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An Interesting Collection o(
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NEW COMPANY FORMED.
PROPOSED BV COLOMBIA.
I Ultimate Object la to Operate Boats
and Cara From Spokane to Portland.
Scheme for the United States to Ac
quire the Panama Canal.
NEW YORK. March 12.—According
to u special to the Herald, Senor Silva,
the Colombian minister to the United
States, has already informally sub
mltted proposals to Secretary Hay
for the acquisition of the Panama
canal by this government, and has
been Invited to discuss them further.
Preliminary protocols we:e entered
Into some time ago with Costa Rica
and Nicaragua, so that these two
countries during the summer will
probably be merely Interested spec
tators of the moves which the United
States, Great Britain and Colombia
will make.
It is understood that these are the
essential points which the Colombian
government will urge: A lease for a
term of years, so long as the United
States may desire, not exceeding 200
years, of the territory across which
the Panama canal is being construct
ed; in return for such lease Colombia
is to receive either a percentage of
the tax on tonnage passage through
the canal, or a lump compensation;
recognition of the rights of the
French company, which will sell its
concession with Colombia’s consent
to the United States.
Items of Interest From A ll Parts
of the State.
COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL HAPPENINGS
A Brief Review ol the Growth and Improve
ments of the Many Industries Through
out Our Thriving Commonwealth.
NORTH YAKIMA, Wash., March 13.
—The Upper River Transportation
Company has been incorporated for
the purpose of controlling a line of
steamers on the Columbia river. The
boata will muko regular dally trips
from Priest Rapids to The Dulles and
carry the great wheat crop of Eastern
Washington to market. The Incor
porators of the company are J. M.
Russell. George C. Blakely and T. A.
Hudson. In addition to operating on
the Columbia, they will run a line of
steamers to Lewiston. Idaho, on the
Snake.
In connection with the navigation
of the rivers u plan la under consid
eration to construct an electric rail
way through the counties of Douglas
and Lincoln, In Eastern Washington,
and connect with Spokane. The road
will reach all of the wheat centers
and be used for hauling wheat to
Priest Rapids. There It will be loaded
on steel barges and hauled down the
river to The Dalles. A portage rail
way will be used to haul the barges
around the falls and Into the Colum
bia below, when the Lusts will be
towed to Portland and the Pacific
coaBt points for shipment to the Ori
ental markets.
The steamer Billings, which has
been lying on a rocky bar 20 feet
above water a few miles below Pasco,
Is now being overhauled preparatory
to launching for the upper river traf-
tie. A line of steamers will be run
from the upper Columbia to Priest
Rapids and open up the trade from
the great mining districts In the Re
public and surrounding country.
Declines to Accept the Am ended
Canal Treaty.
GREAT
BRITAIN'S
REPLY
No Counter Proposal Made
IS
RECEIVED
If Negotiations
Are Resumed It Must Be on this Side
— The Text Withheld.
Eugene— A new opera house Is to be
Minister Conger left Pekin for
Washington. March 13.—The long
built at Eugene.
home.
expected answer from the British
Athena—Athena has elected T. 11.
government to the stute department's
England rejects the Hay-Paunce-
Page school director and J. W. Smith
communication reciting the action of
fote treaty.
■ clerk.
the senate upon tho llay-Pauncefote
A Filipino band was defeated near
treaty was returned at noon today.
Baker
City—The
Baker
City
post-
Santa Crus.
Lord Pauncefote, the British nmbaa-
office will have a stamp-cancelling
Sixteen lives were lost by the storm
sudor, had already acquainted Sec
machine.
in Arkansas.
retary Hay with the fact that he had
The Dalles—The Dalles treasurer
received u communication from his
President McKinley will start for
had an available cash balance March
government on the subject and It had
the Pacific coast April 30.
1 of >1,655.64.
been In his priesesslon for severul
Victims of the plague are dying in
Eugene— A large electric trans
days. Secretary Hay had acquired
the streets of Cape Town.
former has arrived at Eugene for the
a general knowledge of the character
lighting company.
of the British response. Lord Paunce
A secret society buried alive na
fote came to the state department at
tives friendly to Americans.
Baker City—Improvements to cost
noon
by appointment. He brought
>20.000
will
be
made
In
the
Warshuer
The French ex-consul at Manila is
the answer with him and read It to
hotel at Baker City
accused of dealing with insurgents.
Secretary Hay. It was In the form of
Eagle Point—It Is reported from
Eight persons were killed and many
Instructions from Lord Lansdowne,
Lngle Point that early frosts have not
injured by an explosion in a Chicago
the British minister of foreign affairs,
injured growing wheat.
laundry.
to Lord Pauncefote. and he left a
IS
CLOSE
TO
DEATH.
copy of. these instructions with Sec
Pendleton—Water meters for the
Carnegie has offered >75,000 for a
retary Hay. At the conclusion of the
Pendleton water system have arrived
library to Davenport, la., and also to
conference.
It was stated that the In
and
are
being
sold
for
>10,
>15
and
Springfield, 111.
LI Hung Chang's Life Hangs by a
structions to Ix>rd Pauncefote were to
>20 each.
M UTINY ON ALBANY.
Kirby Graves, Bill Johnson and
Thread.
notify the government of the United
Gold Hill—It Is reported that a rich
Henry Brooks, negroes, were hanged
States
that the British government
Sailors
on
American
Cruiser
Rebelled
PEKIN,
March
12.—LI
Hung
Chang
three-foot vein of gold-bearing quarts
at Richmond, Ark., for murder.
did not see its way clear to accept
at Hong Kong.
has been struck on the old Clock place
is
again
seriously
ill,
find
his
physic
The Pennsylvania house of repre
TACOMA. Wash., March 13.—Ad the senate amendments.
near Gold Hill.
The amendments were treated In
sentatives adopted a resolution favor ian says his life hangs by a thread.
vices brought by the steamship Good
Perry—The Grand Ronde Lumber win state that 75 sailors mutinied on detail at some length In argumenta
Prince Ching and Earl LI seem to
ing the election of senators by the
people.
think that by spreading rumors of the Company will start up Its mill at Per board the cruiser Albany at Hong tive fashion, the purpose of the Brit
ry this week. About 4,000,000 feet Kong last month. The cause was lack ish government being to show that
Relatives of Oregon school direct court’s unwillingness to return to Pe of
logs are on hand.
of money and liberty. The refractory It had sound reason for declining to
ors cannot be employed as teachers kin, unless this or thbt thing is done,
Coquille—Farmers
on the north fork sailors were placed In Irons and accept them. After disposing of the
without unanimous consent of the they can influence the deliberations of
detuils, the note concludes with an
of the Coquille report*hay scarce In taken to Cavite for trial.
board.
the ministers of the powers. As a that pnrt of the country; but stock * The Mohammedan rebellion In Kan expression of regret that such a
A cloudburst in Maricopa county, matter of fact, according to reliable
8u has assumed such alarming pro course was forced upon the British
Arizona, carried away five miles of reports from Sinan Fu, the imperial is in fine condition.
portions that the empress dowager government. There was nothing In
Henderson—The
wagon
bridge
at
track of the Maricopa & Phoenix
the nature of a counter proposition,
personages
are
extremely
uncomforta
Henderson station, which went out has commandiil General Feng Tze nor whh any opening left for further
railroad.
Sai
to
proceed
northward
from
Can
Oregon law which abolishes office ble at Sinan Fu, where they live in with the last freshet, is replaced and ton with haste and undertake their action by the British government. It
was stated that If there is to he u
of fish commissioner, and creates a the house of the governor, which is opened for travel.
subjugation.
Foots Creek—Several tons of ore
similar one, involves question of only a small structure. French mis
The gunboats Ball and Sugrib. further attempt to umend the Clayton-
whether latter repeals former by im sionaries w'ho have just returned from from the Dixie Queen mine. In the built at Hong Kong, for Slam, have Bulwer treaty, so as to authorize the
plication.
Sinan Fu believe that the empress Foots Creek district, are said to have been turned over to that government, United States to construct a water
with the object of striking terror to way across he Isthmus, then It Is for
Two highwaymen entered the vil dowager would bring the court back yielded over >100 a ton.
the
rebels at Canton. Fourteen bri the United States to make the over
Lakeview—The
old
electric
system
lage of Ilpe, near Emporia, Kan., and to Pekin on the nrst offer of the al
gands
were executetd February 14. tures. The British government simp
held up a dozen people« the occu lies, having as a basis the removal of for lighting the town of ¡¿akevlew has
been discontinued, and will be re Four other men are being starved to ly drops the matter nt this point.
pants of two stores.
The Huy-Pauncefote negotiation^
the troops, except the legation guards. placed by the town plant.
death In cages exposed to public view.
Antonio Leonardodi, Antro Dimet
have been In progress for something
Eagle Point—There is considerable
and Abram Sarturi, miners at the
over two years, and owing to tho
DEPUTY SHERIFF KILLED.
HARRISON IS WORSE.
anxiety over the proposed ditch from
Nellie mine, in Bear Creek, Colo.,
grent Interests Involved, they have
Fish Lake to the valley, fears being Fought a Pitched Battle With Two constituted the leading international
were caught by a snowslide.
question at Issue before the state de
Highwaymen.
Two men were killed outright and Ex-President's Condition Now Re entertained that the company will
take so much water out of the Btreams
partment. The treaty was signed
three injured by a dynamite explosion
MILTON.
Cal.,
March
13.—News
garded as Serious.
that there will not be enough left has Just been received here that prior to the opening of tho 56th con
at a quarry near El Paso. All were
for irrigating purposes and to run Deputy Sheriff Holman, of Caiavesas gress, and was submitted to the fien-
Mexicans except the foreman, Chas.
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., March 12.— the
grist mill.
Shely.
county, was shot and killed at Wal ate In December, 1899. It at once
The condition of ex-President Harri
Pilot
Rock—A
painful
accident
oc
lace, a small town near here, in a encounutered opposition In that body,
Navajo Indians, in New Mexico, are son is serious. Dr. Jameson stated
curred
at
the
Warner
sawmill,
twelve
pitched battle witn two highwaymen. but after some delay was finally rat
becoming restless because of the ab today that the upper part of General
miles
south
of
Pilot
Rock.
Will
War
One of the latter is reported seriously ified after several ampndmentH had
sence of two or tnree of their num Harrison's left lung was inflamed.
been adopted. The chief dssue was
ner, while riding on a log carriage, wounded.
ber, who are attending a Chicago
made on what was known as tho
was
struck
on
the
head,
and
while
There
is
some
danger
of
the
conges
Two
prominent
residents
of
Wal
exhibition.
Davis amendment. While In terms
stunned
leaned
over
in
such
a
man
lace
were
held
up
and
robbed
by
the
County Judge Gregory, at Louis tion extending to the rest of the lung ner that a large piece of flesh was bandits. The men who were robbed 1 this did not give the United States
and
to
the
right
lung.
Until
3
o’clock
ville, held that the Pullman Palace
cut out of his thigh by the saw
immediately reported the affair to the a right to fortify the canal, yet In
Car Company is not a railroad and this afternoon, General Harrison was
county
officials, anil Deputy Sheriff general language It expressed the
Unity—It is reported from Unity,
that its rolling stock cannot be taxed resting easy, but at that time he be
right of this country to adopt such
on upper Burnt river, that there was Holman, with a small posse, went to
as railroad property.
came slightly worse and Dr. Jameson a disastrous fire in that burg. James Wallace to arrest the robbers with measures In regard to the cannl as
were deemed necessary for the proper
The Colorado Stockgrowers’ Asso was called. He said that he was cer Payton's general merchandise store the result above noted.
maintenance of American authority.
ciation adopted a resolution request tain noming was to be apprehended was totally destroyed, including quite
After extended debate In executive
ing the department of the interior to for the next 48 hours, but the age of a stock of goods The building was
General Young Returning.
send an inspector West to inquire
Washington, March 13.—The qtiar session two other amendments were
practically new, two stories high,
into local conditions and give settlers, the patient renders all calculations the upper story being useu as a dance termnster general is Informed that adopted, and the treaty was ratified
cattle-owners and others a hearing uncertain. At b o’clock this evening hall.
the transport Logan left Nagasaki as amended. The other two amend
ments abrogated the Clayton - Bulwer
relative to forest reserve regulations. General Harrison was suffering some
Ashland—A petition has been for Thursday for San Francisco with treaty and struck out the provision
Major
General
Young
and
the
Thirty-
Li Hung Chang is again seriously pain, but was resting comparatively warded to Washington for the pro
of the treaty which Invited other for
111.
easy.
posed free rural delivery route south third and Thirty-fourth Volunteer reg eign governments to express their
iments.
General
Young,
on
his
ar
of Ashland. The route reaches from
approval of It.
Willspoint, Tex., was wrecked by a
Ashland eight miles to W. H Shep rival at San Francisco, will relieve
cyclone.
TO ORGANIZE GOVERNMENT.
General
Shafter
of
the
command
of
herd's place, and returns via Emi
BOER3 HELP BRITISH.
Ex-President Harrison is very se
grant creek. The number of families the department of California, and the
latter
will
be
retired
as
a
major
riously ill.
Philippine Commission Leave for which would be served on this route
Two Thousand of Them Are Ready
is 125, and the number of people general.
Dewet, with 400 Boers, has escaped
Lucana.
to Enlist.
498, and one postofflee, Baron, would
to the northward.
EIGHT
LIVES
LOST.
MANILA,
March
12.—Judge
Taft
BLOEMFONTEIN, March 13.—Gen
he discontinued.
Russia assures the powers she will
and his associates of the United
Fort Klamath— Melhase Bros., of Forty-Two Persons Were Injured eral I)ewet is reported to be moving
not annex Chinese territory.
northward Bteadtiy, at the rate of 25
Klamath weighed 184 head of
and Several Are Missing.
Japan has ordered new battleship States Philippine commission, accom Fort
miles a day, with a view of crossing
beef
cattle
last
week
at
the
Mitchell
panied by their wives and a number
CHICAGO, Marcn 13.—By the ex the railway to the eastward. Ho
from England to Yokohama.
ranch
and
delivered
them
to
George
Megler’s cannery, at Brookfield, of prominent Filipinos, embarked to Kohlhagen of Roseburg. The average plosion of a boiler in the Doremus should now be west of Kroonstadt.
Wash., was damaged >15,000 by fire. day on the United States transport weight was 1252 pounds, from which laundry, 458 West Madison street, Several small commandoes are In
this morning, eight persons were in possession of the southeastern por
It is reported that Kitchener de Sumner and sailed for Lucena, Prov was deducted four per cent, making stantly killed, 42 were injured, and tion
of the Orange River colony, from
mands unconditional surrender from ince of Tayabas, Luzon, where they the selling weight 1201 pounds. The several are missing.
which the garrisons of Dewetsdorp,
will organize the provincial govern price paid was 7*6 cents, an average
Boers.
The cause of tne explosion has not
of >45.03%. The total price paid for been determined* with accuracy as Weepner, Smithfield and Rouxvllle
England declines to modify the ment. At the time of their departure all was >8,286.90.
have been withdrawn.
yet, and it will probably require an
canal treaty without a satisfactory the pier was thronged with natives.
It Is Impossible not to be struck
official Investigation to settle the with the fact that a great portion of
quid pro quo.
The insurgents have surrendered
Wheat—Walla \Valla, 55056c; Val matter.
the former enemies of Great Britain
General Chaffee refuses to allow 500 rifles in the Province of Pam- ley, nominal; bluestone, 57 *£c per
Reports of the number of dead In In South Africa now frankly throw In
the decapitation of several Boxer panga, Bulacan and Bataan during the 5 bushel.
the ruins run all the way from six to
Flour—Best grades, >2.8O0>3.4O pre 20. it Is known that 36 employes ot their lot with the British. Brandfort,
chiefs condemned by a Chinese judge. last four weeks.
Kroonstadt and Bloemfontein com
barrel; graham, >2.60.
the laundry had entered the place panies of ex-burghers are now bearing
The Methodists report 120 converts
Radical Cubans still hope for abso
Millstuffs—Bran, >16 per ton; mid
lute independence, and that the in Manila last week, and the Philip dlings, >21.50; shorts, >17.50; chop, before the explosion occurred, be- i arms against the Boers. They state
cause the automatic timekeeper found their object Is not to operate against
United States will not enforce Platt pine Evangelical church claims to >16.
in the ruins showed that number of
amenument.
Oats—White, 44045c per bushel; registered arrivals. Two or three their former comrades, but to defend
have secured many new members.
their homes and property against
gray, 42043c.
Lientenant General Miles, accom
were entering at the moment of the marauding bands. Every town In the
Hay—Timothy,
>12012.50;
clover,
panied by his staff, will leave for a Three Persons Killed by Tornado.
explosion, making the approximate to
>709.50; Oregon wild hay, >607 per tal of 40 employes In and around the Free State occupied by the British
trip to Cuba, where he will make an
will soon Ifhcome a center of British
Forest
City,
Ark.,
March
12.—Three
i ton.
inspection of the principal .military
building.
Influence, extending a long distance
persons were killed and many injured
Butter—Fancy creamery, 22 */& <g> ¿.5c;
posts.
It is reported that an officer of the In their vicinity. Over 13.000 refu
In this vicinity last night by a tor dairy, 18020c.
boiler Inspection department warned gees are now within the British lines,
The mill plant of the Centralia nado, and 16 houses, and miles of
Eggs—Oregon ranch, 12012%c; Mr. Doremus that the boiler was un
and many of them demand arms and
Shingle Company, Centralia, Wash.,
per dozen.
safe to use In its present condition.
fences
and
many
trees
were
leveled
was destroyed Dy fire. The fire is
Poultry — Chickens, mixed, >3.50 Laundry employes, however, declare permission to take the field. If their
requests are granted It will be easy
supposed to have originated from the to the ground. Ten miles northeast @4; hens, >4.5005; dressed, 11012c
the boiler had not been Inspect to get 2,000 ex-burghers enrolled on
furnace. The loss is estimated at the tornado shattered the house of J. per pound; springs, >404.50 per doz that
ed, and therefore not condemned.
the British side.
about >5,000; Insurance, >z,000.
A. Woody, killing Woody and seriously en; ducks, >506; geese, >5©6 per
The wreckage near the boiler and
injuring his wife and his stepson, Bob dozen.
In the east part of the building at
The officials of the foreign office Allen. The other victims were ne
JAPS W ITH BOGU8 PAPER8.
Potatoes—45©60c per sack.
once took fire, and through the blind
at Copenhagen deny that the negotia groes.
Dried
fruits—Apples,
evaporated,
ing clouds of dust and smoke and
.
*
tions with the United States for the
VANCOUVER, B. C., March 13.—It
5@6c per pound; sun dried, sacks or
sale of the Danisn West Indies have
German plantation experts claim boxes,3©4c; pears, 8©9c; prunes escaping steam could be seen strug Is reported that a number of Japa
gling
men
and
women,
some
of
them
been discontinued, and they confirm
Italian, 5©7c; silver, extra choice, half burled In wreckage, others feebly nese Immigrants attempting to cross
the statements trom Washington that that the Samoan islands have a great 5@7.
endeavoring to climb to some place of tho boundary line from British Colum
no peremptory note has been sent to future In coffee, tea, tobacco, cotton,
Mutton—Gross, best sheep, wethers, safety, while from various parts of bia to Washington recently had In
Denmark by the United States.
etc.
>4 75; ewes, >4 0 4.50; dressed, 6*40 • the ruins came cries for help.
their possession fraudulent British nat
7c per pound.
uralization papers, the date of their
Orders have gone forward from the
The
fire
department
soon
extin
Hogs—Gross, choice heavy, >505.25;
navy department for the return of
passports showing they had resided
The Bell Telephone Company has
the battleship Oregon, which has been bought for >500,000 a system of self- light, >4.7505; dressed, 6 0 7 c per guished the flames and the work of In this province only a fraction of
rescue began at once. One by one the statutory period It was supposed
pound.
so long a time on the Asiatic station,
to the United States. She will prob induction colls which makes conver
Veal—Large, 707% c per pound; the wounded and bleeding girls were the traffic In fraudulent papers had
carried to near-by stores, where they been broken up when the commis
ably sail for home about May 1, to sation between New York and Lon small, 8 >4 ©9c per pound.
Beef—Gross, top steers, >4.500 were given hasty medical attention sions of several notaries connected
be replaced by the Wisconsin when don as easy as between near-by
4.75; cows, >4 0 4.50; dressed beef, 7 0 and then taken to hospitals in am with the practice were canceled by
the vessel has finished her official points.
bulances.
8c per pound.
trial.
the government some months ago.