"M" TARIFF FOR REVENUE, INCIDENTAL PROTECTION AND SOUND MONEY. VOL. I. CORVALLIS, - BEOTOIf COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1897. NO. 12. V mo OREGON UN ON. NEWS OF THE WEEK From all Parts of the New and Old World. BRIEF AND INTERESTING ITEMS Comprehensive Review of the Import ant Happenings of the Cur rent Week. A terrible explosion of nitroglycerin occurred in Cygnet, O., resulting in the death of six persons and the injury of a - large number. It is said that John W. Mackay, the American millionaire, "will lay a Cana dian Pacific cable from Vancouver, B. ' G, to Australia. Count Okuma, of Japan, has notified his minister at Honolulu of the terms and conditions of Japan's acceptance of the proposal to arbitrate the dispute with Hawaii. - A .New York Herald special from Barcelona says that it is stated on the . highest diplomatic authority that the present Spanish government will go out within a fortnight, and that the liberals will come in. Customs inspectors at Laredo, Tex., have found an unclaimed grip on a train, containing $200,000 worth of diamonds, jewelry and other valuables.. The papers in the valise indicate that it belonged to a Spanish officer. It is believed it was stolen by a man who lacked the courage to claim ownership. W. F. Atwell, commercial agent ol the United States at Bobaix, France, sends to the state department a report on the short wheat crop in France. He says the crop in France, and in faet all Europe, has fallen much below the average, and that it is estimated that the United States and Canada will be called u:. jn to export from 120,000,000 to 130,000,000 bushels more than they exported to Europe last year . Franco win require aooui ou,uuu,uuu onsnen to meet the deficit n that country. A Portland company has offered to build a sugar beet factory in La Grande. G. J. Layzell was killed and Claude Hawthorne severely injured by a fire on a launch in Astoria, Or. Falls Company, manufacturers of cotton goods, in Norwich, Conn., have started up on full time, giving employ ment to 500 hands. The'New Orleans health authorities have sent out notice of a death by yel low fever in that city. Quarantine has been declared by several Southern cities. ' A rich strike is reported in the Schroder mine, in Yreka, Cal., on the 1,200-foot level, ; the vein averaging lour feet in width, and running $130 to the ton. Edward Lyons, a patient at the Ore gon state insane asylum hung himself to a tree in the asylum grounds. He -was committed from Multnomah county last March. 1 In the Milford labor union, at its games in Milford, Mass., H. S. Dono van, of Natick, ran 100 yards in 9 seconds, breaking the world's record by one-tenth of a second, according to the timekeepers. " George W. Clark broke the world's high-dive record by jumping off the railing of the Halstead-street life bridge in Chicago, when the structure was xaised to an elevation of 165 feet above -the Chicago river. The diver was taken out of the river nninjured, and was placed under arrest by the police. The Washington Star says: It is retated that S. D. North, of Boston, has ibeen delected as superintendent of the :next census, and that his appointment 'will be made as soon as necessary legis lation can be enacted. . The president as said to favor the establishment of a permanent bureau on census, and is likely to express some views on that subject in his next message to congress. ' Wild horses have become a nniaanqe In Northern Arizona, and, Attorny General Frasier has been asked if they may not be legally slaughtered. That vicinity has been overrun by several large bands, hundreds in number, un branded and unclaimed by any one. They have rapidly increased in number .and have become wilder than deer and -vicious as well. The matter has been referred to the livestock board. A Phoenix, Ariz., dispatch says it ii -expected that work will be resumed -within 60 days on the great Rio Verde irrigation enterprise which is to redeem 200,000 acres of the finest land in the ;Salt river valley. Of the 150 miles of canals that will , constitute the Bio Verde irrigation system, 22 have been dug, and a large amount of work, cost ing altogether $200,000, has been done at and near the beadworks. "We are on the verge of a great min ing era," remarked Clarence King, former chief of the United States geo logical survey, in Denver. "The time is not far distant when a man can start out of Denver and travel to Klondike, stopping every night at a mining camp. Already two American stamp mills are pounding away on the border .of the Straits of Magellan, and the day is ap proacihng when a chain of mining camps will extend from Cape Horn to St Michaels." A Philadelphia & Beading wrecking engine crashed into a wagon at a grade crossing at Frush Valley, a few miles above Beading, Pa. , and three lives were lost. The Marquis of Salisbury's proposal for the constitution of an international commitee representing the six powers to assume control of the revenues, with which Greece will guarantee the pay ment of interest for holders on old bonds as well as payment of the indem nity loan, has been accepted by the fXtwers. THE STRIKE SETTLED. Miner Accept the Proposition of Pitts burs; Operators. Columbus, O., Sept. 14. The great miners strike, which was declared on July 4, was brought to an end this evening, so far, at - least, as Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and West Virginia are concerned, by the. action of the convention of miners which has been in session since Wednesday. After a day of voting and wrangling, the con vention voted to accept the proposition of the Pittsburg operators. The vote was 495 for and 317 against accepting the terms of settlement, and 11 votes were not cast. The delegates from Il linois, who had 250 votes, were unani mously against the settlement; Indiana and West Virginia voted solidly to ac cept the proposition, but there were scattering votes among Ohio and Penn sylvania against it. The resolution is as follows: "Besolved, That we, the miners of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, In diana and Illinois, in contention assem bled, do hereby agree to accept the proposition recommended by our na tional executive council, viz , 65 cents in Pittsburg district and all places in the above-named states where a relative price can be obtained, to resume work and contribute liberally to the miners who wlil not receive the advance, over which the fight must be continued to a bitter end. "Besolved, That the national officers of the executive board and district presidents act as an. advisory board for the purpose of providing ways and means for the carrying on of the strike where necessary; provided, however, that no district resume work for 10 days, for the purpose of giving miners in other districts time to, confer with, the operators and get the price, if pos sible." . - The Illinois men will be called' in convention at Springfield.September 19, to determine what " shall be, done in that state. w ' v A resolution was adopted denouncing the action of the deputies in firing into the striking miners at Hazelton. LIVES CRUSHED OUT. Six Victims of a Train-Wreck in the Indian Territory. Memphis,' Sept. 14. A special to the Commercial-Appeal from Hanburn, Ark., says: A most disastrous freight wreck occurred on the Iron Mountain railroad, at Hanson, I. T., a small sta tion 20 miles west of Van Buren, at 2 o'clock today, resulting in the death of seven men and the serious injury of pix others, two of whom will die. The dead are: Will Frame, Charles Frame, Douglass Anderson, John Johnson, Bose Henderson, Frank Hamilton and H. A.' Walton. Of the wounded two suffered inter nal injuries. All of the dead and wounded were sent to Vian, with the exception of Walton's body, it. being brought to this place, where he has rel atives living. None of the trainmen were hurt. " ; While the train was running at a speed of 20 miles an hour, the forward trucks of one of the cars near the en gine broke, wrecking 15 cars with wal nuts and baled hay. With the excep tion of two cars in front and three in the rear, including the caboose, every car of the 20 in the train was ditched. The middle of the train was a car load ed with heavy machinery, and it was in this car that 13 men were stealing a ride. The occupants of the wrecked car were a party of men and boys living in Vian, who were corning to Van Buren to find employment in the cotton fields. When the machinery car left the rails, it fell on its side, nearly all of the men being caught by the heavy beams. Kansas City, Sept. 14. A special to the Times from Hanburn, Ark., says: Many sad scenes were enacted at Han son. One of the dead, whose name is unknown, was found with his head mashed to a pulp between two heavy logs, his brains oozing out. ' Others were crushed and mangled in a horrible manner. Two of the dead were brothers, Will and Charles Frame. Will was found on one .side of the track and Charles on the other, both crushed al most out of all semblance of human beings. The scenes at Vian, when the dead bodies of those who had resided there arrived, were affecting in the extreme. The parents and other kin of the de ceased were at the depot when the train came in. It will probably be several days before the wreck will be cleared away and the full extent of the dis aster revealed. Three men are still missing, accroding "to statements of come of those who. escaped. A large force of men is at the spot, clearing away the wreckage. - Quarantine Declared. Nashville, Sept. 14. Today, the state board of health issued quarantine orders against all points along the gulf coast, extending from Mobile to New Orleans. This was done as a measure of extra caution, because of the receipt' of unfavorable reports from the gulf coast. Memphis, Sept. 14. The board of health of this city today issued a proc lamation enforcing a strict quarantine against New Orleans, Ocean Springs, Mobile and other towns on the gulf coast. - President Diaz' Message. : Mexico, Sept. 14. It is not believed that the president will in his message announce any radical change in the pub lic policy. The manufacturing and agricultural interests are unanimously in favor of the silver standard. The Guatemala Revolution. ' Berlin, Sept. 14. Dispatches from Guatemala say a revolution has broken out against President Barrios in the western part of the republic. ARE PLEDGED TO SPAIN Alleged Compact Agreed to by England and France. STATEMENT OF COUNT DE PENAL0 Madrid Government - Has Assurances American Interference In Cuba -Will Not Be Permitted. , St. Louis, Sept. 13.- Comte Henry de Penalo, who has been visiting friends in St. Louis for a few days, said that the rumor of an understanding be tween Spain and other European coun tries, looking to a check upon American interference with Cuba, was confirmed by information which came to him from high authority. De Penalo has been introduced in St. Louis as a mem ber of an old Spanish family whose sympathies are with the Carl is t party, but whose connection with high poll tics in Spain keeps him posted on most of the important diplomatic move ments. He said: "Some time last September when the Cuban question was so much agitated in the United tates, even to the point of furnishing planks to the declaration of presidential conventions, Senor Can- ovas del Castillo, then premier of Spain, received assurances from tho English and French governments through their representatives in Madrid that they would not permit any action on the part of "the United States other than.a very perfunotory recognition of belligerency of the insurgents. "On August 5, before leaving Paris,; I learned from trustworthy sources that this assuiance had been renewed. General Azcarragua, the new premier, has received the French and English ambassadors, who have once more as sured Spain of the sympathy of their governments and of their willingness to give 'diplomatic help. ' " A BRUTAL OUTRAGE. Pueblo Medicine' Men Cruelly Torture an Aged Squaw. Santa Fe. N. M., .Sept. 13. Major Nordstrom, United States agent in charge of the Pueblo Indians, returned this morning from Zum Pneblo, where he has been examining in to a peculiar case. Under -the influence of Chief Niope, and backed' by the religious or ganization in the village known as the priests of the bow," the most bar barous outrages have been committed by these Indians from time to time. Their last offense occurred when they suspended by the wrists a female mem ber of the tribe, aged 78 years, and ex torted from her a confession to the--effect that she had bewitched the nos trums of the medicine man, and pre vented them from curing an Indian of faintness. " Major Nordstrom says the only mo tive for assanlting the woman was to strengthen the hold of the medicine men and their colleagues, the priests of the bow, upon their superatitious fol lowers. The woman's life was saved by kindly nursing, and it is the inten tion of the agent to arrest and punish the ringleaders of the assault. , To this end, and in compliance with Major Nordstrom's recommendations, the interior department has called upon the war department to concen trate four troops of United States cav alry at Zuni on the 15th inst., with a view to'aiding the civil authorities in the arrest of Chief Niope aud. five of his associates. It is thought that a battle will follow the invasion of the village by troops on Wednesday next. The Zunis number some 1,500, and can muster about 350 warriors, who are well armed with Winchesters. Their village is a veritable fortress, built especially for protection against Apaches and Navajos. STOLE HER HUSBAND. So Declares Mrs. John C. Van Schaack, of New York. New York," Sept. 13. The World says: Mrs. John C. Van Schaack has begun suit for $65,000 damages against her father-in-law, Peter Van Schaack, head of the family and senior partner in the great drug firm of Van Schaack & Sons, for alienating her husband's affections. The plaintiff is a daugh ter of Henry Palmer, and a niece of Potter Palmer. Her specific charge against her father-in-law is that in 1833 while plaintiff's husband was li, ;g with her and supporting her in Brooklyn, the defendant enticed the ' husband away from the plaintiff and their home and induced him to go to Chicago, where he has since "by undue influence kept him." Mrs. Van ' Schaack, then Florence Palmer, and John Van Schaack were wintering visitors in Florida together in 1888, and in March of that year they were married. The wife is a strik ingiy handsome woman of 26 years of age. She was educated in Paris and Berlin, and before her marriage was a social favorite in Chicago. Public story tellers still earn a good livelihood in Japan. In Tokio six hun dred of them ply their trade, provided with a small table, a fan and a paper wrapper to illustrate and emphasize the points of their tales. An Aeronaut's Fall. Chillicothe, Mo., Sept. 13. Profes sor Bozart, the aeronaut, who made the balloon ascension at the fair grounds yesterday, was injured by the failure of his parachute to open readily when he made his descent. . He was about 300 feet in the air when he cut loose, and before the parachute opened he was less than 50 feet from the ground. . His in juries are probably fatal. . Parchment used onhe best banjoes ia made from wolf -skip- . MOWED DOWN. Hazleton Strikers Are Shot Many Sheep. tike So Hazelton, Pa., Sept. 13. The strike situation reached a terrible crisis on the outskirts of Latimer this afternoon when a band of deptuy sheriffs fired into a mob of miners. The men fell like so many sheep, and the excitement has been so intense that no accurate figures of the dead and wounded can be obtaind. Beports run from 15 to 20 killed and 40 or more wounded. , One man who reached the scene to night counted 13 corpses.- Four other bodies lay in the mountains between Latimer . and Harleigh. Those who were uninjured carried their dead and wounded friends into the woods. Esti mates are baffling. Three bodies .were fonnd tonight on the road near Latimer. The strikers left Hazelton about 3:30 o clock this afternoon, and it was their intention to so to Latimer.' As soon as this became known, a banoVof deputies was loaded on a trolley car and went whirling across the mountain t the scene, where the bloody ' conflict followed. After reaching Latimer, they left the car and formed into three companies. under Thomas Hall, E.'A. Hess and Samue B. Sercy-. They drew up in line at the edge of the village, with a fence and a line of houses in their rear, , Sheriff Martin was in entire command and stood in the front of the line until the strikers approached. They; were seen coming across the ridge, and Mar tin went out to ret them. The men drew up sullenly and listened in silence until he had once more read the riot act. This finished, a low muttering arose among the foreigners, and there was a slight movement forward. Perceiving this the sheriff stepped toward them and forbade them to advance. Some one 'struck the sheriff, and the next moment the command was given to the deputies to fire. The guns of the deputies instantly belched forth a terrible volley. The report seemed to shake the very moun tains, and a cry of dismay went up from the people. - The strikers were taken entirely by surprise, and as the men fell ever each other, those who remained unhurt stampeded. The men went down be fore the storm of bullets like tenpins, and the groans of the dying and wound ed filled the ai. The scene that followed was simply indescribable. : The deputies seemed to be terror-stricken at the deadly execu tion of their guns, and seeing the liv ing strikers fleeing like wild men and others dropping to the earth, they went to the aid of the unfortunates whom they had brought down. The people of Latimer ruhsed pell- mell to the scene, but the shrieks of the wounded drowned the cries of the sym pathizing and half-crazed inhabitants. A reporter who soon afterwards reached the scene found the road lead ing to Latimer filled with groups of frightened Hungarians. Some .sur rounded dying companions, and others, fearful of pursuit, clnng to the new comer and begged his protection. At Farley's hotel were two men lying on the porch. Both had been shot in the head. One bud three bullets in the thigh. His groans and appeals for a doctor were heartrending. -, All along the road the wounded men who were able to leave the field of bat tle scattered themselves and sought the shade of trees for protection, but there was no need of that then. Approaching the place where ' the shooting occurred, people were . met wringing their hands and bemoaning the catastrophe. They could not talk intelligently, and it was with the great est difficulty that information could be gleaned. All along the bank of the trolley road men lay in every position, some dead, others dying. Three bodies, face downward, lay along the incline, while others were but a short distance away. On the other side of the road as many bodies lay. The schoolhouse was trans formed into a temporary hospital and some of the wounded were taken there. The colliery ambulance was sum moned to the place as soon as possible, and upon its arrival, two men, bot" shot through the legs, were loaded in the wagon. All along the hillside wounded men were found, on the road side and in the fields. Many miners who had been carried to distances could not be found. As soon as the news of the shooting reached Hazelton, there was consterna tion. Within 10 minutes, the streets were blocked with excited people. The Lehigh Traction Company immediately started a number of extra cars on the Latimer line, and doctors and clergy men responded promptly. During the excitement, the deputies turned their attention to the wounded, and carried many of them to places where they could be more comfortably treated. Martin Boski, an intelligent Hun garian from Mount Pleasant, who was shot in the arm, was seen by a reporter, and gave this version of the affair: "We were going along the road to Latimer, and the deputies were lined across the road, barring our passage. We tried to go through them, and did not attempt to hit or molest them, when, they fired upon us. We ran, hut they kept on shooting at us while we ran. It is all their fault" Citizens' meetings were held at vari ous parts of the city tonight. Opinion was divided about the responsibilty for the shooting. At one meeting held in Van Wyckle's casino, attended by bank ers, coal operators and prominent men, resolutions were adopted calling on Governor Hastings to send militia here. At another, mass meeting,, attended by thousands of people, the sentiment was against bringing the troops here, and it is asserted by these that there will be no real necessity for having deputies kept here. - SERIOUS TRAIN WRECK Caused by the Disobedience of Orders. f OETY PEOPLE LOSE THEIR LIVES Passenger Collided With a Stock Train Near Denver Damaging Both Greatly Emporia Wreck. Denver, Sept. 13. A special to the News from New Castle, Colo., says Bio Orande passenger train No. 1, run ning one hour late, collided with a Col orado Midland stock extra, 1 miles west of N ew Castle. Both engines are total wreck. There are in all probability 40 human beings in the burning mass. Shortly after the collision occurred the baggage, ' day coach and tourist sleeper caught fire, while one Pullman and a special car from the Hannibal & St. Joseph railroad remained on the track. The fault is said to lie with the train crew of the extra. Details of the wreck are hard to ob tain. It is known that A. Hartman and wife and two children, of Harshon, 111., are amoLg the dead; Engineer Gordon, of the passenger tram; B. H, Bedley, postal clerk, and Bobert How lett, passenger fireman, are fatally in jured. Engineer Ostrander and Fire- man Sutliff, are missing, and are be lieved to be buried in the wreck. So thoroughly are the trains demol ished that but few of those caught es caped alive, those not killed by the shock of the collision being burned to death in the ruins of the cars. A Bio Grande special, just arrived from Glen wood, brings doctors and comforts for the wounded. The wreck occurred on what is called the Bio Junction road. This runs from New Castle to Grand Junction. It be longs jointly to the Denver & Bio Grande and the Colorado Midland, be ing used by both roads. , Two cars of stock were completely demoiisned, and tne rignt of way is strewn with dead stock and debris. - Conductor Burbank's explanation of the wreck it that in looking at the passenger's leaving time on the card he looked at the wrong column of figures. Two Italians caught in the act of rob bing trunks have been placed under arrest. The latest information from the wreck makes it almost certain that 25 persons are dead, and a dozen badly in jured, fully half of whom will die. THE EMPORIA WRECK. Further Details of the Accident in Kansas. ' Emporia, Kan., Sept. 13. Twelve known dead, one missing (probably incinerated) and 14 injured, two of whom will likely die, is the record of the terrible head-end collision on the Santa Fe, as known tonight. It is not positively known that the list given is complete, and it is believed that several were burned to death and nothing left by which they could be recognized. The bodies of 11 have been taken from the debris, three burned -beyond recog nition. Nothing could be found of the re mains of the Wells-Fargo messenger. J. F. Sauer. A handful of charred bones taken from the wreck, however, are supposed to be his. Near them was found his watch. Human ghouls delved in the burning wreckage and plundered the baggage and mail lacks which strewed the ground. One man tried to snatch a diamond from the breast of an Emporia doctor who, weak and nervous, was creeping slowly out of the debris. He had strength enough left to hit the brute a blow in the face, which made him turn with a curse and sneak away. Mail sacks were dragged into the corn field and rifled. The report of the Kansas City post- office is that practically all of the mail on both the wrecked Santa Fe trains was destroyed. One pouch, however, for Southern California, on the west bound' train, is said to have been saved. This train carried a large mail from New York city to California. Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. No official report has been received here. Trains over the Santa Fe will be run by way of Ottawa for a few days. The cost of the wreck to the railway is esti mated at $100,000. As the passengers and trainmen re covered from the shock of the explosion, they looked for the injured and dead. Far down in the heaps of debris sound ed wailing voices of men pleading for aid. While the rescuers were working to get at the unfortunates, fire broke out in the wreckage of the forward coaches, and cry for water went up. Water tanks were torn from their fastenings in the coaches that could be entered, and blood-besmeared men carried them over broken timbers to quench the fast- preading flames. The dead and mangled bodies of four victims were dragged to the grass beside the track. After herculean efforts, the flames were finally subdued, and the work of rescue made more easy. A merchant in Copenhagen was fined 10 crowns for having used the American flag aa an advertising medium. Explorer Wellman Returns. New York, Sept 9. Walter Well- man, the journalist and Arctic explorer, was one of the passengers on the New York, which arrived today. He has been to Norway and Bnssia to consult with Dr. Nansen to arrange for a steamer and a large number of dogs. He said efforts would be made to reach the north pole until the feat was ac complished. Bussians make a pleasant drink from sap of the walnut DISTRESS AT DAWSON. Terrible Tale of Suffering Brought From Klondike by the Cleveland. San Francisco, Sept. 13. The Ex aminer prints an extra edition contain ing the following news from Dawson City: "Otter Point, B. C, Sept 18. The steamer Cleveland has arrived from St Michaels, bringing with her from the Yukon gold fields a story of distre"? and disaster. The miners she has on board and officers in charge of the ship tell a stroy of disorder and dis tress at Dawson. Winter has set in at the mining city of the frozen north, and the two great stores of the place have closed their doors, for they have nothing to sell Those who have been seeking gold must now seek for food or starve. While there may be a tendency to exaggerate the actual conditions of affairs, there can be no question that famine threatens all the venturesome men and women who made their way to the Klondike. .- Hundreds of unruly spirits are flock ing to Dawson. Threats of violence are being made on every side. Enormous prices are now being paid tor food at Dawson, and it is impos sible that more than four vessels with provisions can reach that campbefore the river freezes. Indignation meetings, heavv with murmured threats of vengeance, have been held at St. Michaels by those who see no hope of advancing np the river, and less of getting back to civilization. T3 first signs of winter are apparent on the river Yukon, which is begin ning to freeze, and in a few weeks will be closed against all navigation. A mishap has come to the Excelsior, and from the frozen north comes .the story of another disaster in which 42 men lost their lives. On the Cleveland there are 38 pas- sengers who have come from City. There are few miners Dawson in this party that are able to tell of prosperity. Most of them wish to exaggerate their possessions, and if one were to believe the indefinite stories they tell he would say the treasure ship with which they come carried $5,000,000. Captain Hall, of the Cleveland, says he has $100,000 in his safe. The purser be lieves he can account for $150,000 on board. The Cleveland left St. Michaels August 29. She has some of the pas sengers of the P. B. Weare on board. The Weare left Dawson City in time to connect with the Portland had she not met with a mishap and stuck on the flats above Circle City. The miners from Dawson report that on July 25 the stores of the Alaska Commercial Company and the North American Trading & Transportation Company closed their doors, and an nounced they had no more food to sell. When the announcement was made con sternation seized upon the people of Dawson, with gold-seekers, crowding in at the rate of 20 to 30 per day. Drnnk-enne-S and disorder, gambling and Idleness were rampant. At St Michaels the condition of affairs is also the cause of gravest con cern. There are not enough structures in town to accommodate the crowd, and scores of the people are living in tents. Shortly before the Cleveland left St. Michaels two expeditions, those of the National City and of the South Coast, held indignation meetings, threatening dire vengeance upon those who had brought them there and then were unable to carry them fnrther. On August 26 the Excelsior left St Michaels with a large number of min ers and a large quantity of gold. Be ports were current that her treasure amounted to a million dollars. Soon after leaving St Michaels the Excelsior was caught on the dangerous flats of the Yukon and broke two blades of her propeller. When the Cleveland reached Onnalaska she found the Excelsior un dergoing repairs. It is probable she left Onnalaska last Monday. Shortly before the Cleveland left fcr Seattle on her journey home the United States revenue cutter Bear put into St. Michaels to tell another story of death and disaster in the ice-bound Arctic The Bear had on board Cap tain Whiteside, his wife, the first and fourth officers and four seamen of tli steam whaler Nevaoh. They are a that remain to tell a terrible story o. death in an ice pack. Of her crew 42 were lost Thirty-one were crushed in the ice and ten frozen to death. The Bear saw the vessel's signals of distress near Point Barrow, and went to her assistance. The captain,. his wife, two officers and four seamen were persuaded to leave the crippled ship, but nine others positively refused to go. They were left on a desolate field of ice, and it is feared perished with their comrades. The terrible tale of suffering told by Captain Whitesides and his officers forms but an incident in the story that the Cleveland brings. It was believed after she had left St. Michaels she was to learn no more of the Klondike, its dangers and disasters, but the Cleve land had baldly gone 35 mies when she passed a vessel that told of evils to come, of dangerous spirits ready for any outrage, of excited and angry men who have left a black record on the coast on their own pathway to the Yukon. The Cleveland and Humboldt had .met, and new stories of the abandoned adventurers the latter vessel is convey ing to the gold fields were sent back to the world. When the Humboldt stopped at Oun alaska on her journey to St Michaels, the passengers were in open rebellion. They began to realize that it would be impossible to reaoh Dawson before next spring, and they knew that misery awaited them at St. Michaels. There were open threats against W. D. Wood, organizer and manager of the expedi tion, and it is feared he may. lose his life at the hands of 'bis passengers. ' The new Yerkes telescope brings the moon within about 200 miles. NORTHWEST BREVITIES Evidence of Steady Growth : and Enterprise. ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST From ATI the Cities and Towns rf the Thriving Sister States Oregon. During the week ending September 4, $1,522.33 was paid out on money orders by the Salem postoffice. The revenue of the city of Astoria will fall short this year on fines and forfeitures at least $7,000, and prob ably more. . The Beaver Hill Coal Company, in Coos county, has received a diamond drill that will be used in prospecting its properties. Everything at the cannery in Marsh field is running smoothly, and the quality of the fish is good. The man agement claims to be able to put up 700 cases a day. A Scotteburg farmer thinks he has some tail corn on his farm. He saya there is one stalk 12 feet 8 inches high, one 10 feet 2 inches, and two that grow up 10 feet Sheepmen of Gilliam county say that the grass is drying up pretty fast in the mountains and that the sheep will be taken to their home range earlier than usual this season. The fall run of beshows, or coal fish, has arrived in Coos bay, and large quantities ire .being caught with hooks tud ines off the cannery wharf. Some people sonslder these fish nearly as good as mackerel. The Brownsville Woolen Mills are so crowded) with orders for goods, that the machinery is kept humming from day light until dark, and some of it day and night, says the Brownsville Times. Last week the wages of employes were advanced 5 per cent. The cannery at Marshfleld ran short on cans last week, and had to stop the receipt of fish for one day, but is now in operation, and is canning all the fish received. Superintendent Flye : says that they are now able to take care of 2,000 chinooks a day. A placer mining company operating on the .Baker county side of Powder river, one and one-half miles from its mouth, has a floating flume a quarter of a mile long, three feet wide and a foot deep, and a few men there are getting big pay ing Results.' The Val Advocate says that in the canyon of the Malheur there is a small active animal unlike anything described in the natural histories. - By people living on the Malheur it is called a rocket cat, ' although it is very un like the common stubtail wild cat, of which there are many in the country. A resident of the Helix country, in Umatilla county, takes the palm so far thisaseason for growing the largest yield of barley per acre. His barley turned oat 70 bushels per acre, and his wheat crop went above 40 bushels. He sold his wheat crop for better than 75 cents, and he is "In excellent humor in conse quence. ' , A savage boar attacked two horses pastured oh the Bellfountain fruit farm, j Benton oounty, last week, killing one and maiming the other. The horses belonged to men working for the Green Peak Fruit Company. Later, the owner of .the hog removed its tusks and penned it up. When next he visited it he found the animal dead. Washington. Three inches of snow fell on the Wenatchee summit one night last week. The shingle mill at Ocosta has been started, giving employment to over 20 men. There are not enough loggers and mill hands in the Gray's harbor country to upply the demand. A. C. Little, state fish commissioner, hopes to have the fish hatchery on the Chehalis river ready for the fall run of steelheads. Improvements now being made at the warehouse in Wilbur will raise the total storage capacity for grain at that place to 180,000 bushels. State Dairy Commissioner McDonald warns owners of cows to look out for tuberculosis and lumpy jaw. Several cases of lumpy jaw have recently been reported from Pierce and King counties, and a cow suffering from tuberculosis was killed near Fern hill, not far from Tacoma, recently, by the commissioner. The Indians on the Yakima reserva tion complain that some of the squaw men who used to be employed in doing the threshing on the reservation have revenged themselves, because of the mployment of a steam thresher, by putting barb wire into the bundles of grain, thereby wrecking the cylinder of ' the thresher. A detachment of Uncle Sam's regular army, from the Vancouver barracks, consisting of two lieutenants, a corporal and four privates, with a complete camping equipment, has been to camp in Clallam county surveying and roak- ing maps of the roads in that vicinity. While there are six horses and mules in the outfit, two of the officers use bicycles, and say that they are far. superior to horses for such work. A movement is on foot in Colvillo for the purpose of raising funds with which to build a new courthouse.: Lib eral donations of material are offered, and about all the money that will be required will be that necessary to pay for the labor. ; The ceremonies attending the dedica ting and unveiling of the Whitman monument in Walla Walla will occur November 29, as that will be the 60th anniversay of Whitman's death. The total cost of the monument, including ' the inclosures, will be 13,10(1, i i '