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Bohemia Nugget
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COTTAGE GROVE .. OREGON.
NEWS OFTHE WEEK
Id a Condensed Form for Our
Easy Readers.
A Resume of the Lett Important but
Not Lett Interesting Events
of the Past Week.
Fan Francisco car men have declared
general strike.
It is reported that Cuban insurgents
are beginning to desert.
Secretary Root has arrived in Chil
ean waters on board the cruiser
Charleston.
Trains are beginning to arrive at
Valparaiso, with provisions for the
earthquake sufferers.
Cuban rebels are recruiting their
army up to 5,000 men, and preparing
for an attack on Pinar del Rio.
A relative oi Kasseil cage, wno was
overlooked in his will, claims inconi
petence and will contest the will.
France thinks Roosevelt's spelling
reform is a move to supplant French
by English as the language of interna-
tional diplomacy.
Iriving Long, aged 21 years, who had
been released on parole from the Cali
fornia state prison, where he had been
doing time for highway robbery, was
sentenced to ten years more for break
ing his parole.
A terrorist bomb has wrecked the
home of Premier Stolypin, badly
wounding the premier and his 3-year
old son, and killing over twenty others,
including the premier's daughter, aged
15, and several prominent officers.
One hundred and fifty looters have
already been ehot in Valparaiso.
The Cuban government is offering $2
per day for volunteers for the army.
Wealthy people of Valparaiso are do
ing their utmost to aid their more help
less fellows.
Enthusiasm is increasing for a 20-
foot macadam road from Portland to I
Mount Hood.
Letters received in Chicago from
.London say tnat raul U. fctenaland is
touring Europe.
A new comet, visible through a email
telescope, has been discovered by the
Kiel observatory.
The body of Admiral Train, who died
at Chefoo, has arrived at Seattle, and
been forwarded to Annapolis for burial.
A bogus baron who married a rich
American girl in Manila has decamped
with his wife's jewelry and most of her
cash.
A burglar who attempted to rob a
millinery store in Baker City was put
to flight by a frail woman with a pair
of scissors.
The Southern Pacific is preparing to
spend $700,000 or more to turn the
Colorado river back to its original
channel and dram the Salton sea,
Roosevelt has given his approval to a
new spelling reform which includes
800 words, and has ordered that it be
adopted on all his official correspond
ence. The rush of depositors to receive the
first installment of their deposits in the
defunct Milwaukee Avenue bank, af
Chicago, overwhelmei 60 policemen
who had been detailed to keep order.
MntinouB spirit is growing in the
Russian army.
Heat In Chicago is causing many
deaths and prostrations.
The czar has decided to immediately
give land to the peasants.
Japan will investigate the killing of
seal poachers by Americans.
Southern railroads have announced
that they will obey the rate law.
Valparaiso is under martail law, and
is fast recovering from the earthquake.
Cuban citizens residing in New York
will ask Roosevelt to take jl hand in
affairs in Cuba.
A Jewish massacre is threatened at
Liedl'ce, Poland, where the chief of
police has been killed.
The Pan-American conference aims
to make gold tht universal money basis
of the western hemisphere.
London papers predict the annexa
tion of Cuba by the United States and
say it is the only thing to do,
A St. Louis woman has married the
wrong man through a mistake in send
ing letters by a marriage bureau.
San Francieco will erect a temporary
wooden city hall to be used until the
present structure can be repaired.
Cuban officials believe the insurrec
tion has reached its limit.
The government has withdrawn negro
troops from TexaB garrisons.
Harriman is gaining control of the
Northwestern as well as St. Paul road.
The National Red Cross will receive
funds for the relief of stricken Chilean
cities.
The steamer Manchuria, which went
on a reef in the Hawaiian islands, is
riapidly going to pieces.
The towon of LUillal is reported to
have entirely disappeared as a result of
ih Chilean earthouake.
TERRORISTS WRfcCK HOUSE.
Bomb Kills 27 Persons and Wounds
Over 30 Others.
S!. Fete rs iiug, Aug. 20. Twenty
eight petsons are dead and more than
SO wounded as the result of a dastardly
attempt yesterday afternoon to assass
inate Premier Stolypin with a bomb
while he was holding a public reception
at his country house on Aptekassy is
land. The premier was slightly
wounded cn the face and neck by flying
splinters.
Among the dead are the premier's
15-year o'd daughter, who had both
legs broken by the explosion and sub
sequently succumbed to her injuries;
General Zan.atin, the premier's person
al secretary; M. Khosvoff, ex-governor
of the province of Penxa ; Colonel Fod
oroff, chief of the premier's personal
guard; Court Chamberlain Davidoff,
Chamberlain Voornin, Aid Douhasoff,
Prince Nakashidge, Police Officer Ko
nunzeff, several guards, several ser
vants. four women and to children.
The wounded include M. Stoly pin's
3-year old son, who is seriously if not
fatally injured, and a number of per
sons prominent in the society and otti
cial world.
OI the four conspirators who engi
neered the outrage, two were killed
with their victims, while the third,
who acted as coachman for the party,
and the fourth, who remained inside
the carriage, were badly wounded.
Whether the assassins who entered
the crowded reception hall threw the
bomb or accidentally dropped it prob
ably will never be known, as all the
immediate eye witnesses were killed.
The tremendous force of the explosion
absolutely blew out the front of the
premier's residence, and carried away
the ceilings above and the floors be
neath and the walls of the adjoining
rooms.
People were literally blown to pieces.
Thoee who were not killed instantly
were horribly mangled and the others
were prostrate by the shock. The pre
mier's escape was miraculous, for only
a moment before the explosion he had
stepped ins;de his stuiy at the rear of
the salon tosptak to Prince Shakovsky.
Although he was but slightly injured,
he is completely prostrated by the ca
lamity. The havoc wrought by the exploeion
was indescribable. Bodies were so torn
or mangled as to make identification
impossible, eome of them headless,
armless or legless, lying among the
blood-dripping wreckage.
RAILWAY GIANTS CLASH,
$25,000,000 Cash and St. Paul Road
is the Prize at Stake.
Chicago, Aug. 27. A special to the
Tribune from New York says:
A financial battle, with $23,000,000
in cash and the control of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway system
is on between J. Pierpont Morgan and
E. II Harriman.
In the battle are involved twice as
many millions ot aoiiars ana inree
times as many thousands of miles of
railroads as were represented in the
famons fight for the possession of the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, which
resulted in the memorable Northern
Pacific corner, when the price of that
stock was rushed up to $1,000 a share
and a panic in Wall street followed.
The opposing forces consist of J. P
Morgan. James J. Hill and their
friends, foreign capitalists, on one side,
and E. H. Harriman, practical owner
of the Union Pacific-Southern Pacific
roads, with Sir William an Home,
Sir Thomas Sbaughnessy, as controllers
of the vast Canadian Pacific syetern,
with their friends, on the other. Re
maining neutral for the time being, but
inclined to throw their weight to Har
riman, are James H. Smith and Wil
liam Rockefeller, as principal stock
holders in the St. Paul.
On the outcome of the war depends
whether the 6t. Paul road is to be ex
tended to the coast, for which purpose
a new $25,000,000 stock issue was
voted, in a northerly direction, and so
seriously injure the traffic of the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific systems,
or southerly, to impair the future pro
fits of the Union and Southern Pacific
Early this summer there was a mys
tenons bunching of threa Pacinc coast
lines stock. Before Harriman or Hill
could discover wno were the purchas
ers, the Canadian Pacific had obtained
sufficient interest in the road to wield
the balance of power.
Guerrera Gets Ammunition.
Fan Juan de Mart'ntz, Aug. 27. A
correspondent of the Associated Press
who rode out from here today says
tnat when Pmo Guerrera left San Luis,
he took from that town 40,000 rounds
of ammunition he found there. He also
secured 28.000 rounds in San Juan de
Martinez. It is reported that Colonel
Julian Eretancourt, the Havana Lib
era), who is second in command of
Guererra's force, was slightly wounded
in the engagement near San Luis.
No order for advance have yet been
given.
Must Spell in Old Way.
Washington, Aug. 27. The presi-
dent's order adopting the new system
of spelling may be put into practice in
several departments, but it will cut no
figure with the Civil Service commis
sion in examinatiosn. Applicants will
be graded in spelling according to the
standard dictionaries and not accord
ing to the rules of spelling reform.
PI'onetic rrnlling will hereafter be used
in the transmission of district govern
mental correspondence.
Bring In Valencia Victims.
Washington, Ang. 27. Notification
was sent to the revenuH cutter Orant
today to prcxed to Bamfield, B. C, for
the bodies of the Valencia victims. I he
Grant is not seaworthy, so cannot go
dl"ct to tee scene oi uie wreca.
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j OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST
MILKING MACHINE TESTS.
Demonstration of Their Value To Be
Given at State Fair.
Salem Milking machines in opera
tion will be one of the principal fea
tures of the dairy department at the
State fair, which opens here September
10. (aimers and dairymen have al
ways been interested in the subject of
milking machines and their interest as
become particularly strong in the last
few years when dairying in this state
has been hampered by the difficulty in
securing milkers. Mend) not like to
milk and will not take work of that
kind if they can get anything else at
the same wages. But milking machin
ery lias not generally been found to be
successful and dairymen have been
compelled to depend upon such labor
as they could get.
There are some manufacturers of
milking machines who think the,, have
contrived apparatus that will extract
the lacteal fluid from the patient or im
patient cow, whether she be a hard
milker or an eaty one. Machines so
simple that a boy can run them, are al
leged to be ready for the farmer who
doesn't like tc milk and cannot hire
somebody else to do it for him. Ma
chines adjustable for tall cows or short
ones, kickers and nonkickers, Jerseys,
Holsteins or scrubs, await the doubting
owner of the dairy herd. It's all a
question of proof and the state board of
agriculture proposes to give the manu
facturers of milking machines the op
portunity to prove by actual demon
stration.
There will be plenty of cows at the
fair and the owners ot machines will be
called npon twice a day to do the milk
ing. If the machines work to the sat
isfaction of the farmers, there will be
some busines in milking machines.
If they don't work, the cows and their
owners will give the machine manufac
turer the laugh.
But whether the machines work or
don't work, the state board of agricul
ture will give the farmers a chance to
nee them tried, and beyond doubt there
will be ranchers around the stock pens
twice a day to see the demonstration
and the fun, if any of the cows object
to the unaccustomed treatment.
New Hospital at Chemawa.
Chemawa Plans and specifications
have been received at the Indian school
here for a new brick $16,000 hospital,
for which bids will be received and the
contract awarded September 13. The
building is to be supplied with the lat
est improved methods of heating and
ventilation, and will be equipped with
the beBt sanitary appliances. It will
be steam heated and electric lighted
The main building will be two etories,
80x33, and will have two wings, 31x24
In connection with the new hospital
the school management will continue
and extend the open air sanitarium
which it has been running since spring
with excellent results.
Oregon Flax Good.
Salem George erbeke, son ot one
of the wealthiest linen manufaturers of
Ghent, Belgium, and a member of the
firm of Morel & Verbeke, is in Salem to
make a scientific investigation into the
possibilities for the development of the
flax and linen industries of Oregon
He said: I have been able to ainve
at only one conclusion as a result of the
limited investigations which I have
made during my stay here, and that is
that Oregon certainly produces a very
high grade of flax, equal to any that I
have ever seen, and, in my judgment,
it is capable of being manufactured in
to the choicest of linen fabrics."
Burned Trees Have Value.
Albany Experienced lumbermen
state that activity on the part of mill
men will save much of the timber in
the burnt district up the North San
tiam river. The fire as it rushes
through th green timber burns those
parts of the trees which are loaded with
pitch, and leaves the wood bnt little
charred. All the limbs and foliage are
devoured, and the pitchy bark is burn
ed through, but the part that is valua
ble for lumber is injured but little.
This charred timber may be utilized
for milling purposes at any time within
four years after the fire as a rule.
State Will Profit.
Salem That the sale of the Oregon
Central wagoi. road lands to Minnesota
and North Dakota investors means
much to the settlement of Southeastern
Oregon is the belief of W. F. Dunlap,
of the state printing office, who was
formerly a newspaper man in North
Dakota. He bases his opinion on bis
knowledge of the work these men have
done in North Dakota in the way of
colonizing large tracts of land purchas
ed in that state.
Clackamas Farmers Are Pleased.
Oregon City Gottfried Moehnke, a
farmer at Shubel, reports a yield of 74
bushels per acre from a five-acre field
of oats. An exceptionally good yield
of wheat and oats, both in qnality and
quantity, is reported by Clackamas
county farmers as far as the harvest has
progressed. A yield of 70 bushelB of
oats per acre is also reported from the
farm of George Lazelle near New Era.
Cuts Heavy Crop of Oatt.
La Grande James Halley harvested
10 acres of oats last week, which will
average 80 bushels. The straw was so
heavy and thick that the binder could
cut only half a swath at a time, and it
took two days to cut the grain. This
should not be considered bad lor a
half-crop" year.
VALLEY VALUES AREfRISING.
Land Purchased Last Year Increases
About 28 Per Cent.
Salem That the big profits in Ore
gou real estate are not made in Port
land alone, or in city property alone
is indicated by an Investment made less
than a year ago by A. M. Ia rollette
a Mission bottom farmei. I.a Follette
bought a DO acre farm last fall at $02.50
an acre, paying all that his neighbors
thought the place worth. He bought
it more for the investment than for us,
for he already has all the farm land he
needs. A few days ago he was offered
$80 an acre for the same (arm, or an
increase of $17.60 an acre.
The total investment Wis $!i,(i25,
and the amount offered a year later was
$7,200, or an increase of $1,675, or
about 28 per cent. Mr. I.a Follette
thinks it will advance still further am
yield him a much larger prollt, so he
refused the offer. He thinks the build
ing of electric roads through the valley
will raise farm land values in the next
few years.
Physician to Indians.
Chemawa Dr. F. K. Slater, of Sa
lera, has been appointed physician for
the Omaha and Winnebago Indians of
Nebraska, and will leave for his post
soon. Dr. Slater was the physician at
the Chemawa Indian school for nearly
a year. He became interested in the
Indian work and requested a perma
nent appointment from the com mis
sioner of Indian affairs. Dr. Slater
gave excellent satisfaction at the Indian
school here in treating the diseases in
cident to Indians.
Nevada Capitalists Buying.
Lakeview Dr. W. II. II. Patterson,
a Keno, Nev , capitalist, and Mr. Norn
ardy, a Tonopah mineowuer, arrived
here reently and went to the Coyote
Hills strike. Both gentlemen are ex
tensive minenwners in the Tonopah
mining district. They have also mves
tigated the Pine creek mines, 15 miles
from I.akeview, and it is stated on good
authority that Dr Patterson paid $10,-
000 for a tenth interest in a group of
claims there.
Wheat Record at Westen.
Weston Weston claims the largest
crop threshed in Oregon, and perhaps
in the Northwest, in proportion to the
acreage seeded. J. M. Bannister had
exactly 5,642 sacks from 208 acred, one
mile west of town, an average of 63
bushels an acre, at 140 pounds to the
sack. The wheat is Dale Glory, which
has been grown to a considerable extent
around Helix but has just been intro
duced in the Weston country.
Coquille Mills Are Busy.
Coquille The sawmills in this vi
cinity are running overtime, which is
practically the first time they have rnn
even full time since the San Francisco
earthquake. Many of them would run
night and day if hands could be ob
tained. All kinds of laborers are
scarce, especially carpenters.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Club, 6768c; bluestem,
7071c; valley, 71c; red, 64(aH6c.
Oats No. 1 white, $22322.50; gray,
$20(2121.
Barley Feed, $20 per ton; brewing,
$22 60; rolled, $2324.
Rye $1.30 per cwt.
Corn Whole, $20; cracked, $27 per
ton.
Hay Valley timothy, No 1, $11
12.50 per ton; Eastern Oregon timothy,
$16; clover, $77.50 cheat, $6.50;
grain hay, $7; alfalfa, $10; vetch hay,
$707.50.
Fruits Apples, common, 5075c
per box; fancy, $l.zo(gz; apricots,
$1.25 1.35; grapes, $11.75 per crate;
peaches, $1(31.10; pears, $1.75, plums,
fancy, 5075c per box; common 60
75c; blackberries, 66c per pound;
crab apples, 75c per box.
Melons Cantaloupes, $1.75(2 per
crate; watermelons, 11KC per pound.
Vegetables Beans, 67c; cabbage,
l?42c per pound; celery. 85c$l per
dozen; corn, 1520c per dozen; cu
cumbers, 4060c per box; egg plant,
10c per pound; lettuce, head. 25c per
dozen; onions, 1012c per dozen;
peas, 45c; bell peppers, 12)l6c;
radiBhes, 1015c; per dozen; rhubarb,
22c per pound; spinach, 2 (3 3c per
pound; tomatoes, 60 00c per box;
parsley, 25c; squash, $11.25 per
crate; turnips, 90c$l per sack; 'car
rots, $11 .25 per Back; beets, $1.25
50 per sack.
Onions New, 14 Ql c per pound.
Potatoes Oregon Burbanks, 70 75c;
sweet potatoes, 44Jc per pound.
Putter Fancy creamery, 22J25c
per ponnd.
Eggs Oregon ranch, 222a per
dozen.
Poultry Average old hens, 13o per
pound; mixed chickens, 1213c;
springs, 13(314c, old roosters, ftfd)
10c; dressed chickens, 14016c; tur
keys, live, 1622c; turkeys, dressed,
choice, 20223c; geese, live, 810c;
ducks, ll13c.
Hops 1906 contracts, 18 20c;
1905, nominal; 1904, nominal.
Wool Eastern Oregon average best,
1519c per pound, according to shrink
age; valley, 2022n, according to fine
ness; mohair, choice, 2830o per
pound. s
Veal Dressed, 68o per pound.
Beef Dressed bulls, 3c per ponnd;
cows, lb4c country steers, 66c.
Mutton Dressed, fancy, 78o per
pound; ordinary, 66c; lambs, fancy,
88c.
Pork Dressed, 78$c per pound.
REVOLT GAINS HEADWAY.
Ruiwm Inaurcents Capture Another
Town From Government.
Havana, Aug. 24. Pino Guerrera,
the insurgent leader in I'lnar del Klo,
today followed up the capture of San
l.uis, by taking Han Juan de Marlines,
the terminus of the Western railroad,
and by threatening to wreck the rail
road and all Us property unless the
I'nmmn reascs forwarding troops for
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the government.
Alarmed by these Insurgent success
es, the uovernmeut has ordered from
1 - - - r,
an Ameilran arms manufacturing com
pany four rapid-lire guns and that
these pieces be manned by ex-iuembers
of the artillery branch of the American
army now here. If these guns prove
to be effective, four or more addition!
guns will be ordered, and it is expected
that experienced gunners will be pro
cured in the United Htaes to man them.
The United States has noi been asked
to do anything in the premises.
The subject of American intervention
is not much discussed here, and is re
uarded as a remote possibility, there
being general confidence that the gov
eminent w ill be able to restore order in
a short time.
The killing of the insurrectionary
leader, General Q.ientin Bandera, to
dav in an engagement between rural
suarda and a band of his followers is
regarded as dealing the insurrection i
heavy blow.
Public opinion appears to vary sc
cording to locality, from enthusiastic
adherence to the government to open
rebellion. In this city the general at
titude is one of loyalty, but there has
been nothing which could be fairly de
scribed as a general rising of the people
in defense of the government.
NOT ENOUGH MONEY FOR ALL
Deficiency In Appropriations for Ma
neuvers of State Troops.
Washington, Aug. 24. Altera month
of hard work, Assistant Secretary Oliv
er, of the War department, concluded
that he ha I llnally made a satisfactory
adjustment of the many difficulties in
apportioning the appropriation of $700,'
000 for pay of the militia at the in a
neuvers in different camps throughout
the country, but it appears that all i
not satislactory . In some cases more
state troops than had been given in the
schedule were sent into the ramps and
more expense was thus added. This
caused a deficit in the allotment of
funds, especially in the matter of pay
for the state tr.tops. The pay depart
merit of the army decided to pay the
troops as long as the funds lasted, those
who came last going unpaid. Another
adjustment may be made after the
camps have finished their work, as
some camps may not use all the money
allotted to them and the funds can be
used to make up the deficit elsewhere.
It is ponsible that congress will be 'ask
ed to make an appropriation to cover
the deficit and the state troops pain
next winter.
GET-RICH-QUICK FIRM OUT.
Postal Department Arrests Operators
of Fake Mexican Companies.
Chicago, Aug. 23. The operattions
of the Tabasco-Chiapas Trading A
Transportation company and the I.u
Me Ha Mills company, Mexican invest
ment concerns, with offices at 16-20
Kiver street, were stopped today by the
United States postal authorities. Hen
ry D. Bushnell, president, and I. B.
Miller, secretary and treasurer, were
arrested and held in bonds of $2,000
each.
It is alleged by the postal authorities
that the operations of Bushnell and
Miller, which have covered a period of
five years, have netted them $8,r)0,000
from innocent investors. The two com
panies were capitalized for $2,000,000
and according to their literature operat
ed large coffee plantations and owned
several lines of steamers. The postal
authorities declare that such is not the
ase, and that Miller and Bushnell
have been paying dividends to investors
from the money taken in for stock in
the concern.
To Educate Russian Children.
C A. T" A -. I a.. ni .
di. i eiersuurg, Aug. 24. With a
view to submitting to the next session
of the council of the empire and the
lower house of parliament a bill for
universal primary education, the cahb
inet, at a session held on Tuesday, de
cided that such a bill should be draft
ed by a special commission. The min
istry of public instruction submitted
statistics showing that there are in the
empire 12,736,000 children of school
age, of whom only 5,389,000 are receiv
ing primary education. There are less
than 90,000 primary schools in Kuseia.
Negotiates Treaty With Colombia.
Bogota, Colombia, Aug. 24. John
Barrett, United Kta'.es minister to Co
lombia, has left here for Guayaquil for
a conference Willi becretary Hoot on
the prop ised treaty with the United
States concerning Panama. The gov
eminent has received a proposition from
a Frnch syndicate for opening the
mouth of the Magdalena river. Eng
lish capitalist ol'frr to open Cartagena
hart or Koth projects are favorably
considered.
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Another Purchase of Silver.
Washington, ug. 24. The director
of the mint Wednesday purchased 100,.
000 ounces of silver at 67 cents an
ounce to be delivered at New Orleans.
The price paid last week was 06.62
cents.
REBELS ARE STRONO
All Western Cuba Said To lie In
Sympathy With Guerrera.
MANY RURAL GUARDS DESERTING
Government Forces Recapture One
Town Attack by Rebels on
Pinar Del Rio Epectod.
Havana, Aug. 25. Unofficial advices
received from the western part of Um
provinc e of Pinar del Kin are to the
effect that the Insurgent forces now
concentrating west of San Juan de M in
line, are fai more formidable ami hot
ter supplied for camping and a lung
and aggressive campaign than hail been
supposed.
A prominent resident of Havana
whose word Is beyond question, has
just returned from a three days' tour In
the vicinity of San l.uis ami San Juati
de Martinez. He Informed the Assoc i
ated Press that Pino (iuerrera'a follow
ing In Pinar del Klo Is now from l,.'.in)
to 2,000 men. He said the Idea of his
not having sufficient ammunition was
ridiculous, and that he Is abundantly
supplied with every possible necessity.
The behavior of his forces is excellent.
He said the insurrectionists had
eight mules loaded with dynamite and
that lately they had received supplies
from unknown sources. He positively
declared that fully a hundred mem
bers of the rural guard had 'deserted
and joined the insurrectionists since
the trouble IrVgan, and that practically
all Cubans in Western Cuba were sym
pathisers with the movement
Word hits been received here frin
Santiago that (ieneral Jesus Kahl, with
2,000 veterans, will come to Uih Yuelta
Abajo to help put down the insurrec
tion. This, luwever, is not continued.
The government's extra expenses
since August 19 have been $'.'70,000.
Aside from slight encounters in the
provinces of Havana and Hunt a Clara,
nothing of importance has transpired
here. The enlistment ol rural guards
and volunteers is going on very slowly,
in the provinces, hut in the city of
Havana enlistments are somewhat bet
ter. The city council has appropriated
$'0.000 for the support of the city
militia, of which there are two divis
ions, the interior and the exterior.
The government expects that the
Me liner Mexico, which will sail from
New York today, wil! bring eight
rapid-tire gnus, 10,000,000 cartridges
and 12,000 I.ee rifles.
The government force in the city of
Pinar del Klo consists of 250 artillery
men and 150 guards. The inhabitants
of the city of Pinar del R'o are re
ported to he loyal and it is said that
most, of them are armed and will assist
the troops In resisting an attak on the
part of the insurgents.
WHEN AMERICA MAY STEP IN.
Provisions of Piatt Amendment for
Keeping Peace in Cuba.
Wshington, Aug. 25. The Piatt
amendment, as the legislation which
defined the conditions on which the
United Ktates should withdraw from
Cuba and turn the island over to Uih
control of the Cuban people was known,
provided that a part of the new re
public's constitution should contain
certain provisions concerning the future
relations of the United Htste with
Cuba. The third of these iirovisions
was as follows:
"That the government of Cuba con
sents that the United States may inter
vene for the preservation of Cuban in
dependence, the maintenance of a gov
ernment adequate for the protection of
life, property and individual liberty
and for discharging the obligations
with respect to Cuba im nosed by the.
treaty of Paris on the United States to
be assumed and undertaken by the gov
ernment ot Cuba."
Date of Convention Postponed.
Salem, Or., Aug. 25.--Notice has
been Bent out that the date of the in
terstate convention on the subject of
election of senators by direct vote ot
the people has been changed from Sep
tember 6 to December 5. The conven
tion is to be held in Des Moines, la.
The purpose is to adopt a plan of pro
ceedure which shall result in two
thirds of the states of the Union de
manding that congress call a constitu
tional convention to draft an amend
ment providing for popular election of
United States senators.
Opposed to Joint State.
Tucson, Arizona, Aug. 25. The Re
publican party in Tucson and Pima
county, at the primary held today,
went on record as opposed to joint
statehood. In Tucson the anti-jointure
ticket received 402 votes against 2611
cast for jointure. In outside precincts
the result was similar. Great feeling
was exhibited between the opposirg
factions at the polls. There were many
challenges and several net fights before
the day closed.
San Francisco Gave First.,
Washington, Aug. 25. Ban Francisco
made the first American contribution
to the Valparaiso earthquuke sufferers.
A dispatch received by the State de
partment today from American Minis
ter Hicks, at Santiago, announced that
a donation of $10,000 had been received
from San Francisco,
V,