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GOLD HILL NEWS.
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ward New Chwang.
Democrats of Arkansas nominated
GOLD H ILI.................. . . . ORE-ON. Jeff Davis for governor.
St. Louis strikers now believe their
only hope lies in boycott.
Au attempt was made to assassinate
Emperor William of Germany.
Dr. Jameson lias been elected a mem­
ber of the Cape parliament.
C o iiip r e h r im ivt» R e v i e w o f ( h e In* p ort»
Two deaths and many prostrations
a n t H a p p e n in g '* o f ( h e l*a»t W e e k
from heat in Pittsburg. Pa.
C u lle il F r o m ( h e T e le g r a p h C o lu m n s»
Hot weather ami no rain is disas­
trous to crops in North Dakota.
Nome, Alaska, June 8.—More defi­
Storms played havoc with the cro|>s
nite and complete returns have lately
been received concerning the beach at The Dalles, Or., aud in the vicinity.
strike at Topkuk, 55 miles below Nome.
Steamer Cleveland anived at Seattle
There seems no reason to doubt that from Nome. She rejauts five wrecks.
this is one o( the greatest strikes ever
Heavy rain aud subsotpieut Hoods are
made in this vicinity, as important as doing great damage in British Colum­
the strike at Nome itself.
Though the discovery at Topkuk is ot bia.
Director of Posts in Cuba Kathlxme
comparatively recent date, many have
struck it rich" already, and several in­ has now Iteen permanently suspended
dividual fortunes, running as high as i aud may be prosecuted.
$25,000, have been taken out. Parties
Chinese minister in Berlin says the
of two or three working with ordinary empress cannot be deposed, but might
rockers, it is said, are takug out $1,000 be coaxed off the throne.
a day. One little plot of ground, just
Ex-Governor Talyor, of Kentucky,
about big enough for a good-sized
dogged by detectives aud broken in
grave, yielded $15,000 worth of the
health, is at Niagara Falls.
precious metal
It lay just at the edge
President McKinley wants to know
of the tundra, and the gold was actual­
ly among the grass toots. It is reliably why the Mouocacy did not fire on the
estimated that one stretch of beach 600 j Taku forts when fired upon.
feet long by an average of 90 feet in
Boers in small hands are harassing
width has yielded $475,000 within the | large columns of the British. Dewet
past few weeks.
i leads the guerrilla ojierations.
Another strike, though of a less sen­
At the Seaside Athletic Club, Coney
sational nature, has been reported at a i Island. N. Y., Gus liuhlin knocked
point on the beach 20 miles south of out Tom Sharkey in the 15th round.
Nome. At this last-named place and
The force under Admiral Seymour
scattered along the beach between
Nome and Topkuk over 1,000 men are has been located. Admiral Ketupff re­
ports it is ten miles from Tien Tsiu.
now at work.
There is little doing at present in
Roosevelt is going to Oklahoma to
this immediate vicinity, and some of attend the Bough Riders’ convention,
the newcomers, who expected to pick but w ill not make political speeches.
up nuggets like shells on the seashore,
Chinese difficulties affect Kentucky’s
'ire somewhat disappointed. Work is ginseng trade, by which hundreds have
proceeding steadily on most of the made their living. Prices have gone
claims, but there is no excitement just
down.
now except over the news of the new
Illinois Demcoiats indorsed Bryan
strikes.
and the Chicago platform, and nomi­
T a le o f a t a s t a w a y .
nated Samuel Alschuler, of Aurora, for
Nome, Alaska, June 8.—After four governor.
months of fearful suffering, during
T. B. Fargo, brother of J. C. Fargo,
which he helplessly watched the death
of one alter another of his companions, president of the American Express
James Murphy, of New York, a casta­ Company, and of William C. Fargo,
way sailor, was rescued from starvation founder of the Wells Fargo Express
bv natives on St. Lawrence island, Company, is dead at his home in New
lie was picked up from the island June York, aged 67.
1 by the bark Alaska. Murphy is the
The Chinese restriction bill, increas­
sole survivor of a party of six which ing the tax on Chinese immigrants
sailed for Nome November 3, 1899, on from $50 to $100, has been adopted’ by
board the schooner E. A. Greet, of San the house of commons at Ottawa,
Francisco. The others of the party, all Canada. The measure also restricts
of whom perished from cold or starva­ the immigration of Japanese to 12 per
tion on St. Lawrence island, were:
month.
P. Lair, of Snohomish, owner of the
Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, will not
vessel; J. 11. Johnson, of San Francis­ run for governor of Illinois.
co, master; Charles Elliott, of Denver,
Prohibitionists, in national conven­
Colo., mate; 14. A. Nichlo, of Ply­
mouth, Mass., cook; J. Smith, oi Seat­ tion assembled at Chicago, say they
will poll 300,000 votes.
tle, sailor.
The little vessel was destined for Cape
W. II. Wade, an expert billiard
Nome, but after an unusually rough ! player, and by many considered the
voyage she was driven ashore on St. best bank shot in America, is dead at
Lawrence island. She landed high and Chicago.
dry, and the men made an easy land­
Martin J. Russell, one of the proprie­
ing, getting most of their proivsious tors of the Chicago Chronicle, died at
and baggage ashore. But the schooner | Mackinac Island from a complication
had been scantily provisioned, and the of diseases.
supply was soon exhausted.
The
There were 10,377 deaths from chol­
weather was severely cold, and the
men could find but little shelter. The era out of 15,479 cases during the week
island was known to be inhabited by ending June 16, in the province of
natives, and a Catholic mission was Bombay, India.
supposed to be somewheie in the neigh­
Oregon’s vote, officially canvassed,
borhood, but Captain Johnson, who on the equal suffrage amendment was
started in January to find it, was frozen as follows: for equal suffrage, 26,265;
to death on the way. In the weeks against 28,402.
following, Lar, Nichol and Smith suc­
The United States district judge at
cumbed to hunger and cold.
St. Louis has issued a restraining order
Murphy and Elliott were discovered to prevent interference with the run­
by a party of natives -March 20, 1900, ning of street-cars.
after having passed nearly four months
General Wheeler says the war in the
on the island. The next day, March
21, the two survivors set out for the Philippines is practically ended. A
mission, under the guidance of the na­ force can easily be spared from the is­
tives. Elliott was on the verge of col­ land for work in China.
lapse when the start was made, and
A hot wave is prevalent in North
the party had not gone far on the way Dakota. Crops are in a parched con­
when he died in a litter in which the dition. The thermometer at Grand
Indians were carrying him. The mis­ Forks registered 104 in the shade.
sion proved to be 70 miles distant from
Affairs in Cuba are now so tranquil
the point at which the schooner was that soldiers are no longer needed.
cast away. On arriving there, Murphy The troops w ill be withdrawn and sent
was well careé for, and soon recovered to Manila to relieve the volunteers.
strength, although he may never en­
The Yaqui Indians have nearly all
tirely get over the effects of his physi­
abandoned
the warpath. Several hun­
cal and mental suffering.
Scattered about the camp of the ship­ dred are still hidden in the mountains
wrecked party on the bleak shore of St. and make an occasional descent on iso­
Lawrence island lie five uuburied lated ranches.
The secretary of the navy hasauthor-
corpses. Captain Prank Tuttle, of the
»evenue cutter Bear, has interested , ized the following names for the new
himself in Murphy’s tragic tale, and, battle-ships and cruisers: battle-ships,
it is said, will go to the island and give Virginia and Rhode Island; armored
decent burial to the bodies of the five cruisers, Maryland, Colorado and South
victims. Murphy will go with the Dakota; protected cruisers, St. Louis,
revenue cutter to locate the bodies, Milwaukee and Charleston.
after which he expects to return to
A strike has occurred among the la­
New York.
borers employed bv the Havana Elec­
tric Company, Cubans and Spanish, on
W i l l D r i l l G u a t e m a la n A r m y .
-
New Orleans, June 27.— Herr Tief- the ground that they do not receive the
fenbach, of Hamburg, Germany, ar­ same wages as Americans who do sim-
rived here today, on his way to Guate­ ! ilar work. The contractors reply that
mala, where he goes under a contract Americans are worth far more than
to teach German military tactics to the Cubans.
It is officially announced that Arch­
Guatemalan army. He stated that the
object of the government is to make a duke Francis Ferdinand, the Austrian
! heir-apparent, will formally renounce
general improvement in the army.
the right of succession to the imperial
C. H. {Jryan. of San Francisco, com­ throne. He will wed the Countess
mitted suicide on the steamer Ohio, Sophie Choteck, his morganatic mar­
while en route to Dutch Harbor, be­ riage being the reason for which he
will withdraw fiom the succession.
cause of despondency.
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PLAQUE.
H u r r lb l« C n u illtlu n « V r a v a llln g In I m lln
• W n lr r S u p p ly P o o r
Russians are moving 80,000 men to
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New York, June 28(.-—J. W, John-I
A Thousand British Join the
Allied Foroes.
» R E P A R A T IO N S
FOR
A SSA U LT
F o r e ig n O B Ic le l» a t S h a n g h a i R e l ie r a
t h e W o r a t II«« H a p p e n e d t o t h e l e ­
g a t i o n s a t V e k in .
London, June 27.—The
British
cruiser Terrible lias arrived at Che loo
from Taku. with the latest uewe,
which is as follows:
“ Eight hundred sikh and 200 Welh
fusiliers have effected a junction with
the American, German and Russian
forces which had been cut off by the
Chinese about nine miles from Tien
Tain. It was proposed to deliver an
assault upou the Chinese forces at l ien
Tsiu last night.”
"Foreign official opinions here.”
says a dispatch fiom Shanghai- to the
Daily Express, dated yesterday, ‘'in­
cline to the belie) that the worst ha-
happened to the legations at Pekin ami
to Admiral Seymour.
Even il the
legations were sale June 14, there is
no guarantee that they are ¡git'e now.
The situation, in fact, grows more and
more gloomy. The entire absence ol
reliable news from the capital seems lo
justify the worst construction which
can be put upon it.
"Bad news comes from Yan Kung,
where the unrest is said to he growing
hourly. Viceroy Liu Kin Yiii lias tele­
graphed the British authorities that
he has ordered the five Chinese cruisei s.
I which have been lying off the harbor
there, to proceed to Nankin.”
"General Ma’s armv,” says a corre­
spondent at Shan llai Kan, "consist­
ing of 46,000 men, left a week ago lor
Pekin, and General Sung Ching’s
troops, numbering 2,500, left fcr the
same place June 15.
"A careful estimate of the number
i and armament of the Chinese troops
around Pekin puts the total at 3 6 0 ,0 0 0 ,
aud it is calculated that these troops
possess 227 centimeter Creusot guns,
18 Krupps aud 150 Maxims. Their
supply of ammunition is practically in­
exhaustible. it has been niHiuly sup­
plied by a German firm at Carlwitz.”
Another Shanghai dispatch says:
‘‘Li Ping Heng, ex-governor of Shan
Tung, who is intensely enti-foreign,
has gone to the Kiang Yin forts, on the
Yangtse. He has declared his inten­
tion of resisting the lauding of British
forces in that region.”
Extensive preparations by the allies
are going forward. The first regiment
of British India’s 10.000 men embarked
at Calcutta yesterday, and 833 more
marines received orders to go out from
English porjs. The British war office,
in anticipation of a prolonged cam­
paign, is contracting for winter cloth­
ing and fur caps.
The Amur army corps, ordered out
by Russia, numbers 52,100 men, with
84 guns. Japan purposes to laud 15,-
000 men on Chinese territory within a
fortnight. Among the minor military
preparations, the Portuguese governor
of Macao, island of Macao, at the
southwest entrance of Canton river, is
sending arms to the Portuguese con­
cession. The Germans in Hong Kong
have cabled Emperor William to ask if
they may serve in the local forces in
defense of Hong Kong.
A million
rounds left Hong Kong yesterday for
Takn by the British steamer Hailong.
The Shanghai correspondent of the
Times sends the following under yes­
terday’s date:
‘‘A military correspondent at Takn
says the operations of the allies are
suffering from want of a recognized
head, defective organization and the
lack of transport.”
A
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R E S T R A IN IN G
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S t r ik e r « M u st M ot I n t e r f e r e
W it h M a ll C a r s.
St. Louis, June 27.—Judge Elmer
B. Adams, of the United States district
court, today granted a temporary in­
junction in the case of W. D. Mahon
aud all members of Division No. 1311
of the Amalgamated Association of
Street Railway Employes of America,
restraining them from interfering in
any way with the running of mail cars
over the lines of the St. Louis Transit
Company.
None of the defendants
were present. They were represented
by W. S. Anthony, while District At­
torney Hitchcock and Rosiere acted
for the government.
In summing up the contents of the
affidavits presented, Mr. Anthony de­
clared that it was not shown that any
of the defendants named had been
guilty of lawlessness.
"On the con­
trary,” he added, "the strike leaders
and all the members >f the Street Rail­
way Men’s Uuion have counselled law
and order.
The Transit Company is
not responsible, perhaps, for the un­
settled conditions which existed.
It
is the union men who have been made
to suffer and uear the brunt of all the
disturbances.
The president of the
union, Mr. Patterson, is dying in the
hospital as the result of being stabbed
by an assassin ”
I The London, England, Times says:
“ England, with 600 years of license,
is the worst liquor cursed nation in the
world.”
sou and family, and Mrs. Mary Moy-
ser, missionaries of the Christian Alii- |
New Disoovery of Gold on the
Alaska Coast.
a lice iu India, have just arrived in New
York. Their stations are iu the fam­
ine afflicted district of Borar, Central
India. Mr. Joliusou is located at Kha- THE R U SH IS T R E M E N D O U S
in agon, a place of alsmt 40,000 inhabit- ,
ants. Mrs. Moyaer is at Akida. Mr. |
Johnson has been iu Khamagou several O li* T h o u s a n d M an A r . T h a r a A l i r m l y
— M aarly H a l i a M llllo n l a k a n O u t -
years.
G o ld l a i m u i n O ra«« K oota
Speaking of the conditions in ludiu,
be said:
“ When we left ludia on May 16,
Five children perished by the burn.
6,000,000 people were on the govern­
ment relief list. On June 1 we heard Aig of a house at Solomouvllle, Arizona.
that cholera had broken out.
III.
Men from the U. S. S. Mouocacy
Ahinedabad, a place of 60,000 people, have beeu sent from Chee Foo to Tien
over 600 died in the course of the week Tsiu.
before we started. When we left, the
Brigham II. Roberts, found guilty
government was transferring 7,000 or of unlawful cohabitation at Salt Lake,
8,000 people from place to place lie-
cause of lack of drinking water. In was lined $160.
my station, where there are 40,000 ! Charles Mefford, a maniac, of Cedar
people, there were only two wells left Rapids, Iowa, slew a whole family,
with water in them. The people were then killed himself.
hauling the water from wells sunk in , Four miners lost their lives b y a lt
the l>eds of streams never before known explosion in the Champion mine,
to go dry.
Champion, Mich.
*‘Since the tast famine, three years! Cologne, Germany, was visited by a
ago, the government engineers have evdone, which demolished many build­
discovered that the level of the water ings and threw down a number of
iu the grouini has sunk 15 feet, which factory buildings.
is the cause of all the difficulty. The
railroad engine at our place is obliged j Eight people were killed outright
to go 16 miles for water. The rallioiul ami 54 severely injured by a collision
companies are building tanks and haul­ between a freight aud excursion train
near Green Bay, Wia.
ing water from place to place.
“Cholera, sma^isix aud diarrhoea are | Frank Gilomre, a white man, of
now following the famine. We heard New Orleans, was lynched by a mob
at Genoa that there had been floods at for the criminal ussault and brutal
Bombay. Rains now would lie worse murder of a 60-year-old woman.
than the fuimne, for they would cause
A detachment of 40 Americana were
the grass and weeds to spring up. The caught iu ambush by Filipinos on the
natives would seize uisin this growth Island of Minnauao, with the result
as mxui as it apjieured above the ground that nine were killed aud 11 wound»«!.
and Ixiil and eat the mess. Being in
Five men were killed by a cyclone
such a famished state, this would have
a very disastrous effect upon them. which visited No Man’s Land, Okla­
There is plenty of grain iu tiie coun­ homa. The storm swept the country
Thousands of cattle
try, if the government would only put for 60 miles.
a little pressure upon tire greedy mer- were stampeded aud many killed ami
injured.
chants. ”
Au order from Adjutant-General
B O E R S T A K E S U P P L Y T R A IN S .
Corbin has been received at the Pre­
— .
D e w e t Ale«» C ap tu re«! m N u m b e r o f S o l ­ sidio, San Francisco, directing that the
troops of the Sixth cavalry shall be re­
d ie r « N e a r l J n t l l e y .
New York, June 28.— A dispatch tc cruited to their full war strength. In
the Tribune from London says: Lord view of the fact that this organization
Roberts has profited by the diversion was ordeied recently to proceed to
of public interest from South Africa Manila and the order to recruit to the
to China. Unpleasant incidents escupe limit was sent some time later, the
notice and the delay iu winding up the opinion is expressed that the regiment
canqiaign is screened from criticism. is to lie sent to China instead of the
The recruits will Ite
According to the accounts given in the Philippines.
press dispatches of yesterday, the am­ «elected from those now at the Presidio.
Ninety persons were killed and 872
buscade of the yeomanry near Liudlev
was not creditable to the British arms wounded in the recent conflict between
and details of the capture of a large the troops and tenants in the Varna
convoy with an escort of Highlanders district, Bulgaria. A slate o, siege has
near Heilhron show that a depressing beeu proclaimed iu the districts of
story was suppressed as long as poaai- Varna, Shinala. Tirnova, Rasgrand,
Rustchuk aud Kistovats. Tim govern­
ble.
There has clearly been a good neal of ment is anxious to limit the number
blundering on the British side iu the of uewspa|sirs, and has issued string­
Orange River colony, and there are ent regulations as to the qualifications
several mysteries about Ileilbron and which must be possessed by the editors.
Lindley and General Bundle’s cam- j Hunter’s advance column occup ied
paigu which require further explana­ Krugersdorp without opposition on
tion.
June 18.
Further particulars of the fighting at
I’innearspoort to the northeast of l ’re- ' Admiral Schley’s s«|uadron, which
toria are forwArded by a correspondent. has been in quarantine at Montevideo,
The object of the British (qieratious has been released.
A Russian admiral was in com­
was to drive General Botha from the
position he had taken up. The fight­ mand of the Heet that bombarded and
ing was continuous for two days and destroyed the foits at Taku.
it was hoped that Generals French and
Railway and telegraphic communi­
Hamilton would be able to entrap the cation between Cape Town and Pre-
burghers on the following day.
It toira is now completely restored.
was discovered, however, that Botha
Thieves cracked the safe of the Gam-
bad in the night effected another mas­
hrinus
brewery, in Portland, Or., and
terly retreat.
escaped
with between $609 and $700 iu
The Times’ correspondent at Kroon-
cash.
stad says that General Dewet is show­
ing capable generalship, but is unable
A young man named Robert Jackson,
to prevent his men from deserting daily. of Riddle, Or., accidentally shot him­
self while deer hunting. He was in­
D em a n d o n th e F o rte .
Washington, June 28.—As to the re­ stantly killed.
port from Constantinople that the
By the death of David D. Wells, son
Unite States charge, Mr. Griscoin, has of the late David A. Wells, of Norwich,
presented another demand for the set­ Conn., Harvard University is richer
tlement of the claims, it can be stated by about $37,000.
on high authority that this government
After July 1 the office of Indian
is steadily pressing for a definite and
agent
at Warm Springs, Or., will Is»
final settlement and is losing no opjxir-
dispensed
with, at which time Agent
tunity to remind the Turkish authori­
ties of the unsatisfactory and indefinite James L. Cowan w ill be dropped.
nature of the present situation. But
llaw aiians have met in convention
beyond this persistent pressure there at Honolulu and have foimed an inde'
has been no imperative action taken, pendent political party. They have
nor has it been definitely determined already begun the fight for statehood.
what course will be adopted if the I
temporizing of the Tuikish diplomacy I Tho statue of Washington presented
is carried to the point of practical fail­ to the city of Paris by the Daughters
of the Ainericen Revolution lias arrived
ure to meet the American » demands.
in Paris. The pedestal has already
S2O O ,<>(><> ( h i t F r o m K l o n d i k e .
been prepared, and the unveiling will
Seattle, June 28.—The steamer Cot­ take place July 3.
tage City arrive here today from Skag­
Uniform wages of $3 for nine hours’
way with $200,000 in dust and drafts
work
a day is demanded by the line­
and a number of passengers from Daw­
men working for the Canadian Pacilit
son. The latter left Dawson June 6
and confirm the reports of the finding Telegraph Company, the Great North­
of young Relies’ body near Minto. west Telegraph Company, the Canada-
Among the interior passengers are Atlantic, the Bell Telephone Company.
George Avery h ml John Anderson, who Over 200 men have quit work owing
are said to have $50^000 each with to the refusal of the companies to ac­
cede to their demands.
them.
Assistant Secretary Taylor has ren­
B r o o k l y n L a a v e i M a n lln .
dered a decision adverse to the Hppeal
Manila, June 28.—The United States of James Fitzharris and Joseph Mullet,
cruiser Brooklyn, with 800 marines from the decision of the immigration
from Cavite, lias sailed for Nagasaki, officials at New York, who held them
where she will coal, und from which for deportation on the ground that,
place she will go to Takn. Colonel having been convicted of felony in con­
Robert I. Meade is in command of the nection with the murder of Lord Cav­
marines. The United States transport endish and Thomas Henry Brice, in
Logan, with the Ninth infantry, and Phoenix Park, Dublin, in 1882, they
the United States gunboat Princeton cannot he permitted to land in thia
will follow tomorrow.
country under our immigration laws.
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