WEEKLY.
;iSvl"t:rL-J.!,w6t.ConsoU4ated Feb., 1899.
CORVALIilS, BENTON COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1902.
VOL. XXXIX. NO. 8.
EVENTS OF THE DAY
FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF
THE WORLD.
A Comprehensive Review of the important
Happenings of the Past Week Presented
tn a Condensed Form Which Is Most
Likely to Prove of Interest to Our Many
Readers.
.Northern Pacific switchmen at Mis
soula, Mont. , are on strike.
Young Teddy Roosevelt is slightly
better, although the crisis has not yet
passed.
San Francisco chamber of commerce
favors the adrnisf-ion of Chinese mer
chants. England and Japan have formed an
alliance for the preservation of China
and Corea.
Colombia offers the United States a
guaranteed title to a waterway for the
construction of a canal.
Governor Taft favors bringing Fome
native Filipinos to thy country and ed
ucating them.
The Marquis of Dufferin, ex-governor
general of Canada and ex-viceroy of
India, is dead. .
NO SUCCESS WITHOUT IT.
No brilliant success in business is
on record where the value of news
paper advertising was not recognized
and employed with profit. Oshkosh
Times.
Fire at Springfield, 111., did over a
million dollars damage.
A new geyse? has been found in the
Yellowstone National park.
Taft strongly opposes the importation
of Chinese to the Philippines.
More fighting is reported between the
government troops and the rebels of
Venezuela.
Sentiment for reduction of rates on
Philippine imports is gaining ground in
the senate.
A Detroit bank was wrecked by one
of its officials, who is charged, with
taking $1,000,000.
The past week in the Transvaal was
the liveliest, with heavy losses on both
, v ' . aides, for some time. . j
The loss to Paterson, N. J., is now j
placed at $S, 000, 000, but the city is not
in need of onfide aid.
Eleven persons lobt their lives in a
St. Louis fire.
British forces have captured many
Boers during the past week.
Young Theodore Roosevelt, while
very sick, is not considered dangerous.
Fire at Paterson, N. J., caused a loss
of 10,000,000 and left at least 1,000
families homeless.
The foreign consuls at Panama have
notified the rebel leader flerrera that
they will remain neutral.
The president vetoed the recommend
ation that he be breveted colonel and
brigadier general for meritorious serv
ices in the war with Spain.
Rear Admiral Sampson has been re
tired. Sampson has filed a brief with the
president protesting against Schley's
claims.'
Germany's colonial policy has proven
a failure.
The senate has passed the pension
appropriation bill.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., is seriously
ill with pneumonia.
The trouble at the Colorado School of
Mines has been settled.
England, America and Japan will op
pose the Manchurian treaty.
The sultan of Turkey has sentenced
his brother-in-law to be killed.
Holland refuses to have anything
more to do with the peace proposals.
A severe snow storm is raging in
Texas.
England will abandon her rights in
Wei Hai Wei.
The senate has passed the urgency
deficiency bill.
Fire at Albany, N. Y., destroyed
$50,000 worth of property.
President Roosevelt and wife are vis
iting the Charleston exposition.
European powers are still disputing
over their attitude during the Spanish
war.
Thirteen rtersons were killed and at
least 100 injured by a gas explosion at
Chicago.
The woolgrowers' convention placed
itself on record in lavor oi oleo
margarine.
Ronrrtsentntive Xcwlands. of Nevada.
introduced a resolution in the house for
the annexation of Cuba.
A fanner and wife, living near New
York, received a legacy of $5,000 froni
a man whom, as a hungry wanderer,
they IWricnded 16 years ago.
HorlHrt Hii-knese was sent to jail at
Fort Wayne, Intl., for contempt of
court. He persisted in calling on his
wife, who is j-uing for divorce.
Peter Quinn. aged 35, who inherited
a fortune from his father, squandered
it in high living and has just died in
New York, a homeless wanderer.
BERTHA IS WRECKED.
Alaskan Steamer Ashore on Harold bland
All On Board Make Land.
Port Townsend. Wash., Feb. 13.
Another steamship has been added to
the long list of wrecks along the Alas
kan shores. The Cottage City, arriving
tonight, brings news of the wreck of the
Alaskan Commercial Company's steam
er Bertha, on Harold island, near the
entrance of Fitzhugh sound, north of
Queen Charlotte sound. The- Bertha
sailed from Seattle for Valdes last Fri
day having 41 passengers, among
whom were 12 members of the United
States army signal corps, bound for
Valdes, while others were bound for
interior points.
All went well with the Bertha until
Saturday night, when the weather set
in thick, and Sunday morning at 12:30
MmiJlm
JOSEPH R. WHITNEY.
A well known Oregon newspaper man and editor of the Daily and Weekly
Herald, of Albany. He is a candidate for the nomination for State Printer on
the Republican ticket. ITe wa8bornin Marfan -CourityTi8Tf graduate-of
the University of Oregon, and has been engaged in the newspaper business for
nearly 20 years. ,
the vessel struck on Harold island.
All the passengers were in bed, and the
shook caused great confusion and a
stampede was made for the upper deck.
Captain Johansen and the officerb of
the ship restored order in a short time,
and on investigation it was found that
the vessel was in such close proximity
to the shore that the gangplank would
reach an elevated rock. The papsen-
gers at once walked ashore, and later
bedding and baggage were landed, and
a camp as made on barren rocks.
On the approach of daylight the
work of lightering the vessel was com
menced by landing horses and other
freight. A kedge anchor was put out,
and the vessel hauled into deep water
with the aid of the donkey engine, but
as soon as deep water was struck she
began to sink. The vessel was swung
on the beach. She has lost her keel,
and there is a large hole in her bottom
forward engine room, and it is believed
she will be a total loss.
COST OF OUR NAVY.
Ships and Repairs Since 1883 Have Cost Over
$100,000,000.
Washington, Feb. 13. The new navy
has cost the United States $99,803,928
for construction and $9,343,233 for re
pairs on completed vessels. These fig
ures were supplied in a statement for
warded to the senate by the secretary of
the navy in response to a resolution
adopted by the senate in February,
1901. The facts are all given in tab
ular form, without explanatory text.
In addition to the expenditures made
on vessels now afloat there are several
ships in course of construction. These
include the Kentucky and the Kear
sarge, on each of which an expenditure
of $4,000,000 has been authorized, and
the Illinois, Indiana and Alabama, on
each of which an expenditure of $3,
350,000 is authorized. There are also
several smaller vessels in course of con
struction which will bring the total up
to a considerable extent when the ves
sels are completed.
The statement covers the period from
1883 and begins with the building of
the Chicago, Atlanta and Boston. Of
the completed vessels the Oregon cost
the greatest amount $6,575,032. The
Massachusetts is second in point of cost
$6,047,175. The cost of the Maine
was $4,677,788. .
Negotiations Again Opened.
Constantinople, Feb. 13. The Au er- j
ican delegates remaining at Seres, ,
Macedonia, after the failure recently of j
the negotiations for the ransoming of
the abducted missionary, have again
opened negotiations. i
Big Publishers Assign.
Boston, Feb. 13. Small. Maynard A
Co., publishers, of this city, have made
an assignment. No statement of assets
and liabilities is given.
ELEVEN MEET. DEATH.
Fatal Pirc In a St Louis Hotel Several
Dangerously Injured.
St. Louis, Feb. 12. An early morn
ing fire which destroyed a large three
story dwelling house occupied by men
exclusively, caused the death of 11 per
sons 10 men and one woman and
dangerously injured seven others. A
dozen or more who had narrow escapes
from death received less serious injuries
or were frostbitten. It is estimated
that between 35 and 40 persons were in
the building at the time the fire broke
out, and it is believed that all have
been accounted for. The financial - loss
is nominal. It is thought that $ 10,000
will cover the damage to building and
contents, which were totally destroyed.
The fire started about 3:30 A.M.,
when few people were abroad, and
gained much headway before it was dis
covered and the alarm given. There
was considerable delay in turning in an
alarm, and when the engines finally
reached the scene, the whole -front of
the building was in flames and the in
terior was a seething furnace. By that
time all who escaped death had got out
of the building by jumping from the
windows or climbing down ropes made
of bedclothes. A few escaped on the
ground floor through the -front door.
Several escapes were very narrow.
Every one who got out suffered some
injury or was frost bitten. " Some barely
bad time to get out when aroused, the
flames had spread so rapidly. Some
saved their clothing,Jwhich they carried
in their hands, but others were not so
fortunate, losing everything.
MINDANAO GOVERNOR RESIGNS.
Military Officers Would Not Recognize His
Authority.
Manila, Feb. 12. The governor of
the town of Cayagan, in the province of
Misamis, island of Mindanao, has re
signed, declaring that the military au
thorities there do not recognize his au
thority in refusing to receive .his writs
of habeas corpus. Some months ago
many of the leading officials of Misamis
province were arrested because they
tendered a banquet to an insurgent colo
nel, and because it was proved that they
had also contributed funds to the in
surgent cause. At that time General
Davis, commanding at Zamboanga,
island of Mindanao, requested that the
province be transferred from civil to
miltiary control. The military author
ities in Misamis refused to allow the
prisoners to be represented by a lawyer
sent by the civil commission from
Manila for that purpose, holding the
arrested officials as prisoners of war.
Lately General Chaffee instructed Gen
eral uavis to release tne prisoners in
question, and notified the civil author
ities when and where they could arrest
them. But the fact that their offense
was committed before the passage of
the law of sedition makes further ac
tion in the matter improbable. Gen
eral Chaffee deeming it. inadvisable
that civilians should be tried by a mil
itary commission
Senor Lerma, the newly elected gov
ernor of Bataan province, fled after his
election when he was called upon to ac
count for $4,000 of insurgent funds.
He is still missing.
Raided by Outlaws.
Alamagorda, N. M., Feb. 11. News
has been received here of a raid on the
store of the Pew Mercantile Company,
at Fort Sumner, by a gang of outlaws,
supposed to be the same that recently
robbed a bank and pay car at Santa
Rosa. One of the employes of the store
was killed and $400 in cash taken.
The gang is headed for the Capitan
mountains and is being pursued by a
sheriff's pees.
NEWS OF THE STATE
TEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL
PARTS OF OREGON. -"'S
Commercial and Financial Bappenrngt of Im
portance A Brief Review of the Growth
and Improvement of the Many Industifcs
Throughout Ottr Thrlvtae; Qoamonweelth
Latest Market Report.
Pendleton has decided to adopt a re
trenchment policy, the first act of which
was to let one policeman go.
Ashland is investigating the matter
of a comprehensive sewer system for
the city. An estimate places the cost
at $20,000. .
A company is being organized to con
struct seven telephone lines from Pen
dleton to the small outlying districts
which are not at present supplied.
A petition is being circulated in and
around Baker City asking congress to
set aside Crater lake and adjacent land
sufficient to make a national park. "
The price of. hops continues to ad
vance steadily. Buyers around Salem
are offering 1S cents per pound, bat
the growers in most cases refuse to sell
at that price. ,t' '' " '
The Wasco Warehouse Milling Com
pany has just made a shipment of 10,
000 sacks of flour to China. This is
the first shipment of flour from Wasco
county to a foreign market.
The largest real estate deal in the
history of Umatilla county, was con
sumated when J. E. Smith puchased
30,000 acres of land. The deal also in
cludes 180,00 head of eheep. The price
paid was $200,000.
The flax mill at Salem is now an
assured fact.
The receipts of The Dalles land office
for January were nearly $10,000.
Dr. W. D. Jeffries, for 40 years a
practicing physician of Salem, is dead.
Placer miners of Southern Oregon
gladly hail the rains of- the past few
days. I
The Willamette river at Albany is
lower than for many years at this time
of the year. ?
Steps have been taken by the busi
ness men of Roeeburg to organise a
board of trade.
A representative of the English gov
ernment is around Elgiifc baying horses
for South Africa.
President Eliot, of Harvard univer
sity, will visit the state university at
Engene next month.
So far in Linn county there have been
600 registrations for the Jnne election,
out of a probable total of 5,500.
Miners In Southern Oregon have long
been throwing away what was supposed.
to be lead ore, but which has proven to
be rich silver ore.
The report of the commissioner of
patents for the past fiscal year shows
that there were 125 patents issued to
Oregon inventors.
Portland Markets.
Wheat Quiet. Walla Walla, 68
63c; bluestem, 6464c; Valley,
6c.
Barley-r-Feed, $19 20; brewing,
$20021 per ton.
Oats No. 1 white, $1J01.25; gray,
$1.051.15.
, Flour Best grades, $2-8O03.4O,per
barrel; graham, $2.6002.80.
MIllstuffB Bran, $18 per ton; mid
dlings, '$21; shorts, $20.50; chop, $17.
Hay Timothy. $11012; clover. $70
7.50; Oregon wild hay, $506 per ton.
Potatoes Best Burbanks, 90c$1.25
per cental; ordinary,'7085e per een-;
tal, growers' prices; sweets, $1,750
2 per cental.
Butter Crea'mery, 25027c; dairy,
18020c; store, 11013c
Eggs 2021e for fresh Oregon.
Cheese Full cream, twins, 13
13c; Young America, 14015c; fac
tory prices, 101c less.
Poultry Chickens, mixed, $303.50;
hens, $4 04.25 per dozen, 9010c per
pound; springs, 10c per pound, $30
3.50 per dozen; ducks, $6.50 07.50 per
dozen; turkeys,, live, 11012c;
dressed, 14015o per pound.
Mutton Gross, 4c per pound;
dressed, 77c per pound.
Hogs Gross, 5c; dressed, 67c
per pound.
Veal 8 9c per pound, dressed.
Beef Gross, cows, 3 04c; steers,
44c; dressed, 67c per pound.
Hops 11012V&C per pound.
Wool Nominal. Valley, 13015c;
eastern Oregon, 8012c; mohatr,
21021V&C per pound.
The buffaloes are increasing in such
proportions in Canada that they prom
ise in the course of a few years to be
come again fairly abundant.
Cecil Rhodes, the millionaire and
statesman, who is credited with having
provoked the Boer war, is, it is said, to
receive the honor of a peerage.
John Hill, a planter at West Baton
Rouge, La., has given to the Louisiana
state university $25,000 for the erection
of an alumni building and library.
Ten thousand dollars have been con
tributed to the national fund for a Mc
Kinley memorial by the working men
of Homestead, Pa.
England's imports of iron and steel
are increasing, while the exports are
falling off. British trade papers are
alarmed.
TEN MILLION DOLLAR FIRE.
fBotactt PoriJoa of Peterson, ft. J., Des-
, craved L00 Families Hook less. ; "
Paterson, N. J., Feb. 11. A great
fire swept through Paterson today and
in its desolate wake are the. embers and
ashes of property valued at $10,000,
000. It burned its way through the
business section of the city and claimed
aa its own a majority of the finer struc
tures devoted to commercial, civic,
educational and religious use, as well
as scores of . houses. There was but
small tribute of life and injury to the
conflagration, but thousands were left
homeless and many thousands without
employment. , . . ,
A relief movement for the care of
those unsheltered and unprovided for
has already been organized and Mayor
John Hinchliffe' says that Paterson
will be able to care - for her own with
out appealing to the charity of other
communities and states. The great
manufacturing plants of the place are
safe and the community, temporarily
dazed by the calamity, has already com
menced the work of reorganization and
restoration.
The fire began its work of destruction
at the power house of the Jersey City,
Hoboken & Paterson Traction Com
pany, which fronted on' Broadway and
extended a block to the rear of Van
Houten street. It commenced in the
car shed and was burning fiercely when
one of the employes detected it. - It
was leaping through the roof and the
gale was lifting it in forks and whirls
when the fire apparatus came into the
roadway at Van Houten and. Main
streets. The firemen tried to hem the
blaze in, but it skipped across Van
Houten street in one direction and Main
street in another, and gaining vigor as
it went, bnrned unchecked down into
the business district. Every piece of
fire mechanism in the city was called
out, but the fire and gale were masters.
The fire came at midnight and was
only checked after a desperate fight
that lasted until late this afternoon.
Every'city and town within reach of
Paterson sent firemenand apparatus
to the aid of the city, and it took tne
united efforts ' of them all to win the
battle. A northerly gale gave the con
flagration its impetus and carried its
burning brands to kindle the .blaze
afresh at other points. The firemen
made stand after stand before the wall
of flrebut were repeatedly driven back,
and when victory finally cane to them
they were grimed and exhausted.
GREAT SAND STORM.
Hurricane Sweeps Over the Wuttra and Ctn
tral Nevada Desert -
Reno, Nev., Feb. 13. Since early
this morning the wide stretch of desert
in Western and Central Nevada has
been swept by a wind storm that at
times has approached the proportions
of a hurricane. At several points on
the Central Pacific, between Reno and
Elko, the wind at times blew at the
rate of 80 milesan hour, and though
there was no serious damage to prop'
erty, it delayed trains, prostrated tele
graph wires and long stretches of rail
road are almost buried in sand. " Vast
clouds of sand, picked up by the gale,
were hurled across the country with
fearful force, and at Wadsworth, Des
ert, Thistle and other towns, business
was practically suspended all after
noon, it being impossible for people to
breathe while facing the drifting,
whirling walls of loose dust and sand.
At Desert and Mirage, the sand filled
the air to such an extent that the sun
was obscured and lamps were neces
sary.
At Humboldt House, about 40 miles
west of Winnemucca, the few people
who ventured put of doors beheld a, pe
culiar sight. About eight miles south
of the town is a mountain, rising
abruptly from the sandy desert. The
wind, sweeping across the flat country,
caught the snow of this hill and seemed
to stretch it -out for two or three miles
from the slopes. Through occasional
breaks in the clouds of dust across, the
plain between the town and the moun
tain the middle slopes could be seen,
apparently swept bare of snow in a few
hours by the terrific force of the wind.
The storm tonight shows but little sign
of a Dating.
EXTENDED MONROE DOCTRINE
Hobsoa Would Nave It Reach to the Walls
of Pekin.
New Haven, Conn., Feb. 8. Captain
R. P. Hobeon, who was a guest of the
New Haven Business Men's association
at their annual banquet, urged that the
Monroe doctrine be extended to the
Filipinos and to the walls of Pekin,
declaring that Europeans should not
partition China, but open it to the
trade of the world, as the United States
opened Japan. Among the dangers that
face Europe, be mentioned a possible
Slavic invasion, in the event of which,
he said, it would fall to the lot of the
United States to assist in saving En
rope from genera! war. Without a rel
atively powerful navy, such action
would be manifestly impossible. .
. Smallpox at Reno.
Reno, Nev., Feb. 11. Several new
cases of smallpox are reported in Reno,
among the whites, and the state board
of health has declared smallpox epi
demic in Reno, and will probably order
the public schools closed.
Thirteen Persons Killed.
Panama, Feb. 11. An accident in
the Church of Horencitos, in Chiriqui,
resulted in the death of IS persons and
the severe wounding of 89 ethers.
F0KM AN ALLIANCE
ENGLAND AND JAPAN UNITE TO
AID CHINA! AND COREA.
Ironclad Agreement Intended to Check- the
Fast Growing Power of Russia in the
Far East, Also to Insure the Independ
ence of the Chinese- Empire end Adjoin
ing Regions.' ''1,?
London, Feb. 13. An important par
liamentary paper was issued tonight,
giving the terms of a practical alliance
between Great Britain and Japan for
the preservation of Corea and China.
The paper covers a -dispatch sent by
Lord Lansdowne; secretary of state for
foreign affairs, January 30, to the Brit
ish minister to China, Sir Claude Mac
donald, and comprises a signed copy of
the agreement. In explanation, the
paper says the agreement may be re
garded as an outcome of the events of
the past two years. Throughout the
Boxer troubles Great Britain and Japan
had been in close, uninterrupted com
munication, and actuated by similar
views.
"We each desire," said . Lord Lans
downe, "that the integrity and inde
pendence of .the Chinese empire should
be preserved, and that there should be
no disturbance of the territorial status
quo in China or the adjoining regions."
The discovery that their far Eastern
policies were identical resulted in each
party to the agreement expressing' its
desire that their common policy find
expression in an internationalcoutract
of binding validity. ...
Lord Lansdowne further says that the
British government was largely in
fluenced in entering upon this import
ant contract by the conviction that it
contains no provision which can be re
garded as aggressive or self-seeking.
He says it is concluded merely as a
measure of precaution, and that it in
no way threatens the present position
or legitimate interests of other powers.
His majesty s government trusts that
the agreement will be of mutual advant
age to the two countries, and make for
the preservation of peace, and, should
peace unfortunately be broken, it will
have the effect of restricting the area of
hostilities.
SWITCHMEN'S STRIKE.
Pickets at Missoula Turn Back Crews Sent
Missoula, Mont, Feb. 13. The strik
ing Northern Pacific switchmen have
posted pickets along the line, and today
succeeded in turning back two crews,
one from Helena and the other from
Butte, sent by the railroad company to
take the place of the strikers. Freight
has been badly congested in the yards
as a result of the trouble. Brakemen
and conductors still refuse to make up
trains unless the regular yard crews do
.the switching. The Btrike has assumed
a grave aspect, and - unless the officials
of the company recede from the posi
tion they have taken a strike along the
entire system is probable.
The cause of the trouble was the dis
charging of two men who refused to
work with a road engine without side
board attachments. The switchmen de
clare they are violating a state law in
complying with the order of the rail
way company. The statute in question
provides that trainmen and yardmen
who are injured while working in the
yards on an engine without sideboards
are alone held responsible for such in
juries, and can collect no damages from
the company. . -
$1,400,000 IN OHIO CITY.
Twelve Great Manufacturing Plants in Spring
field Burned.
Springfield, O., Feb. 13. The largest
fire in the history of Springfield broke
out in the Champion Chemical Com
pany's plant of the East street shops
yesterday, and in an hour and a half
12 manufacturing plants were in ruins.
The estimated loss is $1,400,000
The fire started in some chemicals in
the Champion chemical plant. The
companies were greatly handicapped by
the light pressure of water. Ten fire
men were caught in one building and
had a very narrow escape from death. A
company of the National Guard is now
on duty to' keep away crowds and ma
rauders. Four freight cars were totally
destroyed and many others ruined.
Hundreds of buildings in the vicinity
of the fire were in imminent danger
The firemen, owing to the high wind,
were unable to check the spread of the
flames. ,
The total number of men employed
bv the different concerns located in the
building was nearly 900.
The insurance is $130,000 on the con
tents and $110,000 on the buildings a
total of $240,000.
Dust Explosion In a Mine.
Bon Air, Tenn., Feb. 13. Over 15
men were injured by a dust explosion
in the main entry of mine No. 15. All
were rescued and all will probably re
cover. About 100 men are employed.
7
Is a Hopeless Wreck,
London, Feb. 13. The British
steamer Knight Companion, from Port
land, Or., for Hong Kong, which went
ashore at Inudoye, on the coast of
( Japan, is regarded as a hopeless wreck.
VALUE OF DANISH ISLES.
latest Acausitioa of Great Strategic Import.
ance Provision of Treaty Explained.
Washington, Feb. 11. The recent
favorable report by the senate commit
tee oh foreign relations on the treaty
for the cession of the Danish West
Indies was accompanied by a written
statement by that committee to the sen
ate. This report holds that durinst
1900 the islands exported to the United
States sugar, molasses and distilled
spirits amounting to $568,945, and that
during the same period the importa
tions from the-United States amounted
to $624,524. The annexation of the
islands was sought by the United States
years ago, and as far back as 1867 Den
mark declined to sell the islands for
$5,000,000, but made a proposition to
part with them for $15,000,000. Sec
retary Seward offered $7,500,000,
which was declined. He afterward
agreed to pay that amount for the
islands of St. Thomas and St. John, but
the trade fell through because of com-'
plications which arose.. Continuing,
the report says:
"These islands, together with Porto
Rico, are of great importance in a
strategic way, whether the strategy be
military or commercial. St. Thomas
is a natural point of call for all Euro
pean trade bound to the West Indies,
Central America or Northern South
America. These islands, together with
Porto Rico, form the northeastern cor
ner of the Caribbean sea and are of
great importance in connection with
the American isthmus, where a canal
will be constructed between the At
lantic and the Pacific. They are of
first importance in connection with our
relations to the region of the Orinoco
and the Amazon and with our control
of the Windward Passage. In view of
the isthmian canal and European set
tlements in South America,, every addi
tional acquisition by the United States
is of value.
BIG BOOST FOR LINE.
$10,000 Raised for the Goldendale-Portland
Railroad.
Goldendale, Wash., Feb. 10. The
citizens of Goldendale and Klickitat
county have'raised $10,000 for the right
of way for the railroad from this city
to Portland. The committee in charge
of this matter considers this amount
sufficient to secure the right of . way
from Goldendale to Lyle, 41 miles.
All rights of way have been secured,
excepting three or four between Golden
dale and the head of Swale canyon, a
distance of abont 18 miles, through the
farming part of Klickitat county. The
rest of the route lies principally
through government lands, there -being',
but v fw settlers and a few ; Indian
claims' along theSBig Klickitat, there
fore little trouble will be encountered
on this score. '
Contracts have not yet been signed,
but it is expected that work will com
mence on the grading within 30 days.
The company organized for the pur
pose of building this line will reserve
two years in" which to complete the line
from Lyle to Goldendale, but expects
to carry the crop from the Klickitat val
ley this year. Property valuations
have already advanced perceptibly in
the vicinity of Goldendale and along
the route of the proposed road.
VETOE8 HIS OWN BREVET.
Roosevelt Will Not Be Rewarded for His
War Service.:
Washington, Feb. 11. The president
has approved, with one notable excep
tion, all the recommendations made'by
the army board of which General Mae
Arthur was president, for the bestowal
of brevet rank on all the officers of the
army who rendered especially meritori
ous services during the war with Spain
and in the subsequent campaigns in
(lie Phpilippines and China. The ex
ception noted is . the case of Theodore
Roosevelt, who was awarded the brevets
ot colonel and brigadier general for dis
tinguished services at San Juan and
Santiago. Under the law these brevets
require the confirmation of the senate
and the nominations have been made
out for transmission to that body during
the week, but, as already stated, the
list will not contain the name of the
president. It is expected that the
medals of honor and certificates of merit
recommended by the board for individ
ual gallantry, which also have been ap
proved by the president, will be an
nounced at the war department this
week. These awards do "not require
the sanction of the senate.
BOERS TAKEN BY SURPRISE.
Albert's Commando Falls Into British Hands
After Short Fight
Johannesburg, Feb. 11. At 11
o'clock last Thursday night Colonel
Kekewich, having ascertained the
whereabouts of Commandant Albert's
laager at Gruisfontein, sent men to cap
ture it. The British force arrived at
daybreak and immediately stampeded
the horses of the Boers with pompoms
and a well directed rifle fire. The
Boers were completely surprised, and
after a short reply to the British attack
practically the total commando fell into
the hands of the attacking force, who
captured 131 prisoners, including Com
mandants Landrost and Potgieter and
Cornet Duflessis.
Another Subway Explosion.
New York, Feb. 8. An explosion
of dynamite in the rapid transit subway
in Park avenue, between Forty-first and
Forty-second streets, hurled a piece of
rock weighing 30 pounds ..through the
plate glass door of the Grand Union
hotel, and broke several . windows in
! that establishment. Two persons were
hurt by flying fragments, hut neither of
them sustained serious injury.
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