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TARIFF FOR REVENUE, INCIDENTAL PROTECTION AND 50UND MONEY VOL. , I. CORVALLIS, BEATON COUNTY, OREGON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1897. NO. 25. NEWS OF THE WEEK From all Parts of the New and Old World. BRIEF AND INTERESTING ITEMS Co nprehenslve Review of thm Import ant Fappenings of the Cur , rent Week. A French expedition' ia reported mas sacred. The Chinese are endeavoring to settle matters with Germany. The Chickasaw and Cherokee Indians are to colonize in Mexico. . ; ' ... A vessel has sailed from Portsmouth, N. H.. for the Klondike. The National Guard asks for an - ap propriation of $2,000,000. There is a possibility of a rate war between Western railroads. ,-',,' A party has left San Francisco to survey a new route to the Klondike. ; San Francisco merchants" are being prosecuted for selling adulterated olive oil. f . .. At Salinas, Cal., two burglars clever ly jailed the jailer and a deputy sheriff. A tremendous rich gold strike is re ported on Dog creek, a tributary 'of the Yukon. ...... The son of a'New York millionaire died in the county hospital . in San Francisco. The Georgia senate wants to send state convicts to Cuba to right for the insurgents. "'"', . . ; Senator Perkins has introduced a joint resolution authorising the presi dent to appoint a committee to draft a code of laws for the territory of Alaska. The man who helped c hang Frank Butler, the "murderer of : the, moun tains," in Australia, was arrested in San Francisco,! accused of larceny of a coat. ; . .'"-; One of the most horrible lynchings ever known in Nevada has occurred at Genoa, 14 miles from Carson. . Aram Dber, who last week shot!, and killed Hans Anderson in a Millerville saloon, was taken by a mob of masked men and hanged to a Cottonwood tree - half a mile from the jail. When taken from his cell, the victim had nothing on but a shirt. This "was torn off by the lynchers, and the nude body was left dangling in the air for six hours. As. the body was being pulled up the mob riddled it with bullets. When satis fied that the man was dead the vigil antes dispersed and returned to their homes. : : " . E. L. Hewes, the Wichita mountain boomer, who has been at Wichita for three weeks trying to organize a party, has left for Olkahoma City without a single follower.- At different times he claimed to have from 500 to 1,000 boomers ready to. follow his lead into the country. Toru Hoshi, envoy extradordinary and minister plenipotentiary from Japan to the United States, was' a passsenger from the Orient on the City of Peking, which 1 as just arrived in San Fran cisco. He will leave for Washington b onqp carrying with him instructions in reference to the Hawaiian , treaty of annexation which will be considered by the United States senate. When the German reinforcements," consisting of four companies of ma rines, numbering 23 officers and '1,200 men, and a company of naval artillery, arrive at Kiao' : Chau bay, .for- .which point, as already cabled.they will soon set out, they ''"will ' bring -the - German force there up to 4,566 men, the lar gest body Germany has ever sent be j yond Eropean waters. - It is understood "I Surgeon-General Wyrnan, of .... the marine hospital service, has submitted i : i -.L. a c .. .. l n - Ti iiib aunuai icpuih lis oeuieLuiy viuge.- it shows that during the fiscal year ended June 80, 1897, the total ' number of patients treated at hospitals and the dispensaiies connected with the service was 54,477. Although the total num ber of patients treated was 673 in ex 'ess of those treated during the pre vious fiscal year, the expenditures were $538,536, which is ,$21,000 less than the' previous year. The annual report of James H. Eckles, controller of the currency, for the year ended October 31, 1897, opens -with a brief resume of the history of the legis- -lation which constitutes the present i National-bank act, and invites the at tention of congress to amendments to the law recommended in former reports, without ' specifically repealing' them. The controller renews his recommend ation of last year, urging that national bank examiners be paid an annual sal ary instead of fees, as new.- Further information' from 'Washing ton respecting the proposed canal and locks for the channel at the dalles is to -the effect that it is proposed to push the work with a deal of rapidity. The contract system and modern methods of .excavation and building have made it clear that years need not be spent upon a work of this character. If the- con tract for improving the Columbia by a small channel at the dalles is adopted it will no doubt be stipulated that the ' work must be done with rapidity. - The insurgents have literally wiped . out the Spanish town of Guisa of 800 'inhabitants..'! . - Senator MoBrlde of Oregon, has in troduced a bill'in the senate to aid in the construction of an aerial tramway and railway line 'from Dyea to vLake Bennett.; ;,V. ,;' S- Three thoausand horses, worth $300,- - 000, lie beneath the show ore-the White - pass trail. - Six hundred Campers Vep-i t resent an investment of $500,000 .for Outfits and provisions. MRS. M'KINLEY DEAD. The President and Other Member! of . the Family at the Deathbed. Canton, O.. Dec. 14. Mrs. Nancy Allison McKinley passed from this life at a few minutes past 2 this morning, with all her children and other imme diate relatives at her bedside. She did not suffer any in her last hours, but gradually passed from the deep, palsied sleep, in which she had rested almost constantly for the past 10 days, into the sleep of death. . No word could be secured from the house for some hours before dissolu tion. At 2:85 an undertaker was sum moned and the first publicity was given of the death. The end was almost beautiful in its peacefulness. She seemed to sleep so soundly that it was difficult to tell whether she had yet breathed her last. This condition continued for half an hour. The president and all of the family were by her side. There was no recognition, however. Her last consciousness was hours before her final taking away. The tenth day of Mrs. McKinley's illness was marked by a number of material changes such as improved the condition of the patient, and as dark ness approached it was -felt by those around her that she had - finished the last day of her life's journey. .She was resting comparatively easy at that time, but was a great deal weaker, At the dawn of day it was felt that the end -was at hand, for about that time she experienced one Of the sinking spells common to the illness, and for a long time seemed so nearly inanimate that it was thought no rally was possi ble; but the rally came, and with it a small. amounted -liquid nourisnrnenV the first she had taken since Monday. This was followed by such peaceful re pose as to revive the hope, which was realized, that she would live through the day. -,'- . '.- ;' " In the afternoon another period of anxiety was experienced by the watch ers. "Another sinking spell came, and for a time it seemed as though it would be the last After that, she continued weak and low. The doctor oalled at 5:30 q'clock and reported that . he found a material change for the worse, such as he regard ed as certain tor bring about final disso lution during the night. " He had not even a faint hope that she could live until morning. -.- -:'" AN, IMPROMPTU COURT. Trying to Fix the Responslbity for the Smith Murders. - Hazelhurst, Miss., Dec. 14. In an open field, without a house in sight, on a high hillside, with a crowd of eager men waiting to avenge the terrible murder that has taken place in Law rence county, in .case a . conviction was reached by the impromptu . court, the scene lighted, by flaring pine-knot torches held aloft in the hands of the waiting mob, the three negroes, Giles Berry, Will Powell and Tom Wallen, were standing trial for their life last night at Bankstone Ferry. The negroes were arrested with Lewis, who was lynched Friday, at the place of the original crime, but were released on their promising to appear next morning as witnesses. They did not put in an appearance " when the trial was ready to begin. Search waa made for them by the mob, and the negroes were caught and brought baca. Then the suspicion that they were im plicated in the original crime arose. According " to their -own story, thei were with Lewis the night before. -Th three men testified that they slept in a cottonhouse a mile and a half from the Smith house, where the terrible butch ery took place, and that Lewis was with them all night; at least he war there when they went to sleep and wa there when ihey awoke the next morn ing. There are about 200 men in the mor constituting a committee of the whoW for the. trial. Reliable reports today from a messenger who was at the soeno say that the mob is very moderate in its acts, and has cooled down consider ably. Berry and Wallen, though badly scared, maintain .their .denial of any complicity in the crime. A telephone message from Hon. Wal ter Catohings, of Geogetown, states that two "other negroes have been arrested on suspicion. .. Wesson, Miss.", Deo. 14. The three negroes arrested in the Monticello neighborhood in' connection with Char ley Lewis, the negro lynched for the quintuple butchery of the Smith family, after a long trial were declared not guilty, but were given until Monday to leave the. county. . . '--- Convicted of Wife Murder. " Bakersfield, Cal., Dec. 14. David Davidson, the Randsburg wife-murderer, was today convicted of murder in the first degree, with the penalty of life imprisonment. He is said to be the son of a prominent St. Louis phy sician. The defense was insanity, and during the trial Davidson appeared ob vious to bis surroundings, but expertf declared that he was shamming. Education of It-f Children. Washington, Dec. 14. The house committee on education has reported favorably the bill to aid the educators in the states and territories in teaching articulate speech and vocal language to deaf children before the are -of: school age. . .. . ' A Mexican Execution. . ;,. Matamoras, Mex., Dec. 14. Panta eon and Victoriano Guillen were shot in the jailyard this morning for the murder of Dr. Manuel Carpio. Five policemen were in the firing platoon, and neither manwas killed by the first discbarge. Vs : Ti ' "fcntigo, Wis., Dec. 14; L. E. Buck man,.; cashier of the' defunct Antigo bank,, was arrested today on a charge of embezzlement. His shortage wiU reach $18,000. THE ROOT OF THE EVIl Convention to Consider Pri mary Election Reforms. PROMINENT MEN SIGN THE CALL Conference Will Be Held in New York In . the Middle of January Ef- -feet on State Legislature. -' "New York, Dec. 14. The following call was given out tonight by Ralph M. Easley, secretary of the Civic Federa tion of Chicago, who has been acting for a committee on reforms of quasi political organizations for the past three weeks: - -' r '''. --; '.'.-'. "The object of this conference is to bring together men with practical ideas j from all the large cities, and especially from states in which substantial pro- j gress has been made in reform. : ; The ' programme will include speeches made J by men of national reputation in both political parties, .as well as reports from practical ' men" as to the working of the various laws now governing pri mary election caucuses. Considerable attention will be given to the question 'How to get voters out to the primaries,' after fair laws are secured. . Special in terest "will be taken in reports from New York, Massachusetts, Maryland, Illinois, New Jersey and Ohio, where legislatures" will be in session. - Head quarters 'will" be opened at the Hotel Manhattan, New York, December 27,' 1897. ' -" - . . "Believing that our caucuses or pri mary election customs or laws lie at the very root and source pi ' our. entire elec tive franchise system and that the re sults in our larger cities are due in a large measure to the defects in such practices and customs, it, therefore, follows that to purify this system is to take a long step in the direction of hon esty, economy and efficiency in every branch of the public service; and fur ther believing that the enactment of laws to prevent corrupt practices and throw the safeguards of a regular elec tion around the caucus or primary will encourage many good citizens to take part therein, we, the undersigned, tor the purpose of discussing and discover ing, as far as possible, the precise de fects in the various systems which now obtain, and the remedies, and; take Buch action as may seem necessary in the premises, do hereby join in calling a conference of persons interested in said questions to convene in-theicity of. New York, on the I5tb day of January," 1898. ' ;. - ".; "We deem it desirable that the con ference be made up from men of all parts of the country and withbut'regard to party or factional affiiationsl" The call is signed by prominent men from all sections of the Union, ' INDIAN TERRITORY QUESTION Ceng-res Will Settle Bill. It In s General Washington Deo. 14. The indica tions are that this congress will pass a general bill for the entire rehabilitation of Indian territory. The ' measure as now planed is to make " it embrace everything that has been sought to be accomplished in the past by the. Dawes Indian commission,' which is still nego tiating with the five civilized tribes, but which will be here next week to report the discouraging existing condi tions. The bill covers all the questions of citizenship, allotments of lands, dis positions of townsites, mineral lands, jurisdiction of the United States courts over the present reservations and other matters bearing on the extinguishment of tribal organization. The first steps in the matter have been taken by the Indian committees of both the "senate and house. It is understood that in a few ' days there will be a session of the commit tees at which these matters will be gone over ' and Steps taken, in the way of settling the problems, by congres sional enactment. ;v In view of the large amount of work necessary to be done, bowever.it is? not -probable that any bill can be passed till well toward the end of the session. , . - . Baa Philadelphia Fire. Philadelphia,' Dec 14. Fire broke out shortly before 10 o'clock tonight in the six-story building at 809 and 811 Chestnut street, occupied by the manu facturing firm of John & James Dobson as their wholesale and retail rooms. The fire had its start in the basement, and the flames shooting up the elevator shaft destroyed the entire interior of the building and contents. General Manager Berry, of the Dobson carpet house, stated that the stock in the building would amount to 1500,000. The building was owned by the. firm, and was valued at about 160,000. . Haytian Ministry Resigns. Port Au Prince, Deo. 14. The min istry has resigned. As yet, thi com position of its successor has - not been definitely settled, but several well known men are mentioned who will command the confidence of Haytians and foreigners alike. This morning,' while attending mass at Notre Dame, President Sam made a circuit of the city on horseback escorted by his staff officers, but without special - military display: ' ; " '- 1 "" . China Forced to Yield. Peking, Deo. 14 -The German-Chinese difficulty is practically settled. The Germans refuse to discontinue the occupancy of Kiao-Chou bay. The gov- ' ernor of Shan Tung province has been ' removed from office, but will not be 1 any further degraded. No monopo'.y 1 of mines and railroads is conceded Ger many, but that country is given a pref erence.. Finally, the area immediately surrounding Kiao-Chou bay is set apart exclusively for Germany. China yields on all other points. RIVERA A FREE MAN. The Cnban Patriot Raleased From Ca banas Fortress. IT a van a ' Tlo 19 fnr a.ot Uiva.. the insurgent leader, who was captured in March last in Pinar del Rio by the Spanish troops under General Hernando de -Velasco, and : who was recently par doned by royal decree, has been released from -Cabanas -fortress, where he has been : imprisoned for several months, and sailed today by the steamer Colon for Cadiz, his home. ' ' The Colon also carries back to Spain 800 sick, wounded , and otherwise in capacitated soldier v . , In the skirmishes of the last ten days ! the insurgents have.Iost 113 killed and 1,000 prisoners. Eight chiefs and offi cers and 53 armed privates have surren dered to the Spanish. ' The Spanish column, in the same period, has lost five officers and'22 soldiers killed, with ' 11 officers and 110 soldiers wounded, I Juan Cossio, who was in charge of the insurgent . dynamite corps in the province of Puerto Principe, is dead at the insurgent camp. He was a cousin 1 of Evangelina Cossio. ' " ",' ! The-insurgents fired a cannon Bhot into the machinery of the plantation of -Mr, Rigby; an American, in the Man zanillo district, destroying the ma chinery. The insurgents have forbid den grinding in : that neighborhood, 1 under threat of burning the fields. -The Fight in Pina,r del Rio. '. Havana,- Dec; 18; Latest reports oi the late fight in Pinar del Rio province show 'the Spanish loss was more than claimed. The dead or wounded include one colonel, one major, seven captains, 1 11 subordinate officers and 74 privates. 1 Most of the wounded will die. The rebel loss' was 14. ..The rebels used ex plosive bullets. . - ' . . - : Want De Lome Recalled. ' - New York, Dec. 13. The Spanish colony in . this city has been divided by , a petition sent to Madrid at the time of the assassination of Premier Canovas, j asking for the appointment of a strong successor to Senor de Lome. According to the World the petition was drawn so as to attack . Senor de Lome without mentioning his name, and among the 40 prominent Spaniards who signed it ' were several friends of the minister . who did not see any attack upon him in ' the apparently harmless recom-j mendation. The result is a bitterness among the factions almost as strong as their hatred of the Cubans. The peti tion says: ' 'For Spain to succeed in her rela tions with the United States he must have in Washington a representative of ability and firmness, whose heart will beat with the pulsations of our mother country, and with a head balanced to base all his diplomatic ' relations on an indisputable right, and not allow the right to be curtailed in the least by un founded demands or unjust pretensions from the opposing party." Insurgents Near Havana. New York, Dec. 13. A dispatch to the World from Havana says: An iin-' portant battle is expected hourly. , The insurgents have planned the most for-'4 midable demonstration against Havana1 of the year. General Parrados has started from this city with a strong column of troops to meet tne insur gents. Senor Caneljas, the confidential agent of the Spanish government, went with him'to ascertain the real condi tions in Havana province. General Rodriguez, with the com bined Cuban forces under Juan Del gado Ladarez and Rafael' Zeckardinas, is encamped about 20 miles south of here. He has fully 1,000 men;1: who are well armed and is said to have a Hotchkiss rapid-fire cannon. Emio Consalo has hanged Antonio Rivera and a negro named Osman. j They went to Consalo from Blanco with money and a proposition that he layj down his arms and- accept autonomy.' A note was pinned on the breasts ol the hanged men announcing that any one coming'on a similar mission would meet a like fate. . ' ' - - . , Starring Cubans in New York. New York, Dec. 13. The Journal and Advertiser says: WeylerV policy of extermination, which he called re- concentration, has resulted in an enor- VUULCIJliniivui il til. itaujiivu 111 u ciiul'i nious influx of Cubans into New Yoik.J . . ... . .... t Hundreds if not thousands "of them are dying of ' hunger here. : The number of these refugees is variously estimated! from 12,000 to 20,000. Peihaps the great majority are absolutely without means. . There are -men and women among them who were , worth thou- j sands of dollars before the war began, but are now penniless. Some of these are- working as waiters, porters or seamstresses.- ' ; j Emilio Agremonte, president of the Marti Charity Association, says that many of them have actually died from starvation, and that the majority have preferred to live quietly in misery rather than let their desperate wants be known to those who could help them, but who have in the past known them to be people of wealth, influence and refinement. Spain Accuses Cubans of Cruelty. New York, Deo. 13. A Herald dis patch from Madrid says: A storm oi indignation has been provoked ' here by news of tortures inflicted by the Cuban rebels upon, inhabitants of Guisa, where women and children are alleged to have been bound and burnt alive. The details are given by the Imparcial, ' a paper by no means favorable to the present government's policy, and the: news is now officially confirmed. One of the ministers says that as far as known at present the only crime the unfortunate creatures appear to have been guilty of is that they favored the acceptance of autonomy. Reno, Nev., Dec. 13. A wreck oc curred on the N. C. & O. railway about nve mnes norm oi tnis city tnis morn- ing. Two or three passengers are re- ported to have been injured. THE ELLIS ISLAND FIRE s Supposed to Have Been Set by Incendiaries. INVESTIGATION WILL BE MADE Ten Millions of Railroad Tickets Were Thought to Have Burned On of Them Tarns . Up. New York, Deo. 13 Facts have come to light that- suggest the possi bility that the mysterious fire -that de stroyed the great immigrant buildings on Ellis island a"few months ago, was started by thieves, who had carefully planned a $10,000,000 robbery, says the Journal and Advertiser today. Ten of the trunk lines leading to the West, including the New York Central, the Pennsylvania, the- Erie, the Dela-vare, Lackawanna & Western and the. New York, Ontario & Western, unite in maintaining a railroad on the island, a a11 times there are quantities of tickets there. : General Ticket Agent Robinson, of the Ontario & Western, says that on the night of the fire a conservative es timate would place tne value of tickets in the island office at 110,000,000. .' The- tickets, with much cash, were locked in drawers in wooden cases and .desks, and the entire parcel was sup posed to have been totally destroyed. -The different roads posted notices that 'if tickets of a certain form and series should be presented, they should be taken up and fare demanded. A few days ago a ticket issued by .the Ontario & Western from Chicago to Kansas City was received from a pas senger and found to be one of the tick ets supposd to have been burned. The part of the ticket calling for passage from New York to Chicago has not yet been presented. : Now the officials are asking how many other tickets out of the $10,000, 000 worth are in existence. y It is deemed not impossible that the entire lot was stolen and held until conductors should forget the warning. Commissioner Senner, who was in charge of Ellis island at the time of the fire, deems the hypothesis by no means improbable.. - "The origin of the fire was never learned," he said. "It began in a tower of the main' building some dis tance from the offices occupied by the railroad people. . Every one of the gov ernment guards were busy getting the immigrants safely out. . It is not im possible that thieves deliberately start ed the fire in the expectation, justified by events, that the ticket office would be quickly deserted." General Ticket Agent Robinson said he could scarcely believe that any such wholesale robbery had taken place. "I have communicated with other roads, and they have had no such tick ets presented as yet. I think it more likely that the report of sales for the 'day preceding the fire was not correct. Of course, though, if someone had used that ticket, if it was honestly disposed of, it should have turned up sooner. An investigation will be made." TRAIL TO KLONDIKE. Several Lives lost In White Horse Rapids. . Victoria, Dec. 13. Five or six, and perhaps seven, lives have been lost in the White Horse rapids, Lewis river, iduring the last two months, according there today. A boat built for four or six men was found below, the rapids one morning, but there was no trace of the occupants. They must all have been I idrowned. Other parties lost their out- fits, but managed to save their lives. y There is now very little open water ' between the rapids and the lakes, most of it being frozen over. ' At White Horse rapids there - are labout 80 people, and there are 35 at the -foot of Marsh lake. There are at least 100 more below White Horse rapids, and many others have gone into thr Hootalinqua country to prospect durii - : the winter. Hepburn had heard of no , - -i i . i tt a . l : strikes being made on the Hootalinqua or tributaries, but a man named Davis washed $1,600 from the river bars last summer. - Hepburn believes that rich strikes will be made on the Hootalin qua this winter.- At Tagish. house, the ' weather was .bitterly cold, the thermometer regis tering 42 degrees below. People were met making their way down all along the route to ' head of Lake Bennett. 'Among the goldseekers was a woman, who was pulling her sled all alone, and she was making fair time. Lake Bennett was still open 15 miles from the foot, on November 17, and the mercury stood at 24 below. Attempt oh the Sultan's Life, London, Dec. 13. The Athens corre. sponden't of the Chronicle says that on Monday last, two soldiers in the im perial service at the Yildiz Kiosk, the palace of the sultan, made an attempt on the sultan's life. - This was frus trated by the attendants of the sultan. The sultan had the men tortured in the hope of extracting the names of the instigators, but both succumbed with- out revealing anything. China Gives In. London, Dee. 13. A dispatch from Pekin says that today the tsung-li-yamen telegraphed the viceroy of the province of Pe-chi-li, north of the prov ince of Shan Tung, that China, having complied with her demands, Germany undertakes to evacuate Kiao Chou at a date to be fixed hereafter, and will re ceive instead as a coaling station the Saai-Suh inlet, in the province of Foo Kien over against the island of For. noeSkm OREGON STATE NEWS. Brief Review of the Week Throughout the State. Thirty-four marriage licenses were issued by the Marion county clerk in November. Fishermen on the Umpqua are ship ping sturgeon overland via Drain to Portland. Four panthers were killed near Marsh field last week. One measured 7 feet from tip to tip. " Manager Dorwin increased the force at the Jewett mine and will hereafter run night and day shifts.- Samuel Henry, a veteran of the civil war, celebrated his 94th birthday an niversary at Jacksonville last week. It is estimated that over 20,000 boxes of apples have been shipped from the Coquille valley this season,! and there are several carloads yet to be forwarded. The owners of the Oregon Bonanza mine contemplate running a blind tun nel, to begin on the Powell creek side of the mountain and extend westward a distance of 800 feet. . Another shipment of Wallowa coun ty beef cattle was made from Elgin the latter part of last week by a Chicago dealer. He paid 3) cents for the steers weighed at Joseph. ' A lot of cattle were recently bought on Smith river, in Lane county, and driven to Harrisbnrg. The average weight of 16 of the band was estimated to be 1,750 pounds each. A three-foot ledge of bituminous coal has been found in the south end of Jackson-county, as good as that pro duced in eastern states. Indications are that the vein is very extensive. The judgment in favor of the state of Oregon and against Baker county has been recorded in Baker City.' and a tax levy will have to be made to raise the amount of the judgment, $10,928.60. It was blowing a gale when the Chil kat crossed the Coos bay bar Monday, and two tremendous seas boarded the little steamer. Her stern was stove in, and she is at North Bend, undergoing repairs. An old store building; a landmark, at Utter City, Coos county, collapsed during the recent storm. As many sur veys started from the old building as a corner, some trouble will be caused in running lines.. It is a foregone conclusion that we will be treated to the operations of a first-class English mining company, in the Ashland district very soon, as one of the best and largest quartz mines is now being listed on the- London mar ket. At the Clackamas hatchery about 1, 000,000 young fish have been turned out so far this season. There are now about 5,000,000 eggs in the troughs in all stages of hatching. The eggs were obtained from the Little White Salmon river station,, in Washington. .There was a heavy run of . salmon in tne Siuslaw this year, and at the Florence cannery 8,500 cases of canned salmon and 600 barrels of salmon were reoently shipped to San Francisco. Mr. Hurd says that 10,000 cases could have been put lip had the market price justified. During the fast two months one man has shipped from Brownsville, to out side markets, 1,150 turkeys, 650 chickens, 71 geese and 95 ducks, mak ing a total of about 15,000 pounds of poultry shipped by him -alone. There are several other poultry buyers in Brownsville, who have shipped a large amount also. There have been shipped from Med ford station this season thus far about 40 carloads of apples, and there re mains to be shipped yet 20" carloads more of merchantable apples. This includes fruit hauled from the Apple gate and - surrounding country. Two carloads of dried fruits of different varieties have been shipped eastward from that station, too, and about eight carloads more remain to be shipped. The Alabny Fruit Company has shipped to Davenport, la., 600 boxes of Oregon winter apples. The company is also arranging to ship a carload of winter apples to Missouri. There is a good demand for Oregon apples in the East, but they must be salable.- This company has dried 8,000 pounds of apples, which were not good keepers. It is also now arranging to carry out the experiment of drying vegetables for the Alaska trade. While workmen were excavating, a ditch in Elgin, at the intersection of Front and C. streets, last week,, at a depth of two feet or a little more they began to uncover human bones, and in a short time almost the entire skeleton was unearthed. . A few feet further on they unearthed portions of. another skeleton. From the shape of the skull found, the remains are undoubtedly those of Indians, buried long before the whites settled there, says the Elgin Recorder. There has been received at Astoria a fish from the life-saving crew at Fort Canby that no one seems to recognize. Some pronounced it a devil fish, and others are certain it is an octopus. It is about three feet long and of dark brown color. Its girth is probably 10 or 12 inches and from the tail to the gills varies but little in size. The head is attached to the body witba sort of swivel, and the mouth is hid beneath a clump of tentacles about a foot long. A Lake county man who left last June to assist in driving 8,000 head of sheep to Amadee, Cal., has returned. He says that the sheep were bought be fore shearing or lambing for $1.78 to $2 a head, and that Flanagan & .Dunn, the purchasers, have made a little for tune on the speculation, as the culls of the band are worth $3 a head at Ama dee. He thinks their profit will be nearer 200 per cent than 100. They bad a successful drive and spent the summer in the Sycan country, in Lak county. - AID FOR KLONDIKERS McBride Brings Up the Relief Question in the Senate - THE RESOLUTION GOES OVER Pension Matters Were Considered in Both Houses Beginning of m , " lengthy Debate. Washington, Dec. 11. The senate did a con'jideralbe amount of business today, although no very important matter was considered or passed. There was very little debate. Senator Gallinger, chairman of the committee An nnn uinna iallAl Dflnnfinn i (h. . increasing demand for private pension legislation and requested senators in the future to be careful to see that their bills for private pensions were meritori ous before they were introduced. An attempt was made by McBride to secure ' an appropriation for the relief of the Klondike miners, but the net result was a resolution calling on the secre tary of war for all . information, he had on that subject. -. An hour was devoted to the consider ation of private pension bills and 45 were passed. v The resolution of the Pacific rail road committee asking information re garding the sale of the Kansas Pacific was passed which gave Gear and Thurs ton opportunity to make short speeches congratulating the country upon the settlement of the Pacific railroad ques tion. Some work was laid out for next week. Carter securing the right of .way Monday and Tuesday for his census bill, and Lodge had the immigration bill made the unfinished business dur ing the week. . In the House. The house today entered1 upon the consideration of the pension appropria tion bill and stirred up a debate that promises to continue for several days. Several Southern Democrats offered criticisms of various classes of pension ers, and Private John Allen, of Missis sippi, who led the assault in a speech replete with his characteristic humor, presented a series of amendments de signed, as he said, to correct some of the glaring evils. They prohibit the granting of pensions to widows whose applications were not filed during their widowhood, and the granting of pen sions to widows whose applications were based on marriages contracted after the passage of this act, and to permanently insane or idotic minors who had reached their majority. The Northern Demo crats, however, vied with the Republi cans in their professions of friendship for the'soldiers, and one of them Nor ton oi Ohio declared that the Republi cans could not make the bill too large for him. It was admitted on both sides of the house during the discussion that the $140,000,000 carried by the bill for pensions would not cover the ex. penditures, but as congress would be in session, Cannon said it would be easy to make good any deficiency that might occur. - " - - THE HOUSE PROGRAMNE ' Financial Legislation Will Not Be Un dertaken Immediately. Washington, Deo. 11. Although-no formal action has been taken, a pretty general understanding has been reached by leaders in the house as to the course of action in the near future. ' It ' in- eludes the disposal of . appropriation bills as fast as they are ready. . The bankruptcy bill will be reported before the holiday recess, but will not be taken up by the house until after recess. . It is understood that for the present there will be no effort to take up finan cial legislation on the floor of the house. This is due mainly to the im pression that the committee on bank ing and currency will not be able to -reconcile many conflicting interests in side the committee. When it becomes . evident the committee on banking and currency is at standstill, then the ways and means committee will frame a bill on broad lines, calculated to meet the present financial requirements. The disposition of house leaders will be to keep radical legislation to the rear. ; . The Aided Railroads. - Washington, Dec. 11. In the house today, Mr. Fleming, of Georgia, intro duced a bill authorizing an investiga tion of the books, accounts and methods of railroads which have received aid from the United States. It provides that, in the president's judgment the secretary of the treasury shall redeem or otherwise clear off the paramount lien, mortgage or other encumbrance of government-aided railroads by pay ing the sum lawfully due out' of the treasury, or may bid and purchase for the United States the property, subject to such encumbrance, at any sale or sales made under any order of the court or any judgment or decree of foreclo sure of such encumbrance, or of any lien or mortgage or interest of the United States. . Indian Affairs. - , Washington, Dec. 11. The house -committee on Indian affairs today be gan its investigation of. tne proDiems in Indian territory. It was a long ses sion, and the result was a call for the Danes commission and all others inter ested to appear before it next Tuesday. St. Louis, Dec. 9. The dead body of Loo Fook Guey, known as the king of the highbinders, who several days ago tried to. rob another Chinese,' was found tonight in a room in Chinatown r' At the time of the attempted robbery both men fired at each other, and a trail of blood left by Loo Fook, while making his escape, showed that be had . been wounded. . v .,