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VOL. XI THE DALLES, OREGON. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1898 NO 227 AMERICAN TERMS WERE MOST CRUEL Sasasta on His Eict M Ms or IDs Peace NejoMois. AMERICANS STERN VICTORS Spain, He Says, Met No Generosity at Their Bands, But Only Levity and Deceit Intimates that Spain Will Forever Hate the United States and That a Day of Retaliation May Come Some Time. New Yokk. Dec. 28. A dispatch to the World quotes the London Mail's Madrid correspondent as saying that in timate friends of Senor Kagasta have supplied the following statements made by him a few days before his illness be came serious: "The time when the peace negotia tions were in progress was a time of the greatest bitterness to me. "Many a night I could not sleep and many a day I could not eat, so great was my anxiety, so deep my fears that what has happened would happon. "I know the Americans, and guessed what they intended to do. Some of the Spanish commissioners in Paris had, in the beginning, some expectations in which I never participated, though I sometimes hoped myself that our oppo nents could not be so cruel to Spain as they have since proven themselves to be. "From the United States we have met with no generosity, but only levity and deceit, carried to the extreme of inter preting capriciously an important work in the text of the protocol, in order to violate the principle they had already agreed to. "We have to suffer all this to prevent greater evils. Cuba, our army, always brave, refused to accept peace. They wanted to continue fighting against the invaders, as well as the rebels. The gen eral in command bad bard work to per Buade soldiers and officers, who thought themselves dishonored by accepting peace without having fought against their foe. "Here in Spain the danger was that the people agitated by so many misfor tunes might reject a peace which did not respond to their ambition. "God only knows how earnestly and bow bard I labored to restore calm to the popular mind and to quell the move ments which would have disturbed the country still more by endangering not only the Philippines but aleoour posses sions in theAtlantic and Meditteranean, and perhaps portions of our own penin sula. Nobody remembers this except those who can measure the sacrifices I then made. "Now all is ended and we must look to the future. Elements are now want ing for our regeneration and our work will be seen in time. The lesson inflict ed upon us has been bard, but it will be fruitful." Murder Theory Substantiated. Spokane, Wash., Dec. 27. There is now scarcely a doubt that the charred bodies found in the embers of a burned cabin near Spokane, Saturday morning, were the remains of Jack David and William Banks, and that they were murdered by Archie Carl and Oecar King. At the inquest today the physi cians employed to analyze the blood in the snow in front of the cabin testified that it was human blood. Edward Goff- net, who delivered a bill of groceries at the cabin Friday evening at 8 o'clock, testified that all four men were there and came out to meet him. This proves Baking Powder Made from pure cream of tartar. Safeguards the food against alum Alum baking powders are the greatest menacers to health of the present day. ROYAL BAK1HO PQWOtW CO.. NEW URH. that David and Banks, who were in the city Friday afternoon, returned to the cabin. The officers have no trace of Carl and King, the men supposed to have committed the crime. They bad a good supply of provisions, and it is thought they carried them into the hills and are in hiding. To Pointed Qneiilini Answered. What is the use of making a better article than your competitor it you can not get a better price for it? Ans. 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Mies Mercedes Garcia, daughter of the late Calixto Carcia, the Cuban leader, died at the Masuni hotel, in this city, this evening, of consumption. Mrs. Garcia and her two daughters arrived here the day General Garcia died in Washington, and while at dinner received intelligence of the deatb of the head of the family. The contents of the telegram were never revealed to Miss Mercedes, who was at that time (failing rapidly. AH the members of the Garcia family at present in the country were at the bedside of Miss Mercedes when the end came. The body will be embalmed and taken to Cuba on the warship which the United States has designated to convey the re mains of General Garcia back to his native country. Enterprising TOragrglsts. Tncre are few men more wide awake and enterprising than Blakeley & Hough on, who spare no pains to secure the best of everything in their line for their many customers. 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THE REBELS HAVE CAPTURED ILOILO Spaniards Fcrcsl to Flee to Borneo and Mindanao. TOO LATE TO PREVENT IT Washington Officials Believe Otis Will Demand the Surrender of lloilo Into His Hands, and If the Rebels Refuse, Enforce His Demand. Washington, Dec. 28. There is a great deal of anxiety in official circles here over the recent events at lloilo. Two official dispatches have been re ceived by the etate and war departments but it is impoesible to gather from them accurate knowledge as to the conditions there. It ia not even possible to learn whether the insurgents or American forces have taken the place. This morning United States Consul Pratt, at Singapore, cabled the state de partment: "lloilo taken 26th. Spanish fled to Borneo." This threw the officials into deeper doubt than before. The American expedition which left Manila to go to lloilo, consisting of 2,000 troops and the warships Baltimore and Callao, would ecarcely have had time to reach lloilo by the 26th. So the inference is that the insurgents are in possession of the town. Color is lent to the belief from the fact reported in one telegram that the Span iards had retreated to a strongly forti fied town on the island of Mindanao. This does not agree with Pratt's state ment that they bad fled to Borneo. The fact that the Spaniards have retreated at all is construed as indicating that the town had been abandoned to the insurg ents. Officials at the war department still decline to make public Otis' telegram of yesterday, but there is no doubt he is meeting with great difficulty in bis ef forts to secure the release of the Spanish prisoners held by the Filipinos. It be gins to appear clearly that a considera ble element among Filipino leaders, probably a majority, are disposed to use the unfortunate prisoners as a basis for negotiations with the United States, naming their releaee conditional upon certain more or lees important conces sions demanded by them. Just before noon a cablegram was re ceived from Otis which confirmed the fears of the officials as to happenings at lloilo. Otis stated that the Americans reached that place too late, the insurg ents having taken possession of the city on the 25th, thirty-nine hours prior to Captain Potter's arrival. - Aguinaldo's flag floats over the city. Otis eays the Spaniards have evacuat ed all the stations in the southern islands except Zamboango and Mindanao, by orders, they say, from Madrid. Otis expects no further word from lloilo for four days, owing to lack of cable com munications. It is presumed Otis will demand a surrender of lloilo into his bands, and this demand may at once raise the issue between the insurgents ond our own government of the posses sion of the islands. The province of lloilo is set down in official directories as having a population of 472,000, and is the second seaport citytn importance in the Philippine group. , The Spanish have chosen a strong place for the concentration of their troops in the town of Zamboango, which is strongly fortified and possessed of considerable natural strength from a de fensive point of view. It is not doubted they will be able to maintain themselves for an indefinite time against the insurg ents, presuming they . are not cut off from obtaining supplies from the eea. The town itself has a population of 21,000. - Wakened by Hypnotism. Milwaukee, Dec. 28. Tony Brospelt, a young woman 23 years of age, who has been in a trance for the past five months at her home in this city, was brought to her normal condition through the in. fluence of hypnotism. Miss Brospelt retired as usual in ber apartments on the 23d of July last. 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