Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Oregon union. (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1897-1899 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 3, 1899)
1TM ON TARIFF FOR REVENUE, INCIDENTAL PROTECTION AND ' SOUND MONEY. VOIi. II. CORVALIilS, BENTON COUNTY, OREGON, piDAY, FEBRDAEY 3, 1899. NO. 32. EVENTS OF THE DAY Epitome of the .Telegraphic News of the World. TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES An Interesting Collection of Items From the Two Hemispheres Presented in a Condensed Form. The New Yoik Evening World prints an interview with John Sherman, in which the latter forcibly expresses him self against expansion. . . According to figures published at Madrid, 80,000 Spanish soldiers per ish ell, chiefly through sickness, during the last campaign in Cuba. It is reported in Havana that Gen eral Rabi, with 1,500 Cuban insur gents, has taken to the hills in Santa Clara, in defiance of American author ities. A battle has taken place at San An canna, Ecuador, between government troops and. insurgent?. Four hundred men were killed and 300 wounded, and 400 insurgents were taken prisoneis. The premier, Senor Sagasta, baa an nounced that the government had de cided to convoke the cortes during the second half of February, whether the United States senate ratifies the peace treaty or not. , A bicycle saddle combine is to be or ganized and capitalized at vf 1,500,000 preferred and 1750.000 common stock. Those already in line are said "to pro duce 90 per cent of all the saddles used in North America and a fair percentage of those used abroad. Considerable alarm is felt in admin " istration circles over the possibility that Spain and Germany may recognize the. Philippine republic Germany from interested motives and Spain. to free the 8,000 or 10,000 Spanish troops held as prisoners by Aguiualdo. The strike which has been in prog ress at Colon, Colombia, for nearly a fortnight, among the dock laborers, has extended to Panama, partly owing to the fact that the Chilian line of steam ers has increased the wages of its em ployes, thereby accentuating the dead lock. John F. Kennedy, who attained no toriety in connection with' the numer ou s train-robberies and other crimes in the vicinity of Kansas City, has , been held without bail at Mansfield, Mo., for a hearing before the grand jury of Wright county on a charge of train robbery. The Planters' bank, at Kansas' City, with a capital .of $25,000, has been closed by the state. The propi ietora ara under arrest by order of Secretary of State Leseur andAssietant Attorney General Jeffries. The bank has no vis ible assets, it is alleged, whatever. The second annual convention of the National Livestock Association is in session at Denver. Nearly 1,000 dele gates are present. Governor G. A. Culberson has been elected by acclamation- in the Texas legislature to be United States senator, to succeed Roger Q. Mills. - Amalgamation of the copper mine interests of the Houghton, Mich., dis trict and of Montana has been delayed by the severe i'lness of Levy Mayer. Judge E. W. Woodbury, who framed the first prohibitory liquor law enacted by the Maine legislature, is dead at his home in Bethel, in that state, aged 81 years. The fourth annual convention of the National Association of Manufacturers is in ' session in Cincinnati. It is thought a full attendance of 1,200 members will be present. - The Spanish minister of war has do. oided to abolish military marshals, to retire half of the unattached generals and to greatly reduce the number of officers on the active list in the interest of retrenchment. A dispatch from Washington says: There is reason to believe that the va cancy in the Anglo-American joint high commisson caused by the death of Mr. Dingley will soon be filled by the appointment of Representative Tawney, of Minnesota. The commissioners sent by the Cuban assembly to Washington to learn what the United States government will do about paying the Cuban army, have sailed for Havana. . General Gomez' secretary, Captain Kohly, said that the commission had obtained a part of what they asked. No more names will be considered for appointment to any branch of the postal service in Cuba. The postoffice department has been overwhelmed with applications for these appointments, and enough eligible names are now on file to fill all possible emergencies for five years to come. Heavy rains, unusual in this lati tude at this time of the year, have in jured the spring crop of sugar cane in Nicaragua. The coffee crop in Nica ragua, now being gathered, will not ex ceed half of the annual crop. Laborers are asking high prices to gather the harvest, and are indisposed to work. " Minor ers Item. The Connecticut supreme court has rendered a decision that the property of Yale university is exempt from tax ation. A dispatch from Rio Janeiro states that the Brazilian congress has ap proved a treaty of extradition with the United States. Miss Virginia Evans, daughter of "Fighting Bob" Evans, will make tier bow to society during the present Washington official season. LATER NEWS. The North German Gazette again denies the rumor that Prince Hohenlohe contemplates resigning the imperial chancellorship. Twenty children are reported to have been drowned' by an ice disaster at the village of Warpuhnen, Boirheiin, re cently. : The president has nominated Colonel Asa B. Carey, assistant paymaster-general, to be paymaster-general, with the rank of brigadier-general. A terrible blizzard was general throughout the Mississippi valley on the 29th and 30tb of January, reaching as far south as St. Louis. Three representatives of 40 German familitfe in the East are looking over the Pacific Northwest with a view to buying several thousand acres of land for a colony. Mrs. Jane L. Stanford, who has settled the estate of her late husband, Leland Stanford, and who would be en titled to $357,768 as fees, refuses to ac cept anything for her services. Companies H, D, K and L, of the Seventeenth United States infantry, 412 enlisted men and nine officers, have left Columbus for the Philippines. They go via New York. The American shipping interests of the Hawaiian islands have largely in creasej since their annexation to the United States. There are now load ing for or on the way to the islands 50 vessels, of which 35 fly the American flag. F. W. Peck, United States commissioner-general to the Paris exposition, asks congress to increase the amount set aside for the government exhibit to $1,000,000. The -first appropriation was $65,000. which Mr. Peck says is entirely too small. The reported rich strike of gold at Cripple Creek has been confirmed. It is the richest ever discovered in the world, estimated to run as high as $500,000 to the ton. There is blocked out in one level, at a depth of 850 feet, $5,000,000 worth of ore. '" A. Thompson, agent of the Coast Seamen's Union at Seattle, says: "Un less the Shipowners' Association gives up trying to put scab seamen on coast ing vessels, a general strike will be or dered, and every sailing' vessel on the coast tied up as soon as she gets into port. The union men will not accept less than $40 per month." ' Theodore Kirchener, aged 60,' acci dentally shot and killed .his wife at Newtonvilfo, N. Y. One billion feet ' of Oregon timber, on Abiqua creek, was sold to Wiscon sin parties a few days ago. The thermometer ranged fiom 35 to 40 degrees helow zero at different points in Wisconsin the first of the week. Ore assaying from ' $40,000 to $100, 000 gold per ton is reported to have been struck in the Isabella mine at Cripple Creek, Colo. On the 17th ballot taken in the joint session of the Montana legislature Sat urday, Hon.' Win. A. Clark was elected United States senator. In the lower house of congress a joint resolution has been adopted grant ing to Venezuela the privilege of send ing a cadet to West Point. Charges affecting the integrity of District Judge Scott, of Omaha, and seeking his impeachment by the legis lature have been presented to that body. Ex-Senator Slater, a prominent figure in Oregon politics for a number of years, died at his home in La Grande on the 28th. He came to Oregon ia 1850. The Montauk Club, of Brooklyn, ten dered a banquet on the 28th to Admiral "William T. Sampson, and principal among the other guests was Secretary of the Navy Jonh D. Long. A big celebration was held in Havana in honor of the memory of the first Cu ban president, Jose Marti. Four thou sand people were present, and there was no disorder of any kind. The body of Captain Sturtevant, pilot of the Paul Jones, has been found. From the clothing of the body it is be lieved he was off duty and asleep when the disaster was caused by the boiler exploding. General Eagan, tried by court-martial on charges of conduct unbecoming an officer and gentleman, was found guilty and sentenced to dismissal from the army. The president has the power to mitigate or entirely set aside the findings. The district attorney at Philadelphia has notified counsel for Senator Quay, his son, Richard, and ex-State Treas urer Haywood, that he had fixed Mon day, February 20, as the date for trial of the three defendants on the charge of conspiracy in the misuse of the money of the state on deposit in the People's bank. Private advices received at Seattle state that the government will send three detachments of soldiers into the Coppei river district of Alaska next spring to lay out a mail route to the Yukon river and establish ports. The purpose is to establish an all-American route to the Yukon. It will extend from the mouth of Copper river to Eagle City, 60 miles below Dawson. The two richast prima donnas are Adeline Patti and Sibyl Sanderson. Pensions have been granted to the widows of Capt. Allyn Capron and Capt. Allyn K. Capron, father and son, both of whom fell in the war with Spain. Christ Monberger, who died in Buf falo, N. Y., of a fractured skull at the Fitch hospital, whistled merry tunes all through the 100 hours of his mortal j illness and was unconscious all the time. MANY BILLS PASSED. Oregon's Lawmaker! Are Now Getting Down to Good Hard Work. In the Oregon state senate Wednes day the following bills were passed: To authorize the construction and maintenance of floodgates on Douglas and other sloughs, Douglas county; to require justices of the peace to submit complaints to the district attorney, ex cept for murder, arson, robbery, grand larceny, before fees may be collected; to provide a trust fund in Multnomah county; to authorize the Eugene di vinity school to confer theological and biblical degrees; to amend the act passed last fall so as to make all quartz and placer claims real estate; to remove from principal defendants in prosecu tions for abortion the shield afforded by section 2011 of the statutes, which absolves them from testifying on the grounds that it might incriminate the witness; to provide for county clerks to transmit to the secretary of state a summary instead of a complete trans cript of assessment rolls; amendments to Grants Pass charter;- to permit suit for possession of real estate to be main tained by plaintiff not in actual posses sion; to provide for election of a dis trict road supervisor. Bates' bill for clerks of the justice courts in Multnomah county, after be ing emasculated by striking out the salary feature, was recommitted be cause found not to be limited to Mult nomah county. . . ' Adams' bill to tax dogs also was re committed, after considerable discus sion, for amendment so as to exempt cities where dogs are already licensed. In the house the bill providing for a special election in Malheur county for relocation of county seat was made a special order for Wednesday.February 1. Upon motion of Curtis, each Wednes day night hereafter will be devoted to consideration of local measures. Dr. Josephi's insane asylum bill, : fhioh passed the senate yesterday, was rushed through the first and second readings and referred to the committee on penal, reformatory and charitable institutions. ' ' Sherwin's bill, to amend the charter of Gold Hill, so as to enable the town to issue $2,500 water bonds, was passed. The joint committee on fisheries, to meet a like committee from the Wash ington legislature, was excused till Tues day next. The bill of Curtis amend ing the fishing laws was ordered print ed and referred to this committee with instructions to bring it . to the atten tion of the Washington committee. The reapportionment bill was passed in the house Thursday by the narrow margin of one vote. The bill to create a new county out of portions of Grant, Crook and Gil liam counties was defeated. A bill for protection of trout, and one for protection of carwfiah were killed. A resolution was introduced to re strict the introduction of new bills to February 3, but. it was indefinitely postponed. A resolution changing the date .of visiting Corvallis by the joint commit tee from February 1 to February 4 passed. - In the senate the bill to authorize school clerks and county judges to dis pose of land bid in at sales for delin quent taexs came up as a special order Thursday. An amendment excepting from redemption by original owners land' contracted to be sold was offered and the bill was recommitted for the amendment. Bitts passed were: To amend the law relating to certain male animals running at large, applicable to Eastern Oregon ranges; to cure defects in deeds heretofore made that are faulty in ex ecution, witnessing or acknowledgment; to amend the law relating to the mak ing of deeds by the sheriff. The reapportionment bill which passed the house Thursday passed the senate Friday after a debate consuming nearly the whole morning session. The final vote was 22 ayes, 4 noes, 4 absent. The report of the committee appoint ed at the special session to investigate the Loewenberg oontract at the peni tentiary was taken from the table, and amendments proposed to the effect that the $32,500 settlement be made by February 10, that not less than $10,000 be paid in cash and the balance in notes satisfactory to the board, and then the whole matter was made a special order for Tuesday at 2:30 -P. M. In the senate the following bills were introduced during the past week: To put in the hands of the secretary of state the matter of ordering the . print ing of reports, session laws; circulars, blanks, etc, the printer to act only upon the written order of the secretary, except that the governor may order the printing of executive documents; to protect life and property from danger of railroad trains by providing numer ous regulations for warnings on trains and railroads and exempting from claims for damages railroad companies that comply with the law; to prevent combinations between fire insurance companies to maintain rates same as the Iowa statute; to amend the charter of Woodburn passed; to appropriate $35,000 for a flax manufacturing plant at the penitentiary same as Was in troduced in the houa.e yesterday; to provide for a uniform public system, and complete codification of school laws; to permit recording in all but one county of certified copies of deeds for property situated in two counties or more; to authorize county officers te selcl property bid in for sales for delin quent taxes. Friday in the house the bill to in crease liquor licenses in the state was practically killed by the measure being reported from committee with the rec ommendation that it do not pass. BERBERIS AQUIFOLIUM. The Oregon Grape Chosen as the State Flower. In the Oregon senate Monday after noon .three, bills were introduced, 25 house bills were read the first time, two house bills read, the second time and referred, and two house bills were Haseltine, of the committee on horti culture, reported favorably a bill for park boards in cities of 8,000 or more population. t . Petitions were filed from 26 mem bers of theUesmyth Grand Army post, The Dalles, favoring admitting wives and widows of soldiers and sailors to the Soldiers' Home; from 18 residents on the Barlow road, favoring the state's acquiring that thoroughfare; from ; 17 residents of Clackamas county, for the county court to plank bridges for trac tion engines; from Portland Woman's Club, for the adoption of the Oregon grape as the state flower. The last named petition was- accompanied by a resolution,' which was passed, declar ing the berberis aquifoliiim. the official state flower. The house bill to create the office of state biologist was passed, 17 to 10. The amended charter of the town of Adams was the only other bill passed. Haseltine offered a resolution of thanks to Henry E. Dosch for his serv ices to the state at the- Omaha exposi tion, and it was unanimously adopted. The following new bills were pre sented: To authorize the governor to let convict labor for not less than 35 cents per day per man for a period not exceeding 10 years; to amend the As toria charter so as. to permit the water commission, instead ef the council, to fill vacancies on its beard; to amend the statutes so as to permit only 5 cents per milefotpriyate persons serv ing papers or fox jurors and witnesses in Mujtnomah county. In the House. In the house Monday afternoon, Donnelly's ..bill fixing the salaries of officers of Tillamook county, - were passed. A number of bills were read the second time and referred to com mittees, and half a dozen bills were in troduced. , Before adjournment, also, the ball was set in motion for the res urrection of the apportionment bill. .... Contrary to expectations, Donnelly's bill to create Wheeler county out of portions of Crook, Grant and Gilliam, which was defeated in tlife"liouse Janu ary 26, had comrJaratiyelysniootb sail ing today .'passing bya Tote of S4 jto 13; absent, 11; paired, 2. .Myers submitted a reportv of the joint legislative committee on fisher ies, showing that uniform legislation had been agreed- upon at the conference held in Tacoma Sunday, which was adopted. .. Bills were introduced as follows: To" incoprorate Medford; to amend the' charter of Arlington; to prohibit exhi bitions of mesmerism, hypnotism and: artificial somnambulism providing penalties ranging from a fine of $50 to $200' therefor; to prohibit- laying out county roads on a greater grade than 7 per cent, and to require road and bridge work to be donehy written con tract with the lowest bidder, whenever the cost exceeds $50; to abolish the office' of county recorder of Clatsop county; to prohibit the organization of banks with a smaller capital than $10, 000; to protect trout, to change the time of terms of court in the second judicial district. ' - INTEREST AND USURY BILL. Washington Senators Debate It, But Take No Action. The interest and usury "bill was up for lengthy debate in the senate again Monday morning,. but after .debate no action was taken and the bill was left suspended in the air, when the .senate adjourned to participate in the joint ballot fffr United States senator. The Mantz-Gray contest was taker np by special order, at the afternoon, cession. H. J. Snively, of Yakima, on behalf of Mantz, and W. H. Smiley, of Colville, on behalf of Gray, were each given 40 minutes in which to address the senate. The majority and minor ity reports of the senate judiciary com- Lrnittee practical ly held that there had been ho election in the Stevens-Spokane district. The hearing and dis cussion was continued until Tuesday afternoon. One bill was introduced. It provides that in cities of over 5,000 inhabitants justices of the peace' shall receive $2,000 and constables $1,200 per year. In the House. " In the house the bill fixing; maxi mum rates, of railroad and steamboat transportation companies at B4 cent per mile passed by a vote of "57 to 13. As amended, it has become a -criminal statute, its provisions including a pen alty for any violation by railway em ployes. '.'"' ' The following bills were introduced: For the relief of L. D. Groydir,, of Spokane, and appropriating $294 for enumerating Indians on the Colville reservation in 1891; creating a railroad commission and establishing a code, of railway legislation; defining mineral lode claims as extending 300 feet on either side of the middle of the vein; providing for the binding, preservation and distribution of public reports bien nially of succeeding sessions of thB leg islature; compelling the use of wide tires on wagons bearing heavy loads, graduating wider under heavier loads;' providing for compulsory assignment of mortgageb, and regulating such assign ment. . ; The Senatorial Contest. '". "-' ' One ballot for senator was taken Monday, at Olympia.-with the follow--ing result: Foster, 28; . . Wilson, 27; Humes, 18; Ankeny, 10; Lewis. 1; Richardson. 19; Bridges, 1. The fu sionists broke away; from Lewis,, and 19 votes were cast for W. E. Riohard son. The only change in the Repub lican vote was that of Eamesr changed from Humes toWi)on. A COMMON INTEREST Fish Legislation tor Wash ington an4 Oregon. JOINT MEETING HELD AT TACOMA Measures That A re to lie Recommended " ' to the Two legislatures for Enactment. An unanimous agreement has been reached by the joint legislative com mitters of -Oregon and Washington touching fishing industries of mutual interest to both states. They formu lated resolutions making such recom mendations -as will, it is -thought, ob viate differences between the two states arising from conflicting laws. . -Among the points of .agreement reached may be mentioned the follow ing: ' f ' Changes relative to the close season for salmon-fishing : on" the "Columbia river; the Sunday - close"-" law is to be done 'away with; the 'Washington law is to be made to conform with the Ore gon law regulating the fall salmon close season; the gill-net license is to be left at $3.50, with the addition of an indi vidual license fee . of $1 each for all fishermen, as at present provided for in the Oregon law; the' set-net license fee is to be raised in both'- states from $1 to $2.50; concurrent laws relative to sturgeon lines on the Columbia river are to be enacted; the appointment of a joint commission to establish the proper boundary lines is to be asked. The agreements were' reached at Ta coma Saturday. The Oregon commis sion consisted of Fish Commissioner McGuire, Senators Reed and Daly, and Representatives Myers, Curtis and Far rell. That-of Washington ' comprised Fish Commissioner,. Little, Senators Megler and MoReavy, and Representa tives Colwell, Sims and Daniels. - It was concluded to recommend the close-season proposition should begin at noon. Maroh 1, and close at noon, April 15.' It was recommended to make the Washington fall season con current with . that of Oregon from August 10 to September 10. No settlement was arrived at on the boundary-line question. Both states will. L probably., appoint two citizens each, who will select an engineer, con sider the matter, and submit drawings and profiles at the net biennial session in each state. American-Canadian Treaty .Washington, Feb. 1.: Prospects for an agreement between the British and American joint high commission oh questions " affecting -Canada and the United States have greatly improved within the last week, and it is ex pxected now that a complete-agreement on all. points will be reached, early in February. ; . Reciprocity has been the stumbling block in the way of the commission. The principal point of friction was in regard to the duty on lumber imposed under the . Dingley " law. " Canadians demanded concessions on this that the American commissioners were not at first willing to make. .- This question has not yet been set tled, but it. is understood that both sides are more conciliatory, each being anxious "that the entire negotiations should not fail on account of one point of agreement. New "Railroad to the Yukon. New York, Feb 1. A dispatch to the - Herald ' from Washington says: Several Iowa men have asked congress to grant a subsidy of $16,000 a mile for a railway and telegraph line to the Klondike. Representative Curtis, of Iowa, introduced a bill in the house Saturday to carry out the .wishes of the syndicated ' These men have organized the Cop per River & Yukon Railroad Company, and they ask congress to - grant them rights to incorporate for 50 years, to give them right of way .for a railroad and. telegraph line from Valdes inlet. This company is to be capitalized at $30,000,000. It is to have the right to bond and mortgage the line at not to exceed $30,000 per mile,' but this mort gage is to he subsequent to the claim of the United States for the $16,000 per mile advanced by the government. Cruelty to Spanish Prisoners. New York, Feb. 1.' A dispatch to the Herald from Manila 'says: The Spanish civil prisoners have not -yet been released. ... Tales of suffering, hunger and dishonor come .from, the provinces. Young Spanish girls., are forced to live in open with low born natives.' Their parents, being power less,' appealed to Againaldo. His reply was a letter from a dishonored child ; exacted;. after God knows what suffer ing saying she is happy and content ed. Ladies have suffered dishonor to save their husbands from cruel treat ment. Five priests have died in one province from hunger and cruelty, al though $60,003 had been sent by the corporation foi their maintenance. "Ap peal has been made to the American nation, in the name of God, to stop the. tragedy. . Eftcsn Courtmartial. Case. :.; Washington, Feb. 1. The record of the court-martial in the case of Eagan was .placed in the hands of .Judge .Ad vocate General Lieber today 'for review, Mrs. Stanford Wants No Pay. San Francisco, Feb. 1. A review of the work of Mrs. Jane L. .Stanford, as executrix of the estate of the late Le land Stanford, shows that she handled : property valued at $24.8.69,245. The fees and percentages to which she. was legally entitled amounted to $357,768, but she Waived all claims "for her- serv-' ices. She paid her attorneys- $60,000 for their services and allowed them $7,000 for expenses. -Her' action, is eominuded.. '' : '.".'-'''' vo ARMY REORGANIZATION BILL. Discussion of the Principal Work of the National House. Washington, Jan. 31. The house to day continued the consideration of the army, reorganization bill until 3 o'clock, when the members paid their tributes to the memory of the late Rep resentative Simpkins, of - Massachu setts. Little piogress was made with the army bill, the only amendment adopted being that to give veterinar ians in cavalry regiments the rank, pay and allowance of second lieuten ants. The time before the eulogies be gan was-chiefly devoted to a continua tion of the debate on the advisability of retaining the Philippines. . - 0 ! The diplomatic and consular appro priation hill, carrying $l,500,0p0, .was passed by the senate. The salaries of secretaries of legation to the Argentine republic, Venezuela and Pein were increased to $1,800, and of the consuls at La Guuavra, Ven ezuela, from $1,800 to $2,000, and at Fernambuco, Brazil, from $2,000 to $2,200. The allowance for clerks of consulates was increased from $1,600 to $3,200. The salaries of three third secretaries of embassy at London, Paris and Berlin were fixed at $1,600 each. The consulate at Naples was -placed in the $3,500 class; the consulate at Col lingwood, Canada, in the. $2,000 class, and the consulate at Niagara Falls in the $1,500 class. Mason offered a resolution requesting the surgeon-general of the army to furnish information as to' the percent age of our soldiers in the Philippines who are sick and have been sick, and the number of deaths in eur army by reason of the sickness caused : by the climate. Mason prefaced the resolu tion with the statement that reports had been received that "of late years as high as 50 per cent of the soldiers unaccustomed to the climate . (of the Philippines) have died by reason of the said climate." EAGAN GUILTY AS CHARGED. The Necessary Penalty Is Dismissal From the Army. Washington, Jan. 31. General Ea gan, commissary-general of subsist ence, has been found guilty of the charges of conduct unbecoming an offi cer and a gentleman, and of conduct to the prejudice of good order and disci pline, and of the specifications thereto, and has "been sentenced to dismissal from the United States army; but with a recommendation from the court for the exercise of executive clemency. Under the regulations, the court, hav ing reached -tbe-Gonclusion. that the ac cused was guilty, . had no. choice, in selecting a penalty, the regulations prescribing absolutely that one punsish ment dismissal for the offense. Therefore, the only hope for . General Eagan is in the direction of communta tion, mitigation or disapproval by the president. Payment, of the Cuban Army. Havana," Jan. 31. Senor Fiedrico Mora, the civil governor of Havana, in an interview declared that the question of the payment of the Cuban ai my was of much greater importance than the Washington government seems to real ize. He said of the Cubans were to collect the custom! .of the islands, which are their property, their first ac tion Would be to meet Cuba's sacred obligation to the army by payment in full to the soldiers. The customs ad ministration being in the hands of the Americans, the Cubans make a simple business, proposition, to the United States government that--it shall ad vance money to pay the troops, -. hold ing the customs as security. ' The Cherokee Treaty. .- Washington, ' Jan. Sl.--The agree ment concluded at Muskogee, I. T., January 14, between the Dawes com mission and the Cherokee nation, pro viding for the allotment of lands and general betterment of the condition of the red men, has been sent to the sen ate. "Four of the five tribes have al ready agreed to new arrangements and negotiations are now pending with the Creeks. - A Fatal Boiler Explosion. 'Chioagdi Jan. 81. Four men "wera badly burned, one perhaps fatally, by the explosion of a boiler today in the basement of the Chicago Tribune. The men who' had just completed putting in new grates in the furnace of the boiler, were standing directly in front of the furnace when the explosion oc curred, and were covered first with live coals, then with scalding water. - A Restraining; Order. Washington, Jan.. 31. To prevent army officers of superior rank from seizing upon the quarters of officers of the transports upon which they may be traveling, the secretary of war has been obliged to make an order prohib iting them from taking the rooms of the masters and quartermasters of transports. Two Consuls Nominated. "Washington, Jan. 31. The presi dent presented these nominations to the senate: State, James H. Worman, of New York, now commercial agent at Cognac, to be consul at Munich, Ba varia; William T. Fee, of Ohio, now consul at Cienfuegos; to be consul at Bombay, India. ... February 6 has been agreed upon by the senate as the date to vote upon the peace treaty. "- Divorced and Bankrupt. : San Francisco. Jan. 31. George F. White, a cattleman - of Mendocino county, has filed a petition in insolv ency. His liabilities are placed at $181,000, including a judgment ' of $100,000. granted his divorced wife. His assets are placed at $110,000. ... Snow In the South. Atlanta, Qa., Jan.. 31. Snow fell, generally throughout ' Central and Southern Georgia and Alabama Satur day... -.- .- i. : A CUBAN CELEBRATION Crowds Honor the Mempry of the First President. CUBAN POLITICS ARE UNSETTLED Mass" Meeting to Be Held to Proclaim - . Principles of Independ ence. Havana, Jan. 31. Four thousand pei son 8, men in their best clothing and women gaily dressed,- stood amid a pouring rain in'' Paula square today listening to six intensely patriotic enlogies of Jose Marti, the Cuban pa triot and first president of the Cuban revolutionary government. A tablet to his memory was unveiled at the house where he was born in a street near by, and 82 societies, consisting of 2.500 persons, with banneis, flags and five bands, marched through the prin cipal thoroughfares to the square. The pi ocession. whose distinguishing feature was 500 girls wearing white dresses and red liberty caps, started at 1 o'clock, reaching the- square two hours later. -The streets were gaily decorated with Cuban and American flags, and though the interest ran high, there was no disorder of any kind. Marti's widow, mother and son, led the parade, with the first Cnban flag used by the patriot, which was loudly cheered. . This promises to be a lively week in Cuban politics. The speoial commis sion from the Cuban military assembly will return to Havana, after. its inter views with the Washington govern ment, and popular interest is increas ing in the preparations for the mass meeting February 6 at the Tacon thea ter, where a separatist party, proclaim ing the principle of independence, will be founded, under the direction of such men as Senor Giberga, a noted autbno- " mist; General Leyte Vidal, General Lacret, Senor Fontsterling and other opponents of annexation. More Dreyfus Agitation. Paris, Jan. 31. The government's decision to submit to the chamber of deputies tomorrow a bill providing that the cases of trial revision shall be brought before the united sections of the court of oassation has reopened the floodgates of the Dreyfus agitation. . The situation appears more confusing and manaoiaj? than ever. For days the anti-DreyfueKe8"havelieeH clamor: ingtoiiave the case referred to the untied sections, beoause they have con sidered it certain that among more than 30 judges they oonld rely upon an anti- Dreyfus majority. A Disappearing Island. ( - San Francisco, Jan. 31. The news has been brought here, from Australia that the British man-of-war Penguin hus just returned to Sydney, N. S. W.. after taking soundings between the island Tongi and Auckland. N. Z. The officers found that Falcon island, which suddenly came up out of the ocean is 1885, is gradually receding. When relocated by the Penguins's officers, they discovered that the island is now three fathoms under water. Sale of Oregon Lumber. Rhinelander, Wis., Jan. 81. S. A. D. Pewter, of Portland, Or., the well known Pacific coast lumberman, has closed a sale of over 1,000,000,000 feet of Oregon timber, mostly fir, situated in Marion, county, 45 miles south of Portland, Or., on Abiqua creek, a trib utary of the Willamette river, to lum bermen of this city.whohave organized a stock company, called ' the Abiqua Lumber Company, of Wisconsin. . , .1 Opposed to Foreign Capital.. Santiago de Cuba, Jan. 31. The Cuban Libre publishes a long article setting forth its objections to the pro jects of foreign capitalists for working "Cuban virgin soil," constructing rail roads, establishing electric light plants and carrying on ' similar enterprises. "We do not want any one to invest capital in Cuba except the natives," says the paper. "America is proof of what monopolists can do in ruining a country." - Paul Jones' Pilot Found. New Orleans, La., Jan. 81. The body found near Fort St. Philip was to day identified as that of Captain Stur tevant. the pilot of the'" launch pHUl Jones. From the position and cloth ing of the body, it is . almost certain that he waB off duty asleep at the time death came. ' and that the boat was wrecked . by an explosion during the night. . Cold In Wisconsin. Milwaukee, Wis., Jan. 81. Specials from 'points in the interior of Wiscon sin report very low . temperature. At Appleton the thermometer recorded 35 degrees below zero, the coldest in re cent years. Black River Falls reports a temperature of 40 degrees, Medford 40. and Whitehall 88 degrees below zero Fourteen Persons Killed. Marcia, Spain, Jan. 81. Fourteen persons were killed today by an explo sion of gas in the Palia mine near Mazarron, 20 miles west of Cartagena. The other miners succeeded in making their escape. An Old Hotel Burned. San Francisco, Jan. 81. The San Bruno hotel, an old landmark on the San Bruno road, southwest of the city, was burned today,, ani . Mathias Eichorn, porter of the hotel, perished in the flames. ." San Francisco, Jan. 81. Thomas Wilford Rallet, aged four years, was burned to death today in the rear of the Pacific Gas- improvement Com pany's works at Fillmore and Chestnut atreeta, ' i v.":lr4.
