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GOLD HILL NEWS.
LATER NEW S.
H I m ill WRICKED
PLA Q U ES
AT
M A N IL A .
R e r l - l l e r l , N m a l l p o i a tx i llu h u iile P la g u «
(I
E
W. ,1. Brvau addressed 10,000 people
A r » IC p Id eiailv.
*t Tucoma, Wash.
p r m . i s H x n KVKKT S A T U R D A Y .
Manila, April 6.—-The census of Ma­
War tax will not he reduced at this
nila, just completed by the health <ln
Trestle on Spokane & North- partaient, gives the city an uiileusuiitly Puerto Rioan Tariff Bill
...O R E G O N . session of congress.
GOLD H IL L ...
high rank among the unhealthful cille»
The Puerto Rican bill passed the
ern Gave Way.
Passed by the Senate.
of the world. It establishes a death
senate by a vote of 40 to 81.
rate of something over 40 ]>er 1,000 at
The public debt decreased $6,000,OCX)
a
conservative estimate. Former esti­ O R E G O N
CARS A ND C O N T E N T S BUR N ED
M EMBER8
D IV ID E D
(luring the mouth of March.
mates and census have always given
A bill was passed to throw open
Manila 300,000 population. This cen­
Idaho and Oklahoma Indian lands.
A R o tt e n B r id g ™ e t h e C m n e o f t h e A fl- * sus was a careful count of natives and F lu a l V o te on t h . H i l l W e . F u r l , In
0 « m p r (* h r n ll» • R e v ie w o f t h o I m p o r t ­
The journeymen plumbers of Indian­
r i d e n t —T h u
lle w il
llr u k e m a n W a s Chine«« liviug in buildings aud bout«
T h i r t y - O n e —N o ta b le N p e e rh I t e l l v -
a n t H a p p e n ln x • u f
P »*t W eek
iu the police districts of Manila, aud
S e v e re ly I n j u r e d .
apolis
have
struck,
demanding
an
in­
• r«»l l»y M a a u n , » ( l l l l u u l « .
C u lle d F ro u » t h e T e l e g r a p h C o lu m n a .
it gave a total of 190,719, of whom 80,-
crease in pay.
000
were Chinamen. There are to l»e
The legislative council of Trinidad
Springdale, Wash., April 4.—At an
Washington, April 5.—This was a
An nnderground railroad is to be has ratified the reciprocity treaty with early hour this morning, the north added the inhabitants of several village»
within the city limits, Americans and notable day iu the senate. It brought
constructed in Berlin, at a cost of $25,• . the United States.
i bound freight train on the Spokane >&
Europeans uud 1,400 priests in th< to a close the sharpest and most pro­
000,000.
Aguiualdo is in Hingapore.
Singa-' Northern, consisting of an engine and monasteries. From reliable informa­ longed debate hj * iii any measure since
The government is taking vigorous j |K>re papers mention the tact and pub-, 81 ears, loaded with general freight,
tion the officials estimate their uuuibei those discussed during the memorial
measures to suppress outlawry in the j lish short interviews with him.
' went through the trestle at Sheep creek,
"war congress” two years ago. At 4
at
between 50,000 ami 60,000.
Philippines.
half a mile north of Springdale. Charles
o’clock
this afternisni the votes were
The deaths in Manila officially re­
The plasterers of Minneapolis have
Until the tariff question is settled, been locked out, pending the se ttle -1 Dunlap, head brakeuian, was severely ported during six months, from July 1 beguu u]sui the Puerto Rican tariff an-1
injured, two ribs being broken. The
business in Puerto Kioo w ill remain ment of their dispute as to hours.
to December 21 last year, were 6,203. civil government bill and |s-ndiug
rest of the train crew escaped with a
at a standstill.
amendments, ami, less than a hour later
Pearl harbor, in the Hawaiian islands, ! few bruises. Four tramps were steal­ Of these 2,941 were children. Soni»
The double turrets of the new battle i will be improved aud fortified aud ing a ride, but none was severely hurt. of the principal causes were beri-beri, the measure, about which there as been
so much couteutiou iu ami out of <x»n-
ship Keursarge have beeu tested and made available for uaval purposes.
The rotten condition of the trestle is 670; tuberculosis, 885; brouchitis, 814 gress, uus passed by u majority of rime,
dysentery,
229;
fevers,
287;
whllt
proven a success.
Mexico’s army convicts will be said to have been the cause of the acci­
the final vote being 40 to 31. Only
Ex-United States Senator Gibaon, of Rlxdisbed by the new secretary of war. dent. The trestle is 350 feet long aud stomach troubles ranged high. Maiiilt committee Hiiieudinents were adopt»-»!
now
lias
three
diseases
epidemic
which
Maryland, died of heart disease at Volunteer service is to be encouraged, i 40 feet high.
would throw the average community It has been evident for aonie time tlmt
Washington, D. C.
The engine and one ear had reached
The marine hospital service has sen t1 the northern approach, when, without into a panic—bnlionic plague, lieri-beri the bill would »-oiiimuud a majorily in
General Louis Botha has been ap­ an urgent request to congress for an
and smallpox. Beri-beri result« from the senate, but. not withstanding the
pointed to succeed General Joubert in appropriation of $500,000 to fight warning, the big trestle gave way, car­ a diet of fish aud rice, so thut whitei fact, the interest in the measure, both
rying 20 cars to the gulcn below. The
command oi the Boer army.
of senators and the public, lias not (lag­
plague in various seaport towns.
caboose aud eight cars remained on the do not fear it. Smallpox ami leprosy, ged an instant.
the
1’hihpiues
always
have,
aud
th»
The 57 th annual boat race between
The casualties in the Philippine war southern approach. Not a timber of
Today the galleries were crowded.
people look upon them as a matter o)
Cambridge aud Oxford resulted in an since January 1, have beeu:
Ameri­ the trestle was left in place.
Brake- eourse,
avoid direct contact, but hardly ! and hundreds of people filled the corri -
easy victory for Cambridge.
cans, 88 killed, 163 wounded; insur­ man Dunlap jum]>ed on the lower side,
dors, unable even to secure standing
Senator McBride introduced a bill gents, 1,426 killed; 1,453 captured.
and rolled down the hank. -The rest of give second thought to their presence room in the galleries.
From 11
in
the
neighborhood.
creating a Crater Lake National park.
Great pre]<arations for war are going the train crew jumped on the upper
o'clock,when
the
senate
convened,
un­
Smallpox
flourishes
in
some
parts
ol
at Crater lake, Southern Oregon.
The four
on in Russia. All messages in regard side, aud were not hurt.
til the hour when the voting beguu, tile
Luzon
constantly.
Half
of
the
native»
Seattle printers have raised the price to movements of troops are censored tramps went down with the cars, hut iu the country districts are pitted with advocates and opponents of the hill
of job work 30 to 50 per cent, caused and all officers are denied leaves of miraculously escaped with a general it ami mothers try to get their chil­ brilliantly and el»H|iieutly maintained
, shaking up. As soon as the cars reach­
by the increased cost of stock and high absence.
their convictions, uud the auditors were
ed the bottom they caught fire.
All dren infected with it, under the belief
rentals.
The Illinois Brick Company, of Chi­ the cars were burned with their con­ that it i« less dangerous to the young. kept in a state of constant excitement.
The particularly notable «|«eechet» of
Russia is active. Military prepara­ cago, the brick combine of that city,
The towns along the northern coast and
tents.
tions in several directions are being has filed with the secretary of state a
on the railroad between Manila auc the «lay were delivered by Mason (Rep.
D IS A S TE R T O C O N V O Y .
poshed with vigor War with Japan is certificate of increase of capital stock
Dugupan are full of small|iox now. 111.), in op|s)sitiou to the measure, and
General Bell’s famous volunteer regi­ by Foraker (Rep. O .), who replied to
not probable.
; from $10,000 to $9,000,000.
B r it if th G u m a n d H r lu o n e r t N o t T e l
ment, the Thirty-sixth, is suffering a brief s|>eech of Wellington (Rep.
B e ta k e n .
John Hayslip, of Kansas City, has
The party of scientists uud
Pro­
from
the epidemic. Lieutenant Tom-ray j Md.). It was the Ohio senator’s dn-
l/mdon.
April
4.—The
latest
news
been fonnd guilty of umrder in the sec­ fessor A. Agassiz, who left Han Fran­
ond degree and sentenced to 90 years in cisco several months ago on an expedi­ from the front adds little to the pnblio and Lieutenant Wing, both of whom sire to clear up any uiisundertwuuditig
or misinformation concerning the bill.
the penitentiary
tion to the South Seas, has returned. ) ; knowledge of the convoy disaster. No were Tennesseeans, the former holding Mason's speech wasargumentuthe, elo­
a
commission
as
captain
iu
the
Ten
credence
is
given
to
re|«orts
that
the
Robert Bradley, alias Barclay, lias This scientific expedition went first tc i Boers numbered between 8,900 and 10,- nessee volunteers, Hnd several soldier» quent and amusing by turns, aii-l, as it
been arrested in San Francisco, for '
Pomotos, exploring the northern
000 men. The general belief is that have died, aud there are other eases ii covered the entire range of the coun­
counterfeiting silver dollars. An en­ part of those islands, a region never be­
try’s duties and rcsisinsildlities to what
fore examined by scientists.
After there could not have been more than the regiment.
tire outfit was captured.
the Illinois senator sarcastically termed
half
that
number,
but
the
mere
fact
refitting the vessel at Tahiti, the re­
T H E LABO R W O R L D .
"our in-suh-lar possessions,” it was
Several persons perished by being
mainder of the Society islands, as well that even so many as half con Id have
very
interesting to his hearers.
burned by the igniting of petroleum
been
collected
so
near
headquarters
B u ild in g T r a i l » * ’ S t r ik e In N e w
T u rk
a» the Cook, Savage aud the islands |
tanks, caused by a collision between
:
without
the
knowledge
of
the
British
a
n
d
V
i
c
i
n
i
t
y
.
of the Tonga group were explored. !
BATES IN M IN D A N A O .
two trains, at Vladivkokos, Caucasus.
New York, April 6.—The strike ol
After refitting at Suva, the Ellice, commanders piovokes much uneasy
All the coal mines in Indiana have Gilbert and Marshall islands were ex­ criticism.
the building trades and a few othei P e a c e fu l O c c u p a tio n o f F iv e N o r t h e r n
suspended ofierations, due to the failure plored and the island of Guam was I . The disaster is regarded as a direct trades went into effect in New York
< id e a .
of the operators to sign a wage contract visited.
result of the inability of General French and vicinity today. It has not as yet
Manila, April 5.—General John C.
to ent off the commandoes of General assumed great pro|«ortions, and the Bates has ]>eucefully occupied Surigao,
for the year. About 9,000 men are idle
Boers ure surrounding Methuen.
as a result.
Olivier an*l the other commandoes men out are perfectly orderly. About Cagayan, lligan and Misumis, iu tin*
Republicans elected their entire ticket when escaping from the Orange river. 1,600 men went on a strike iu the islands of Mindanao.
All the coal miners in the Pittsburg,
• Lord Roberts’ own dispatch, dated Ixjrough of Bronx and issued a circului
Ta., district, celebrated the establish­ at Cincinnati.
A number of rifles uud cannon were
ment of an eight-hour working day,
Democrats made several striking two hours later than the Daily Chroni­ to the bosses. The circular recites the captured. The presence of the guu-
cle’s, says nothing about the guns demands of the men as follows: “ $3.5U lauits Yorktown, Manila and i ’ituay
cansing complete idleness in the dis­ gains in Michigan.
j being recaptured. The story, therefore, shall be paid for eigfit hours’ work in prevented resistance at Cagayan.
trict for one day.
Plumbers of Cleveland are on a strike looks doubtful.
Insurgent atrocities in Cagayan and
the Bronx Hn»l $3.25 for tlie same length
The Boers are rushing men to the for higher wages.
Little news has arrived from other of time in Mount Vernon.” The men ('amarines provinces ooutiuue, Span­
front.
Wiliam J. Bryan spoke to a crowd of points. Kenhardt was formally reoo- also demand ttiut Saturday afternoon iards, Chinamen uud natives have been
Latest advices report two new cases 18,000 people at Seattle.
copied Saturday. The report that the shall be considered a half-holiday, hu <1 murdered.
of plague at Honolulu.
Fire at NevAfcort, Ark., destroyed Boers are mussing in the vicinity of that no work shall be done then.
L O I I f i l III t h * l* t l I I Ip p IllC R .
Taungs and Klipdam is confirmed. Fifty-one bosses signed an agreement,
Five men were killed by an explo­ property to the amount of $500,000.
Washington,
April 6.—General Otis
Lord Methuen’s difficulties are appar­
sion in a paper mill at Erie, Pa.
Roberts’ communication with Kim­ ently increasing. He has Boer laagers agreeing to pay the men what they de­ has cubled to the war department, prob­
manded and also give them the half-
President McKinley has again re­ berley has been cut off by the Paters.
or guerrilla bands on three sides of holiday. Alsjut 600 strikers returned ably with a view of correcting erron­
fused to interfere in the Kentucky
eous impressions thut exists in this
No Puerto Rican franchises will be him. and he will be obliged to watch to work.
squabble.
country as to the state of the insurrec­
granted until government is estab carefully his communication with
At Orange, N. J., 1,000 mechanics, tion in the Philippines, a summary of
Relations between Russia and Tur­ lished.
Orange river.
alxmt equally divided among the paint­ the rise of development of the cam­
key are badly strained aud war prepar­
ers, masons and carpenters, struck to­ paign since the first of the calendar
Two
small
boys
of
Astoria,
Or.,
were
P
U
E
R
T
O
RICAN
F
R
A
N
C
H
IS
E
S
.
ations are in progress.
day. The masons and painters already year. His figures go far toward offset­
drowned in the Columbia while ont in
Several men w<;re seirously hurt at a small boat.
N o n e W i l l Be « r a n t e d U n t i l Oovi-ni- have an eight-hour day, but they de­
ting the belief thut exists in some quar­
m e n t I s E ftta b lIn h e d .
Laramie, Wy., by an explosion at the
mand an increase in wages. The paint­ ters that since the addition ot guerrilla
Boers
captured
seven
guns
and
350
New
York,
April
4.—A
special
to
the
Union Pacific oil house.
ers now receive $2.60 a »lay. They ask methods of warfare, the insurgents
men in an engagement 17 miles from Herald from Washington says:
$2.85. The masons demand 45 cent» have indicted more sultstantial losses
W . H. Colton, charged with com­ Bloemfontein.
Secretary Root has issued an order an hour. They are now getting 4C
plicity in the murder of Goebel, is said
Painters
and
carpenters
of
St.
Loni»
revoking
the license granted to Ramon cents. The cariienters nemand $2.7B upon the American armies in compari­
to have turned state’s evidence.
are on a strike, pending adjustment ol Valdes for the nse of the water of the for an eight-hour day. Their present son with the punishment which they
Boers are blowing np the coal mines their demand for higher wages.
river La Plata, of Puerto Rico, to create rates are $1.50 to $2.60 for a workinj have themselves received.
A significant sentence in the report
in Natal. The Dundee colliery, with
Beri-beri, small-pox and bubonic electric power for a railroad. He has day of nine hours.
differentiates insurgents and ladrones,
its machinery, has been destroyed.
also
announced
the
department
will
plague are prevalent at Manila, estab­
showing that Otis has taken cognizance
T O F IG H T T H E P L A G U E .
Harvey L. Goodall, for 30 years the lishing a death rate of over 40 per 1,000. grant no franchises or licenses in the
of the fact that a considerable number
island until the establishment of civil
publisher and proprietor of the Drover’«
Webster Davis, assistant secretary of government there. Tracey, Boardman R e c re ta ry n t t h e T r e a s u r y A * k * fo r an of hostile» are not soldiers nnder the
Journal, died in Chicago of heart fail­
A p p r o p r ia t io n .
the interior, has resigned to go on the & Platt, of New York, represented by
rules of war and may not exjtect tho
ure.
lecture platform in the interest of the A. L. Arpin and William D. Noble
New York, April 6.—A special tc same treatment. The report, which is
The navy department will investi­ Boers.
dated Manila, April 5, is as follows:
who applied for the revocation of the the Tribune from Washington says:
gate the value of Crab island, south­
The secretary of the treasury has sen!
“ Since Januaiy 1, 124 skirmishes in
Governor
Roosevelt,
of
New
York
concession
and
who,
it
is
said,
are
en­
east of Puerto Rico, as a coaling sta­
an
urgent
request
to
congress
to
make
the
Philippines have beeu reported,
has signed the bill repealing the Horton deavoring to acqiure it for persons for
tion.
boxing law. It will go into effect whom they are acting as agents.
The $500,000 immediately available to en­ mostly light affairs. Onr casualties
General Joubert, the intrepid leader September 1.
Drexels and other business interests ot able the marine hospital service to were 10 officers uud 78 enlisted men
of the Transvaal forces, is dead. He
fight the plague and other disease« killed, 18 officers and 151 men wound­
There is a general desire among all Philadelphia have vigronsly fought the that may appear nt any moment. In ed. Insurgents and ladrones loss in
had been suffering from stomaoli com*
attempts
ot
the
New
York
firms.
classes in the Philippines for a speedy
plaint.
Secretary Root’s decision, however, the annual estimates, submitted last killed and left on the field, 1,426; cap­
establishment of some form of perman­
The coasting steamei Glenelge found­ ent government.
not only deprives Mr. Valdes of his December, $300,000 was asked for this tured (mostly wounded), 1,453; small
ered during a gale off tne Gippsland
license, but prevents Tracey, Boardman purpose, but it is already seen that thi« arms secured, 8,061; pieces of artillery,
Joe I’ete, an Indian, under sentence & Platt’s clients or any other person amount will be insufficient.
165; large captures of other insurgent
coast. Australia. Ont of a ship’s com­
of
death
for
murder
at
Carson,
Nev.,
Surgeon-General
Wyman,
in
his
re­
property.
pany of 83, only three were saved.
from obtaining its issuance in their
has escaped from custody. He was to
“ A number of important insurgent
favor. It is learned that this action was quisition on the secretary for (he
Rear-Admiral Benjamin F. Day has have been hanged May 4.
officers
are surrendering and the situa­
money,
reports
that
on
account
of
the
takon in accordance with a recommen­
been retired. Captain Terry, com­
tion
is
gradually
becoming more pa­
continued
and
increasing
danger
from
Diamonds,
jewelry
and
money
to
the
dation of Brigadier-General Davis, gov­
manding the Washington navy yard,
_______________
OTIS.”
cific.
plague,
it
has
become
necessary
to
de­
valne of $16,000 was stolen from a ernor-general of the island, who has
will be promoted to the vacancy.
Philadelphia residence. Hnd suspicion made an extensive investigation. The tail medical officers of that service for
Riot* In Puerto Rica.
Prof. Man, the profound student of rests on the coachman, who is missing.
Han Juan de Puerto Rico, April 6.—
issuance of the license to Valdes last <lnty in the offices of the United State»
Pompeiian antiquities, proves conclu­
consuls at t ie various ports of Enrope A crowd of about 500 persons gathered
summer
was
made
when
Secretary
Root
A
British
steam
launch
was
captured
sively that Pompeii was a well-paved
fioin which emigrants depart, aud to
city 44 years before the birth of Christ. by pirates near the Check Heung Shan received an opinion from Charles E. prevent the introduction of yellow fever yesterday at a pier under constrnotion
by the E. B. Jenks Company, of New
Magoon, solicitor of the division of
In Chicago, Albert Stedge, 17 years district, the pilot of the boat murdered
customs and insular affairs, whose from the fruit ports of Central and York, intimidated the native carpen­
and
the
launch
aud
lighter,
which
it
old, avenged the insults cast upon his
wonderful reversal of ideas on the South America. Medical officers have ters and forced 85 of them to quit
mother by William Hobson, a boarder, had in tow, looted.
beeu detailed to seive in the consular work. The present rate of wsges is
In a severe engagement near Bolivar, statutes of the new American dependen­ offices to enforce the quarantine regu­ $1.60 for 10 hoars labor. The leaders
by dealing Hobson a fatal blow over
cies
has
surprised
congress.
Venezuela, General Heruandez was de­
the head with a barrel stave.
The files of the insular division cpn- lations to be observed ut foreign ports. of the movement demanded an eight-
feated
by General Penalosa, command­
A story of suffering and death from
tain
numerous applications for conces­ Medical officers are also attached to hour day. At noon today a mob of
starvation comes from Han Nicholas ing the government troops. The revo­ sions or licenses, some from prominent the American consulates in Yokohama, over 10,000 people assembled aud at­
island, off the California coast. A lutionists lost 228 killed
tacked the St. Thomas laborers. There
people in the United States and others Kobe and Hong Kong.
Dr. Wvm«n further says that the were 150 policemen on dnty hut they
Because he was suspected of being a from natives of Puerto Rico.
party of three Chinamen had been on
plague has recently beeu reported nt made no attempt to disperse the crowd
the island for six months gathering jpy of a rival company, Choy FoOfe, r
Chicago Machinist* at Work.
San Francisco. This state of affairs
and curing abalones. Three months Chinese fisherman ut Point San Pedro,
Chicag, April 4.— About half of has rendered necessary the expenditure and a company of infantry was called
ago an unknown sloop from Han Pedro, Cal., was tied by five members of the
the 5,500 striking machinists resumed of greater sums from the appropriation out to preserve order. The pier is now
Cal., called at the island. During the various companies to a beacon stake
protected by soldiers.
work
this morning.
Manufacturers
absence of the Chinamen, the visitors on a barren rock in Richardson’s bay, said the differences had been settled or to fight epidemics than weie oouiem-
A P lu m b e r * ’ S tr ik e .
stole everything eatable from the camp and there left for two days without pnt on a basis to be arbitrated, and that plated when the estimates were sub­
mitted, and it is believed that $300,000
Cleveland, April 4 .— Three hundred
When discovered he
and pnt to sea. One of the Chinese food or water.
the remainder of the strikers would
died about a month ago, and the other was almost in a dying condition. His undoubtedly return to work in the next may prove insufficient to meet all the journeymen plumbers and 125 laborers
emergencies likely to arise in the com­ struck in this city today for higher
two, when rescued, were too weak to would be murderers have not yet been dav or two.
wages.
ing fiscal year.
captured.
move.
I I t t l S 01 IO! WIEK