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tS&Jm. ( ConsolidatedFeb. 1899. CORVAIiL,IS, BENTON COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1899. VOL. XXX VI. NO. 37. m mm ni; Tur mw nil miio ui mil ii un From All Parts of the New World and the Old. OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS CompreheDilT. Review of the Import ant Happening of the Put Week Called From the Telegraph Columns The demand for lumber ia unprece dented throughout the country.. The battleship Wisconsin will be rpflrlv fni- hap trial within n fnrtniohr The famous petrified forests of Ari zona may be set aside for a national park. . The Onion Facifio will increase its capital stock and buy the connecting line to the Pacific. .. j - The Nebraska boys were given a rousing reception at Omaha and throughout the state. . The lawyers in session in Buffalo favor the new bankrupt act, but be lieve creditors should have better pro tection. : : The taking of the census in Cuba ia said to be a preliminary step to the establishment of a republican form of government. The governor of Vermont wanted heavy cannon for the Dewey salute and lias ordered them shipped from San Franoisco. : '" There is active recrniting everywhere in Peru and the government continues to send troopB to the interior. Busi ness is at a standstill and mines are shutting down. An agent of the British government who is in Seattle on business says that Krnger does not want war, bat will likely be forced to it by younger blood which now practically controls his cab inet. , It is reported in Manila that Agui- ii- i i i . i. .. i t i . naiuu iirh uruereu uv rtjuei generals iu the province of Cavite to close in on and attempt to take the town of Imns, and it is added the troops are concen trating around the town from the lake country.. To combine the combination of trusts is the object of an incorporation, the papers for which have recently been taken oat - in New Jersey. The idea' is to form one gigantic oentral company, employing the entire produc tive capacity. An elaborate .plan is on foot for an alliance of the Central American states. Their fleets would - combine and work together and they would con trol an inter-oceanic canal. It is the intention to have the agreement ex tend for 25 years. . . . Illinois white men killed two negroes and the colored people have called up on the authorities for prompt action. The trouble originated in a grading camp at Rock ford and 19 black men who were driven from the camp are now being fed by the police in Chicago. Miners in Mexico are not being mo lested by the warring Yaquis. The Prussian diet has closed. No action was taken with the canal bill. Mrs, Phoebe Hearst, is the prinoipal stockholder in a new California oil company. . A Japanese paper - says Aguinaldo was killed by General Pio del Pilar last June - - The military commander of San Cris tobal has been assassinated by the San Domingan rebels. . ' - ' Julia Pent Grant, daughter of Fred erick Dent Grant, now serving in "the Philippines, will wed a Russian prince. Walter Wellman the .leader of the polar expedition, has arrived in Eng land. He is probably crippled for life as a result of his trip. A company with a capitalization of $20,000,000 is forming in San Fran cisco for the purpose of establishing big enterprises in China. According to a statement just issued by the California state bank commis sioner, the inorease in assets and lia bilities is the largest ever shown. The United States transport Giant, bearing the Idaho, North . Dakota and Wyoming volunteers, has arrived in San Francisco. During the voyage there were five deaths. General Joe Wheeler in an inter view with a press correspondent says be believes Otis will soon make rapid urogrees. He says he likes the Philip pines and that the impression that the country is unhealthy is wrong. James Hamilton Lewis, of Washing' ton, is about to leave for England to . press upon the attention of the British government the claims of a large. num ber of American miners, aggregating nearly $25,000,000, and mostly in the Atlin district ' Two wrecks in one day were re ported on the Rock Island. The east- bond flyer ran into a freight train at Keats, Kas. The engineer and fireman of the passenger Jrain were severely injured. The Keokuk express ran off the track near Elgin, 111. The train was badly smashed, but no one was in jured. An anti-kissing league has been in augnrated among the society girls of the East side of Cincinnati. It is proposed to set np a modern American- saw mill in China, where lumber is still sawed in the primitive methods of a century ago. Boston's largest .'and owner is Arch . bishop Williams, who holds in his name real estate valued at $7,000,000 belonging to the Roman Catholic chuich. N. H. Brown, a London editor, has made nine journeys around the world The Cologne Gazette publishes an editorial advising German commercial circles to accept the invitation to be represented at the Pbiliadelphia expo- stion. The Pressed Steel Car Company in Pittsburg, Pa., has received orders for 3.500 cars of 100,000 pounds capacity each from the Erie railroad, Western New York and Pennsylvania railroad, and the-Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg railroad. 1 The contract price of the orders aggregates $2,750,000. LATER NEWS. A silk, ribbon trust has beon organ zed. -j .r ... c -. Fear of war is effecting trade in England. The Washington volunteers have sailed for home. . The condemned ship Relief is to be used as a floating hospital at Manila. Otis will send the Ohio after the grounded Morgan City troops at Nag asaki. Yucatan Indians now refuse tf pay taxes in Mexico, and more trouble is expected. British seamen have declared a gen eral strike and the movement will effect all British ports. Thousands of veterans are in attend ance at the national G. A. R. encamp ment in Philadelphia. Admiral Dewey has arrived at Gib raltar. He will sail for New York be fore the middle of the month. '. Five of Colonel Bell 's men encoun tered a rebel outpost near Porao and one of their number was killed and an other wounded. . Private McVeigh, sentenced to be shot at San Francisco for murderously assaulting an officer, will have a life term of imprisonment instead.. f. The retail butchers propose to make a great fight against the trust They have $10,000,000 of capital and mem bers in nearly every large city in the United States.. Kruger has withdrawn his conces sions to England. . The time of resi dence necessary to obtain franchise has been increased instead of decreased as England demanded. Labor i is on the war path. ' He has given formal notice that he will seek information in foreign channels, as has the prosecution. This, it is said, will bring about grave complications. ' Ezterhazy, who is in London, says disastrous results will follow the ac quittal of Dreyfus. . Mercier certainly will be condemned, and that will only be the beginning of trouble in France. A Washington correspondent says the president has made up his mind as to the government of our new posses sions. Each group will have a differ ent form of control. Cuba will be in dependent, unless annexation- is de sired, in which event, American senti ment' will determine form. Philip pines will be governed by three com missioners; Porto Rico by territorial government and Hawaii as reoommend ed hy the the; commission. - ' Eighteen cased and three deaths is the yellow fever situation at Key West. ' The president's census proclamation does not impress the Cubans favorably. '" Santo Domingo City, the - capital, has declared for Jim ines. the revolu tionist. . . ' ' -; ' ' A Kentucky desperado carried out tits threat and killed an officer sent to arrest him. r -. The rebels attacked Angeles with ar tillery, but were driven off by Colonel Smith's men. ' New England silverites eulogized Aguinaldo and denounced the Ameri can war policy.- The matter of abrogating the Clay-ton-Bulwer treaty will soon be taken up with Enlgand. The Boers are rushing supplies to the Natal border to be prepared to strike the first blow. The transport Morgan City, bound for Manila .with reinforcements . for Otis, grounded at Nagasaki, Japan. , Dreyf us' friends say the tide has turned and the prisoner cannot now be condemned. His innocence is almost proven. The United States hospital ship Re lief, which recently arrived in San Francisco from Manila, has been con demned. The Kansas regiment has left Manila for home. The Iowa and Tennesse regiments are now the only ones left in the islands. While mentally unbalanced, Henry Emde, a Chicago carpenter, shot and killed his wife a'nd fatally wounded his 5-year-old daughter. s A member of Admiral Sampson's staff says be does not want to retire. The admiral is in good health and wants to stay with the squadron. As a result of a row between strikers and a repair gang at West Pittston, Pa., John Pollock, was killed and eight others were severely injured. - . Kruger has backed down from the position he had taken. He has agreed to the proposed conference at Cape Town and will explain the franchise law. Senator Morgan, of Alabama, proph esies that expansion will be the sal vation of cotton, and ia about to start a crnsade in the South to spread the new gospel. The secretary of the interior has or dered that sheep be excluded from the Haniei reseive in Washington. Graz ing is considered injurious to fotests. This decision is but a precedent, and it is said it. will be but a short time until sheep' are excluded from all the forest reserves of the country, includ ing the great Cascade reserve in Ore gon. Charles Prophenas, of Milbnrn, N. J., says he has solved the problem ot perpetual motion. Preparation for the erection ot the $16,000,000 steel plant which is to be located at Stony Point, neat Buffalo, N. Y., are in active progress. Captain Davis Dal ton, the swimming expert who was drowned r.ear Far Rockaway, was known as the champion life saver of the world, having lescued 278 people from drowning. . David Henderson, the theatrical manager, received a discharge in bankruptcy in the United States dis- rict court in New York. Cash Mosby, a prominent negro and excursion agent of the Southern railroad, is promoting a reunion of ex slaves and slave holders of the South to be held in Chattanooga this fall. L. Bamberger & Co., of Philadel phia, have sold to the American To bacco Company, the trust. 25,000 oases of leaf tobacco for $1,000,000, being the greatest sale evei made in the trade. I American Soldiers in Negros in a Hot Battle. DARING FEAT ACCOMPLISHED Tmnpa Ailtnncml a, Thousand Feet Up . Perpendicular BluO Under a Hot Fire and Dislixl ed the Enemy. Manila, Sept. 5. Argognla, the most impregnable stronghold of the bands which have been destroying planta tions and levying tribute on the people of Negros, was taken Thursday by the Sixtli infantry, under Lieutenant-Colonel Bryne. The only means of reach ing the town was up a peipendicular hill, oo'veied with dense shiubery and 1.000 feet high. The Americans ac complished this under fire, although an officer and several men were' nit and rocks wore rolled down upon them. The native strength was estimated at 400.;- ; Mauy of the rebels were wound ed and captured, and 21 were killed. The American forces captured a quan tity of stores and destroyed the fortifi cations. The shipping commissioner of Ma nila, a Filipino, hitherto in high stand ing, has' been arrested, charged with appropriating half Of the first month's salary and levying monthly thereafter an assessment on all the native sailors shipped from this port. It is repre sented that he held a commission in the insurgent army, and was raising funds for the insn erection; but it is thought that his operations were mere ly private blackmail. The informa tion resulting in the arrest of the ship ping commissioner reached the port captain arid chief of police thhrough a sailor who is not In sympathy with the insurrection. The Official Gazette, published at Tarlao, which has been received .iere, contains an order by Aguinaldo as sembling the Spanish civil prisoneis and 'skk soldiers at the ports of San Fernando, Union and Dagupan for re patriation. The order stipulates that vessels calling must' fly the Spanish or Red Cross flags. Jamecilla, the Spanish commissioner, intends to ask Major-General Otis for permission to send ships. Food Supply ! Low. Manila. Sept. 5. Many Spanish prisoners are escaping from the Fili pinos and bringing into the American lines stories of hard trearaent. They agree that the Filipinos arc exceedingly short of rations, and that a large sec tion of their troops is leduced to the use of home-made black powder. The natives are trying every scheme to get food and munitions . from Manila. Daily arrests are made for attempts to smuggle contraband of war through the American lines. In One case a cascoe with a cargo of bamboo poles was over hauled and the poles were found fall of rice. . The insurgents have a wholesome respect for the British on account of several threats of British waiships to bombard their towns unless the rights of British subjects are respected. OIU Charted With Perjury. Chicago, Sept. 5. The Times-Herald says: : , ' , "Charges of perjury and suborna tion of perjury have been filed against General E. 8. Otis, commander of the American army in the Philippines, with President McKinley, by Frank P. Blair, one of the oounsel for Captain O. M. Carter, late government engineer at Savannah. Counsel Blair declares that at an early date he will also file charges of perjury and subornation ol perjury against Judge-Advocate Col onel Thomas H. Barr and President McKinley. Colonel Barr appeared in the famous trial of Carter for the gov ernment. General Otis was president of the Carter court-martial.".. Dewey's Chinese Fighters. New York, Sept. 6. George H. Holden, who has been in the Philip pines attending to the prize and bounty laims of the sailors who look part in ie battles of the late war, is in th ity. In an interview he said: "I received the utmost courtesy Iron: Admiral Dewey. When 1 was leaving and called to pay my respects to the admiral, he said, among other things: 'Mr, Holden, when you get back I wish you would see our congressman and get him to pass a law which will allow the Chinese boys whom I have had with me to come to America. If they are good enough to fight with us and to wear the medals of our government, they are good enough to become citi zens.' " Carried Out His Threat. London, Sept. 5. A roport is cur rent that Deputy Sheriff Lewis, of Manchester, was killed yesterday in Clay county. - Several weeks ago in Manchester, Deputy Stubblefield was shot by Matt Smith. Smith escaped capture, and, going to his home, sent word to the county officials 'that he would never attend court alive, there fore it would be fatal for persons to at tempt to take him. Yesterday Lewis 'went to serve papers on him and he was shot dead as ho passed Smith's house. If the report is true, this makes the third killing in Clay county the past week. Fire Darien Rioter Convicted. Darien, Ga., Sept. 6. After thre days' sitting, five of the rioters on trial here have been convicted. The first jury retired yesterday afternoon, and immediately afterward the judge called a second- bunch of five and court sat until a late hour getting evidence and hearing arguments.' The court then adjourned, and the jury retired. Up to noon today they had not reached a verdict, and it is feaied they will not agree. Lost in Brhrinjr Sea. Seattle. Sept. 5. The schooner General McPherson, which wintered t Kotzebue sound, Alaska, arrived to tight from St. Michael with 65 passen gers. She reports that in the recent storms in Behring eea two of her crew, Charles Schultz, of Germany, and J. Larsen, of Eureka, Cal., were washed overboard and drowned. Alexandria, Sept 6. His holiness, Pope Sophronius, patriarch of the orth odox Greek church of Alexandria, Lybia, Ethiopia and all Egypt, died to day, aged 103. CUBA'S NEEDS Xiee Recommends Independence With a Protectorate. , Chicago. Sept. 4. A special to .the Times-Herald from Washington says: General Fitzhugh Lee has made an elaborate report on pievailing condi tions in the territory in Cuba under his jurisdiction, and takes strong ground for an independent Cuban gov ernment under an American protector ate. The war department in March directed the commanders of depart ments in Cuba to make a report on the conditions in their several sections, and to accompany it with recommen dations as to the treatment of the na tives.; General Lee is the only com mander who has so far responded. General Lee begins his report by stating conditions in Havana and Pinar del Rio ' provinces are making . rapid progress toward a state of peace, good oider and prosperity. He goes into this in great detail, taking up the sub ject town by town, and showing a gen eral improvement throughout the west ern end of the island. His report in this respect is very gratifying, indicat ing as it does that there is not so much suffering from want of Jood as is often asserted in unofficial reports.. Turning to recommendations, Gen eral Lee urges the taking of self-government. General Lee thinks that the next steps should - be the careful con sideration of the question of suffrages for the Cubans. He takes it for grant ed that there will be elections by the natives, and he points out the import ance of wise action in determining the qualifications of voteis. . I He recommends an independent re publican government, with a president, nrice-piesideut and congress. He would liave this established soon, arid ad jvises the holding of a general election for the selection of those officers. He says nothing about a constitution; leav ing it to be inforred that he either over looked that step or wonld have it left to the Cuban congress to provide after Sta installation in office., i General Leo evidently foresees that while the United States might provide Cuba with a model system of govern ment, the natives wonld be likely to spoil it in the administration, and he lias submitted suggestions for keeping the government machinery running along lines that . commend themselves to the American mind. Even after relieving the Cubans in part of American protection, be would have United States troops maintained in the island to protect Americans and other aliens in the enjoyment of their personal and property rights. - Packing; Plant Burned. Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 4. Fire broke out at 1 o'clock this morning in the big plant of the Jacob Dold Pack ing Company, which covers several acres of ground on the west river bot toms between Ninth street and tho Missouri river. The fire started in the fertilizing department, burned through the engine room and was burning fierce ly before . any fire apparatus arrived. .The water pressure in the vicinity of .the fire was very . low, and the firemen were handicapped in their work. The fertilizing department, the engine 'room, the ice plant, the sausage de partment and the lard room were de stroyed, with much costly machinery, and other parts of the plant were more or less damaged. . Plan for Smncel'nE Chinamen. Hong Kong, Sept 4. Reliable in formation is at hand that some 400 Chinese are to be shipped from heie via San Francisco, purporting to be acrobats, - jugglers, etc., for the Phila delphia exhibition,, and that certain men here have received certain Bums of money to cause them to be landed in America, and the Chinese believe that they will be allowed to remain there. The first batch of 190 have gone for ward in the Nippon "Maru. : There ia no doubt that these Chinamen are simply being smuggled into America to remain there. Five Men Killed. ; Pittsburg, Sept. 4. A boiler explo sion at the Republic Iron Works on Sooth Twenty-fourth street shortly be forn daylight today killed five men and seriously injured seven. The mill was tartly wrecked and the entiro plant was compelled to close down. ' The explosion occurred just as the night force was leaving and . the day force was coining on duty, bo there were only a few mn in the mill at the time. If it had happened half an hour later, the list of dead and injured would have been' appalling. . Served Forty Days. New York. Sept. 4. A special to the Herald from Washington says that although 11 ham Cronk, ot Ava, N. Y., aged 99, is still carried on the pension rolls, press dispatches recently an nounced his death. Ho was not only the last survivor of the war ot 1812, hut also the oldest pensioner. He served . 40 davs in the fall of 1814 in the New York militia. Sampson to Be Relieved. Washington, Sept 4. At the con clusion of the Dewey celebration, it ia announced. Admiral Sampson will be relieved of command of the North At lantic squadron. This action is taken at the request of Sampson, who has al ready had much more than his portion of sea service in his grade. Admirals Farqnhar and Remey are prominently mentioned as Sampson's successors. Gt China an Ultimatum. London, Sept. 4. A . dispatch from Shanghai reports that sorious trouble occurred in Kiao Chou, Hinterland, between the Germans and Chinese in which six of the latter were shot The German minister to China has handed an ultimatum to the Chinese govern ment declaring that unless . there is se curity of life and property and order is maintained in Hinterland, Germany will take steps to protect her own inter ests. ' For the Dewey Rome Fund. Washington, Sopt. 4. United States Treasurre Roberts has received a con ribution of $1,000 from the New York ournal for tho Dewey home fund, and tl.OOO from Marcus Daly & Co., of Anaoonda, Mont, making a total to date of $23,109. Chicago, Aug 31. The list of thoso who lost their lives yesterday in the falling of the heavy iron arches which formed the skeleton of the Coliseum now numbers 10. One man. Edward Swanson reported among the missing, was today added to tho roll of deaths. T OF THE ISLES Each Group Will Have a Dif ferent Form of Control. ' PRESIDENT MADE UP HIS MIND Cuba Will Be Independent. Unless An nexation Is Desired Philippines to Be Governed by a Commission. New York, Sept. 6. A special to '.he Herald - from Washington says: There ia good authority for the state ment that the president has returned to Washington with these general ideas uppermost iu his mind as to his future course in relation . to the new depend encies: The Philippines Civil government by three commissioners to supplement military, rule immediately aftsr the rebellion ia ci ushed. Cuba Continued military control until it is determined by means of a general election whether the inhabit ants want independence or annexa tion. If independence, the new gov ernment elected will be recognized by the United States and will be given encouragement' and every opportunity to establish its stability. If annexa tion, the president will be governed by the sentiment of American citizens as it may then exist Porto Rico Civil government of the territorial form, similar to that which prevails in Arizona. Hawaii Territorial form of govern ment as recommended by the. Hawaiian commission and as provided for in. a measure now pending before congress. Some weeks will elapse before the president settles down to the' actual preparation of his message, but be has returned from his vacation' with some well-defined views as to the difficult problems which confront him and will immediately commence discussions of the details with the members of bis cabinet. It has been generally supposed that with the war still in progress in the Philippines the president would avoid committing ' himself to recommenda tions of the future government of the islands, but such will probably not be the case.' His Pittsburg speech leaves no room for doubt that be will insist upon American control of the Philip pines. To this extent he has come out squarely and thrown down the gauntlet to the anti-expansionists. Mr. McKinley not only favors the permanent control but is prepared with all of the forces at his command to fight for it, but to avoid the charge of militarism, and that is his reason fot making the recommendations, he pro poses outlining a plan to congress for submitting a civil form of government for the military the- moment peace is obtained and the complete supremacy of the United States established. Farther discussions with bis cabinet may change somewhat the president's views as to the form of civil govern ment best suited to meet the situation, but at present the commission' idea predominates. Professor Schurmann. president of the peace commission, is understood to favor this kind of con trol and a historical review recently prepared for the president, showing that the United States has frequently adopted this method of control of new territory in a transitory state, has deeply impressed members of tne ad ministration. It is appreciated that it will be some years, before the islands are ripe for even a territorial form of government, such as is. proposed for Porto Rico, so that control by commissioners, much the same as in the District of Co! urn -'bia, is deemed a happy substitute for a military government and a safe and simple means of control preliminary to the establishment of a territorial form of government, when it may be possi ble to give the natives generally the right of suffrage. . The plan under consideration con templates three commissioners, one an army officer, fo have charge of fiscal affairs, another a naval officer to have control of the customs, and the third, a leading native officer of legal exper ience to - look after the judiciary, all three to be appointed by the president and confirmed by the senate Further details contemplate giving the Filipinos a .voice in all municipal affairs and the moat liberal self-government possible. ' : . Columbia the Defender. Newport, R. I., Sept. 6. In "today's race, the second and last of the official trial races for the settlement of . a de fender for the America's cup',; the Co lumbia again demonstrated that she is the superior of the Defender, the 1895 champion, by defeating her 10 minutes and 7 seconds over a triangular course, in an eight-knot breeze and a smooth sea. Calcium Light Plant Exploded. . Chicago, Sept 0. By the explosion of a calcium light tank filled with car bonic acid gas, in the Chicago Calcium Light Company's machine room on Washington street today, Frank Hop kins was fatally burned and Howard McClethan seriously injured. The first floor ot the building was wreoked. Several persons who were passing were slightly cut by flying glass. -. McKinley Mot Coming; to the Coast. Washington. Sept. 6. Senator Car ter, of Montana, who has just returned from a European trip, was at the White House today, and, after a confer ence with the president, stated, that Mr. McKinley would be compelled to give up his contemplated trip through the West. He will attend the cere monies attending the laying of the cor nel -stone of the Chicago postoffioe, October 1, bat it is altogether improb able that he will get further west than Chicago. Motor-Cycle Tandem Race. New York. Sept. 6. The cycle race meet of the Atlantic Athletic Associa tion at' Manhattan Beach today drew 3,000 people. The main event .was a 25-mile motor-cycle tandem race. First money was won by J. W, Judge and Charles W. Miller in. 39:68, beat ing the world's record on any class Of machine. ' . Drowned While Bathing-. Bridgeport, Conn., Sept. - 4. One man and four children, three girls and ne boy, weie drowned at Blackrock .oil ay while sea bathing. WRECK OF THE MORGAN CITY. All Bands Were Landed, but the Cargo t.. . Was Lost. . Washington, Sept. 6. The follow ing dispatch, received this afternoon, gives some particulars of the wreck of the transport Morgan City: "Nagasaki, Sept 5. Adjutant-General, Washington: The transport Morgan City, under guidance of an ex perienced pilot, struck a reef on the inland sea, eight miles from Ononuobi and 250 miles from Nagasagi, about 4 a. m., September 1. She backed off at daylight. The' vessel filled rapidly; was beached and all were saved. The officers and crew did splendid work. Have telegraphed to Kobe for food, and am sending a wrecking orew, vessel and food from here. Cargo almost all lost. : Can you send me a transport from Manila. American money is good here only, hence the delay. "CARTER. Quartermaster." General Otis cabled Minister Buck for particulars, and notified the de partment that the Ohio would be sent to Nagasaki. The government suffers no great loss in the wreck of the Morgan City, save that of time, as she was a chartered vessel and the owners re the losers. A Total Wreok. London. Sept. 6. According to a dispatch to the Daily Mail from Kobe, Japan, the Morgan' City is a total wreck. BOER WAR PARTY In Control of Affairs in the Transvaal Peace Is Considered Hopeless. London, Sept. 6. The Johannesburg correspondent of the Standard says: "I learn from an official, who has been earnestly striving or peace, that tne matter is now hopeless. The Boers will probably declare war at 48 hours' notice, and will try to raid Natal be fore the British troops arrive. I be lieve the Oiange Free State will join the Transvaal, but -that the Boers in Natal and Cape Colony will remain quiet at the outset, unless irritated by the dismissal of the Cape Colony cabi net . - "The Boers have the fullest confi dence in their magazine rifle and their skill in marksmanship. State Attorney Smuts is the chief inciter of the war party. Thirty thousand men in the Transvaal and 20,000 in the -Orange Free State will take the field." The Times prints a letter from the bishop of Pretoria, appealing for funds to relieve the terrible . distress caused by the protracted tension and the fears of war. A dispatch to the Daily Mail from Delagoa Bay says the refugees from Barberton declare that they were warned to leave, as the Foers intended to cordon the district. There are nu merous dispatches giving rumors as to war plans and preparations.- the probable attitude of the natives and possible developments. AFFAIRS IN - BRAZIL. Sale of a Large Tract to the German V " Government. Rio de Janeiro. Sept. 6. Notice hat been received from Berlin that the Duke of Saxe has sold to the German government lands in Santa Catherine, estimated at over 1.000 square leagues. The minister of the exterior has con cluded conferences with the Bolivian minister about , Acre. the territory claimed by Brazil and Bolivia, the in habitants of which recently claimed their independence and constituted a new Sonth American commonwealth. The government hasrdered that mu nitions of war be .sent ..with all haete from Bahia to Para - Three gunboats will ascend the river Para- above Acre in a few days. ; .. ' Rear-Admiral Howison and the offi cers of the United States cruisers Chi cago and Montgomery visited Petropo lis Saturday and Sunday, where they were entertained at the United Statet legation. 1 . The -resignation of the Argentine ministers is regarded as a condemna tion of tl:e policy of General Rocas re garding Brazil and the delivery of the missions treaty. SEVEN WERE DROWNED. Accident to a Sailing Party, Caused by the Sinking of Thwlr Boat. Halifax, N. S., Sept. 6. A sailboat was sunk tonight near the mout'j ol Halifax harbor, and several lives were lost, the victims belonging to this city. There were 1 1 persons in the boat and four were saved." The mast was lifted out of ita stepping by a squall of wind, and when it fell back into its pocket it punched a hole in the bottom of the boat, causing her to sink. in a few min utes. Those drowned are: Robert Dav id son, plumber, wife and three nnmar lied sisters; W. Hamilton, employed in the city clerks' office, and John E. Hancock, clerk. . v Held Up the Honse. Spokane, Sept. 5. Two masked men at 4 o'clock this morning walked into Harry Green's gambling rooms, on the second floor of a block in the very heart of the business district, held up 15 men, looted the tills and safe, and escaped with $1,800 in cash and bills. In the chase and subsequent capture of one of the thugs, Policeman Gemmring was shot in the groin and perhaps fa tally wounded. "New Standing High-Jump Record. New York, Sept. 6. At the games of the St. James' Catholic Association, of Red Bank, at Hollywood Park, N. J., todajf. Fred. Gerner, of Long Branch, beat the world's standing high-jam p record, clearine the tape at 6 feet 4 inches. The record broken, 5 feet inches, was made by G. W. Ewrye, of Chicago. Oklahoma's wheat crop, 40,000,000 bushels. - John Y. McKane Dying. New York, Sept O.John Y. Mo Kane, tommljy the political boss of Coney Island, and whose trial and con viction in 1894- for ballot-box stuffing gave him . national: notoriety, is dying at his borne in Coney island from acute dyspepsia. Physicians who held a consultation . today said he would not survive the night The Eiffel tower has been turned to practical use by the Paris police, who use it as a watch tower, from which to spy out those chimneys that throw up more smoke than the law allows. Oregon Industrial Exposition Will Show It All. ATTRACTIONS TO BE PLENTIFUL Products of Field. Farm, Forest, Fish ery, Mine and Orchard Will All Be There, With Splendid Musio. The Paoilo Northwest is a region of rich resources and it produces food ma terial, clothing material and building material that any section of this great country may well be proud of. Its producing capacity, is as yet in its in fanoy, and there ia great development to come. ' In order that the products of the Pa cific Northwest may be seen and ex amined by the general public, a com mittee of Portland's enterprising busi ness men get together every year and organize the Oregon Industrial Exposi tion. These men meet every week for months pievious to the exposition and perform an immense amount of work in the way of preliminary arrange ments. They appoint subcommittees to attend to all this details. They raise by the voluntary subscription of Port land business men a guarantee fund of about $12,000 to pay the expenses of the exposition. The committee collects a large amount of specimens of the products of the Northwest and arranges' them into an attractive exhibition at the great exposition' buiding. ' There are grains and grasses in the sheaf, grain ready for milling, grain reduced to flour. There is wool as it comes from the sheep's back; sooured, and in the goods. There is gold and silver in ita native rook and ready for the mint. There is timber fresh from the forest and polished ready for interior decorat ing. There are fish, full-grown sal mon, and salmon eggs from which young salmon are being hatched out, in plain sight of the pnblio. Fruit and vegetables and the dairy interests are all represented, and manufacturing enterprises show what they are doing in the Northwest, many of them hav ing actual working plants in the great machinery hall of the exposition build ing. It takes brains, executive ability and much money to organize and success fully conduct a great exposition suoh as Portland presents to the people, and among the enterprising business men who are the active spirits in the affair and compose the exposition gen eral commit toe are: H. C. Breeden, president; 1. N. Fleiscnner, vice-president; R. J." Holmes, treasurer; A. B. Steinbaoh, Dan McAllen, J. E. Thiel sen, D. M. Dunne. H. L. Pittook, R. C. ' Judson, H. D. Ramsdell, Sig. Sicbel, L. M. Spiegl, D. Sol is Cohen, C. B. Williams, Ben Selling, J. P. Marshall, E. S. Edwards. B. S. Pague; W. S. Struble. secretary; E. C. Mas ten, assistant secretary: H. E. Ddsch, auditor; George L. Baker, superintend ent . . ; The Oregon Industrial Exposition will be held at ' Portland for a full month, from September 28 to October 28. and while it will.embraoe all the best features of a state fair, it will have special attractions in classic con ceits by a fall military band of 82 pieces, and acrobatic and aerial per formances by some of the most re nowned performers in the world. People who attend the Portland fair not only see all the products of the Northwest, but also meet thousands of people and pass pleasant afternoons and evenings in which, instruction ia mingled with healthful amusement. New Ballway Company. The Salem & Pacific Coast Railway Company filed-articles of incorpora tion, with a capital stock of $125,000, divided into shares of $10 each. The company will engage in the construc tion, equipment, operation and man agement of a main line of railway and telegraph and telephone lines and of steam and electrio lines. The line whioh this company proposes to con struct wilf pass through one of the richest agricultural districts of the Willamette valley and will open vast tracts, of virgin forest to the lumber men, bringing a wealth of lumber within easy reach of the market. The place of business of the corporation ia to be at Falls City, Or. v To Manufacture Weeders. - The Summer Fallow Machine Com pany, which has been incorporated into shares of $30 each, proposes to en age in the manufacture of a weeder recent ly patented by M. J. Andeison. " It is a contrivance intended to clear sum mer fallow of weeds and other trouble some growths. It is known as the Anderson Weed Destroyer and the ma chines are giving excellent satisfaction. The prinoipal place of business is Du fur. The company has erected a.build ing and secured machinery with which to manufacture several thousands of the machines annually. A Mew Corporation. - E. H. Winship and other capitalists of Napa, CaL, aie forming a corpora tion to establish an automobile fac tory. Several large capitalists have agreed to put $10,000 each Into the en terprise and $100,000 ia now in sight. A Big Crop This Tear. It is estimated that between 250,000 and 800,000 bushels of grain will be harvested on the Yakima Indian reser vation this fall. Four separators are engaged in threshing, including one from Klickitat county, and a new one started up bv Mason & MoCloud. The Toppenish Trading Company has al ready shipped 15 cars of grain to the Sound. Toppenish is at present a very lively station as the shipment of fruit is also large. Bank Incorporated. Tho Bank of Ontario, at Ontario, Or., was recently incorporated with a capitalization of $20,000, which was deemed sufficient to meet the. business demands of that section of country for the present. Stephen Carver was elected president, J. R. Blaokaby, vice president and O. W. Piatt, cashier. president Carver is a man of large rneans and stands ready to inorease the capitalization whenever condition! de mand it. " , Some of the Alaska Indians eat aiof. quitoea. v WHEAT BADLY DAMAGED. rhlrty Districts Beport Injury to Fall Sown Grain. Reports received by R. G. Dun & Co. from their correspondents in the grain centers of Oregon, Washington and Idaho, show that the damage to wheat in 44 districts runs from a nom inal figure to 60 per cent of the crop, and, in a few instances. 50 per cent is exceeded. Sixteen districts stated that there has been no loss whatever. Out of . the 44 centers mentioned, 80 reported the injury to fall wheat and 23 the injury to spring .wheat as ex ceeding 10 pet cent The greatest damage was caused by heavy rains, and in many cases the correspondents de clared that if the storms continued the crops in their neighborhoods would be nearly destroyed. In a few fields in Washington and Idaho, hot weather1 also had an injurious effect, and in some instances cold weather caused the freezing of fall-sown wheat last win ter. ' ... . . Reports of the prospects for fall trade partook of the discouragement of the farmers in the damaged districts. The predictions, as a rule, were "fair," "not very fair," and "not flattering," v while one correspondent thought it necessay to add to these lines, "there will be no distess," and . another tempered bia opinion "fair" . with "considering." Many who : are sta tioned in thriving places eaid the out- look might be called fair if the rain would stop. PACIFIC COAST TRADE. Portland Market. Wheat Walla Walla, - 58 59c; Valley, 59 60c; Blueatem, 6061o per bushel, i Flour Best grades, $3.25; graham, On f r - c An . f i c.uu, Buperuuu, fa.is per uarrei. Oats Choice white, 42 (g 44c; choice tray, 89 40c per bushel. Barley Feed barley, $16)17J; Drewing, $is. ou per ton. Millstuffs Bran,- $17 per ton; mid dlings, $22; shorts, $18; chop, $16.00 per ton. . , -. - Hay Timothy, $8 9; clover. $7 $8; Oregon wild hay, $6 per ton. Butter Fancy creamery, 4550o; seconds, 8540o; dairy, 8085o; store. 22 i27c . Eggs 170! 18c rer dozen. Cheese Oregon full cream, - 12o; Young America, . 13o; new cheese, 10c per pound. Poultry Chickens, mixed, $3.50 4.60per dozen; hens, $5.50; springs, $2.253.60; geese, $6 (g 6.50 for old, $4.606.50 for young; docks, $4.00 4.50 per dozen; turkeys, live, 12) 13)c per pound. Potatoes 75c$l per sack; sweets, 9 26 per pound. Vegetables Beets, $1; turnips, 90o per sack; garlic, 7o per pound; cab bage, t per pound; cauli flower, 75o per dozen; parsnips.. $1 beans, 56c per pound; celery, 70 75c per dozen; cucumbers, 60c per box; peas, 8 4c per pound; tomatoes,. 60c per box; green corn, 1215c per dozen... :-" Hops 11 13c; 1897 crop, 460. 1 Wool Valley, 1213o per pound; Eastern Oregon, 813c; mohair, 27 30c per pound. . , Mutton Gross, beet sheep, we then and ewes, 8o; dressed mutton, 6j, 7c; lambs, 7c per lb. ... . Hogs Gross, choice heavy, $5.00; light and feeders; $4.50; dressed,' $6.00 6.50 per 100 pounds. Beef Gross, top steers, 8.50 $4.00; cows,. $3. 00 8. 50; dressed beef, 67K5 pe' pound. Veal Large, 6)7c; small, 8 8 per pound. . -; ... . Seattle Markets. " Onions, new, $1.50 1.65 per sack, Potatoes, new, 90c $1 Beets, per sack, $1.10. Turnips, per sack, 75c. -: Carrots, per sack, 90c Parsnips, per sack, $1 1.75. - Cauliflower. 75c per doz. Cabbaga, - native and - California $1 1.25 per 100 pounds. Cherries, 75o$l. Peaches, 75 90c . Apples. $1.251.7o' per box. Pears, $1.75 2 per box. Prunes, $1 per box. Watermelons, $12.50. , Cantaloupes, 60c$l. . Blackberries, $1.501.75 ' . Butter Creamery, 25c per pound; dairy 1720o ranch, 12 17c per lb. Eggs, 28c Cheese Native, 12 13c. ' " T Poultry 18 14c; dressed, 16c. Hay Puget Sound timothy." $7 9; choioe Eastern Washington tim othy,, $14.00. Corn Whole. $23.50; cracked, $23; feed meal, $23.00. Barley Rolled or ground, per ton $21; whole, $22. Flour Patent, per barrel, $3.50; blended straights, $3.25; California fs.zo; DucKwneat nour, 3.50; graham per barrel. $3.60: whole wheat flour. $3; rye flour, $4.50. Millstuffs Bran, per . ton, $15; shorts, per ton, $16. . - Feed Chopped .feed, $20.50 per ton; middlings, per ton, $22; oil cake meal, per ton, $35. an Franoisco Market. Wool Spring Nevada, 12 14c pej nnnnd: Oreeon. Eastern. 10rai4nrVl. ley, 14 19c; Northern, 8 10c . unions ouvoroitiu, vuctgfl per sack. . Butter Fanev cnumnrr. 97ata- do seconds, 22 26c; fancy dairy, 2325c do seconds, 1922o per pound. Eggs Store, 1922o; fancy ranch, 2226o. . ; .' Hops NominaL - - v : Citrus : Fruit Oranges, Valencia, $2.763.25; Mexican limes,' $45.00; - choioe, $1.75 2.00 per box. oat, $78; oat, $89; best bar ley, $4. 60 7; alfalfa, $6.00 7 per ton; straw, 2085cper bale. Potatoes Early Rose, 60 90c; Burbanks, 4590o; Salinas Burbanks, $1.251.60 per saok. Tropical fruits Bananas, $1.60 9.60 per bunch; pineapples, $2 4.00; Persian dates. 66.e per pound. ,