The jHeppner Gazette
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1900.
TBI HBAVRNS IN DECEMBER.
Something
of Interest Concerning
the
v
1 Constellation, - -
Tbe close of the nineteenth century
is marked by no celestial pageant. In
deed, the . heavens are more than
usually bare, for all. the outer planets,
except Neptune are hidden behind the
sun, and tbe inner cones are all three
morning stars. . So on the' last evening
of the century we shall see those silent
and eternal stars alone which present
the same aspect to as that they did to
tbe sages of the East more than thirty
centuries ago Orion and the Pleiades,
familiar to star-gazers when the Book
of Job was yet unwritten, even as in
present times, ana seeming , even more
inconceivably far beyond onr reach to
us than to them, v ,
To the fixed: stars, therefore, must
our attention be chiefly directed, when,
as oar custom is, we survey the even
ing skies. At 9 p. m. on December IS,
the Milky Way extends i in a broad
span across the sky . from east to west.
passing a little north of the zenith. It
is much brighter . in the west than in
the east, and also much more irregu
lar in form and brilliancy.:
Following its line fromjwest to east,
and noting the principal constellations,
we come at ;first to Cygnus, a great
. cross of stars standing erect right along
the center of the Galaxy, and close
above the western - horison. Some dis
tance higher op, and nearly overhead.
is Cassiopeia, marked; by a xigzag line
of bright stars; and, the next group to
tbe east is Perseus. Midway between
the last-named constellations is
bright spot in the Milky Way, which,
witn. even - the smallest telescope, is
seen to - be a magnificent cluster of
telescopic stars.
Still following the Milky Way down
toward the east, we next reach Auriga,
whose brightest star... Uapella, : con
aiderably surpasses any that we have
so far passed.c. Below is Gemini, con
taining the conspicuous pair Castor and
Pollux, both of which are almost of
tbe first . magnitude. Their line con
tinued downward points out a little
hazy spot of light which is the cluster
Praesepe,, in Cancer, the most charac
teristic feature of the . constellation.
The : separate t stars of this cluster can
not be. separated by thejnaked eye, but
. are clearly seen with a fieldglass.
To the right of Cancer is Canis
Minor, whose only conspicuous star : is
the brilliant Procyon. : Further on in
the same direction is Siriua, which)
even at its present low attitude, is be
yond comparison the brightest star in
sight. '. The lower part of Canis Major
to which constellation it belongs
nas not yet risen.
Above Sirius is Orion, which is too
familiar to need description here, and
high above him again is 'Taurus
Aldearan, . Sirius and ' the two
brightest .. in i Orion, Rigel i and
Betelgeuse, form a remarkably per-
feet paraleiogram. :
Below and to the right of Orion
the little constellation Lepus, the
Hare, which between the hunter Orion
and bis Great and Little Dogs must be
pretty hard pressed. : Just above Kigei
is a moderately bright star, which
Beta Ericlani; and tbe classic river is
represented by a long stream of faint
stars extending thence to the westward
and then southward and eastward to
the horizon and filling up most of the
southeastern sky.
Tbe almost equally irregular and ex
tensive , Bhape of Cetus and Pisces
similarly. ... occupy ; the southwest
Above is Aries, a little south of the
zenith, below which to the west
Andromeda, with the great square , of
Pegasus further down and standing on
one corner.
In the northern heavens we may note
that the .Little Dipper hangs directly
down from the Pole Star and that
Draco lies below it. The Great Dipper
is on the right, the last star of its
handle out of sight near j the horizon
and the bead and paws of the Or eat
Bear extend from it toward Gemini and
Cancer.
This month has more than the usual
number of planetary conjuntions.with
the sun; but r these are unfortunately
not observable phenomena.
Mercury is . morning star in Libra
and Scorpio, all the month. His
greatest elongation occurs on the 7tb
and throughout the first half of Decem
ber he is well placed for observation,
rising about two hoars before tbe sun.
On the morning of tbe 22d be passes
close to Uranus, and on that of the
30th close to Jupiter, but in both cases
the planets are too much involved in
the dawn to be easily .seen. . - r
Venn is morning star ' in Virgo,
Libra and Scorpio, rising nearly three
hours before the sun , on the 1st, and
more: than two hours on the 81st. She
is receding : from the earth and grow
ing fainter, but remains as always the
brightest of the planets.
Mars is rapidly approaching , opposi
tion and becoming more . conspicuous.
He is in Leo, moving slowly eastward
and growing brighter By the end of
the month be will be a brilliant ob
ject, brighter, than a first magnitude
star, and rising about 10 p. m.
Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus are all
in conjuntion with the sun during this
month ;f Uranus on tbe 4th, Jupiter on
the 13tb, and Saturn on the 28th, and
all are invisible during the month,
unless perhaps Saturn might be seen in
very clear air just after sunset in its
very first days. .
Neptune is almost, opposite to the
three planeta last named, and comes to
opposition on tbe 19th. He is situated
on .' the .boundary of - Taurus and
- Gemini, and is invisible to the naked
eye, and, indeed, hardly worth looking
at in any bat large telescopes.
Full moon occurs on tbe morning of
tbe 6th ; last quarter on the afternoon
of the 13tb ; new moon on that of ; the
21st; and first - quarter on the evening
of the 28th. The moon is nearest the
eartb on the 3d, most remote on the
15th and nearest again on the 30th.
She passes Neptune on the morning of
the 7th, Mars on the evening of the
12th, Venus on the ;nlght of the 18th,
Mercury on the morning ' of the 20tb,
Uranusa noon the same day .Jupiter on
the morning of the 21st, and Saturn on
that of tbe 22d.
At 1 a. m. on the morning of the 22d
the bub enters tbe sign of Capricorn,
and. according to tbe almanacs.
"winter begins." And with tbe stroke
of midnight on the 31st tbe nineteenth
century closes Henry Norris Russell
in the Scientific American. '
THE tTMSESft: VN1VEISI i IS RIAL,
It il astonishing how recent advances
in astronomy are plunging as deep into
the invisible universe.- It has become
evident that the heavens are more
filled " With anseen than with seen
things. This lends additional and
piauant Interest to tbe t fact that our
solar system is traveling at mad speed
through space, the Southern- stare
closing in behind it and tbe Northern
atari perspectively opening oat before it
H it rashea nearer to them. One can
not help wondering what may lie un
detected because onseen, in our path'
By anseen things is here meant, not
phenomena too , distant to be viaible,
but objects which are unseen because
they give off .no form of radiation
that affects our eyes. Such objects may
be comparatively near by without re
vealing their presence , to our sense of
sight. . , ..,
It is clear that something equivalent
to, it not identical with, the mysteri
ous Roentgen , rays comes to us from
celestial space, emanating from the
stars. Shadow photographs made with
the sunbeams are sufficient to prove
this. If the sun pours forth "invisible
lght" his brother suns, the stars, do
so too, and some of them evidently.
shine brighter.' if I may use so
self-contradictory, a phrase, by their
invisible. than by their visible rays..
tor proof ol that statement we need
only look at the photographs recently
taken of tbe celebrated Ring Nebula in
Lyra. , In the center of that strange
gauze-like ring is an exceedingly' faint
star. In a few telescopes of enormous
power that star can just be glimpsed.
But in a photograph, with scarcely any
magnification, the star, appears as a
most conspicuous phenomenon. ' Why
does it imprint its picture , so boldly
when its light is so faint? Perhaps be
cause it bears a resemblance to a
gigantic Crookes tube, and -. is essen
tially an .''electric star," whose major
radiation 'differs from that of our sun.
It only require another step in the
same direction to convince , ps that
there i are in the heavens objects
which radiate no light . at all, but
which nevertheless may ' be continu
ally pouring upon us invisible waves
tbe existence of which can be detected
by modern photographic methods. The
recent detections by powerful photo.
graphic telescopes of thousands of in.
visible nebulae scattered over the
heavens shows what an infinite world
of discovery lies this way.
ine unseen universe, t formerly the
subject of metaphysical discussion,
thus becomes real for us, and the
means of handling its phenomena with
some of the certaintv with which we
have dealt with visible things are to
come into our hands.
In this way we may learn the nature
of the influence exercised by sun spots,
which, when they burst out with ex
traordinary paroxysms as they will
soon begin to do once more set the at
mosphere around tbe earth's magnetic
poles aflame with auroral beams. The
centers of sun spots look absolutely
black, but, since they lie deep beneath
the surface, they pertain to a part of
the solar ' globe where 1 the atoms- are
more intensely excited than at a higher
level, and which, like the mysterious
star in the Ring Nebula emits not so
much light as radiant energy of a more
subtle form. ' '' 1 ..'..
: Thus tbe invisible universe' appears
at our doors at the hearth of the plane
tary system, as well as . in distant
space, and everywhere its potentiality
presents mysteries for solution. Gar
rett P. Serviss.. " '
THOMAS RETALIATES. . . ,
Governor of Colorado Refutes to Honor
Requisition Governor of Indiana. ; !
Governor Mount of Indiana on Satur
day last received word that Governor
Thomas, of Colorado, has refused to
honor a requisition from Indiana fo;
the return : of Clifton Oxman. of
Princeton, Ind., accused of defrauding,
in a real estate deal, J. Mayer Greene,
Chicago. A special from Denver says
the Indiana sheriff had Attorney-General
Campbell, of Colorado, inspect
the papers,. and they were declared
legal. Afterward, it . is Btated, ; Gov
ernor Thomas bad a consultation with
Mr. Campbell, and then announced
that the papers were not made, out in
technical form, and this, taken in con
nection with the attitude of Governor
Mount,, of Indiana, in. refusing to
honor Governor Beckham's requisition
for the return to Kentucky of W. S.
Taylor, who is now living in Indiana,
be said would cause him to refuse the
requisition- Governor Thomas, . it is
stated, at the same time said that sev
eral other governors had, he believed,
decided to take similar steps regarding
Governor Mount,' The matter has
created considerable comment.' '
IT WAS A GREAT SOCCESS.
Peril Exposition Has Been Profitable
Beyond Expectations.
The Paris exhibtion. though ' some
times described as a failure, has truly
failed magnificently, says a correspon
dent Of the Chicago Chronicle. It has
broken all records for world's snows in
regard to attendance.' In seven months
60.000.000 visitors passed through its
turnstiles, more than double the num
ber who visited the world's fair at
Chicago. It is interesting to note how
these great shows have grown in popu
laritv. In 1851 o.OOO.OOU people at
tended the great exhibition in Hyde
Park. Four years later the first great
show in Pans was visited by 6,000,000.
In 1867 Paris drew 10,000,000; in, 1878
she attracted 16.000,000 -an average: of
82,000 a dav and in 1889 the records
show, up to this year- was visited by
28,000,000. - Since tbe crystal palace
was first erected In Hyde Park in 1851
there have ibeen 21 great international
shows, and the aggieeate attendance
has been . about -160,000,000. In 1873
Vienna. lost 2,000,000. . v ...
Hessian Fly fn Willamette Valley.
Tbe work of the Hessian fly on the
growing wheat is being watched by' the
farmers in the Willamette valley with
a great deal of concern. Up' to the
present time, the ravages ot the insect
have not been of great consequence and
only now and then a field is found
where any injury nas been done, rne
fields that show signs of damage are
invariably those that were seeded early
in the fall, while later grain has
is looking as fine as wheat ever looks
in the winter. But even tbe farmers
who have tbe best-looking fields have
grown apprehensive, feeling that tbe
prospects of a satisfactory crop are 1 ex
tremely doubtful. Tbe experience of
last season destroys their faith. 1 Last
year many a field showed as fine a
prospect as was ever seen until the
grain was of considerable, size, when
something seemed to take the life out
of it and the wheat was gone. It is
feared that when the second brood of
insects comes in the spring they will
attack the joints of the straw, and the
experience of last -year will oe re.
pea ted. .-. . ' . .
Selling Offlclel Inforiaatloa. : .
A story to the effet that the govern.
ment cotton crop report, which will be
made public soon, had been offered to
various cotton brokers in New ' York
city in advance, received corroboration
Sunday, frank a. uuest, head 01
cotton commission house, said that
advance information was offered ' him
on Saturday. ' He immediately notified
President Hubbard of the cotton ex
change. Tbe latter asked for a detailed
statement, which was given1, and this
is to be used as a basis for federal in
estigation. . .
At Ashland tbe republicans in con
vent ion assembled nominated R. C.
Sell, a " democrat, for mayor by
acclamation, and this after pawing
resolution excluding all but "regular
repabl leans" from participating in tbe
proceedings. ,
ANIMAL:
CONTHOLS YOU?
Of all animals upon earth man came
last. " ' 1 .; r!i,'
All of earth's animal creations are
bound up in man. Wk ' - 1 '
As to the first statement there is no
difference of opinion. v-' i ' ,
The Bible .and Darwin agree that
man was created last ' of all the ani
mals. Very superficial observation will
convince vou that man contains in his
mental make-up allot tbe "inferior';
animals, or at least a great many of
them . ..
You,. Mr. Jones, or Smith, who read
this are in your single self a sort of
synthesis of the entire animal crea
tion. If vou could be divided into your
component animal parts, theie would be
a menagerie in your bouse and you,
Smith or Jones, wouia De missing.
That thing we call ; a soul would be
floating around, impalpable, looking
for its bouse to live in. - '
Of course you ;can see ; the animal
make-up in your neighbor more readily
than in yourself.
Hov do men describe each other?
D6 they i not speak as ' follows, and
mean exactly what they say: '
"He is as sly as a fox." 1
' "He eats like a pig." 1 ,
"He has dog-like faithfulness." "
"He is as brave as a lion." '
"He is as treacherous" as a snake.''
"He was as hungry as a wolf," etc.
Our good and our bad qualities alike
are mapped out in our nuroDie. rela
tions. . .
The horse stands for ambition, which
strives .and suffers in silence,. The
dog represents friendship, which suffers
and sacrifices much, but . whines loudy
when lniured.,
, We have no doubt , that of the twelve
passions which enter into Fourier's
complex analysis ol man each has its
prototype in some animal, ; , .
To rebel at the animal combination
which makes up a man would be folly
'The Maker of us all, " from ants to
anti-imperialists, naturally gathered
tosrether tbe various parts in lower ani
mal form before finishing the work
in man.
A harmoniously balanced mixture of
all the animals is calculated uh-
doubtedly to produce the perfect man
Therefore, study vour animal make
up.. Analyse honestly and intelligently
thei so-called "lower - creatures from
which you derive your mental charac
teristics, if you have not yet done so,
study at once some good work on . em
bryology, and ; Jeam . with amazement
and awe of vour marvelous pre-natal
transformations.,. ' ... .
Then do your . best to control the
menagerie, that : is ; at -, work in your
mind ; . -
Stuperfy Mr. Pig, if he is too prom
inent., Circumvent Mr. Fox, if be
tries to rule you and make of you
mere cunning . machine, Do . not let
your Old Dog Tray qualities of , friend
ship lead to your being , made a looi
Of.
In short, study carefully the animal
qualities that . make up your .tempera
ment and prove in your own person the
falseness of Napoleon's irritating state
ment that a man's temperament can
never be changed by himself.
It . may interest you to note' that
when man becomes insane the fact . is
at once made" apparent that bis mind
dethroned, had acted as , the savage
ruler of a menagerie. . Many men im
agine themselves animals of .one sort
or another. Nearly all of them display
the grossest animal qualities, once
their mind is deranged; Women of the
greatest refinement sink into dreadful
animalism when insane. - . . .
Heine tells of 'a constable who, in
his boyhood, ruled his native citv. One
fine day "This constable suddenly went
crazy . , and thereupon he be
can to roar like a lion or squall like
cat. " Heine remarks with calculated
naivette) 'We little boys were greatly
delighted at the old fellow, and
trooped yelling after, him,, until he
was carriea on 10 a niau noune. "
j a i ,
There Is,; by the . wav, much off the
natural-, animal in "little: boys. "-It
takes years to make a fairly .-reason
able creature of a young human. For
that reason many ignorant parents are
foolishly distressed at juvenile ,dis
plays of animalism, which are per
fectljrjnatpxai c',U'iU WW
The same Heine, whose writings you
ought not to neglect, describes beauti
fully a human menagerie. We'll quote
that, and then let you otf tor tne, day
Heine was 'living-in Paris . in the
forties - and . used . to visit a curious
revolutionary freak named Ludwig
Borne. Of this man'i !; fiouse Heine
wrote: .'! -.; .-v .-. .,
. "I found in t. hia saloon : such i
menagerie of people as can hardly be
found in the Jarain des- Plantea (the
Paris Zoological Garden). In the back
ground several polar bean were crouch
ing, who Smoked and hardly ever
spoke, except to growl ' out now and
then a real Fatherland 'donner wetter
in. a deep bass voice. Near them was
squatting a Polish 'wolf (in a red cap
who occasionally yelped out a silly
wild ' remark in a hoarse tone. There
too, 1 found a French monkey, one of
tne most niaeous creatures i ever saw.
HekeDt on a series of eri maces. each
of which seemed more lovely than the
last," etc.1 " ' '.
If Heine's polar bears and monkey
had studied - themselves, as we advise
yoil to study youraelf, they might have
escaped the sarcasm of the sharpest
tongue born in or out of -'Uermany,
Hearst's unicago American." '
' , ; THE , CRIMINAL' CLASS.
' Much interest just now in criminals
1 Much horror' aroused by depravity
' Many plans more or less appropriate
for making the air pure. J
Many good people, politicians, wo
men and clergymen, who spent the
summer at the seaside, willing now to
spend a few
days wiping "crime" off
the earth.
vWhat is crime? who are tho crim
Inali? Who makes the criminals?
DO criminals viciously and volun
tarllv arise among us eager to lead
hunted lives, eager to be jailed at in
tervals. eager to crawl in the dark
dodge policemen, work in stripes and
die in shame? Hardly.
Will you kindly and patiently follow
the lives, quickly sketched, of a boy
ana a giri r -
Born ! poor, born in hard luck
her father or mother, or both, victims
of long hours, poor fare, bad air and
little leisure. .
At a babv she strawrlee litre Inst fate
and manages to live while three or four
little ' brothers and sisters die and go
back to kind earth. ' 1 i "
Sbe crawls around the halls of a
tenement, a good deal in the way. She
is bunted here and chased there.
She is cold fn winter, .ill-fed in sum -
mer, never well cared for. -
She gets a little eo-cellod education.
Ill-dressed and asflamed beside the
'other children, she is glad to escape
' the education No- one at home can
' WHAt
help ,. her on. No one away from
home cares about her.
She grows up white, sickly, like a
potato sprouting in a cellar. At the
' corner of a fine street she sees the
carriages passing with other girls in
warm . furs, or in tine, cool summer
dresses.
: With a poor shawl around her and
with heels run down she peers in at
the restaurant window, to see other
women leading lives very different from
hers. ;
Steadily she has .impressed upon her
the fact, absolutely undeniable, that as
the world is organized there is no
especial place for her certainly no
comtort for her. '
She finds- work, perhaps. Hours as
long as the daylight.
Ten minutes late hair a day's tine.
At tbe end of the day aching .feet.
aching back, system ill fed, not enough
earned to live upon honestly and that
prospect stretches ahead farther than
her poor eyes can see.
"What's the charge, officer?"
"Disorderly conduct, Your Honor."
There's the criminal, good men, poli
ticians, women and clergymen, that
you are hunting so ardently.
Same story, practically.
He plays on the tenement staircase
cuffed off the staircase.
He plays bill in the street cuffed,
f caught by the policeman.
He swings on the area railing, trying
to exercise his stunted muscles cuffed
again. .
In. burning.1 July, ., with 'shirt and
trousers on, he goes swimming in the
park fountain caught and cuffed and
handed over to a Children's Society.
A few months in a sort of semi-
decent imprisonment; treated in a
fashion about equivalent to that en
dured by the sea turtle turned over on
its back in the market. .
He escapes to begin the , same life
once more.
He tries for work.
"What do you know?" -
"I don't know anything; nobodv
ever taught nie."
He cannot even endure the discipline
of ten hours' daily shoveling it takes
education to instill discipline, if onlv
the education, of the early pick and
shovel.. , !.
He has not been taught, anything.
He has been turned loose in a city full
of temptation;. He had no real start to
begin with. and no ettort whatever made
to repair his evil beginning.
"What's the charge, officer?"
"Attempted burglary, pleads guilty
"Three years in prison, since it is
his first offense."
In prison, he gets an education
They teach him howto.be a good
burglar and not get caught. Patiently
the state boards him, and educates him
to be a first-rate criminal.
There's your first-rate 1 criminal,
Messrs. clergymen, good men, politi
cians and benevolent women.
Dear clergymen, noble women, good
men and scheming politicians, listen
to this story s . --'' 1
In the South Sea islands they have
for contagious diseases horror as
great as your horror of crime.
A man or woman stricken -with
loathsome - disease, such as smallpox,
is seized, isolated, and the individual
sores ot the smallpox patient are
earnestly scraped with sea shells until
the patient dies. It hurts the patient
a Kood deal without ever curing, ot
course but it rel ieves the feelings of
the outraged good ones, - who wield the
sea shells.
You kind-hearted creatures, hunting
"crime" in great cities, are like the
South Sea islanders in their treatment
of smallpox.
, You ardently wield your reforming
sea shells and you scrape very earnest
ly at the sorea so well developed.
No desire to decry, , your earnest
efforts. , . ,
But if you ever get tired of scraping
with sea shells, try vaccination, or,
better still, try to take such care of
youth, to give such chances and educa
tion to the young, as will save them
from the least profitable of all careers
crime.
i Rich good men, nice clergymen.
comfortable, benevolent ladies every
man . and woman in the workhouse,
every wretched creature living near a
"red light' would gladly change places
with any of you.
Scrape away with your sea shells,
but try also to give a few more and
few better chances in youth to those
whom yon how hunt as criminals in
their mature years, ..-
God creates 'boys and girlf, anxious
to live decently. . .
Your social system makes criminals
and fills ' jails. Hearst's Chicago
American.:
ONLY FOUR PERSONS IM THE COUNTY
Some Facts Regarding Texas Disclosed
by the Cemui Bureau.
' Fewer, residents to the ' county have
been found in some counties in the
state of Texas than in any other state
In the Union.
According to a statement issued by
the census office the most densely
settled county in the state is Dallas,
with 82,726 residents, and the most
sparsely settled is liailey county, with
but four persons living there.
In Lynn . county the enumerator,
after driving about ' the county in a
buckboard for several days, managed to
find seventeen . persons. At the census
ollice rate of wages two cents for each
name tbe enumerator made 34 cents,
' Some of the most striking instances
of the opportunity in Texas for fipdipg
homes is shown by the population of
the following counties; Cockran, 25;
Andrews, 37; Crane, 61; Dawson, 3fl,
and more than twenty-five counties
which have less than 600. -,
In any county in the state all of the
Greater New-York could be. placed
without crowding. Tom Green county,
the . : largest ,. in the state, . has 46,000
square miles and but 6804 people.
Home of the counties in which the
population is so smull are hundreds of
miles from a railroad, some have no
water and others are inhabited almost
wholly by the prairie dog, rattlesnake
and jack rabbit,
Disease of Sheep.
The bacteriological department at
the state agricultural college experi
ment station is working on a disease of
sheep. Half a dozen sheep have died
on a neighboring farm. The owner
suspected leech, but a liver brought
to the station proved contrary. Jnsfeaa
a germ was found identical with germs
found in the remaini . of goats, amor;
which there was a wide fatality in
Alsea about a year ago. The local de
partment was unable to classify tbe
, germs at the time. t. id samples were
i ent to tbe bureau at Washington, but
op to the present no report of classlfl-
'cation has been received. The local
department is now provided with lower
j animals for eijieriroenUl pnrpoxes.and
attempt is afoot for idtntjfying and
idaisifying the germ.
I ,
Two Corvallis hove nt drnnk la
. week on gin left on the grave ' a
Chinaman.
GENERAL NEWS.
Tho republican plurality for presi
den tial electors, official count, in
Massachusetts, was 182,194.', , '
Thirty dental surgeons will probably
be added to the American army to care
for the teeth of the soldiers.
(Jharles Watson Grant, one of the
best known insurance men on the coast
died suddenly in San Francisco last
Saturday.
Albert T. Patrick, charged with
forging Millionaire Rice's will, in
New York, has confessed. He was a
lawyer in good standing prior to his
arrest. .
Henry Uussell, the composer of over
800 songs, including "A Life on the
Ocean Wave," and "Cheer, Boys,
Cheer," died in London, Thursday,
aged 87 years.
Max May berg & Co., one oi the
oldest firms in Los Angeles, made, an
assignment for the benefit of their
creditors. The liabilities are $78,000;
assets, nominally $100,000.
Li Hung Chang has informed Gen
eral Chaffee that he and all the people
of the Province of Chi Li are extreme
ly pleased and gratified at thd behavior
of the American troops toward the
Chinese.
The Nansen fund, which was started
after the return of Dr. Nansen . from
the Arctic, to promote ; scientific ex
plorations, now amounts to 1,000,000
kroner, and no further contributions
will be made. , :..
President Kruger has abandoned his
proposed journeys to other capitals and
ail further diplomatic efforts to secure
arbitration, and will await' at The
Hague the development of events at
the seat of war. " . . , . .
Representative Burleiah introduced
a bill in congress authorizing tbe ap
pointment of Representative Boutelle
of Maine, . now a confirmed invalid.
to the rank of captain on the retired
list of the navy.
At Newark. Ohio. Cincinnati
Typographical Union withdrew from
tne unio federation oi Labor inteBSion
because of the failure of the conven
tion to adopt resolutions censuring the
administration. , , ,,,
The vote cast for the leading demo
cratic elector and the leading republi
can elector, accoring to ! the official
count in Kentucky, gives the former
234,899 and . the latter 220,801,
plurality for Bryan of 8098.
Commodore Alexander Henderson,
U. 8. N., retired, is seriously ill 1 at
his home in Yonkers, near New York
city. The commodore had a stroke of
paralysis a year ago, from ' whit:: he
never recovered. He is nearly 70 years
ot age
The pension roll for the coming year
will call for about $142,000,000, as
against about $138,000,000 for the year
just closing. There are a little less
than 1,000,000 names on the roll now
and these are being added to by recent
legislation.
Miss. Georgia Cayvan, the actress,
who has been ill lor several weeks in
tbe Sanford hall sanitarium of Flush
ing, Li. 1., is sintering from nervous
prostration. , It is said that she is on
the verge of mental and physical
wreck, having become almost totally
blind
The commission having charge of the
erection of the equestrian statue of
General W. T. Sherman in Washington
city, has decided to permit Mrs. Carl
Rohl-Smith, the widow .of the sculptor
and contractor who recently died in
Copenhagen, to carry out her husband'
contract. i.
A strike of servant girls on Man
hattan island is imminent,' according
to Mrs. St. Justin Beale, who is plan
ning a servant girls' union. Three
hundred domestics, she says, stand
ready to stop work as soon aa the
union is formed and demand better
conditions.
In the sales ring of the live stock ex
position in Chicago Dolly Fifth a
Hereford cow, sold for $3150 to C. A.
Jamieson of Peoria, Ills. This breaks
the world's ' record for the ' sale of a
Hereford cow. This same cow was sold
last April in the celebrated' Hereford
sale in the same amphitheatre for
$1000. :
' At Williamson, West Virginia, Wed
nesday, David Stokes, a young lawyer,
ihot and killed Rev. Dr. Wohf, a
Presbyterian minister, on the streets.
The minister first shot and wounded
the lawyer. Stokes refuses to sav
anything about the tragedy but there
was known to be much ill-feeling , bo
tween the men.
Dr,. Angle . Belllniiaghi, a young
specialist whose success in' the treat
ment of sufferers from yellow lever
recenlty attracted ' much attention in
Mexico", refused the $100,000 prize
offered by the Mexican' government.
He. will establish a yellow fever
hospital In San Antonio, Texas.
The conviction among yachtsmen on
this side of the Atlantic that Sir
Thomas Upton's challenger for the
America's cup carries with it real
menace to the continued residence of
the famous trophy In this country,
has grown with the cabled reports
from abroad concerning the elaborate
preparations being made for the build
ing of the new challenger, Shamrock II,
The annual report of Lyman J.
Gage, secretary of the treasury, begins
with a statement of the total receipts
and expenditures of the government
for the i fiscal year ended June 30,
1000, as follows: .Receipts, $ti'U,5U5,
431.18; expenditures, $50O,Oii,37 ;
surplus, $79,527,060.18. i There was' a
decrease of $117,38,388.14 in expendi
tures as compared, with the preceding
year,
The richest tqrf pr!e ever offered in
thil country will probubly a be the
Futurity of 1903, to lie run at the
autumn meeting at Sheepsbead Bay,
The Coney Island Jockey club has an
nounced that the estimated value of
the race will be $75,000. .. Ever since
the first run ing of the Futurity in 1888
it has been the . most valuable raco in
a pecuniary sense on the American
turf, and it has always attracted wide
spread interest not only on account of
its money valuation, but owing to
bringing together some of the best
fleet-footed thoroughbreds of the coun
try. It is for 2-year-olds, and the dis
tance, of the race has always been 170
feet less than six furlongs.
The case of Morris Aaronberg, at
Boh ton, the youth who has confessed
that be stole $8837 from Mrs. Margaret
Beck, which has puzzled the police
from the flr, still itqggers the
omcisis, although the boy has declared
Lie guilt. It is the first case in police
records there where a man or boy has
confessed to having stolen money and
has stood ready to take all the punish
ment which could be given lot the
offense without making restitution and
trying to escape tbe full penalty,
The police have figured it out that il
Aaronberg goes to prison for the maxi
mum term of five years without re
turning the stolen money he will
come out financially ai if - be had been
at work all the time on a salary of
about $1800 a year. All evidence U
takn ai Indicating that Aaronberg has , fundi of the state aggregating in value
th! money safely concealed and intends about $3,500,000. The annual losses
u no to prison without revealing iU,from failure to pay 'interest and
hiding place, bad loans are fatly $40,000.
The national league . baseball
magnates are holding a session at the
Fifth Avenue hotel, New York.,
.The-. Roumanian government hag
broken off the -negotiations with the
Standard Oil company for a lease of the
petroleum fields in that country.
At The Hague the feeling is one of
alarm at the prospect of an Ando-Ger-man-Portuguese
combination which
might snatch the k Dutch . seaboard or
seiee Java. i ,
Recruits are arriving at the Presidio,
San Francisco, from various enlistment
points throughout the country at the
raie oi aooui zou a week, mere are
at present over 400 at the barracks.
Adnah Adams Treat died at Denver.
Sunday, at the age of 103 years and
eight months.. He had long been the
oldest living Mason in point of aire.
and the second oldest in point-of time
connected with the order.,
isrooKiyn, JN. i .. will soon . reioice ,
n the possession of the lareest familv
hotel in the world. It will! be 23
stories ' high, and have over 1000
rooms, in suites, so that 250 ; families
win be boused under one roof. -
Representative Jones, of Washing
ton, is seeking to amend the pension
laws by lilting from the soldiers the
necessity cf providing that the disa
bility for which they seek pensions did
not exist prior to theif enlistment.: .
The grand iury at Minneapolis has
ndicted Frank ; H. Hamilton, the
newspaper man, for ; the murder. . of
Leonard H.. Day, in the West hotel
billiard room on , November 29. The
charge is murder in the first degree.
The presidents of the railroads in
cluded in the trunk line associations
and the central, western and south
western traffic associations have de
cided to postpone further consideration
of the proposition to do away with free
transportation until next year.
The population of New York accord
ing to the new census is 7,268,012, an
increase of 1,270,159 since, 1890., This
is the only state that gained more
than a million in the decade. Illinois,
with a population of 4,821,550, gained
995,199, but this is 26 per cent, against
zi.i JNew York.
Rev.. P. Daly, of Hot Sprinaa. South
Dakota, while reading a biography of
Marcus Daly,, the other .day, dis
covered, that they , were brothers.
Marcus had left, home early in life,
ragged and penniless. . They had never
corresponded and the preacher had sup
posed nis brother dead long ago
A new1 baseball league has : been
organized at a meeting held at Detroit.
lien Johnson, president of the Ameri
can Association, . is president of the
new league. The following cities com
prise the circuit. Detroit, Grand
Rapids, Toledo, Louisville, Minnea
polis, St. Paul, Kansas City and either
Indianapolis or Buffalo.
It is learned on good authority that
Georpe Westinghouse, of Pittsburg,
has bought the entire Buena Vista
grant, comprising 7009 acres of land,
near ; Nogales, Am., and intends to
erect at some point on the Santa Cruc
river colossal reduction works and
smelters and build a railway connect
ing the mines, the reduction works
and Nogales.
Following are the amounts carried in
the proposed appropriation bill of the
present congress: Agriculture, $4,669,
050: army, $113,019,044; diplomatic and
consular, - fl,897,6:W; District of Col
umhia, $9,080,7K3; fortifications,
112,461, 19a: Indians, $9,250,754 : leg
isla.tive, etc.. $25,399,509; military
academy, fi.u-iDjou: navy,. S7,172,
430: pensions, $145,245,230; post-office,
i2i,2ti,34; river and harbor, $25,
130,000; sundry civil, $63,378,113;
permanent annual appropriations.
$124,358,220.
Oberlin M. Carter, formerly captain
in the United States army,, will have
to serve his five years' sentence in the
federal penitentiary at Leavenworth,
Kansas. lie misappropriated nearly
$1,000,000 of government funds while
in charge., of the . harbor . work at
Savannah, Ga He was also fined $500,
which he paid., The judge of : the
federal district court of Kansas has
remanded Carter to the custody of the
warden . ot the penitentiary. He en
tered prison last April. ' With one year
off for good behavior he still has more
than three years to serve. ' :
FIFTY CBNT DOLLARS IN PHILIPPINES.
Sliver to Be Used In the Islands ai a
Ciroulatlng Medium , ;
.The McKinley cabinet recenty dis
cussed the queMtlon of coinage in the
Philippines and as a result of the cab
inet's consideration of it the secretary
of war will request a hearim of the
auhject before one of the committees
of congress. Weary all of the business
from the islands is transacted in
Mexican dollars, and army commis
saries and others who buy supplies
with United States money are at tunes
greatly embarrassed in making pur
chases from tbe Filipinos by the fact
that, knowing nothing ot our money or
its value, the latter often refuse to
accept It. The proposition which
seems to have met with favor by the
administration is to purchase silver
bullioir at the ' present market price
and coin it into distinctive dollars
having a gold value of about 60 cents
each. These dollars will probably con
tain a little less silver than the
present standard dollars. The scheme
has notet 'been worked out in all of
its details, but aa there is at present a
government ' coinage mint at Manila,
it, is hoped that by the early actlonjof
congress the new coins may be out
intocirculatlon helore a great while,
possibly before the winter U over.
The price of silver is steadily ad
vancing. Great demands on the silver
supply are made by China and India.
From London, in the past nine months,
has beeu shipped $11,000,000 to China
and from San Francisco nearly $13,
000,000. Japan has taken half a million
this year ai against nothing last year.
Rig Salary for an Indian.
An American Indian riding for the
prime minister of Austria at a prince
ly salary. How's that for a jump in
life? Hounds like a page from the
"Arabian Nights;" hut it's true. True
as gospel. Jimmy Morgan, one time
stable boy and , later on jockey for
Marcug Daly, the "Copper King," is
the cleyer little redskin who has made
a name and a place for himself in the
midst of royalty thousands of miles
across the silvery seas. Morgan was
the first and oly American jockey to
ride iu Austria, He attracted much at
tention there by reason of his oiive-hued
sfcin and the lact that he is a half
breed, his father having been an Eng
lishman and his mother Comanche
Ibdiaq. While ; in AusWia this season
he rode for the. prime minister, receiv
ing salary of $10,000. A Mr.. Bo.
boucny has aecond call on hit lervicei
at a salary of $5000. He landed thirty,
seven wins, was seoond eighty-eigbt
timet and rode three dead heats.
The board of school land commission
ers of the state ; of Oregon hui in its
care and control the eninmnn u. ),a
PACIFIC NORTHWEST NEWS. :
Newt Jones, aged. 21, committed
suicide at Forest Grove Thursday. He
had been drinking to excess.
Jerome Palmateer, a prominent citi
zen, fell on the sidewalk at HillsLoroj
Wednesday,, and severely fractured a
leg.
Nearly $1100 was raised in Heppner
by subscription for improvement of the
public road from that place to Monu
ment. . . . -
It now looks'i as if Moran Bros., of
Seattle, are to be awarded a contract
for building one 'of the unsheathed
battleships.
The secretary of the interior has sent
to the house an agreement With the
Klamath Indians relinquishing their
reservation in Oregon. ,
The hotel at Hot Lake, Union
county, is to be heated throughout
during the winter months by the hot
water ot the great spring.
The Masonic Temple at La Grande
will be dedicated Decemher 9(1. Tl R
Thielsen, of Salem, grand master of
the state of Oregon, will officiate. . -Palouse
is making strenuous efforts
to secure the strawboard factory which
officials of the Northern Pacific rail
road will locate in one of the towns
along its line.
Frank Hath was arrested at Eugene
on charge of ; forgery. His offense is
that of indorsing the name of a man
named Dais to a check given by the
Acme Commercial company.
John Henry Williams, who has been
held at. North Yakima for some time
on charge of having murdered W. W.
ocou, at rrosser, has . been , released
under habeas corpus proceeding, '. . v
The new town of Foster, on the smith
tork of the Santiam,, in Linn county, is
preparing to come to the front as a
sawmill headquarters and terminus of
a branch railroad from Lebanon. , ,
The first train will be run thronoh
the new Great NortheVn tunnel in the
Cascade mountains next Sunday. The
tunnel is 13,200 feet long and the thicks
ness of tho roof at the thickest placei
is 5300 feet.- , , : ,, ,.( : (. .
The eighth annual declamation"con
test of the Washington Aericultnral
college came off at Pullman Saturday.
lospeh W. Tungate, junior, won first
prize, and Olea Todd, also lunior.
second prize. ' -
Julia A. .Livingstone died At
Albany Thursday, at the home ot her
son, Silas Livingstone, aged 81 years.
She had been a resident of this state
for 15 or 20 years. Her husband was a '
veteran of the civil war.
Wildcats entered : the rabbitry of
Professor F. B., Babcock. at Ohennv.
last week,, and killed all but eight, of
over 40 young and old hares, anions
which were two does worth 50 eah
all fancy pedigreed stock. ' ; ' -
John Nichols died at his home at
Lebanon, Linn county, after an Illness
of several months, , aged 70 years.
Death was due to quick consumption.,
Mr. Nichols was born in Kentucky,.
He crossed the plains in 1852.
Rev. Mr. Carlson, of Port Tywn
send, has been arrested charged with
embezzlement. The complaint alleges
that he retained $250 intrusted to him.
by Mrs. Donaldson to forward to ber
grandchildren in Switzerland. '-.'
William Jones Philpott died ot
paralysis December 9, 1900, at the real-,
dence of C. W. Yates, near Oakvillek
Or. Mr. Philpott was born in Virginia,
in 1822. He came to Oregon . in 18&li.
and settled in Linn county, near Craw--fordville,
where he lived until two
years ago. '- ..
Mrs. William H. Effinger, wife of
the well known lawyer died Sunday1
at the family residence, after a brief
illness, at tbe age of 67. She leaves
one daughter, Miss Mallie H. Effinger,
who is identified with Portland free
kindergarten work, and her husband.
George MoCredy has sold his sheep
in Klickitat county for $60,000. The'
purchasers are his brothers, John
and Leland, and the property consists
of 10,000 or 11,000 head of sheep, hay
ranch of 800 acres and several thousand
acres of range land along the Col
umbia. .. M
.A representative of one of the '.don
tana Chinese sheep companbja ha
arrived at North Yakima with a hand
of sheep to be fed this winter. He has
1500 head, and it is understood that
he will bring 12,000 more in the
spring. This has excited the local
sheepmen very much, and they hardly
know what action can be taken to pre
vent the occupying of the range by
herds of Chinese owners.
Tbe temperance meetings held in
Corvallis for several days pas' bv
Colonel Holt of Chicago f oonolwledl
Tuesday night. Citizens desired a
continuation, but on account tf an en1
gagement made at Salem before the
phenomenal interest at Corvallis unex
pectedly developed,: the speaker was
obliged to leave for the Capital City
where a series of westings is to begin
tonight. During the progress of the
Corvallis meetings 883 persons signed
the pledyo and local temperance
organ lotions are . much Increased in
mtjwber&hip. ,
H.'M. Gilbert, a farmer of the
Yakima Indian reservation, is
thipplng his largo bean crop. The
prices received range about cents
per pound. He has harvested and '
threshed 1000 sacks pf 100 pounds each.
His beans are the brown Mexican,
white Calitoriiia and red navy
varieties. They yield under ordinary
fair conditions from 40 to 60 bushefm
per acre thus giving an income of $5i
to $125 an acre. Gilbert has 100 acreet
of the Li I lie property leased att
Toppenish and includes tbe Reservw
hotel in his holdings. The land is
leased from the Indians at abont $1 an
acre per annum.
Isadore Schoppi,who ha been in the
Medical Lake BBlyum at Spokane , for,
the past two . years, was Tuesday ad
judged, free by Assistant . Attorney
Geneial Vance of Washington t state.
Schopps murdered a man named Una
Hager, in Seattle, December 25, 18UK,
but the jury found him not guilty by
reason ot insanity. He has now re
gained his reason. The crime was most
brutal and ooM-blooded. Schopps and.
tho man be killed were roommates to
gether. , They had a drunken quv.re.1,
and the next day Schopps prucured a
revolver and blew the top of his com
panion's head off. The superior court
judge who committed him ordered him
io be kept pending further orders from,
the court, but the opinion of the at-,
torney-general seems to put this at.
naught. It is likely that some appeal.,
against the decision will be mjide.
' Recruiting Statistics.
Out of more than 40,000 applicant
at federal naval recruiting stations
during the latest governmental year
only 8123 were accepted, and of these
a noteworthy percentage were re-enlistments.
Man-o'-wars men now
adays must Tfissess peculiar qualifica
tions and knowledge, and in order- to
acquire these qualifications .there must
be schooling in actual service. Hence
the value of the training vessel sys
tem, by means of which a green lands
man may be turned out In six months
a finished sailor for duty in ships 0
war. ' . -; 1 1 , ...