TUT MOUSING ASTOKIAN, THl'KSDXY, Al'KIl lft. Mi. . . . ASK "Charles Carroll" "General Good" CIGARS TWO UN EQUAL, ED SMOKES ALLEN & Distributor, BRITISH MISCONDUCT. Grave Charges Made by American Cap. tain Who Served With the Boers. NEW YORK. April 17.-Captain Otto Von Lossburg, captain of the Second battery, Transvaal state ar tiller)', who left the Boer army in January, being: lnrapaclated with wounds, arrived from Europe with Montague White and Is now at the Imperial hotel. He will start for New Orleans, his old home, tonight. In an interview he said: "I talked with Jeneral Louis Botha before I cme away. 'You may go.' he told me: "you have fought well. I give you your discharge. When you come back we shall be free or fighting. I shall All a patriot's grave. Go, my boy. God be kind to you.' 'That's the kind of men who fight for the Boer cause," continued Captain Von Lossburg. "The English have vi olated every law of civilised warfare. They have armed Ave thousand Kaffirs who are in Steinacher's Horse, which Is the scum of South Africa. They fight like the Hessians fought you for hire. They get twelve shillings a day. They plunder and pillage everybody, young and old alike. "When I was wounded I was put in a Red Cross ambulance and started for Lourenco Marques. We were held up bv fifty Kaffirs, who wore nothing but breech clouts and carried British rifles. They took everything we had and turned me back to Pretoria. "I complained of the violation of the Red Cross flag and robbery to the Brit ish officers. They investigated and ad mitted that I had been shamefully treated. They promised restitution 'after the war." You Americans have little conception of the resources of the Boers. General Delarey alone has three million rounds of ammunition. We I have twenty guns and a long Tom. The j latter in hidden for future need. We need nothing but ambulances and our' supplies. "Our Holland societies sent us three ambulances and horses several months ago via Lourenco Marques. The British there had them held up and they are ! there yet, while our men are dying for j the need of them. i "Our forces are distributed like this: Delarey has six thousand men; Botha, four thousand ; De Wet five thousand and the rest are In flying corps. They j constantly harass the British. Most of our men are fighting suutn of Pretoria. I "The Americans with our irmy and i particularly the IrbOi-Americans are doing magnificent fighting. One of the latter was a sergeant-major in the Sixth Massachusetts regiment. The i Irish-Americans prevented the rapture j of our long Tom by their bravery at : Leydenburg- They fought like fiends, j "The English hive 100,000 men tied up j guarding the railroad at Port Elizabeth, ! New London. Durham and Cape Town. Last November a lot of mules and i horses for their army reached Lourenco j Marques. Only the French, consul pro- j tested. The German and American con- i suls were mute. Portugal heedH the I French protest and made the ships un- ' load elsewhere out of Portuguese ler- ritory. j "The British recently desecrated the Lutheran church at Rusterly mission. The Tommies took the church organ and while one of them played ihe oth ers danced to the music with Kaffir irlrls. At Lystenberg thr British dese crated a cemetery by making it a cat tle pen. "Our winter season begins in May and ends In September. The Boers will take to the hills until it is over. They have little baggage to Impede their mobility while the British troops are weighted down. We shall play havoc with them when the winter sets in." The captain denied that Gen'-ral De Wet is Insane. "He is the most dangerous 'Insane man' that England ever coped with," he said, "General De Wet ie a military genius. He has made his raw troops into one of the best disciplined and most dangerous forces In the world. They Pears 5 Economical soap is one that a touch of cleanses. Pears' shaving soap is the best in, all the world. . AH Mrtl of people bm Pram' map, all aorta a stores tell it, especially druggist. FOR . . . 10c 5c LEWIS, Portland, Oregon S , love him like a father and would fol ; low him into the very Jaws of death." SOUTHWESTERN DEAL. Progress Being Made In the Consoli dation of Railroads. NEW YORK. April K.-The Herald says: It can be definitely stated thai fur ther progress his be?n made In the Southwestern railroad "deal." which is being engineered by the Standard Oil Gould -Harriman lntrsts. Just what properties are to be Included in this new consolidation of railroads cannot be accurately stated, but the prospective nurchaser of the Mexican Central is. or is to be. the St. Louis Sin Fran cicso Railroad Company, and shrewd railway men say that if the "Frisco has bought the Central then some one has bought the 'Frisco. The strength and activity of Mexican Central issues clearly indicate a purchase for some private interests. From one of the very higher! banking au:horltI?s the Information is obtained that eventually the St. Louis & San Francisco will iurn up as owner of the property. When asked if the St. Louis & San Francisco was not planning n extension Into Mexico, President Yoa kum of the road said: "Yes, we are to build an extension toward Mexico." Mr. Yoakum said that the 'Frisco road had not bought the Mexican Central but when asked if it was not the intention of the 'Frisco In terests to take over that property, he said that he could not tell what might happen In the future. Railroad men who have heard the report say without exception that If the 'Frisco has ac quired or is to acquire the Mexican Central, then some greater power has acquired the 'Frisco. The concensus of oolnion is that any such purchase would logically be by thcGould interests which, despite i's inactivity until recently, is ill the dominant railway power in the Southwest. The reason advanced for saying that the 'Frisco is not alone in the matter is that the new construction to connect the 'Frisco, either from Paris, Tex., or Oklahoma, its most western and south western termini, with the Mexican Cen tral at El Paso, is too extensive for that company to undertake single handed. OperaMng In harmony with the Gould roads, the extension required to make the connection would be far less con siderable and then, too. the harmony of Interest in the Southwest would be bet ter conserved. AFTER SOUTHERN COTTON. President Hill Will Ship It to Oriental Markets Over His Lines. CHICAGO. April K.-Speaking of the Purlington. Great Northern and North ern Pacific deal, the Record-H'-rald says- "What J. J. Hill, president of the Great Northern, wants of the Burling ton system s not an outlet to Chicago as a link in an eastern line for the Great Northern and Northern Pacific, but chiefly a connection with St. Louis and Kansas City. He wants to reach the cotton of the South for transporta tion over the Great Northern and Nor thern Pacific and his steamships now building, to Oriental markets. "It Is no part of his purpose. It ! declared Mr. Hill said, to use the Bur lington as an exhaustive nutlet for he two Pacific roads to Chicago. On the contrary, all the six Chicago roads which bring business to the Great Nor then and Northern Pacific will have their fair share of the traffic as now. It is understood that St. Paul Is to be the central headquarters of the organ ization. MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE. California On Promoter Missed From a Southern Pacific Train. DENVER. April 17.-A special to the News from El Paso, Tex., says: C. S. Young, a wealthy oil promoter of Bakersfield, Cal.. was missed from an incoming Southern Pacific train near here and no trace of him can be found. Young was en route to the new oil fields at Beaumont, Tex., with several friends. When nearing the quarantine station he got up to go from one car to another and has not been seen since. His hat and valine were left In the car. JONES MAY BE INDICTED. Pot! Attorney and Valet to Answer Charge of Murder. NEW YORK. April IT. lawyer Al beit T. Patrick, accused by Valet Chan. V Jinea of Instigating the murder of M.ninnnirv W:n. Uiiv, will be Indicted for murder In the first i'.k!v? within the next three days. V.ilct Join's may be also Indicted for the murder. The lat ter !s at present In the house of de tention, charged only with forgery. Patrick's hearing was concluded Thursday last. The sole qu-':ion at Is su.' was whether or not Jon s' st 'iy of the crime was sulliclently corrobo rated. Justice Jerome took the tran script of the case to decide for ti';ms;'If from the record. "An examinuion of the evidence." he sai.l in his decision, "satisfies me that the witness, Jones, is adequately 0'r- rvb 'rat d within the meaning of the ckI-' by evidence tending to connect the defendant with the commission of the crime charged. The defendant must, therefore, be held upon the charge of murder In the first degree to await the grand jury." Pattick would not comimnt upm this decision. Assistant District Attorney Osborne said: "Patrick will be Indicted right away w ithin the week. The state has no de sire to delay the proceedings. Mr. (ar v in is at work now on the complaints to be presented to the grand Jury. There can be no doubt of the result of the grand Jury's consideration of the complaint. I believe I have enough evi dence to convict Patrick before any Jury.'' William W. Cantwell, of the counsol f.ir Patrick, said: "Of course we are somewhat disap pointed at Justice Jerome's action. We are satisfied that not one Iota of evi dence was submitted In corroboration of Jones' testimony of a nature to connect Patrick with Rice's murder. There was some corroboration, it is true, tending to confirm Jones' statement that he mur dered Rice, but we do not wish to criti cise the action of the Justice. We do wish to say, however, that we desire the testimony submitted to the grand Jury' with the least possible delay. We shall be ready to go to trial Immediately upon rhe action of that body." RI.OW TO POOL SELLING. State Attorney May Suppress 1.m Rooms Regardless of I.ocal Officials. CHICAGO. April IT. Pool selling in Illinois outside of regular race tra(ks or fair grounds received a blow when Judtv Haraell. of the circuit court of Madison county, made permanent the temporary injunction granted against a pool room across the river from St. Louis. Hereafter, according to this decision, there can be no pool rooms In the state, no matter how complaisant local "sheriff or chiefs of police may be, as long as the slate's attorney of the county objects. If the state's attorney fails to suppress pool rooms, the attorm'y-g'n-eral cf the state can step In. The matter is not of great Importance in Chicago now, as the list pool room was closed on Saturday and no others have been opened, but if there Is any attempt to start, the method of stop ping them has been pointed out. The decision, however. Is of importance all over the state, as the method of clos ing pool rooms which has proved so effectual in Madison county Is appli cable to Cook. Will, Dupage or any oth er cmintv In the state. GEORGIA PROSPEROUS. Governor ander States That Planters and Farmers Are Nearly All Out of Debt. NEW YORK. April 17. Governor H. D. randier, of Georgia, who Is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, m an Interview last night said: "Georgia Is in a better condition to day in every way than she has b--en for a generation. There is contentment and prosperity among all classes. The last cotton crop was a good one, and the planters and farmers are nearly all out of debt. Manufacturing is spring RHEUMATISM No sure cure is jet known for chronic rheumatism. No man living can cure it always. He can try. If he fails he can try another way. There are many ways. Some harmless; others worse than the rheumatism. Better not take the chance of quack medicines. Scott's emulsion of cod-liver oil cures rheumatism only by crowding it out by vital force. If that succeeds, it succeeds; if that fails, it fails. It never does any harm. Weil tati y a IUiU to try If y like. SCOTT Mi KjWN, 409 fearl strtel, New Yark. Ing up all over the state mid many cotton mills are being envied. "While our coal and Iron Interests are not so large as those of some other states. It Is not lnipibttbli they will be absorbed by the trusts. That seems t be the trend of events. "1 have been to Washington settling up some claims of the state against the geneial government growing out of the Spanish war. "I am glad to say there Inn been a marked decrease In the number of lynching In our suite and I have been couli.illy aided by oilier oltlciuls In e:n ploying every recourse to mvurt' a fair trial to all men accused of clime. There wre only slv lynchlngs In lieirgla last year w hie In lVf there were more than twice that maiw The abominable crimes of which lynching" are the re sult .ire not the work of Georgia born nesives. These are committed by col ored men who are fugitives from other states." Governor Candler will leave for Geor gia today. SENSATION AT CONFERENCE. Editor of New York Christian Advocate Aired Some of Ills Radical Views. NEW YORK. April IT. The Rev. Jas. H. Ruckley startle,! the New York East conference of the Methodist Epis copal church last night at Its session In the Hanson Place Methodist church, 1'rooklvn. by saying that Jamaica ginger us an American Intoxicant 's rivalled only by applejack. Dr. Ituckley was making his annual rcirt upon the Christian Advocate of which he is the editor, He salt) that during the year he had refused $1:1.000 worth of advertising 011 tb ground that he could not endorse the articles sought to be advertise!. He cln-ses Jamaica gi:igT aiming such objectionable nr. t eles and said he would not have it upon his table under any circumstances. Or Hlirkley said he had refuse, I to set apart a special department ',n the lle sp:i;er for the publication of leiil-pera'n-e news because If leniperuiice nes items were to be presented un der a temperance laliel thive who mont iii-eded to read that column would be certain to skip It. He denounced as an absurdity having children six and eight years old. barely able to sign ihelr names brought forwtrd to sign pledges, promising not to drink Intoxicant" or to use bad language. Dr. (tiickiry characterised the agita ti n f t '.ni'vldual communion cups as ";he inosi consummate humbug ever foisted uion the I'hristian church." IMPOSING MILITARY PARADE. T-ti Thousand Troops to Escort Presl dnt McKlnley Through Sim Frwndsco Streets. SAN PRV.N't'ISOO. April IT. Gem-rial Warll-ld. who will have charge ..f the military esi-ort on :he day of Presi dent McKlnley's arrival in this city, t-s-imae thit there win . from 10. (s) to r.'.0oO. It will probably be one of the must Imposing military p trades ever witnessed on this coast. There ill h" I'o civic bodies In the Hue. The regular army will l- e I by eith er Major-Gen"!' il Shafter r Major General Young. Ie-ndlng upon which of th -s.- officers Is in command of the dep.irtnvnt of California at the time. WHEAT MARKET. PORTLAND. April lT.-Wheat. Walla Walla. ."fir.T'j. SAN FRANCISCO. April IT. -Wheat, December. cash. 100. CHICAGO. April IT. Wheat, July, op.-nlng. ."O'ffiTI: closing, Tlii. LIVERP'aoL. April IT. Wheat, Julv, 5s. i'Vl JOHN MINTO'S ADDRESS (Continued from Third Page.) for farm products and exch.angng them for furs h ru peltries, and though the trade strife between the J(. H. Co.'s trappers and huiitTs and trios ,vho had remained In the country of the Asjtor and Wyeth people. rsid-s many of the H. P.. Co.'s engagecs, still bunted (1nd trapped, and so reduced the ga.ne !i,cni ly. Fur was low In price and the lower diss of skins like the large wolf had little or no value. The general e pression of the fur trade had caused men like Wilkin and Ebberts, Newell ami Meek to abandon trapping and come to Western Oregon to settlp, and this class and those cast up by the sea found It very hard to live. The Canadian trapper farmers as body were of the best of their class, their credit stool high with the fur company. of the trade plans of which they were as farmers a very Important part as the contract with the Alaskan Com pany required 15,000 bushels of wheat annually. They were thus a favored claw. They represented, too, a possi ble plea of Great Hrltiln's claim to Ore gin by occupation of Its subjects, "The position of the M. E. missionar ies was dlffcult. They tame under en gagements to the bonrd of missions. Each adult received one hundred dollars annually and ea;:h child under 14 yearn of age had an allowance, from the board (understood to be sixty dollars per annum). Tools and Implements were furnished lay-members who were ex pected to work. Some of them rfed fealty to the mission cause above coun try, and like the engagecs of the If. H. Co. had the right to be returned lo the place of their engagement. Thus It was the Hudson Ray Company and the M. E. church stood towards strangers p.nd adventurers coming into Oregon be tween IS.'M and 1S43. somewhat is the plebian stood to patrician in Roman society. As among these strangers there were Intelligent as well as reckless men, some of each class were advised or assisted to leave the country as Hall J. Kelley, the Boston school teacher, the first advocate of the. settlement of Oregon, In one case, and Chapman, ex member of John A. MoTTir gang, In the other. But In 1842 the adventurous spirits had increased, who would not take the position of plebkan to either the' predominant Commercial Company, or the church. Between 1840 and 1842, Joseph Gale, John Cannon, Pleasant Armstrong, Ralph Kllbourn, Henry Wood, George Davln hikI Jacob Green, Amerlcius In self helpfulness, nssocltit ed themselves together and built a schooner. They weiv refused Ihe sup Idles nt Vancouver nivessaiy to finish ligtrhiir their little ship. Dr. Mcdktig-h lln evidently saw ihelr situation of danger, when happily Captain Wllkcn came Into fie Columbia In lime to pre. M'tu an outbreak by visiting the little shin and her builders, being so favor ably Impressed by the enlcipiise as lo assisi it with an anchor, hawser, nau tical Instruments, a Hag and u clear ance, and offered himself 10 become res ponsl'ile to Dr. MoGI lughlln for what che was necessary, which cnuhhtl them lii Mulsh their work. (I tin Indebted to the annual address of J. V. Nesuilth, 10 the Pioneers In tsstt. for the facts of this successful creation of capital so to siy.i They were received from ("apt, Gale himself, who, as the only exper ienced sailor mi board, look this first Oretron-lmllt ship out of the mouth of the Columbia on the evening of Septem ber 1J. ISli. with John Cannon, Pleas ant Armstrong, Rilph Kllb urn. Jacob Green and an Indian boy as assistant. There was but one p.tssenger, a Mr. Plffenhauser. Captain Joseph Gale was the leading spirit In this enterprise and It Is very probable th.it he an. I Pleas ant Armstrong were Intrusted with In terest she represonted hy others In Oregon In addition 10 those going with him to California, wheiv she was sold for 3.M) cows siMii after her arrival. "Captain Oivle so u"d his time during the winter of IS4:'-,1 that In the spring of Istf he started as leader, to Oivgnu, of forty-two men, bringing l-'0 head of c title, BiHi head of mures and colt, horses and mules and SaitiO nlteep. They were T5 days r.'aehlng Ihe Willamette. On their arrival wilh their herds, the monopoly of slock cuttle came to tin end In Oregon. "I have marred the fine description of the public-spirited movement by J. W. Nesuilth, In order to show briefly that li was public-spirited and recog nixed as such by those w ho, at the call of the wolf meeting, oiganlied the pro. visional govrnmiit of Oregon placed Its leading spirit, Jos-ph Gale, us a 111cm tx r of lis governing triumvirate, or ex ecutive committee, with Alansen. Heers, the most conspicuously Industrious and caimble luymcinbers of ihe M. E. mis sion, and Duvld Hill, one of the tintst highly esteemed men of the fr,-e trap per cla. "My this cattle drive and organisa tion of government, nine isonable claims to bind, us well us cattle monopoly came to utv end. The spirit that made the wolf meeting h success, Inoreusisl rapidly by th. increase of Individual owners of stock, who were more than doubled In nnmlx'i' by those who were on the way from the Missouri river to the Willamette valley, while a'liptitn Gale and his follower were between the Sacramento valley ami the same destination. The (list object agreed up on at the Wolf meeting, the payment of bounties n property for killing wolv-s. 1 believe was never carried out. but I shall endeavor to show Ihelr des truction was such a public necessity its Justified the call of the meeting for that purpose alone, "The writer arrived In Oregon one ur later and did not own proin-rty ex cept a saddle-horse till the fall of H4.'t, when he became ow ner of a young sow as paym-nt for harvest Ubor and of Ihe vacated original M. E. mission claim 11 nd buildings. Thai young sow anil her first farrow of pigs w-r- eaten up olive, I may say. within twenty steps of the oung MiK tr-e Dr. White had ascend t In 14:'. If .1 horse was turned out on Mission Itottom at that time with a raw -hide trail ro- u would be cut off close at his heels probably the first night by coyotes. The second sow I pur' hasd. after ,ny marriage ri 1MT. was drugged out of a little house I constructed for her near our cabin by the big wolves. For twenty-five year thereafter the loss of swine, sheep ami cattle wits annually a loss to my neigh bors and myself and we, like many nt hers, held local wolf meetings, fotm ed clubs and paid premiums ami In some Instances coei-t.'. and kept hounds by associated effort and hunted them to llielr dens and killed them there. The necessity for doing this still exists In portions of Western Oregon and the nes (1f protection from wolves lo sKM'k owners In the eastern portion of the state Is In danger of Is-comlng a cause of a division of the state Should such lie the result of a nlggtrdly refusal by the commercial, m tnufiicturing. me chanical, farming and frull -growing In terests of Western Oregon to give t host in rhe pasuir.il portions of the state the aid of a legal Isiunty for destroy ing wolv-s; we may have a state of Oregon east of the Cascole range, that rcoeatlnir probably all then- was of the myth of Romanian twins. Two govern ments pari shed Into life and power by (he fecundity of the she wolf. The poor free men of Ounby. Oregon. 10J In num ber, Instituted a government which has not since ecn Improved much. It was th" Aork of men who ls-lleved In pro tecting th- minus of supporting a fam ily first, and the protection of the fam ily naturally followed. What 102 men could do In IM.'i. 120.1)00 cun do in If thev so resolve." jn(9JL Dyspepsia Cure Digests what you eat. This preparation contains all of the dlgestanta and digests all kinds of food. It gives Instant relief and never falls to cure, it allows you to eat all the food you want. The most sensitive stomachs can take It. Jiy its use many thousands of dyspeptics have been cured after everything else failed. It is unequalled for all stomach troubles. It can't help but do you good ttepntt-A only by E. !. 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