BOHEMIA NUGGET
Published Krery Friday.
COTTAGE GROVE OREGON
1 NEWS -OF THE WEEK
.Comprehen.lYe Kovlew of tho Import
ant Happening! of tho Tait Week
Culled Fmru tho Telegraph Column!.
A now Gcrnnin warship has been
launched. She was chrlstenod Kaiser
Karl dor Grossc, by Dr. von Moncko
borg, burgomaster of Hamburg.
Tlio Boors, according to a special dis
patch from Pretoria, ropulscd a small
force of Capo mounted polico near
Berkeley, West Ctspo Colony, captur
ing two.
Tho dwelling once occupied by o
president Martin Van Buren, at 37
East Twenty-seventh street, New York,
has been sold, and it is announced that
the property will be converted into a
business block.
Commandant-General Joubert has
arrived at Newcastlo, Natal. Ho
found only 100 men there when he en
tered the town. Tho report current at
Delagoa bay that 0,000 Boors have been
repulsed at Newcastlo is false.
An Ashcroft, B. C, report states that
there was u big robbory at tho Cariboo
mine, near Quesnollo Forks. Tho big
safe in the Cariboo .Hydraulic Com
pany's office was blown open, and part
of the amalgam, worth $50,000, stolen.
The Great Northern road has lately
bought 17,000,000 feet of fir timber in
"Washington, nearly all of it for tho
road's proposed ore dock at Allouze
bay, on Lake Superior. Nearly half
this enormous order has been bought in
the past 10 days.
The transport Senator is expected to
arrive from Munila next week. Tho
news of tho terrible experience of tho
steamship Empress of India causes no
alarm for the safety of the Senator,
which is supposed to also have passed
through the typhoon.
A dispatch from Ladysmith says
that a letter was brought to the Brit
ish pickets by Boer cyclists bearing a
white flag, signed by tho Newcastlo
magistrate and sent by permission of
Commandant-General Joubert, stating
that the British who remained in New
castle are well.
Three hundred recruits, under com
mand of Captain W. N. Hughes, Thir
teenth infantry, and Lieutenants "Wil
son, Pascoe and Kinzie, have been as
signed to the transport Manuense, at
San Francisco, with two companies of
the Thirty-first, under command of
Lieutenant-Colonel Hayes.
The postmaster-general has issued a
formal warning to all postmasters
against the levying of political assess
ments, and simultaneously the civil
eerivce commission has called attention
to the law governing the subject, and
of the commission's intention to en
force it.
For a week a snow storm has been
raging in the mountains surrounding
Leadville, Col., something unprece
dented at this time of the year.
Tho powers are again wrangling over
Samoa, and there is . talk of partition
ing the islands. England has offered
to purchase Germany's interest.
A band of 300 Mayo Indians have
joined tho Yaquis in their war with
Mexico. Heretofore the Mayos have
refused to aid the Yaqui tribo in its
rebellions.
Klapper, editor of tho Deutsche
Agrai Correspondenz, at Berlin, has
been sentenced to imprisonment in a
fortress for six months, on a charge of
lese majeste, for criticizing Emporor
William.
An explosion of mine gas in a col
liery near Pittsburg, Pa., resulted in
entombing 22 miners. Ten were re
scued alive, but it is feared the others
are dead. Tho mine took fire and is
burning.
Tho Columbia won tho second race
with the Shamrock. Soon after the
start tho Shamrock's topmast was
broken and she returned. The Colum
bia sailed over the course and was given
the race.
Surgeon-General Sternberg has re
fused to recommend the building of a
large military hospital at Vancouver,
Wash., saying that the post hospital at
that place is abundently able for the
present needs.
A dispatch from Nogales, Ariz., says:
A sheriff's posse has encountered Mexi
can bandits and killed one an d wound
ed another. American and Mexican
officers are now in pursuit of five oth
Brs, who escaped.
The smallpox scare at Astoria, re
Bultant from tho case of Beecher D.
Slorp, has about died out. Tho patient
is gotting along nicely, and tho attend
ing physicians have no doubt as to his
speedy recovery.
The British steamship Knight Bache
lor has arrived at Now Orleans from
Hamburg, Germany, with 73,507 bogs
of raw beet sugar, equal to 7,310 tons.
Tliis is tho largest cargo of foreign
iugar ever brought to New Orleans.
LATER NEWS.
Tho revolution at Colombia la spread
ing. President Krusar is reported as in
favor of unconditional surrender.
Insurgents in Southern Luzon at
tacked Cnliunlni, but woro driven off.
I Evoloth, Minn., is to bo moved to
make room for mining operations on
tho town sito.
William H. Browu rodo 1,000 miles
awheel in 84 hours, breaking thu rec
ord by seven hours.
Tho soldiers who mado trouble at
San Carlos, Indian agoncy, Arizona,
aro to bo punished. 1
William Wilkio, aged 19, was killed
by Charles Cholin In Chicago, as tho
result of a prizellght.
England's nowspaptsrs must hero
after "look to tho United States and
Canada for tholr paper pulp.
German carp found In tho Columbia
and Wilamotto rlvois lu groat numbors
will be frozen for foreign shipment.
Thioves .entered tho postoflico at
Albany, Or., through a tunnel and
robbed tho vault, socuring about If 300.
Tho remains of Lioutenant-Colonol
Mlloy, Shaftor'5-. chief aide, woro
brought homo on tho Senator. Ho foil
a victim to fever in tho Philippines.
Changes in ranks of naval ollicers
have mado it necessary to givo Sampson
and Schley less advancement than
would have been given out last session
of congress.
Montana was visited by a disastrous
snow storm, the worst in 20 years.
The loss of life will exceed 20 persons
in Teton county, and 20,000 sheep per
ished in the storm.
A scouting party of the Thirty-sixth
volunteers encountered insurgents in
southwest Santa Arita, scattering them,
killing six and capturing eight, and 10
rifles. No casualties.
General Castro, insurgent com
mander during tho recent revolution,
has entered Caracas. A cordial recep
tion was accorded him. No fear of
renewed lighting is felt.
A cablegram has been received at tho
state department from United States
Consul Gudger, at Panama, slating
that an insurrection has broken out
there, and that martial law has been
declared.
Bates, Lawton and Funston have re
ceived deserved appointments. Bates
has been made major-general of volun
teers, Lawton brigadier-general In regu
lar army and Funston has been given
reappointment.
Amos Lunt, who during eight years'
service at San Quentin has executed 20
murderers, has become a mental wreck.
He is haunted by visions of men ho
has hanged. Ho will probably be
committed to an asylum.
State elections will be held in 13
states this year.
The navy department has difficulty
in getting sufficient medical men.
The transport Senator has arrived
safely at San Francisco.
General Miles will bo accompanied
by his family and a few friends on his
tour to the Pacific coast.
Secretary Long has issued an order
assigning Admiral Dewey to special
duty at the navy yard department.
Fifty-three Boers were killed and a
large number wounded in the en
counter with Baden-Powell's forces at
Mafeklng.
An enthusiastic meeting to promoto
tho movement to erect a monument to
Famell was hold in New York. Over
$10,000 was collected.
Sir Thomas Liptou has tho spirit of
a plucky sportsman and will challenge
us again for the America's cup. Ho
says ho cannot get ready for next year,
but will be prepared in 1901.
Tho strike of the iroumolders and
tho coremakers at St. Paul has ended,
and the men have returned to work.
Tho employers grant a slight advance
in wages and recognize the union.
It is understood that the president
has given lo Archbishop Chapelle defi
nite instructions which will govern his
actions relative to establishing peaco
with the Filipinos, but these instruc
tions are to be withheld from publica
tion. As a corollary of the Pullman-Wagner
consolidated deal, tho readjustment
of railroad stockholders on an enormous
scale is said to be tho next move on the
boards. A welding together of tho rail
road properties controlled by tho Hur-rlman-Gould
tand Vanderbilt Interests
is spoken of.
War between Americans and Mexi
cans broke out at Naco, Ariz, with dis
astrous results. Tho fight started be
tween Mexican guards and American
cowboys, and as a result four guards
were killed and one seriously wounded.
An American named Ryan was instant
ly killed and a Bisbeo minor was shot
through tho leg.
The Canadian government has been
advised that the United States and
British governments had given effect to
a provisional Alaskan boundary, which
was arranged between Sir Louis Da
vies and Mr. Choato, in London. This
arrangement makes no change at Skag
way, but it fixes a point on the Dalton
trail. Thore Is very little travel by
that route.
IDT ANOTHER CONFERENCE
'illpinos Ask Otis for a Dis
cussion of Peace Terms.
REQUEST WAS NOT GRANTED
Onlrrr Killed nnd Two Men Wounded
In mi Attuck on i I.uuhoIi Uoath of
Major Howard.
Manila, Out. 24. An Amorlcan
officer was kilted and two men wounded
by tho Filipinos in an attack on a
launch with General Lawton's expedi
tion in tho Rio Chiqulta. near San
Isidro. Tho rebels fired volloys from
shore.
General Otis has ropllod to tho three
insurgout officers who entered Angeles
last Friday with a request, made
through Goueral MacArthur, for per
mission for a Filipino commission,
headed by a Filipino major-general, to
visit General Otis in order to discuss
peaco terms and to arrango for tho do
livery of American prisoners, that tho
desired interview cannot bo granted be
cause tho Buggestod proittsltions of the
Filipinos are voguo, indefinite and uu
military, uud because the Americans
jmust continuo to decline to receive any
representative of the bo-called Filipino
government.
Denth of Major Howard.
Omaha, Oct. 24. A special cable
was received hero today announcing
the death in tho Philippines on Satur
(day of Major Guy Howard, son of Gen
eral O. O. Howard. The cablegram
,was received by Judge J. M. Wool
worth, father-in-law of .Major Howard,
and read as follows:
"Guy Howard killed in action to
day." Major Howard was well-known In
Omaha, boiug on his father's staff when
itho latter was stationed here. Ho was
imarricd in this city 16 years ago to
Miss Woolworth, and the nuptials weie
a notable society function. Mrs. How
ard resides here with her threo chil
dren. ANOTHER BATTLE ON.
fleavy Firing Reported From Vlclnltf
of Dundee.
Capo Town, Oct. 24. A dispatch
has just arrived announcing that the
Boers aro shelling Dundeeo, east ol
Glencoe, at long range, but that thoix
fire is ineffective
Met a Strong Force.
London, Oct. 24. According to a
special from Glencoe camp, the British
cavalry, while pursuing tho defoated
Boers, were engaged by u strong fore
of tho enmy on the north road. Fir
ing is now in progress.
Heavy Firing I Titklug IMace.
Glencoo Camp, Natal, Oct. 24.
Heavy firing is now In progress In the
northwest of this camp.
THE IOWAS REACH PORT.
Trun.port Senator Weathered the Ty
phoon lu Good Shape.
San Francisco, Oct. 24. The Fifty
first regiment of Iowa volunteers, num
bering 704 men and 40 ollicers, undei
the command of Colonel J. C. Loper,
arrived hero today from Manila, on
the transport Senator. There was no
sickness aboard. Tho only death re
ported is that of Edward Kissick, com
pany F, of Oskaloosa, la., who died at
Nagasaki of dysentery. The only Inci
dent of tho voyuge was an accident that
happened to Edwin Statler, company
M, and Homer A. Read, company A,
three days out fiom Nagasaki. They
were injured by the breaking of a spar,
which fell on them. Statter's leg was
broken and Read sustained a fracture
of tho skull. Both men are doing well.
The Senatot was caught in tho tail
of the typhoon encountered by the
steamer Empress of Japan. She was
tossed about lively for several hours,
but suffered no sevete damage. So
serious did the situation appear to the
officers of the steamer at ono time,
that ul) the passengers were ordered be
low, and the hutches were battened
down.
The Deadly Knife.
Lebanon, Or., Oct. 24. A serious
stabbing affair occurred at Sweet Home
lust evening. J. P. iluhri, thu Sweet
Home merchant, stabbed and serrious
ly wounded Albert Weddle, tho saw
mill man at that place. The trouble
arose in tho settlement of accounts be
tween the two men. Weddle's brother
owed Hahn und Huhn tried to work
tho account in against Albert Weddlo,
and the trouble otarted. Woddlo was
stabbed three or four times, ono slash
being in tho abdomen and letting the
intestines out. A physician was sum
moned from this city, and when he-arrived
ho found Weddle in a critical
condition, and there is but little expec
tation of his recovery.
Hahn said he was coming to Lebanon
to surrender himself to an officer, but
he hus not arrived here. The feeling
at Sweet Home Is bitter against him.
Itovolutlon In Columbia.
Pnlnn fVilmliln fnt Ol Mn.
lution has extended from Gundina-
Lbout Moyaca is about to leavo foi
I f!!n..n .. t in nnr .
uuii vrnuio uu iiiinj ui iu,uuu men it
I. 1 ... ,1
uuiug assemoieu uy tne government.
CAUGHT IN A Tnnr
Official lte,...rt 0MI..1 l"th of Captain
Howard.
Washington. Oct. M.--TI10 r do
partinont today received the follow lug
from General Otis:
Manila. Oct. SB.-CjinU -
Howard, quartermaster of voliintoo ,
was killed vostorday nor Araynt while
iu a launch' lu tho Klo Grande river,
bv concealed Insurgent. Ills clork, it
civilian employe, and a imtlvo woro
wounded.
General Lawton is oporat ng at San
Isidro. Forwurdlng of supplies to that
point continues, attended with r.01110
dilllculty on acoout of luck of tnispor
tutlon which will be supplied soon.
This morning Kline, commadlng at
Calamba, vigorously attacked the in
surgent force concentrating on his
front, routed them from tho trenches
and pursued them threo miles. Ills
casualties woro one private killed, one
corporal and threo privates wounded.
Tho enemy's loss is not known.
READY FOR TRANSPORTS.
Frohablo Unto of Departure of Thirty
ninth Infuiitry.
Vancouver Barracks, Wash., Oct. 25.
Captain Povey, quartermaster on tho
transport Lennox, visited tho post to
dav and said he thought tho Thirty,
ninth ininntry would bo nblo to sail
from Portland about Saturday next.
The transports are ox ported toarrivo in
Portland Wednesday, and there Is no
reason why the regiment should not bo
able to got away by tho end of tho
week. According to tho latest orders,
the two companies of tho Forty-fifth
Infantry which have been recruited
hero, will sail with tho Thirty-ninth,
and tl.jn join tho remainder of tho reg
iment at Manila.
Captain U. P. Wainwright, First
cavalry, arrivod at tho post today, and
will purchaso Uorsos for tho cavalry,
which will bo sent to tho Philippines.
Ilcpnrt l'roni Capo Nome.
Washington. Oct 25. Captain .Shoe
maker, chief of the revenue cutter
service, received from Lieutenant Jar
vis a briof roixirt, dated .St. Michael,
Alaska, September 80. on tho recent
trip of tho revenue cutter Bear to Point
Barrow, in tho court of which he says:
"At Capo Nome aro some 3,600 peo
ple with tho possible addition of from
500 to 1,000 from Yukon river points.
I think there will bo ample accommo
dations for all desiring to go out, and
also sufficient provisions for those who
remain. Typhoid fever is prevalent,
but tho coming cold weather is ex
pected to check it.
"Good order Is maintained, but
there is a lawless element it is desired
to get rid of before tho winter closes,
and I will co-operate with tho military
authorities and the United States mar
shal to that end. There is also a largo
number of sick and indigent whom it
will be necessary to take away on tho
Bear to prevent suffuriug. The Bear Is
en route to Sitka."
I'uget Sound Naval Station.
Washington, Oct. 25. The animal
report of Bear-Admiral Hichborii, chief
of tho bureau of construction and re
pair of the navy department, contains
a number of estimates and recommend
ations with regard to tho naval sta
tion on Puget sound. The recommend
ations show that somo of the equip
ment is badly iu need of repair, and
much in the way of now apparatus and
appliances is required to bring the sta
tion up to tho average standard.
IE 11 null, mid Franco May Take a Hand.
London, Oct. 25. Sensational ru
mors of the desigus of foreign powers,
inimical to British Interests, meet with
scant credeuco, though it is admittedly
difficult to explain tho immeiiHO force
on land which Great Britain is now
mobilizing. In Vienna, it is reported
tho British naval movements aro duo
to a rumor that Russia, with the
assent of Franco, is about to acquire
from Spain Coutu, or somo other naval
station on tho African coast.
Elsewhere it is stated tho movomonts
of tho French Mediterranean flcot in
tho neighborhood of tho Lovant, whore
it could easily bo joined by tho Russia
Black sea fleet, via tho Straits of Dar
danelles, Is occasioning suspicion.
Tho Latent I'euco Overture.
Washington, Oct. 25. General Otis'
account of tho latest Filipino poaco
overtures is as follows:
"Manila, Oct. 24. Octobor 20, a
messago was received at Angoles un
der n flag of truco expressing tho desrio
of Hon. President Aguinaldo to send a
commission to Manila to arrango tho
difficulties connected with tho delivery
of Spanish prisoners, nnd to discuss a
matter of particular character. A re
ply was returned that the commMsion
accredited by any ono other than Gen
oral Aguinaldo, genoral-in-chiof of tho
lusurgents, could not bo recognized or
rocolved. Thoro has been no later cor
respondence. )TIS."
Tho llimdlU Escaped.
Atchison, Kan,, Oct. 25. Notwith
standing tho fact that fully 500 armed
men surrounded tho Island, botwoon
Atchison and Doniphan all last night,
tho two bandits who Saturday night
killed one man and wounded anothor
at Doniphan, and duplicated this crime
hero yesterday, whilo boing pursuod by
a posse, cropt through tho lino of
guards during tho night, and, stealing
a team, escaped.
BOERS
E I fll
M 111
Dundoo Saturday.
CONTINUED THE KIRE s
UN
I.itrco 1'orr.n Commanded In iv,
Kruunr nnd .loiiiiort Kald to u
tacKlue tileiicoit.
London. Oct. 25. Tim n.,i ..
7 .. . . . -
tnihlHliiiH thn follnu'intr illu.. .
LutiyHuilth, tluteil Sunday ntimt
"A litrun fnri'ii iimliir f .
r " ......... ly 111 until.
General .Jonbert nnd ComiiiaihWir
pin, opened II ro on Dundee w.ht(,r,
I Jiu Ore wan continual twin
retuilt Ih not known here "
(Jape Town, Oct. 25. Ni'MhIuih i
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LurivHinUh:
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inn viiiiii' 1'iiwn t " m mi it'll
position."
" a. tm tM. .
ceived thn following dlspati h r-.. ,
uuil i;,tniii. n . imi', ."itiui.iii
iu Natal:
uonorai xuio leieura tni'i mo v
terday evening that tliu wmuiui
Dundee wero doing well."
rnl.l.. .It ....I.
ftV.J . . f,. ...., I "ll.lll.UVl, ..II kill' 4
thero had evidently not been nitac'
up to last evening.
Ilattlo of i:iulld' I.liliEli.
London. Oct. 25. Tho IiaiU fl
publishes tho following dcu nptii:
tho battlo of Wand's Laagt". r-irnS
sspecial war correspondent, I
Stevens, filed ut Ladysmith I
"Thu battle was a brill. ant.
pleto siiccws. Tho Boers nu
from 1.200 to 2,000, and probably hi
about 100 killed nnd 150 wouuili
Tho fight itself was like a prartli
illustration of hitndlKok tnoti'.i. ct
iirm rimrt-ktfPiiiftd fimiii? ilm uruiHrr vn
to perfection.
"The Gordon HiKhhtnder. m
rt j ......... 1 11. .... 1 . ..,1
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uiuir uiitjui iui uu i 1111-1. i
n pipo nnd nmoked placidly win e
nii4iiii inttn Tiiiiifi au tmiii 11 hit r
dropped, Kupports wero ninliel into
to cover, Hplendidly led and iv
vancing. Yet, u ridu after ridge
.... 1 . 1 .... in .11 i.i u.i 1 miifiri 11 11
..l...i is...fv...(.... !..... ii, ul Ihtm t
fought their bleeding way ant
final ridge was ueared, with u'al
every olllcer down.
"Then, slamming every auual
lutn tin, flrin" Hn.,. Manchebtl
rV...... ...1 II. .1.. l.ni-.. nil rii.V.lM .
uvyuiia 111111 iiuii. mum; .... .m..."-.
ul.rinlrfni. mill till lillltlll SL i'OIIIU
surge, our men swept yolling iuni
and tho position was won.
.tiutiii iiiiu. mniiMiiwutJ w
nnd dragons lapped round tho IJcr I
(lank, catching tho enemy as thev
wi.vp p - '"CI
l. I An i. , A .! fit in nnmin
was not."
IN SOUTHERN LUZON
and Aitul.
Manila. Oct. 25. Tho insure;
around Calambn and Angoles Ii
bothered tho Americans lately w
of tho Filipino attacks, con-mi,
shooting a lot of ammunition iuu)
opitononts' camp from long range
Maior Cheatham's battalion ol
I II I n.VHI!VI'Ill II 111 111 II LA v-v "
ii in . I..r..nlvl H I
ICS Ol UIO iwifiiij mnv " .
tnrv of tho Fiftv artillery and a iiatl
4. 1.1.1,1 ...nvnlnir (VOIli
uUH hllltlUtl UUt Hiin Hiuitiii'o
111 tr ttn t rnt'fi tiiii nil 1 iniiun
. 1 ii....H t rr rri
One American was killed and u
wero wounded of the Twontyfir"
fii ntrw
I'UIII IUU11 lIUlll Ml"
ih miios from
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1 111 im n .nil. et rv inn. mill -
i 1.111..1 .. Miom. wnunuou
KlIIUU UUU Ul iuu..., ,
.1 nnnhinil n t llnl. J.J1U
was unablo to flro for fear of wouuu
tho Americans.
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w r . Dunrn Til
LV.V...1I. wa. . , V 1
iow11.. mtluivL-rtrl Ifll 110 iv
r-j r
reinforce tho troop3.
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Donby and I'roiossov huiumwi .
fmminlHRinnCl-B to tllO I'llilipi'i"08'
rnnrn frnm Vancouver W n "
- t.i...n m
reached Chicago today. w'"""
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