GAZETTE.
CORVALLIS
WEEKLY.
VOL. XXXVII. NO. 42.
UNION Estab. July, 1897.
GAZETTB Eatab. Dec, 1862.
Consolidated Feb. 1899.
CORVALLIS, BENTON COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1300.
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News of thf. World.
TERSE TICKS FRGJk .'HE WIRES
An Interesting Collection of Items From
'"lie Two Hemisphere Pre ' it i
in a Cor-lensed Tcvav
Fighting has
broken out again in
Ashantee.
Shan Hai Kwan forts surrendered
to
the British.
A plot to assassinate President lie
Kinley has been discovered.
In a train hold-up near Council
Bluffs, one robber was killed.
Passengers on Nome steamer were
vacinated on account of new outbreak
of samllpox in Alaska.
Evidence claimed to have been found
which proves that Mount Baker mines
are not in American tetritory.
In an explosion at the Corning Pow
der Works at Santa Cruz, Cal., C.
Merier. an employe, was killed, and J.
Valencia was fatally injured.
Portuguese officials at Lourenco
Marques have warned President Kruger
to make no more speeches and forbid
his wearing insignia of office.
The latest report of cotton damage
to the state of Texas by the recent
floods places the estimates at 400,000
bales. The value is estimated at not
less than $20,000,000.
Boers captured a British convoy and j
wrecked a train. Of the convoy's
escort of 60 men only 12 escaped and
in the train wreck, live Britons were j
killed and 19 injured.
The population of Arkansas, as offi
cially announced by the United States
census bureau, is 1,811,564, an in
crease over the population of 1890 of
183,385, or 16.25 per cent.
General Wood, commanding the
United States forces in Cubn, has made
bis annnal report to the war depart- !
ment. It contains his recommendation j
that all troops in Cuba be mounted, to- j
gether with an account of the with- i
drawal of the troops during the past
year. The health of the tioops, he ;
says, has been good, and their conduct j
is commended.
C. E. Gallaway, aged 89, died at
Denver, Colo., from injuries received j
by being struck by a tramway car.
He was believed to be the oldest news
paper editor in the United States He
was born in Portage county, O., Feb- j
ruary 13, 1812, learned the printing!
trade in Lawrenceville. Ind., and pub- j
lished and edited newspapers in Ohio,
Illinois, Missouri and Utah.
The allies captured Shan Hai Kwan.
Germans routed a Boxer force near
Pekin.
Roosevelt received a great ovation in
Lincoln, Neb.
Hanna spoke in Chicago on the Tarn- j
many ice trust.
Minister VA'u confirms the reported
indictment of Prince Tuan.
Prospects are again pood for settle- j
ment of the Chinese question.
British election returns continue to
show large Conservative gains.
A business block at Sbamko, Or., i
was completely destroyed by fire.
Daily Democrats of Montana, nomi
nated Thomas S. Hogan for governor.
Massachusetts Democrats nominated
a full state ticket, headed by Robert
Treat Paine, Jr.
.A negro fiend was burned at the
stake at Wetumpka, Ala., for an at
tempted criminal assault.
The population of the city of Seattle,
as officially announced by the United
States census bureau, is 80,671, as
against 42,837 in 1890, an increase of
87,834, or 88.32 per cent.
The Peruvian cabinet has resigned,
owing to a unanimous vote of censure
by congress, being inevitable as a re
sult of the scandal in connection with
the purchase of arms in Belgium and
the alleged use by Senor Belamunde,
ex-minister of finance, of government
funds for his private transactions.
According to semi-official state
ments, the Russian naval estimates for
1901 show a total of 97,097,666 rou
bles, an increase of 10,000,000 roubles
for the current year. The ordinary ex
penditure swallows 60,000,0c" roubles,
of which 16.000,000 is intended to
strengthen the fleet, 3,000,000 roubles
for harbor work at Libau, 2,000.000
roubles to be expended at Vladivostock,
and 3,000,000 at Port Arthur.
Kate Carmack. wife of George Car
mack, the Klondike millionaire, filed
a suit in the superior court at Hollis
ter, Cal., for divorce, alleging deser
tion and infidelity. She demands half
of the community property, which con
sists of valuable Klondike mines, real
estate in Seattle and other places, and
large sums deposited in Hollister. San
Francisco and Seattle banks. The en
tire property is appraised at $1,500,
000. Carmack proposes to contest the
suit, and a sensational trial is antici
pated. A man in North Missouri is named i
South West.
Lord Roberts is due in London on
November 1. Buller is to command in
South Africa.
The postal service establishment of
the United States is the greatest busi
ness concern in the world.
Belgium uses more tobacco, in pro
portion, than any other country, about
110 ounces per capita yearly, while
taly uses only 22 ounces.
LATER NEWS.
Bryan made 14 speeches in Southern
Illinois.
The Chinese court refuses to return
to Pekin.
France is anxious
to annex Yrnnan
province.
Russian troops may
withdraw from
Manchuria.
Chamberlain is mentioned as a pos
sible successor of Salisbury.
The ministerial majority in the Brit
ish parliament will be from 150 to 160.
Trades Council orders strike on Seat
tte's buildings. Over 1,000 men are'
idle.
The Boers now occupy Wepner, af
well as Rouxville and Ficksburg, iu
Orange River colony, and the Biitish
are attempting to surround them.
Five persons were killed and 75 in
jured in a railway collision at Karls
tbor, Germany. The accident was du
to an error in signaling. One official
has been arrested.
Andrew C. Armstrong, one of th
founders of Scribner's Magazine, anc
one of the oldest publishers in New
York city, died at his country hom
at Stamford, Conn., aged 71.
Five thousand pilgrims assembled ai
the St. Nikandex monastery, in the
Porkhoff district. St. Petersburg, foi
a religious festival. During the night
one of the upper floors collapsed and
many of those sleeping there fell upon
those below. A panic was caused by a
false alarm of fire, and four men and 3C
women were crushed to death, many
others being seriously injured.
Arrangements for building 8.00C
freight cars for the Baltimore & Obic
railroad by the Pullman Company, at
Pullman,
111., has been completed.
The contract calls for 2,500 box cars,
each with a capacity of 60,000 pounds,
and 500 flat cars. The total ccst Of the
rolling stock. will be $1,865,000. This
is the second large order for freight
equipment given by the Baltimore &
Ohio management within the last week.
The first order was for 6,000 steel cars,
to cost $6,000,000.
Having found the natives of Tutuila
fit to serve as policemen and maintain
peace and order, Commander B. F.
Tilley believes they would make excel
lent soldiers to man the fortifications
of Pango Pango harbor. In private
letters to officers on duty he has indi
cated that they would make effective
artillerymen. To enlist a regiment ol
natives, it would be necessary to ob
tain special authority from congress.
The natives who are acting as police
men were enlisted by Commander Til
ley as landsmen. It is likely, how
ever, that a force of marines will be
permanently stationed at Pango Pango.
The Boers are active in Orange River
Colony.
Roosevelt spoke to two big meetings
in Chicago.
Japanese troops are withdrawing
fiom China.
Bourke Cockran discussed the issues
in Topeka, Kansas. ,
The battleship Texas may be perman
ently retired from service.
A collision on the Great Northern
line near Seattle resulted in the death
of an engineer and the serious injury
of another.
A tornado struck the town of Biwa-
bik, in Northern Minnesota, killing j
nine persons, injuring several others
and doing damage to the amount oi
$500,000.
The secretary of the interior has de
cided to dispose of the Indian lands
ceded to the Chippewas in Minnesota,
amounting to 74,125 acres. They con
sist of pine and agricultural lands.
Fire on the docks of the Atlantic
Transport Line, in the North river.
New York, destroyed one of the piers
of the company, with all the merchan
dise on it, entailing a loss of $175,000.
The population of the city of Ta co
ma. Wash., according to the United
States census for 1900, is officially an
nounced as 37,104, against 36,001 in
1890, an increase of 1,708, or 4.84 per
cent.
It is officially announced by the cen
sus bureau that the population of the
state of New Hampshire is 411,588.
In 1890, the population was 376,530,
the increase being 35,058, or 9.30 pel
cent.
Li Hune Chang has ordered the re
lease and safe escort to Pekin of five
Belgian engineers and 15 missionaries,
who have been kept prisoners many
weeks at Pao True Fu. Li Hung
Chang is apparently doing his utmost
to please the powers.
At Trenton, N. J., Eddie McBride,
10 years old, died from burns received
while playing "Indian" with compan
ions. McBride was tied to a stake and
his clothing saturated with gasoline
and then ignited. The boy broke loose
and ran screaming to his home, where
he died.
The war department has approved
an exhaustive opinion by Judge Advocate-General
Lieber to the effect that
absentees from a volunteer legiment,
save prisoners of war, are discharged
from the service on the same date upon
which their organization is mustered
out. The decision was important as
affecting the pay and status of many
officers serving on detached duty.
Pearls are being found in great quan
tities in the Black and St. Francis riv
ers, in southwest Missouri.
General Richard O'Grady Haly, the
new commander-in-chief of the British
troops in Canada, won the distinguish
ed service order in the Egyptian expe
dition of 1882.
During the last three years Russia
has been colonizing Siberia as far as
possible. At least 200,000 colonists
have been sent into the country over
the Trans-Siberian railwav
NAVY SHOWED FIGHT
Chinese Fleet Tried to En
gage Russian Cruiser.
BUT THE LATTER GOT AWAY
Allied Squadrons Will Force
ships to Capitulate, or
Will Destroy Them
the 1
Klsa
London, Oct. 8. It is reported in
St. Petersburg, according to the corre
spondent of the Times at the Russian
capital, that the Chinese fleet in For
mosa strait attempted to engage the
Russian cruiser Rurik, but the latter's
speed frustrated the plan. The corre
spondent says the allied squadron will
force the fleet to capitulate or will de
stroy it.
Shanghai telegrams announce that
the imperial edict, dated September
30, ordering the court to be removed
to Sinan Fu, was issued owing to the
famine at Tai tfuan Fu, capital of the
province of Shun Si. They also ex
press the opinion that the object of the
recent edict regarding the degradation
of the Chinese personages of high rank
is merely to gain time to enable China
to be in a better position to dely the
powers, as the new capital will be vir
tually inaccessible to foreigners. The
Shanghai correspondent of the Morning
Post, discussing this aspect of the case,
remarks:
"The German troops have no means
of transport, and any attempt to fol
low the Chinese court would be, there
fore, quite futile."
He says the Chinese firmly believe in
the existence of a Russo-German agree
ment, under which Russia will take all
the territory north ot the great wall
and Germany the provinces of Chi Li
and Shan Tung.
The Times' representative at Shang
hai says:
"It is believed here thai highly in
flammatory edicts are being issued
secretly, and that the recent public
edicts are odIv intended to hoodwink
the powers."
MILLIONS FOR LEVEES.
Why Not Use n
for
Portion of This
Reservoir,.?
.Honey
The history of levee construction on
the Mississippi river has been a long
one. The first levee was begun in
1717, which was, when completed, one
mile long, erected to protect New Or
leans, then a mere village. This levee
was four feet high and 18 feet across at
the top. It was not, however, until
after Louisiana had been ceded to the
United States that levee construction
was begun on a large scale. As the
work progressed up the river and addi
tional basins and bottoms were en
closed, the levees necessarily increased
in height. The average height of the
levees in Louisiana above New Orleans,
is now between 12 and 13 feet, and this
heigh- proved insufficient in the great
flood of 1897. This flood indicates to
the official engineers that three or four
teet additional will be required.
Fortunes Appropriated.
Millions and millions of dollars have
been appropriated by the federal gov
ernment for the building of these levees
and other constructions intended to
protect the surrounding country lrom
floods, and millions more must be ap
propriated bv every congress to come
! unless other steps are taken to prevent
these floods. These measures ot the
government are merely palliative; they
do not go to the root of the evil. The
report of Captain Hiram Chittenden, of
the government engineer coips, how
ever, shows that there is a way to
strike at the trouble itself, and largely
prevent the floods instead of trying to
enclose them between banks after they
have become such.
Storage Reservoirs.
He shows in his official report that,
by the building of a series of great
storage reservoirs at the head waters of
tne Missouri, floods can be prevented
through the diverting of the excess of
waters into these artificial lakes.
Surely this is something for congress
to give its attention to. Here is a
practical plan. An ounce of preven
tion is worth a pound of cure. Con
gress will go ahead appropriating mil
lions every session for flood prevention
without a question, but it will not ap
propriate the same amount for a plan,
which, according to the government's
own engineers, promises far greater re
sults. Of course, the storing of these
reservoirs would mean the reclamation
of large tracts of land to irrigation;
but this need not worry congress, even
its Eastern members, for the Eastern
merchants are already alive to the situ
ation, and realize that the reclamation
of the arid West would open to them
the finest market in the world.
GUY E. MITCHELL.
Confessed to Robbery.
San Francisco, Oct. 8. A man giv
ing the name of Frank W. Travels has
surrendered himself to the police, al
leging that he robbed his brother, D.
R. Travers, of 41 Park Row, New
York, of $1,000, last July. He says
that he stole the money from the cash
drawer after his brother had refused to
lend it to him.
Lloyd McKim Garrison Dead.
Springfield, Mass., Oct. 8. Lloyd
McKim Garrison, aged 83 years, a New
York attorney, is dead after an illness
of about six weeks with typhoid fever.
He was a relative of William Lloyd
Garrison, the note abolitionist.
Powder Explosion. -
Shamoikn, Pa., Oct. 8. By an ex
plosion at Asbury Powder Mills, near
here, last night, two men were killed
and another was so badly burned that
he is not expected to recover.
DEVASTATION IN TRANSVAAL.
Consul-General Stowe'i Report to the
State Department.
Washington, Oct. 6. An interesting
picture of the Transvaal and Free State
in August, after the wave of war had
passed over the country, is presented
in a report to the state department
from Unted States Consul-General
Stowe, at Cape Town, dated August
17 last. He had just returned to the
Cape from a trip through the two re
publics. He says that for hundreds
of miles all the wire fencing is down
and cannot be used again. The posts
have been burned for fuel and must be
replaced with iron posts, owing to the
scarcity of timber. The plowing in
progress is limited, compared with
former years, and there will be large
market for American cereals. By
March, 1901, agricultural machinery I
will be wanted
Meat and livestock will continue to
! be imported. Johannesburg had only
i three days' supply of meat when Mr.
j Stowe left the town. While the Boers
' who have returned are anxious to get
' to work, several months must elapse
before things settle down to a normal
! basis. The government is building a
new line of railway from Harrismith
! to connect with the Orange Colony sys-
tern, so that the Netherlands railway,
j with its 200 per cent dividends, will
no longer nave a monopoly in me
Transvaal. There will be a big de
mand for bridge material and electrical
I mahcinery and supplies.
Lord Roberts has appointed an ad
visory committee to assist him in the
reopening of Johannesburg, and to se-
cure the return of the mining popula-
tion, which the prosperity of the town
i depends upon. It is questionable
whether an undesirable element com
mon to all mining towns will be al
lowed to return to Johannesburg.
TELEGRAPH TO SKAGWAY.
The Line Is Completed and the First
Message Sent to Seattle Yesterday.
Seattle, Oct. 6. The first telegram
from Skagway to Seattle, marking an
epoch in the history of business be
tween Alaska and the ontside world,
was received here today. The time oc
cupied by the message in transit was
seven hours, which, however, will be
reduced one-half as soon as the line is
in working order and business reduced
to a system.
The route taken by the message was
from Skagway to Atlin, thence over
the old Atlin-Lillooet line to the
Fraser river, thence to Ashcroft and on
to Vancouver, from which place it was
sent to Seattle.
The line over which it passed to Van
couver is that which the Canadian
government has been engaged in con
structing for the past four months. It
is not yet completed, and will not be
for about a week. However, in order
to get the first message through today,
a temporary line was put up connect
ing the unfinished portion between
Lillooet and Ashcroft. and in this man-
i ner the transmission of the message
was accomplished.
According to the reports received
here today, the whole work of the Ca
' nadian government will be concluded
i by October 10, atter which the through
j line will be open for commercial busi-
ness.
TO PUNISH REBELS.
A Whole Regiment Will
Be Sent to
Marinduque.
Washington, Oct. 6. The following
cablegram has been received at the war
department:
"Manila, Oct. 6. First infantry
goes to Marinduque, October 6, on
Sumner. General Hare is to com
mand the island, with orders to push
1 operations until insurrection is stamped
i out absolutely. He will have 12 full
companies of infantry for the purpose.
Anderson's first operations developed
nothing. No reports since October 2.
"MACARTHUR "
The above dispatch relates to rein
forcements sent to the Island of Marin
duque, where Captain Shields and 51
men of the Twenty-ninth volunteer in
fantry were either killed or captured
by the insurgents. At that time Gen
eral MacArthur sent Colonel Anderson
and two companies of the Thirty
eighth volunteer infantry, with the
Yorktown and two gunboats, to the re
lief of Shields and his command, if
they were still alive.
Collision at San Francisco.
San Francisco, Oct. 6. The naval
reserve ship Marion and the United
States ship Ranger were in collision
this morning and both were damaged
about the lower rigging and along the
rails.
Captain Bolles and Bulger, local in
spectors of steam boilers, commenced
an investigation today of the cause of
the collision between the steamer
Columbia and the ferryboat Berkeley.
The captains of the two vessels and
members of both crews were examined
as witnesses. Additional evidence is
to be taken and the case will then be
submitted for decision.
Andrnp'i Greenland Exploration.
Copenhagen, Oct. 6. Lieutenant
Andrnp's Greenland expedition has ar
rived here on board the Antarctic. The
members of the expedition explored
and approached a hitherto unknown
stretch of land extending from Cape
Town, latitude 69 degrees 28 minutes
north to Agassis land, 67 degrees 22
minutes north.
Dutch Warships Ordered Sonth.
I Shanghai, Oct. 6. The Dutch war
: sbips Gelderland and Holland have
1 suddenly been ordered to Swatow and
Amoy respectively.
Charged With Malley's Murder.
Wallace, Idaho. Oct. 6. The coron
er's inquest on the body of Matt Mai
ley, who was murdered Monday morn
ing, concluded today. The .verdict
charges Ed Rice with the crime. Rici
(8 in. custody.
AT LEAST NINE KILLED
Work of a Tornado in North
eastern Minnesota.
THE PROPERTY LOSS IS $100,000
Locomotives Were Shifted From the
Tracks and Founded Into Scrap
iron Mines Disabled.
Biwabik, Minn., Oct. 9. The tor
nado that raged in this vicinity last
evening was most violent. The storm
cut a pathway 150 feet in width
wougn me nurwiwrawn. uru ui .u
buildings. The property loss is esti
mated at $100,000 and the known fa
talities number nine, with a scoie or
more injured, some severely.
The storm swept in a northwesterly
direction after leaving here and struck
a little Finnish settlement near Pike
lake, where a number of buildings
were wrecked, in one of which an en
tire family, consisting of husband, wife
and four children, were instantly
killed. So far their names have not
been obtained. It is believed when
the more remote districts are heard
from further casualties may be re
ported. The house in which the Marowitz
family lived was completely wrecked,
and the body of Mrs. Marowitz was
found 400 feet away, every bone in
her body being broken and her clothing
completely stripped off. The body of
her husband was found amid the debris
of their home horribly mutilated.
William Hilstrom was struck on the
head by a falling tree and his skull
crushed. He afterward died at the
hospital.
The engine house of the Duluth, Mis
sissippi & Northern railway was com
pletely wrecked and a number of loco
motives and cars were shifted from the
tracks and pounded into scrapirou.
The engine on which Murray and An
ders n were when the storm broke was
blown from the track and the men
were pinned beneath it and horribly
burned by the escaping steam. Sev
eral cars were blown from the Duluth,
Mississippi & Northern tracks and we
found in the Duluth mine pit, hun
dreds of feet away. Many of the
! bnildings destroyed were owned by the
! mining companies, and tenanted by
their employes. The shafthouse and
buildings of three minas were reduced
to kindling wood.
The tornado which lasted less than
; five minutes, was preceded by an un
; usually severe thunder and rain storm.
The rain has flooded many of the open
pit mines, and they cannot be operated
for some time.
Explosion of 7, BOO Pounds of Dynamite.
Duluth, Minn., Oct. 9. A special
from Eveleth, Minn., tonight, reports
a disastrous explosion. Seven thous
and five hundred pounds oi dynamite
iu the powder magazine at the Pruce
mine, situated a half mile from town,
blew up about 5:30 o'clock this after
noon. A hole 100 feet square and 25
feet deep marks the spot where the
magazine stood. The force of the ex
plosion was so great that it smashed
every pane of glass within a radius of
two miles. The mine laboratory and
warehouses were totally wrecked.
At least 200 people were hurt more
or less from being thrown down by the
shook or hit by shattered glass. The
explosion was plainly felt at Biwabik,
12 miles distant. The cause of the ex
plosion is unknown.
Boers Short of Ammunition.
London, Oct. 9. It is estimated, ac
cording to the Pietermaritzburg corre-
j spondent of the Daily Mail, that 4,000
j to 5,000 Boers have retreated from Pil
grim s Kest, nortneast ot iyaenourg,
with four long toms and 22 other guns.
The correspondent understands that
tbeir long torn ammunition is almost
exhausted .
Lord Roberts, the Dail Mail an
nounces, will leave South Afmca dur
ing the last week of October. The au
thorities have decided to limit the
number of colonial troops who are to
be the queen's guests in London to 500.
Crime of an Insane Mother.
New York. Oct. 8. Mrs. Lillian
Smith, of Inwood. borough of Manhat
tan, while insane this afternoon shot
and killed two of her children, wound
ed a third and committed suicids:
The tragedy took place in the old
Frank Leslie mansion. Mrs. Smith
was the wife of Walter N. Smith, who
has been connected with a large grocery
house in this city for 21 years. They
had been married 13 years. Mrs.
Smith had been in poor health of late,
and long brooding over the prospect of
death is believed to have unsettled her
reason.
American Collier Floated.
Suez, Oct. 9. The American steam
collier Emir, which recently sank in
the Suez canal while on her way to
Manila with coal for the American
fleet, but was successfully floated yes
terday, has arrived at Suez roads. She
is unable, however, to enter the port,
as she draws too much water. Her
cargo is being discharged, and divers
will examine her bottom to ascertain
the extent of her injuries.
Peary Not Yet Coming Home.
St. Johns, N. F., Oct. 9. The fail
ure of the Peary exploring steamer
Windward to return from the north
leads local observers to believe that
the explorer will not attempt to get
back this autumn. Probably the sea
son just passed was an open one in the
far north. Should that have been the
case, Lieutenant Peary is likely to
have taken the Windward into some
high latitude, hoping to use her in a
farther expedition next season.
OPERATIONS IN PHILIPPINES,
Strengthening Weak Garrisons Steps
Taken to Help Our Trade.
Manila, Oct. 10. Four troops of
cavalry and two companies of infantry
have recently reinforced General Young
in Northern Luzon, where the insur
gents are concentrating in the moun
tains of North and Sonth Ilicos prov
inces under the leadership of Aglipay,
the ex-communicated priest and rene
gade. General Tinio and General Villan
nave, who had been quiet for some
time, are now showing signs of becom
ng active as the end of the rainy sea
on approaches.
Of late there has been considerable
scouting and skirmishing in the prov
inces of Abra and North Ilocos, though
without decisive results. It is obvious,
however, that the maneuvers of the
Filipinos are more sikllfulthan former
ly and that the field tactics of the
Americans are being followed by them.
Senor Mateni, the founder of the so
called Filipino government, who was
captured by the Americans last Decem
ber and lodged in jail in Manila, hae
been liberated. As he had always per
sistently refused to take the oath of al
legiance to the United States govern'
ment he had maintained his reputation
among the Filipinos as a resolute pat
riot. They now believe that he has
reached a private understanding with
the American authorities which hae
secured his release, and consequently
be has lost some of his popularity, al
though he is still considered the leader
of the dormant revolutionary element.
This week the commision will begin
the work of revising the tariff, making
use of the results on the investigation
of the army board in this direction.
It is the intention of the commission
to give American trade a better chance
than it has heretofore enjoyed owing
to the high duties.
The transports Sumner and Venue
have sailed for the Island of Mariu
duque, off the westcoast of Luzon, car
rying two battalions. The former has
already arrived there. The transport
Logan will reinforce the Twent-ninth
United States infantry now in Marin
duque. GALVESTON NEEDS MORE.
People Require Material to Build Them
selves Houses.
Galveston, Texas, Oct. 10. Miss
Clara Barton, president of the Nation
al Red Cross Society, today issued a
statement to the manufacturers and
business men of the country in which
she appeals to them for aid in the way
of material to be used in the building
of homes for those who lost their all
in the recent storm. It is addressed
"To the manufacturers and dealers in
lumber, hardware, builder's materials
and household goods and to the busi
ness men in general of the United
States," and says:
"We believe it is reliably stated that
there is not one house in the area of
the storm undamaged by it. A large
proportion of those persons formerly
occupiyng them are strictly entirely
without homes or even shelter, save
such as persons nearly as' destitute as
themselves can offer them temporarily
to their own great inconveience and
cost.
"The number of this homeless class
is estimated at 8,000 or more. Winter
is less than two months away. Al
though a mild climate, still snow and
ice are known here. If tents would J
protect, which they will not, the sand j
would not hold them d wn. Some j
substantial shelter must be had at
once for these people.
"The havoc wrought by the i5torm in
Galveston at once was much larger in
loss of life and property than at Johns
town, but the donations in money so
far have aggregated one-ibird less lor
both the city and mainland than was
given at Johnstown,
i "While the bountiful outpouring of
the people's generosity has enabled the !
general relief committee and the Red
Close to feed the hungry, clothe the
naked and render the streets of Galves
ton partially passable, nothing has as
yet been done toward reinstating the
impoverished survivors in houses where
I they can escape disease' and enjoy a
slight measure of the comforts of
i which the storm deprived them.
j "It is for the purpose of awakening
the sympathies of the American people
and further appealing to their bounti-
ful instincts to rescue these sufferers
! from the hardships still confronting
i them that the foregoing statements
; have been put forth."
No Trace of Captives, -Manila,
Cct. 10. The report oi the
capture of about 60 men of the Twenty
ninth United States infantry on Marin
duque island is confirmed through com-:
munica ions to MacArthur and Kempff,
from Marinduque island, but details are
lacking. The Yorktown's relief col
umn landed at Torrijos, on the Marin
duque coast, and marched to Santa
Cruz, which was the proposed route ol
the captured party, without encouu ei
ing the enemy or learning anything
definite regarding the captives, except
that they had entirely disappeared. It
is possible that the rebels have convey
ed the captives to Luzon.
Assam Tea Crop in Dancer.
Calcutta, Oct. 10. An unprecedent
ed drought is prevailing in the district
of Chachar and Silhet, province of As
sam, "causing the greatest anxiety in
regard to the tea and other crops.
Philadelphia Sent Over SIOO.OOO.
Philadelphia, Oct. 10. The cash
contributions made by the citizens of
this city to the relief fund of the Texas
flood sufferers - now exceeds $100,000.
This is exclusive of numerous train
loads of provisions, clothing, drugs and
other atricles sent.
Puddlers' Strike Over.
Reading, Pa., Oct. 10. The Reading
Company puddlers have accepted $3 a
ton, a teduction from $4, and all mill
resumed today after a biief strike.
GONE TO SINAN FU
Chinese Court Will Not Re
turn to Pekin.
AFRAID OF THE ALLIES' ARMIES
The First Stop Was Made at Tai Yuan,
but the Place Was Not Con.
sidered a Safe One.
Washington, Oct. 10. The effort to
Induce the Chinese imperial court to
return to Pekin has failed, after a
week's persistent effort on the part of
the powers. News to that effect was
brought to the state department today
by the Chinese minister, who received
it via St. Petersburg from Viceroy.
Liu Kum Yih and Chang Chlh Tung,
under date of October 4. Minister Wu
received the message last night. It
was as lollows:
"The departure of their imperial ma
jesties for Shen Si (province) was due
to distressing conditions at Tai Yuan
Fu. There is a scarcity of food sup
plies in the province of Shan Si on ac
count of the long continued drouth and
the provincial capital (Tai Yun) is al
most deserted, the trades people having
left on account of the disturbances
caused and continued for months by
the Boxer rebels, who had inyaded that
province with the encouragement of
Governor Yu. Their majesties, there
fore, were obliged to proceed to Shen
Siffl, where telegraphic communication
with Shanghai and other parts of the
empire is open and rapid communica
tion with tbeir majesties may therefore
be carried on, thus court and official
business may be transacted more expe-
j ditiously by their presence in Shen Si
j rather than in Shan Si.
I "The reasons for the temporary post-
; ponement of their majesties' return to
: Pekin are the presence of the allied
forces there, on account of which so-
! licitous fear is doubtless entertained,
besides a danger of the outbreak of epi
demic disease, which usually follows
' after great disturbances, destruction of
property and military operations, li
; is hoped that the powers will be con-
j siderate in their judgment in this mat-
: ter."
The important feature of the message
I is the confession that the court is re
! strained by fear of the allied forces
! from returning to Pekin. The move-
ment takes the emperor and empress
dowager about 300 miles farther away
from Pekin, though, according to the
statements contained in the message by
reason of the direct telegraphic com
munication with Shanghai the court
practically will be nearer for the pur
' poses of negotiations with the outside
! world, than.it was at Tai Yuan.
FINDS A SNUG SUM.
Hondurance Mining; Property That Was
Left, by Dying Fiance.
j St. Paul, Oct. 10. Through the
I publication of a dispatch in today's
j Pioneer Press, Mrs. H.E. Butterfield.
of this city, has discovered that she is
! $200,000 wealthier than she imagined,
j In 1890, while on an excursion to the
Pacific coast, she became acquainted
! with Thomas P. Harkin, of Boston,
j also a member of the party. They be
came engaged and tne wedding naie
was fixed. Shortly after Harkin was
taken sick and died. Before his death
he executed for his affianced a quit
claim deed to a mining property in
Honduras. Communication with the
Honduran government officials led to
the belief that the property was not
worth the trouble of filing formal trans
fer. Last winter, however, the prop
erty greatly increased in value and the
synidcate that bad it in charge offered
Harkin's attorney $200,000 for a quit
claim deed from Miss Giiffin. In
some manner, however, all trace of
that young lady had been lost and not
even the names of her parents colud be
found.
Mrs. Butterfield, on reading the dis
patch today, at once took steps to
identify herself and will shortly receive
the snug sum, which comes to her in so
romantic a manner. Her husband is
a clerk in the Great Northern Railway
office.
Tin Plate Mills Resume.
Pittsburg, Oct. 10. The American
Tin-Plate Company will have in opera
tion this week 20 of its tin-plate plants
out of 35 giving employment to at least
35,000 workmen. The tin-plate com
pany employs iu all over 50.000 work
men, and within a few weeks, it is
said, every plant in the country will be
working. The Monongahela mill, of
this city, the Deinler plant and the one
at Kennington started today, and the
others will follow as eoou as possible.
Nearly every plant in the gas belt will
commence tonight, and by the end of
the week every one of the 20 will be
operating to their full capacity. The
plants have been idle since the expira
tion of the scale in June last.
Situation in Santo Domingo.
Santo Domingo, Oct. 10. The gov
ernment has decieed the suspension of
the constitutional guarantees on ac
count of the revolutionary movement
in the interior, headed by General
Richardo, although it is asserted that
order has been restored and that Rich
ardo has been captured. All i quiet
here. .
Distress in Cuba.
Havana, Oct. 10. Governor-Genera
Wood, who returned yesterday from a
tonr of investigation in the province of
Santa Clara, reports only a partial re-,
covery from the effects of the war in
that section of the island. Although
he fouud no actual want in the district
of Sancti Spiritus, for instance, there
was great need of assistance to allevi
ate agricultural distress. This was
asked for by the municipality of Sancti
Spiritus, and has been granted by Ge
eral Wood from the insular fund