ACONCILLO'S NERVE
Hopes to Be Received Offi
cially at Washington.
TO ACT ON THE DEFENSIVE
General Miller Hhi Been Ordered to
Land II la Troops at Ilu Ho
at Once.
Washington, Jnn. 9. Senor Agon
cillo, who is in Washington as the lep
rosentative of the Philippine govern
ment, haa asked to be recognized by
the United States as such, and to be
accorded the same rights as the other
diplomats. His request is now in the
hands of Seoretary Hay.
Today, Dom Sixto Lopez, the private
secretary of Senor Agoncillo, visited
the state department, and presented to
the offloials a letter to Secretary Hay,
requesting, on behalf of Senor Agoncil
lo, an interview for the purpose of ar
ranging to present his credentials to
President McKinley, and inquiring
when it would meet the convenience of
the president to meet the Philippine
representative.
The letter of Senor Lonez further
states that he is instructed by Senor
Agoncillo, in view of recent develop
ments, to urge the advisability of an
nnderstading between the American
government and the representative of
the Philippine people as to the rela
tions between the respective nations;
such understanding to be reached either
at Washington, through the joint rep
resentatives of the two governments, or
in the Philippine islands, in like man
ner. The letter concludes with an ex
pression of the earnest hope that the
friendly relations heietofore existing
between the two nations may ever be
maintained.
Accompanying the letter is a memo
randum setting forth the establishment
of the Philippine republic, and the
provision for a detailed system of gov
ernment. From the facts submitted,
says Senor Agoncillo, "it will appear
that the Philippine government is now,
and it has been practically ever since
June 18, 1898, substantially in full
possession of the territory of the people
it reDiesents. "
WILL FORCE THE ISSUE.
General Miller Has Orders to Proceed
A g-ainat Ho Ho.
Chicago, Jan. 9. A speoial to the
Times-Herald from Washington says:
President McKinley has decided to
force the issue with the Filipinos. His
docision may result in a battle at Ho
Ho. It may lead to a harrassing war
with the natives of the Philippines. It
is hoped and believed that such calam
ities will be averted, but it ; em a ins for
the insurgents to determine what the
results will ba.
The president has ordered General
Miller to land his tioops at Ilo Ilo.
The order leaves the American com
mander no alternative. He is directed
to be conciliatory toward the natives,
but at the same time he is instructed
to use force, if necessary, to effect his
landing and establish himself in the
debired camp. In other words, Gener
al Miller is to act on the defensive. He
will not fire a gun unless attacked by
the Filipinos.
STEAMERS MAY BE CRUSHED.
Yukon Craft AVI 11 Re in Danger When
the Ice llreuka.
Seattle, Jan. 9. News from Dawson
states that a number of Yukon river
steamers will be lost when the ice
breaks up in spring. Some were caught
in very unprotected places, and can
scarcely escape being wrecked. The
Robert Korr, of the Moran fleet, is
stuck fast on a bar 50 miles below
Cirole City. The fine steamer Arnold,
of the Alaska Exploration Comnanv's
fleet, was caught by the ice while fast
cn a bar some 80 miles below Fortv
Milo. A crack boat of tire Empire line, the
Seattlo, is stuck 12 miles below Circle
City. She is on a bar and ice is jam
med np all around her. The Taeoma
and John C. Ban are also fast in dan
gerous positions.
Gomez' Ambition.
New York, Jan. 9. A dispatch to
the Herald from Havana says: A colo
nel in the insurgent army says that
Gomez recently sounded the army on
his old ambition of uniting Cuba and
Santo Domingo under one government.
The wily old chief thinks that the
United States can offer no objection to
this plan, which, if accomplished,
would create a state strong enough to
absorb Hayti soon.
With this done, Gomez believes the
foundation wculd be laid foi a republio
which would soon take rank in the
Western world second only to the
United States.
Dismissed Cadets.
Richmond, Va., Jan. 9. News ii
received from Lexington tonight that
today the superintendent of the Vir
ginia military institute issued an order
dismissing the entire first class of that
institution, consisting of 85 cadets.
The young men dismissed represent 12
states, and their offense was a breach
of discipline committed on New Year's
eve in the face of special warning
England Will Welcome Choate.
London, Jan. 9. The Daily News
this morning in an editorial welcoming
the expected appointment of Joseph 11.
Choate, of New York, as United State
ambassador to tho court of St. James,
says:
"Englishmen will thank President
McKinley for his choice. Mr. Choate
will have an easy and pleasant task.
He comes neither to take part in a
quarrel nor to heal one, but to foster
cordial friendship into still more'
friendly cordiality."
Tenpln Record H rota en.
Chicago, Jan. 9. The highest score
at tenpins ever recorded on the style
with thn American howl ilu' congress
alleys lias been made by Louis Ullrich,
with John A. Bender, of the Oakland
Club. Ullrich scored exactly 300 pins,
the maximum in a ten-frame game.
The night previous he made an average
of 223 in three game during a contest I
between his club and the Oakland Club
in the Chicago League tournament
The latter score ia said to be the,
world's record fot the highest average
in three games.
QUICK TIME FROM DAWSON.'
Fortlandera Break Overland ltecord
w Yorkers Have Hard Luck.
Seattle, Jan. 7. William Welch,
Frank Refcole and W. Deviue, of Port
land, Or., who arrived here today from
the Klondike, claim to have broken
the overland record from Dawson to
Skagway. They left Dawson, Decem
ber 12. and arrived at Skagway, De
cember 29.
Antone Grobesits and Albert Ber
nard, two young men fiora New York,
met with very hard luck on the way
out. They broke through the ice on
Thirty-Mile river and were in the wa
ter some time. They finally were res
cued and cared for by the police.
Grobesits loEt $2,800 in gold, whioh
was tied on his sled. He arrived here
today absolutely penniless. His part
ner is at Tagish house in the police
hospital, and will lose both feet as
well as several fingers. Grobesits wll
need to have a toe amputated.
The Williams sawmill on the Klon
dike river, near Dawson, was totally
destroyed by fire December 10. A
number of horses perished. The to
tal loss is estimated at $7,000.
Sulphur creek, which was disap
pointing Inst year, is reported to be
showing up well this winter.
DAY IN CONGRESS.
Several Bills of Minor Importance
Pasaed in the Senate.
Washington, Jan. 7. In the ab
sence of the vice-president, on account
of illness, Frye (Rep. Me.) was presi
dent pro tem at trio opening of today's
session of the senate. Berry (Dem.
Ark.) presented a protest from J. E.
Murray, camp of United Confederate
veterans of , Arkansas, against the
adoption of the proposed amendment of
Butler (Pop. N. C.) to the pension ap
propriation bill, providing for payment
oil pensions to Confederate soldiers.
Hoar (Rep. Mass) gave notice that
next Monday he would address the sen
ate on the resolution offered by Vest
(Dem Mo.), relating to the acquisition
of foreign territory by the United
States. Caffery (Dem. La.) announced
that he would address the senate to
morrow on the same resolution.
The senate passed a resolution direct
ing the foreign relations committee to
investigate the status of claims of
United States citizens againat Spain
and passed bills to ratify agreements
with the lower Brule and Rosebud
reservation Indians, to grant California
6 per cent of the net proceeds of cash
sales of publio lands in the state, classi
fying clerks in first and second-daes
postoffioes.
The Nicaragua canal bill then came
up, and Caffery made a speech on the
Clayton-Bulwer treaty.
In the House.
Washington, Jan. 7. Under a spe
cial order adopted before the holiday
recess, the house proceeded today to
consideration of bills presented by the
committee on judiciary. The bills
were first considered in committee of
the whole. The first bill called up
was that to create an additional cir
cuit judge in the sixth judicful circuit.
The bill waa finally laid aside with a
favorable recommendation.
Favorable action was also had on a
similar bill providing an additional
judge for the third judicial district.
The bill waa called up providing for
the retirement of Judge Cassius G.
Foster,. United States district of Kan
sas, and occasioned some debate.
Foster, Mr. Broderick explained, had
served 24 years on the bench and had
broken down physically, but had not
reached age (70 years), when he can be
legally retired.
Open Door In the Philippines.
Washington, Jan. 7. Senator Frye,
of the American peace commission,
said in the senate committee on com
merce today that it was the under
standing of the American commission
ers that an absolute open-door policy
was to be observed by the government
of the United States with reference to
trade in the Philippines, and that
other countries were to be given the
same facilities as the United States in
that trade.
The question came up in connection
with an informal discussion of the
coast trade policy of this country and
its extension to the Philippines, Frye
also said the policy of exlcuding tex
tile fabrics would not, according to his
understanding, be applied as in this
country.
May Exclude Americana.
Vancouver, B. C, Jan. 7. Muoh
talk is heard over the announcement in
the speech from the throne at the open
ing of the provincial legislature today,
that a bill will be introduced to ex
clude aliens from taking up or work
ing placer mining claims within the
piovince. The importance of this is
in no way to be gainsaid, for it will
shut Americana- out of the Atlin coun
try completely, and it will preserve
Atlin's riches for British subjects
alone. At present Canadians are not
allowed to take up mining claims in
the United States.
Leech Lake Indiana Pardoned.
Washington, Jan. 7. The president
has pardoned the 12 Leech lake Indians
sentenced to various terms of imprison
ment, and fined at the late term of the
United States district court of Minne
sota for resisting the United States
maishal in making an arrest.
Beeret Treaty Respecting China.
London, Jan. 7. The Shanghai cor
lespondent of the Daily Mail says: Ac
cording to Chinese report, a secret
treaty exists between Great Britain
and the Unit9 States to prevent any
iuither alienation of Chinese territory.
Kilted In a Gravel Pit.
Fullerton, Cal., Jan. 7. Martin and
Hillery Nichols, boys, were killed to
day in a gravel-pit by a cave-in. They
were taking out gravel when the lide
occurred.
The Tax on Beer.
Washington, Jan. 6. Attorney-General
Griggs, in a recent opinion, holds
that the tax to be assessed upon
beer in case of attempted evasion and
willful failure to affix the stamps
should be at f 2, and further that the
additional tax to be assessed upon beer
stored in warehouses on June 14, 1898,
should be $1 a barrel, and not 92),'
cents.
Dear Admiral Schley was presented
with a aword in Philadelphia valued at
4,200 from citizena of New Jersey,
Pennsylvania and Delaware.
BATTLE ON THE NILE
Last Dervish Chief Routed
by the British.
KITE HUNDRED REBELS KILLED
Fifteen Hundred Were Captnred
Loaa on the British Side
Waa Small.
London, Jan. 7. Particulars regard
ing the recent battle on the Blue Nile
have been received in a dispatch from
Cairo to the Exchange Telegraph Com
pany. Colonel Lewis, it appears, when he
routed Emir Fedil, the last remaining
Dervish chief, killed 500 of his fol
lowers, and made many prisoners. The
emir, however, suooeeded in escaping.
An official dispatch from Colonel
Lewis says that with a Soudanese
regiment he attacked Fedil while he
was crossing the Nile at the cataract
south of Roseirex (Reseres). The
colonel's force stormed the island on
which Fedil took his position, and
some severe fighting followed. Event
ually, Fedil fled with 800 followers
across tne river, where his force was
dispersed by the Maxim guns.
On the British side Major Ferguson,
six Egyptian officers and 18 men were
wounded, and 27 men were killed.
Cairo. Jan. 7. Coloenl Lewis defeat
ed the Emir Ahmed Fedil on the Blue
Nile December 20. His position was
taken by storm and 1,500 dervishes
weso captured.
PHILIPPINE INSURGENTS.
Will Resist the Landing of the Amer
icana by Force of Anna
Paris, Jan. 7. An official telegram
received by the Philippine junta here
dated Manila, January 4, says Agui
naldo has gone to Ilo Ilo at the request
of the insurgents, there to place himself
at their head with a view to fighting
the Americans.
The dispatoh also gives facts as to
the antecedents of members of the new
Filipino cabinet. The following have
accepted: President of the cabinet
and minister of foreign affairs, Mabini;
interior, Teodoro Sandico, a civil en
gineer, who was educated abroad;
war, General Balomero Aguinaldo,
cousin of Aguinaldo, president of the
so-called Filipino government; finance,
General Trias, a close ally of Agui
naldo;public works, Gregorio Goneaga,
a lawyer, foiinerly Spanish attorney
general of the Visayas.
The cabinet is described as homo
genous, every member being pledged,
according to these advices to resist the
military oooupation of the Philippines.
Members of the Filipino junta here
explain that Aguinaldo did not run
away, but "left Manila for the moun
tain region behind Cavite in order to
make secret arrangements foi his voy
avge to Ilo Ilo."
The Filipino who furnishes this in
formation also categorically and spe
cifically asserts that the latest tele
graphic advices declare if the Ameri
cans insist upon the occupation of
the principal cities by the American
troops, the whole Filipino tribe will
resist by force of arms.
SANTIAGO IS SATISFIED.
The Cuatomg Receipts Will Not Be Sent
to Havana.
Santiago de Cuba, Jan. 7. A dis
patch was received from Havana today
saying that the customs receipts may
remain in Santiago. The effects of
this information are good, and particu
larly so iar as the laborers are con
cerned. Senor Bacardi, the mayor, has
assured the laborers that all work now
in progress will go on, and, therefore,
there is not likely to be any imme
diate trouble.
Prominent Cubans emphatically as
sert that if a Cuban government should
assume to issue such an order concen
trating the customs receipts at Havana
civil war would break out immedi
ately. It is hoped that a civil govern
ment may be established in every prov
ince, distinct from the rule of the governor-general,
who should he merely
the military chief of the island.
For Meritorious Service.
New York, Jan. 7. A dispatch to
the Herald from Washington says:
Governor Roosevelt, of New York, is
to receive the brevet rank of brigadier
general for gallant and meritorious
service during the battle of San Juan.
A board of officers, consisting of Gen
erals Swan and Boynton and Colonel
Carter, adjutant-general, which had
been considering the question of the
officers entitled to brevets for heroism,
have recommended that Colonel Roose
velt be breveted. Sooretary Alger has
brought the recommendation to the at
tention of the president, who directed
tne nomination of Governor Roosevelt
for the brevet grade.
Mew Spanish Cabinet.
Madrid, Jan. 7. General Poliaveja,
ex-govevmor-general ef Cuba and of the
Philippine islands, ami Senor Silvela,
the oonseivative leader, have agreed
upon the formation oi a new cabinet,
and have been summoned by the queen
regent. The early advent of the con
servatives to power ia regarded as cer
tain. Killed rn Prlxeflxht.
New York, Jan. 7. George Tyler,
24 years of age, wag killed in an im
promptu prize fight tonight in Jersey
City by Thomas Foley, aged about 23
years. The two men had an unsatis
factory bout a few days ago and decid
ed to settle it tonight. In the first
round Foley landed a right swing on
the point of Tyler's jaw. Tyler
dropped, and aftel being counted ont
waa taken to a hospital, where he waa
pronounced dead. His neck was broken.
Twelve Were Drowned.
Falmouth, Jan. 7. Fourteen mem
berg of the crew of the British steamer
Roeshire, Cardiff for St. Nazal re, and
13 of the crew of the French steamer
Duguesclin, Rouen for Swansea, land
ed here today by pilot-boat. The
steamers collided near Trever Head
yesterday and gank. Eleven of the
crew of the French vessel and one of
the Rosslnre'g men were drowned.
Washington, Jan. 7. Congressman
Lewis, of Washington, introduced a
bill in tbe house today to appropiratf
1100,000 lor aieay office at Seattle.
PACIFIC COAST TRADE.
Portland Market.
Wheat Walla Walla, 60j; Valley
62c; Bluetttem, 63c per btrBhel.
Flour Best grades, $3.20; graham,
2.65; superfiire, $2.15 per barrel.
Oats Choice white, 4041e; choice
gray, 89 40c per bushel.
Barley Feed barley, $2324; brew
ing, $23.50 per ton.
Millstuffs Bran, $17 per ton; mid
dlings, $22; shorts, $18; chop, $16.00
per ton.
Hay Timothy, $910; clover, $7
8; Oregon wild hay, $0 per ton.
"Butter Fancy creamery, 50 55c;
seconds, 45 50c; dairy, 4045o store,
2580o.
Cheese Oregon full cream, 11 13c;
Young America, 15o; new cheese,
10c per pound.
Poultry Chickens, mixed, $2.253
per dozen; liens, $3. 50 4. 00; springs,
$1.258; geese, $6.007.00 for old,
$4.50fi)5 for young; ducks, $5.00(3
5.50 per dozen; turkeys, live, 15
16c per pound.
Potatoes 6070cpor suck; sweets,
2c per pound.
Vegetables' Beets, 00c; turnips, 75c
per sack; garlic, 7o per pound; cab
bage, $1 1.25 per 100 pounds; cauli
flower, 75o per dozen; parsnips, 75c
per sack; beans, 8c per pound; celery
70 75c per dozen; cucumbers, SOeptr
box; peas, 83jc per pound.
Onions Oregon, 75c$l per sack.
Hops 1518c; 1897 crop, 46c.
Wool Valley, 1012o per pound;
Eastern Oregon, 812o; mohair,
26c per pound.
Mutton Gross, best sheep, wethers
and ewes, 4c; dressed mutton, lc;
spring lambs, 7 s per lb.
Hogs Gross, choice heavy, $4.25;
light and feeders, $3.004.00; dressed,
$5. 00 5. 50 per 100 pounds.
Beef Gross, top steers, 8.50$3.75;
cows, $2. 50 8. 00; dressed beef,
66sC per pound.
Veal Large, 66c; small, 78c
per pound.
Seattle Markets.
Onions, 8590o per 100 pounds.
Potatoes, 20$25.
Beete, per saok, 75c.
Turnips, per sack," 5075c.
Carrots, per sack, 45 60c.
Parsnips, per sack, $1.
Cauliflower, 5090o per doz.
Celery, 8540o.
Cabbage, native and California
$1.00 1.50 per 100 pounds.
Apples, 85 50c per box.
Pears, 50c$1.50 per box.
Prunes, 50c per box.
Butter Creamery, 27o per pound;
dairy and ranch, 1822c per pound.
Eggs, 30c.
Cheeso Native, 1212c.
Poultry Old hens, 12c per pound;
spring chickens, 12c; turkeys, 16c.
Fresh meats Choice dressed beef
steers, prime, 6)7c; cows, prime,
6)c; mutton, 7Jc; pork, 67o; veal,
68o.
Wheat Feed wheat, $22.
Oats Choice, per ton, $24.
Hay Puget Sound mixed, $9.00
11; choice Eastern Washington tim
othy, $15.
Corn Whole, $23.50; cracked, $24;
feed meal, $23.50.
Barley Rolled or ground, per ton,
$2526; whole, $22.
Flour Patent, per barrel, $3.50;
straitrhts, $3.25; California brrnds,
$3.25; buckwheat flour, $3.75; graham,
per barrel, $3.60; whole wheat flour,
$3.75; rye flour, $4.
Millstuffs Bran, per ton, $14;
shorts, per ton, $16.
Feed Chopped foed, $1921 per
ton; middlings, per ton, $17; oil cake
meal, per ton, $35.
San Francisco Market.
Wool Spring Nevada, 1012 per
pound; Oregon, Eastern, 10 12c; Val
ley, 15 17c; Northern, 0llc.
Millstuffs Middlings, $1821.00;
bran, $15.50 16.50 per ton.
Onions Silverskirr,5075cper sack.
Butter Fancy creamery, 28c;
do seconds, 25 26c; fancy dairy, 20c;
do seconds, 20 23c por pound.
Eggs Store, 25 80c; fancy ranch,
8437o.
Citrus Fruit Oranges, Valencia, $2
2.50; Mexican limes, $66.50; Cali
fornia lemons, $2. 00. 800; do choice,
$3. 50 4. 50; per box.
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS.
An average star of the first magni
tude is one hundred times as bright as
one of the sixth magnitude
Exports of flour from the Pacific coast
to the Orient have grown iu the last
five years from 80,000 to 135,000 tons
annually.
The prefeirce of a considerable quan
tity of liquid carbonic acid in the rocks
is among the surprising revelations ol
the microscope.
A snake does not climb a tree by
coiling round it, but by holding on
with the points of its scales. A snake
could not climb a glass pillar.
The smallest salary paid to the head
of a civilized government is $15 a year
to the president of the Republic of
Andorra, in the Pyrenees.
Last year 852,000 persons were em
ployed in the mines and quarries of
the United Kingdom. The annual
output of coal is about 200,000,000 tons.
On'y one-third of the world's popu
lation use bread as a daily article ol
food. Fully one-half of the people of
the world subsist chiefly on rice.
Some of the gcrews used in watches
are io small that it takes 880,000 oi
them to weigh a pound.
A remarkable dwarf pine from Green
Mountain, near Boulder, Col., is report
ed by Professor Bessey to be only five
inches high with a single tuft of leaves,
yet to show 25 annual rings.
J. V. Cheney A sunbeam kissed a
river ripple. "Nay, naught shall dis
sever thee and me." In night's wide
darkness passed the beam eway, the
ripple mingled with the sea.
The hearing organ of animals is not
alwayg located in the head. In some
grasshoppers it is in the forelegs and
appears on the wings of many insects.
Rock island, in the straits of Macki
nac, wag recently sold by the register
and receiver of the Marquette, Mich.,
land office for 6 cents. It wag put up
at auction in a bunch with Goose
Eagle and Haven islands, and wag sold
to the highest bidder, who happened to
be William St. James, ol St. Ignace.
St. James bid $1.25 per acre tor the
islands, and as Rock island contains
just 1-25 of an acre, its purchase pric
waa S centi.
PACIFIC COAST NEWS
1 tenia of General Interest Gleaned
From the Thriving; I'aclSn
States.
The Country's Apple Crop.
In connection with demand in the
East and in Europe for our fruit, we
quote from the Orange Judd Farmer In
tegard to the extent of the apple crop:
This crop in the United States is smal
ler than it has been since reliable sta
tistics have been collected. lire total
supply from the 1898 crop of the Unit
ed States is 2 7,000,000 barrels, as com
pared with something over 40,000,000
barrels last year and 70,000,000 in the
record-breaking crop of 1896. The fail
ure is widespread, reaching from the
Pacific coast to Maine, and in none of
the states does the output of fruit ap
proach an average. (This is not true,
however, where the crop is not a fail
ure). In the great apple states of the
Central West the crop is almost a total
failure, although the situation in Mioh
igan is better than elesewlrere, having
about two-thirds of the bumper crops
of 1896. New York has only one-fifth
of a full crop. The failure is attributed
to the fact that during the blooming
season there was an excessive rainfall,
which washed out the pollen and pre
vented proper fertilization by insects,
while a cold wave added to the injury,
and subsequent moist, humid weather
was very favorable to the development
of fungus diseasos. The Ontario crop
is decidedly short. The crop of Europe
is reported below the normal.
Idaho's Mineral Output.
The mines of Idaho have shared the
general prosperity of the state. In
every section of the commonwealth new
strikes were made during the year just
closed, and many of them have de
veloped into promising properties.
The state's mineral production for 1898
is $1,659,570 more than it was hist
year, and $3,663,610 more than in
1896. J. W, Cunningham, superin
tendent of the United States assay office
at Boise, has made an estimate of the
production of the state for the past
year, upon whioh the foregoing com
parison is based. The following gives
the actual pioduction for 1897, and
the estimated production for 1898:
1898. 1897.
fiold, oza 110,000 f 2,273,700 $ 2,125,3SS
Silver, ozs . B,KI,IKK) 7,740,1X10 7,103,821
Uuid, lbs 141,467,2(10 6,375,756 4,601,231
Total 16,3S9,45o 113,729,886
Increase, fl, 659,570.
In 1890 the gold production of the
state was $2,323,700; silver, $4,464,
765; lead, $3,953,380; total, $11,751,
845. New Milling; Company.
A flour milling company, to be
known as the M. M. & B. Co., has just
hoen incorporated at Chelan Falls.
The incorporators are Messrs. R. T.
M unlock, James Marshall and George
D. Brown. It is their purpose to at
once inaugurate the building of a 100
bavrel flour mill at the falls, although
but 50-barrel machinery will be put in
at the start. When it is remembered
that at present there is but one flour
mill between Wilbur and the Cascade
mountains, in an area considerably
more than 100 miles square, it will be
Been that the present move means a
largo and profitable business from the
start.
Olive Crop.
A Los Angeles Times man writes
to his paper that throughout a great
pait of Southern California the olive
crop is this year a complete failure.
At Fallbtook, in San Diego county,
the large aoreago of olive trees on the
Red Mountain ranch represents a con
siderable production of the fruit,
though neighboring orchards are bar
ren. Beginning at Santa Paula, and
extending westward through Santa
Barbara county, there is a territory em
bracing several lurgo orohards, in
which the trees are laden with heavy
crops. This constitutes tho production
of Southern California for the present
year.
Aiding an Oregon Industry.
The Portland linseed oil works are
desirous of establishing a flax center at
Dallas, and offer the farmers the fol
lowing proposition: First, we will fur
nish prime, clean seed to each farmer
who will sow from 20 to 80 acres or
more, this growing seed to be paid hack
at harvest of crop. Second, we will
gnarantoo the farmers $1 a bushel of 66
pounds clean and f. o. b. cars Portland.
Any further information regarding the
successful handing of the flax crop will
be cheerfdully furnished by E. E. Lar
ri more, manager Portland Linseed Oil
works, Portland, Or.
Improving- Gas I'lanta.
A new plant, double the size of thb
present works, will soon be built at
Spokane by the Spokane Falls Gaa
Light Company, which now estimates
spending $20,000 in improvements.
The consumption of gas in that city
hug doubled within the past two years,
necessitating an increased capacity.
Twenty thousand dollars will also be
spent at Butte, Mont., in doubling the
capacity of the gag works there, which
are controlled by the Spokane company.
llond Sale.
The sale of the $2,000 worth of bonds
issued on school district No. 1, of Ma
son county, Washington, and to run six
years at 5 per cent interest, have been
nold to the directors of the school, who
consider themselves quite lucky ia se
curing the investment.
New Whiskey Distillery.
The new plant for the manufacture
ol rye whisky is almost ready to begin
operations at Logan, Or., by August
Fisher & Co. The rye used will he
raised in Clackamas county, and this
will make the second whisky still on
;he Clackamas river.
By order of tho court of Olympla,
Wash., the bank building and fixtures
of the First National bank of Olympia
have been sold for $15,000 to George
SI. Heller, of Tacoma.
A deposit of genuine red paint hag
been discovered on Thunder creek,
about three miles from Bakei, Skagit
county, Wash. " The deposit produces
Hie best quality of mineral paint by
means of the simple process of burning
it. II. E. Edgar made the discovery
and will develop it.
Business activity in Chelan, Wash.,
is sufficient to warrant the citizena of
that plate to organize a committee for
the purpose of establishing a bank.
The committee advertises for capital
and promise a good support to the right
paitiei.
A QUEER OLD WORLR.
If virtue would allure like sin
How easily might goodness win.
If right went laughing by like wrong
The deil would lose half bis throng.
If dny sought pleasure like tbe night
Dawn need not blush to face the light.
But virtue seems so cold and proud
That merry siu attracts tbe crowd.
And right has such a solemn air
Men follow wrong, the debonair,
And eare so eats the daytime up
At night they seize mad folly's cup,
And drink forgetfulness till dawn.
And so the queer old world goes on.
-Oriterion.
HIGHWAY ROBBEfiY.
THAT Mlea Foster was different
from and more charming than all
the rest of her sex might have
been proved from any of the fifteen
men to whom she had been engaged In
two yearn since she had come back
from school, beginning with Cadet
Yerrls and ending with Cady.
That Captain Foster was exactly like
all the rest of mankind, and little de
served the blessing he bad In bla
daughter, was manifested by his draw
ing from hia pocket a letter, and say
ing aa he gave It to her, "By the by,
Kitty, this came for you yesterday
while you were riding with Cady, and
I forgot to give It to you."
Miss Foster looked at the postmark
and at the almost feminine cblrogra
phy, aad knew that the letter waa from
Fort Bowie, and from Glocester. She
laid It beside her plate and finished
her breakfast Afterward she took it
up to her own room and read It. Then
she sat with folded bands and looked,
unseeing, at tbe photographs of the
fifteen upon the wall before her. She
was very white.
Tho most astute woman will fre
quently stake everything and play all
her game upon honor In man. When
that chances to fail, her calculations
are sot at naught, and the bottom folia
out of her u il verso.
And Gloeester'g honor had failed. He
wrote Kitty read It again "So you
tell me you are engaged to Cady. That
means little to you. But It may mean
much to him. Therefore, to prevent
bla being made the fool that I have
been, I have taken the liberty of gend
Ing him by this mall the letters you
have written to me within the last
month four In number that he may
know with whut manner of woman he
baa to deal."
Now, fourteen times beforo, Miss
Foster had not been in earnest. But
tbla time she waa. Unfortunately, tho
fact that she cared greatly for Cady
had not prevented her from writing to
Glocester more affectionately than pru
dently, In order to keep him t'other
dear charmer who was away upon
her string, so long aa It would hold him
without snapping. And the letters,
Bent while she waa actually engaged
to Cody, were going to fall Into his
hands. It was a desperate situation.
But, for nil her blue eyes, and curls,
uud bewildering ways, Miss Poster was
the woman to meet It.
After a time ahe rose to her feet and
set her Hps. It la a peculiarity of
Cupld's-bow Hps that they can set,
upon occasions. She knew that Cudy
had not yet received those letters. And
She determined that he never should.
She would rob the stage.
Guard-mounting was Just over, and
the stago wag not due until noon. Kitty
get a big hat a-tlltlng upon ber curls
and walked down to the postofflco.
Fate, with her partiality for the brave
and fair, willed that the postmaster
should have left his desk. Miss Fos
ter pushed open the gate and went be
hind the rail. The keys to the mall
bag hung upon their hook. She put
them In ber pocket. When tho post
master came back she wag placidly
marking his clean blotter with the let
ter stamp.
"If you pleaae, Mr. Joneg," she said,
"I want this letter registered."
An hour later Mlsg Foster reigned up
her horse on the top of a rise and look
ed acrosg the flat atretch of grease
wood, and t ictus, and gage. Far away
a tiny gpeck wag crawling toward her
along the white road. It waa the atage.
Bhe had been born upon the plains,
and she had an unfailing eye for lta
distances. There would be full half
an hour to wait. She cast about for
gome way of killing time, and found a
deep, wide fissure In the parched earth.
It appealed to her daring. She put her
horse to a run and Jumped It time and
again until he was winded. Then she
rode again to the crest of the slope.
The stage was uear. She dismounted,
felt of the girths, and sat down, hug
ging tbe tiny noon-day shade of a
mesqulte bush, for the gun wog burn
ing down from a hard, blue sky. A
big red ant was carrying a beetle's
wing many times lirger than Itself.
Kitty watched It until she heard tbe
rattle of traces as the stage climbed
the other side of the slope. The she
commended her soul to heaven and
brought her quirt down upon the
horse's black flanks.
The stage-driver drew tip his stock,
and the one passenger put out his bead
and shoulders and gazed at the slender
gray figure rising alone In the midst of
the prairie.
"What ever, Miss Kitty " the
driver stopped short. lie saw the
horse grazing off a bunch of stumpy
grass, a hundred yards away. Kitty
went a step nearer and laid ber hand
on the wheel. She had seen that there
wag no woman In the stnge. A woman
would have ppset all ber calculations.
She raised her big blue eyes. Tho men
who could bave resisted them were
few. Those In the stage listened now
to a tale calculated to melt a heart of
stone.
"I wag Just out for a little ride," sold
Kitty, "and my girths were loose, so I
dismounted tc clncb up, and that horrid
Dandy got away. If you had not come,
I don't know whatever I should bave
done."
Mlsg Foster would not have been the
woman she was If tears the genii of
the lamp of fair femininity bad not
risen at her will The driver looked
again at the horse and back at Miss
Foster. He bad known ber from tbe
day of her birth. When be was In his
first enlistment, long before be bad re
turned to civil life, be bad been her
father's striker. He had held ber upon
t burro and taught her to ride before
she could walk. Therefore, he was
Justly annoyed. For the cleverest con
spirator Is apt to overlook a detail, and
Kitty had forgotten that the horse of
a good rider, which has broken away,
should have the bridle over Its head.
"I'm sure, Miss Kitty," he said, "that
It weren't me learned you to leave the
reins hooked over the pommel when
you dismounted and I should have
thought you could have mounted alone
anywheres."
Kitty flushed. Of all things, she was
proudest of her horsemanship.
"Do you think, O'Rourke, that you
could catch Dandy for me?"
"I dunno." said O'Rourke, "'taint so
easy to catch a horse when the reins la
over the pommel."
But he wound the lines around the
brake and Jumped down. The passen
ger was not to be outdone. He Jumped
down, too, and together they went
trotting across the plain.
Kitty had seen others try to catch
Dandy. Sha climbed leisurely Into the
stage, and dragged the mall-pouch
from under the seat She was fright
ened now, and cold and trembling, and
she threw quick glances to where
O'Rourke and the passenger were ad
vancing, and retreating, and deploy
ingnever within arm's reach of
Dandy. When she had stowed away In
the crown of her cap a small package
postmarked Bowie and addressed to
Cady In a pointed, sprawling, almost
femlnlno hand, she snapped the lock.
She had left the keys In the bog. For
she knew that the postmaster had du
plicates. Then she steadied herself
with a long-drawn breath, and, gather
ing her ridlng-sklrts about ht-r, walked
toward Dandy, holding out her hand.
Dandy bad been brought up to believe
that this meant sugar or nutmegs. He
came, with neck outstretched, and
nozzled In the little gloved palm.
"He Is sorry be was naughty," said
Miss Foster, scratching the back of bis
ear, "and he Is going to be good, and
never, never run away from his mis
tress again."
And then she rewarded O'Ronrke by
putting her booted foot In his great
palm and springing to her seat In a
manner that did his training credit.
She smiled on the passenger and thank
ed him sweetly.
"I hope the postmaster will not be
angry with me for delaying the trans
portation of the government malls,"
and she cantered away. 1
Cady sat himself upon the stop step
of the porch of Captain Foster's quar
ters. Miss Foster did the some. Cady's
face was stern and set Miss Foster's
was white and senred. There was a
silence. Then Cady drew from- his
pocket a package of letters. They were
in Kitty's writing. Kitty drew from
her pocket another package. They
were In Cady's hand. Cady spoke first.
"Here," he said, "Is a bundle of let
tersfour In number. They came to
me In to-day's mall. They were accom
panied by this note from Glocester. I
need not assure you that I have not
read them, but I gather from what he
says that they are of an exceedingly
personal nature, and of very recent
date. You may guess my opinion of
Glocester. But," he bent upon her a
look of withering scorn, "you cannot
guess my opinion of you."
He held the bundle out to her. She
pushed It away. Then she held up
before bis eyes a package of much the
same size. He reached out for them
quickly.
"Not yet!" said Kitty. "Here," she
continued, "Is a bunole of letters six
In number. They came In to day's mall.
They were accompanied by a note from
Miss Fowler, of Bowie. I need not as
sure you that I have reud them. They
are of an exceedingly personal I mny
say affectionate nature and of v?ry
recent date. They were written by
you to Miss Fowler. I rend, too, the
note with which she returned them.
Here It Is. You may find It of Interest
-I did."
Cody took the package she held out
to hi in. Miss Foster took the one Cady
bold out to her. And again there was
silence.
Then tbe lieutenant spoke. "To
whom, may I ask, were the letters from
Miss Fowler addressed?" ,
"To you." 1
"And may I also ask how, in that
event, they came Into your posses
sion r
Miss Foster considered. "No." 1
Cody put his package In his pocket
and fastened his blouse over them.
Then he sat looking over the parade
ground. After a time he put his hands
on hlg knees and turned and faced Miss
Foster.
"Well?" he said Kitty's eyes had
been cast down, so that her long lnshes
lay upon her cheeks. She raised them.
He looked down steadily Into their
blue and twinkling depths.
"Well?" echoed Kitty. And then he
smiled.
Miss Foster gave a huge sigh of re
lief. "Isn't It curious," she said, "how
exactly alike Miss Fowler and Mr.
Glocester write? Any one might bave
been deceived."
Which was not very revelant; but
Cady did not ask what she meant. Ir
relevancy was one of Miss Foster's
many charms. The Argonaut. i
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Ancient Hlblo.
There Is In possession of the Mount
St. Mary's Seminary, Cincinnati, nn
ancient Bible that Is a mute refutation
of tho theory that the German people
were without a Bible In the vernacular
until Introduced by Martin Luther.
The old book was published In Low
German at Cologne, In the year 14(1.8,
fifteen years before tbe father of Pro
testantism was born. Tho book was
the property of Rev. Edward Timothy
Collins, who was pastor at the Cathe
dral for many years. He died Aug. 27,
18(55, bequeathing the precious volume,
together with a valuable library, to the
seminary.
Craving for Htarch.
A writer in the Woman's Signal
(London) says: "I have been credibly
informed that during a holiday at the
coast a servant girl consumed eight
pounds of starch, and she said the
habit was common. She also stated
that tho craving for starch when ac
quired became so strong as to be al
most Irresistible. I should be Inter
ested to know what starch centalns to
excite such a craving. The girl I refer
to waj quite well aware of the bad
effects of the habit, and yet felt al
most unable to give It up.
When a man gives big wife a sewing
machine. It Is a kind of delicate bint
that life Is earnest, and that there is a
lot of sewing to be dona,