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Newspaper Page TextHIDtPtHDll EHTERPRiSE MKOWN H4ILKV, ,'"h,U",l 1N D K 1' K S P F. N C K ...OKKUOS EXTENT OF DROUTH Most Prolonged Since the Bu reau's Organization, NO LAW AGAINST IT. KXCKPT WEST A1 SOUTHWEST Ha Jadge tenthermaa It. hi t'aa. Hot Springs, Ark., IV. 23.-T1.0 Corbett habeas corpus terminated Just m everybody iu Hot Spring thought It would. Governor Clarke was appar ently the first to discover that there wss'uo punitory prohibition to prise fighting or glove contests; that tho not of 1891 had not passed the house a amended by tho seustc: that instead of the bill as amended passing, as const!- NORTH PACIFIC NEWS Happenings of Interest In the Progressive Northwest. BKIKK KK TOUTS OK UTK KVKSTS When Kiwpllonitl rrerlullnlloa " Heea Reported. 1 lined to Very Hmall Washington. Oct 23. Reports re ceived at the weather bureau indicate that the present drouth is one of the severest, most prolonged and most geu rally known in the United States since the bureau's organisation. There axe a few places which show an ex-1 eption to Uie general rule, but in most of the country, unless perhaps the West and Southwest, there does not appear to have been a heavy rain for the past two mouths or more. Where there has been exceptional precipita- tiou, it has been counuea w am... areas. In mine parts of the country the drouth began iu the latter part of July, but in most sections it did not become markedly pronounced until in August. , The entire Atlantic coast, with a few execptious, such as Charleston. & C, and Augusta, Ga., shows a defici ency below the normal rainfall since the first of August, amounting in some instances to almost half the average precipitation. The Ohio and Missis sippi valleys reported similar condi tions, as has a part of the Pacific coast. The lake region has iarea oeuor mu other sections east of Mississippi. In pans of the Rocky mountains, as in Colorado, Wyoming. Utah and Nevada, there have been excessive rains dunug this period, and along the Pacific coast, from San Francisco to Olynipia, there were good rains in September, as there have been in places since in that sec tion. The greatest complaints come from West Virginia, Kentucky and Western Pennsylvania. Fortumtely, in some parts of the country the drouth did not set in until after the principal crops were matured, consequently the effect has not been so disastrous as if it begun earlier. In some place it has had a slight effect tro the planting of winter wheat, and complaints come from many quarters of the inconvenience of securing water for domestio and stock purposes, many small streams, stock ponds, springs and wiia havina become dry. Pastures 1 W. ininriul in TllHTlV fitateS. It UOT J " v " i nnt;uhla that there has been an increase of typhoid fever over the normal in many sections where drouth is severe. AN ACTIVE VOLCANO. Professor Alexander's Report Conllrmed by Two Elkhunters. Port Townsend, Wash., Oct 22. Further evidences of an active volcano in the Olympic mountains have been received, and serve to confirm the re port of Professor Alexander, of the Smithsonian institute. Two young men of this city, Ben Pettygrove and Charles Sally, are just from the Olym pic mountains, where they were hunt ing elk, and report that, after experi encing a series of slight earthquake shocks, covering a period of two weeks, flames and huge volumes of smoke were observed ascending from one of the smaller peaks. Flames would shoot spasmodically up for a few hundred feet and then dense volumes of black smoke would belch forth, winding up into the clear sky. These operations were repeated every ten minutes. Pet tygrove and Sally hurried back to town for a fresh supply of provisions, and will make an effort to locate the sup posed volcano. South of Port Town send last night the sky was clear, and volcanic phenomena were witnessed by dozens of people, who describe the eruptions of smoke in the same man ner as the two elkhunters. Many nav igators on the lower sound and straits ran the strange sight, and all be lieve it to be a small volcano. i i- ..-.-..l iv a viva voce vote, henoe was not legally passed. The decision of Chamvllor Leather ...... thia afternoon was in accordance with the views expressed by Governor Clarke, and as showu by tho house rec ord. The proof produced demonstrated the fact that a glove contest was to be fought a limited number of rouuds here, October 31. between Corbett and Fitasimmous. and that five-ounce gloves were to be used. Hy the num ber of experts put on the stand it was proved that soft-glove contests are not brutal affairs, and are never attended with any serious or harmful results when engaged in by traiued athletes. It is sometime the case that amateur boxers or unskilled meu injure each other iu glove contests, but never had such a thing occurred, iu the knowl edge of the witnesses, when engaged in by skilld boxers, such as Corbett and FiUaimmou. A MUDDLE IN 'FRISCO. Attorney Knight, of the Hoard of Health, Kefuse. to Slep no... San Francisco, Oct 2:1. When Gov ernor Budd appointed Dennis Spencer attorney for the board of health, Spen cer and his friends wre glad, but Geo. a l-;,a r.,t&A tit uive ud the office. Xk. UI" C ' ( ....a h..a uiiwut lwmi drawini? the salary HUH Aawo " - , of 13,000 a year. Spencer, through his attorneys, applied to tho attorney-general for permission to sue iu the peo Dle's name to oust Knight. A reply ivtul from the attorney general stating that in his opiuiou the act of the legislature amending section 33 of the political cone is iu i v... Tha attornev-ireneral says: tug vuiw. - " . . "While the language of this act is not as explicit as it mignt nave oevu, still it is sufficiently clear to show k.t o.w-h wait the intention of the leg islature. Your purpose, as suggested in your letter, of applying to the gov ernor for such leave in case of my re fusal to grant the permission, is entire ly agreeable to me. ououiu mo gui" nor m the law emoowers him to do, Ai-rtt. m to i?ive such leave, I will. r. inm. An aa." Srjencer'B attorneys hiivA ma ii the necessary demand of Oovernor Budd. and expect that he will give them the right to sue. Four New World's Record . rw 99. Four world's rec .j., tho mark net at the National 171 UD TV u vuw - Circuit races today. In the half-mile handicap, class B. C. M. Murphy rode tmm rhn wratch in 69 1-5 seconds, re- j; Raid's time of 1:00. P. J. Becker, of Denver, went an exhibition rum A mile, auad-paced, in o a-o. ir...n th nwird from 1:55. B. B. Pit-d wt a new mark in the half-mile i. r,uf(M. doinir it in 51 seconds, lrii7aT"l n tf John S. Johnson's time of n-Ki si.K for nnblic exhibition. Foster's not beina allowed. IJklxiu va. mj - t - nf piizhtv feet in the UiClTJ t.auB r ' " half mile. C. M. Murphy did the class B exhibition mue in i:oa a-o, lowm-u the nrofessional records. The Denver quad team went a half mile, unpaced, class n, in 01 Thn former record was 65 seconds. In the Cofil Region. Dubois, Pa., Oct 22. Great anxiety prevails tonight in the bituminous coal region, on acount of the strike situa tion. The labor leaders are not certain that the strike will be ordered, and if not it will be useless for a portion of the mines to remain idle. Dubois and Eeynoldsville miners have been idle for months. Beech Creek and Coal Green men decided yesterday to sus pend, but the whole affair hangs upon the decision of the Rochester & Pitts burg Coal & Iron Company's miners at Pnntxsutawney and the Berwind White miners in the Honesdale re gion. If the Berwind White miners quit work the strike will be general throughout the Beech Creek, Hones dale, Punxsutawney and Dubois fields. If they continue work it is the opinion that the strike will be a failure at the beginning. The Ofltclml Figure... Washington, Oct 22. The corrected official speed made by the Indiana on her trial trip last Friday has been re ported to Secretary Herbert It shows the speed to have been 15.647 knots per . Tho Mnb-aj-i for the construc tion of the ship called for a speed of fifteen knots. The Cramps reoeive a bonus of $25,000 under the contract, for each quarter-knot made above con tract requirements. ENGLAND AQQHtSSIVE. MOKE LAND 111:CISI0S Interior Department iae Action Upon Appeals. K BIMBKB WKKK AKKIKMKD A Mudget of Items Unera rrom All l'r of Orofu, Waeh Us'ou nd Idaho. Thn ministers iu Snokamt are having lively discuftsiou on socialism. A f.. titnliv talnva. block-laving on Pacific avenue iu Taoouia has beeu resumed. Tweiitv-one luiuber-ladeu vessels loft Grsv's harbor, Wash., duriug tho mouth of September. Ti,a lu.ii.x of thn roliof society ol Walla Wslla have secured after many years' labor the erection of homo ior the destitute and fallen. ti. ,,;ul .if tin, Hrowuiiiir. father and two sous, for the Grave orevk kill ing, which resulted in their acquittal, cost Josephine oouuty, ur., over 000. Currv county. Or , has outstanding warrants amouutiug with interest, to $34,496. There is il4U wish ou iiaun ami the uncollected taxes amount to 3.583. With the vear ending October, 18D5, Yamhill couuty had paid out for tho care of her indigent about 3,000. At thn (Vitobor term ol court last 133 was added to this. TKrt Pnllman. Wash., agricnltural college will hu be supplied with 100 cadet rides and a uelil piece. iu fantry companies have bwu formed, and an artillery battery win do wjiu-iswVHm. .T.taonh Vev. one of the sheep kings of Umatilla county, can neither read nor write, but has busiuoss ability, "o " amassed a fortune, owns lour nines oi Butter creek, and has paid f so.ouo ior range land. Homer Davenport, an Oregon boy, who has been at work in the art de partment of the San Francisco exam iner, has been seut by Editor Hearst to Nework to work ou Mr. Hearsts new purchase. During the fiscal year ending June !tn IuhY 7.833 acres of land were enter ed iu Yakima county uuder the home stead law and 1.U30 acres uuaer mo deceit land laws. During the same period 6,616 acres were homesteaded in Kittitas county. The Rev. Father Chianale, superm W.n.l. I Ar.. H-rs-lf "' the iirlii.n. v...i, .. 4t That th Vene- auelau qmtion is appnwiehiiis " 'ls stage, with msibilities of resistance by the KHith Ameiioau governiiient to llritish sggresHion, v. a ",'""' ." ai.hures made iu New Vrk oil the boat of authority. The government of Venesuel has movidod itself with modem armament aud arms, aud among other supplies has ordered ten improved Maxim guns from the British Ilrm nisi them. The onler was not V" through any linn, and the hnglisl' iHHiiufsetureni. it is supposed do not wsiit the destination of the gim i kuown. At the same lime the syndi cate of Unite.! Slates capitalists, whleli has stvun'd a .mvssioii iu the one suvlau gold lands claimed by Great i-i..l.. id triiitritiaf li trained foroe of Iilii-niM, !. i'" " - .. . ...i,..ra ami workmen lor ,... William M. Safford. oouiisel iiiu tmi.t. .. ......... i fvir the Orinoco Company, the Amerloau svudioate, made plain KMia.v i i" t'i.m assuuuHl by the tiriiuwo Company H" mil". , ri... .......ii.iiiv nniiMUM'S to WorK lis without delay. It will senu pnwpeetors along the line ol me. u aca mountains whoso f.K.thUI are sup i ... i... !.., w ith mild. That tr 'i. lo .. iii iho omiimiiy s concession and baa always l.oeiiniarkd so on the map. Hut now that them la a prospect of gold there Great Hntaiu .!.: fl.a aiTaiiLfiillll'lltS altl lH'illg vtnitiis ib. i raUM. n vn'uuit'i made to send out meu them to de-elop ( Ului Krat,u tho company's concession without any j,,,limlty WUii for lau i., in .tart a contniversy but to i . .,,i. ..1,1.1 rivitr SHsort the company's rights. Besides tho niiues there are other properties iu the concession awaiting developinont. "Gn at Britaiu refers to the Solioui bergh lino but the fact is she has gone beyond that This line is purely im aginary. Sir Kobert Schomliergh. visited' Venezuela in 140, aud, start ing at Point Barium merely drew a tine i..ni ,,n thn mini. The YeiH'Sue- Ian government has cHuielusivo evidence that he made 110 survey. "In 1850 Great Briatin asserted it had no intention to occupy or usurp the disputed territory. So matters went until 1886. in that year nou " a..Ma i..i.iimr 1 iioO.OOO a year were disoovered wtst of the Schombergh line between the Guiana and rarana rivem. Thev are known as the Barima goiu fields and are fifty or sixty miles west of the Sohombergh line. Nevertheless Oreit lirltaiu prompt ly stepiied in and claimed that terri tory aud so she has gone on niw, claiming laud wherever gold nas weu ,liinvr...l. The Orinoco Company uluimi thoan mild fields SS being iu its r tendent of the Catholio mission on the eouoession and proH.s to stand up ior TT..,mia Indian reservation, has been ......uf.,,l ti the missiou on the Flat tlWIDl.l vm - The Prlrle Flre. Topeka, Oct 22. During the past four days destructive prairie fires have swept over parts or lour counties m larce scooe of ITDDVCIU taauM - nnnii trsr ill Eastern Colorado. The fire, which has caused much damage, start a in h wHtern rjart of Finney conn ty, and spread to Greely county, burn ing over a strip of country four miles in width, over 200,000 acres in au. a t oal nf nrnin. broom corn, bush and fnrace were destroyed, together with barns, hay in the stacit ana oui buildings. in th northern Dart of Finney conn ty muoh damage was also done. In WinViita conntv anotner ure imw near Halcyon, and covered a territory .v,,xo miioa wiHn bv seven miles long. tliiW JJ a - Four houses were destroyed, and many haystacks and grain racks ruined. Th. Hnaniah Minister at Washington. Washington, Oct 22. Senor de Lome, Spanish minister, places no cre dence in reports that he is to be recall ed because of alleged dissatisfaction of his government work here. He so ex pressed himself to a reporter today when his attention was called to the matter. Reports of his possible recall, the minister was inclined to think, or iginated from those who believed the cause of the insurgents would be prompted thereby. There has not been, he declared, any dissatisfaction with his course by the political government, .. 1 .nnw avlrlanfiM but, on tne conirarjr, I of its approval. The HoreeleM Carriage Race. m,:nan Oct 22. The motocycle horseless carriage race from Chicago to Waukegan and return, ft distance of about 100 miles, will be contested Sat urday. November 2. From present in dications, there will be not less than forty starters in the great race. It is expected several motocycles will make the distance in less than six hours. Contestants must pass preliminary tests, which will be held October 29, 80 and 31, at which time all impracti cable vehicles will be debarred from the contest of November 2. Several Motocycles from France and Germany are entered in the race. 1 .a .u.u.uiinn Montana. He will UtMtU . VTV . . be succeeded at Umatilla by rather Neat, a priest only recently ordained. Judge Hanna.who sentenced Charles Fiester, the wife-murderer, to be hanged in Grant's Pass, Or., Novem ber 29 next, has only passed the death sentence once before, which was upon John Justus for killing his father, some years ago. Justus' sentence was commuted to life imprisonment and he was pardoned out in a few years. Will Langille, the Mount Hood guitle, says it takes two and a half days to make the circuit of the moun tain traveling below the snow level the claciers he has gone around it in nine and one-half hours. He finds it very pieamim, i.t ing away up near the snows all sum mer, and says the weather has been de lightful there of late. John Pickerell was held in Pendle- . n. in thn anin of tOOO to appear tuu, - - - before the United States grand jury at Portland. The charges aginst him are that he took from the postofflce a letter addressed to Mrs. Mary nust; opeiieu it and took out a draft which had been sent to her; forged the iudorsiug signa ture and appropriated the proceeds to his own use. T. P. Hopp, editor of the Bridgeport Standard, Wash., is something of a Pooh Bah in his baliwick. He runs a furniture store, agricultural implement establishment and nursery, and is open ing a commission honse. He is a no tary public, commissioner of the United States court, and loans money and furnishes all the home "ads" for the Standard himself. The Columbia National bank and the German-American Safe Deposit & Savings bank, of Tacoma, have begun suit in the superior court against the city of Tacoma to have the city de- .,;, ....nud The citv is certified with a deposit of 1 112,2 16 on the books of the first-named bann, ana witn tuo, 869 on the books of the second. The deposit was in the shape of warrants. i-..;!. Knllivnn made an order re kanlr iii an, nane where a leeal credi tor of the bank has a sufficient credit upon the books of the bank to offset or pay all notes now in the possession of the bank, and belonging to the credi tor, to charge the notes with interest to December 9, 1893, to the account of the creditor, and to cancel the notes and deliver them to the creditor. Washington's state fish warden, Crawford, arrested John Gade and Thomas Smith for illegally nsning in the Duwamish rier. The state law makes the taking of salmon between October 1 and November 15 in any manner from any of the streams emntvinir into the Sound a midde- itVi a rmnnltv of from f 50 to its perfectly dear title to them. MORE REFORM NEEDED. ... . Il...lftl nfi 1 11 . - - - l.ornled l trga. Wa. 1 11 ltm and Idaho. Washington, Oct. I Smith has atllniiod the decision mi oommisxioiior of the general in.... iu the ease or Airrwi n, 1 11 i---. a tract of land in the U Grande dta- i,,L The land omen held nat ""l- sou had abandoned the laud and the secretary approved his . . Iu the case ol ueorge against V. C. Griswold. for a usei .. the Oregon CH.V dleiriei, alllrma the division f the ooiiiiiiImIoii- er awarding tho land M Grlawol.l. The awrolnry has made several deci sion HtTeotttig land 111 Washington. Three decision are in thn Vancouver .listriet In the ease of Hubert Mitch ell. who app-aled from the eom.iii .inner' decision, tho secretary ha affirmed the decision f ooinuiU siouer. rejvting Mitohell' sppliealiou because it Hmlliete. with Iho -vh.sd land grant The division sgaln-l 1.1..1..1..1S tlatmt i also alllrmed, be- i. .mh. Hi, -la with llldelllllity aelee It. It pix'r ud which He aeros the Columbia river in Oregon. -...1 was lost to the sUile asuchind land. 1.. t.......iw litis was aelwliMl bv the lllllflllllK,. territory of Washington and the were. I...I.U that tt belong t' the Stilt 1.. '.i.u.i.llMif this esse he says that the Ititflnrv c if fmteriil leulslatlon In re ...t oninmoii m:hiHd n-M-rvsttons and grants. Is-k'lnnliig with tho ordt Mav ao. ud running ,., ,lui leaves no room for doubt that .....i..r ii..i law un it sI.h1, July 31, iw.i'i , 1... iiihaliitatila nrrm'iit and pro iNvti'v of the little fruelioual lownahlp 1 i...i. 1 ... ,.f I H7I acrM Ol lailtl in n.ii.ii county were entittixl to have selected, liatl and reserved 330 acre of land i.v fnr tho use of themselves and their siiiTesnr to maintain public school. The small amount of land .ruiu.ut is ou account of the small, fractional portion of the township whieh is cut ly the Columbia river. In thn rase of Chnrlew A. Hehulta uU.iiiMt Jom'Dh C. Morehead. in the mime district, the decision t in fvor ,,f s. liiilis. It was a timber culture entry. Three divisions are muilO in uie rni aitla l.ina itistrit't Arthur B. Palm er's application fir timtwr land entry Is reJivKHl. in tne ease 01 Joiin iimn ilton against Klmer Jewett, Hamil ton's application for a rtivinw is d ,.i.ul il,.. 1,1ml uoimr to Jewett III the case of Lawreuoe (Jaffney against Mai- achy ttiunoliy, tne appeal 01 hui-j is dismissed aud tho laud awarded to Ikinnolly. In the case of David Iodgnrwood against the Northern Pacific railroad, the secretary hohis that LsMlgerwood made entry erronoously upon land lie longing to the Northern Paoillo, snd that he will lie allowed to make sn other entry upon another tract Thi land is in the WaUtrvtllii land district In the case of William Coghlsil against Kdward J. Young for a timber claim in the North Yakima district, the decision of the cominisxloner is affirmed aud the laud awarded to Young. Sircretary Smith has decided i)uiti an interesting oast iu la'wlston, iduho, district, being that of Krauk C. Davis against Mrs. Guorgie Kraser. He ha reversed the dwision of the commis sioner and given Mrs. Kraser tho land. It appears that there was something of a race for the land Davis' father wanted the bind and held it until hi sou became of age. His son, the con testant, made his application Isifore the clerk of the oourt, but two day before this application was transmitted to tho office at liwistou Mrs. Kraser had made her application, and the lo cal officers rejected the application of Davis. The latter secured a favorable decision from the commissioner, but the sticretary gallantly stsd by the lady's claim. THE BICYCLE RIDERS. Opening llav nf th N'sllitnal I Irrull Hares at Itentrr. Denver, Oct. 19. Three thousand persons attended the opening day of the National circuit, Ia"kuu of Ameri can Wheelmen, races held ou tho Den ver Wheel Club track today. The track on which so many world's Junge nuuivau iusud u ...-v - ' ently in the superior court in Walla champion? I came down to fight Cor- --J . . -r r , 1 rt VA v... nnA oil t wunt is thn tilllM nlirl UTallu u,i t hf ,rl 7.1 11 1 .1. VY . niuvJIIIITt?, IC I lt" II, B. - " - ceiver'of the Walla Walla Havings place, without any bloody interference. TMK WAV THADC 00f Seaeunabla Altenllua I'aid t, .. nral t'HMdllluat, " ftl .'...I. t... M. .. now loia, sj.( (j ,i 'a U'lwklv Knvtnw ,.r T...' 1 The event of the week lrv ' nf III uelieral. thoiiuh hi Af ,1 - l"SlUlh uiarkeu Ihey are uot eiiixmri(tu,T' ........ a.lwMli.M III .I..,!.... I "' IW ..u.vl anil a.1 il.iru n ...ul u . ... ...... rMiiutu, a , shipments if gold were, fuj . prelitiuded. but the break In tbesi liifiitiMii1" (iia. nv uaursi iitiw. . the iroliiet may smiu lw ti,j J halting of the demand slid a yieiiiiiiH I'li.-a iu 111a n M trial market show Hut a reasonablii atteiitiou to natural .J lion, lias mrneii. The i l ton market has burn a coriieitxl for early delivery by Xt leans operator., a. 11 na Urea twjo, . not distant years l.y Idverimul isior. nouiiier. nets .nil .i with much unanimity, retrti. , buying largely at current quotas Until the inloe reiHiles far Ko,u,k L bring out llUrl uily ut Mils, there 1 possibility of inn is. itir oiner iiiervnniiia ... 1 ... ...... "fru are .mall ironi few 1 orK, Ut U 1, WiH'k. Iielng 10 per eout h-at ut y year, with import in thn wa of IK'tolvr t'ut 99 i.-r mui W. than Ust year. Iu Keptemliw, tjttJ were 01. a ami lor Utile innuthtMk. cent larger than Ust year. Wheat dt iH't go out frwlj, the attempt to advance prterwM d tiwed ly SU lliilileillaln tleeUli t,! AllsntlO eMitt. (lour liu-liuli J v. lawn 111 the past three Weeks l.liti r against 7.34H, 111 last )sr, md u big shipment from Kumis and t4 L from Argent ins show that the w.vUs not obligist to pay Atlantic! prim ( American wheat WVateru twu for the wivk were remurkstl; Ut( T TIIII llllll bushel, ami fur lU o,. week. I.Uilit.V? . Mgaiust 14,01 .! last year. 1 lie rush ol wlenl lu a, kut and the larueat Ulittmt of tmi n known at Miiiueapoli, sr. 0,4 r, deiiiv of a shortage lu the yirld, I thn nrioe ha rhaligeil ouly HM.li cent for the wvk. Corn i st runner, without clnu it son, for. while export for lb b wes'k. were Il'Jtl.stu imniirls, iu: jail."oa lust year, but sn lofigniiw fracttou of the rrl yield caa kt lavu dlslxxa'd of. FUNERAL OF FERRY, t har.es Ma.1. A.lut Mao rranrlsni's Saperlntendelit nf Street.. San Francisco, Oct 21. Thomas Ashworth. superintendent of streets. was today charged by the grand Jury with oorrnpt aud wimul misconuuei u office. The foreman of the grand jury handed the accusation to the district attorney late this afternoon. A copy has been served on Ashworth, and he will be cited to appear and defend him self in the superior court, wherein he will be tried by a jury. Should the accusation be sustained, the only course of procedure, according to tho statutes, will be to dismiss the official from office. A mass of evidence was presented to the jury in its investigation of the affairs of the street department. Con tractors, teamsteis, property-owners and inspectors were examined, and ser ious charges wore froely made. Of this mass of evidence, there came to the jury a conviction that the deputies of Ashworth had formed a ring of dis honest contractors, who used cheap material and prevented honest bidders from having a chance in street work. "Kits" Inesu't tike the Change. Corpus Christi, Tex., Oct 18. Mar tin Julian leaves here in the morning for New Orleans, whence he will go to Hot Springs, fully prepared to carry out Fitzsimmons' part of the agree ment with the Florida Athlotio Club. Both he and Fitzsimmons are muoh surprised at the statement in Tues day's papers of tho change in the or iginal agreement to a sparring exhi bition with soft gloves. He indignant ly denies that Fitzsimmons would en gage in any such exhibition. Fitz simmons said: "The proposed change of rules is a fake. Such a show would not be of any credit to either of us. They are just using us to let the Florida Athletic Club sell more tickets and the citi zens of Hot Springs draw a crowd to town. Snppose the referee called the fight alter .11m nan lannoa on me or 1 records were nuidii lust year was in had gotten in one of my chance blows, perfect condition, and U..- ..U .ulw. ui-.l.l lu. Iha 1.1.. , UD mer unii i.jiuiu, .ti,.. 1, ....... , m in thn meantime I shall train until such place and time are selected." Japan to ! aa Hhe I' leases. New York, Oct. 19. A special to tho Herald from St Petersburg snys: Rn.ui. at nreaent ia inclined to allow Japan a free hand in Cores in connec tion with the present outbreaks. Aa sign of pacific intentions, the governor of the Amoor, General Donkhovsky, has been granted leave of absence to come to St. Petersburg. The Halt Against the (lould Kstete. New York, Oct 21. The suit of the Soldiers' Orphan Home, 01 nt. Liouls, against Russell Sage, George J. Gould, . . M . 1 ...... . M . I . et al., executors of the estate of the the weather fa- viiruV.1., t. I! (?.,lliu ii, ,l.u .... fi lmic open, class A, made a sensatioual finish, winning from Ditl.ell by only a few inches. The main event, the one-mile championship, will tie run Saturday. Lee Hichurdson gave au excellent exhibition of trick riding. The Denver class B quad team, Stone, Swaubrough, Dicksou mid Coniboar, went a mile in 1:47 4-i, reducing the world's record from 1 :54. The first third was done in 0:!4 4-S, and tho two-thirds in 1:10. Harry Clark went against the one mile, unpaced, world's record of 3:10 flat, held by A. B. Hughes, of Denver. He made the dis tance in 2:05 1-6. The fractional time was: Third of a mile, 0:40 3-8; half, 1:00 1-6; two-thirds, 1:21 1-5. They Hhuuled "Vive la Krsiire Paris. Oct. 19. A disimteh on" foe aeh offense. The violations i late Jay Gould, wss discontinued in Journal from Metz, published nf thia law have become so numerous the supreme oourt by mutual agree- , says that while ths emperor and em . v, .tat. fish men t The suit was brought to recover ; press of Germany w ana . . gi . . . . j .ik. a.l l.ia nlnnrl at 11 OHO IIIUI thn e.thHr.l warden has startoa out on . , --- -- 1 1 " " a.l JnMv. nnt fr nnt O StOTl III 1 WUIUU. l r tioainj uitnu.uM them. (wrongfully diverted. to tho today. were on the way to some nersou nhnntnd a winriiiw Vina 1 V I, . .... .. , ...v m a lauuv. i Ssvsrsl arrvsu wars made. The li lwiimur uf Wa.hla.liui taM Seattle, ( k't 1 H. The f liuertl id n Governor Ferry t'k plsue Vly, ur-1 the suspliv. of the Mssonlo unkf the Sootliah 11 He. I'roiuiiieiil from sll over thn state gathered to t Inst honor over the grs uf Wttkii. ton's foremoat cinwui, snd ths s tre stteiided by eriwd of paf The funeral wrvice of the Epi. church w read at Trinity cbK3 slid at the cemetery tlie Hose ("roil tier of Keollish Hlte twmduoted lhtx: monic. Mt of tho .late offlcert 1 tended the funeral, a did many o( it piomvrstif Puget wound. To Is' nry pMllis'arer were: ! Giiveruor J. H. MofJrw, Ik. J. il Hoyt. SeuaU.r Wataoil C. Bqairr," Governor Kugeiio Ki-iti pie, Oilol N II. Owing, of Olympia; Hon. 11 ti Siruve, T. M heed. Olympia; J I Furth, Thomas Burke, M. & Df C.luuel (. tl. lUlier, Hon. K Greeue, Colonel II. K. liimt-, Ti 00m; M. H. Msdduek. J. ft l man, John Collins. tVanl the fnnlraet C'aneelM. Tam.ma, Wash., (kt 18. - Northeru I'scific Steamship Omp ha ssked the government to csnwl H ooiitrset with the company in W to carrying desirted Chine to Chi The rate allowed the wimpsiiy f n iuit the Chinese i very low, ud j is not very profitable. The uisin I sou why the company desire to w ' j leased from the contract is on of the rv.it ordrr of the tressnrj 0 piirtment that the steamship I1 leave all its Chinese tmsseiigert l r" j TowiiMHid on its way to Victoria. i ! return there afterward to take them' I their Journey. The procsution i 1 dered tnkeu t prevent tli oelenl" ! from Ivlng taken ashore at VictorK habeas corpus pnveedings and ruk' Hfter the ship has left, thereby W ing tho attempt to return mi. A PREACHER IN TROUBLE Alle.ed to Have t.ed fll 1 an llle.nl 1 urnuM. Denver. Oct. 17. Kev. Frank Hj Smith, late of the North-vnu U' list churoh, (.Cambridge, Mass-. 1 quite likely to be placed uuder srr and taken back to Boston "''" nf thn fttilMiiil 1111 thorities. He 8 1 in this city, a a candidate for the P t -a .-tlll torship of the First Uongn church, of which ltev. Mynm W- " was formerly iu charge. AowirmDK ,1... u,...a,,t In tlia lunula of the H ernnieiit oflicers, Kev. Mr. Smith charged with having written 1 :i...i 1 1 .-i., rnisrHi" iiiniiiMi (nmuii ennia w...-n a s.;.iiidiilouM nature, referring tain inemla rs of hiaCsmbridge0"11!; which IsHly, it is said, is divided 1 two factions, with one of which clergyman soeins to be very muon outs. While the warrant b not, been serve.1. it is stated that it wi" Kev. Mr. Smith denies in general the charges, though further tliaO he refuses to say a word. He Will o to Los Aneles. New YorV, Oct 23. The Be-. A. Ii. Wilson, pastor of th" . .u . . i...u.iu, Eniwr j -"lULll'ILI IT I, tfltl...n. in . . church, sunonnoed todsy that n" !acoeptl a call to the Methodist W coital church of Ltsi Angeles, CL ! Wilson has been promiueut in pal reform movements and temper work, and has attacked Tammany u from the pulpit very bitterly. i