-URNISH TIMBER
MUST KEEP OFFICE HOURS.
Land Decision of Importance Rendered by
Secretary of Interior.
RUSH FOR LANDS
TRANS-MISSISSIPPI CONORESS
Convention Whose Object Is to Help the
W est Meets In St. Paul.
W O M A N 'S D R E S S R E F O R M . .
O h i o P h y s i c i a n H e a d s a C r u sa d e f o r
a S im p le G a r b .
jrt^on and Washington Fir for
Lewiston, Idaho, Ang. 22.— Word Rumors of Railroad to Coos Bay
I Dr. Clara W. Bruce, o f Cincinnati,
8t. Paul, Aug. 21.— The Trans-Misaii-
j O., has set out to reform woman’s
has been received from Washington
Panama Canal.
i sippi Conimmercial congress is now in | taste In the matter o f gowns. If she suc
Cause Excitement.
that the secretary of the interior has
j session here. President John Henry
ceeds, according to
reversed the commissioner's decision
h e r expeetationg,
Brnith of Balt Lake City, called the
in the case of Robert J. Little vs. John STATE SCHOOL LANDS ALL BOUGHT
there will
be
j
convention to order.
There are repre
W. Hradbury.
many persona in
sentatives present from
the entire
Coast Shipping will Also be Much
the land who will
This is the case in which it wae al Also Many Other Tracts Along Proposed
Western section of the country.
In
Hcnclittcd. Though Other Supplies
arise and call her
leged that Mr. Bradbury made and
Route Establishment o f Forest
|
outlining
the
work
of
the
congress
for
Mill Uo by Atlantic Koute.
blessed.
hied a timber and stone entry in the
Reserve Will help Prices.
” Wbat I propose
the present session Presient Bmith sai d :
local land office after the hour of clos-
lo do,” she says, In
"T h e object of the Trans-Miasiasippi
He« York. Aug. 25.— Referring to mg on the 18th day of last January,
Salem, Or., Aug. 21.— The eager
e x p l a i n i n g her
which was Saturday.
Monday morn
Congress is to crystulixe the opinions
be fact that the construction of the
scheme, “ la to in
ing S. J. McFarland offered scrip ap ness with which idle capital is seeking
of the Western country in regard to the
•anaiu* canal will necessitate the trans plication for the same land embraced
augurate a plain,
investment in property that promises to
matters of national legislation and to
lation of hundreds of cargoes of con- in Bradbury’s entry; the register of
g r a c ef u 1 gown,
advance in value is shown by the sales
IIS
CLAMA
SHUCK.
without trimmings.
tructiou material, food supplies for the local land office rejected the scrip of state school lands in Coos county j bring them before congress in such a
Bo Some women tell me they pay more
rkinen, etc., the Journal of Com- application as being in conflict with which have followed the announcement j way as to effect the greatest good.
the entry made by Bradbury. From
far as I know there is no particular for the trimmings o f their dresses than
lerce says:
this action McFarland took an appeal that a railroad w ill be built to Coos topic for discussion, other than what for the dresses themselves. Then when
Panama and Colon are foreign portB, to the commissioner, and filed affidavits
Bay.
Immediately after the report may be brought up in individual dele we adopt a gown we will stick to that
style and will, stop the foolish prac
nd there is nothing, therefore, to pre- that Bradbury’ s application was re- was published showing that the rail gations.
“ An effort will he made to bring tice o f throwing away good clothe* be
ent foreign shi|K>wners from conipet- ceived alter office hours.
road w ill probably ha constructed, about at this session a consideration of cause they happen to be a little out o f
The commissioner sustained the ac-
g at low rates for carrying material.
there was a rush for cheap land in that the difficulties of the West. There ie fashion.
. is said by a representative of the tion of the register.
"In fact, we propose to make our
vicinity.
Within a few days every now a mining-congress, a livestock con
snama canal interests that the mate-
Commissioner is Reversed.
acre of vacant school land within 35 gress, an irrigation congress, a good plain, simple gowns fashionable. W e
id required in the construction of the
An appeal was taken to the secretary miles and more of Coos Bay had been roads congress, ail operating in har are forming a league and y ill have
la(l will certainly exceed ♦10,000,000. of the interior, who now reverses
purchased,
Borne of the land may mony, but separately. The idea that badges something similar to those worn
addition to the food supplies. This the commissioner and holds that the
prove to be of no value as a means of better tesults could be obtained from a by the W. C. T. U. W e will let people
Material will consist very largely of "general circular of July 11, 189«
income, but in the desire to get what concentration of tnese, is becoming know that we are not bound down by
mient, granite, lumber and machinery. (page 2.18) under the head of registers !
there was of value men took all there more and more widespread, and it will the conventionalities that now oppress
lumber will undoubtedly come and receivers, directs that:
‘ They was to he had. The land cost them receive careful consideration at the
the human race. Membership lu the
irgely from Oregon and Washington, will bo in attendance at their offices,
but $1.25 per acre, so the loss could present session.”
league will be free, although each
j will not he a matter of much con- keeping the same open for the transac- j
Addresses of welcome were made by member will have to buy her own
not be great in any event. Buying has
rn to shipowners on the Atlantic tion of business from 9 a. m. till 4 p .m .
also been active in Curry county, and Mayor Bmith and Governor Van Bant, badge.
»an, as it will be carried hy the ships
" ‘ Applications for entry cannot be piactically all the vacant school land and the convention then took up the
“ When 1 first made my plans public
the Pacific, but in the case of cement, received hy the register or receiver out | has been taken.
work of oiganization.
I told how to make a nice, pretty, serv
me and machinery, the items will be of office hours nor elsewhere than at I
In anticipation of the creation of the
iceable gown for $1.25. That was o f
great importance, and communica- their office.'
JAILED FOR CONTEMPT.
large forest reserve in Eastern Oregon,
dimity, and 1 find that It Is possible to
08 have already been sent to the gov-
“ While there is no statute forbidding j all the schoi land in the area covered
rnaky quite a handsome dress for even
onient at Washington with a view of them so acting, there is no statute by the proposed reserve
has been Peter Power, of Northern Pacific Merger less. 1 think that I will he able to get
ling if some way cannot be decided authorizing them to act. The regula bought up. Borne of it is said to be
Fame, Detained In Ludlow Street.
up a gown that w on't cost more than
ion whereby this enormous carrying tions for their conduct not in contra timbered, and will be worth what it
New York, Aug. 21.— Peter Power, GO cents, and certainly not more than
vein mt can be confined to American vention of Btatute have all the force of
cost on this account.
That which is
law. If it is optional with local officers not valuable (or any other purpose will who is complainant in the case against 75 cents, and will be nice enough for
lips.
to receive or decline applications, there become of value the moment the re the Northern Pacific, and who Ued to anyone to wear.
"There would be many more happy
a nti - t r u s t r e s o l u t io n s .
is given opportunity for them to exer- I serve is created, for then it can be used Canada to escape a 70-dav sentence for
cine favoritism and partiality, which as reserve serin in the location of lieu contempt of court, lias returned to New marriages If men weren't afraid they
couldn’t afford the expense o f dress
Mississippi Congress on Record for might lead to grave mischiefs, the in lands.
York, accompanied by his counsel. He
ing their wives as expensively as they
jury of many, and give occasion for
More Stringent Laws.
General W. H. Odell, who returned immediately repaired to the Uniter! are required to do nowadays. Recent
grave scandals against the integrity of a few days ago fiom a trip through States marshal’ s office, where he was
gt. Paul, Aug. 25.— The Trans-Mies-
ly I have been Interviewing a lot of
the land department.”
Crook, Klamath, and Iaike counties, taken into custody and later on con
lippi congress, before adjournment,
The decision is an important one, says that practically all of the timber fined in the Ludlow street jail. Hia eligible youug bachelors on the subject.
ilthe lollowing resolutions tegard- in that it finally establishes the rule land in those counties and in Grant, counpel attempted to prevent the com The men I talked to make good sal
that applications for entry of land Malheur and Harney counties that has mitment of his client by producing an aries, from $18 to $28 and even $30
trosts:
a week, but even they don’t feel able
u market value lias already been taken. order from the referee of the Northern
"Whereas, the trust system has been cannot lie made out of office hourB.
to afford the expensive dresses that
General Odell says that very prosper Pacific case to attend the hearing to-
d is a menace to our Republican in-
they know their prospective brides
SOUTH AFRICAN BLACKS.
ous times are prevailing in the counties d a j, but the marshal refused to disobey
itutions; and,
named, and that there is every reason Judge Lacome’ g order to confine him have been accustomed to.
"Whereas, if allowed to continue to I
“ Many women, too, are In sympathy
n combinations in restraint of trade Upon Their Attitude Depends to a Oreat to expect a rapid development of that for contempt.
with my plan, and 1 have received
Extent
That
Country's
Future.
part
of
the
state
in
the
next
few
years.
tlieelimination of com petition, the j
many letters o f encouragement. They
SUBSTITUTE FOR COAL.
ilhof the entire country will he
London, Aug. 22.— Mail advices re The irrigation of arid lands and the
are coming to see the folly o f spend
titrated in the hands o f few; ami, ! ceived from Johannesburg indicate that draining of swamp lands will add to
ing all the money they can rake and
Whereai. the said combinations ara the negro problem is growing more the producing area thousands of acres New Yorkers Experimenting on Peat from
scrape together for something that does
the New Jersey Lowlands.
olitad to destroy the ambition of acute and is causing the authorities which are now almost valueless, but
them no practical good. Ill other wordg,
of the country, it being well infinite worry. To quote the words of which will then yield largo returns lor
New York, Aug. 21.— Suceesaful tests »her are renTTZlng the foolishness or
foremost African authori ouLLivwtion.
a th a t ,h o
w u ib itio u a n d Qliu oi
‘ have just been made of the turf or bog trying to put up a $10,000 front on a
of the you: g men of this country ties :
of the New Jersey lowlands around $1,000 Income. I’ in certain that If they
NEW SEAL ROOKERY.
remade it great, therefore be it
"O n the question of the natives de
j West New Y’ ork to ascertain whether could once he rid o f the worry to
“Resolved by this congress, that the pends the whole future of the new
it ran he used as a substitute for coal
which they subject themselves year In
lident of the United States lie urged colonies — whether the Boers will Lately Discovered by Captain McClellan as fuel for the winter season. Borne
and year out through this same folly
in Aleutian Islands.
Wall the power vested in his office loyally accept British rule or continue
large samples were dug up and taken
they would never return to I t"
tbs end that the growing power and in a state of sullen resentment.
It was found
Washington, Aug. 21.— Captain Shoe ; to a blacksmith shop.
nenoe of the trusts may be de- Among the immediate dangers native maker, of the revenue cuUer service, to burn readily on the forge after it
V I C T O R I A 'S T A C T .
attacks on Boers returning to their has received a report from Captain had once become dry.
oyed, and be it further
It turned to a
farms
and
attempts
of
the
natives
to
'Resolved, that if, in the wiedom of
Charles H. McClellan, commanding ruddy glow and seemed to hold its fire M a d e K i n a E d w a r d K n e e l a t N t>
p o le o n 's T o m b .
national congress, the laws now on assault white women are threatening the cutter Manning, recording the dis well.
serious
conflicts
between
Boers
and
There is an almost unlimited supply
statute books are insufficient to
covery of a new fur seal rookery on
A biography o f Marshal Canrobert
press this growing evil, that other blacks. Under the old regime the Bouldyer Island, in the Aleutian group. of this turf, or “ Jersey p e a t," as they has been published recently In Paris.
retribution
lor Lieutenant BerthofT went ashore with a are beginning to call it in the vicinity Not the least Interesting part o f the
e stringent and efficient laws be crude but simple
assaults on women was shooting on boat’ s crew. He found a rookery of of West New York.
dily enacted. ’ ’
work Is that which refers to the ex
sight.
Now, however, there ie no fur seal similar to those found on Pry-
traordinary popular demonstrations
OOOD
ROADS
CONVENTION.
I
legislation
on
the
subject
and
the
Kng-
RURAL DELIVERY.
byloff islands.
Bouldyer is between
that marked the state visit o f the late
lish authorities are hesitating to enact the Arctic sea and the Pacific ocean,
Queen Victoria to the French capital.
non In the Lead in Number of Routes, laws until all parties concerned can fully 3,500 miles from Ban Francisco, Arrangements Being Made to Hold One In When the English sovereign, with her
voice their opinions. The hesitancy to but etill within the United States
Portland Next October.
Now Having Forty-Six.
consort and heir, went to the iDvalldea
deal summarily with the natives is jurisdiction. Lieutenant BerthofT ap
Portland, Aug. 21.— At a meeting of to look upon the tomb o f Napoleon
I Washington, Aug. 26.— On Sept. 1,
causing both Boers and Africanders in proached the herd closely enough to
1rs wid he 48 rural free delivery te n s e iiritation and encourages the observe that none of the seala had been the chamber of commerce arrangements the scene was one which seems to have
; were made with James W. Abbott, spe greatly Impressed the Marshal, who
lites in operation in Oregon, 37 in blacks to truculent effrontery.
branded, and there was no sign that cial representative of the department of thus describes It:
"A nother phase of the problem is white men in search of seals had ever agriculture, to hold a good roods con
Bshington and 12 in Idaho. Eleven ap
"E verybody waa profoundly moved.
the unwillingness of the blacks to lore- been near the island.
The Manning vention ia this city sometime during Not a word was spoken. Each person
pâtions from Oregon have been ad-
go their lazv existence in the concen will continue searching to discover if the week ending Oct. 18. If possible,
rsely acted upon, while «6 applica
stood gazing at the coffin and wag lost
tration camps, where thousands were there are other rookeries in that local the good roads train will be brought to
nt *re now awaiting consideration.
In thought. Prince Alljert was In front
gathered during the war, and far more ity. The suggestion is made that these Portland, so that a practise! as well as
JTh're have been nine adverse reports
of me In the red uniform of a field
serious is the fact that a great number islands may be one of the rendezvous a theoretical demonstration of the best
■Washington, and 30 applications are
marshal; at his side stood the queen,
of blacks in the country have managed of the seal during their absence from methods of roadmaking can be illus-
p- awaiting consideration.
Idaho
and standing beside her was the Prince
to secure arms.
There is, therefore, PrybylofT islands.
The
discovery
is
!
trated
to
those
interested.
117 requests yet to be considered.
of Wales, dressed In his Highland
the anomalous situation of unarmed considered important by the officials
Jal free delivery will be inaugurated
costume, with his velvet coat, his
whites and armed blacks living in here, in view of the gradual decline of J
IOWA
COLLEGE
BURNED.
I'ntario, Or., on Oct. 1. Delay in
purse o f fur, and the kilt; at the right
proximity on outlying farms. Experi the fur seal in the Prybyloff islands
—
Vtlishing this route has been due to
was Princess Matbllde, whose fea
enced British colonials strongly favor
Old
Presbyterian
Institution
at
Fairfield
inability of the department to se-
tures, so pure, standing out In the
universal disarmament of the natives
DORR A WASHINGTON MAN.
Victim
of
the
Flames.
s consent for the discontinuance of
light o f torches, recalled too vividly
and prompt legislation making assaults
l^postortice at Arcadia, and the star
Ottumwa, Iowa, Ang. 21.— Fire of the features o f her uncle. A fter a
on women a capital offense.”
Manila Newspaper Publisher Found Guilty
s supplying the same.
unknown origin destroyed Parsons Col moment's pause o f reflection, of ab
of Sedition -L ived at Day ton.
lege at Fairfield, a Presbyterian insti solute silence, the queen with an ex
BOER
LEADERS
IN
HOLLAND
CHOLERA IN PHILIPPINES.
Dayton, Wash., Aug. 21.— Fred Dorr, tution founded in 1875.
The loss ia pression on her face o f severity, calm
told of in the press dispatches from $50,000; insurance half.
ness and meditation, turned to the
Kruger
Said
to
Have
Upbraided
Oenerals
Ith Authorities Attribute Its Spread to
Manila as being found guilty of sedi
I'rlnce of Wales, and, placing her
for Giving Up the M ar.
Eating of Raw Shellfish.
tion in connection with the publication
COAL FOR NOME.
hands on his shoulders, said:
‘Go
of
the
Manila
Freedom,
is
a
hative
of
Utrecht,
Holland,
Aug.
22.—
The
Washington, Aug. 25.— In their re-
down on your knees before the tom b
this city, where he spent his early Boston Company to Develop« an Immense
Boer
generals,
Botha,
Dewet
and
Dela-
7 ti the war department, the health
of the great Napoleon.’ It was a fine
boyhood as a clerk in his father’ s drug
Vein at Cape Lisbon.
orities of Manila attribute the j rey, accompanied by Dr. Leyds and
exhibition of keen political tact, as
He is a son of Dr. J. C. Dorr,
Messrs. Fischer, Wessels, Wolmarans store.
id of cholera largely to the eating
Tacoma, Aug. 21.— A company of well as o f fine human feeling on the
a pioneer of the Northwest and a gold
and
Reitz
and
others,
have
arrived
here
fraw shell fish.
The number of
hunter in California.
Yonng Dorr Boston men have secured control of a part o f the queen."
|hs in the archipelago has already from The Hague to visit ex-President
went to Alaska in 1888, spent three ; 45-foot vein of coal at Cape Lisbon,
I
Kruger
and
consult
with
him
on
the
A n E y e t o B u s in e s s .
id the ten thousand mark.
which will supply Nome and Behring
South African situation. Large crowds yeais there, was some time in Aus
The daughter o f an Illinois Congress
,
As man sea coast with fuel.
j warmly applauded the Boers. The spec tralia, and later in China.
The New Shamrock.
man was sitting on her father's knee
Rose Coghlan Badly Burned.
jond n, Aug. 25.— The Asscciated tators at the station sang the Boer na- ager of a Britiah coalyard, he was ex
t one. evening when she was a little girl,
pelled from Manila when the war broke
|
tional
anthem.
Helena, Mont., Ang. 2 1 .— Rose j She had a new little brother whom she
learns that, according to present
The conference lasted for three hours. out. because of expressed American Coghlan, the actress, was severley in
regarded with wonder, saya the Chi
Ingements, contracts for the bnild-
sentim»nt. Later he aided Dewey to
I
According
to
some
reports
it
was
rather
jured here because she mistook a bot cago Journal, as children do regard the
l o f Shamrock III will be signed
enter the harbor.
stormy.
At
the
end
of
an
hour
and
a
tle of carbolic acid for a face lotion. latest usurper before they have learned
1 week. The contract will provide
Jlte early launching of the next ' half the delegates withdrew, leaving Five Officers, Thirty Men, Many Chinese. She applied the acid to her lace in a to love him.
generals
Botha,
Dewet
and
Delarey,
to-
llenger for the America’ s cup, thus
"T o-d ay." said the Congressman, “ a
Vienna. Aug. 21.— A pontoon convey dark room, and barely escaped destroy
more time for toning than on- I aether with Mr. Krnger. Little is pub ing a detachment of infantry across ing her eyesight. Her face was badly man offered to give me a whole room
licly
known
as
to
what
look
place,
but
burned before she discovered her error. ful o f gold for little brother. Shall I
^ hy previous competitors.
it is understood that the generals found the Amur river near Pashkowa sank,
( sell him?”
and five officers, thirty men and seven
the
ex-president
of
the
Transvaal
in
Y. M. C. A. W orld's Congress.
Herman Admiral Resigns.
The child shook her head.
ty Chinese camp
followers
were
no
way
incline.!
to
acquiesce
in
British
Christiana, Aug. 21.— About 1,000
Aug. 25.— Adm iral von
“ But," said her father, “ think how
drowned.
dominion
in
South
Africa
andIstill
foreign delegates, representing 31 na many nice things a roomful o f gold
Itichs has resigned his post as chief
clinging
to
the
id
«
,
of
a
united
Month
tions, are here to attend the Y. M. C. would buy! Don't you think 1 had
P® of the navy. He has been sue-
Petroleum In Yucatan.
A. world’ s congress which opened to ; better let the man have him?”
N V>y Vice-Admiral Buresel. Ad- Africa under the Boer flag. Mr. Kruger
Mexico C ity, Ang. 21.— There is
is
even
said
to
have
bitterly
upbraided
day and will last until August 24. The
II vow Diedrichs is the officer who
"X o ,’ ’ answered the girl, thought
mnch excitement in the Peninsula of
the
generals
for
giving
up
Boer
inde
Bn ronmand ef the German eqoad-
Ynratan, where petroleum has been dis ' United States sent 38 official repre- fully, "let's keep him till he's older;
pendence
Later
in
the
day
the
gene
I sentativea.
l n Manila Bay at the tim e Dewey
I lie'll be worth more then."
covered.
rals returned to the Hague.
Operating against the Spaniards.
jug LIMBER i n d u s t r y w i l l
boom