n
CAPTURED Hi ill
LVen Americans Killed in
the Engagement.
fclTIDEL OF LAGUNA DE BAY
Manila to Believe General Otis at
Governor of the City.
Manila, April 15. General Lawton
'f,na oantnred Paete, the citadel of the
SLagnnna de Bay territory, eight miles
I beyond Lumban.
Lawton's force was at Lumban, and
the battalion of the North Dakota vol
funteers made a forced march of 12
miles from fagasjan. ine troops
made a forward rush, fording the rivers
twioe and fighting in the jungle. The
column advanced and met a crossfire,
and some of the Dakota troops were
ambushed by rebels behind a sunken
trench. Finally the trenches were
taken by the rushing Americans with
ii loss of five killed and two wounded.
The insargent loss wao email. The
'imnboats shelled the Filipinos an hour,
flnallv nlanrail til A trpnohfiS.
There are not enough men to gar
rison the towns taken, and they may
be abandoned.
The launches oaptured yesterday are
worth $70,000.
An Attack Near Panmbon.
Manila, April 15. At about 4
o'clock this morning a small body of
rebels attacked a camp of the Third ar
tillery from the swamp near Paombon,
a mile and a half west of Malolos.
Two privates were killed and a lieuten
ant and two others wounded. At day
light the American forces scouted the
district, driving the rebels northward,
and killing several of them. A private
soldier of the Montana regiment was
wounded.
Francisco Reyes, a man who recent
ly purchased Spanish gunboats at
Zamboanga, island of Mindanao, has
received advioes to the effect that the
fleet sailed for Manila, and returned a
few days later with the vessels stripped
of their guns and ammunition.
The purchasers' agents and native
crews of the vessels on board the
American steamer Butuan were con
voyed to Zamboanga by the United
States cruiser Bos toy, and instiucted
to await the arrival there of tne United
States gunboat Petrel. Instead of do
ing so, after the Boston sailed for Zam
boanga, the Spaniards transferred their
gunboats to the agents of Senor Reyes,
and the fleet left Zamboanaga unes
corted. It soon returned and reported
having been boarded by rebels, who re
moved the gunboats' armaments. If
the instructions of the American naval
commander had been obeyed their cap
ture would have been Impossible.
Zamboanga ia fortified and still gar
risoned by Spaniards, and the affair
is regarded as suspicious.
Wheeler Ooci to Manila.
Washington. April 15. It is semi
officially announced today on the best
authority that General Joe Wheeler
will be sent at once to Manila aa the
military governor of that city in order
to relieve Otis of the details and give
him a ohance to chase Aguinaldo and
the rebels. It is said General Wheeler
will leave with General Fred Grant,
who has been ordered home from Poito
Rico to get instructions to proceed in
liaste to the Philippines.
Governor Lee's Demand.
Pierre, S. D April 15. Governor
Lee has written tn Pmai.lont Mntrin.
ley, demanding the return of the South
wtKota volunteers from the Philip
pines. He recites the facts of enlist
ment to fight for humanity against
spam, declares that "the South Dakota
jolnnteers have fulfilled every obliga
tion which they owe to their country
and its flag," and that they should be
allowed to return home. He says:
We view their present or future
retention as unconstitutional, and as a
violation of the law which called the
organization Into being, and feel that
'ey should not be retained against
eir will, against the law and against
ne moral sense of the people of our
''ate. without offering some satisfac
tory reason for so doing."
ALL MEMBERS NAMED.
Bron von Sternberg Represents Ger
many on Sainoan Question.
Washington, April 15. The . 8a
moan commission will sail for Apia on
"e United States naval transport
25th i leavinK San Francisco on the
to inst. This arrangement was
made today after Baron Speck von
Sternberg, first secretary of the Ger
San enbassy, had called on Secretary
"ay and advised him of his appoint
ment as the German member of the
'"gh commission. This oompleted the
U Aa the p,an to ,iavo the mem
th ?6k away oa tLe Mariposa, sailing
"9 19 was no longer feasible, the
"ansport Badonr. nm at nation ra,n
nlo Way t0 San Francisco, was
piaoed at the disposal of the coinmis
"ion, Thomas V i -1 i i
to:n. ' rsvuina Bitot iionn ana
"II ham . ... .
in c notorious cnaraoters,
Bill d COunty Kentucky. The
wer approaching Freeman's
1dence to kill Freeman's father.
TEN DOLLAR DINNER
Tammany's Observance or Jefferson
lay.
New York, April 15.-The dinner of
the Democratic club in honor of the
anniversary of the birth of Thomas
Jefferson was held at the Metropolitan
opera-house. Looking from the tiers
o the floor of the vast dining-hall. the
tables seemed like great beds of roses,
lhe 33 tables were on either side of
the speaker's table. Either table was
piled with a mass of loses and ferns in
tertwined. So abundant were the
flowers that some of the guests were
hardly able to see each other over the
floral banks. Swans and vases of ala
baster held flowers; there were cornu
copias or horns of plenty filled with
flowers and fruit, and the scene was set
off with ribbons of cardinal Bilk.
Perry Belmont, Richard Croker,
Judge Van VVyck and other prominent
Democrats spoke.
Jeffenon Pay at Milwaukee.
Milwaukee, April 15. The Jefferson
Club, of Milwaukee, observed the natal
day of the founder of Demooracy in a
most fitting manner by a banquet at
the Plankington house tonight, which
was attended by over 400 guests. Col
onel William J. Bryan, of Nebraska,
was the guest of honor, and delivered
the principal address. Delegations of
Democrats were in attendance from
iuauy low ne tiiiuugiiuut the state, and
nearly all the Democrats from the
state legislature were present. Col
onel Bryan arrived early from Chicago,
escorted by a large delegation from that
city, and Mayor Harrison came later,
also with a large number of escorts.
The banquet hall was beautifully dec
orated with the national oolors.
HAWAIIAN ENTERPRISES.
New Sugar Company Formed 'With
Large Capital.
San Fiancisco. April 15. The
steamer City ot Rio de Janeiro arrived
today from Hone Kong and Yokohama,
via Honoulu. A press representative
at Honolulu sends the following un
der date of April 5:
L. A. Thurston, A. W. Carter and
others have secured options on the
large Grossman and othei coffee es
tates in Olaa, which they propose to
organize into sugar plantations. The
consideiation was in the neighborhood
of $800,000. There are 10,000 acres
in the tract.
The Nahiku Sugar Company, limited,
with a capital of $750,000, was organ
ized, and most of the stock taken.
The capital will be divided into 87,500
shares of $20 each. Of the stock $75,-
000 will be paid up and $675,000 will
e assessable.
At a meeting of the cabinet April 3
the contract with the Scrymser com
pany for a oable between San Fran
cisco and Honolulu was cancelled.
This action was taken on a letter from
the secretary of state at Washington,
declining to consider the matter.
The steamship Garonne arrived from
Seattle yesterday afteravojage of 11
days. On the first day out from Seat
tle G. VV. McGinnis, passenger agent
for the steamer, slipped on the com
panionway and broke several ribs.
His condition is serious.
Maroh 23 the bottom of the great
volcano fell out, followed by great
clouds of dust and smoke. Alarm
was felt by the guests of the Volcano
house, occasioned by the noise and the
frequent landslides which followed,
but some of the guests became reas
sured and started to investigate the
phenomenon. A hole 150 feet in dia
meter showed the extent of the cave
in. All attempts to locate the bottom
of the crater were unavailing, and
some authorities place it at 800 feet
below the mouth of the orater.
FREIGHT TRAIN WRECKED.
Went Over an Embankment Near Lew
liton, Idaho.
Moscow, Ida.io, April 15. At 9
o'clock this morning the engine, ten
der and four oars of a freight train on
the Lewiston extension of the Northern
Paoifio ran over an embankment. En
gineer Mat Ralston and Fireman Fred
Lemon were killed. The wreoked lo
comotive and cars lie half imbedded
in the stream 100 feet below the track.
Fireman Lemon was killed instantly,
and his body was shockingly mangled.
Engineer Ralston was still alive when
found, fie said:
"Hold my head for me; I am dying.
Take my hand; I don't want to go
alone."
He was taken U Vollmer, and died
three hours later. His body and that
of Lemon were sent to Spokane on a
special. Ralston left a wife and child.
Lemon had a wife and two children
living in Spokane. The wreck was
caused by the recent heavy rains.
Drowned In m Keiervoir.
San Francisco, April 15. At Lake
Merced, one of the reservoirs of the
Spring Valley Water Company, today,
two lives, that of a little girl and her
aunt, were lost. The girl was playing
on the edge of the lake, and in an at
tempt to secure some object floating
near the shore lost her balanoe and fell
into the water. A party of picnick
ers, one of whom was the little girl's
aunt, heard her screams and rushed to
the lake. The aunt, Miss Katharine
Williams, plunged into the water to
in hor niAra. but cot bevond her
depth, and both were drowned before
aid could be procured. The child's
name was Clara Woods.
&L0NG THE COAST.
Items of General Interest Gleaned
From the Thriving; Paclflo
States.
Excursion to Alaika.
The New England delegates to the
National Editorial Association will be
joined in Portland by the New England
delegates to the National Educational
Association, and together a trip is con
templated to Skagway and Alaska coast
points. The party will number about
100, and it is intended to be absent
from home two months or more. C.
W. Bobbins, of the Enterprise, Old
Town, Me., and William F. Jarvis,
editor of the Journal of Education,
Boston, Mass., are working up the
party. The press committee and the
citizens' committee in Portland are
preparing a programme that will keep
the National Editorial Association del
egates there two weeks if they choose
to remain that long. Every member
of the Oregon Press Association has
formed a committee of one, and no
matter where located within the state
limits, is preparing something unique
with which to entertain the delegates
to its national organization.
Weak Wool Market.
E. Y. Judd, of the Pendleton Wool
Scouring & Fucking Company, wriiea
from the East that the recent organiza
tion of the worsted mill trust has de
moralized the wool market and is
largely responsible for the decline in
the price of wool, as buyers are at sea
aa to the future action of the trust and
are unable to determine what their
own action is to be. Mr. Judd says
that this trust alone will consume
100.000,000 pounds of wool annually,
which is one-third of the total annual
product of the country. The wool
trust has not yet entered the market,
and have given no hint of their inten
tion. As soon as the uncertainty of
their action is removed the market may
have a firmer tone and it may not. The
outlook for wool this year is not the
best, as everybody is timid on a de
clining market.
The Fish Combine.
The control of the fish-taking appli
ances of lower Puget sound by the Pa
cific American Fish Company is an
assured fact. The last dollar of the
$100,000 of stock which the vendees
asked the trapmen to subscribe has
been taken. The capital stock of the
company is $5,000,000. Of this
$1,000,000 is preferred and $4,000,000
common. In part payment, which
averages about 7 per cent of the pur
chase prioe, the trapmen are given pre
ferred stock at par. For overy dollar
of preferred taken at par they are given
a dollar's worth of common stock. The
preferred stock is guaranteed to pay 8
per cent per annum.
Good Market for Cattle.
Cattle-buyers are busy interviewing
the cattlemen of Malheur, and Harney
counties, and the outlook for stock
shipments from that point this season
is better than last. Superintendent
Gilorist, of the Paciflo Livestock Com
pany, states that all the sbipph.3 of
that large cattle company would be
done at Ontario as heretofore, and that
they would, in all probability, ship
more stock this season than last.
Agents for some of the most extensive
Eastern stockholders are located at On
tario, and are now busy oontiaoting
stock. , '
In Favor of the Government.
Judge Ross, in the district court at
Los Angeles has handed down a de
cision in the case entitled the United
States against the Southern Pacific
Copmany, which involved title to 1,
160,000 acres of land in Southern
California. The decision is favorable
to the United States. The land ii
contained in the overlapping land
grants to the Southern Paoifio Com
pany and other railways.
Lad ue'e Company Attached.
The sheriff's office in New York city
received an attachment for $10,000
against the Joseph Ladue Gold Min
ing & Development Company, in favor
of Morton C. Nichols, for money ad
vanced for stook in the company. The
company has a capital stock of $5,000,-
000, and was founded to take over the
properties of Joseph Ladue, known as
the ' founder of Dawson City."
New Fish Commissioner for Oregon.
F. O. Reed, of Astoria, lias been ap
pointed fish commisBionei by Goveinoi
Geer, to fill the vacancy caused by the
drowning of Hollister D. McGuire, of
Portland. He will receive a salary of
$3,500 a year and traveling and other
necessary expenses. He will be re
Quired to furnish a bond for $25,000.
Sheep Not Doing Well.
J. H. Jackson, who has returned
from the Antelope country, says sheep
in that section are not doing well. The
young lambs are dying pretty rapidly,
owing to the fact that the ewes are
poor and are not giving sufficient milk
to keep the lambs alive.
Tannery and Glove Factory.
One of the most important young
manufacturing industries is that of the
glove leather tannery and factory of
Anderson & Meyers, near Talent, Or.
Improved machinery for making gloves
of every kind has been installed, and
the factory is now turning out excel
lent goods.
Slocan Mine Sold.
A Spokane dispatch says the mining
sensation of the day is the sale of the
Enterprise, a Slocan silver-lead prop
erty, one of the richest in that distiiot,
to the London & British Columbia Gold
Fields, Ltd., of London, for $750,000.
The Enterprise is owned by Finch &
Campbell, of Spokane, and D. M. Hy
man, of Colorado. Extensive develop
ment in the past has been carried on
by these gentlemen, but it is under
itood that the purchasing company is
;o take charge of the property at once.
It is generally believed by experienced
mining men that the English corpora
tion has secured a bonanza in the En
terprise. It is the most extensively
developed property on Slocan lake, and
takes high rank among the mines of
Slocan, having ore reserves sufficient
to last for years.
Another Steamship Terminal.
About ten acres of tide land
and water way has been pur
chased for $24,000 in Seattle by agents
ot the Eastern Steamship Company,
who will immediately commence im
provements at the Sound. It is under
stood that the property is to be utilized
for ocean and city (looks, and coal
bunkers, or, in other words, for a ter
minal for coastwise and foreign ship
ping. The waterway has been dredged,
and has a depth of 30 feet at average
tide, with room enough for half a doz
en steamers.
Seeking Oregon Cattle.
A. L. Falkner, of Hutchinson,
Minn., is in Portland, in quest of beef
cattle for Eastern shipment. Another
buyer now in the state is C. M. Thorn p.
son, repiesentative of Allerton & Co.,
of Chicago, who is making purchases
of oattle for his corporation's pastures
near Chinook, Mont., for which he in
tends to purchase about 20,000 head.
PACIFIC COAST TRADE.
Portland Market.
Wheat Walla Walla, 58c; Valley,
69c; BlueBtem, 6O0 per bushel.
Flour Best grades, $3.20; graham,
$2.65; superfine, $2.15 per barrel.
Oats Choice white, 44 46c; choics
gray, 41 43c per bushel.
Barley Feed barley, $22.00; brew
ing, $22.00 per ton.
Milletuffs Bran, $17 per ton; mid
dlings, $22; shorts, $18; chop, $16.00
per ton.
Hay Timothy, $S9; clover, $7
8; Oregon wild hay, $6 per ton.
Butter Fancy creamery, 5055o;
seconds, 4550o; dairy, 4045o store,
2580o.
Cheese Oregon full cream, 12 o;
Young America, 15c; new cheese,
10c per pound.
Poultry Chickens, mixed, $34
per dozen; hens, $4. 00 5. 00; springs,
$1.25 3; geese, $6.00 7.00 for old,
$4.50 5 for young; ducks, $5.00
5.50 per dozen; turkeys, live, 15
16c per pound.
Potatoes $1110. per Back; Bweets,
So per pound.
Vegetables Beets, 90c; turnips, 75c
per sack; garlic, 7o per pound; cab
bage, $1 1.25 per 100 pounds; cauli
flower, 75o per dozen; parsnips, 75c
per sack; beans, 8c per pound; celery,
70 75c per dozen; cucumbers, 60o per
box; peas, 83)c per pound.
Onions Oregon, 75o$l per sack.
Hops 814o; 1897 crop, 4o. .
Wool Valley, 1012o per pound;
Eastern Oregon, 812c; mohair,
SOo per pound.
Mutton Gross, best sheep, wethers
and ewes, 4o; dressed mutton, 7c;
spring lambs, 7c per lb.
Hogs Gross, choice heavy, $4.60;
light and feeders, $3.50(93.00; dressed,
$5.00 6.00 per 100 pounds.
Beef Gross, top steers, 4,00$4.50;
cows, $2. 60 3. 00; dressed beef,
66c per pound.
Veal Large, 67c; small, 78o
per pound.
Seattle Markets.
Onions, 80o$1.10 per 100 pounds
Potatoes, $35 40.
Beets, per sack, $1.
Turnips, per sack, 6075o.
Carrots, per saok, 40 60c.
Parsnips, per sack, 750850.
Cauliflower, 90o$1.00 per dos.
Celery, 8540o.
Cabbage, native and California
$2 per 100 pounds.
Apples, 60c$l per box.
Pears, 60c$1.60 per box.
Prunes, 50c per box.
Butter Creamery, 26o per pound;
dairy and ranch, 1520o per pound.
Eggs, 16 17c.
Cheese Native, 13c.
Poultry Old hens, 16c per pound)
spring chickens, 14c; turkeys, 16c.
Fresh meats Choice dressed beef
Steers, prime, 8c; oows, prime,
tc; mutton, 9c; pork, 7o; veal, 810o.
Wheat Feed wheat, $22.
Oats Choice, per ton, $28.00.
Hay Puget Sound mixed, $8,003
0; choioe Eastern Washington tim
othy, $12.00.
Corn Whole. $23.50; cracked, $24;
feed meal, $24.00.
Barley Rolled or ground, per ton,
$35 20; whole, $24.
Flour Patent, per barrel, $3.85;
straights, $3.10; California brands,
$8.25; buckwheat flour, $3.50; graham,
Jer barrel, $3.60; whole wheat flour,
3.75; rye flour, $4.60.
Milletuffs Bran, per ton, $17;
shorts, per ton, $18.
Feed Chopped feed, $21023 per
ton; middlings, per ton, $22; oil ck
Basal, per ton, $35.
ATTACKED Bfl Sill
Americans and British Are
Caught in a Trap.
WERE FORCED TO RETREAT
Three Officers and Four Men Killed
and Beheaded-The Naval Expedition
Was Surprised In Ambush.
Auckland. N. Z., April 14. Dis
patches from Apia, Samoa, dated April
1, say that on that day a force of 214
British and Americans and 150 friend
lies was surprised in ambush at the
German plantation of Vasalo. The
rebel force opened fire on the rear, the
left flank and in front of tne Anglo
American force. The friend lies
bolted, but the marines and bluejackets
stood their ground, the Americans and
British firing shoulder to shoulder. A
Colt automatio gun with the landing
party became jammed, and the Ameri
cans and British were practically at
the meroy of the rebels; but "retreat"
was Bounded three times before the
marines and bluejackets returned.
The killed Li?,.it?H!,.nt TVpa-
mans Lieutenant P. V. Lansdale and
Ensgin J. R. Monaghan, of the Ameri
can oruiser Philadelphia; two Ameri
can sailors and two British sailors.
Ensign Monaghan stayed to assist
Lieutenant Lansdale, and was shot
down.
Lieutenant Angel II. Freeman, first
lieutenant of the Tauranga, who was
in command of the allied forces, was
shot through the heart. Lieutenant
Philip Van Home Lansdale, U. S. N.,
suffered a shattered leg, while en
deavoring to fix a jammed gun. Sea
man Hunt, of the British ship Por
poise, had an extra cap. He remained
with Lieutenant Landudale until
clubbed over the head and knocked
senseless. The bluejacket revived aa
the natives were cutting off his right
eat and were turning him over in order
to out off his left ear. At this junc
ture a shell from the British cruiser
Royalist burst on the battle-field, scar
ing the rebels, and Hunt escaped to
the beach, although severely stabbed
in one foot. The same night the
friendlies found the bodies of all the
officers headless. The bodies were
buried with all honors at Mulinuu
Easter Sunday. Their heads were sub
sequently brought in by some Frenoh
priests, and the graves were re-opened
and the heads buried with the bodies.
Lieutenants Freeman and Landedale
were capable and popular officers.
The manager of the German planta
tion has been arrested, and detained on
board the Tauranga. Affidavits have
been made declaring he was seen urg
ing the rebels to fight.
In a previous engagement 27 of Ma
taafa's warriors were killed, and there
were no casualties among the European
forces.
THE REBELS ROUTED.
General Wheaton Chased the Filipinos
Into the Hills.
Manila, April. 14. General Whea
ton started at daylight with the Tenth
Pennsylvania and the Second Oregon
regiments, and two guns, to drive the
rebels from the American right flank
between the railroad and the foothills.
He met with slight resistance near
Santa Maria, and one man was wound
ed, but the enemy bolted when shelled
by the artillery, and burned and aban
doned the town of Santa Maria, where
1,000 rebels were reported to have been
concentrated. '
During the rest of the day the enemy
was in full retreat toward the moun
tains, burning the villages behind the
retreating force. Occasionally a few
rebels dropped to the rear, and fired at
the advancing American troops from
the jungle, apparently with the idea
that this would check our advance and
cover the retreat of the Filipinos.
Finding these tactics ineffectual, these
rebels scrambled after the main body.
The American guard along the rail
road baa been materially strengthened,
and it is not likely the rebels will in
the future succeed in getting to as olose
quarters as they did yesterday, even if
they return fiora the mountains.
General Wheaton has telegraphed to
General Otis, saying: "They would
not wait to be killed."
General Lawton is scouring the
vicinity of Santa Cruz. He finds the
rebels have decamped. He has secured
a gunboat, six launches and two
canoes, comprising the Filipino fleet.
The vessels were stuck in the mud ot
the river. General Otis has Bent a
dredge to the spot.
General Luna, who retired from the
command of the Filipino forces and
who was editing a newspaper at San
Francisco del Monte, his retirement be
ing due to the fact that Fuchinos re
belled at his rigid discipline, has been
recalled to the command. This is
taken as showing that the rebel army
is only kept together by harsh meas
ures. Ferry Heath In Porto Illoo.
San Juan de Porto Rico, April 18.
Perry S. Heath, the first assistant postmaster-general,
has arrived here on
board the United States transport Bu
ford. He will be urged on all Bides to
improve the mail service, especially be
tween Ponce and San Juan.