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VOL. XI
Shafter Regrets that He Should Feel Slighted,
Was Asked to Be Present and
SANTIAGO, July 23. General Shafter has sent a letter to General Garcia express
ing sincere regret that the insurgent general should feel slighted or aggrieved by the alleged
ill treatment received by him at the hands of the American commander.
General Shafter states that he invited General Garcia to accompany him to Santiago
on the day that Toral surrendered, but Gircia declined.
Full acknowledgment is made of the invaluable aid which was rendered the Ameri
can army by General Garcia and his troops.
Soldiers and civilians in Santiago bear no ill will toward the "Yankee," but are bit
ter toward the Cubans.
Food is becoming scarce. A fierce resistance is expected from the Spanish forces at
Holguin. There are now only a few mild cases of yellow fever among the American troops
encamped here. ,
FEVER AND SCURVY
AT DAWSON
Steamer Garronne Arrives With Almost
Two Million Dollars Dawson
Crowded With Idle Men.
Victoria, B. C, July 23. The steamer
Garronne, which arrived today from St.
Michaels, brought 166 miners, a million
and a half in duet and nuggets, and
probably enough in dratts to raise the
tJtal to over two million dollars.
The latest news from Dawson is that
feyer and scurvy prevail to a serious
extent.
Twenty thousand idle men crowd
Dawson without work nntil winter
comes again and opens the mines once
more.
Canadian royalty bHs fair to ruin the
kings of Klondike who have invested
heavily in properties that it will not
pay to work because of the heavy roy
alty tax.
AN EXCITING
FORGERY CASE
A Multimillionaire Rancher of Glenn
County, California, Has a Griev
ance to Answer Claims Forgery.
San Francisco, July 23. Mies Min
nie Murdock has commenced suit here
to collect a note for $100,000 and inter
est at one per cent a month since 1877,
amounting in all to $350,000, against the
estate of William Murdock, a multimil
lionaire rancher of Glenn county, who
died four years ago. Plaintiff alleges
her uncle gave her a note when she was
a little child saying ho wanted to pro
vide for her when she was older. Mur
dock beard of the note before he died
and declared it forgery. He denied em
phatically that he ever gave his neice
any note or had any such conversation
as that alleged.
The suit has created a sensation
throughout Northern California, and
the heir of Murdock will prosecute
the holders of the note for forgery. Ex
perts have declared the note bogus.
Cain In laor checks.
All conntv warrants registered prior
to July 12, 1894, will be paid at my
office. Interest ceases after July 7,
1898. . C. L. Phuups,
Coanty Treasurer.
THE
NEGOTIATIONS
STILL UNDECIDED
Sagasta Said to Be Secretly Negotiating
as Far as He Dares Contest
Movement Gaining Strength.
London, July 23. The question of
peace or war still hangs on international
conditions of Spain. From the most
trustworthy eource it has been learned
that Sagasta and two members of his
cabinet have been secretly trying to ar
range peace terms with the United
States. Sagasta will, go as far aB he
dares in the face of the masses. It is
evident on every hand that the prepara
tions are hastening to band over the
negotiations to a military or combina
tion ministry as soon as they shall have
taken definite shape. It is certain that
the Carlist movement ia gaining
strength and that the government sin
cerely desires peace.
POPE LEO'S
CRITICAL CONDITION
His Sun May Soon Set A Number of
Conferences Held Cardinal Par
rochi May Be the Next Pope.
New York, July .28. The health of
Fope Leo continues to excite apprehen
sion throughout the Catholic world.
The prevailing opinion among the
members of the college at Some is that
Pope Leo's sun ia near its setting, and
be knows his night is not far off.
The Cardinals have held a number of
conferences within the last ten days.
Parrochi, Nicar of the Holiness, presided,
and the question of hia successorship
has been discussed. Parrochi is thought
to have a good chance to succeed to the
chair of St. Peter. Leo is thought to
favor Bampollo, the papal secretary of
state. No American church dignitary
is even mentioned in the matter of suc
cessorship, and an Italian is sure to be
the next pope. .
TYGH VALLEY -ROLLER MILL
At all times flour equal to the best for
sale at Tygh Valley Boiler Mills,, at
prices to suit the times.' Also mill feed.
W. M. McCorkijj, Prop.
mcbl6-6m :
DALLES, OREGON. SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 24,
and Asserts that Garcia
Declined.
ANOTHER SCANDAL
IN HIGH LIFE
A Descendant of One of California's
Oldest Families Kills His Cousin
Through Jealousy.
Pomona, Calif., July 23. James Mar
tinez, desc?ndent of one of the oldest
families that were famous in the early
history of Southern California, shot his
cousin, Jose Martinez, dead early this
morning for criminal intimacy with the
slayer's beautiful wife.
James Martinez caught the guilty pair
once before, but he spared his cousin's
life and forgave bis wife on Jose's prom
ise to leave the state forever. James
came home unexpectedly at two o'clock
this morning and the tragedy followed.
The family is one of the wealthiest and
proudest in this section.
WOOD WANTED.
The directors of School Dist. No. 12
wieh to give notice to wood dealers that
at the regular meeting of Ang. 2d they
will receive bids for furnishing tl e dis
trict with 50 cords of oak and 45 cords
of fir wood, more or less, to be delivered
at the different school buildings or else
where as may be required. ju)yl9-4t
NOTICE.
Ail doga running at large, without a
license tag, after the 1st of August, will
be impounded. Chas. F. Lauer,
City Marshal.
You cannot afford to drink
colored tea.
It undermines health, and the
coloring hides defects.
Schilling's Best needs no
coloring; it is good enough.
Royal makes the food pare,
wholesome and deliclouc
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Absolutely Pure
ftOYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW VORJt.
FIVE DROWNED
MANY MISSING
The Fraser River Disaster Worse Than
First Reported Entire Fleet of
Fishing Boats Caught in a Storm
and Demolished.
Vakcoiner, B. C, July 23. The dis
aster to the salmon fishers at the mouth
of the Fraser river, caused by the recent
ttorms, appears to have been worse than
at first reported.
The who'e fleet was out at the time.
Many of the bouts were strung together,
and when tho storm-cloud burst they
were-dashed against each other with
such force as to 'either demolish them
outright or render them useless.
Five of the men were seen to sink out
of sight. It was at first thought this
was the extent of the fatalities, but
when the men reported twenty-five
were found to be missing. These in
clude Chinese, Japanese, Indians and
whites. They may yet be heard from,
but- it ia more than likely that they
have been lost.
BETTER RIFLES
FOR VOLUNTEERS
Members of the Porto Rican Expedition
Will be Armed With the Krag
Jorgensen Gun as Fast as Possible.
New York, July 23. A special from
Washington to the Times says :
At least 20,000 of the volunteers who
go to Porto Bico are to be supplied with
the Krag-Jorgensen magazine rifle, used
by the regular army. This announce
ment, made by the ordnance depart
ment, came as a surprise, the under
standing having been that the supply of
the improved guns would not permit of
their being served out to the volunteers
for some months to come. The ord
nance department was content to let
that impression pervail, so long as it
was not prepared to controvert it with
the arms themselves, but it has been
straining every energy to accumulate a
stock of the rifjes in order to begin their
issue generally as soon as possible.
Only Three Escaped.
Ottawa, July 23. Bev. O. L. String
er, an Anglican missionary engaged
among the Esquimaux, writes to a
friend here stating that of the eleven
whaling ships that left the Arctic for
the West last fall, only three managed
to get out. The others were caught in
the ice and had to be abandoned. Four
men were lost in trying to reach land.
1898.
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Inaugurate
Our
SPECIAL
CLEARANCE
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Cloudy Weatheir Ppefepged foi Sittings.
MY WORK
Chapman Block.
WILL ATTEMPT TO
VOID THE CONTRACT
Trouble May Result if the Spanish
Steamship Company is Given the
Contract for Carrying Troops.
New York, July 23. The World says :
A lawyer has 'been retained by the
steamship companies who were bidders
for the transporting of the 22,000 cap
tured Spanish prisoners from Santiago
to Spain, who will begin action today to
have the contract made with Com pan ia
Trans-Atlantic Espanola set aside. The
ground taken is that the successful bid
der is a licensed corporation of a nation
with which we are at war, and that ac
cording to a measure passed by the
Spanish cortes one-half of the receipts
of every corporation doing business un
der the Spanish government must be
surrendered to the government to help
defray the expenses of the war.
By letting the contract to a Spanish
corboration the government indirectly
pays into the Spanish treasury a sum
equal to one-half the stipulation.
NO 112
SALE
MY SUCCESS.
THE DALLES, OR.
GARCIA MADE
NO COMPLAINT
Letter Said to Have Been Sent by Him
to Shafter Was Written By an Of
ficer of Castillo's Staff.
Santiago e Cuba, July 23. It now
turns out that the letter alleged to have
been addressed by General Garcia to
General Shafter, complaining of thet
treatment accorded to the Cubans, and
advising General Shafter of General
Garcia's resignation, was sent by a corre
spondent named Araa, who has been
acting on the staff of ' General Garcia.
It is not clear that Garcia ever saw tha
letter. .
To Care m Cold In One Day.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab
lets. All druggists refund the money it
it fails to cure. 25c,
DeWitt'A Little early Risers
The famaiis tittle pill.