BOHEMIA NUGGET
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COTTAGE GROVE OREGON
I NEWS OF I WEEK
Cotiuirxheiislvn Kvlw of the Import
... Ilniii.anliiir of the l"it WU
Culled From the TeleBriph Culunma
Tlio English nninial naval manouvcra
iiave begun.
Agricultural implomenta liavo ad
vanccil in price.
fnnnrnl Jon Wheeler's seat in con
gress will probably bo declared vacant
An industrial commission will in
vcst'gato tba smelter troubles in Colo
rado.
Great Britain's argument in the
Venezuelan boundary dispute is com
pleted. A war department ordor permits sol
diers' families to purchaso fuel and
Bupplies at post prices.
A tube tjnst has been formed. It
will bo tho third largest steel and iron
incotporation in the world.
Subsciiption books hnvo been opened
in this country and Europe for tho gold
loan to Mexico. It will amount to
$110,005,000.
Tho president has appointed Colonel
Alfred E. Bates paymaster-general of
tho army, to succeed General Asa B.
Carey, retired.
The Second Oregon regiment has ar
rived safely in San Francisco. The
health of tho regiment is good, and
there wero no casualties on tho trip
over.
Seven persons nheady havo died at
or near New York from lockjaw, result
ing from Fourth ot July pistol acci
dents, and others aro in a precarious
condition.
Tho Atlantic liner Paris, which was
stranded on the Manacles, off tho Eng
lish coast, and given up for lost, has
teen floated and is now safe in Fal
mouth harbor
The cruiser Olympia from Colombo,
Ceylon, has arrived at Suez and has
entered the canal. Admiral Dewey
said that his men and himself were in
very good health.
A copy of the Independencia has
reached Manila containing the speech
which Aguinaldo inada during the re
cent celebiation at Tarlac of tho an
nual anniversary of the proclamation
of Filipino independence. It is very
flowery, and in it he calls attention to
the anti-expansion sentiment in the
United States.
An offer from a prominent firm of
ehipbrokers, to purchaso tho Reina
Mercedes and any and all. of the other
war craft captured during the late war
has aroused a suspicion that Spain is
trying in this indircet manner to ob
tain possession of the vessels and thus
lemove the offense to Spaniel) prido
caused by the floating of the American
flag over her ships. The navy depart
ment will not sell any of these vessels,
and that anwer will bo returned to tho
writer of the letter.
General Joe Wheeler has started for
.Manila.
New York, Wednesday, shipped
170,000 ounces of gold to Europe.
Roosevelt ia being boomed in some
sections of the East fur secretary of
war.
British soldiers have been ordered to
proceed to tho Cape, presumably to
fight tho Boers.
After a thorough cleaning the battle
ship Jowa has been floated out of tho
Port Orchard dry dock.
Dr. Tuttle's "thorite." tho new high
explosive, was tested at Sandy Hook
and pronounced a success.
Captain Watkins frankly admits that
liia miscalculations caused tho accident
to the steamship Paris.
The educational convention opened
at L.os Angeles. Die delegates weio
welcomed by Governor Gage.
Tho Austin, Tex., cotton exchango
says tho heavy rains benefited and
ruined an equal proportion of tho cot
ton crop.
Genoral Gillota do Sanguiseppe, the
Italian officer recently sentenced to live
years' imprisonment as a spy, has been
pardonod.
The French government ia attempt
jng to, i also revenue by letting out the
backs of match-boxos, which aro a state
monopoly, to outsido advertisers.
Tho Now York World says tho pros!
dont is preparing to submit to tho Cu
bans to vote upon whether they will
Jiavo independence or annexation.
Tho president haa confirmed and
commissioned tho officers recommend
ed by General Otia for the Thirty-sixth
and Thirty-seventh volunteor regi
ments, now being organized in the
Philippines. 4,
The war dopartmont has announced
that tho customs receipts at tho port
of Havana for June wero $1,013,809
Tho total receipts for six months of
1800 are, to bo exaot, $5,140,8110. The
monthly average for six months is
1857,805.
LATER NEWS.
Admiral Dowry has filed his claim
lot naval bounty.
Aguinaldo is said to bo negotiating
with General Otis for peace.
Sacramento river steamers are tied
up on account of a deck hands' strike.
Tho new French cabinet wanta to
end tho Dieyfus agitation and hush the
scandal.
Near London, Ky.. as tho result of
o feud, live men weio killed In a
pitched hattle.
Sonntors and representatives aro said
to havo dictated appointments of now
volunteer officers.
O. B. Winn, of Album', has been ap
pointed census supervisor for tho first
district of Oregon.
Anioricans havo" gained anothor vie-
toi v at Tho Hague in seouring mo
right of revision of nibitrnl rewards.
MoKinlov will recommend that con
gress givo Eighth armv corps members,
including Oregon voluuteeia, special
biavorv medals.
All of tho bodies of tho dead in the
Second Oregon regiment will bo
brought homo foi burial at the govern
ment's expense.
Dissolution of tho O. R. & N. voting
trust means that liereaiter uio man
will sorvu Union Paoitloand itself rath-
or than Northern roads.
Tho Colorado supromo court haa de
cided tho eight-hour law unconstitu
tional. Tho smelters will resumo
perations on tho old schedule.
There aro now at St. Michaels bo-
tween 200 and 300 stranded prospec-
tois. who do not know where tholr
next meal ia coining from. The gov-1
eminent station on tho island is bc-
sieged with piteous appeals for aid. j
f Attorney-General Blackburn has1
rendered an opinion at tho request of
Nowt Livingston, sheriff of Grant
county, Or., in which he exprosses the
opinion that sheriffs are not entitled
to constructive mileage in serving pa
pers. )
Newspaper correspondents in the !
Philippines have made a vigorous pro-!
test against the close censorship of dis-j
patches, and say they aie forced to in-1
dulga in misrepresentations. Otis has
appointed a new censor and promises,
a more liberal policy
in tho future.
A fruit canners' combine, including!
11 coiporations and 22 plants, has jJt
been formed in San Francisco. The
now combine includes almost every!
important cannery in California, and
will cut a prominent figure in the fruit
industry of tho stato, besidos controll
ing prices and dictating terms to the
fruit-growers.
Two American ships are quarantined
at Japanese porta with tho plague.
Near Birmingham, Ala., two negroes
wore killed and one wounded by sti ik
ing miners.
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worlds m mm
Paoiflo Const Destined to Hold
All of Asia's Trndo.
SOLDIER
TO citizen. h i in nn inn nr ruT-
mmm or in
IMPORTANCE OF EXPANSION
Broretnry Wll.on Snya " 'niW Are
In K..vor of Keeping Old (llorjr fly.
HC In the I'lilllpplnei.
Seattlo, .Inly 18.-Socroary ol Agri-
cultuio James Wilson win ''
this city several days, or umil h has
seen every fanner liom whom It is pos
sible to obtain any infoimation. Ho
said today: ....
"I am very sorry to learn mm u
hero in Washington you aio Impoitliig
a gieat deal of stun mat '"' "u
grown at home. You do not even tnako
all tho butter von use. mat is no way
to build up tho Pacific coast.
"Tho timu haa come when the const
is in a position to command tho trade
ol tho Orient and the Pacific. Mil
lions of dollars of trade in butter alonu
await tho Pacific coast as soon iih it
can supply the demand. Tho Pacific!
coast is destined to yet be t'io great
market ol the world. It has the lich
country and more people in and aorOa
tho Pacific to deal with.
"Tho coast ohii and will handle all
of this trade in time, and it is the mil-
bition of the department that tho stale
of Washington shall be ono of tho lliat
to enter actively into the maiiufuetuia
ol butter and tin cans to export tc
China, Japan and the Philippines.
"Expansion is going to be a great
thing for tho coast. It will open up
and develop a market that would oth
erwise be stagnant for many yearn to
come. The people aie all beginning to
see it in that light. Why, I oan say
that a groat majority of the HMJpIi' of
tho states from hero east aro in favor j
ol keeping tho Hag where it is. I
"Tho feeling of President MoKInley ,
and tho adniinistiation legarding the !
Philippines is the same as that which '
took us to Cuba. I believe it is our
duty to teach t,elf-goveiiiment to all
those whom we happen to come in con
tact with, and we came in contact with
Will be pursuer ! 1,10 1 inpl"ien inrougn uur r, m j
the name ol humanity, witn t-paiii.
Aguinaldo is a cut-throat in, Luzon, as ,
Weyler was in Cuba. He ami his fol- j
lowers must be brought to u realization '
of what self-government means. Ho j
inaiiltod our Hug and that, brought on
tho present punishment, it is the be- j
lief ot tho administration that an soon
as the rainy season in over poaco will
soon be declared that samo poaco
which Cuba is enjoying, after which a
policy of Eolf-goveinmeiit in the Philip
pines will coino up.
"The pooplo overywhcio aro onthus
iastio over President MoKiuley, and
will back up his policy of keeping Old
. , . , , i Glory afloat, instead of allowing the
Bleak winds and pneumonia-breed-, Filipln09 t0 tlmn,,le it ln tll0 KUUjr or
anti-expansionists to place the old
blood-stained banner of liberty under
the bed."
On leaving Washington the secretary
will proceed to other Pacific coast
states, whero he will endeaor to on
conrago an iucieaso in agticulturul products.
tr,,rU nrMn..er.nK.U.. .eOreBHV.
nnlnera llrlii-
Kan Francisco, Julv H'. -The nnisler.
I hi of the Bwon.1 Oiwm teg n.ent
rival of the mustering ul I tn. U Bill
O. L. lloukurtn. Hixieuimi '
Captain C. It. Clirl...m. '
ing fogs are threatening disease to Ore
gon's brave soldiers camped at tho San
Francisco Presido.
To July 1, 1800, tho United States
government haa paid in pensions $2,-
523,428.212.01. Nearly double this
snm is yet to bo paid.
The civic federation of Chicago, that
will investigate trusts, has sent loiters
to 460 trusts and combinations asking
20 pertinent questions.
Fifteen Austrian coal-miners, who
camo to this country ln violation of
the contract-labor law, are being de
ported from Nebraska and Iowa.
The Indiana of Oklahoma Territory
are largely engaged in dancing, In
spite of the efforts of the government
to prevent tho practico and trouble is
feared.
Another trolley strike is on in Brok
lyn, N. Y. So far it has not been as
effective as tho strike of 1805, but thero
is no telling how fur-reaching it may
become.
At Libertrville. III., following a
family quarrel, Mrs. Georgo Troiter
aiiot and killed her mother, Mrs.
Christian Foss, wounded her husband
and killed herself.
Tho new treaty between Argentina
and the United States glvos a reduction
in dutios on Argentina sugar, hides
and wool, and on American canned
goods, timber and certain foods.
Captain Andrews, "tho lono navi
gatior," who loft tho Atlantic coast in
Juno for England in a 12-foot boat,
has been picked up 700 milos from tho
Irish coast in an exhausted condition.
Japan is now on a new basis, and tho
friction of extra-ten itorlality is at an
end. New treaties between Japan and
tho United States and European and
boutii American couutiies nave gone
into etiect.
A bad derailment occurrod at Bluo
cut, near Delta, Cal, Tho car on
whioh Governor Geei and party wore
returning from San Francisco jumpod
tho tiuck, and narrowly escaped going
off a bridge No ono was seriously in
jured. Tinplato workers throughout tho
country, to tho number of nearly 60,
000 havo resumed work after an idle
ness of two weeks. They will rocoive
an advance of 15 per cent and 20 per
cent further because of tho recent rise
in tiuplate.
unpiimi v. " . ...i... u..i..,r(Non.
Infantrv; L outcnuni
Sixth infantry, aud Lieutenant Oven
shine, Sixteenth Inlantry.
The... officers commenced by gM U
iustMiotion in Hi l"l""'K
nud accounts, which ork w o
sume most ol the lima re; t.Irod to
make of the regi U WW Mr-
Physical examination "111 bo quickly
""it'll now estimated that the rogl
ment will be iody totait for ioit
land the first week In August.
The health of the regiment Is good.
Private Barrett, of company II. has i
covered from i-ymtoiiiH of pneumonia.
But few of the buy '" InklnK ";
contrary to the expectations ol niodloa
officers. The hit,' dlnneiH havo i-nuned
uioru discomfort than anything olwi.
Tho San Franciscans aro hh liiwplta
hie as when the regiment wan hero lw
(ore. Invitations aro acoiiuiuliUlng
and the men and officers find them
selves expected at banquet ami enter
tainments. Tho men will drill overy day while
in (Mm p. ami will appear on diu
jmrado tomorrow for the fiit lime
elnco their return from Manila.
PEACE OVERTURES.
Auulnitlilo ll I" NeisntUllMB Willi
((nerul (Ida.
Chicago. July 10. A sntclal to the
Tinier-Herald fioni Wellington says:
linporant cablegmuiH have been u-
coivod at the Mate department liom
the Philippine eoiiimiwdon, and at the
war department f rum General Otis,
concerning a new move in tho direc
tion of policy.
These diupMlchem have boen in tho
hands of the president for several
days, but he has declined to make
them public, because the ultrit-nptiitiie-tin
views heietofere received from the
same source have not been borne out
by subsequent events. The latent din
pHtohe, however, are more encourag
ing than the prevloiw on, but the
president wihe to have Htme Hwitive
results befuie making them public.
All that can Im learned definitely
about them Is that direct overtmet for
peace have been Milt to (leneial OU
by Aguinaldo aud some of his principal
leaders.
It was said by a cabinet officer to
night that if tho promises arc fulfilled,
tho volunteers now being enlisted will
not be needed.
RECIPROCITY TREATIES.
FIRE AT FORT DUCHESNE.
Sulci to Ilnva linen Set by tnillnna to
Crlppla tlift I'oit.
Denver, July 18. A special to tho
Nowa'from Prico, Utah, says: Tho
second firo within a week occurred at
Fort Duchesne, last night, when tho
quartermaster's stables and contents
weio entirely consumed) Nineteen
mules were burned to death. Tho loss
also includes 20 wagons, besides a num
ber of ambulances, light spring wagons,
buckboards, pack saddles, harness and
hay and oats. Tho wind was blowing
a gale, and at ono timo tho officers'
quarters wero threatened. Tho loss is
placed at $20,000.
Fort Duchesne is 00 miles from hero,
and news was brought ou horseback to
tho first telephone station, and from
there eent In. An officer telephones
that both fires were Incendiary and
some botleve that it Is tho work of old
Sowowoo and his band of Whito river
Utea. who aro propaiing to go back to
Colorado, and aro trying to doatroy tho
cavalry equipment, so that tho sol
diers cannot follow them.
I.ltllo Time la I.rfl for Thlr 'gotln
linn. Washington, July 10. Tho piosent
week oliMfes the period of two years
prescribed by the Dingley tariff law
within wliloh reciprocity treaties tuny
he negotiated, and, as a result, there is
much activity in thooe foreign quarters
having reciprocity negotiations pend
ing. The most important negotiation is
that of tho Franco-Amorimin treaty.
These negotiations reached a rather
critical stago last week, as neither side
was quite satisfied with w'tat had been
given, but today the piospocts havo
brightened materially, and It If. slid In
high official circles that there is overy
ptospect of a final and satisfactory con
clusion of tho negotiations.
Three treaties with Great Britain,
relating to tho Wost Indian colonies ol
Jamaica, Bermuda and Guiana alto to
main to ho signed.
GOLD FROM KLONDIKE.
Two .Steutuora
Will Urine
liulliira.
His Million
A 1 1 ill Troublua Hnltlml.
Vancouver, B. O., July 18. Tho
steamer Cutch arrivod hero lust night
from Skagway with Yukon minora
uboard. Purser Turnor roports $200,
000 gold duet deposited in tho ship's
safe. Hugh Lancaster, of Livorpool,
England, returned with $120,000 in
drafts. Ho wont into tho Yukon 18
months ago and is now roturning homo.
From Atlin cornea nowa of tho ami
cable settlement of past troubles.
Judge Irving's doallng out of justico in
Atlin Is giving tho utmost satisfaction.
Amoricans who staked claims prior to
tho passing of tho alion law aro now
allowed full privilogo and title to tho
sumo.
Hud a Wooden Lub Hint AVna Ilrotrnnil.
Sacramento, Col., July 18. Tho
body of an unknown man was today
found in tho Sacramonto river nine
miles below Freeport. Tho corpso ia
that of a man 00 years. Ho had a
woodon leg,
Victoria, U. C. July 10. Tho man
agor of a Dawson branch of a Victoria
firm, writing from that city, says:
"I'rom reliable sources wo havo
learned that tho steamships Roanoke
ond Garouuo will take from St. Mich
aola to Seattlo and Bun Francisco $0,
000,000 or a little moro. Tho Canadian
Bank of Commerco shipped $1,600,000
to each place, and tho Alaska Commer
cial Company a llttlo ovor $500,000,
and tho North American Trading &
Transportation Company $500,000.
"Wo aro informed by the Bank of
Commerco managers that they had in
sight hero, at ono timu this spring,
$4,000,000. Tho bank pooplo declare
that tho total output this year from tho
spring oloanups and aunimer workings
will he not less than $18,000,000, and
will probably teach $20,000,000."
Jliiviimt Cllirilea mi A nnl voraury.
Havana, July 10. Tho annivoisary
of tho surrender of Santiago do Cuba
was observed hero today on several
ships and over the American Club and
other buildings United Statoa flags
were flying. Tonight, n hanquot wiib
served army and navy officers who par
ticipated in tho Santiago oainpuian on
July 15 nnd 17.
Htrlkna In CiCuCo.
Chicago, July 10. Sixteen hundred
rnomborB of the Boilermakers' and lion
HhlpbulhloiH' Union struck hero today.
Ihoy ask for an olght-hour day, 80
cents por hour and a half-hollday Sat
urdays during tho summer.
Two hunurod and fifty men omployod
as oro.alioveloia also struck toduy for
more pay,
An Ellootivo I'rotMHi. .
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FILIPINOS NOT
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J Manila, July n. via iinn
July Ill.-Tlm ..,,,. rM(
MrlutllOM Of COIiHirMli,.. ..I .. '
I 1 "OIil.illl
piilchiM which Iihh
l""e:itt;i ((
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a
lug to tho United s,,. ' 7 "'!
tltHil not re t lUoffl 'I'!
of Important et.,u BllJ t '
resulted in a tiniii l .n,,,, t 'l
of coireniKindeiita i,. tit i..
abatement of il riKr f l('
The Initiative In n ,i,ri '
luken a inontli h. . IM i
foi tiling of a ntuii 1 1 W,, (
M'llll Oil Stllld.it. .Iti'y l,i "in ,
(leueial Oil, cumin :ltiJ, Ul
fnrcei of the IJ i i ( I v:itn., Iu ,,
Ippliitttl, with a r. ii,.i furi
to lelt-giMpli it to ti ! ,L,,J y
('orrespondeiit !.. , , '
itlon to cable tlii-1 r i;),, 'I
anil (llfierent pine- .,f eT,!,.,n
Wrtnrj.nm, num.
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Iftiif nii lung tllliTTIUKI Hj.j
Iii the ootinte ol t!,(. ,
the evident purKno n,oc,fl , 1
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enemy, out in Keep if. in ,u., k
ilge the real o r, ! ntl c t
hero. It wnh hImi
nimiidwiit that ii"hi .
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.'imniii tiiiivii imi i .'-I' ClHIl, . 1l;l
..iu ii... i.i 1 1 tut I.. . !.... .. I
sIiiiiIhi to thoe hIh.1i u i1., ,A
eutN are forbidden to '4i
ally pniMiiil icrem-r liU rj)
ing to pawi all nniti. r ihit - bA
eoimiier not ueinin. m.ii ij j 4i
et of (he Unlte l si.in
General Oil pi n.l t
(Ireeti, of hl staff. n
slMtemeiil of the . ,tj
fol town:
"The imdemlgne I. nil t'A
K)inients oi AiniTir.iii (,-
utalloiieil In MmiiiI.1, ui.ko hi
lowing KUtement:
...I. i .H . . if
patches niuile publi- hi IVw .-.A
the Mopi ot me L oriel wi n
not iecelvp.1 a coin-rt inii rw. 'ui
conditions iu the Plmii ii tii,
tlHMiO illnpiitcliiMi have iw
tiltru-opt imiiiiic view timtiii H
by general officer in the t.f.' i
bellevu that the ilisp.it' he i: '
represent existing cuhIHiom js S
the FllioiiKHi iu it'p-'ct to i-tm
and demoralization remiltirg V
Ainerioan nainpainn, ait I to lie. (id
chaiaoler of their armv We
the dlttpatchc eir in thcik U i
'that tho situation in well In ui
and the astmiiipiioii that tie ts-
tlllll Mil III. KIH-HllllV l'Illl I l
greatly increaewl for. e.
U'., ihlnV ili ivniii itr ol Ml i-l
nliio titiriKMHt bus bm n mi Jertitwil
and that the statements areu,!
that tho voluuteeia are unifui t '
engiige In f Hither norvice. CbhI
haa compelled us to participate miiJ
m Urciirosoiilatiou by oxerCUloi r'
terlnir uiicoiitiovoitod Matciuentn'WI
facta on tho plea, mh Geneinl OliU'
ed, that they would it hum lb 11
at home, or havo people ef tin L"
tllnflntf lita tin flflrll till it-" I
iJlaltUn ItlU (.lll"l - I
Prohibition of reports! auppitM
full roporta of tho field opeulioni a I
event of falluro; numueri ei "f-
iriitimiH In tin, ilubl: HvMemalic u-
mizalion of naval nperaiiom n w
suiinruHslon of comidclo rercttl I
ll... &lln..l(in
iwu niiiiMi.w.. I (I trf I
"John T. McCutchoon biiJ '7
illlllBUUIIli, UIIIUI,U ..vw..-. ,,
Davis and P. G. MoDouneli, he'
Sun; Kohort M. Collins, John
nlng and O. U. Jones, the
Press; John F. BasHaud, UlH
die, Now York Herald; YA I
'. ....... . ,..II.,r.. Hint A I
Dorippa-aiouau yittsiRnin" -
Llttlo, Chicago Tribune."
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TRAVEL PAY OF VOLUNTEERS
What Trooiii Will t by 3Iuatrl
Out nt Sun I'miiclic
Vniirmirnr Hairacks. W8ll..
n'l... i nt I l.n rutllllU"1
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uuieerH, uy uuiiik uiui.- IMI
Viiuinlarn will bo BS fcilIOIVB, I
department haa computed it
formed General Otis: Colorojo,
to$U5; Idaho, $51 to $81; lo.
to $1U0; Kunsaa, bu m .
tana, fou to -oij "u"'" mA.hiDi'
$117? Nova.1.1, $55 to $81; Kortt
kota, $80 MllfpSiS V
PoniiHylvanla, $127 to -oi. " .
to $57; Washington, $3 to 0.
York, $65 to $87; Minnesota,
ti in i
Tho fares of fho non-coinm li j
oHlcorH from San Franolsco to uii
will bo $11; to WiiBl.iimto'i nj'
ilolphla, $50; ew i ui, y iet,
Lako. $3-1. Those "RU""1
then to Gonorol Otis for bu
wore
uboiie1
viiuii iu uuiiuiiii w..- -- . , ,,nn
to tho volunteor fotces for their w
oration. .
Will Traiianort Cavalry re" '
Washington, July irV!! Tm
. i . l l.vlnrnil III" i.
iiarwuoui jiiio uiim , i.rtDj w
Blum to carry 000 ouvairy
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