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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 24, 1899)
BOHEMIA NUGGET FuMUhed Every Friday COTTAGE GROVE OREGON HE IF I WEEK Comprehensive llevlow of tlio Iinport- ant Happening of the I'nut Wek Called From th Telecrnpli Columiu. LATER NEWS. Threo moro transports havo reached Capo Town. Tho town of Troy, Knusns, was wipod out by a flro. , Queen Victoria's visit to Bristol was , made tho occasion for a display of pa triotism. General Manager Froy, of the Santa Fo, has resigned, his resignation to tako effect after January 1. William Durfeo, who built tho first copper furnace that used gaseous fuel is dead at Middletown N. Y. United States Consul Pettit died at Dusseldorf, Germany, as a result of an operation for acuto appendicitis. Representative Hepburn, of Iowa, says ho will introduce tho Nicaragua canal bill in congress tho first day. A new bank organized in New York will fight tho clearing-house by collect ing out-of-town checks free of charge. A report is current in Wall street that the American Sugar Refining Com pany may soon absorb all competitors. Representatives of the American Bible Society report that in tho inter ior of China their men are subjected to extreme cruolty. Andrew Carnegie has offered Tucson, Ariz., a building for a library, pro vided a site and maintenance of the in stitution are guaranteed. Tho Northern Pacific railroad is seek ing borrowers for its surplus monoy, "Wall street brokers being the medium chosen of reaching them. The transportation subcommittee of the United States industrial commis sion will hold a 10 days' session in Chicago to hear grievances. A cyclone wrought havoc in India. Thousands of native dwellings n.were razed. Thero were no fatalities, but the loss of property was immense, John H. Haswell is dead at Albany, N. Y. He was an important factor in developing the steel industry, and was a long time in the government service. Mrs. Stanford has disposed of all her Southern Pacific stock to the Hunting ton-Speyor syndicate. Her holdings amounted to 285,000 shares at $40 per snare. A London express train from Flush ing coiiiaea wun another train near Capello during a fog. Five persons were killed outright and 29 injured, 15 fatally. A story has reached Victoria from the Orient of Chinese fiends who kid naped a boy and demanded ransom of the father. In default of payment they sent the dead body of their victim to tho parent in a jar of brine. A court of inquiry will fix sponsibility for the accident Charleston. j Major John A. Logan, SSWianc iiiacKjacJc." w; bels in Luzon. The wreck of tho Charle: ' topic of discussii Lieathor and hidos aro going np rap fdly. Tho Boors havo Estcourt cut off on all sides. Much anxioty is folt for a number of vessels long ovorduo at San Francisco. Four transports with reinforcements for Otis sailed from San Francisco Monday. A wiroless telegraphic company was orgnuizod in Now York; capital, $12, 000,000. Hundreds of Uoers wero killed noar Ladysmith Thursday. Tho British loss was slight. Tho Protestant Episcopal church has docidod to send missionaries to our now possessions. Tho supreme court has decided that tho Northern Pacifio railroad cannot hold a 400-foot strip through Spokano Tho wreck of tho barkoutiuo Jane Falkenburg was found off Capo Flat tory with nothing on board but a black cat. The Year 1899 Breaks Previous Records. All AMOUNT IS OVER TWO BILLIONS Although n Great llodiictlon In llrond- dtuirn, It In Muru Tliun OITnot by Ai tonlahlng Sale of Meroluindlto. the to ro- tho of itho JMedAby fortk looked " 1 execute ig c- Bix as ro- 'lau German emperor's visit to England is being lookei ward to as of great moment. ine iioers threaten to execnti British officers, whom they hold prisoners, if Nathan Marks is not leased. Health conditions in the navy aro said to bo excellent. Thero aro only 84 of tho Asiatio squadron in tho hos pital. Tho annual report of Major-General Nelson A. Miles, has been made public. It is extremely brief and formal in character. ) Tho navy is beinn supplied with Krag-Jorgensens. Ammunition will bo interchangeable between tho army and navy. Seven Americans were killed while storming tho town of Salinda. Seventy-seven dead Filipinos wore counted in the trenches. Two members of a suicide club, at Frankfort, Ind., carried out their com pact within 10 days. Thoy wero both members of tho 158th Indiana volun teers. According to an agreement just readied tho bicycle trust will with draw from tho rubber tire field and permit the tiro trust to control all patents. Tho efforts of chaplains of tho army who havo boon ordered to tho Philip pines to havo their orders revoked, is occasioning considorablo comment in Washington. According to a statement just issued tho Southern Pacific shows a gross in crease in earnings of $2,026,108 and a net increaso of $1,108,575. Tho Cea tral Pacific is prosperous, too. 1 Chicago, Indianapolis, St. Paul, St. Louis, Galvoston and Philadelphia an all after tho Republican national con vention. .transcontinental railroad passeugor rates havo beon restored as a result of a conference held in Portland by tho various lines. Tho Yaqui Indians aro drilling like soldiers, and aro boing exhorted by their chiefs to fight until tho whites aro all exterminated. while showing a friend how he would drop a footpad, a Portland butcher shot and seriously wounded a boy who was looking on. ien snips aro reported to nave gone ashore on the straits of Magellan. It is feared their crews havo fallen into tho hands of the cannibals. Emperor William is in England. He was received with all tho pomp of royalty. Public buildings wero deco rated with British, German and United btates Hags. Tho Samoan treaty will soon be dis posed of. Socretary Hay merely await the arrival of text of agreement entered into between Germany and Great Brit ain. Tho industries of Cuba aro in a do piorame condition, in two provinces tho destruction of sugar interests alono is estimated at $080,000,000, and thero are no efforts at rebuilding. Because tho supremo lodge has de cided to rerato old members, thereby increasing the assessments, the Knights and .Ladies of Honor in New Jersey are talking of secession. A special session of the Washington legislature is being talked of. Vice-President Hobart is weaker rm i i xnougn no is cneenui, nis mends are losing hope. A steel palace for tho mikado of Japan is to be designed and built by Chicago men. Oklahoma wants statehood. A lobbv of 15 persons has been appointed to go to Washington. There ih a movement on foot to hold in Chicago next November an interna tional livestock fair. Smallpox has broken ont nmraw the colored soldiers of the Forty-fifth reiri- ment it Angel island. Kentucky Republicans insist on in- sto ''-ylbr as governor, and it is ay be used. arican consul at Pretoiia has .--sed permission by tho state department to handle monoy- for Eng lish soldiers. Two hundred Spanish prisoners have been sent to the province of Panay. A vessel with food and clothing will be sent to them. Washington, Nov. 21. Tho foroign commorco of tho United States seems likoly to mako its highest rocortl of tho coutury in tho closing year of that pe riod. Tho October exports aro larger than those of any preceding October, tho total for tho 10 mouths ending with October is greater than tho total for tho corresponding period in any preceding year, and it is apparent that for tno first timo in our history tho foroign commerce of tho year will exceed $2, 000,000,000. For tho 10 months end ing with October, 1899, tho figures of tho treasury bureau of statistics show tho total exports to bo 1, 020, 242,000, whilo in tho eorresionding months of last year they woro $087,879,000. This remarkablo increase in exporta tion is tho moro surprising becauso of ths absenco of tho oxcossivo demand (broad for our breadstuff's, which char acterized tho year 1898. In that year tho short crops abroad and plentiful supplies of breadstuff's of all kinds in tho United States resulted in an abnor mally largo exportation of breadstuff's, so that tho cxiortatioii of agricultural products in tho present year naturally falls about $.'15,000,000 bolow that of tho corresponding period of last year. Yot tho total exportation for tho 10 months aro, as already indicated, moro than $40,000,000 in oxcoss of thoso of last year. It is easy, however, to find tho cause of this remarkablo growth in our total exportation, which occurs in tho faco of tho reduction of our exportation of breadstuffs. An examination of the detailed figures of the nino mouths of the year already accessiblo shows that tho exports of manufactures in that period wero $50,000,000 in excess of those of tho corresponding mouths of the preceding year, and $05,000,000 greater than those of tho same months of 1897, whilo tho products of tho miuo were $4,000,000 greater than those of tho corresponding mouths of last year, and thoso of tho forest $0,- 000.000 in excess of the corresponding months of tho preceding vear. Thus tho year's exportation of agricultural pro ductions will bo quito up to tho nor mal, whilo thoso of manufacture, min ing and forestry will exceed those of last year, and indeed, of any year in our history. Imports havo increased moro than exports, for they wero unusually low in 1898. while exports wero unusually high in that year. The total importa tion in tho 10 months ending with Oc tober, 1899, is $058,875,000, against $527,734,000 in tho corresponding months of last year. ln ,rrnr .. nc. ....; ox INounutlllo HMtU nllm li III Will t 1 1 !' Nxf Vriir, 'Ag Washington. Nov. 20. "Tho showci of Leonids will not occur this season Tim lirlllliint. Kiinotaclo has been an noimeed ono vear too soon." Tills an tifiniiomtiiiiit. Iiiih lust boon mado by Dr. L. J. Sen, ono of tho most advanced hh- trnnntniirH in tho irovornmont service. "Astronomical calculations have not nrrnil nu in till) lioriodicitV of till) Leonids." said Dr. See. "but tho gen. orally accepted conclusion as to the timo it takes tho Leonids to pass tho oarth's orbit has beon wrong. After tlm most careful observations made with tho host instruments in tho ser vice of tho government, and after tho most unorrinir calculations in strict conformity to astronomical laws, I am thoroughly convinced that tho period ol passago is two years, instead ol ono, as horotoforo bolioved. "Tho Leonids havo boon within tho earth's orbit for a vear now, and will remain with us for another 12 months, Tho moteorio shower has n t been as heavy this timo as there was good sicontille reason for believing it would bo. That is becauso wo hvo not yet struck tho thick nart of tho trail. Itv tnv calculations, this collidon will oc- cur in tho middle of November, 1000. Then tho resultant display of burning meteors will bo as brilliant as tho ono observed by Humboldt in Venezuela in 1709. "Tho present visitation is a counter' part of that in 180!!. At that timo thero wero displays in two years, that of 1802 hcini! about as feeble as the present has boon, and that of tho sue' ceodiug year being nearly as striking as that recorded by Humboldt." ADULTERATION OF FOOD. Tho Tagals Flying- Bofori Amorioans. OUR FORCES IN NEW TERRI1 HEAVY FIGHT IS NEAR. a Driinant display oi meteors wbe witnessed at Birmingham, Ala. A number of negroes in their fear, re sorted to prayer. As a result of a collision on the Omaha railroad near Humboldt, S. D., five persons wero killed and a number of others fatally injured. A large force of Boers aro reported to bo moving south. Sir Alfred Milner, governor of Capo Colony, has issued a proclamation assuring tho Dutch that thoy will receive protection. Tho new revolutionary movement is widespread and Colombia is said to bo in a bad way. Heavy tribute is boing levied lor tno support of tho govern ment ana dusiuoss is practically at a standstill. Tho commissioner of Indian affairs, W. A. Jones, in his annual report makes recommendation for moro Indian schools. Thero is to bo no extinguish ment of tho Indian population, but of tho tribes. A German wheat buyer has just mado a purchaso of several hundred thousand dollars at Kansas City. Ho gives as a reason for coming to this country that tho Russian wheat is of inferior quality this year. Captain Leonhauser surprised tho in surgent force near Capas, and captured 200 of thorn, with thoir guns and 10, 000 rounds of ammunition and four tons of subsistence. Ono Filipino was killed, but thero was no American casualties. Large Force of IJoeri Reported to I!o Moving South. London, Nov. 21. This morning's news gives nitio mat alters tno com plexion of tho situation. Since tho light of November 9 matters, so far as known, havo been fairly quiet at Lady smith. It is not unlikely that tho Boers, badly informed as to tho naturo and extent of British preparations to advance to tho relief of tho town, may bo hesitating regarding tho next movo ment. ino situation in iatai is very complicated, moro especially if tho ro ports bo truo that tho great Tugela bridge has been destroyed. The sue cess of the next move on either side will depend more on strategy than on superior numbers. Tho Boors havo three lines of action open. Thoy can hold tho railway with tho force thoy havo at Ennersdalo, fall ing slightly back before tho British ml vauco and threatening it from Weeuenj or, in tho second place, thoy can ad van co irom weenen and try to carry iistcourtj or, in tno third piaco, they can advanco duo south from Weenen to Weston, cut tho railway and blow up tho bridgo over tho Moot river. If it bo truo that thqro aro 10,000 Boors, under Joubort and General Botha, marching south to meot tho British ro liof forces, heavy fighting is in storo. Chief Knglncor'g Approval. Washington, Nov. 21. Tho report oi tno engineers m favor of an improve ment at tho mouth of tho Columbia river to secure 40 foot of water over tho bar, will bo sent to congress witli tho approval of tho chiof of engineers. Tho opinion of tho ongineors is that tho pro posed improvement is one of tho most important to bo presented to congress. It is oxpectod that favorablo action by congress looking to tho 40-foot channel will bo followed immediately with another proposition for a ohannol of 80 foot from tho mouth of tho Columbia to Portland. Thoso who aro familiar with tho commorco of tho river and conditions now existing say both thoso improvements should bo mado with tho least possiblo dolay. Tho Burlington will build from Al. lianco, Neb,, to Ogdon. Moro Kvlilenco I Collected hy Seniitnl Mil mill. Now York, Nov. 20. Tho United States senate cornmitteo, represented by Senator Mason, of Illinois, today re sumed its investigation into tho adul teration of food prepared for market, Dr. Edward H. Jenkins, an agricul tural chemist, and vico-diroctor of tho Connecticut agricultural experiment station, declared that tho general adul teration of food products had increased with business competition and tho do maud for cheap wares. In his five years' experience, Dr. Jonkins said ho had found only ono adulterant that was poisonous, and that was a coloring matter in a teiniHjrunco drink. Coco shells, pruno stones and liko, ho test! fied, sold as spices. None of these adulterants, except tho ono color, wat hurtful to health, but all wero frauds on tho consumer. Moro than half the jellies examined wero mado of glucose and starch paste, colored with artific ial coloring, flavored with artificial flavoring, and preserved with salycilic acid. Tho cheaper grades of coffee wero found to contain a largo projwr tion of Canada peas, pea pellets, wheat middlings and chicory. . . i. tt . . . rfiuviiiiru in met ni'vi'riil 1 Ol II III li a J Iioiiukii, In Mindanao Ulinnl, plod by til i Citx 1 1 ' m Nullum. Manila, Nov. 22. Only fraginl reports reueh .Manna of operation tho north which, whim tho std i in ... i . " Kuuwn, win jiruvu ui navo huc-n most remarkablo campaign the pine war has known. Lawton'H division is spread over tho territory beyond Mini where tho telegraph ends. i uuug n two rogimoiiM oi (i . . i . .i. .... . ... aro continuing inoir rapid swei pj tho now country and tho infantry? lug shoved forward to hold tho . i. . i ... n , .. till) cavairy man, an in a CO .vhoso natural iiiii-iiiuoh am met indescribably by tho tmpj. al making rivers of the crcilsl swamps of tho fields. Wngmi tnuj (imoii is supiKseii io nave i m tically abandoned, the Ameri-ij I, ...... .... i ... i living on capiurou supplies mifl little produce tho insurgent Untci left. Major Swlgort's squadron f cavalry Is rojKirted to bo enguL greatly suiorior force at I'ozur northeast of Dagupan. These navo lougni tnreo engagements at .... ..I ,., now noniing tiieir position, uwi reinforcements. It is believed at hoadquartei this force is covering tho retreat cj insurgent leaders to the Ititigmd : tains; that tho insurgents planus retreat northeast along tho TavadE which is stocked with htoreho threo of which tho Americans Ikiv to draw mxm on route and tlmf tho insurgent advance force ha. I Tayud before American oreiipatioa nain may of Aguinaldo's army ithin our lines. Tho majurifl thoso insurgents may disorganize poso as amigos whou tho Aiuor overtake thorn. KU-ctliiii CoimplrutorH Arrmtrd. Philadelphia, Nov. 20. Samuel Sal- ton, deputy coroner of this city; Josoph G. Rodgers, lieutenant of tho capitol police, Washini'ton, and Clarence Mes ser, employed in tho copying division of tho congressional library, havo been hold in $1, 800 bail for trial on tho charge of conspiring to mako fraudu lent election returns in this city. Tho arrest of tho threo men was tho out- conle of testimony adduced at tho hear ing last week of soveral residents of Washington, who had been arrested hero on a similar charge On that occasion, it was tostiflod that a party of alleged ropcators, num benng about 14, had been brought to this city from Washington by Lieuten ant Rodgers. Two of these, George Mrkland and W. II. Cook, imperson atcd election officers in tho thirteenth division of tho second ward and assisted in tho alleged falsifying of tho returns and tho stuffing of tho ballots, whilo tho othors, it was testified, wero ein ployed as ropeatorH. Kirkland testified against his com' pamons, saying that ho camo hero at tho instigation of a newspaper to par ticipato in and oxposo tho fraud. irimtlneton In Full Control. San Francisco, Nov. 20. Tho Exanv inor says: Collis P. Huntington is to day in full control of three-fourths of tho property of tho Southern Pacific Company and its allied corporation, tho Pacifio Improvement Company. With tho holp of bunking syndicato headed by tho Spoyors, of Now York and London, ho has liought out the Croker and Stanford interests, each amouuting to about one-fourth of the stock. With his own fourth, that gives him three-fourths of tho whole. Tho remaining ono-fourth interest be longs to tho Hopkins-Searles estate. IJio Spoyors hold in thoir possession tho Crokor and Stanford securities for tho prosont, Huntington havim.' an iron. clad option for thoir final trausfor t him. Alimku Steamer Tnrdy. ban l-rancisco, Nov. 20. Thn sohooner Rattlor is now 88 davs out from Kodiak, Alaska, and it 'ia foarod that sho has gono down in ono of the many storms that havo rocontiy swopt tho coast. Tho vossol left tho Alaskan port on Octobor 10 and has not boon hoard from sinco. Four days lator the 6ohoonor Herman sailed from tho samo port and arrived hero noarlv thn i weeks ago, after a very rough passago. llnrdahlp of the Cnnipiileii.l Among tho scraps of nows nl.tat aro stories of tho hardships with tho American armv is meeting. reported for instance that ijiwtoalnarinc rowly escaped drowning while fuisk a river recently, when LlouteuuntuJtu una two privates wero lost. Captain Leonhauser, with a battalion of tho Twenty-fifth infantry, is way from Ilumham to O'DoniiellMtd tako tho insurgent cartridge- works thoro. A Filipino caiituitj surrendered with four men to (d Burt, of tho Twenty-fifth infantr 6cribed tho factory and volunteer guide tho expedition. Tho governor of Neuva Yizcava determined, liko many other I'Himno in these days, that the 'adiiiiniHtr of his province cannot cliangd quickly, and is coming to Manila toll General Otis of his loyalty una cidentally to request that ho Is talned in otllce undor the now reft . ... - M Admiral Watson lias received ajm ditional credible roixirt that Lieut Gilmoro and fivo of tho captured ors of tho gunboat Yorktown wer Tarlac, November 10. Gilmorol living in a Filipino general's Iioug Tho cruiser Italtimoro starts fox! gayen today, and Admiral WatsoE x)sos sending another ship to Nat if tho gunboat Helena, which is duo, lias not arrived at Lingayon. OpiirutloiK In Mindanao. Tho sailors of tho gunboat Ci occuppy Zamboani:a. oil tho sout extremity of tho island of Mindi Tho husinoss men, chiolly China quested Commander Very ' thoi tine, to tako possession of tho phu protect thorn from insurgents. Very landed a naval forco and though no details havo been reci it appears ho found that ho hud a; contract ou his hands nnd tolog )tls renuostiuL' tho presenco of t: but nono aro availablo except by drawing a nart of tho forco from m tho neighboring islands temporarily; LONG WILL NOT RESIGrffl Sto tl SiiIUiik Order IbhuciI to Henr-Ads Hchluy. Washington, Nov. 22. Soci Long's attention was called to roj that ho intended to rosign iruiq cabinet. Without hositatiug, tho i tury said ho had no such intentions Onn nf Mm flrnt. matters OI HUH that wuh laid before tho socrotar Assistant Rnnrntarv Allon, WHS the ing ordors to bo givou to Kear-Aoij KnliW. It whs docidod to issue nrdnrs at. nnnn. nnd tllOV aro 1U of preparation. Tho navy dopartB olvnn nut thn fnllnwillC Official montof tho ordors sout to itoar-ii Schloy: 1 Tlin nrrfnr linfl beon BOUt todaj tho Chicago to proceed to South Al tio waters, touching lor coai m Janioro and othor such ports asj noenssarv to roach Buonos Ayroj soon us nraoticablo and inspoct vjj f ton Hon to rot uuu Ltyu PIIUUII.. v j now unuer wuj u" ' - Ckica, ID) arbon
