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WEEKLY. E3S5fSdl?&2-. I foMoliiilid Feb. 1899. COBVAIiLIS, BENTON COTJNTY, OEEGON, FEIDAT, JUNE 21, lSOl. VOL. XXXVIII. NO. 26. EVENTS OF THE DAY FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE WORLDS K Comprehensive Review of the lmporvii Happenings of the Past Week Prese M in a Condensed Form Which Is Most Likely to Prove of Interest to Our Many Readers. A servant girls' union is being formed in Chicago. ( "The United States may establish a clearing house at Manila. ' The surrender of the Filipino leader Cailles has been confirmed. Minister Loomis has been . trans ferred from Venezuela to Persia. Porto Ricans will hereafter work in harmony with the United States. ' Claim of Chilean vessel Itata against the United Shates has been dismissed. Thrty-five hundred trackmen of Canandian Pacific have gone on a strike. . ... . '; . . .- Empress dowager of China is plot ting to put a new emperor on the throne.- j - :': Mormons want to settle on govern ment lands in Mexico vacated by Indians. -.- Five more Chicago firms have ac ceded to the demands of the striking machinists. - Moran Bros., of Seattle, have se cured a force of nonunion machinists and carpenters. Industrual commission proposes to find out whether manufacturers sell cheaper abroad than at horiie. Twelve hundred men were laid off at the1 works of the Newport, R. I, shipbuilding company, on account of the machinists strike. " A number of -Filipino prisoners have been sentenced to death by the military commission for - .murder, assault , and . violation of the rules of War. ' ' '. . - . Philippine customs revenues are increasing. . ; - i 8ix frame buildings were burned at .Monmouth.' ... Cailles will surrender his entire fprce at Santa Cruz. "-.. -.incoming snips report passing quantities of wreckage on the ocean - Boers surprised a force of Victoria mounted rifles near Middlcsburg and captured two pompons. 'It is ex'epcted that negotiations at Pokin. will be settled this months "Ten' persons were injured by a tor nado in South Dakota. .. Two Indians . tried to murder the Umatilla chief of police. . 1 Von Waldersee will be created a prince on his return to Germany. ' Only one body has been recovered from the wreck of the ferry boat North field..,;.-? r " ... - - The Harriman interests have se cured i .control of the Chicago, Mil waukee & St. Paul road. Lulu Prince-Kennedy was convict ed of murder in the second degree and punishment was fixed at ten yeras imprisonment. An extensive syndicate isbuying tip eastern street car lines with the . intention of forming a complete mon- : opoly. . The Chief of the. forestry bureau of - the Philippines has issued a circular in which it is stated that the. timber supply in the Philippines is almost unlimited... Negroes about Leavenworth. Kan 8as, are . arming themselves with re volvers purchased from the troops at . Fort Leavenworth, and it is thought they intended to avenge the recent burning of a Negro. Eleven- hundred butchers are on strike in San Francisco. The Cuban convention has accepted the original Piatt amendment. The new battle ship Illinois is the fastest vessel of her class afloat. Americans were again' successful in the international trap shoot. Extensive commissary frauds have been Uicovered at San lfrancico. Another name has been added to the Port Sloyal, Pafcoal mine horror. Thirty-four- students graduated from the Oregon Agricultural, college. . Insurgent general Cailles refuses to surrender, except on his own terms. Extensive German' influence in the Yangtse district alarms the British - press. . - .' ' Donald McPhial.. a" prominent Eastern Oregon sheepman, was found dead by the roadside. " - The Washigton legislature has ad journed after amending the capital punishment law and passing three vetoed biills. -. - The governmnet is ' preparing to fire three and one half tons of dyna mite under the Narorws between Forts Hamilton and Wadsworth. There are 14,000 oysters to a ton. Biver Jordan water is now exported regularly for baptismal purposes. : . In Georgia it is estimated that- 30, 000 Negroes have been graduated at a cost of $100,000,000, which colleges are supported by Northern money. - The first mention of stamps is in. the letters of the old -Bishop Synesius- of Gyrene, on the Greek coast of Africa, 400 years after .the Christian era.- . ... A WONDERFUL MATHMEATICAN. Death of Prof. Tauman H Safford, of Wit ; ( . liams College. New York, June 17. President Tru-. man Henry Safford, the mathematic ian and astronomer, whose death has just been announced, will be burled in- the college burying ground at Wil liamstown, Mass. He was born at Royalton, Vt., 65 years ago. At an early age he attract ed attention by his powers of calcula tion. He-' could mentally extract the soriare and cube root of numbers of nine and ten places of figures, and could multiply four figures as rapidly as it could be done upon .paper. In 1845, when he was 9 years old, and nine years before he was graduated from Harvard college, he prepared an almanac, and at the age of 14 he cal culated the eliptic elements of the first comet of 1849. . By a method of his own he abridged by one-fourth the labor of calculating the rising and set ting of the moon. After long and dif ficult problems had ben read to him once, he could give their result with out effort. - " THREE MEN IN A BOAT. British Seamen Make Long but Useless Voy- age to Secure Help. ' . " Halifax, N. S, June 15. After sail ing nearly 700 miles In an open boat to take relief to their ship, the Bor der Knight, Mr. Mathie, chief officer. and two of the crew, arrived at Sheet Harbor, the end of their 15 days' jour ney, to find that their steamer had just been towed in, a distance of 450 miles, by the Spanish steamship Dur- anco, from Philadelphia for Bilboa. Captain W. P. Splatt, of the Border Knight, and his . crew were landed here, while the brave little rescue par ty found a haven 40 miles to the east ward. rV ' When the Border Knight's tail shaft broke, in latitude 34:10 north and Ion gitude 59:44 -west,, -300 miles north east of . Bermuda, . sails were rigged and she began to make her way slow ly northward.. Provisions were scarce, for she had. made an unusually slow voyage from Africa and the situation seemed to be desperate, as she was far out of the track of commerce.. Mr. Mathie and the two men vol unteered to set out in the lifeboat with a flimsy bit of sail to bring as sistance to" the British steamer. - This was May 29, and June 7 the Duranco, outward bound, responded to the sig nals of distress on the Border Knight. They were sighted by the Trave on Saturday. The Border Knight was bound" from Cape Verde Islands to New York. , FIRE AT A HEALTH RESORT. Hotel at West Baden, . Ind.. Burned Several Reported Lost " - Indianapolis, June 15. Telephone messages from Salem and Bedford, to the journal received this ..morning say: The" "West Baden Springs Hotel, at West Baden, one of Indiana's most famous health and pleasure resorts, burned early this morning. It could not be learned how the fire started. Everything in connection with the hotel building was destroyed, and it was rumored that several. lives were lost, but this could not be confirmed. Telephone and telegraph communica tion with Indianapolis was destroyed while the story of the fire was being told. - -- . ' . - ; The hotel is. said to have had sev eral hundred guests, and all of theii belongings , were destroyed, there having been no time to save anything. Assistance was asked of the fire de partments or . near-ny towns, but on account of the lack of transportation facilities no aid could be rendered, : One of the proprietors said -that part of the building was erected 12 years ago, and they had been adding to it ever since, until the valve of the property was. about $1,000,000 - this in cluding the grounds and buildings. There is only insurance of $100,000. FOUR LIVES LOST. Schooner Wrecked in a Fog land Coast Newfound- St. Johns, N. F., June 15. The schooner Czar, - bound to Labrador with fishermen and their families, 70 persons altogether," was driven ashore on Cabot Island on the north coast of New Foundland in a dense fog and gale. r Four men were drowned and six others were injured, but the wo men and children, all landed, safely. The survivors were on the island two days without ' food ; or Bhelter. Then another vessel, passing toward Labrador, sighted their distress sig nals, rescued them and landed them on the mainland, whence they will re turn home on board a mail steamer, The Czar became a total wreck, and those on board of her lost their be longings.. The women -and children were in a pitiable plight when " they reached the island, being aroused at midnight, and being able to secure only a little of their clothing, ' For a Chinese Republic - .".Honolulu, June 9, via San Francis co, June 15. San Yet Sen, the. Chi nese reformer, left on the America Mara June 5 for China, for the pur pose of starting a revolution. . His intention is to overthrow the Empress Dowager and the -mandarins. His idea Is to have China ruled by a presi dent on the lines of the Government of America. He says that there will be a strong force at his back, and he has the -support of many prominent white men in China, as well as thous ands of natives. This is the third revolution which he has attempted in China. . " His Life a Failure.' New York,' June 17. William Her- ford, an aged German of Williams burg, is dead by his own hand, hav ing shot himself by the side of a work bench in his carpenter shop after re alizing that at the . end of 30 years struggle to find the secret of perpetu al motion he was as far as ever from the goal he sought. He - was found with a bullet through his brain, his pipe clenched between his set teeth. and his head resting upon a piece of pianKlng. NEWS OF THE STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL OVER OREGON. Commercial and Financial Happenings of Im portance A BrieT Review of of the Growth and Improvemeuts of the Many Industries Throughout Onr Thriving Com monwealth Lateil Market Report v A new steam laundry will be start ed at Eugene. The Southern Pacific has opened a down-town ticket office in Salem.. Two mining claims in the Granite district were recently sold for $18,000 to the Gray's Peak gold mining com pany. . ; .- ' It is reported that ' the fruit in Eagle and Pine valleys has been killed by the late frosts. I Much grain is also killed, and the clover and al falfa injured. , i;., Rich quartz claims on Quartz gulch. near Alamo, were sold last week to a mining man from Iowa for $25,000. It is the intention of the new owner to put a mill on the property.- Taxes collected in Baker county for the year 1900 have been turned over to the treasurer. -They amount to nearly $50,000, and the entire amount was collected in about 60 days, v The Willamette river is " so low above the locks that only one -boat is now -running; and that with difficulty in getting over .the shallow places, The steamer Buth is'having a smaller wheel put in, so that she can run all summer. .--": A soda tank'blew up at Boseburg a few days ago. One piece smashed through the ceiling, another fragment flew out into a front room, creating consternation, and -- another piece wrecked a partition m one corner of the room, and smaller pieces flew everywhere. ; ' Eugene will have a two days' Fourth of July celebration. .The Whitney council now meets twice a month instead of once as heretofore. fourth, regiment, O. JN. U., will go into camp at Eugene June 27, and remain until after the Fourth. Beports from along the Columbia river show a much better run of salmon than in the past few weeks. commencement exercises "are in progress or about to begin in most, of the colleges and universities of the state. .. : - The Bogue Biver Mining & Milling Company has about finished cleaning up at its mine on the left hand fork of Foots creek. A new electirc light company has been formed in Salem. It will - also operate a system of street railways. Capital stock, $130,000. ..vy.v'; The new military code regulating the O. 3f . G. will be ready for distri bution in a few days. - The new set is much stricter than the one now ' in use. ' . . ".'-,. ; .. .. '. . : ..... The Lakeview- Water Company has a crew of men working on the im provement which will convey the company s water . in tiling direct from the spring to the summit of the hill overlooking Lakeview. Portland Markets. - .Wheats-Walla Walla, 6162c. ;val- lcy, nominal: bluestem, . 6162c. per bushel. 7 -: ; . Flour Best grades, $2. 90 3. 40 per barrel; graham, $2.60. Oats White, $1.32ML35 percen tal ; gray, $1.301.32M per cental. Barley Feed, $1717.50: brewing, $17 17. 50 per ton. Millstuffs Bran, $17 per ton ; midd-l tings, $21.50; shorts, - $20.00; chop. $16. : iHay Timothy, $12. 50 14; clover, 7i).50; Oregon wild hay, $67 r ton. , Hops 1214c. per lb. Wool Valley, ll13c; Eastern Oregon, 7 11c; mohair, 20 21c. per pound. - Butter - Fancy creamery, 15 17Jc. ; dairy, 1314c. ; store, 11 12 c. per pound. - ';Eggs Oregon ' ranch, 1212c. per dozen. - - . .. - v . Cheese ull cream, twins, 12 c; Young America, 1313 Jc. per pound. Poultry Chickens, mixed, $3.00; hens, $3 3. 50; dressed, 8 10c. per pound; springs, $1.50 3 per dozen; lucks, $3 3. 00; geese, $4 o. 50; tur keys, live, 8 10c; dressed, 910c. per pound. - - ' - Potatoes Old, $11.20 per sack; new, l2c. per pound. - Mutton Lambs 4c; per ' pound rrjss ; best sheep, wethers, -with wool. .tt.zois4.ou; aressea, , og c per pound. . , . " . : - Hogs Gross, heavy, $5.756; ugnt, - f4. o(sso; aressea, c." . per pound. - Veal Large, 6J7c per pound; small, 7ec. per pound. . , Beef Gross, top steers, $4.254.60; cows and heifers, $3.754.00; dressed beef, 77c. per pound. Admiral Rogers- will represent the united states at the unveiling of the ferry monument in Japan. It is reported that the head of Bear Admiral Sampson . will - appear , on medals commemorating the battle of Satiago bay. . - - - Bice, raw eggs and - boiled venison require onh one hour to-digest. At the other end . are pork, roast beef, cabbage and hard eggs, ' which re- juire four to five hours. 8URPRISED BY BOERS. Victoria Mounted Rifles Overcome By a Su- - pcrior Force." ""'.'-'-, London, June 18. Lord Kitchener has cabled from Pretoria under today's late as follows: - Near Welmansrust, 20 miles north of Middleburg, 250-Victoria mounted rifles from General Beaston's com mand were . surprised in . camp at 3teenkbolspruit by a superior force of Boers at 7 :30 p- m. June 12. The snemy crept up to within short range and poured a deadly fire into the camp," killing two officers and 16 men and wounding . four officers and 38 men, of whom 28 were only slightly wounded. ." Only two officers and 50 men escaped, to General ' Beaston's camp. The remainder were taken prisoners and released. Two pom- pos were captured by the' enemy. Full details have not yet been re ceived. :-?t-:- The serious reverse which Lord Kitchener reports is the first accident of the kind that has happened to the Australian contingent, and it is sup posed to be due to neglect of proper picketing. Although it is offset bj the defeat inflicted upon ' Dewet, the loss of the guns is regarded as a serious matter, which will encourage the Boers to continue the struggle. More or less fanciful accounts are published on the continent of alleged peace - negotiations, but there is nothing in them and nothing has come of ' the interview ,- between Mr. Botha and "Mr. Kruger, beyond re vealing the fact that Mr. Kruger will listen to no proposals unless they are accompanied with a guarantee' of ; in dependence of the republics. The Daily Mail s Cape Town cor respondent says : that Cecil Bhodes, speaking at Buluwayo . Saturday, predicted that a . federation of South African states would come in three or four years, but he contended that to grant self-government to the repub lics before federation would render federation impossible. JAPAN'S WAR ON RATS. Energetic Measures Taken to Suppress the . . . Plague."--...."--';', :;;.: Yokohama, June 1, via Victoria, B. C. June 18. Much consternation has been awakened by the escape of a rat at Tokio'. " The medical authori ties of , the Imperial university were 3n gaged in experimenting on some rodents in the introduction 'of plage bacilli ! into their veins,, wjen one of the animals eluded " their . vigilance, nd' as a consequence several have recently been discovered 'in" the hos pital infected with the disease. - As a result : the . war "against them lias assumed huge proportions.' The Tokio municipality has voted 30,000' yen, rat traps 'by the thousand are distributed- among ; the people, and a bounty of 5 sen each is offered for their . capture. ' With ' all this evidence- of consternation - there is no need of fear that the the disease can gain a foothold in 'i the country 'in which such measures for .prevention have been taken. While sporadic cases appear here and there,- they are instantly isolated, and the spread of the contagion . is rendered practi cally impossible. The authorities do not hesitate to adopt the most drastic measures -in each instance, and as a result the empire is today in & better sanitary condition than any other nation in the world. . .: ; . The cabinet , muddle is not only still unsettled, but it becomes every day more complicated and hopeless of solution. ' The " source of trouble, while dignified as a strife between the principle of a " party; minsitry and that of an independent - cabinet, responsible only to the sovereign, is almost lost . sight of in the pettiness of the political squabbles which have come to the surface, making : it im possible for any . statesman without complete- loss of self-respect, to un dertake the task of forming a minis try. STRIKE OF TRACKMEN. Employes of the Canadian Pacific Will Co - Out m Body. Vancouver, B. C, June 18. All of the Canadian Pacific trackmen will go out . tomorrow morning at 6 o'clock, the demand of those ' in the eastern division for an increase in wages of 20 cents ; per : day ; not having been ac ceded to. Officials of the road state that the - granting of this demand would mean ' an additional annual expenditure of $40Q,000. Men are being secured to tako charge of bridges and portions of ; track where surveillance is "necessary, and it is announced that all trains will be run tomorrow as usual. -;-. . . ' California Train Wreck, -Santa Cruz, CaL, June 15. The narrow - gauge Southern - facinc pas senger train from San Francisco was wrecked today near' Rincon. - Engi neer James . Stanley and , Fireman! Henry Coyle were seriously injured. The locomotive, tender and baggage car were badly smashed. The wreck occurred on a curve. The passenger car, containing 40 people, . did not leave the track. , : Battle on the Tonkin frontier. Tacoma, June 18. The steamship Tacoma brings . news from. Hong Kong that the French forces in Ton kin lost " four ; officers and-17 soldiers in a fight along the Tonkin frontier with marauding bands of . Chir sse, aggregating over 500. " The Chinese forces : include 1,000 ""regulars - who preferred - robbery to . soldiering. Many Chinese women were killed and the Chinese were driven into Kwang Se province. DBY-D0CK CAPSIZED WITH TRANSPORT INGALLS AND " HUNDREDS OF WORKMEN. Vessel Had Just Been Docked for Repairs. r Floating Dry-Dock was Old and Rotten, and Timbers were Forced Through the Walls Thirty Italian Laborers in the Hold Are Unaccounted For " : New York, June 17. While the United States transport Ingalls was in the balance dry dock at the Erie Bas in, Brooklyn, Saturday afternoon, where she was about to undergo extensive-repairs, she suddenly slipped from the blocks and capsized. One man is known to have been killed and many injured. . There were about 240 carpenters, machinists and others at work on the vessel and dock at the time. It is sup posed that " the vessel . was thrown from an even keel by ballast improp erly placed or by the shifting of the blocks on which she rested, causing her to list to starboard, driving the shearing beams through- jthe rotten walls of the old floating drydock in which she was cradled. Besides the mechanics ' and other workmen who crowded the vessel and dock, prepar ing her for a voyage to Manila, about 30 Italian laborers are supposed to have been in the hold of the ship em ployed in shifting pig iron ballast. While the workmen were trying to es cape the dock itself, overbalanced by the weight of the ship, turned on its side and sank in 50 feet of water. A number of the men were borne down into the water and jammed under and beneath the wreckage. - How many were caught could not be learned to night. . Martin Anderson,5 a painter, was caught under the descending side of the ship and killed outright.. Oth ers were dragged out of the water badly injured or . half drowned, and hurried to the- hospitals. ' Added to the horror of tonight was the uncertainty of the fate of the men in the vessel's hold.- Some managed to get to the dock and leaped into the water as the vessel was sinking, but it is feared that the majority were less fortunate . The Ingalls went into the drydock at 11:30 o'clock this -morning, and about 180,000 was to have been ex pended on her repairs. The dock in which she . was placed was a very old one, having been constructed" over 50 years ago. No one could be found tonight who could give an estimate of the damage caused by the disaster. FERRY BOATS COLLIDED. Probable Loss of .Life in New York Harbor Boats Badly Damaged. " New .York, June 17.The wooden side-wheeler Northfield, which has been in .the service of the Statan Is land Ferry Company for the past 38 years, was rammed tonight by the steel-hulled propeller Mauch Chunk, used as a ferry-boat by the Central Railroad of New Jersey. The collis ion occurred just off the Statan Island ferry slip, at the foot of Whitehall street, and in less than 20 minutes afterwards the Northfield, which was crowded with passengers, sank at the outer end of the Spanish Line pier in the East River. The Mauch Chunk, which was badly damaged, landed two dozen passengers who were aboard of her. Over 100 passengers of the sunk en Northfield were dragged out of the water by people along shore, and the crews of the fleet of river tugs which promptly responded to the ferry-boats' call - for- help. A few of the North field's passengers were hurt in the accident, and the police believe that some lives were lost, v Captain Daniel Gully, of the tugboat Mutual, who saw the ferry-boats crash together,, says that immediately after the collision between 25 and 30 pas sengers leaped into the water, and that many of these perished. Captain Gully also declared that he is sure that over 100 of the Northfield's pas sengers were drowned. ; Anarchists Will Shoot at Dummies. - New York; June 17. The World ays: .---.- . -. .. ... "Wooden dummies, wearing metal chest-protectors, and representing the crowned, despots of -Europe, are to be set up in Liberty Park, Ridgewood, L. I., for anarchists to shoot at. This occasion will be the grand annual love feast of the anarchists of Greater New York. Johann Most will be marshal. chief patron and honored guest. The anarchists, a year ago,, passed resolutions declaring that the war which they had made upon capital and power had not met with success. So they organized themselves into a rifle club and bought ' the - wooden dum mies. 1 - - Deaths From Heat Chicago. -June 17. Although the temperature was milder today, there were three deaths attributable to the heat of the last three days. .... Work of Army in Philippines. Washington, June IT. The War De partment gave out statistics today showing: That up to January, 1, 1901, the number of insurgents captured or surrendered was 21,497, together with 5048 rifles, 66 field pieces, over 3.- 000 shells and balls, 576,600 rounds of ammunition, and 19 'tons of powder. From January 1 to April 1-7, the num- ber of captured Included 247 officers. 2459 - men ; the number surrendered was 820 officers, 6492 men; or a grand total to that date of 31,315 insurgents. To this is to added 1558 rifles; 45,000 pounds of ammunition, 408 bolos and Z4 pieces of cannon. ' - Fire at Russian Navy Yard. . St- Petersburg, June 17. A fire at the Galley's Island shipyard yesterday consumed the slips, the cruiser Wiljas and other vessels, the government and other buildings there and a large stock of timber. - The flames also leaped the Neva-Fontanka canal, destroying sev eral military warehouses filled - with supplies. . . : ; According 16 the Novoe Vremya," 12 persons lost their lives in the flames. The damage done amounts to 10,000,- 000 roubles. EARL. WAS A BIGAMIST. But His Lordship Was Arrested on His Re. turn to England. London, June 19. Earl Bussell was arrested . today on a charge of having contracted a' bigamous mar riage in the United States.. The Earl was met at the railway station upon' his arrival from the country by detectives with a warrant add was taken to the Bow street po lice court, where he was formally charged. The nobleman appeared to be unconcerned. ; While Earl Bussell waited in the ante room the summons to appear before the magistrate, the woman he married in America joined him. When the case was called a represent ative of the public prosecutor said the prisoner was charged with felon iously marrying Mrs. Mollie Somer ville, daughter of the late George Cooke, of Combernauld, Sotcland. - The prosecution proceeded to out line - the Earl's marriage to Mabel Scott, his first countess), their separ ation and his subsequent disappear ance from England with a neighbor, Mrs. Somerville, and discovery that he . and Mrs. Somerville were located together at Beno, Nev. April 14, 1900, Earl Bussell obtained a license to marry . Mollie Cooke, otherwise Mrs. 6omerviile, in"" Nevada, and a judge performed the ceremony April 15. .. Counsel for the Earl pointed out that the prosecution omitted mention cf the divorce proceedings instituted by his lordship in America. In the event of a conviction the case will be taken to the house of lords, as Lord Bussell is entitled - to a trial by his peers. SERVANT GIRLS'. UNION. " Work of Organization Is in Progress in Chi. '. cao Eight Hour Day. Chicago, June 19. Union labor is to take a hand in the servant problem in Chicago, ii has been decided by the local branch of the Woman's In ternational Label League to start a vigorous crusade for the organization of the thousands of girls' whose work is in the homes of Chicago. The announcement of the league's decision was made on the floor of the Chicago Federation- of Labor and was received with applause by the delegates to the assembly. Committees have been appointed and the work of organizing the union will begin at once. The union will announce a regular scale of wages. An eight hour day will be de clared in vogue, with extra pay for holidays and overtime. The number of afternoons each servant, girl may have for recreation each week also will be stipulated. It was estimated that there were more than 600,000 girls and women in Chicago willing and eligible lor this new movement, They will work in sympathy with affiliated organizations of female labor, CONCESSION IS ASKED. Mormons Want to Settle on Government - . Lands Vacated by Indians. Mexico City,. June 19. A Mormon agent, James Cannon, is here for the purpose of securing from the govern ment a concession for settling 1,000 Mormons in Sonora. on the lands from which the Yaqui Indians have been driven. Mr. Cannon says : "We . believe that if suitable tracts of lands are placed at our disposal in the Yaqui country, we will do much in this country in . the interest of peace, for the Mormon .church has faced the Indian problem almost since its organization. We require no rifles in our management of the red brother, and are. always instilling into his mind that we are his friends and not his foes. If the concession is obtained, a commissioner will be sent at once into the Yaqui territory by the Mormon church for the pur pose of . ascertaining the attitude of the Indians, and if peaceful a con tract will be made and lands pur chased trom the xaquis. ' ' Brazil Settles American Claim. Washington, June 19. A cable gram received at the state depart ment from United States Consul Bryan,' at Petropolis; announces that the Brazilian government has paid the indemnity requested for the de struction by a mob of Baptist Chapel, in the province of ruchtheroy, main tained. by the American Baptist mis sion. ; . r : " ' " Accident to Actress. : ? Clevleand, O,; June 19. Mrs, Anna Chapman, a member of the Eugenie : Blair dramatic company, now playing at the Lyceum theater, in this city, fell through a trap door tonight and sustained a fractured skull. Her condition is serious. - Craves of Soldiers Decorated. : Tien Tsin, June 19, This being the anniversary of the beginning of the siege of Tien Tain . the ladies to day decorated the graves of the sold iers of all nationalities. - - v Disapproved by President " . Washington, June 19. The presi dent has disapproved an act of the Cherokee' Indian council, providing for a committee to execute a new ar rangement with, the Dawes commis sion.. The tribe, by popular vote, recently objected, by a majority of over 1,000 Notes, to the agreement which had been made between its representatives and the Dawes commission. BREACH WIDENING LIBERAL PARTY OF ENGLAND 18 DIVIDED OVER WAR. Announcement by the Secretary of War of the Terrible Death Rate Among Boer Pris oners Creates Sensation In Parliament Policy of War Department b Severely Criticised Reforms Promised. London, June 19. Beplying to questions in the House of Commons, Mr. Broderick, the war secretary, said there are 40,229 .persons in the "concentration camps of the Trans vaal and Orange Biver colony.- The deaths in these camps for the month of May numbered 98 men and women and 318 children. The announcement of the mortality was received with groans from the Irish members and cries of "Scandalous." Mr. Brod erick added that the authorities are arranging for the release of the women and children who have friends to re ceive them, but the governent could not undertake to locate them in iso lated places. - The division in the house of com mons on the motion made by Lloyd to adjourn the house on the question of the treatment of Boer women and children, which was rejected by a vote of 253 to 134, served to accentu ate the split in the Liberal party on the government '8 far east policy. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannermann, the Liberal leader, . also denounced the policy of concentrating women and children in camps and with a num ber of others, voted in the minority on the motion. About 50 Liberal Imperialists abstained from voting as protest against the Bannermann- Harcourt-Morley section of the house of commons identifying themselves so closely . with the- extreme pro Boers. BOERS GAINING STRENGTH. Taking On Many Recruits From Dutch Diet. ricts of Cape Colony. New YorK, June 19. The situa tion in South Africa is far from sat isfactory just now to Englishmen, says the Tribunes' London corres pondent. It is believed that. the Boers are gaming many recruits from the Dutch districts of Cape Colony, and in spite of Mr. Chamberlain's calm assertion that the embers of war are only smoldering, it looks very much as if they had burst into flames. A question will shortly be put in the Liberal benches in the house of commons as to the proposed suspen sion of the constitution in Cape Col ony. There is a general belief that Mr. Chamberlain and Lord Miller will hesitate before taking this step. Lawyers aie of the opinion that the only way it could be legally accom plished would be by an act of parlia ment, and in the present state of pub lic business the government will scarcely care to invite opposition on such an issue. Boers Will Never Give Up. Denver, June 19. Commandant W. D. Snyman, of the South African re public, is in Denver on a lecture tour, the proceeds of which are to aid the Boer prisoners. -"The struggle in South Afiica is not a race animosity," said Com mandant Snyman. "It is an awful war, a political war, brought about by political gamblers and speculators, and so long as they have life the Boers will fight for their liberty. Our wive3 and daughters will pray and fight with us. "Mothers send their sons into battle with a prayer. Widows and orphans are suffering, yet believing that God will bring them finally to victory." - Kitchner Has Moved. London, June 19. Lord Kitchener has not yet cabled the details of the reverse of the Victorian Bifles of General Beaston's column at Steen koelspruit, June 12. Small affairs continue to be reported from South Africa. Scheerper's commando is locked in at Murraysburg, in Cape Colony. Lord Kitchener has moved to Bloemfontein. Wants to Forcet the Maine.- Madrid, June 15. At a council of the Cabinet held yesterday, the. Queen Regent presiding, it was decided that any claims emanating from American subjects relative to the destruction of the battle-ship Maine in Havana har bor should be addressed to the Gov ernment of the United States, in con formity with the Treaty of Paris. : Machinists in the South will Strike. .' Savanah, Ga., June 19. A com mittee of union machinists waited on Superintendent of Motive Power Sy monds, of the Plant system today, and notified him that they had been instructed by the union to demand a nine hour day with 10 hours' pay. One hundred and fifty men are em-, ployed in the Plant shops here. If a satisfactory answer to their demand is not given by noon tomorrow, all the union' men in the shops will go OUt. .-' "...''. " - - P DJ.l 11J - . amn uinjuniium. - ; New York, June 19. Thomas Cur tis Clarke, consulting " engineer and ex-president of the American Society of Civil Engineers, is dead at his home in this city. . He was born . at Newton, - Mass., in 1827, - and was graduated from . Harvard in - 1848. - He was known as a bridge engineer J and designer, and built over 250 miles J of " iron - and steel bridges, viaducts I and elevated railways.