they could have abandoned their
position and kept up the war." he
said, "I do not understand, hut I be
lieve it was because they had been in
formed that tho Spanish government
had decided to give up the fight and
surrender their eoldiers in the eastern
part of the island."
Assistant Secretary of War Meiklo
john made an able address, cnmmnn,!
ing Nebraska's part in the late war
and denouncing the traducers of the
army. Wu Ting-Fang, the Chinese
mininster, was given a cordial recep
tion. Senator Thurston spoke elo
quently.
DAWSON QUARTZ MINES.
Future of the City Depends Upon Their
Development.
Vancouver, B. C, Oct. 17. J. II.
Hold, of Chicago, who is just down
from Cassiar, says a gold strike has
been made on Friday river. Three
men took out $85 each from a river bar
in one week.
H. M. Sinclair, of Los Angeles, Cal.,
who has just arrived from Dawson,
says the future of Dawson will depend
largely upon the opening of quartz
mines. There have been upwards of
400 quartz claims recorded at Dawson
and some claims in the vicinity of the
city are attracting considerable atten
tion, not on account of the high grade,
but of the immense deposits of gold
bearing ore.
C. C. Black, who has just returned
from Peach river, Etates that several
prospectors up there stole provisions
cached by a tribe of Indians which had
always been friendly to the whites.
The red men were not long in retaliat
ing. They fired the grass in the dis
trict for miles around. The result was
disastrous to the unscrupulous white
men. Their horses died of starvation,
and, half-starved themselves, they fled
from the country and returned to Omi
neca. Had they not left the district
the Indian hostilities would have been
carried etill further.
What Alaska 'eeds.
San Francisco, Oct. 17. Thomas S.
Nowell, a prominent citizen of Boston,
who has just returned from Alaska,
where he has spent four months an
naully for the last 13 years, savs that
the district should have a representa
tive in congress and should have the
protection of adequate land laws. He
also thinks that the prohibitory liquor
law originally enforced to protect the
Indians, but now possible of evasion
with a great population of white men
and thousands of vrailes of unguarded
seacoast, should bo replaced by high
license, producing a revenue sufficient
to pay many expenses of the territory.
DARK DAYS FOR FRANCE.
Revolution Might. Bring on War With
England.
London, Oct. 17. The situation in
Paris is regarded in well-informed
quarters as being more serious than at
any time since the commune. The St.
James's Gazette this afternoon 6ays:
"A military revolution, however
peaceful, which replaces the Brisson
cabinet with nominees of generals,
would imperil the relations between
England and France almost to the
breaking point. Semi-official ami
partly inspired Paris papers are Btill
pretending that negotiations are pro
ceeding between the two governments,
and France believes it, although every
body in England knows the statement
to be ridiculous. Even supposing Major
Marchand is unconditionally with
drawn from Fashoda, the difficulties
with France will in no way end. Be
hind it lies the whole question of Bahr-el-Ghazal,
tho richest prize in the Sou
dan." A Southern Taclflo Brakeman Killed.
Ashland, Or., Oct. 15.-Charles Sny
der, of Ashland, a Southern Pacific
brakeman, was instantly killed at Zu
leka, on the Bouth side of the Siskyous,
near the state line, in California, last
night. An extra freight train was
switching, and in jumping'upon a mov
ing car he missed his footing and was
thrown under the oar wheels, which
completely severed his head from his
body, besides cutting off one leg and
one arm and otherwise shockingly mu
tilatina his body
dluuui Ml mm M1U
Strikers at Virden, Illinois,
Causing Trouble.
EIGHT KILLED, MANY WOUNDED
Battle Caused by the Attempt of Union
Miners to Prevent the Arrival of
Negroes A Day of Uiob
Virden, 111., Oct. 14. The little
'own of Virden is comparatively quiet
tonight, after a day of riot and blood
shed, the long-erpected clash between
the union miners and imported negioes.
At 12:40 this afternoon a Chicago &
Alton special train, bearing 200 negro
miners from the South, arrived at the
stockade around the Chicago-Virden
Coal Company's mines, and immediate
ly a terrific fight began. The list at 10
o'olock tonight stands eight dead and
about 18 wounded. The dead are:
Ed Walsh, of Springfield; Frank Bil
yeau. of Springfield; Albert Smith, of
Mount Olive; Joe Kitterly, of Mount
Olive; Ernest Keutner, of Mount Olive;
A. H. Breneman, of Girard; D. H.
Kiley, Chicago & Alton detective; A.
W. Morgan, of Chicago.
For the past two weeks, rumors have
reached Viidoii daily that a trr.in hav
ing negroes from Alabama would reach
the city, and the Chicago & Alton
depot has been surrounded day and
night by vigilant miners, determinedly
awaiting their arrival.
Today the Chicago & Alton limited,
due to pass here at 10 o'clock, shot
through en route to Chicago an hour
late, displaying flags on the rear indi
cating that a special was following.
Immediately the word was spread, and
a dense crowd of miners lined the sta
tion platform, while another crowd col
lected at the entrance of the stockade,
half a mile north of the station. D.
H. Kiley, a Chicago & Alton detective,
stood guard at a ewitob at the south
end of the station platform to see that
it was not tampered with.
At 12:40 the special train passed,
and signal shots were fired from the
south end of the train, announcing the
special's arrival. Immediately shots
were fired from the moving train and
outside, and the battle was on. A few
moments after the train had passed the
switch where Kiley was stationed, and
while he was talking with two citizens,
he threw up his arms and dropped dead
with a bullet through his brain. He
was the first man killed.
The train continued to the stockade,
the miners firing into it all along the
route and the negro passengers return
ing the fire.
The moment the train reached the
stockade, the miners opened a desperate
fire with Winchesters, revolvers and
firearms of all descriptions. The ne
groes on the train answered with a
steady fire. The miners and the train
were enveloped in a cloud of smoke,
and the shooting sounded like a con
tinuous volley. Engineer Burt Tigar
received a bullet in the arm and
dropped from his seat. His fireman
seized the throttle, pulled it open, and,
with a jerk, the train was under full
speed, carrying a load of wounded negro
passengers to Springfield. How many
were wounded is not known. The train
stopped at the stockade but two min
utes. Its departure did not cause the
firing to cease.
The tower of the stockade was filled
with sharpshooters, armed with Win
chesters, and they kept up a steady fire
into the crowd of union miners. Ee
witnesses say the dead miners were
killed after the train had departed.. It
is not known how many men were sta
tioned behind the walls of the stockade,
but an estimate placed it at between
25 and 40. Word was sent to physi
cians in town that their services were
needed at the stockade.
The supply and provision store of the
Chicago-Virden Coal Company is known
as the Climax Trading Company, with
Superintendent J. F. Eyster in charge.
At 2 o'clock, after the firing at the
stockade had subsided, an attack with
out a parallel in the history of the
trouble was made on Eyster in thie
store, on Main street, one block from
the depot, which will probably cost
him his life.
A detail of militia at 10:30 tonight
killed ex-Lieutenant of Police Tom
Preston, of Chicago, at the stockade.
He was standing outside the stockade
as euard. 1 The military gavo the by.
standing miners the command to halt,
and Preston stepped back to the gate.
The militia fired and he was shot in
the stomach. He was carried into the
office in the stockade, where he expired.
Battery D, of' Galesburg, 111., undei
Captain Craig, numbering 160 men, ai-
rivo.1 here tonight from fana.
Adjutant-General J. C. Reece said
that Preston was not killed by the
militia. He eaid that when the guard
at the itockade had dodged into the
entrance at the militia's order of
hands up," a revolver shot was fired
from the darkness add Preston foil,
mortally wounded. General Reece eaid
the militia did not fire a shot, and
Preston was killed with a revolver by
some one unknown.
The "Dreservation of the reaoe" in
Europe by means of navies and stand
ing armies costs Uou.uuu.uuo a year.
EXPLOSION IN A COLLIERY.
Five Miners Were Killed and Eleven
Injured.
Tamaqua, Pa., Oct. 15. Five men
were killed and 11 injured by an ex
plosion of gas this afternoon in colliery
No. 8 at Coaldale, near here. The dead
are: Fire Boss Thomas Smith, Wil
Ham Reese, Mattis O'Larkoy, of Coal
dale; VVUliara Caak. and John Kon
icka, of Lansford. All were marrriod.
and leave large families.
The colliery has a capacity of over
800,000 tons of coal, and employs 500
hands. In consequence of fire, which
originated in the left section of the
mine some months ago, shifts of men
were put to work driving holes from
tho gangway, through which the water
was to be forced upon tho flames.
While the men were buildling a dam
to back up the water this aftornoon, the
gangway caught fire. Noarly 100,000
gallons of water was turned into the
holes and almost instantly a terrific
explosion ocoun-ed, followed in quick
succession by four lighter explosions of
such force that the gangway was torn
up for over 800 feet, and the workmen
were blown about in all directions.
Rescue gangs were put to work and an
hour lator it was thought that all the
dead and injured had been found, al
though the search was under way to
night, when the fire was still burning.
The water forced .volumes of escaping
gas from somo of the old workings back
upon the flames, causing the explosion.
UNKNOWN VILLAGE FOUND.
Strange Community in the Eleart ol
the Crals. '
St. Petersburg, Oct. 15. A dispatoh
from Moscow reports that news has
reached there rom the Asiatic borders
of the discovery of an entire village,
the existence of which is unknown to
Russian and European ethnologists and
geographers. None of the many tribes
in this weird region knew that there
was such a village, nor have they ever
met any of the inhabitants.
The village lies snugly ensconced in
the valley of a group of lofty mountains
in the almost impenetrable Ural range.
The people speak a language of their
own, which bears noresemblanoo what
ever to the 70 or more languages which
prevail in the vast regions of tho great
white czar.
The travelers who chanced upon this
community have been unable to elicit
any information regarding their ante
cedents. Their dress consists princi
pally of animal skins and their huts are
constructed of twisted boughs.
The report adds sarcastically, refer
ring to the heavy burdens of tho czar's
subjects, which have been discovered,
that the village seems to form a sort ol
ideal commonwealth, in which taxes
and tax gatherers, among other trouble
some things, are unheard of. This lat
ter defect, however, is now to be rem
edied, and it will no doubt be only a
matter of a few weeks or months be
fore the villagers partake of all the ad
vantages and privileges of the Russian
peasants.
UP THE NOATAK RIVER.
First White Men to Ascend the Kotie
bne Sound Stream.
Seattle, Oct. 15. The first white
men to ascend the Noatak river, in
Alaska, arrived hero today. They were
Dr. R. E. Franklin and G. H. Griffith,
of Richmond, Va.; N. Livermore, ol
Port Townsend; John Mason, Charles
Gay and Wallace Rhodes, of Seattle;
O. Payne, of New York city, and Jack
Beach.
In two rowboats they went up about
250 miles, which requiied 27 days of
hard work. Their return trip was made
in only 86 hours, which gives a good
idea of the swiftness of tho water in
this hitherto nnexploied river. They
did not find any trace of gold worth
mentioning, but discovered a oountry
in which wild berries, especially cur
rants, thrive; also all kinds of water
fowl and the ptarmigan. On their re
turn from Kotzebue sound, Franklin
and Griffith located claims at Galvoin
bay, where they took out $2.50 to the
pan at bedrock. Some of tho gold as
says about $19 to the ounce.
Arthur D. Spiers, of New York, ar
I ived here today from Alaska, whore
he wont as a member of the Pat Gal
vin expedition, which drove 1,000
head of beef cattle over the Dalton
trail to Fort Silkirk, where tbey wero
butchered and shipped to Dawson.
Only six head died on the drive. At
Dawson the meat sold at $1.25 a pound
rotail, and 55 cents wholesale.
Copper Mine Kailroad.
City of Mexioo, Oct. 15. The gov
ernment has granted a concession for a
standard-gauge railroad 150 kilometers
maximum length. The concessionaire
is the Inguaran Copper Mining Com
pany, in which the Paris Rothschilds
are heavily interested. The road is
being planned to connect the mines
with the bay of Zituatanaoza, on the
Pacific coast, and will bo an outlet for
coppor productions. The Inguaran
mines are believed to be the future of
the rival of the Calumet & Ilecla, tho
greatest known copper property in the
United States.
1assonger Rate Reduced.
Seattle, Oct. 15. Official notifica
tion was received today by R. O. Stev
ens, genoral Western passenger agent
of the Great Northern railway, of a re
duction of one cent per mile in the pas
senger ratos in Washington, Idaho and
Montana.
WEEKLY MARKET LETTER.
Reporwd by Pownlnp, Hopkins & Co., Inc..
Board ol Trade Rroker, 711 to 714 Chamber ol
Commerce building, I'orUaud, Oregon.
Early in September the price of cash
wheat at Chicago got almost to 60c,
and the various grades of contract to
61 to 65o. The December, now the
active future, at that time was around
60o. That was on the first rush of the
new spring wheat crop. On that dip
there was some letting up in receipts
and a surprising increase in the export
demand. The development of this in
dependence on the part of growers and
of nuying demand on the side of foreign
ers started an advance that carried the
September within a fortnight, to 70c,
advanced the cash price generally about
5c per bushel, and took tho December
from 60c to 64 7-8o. A September
shortage contributed somewhat to this
rally, but it was brought around main
ly by the foreign demand and by the
independence of tho countrymen.
The advance in price changed the sit
uation again. The Western holder be
oamea sellor and the foreigner lessened
his buying. The September experience,
if nothing, suggest that the general
wheat mood just now vacillates between
60c and 70o, the grower being willing
to sell very freely at the latter figure
and determined to hold at around 60o,
and the consumer being willing to buy
at the lower but reluctant to take hold
at the higher figures. This experience
gives the speculator a "line" on the
uiuikct, will prcbsblj" influence th?
commission people to advise their cus
tomers to act on the theory that around
the 60o point wheat should bo bought
and anywhere around the 70c it should
be sold. Conditions, of course, may
not in October be the same as they wer
in September; the foreigner, for in
stance, may not be as willing to buy on
the breaks nor the countrymen asdeter
mined to hold, and October by tiadi
tion is a more bearish month than Sep
tember; but in a general way the whet
speculator, it may be taken for granted,
will bear in mind the September ex
erience.
Seattle Markets.
Tomatoes, 5075o per box.
Cucumbers, 1015opoi doz.
Onions, 8590o per 100 pounds.
Potatoes, $10 14.
Beets, per sack, $1.
Turnips, per saok, 50 65c.
Carrots, per sack, 65c
Parsnips, per sack, $1.
Beans, green, 23o.
Green corn, $11.25 per saok.
Cauliflower, 75o per doz.
Hubbard squash, lJo por pound.
Celery, 4050o.
Cabbage, native and California
fl.25Ol.B0 per 100 pounds.
Apples, 50c 90c per box.
Pears, 75c $1 per box. (
Prunes, 4050o per box.
Peaches, 25 40c.
Plums, 80c.
Cantaloupes, $1.25 per box.
Butter Creamery, 26o per pound;
dairy and ranch, 18 20c per pound.
Eggs, 26c.
Cheese Native, 1212c.
Poultry Old , hens, 1814c per
pound; spring chickens, $34.
Fresh meats Choice dressed beel
steers, prime, 67c; cows, prime,
6c; mutton, 7io; pork, 78o; veal,
68o,
Wheat Feed wheat, $19.
Oats Choice, per ton, $22 23.
Corn Whole. $28.50; cracked, $24;
foed meal, $23.60.
Barley Rolled or ground, per ton,
$2425; wholo, $22.
Flour Patent, per barrel, $3.50;
straights, $8.25; California brends,
$8.25; buckwheat flour, $3.75; graham,
per barrel, $3.70; whole whoat flour.
$3.75; rye flour, $4.
Millstuffs Bran, per ton, $14;
shorts, per ton, $16.
. Feed Chopped food, $1721 pei
ton; middlings, per ton, $17; oil cake
meal, per ton, $35.
Hay Puget Sound mixed, $9.50
10; choice Eastern Washington tim
othy, $13.
Portland Market.
Wheat Walla Walla. 68 59c: Val-
ley and Bluestem, 6062o por bushel.
Flour Best grades, $3.85; graham,
$2.85; superfine, $2.25 per barrel.
Oats Choice white. 8638c: choice
gray, 84 85c per bushel.
Uarloy Feed barley. $21 22: brew-
ins. $28 per ton.
Miilstuffs Bran, $14 per ton; mid
dlings, $21; shorts, $14; chop, $13 per
ton.
Hay Timothy, $1011; clover, $9
10; Oregon wild hay, $9 10 per ton.
Butter Fancy creamery, 50 00c;
soconds, 4045o; dairy, 4045o store,
25 85o.
Cheese Oregon full cream, ll12o;
Young America, 12o; new cheese,
10c por pound.
Poultry Chickens, mixed, $3 8. 50
per dozen; hens, $3. 50 4.50; springs,
$1.253; geese, $5.00 6)0 for old,
$4.605 for young; ducks, $4.00
6.00 per dozen; turkeys, live, 12
12'c per pound.
PotatoeB 6560cper sack; sweots,
224C per poiinn.
Vegetables Beets, 90c; turnips, 75o
per sack; garlic, 7o per pound; cab
bage, $11.25 per 100 pounds; cauli
flower, 76o per dozen; parsnips, 75o
per sack; beans, 8c per pound; celery,
70 75o per dozen; cucumbers, 60c pei
box; peas, 8 3 Jc per pound.
Onions Oregon, 76o$l persack.
Hops 1016o; 1897 crop, 67o.