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THE BLOCKADE.
Progress of the Clearing Forces
in-Southern Oregon.
Al AVOi:K WITH DYNAMITE.
The Rotd May Ba Cpea Lcdi Foitland to
Ahla:rf Within a Wetk or
lea Days
The llRllALU'h Sie.-ial Uisp.iUl.e. ' .
Ashland, Or., Feb. 11'. Work
tains, carrying clearing forces,
have arrived in Ashland from both
ways. Division Roadmaster j
Withington and two cars arrived
to-day from (.Irants' l'ass, forty j
miles north. The force cleared
the elides on the road traversed,
and he reported it passable for
trains for a distance of sixty-live
miles nortli of here, with but a lit
tle addit'onal work. This train
staites back Sunday evening with
bridge timbers to make a few
necessary repairs.
Superintendent Pratt's force of
blockade raisers, from the south,
2500 men, seven engines, and a
snow plow and whole outfit,
reached Ashland Sun lay night,
having finished the work of clear
ing out the slides and snow ob
structions in the Siskiyou moun
tains. A large number of the men
belonging to this outfit have now
retuined south, but Superintend
ent Pratt and the remainder of the
jien, with a number of recruits,
started for the north with two
trains. They will join the road'
masters' forces and together wage
war on tue obstructions in Uow
Creek canyon and north, where
the heaviest washout and slides
arc.
The big slidelthat was reported
Thursday in Cow Creek canyon,
half a mile south of the west fork,
is still reported as stupendous as
ever, and will probably be the
most difficvlt obstruction the force
will have to contend with. It is
reported that the company will en
deavor to seek an outlet for the im
mense reservoir of water backed
up and covering the track to a depth
of seventy feet for three miles by
use of dynamite. Rut after the
water is let out there will be much
heavy work to clear out the im
mense mass of rarth from the
track, so that it is possible that the
track will have to be made around
the slide after the passenger trains
get to running for a number of
days.
The weather is good for the pro
gress of breaking the blockade,
and if it continues there is a chance
that passenger trains will be run
between Portland and Ashland
within one week.
San Francisco, Feb. 12. Re
ports from the scene cf the trouble
on the California & Oregon road
state that two interruptions remain
between Redding and Ashland.
One is a big slide at tunnel 9, near
Delta, at which a large force is
working, and the other some slides
between Mott and Dunsmuir. Reg
ular communication is kept up as
far as Dunsmtiir. bv transferrinr at.
tunnel 9, and General Superin
tendent lillmore says that in two
or three days regular service will
be extended as far as Ashland.
Assistant' Pratt' tids dpened a line
about bo miles north of Ashland to
Cow Creek cnvon. The section
foreman, a large number of
Italians and over 100 additional
laborers were sent to Pratt's assist
ance to-day. He was working drji',
a damaged trestle yesterday 300
feet long. A bad landsli Je : in the
lower part-' of the canyon . somti
time ago damaged the stream artd
me water rcmc to a Height of nearly
iuu ieei. rratt reports that be bad
heard that at one place in the can-,
yon the water was yet to the top of
a I a. . mi a J
ine uranei; iiie railroad omciais
expect that in a few days the en
tire line t Portland will be re
opened with the exception of a
stretch through Cow Creek canyon.
This will delay the opening of the
roau ior inree weens yet.
Notea from Salem.
Sale, tfeb. T2. Th TTni tin I'n.
cific Co. has established a line of
passenger boat daily from Salem
to all points south and Fulquhart's
Landing, connecting with the Nar
row Gauge trains for Portland.
This is greatly appreciated by the
people here, and thanks nm Ana tn
Captain J. W. Troup for the ar-
raiigemeiii..
Dr. M. H. Ellis, of Albany, goes
to-morrow by boat to meet his
young eidter, who came from the
r-aer, ana was unable to get any
further than Portland
The Wheatland warehouse that
was washed away during the flood
A A tn:KKJ 3AA 1 1 m
luiuaiueu ,3uu Dtisneis ol wheat
The loss falls on the farmers ci
Mission bottom.
Salem has received n. mai
since Sundav. but if Mia mail ssat.
riers here keep in health this city
u eerveu to-aay. via the Nar-
j TV """fc5 x ornanu to i errv'
dale, thence here by wagon.
Hon. C. P.. Tteii;
Iand, is in the city to-day, having
come via Dcrry to attend the
funeral of his brother this after
noon.
Oiling the Wares.
The practical value of pouring
literal oil uDon aninnlK- mtit.;;i
j waters has again been demonstrated
' flf CA, t. " l. TT .
"j mo j oiKiown. uuring ner
recent voyage from Boston to Lisbon
the YorktOWS r-Terorh.nriA viirL-
. riqlent weather, aud it was decided
to try the soothing effect of oil on the
waves. Ono of the officer thus
describe the experiment aad ltd suc
cess: '
We had several '. Jarve bags tilled
with oakum, saturated with oil,
ovl-r the h uV, and frnm tune to time a
litt'e ci! was poured through the
wi ailu-r si u.M-r . ; It was a grand
sight to rv the i' . fjread out to an
iulinituiniallv thiu over the
water, a-d t).cii.ihte liiU staa would
guti'rr extra siitiijtli aud come to
wards the hi;, tiwiing far above
her, and es tiu-y teached the limit of
the :1 they diHaipatd into a rolling
swell, which lifted tthu bli p up and
then rolled , away to Steward.
This is not by any menus the first
time in recent veani when the saving
virtues of oil tbasi uged have been
shown- Tim ahoV.ig has been so
frcquenth ade indeed that it seems
to be hi. -, 'iinu fir a gcueral recogni
tion of tin.- facts and for provision in
maritime law for action in accordance
with them. Well established as the
facts now are vessels might very pro
perly be required to carry the neces
sary means and appliances for sailing
the troubled teas and the tact that
vessels are so supplied tbould be
taken account of io the insurance.
It is singular that this uotion of
oiling the sea should have been for so
many years regarded as a mere ngurs
of speech instead of a practical devhey
The discovery is calculated ti
strengthen our confidence in Solomons
saying that there is nothing new
under the sun.
ODD AND INTERESTING.
The world has all gone wron?.
They are catching salmon in Norway
and blue fish off Sandy Hook, all in
the month ol January.
Having no money to pay for the hire
of the carriage in which he had taken
a lady friend driving, a Pittsburgh
man 6cnt the team back to the stable
in the girl's care. She was arrt-stel
ana held.
General H. H. Bingham, of Phila
delphia, is classed us one of the three
oesi dret-Kcd rum in Congress. The
other two are Representatives (iibson,
of Man land, and btolrcckcr, of ew
York.
Cyrils W. Field is now three score
and ten years old, but s'ill in active
business life. His first employment
was errand-boy lor A. T. Stewart at
'wo dollars a week. Wis duties re
quireu him to open aud sweep out the
btorc.
Ou the roof of the 'fccw New York
hospital building will be a garden,
prabably inclosed ia lub?, where
patients evil enjoy the col luve.c
that blow over the housetops Here
there will - be flowers, plants, an
iiqui'riuiit, fe.tts aud hammocks.
Prince aud Princc6S Halz'edt will
live in New York eity in the great
house which Mr. C, P. Huutingta i
to build on Fifth avenue. It was ttipu
luted by Miss Huntington that she
slioukl live with her parents, and the
new house is btir.g eenbtrueteil ac
cordingly. In sinkiitvr artc-sinn wells in the
Deceit of Sahara water bearing strata
has been reached at n dept h of U30f':ot,
at which a s'.eady flow of about 5,000
allitiis per minute, has been obtained.
This water is brackish and Midi or
(hiukiutr, but it answers very we!! for
irrigation. ;
Only twenty lacimieiB of theptrsent
(.'onffress are of lorciu birth, and of
these nine arc Democrats and cl-cn
Iieoublieans. Si'imtors Pasco, Jones,
of Nevada, Reek and McM'lian are all
of foreign birth. In the House two
are ErjglUhincn. two are scotch, four
arc Irish, two are Canadians, there K
s one Swede and one Norwegian, and
four a-c Hermans.
The Emnrcss F.uirenlcltihs iuat rre-
isetiic'd! to tlie fatluri who have the
keeping cf Jic . mortuary thapci at
rainDoreugn, wucrc tue remains oi
Ni'Tloleorf III. anil tli l'rttit e. I nine rial
are interred; a inttcniliceht altar tlotb.
mine irojn ntr weaning gpwa... ine
Votii v Men nisidtf toy.tne i-;mpiess
(Hrir&Tf: It'iA lhmififUh' the liee
ti'ac'Wr6id'ery wldcli oVnamented
tlrc'dTtss'.'
Sipresof -s afHrmed thc tfeeis-
trSt;leixM . electricity W a pro
rtea Mlnfal us W Justify' the
Ico-aftiHn r It to dc a "crntl and
jusndr StiWit atrmlIst'riii capi
tal punisnment.. 11 is moiigiii laai
the 'vouri o' appeals' of that State will
not interfere with this, and executions
by electricity be fully legalized.
A French savant lies calculated the
time required for a journey aronnd the
earth, and hat obtained the following
results: A man, walking day and
niTht without resting, would take 428
days; an express train, 40 days: sound,
at a medium' temperature, irajtf hours;
a cannon ban,2"I?f hours; light, a lit
over one-tenth of a second; and elec
tricity, passing over a coppor wire, a
little under one-tenlb of a second.
The Vatican library at Rome, celc
orated for its thousands of valuable
books, his a copy of the Hebrew Bible,
for which Pone Julius, in 1512, relustd
$125,000. The wou.d-be purchasers
were a svnd'cate of rich Jews. Tbey
did not exactly offer Julius $125,000
for the Bible -treasure; tney dimply
told bim tney ould give its weight in
the offer made is equivalent to tlie
figures given.
Napoleon'" Grand Arm-.
Napoleon's grand army has
dwindled down to a a -nail company.
It has been ascertained that there
are now only 112 men who wcur
the medal of St. Helena and whose
names appear on the pension list
of the Legion of Honor for 1890.
In 18835 here were 1,428 of these
veterans still living. The next
year there were GOO less and in 1887
there wero only 224.
William Anderson, the man who
was arrested at "".lcnsiairgh for
alleged crooked business method in
VrCK1''1 ' '""rtiJK OUIl- 1VJI ijrc 1111
. . k AlIii Ai.. .1
; Tinware warranted not to nii-t at
' Matthews i .;!; turn's.
priponment and - S'iO.flKi damage
again.n Sherill MFar'..iid of Walla
I Va'!:i, Sli'.-ritr Crown 1 Kiltita? and
i Attorney KiUcher of 1'i-ndletoii.
GENERAL NEWS.
A Wild Rush to the Lands of
South Dakota.
THE KI'N.WTAV SENATORS.
The Montana SoIods Have Been Hiding io
Spokane Falls News East of the
Kockle.
Chamberlain (S. D.), Feb. II.
The rush to the newly opened
reservation continues. Settlers ar
rived at all hours last night. This
morninz the landscape west was
thickly dotted with buildings in
ccurse of erection. Companies are
being organized for the purpose of
locating to n sites. Settlers who
came down to-day said that each
claim immediately west of here has
forty occupants.
rOSTAL TELEGRAPH.
Wanamaker'a Scheme for Leasins
the Varloas Lines.
Wicirmnrnv 11 Ty.o-
master-General VVanamaker was
before the house committee on post'
offi'jes and post roads to-day, and
discussed .fully the proposition In
bis annual report for the establish
ment by the government of postal
telegraph. He submitted a plan
providing for a lease by the gov
ernment for twenty years of wirfe
for carrying on the business and
fer delivery by carrier. Wanai-
.tiaker proposed a union of post
and telegraph on a basis that would
not interfere to any appreciable ex
tent with any existing rights, but
would offer incalculable service to
classes not now enjoying the use of
the telegraph to any large degree.
FATAL ACCIDENTS.
Death of Two Krilroad Men Care
lessness the Cause.
Portland (Or.), Feb. 11. A
special to the Ore-jonian from Ta
coma says: At the head of the
bav to-day Edward Gilbride, con
duttorot a construction train, lest
his life by falling between the cars
He was a single man, and has no
relatives in the west.
A second fatal accident happened
at Kalama. Charles Rurkhardr, a
brakeman on a fre.ght train, tell
under the wheels and was run
over. His head was severed from
his body, which was fearfully
mangled. Death was instantane
ous. Durkhardt lived in Tacoma,
and was married.
WILL MOVE ON.
The Montana State Senator Leave
Spokane Falls.
Spokane Falls, Feb. 11. The
Montana democratic senators who
have been t ere have heard of the
plan of the republicans at Helena,
who telegraphed Governor Ferry
fnr iPfinisitiini tn :irrrKt t belli, nnd
chartered a special train on the
I mon 1 acme, leaving this city at
midnight last night. It is stated
that they will visit points on Puget
Sound, returning bv wav of Port
land.
NORTH DAKOTA.
;re:it Destitution Among the
KafTerera by Drouth.
Grand Forks, N. D., Feb. 11.
Hon. T. Helgerson, state commis
sioner of agriculture, has issued an
address to the public, explaining
tlie situation in detail in the drouth
stricken counties, and making ap
peal for assistance. He saVs the
suffering for tfant of provisions,
clothing, fuel, and feed for stock,
in the several counties are unpre
cedented. FROM YREKA.
Losses by the Floods In the Slskl
yons Half a Million Dollars.
Yreka, Cal., Feb. 11. The loss
by floods in this county are esti
mated at half a million dollars.
Every place except the Mt. 8hasta
section Is badly damaged. There
has been no mail from Lower
Klamath since the storm. All the
bridges and ferries are gone.
Pack horses are used to brine: in
supplies.
NORTHERN PACIFIC.
Time of Train between St. Paul and
Portland to be Reduced.
Tacoma. Wash., Feb. 12. It was
given out to-day by Northern
Pacific ofiicials that that company
was making arrangements whereby
the time of through trains between
8t. Paul and Tacoma will be re
duced twelve hours. A new sched
ule is to take effect within a few
weeks. It is also reported to-night
that the company will put en
another through tiaiu, when the
new time schedule goes into effect.
NEW YORK MARKETS.
I'dward Tendency in HopsCorn
and Wheat in Europe.
New roitK, Feb. 12 Hop trading
is renewed.-All new arc advanced.
The tendency is still upward. Eng
lish cables give good reports for the
week. Quotations hero ar-: State,
new best,1920e; good to prime, 17(3
182; common to fair, 107317c; bS's
best, 12oit4e; common to good, i0
lie; olds, 3cC'Tc; Washington, new,
13ft Hie; fair to good, l:i(j,15e; Watdi-
f mirtons, hSV, l(iou-c; Ci'lilornias.
0r'.ic, with easy tone.
t in wiiol the the market prevails for
competing low grades. Delaine, and
other choice are ncaice. but neglected.
Tbc weather and date are not encour
aging for manufacturers.
Breadstuff continue U express a
6ubducd toue. The consumption of
wheat and its product has been no
ticeably lessened this winter here and
abroad, even with the foothold that
corn has obtained in Europe being
considered. Groce i?s are dull, but
the situation isnotyct disheartening,
as Inlying ahead was enormous in the
fall and early winter.
THE RAILROAD BLOCKADE
The Chronicle" Blames the Cen
tral Pacific for Its Course.
If a general commanding an army,
says the au rrancisco inroiucie,
allows his forces to be surrounded by
the enemy, not all the dash of gal
lantry which he cac display in fight
ing his way out can condone the mis
take he has made in peimitting
himself to be takeu at such a disad-
vantacc. The nation, to w hoin he it
responsible for the army under his
command, will insist upon knowing
whv he was so negligent as to allow
himself to be taken in flank and rear,
and all the prodigies of valor he may
have performed in extricating himself
from his dilemma cannot answer that
question.
The analogy between sucn a case
and that of the Cental . Pacific Rail
road Company must be apparent. It
is undoubtedly true that , for a week
or more the company has been using
every possible exertion to get its trains
out of the snow and to break the
b'ockade: but all this does not answer
the question which the people of Cali
fornia are asking: How did a !l those
trains come to be blockaded? For
example, on Sunday there were seven
teen west-bound trains at-Keno.on
the other aide of the summit of the
Sierra Nevada mountains, and the
most of these trains must have left
Ogden after the existence of the
blockade was known. The Central
Pacific agents in the East must have
been informed by telegraph of the ab
solute impossibility of trains getting
through, and yet the company, in its
insatiate greed and its fear least a
passenger should take some other
route, has gone on selling tickets and
starting trains.
It does not require any very ex ten
sive knowledge of the art of railroad
ing to see that the Central Pacific
should have suspended travel al
together ou its line until the road was
entirely open; but instead of doing
this it has dispatched train after train,
with the effect of blocking up its load
and preventing tlie snow-plows from
haviug a chance to accomplish any
thing, liut, as is usual in such cases.
the company has been penny wise
aud pound foolish, for the cost of
clearing and repairing the road can
not fail to outweigh the amount of
money received from the unfortunate
passengers who have been allowed to
start out upon an impassable road.
The company will have to pay dearly
for its higgishnefs, and it will serve
it exactly right.
Germany is the ouly civ.iizcd
country in fiat world wherein
murderers arc still beheaded with
an ax or sword. Neither Emperor
William, nor his prcdeccisor. King
Fredeiick William IV, couid ever
be induced to sign death warrants,
and hence capital punishment had
become almost obsolete. The
present Kaiser, however, shares
none of the views entertained by
his predecessors in this respect.
Executions have become frt(UCDt'
and hardly a week passes bv with
out the headsman, Reindl, being
called upon to exercise his profess
ion either in this city or io the
provinces. Just before Christ mas
he was summoned to Erfurt to de
capitate the two murderers . pfV a
forester. Only the prison chaplain,
the governor of the prison and the
tt & . . " . . . . -
oisyor oi me cuy wun nu,asseB3ors
were present at the execution," The
delinquents, having Veen blluflfold
ed, knelt down in turn befcr$ the
block and Hcrr Reindl' sevcrred
each mau's head from the bodv
with a single blow of his brca'd-
bladcd ax.
lirldge-bailding Extraordinary.
New York Tribune:
The proposal to bridge the
English Channel from Dover to
Calais has given rise to a number
of similar schemes elsewhere.
Among them there is one fer bridg
ing the Dardanelles, ana tberebj
uniting the European with the
Asiatic snore. Tnisls a teat tnat
has not been attempted since the
davs when a creat storm destroyed
the bridge of boats which Xerxes
had cast acrosi the Hellespont for
the passage of bis ' army. It : is
stated that the plans lor. the new
bridge have already been drawn
up, and that they are now being
considered by 'the Sublime Porte.
The distance between the Asiatic
and European shores does not ex
ceed a mile and a quarter, and the
chief engineering difficulties are
due to the extreme rapidity or toe
currents. Another project which
concerns the Unitedf States' more
closely is the Russian plan for
bridging oyer the Behnng straits,
and thus connecting America with
Asia by means of a railroad. The
narrowest part of the gulf which
separates Siberia from Alaska
does not exceed sixty- miles, and
. I. i ' e f -, .
mere nre a oumuer oi lsianas ia a
straight line which would serve as
points of division, and reduce each
portion of the bridge to a lennh
considerably less than that of the
proposed Eoglisn Channel Rriilrro
The Retiring Stra-t projsct h:ss
an.use-J ffi'JC.. ip.!l:us.us:a '.hrou-h
out Russia; is being eagerly
discussed ii.. great cities of the
Empire. Oit-mrsc, theie is some
thing very attractive in a scheme
which, it carried out, will bring
nearer to thv day when it may be
possiDic to make the circuit of the
globe en foot. But, cm the othe
har.d, io vrw of the generally
accepted prophecy that the suprem
acy of the world in years to come is
t be divided between Russia and
America, it might be l-ttter for the
general peace it the sea remains
unbridged. At any rate it would
be well to delay the execution of
the enterprise until cur extradition
treaty with Russia is ratified by the
Senate. Otherwise, nativo-bota
Americans would be crowded out
of Alaska by the Inrush of Siberian
exiles and convicts. v .
An Hour With a Mule.
Halt imore Sun.
The steamboat Joppa was delay
ed in leaving her pier at Light street
by a large bav muie, which was to
be shipped to Easton Point. The
animal, in company, with a pair of
horses, arrived at the wharf at 3 ;39.
The driver then started to lead this
stock oh board the steamboat.' . The
horses passed up, the gong-plank
without objection.., Not so the
mule. When near the entrance to
the boat he took a few steps for
ward, and then, as if awakening
from a dream, planted all four
feet in different directions and
stood like u statue. This action en
the part of the mule was done so
queitly that few of the many per
sons on the wharf noticed what
was goingon.
1 be driver began to coax, tnen
to swear, and then to whip and
pull, but all to no avail. The mule
stood the storm with eyes closed
and tail down. Everybody on the
wharf made some suggestion to the
d-iver as to the best way to stait
the mule. Finally a rope was
placed around the animai's tail and
when the line was in readiness the
entire crew took hold of one end,
by which they expected to harl
the mule on board. The operation
was watched by the crowd . in
breathless suspense, and when tho
word was given to "haul away" tue
men gave a mighty pull. A second
later and ti.e scene had changed.
Mule, rope overalls, trut ks, trunks,
miscellaneous freight, men and
women could be seen scattered
alone: the whaif as if prostrated by
a cyclone. A i'cw hat!-, is men flew
in terror to the oppos-tc side of the
street. One gentlemen of about
200 pounds, who had only a few
seconds before impressed his bear
ers that he knew all about mule3,
and was not at all afraid of them.
was found wee'ged in au empty
barrel from which he was loudly
calling for assistance. The mule
was indeed master of the situation,
ti3 he stood surveying the havoc he
had wrought. And he had done it
all by an incessant cannonade of Irs
hind legs. The force again collect
ed and tried another strategical
movement. They bliud'oHed the
animal. Rut it was all to no pur
pose" The scheme wouldn't work.
Time was being lost and something
had to be done. As no further
suggestions were offered ty the
on-lookers on the . wharf. Captain
Wheeler ordered a large rojHj put
around the mule's hii,d legs. This
was done, and with the aid of all
prese nt the mule was hauled on
board. As the. business end of the
animal disappeared from view the
crowd .yelled, . with . dejight..Tho
exact, iime occupieu, according io
Patrolman Hughes,' was forty-five
minutes;
Kg-ypUan Costume In Boston.
f'rora the Advertitav
The very latest. .fad which has
travelled about the country iq' the
wake of the celebrated English
Egyptologist, has struck Boston
with, full force. This is the adop
tion, by ladies of fashion, ol Egypt
ian costumes at thqr.afternoonteas.
These costumes,, ybich in ..many
cases are said to be Tory "fetching,"
are modelled after the manner of
the times of the Pharaohs.' ' One
of them, worn by beautiful, bru
nette, is described .asof soft,,brown
silk, with long, flowing sleeves, and
yoke embroidered in silver ' Tie
pettcoats is of striped Syrian' silk,
in rose color and silver, with a
wide ss9h of the ssme colors. The
slashings of the outer gown shows
linings of Egyptian red.. ,, Over the
shoulders hangs a brown guune
veil, embroidered in' silver! Slip
pers in rose velvet, embroidered in
stiver and seed-pearls, flesh colored
stockings, a brow pendent of dull
gold, and an antique n?cklacc of
cornelian and silver complete the
costume. These gowns! will be all
the rage before the season Is over.
trr .
YfoaiaB'a Btacoiety:
"Annthor
been ma Hi. and tlmf k . l.TJl i
this county. Disease fastened its
lllr.ha. 1 J
.vuvo upuii ucr am ior seven yearo
she withstood its severest, teste, but
her vital organs were undermined and
rlnafl. J . n ,
eccuieu immiaear. cor urea
months cin
could not sleep, She' bought of us a
uumc oi ir, aiogs . npw tjisKvwcrj
for Consumption and was so much re
lieved on taking first dose tliat ho
slept all night and with one bottle hue
been miraculously cured. Her name
is Mrs. Luther Luts." Thus write W.
C. Rami ick & Co.- of Shclbv, N. C
(Jet a free trial bottle at t'oilay te
Mason's Dmg Store.