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O o m p r e h e n ilT « R e v ie w o f t h e Im p o r t
a n t H a p p e n in g s o f t h e P a s t W eek
C u lle d F * » ia th e T e le g r a p h C o lu m n s.
Boston gave Dewey a watch during
the naval hero’s entertainment there.
The finest shops in a Chinese city
are those devoted to the sale of coffins.
Ten people perished by the burning
of the steamer Nutmeg State at Long
Island sound.
Montana and Kansas troops were
entertained at a rousing reception at
Oakland, Cal.
Chicago is making arrangements for
the entertainment of Admiral Dewey
during next month.
The navy department has substituted
the Ranger for the Badger as one of the
reinforcing ileet of the Philippines.
Visitors to the Yellowstone Park for
the season just closed numbered 9,159.
Many foreigners were among the tour
ists.
The steamer W. P. Ketchan ran
down the little schooner Typee in Lake
Huron. The Ty(»ee was instantly sunk,
and four of her crew were drowned.
A street car filled with 49 passengers
collided with a passenger train on the
Santa Fe road at Dallas, Texas. Half
of the passengers were hurt, three
fatally.
The strike of the machinists em
ployed by the Canadian Pacific has
ended, the officials of the road having
consented to meet a committee of the
machinists and arbitrate.
The Unversitv of Pennsylvania foot
ball eleven was defeated by the Carlisle
Indians by a score of 16 to 5, on Frank
lin field in 25-minute halves. The In
dians won because they played the bet
ter football.
The Boers captured an armored train
from Kimberley to Vrybnrg, killing
three British soldiers and wounding a
captain. All the others on the train,
except the engineer, were taken prison
ers. The engineer escaped.
The sultan of Turkey was drowned in
the Bosphorus, and the drowning is
believed not to have been accidental.
Several ladies of the harem are suspect
ed of complicity with members of the
young Turk party.
The transport officials at San Fran
cisco, expect that five vessels w ill sail
for Manila within a week or 10 days.
The Tartar and the Manuense will be
the first transports ready. The Olym
pia and Pennsylvania may go to Port
land to take on troops there.
Diplomatic relations between Great
Britain and the Transvaal government
have been broken.
The first steamship of the Portland-
Manila line will leave the latter port
about December 1st.
Peace negotiations in Venezuela have
failed. A decisive battle between the
government troops and insurgents is
expected this week.
The Twentieth Kansas regiment has
arrived at San Francisco. The occa
sion was celebrated in Topeka, Kan.,
by a big demonstration.
Preparations for receiving the First
Washington volunteers at Seattle have
been completed.
An entertainment
fund of $12,000 has been provided.
With a detonation that was felt in
towns many miles distant, two of the
powder m ills of the Aetna company’s
works near Millers, Ind., blew up.
Two employes are missing.
One of the most serious car famines
ever recorded exists among the big
railroad terminals in Chicago. Several
of the roads report that the congestion
of business has assumed the proportions
of a blockade.
The forest fire which has raged for
two ¡Jays on Mount Tamalpas, Cal.,
threatening the towns of Millvalley
and Larkspur, and many costly coun
try residences, has been extinguished
by a timely rain.
The Transvaal Official Gazette con
tains a proclamation calling upon all
burghers domiciled outside the repub
lic to present themselves forthwith for
service, failing which they will be
fined, imprisoned, and their property
confiscated.
In the event of war between Great
Britain and the Transvaal, as a result
of the Boer ultimatum, orders have
been cabled to the cruiser Montgomery,
which was last reported at Pernam
buco, directing her to proceed to Dela-
goa bay and co-operate with the consul
at Pretoria in the protection of Ameri
can interests.
Dispatches from Manila announce
that Captain Woodridge Geary, of the
Thirteenth infantry, was killed in ac
tion. Captain Geary was an Oregon
boy, and went to West Point from Cor
vallis. He served throughout the Puer
to Rican campaign, and last spring was
transferred to the Thirteenth and sent
to Manila.
LATER
NEW S.
1
1 COLORED
LA N D
HOLDERS.
C o m in g C o n i i t * W ill S h ow a I.u rgo Ia-
T \e Boers made three attacks on
u reas a B apoclnlljr In th o S o u th .
Siafeking and were repulsed with a
The
report sent forth by the state
heavy loss of 300 men. The British
officials of Virginia that their records
lost 18.
Columbia Proved a Better of assessment and taxation show a
For a week a snow storm has been
large increase in ownership of laud
Boat Than Shamrock.
raging in the mountains surrounding
amongst the colored people, presents
Leadville, Col., something unprece
gratifying conditions which the oeusus
dented at this time of the year.
officials know to be common to all the
The powers are again wrangling over F IR S T RACE WAS A F IN E O NE Southern states.
The Virginia report mentions that
Samoa, and there is talk of partition
the records do not show the full, and
ing the islands. England has offered
T h e C o lu m b ia th e S u p erio r B o a t In
perhaiw not half of the increase in
to purchase Germany’s interest.
(lo th W in d w a r d a n d L eew a rd S a il
land ownership amongst the colored
A band of 800 51ayo Indiana have
i n g —T h e C up la S a fe.
people for the reason that greut num
joined the Yaquis in their war with
bers of them, having meager capital,
Mexico. Heretofore the Mavos have
New York, Oct. 18.—The cup which are compelled to buy farina on laud
refused to aid the Yaqui tribe in its
the old schooner America won so hand contracts. These contracts call for
rebellions.
ily against all comers over the course deeds when the payment of purchase
The Boers secured the telephone at around the Isle of Wight in 1851, and money, which is made in installments,
Modder river and attempted to sj>eak brought back across the ocean, will shall have been completed. While
with Kimberley, hoping to' learn the probably remain here another year, a the installment« are ¡lending, the title
disposition of the British forces there. defiance to the world. In a glorious is held in the vendor as a ¡»art of his
The maneuver was discovered and frus breeze, over a windward and leeward security for the deferred ¡»ayiueiits.
trated.
course of 80 miles, the Columbia scored Thus the real possession is not repre
Klapper, editor of the Deutsche against the Shamrock today in the first sented in the records, though tho case
Agrai Corresponded, at Berlin, has race of the 1899 series for the trophy. is practically like that of property
been sentenced to imprisonment in a She lounded across the finish line fully which is mortgaged.
Chief Statistician Powers, of tho di
fortress for Bix months, on a charge of a mile and a half ahead of the chal
lese majeste, for criticizing Emperor lenger, defeating her by 10 minutes and vision of agriculture in the census,
14 seconds actual time, or 10 minutes who has made a thorough study of the
William.
and
8 seconds corrected time, after al question of tenure, has prepared a
An explosion of mine gas in a col
liery near Pittsburg, Pa., resulted in lowing the six seconds’ handicap which schedule for the twelfth census which
entombing 22 miners. Ten were re the Columbia must concede to the chal is intended to cover the cases men
scued alive, but it is feared the others lenger on account of her longer water tioned. The enumerator will be in
are dead. The mine took fire and is line. It was a decisi ve contest, a mag structed to report as owners all home
nificent race, magnificently sailed and steader* who have net “ proved np” or
burning.
whose final proofs have not been re
magnificently won.
The Columbia won the second race
There was lively jockeying behind corded—in fact all actual occupants of
with the Shamrock. Soon after the the line before the start, and the Co public lands—and jx-ntoun who have
start the Shamrock’s topmast was lumbia got the better of it. Hhe clear bought laud on contracts for deeds; and
broken and she returned. The Colum ly out-maneuvere 1 her rival, eventually those who have been foreclosed but are
bia sailed over the course and was given forcing her over the line first by half holding over for redemption.
the race.
If the enumerators shall carry out
a length, but leaving the Columbia in
Surgeon-General Sternberg has re the weather position. Close hauled tin these instructions, tho twelfth census
fused to recommend the building of a the starltoard tack, the yachts plunged will present a fuller exhibit of small
large military hospital at Vancouver, seaward, heeling to the 12-knot breeze. ownership and of laud ownership
When the Columbia, her great yellow amongst the colored people than has
Wash., saying that the post hospital at
that place is abnndently able for the mainsail abroad o f f to starboard, swept hitherto been available.
Tenure is to be taken in the cenua
across the finish line, the Shamrock
present needs.
in
a manner to show not simply the
was
scarcely
visible
astern,
only
the
A dispatch from Nogales, Ariz., says:
number of persons who own farms,
outlines
of
her
sail
being
seen.
Ten
A sheriff’s posse has encountered Mexi
work farms on shares, or lease farms
can bandits and killed one an d wound iinutes and 11 seconds in time e la te d
for a cash or other fixed rental, but to
etween
the
finishing
of
the
Columbia
ed another. American and Mexican
show all the conditions of ownership
and
the
Shamrock,
which
means
in
dis
officers are now in pursuit of five oth
and tenure according to race and color.
tance about a mile and a half.
ers, who escaped.
In the case of land bought on con
After the race, while the yachts were
The smallpox scare at Astoria, re being towed back to their moorings, tract, the element of duplication wi
sultant from the case of Beecher D. Sir Thomas Liptou’s steam yacht Erin have to be guarded against, aH some
Slorp, has about died out. The patient ran np alongside the Columbia. The vendors, still retaining title to land
is getting along nicely, and the attend Erin’s officers and men, led by Sir which they have sold bnt which is not
ing physicians have no doubt as to his Thomas, gave three hearty cheers. wholly paid for, may report it as still
speedy recovery.
They were quickly responded to with their own.
The intention of the census office is,
Three weddings were celebrated at cheers from the Columbia’s men.
however, to give such instruction* to
the Portland Exposition the other
enumerators previous to beginning field
W h it th e F lu k e « Coat.
night, the three couples being married
at one time. Many handsome presents
New York, Oct. 18.—The New work, that the elements of omission or
were given them, and a free trip to York Yacht Club, w hich has the man duplication shall be brought to a mini-
Astoria tendered by a steamer line.
agement of the cup races, is the prin ’ mum.
Statistic* of ownership ami tenure,
The British steamship Knight Bache cipal financial sufferer by the failures. I derived as they frequently have been
The
officers
say
that
each
attempt
to
lor has arrived at New Orleans from
heretofore, from the county land rec
Hamburg, Germany, with 73,567 bags race cost the club $3,000. This in ords, do not convey accurate impres
cludes
the
club
steamboat,
the
half
of raw beet sugar, equal to 7,310 tons.
sions. Thousands of deeds of sale and
This is the largest cargo of foreign dozen tugs, and the incidental ex transfer, land contracts,
partition
penses.
It
will
be
seen
that
the
club
sugar ever brought to New Orleans.
deeds,
sequestrian
papers,
final
home
has thus far expended $21,000 in the
The Washington volunteer regiment attempts to pull off one race. It most stead proofs, etc., are held in the homes
will be mustered out at San Francisco ex ¡»end at least $9,000 more, inasmuch of the people unrecorded. The census
on the 31st inst.
as one yacht must win three times. officials expect, In the schedules now
A new fast mail service has been in The seven flukes have cost probably not adopted, to avoid practically all of the
augurated between Chicago and San f. • from $25,000, which has come deficiencies which these conditions pre
Francisco, the schedule time being 73 out of the pockets of the people who sent in the land records, ami to be able,
at the ow ning of the twentieth century,
hours.
wanted to see the yachts meet.
to make a comparatively perfect ex
General William R. Shafter, who
hibit of land tenure by counties and
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.
for over a year has had the position of
color in all the states.
brigadier-general of volunteers, has
Portland, Oct. 18.— Announcement
A S T R IN G E N T F O O D LAW.
Comes from Tacoma that Clark &
been retired.
-tC'
iweeny,
mining
brokers
of
Spokane,
It is believed in London that
P r o h ib it ! th e U se o f A raen lo o r A la m Is
have signed papers whereby they agree
Boer troops have invested Kimberl
A ll Axtlv|As*<>f D ie t.
The law enacted by the Missouri leg
and ent off all communication with the to invest $200,000 in the construction
of the Tacoma-Seattle electric railroad. islature, a copy of which was recently
outside world.
Henry Bucey, local manager of the
Early in December the United States company, would neither affirm nor published in onr columns, and which
w ill have 70,000 troops in the Philip deny the report, stating that the com prohibits the manufacture or sale of
pine islands, ^pd 45 war vessels in the pany would not be ready to make any any article intended for food or to be
used in the preparation of food, which
island’s waters.
statement of its plans before next week. contains alum, arsenic, ammonia, etc.,
The Columbia won the first race with
It is understood that the Spokane places that state in the lead in the mat
the Shamrock for the American cnp. men named will secure stock, rather ter of sanitary legislation.
She beat the Shamrock 11 minutes on a than a bonded interest in the company.
Laws restricting the use of alnm in
Eastern capitalists are reported to be bread have been in force in England,
30-mile course.
The Orange Free State troops have ready to bny bonds to the amount of Germany and France for many years.
cut the telegraph wires and destroyed $600,000, which sum is sufficient to I d this country, in Minnesota, Wiscon
the railroad track at Norvalsport, jnst build the road, leaving the $200,000 of sin, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and
across the Orange Free State’s southern Spokane money to provide the equip several other states, direct legislation
ment.
in reference to the sale of alnm baking
border.
powders has also been effected. In
The Boers have cut the telegraph
N ew F a s t S e r v ic e .
several of these states their sale is pro
wires at many points, and reliable
Chicago, Oct. 18.—Chicago to Ran
news is hard to obtain from the more Francisco in 71 hours— 78 hours actual hibited unless they are branded to show
important cities in the war districts of time—is the schedule on which the that they contain alnm, and in the Dis
trict of Columbia, under the laws of
Sonth Africa.
overland special on the Chicago &
Congress, the sale of bread containing
John R. Dodson, of Portland, has Northwestern road left the Wells street alnm has been made illegal.
written to friends from Dawson City’ station last night, at 6:80, and inaugur
Following are the names Oi some of
that he is taking the census of all the ated the new fast service to and from the brands of baking powder sold in
people in the Yukon valley, on Ameri California. The time formerly was 75 this vicinity which are shown by re
hours. The first stop west of Chicago,
can territory.
cent analysis to contain alum. House
under
the new schedule, is De Kalb,
A dispatch from Caracas, Venezuela,
keepers and grocers should cut the list
says that President Andrade is prepar the 60 miles being covered in less than out and keep it for reference:
ing to leave the country, and the insur that number of minutes. The first
B a k in g P o w d e r s C o n ta in in g A ln m :
gent leader, General Castro, is mastei train w ill arrive in Han Francisco the K. 0 ................................. Contains Alnm
third day,|at 5:80 P. M., Western time.
Manf. by Jaques Mfg. Co. Chicago.
of the situation.
The eastbonnd service makes the same CALUMET.....................Contains Anlm
The Portland Press Club at its meet reduction in time.
Manf. by Calumet Raking Powder Co.,Chicago
ing recently urged its members to stand
HOME.............................Contains Alum
Manf. by Home Raking Powder Co., 8. F.
by the 1902 exposition project and to
L a r g e S h ip m e n t o f O o ld .
WASHINGTON............ Contains Alnm
do all in their power to bring the affaii
Vancouver, B. C., Oct. 18.—The
Manf. by Pacific Chemical Work«, Tacoma.
to a successful conclusion.
1
largest shipment of Klondike gold that CRESCENT................... Contains Alnm
Manf. by Crescent Mfg. Co., Seattle.
A train of flat cars loaded with gravel ever came out over the Lynn canal
was wrecked on the Northern Paciflq route is on the steamer Dirigo, which WHITE LILY..............Contains Alum
Manf. by D. Ferrera A Co., Tacoma.
track on Jefferson street, Olympia, deJ called here today from Skagway en BEE-H
IVE.................... Contains Alnm
molishing about 100 yards of track.; route to Seattle. There was nearly Manf. by Washington Mfg. Co., San Francisco.
The trainmen escaped unhurt.
$1,250,000 aboard, of which $907,000 BON BON....................... Contains Alnm
Manf. bv Grant Chemical Co., Chicago.
The price of fall chinook salmon, was sent from the Dawson branch of DEFIANCE.....................Contains
Alnm
steelheads and silversides has reached the Canadian Bank of Commerce, and Manf. by Portland Coffee A Spice Co., Portland.
the highest figure ever offered on the the remainder was from the Alaska PORTLAND...................Contains Alnm
Manf. by Beno A Rallla, Portland.
Columbia; 4 cents a pound, and 2}<j Commercial Company. Purser Lafarge
The housekeeper should bear in mind
had four armed men guarding the gold.
cents is being paid for dog salmon.
The biggest nugget that has been that alnm makes a cheap baking pow
James Roach goes free from further
found
in the Barkerville district, Cari der. i t costs but two cents a pound
prosecution or even the imputation of
gnilt of stealing cattle from his neigh boo, has just been brought here. It while cream of tartar costs thirty.
bors, after a struggle in the courts weighs 17 ounces, and is worth $814. The quality of the powder is therefor*
usually indicated by the price.
which has gone on for more than a year. It was found by a Chinaman.
i
Three Attacks Made on the
City by Burghers.
B R IT IS H
LO ST
IB;
BOERS
300
No E x te n a lv e E n g a g e m e n t la E ap retert
N oon—S m alli»«»
A m ong
T r a n sv a a l
N a ti* « « a t K im b e r ly .
Colesburg, Oct. 19.—It is persist
ently nqiorted, from widely different
sources, that a large force of Doer*
resolutely attaoked Mnfekiug, hriday,
and after several houra’ fighting, were
repulsed with heavy loss.
Cape Town, Oct. 19 —It is the gen-
eral belief here, from Items of Intelli
gence received, that the Boers actually
attacked Mufeking, and were repulsed.
The reports of continued fighting there
are regarded as proving that the Boert
fulled to score a success.
R u m or o f a G reat ll u t l lr .
London, Oct. 19.—A special dis
patch from Cape Town aays 800 Boer*
and 18 British have l»eeu killed in bat
tle at Mnfoking.
By W ay
ut
D e la g o a B a y .
Lorenzo Marque*, Oct. 19.—Refu
gees who have just arri veil here from
the Transvaal report that tho Boera
have l>een repulsed at Mafeking, sus
taining heavy losses.
H a d e n -P o w a ll’s H urtle,
London, Oct. 19.—Colonel Baden-
Powell made a sortie from Mafeking in
force, and attacked the Boers, who
were investing the town. After fierce
fighting the British carried the day.
T h e N a ta l I n v a d e r s .
Ladysmith, Oct. 19.—The
detachment of the enemy’s
column has advanced beyond
and no definite movement
made from the Drakensbnrg
foremost
northern
Ingagene,
1ms l»eeu
¡»asses.
Burnito« R ise A R itinsi R oar«.
Loulon, Oct. 19.—The Mornlng
Post’s Ladysmith correspondent tele-
gru ¡>hs that thè Basii tos ha ve riseu
ugainst thè Free State.
B r itish B le w Up a B r id g e .
Cai»e Town, Oct. 19.—A special dis
patch from Mafeking says that all was
intact there up to Saturday night. At
that time the Boer artillery was being
brought up, but it had not been placed
in position. According to these advices,
the British have blown up the Hope-
town railroad bridge, over the Orange
river, with a view of checking the Boer
advance southward.
It is expected the Boers will cut off
Kimberley’s water supply, bnt the
Debeer’s dam contains enough for a
donsiderable ¡»eriod.
A rm ored T r a in A tta c k e d .
Kimberley, Oct. 19.— An armored
train, while reconnoitering near Spyt-
fontein, engaged the Boers, killing five
and wounding seven. The British had
no losses.
8mallj»cx has broken out here among
the natives froirw Johannesburg. Eiglft-^MI
cases have been it^unvered.
t'a u g h t^ r n * C a b o o s e .
Cheyenne, TVyo., Oct. 19.— A rear-
end oollison «jtenricil ttslay near Gran
ite Canyon station, on the Union Pa
cific, between a stock train ami an
east bound fast mail, killing two men.
The tlead are: H. J. Purple, of Nor
wood, Kan., ami Thomas J. Parker, of
Uigale, Utah. The injured are: Wil
liam Sayles, Vermont, 111.; Edard Par
nell, Upton, 111., ami Charles Morris,
Laramie, Wyo. Thomas J. Parker wan
a wealthy stockman. The killed and
Injured were all riding in the catoose
of the stock train.
I lo b b e d a P o o lr o o m .
Denver, Oct. 19.— Austin’s poolroom,
the largest in the city, was robbed of
$4 ,000 early this morning by Robert J.
Boyken, an ex-policeman, who has
been for sometime employed as special
policeman at the club. The safe had
been closed for some time, but Boyken
induced the cashier to return to the
room and with a revolver compelled
him to open the safe.
He took all the cash, including $900
In coin. He then made his escape.
Boyken is a dead shot and has already
killed two men.
A M o n ste r P a p e r T r u st.
New York, Oct. 19.— Plans have
been quietly maturing for some weeks
past looking to the consolidation of all
tbe paper manufactories of the country
grouped in those now independent m ills
which manufacture wood pulp board,
paper pulp board and straw board.
All told, some 100 or more m ills are
Interested in the projected consolida
tion scheme, and the amount of capital
Invested is about $50,000,000.
C o a lm in e r s E n to m b e d .
Pottsville, Pa., Oct. 19.— Shortly, be
fore 11 o’clock today an explosion of
mine gas occurred at the Shenandoah
City colliery, by which 22 men were
entombed. Ten were rescued alive,
bnt it is feared the others are dead.
The mine took fire anti is now burning
fiercely. The colliery is one of the
largest in the district.