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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (May 14, 1891)
B. CHANCEY, Publisher, Union, Or. PACIFIC COAST. The BritlSll I US' Lome Seized and Fined. OREGON SHEEP NOT FOR SALE. New Sugar Refinery Started in San Franoisco in Opposition to the Two Old Refineries. Hop growers of Washington are selling this season's crop at 15 cents a pound. Spokane's land ollice is crowded daily with men seeking to make homestead entries. Surveyors are locating a telephone linn from Ellensburgh to Selah, Burge and Yakima. Tacoma people are building a steam boat,' which they claim will be the fast est on the Sound. A celebration of the discovery of Gray's harlior in 1702 is proposed to be held "at Gray's Harbor city on July 1. British Columbia wants an increase in thu Chinese head tax. It is now $50, and Victoria wants it made $100. Salem is beginning to realize the im portance of the fact that she has a first class stone quarry just outside her limits. Twelve union miners at Wellington, II. C, aro under arrest for beating a non union man until his life was despaired of. The British tug Irnu has been seized and lined $814 at Port Angeles for towing vessels from that port to other American 7ortfl. The Timti says the expenditures in s Angeles this year for street railroads, improvements and buildings will reach $5,000,000. E. Iluinason, a prominent cattlo dealer nt Spokane, convicted of cattle stealing, has neon sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. Tito Attorney-General of Washington has given an opinion that the census must bo taken by counties this year as well as in 1805. East Oregon sheepmen are getting ready for shearing. The wool clip will bring a large amount of money to the State this year. Judge Wood of Port Townsend has de cided that iiolieoinen have no right to search a man for concealed weapons without a warrant. The ordinance passed by the Taconm City Council on April 11, compelling the powder storago and the Standard oil works to locate outside of the city limits, has been reconsidered and killed. It is generally understood that most of tbe Eastern sheep buyers in urogon this year will be compelled to return homo with their contracts only partially filled. The fact is the sheen are not for sale. Paul P. Rieckor of Seattle and 11. E. Parrish of Tacoma have been appointed assistant geologists to aid in prosecuting a survey of the btato ot N asliington. MeCloud trout that were put in the Truckee river years ago have increased and distributed themselves in the river from Truckee to Pyramid and Mud hakes. Tacomii has nearly sulllcient money subscribed to finish the "Western Wash ington Industrial Exposition" building, Vork will commence on it at once. At a recent meeting of the California Hoard of Health at Sacramento a resolu tion was adopted declaring that heart failure, fever, dropsy, childbirth, etc., shall not hereafter bo recognized as satis factory causes of death when returned in the physicians' certificates. It was the expression of the board that these terms meant no more than that death occurred for want of breath. The Oregon agricultural authorities, boliedng that acquaintance with the ap pearance of our native animals on the part of students is advantageous, denim that there should be represented in the college's zoological museum typical spec imens of Oregon birds, mammals and reptiles. Quito an interesting museum has alreadv been established at the col lege, which, is being added to daily. President Pulda rotKirted at a meeting of the Directors of the California Ath letic Club at Sau Francisco the other night that lie had visited Peter Jackson's quarters and found Peter feeling well and able to walk alxiut without crutches or even a eaue. Jackson assured Presi dent Pulda that he would be all right for Ids match with Corlett in due time. He is now suffering no pain from his recent ly injured leg, and all inflammation has uisapjHiared. Oregon agricultural experiment station has issued its April bulletin, which will ho of more than usual interest to fruit growers and farmers, as it contains an ttccountof practical work at the station in experimenting on the codling moth with parts green and with a combined fungicide and insecticide ; also an article 1 on tdo hop louse, giving a history of the animal, remedies lor it, etc. This bulle tin will be sunt free to all residents of the State applying for it. and it is'worthy of jHirusal by all who raise fruit or hops, j A meeting of representatives from I twenty Irrigation districts of California was held one day Inst week to take action toward promoting the sale of irrigation bonds, Isador Jacobs presided, and sail I the Ban Prancisco Chamber of Commerce would assist as far as lwsslble in aid of the cause of irrigation, lie considered the bondH Issued under the Wright irriga tion law a good investment forcapltalists, they having been passed uoii by the Su preme Court. Judge llaxcn then read a paper holding the name of these IkiiiiIh' should Imi made as well known as those I n( other gilt-edge biu'iultioH. Two hun-1 uriMl iiioimanii noun worm nan linen Imiiglit by Kuu PmucUon lsinkwin, and Willi of tlioni hud Wen hold abroad. It was decided to jHsmiudo tint bun Piuii risen huiikitM to ilidoiku thu lirluntlun IxiiuU, so that n market for tSiuin mifjld u joiiihi in inti num. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Oenernl SlH-rmHn" Frlciul Silcrl1e .11 tut 1 11 rent Sum for HI Children. The gtip is n ore fatal in New York this year than last. ! The dreaded typhus fever hns made its I appearance in New York city. Secretary Tracy is introducing civil ; service reform in the navy yards. J The Italians of Cincinnati arc endeav oring to have Consul Bavogli removed I from office. I rt i... I V T t I,,,, ,1fl.!i1iul erect n building in which all its chanties are to be combined. St. Louis unions oppose the bill to give the police fund 10 per cent, of the fines and 50 per cent, of dog license. The President has recognized Rafael Gallogos as Consul-Gcneral of Costa Rica for California at San Prancisco. Mrs. James K. Polk owes $2,000 taxes on her Nashville residence, and the house is advertised for sale to meet them. A comic opera company has canceled its dates in Minnesota on account of the anti-tights bill passed by the Legislature. If. is renorted that manv national l banks in Kansas will surrender their j charters and reorganize under the State ! system. ' The Exposition Committee of the Hoard of Lady Managers of tbe World's Pair says Miss Couzins' removal was im perative. Peeretarv Nob o savs that he will lay ofY the Indian reservations, soon to be opened, in counties containing 70J square miles eacii The President of the wbiskv trust does not believe Secretary Gibson guilty of tne cnarge oi conspiring io uesuu distillery at Chicago. Major I). P. Heath of the Engineer Corps, U. S. A., is endeavoring to have Liberty's torch in New York harbor flamed with the colors of the flag of the country Friends of the late General Sherman have quietly subscribed $70,000 to a fund for the children, who have heretofore in sisted on their abilitv to take care of themselves. Tho corner stone of the new building of the great Carmelite Convent in New Orleans was laid with imposing ceremo nies. Archbishop .) unseens coiuiucteu the ceremonies. Tho President of the Innian line is authority for the statement that a sturdy American line for thirty Atlantic steam ships is to bo built, to lie manned by American sailors. "The Anticipators" is the name of a new religious sect just sprung up in Pike county. Pa. They believe the world will end before this century closes. The mem bership is increasing. Now that New Hampshire has enacted a ballot-reform bill, the Senate having passed without amendment the bill pre viously adopted by the I louse, New ling land is solid for the secret ballot. The American Consul at Kingston, On tario, reports that the amount of fees l.w.t .if l.tu nltWut fm- itvnnrtu U'nu smaiior lasi quiii ici mini ii nu nun uv foro since ho was stationed there. There will bo thirty-six new vessels in Now York harbor in 1893 to participate in what Secretary Tracy says will bo the grandest naval demonstration ever wit nessed in the western hemisphere. The negro colonization of Oklahoma seems to be going on with considerable svstem and persistence. The new "city" i . .1..... ...,r... l,., of Langston is exclusively a negro city. Tho climate seems suited to tho colored people. Negotiations are going on for the pur chase of 100,000 acres of pine timber land in Southeastern Arkansas by an English syndicate. Tho deal is made through Chicago parties. The price agreed on is $5 an acre. A highly desirable site has been se lected by the Kansas committee which recently went to Chicago to secure space for an exhibit at tho World's Pair. The lot decided upon is 120x170 feet, and has a frontage on two streets. As a result of the war talk the manu facturers at Pittsburg who have contracts with the government for the manufacture of iron and steel, to be used in tho con struction of naval vessels, have been or dored to hurry along the work. An official at Castle Garden, who in spects immigrants, is authority for tho statement that nine-tenths of the Ital ians who come to this country expect to return to their peninsular home as soon as they gather a tidy sum here. The Kentucky Constitutional Conven tion has finished its work after a session of 100 days. The proposed changes will be voted upon next August. There are aliout 21,000 words in the now Constitu tion. The old one contained 12,580 words. It is stated at Minneapolis that the Canadian Pacific railroad intends to com plete tho western extension of the Soo route and make it the main line between Boston, Montreal and the Pacific Coast, making it a transcontinental short line. Thu United States District Court at Omaha has decided that the South Omaha Live Stock Exchange has the right to prohibit parties not momlierH of thu ex change from selling stock at the yard. The life-saving service along the New Jersey coast has been crippled by the ill ness of many of the men on duty. The report along'the entire shore front from Cape May to Sandy Hook shows that the grip and VheiimatUni are general. The great horse Tenny is considered out of all danger of a breakdown, and his lameness is fast tlisapjx'iirinu. There is now little doubt that he will be in racing condition this summer, and there is hope that he will be able to start in the suburban. The Canadian Pacific railroad has everything ready to commence the con struction of its new bridge across the Niagara river. The bridge will cost the company over $2,000,1X10, but it will lie one of tde most sulwtantial structures in America, St. Paul, Minn., rejxirts a corner on hay, tbe result of a hav famine in Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri. The stock in the Northwest has been liought up at 17 tM $8.25, and commands $17 per ton in St. bmis. In St. Joseph and Kaasas City there ia a howl for hay at any price. The i-eiibiis officer's statement uf the uciuHgo and yield of tobacoo for 1880 shows an ineriNine ovur the but euwitiof M,m uciotf and 10,Wtd,to ihmiiuU. Ken tucky dhows thu gi outwit Inarwuftt. 'IVre MUD umi U HUIMIAIIMRI liiil. Hi.. in N .rll Ljjtiuuiiu, luu.msti.uiiK. rurt uik niui . iiKuiiMii. EASTERN' ITEMS. Trunk Lines Boycott the Chicago and Alton. NEW YORK'S DIVES CLOSED. Cornell Students Elect Bob Ingersoll to Make the Annual Address, But the Faculty Vetoes It. A bath-tub combine is the latest. Sugar is being smuggled into Canada. Tenement-house inspection is now go ing on in Boton. The New York police have been or dered to "close the dives." A big soldiers' reunion will be held at New York July 4 next. New Hampshire has adopted the Aus tralian ballot system of voting. A whole family has been arrested at Topeka for mailing obscene letters. Many horses have died at Hed Hank, N. J., of a disease similar to the grip. Anna Dickinson has written to George Francis Train, who sympathizes with her. The steamer Olympia from Palermo has just landed 150 Sicilians at New Or leans. At the close of its first year of high license Baltimore pronounces the system a success. Mexico will send the finest specimens of various kinds of woods to the Chicago Exposition. A New York poolseller has been sen tenced to pay $1,000 fine and spend three months in jail. Mayor-elect Rose of Cleveland is said to lx so annoyed by oflicescekcrs that he has fled the city. Archbishop Ryan of Philadelphia has forbidden Catholics to bury relatives or friends on Sunday. In nearly every instance the women candidates for School Commissioners were defeated this spring in Missouri. A party of 1100 impoverished Central Kansas settlers have left for Tojiolobam jk), the Soeialiet colony on the west coast of .Mexico. Tho Baltimore and Ohio road has se cured a number of new and powerful en gines, said to be the finest and swiftest over built. Tennessee is growing a little restless over the thought that her Legislature ad journed without appropriating for the World's Pair. Five hundred immigrants have landed at Halifax, and are coming into the United States b' rail to avoid the new immigration law. Delaware's new tramp labor bill pro vides that all tramps in Delaware may be set to work for sixtv davs breaking stones and mending roads. There is a bill still pending in the Leg islature at Springfield providing for ap propriation of $500,000 for the Illinois exhibit at tho World's Fair. Treasury locks are to lie placed on Ca nadian goods in transit through the United States, and tho use of Consular seals is to be done away with. President Harrison has unpointed Hall G. Parker (colored) of Missouri to be an alternate Commissioner at large to the World's Columbian Exposition. The new Constitution of Kentucky, framed bv the convention which has hist adjourned, forbids members of the Legis lature from accepting railroad passes. A bill was reported in the Massachu setts Senate one day last week authoriz ing the city of Jtoston to borrow $11,500, 000 outside of debt limit as a park loan. The officers of the Alton road profess to be cheerful in tho face of tho trunk lino Iwyeott, but add that it may not bo long before they will have to slash rates. Petitions have been filed at Ottawa to unseat Sir Adolphe Caron, Minister of Militia, and Sir Hector Langevin, Minis ter of Public Works, for corrupt prac tices. The captains of tho various fire-engine houses In Cincinnati have received strict orders to put a stop to the custom fol lowed by policemen of sleeping in en gine houses. A sensational article in a New York paper says Mrs. Leslie Carter and David BoIiibco bavo gone to Europe together. It is claimed by others the trip is only a business one. The Committee on Territories will probably not visit Alaska, as authorized to do by Congress. The question of tho proper government to give Alaska ha not yet been decided. The first official act of the now Mavor of Philadelphia, Mr. Stuart, was to give iK)licemon ten days in which to withdraw from all campaign and political commit tees of which they may lie members. Hereafter they are to kee'p out of politics on pain of instant dismissal. Tho impeachment trial of Judge The odore llotkin of the Thirty-second Judi cial District of Kansas lias' begun by the Kansas State Senate. The charges are diunkeiinesflj oppressive and malicious abuse of judicial authority, willful and malicious partiality, corruption and mis conduct. The Mormons of Utah under the lead ership of John W. Young did not pur chase tho 2,500,000 acres of land in tho State of Chihuahua, Mexico. Young's followets had an option on the laud for three months, but at the expiration of that time failed to come forward with sufficient funds, William J. Florence, a talented fisher man, had five boxes of flue flies con- signed to him from England by mail, and as tins line oi goois is not innllahle, he can only get tho flies by paying av tine equal to the duty on them, and they are billed for $55. flu may prefer to content himself with flies from some theater stage. The Treasury Department in consider ing the advisability of dWuoiitlnuiug thu iimu of thi distinctive imperii iiihiii wliioli uovtu'iiinoitl uottM and ueourfUtM havu Utttn print!, Thu movement fur a change arieiw (rum thu fact that tin , ..m, WfOlU Of the latitat tWO-dull.ii tiUer , . r uimuiw Mia printtul uinm gj Mi d (luguuitituiu iruiu iiiu genuine. I THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. The Collector of C'liKtomi. for Alnkn Will Appoint nn AMorlnn a Deputy. A court of inquiry having found Lieu tenant Commander" Bicknell responsible for thestrandingof theNinaand Galena, a court-martial has been ordered. The exports of merchandise from the United States for the twelve months ended March 31 were $872,010,377, and the imports $8oj,0;l,4,.0. During March the gold exorts exceeded the imports by $4,541, 500, and the silver ex(orts ex ceeded the imports by $1,021,572. Commander C. C. Reiter has been or dered to command the United smt steamship Thetis, relieving Gominaniter C. H. Stookson, who is granted two months' leave. Commander Reiter was in command of the Ranger at the time of the killing of General Barrundia, after which he was relieved from command and placed on waiting orders. Under authority conferred by Congress the Secretary of the Navy is making ar rangements to open tl'ie Boston and League Island now vards for construc tion and repair work. The docking of the .Newark at League Island one uay last week was the first work of that sort done nt Philadelphia on naval vessels under government auspices for six years. Edward T. Hatch, who was recently appointed Collector of Customs for the district of Alaska, has promised to ap point .s Deputy Collector at Juneau Frank A. Ward of Astoria, Or. The treasury oflicials believe that the present Deputy at Juneau was implicated in the violation of the liquor law, for which Pracht was removed. It is believed that he allowed the entry of liquors, well knowing that they were intended for tbe use of saloons. It is said that in Juneau, a town of 1,500 people, there have been forty-eight saloons in full blast, and no attempt whatever was made by the pub lie oflicials to suppress them. "It is also understood at the Treasury Department that this deputy, as well as the District Attorney and Territorial Judge, are bondsmen for several saloonkeepers. So far no other appointments have been agreed upon. Collector Hatch will be influenced by the Oiegon delegation, all of whom aro now in Washington, in choosing his deputies. Two additional deputies will be designated by him, to be stationed at the new ports. Senator Plumb is backing a Kansas man for one of the places, and Representative Lind will secure one appointment from Min nesota. PERSONAL MENTION. Tli llrn.IIIan MIllNI.. Art Collection In r Una tlu Fluent WitMliltiKtoii. Emin Pasha has been honored by Ger man botanists. A new plain has been called Eminia Emmons. Mrs. Sarah Wainwright, the last sur viving granddaughter of Dr. Priestly, tho discoverer of oxygen, recently died at Rrighton, England. The ex-Emperor of Brazil is going to reside with the Duke de Nemours at Rushey Park in England this summer. He is In good health and spirits. Emperor William will make a tour of the fortresses in Alsace-Lorraine at tho end of the month. The prefecture of Metz is preparing to give him a reception. General Albert Pike once told a citizen of Alexandria that he removed from that city to Washington because the people whistled so much they disturbed his lit erary labors. Ixjrd Salisbury recently lost a favorite servant by diphtheria atllatfield House, and tfie next day lie Had the whole cas tle drainage overhauled at the expense of several hundred pounds. Senor Mendonca, the Brazilian Minis ter, is credited with having tho finest private art collection in Washington. If so, he did not have it selected for him by New York picture brokers. Jefferson R. Rrowne, the new Presi dent of the Honda Senate, is but .'$ vears ot age, and refers with pride to the fact that bo kept a Florida lighthouse to obtain money for an education in law. Dr. William I. Harris, tho United States Commissioner of Education, is a tall, straight and rather thin man. His beard is short and all gray. He speaks rapidly and easily, and is a very enter taining talker. Sketches of Edwin Booth almost unan imously speak of Hartford county, Md., as bis birthplace, and this basso wearied a fellow-countian of his that the latter has published a card, pointing out that tho tragedian was born in Hartford coun ty in that State. General John A. Wiley, the well known National Guard man of Pennsvl vanla, at ono time drove a mule in a coal mine, and when he is trying to break in a squad of green guardsmen he doubt less wishes lie was back at his old his business. Mavor Ashley of New Bedford will di vide tho citv deposits between the five banks in town, believing this to be the wisest course, rather than award the same to the highest bidder, as has been the custom. In a short tune there will be some interesting financial news from Now Bedford. Rev. J. W. Mendenhall, whom a Chi cago dispatch announced a few days ago as the self-confessed author of "The Bread Winners," has written to a New York newspaper to say that, though ho knowH who did write the book, the re luirt that he claimed the authorship for htniseu is a baseless absurdity. The Asian and Australian mail steam ship line, which is owned by the North German Lloyd and has received an an nual subsidy of 4,500,000 marks from tho government, lost nearly 2,000,000 marks on its last year's business, or 4ltf per cent, on its i'mmense capital. According to n leading Marseilles pa per the French government in view of the prospective failure of tho harvest of wheat and the dearness of bread will propose in the Chambers a temporary suspension of the tariff on cereals. That the rejiort is tmo is improbable, but it is notable as an indication of difficulties that aro awaiting the govornmoutduriug tariff dohitos in the face of diminution of crops. The Earl of Derby has thu question able distinction of owning inonuii inking i luce man any ottier KngiUli Peer, lie 1ih t-oveuty-tuo uf thu pweti to his cmlit or illaoitnlii, wlilU tint nwt larnMl owner in the Earl of 111 ford, with forty eight yitf ehu(tt. The I kike uf lvuu l.ir, in but nnm Whiud liUonl, HIMl W p UK" IM.M.Liii m hot I U- IVrrs n ,wu I fii i.U vsirm Uijitur nt hula ami drunk - Mil in UirUt England " FOREIGN NEWS. Phylloxera Devastating Hungarian Vines. BRITISH STEAMER FIRED ON. Owing to Failure of the Wheat Crop, France Will Probably Suspend the Tariff on Cereals. Tho strike at Essen, Germany, affects fifteen collieries, employing 2,000 men. Ladv Florence Dixev publishes a letter appealing for justice for Mrs. Maybrick. Petty thieves have been lately operat ing with much success at the botels of Cannes. The French government will consent to the burial of Prince Najwleon's body at Ajaccio. Welsh tinplaters are obliged to shut down for a mouth on account of the Mc Kinloy bill. All idea of the transatlantic steamers landing atMilford haven appears to have been abandoned. An unusually large number of the o tentates of Europe are on the sick list at the present time. Queen Victoria has presented a richly caparisoned Indian elephant to the Em peror of Morocco. Ireland is only visited now by people who are anxious for a light or have im portant business to transact. The much-talked-of Siberian railway will soon Ihj begun, the condemnation of land for the first section having taken place. A petition against the employment of young girls as barmaids has been pre sented the King of Sweden. The petition has 10,000 signatures. The Portuguese in Africa have fired upon the British steamer Agnes, convey ing the Willoughby expedition, arid seized the cargo of boats. Crop reports from Hungary say that phylloxera is devastating the vineyards there. The price of Hungarian wine has risen one-third within a year. Revolutionary documents have been discovered baked in rolls sold by a St. Petersburg baker, whose customers are revolutionary. The baker has been ar rested. The first installation of electric trac tion in France is soon to take place at .Marseilles, where a street railway com pany is about to introduce the overhead system. The census returns just completed show the population of the Indian em pire to be 2S5,000,000,an increase of fully 110,000,000 since the last census taken in 1881. The pope has ordered 100 churches in Rome to he closed, they being unable to support themselves on account of the se questration of. their goods by the govern ment. ( Referring to tho New Orleans lynching, the London papers print statistics show ing that the Italian murder returns ex ceed those of every other nation on the earth. A consignment of 183,000 francs in gold from the Bank of Genoa to n Venice firm has been stolen in transit. The po lice are as yet without a clew to the guilty parties. Tho Chilian men-of-war Imperial, Lynch and Condell are starting for the north under orders to attack the squad ron commanded by the officers who re volted against the government. The Berlin J'ost says that assurances have been given in the most authorita tive quarters that peace is less endan gered than ever, and that the relations of Germany and Russia are friendly. Fifty thousand francs have recently been given to the American charity fund in Paris. The management of the fund last year devoted 170,000 francs to send ing penniless American citizens home. The Baroness Alexanderissa is enter taining Berlin young men nightly at a cafe chantant with abbreviated "skirts and riskv songs. She is the wife of ono of the proudest of Hungarian magnates. The Gorman government has deter mined to strongly fortify the important commercial city of Osna'bruck, Hanover. Beside tho defenses of the city itself three forts will be erected outsido the lines. Denunciations sent to the German government, protesting against the ring in wheat and rye forcing prices to a ficti tious height, have caused the govern ment to open an official inquiry into the matter. A serious riot hag just occurred at Cerda, Sicily, growing out of tho opposi tion to the poll tax. Two thousand peas ants took part, and released a comrade from prison. Troops have been dis patched to tho scene. The reported successes of the insur gents in Chili come in such shape that it requires considerable credulity to believe them. Ono thing seems to be assured, and that is there is much suffering for tho want of provisions. Tho British government has decided to strengthen the existing fortifications of the Thames and to erect a new heavy battery at Sheerness, and all the river forts are to lo supplied with now guns of late and approved patterns. Signor Inibriani has given notice in the Italian House of Deputies that ho intends to question Premier di Rudiui in regard to the refusal of Inspector Byrnes of New York city to accept the decora tion sent to him by King Humbert. A lively encounter has just taken place lHtweenthe gendarmes ami brigands in tho province of Poggia. about 100 miles j ironi sanies, ine oaiinits wuromsiuire'eu after one had Ihiou killed and u nuinbor woiindwl. lilt) Iwulor of the outlaws wiu captured. Every telegraph ijU in the remote country dUlncW of Nurwuy lu to ! floutiuuMlly watched on a.. nut t the Utfirri, which litti! a nmi.U l r i hn.l.iii till ) m I 4 U I I blltlllP' oil th. l.'K U-ui.. iiiolv ntmll) full. CRIME AND CRIMINALS. Tlir AVIfe of rroinlnent SpokunM Man I'liitf to llnve II tin Killed. Two men, who tried to swindle Levi Slusser of Mark West, Cal., out of $., 000, are supposed to be the same who so cruelly murdered Mrs. Greenwood of Napa. For every five miles of the Georgia, Carolina and Northern railroad a murder has been committed, with which the gangs at work on the road hnve been connected. The accounts of T. O. Owens, Tax Col lector of the .Modesto (Cal.) irrigation district, are $2,245 short. He left Mo desto on the 4th, and has not been heard from since. A startling disclosuie has been made at Spokane, Wash., that the wife of P. A. Bettis, a prominent citizen and ex city official, had been plotting to bring alxmt his murder. The woman is under arrest. II. Allen has been arrested at Tacoma for the rejorted wholesale robbery and sale of Northern Pacific property. He is said to be the head of a conspiracy of Tocoma, Seattle and Portland employes to rob the freight depots and box cars and sell the plunder. Of the seventeen Georgia negroes who got life sentences for their shares in the Eastman riot nine years ago, only five are now living. Twelve have died m the Dade City mines. New York's opium dens were raided tbe other dav, and thirty-nine white girls were brought into the police station. One was claimed by the husband, whom she left, two months ago. In Sacramento the other day John Haggerty, 00 years of age, a tailor by trade, murdered his son, John Haggerty, Jr., .'10 years of age, in cold blood bV stabbing him to tho heart with a pocket knife. ALONG THE COAST. The Common Council of San Dleo line. tin- lVnliiMilnr ICallroiiil Kill. The crowd of tourists entering Yosem ite Valley is unusually large for this sea son of the year., Tacoma has decided to take in much of the outlying country, and the district to be taken in has given its consent. San Diego has closed a contract by which it gains control of a water system for twenty years, thus insuring cheap and abundant water. The ship Embleton from Androsan, Scotland, has reached Tacoma after a voyage of 041 days. The trip is usually made in five months by a sailing vessel. The third annual bench show of the Southern California Kennel Club openel at Los Angeles one day last week with the best and largest list "of entries iu its history. The Washington Strife Board of Agri culture states that California packers I shall relieve oranges of the scale before I ..I.!. . - ' . 1 1 v l . . Mujini-iii. ur provisions w in oe lateen io prevent the landing of the fruit at Wash ington ports. Agent Moorehouse of the Umatilla res ervation is in receipt of a letter from the department requesting his resignation, which has been forwarded to take etfeet May Ml. The charge against him is that the Indians are retrograding under hie management. There is great rejoicing at San Diego because its Common Council has passed its Peninsular railroad bill, which in sured tho building of a first-class standard-gauge railroad from San Diego at le.st 300 miles southward and to Yuma. Work will be commenced at once. The other day the Trustees of th Ka weah colony appeared for sentence at Los Angeles, but a motion for a new trial had been interposed. The sec ond case, the one in which the real titles to tho timber lands were involved, the government tried to postpone for the term. Counsel objected. The govern ment then dismissed the case, refusing to go to trial, and ordered the defendants discharged. This is regarded as a con fession of weakness on the government's part so far as the Kaweah titles are concerned. LATEST CABLEGRAMS. A ruiuililt Aildri'Huml to tli ICmixror lteiilet Hint to I'aelfy UlKiiutrck. The Pope urges the founding of a Cath olic University in Ireland. The English pajers all printed ionr editorial articles on the career and death of iiarmiin. Jewish emigration from Bessarabia is rapidly assuming the dimensions of a general exodus. Russia proposes to use her convict in constructing tho eastern end of the great Siberian railway. The quantity of wheat now afloat fc European markets :i0.480,000 bushels is the largest on record. "Young Mr. Vandorbilt " is said to have had extraordinary luck recently at the Monte Carlo gambling tables. It is believed in St. Petersburg that the Persian government had decided to give the English the privilege of coining their money. The President of Venezuela will make reciprocity with the United States the subject of a special message to the Ven ezuelan Congress. In the British House of Commons the bill making permanent the closing of public houses iu Ireland on Sunday, in cluding in its scope the cities of Dublin, Cork, Belfast, Waterford and Limerick, has passed to second reading by a vote of 24S to 04. ' The Premier of New South Wales has announced that the government would introduce a bill providing for the enfran chisement of women. An attempt is being mado to get up a company for the establishment of gam bling tables at the little Republic of An dorra in the Pyrenees. A large force of British troops lias boon sent against tho Munipuris. who aro pre I ring for ; defense by making rllle piu and building atom gtockndus. Tin flrnt ouuitfuiueiit of twuiph o China tobmvo Una Um-ii received by I. i. 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