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Newspaper Page TextVINTON Entab. July, 1897. GAZETTE Katab. Dec, I860. j Consolidated Feb. 1899. COEVAIiMS, BENTON COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1300. VOL. XXX VII. NO. 4. I MS OF I IfX1 From. All Parts of the New World and the Old. OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS Comprehensive Review of the Import ant Happening; of the Past Week Culled From the Telegraph Columns. William Jackson, the scout, is dead. ' The United Verde mine was sold foi $500,000. :, British authorities have released tht German steamer Herzog. Two white men were shot and two negroes were lynched at Ripley,. Term. Premier McDonald takes the attor- . i r . 1 ! i i ney-generaisnip 01 , me new luauituua : cabinet. ' ." A British flag and ' portrait of the qneen were trampled under foot in a Victoria saloon. 4 President Hill, of the Great North ern, regards the ship subsidy bill as a national scandal. Lord Balfour in a speech denied that the Inst ior gold is the incentive to Eng land in the Tranvaal war. -, ' Snit has been begun in the United States supreme court to test the valid ity of the Bland-Allison act. Governor Brady and. the' Cape Nome delegation have appeared .before the house committee on public lands. ' The president has recommended the promotion of Howison, Kautz, Remeny and Farquhar to be rear admirals. The United States . cruiser . Albany, purchased : from , Brazil, ' developed a speed of 20.87 knots during a .builders' trial run. v ' : , - ' England will release seized Ameri can flour. Foodstuffs are not consid ered contraband of war unless intended for the enemy. , . Barnat Grinberg, formerly a well known Jewish business man of Seattle, has been arrested in Tarnapoli, Ga licia, Austria, on a charge ' of buying girls for export from Austria to the Secretary Gage gives as his reasons for his recent action in utilizing - na tional banks as deDositories for national treasury notes that thereby he prevent ed a disturbance in the business world. He denies that he has discriminated in favor of any bank. A London dispatch says the - long pent-up storm is now bursting over the heads of home government officials. It says that if parliament were in ses sion, it is doubtful if they could retain, power, and only a remarkable change in the situation can save them when the next session convenes. , Senator Hoar has made public a let ter he had addressed to a cumber of Eastern papers in reply to ft speech made by ex-representative Quigg, of the Essex Club. In it he says that Aguinaldo is honest, and that the war was caused by a mistake made by Gen eral Otis; that the Americans were the aggressors and Aguinaldo ' wanted peace. '- V ' . A pro-Boer meeting was held in Seattle. . . . '' , .- English parliament may be convened before the end of the month. - ' Frenchmen are opposed to the new treaty with America. A Missouri lodge of Hibernians de cided that it would not help the Boers. The Chicago baseball club will make its spring training quarters at Los An geles. - : . -; .- .', An Ontario (Or.) man has a scheme for using the natural steam , of hot wells. The Pacific coast has sent forward over 10,000 to the Lawton fund, and more will be sent. The Boers have refused to allow the American consul at Pretoria to act as British representative. The secretary of war has asked for $750,000 for expenses in ; sending the Spanish prisoners home from .Manila. California wants foreign countries forced to reduce the duties on canned goods through reciprocity treaties. The shipbuilding trust has not yet been organized. -The amount of 'capi talization is not yet determined upon. The Big Four railroad will resume payment of common stook dividends and will take over the Cheaaneaka & Ohio. Uncle Sam will press her claim against Santo Domingo. France got her money and now demands an apology. . ' The Boers in a spirit of humor have named three prison streets in Pretoria "Ladysmith," "Mafeking" and "Kim berley." . England cannot understand why Buller's forces did not press a passage on the Tngela while White was engag ing the Boers to the North. At Battle Creek, Mich., the body of Sherman Church, a miller, was found wedged under a water wheel. The hands were tied and a weight listened to the leg. John Boston, a negro, of Russell county, Ala., connoted of chicken setaling has been pardoned by Governor Johnston on condition that "for twelve months he shall not buy, steal or eat another chicken, or any part thereof." A lady in Baltimore was so attracted to a pet monkey that when it shuffled off this mortal coil she gave a bang-up funeral. There were six pall-bearers, four carriages for the mourners, and several floral designs, one of them be ing an "empty chair." A new cure for rheumatism has been discovered in New South Wales. It is called the whale bath'. The treatment consists in depositing the patient in the body of a dead whale. Almost invari ably the patient is able to climb right out unassisted. That remarkable cures are reported is not surprising. Lawrence E. Brooke, who four yean ago worked as a laborer in a vineyard at Fresno, Cal., for $1.50 a day, went to the Klondike in 1896, and there, by lucky mining, has made a fortune amounting to over $300,000. He late ly visited his old home and birthplace) in Savannah, N. Y, w LATER NEWS. The bombardment of Mafeking was renewed Friday morning. Many Boers are believed to be trek king northward from Ladysmith. The national convention of United Mine Workers opened at Indianapolis. When Bryan visits New York he will be entertained exclusively by Tam many. For the first time in history grocery stores and meat shops closed in Chicago on Sunday. General Wood has crossed Orange river and established the first British post in the enemy's country. A determined woman and a huge bread knife kept a mob at bay in Chi cago until assistance arrived. Sir Wilfred Laurier says that Can ada will give England both men and money to help her in the present strife. Summer resorts of Rockaway beach and Jamaica bay, New York, may have to move on account of threatening waves. " Wheaton and Schwan's troops are keeping the rebels of Southern Luzon moving. Americans have few losses, but the rebel losses are heavy. The trans-Atlantic steamship lines have increased their passenger rates be' tween New .York- and - Europe, owing to the heavy travel expected to the Paris exposition. . John P. Reese, under arrest in Fort Scott, Kan., has been released by Jugde Thayer's order. Reese was being held for contempt of court for address ing striking miners. The Servian ministry has resigned. owing to King Alexander insisting on granting amnesty to all the political prisoners convicted of high treason against his father, King Milan. A circular, appealing for peace and pledging for the Boers, signed by 400 clergymen of all denominations in the Netherlands, has jnst been' delivered to the ministers of all Christian churches in Great Britain. -.-,'.. The suit for the prize money for the destruction of Cervera's fleet involves the question of whether or ' not the cruiser New York really .participated in the battle. The attorney-general avers that as all the Spanish fleet and property were destroyed they were not prizes. w ' The urgent deficiency appropriation bill, the first of the important bills for the government, reported to the house by Chairman Cannon, carries $56,127,' 841, of which $47,603,332 is reappro priated for the military and naval es tablishments, and $8,825,500 for dis trict appropriations. The Boers have looted all the stores and mines in Swaziland. -. . ' ,' Two cases of bubonic plague are re ported from South Australia. Londoners are still complaining over the rigid censorship of war news. '. Carter Harrison has refused to accept the candidacy for governor .of Illinois, ? The rodmill workers at Cleveland, O., will strike, involving 4,000 work men. General George Sharpe, a veteran of the civil war, is dead at Kingston, N. Y. ; , : . Dutch colonials taken in arms are not treated as war prisoners, but are being prosecuted for treason. : The latest official report upon the foreign commerce of China shows . a great increase both in its imports and exports. ; ' ?' - The uree Indians of Canada may take the warpath and strike a blow at Great Britain, now that the British are busy. ; Frederick D. Bonfils, one of the pro prietors of the Denver Post, was shot and mortally wounded by a lawyer of that city. French warships have taken posses sion of Kwong Chan Wan bay, where a boundary dispute has been pending for several months. v The wreck in St. Mary's bay, N. F., is still unidentified, although it is be lieved to be the Helgoland, which was under charter by the Standard Oil Company. Ten bodies have been lo cated among the rocks. - ' . - A lone robber held up two restau rants in the midst of Kansas City at 6 in the morning. Both jobs were ac complished in less than five minutes, and the robber escaped, the gaping people making no resistance. Mrs. C. M. Foote, of Los Angeles, Cal., aged 73, died suddenly . on the north-bound Oregon express between Gazelle and Montague, in the Siski- yous. sne was accompanying tne re mains of her late husband to Seattle for burial. , John Barrett, ex-minister' to Siam, in a public address in Chicago, said that Senator Hoar's speech, which was cabled to Hong Kong, and subse quently put into hands of the Filipinos, caused the open insurrection in the Philippines. Mrs. Christina Ilirth, of East St. Louis, emerged from a trance to find herself under process of being em balmed and prepared for the grave. A movement of the eyelid saved the woman from death at the hands of the undertaker or from burial alive. - From the stomach of a woman who died in Indiana, a short time since, the handles of sx silver teaspoons were taken, and now the stomach of a dead child at Lebanon has turned out several silver coins. Toothache troubled a cat belonging to James Dever, of Norristown, Pa. A dentist extracted all her teeth and fitted an artificial set in her jaws. Every night, before retiring, she runs to her master to have her teeth re moved. William L. Decker, of Greenwich, Conn., is certainly an unusual man. He purchased a fine residence property there upon which was located a $5,000 home. It was his intention to build a $25,000 home and to move the house, bnt he found ' that the old structure could not be moved without cutting down beautiful shade trees that adoin the place. He sacrificed the value of the house rather than the trees, and had it torn to pieces and , removed piecemeal. In these days of merciless destruction of natures' beauty it is pleasing to see that some people have a little respect for it. Getting' Around the Intrench ments of the Boers. NEARER THE BELEAGURED TOWN Important Operations In Pro"reB la Natal General White's Situation Be comes Serious Scenes of Patriotism. London, Jan. 15. General Buller's 8 words, announcing bis forward movement Thursday, is interpreted as meaning that he has passed, around the western end of the Boer lines at Colen so and is now several miles behind them and within 14 miles of General White's outposts at Ladysmith. The Boer forces a few days ago had forces with gunp at Springfield, where General Buller dates his -dispatch. These commandos have been obviously dislodged, either by fighting or by ma neuvering, the Boers retiring across the Tmgela as General Buller advances. From -General Buller's dispatch, coupled with the fact that unofficial intelligence from the seat of war has virtually ceased since Monday, the de duction is drawn that important opera tions are in progress, as he cannot move far without going . agairt the Boer entrenchments. The death list from enteric fever and dysentery at Ladysmith, averaging from 8 to 10 daily, is considered mow serious than the 420 casualties of Satur day's fight, as they indicate the fright fully unsanitary condition of the be leagured town. ' A letter from Ladysmith,- dated December 7, says that even then go out of 540 men in the bat talion of which the writer is a member were sick with ' dysentery or enteric fever, and, according to a dispatch to the Daily Chronicle, dated January 8, the patients and attendants in Tombi camp, where the hospital is, then num bered 2,800. 1 Remarkable scenes of patriotism were witnessed in London last evening after a short service held for the volun teers in St. Paul's cathedral. The vast audience was slow to disperse. Ladies stood up on their chairs beckoning and calling to brothers, sons and friends in the ranks,' the latter signalling back. A seen of great animation ensued. The organist introduced a , few bars of the naional anthem in concluding the voluntary. The effect of this magical. First the volunteers then the congregation ( (took up strains, and the vast cathedral filled with enthusiastic song, demonstrations were renewed by was and the was The im- mense crowds outside. St. Paul's churchyard and Ludagte hill were black with people, and it was impossi ble for the volunteers to march. Indi vidual members were pulled out of the ranks by their friends and admirers, who raised them on their shoulders, and thus ... carried them down , Fleet street to the Temple. Those, who es caped hoisting proceeded slowly,, sur rounded by clinging women. -. After ward at the various theaters, where the men were entertained, and yet later, on returning to barracks, these scenes were renewed, and the streets were filled until midnight with' cheering people. . - , A MYSTERIOUS WRECK. Name of the Steamer tost In St. Mary's Bay Still Unknown. St. Johns, N. F., Jan. 15. The fol lowing comprise all the details regard ing the wreck in St. Mary's bay that could be obtained up to midnight: The ship is a two-masted steamer of nearly 3,000 tons, and probably carried a crew of 60, with possibly some pas sengers. She went ashore before day break Thursday, striking a ledge at the iooi oi we ciin, wnere escape was hopeless. : The crew launched the boats, but probably during the panio some were crushed against her side, others being swamped, all the occu pants apparently perishing. The ship was seen to be on fire by residents sfe miles away. Attracted to the scene, they found the after-half of the wreck blazing fiercely, and the fore part tinder water. Kerosene in the cargo helped the blaze. At tnat time only tnree men. were left n board. Two were on the bridge and one was in the rigging. Those on the bridge were safe until about -2 P. M., when they were washed overboard and drowned, the bridge being carried away. The survivor soon after left the rigging, swam to the rocks, and twice endeavored to get a footing. . Failing in this, he made his way back to the rigging, where he died of exposure dur ing tne mgnt. Many dead bodies are visible tossing in the surf. Two of them, thrown up in a cove, cannot be reached, owing to tne Heavy sea. One is thought to be that of a woman. Boats and other wreckage are thrown out among the rocks for miles. Automobiles In New York. . " New York. Jan. 15. A nwentlv nr. ganized company will put into publio service in the streets of this city next week 200 automobile carriages and 100 automobile omnibuses. The charge for cabs will be 25 cents a mile and 75 cents an hour. Indiana Bank Robbed. Princeton, Ind., Jan. 15. Robbers blew open the safe and vault in the banking house of McGinnis, Teel & Co., at Owensville, this county, early this morning and secured $15,000, the total currency in the bank. The money was placed on a handcar on the Evans ville & Terre Haute road and run to Poseyville, 12 miles southeast. Here the handcar was left, and the monev was removed to a vehicle. The rob bers then crossed the Wabash river to the Illinois side and escaped. Will Sell Globe Bank Collateral. Boston. Jan. 15. At a. moetino f the Boston Clearing-House today it was voted to sell thn nnUafnmi held as security for the $3,500,000 in clearing-nouse certificates issued to the Globe National bank before its col lapse. . The Lawton Fund. Washington. Jan. 15. Gennra.1 On-. bin announced todav that tha anhnrtn. tions to the Lawton fund had reached the handsome fisrure of 280.101. S8 wi having been received since the last report, VOTES HIGH IN MONTANA Witness Wanted S20.0O0 to Tote for Clark and Was ottered 916,000. Washington, Jan. 15. Dr. Ector, dentist of Missoula, Mont., was the first witness before the Clark investi gating committee .today. He had par' ticipated in the campaign in Ravalli county in the interest of E. P. Woods, Democratic candidate for the legislat ture, and who was a friend of Clarks Ector said he had acted at the instance of Bickford, one of Clark's managers Witness said Bickford had promised to pay him for his services, but no spe cifio sum had been mentioned. A number of letters were read intending to show that Bickford had ' been an agent of Clark in the senatorial race. Cross-examination of the witness was postponed until the. defense could look up the letters received from Ector. Representative Sullivan, -member oi Montana legislature ' from Granite county, certmea to Having been . ap proached by Bickford in Helena pre vious to the meeting of the legislature and asked to vote for Clark. "I said," the witness testified, "that I might do so if there was . enough in it. He said how much. I said twenty thousand. He then asked me if half that amount would not be enough. I replied no, and we parted. Sullivan said he met Bickford, .who suggested fifteen thousand.. Witness told Bickford he would not vote for Clark under any circumstances, and had seen no more of him. THE PHILIPPINE COMMISSION Report Will Probably Be Beady Be fore February 1.. ' New York, Jan. 15. A special to the Times frjm' Washington says: About the last of January the Philip pine commission will submit their full report to the president. President Schurman Was at the : White House Thursday to announce that ,. progress was being made, and that before Feb ruary the work of. the commission will be completed. The report made in September was a general one, in which all the commissioners joined. In the full report each commissioner will deal with a separate subject. That of Pres ident Schurman is on government for the Philippines. He has considered the matter fully and has discussed his report with the president. It , is as sumed that such practical points" as he may offer will be brought to the atten tion of the appropriate committees of the senate and the house. As to the question of again sending a commission to the Philippines, it has been suggested in congress by both sen atora and representatives that a ' joint commission of - members might be named for that purpose. It would be very popular and 'also very expensive, but it is insisted that it would be s better way of preparing congress for legislative action than the plan of mak ing up a commission outside of con gress and expecting members of both houses to read their report after it had been made in order that it may become informed.; It is. said . that . a special committee of members well-known would be more interesting and impres' sive. - - - - .; i France Will Be Monarchy Again. Chicago, Jan. ' 15. Count de la Chasney, who was married in Colorado Springs two days ago,' and who passed through Chicago last night on his way to Paris, ; believes eventually France will have again a monarchial form of government. "Nothing will be done in a political way to reorganize the present govern ment," he said, "until after the Paris exposition. - That is practically a mat ter of agreement among the high states men. But France is near a change. The Fashoda incident and the Dreyfus affair added much to the general dis content among the masses. - At the proper time the man to lead the royal ist party will be found. It is not un likely that Prince Louis Napoleon, now a colonel in the Russian army, will be the one chosen." Plague Cases at Honolulu. Washington. Jan. 15. The state department has been informed by Mr, Heywood, United States agent at Hono lulu, under date of January 1, that eight deaths have occurred from the bubonic plague at Honolulu since - the last telegraphic report, December : last, which announced three deaths from the cause of the plague. Dr. Heywood also state's that the entire city of Honolulu is quarantined. Venezuela Finances Improve. Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. i5. The financial crisis is ended. The diffi cultybetween tlie government and the bank has been amicably settled, and publio confidence is restored. India Will Buy Silver. .. London, Jan. 15. Renewed buying of silver by the Indian government, the Statist says, cannot be much longer de layed in consequence of-rupee coinage requirements, and this will lead doubt less to a marked improvement in ' the price of silver. Portland Carriers Will Register Hail. Washington, Jan. 13. The plan of having mail registered bv carriers when collected will be put impractical opera tion January 15 in 60 cities. Among the cities chosen are St. Louis, Denver and Portland, Or. The service will be inaugurated elsewhere when consid ered beneficial, upon the applications of the local officials. Great Northern Will Go to Colorado. Sioux City, Iowa, Jan. 15. Colonel W. P. Clough, vice-president of the Great Northern, has definitely admit ted that system's intention to build to Omaha and Denver. It is under stood, however, that the terminals here owned by the Sioux City Terminal Railway & Warehouse Company will first be required, at a price of approxi mately $400,000, or permanently leased before the extension movement begins. - v British Columbia Offer Accepted. Victoria, B. C, Jan. 15. The Ca nadian government has accepted Brit ish Columbia's offer of a company of mounted scouts for South African ser vice. Glllmore Assigned to Duty. . Washington, Jan. 15. Lieutenant Glllmore, formerly of the Yoxktown, and for many months a prisoner in the hands of the Tagals, has been assigned to temporary duty on the Glacier. - New York will require over $1,000,- 000 to perpetuate the Dewe arch. BSE OF OUR EXPORTS How Our Trade Has Grown in Past Five Years. NATIONS WHO BUY OUR GOODS United Kingdom and Its Dependencies by Far tho Best Customer, and Ger many and France Come Next. Washington, Jan. 16. Frank H Hi ten cock, chief of the foreign mar kets division of the agricultural depart ment, has prepared an interesting col lation of figures showing for the first time the respective amounts : of our agricultural exports which go to the several countries of Europe and of the other continents. The period covered is J 894 to 1893. The statements rhows that the agricultural products exported from the United State in. the five years had an average annual value of $663, 538,201. Of theso enormous exports. about 60 per cent found a market' in the United Kingdom and its various dependencies. . The sum- paid by the British people for the American farm products purchased during the period mentioned reached an high as $403, 953.954 a year. Great Britain alone took more than one-half of onr-ngricul tnral exports, tho consignments cred ited to that ocuntry forming about 65 per cent of the total shipments and having an annual valu of $362,407, 701. - . -k : . ' Germany, whioh ranks next trv the United Kingdom ns a mr.rket for the products of American agriculture, . re ceived about 16 per cent of tho exports for 1894-98, the average yearly 'value amounting to $36,320,254. : l-Tance, witn purchase that aver aged $43,988,791 a year, or about 6.6 per cent of the total, was the third country in importance). These three countries the United Kingdom, Ger many and France received together uearly 75 per cent of tho total agricul tural exports. - After the three countries just men tioned. The Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, Italy and Spain afforded the most important markets. The Nether lands bought 4.3 per cent of the total; Belgium, 8.6 per cent; Canada, 8.5 per cent; Italy, 2.2 per cent; and Spain, 1.5 per cent. The average valuo of the exports to these countries. 7 1 CROSSED FREE STATE BORDER. Reports of Froeeedlnct in tho Modder River Country. Modder River, Thursday. General Babington, with two reigments oi Lancers, the Victorian mounted rifles and a battery of horse artillery, ' left here on the evening of January 7 (Sun day) and crossed the Fx 00 State border on Tuesdav. Simultaneously other - movements were made. ' A column under Colonel Pitcher went from Belmont to the south of General Babincton's . route, while a portion of the garrisons of Klokfontein and Honey Nest kloof, nn- der Major Byrne, advanoed towards Jacobsdal. General Babington pene trated 12 miles and his scouts 30. They saw no signs of armed Boers. The farmhouses were found empty, the - 00- cupants having had news of the ad- vanco and gone further into ' the inter rior. The British bivouacked at Ram don. They burned three farmhouses. the property of Lubbe. one of the Boer leaders. Yesterday they swept around southward, returning here today. Nothing was . accomplished except reconnoisance. Colonel Pitcher camo into touch with General Babington and then re' turned to Belmont. Major Byrne reconnoitered the hills about four miles from Jacobsdal and saw 700 Boers. Boers Near the Sen Durban, Natal, Jan. 10. There is a Boer -commando in the Zambaans country, Zululand, within a day's march of the sea, with wagons. It is believed to be waiting for supplies and ammunition secretly landed near St. Lucia's bay. The Boers have looted all . the stores and mines in Swaziland territory, and the ruined natives are completing the destruction. ' ' - . . Beyond the Xugela. Y London, Jan.' 18. A special dispatch from Cape Town, dated Friday, Jan uary 12 (evening), announces that Gen eral Warren : has crossed the Tugela river. ;r : Great Battle Imminent. Boer , Headquarters . at Colenso, Thursday Everything points to a great battle within the next few days, Lady smith for the last two nights has been firing rockets. The object is not known here. . '. :' , Plghtlng In Cebn. Manila, . Jan. . 16. Advices from' Cebu report a sharp fight January 8 between a battalion of the - Nineteenth infantry and a body of insurgents oc cupying a strong position in the Soud lon mountains. The enemyV.was routed, the Americans capturing a smooth-bore cannon, some rifles, and destroying the fortifications. Four Americans were wounded. " - Rumor of Ladysmlth's Relief. Durban, Friday The entire absence of news from Cheveley or Frere camp continues, bnt there is a persistent rumor here that Ladysmith has been relieved. - Exportation of Aelds Prohibited. London, Jan. 15. The Gazette to day proclaims the prohibition of the exportation from the United Kingdom and the carrying coastwise of a variety of acids capable of being converted into military stores. Senator Boar Takes No Notice of It. Washington, Jan. 18. Senatoi Hoar might declined to take any notice of ie statements attributed to Mr. Bar rett, ex-minister to Siam, in an address on the Philippine question. The sena tor said that General Otis' reports gave the fullest account of the events thai led to hostilities, and that he expeots. as he has already given notice, to deal with the whole matter in the senate. Paris, Jan. 15. Spotted Tall, the well-known Sioux chief, died of heart disease yesterday. He was 89 yean oi g . -' ' BOOM TIMES COMING. Vancouver Soon to Have a New way to Portland. Rail Vancouver, Wash., Jan. 17. It has been reported in Vancouver that the mortgage held by the Portland Loan & lTust Company against the Portland. Vancouver & Yakima Railway Com' pany has been re-leased by a well- known transcontinental line, and that the latter road will push the construc tion work from the present terminus of the road to North Yakima, and from Vancouver to Portland. It has also been asserted, by people who are in a position to know, that the Portland, Vancouver & Yakima Railroad Company has "jumped" - the old bridge pier in the Columbia river opposite the lower end of Vancouver, Nobody has ' claimed ownership to the pier for the past ten years, and quantity of material which was on the bank when construction work ceased was sold for taxes. - The old bridge' pier in the Columbia river was built in boom times by the Union; Pacific Railroad Company During the years of 1889-90 that line established a grade from Puget sound to Vancouver via Kelso and Ridgefield It was the intention to bridge the Co lumbia river at Vancouver, and to enter Portland from the north. The draw pier was built at a cost of $250,000 When construction work ceased there was about $50,000 worth of bridge ma teiial on the bank. Construction work along the entire line ceased suddenly, and there was a large number of labor claims unsatis fled. For some time a watchman was kept on the bridge pier. It was his duty to hang a bright light on each end of the draw rest every night. He worked several months, but was unable to collect his salary. No one seemed to know who owed him money or who hired him. He attached some of the material, which was sold to satisfy the claim. Since that time no one has claimed ownership of the structure If the report that the Portland, Van couyver & Yakima Railway Company has taken possession of the pier, and that the mortgage, which has been hanging over the road for so long, has been released proved true, the dream of the residents of Vancouver and Clark county will .be realized. , A bridge across the Columbia river, with rapid transit between this place and Portland and direct communication with all por tions of the country by means of a transcontinental line, will put Vancou ver far ahead of the position it occupied in the boom days between 1888. and 1892. REPLY TO PETTIGREW. Wolcott's Scathing Arraignment of South Dakota Senator. . Washington, Jan. 17. A spirited debate on the Philippine question occu pied the attention of the senate for nearly three hours today. Berry, of Arkansas, first addressed the senate in support of the resolution recently intro duced by Bacon, of Georgia, regarding the disposition of the Philippines. - He was followed - by Pettigrew, of South Dakota, in support of his resolution of inquiry. Pettigrew was very bitter in his attack upon the administration Woloott, of Colorado, replied to Pet tigrew, scathingly arraigning the South Dakota senator for the attitude he had assumed on the Philippine question He declared his belief that if Agui naldo himself occupied the seat in the senate occupied by Pettigrew, repre senting the people of South Dakota, who had sent their sons as soldiers to the Philippines, he would be too patri otic, too devoted to the interests of the country to assume the attitude assumed by the present South Dakota senator. Today's session of the house was de voted to consideration of District of Columbia business. Representative June w. uayie, ot Kentucky, was sworn in, and Cannon reported the urgent deficiency bill, with a notice tnat ne wouia asK tnat it be taken up tomorrow. Rebels on the Run. Manila, Jan. 17. Part of General John C. Bates' troops are operating about Lake Taal. . The insurgents con tinue to retreat south. Colonel Hayes, with the Fourth cav alry, is supposed to have reached Lipa, where many Spanish prisoners are held. Colonel Anderson, with the Thirty eighth infantry, took Talisay, on the north shore of the lake, with but little opposition. Major (jneatnam, witn a battalion of the Thirty-seventh, on his way to San Pablo, dispersed 400 insur gents, whom the cavalry are pursuing toward Alaminos. A troop of the Third cavalry lost two men killed and three wounded in an engagement with the insurgents near San Fernando de la Union, Janu ary f Kruger's Proclamations. ' .London, Jan. 17. A dispatch to the Daily Mail, dated January 15, from Lorenzo Marques, say 8: President Kruger has issued a proc lamation ordering all burghers to th 3 front. The Volks Stem, the Transvaal official organ, suggests that the moment the British cross the border, the gold industry should be irretrievably de stroyed. "t resident Krueer issued a circular to Boer commandants and burghers, urging them to show more energy in the Transvaal cause. He quotes psalm xxii:7, as God-given instructions to the burghers, and says that the British have fixed their faith in psalm lxxxiii. He also quotes psalm lxxxix:13-14, and asserts that he has searched the Bible without being able to find any othef mode that can be ' followed - by the Boers, who must fight 'in the name of the Lord. ' ' - 'Commandeering is progressing bus ily at Pretoria, where the town guard is exchanging Mausers for Martinis, as the former are badly needed at the front. It is said that there are nearly 8,000 British prisoners in Pretoria." Japenese Will Train Chinese. Peking, Jan. 17. A significant sien of the part Japan hopes. to play in the future of China is that the Japanese government has definitely offered to establish a military academy at Peking to educate Chinese under Japan offi cials. It is said China is favorably im pressed toward this proposition. A. Blanchard, aged 65, his wife. ged 43, and a boarder named William Money, aged 58, were burned to death in their home near Merrimac, . N. . H. The cause of the fire is unknown, ' TO THE RELIEF OF LADYSMITH Two British Columns March ing Around the Boers. WITH COMMISSARIAT STORES One to the East, the Other to the West of the Main ' Dutch Position every thing Quiet at Sterkstrom. London, Jan. 17. General Buller latest authentic word as to what he and his 80,000 men are doing was wired ' from Springfield after ' his first forward step. Striving to think out the unknown, London is confused by surmise and rumor and disquieting suspense. ' ' . f. Spenser Wilkinson, the military ex pert of the Morning Post, asserts that the Boer force in Northern Natal la larger than General Buller's and Sir George White's together, so that the Boers are able to leave a force around Ladysmith larger than that within the town, and yet to ' oppose General Bnl ler with a force superior to bis own, The Standard gives prominence to the following dispatch, - dated January 18, from Durban: ' ' "A man who has just arrived here from Springfield says that a British column proceeding to the relief of Ladysmith has crossed the Little Tugela. When he left it was faoing the Boer position on the Big Tugela, and a howitzer was shelling the Boer trenches. . He says also that 270 wag ons laden with commissariat . stores for Ladysmith had left Frere, and it -was expected that the column would' join hands with General White Monday evening. : ; ; ." ' '"".' The traction engines have been do ing excellent work in hauling heavy wagons out of boles and swamps. This they accomplish with the greatest ease. - "British patrols have discovered .par ties of Boers in the direction of Rpners- dale, between Frere and Estcourt." A dispatch from Cape Town,- dated January 15, says: ; ; .;: 'There s good reason to believe that the statement that Sir Charles Warren with 11, 000 ' men, has ' gone toward Weenan is correct, and we may expect important-news shortly. .: - Reports have been received here that dysentery is very life in Lady smith.. ' " r. - v, .. - - "Everything is phenomenally quiet at Sterkstrom." Reports from the Boer camps affirm that the circle of investment -has been drawn closer by the occupation of some hills nearer the town, thus liberating reinforcements to oppose General Bui ler. , ... The Daily News suggests that a mul titude of the rumors that originate, in South Africa and London . are given currency by the English military; au thorities in order to mislead the; Boers. The war pages of the great dailies this morning are almost barren. Never theless, the instruments on . the loops connecting the war office with the ca bles continue to click. ' . p s 1 PLAGUE AT HONOLULU. Twenty-Two Cases Up to Date, One a .European. Honolulu, Jan. 17. Since the 1st inst., nine cases of plague have, devel oped, making 22 cases to date. The board of health has adopted heroic measures, and it is believed : tne work now in progress will stamp out the soourge in a short time. Thus far but one European has been attacked. This case was that of Ethel Johnson, a Nor wegian girl, aged 14 years. The other 21 cases are divided as follows! Chi nese, 10; Japanese, 2; Hawaiian, 0; South Sea islander, 1. The 3d inst. the board of health de clared the entire judicial district of Honolulu under quarantine. ' The council of state has appropriated $273, 000 for which to fight the plague and place the city in a proper sanitary con dition. , ... ... The bubonio plague appears to : be spreading in Japan. Even mail cannot come trom tnere while tne present rules are enforced, and the island steamship companies will suffer heav ily. The Ke Au Hon arrived this morning from the island without hav ing been able to approach any wharf. There were deputy sheriffs' with shot guns at every landing place, and they shouted the order to keep away; :: The result was that the steamer returned to Honolulu absolutely empty. ' ' Leung Chi Tso, the Chinese reformer, is now in Honolulu. The Chinese con sul has written to the government pro testing against Leung being allowed to remain here. . v : : u . French Guns for the Boers. London, Jan. 17. The Daily Mail publishes the following from a special correspondent at Le Creusot, France: "After two days' inquiry, I do not hesitate to assert that the Schneider company is not only working night and day in the manufacture of guns and ammunition for the Boers, but' that it has already paoked, ready for shipment the Transvaal, six heavy guns of large caliber. The workmen told me that ere long 30 additional guns would be dispatched to the Boers." : " The Grip In Spain. . v Barcelona, Jan. 17. An epidemio of grip has seized the town and mortality has increased. Half the population is bedfast and . in the stores and work shops only one-fourth of the usual num ber of employes are working. ; ; Perished In a Fire. . New York, Jan. 16. Three people, mother and -two children,: were burned to death in a fire tonight in a two-story dwelling on Pine street. - Blast Hung Fire and Killed Two Men. Butte, Mont., Jan. 16. Joe Melivich and Joseph Maxwell, working 'in the Colusa-Parrott mine,' were instantly killed at an early hour this morning by the explosion of a blast that had hung fire. J. J. Riley and Eli Polivich, who were working with the unfortu nate men escaped miraculously without sera ten. The lour men were work ing in a drift on the 1400-foot level. and had fired a round of holes. They supposed all . had gone off, and' re turned to the drift to clean up the de bris, when a "missed hole" went off. DEMAND IS QUIET. lrioes, However, Contlnne Steady la Nearly AU Lines of Trade. Bradstreet's says: Quietness as to demand but marked steadiness as to prices is still the leading feature in trade lines, a condition it might be re maked not uncommon at this stage of the year, which is a sort of middle ground between stock-taking and in ventory time and the actual opening of the spring season. Aggressive strength in prices is con fined to a few staples, such as pork products, which are firmly held on a rather tardy recognition of the fact that supplies, both of live hogs and dead meats, are far from burdensome. Tal low, cotton-seed oil and similar pro ducts are sympathetically strong. Raw and refined sugars have both advanced this week, not apparently because of the war between the refiners being set tled, but really because supplies of raw are limited. . What few lines of next season's woolen goods have been reported are at advances ranging from 25 to 85 per cent. ' . Iron and steel are extremely quiet, but signs of weakness are not numer ous, the shading in pig iron being con fined to a few grades and marketa. i The demand for lumber is - naturally tight, but the length of supplies is no table, as evidenced by the fact that white pine stocks are S3 per cent smaller than a year ago. i Hides are dull at the East, but con siderable buying is reported West, and quotations are fairly firm. Wheat in eluding flour shipments for the week aggregate 4,248,926 bushels against 1,509,682 bushels last week. The current week's failure returns reflect the annual clearing out of delin quent traders in a total for the week of 295, as compared with 229 last week, 304 in this week a year ago, 323 in 1898, 478 in 1897 and 412 in 1896. PACIFIC COAST TRADE. Seattle Markets. , Onions, new, $1.00 1.25 per sack. . Potatoes, new, $16 20. Beets, per sack, 75 85c. , Turnips, per sack, 6O0. Carrots, per sack, 60c. : Parsnips, per sack, 75 85c. Cauliflower, 75o$l per dozen, t Cabbage, native and California, 7F 90o per 100 pounds. Apples, $1.25 1.60 per box. ; Pears, $1. 00O1.25 per box. Prunes, 60c per box. ; Butter Creamery, S2o per pound: dairy, 17 22c; ranch, 84o per pound. i Eggs 24c. I Cheese Native, 16o. ' Poultry 9 10c; dressed. 1814o. i Hay Puget Sound timothy, $12.00; choice Eastern Washington timothy, fl7.0018.00 ' Corn Whole, $23.00; cracked, $28; feed meal, $23. - Barley Rolled or ground, per ton, $21; whole, $22. - , , 'Flour Patent, per barrel, - $3.25; ' blended straights, $3.00; California, $3.25; buckwheat flour, $6.00; gra ham, per barrel, $3.80; whole wheat flour, $3.00; rye flour, $3.804.00. ; Millstuffs Bran, per ton, $15.00; shorts, per ton, $17.00. Feed Chopped feed, $20.00 per ton; middlings, per ton, $20; oil cake meal, per ton, $30.00. Fresh Meats Choice dressed beef steers, 7s8o; cows, prune, 7c; pork, 7c; trimmed, 8c; veal, 8K10c. Hams Large, 13c; - small; 13 4; breakfast bacon, 12c; dry salt sides, . 8c. ' Portland Market. Wheat Walla Walla, 60 51c; Valley, 61c; Bluestem, 63o per bushel. Flour Beet grades, $3.00; graham. $2.60; superfine, $2.15 per barrel. Oats Choice white, 84 85c; choice gray, 84o per bushel. Barley Feed barley, $15(316.00; brewing, $18.00 18.50 per ton. Millstuffs Bran, $17 per ton; mid dlings, $22; shorts, $18; chop, $16 per ton. : : . Hay Timothy. .$9.60011: clover. $7 8; Oregon wild hay, $67 per 'ton. Butter Fancy creamery, 50 55c; - seconds, 42)45o; dairy, 8037o; store, 22X27)o. Eggs 18 19o per dozen. Cheese Oregon full cream, 12 o Young America, 14c; new cheese lOo per pound. Poultry Chickens, mixed, $2.60 4.00 per dozen; hens, $4.60; springs, $ 2.508.60; geese, $7.008.60 forojd; $4. 50 6. 50; ducks, $6.00 9.00 per dozen; turkeys, live, 1617o -per pound. . Potatoes 6585o per sack; sweets, 2 X o per pound. . Vegetables Beets, $1; turnips, 90c; per sack; garlic, 7o per pound; cab bage, 1 Mo per pound; parsnips, $1; onions, $1-00 1.10; carrots' $1. Hops 701c; 1898 crop, 5 6c. Wool Valley, 1213o per pound; Eastern Orogon, 814o; mohair, 27 80c per pound. Mutton Gross, best sheep, wethers and ewes, 8K0; dressed mutton, 6 To per pound; lambs, 7io per pound. Hogs Gross, choice heavy, $5.00; light and feeders, $4.60; dressed, 5. 60 6. 00 per 100 pounds. Beef Gross, top steers, $3.504.00; cows, f38.50; . dressed beet, G6 7)o per pound. Veal Large, 6674o; small, 8 9o per pound. . Ban Franeisoo Market. Wool Spring Nevada, 12 15o per pound; Eastern Oregon, 1216o; Val ley, 20 22c; Northern, 10 12o. Hops 1899 crop, ll12o per pound.."?''":" ";- Onions Yellow, 75 85o per sack. Butter Fancy creamery 25c; do seconds, 23 24c; fancy dairy, 21 22o; do seconds, 18 20o per pound. Eggs Store, 20 22c; fancy ranch, .' S728o. . . : , ,. 1 Millstuffs Middlings, $16.00 19.00; bran, $1814.00.. Hay Wheat $6. 60 9; wheat and oat $6.60 9.00; : beat barley $5.00 . .00; : alfalfa, $6.00 7.50 per ton; straw, 80 45o per bale. Potatoes Early Rose, 85 90; Ore gon BnrbanKs, 85e 1.00; river nur banks, 90 90c; Salinas Burbanks, $1.00 1.26 per sack. Citrus Fruit Oranges, Valencia, . $2.T58.25; Mexican limes, $4.00 .00; California lemons 75o$1.50; do choice $1.75 2.00 per box. Tropical Fruits Bananas, $1.60 50 . . per bunch; : pineapples, nom inal; Persian, dates, 66o per pound.