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A crusade against vice in New York
C u iiip ln teit,
is
contemplated.
F V B I .I S H K D B V K K T » A T V K D A T .
Chicago, Jan. 4.—At 9 o’clock thin
. Frenchmen are opposed to tho new
water was turned into the
treaty
with America.
Boers Were Driven Back by morning
GOLD HILL................ ......... OREGON.
$38,000,000 drainage canal and began Weyerhauser Syndioate Buys
The Delagoa bay award will not ba
to flow toward Lockport, where it will
General Frenoh.
1,000,000 A ores.
made for six mouths or a year.
fall luto the Dee Plaines river, ail 1
theuce through the Illinois and Missis­
Four indépendant dairies in Chicago
bave combined x> tight the milk trust. S U C C E S S F U L FLA N K M O V E M E N T sippi rivera to the Gulf. What is FR O M T H E N O R T H E R N P A C IF IC
termed by canal engineers the collat­
Colonel Pitcher won in a skirmish
eral channel has been, for some time,
with the Boers neai the scene of Mu-
T h e D u t c h W « r « » u r p r lc a d , a n d , F in d ­ nnmpieted from Chicago river in the F r i« «
F a lli
W aa •fl,A (> 0 ,» O O -L a r * « » *
« • ■ p r r h e p i l » » R e v i e w o f t h e Im p a r t* thnen’s defeat.
in g T h e i r K o t r c a t T h r e a t e n e d , F le d southwestern part of tho city to within
It« n l In T im b e r I.Mini K v e r M n il« l a
aut
o f t h e H a et W e e k
The gold yield for 1899 in New South
15 feet of the main channel of the
In D is o r d e r — A r t i ll e r y D u e l ,
Ih » W « » l—In W « » l« r n W a s h in g t o n .
C a l l e d F r o m t h e T e l e g r a p h C o lu m n » . Wales was 509,418 ounces, an increase
canal. Thia 16-foot wall of earth,
of 188,925 ounces over 1898.
with two sluice gHtes ladiiud it, has
Reinsberg, Cape Colony, Jan. 3.— been all that kept the Chicago river
St. Paul., Minn., Jan. 4. — After
The
battleship
Wisconsin
w
ill
have
Boutelle will probably never return
The
General
French
hus
completely
defeated
loug-continue«,
negotiation» for the pur­
und
Lake
Michigan
out
of
the
canal.
the heaviest battery in the navy,
to congress.
the Boeis and occupied Colesburg.
At 10 o’clock Monday a steam dredge chase of 1,000,000 acies of timber
boat will have her trial trip soon.
I The general continued to keep the began to cut away this wall of earth, lauds iu Washington the Weyerlt.iuser
The Boer trenches at Colenso are
South Dakota Christian Scientists Boers on the move und pressed them and a few minutes before 9 o’ulnck to­ lyudicate today paid over to the North­
bomb proof.
are opposed to vaccination and will closely Saturday and Sunday, giving day the water iu the collateral channel ern Pacific $6,600,000. This is the
Pingree’s tax resolution was defeated take the question into the courts.
them no time to make a prolonged was against the sluice gates, aud only largest single deal in timber land that
in the Michigan senate.
Twenty-five thousand Pittsburg la­ 1 stand, and when day broke he was a few inches of timtier remained to I n * has ever been made in the V est. In
People are tired of Colombian war borers were advanced from 5 to 10 |>ei within striking distance of the enemy.
removed before Chicago was to realize the past year this eyndicate of lumber­
and ask for intervention.
Last night all the cavalry, artillery her dream of years aud see the great men has bought up Immense quantities
cent and in some cases even a greutei
and infantry, the latter riding in wag­ canal iu actual operation. When the of laud in Wisconsin and Minnesota,
British Columbia has sent a gold dis­ percentage.
ons to increase the general mobility, water began to back up against the and now haN practical control of uli the
play to the Paris exposition.
In St. Louis the electric lights ir
The
If Delagoa bay is closed the Boers parks, public buildings and alleys art started upon a night march with the sluice gates, the timbers were knocked timber iu these two states.
object of turning the Boer’s right. The
w ill raid Portuguese territory.
turned off because a contract has uo< fiank O|>eratiouj were suooesafnl. The away, aud the first water from the Chi­ Weverhauser people are estimating on
another tract of Northern Pacific pin«
cago river run into the canal.
The Stahl <fe Straub failure in Phila­ been renewed.
infantry and field batteries immediately
land in Washington, and have secured
Engineers
of
the
sanitary
district
delphia is a clear case of looting.
A German steamship company re ! made a feint attack on the Boer front, have cut a channel to carry 800,000 an option on it at $0.60 an acre, and
An important witness against Sena­ fused to take back coutract-lai>or emi ! and while this was proceeding the cav­ cubic feet of water per minute into the they will probably i»ay for it in the
grants aud the captain was arrested a alry aud light artillery got completely empty canal. This would be like the coining year.
tor Clark has confessed to perjury.
a Texas port.
around the enemy’s right flank, as ar­ bursting of a reaervoir, and would teur
The syndicate, headed by Frederick
Robert Cornelius, aged 20, was
ranged.
Booker
T.
Washington,
the
promi
’
away every bridge over the canal and Wcyerhauscr, is composed of the ¡nail­
found dead in the woods near Glencoe,
nent colored man, says the Negro’i 1 The programme worked without a wreck the cntrolling works at Lock- ing and w «althiest lumbermen in the
Or.
only salvation is to make himself use­ hitch. The Boers were utterly sur­ port. Therefore, the water will be Northwest. Nearly all the hind »old
Fossiliferous remains of a gigantic ful and keep pace with the times.
prised,and, finding their retreat threat­ turned iu gradually,. Probably a week today lies along the Seattle Jk Northern
sea serpent were found on the coast of
ened, fled in disorder to the eastward, w ill ela]>se before the canal is full ol branch of the Northern Pacific, l>e-
At Colesburg General French wat leaving Colesburg in General French’s
Chili.
water aud is carrying away the sewage tween Anacortes and Hamilton, and ia
opposed
by from 5,000 to 7,000 Boers, i hands.
At its last meeting the cabinet dis­
that now (lows into the Chicago river. adapted to the manufacture of large
The British losses were slight, w h ili,
cussed the agricultural possibilities in
An occasion that might have been dimension timber, which I ihs long
A r t i ll e r y D u e l fo r T w o H o u r s .
Boers are said to have lost heavily.
Alaska.
London, Jan. 3.—The Daily Mail has one of the most memorable in the «luce liecomo exhausted in Wi» cousin
A horrible murder occurred neai the following dispatch, dated Januury eventful history of Chicago was allowed and Minnesota.
Buller’s army on the Tugela lias now
Rosser,
Ala. A woman was cut U 1, from Reinsberg:
to pass by unimproved because the
reached the enoromus strength of 28,-
pieces and the remains were partially
P A C IF IC C O A S T M IN E S .
•• Yesterday afternoon a big force of trustees of the sanitary district were
000 men.
burned. Au old negress is suspected.! cavalry and infantry, with 10 guns, intent on their own great aim—the
A London dispatch says Russia longs
G o lil a n il H ilv e r P r o d u c t io n o f C a l l -
Secretary Hay announces that favor­ nnder the personal command of General Opening of the canal. Aside from the
f o r iilu Mini t h e Y u k o n .
to seize Herat, and she only waits for
able replies have been received iron: French, moving by a detour, occupied trustees and engineers of the lioaril,
England to occupy Delagoa bay.
SsU Francisco, Ja n . 8.— Frank A
England, Germany, France, Russia some trills three miles from Colesburg, there were less than a dozen spectator*
Leach, superintewlent, and Charles G.
C . G. Coad, of Dallas, Or., has been and Japan to an open door policy ii where the Boers were in strength, con­ present.
Yale, statistician ol the United States
appointed assistant sergeant-at-arms in China.
fident in the natural aid afforded them
mint, have prepared a preliminary
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the United States senate.
Secretary Root has taken measure! by the hills around.
statement,
based on receipts at tin-
The clerk of the court of appeals has to break the corner in hemp. He hat I "The enemy’s position extended six
Surprl»«<l
(h e
K»«r* an il C aptnr««l mint and other bullion dejiositorie» or,
refused to administer the oath of office had many comptants and has instructed ¡ miles around the entire village. At
F o r ty Prisoner».
tlri» coast, which shows that ('alt torn is
to members of the state election l»oard Otis to open Southern Luzon porta daybreak our artillery opened the bat­
London,
Jan.
4.— A press dispatch produced in 1899 gold to the amount oi
in Kentucky.
tle. The Boers were taken by surprise, from Dover farm, dated January 1, $15,000,000, aud silver $636,000. The
Boon.
but replied vigorously. An artillery
A Colorado Midland passenger and a
increase over last year is $561,406 in
Senator Harrell, of Kentucky, sayt1 duel was maiutaiuned for two hours. says:
Santa Fe freight collided near Palmer
gold, aud $220,606 in silver.
A
mounted
force,
consisting
of
10(1
Whallen
tried
to
bny
his
vote
againsl
_
R,mr
Hotchkiss collapsed aud
Lake, Colo. One fireman was killed
Au estimate by the same officials of
Goebel. Harrell wanted $5,000, bat re- ' was abandoned. We captured it. A Canadians of the Toronto company and
and two engineers were hurt.
ceived only $4,500 and now charge! Boer big gun was silenced, but this 200 (Queenslanders, commanded by the output of Alaskan mines during
An English military expert asserts bribery.
Colonel Rickards; two guns ami u 1899 shows that the territory has
and the other Boer guns were with­ horse battery under Major De Rouge­ doubled its gold product over the pre­
that the time has come for a change in
Secretary Root has directed the es­ drawn to the northward, whither we
the cabinet. He favors either a dicta­
mont; 40 mounted infantry under Lieu­ vious year. The record for 1899 is:
tablishment
of a government line ol are harassing the Boer retreat by a
torship or an all-powerful military
tenant Ryan, aud 200 of the Cornwall Gold, $4,917,821, aud silver, $82,680,
steamships
connecting
San
Francisco,
damaging shell fire.
minister.
light infantry, the whole commanded as comimred with an output of gold of
Honolulu and Manila, similar to that
"Colesburg is in our hands, and the
Miss Florence Blythe - Hinckley, rnnning between New York, Cuba anc few remaining loyalists are jubilant. by Colonel Pitcher, left Belmont yes­ $2,517,121, and of silver of $19,152
terday at noon on a march westward, iu 1898. This shows an increase for
heiress to the Blythe millions, was Porto Rico points.
We have captured many wagons and a covering 20 miles before sunset. The the year of $2,400,700 iu gold, and
quietly married in San Francisco to A. I
The last link in the great v.-aterwaj considerable quantity of stores.
force encamped at Cook’s farm, where $33,728 in silver or a total of $2,134,-
A. Moore, jr., deputy attorney-general
"Our loss was quite slight, but the the troops were welcomed enthusiastic­ 428. It nhould ba stated that the re­
connecting
the great lakes with th<
of California.
gulf has been completed. W’ater hai Boers must have suffered heavily. ally. At 6 o’clock this morning the turns of the United States assay office
Americans have captured another in­ been turned into Chicago’s big canal They may stop at Achertaug or cross forces approached the spot where the at Seattle are included iu this state­
surgent stronghold. Many rebels were which took seven years to build, at a the river altogether at Norvalspout, laager of the Boers was reported. Col­ ment, as well as those of the United
killed, wounded and captured and an cost of $33,000,000. The primary pur­ where the bridge is still intact.’’
onel Pitcher, on approaching the posi­ States mints and private de|«o»itorias.
amount of ammunition and food taken. pose is to drain Chicago, but its possi­
The Klondike output for the year is:
tion, which was a line of strong kopjes,
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c
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Their supposed impregnable position bilities are great.
detached
Major
Rougemont,
with
the
Gold,
$16,110,129; silver, $114,617.
Cape Town, Jan. 3.—Ugly rumors
was north of San Mateo.
A railroad boom has struck Hawaii. are in circulation of a Dutch rising, guns and the Toronto mounted infan­ The Klondike annual gold yield for the
An Ottawa dispatch says that treason
Six inches of snow fell at Macon, with the object of seizing Cape Town try, to work towards the right, making firs time ecli|»<es that of California by
is talked openly among the French Ca­
and the docks and captaring the gover­ a turning movement himself with the «bout $1,000,000.__________
nadians, and all of their members have Ga.
Queenslanders toward the sonth posi­
l.w iiila llil« mi M ore l» ln n il,
Bechnanaland farmers are helping nor of Cape Colony—Sir Alfred Milner. tion. The maneuver was a complete
retired from parliament. All the lat­
The
center
of
the
movement
is
said
to
Vallejo,
Cal., Jan. 4.—A serione
ent hostility to British rule has been the Boers.
be Paari, & village about 30 miles from success. British shells were the first landslide occurred on the water front
aroused by Canada’s action in sending
Boers fired plum pudding at Ladv- Cape Town, where a meeting of the indication of the presence of the troop«. of Mare island last night. As a re­
troops to the Transvaal.
smith garrison.
Afrikanderbnnd was held yesterday. The Boers left their laager ami ojiened sult, 150 feet of the sea wall slid into
San Franciscans are arranging for a
Oregon woolgrowers expect to get 20 A similar meeting was held at Rich­ fire, but. the Queenslanders, completing the bay, carrying with it tons of
big pro-Boer demonstration.
mond December 28; and it is reported the movement, the laager was cap­ granite work, cement and earth, and
cents for their 1900 crop.
that
the members oi the band in these tured, with 40 prisoners. The British loosening up fully 100 feet more of the
E. C. Hodges & Co., one of Boston’s
Vigilance of Americans prevented a
casualties were two men killed, three wall. The break is believed to lie due
two towns are acting in concert.
largest banks, has closed its doors.
projected nprising in Manila.
The members of the bund at Willing­ wounded and one missing. The whole to the fact that the heavy rains of the
England has discovered that her m il­
At New York Kid McCoy knocked ton and the Dutch in Clan William force worked admirably. The two men past few days had so filled the soil
itary resources were overestimated by out Peter Maher in five rounds.
district are said to be armed with killed belonged to the Queenslanders. buck of the embankment with water
30,000 men.
that the pressure could not lie with­
Idaho produced $2,500,000 in gold Mausers, and to be anxious to use them
HAS A B E T T E R C H A N C E.
in behalf of the Boers.
Mat Chandler, the old-time pugilist and $6,103,000 in silver last year.
stood. It is estimated that the actual
and former partner of John L. Sulli­
Although the stories of a rising are
damage in money caused by the land­
France and England may have
I n d ia n
W ar
V e ter a n « *
H ill
B e fo r e
disciedited,
the
police
and
military
are
van, is dead.
slip
will lie $76,000.
trouble over Newfoundland fisheries.
C o n < r e« « .
taking ample precautions.
' The queen has given warning that
F e l l W ith l h « I lr lilg « .
The United States may buy the
Washington, Jan. 4.—A measure ol
British subjects must not help Boers or Danish West Indies for $4,000,000.
Tillannxik, Or., Jan. 4.—Coroner J .
P h ilip p in e H em p T r a d e .
widespread interest, not only in Ore­
Free Staters.
Washington, Jan. 8.—Assistant Sec- gon bnt in Washington, and other E. Tuttle left this city Sunday morning
Ohio Irishmen offer sympathy,
Plague of a severe type is raging and money, arms and soliders to the Boers. retray of War Meiklejohn, in a letter Western states, is the Indian war vet­ for Forest Grove, with a buggy and hie
many deaths from that cause have oc­
to Represent“ five Tong, of Kansas, re­ eran bill, introduce«I in the senate by team of ponies, accompanied by a boy.
One child received fatal and several garding the opening of the hemp ports Senator McBride and in the honse by While crossing a bridge about seven
curred in New Caledonia.
persons serious burns in a New York in the Phlippine islands, says:
Representative Tongue. This is not n miles this side of Walt. Smith’s on the
Sydney Paget,William C. W hitney’s fiat fire.
"The
estimated
exports
of
hemp
new
measure, by any means. In th<| Forest Grove toll road, the bridge gave
racing partner, has left this country to
Several thousand attended a very from the Philippine islands for one days of the old Oregon delegation thil way. The whole outfit fell 40 feet be­
join the British rough riders.
brilliant New Year’s day reception at year of American occupation w ill ap­ bill first made its appearance and wi I low in a heap, breaking Mr. Tuttle’»
A Paris dispatch says that France the White Honse.
proximate 100,000 tons, of which defeated. Since its first introdnctlo i right leg and injuring him internally.
would be happy if the Delagoa bay in­
Nicholas, czar of Russia, has again amount 29,000 tons should be credited it has been introduced time aud again, The boy was rendered unconscious, and
cident caused an anglo-American quar­
issued
an appeal for peace to the to the United States. This places the meeting with various degrees of suc­ one of the ponies was killed. Mr.
rel.
Illingsworth
fortunately
happened
estimated exfiorts to the United States cess, but never getting through co.
powers of the world.
Alfred Borlini was arrested in San
along
10
minutes
after
the
accident,
for
the
year
of
American
occupation
gress.
Multnomah’s football team defeated
Francisco wLile on his wedding trip.
at about 17,000 tons less than the ex­
The memliers of the present, delega- und gave the necessary assistance.
Stanford
university’s
eleven
at
Port­
He is charged with being a bank de­
ports of 1897. This is accounted for tion realize the merits of the bill, aud
T u r n t o I'l« « « » b y L in n » .
land; score, 11 to 6.
faulter.
by the fact that there have been opened introduced it early in the session, hop­
Vienna, Jan. 8.—One of the keeper»
Hilliard
F.
Johnson,
a
water-front
Iowa tarmers have formed a syndi­
for shipment only three ports of the ing to get favoruble reports from the at the Vienna zoological gardens en­
cate to grow rice In Texas. They have reporter in San Francisco, was i Philippine islands.
committees soon after the holidays. tered the cage of lions today in a spirit
secured options on 14,000 acres of land drowned in a bathtub.
"Every effort has been made by the As a matter of fact the entire delega­ of bravado and six lions rushed upon
Government officials say the cruiser war department in the past and w ill lie tion looks upon the bill with favor, him, aud tore him to pieces. The at­
to cost $225,000.
The Boer army on Modder river is Montgomery was sent to Liberia to made in the tnture to comply with re­ and is ready at any and all times to de­ tendants sought in vain with flaming
growing greater each day. They are give the Black Republic assurance of quests to open all the so-called hemp fend it. This interest is not confined torches and streams of water, to drive
building trenches within three and one protection.
ports of the islands.”
alone to the men who introduced it, the wild beasts from their victim.
More miles of new railroad have
half miles of Methuen’s picket line.
bnt to the entire delegation, and they
A c e t y l e n e Gnu K x il o k l o n .
R o la n d R«*ed*« C o n d it io n .
w ill use their utmost endeavors to get
The Northern Pacific wreck in Idaho been built during 1899 than in any
Stromsberg, Neb., Jan. 8.— Eden this Indian war veteran bill out of
New
York, Jan. 8.—The physician
previous
year
since
1890,
when
5670
was a bad one. After 10 days the last
Baptist church, which was dedicated committee and through congress before in charge of the case of Roland Reed,
miles
of
line
were
completed.
Since
body had not been recovered.
The
the actor, has issued orders that no in­
January 1, 1899, no less than 4,500 only a year ago, was totally destroyed adjournment.
trainmen were to blame.
formation concerning the patient be
miles of track have been laid in the by fire this morning, and two people
Governor Geer, of Oregon, does not
given ont. It was learned, however,
United States on 312 lines in 44 states were seriously injured. The fire was
T o C o n s o l li l a t o I d a h o M in «».
approve of Oregon citizens contributing
caused by an explosion of acetylene
New Haven, Conn., Jan. 4.—Article* late tonight, that the actor was resting
to a fund for Lawton’s family. He and territories.
gas, with which the chnrch was ot incorporation have been filed by tho comfortably.
The
torpedo-boat
destroyer
Golds-
thinks the state should look after her
borough, built by a Portland, Or., lighted. The gas generator and the Ontario Lake Superior Company to K i l l e i l III» Y o u n g W l f s , T h e n H i m s e l f .
own heroes’ familes first.
furnace were lioth located in the base­ operate timber lauds and engage in
Hartville, Mo., Jan. 4.—James T.
Winston Spencer Churchill has firm, on her second contractor’s trial ment, and it is supposed escaping gas transportation and to do irrigating,
covered
eight
miles
in
15
minutes,
Moore, aged 65 years, shot and killed
cabled to the London Post of his escape
wa» ignited by the furnace. A large with a capital of $20,000,000, and by
from the Boer prison. He made his which is at the rate of 32 miles an number of people were in the church the War Eagle Consolidated Mining his wife, aged 22 years, near Manes,
hour,
against
a
2%-knot
current.
last night, and then blew his head off.
way overland from Delagoa bay and
just previous to the explosion.
The Company; capital, $15,000,000, which
scaled walls while guards were not Steam was made without effort, and bnilding was badly wrecked, and what is formed for consolidation of mines iu Mrs. Moore was the daughter of John
not a bearing was heated. The run
Hunter who recently killed C. O.
looking. He journeyed for six days,
made in the Columbia river, near was not destroyed by the explosion was Idaho. All the stock in both companies Winningham. She was Mooro’s second
walking at night, with nothing to eat was
consumed by fire.
has been subscribed.
Kalama.
wife, and had left home after a quarrel.
bat chocolate.
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