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WEEKLY, SS&&& I Consolidated Peb. 1899. COBVALLIS, BENTON COUNTY, OBEGON, FBIDAY, JUNE 28, laOl. VOL. XXXVIII. NO. 27. EVENTS OF THE DAY FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE WORLD. K Comprehensive Review of the Unpornv Happenings of the Past Week Presc iec . In a. Condensed Form Which Is Most Likely to Prove of Interest to Our Many Readers. There are Hawaii. about 27,000 Chinese in Secretary. Hay has started another canal treaty. An American deserter who acted as Cailles' lieutenant has been placed in irons. . Fire destroyed business buildings and warehouses in Portland, Or., tc the value of $60,000. The loss of life in West Virginia flood will not be as large as first re ported, while property loss will be greater. , . A man in Chicago who attempted to stop a quarrel between two othei men, accidentally shot and killed one of them. Washington's state grain inspector predicts that 25,000,000 bushels of wheat will be harvested in that state this year. A sailboat containing a young man and three girls capsized on Carquinez straits, in California, drowning oae of the girls and the young man. Brazil has formally accepted the invitation to participate in the Pan American congress of nations. It is thought other South American re publics will now follow this lead. Frederick H.' Da vies, for . many years prominent as a civil engineer on railroads running out - of Chicago, was killed while attempting to pre vent a wreck on the Baltimore & Ohio, near Midland, Ohio. As a result fo the war between the United States and Spain, a new principle has been established, which prevents neutral menofwar' entering or departing from a blockaded sport ' without the consent of the blockad ing fleet. - Three lives were lost in a storm at Pittsburg. ' All insurgent prisoners on Luzon will be released. Arollio's force .in Batangas is ex pected to surrender. President McKinley will visit the northwest next year. -.; r -- . Several strikers were wounded iim riots at Columbia, S. C. Earl Russell will be tried by the house of lords for bigamy. The transport Indiana sailed from Manila with coast artillery. ' Holland will reclaim a whole pro vince from the Zuyder Zee. . Cortez, the lexas assassin, is sup posed to have been captured. The Prussian crop shortage is the most serious in recent years. Cailles, the Filipino leader, surren dered his force at Santa Cruz. ' General Chaffee has been appointed military governor of the Philippines. , Public buildings at Manila are to be turned over to the civil authorities. The secretary of state lias addressed the Russian governmertt on the tariff question. Adelbert S. Hay, son of secretary of State Hay, fell from a Hew Haven, Conn., hotel window and was killed, State of Oregon has begun a suit to collect bond of ex-School Clerk Davis, who embezzled about $31,000. At least 2UU perisnea by noods in the Pocahontas, West Virginia, coal region. The property loss will reach $2,000,000. General Corbin has started for the Philippines. A new political party has been launched in Kansas City. " A pro-Boer meeting in London was the scene of much disorder. . t - Under the new ruling no duty has been collected on Bussian oil. One hundred thousand persons are anxious to file on Oklahoma lands. All the volunteers are- expected to arrive from the Philippines by June 26. The American ship John McDon ald, of New York, has been given up for lost. Forest fire near Olympia, Wash., destroyed a $16,000 logging camp equipment. The United States is said to have notified Denmark to Bell its West Indies or fortify them. A Cuban committed suicide' in New York because of the difficulty of learn ing the English language. . The sale of postage stamps fox the fiscal year just closing has increased greatly over any previous year. P. C. Cheney, of Manchester, N. H., ex-governor of that state and also ex-United States senator, is dead. The southern states plantd 27,532, 000 acres of cotton this year, an in crease of 2,111,000 acres. . Texas fever has been discovered among native cattle of northern Ger many, and is said to have existed more than 100 years. The Berlin city mission, headed by A. Stocker, issues each week 108, 000 sermons for those who cannot attend church, 20,000 of distributed in the oity. APPOINTMENT OF TAFT. Will Be the First Civil Governor of the Philippines. Washington. June 24. Secretary today issued the order of the president establishing civil government in the Philippines. The order follows: "On and after the 4th day of July, 1901, unless it shall be otherwise ordered, the president of the Philip pine commission will exercise the executive authority in all civil affairs in the government of the Philippine islands heretofore exercised in such affairs by the military governor of the Philippines, and to that end, William H. Taft, president of the said commission, is hereby appointed civil governor of the Philippine islands. Such executive authority will be exercised under and in con formity to the instructions of the Philippine commission, dated April 7, 1900, and subject to the approval and control of the secretary of war of the United States. "The , municipal and provincial civil governments which have been or shall hereafter be established in said islands, and all persons performing duties appertaining to the offices of civil government in said islands, will, in respect to such duties, report to the said civil governor. The power to appoint civil officers heretofore vested in the Philipine commission and the military governor will be ex ercised by the civil governor, with the advice and consent of the commis sion. ; "The military governor of the Phil ippines is hereby relieved from the performance, on and after the said 4th day of July, 1901, of the civil duties hereinbefore described, but his authority will continue to be exer cised as heretofore in those districts in which ' insurrection against the authority of the ' United States con tinues to exist, or . in which public order is not sufficiently restored to enable provincial civil governments to be established under the instruc tions to the commission, dated April 7, 1900. "By the. president. t "ELIHU ROOT, "Secretary of War.", NAVIGATED HELL GATE. BiS Battle-Ship -Massachusetts Successfully Passed the Narrows. New York, June 22. Without the assistance of a pijot and to demon strate that a first class 'battle ship could be navigated through Hell Gate successfully, Captain Henry M. Man ney took the big battle ship Massa chusetts through the narrows today. It was the first time in the history of the navy that any commander of a war vessel of this class : ever dared attempt the feat, and river craft and the shores were filled today to witness the trip of the Massachusetts. - The passing of the mammoth fighting machine through the dangerous waters of Hell Gate successfully proves that in case of hostilities with a foreign power, a battle, ship of the same draft as the Massachusetts,- if she passed the fortifications of Wil let's Point and Fort Schuyler, could repeat the performance of the Massa chusetts. Secretary Long has taken official noticeof Captain Manney's feat, and issued orders that no naval vessel the size of the Massachusetts shall use the Hell Gate narrows ex cept in cases of great emergency STRIKERS FIRED UPON. Three Men Shot White Trying to West Virginia Mine. Enter . Matewan, W. Va., June 22. Strained relations between the union and non-union ' miners here- has re sulted in bloodshed. Yesterday seve ral hundred union miners who are on strike marched in a body against the Maritime mines of this palce, where non-union men were at work. They tried to effect an entrance, but the operators, with 20 guards armed with Winchesters, blocked the en trance. The non-union miners were headed by Superintendent Lambert, and when the union men persisted in ther attempt he gave the order to fire. Fully 50 shots were fired. Two union miners were fatallly shot and another dangerously wounded. The union men aid not return the hre, but dis persed. ' ' ' - - - - ' All the union miners throughout Mingo are' collecting, vand serious trouble is expected tomorrow, when they will again try to effect an entrance to the Maratime mines. Sheriff Hatfieldis on the scene with 50 deputies. - : " - t - . Will Move Headquarters. Denver, June 24. George Estes, president of the Broterhood of Rail way employes, announces that the headquarters of the brotherhood will be moved from San Francisco to Den ver in the near future. This organiz ation admits all railway employes without reference to their particular line of work. It is a comparatively new order, but is said to have a large memberhsip among the railway em ployes of the West.. ... Righting the ingaHs. New York, June 24. The attempts to float the capsized army transport Ingalls at Brooklyn will probably be made tomorrow. A crew of divers is working at' closing the "ports and hatches. . When this is done the hull will be pumped - out , and - the ship floated and righted. 'The ship does not appear to be seriously injured. NEWS OF THE STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL OVER OREGON. Commercial and Financial Happenings of Im portance A Brief Review of of the Growth and Improvements of the Many . Industries Throughout Onr Thriving Com. monwcalth Latest Market Report "The town of Whitney, in Eastern Oregon, is to put in a water system. Baker City is endeavoring to have a weather bureau established in that city. , . Steamboat navigation on the Wil lamette river to Corvallis has ceased for the summer. Probably the last car load of 1900 potatoes in the state was shipped from Hurlburt a few days ago. ! The Oregon King Gold Mining Co., of Sumpter, has filed articles of incor poration. Capital, $1,000,000. Arrangements have been made to make Prairie City a "station" on the stage line and the chance will be made shortly. Reports from the various sections of the Rogue river valley are to the effect that the wheat crop this year will be considerably short of the aver age. : ; Sherman county will have an extra large wheat yield this year. . ; . " A number of mines in the Robin sonville district have been bonded. 1 Four hundred head of cattle were purchased near Eugene at an average price of $17 per head. Ore from the Badger mine, Eastern Oregon, is shipped to San Francisco at the rate of two carloads every five days. v Work is well under way on the new road from Whitney to Alamo. When completed this road will decrease the distance "very materially- and bring more mines into the shipping list.; PORTLAND WILL CELEBRATE. President Did Not Corns But "The Fourth" Is Coining and There Will Be a Big Time. The enthusiasm which Portland ex pected to expend in the entertain ment of the president and party has been bottled up and will be let loose in the celebration of the Fourth of July. While ; the committee which is engaged in arranging for the cele bration is not doing much talking, it is earnestly and energetically at work on its plans, and will have several very large surprises in store for Port landers and visitors on Independence Day. The fact that cheap railroad fares will be provided on all lines into the city will doubtless prove an incentive to many residents of the neighboring cities to come ' in and help celebrate, and they are promised a reception . which they will long re member. - Bands from "various outside towns will help to furnish the music, and all societies of whatever character are invited to take part in the parade.. L. D. Cole, chairman of the adver tising committee is working hard to let the residents of sister cities know that they will be welcome, and he says that the city will probably enter tain more guests during ;the celebra tion than at any time in her history. Portland Markets. Wheat Walla Walla, -export value, 58c per-"bushel; bluestem, 60c; valley, nominal. ifiour best grades, $z.iH3.40 per barrel; graham, $2.b0. - . Oats White, $1.321.35; gray, $L30132 per cental. Barley Feed, $1717.50; brewing, ?1717.S0 per ton. - Millstuffs Bran; $17 per ton; mid dlings, $21.50; shorts, $20; chop, $16, Hay Timothy, $12.5014; clover, $79.50; Oregon wild hay, $67 per ton. -" : Butter Fancy creamery,1517Kc; dairy, I3i4c; store," I0(gizc per pound; EggB 1717Kc per dozen. " Poultry Chickens, mixed, $2,75 3.75: hens, $3.003.50; dressed,. 9 10c per pound; springs, $2. 00 3.75 per dozen; ducks, $34 for old; $2.50 4.00 for young; geese, $45 per dozen ; turkeys, live, e10c; dressed. 1012c per pound. v; Cheese-iull cream, twins, 12 12 Xc; Young America, 13 130 per pound. . ''", Mutton Lambs, ac, gross dressed, 77c per pound; sheep. $3.25, gross; dressed, 6c per pound. Hogs Gross," 'heavy, $5.756 light, 4.70go; dressed, - II4C per pound. - Veal Small, 7 8e; large, 7c per pound. - . .Beef Grosstop steers, $4.254.60 cows and heifers, $3.754; dressed beef, 77c per pound. - Hops 1214c per pound. Wool Valley, . ll13c; Eastern Oregon, 8 12c; mohair, 2021c per pound. -. Potatoes $1.25 1.50 ter sack f new potatoes, 12c per pound. . -- .The American Bible Society is pre paring to issue editions of the Scrip tures in zu different i" Hipino dialects, - a gypsy ionune teuer wno was ar rested in Wyoming had bank notes to the amount of. $3,500 in a belt about his waist. - r' . Announcement of Coiunt von Wal- dersee's intention to " visit America in the near future is taken to indicate an early termination of ' the trouble! in China. 8WEPT TO DEATH. Two Hundred Lives Lest In a West Virginia Rain Storm and Flood. ' Bluefields, W. Va.V June 24. This section has just been visited by a flood, the extent of which in all prob ability will equal or exceed that of Johnstown in loan, bo tar as the loss of property is concerned. Early yes terday morning, shortly after mid night, a heavy downpour of rain be gan, accompanied by a severe electric storm, which increased in volume, continuing for several hours. The storm continued throughout the entire night and day and at 10 A. M., though the storm had abated, the lowering clouds threatened another terrific downpour at any moment. Many miles of the Norfolk & West ern railroad track, bridges and .tele graph lines are entirely destroyed and communication is entirely cut off west of Elkhorn, so that it is im possible to learn the full extent of the loss of life and property, but officials of the coal companies located in the district have sent out messengers to Elkhorn, the terminus of both tele graphic and railroad communication, and have received a report that a con servative estimate as to the loss of life will easily reach 200. ;-; Some of the drowned are among the most prominent citizens of the coal fields. . The little town of Keystone, with a population of 2,000, seems the greatest sufferer, practically the entire town being washed away. This town is the principal one. in the . Pocahon tas coal fields, and is located near its center. - It was to a great extent the headquarters from which the mining population purchased supplies. A great number, of the coal and coke plants throughout the. Pocahon tas district are .reported practically destroyed and are in some instances entirely washed away, i Owing to the high water which has flooded the dis trict and prevents communication, anything like a . correct estimate of the loss of property is impossible, but from the best information obtainable the loss to the property will easily reach $2,000,000. i ." " A rough estimate places the num ber of bridges washed away between. Bluefields and . Vivian Yards, a dis tance of 28 miles, at from 15 . to 20, and from present indications it will be impossible to run trains through to Vivian and points west - of there under a week or 10 days.- This will render it impossible to get relief into the stricken districts, and with those who escaped with their lives, home less and without food, indescribable suffering is inevitable. . - FIGHTING IN THfe SOUTH. Forty Insurgents Killed or Wounded : in ,' Albay. ManilaJune 22. It is estimated that 40 insurgents . were killed or wounded during the recent engage ments which occurred near Sorsogon- ln Albay province. : Many insurgents are returning to their homes.. Charges of theft and sale of prop erty are made against a number of the witnesses in the commissary cases. Jfrovost General Davis has submit ted a plan for the municipal govern ment of Manila. The United States Philippine commission is . modifying 'it. '- - VVo' .-,-.': --' ; . Washington has been asked for an appropriation of $10,000 to defray the expenses of 50 Filipino teachers who are to study for a year in normal schools in: the United States, these schools having offered them free tui tion.- " - Two hundred soldier prisoners will be sent to the United States on the transport Indiana. " VICTIMS OF EXPLOSION. Three Men Were .Killed and Five Others Injured. Kalama, Wash., June 24. Three men were killed and five others in jured by the premature explosion of a blast on the Oregon & Washington Railroad. rThe scene of the accident was in a deep cut about half a mile south of this place. ' " ; The cause of the explosion will per haps never be known, as the men who were- working at the drill hole were instantly killed. . About 25 men were working in. the cut, and from the sur vivors it was learned that two men were loading a 12 foot drill hole with No. I giant powder, and . had : put in about 100 sticks." It is- supposed that they had just been tamping the powder with an iron bar, as they had sometimes done before,- when - the ex plosion occurred. . r ; '- . Americans Invade the Rand. ""LondonT June 25. The Johannes burg correspondent of the Daily Mail contributes a long letter to his paper, in which he describes the American trade inavsion of the Band, aided, he alleges, Ty British apathy. The cor respondent asserts that Americans are quietly buying up shares and pushing their efforts in every , direc tion. He says that practically all the mining " machinery , is i already American and refers to - a rumor to the effect ., that there is an American movement to capture all the poorer Band mines. ' - Invasion of Cape Colony. London. June 25. Lord Kitchener has sent no report of the Waterkloopf mishap.' Becent events in . Cape Colony seem to prove the Uoer inva sion of that country to i be serious, A letter to the Daily Mail, dated Cane Town. June a, con farms ; the pro-Boer report and says the invaders number anything from v.uuo to 10, 000;-that they are swarming all over the eastern and midland districts and getting recruits and horses. . . DEATH IN THE FIBE SEVENTEEN BURNED IN A NEW YORK TENEMENT. E:qlosion of Fireworks Wrecked the Building - and Started the Fire Many Were Stunned and Then Suffocated Before They Recov ered Consciousness Several Firemen In lured by Falling Debris. New York, June 24. Seventeen persons are believed to have been killed and a number injured today the result of a fire following an explosion among a quantity of fire works in the store of Abraham M, Bittenberg, at Paterson, N. J. The store was on the ground floor of a tenement buliding,. The " cause of the explosion is not known, and the property loss will not exceed $35,000. The building in which the nre oc curred was a frame , tenement four stories high, with stores on the ground floor. The middle store was occupied by Bittenberg. Ten fami lies occupied flats in the building. So great was the force of the explosion that a boy playing in the street half block" away was lifted from his feet and hurled against an iron fence, one his legs being broken. A trolley car was directly in front of the build ing .when the explosion occurred. The burst of flame out into the street scorched the sides of the car and inged the hair of the passengers. A number of those who were on the tipper floors of the building when the explosion took place were either stunned and then burned to death, or found escape cut off and were suffo cated. After the first explosion there was a succession of smaller ones, and then came a second big explosion, which was muffled and deadened, and probably occurred in the cellar. Every window seemed to be emit ting flames within a minute after the first explosion. ':. A woman-with her clothing on fire leaped out of one of the windows and fell to the yard be low. - Her dead body was dragged out of reach of" the flames, but the flesh was roasted and dropped from the bones. . Some of the occupants of the rooms dropped from the windows and were bruised. - Others hung from the windows until the firemen came, and 20 persons - were taken down in this way through the fire and" smoke by the firemen, while others dropped into life nets. . . While the rescues were going on the firemen : were fighting the flames. Captain Allen led with a hose line in an effort to keep the fire from the upper floors, where it was said many were penned in. The men had hardly taken their positions ' and .began on the sidewalk 4o throw water into the upper floors when, without any warn-, ing, the whole' upper part of the building above them sagged outward and ielL The captain and two of his men were buried under - the blazing debris. One of the men is badly hurt. - - The building ' in " which the explosion occurred was destroyed. IRRIGATION DISCUSSED. Engineers, Senators and Representatives at I Cheyenne. '. Cheyenne, Wyo., June 22. State engineers and representatives and sen ators from , Western states met in Jheyenne yesterday to discuss irriga tion,- government aid and the best methods of reclaiming arid lands. State Engineer Fred ' Bond, of Wyoming, - presided over the engi neers' meeting, and Hon. H. E. Burkett, of Lincoln. Neb., was elected chairman, of the congressional meet ing, George E. Tobny, of Lincoln, acted as secretary. Both meetings were more or less informal," but .some energetic discussions .were held, prin cipally on irrigation and the position of the ; federal government towards the same.:; Kesolutions were present ed and a plan outlined for action at the next session of - congress. It is understood that Western congressmen and senators will work together on this important question as they never have before, with the result that the arid West may come in for its share of government appropriations. . At a joint meeting of engineers and congressmen last night, an exhaust ive bill was drafted covering all points involved in the irrigation question in its relation. , to congress. - Owing, however, to the small number of con gressmen -present, no action was taken on : the engineers' bill, but a committee was appointed to-call a meeting in Washington just prior to the meeting of congress. . , - . - Windstorm in Kansas, Independence," Kan., June strong wind storm that ca morning, from the south and veered later to the southeast, created consid earble havoc at Idenpendence. Trees were UDrOoted. outbuildings -. over turned and small houses and barns iftevetf from theirv foundations. The ironis pi several Dusmess nouses and windows of dwellings were smashed m4( The roof; of thiamin building wae.partly blown off, a large ice house unroofed and the Santa Fe de damaged. . .Aid for Boer Prisoners. - New York, June 24. An appeal has .been issued for ; money to buy supplies for the women and ; children of the Transvaal, Who have ; been gathered-in camps as part of the effort to : end" the Boer war. . Among the signers of the appeal are some of the prominent Clergymen . of this citv, The appeal says that there are 22, 01)0 men and women in the camps and that 31a . children died in May. SURRENDER OF CAILLES. Ex-Insurgent Takes the Oath of Allegiance Arollios, Command Will Give Up. Santa Cruz, Province of Laguna, Luzon, June 25. General Cailles sur rendered here yesterday with 650 men and 600. rifles. The oath of alleg iance was . administered to the ex- insurgent. Colonel Canailles, who fled to the mountains wth a portion of his troops, likewise surrendered. Cailles did not sufficiently control the populace to bring in all tho insurg ents! in his district. The proceed ings of surrender were orderly. It is reported that a large number of Cailles' followers have approached him with a proposition that he issue a strongly worded proclamation de claring all Filipino insurgents who refuse to surrender to be considered as bandits, and that this proclama tion be published by the insurgent presidente of every town in Laguna province. More Surrenders Expected. Manila, June 26. The insurgent general Arollio, together with a con siderable portion of the forces of Gen eral Malvar, is expected to surrender to the American forces at San Jose, in -Batangas province. With the change from a military to a civil government of the Philippine islands, which occurs July 4, the difficulty between the department of the military secretary and civil serv ice board oyer the matter of holding examinations in the-civil service for certain civilians now employed iy the military department will disap pear."; t":."-.-:' . -. - In consequence of the surrender of General . Cailles, all the insurgent prisoners on Luzon island will be re leased. Information from native sources confirms- previous reports that General Malvar will soon sur render. - DESTROYING CHINESE FORTS. Valuables Smuggled Out of the Forbidden " City Sold to Foreigners. . Pekin, June 26. There has been no meeting of the ministers of the foreign powers at Pekin since the first of last week, but the ministers them selves profess satisfaction at the course of events. - The Chinese forts have not yet been destroyed. It has been determined that each nation shall destroy those forts now occupied by its troops, .but the ministers find that the respective military command ers object to destroying Chinese forts not occupied by their troops.. Conse quently the ministers will probably have to employ Chinese labor to etlect the destruction of the unoccupied forts at the expense of the different nations. Many Chinese enuchs have been selling valuables which have come from the Forbidden City. The valu ables thus sold were probably passed over the walls of the city to the enuchs' confederates outside. One beautifully carved table, which -was seen in the Forbidden City .only two weeks ago-, has been sold by a enuch for 600 taels. ... .No valuables of any kind have been taken out of the city through the gates. These are guard edly American and Japanese troops. It la estimated that the cost of repair ing the palace, . independent of the valuable works of art which are miss ing, will reach 250,000 tales. Members - of the staff ol 1A Jlung Chang and Prince Ching say that great anxiety is felt regarding the whereabouts and safety of a large quantity of gold that was buried in the Forbigden City. Certain enuchs who ; knew the secret of the location of this-pld have disappeared. " -L ' -i , ' . - ... . - , A Tien Tsin Anniversary.' Tien Tsin, June 25. The first an niversary, ot the renet or Tien isin was celebrated yesterday. The Rus sian and British authorities have pub licly thanked the ladies who, June 17, the anniversary of the beginning of the .siege of Tien Tsin, decorated the graves of the soldiers of all na tionalities. The Chinese insurgent leader. General Mais, is here in con sultation with the German command ers concerning the pacification aiitl reconstruction of the country. ! Ran Down a Launch. Boston, June 20. While coming into -the - harbor this morning the steamer City - of Bangor,-- during a dense fog, ran dowij the naptha launch Estelle, anchored off " Deer island beacon, , Five men on the launch were thrown into the water and two drowned. An Appeal for Foreign Help. Tien Tsin, June 26. News has received from Tai Yuen Fu, provinceot Dan. oi, mas uenerai Tun Fo Msiang is marcning tnitner, and the governor of the province has appealed for foreign help in opposing his progress. : , - - - - Rioters Stormed a Monastery. Madrid, June 26. The anti-clerical rioers, who have been parading the streets shouting "burn the convents, and who hissed the. Infanta Isabella, ed a monastry during the night, They were finally dispersed. Without flU Signature. Olympia, .Wash-r Jnue 26. Gov ernor Rogers filed with the secretary of state today senate bill No. 4 with out his signature. - Senate bill No. 4 is the act relative to the issuance of death warrants - and was introduced Vr Kona.t.nr Rands, of Clark count v It was the measure to cure which the recent special session was called. nnnamnr ..: TJocem WAS asked wbv he had failed to sign the bill, but he refused trrhave anytning to say. GOLD FEOM DAWSON STEAMER DOLPHIN BRINGS OUT ABOUT $1,350,000. Two and One-half Millions More Now on the Way Down the Yukon River to SL Mich, eel's, and Another Million is Coming Up the River to Skagway In the Grips of the . Returning Klondikers. Seattle, June 26. Gold receipts by the steamer Dolphin from the Klon dike this morning are: For the Ca nadian Bank of Commerce, $1,000, 000; individual dust, $350,000. There was shipped from Dawson via St. Michaels, June 12 $2,500,000, and there is now on the way up the river $1,000,000. - Alaska's output of gold from the spring clean up has started in a steady flow to the United States. Over three tons of gold, or $2,500,000, is on its way .down the Yukon. It will be brought from St.. Michaels probably on the Boanoke. June 20 over $1, 000,000 was on its way up the Yukon from Dawson. It will probably ar rive on,he next steamer. The Dolphin left Skagway June 20. The big shipments of gold she brought came up the Yukon on the river steamers Zealandia and Canadian, leaving Dawson June 12. The gold was removed to the assay office early this morning. According to advices on the Dol- Ehin, the miners on Eldorado creek ave about finished their clean up for the season. The miners on the other creeks are also well along with the work of segregating the gold from the earth in which it is dug out during the winter, and an estimate of the total clean up for the district for the season places the amount at between $15,000,000 and $20,000,000. The next steamer from Skagway will probably be crowded to the guards with returning Klondikers. Over 150 Klondikers arrived at Skagway the day the Dolphin left. .Very few of them, however, came down on her. Between 100 and 150 Dawson ites were en route' to . Skagway from White Horse, and fully 200 passengers from Dawson were said to be in White Horse. All steamers leaving Dawson ' had full passenger lists, and two of these boats, well loaded, were on- the voyage up the river. . FELL"; FROM A WINDOW. Adelbert S. Hay Accidently Killed at New Haven Son of Secretary of State. New Haven, Conn., June 25. Adelbert 8. Hay, son of Secretary Hay, and ex-consul to Pretoria, was'' found dead on the sidewalk outside. the New Haven house early yesterday morning. - - " ' ' , ' Mr. Hay retired to his room at 1 o'clock, after spending the -evening ; with friends in apparently excellent - spirits. About 2:30 o'clock in the morning a few people standing out side the hotel were startled at seeing large white object come whirling : through the air and strike the side walk. The night clerk of the hotel . was immediately summoned and rec ognized the body as that of a young man who registered as Adelbert S. Hay. There was considerable excitement aboutthe hotel, and a large body of students and graduates, who are here for the commencement exercises, soon gathered. A number of his former classmates at Yale positively identi fied the young man. - Dr. Bartlett, the medical exam- - iner, stated that Mr. nay came to his death by an accident. . The clothes on the bed had been turned, showing his intention to go to bed. His clothes had been folded. On the ledge of the window was found a part ly burned cigarette. This discovery . leads to the belief that Hay had light ed a cigarette before retiring and had went to the window - to smoke it. - Whether he was seized with a fit of , dizziness or fell asleep on the window ledge cannot be determined. There are no external injuries. Mr. Hay graduated from Yale in - 1898 and had come here to attend his class triennial reunion, tie was out driving in the evening with a party of classmates and friends, and on re turning to his room left word to? re ¬ called at 9 o'clock next , morning. This was the last seen of him alive. Only Great Britain Objects. - ' London, June 26. A dispatch from Pekin says: All the ministers of the foreign powers at Pekin, with the ex ception of the British minister, have agreed to the Russian proposal to in crease the Chinese tariff on imports to 10 per cent in the event of a deficien-' cy in the service of ' the indemnity. Britain will only ageer to such an in crease in duty in return for the total abolition of the liken tax on - inter- natinrtsLl commerce and other conces sions. - ':.;- ' ;- Heavy Wind Storm in North Dakota. - Minot. N.. D., June 26. A heavy wind -storm at White" Earth early today blew two box cars from a side track onto the. main track. . The Great Northern flyer, west bound, due here at l A. ai., ran into tne cars, and part of the train jumped the track. It is - said- - two tramp V 1 1 1 tA anrl aovArol naosnflrpra injured. The' wires are down antj particulars unobtainable. "