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About The Eugene weekly guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1899-1904 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 10, 1901)
EUGERE WEEKLY GUARD. I CHINESE Rockhill Give* Some of the ClMFlklL EUGENE BUOI . rr«*rl«t*r*. OREGON. EVENTS (IF THE DAY A Comprehensive Review of th* Important Happening! of th* Past Week Presented in a Condensed torm Which I* Most Likely to Prove of Interest to Our Many Readers. NEWS OF THE STATE INDEMNITY. Details ol TEMS OF Washington, July 31.—Cable dis patches from Mr. Rockhill, the United State* special commissioner at Pekin, set out some of the de tail* of the financial arrangement re garding the indemnity, not hereto fore disclosed. He reports that the interest on the indemnity began to run July 1 of this year, and the pay ments will become due semi-annually, the first to lie met January 1 next. China will be allowed three years be fore making the first payment on ac count of the principal of the indem nity. The moneys, loth on account of the principal and interest, will 1« received by a financial committee lo cated at Shanghai, to be known as the “Committee on Encashment.” This will be composixi of the heads of foreign bank* at Shanghai, selected by th<- government» interested in the payment*. The committi-e is to dis tribute the fund* turned in l>y the Chinese government among the var ious ¡xiwi-r* in proixirtion to the in terest payments due them. The diplomatic court at Pekin favors the immediate ap|dication of the new tariff, the effei-t of which will be to al*>li*h the free list except a* to cereals. Mr. Ria-khill has Ix-en instructixl by the state department to urge the exemption from the new rate* of cargoes now afloat. He is also to try to secure a poat|M>nement of the application of the tariff until ini|M>rter* have had an cjijxii tunity to complete contracts. TO Bids te th* Finaneiel Arrangement. I INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS OF OREGON. Commercial and Financial Happenings of Im. potame A Brief Review of the Growth and Improvements of th* Many Industries Throughout Our Thriving Commonwealth — Latest Market Report Tlie town well in Lakeview has gone dry amt 1* to be dug deejier. Heavy timber fires are reported not more than 10 or 12 mile* from Baker City. A tine lot of 84 bucks from the l.add farm have Ix-en taken to Gil liam county for breeding puprose». I I e B-xith Kelly Lumlier Company will have 20 live room cottages built for its employes at Wendling, Lane county. Tie Modoc trilx- ha.* dwindled to 77 memlx-rs, mostly women and sick or diseased children. There are only 13 aide bodied warriors. Some Gilliam county cattle were d-. ing of a disease thought to lx- black ■ g. but veterinary diagnosis proved it to be cuiixed by eating rusty grass. Baker City is having lots of trouble because her new gravity water system i- not com|deted. The streets are six inches deep in dust and the sewerage i* bad. The air is now somewhat hazy down the Willamette valley, but not because ol forest tires. Numerous farmers and ranches* are clearing land and l-uri ♦ .g hrusli. The Mule Gulch, Grant county placers, owned bv Cannon A John son, have cleaned up $8,(*M) already this season, and are expected to dou ble the amount liefore snow flies this autumn. There are numerous parties out in the mountains -n Curry county, sev eral lx-ing from San Francisco. The Inw requires a non resident hunter to pay n $10 license for the privilege of limit ing. Sage hen* are said to be very nu- meroiis in Baker county. The postotlice at Emery, Crook county has been discontinued. OPEN be ' seaport tied RESERVATION. Advertised ler Survey el the Qninalt Regerve- Olmypia, Wash.. Aug 1.—Survey or General Kingsbury has received instructions from Commissioner Binger Hermann, at Washington, D. C., to advertise for bids for the sur vey of the Quinalt reservation in ( he- halis county. The reaervaiton, when surveyed, will I*- about 10 townshi,«, or lx*tween 225,41)0 and 250, (JOO acres, which is to lx; thrown open for settle ment, presumably in homesteads, after the survey is completed and ap proved. For several years various people have been working by petition with the federal government to have the reservation thrown open, but the order for its survey comes somewhat as a surprise, it not lx-ing expected so soon. On this reserve there are about 200 Indians, and each one of these will be alloted 80 acre, for a home stead. All the rest will be open for settlement through the United States land office at Olympia. It'Wil), in all probability, take sev eral years for the completion of the survey and its approval by the United States general land office at Washing ton. Bids will be advertised for at once, and let during the month of August, after which, according to Surveyor General Kingsbury’s inten tion, work will lx- rushed so that as much as ¡xissible will lie finished this summer. The minimum time in which the survey will be completed is placed at 18 months, with a maxi mum of three or four years. An attempt was made to assassinate the queen dowager of Portugal. Conferee-* on »tee-l »trike have come to an agreement on peace terms. Loral Roberts ha* been voted f 10*).- 000 for hi* services in South Africa, Another revolt ha» la-ell started against President Castro, of Yene- zuela. The names of drawn in one day i land lottery. An American an to Russia to kill th in Switzerland. The military affair* of Oregon and Washington will lie turned over to Gene ral Randall. Tin- strike* on Ixith side* of the continent continue with no prospect of an immediate settlement. The trans,x>rt Eglx-rt sailed from Seatttle for St. Michaels with 130 re cruits Hiid a cargo of gixxls for the military post there. PORTO RICAN TAX LAW. Five masked men held up a train near Chicago. They secured no treasure, although the express car Events Have Already Proven That It Will OFFICERS MU8T NOT TALK. carried aliout $50,000. Provide Ample Meins Captain Diaz Moreu, who com- Enjoined From Making Public Statements Re San Juan, Porto Rico, July 31.— mantled one of the Spanish warships 1 garding Schley Cast. Events have already proved that the in the battle off Santiago is i of the Washington, Aug. 1.—Secretary opinion that Schley was Ixith brave tax law, drawn up by the Icgislntor* of thin island, will provide ample and competent. Long has issued the following general mean* for the island’* requirement*. Boers got much the Is-tter of a hot This indicate* that Porto Rico is order: skirimsh near Manta. “All person* in the naval service more proiqx-rous than it was a couple are strictly enjoined to refrain from English House voted $10,000,(KM) of year* ago. Steady improvement for the Pacific cable. ha* Ix-en made since the day General any public statement concerning the subject matter of the court of inquiry The band of insurgents in Batangaa Mile* landed in Guanica, three years ago. The people are in better physi province alia Ixx-n captured. requested by Rear Admiral W. 8. cal condiiton, and work with more The corn lx-lt is getting less rain spirit. Schley.” Plantations that went un and another hot wave is predicted. Secretary Long stated that if com worked for a long time are beginning plaint against the language used in A new South African ¡xilicy is ex to show sign* of pro*|H-rity. There is the tiftls speeieffaton of the precept to ix-ctixl to follow the return of Lord more shipping in the harlMir, and the the Schley court of inquiry was offi Milner to Transvaal. signs generally indicate lietter condi The Nehalem Coal Company ha* cially made to him by Admiral Admiral Kimberly has asked to be tions. Nevertheless, scarcely an in filed articles of incorporation, Capi- Schley, he would give the matter con excused from t In of in stance can I m - sited where any consid tai, $150,000. sideration and the language might be quiry. Ill bealt is given ai his erable amount of American capita) has been invested in Porto Rican en The postoffice at Ophir, Curry modified. reason. terprises. Numerous promoters and county, has been discontinued, mail Santa capital ist *, who have visited the The pay dies MADE BRITISH RUN. Cruz, Philippine been island, have declared that this or that going to Wedderliurn. un- investment would bring gixsl returns, recovered, with Dry weather and horn flies are hav Boers Nearly Captured One of Their Field touched. and then gone away never to be heard ing an unfavorable effect on the dairy Guns—All Day FighL business in Curry county. Two nonunion teamsters in Sun from again. Frnneixeo fired into a Ixidy of strik Durban, Natal, Aug. 1. — Details Volunteer wheat is said to lx- yield ers, wounding one mini. The »hoot FOR NEW INAUGURAL DAY. ing 15 to 20 bushels to the acre in received here of what seemed at first er* were arrested. some part* of Wasco county. to be a skirmish between the Boers Although the drought ha* lieen Systematic Agitation to Be Begun to Change and a British column near Mauta, The first shipment of Marion broken in the southwest, the cffix-t It From March 4. county ¡H-acIi plums was recently sent July 28. show* that an all day tight has Ix-en to cause the price of all occurred, in which the British nar New York, July 30.—Official steps, from Salem to Puget sound points. prixlucts to raise. rowly csca|x-d the loss of a gun of the looking to a systematic agitation for S. H. Haggard, one of the best A general strike comprising the Sixty seventy field battery. Four a change of the date for the holding known attorneys ill Southern Oregon, memliers of the City Front Federa hundred B<x-rs nqx-atixlly rushed the of the presidential inauguration, have died suddenly at hi* home in Marsh tion, Han Francisco, has Ix-en order- British position. Two British offi been taken, says a special from Wash field. aged 62 year*. <*l. The strike affects 2(1,(MM) men. cers and five men were killed. ington. Resolutions adopted at the .y. Destructive wheat field tires are Two men in a row Ixuit upset in ths last inaugural committee) meeting straits mid were picked up and taken were laid («fore the district commis icported from near Pendleton. zKlxiut How Boers in the Field Get News. to Seattle by 11 steamer. They find sioners with a request for appropriate 210 ncres were burned and the losses Lonndon, Aug. 1.—How Boers in Ix-en in tile water 13 hour* One of action. It is understood the com will aggregate $2,(MM) or more. the field get news is explained by dis- them died from the effects. missioners are in favor of a date later The Bonanza mine, in the Sumpter pati-hes to the Daily Mail from I.ou- Empress Frederick is quite ill. than March 4, and will bring the district. Eastern Oregon, will make renco Marquez and Amsterdam, from Oklahoma land lottery ha* iqarned mutter to the attention of congress improvements which will double the which it ap|x-ar* that the Boer* main and the governors of the states and present output of $30,000 ¡x-r month. and 1,000 claims have Ix-en draw n tain a regular service of dispatch territories, 15 additional citizens of riders. Cable* are receievd and tiled The governor of Panay lias asked the country at large and a represen Portland Markets. at Lourenco Marquez. for aid in consequence of ravage* of tation of foremost resident* of Wash Wheat—Walla Walla, export value, locusts. ington. 55(rf56c ¡x-r bushel; bluestem, 57c; Chicago Machinists' Strike Is Over. A new truss will have to lx- placed This committee is to select the date valley, nominal. in the Brooklyn bridge to replace the I and procure, by congressional enact Chicago. Aug. 1 —Local officials of Flour—la-»t grades, $2 !)O(«3.4O ¡x-r broken one. ment, the change desired. barrel; graham, $2.60. the lix-al organization of machinists Four miners in Alaska were at- ()at*—$1.15(rt 1.20 |x-r cental. announced today that the strike in Chinese Throne Giv*s Instructions. tacked by native Indians and I li reo Barley—Fixxl, $16(416.50; brewing, Chicago was practcally over, and that shot to dealh. Pekin, July 31. — I.i Hung Chang. $16.50(4 17 ¡x-r ton. the nine hour day, so far as this city Millstufl*—Bran, $27 |x-r ton; mid China will lx- allowed three years Prince Ching and Kun Yang, resident was concerned, has been firmly estab to make the first payment on tlia member* of the regency Ixiard, have dlings, $21 50, short*. $20; chop, $16. lished. Sev cnty-neven firms, out of Hay — Timothy, $11(413; clover, received from I he throne a long com war indemnity. $7(1*9 50; Oregon wild hay, $5(46 ¡x-r a total of 95, have conceded the de The yacht* Columbia and Consti munication laying down general in mand* of the union, while 18 firms, ton. junction* as to reform, honesty of tution racial for the Astoria cup, the Butter—Fancy creamery, 17 ,s<4 20c ; some of which have not resumed administration and the desirability former winning. of imitating all mcritorou* features dairy, 14<rf 15c l4 ; store, ll(412c l*'r operations, are still standing out. The officials say 1.500 men have re The anniversary of the death of of the institutions of Japan and pound. turned to work under union condi King Humlx-rt was celebrated Western nat ion*. Egg*—17(4 17'»e per dozen. throughiit Italy. Clitx-se—Full cream, twin.*, 11«* tions. leaving about 500 still lighting ll'4c: Young America, 12(412,1c ¡«-r the manufacturers. American Postal Service in China. Anarchists of Pateraon, N. J , cele |x>uiid. brated the anniversary of the Washington, July 31.—The |x>st- Brunswick it Port Townsend. Poultry—Chickens, mixixl, $3 (M)<4 of King Humlx-rt. master general lias issued an order 4 75; liens, $3 75(44.75; dressed, 10(4 formally placing the American ¡xixtul Port Townsend, Wash., Aug. 1.— The Quiualt riser vatu n, in Wash- ington, is to lx- surveyed and tlirown service in China <.n tin- same basis a* lie ¡x-r ¡xiund; springs, $2.50(44.00 The steam schooner Brunswick ar before the outbreak. The practical per dozen ; ducks, $3 for old; $2 50 rived last evening, 18 days from Nome o,x-n for settlement. operation of the military postal ser (.r3 50 foi young; geese, $l«(4 50 ¡x-r via Dutch Harbor, having in tow the Salmon are unsalable at Puget vice ceasd some time ago, and the dozen ; tuikeys, live. 8(410c; dressed, sound fisheries, having Ixx-n offered disabhxl steamer Ruth. The Bruns- postal attaches have either returned 10(4 12 vte ¡x-r |x>und. a* low as 1 cent each. Mutton — Lanil-s, 3vac, gross; wick brought down 27 passenger*. here or to other ¡Mists. dress«!, 6(<t7c ¡x-r ¡xnind; slux-p, The voyage was made without inci King Edward baa conferred the de $3 25. gross; dressed, 6(46^0 ¡x-r lb. dent, the weather being favorable gree of the royal red cross ii|xm an Heavy Rem end Wind Storm. Hog* — Gross, heavy, $5.75(46; during the entire run down. American missionary in China Fargo, N. D., July 31.—A heavy light. $4.75(45; dressed, 6lj(47c ¡x-r 'nu- Draymen’» Assm-iation,* of rain and wind storm prevailed this ¡xnind. An Alleged Gigantic Swindle. San Francisco, claim* to lx- making afternoon over a good |>art of the Veal—Small. 8(41K-; large, 6^ Chicago, Aug. 1. — George H headway against their striking team state. Great* damage is rv|x>rted at <47 4c |x-r ¡xiund. ster». B< ef—Gros* top steers. $3.50(44.00. I*hilli|>s, the corn king, today report Tcp|«n, west of Fargo. Wire* were con* and heifers, $3 2-5«i 3.50; dressed ed to the postal authorities hi* discov A large numlx-r of horst* in Chi down for some hours, and crops in ery of an alleged attempt at a gigan cago are »uffering from the grip, and the path of the storm, which was lxx-f, 6 4(47 4c ¡wr pound. Hop*—12(414e per pound. tic swindle. The country, Mr. Phil the disease threaten* to Ixx-onie epi several miles wide, were destroyed \\ .x>l —- \ ilh-y, 11(4 134c; Eastern lips told the inspector, has been deinic In the R<xl liver valley, rain fell from Oregon 8 1 12 4>' I mohair, 20,a 21c ¡«r tbxxLil with circulars emanating from German flag was insulted by Co the national boundary line all the pound. New York, asking for subscriptions Around lombian authorities, who held a ship way down the state line. Potat-x---- $1.00(4 1.25 (x*r sack ;new to a $2,<MM),(MM) fictitious ¡tool for a while they search«! her for a German Fargo and over in Minnesota, crops ¡xitatix-s, 1 4® l’*’r pound. deal in Septemlxvr corn. were damaged subject. Ad an estate valued at Twenty years ago eotimated at $20 Fatkage at Money Dise-vpeers All. r i* to build the larg;e»t stock yard* in the world on an island in the Allegheny river near Pittsburg. 1». The laxly of l«e W mg. a Chinaman murdered by higlibim 1er» at San June. Cal., was boiled in an Iron ea Id ram tn order to obtain the 16 bullet* fired into the man. to Is- il*ixl al the trial. Chicago, July 31.—A sack of 1 l MM) silver dollar, has mysterious V dis- appeared from the Commercial Na tional Bank. This is the second strange disa|qxar*nce of a package of money In-long mg to this Ixsnk within a year. Ifetectiveo are »till looking for a bundle of $20,<MM) in bills ship|n*l by the lx.uk with the Adams Express ('omtxsny, in August last W hen the ¡suksge was openeii at it* de.tmati- ti, it Contained only «lipping* of r Holland lias 10, l(M> windmills, each Mrs. Nation Pardoned of which drains on an average of 310 Topeka, Kan., Aug. 1.—Mrs. Car acre* of land. rie Nation, who is serving a sentence Capt. V F. Luc**, the discoverer in the county jail here for joint of oil ill Beaumont, Tex who is said smashing, was today pardoned by to I-. worth $40,(MX),000, was practical Governor Stanley. She would not at first accept the ¡mrdon, ('»'cause the ly penniless a year ago. tine ami cost* were not remitted, but It 1* re,x>rt<xl in the Jacksonville, afterward decided to do SO. The Fla., |Mt|x-r* that a eom|xvny at St. county commissioner* will allow her Cloud, that state, has succeeded in to pay the tine and coot*, amounting making excellent ¡taper from the to $150, in installments of $5 a leaves of the ¡xslmetto. month. A. firm at Dayton, O., sued the Insurgents Captured Metal Poliaher*' union for $25 (MM) daman's on account of a strike. Manila. Aug. 1.—Thirty-four in A conference waa held at Rome to surgent*. a majority of them armed devise means of changing the pro- with rifle’ have l«en captured by th* S|Miii»h character of the priesthood First cavalry in Batangaa province in American colonies. The insular government has saved The tariff on automobile» imported $25.(MM) by the passage of an act vir into the Unites! State* is *0 heavy that tually declaring the stone quarires at an American syndicate is reported to Marivrles, in the Batman province, lx- negotiating for the purchase of the public domain, ami authorizing the ¡«stent right* of a celebrated firm of utilising of t he stone in the h«rtx>r French motor vehicle builders, with •, -vementa. A Spanish v v i- w ot <-»t it Ii«hiiig a factory in thia alleged to have established title u> the quarries. I country. I up PROTOCOL FINÎ sh ÈÎ TRAIN WAS HELD UP. Five Masked Me* Stopped Paueagtr Near Chicago-Felled to Find Treasure ALL WATER-FRONT WORKERS IN SAN FRANCISCO QUIT. It Is • Great Struggi* Nr L'aio" Pria* pl«* Between th* Employers' Association and th* Unions—Over 25.000 Men Arc Now Out. and Not a Vessel Can Be Loaded or Moved. San Franciaco, Aug. 1.—The labor trouble in this city reached a crisis yesterday, and as a result maritime traffic and labor along shore are at a standstill and industry is almost en tirely paralyzed. The order for a general walkout of the City Front Federation was made effective this morning. The federa tion comprises 14 unions and organiz ation», with a full niemliership of about 15,000. Three thousand of these men are employed at sea or in other cities, and the strike order does not apply to them until they return to San Francisco. Twelve thousand men obeyed the order today. These unions which have just out, with the others already out make a total of over 25,000 union workingmen who have *tojq«d labor since the middle of May. The following resolution was adopt ed by the federation. “The full membership of the City Front Federation refuses to work at the docks of San Francisco, Oakland, Port Costa and Mission Rock. The steamers Bonita and Walla Walla, with mail and passengers, now in the stream, will be allowed to go to sea.” When the news of the action of the federation was sent to the various headquartres of the unions, it was greeted with cheers. When the order to walk out went into effect, all the big shipping com panies, with one exception, were left without a union man. By a »¡x-cial agreement entered into some time ago between the Pacific Coast Steam ship Company and the Firemen’s union, firemen remained on the ves sels of that corporation, Three coast- ing steamers, a ship and a schooner were the only vessels that went to eea. Union Principl* at Stake. It is claimd by the officers of all the organizations involved that the strike is not purely an expression of sympathy with the union teamsters or any other body of workers who are in dispute with their employers, but is a taking up of the gauntlet thrown down by the Employers’ Association. In other words, the City Front Feder ation is determind to defend the principle of unionism which the asso ciated employers have announced their intention to crush out. Both sides seem determined to carry the tight on, and all efforts on the part of the mayor and others to bring alxsut a conciliatory settlement have thus far proved unavailing. It is reported authoritatively that seve ral of the larger wholesale houses will close down until the strike is settled. Members of the Employres’ Associa tion stated that they have fully con sidered the cost of the strike and are prepared to meet it. The steamship managers will hold a meeting today to consider their course. They are not memlx-rs of the Employers’ Asso ciation, but will act in harmony with it. They express the opinion that they will lie able to move ocean going vessel.*, but will not discuss their plans. EDICT OF THE EMPEROR. Chinese Foreign Office Is to Be Reorganized and Advanced in Rank. Pekin, Aug. 1.—The edict of the emperor providing for the reorganiz ation of the Chinese foreign office has been received here. Its tone and sulmtance satisfy the ministes of the powers. The edict coincides with their demands in the matter, fofnm- lated by the United States special commissioner, Mr. Rockhill, as a condition of peace. The diet de ¿lares that foreign affairs will here after lie the most important business of the government, gives the foreign office precedence over the six old Ixiarals that previously outranked it. and provides for the reception of the minister* in the hall which here tofore has been entered by only near relatives of the emperor. It also provides for the entertainment of the ministers by the emperor at occasional banquet*. The German minister, Dr. Muinin von Schwarzenstein, is engaged in drafting a protocol providing for the punishment of Chinamen guilty of participating in the Boxer movement. A feature of this is that the numlx-r of culprits has dwindled from 160 men originally named to 54. This i* due to the fact that in the majority of the cases it has been found impos sible to prove the guilt of the accused. Affairs ef Cemmission Wound L>. Paris, Aug. 1. — Benjamin. D. Woodward, assistant commissioner of the United States at the Paris ex position has wound up the affairs of the commission and sails for New York from Cherlxvtirg Saturday on the American liner St Louis Mr. Woodward was received in fan well audience tixlay by President Loubet. who referred feelin Igy to the splendid part taken by the United States in the Pari* exposition. Empress Fredrick Seriously IIL Hamburg. Aug. 1 — • At _ a late hour tonight the condition of t~he do ........... - -owagi-r om press was «-¡xvrted to be very ser- ioua. I ^.n^|«*ror William i* returning from his Norwegian cruise, and will arrive here in three day. FOREIGN MINISTERS AT Chicago, Aug. 2.—The Baltimore A Ohio passenger train from the East, which was due to arrive at the Grand Cintral station, Chicago, at 9 o’clock last night, was held up by five masked men at 8 o’clock last night, between Edgemore and Grand Calumet Heights. Ind., 31 mile* out of 1 hicago. One of the mail cars, which contained no money, waa dy namited and wrecked. The attempt at robb.ry was made after the two mail car* had Ix-en detached from the train and run a quarter of a mile ahead. The failure of the robbers to make a rich haul was due to the fact that the express car, which con tained the train’s treasure, waa in an unusual place. After wrecking the mail car and obtaining no booty the men disap, x-ared in the darkness without attempting to rectify their mistake. The only loot they carried away with them as a result of their adventure was the gold watch of the engineer. The train was the New York and Washington vestibule lim ited. Most of the trainmen were shot at and had narrow escapes from bul lets. No person was injurixl, either by firearms or dynamite. REWARD FOR LORD ROBERT8. English House of Lords Votes Him * Snug Fortune for Work in South Africa. London, Aug. 2—In the house of commons tixlay, proposing a resol tp tion granting Field Marshal Lord Roberts £100,000 for his services in South Africa, J. Balfour, the govern ment leader, in the course of hi» eu logy of the field marshal, »aid that there was no doubt that but for Lord Rolierts’ daring and strategy, and the rapidity with which his plans were carried out, Kimberly and Mafeking would have fallen, 11,000 British would have been starved into submis sion at Ladysmith, and there would have been a general rising of disloy alists in South Africa. The Liberal leader, Sir Henry Camplx-ll-Banner- man, concurred in the motion. Dillon, Irish Nationalist, John He de- strongly opposed the vote. dared Lord Rolx-rts had shown the greatest inhumanity in South Africa, and said he had employed barbarous methods and had proved himself a dismal failure. Mr. Labouchere, Radical, and Mr. Kier-Hardy, Social ist and Independent Labor, also strongly opposed the measure. Swift MacNeil, Irish Nationalist, said he considered Lord Roberts’ operations were conducted with a maximum of cruelty and a minimum of humanity, and that his farewell speech at Caj« Town was horrible hypocrisy and blasphemy. After further debate Mr. Balfour moved the closure, which was carried. The resolution was adopted by a vote of 281 to 73. GENERAL WOOD ON CUBA. Me Says the Americans Can Settle Up and Get Out Within Eight Months. New York, Aug. 2.—General Leon ard Wood, military governor of Cuba, who is now on board the dispatch Ixiat Kenawha preparing for a cruise along the const of New England, said today, in discussing Cuban affairs: “Cuba is a totally undeveloped island, and has a great future before it. Yellow fever, in another year, will cease to lx- epidemic. We have not had a single ease of yellow fever in Havana this summer, and none in Eastern Cuba for two years ¡last. Cuba’s resources require time for de velopment. The last enormous sugar crop was raised on 8 per cent of the entire sugar producing lands Only this small percentage is under culti vation. “We have $l,5(M),000 in our reserve fund, and can pay all our debts and get out of Cuba within the next eight months. We have established 3,600 nourishing schools. Two years ago we were obliged to provide alxmt 100 orphan asylums to protect the desti tute children. Since then we have alxvlished 60. and expect to be able to close more la-fore we retire from the management of Cuban affairs. Our health compares favorably with that of the traxqis in this country, showing that the island is healthy.” BATTLE WITH FILIPINOS. Americans Killed Seven Rebels and look 13 Prisoners. ■Manila, Aug. 2—Lieutenant Croft, of the Nineteenth infantry, with a mountixl detachment of Cebu scouts, has had an encounter with 60 insur gent* Seven of the rebels were killed and 13 taken prisoner». Of Lieuten- tant Croft’s force, two privates were slightly wounded. 1 he Philippine commission ha* passed the Manila civil charter, which w ill go into effect immediately’ The tax on real property has Ix-en amended, it lx-ing fixed at 1 ¡x-r cent for the present, and 2 ¡«r cent after 1!M'2. Tomorrow all the military cable and telegraph lines will be opened for com mercial use. All Questians Will Be Day. Unless Som. ** O umm Troop. Return Te th. Capá., Au^ J ’ the Allied Troops Deport. Pekin, Aug. 5.—The protocol mittee of the ministers of the *' have virtually finished the drJt**" submitted the same for the other ministers. All will be signed in the course days, unless there should be *’ agreement as to the phraseohZ sembhng the discussion thTt over the word “irrevocable” i/?!* early stages of the ne.otiati ” Should such a hitch occur ' * mg may be indefinitely ¡xist,^'1"' Sanctianed by Fareign Mmaura ?~A diw^ ceived here today from Pekin Myith, foreign ministers have sanction^ the marching in of a division , 3,000 Chinese troop, to . cX« ated a few li from Pekin about Au™ 8, prejiaratory to the evaeimtionr the Chinese capital by the .11,L troops on August 15. ’’ German Squadron From Chin*. Cadiz, Aug. 5.-The German ron from China arrived here t.*l»v Rear Admiral Oeissler and hi* cam tains repaired on board the of Prince Henry of Prussio. Prim-. Henry, in the name of Emperw William, warmly welcomed thew. turning officers in a brief speech The squadron of Rear Admiral Geisafer and the one commanded by pri,l(„ Henry of Prussia, which arrived sou days ago, will remain here for sev eral days. British Evacuation of Pekin- London, Aug. 5. — The un(jer secretary of the foreign office, Uni Cranbourne, in the house of com- 1110ns today, announced that the offi. cial date fixed for the evacuation of Pekin by the British tr<x>|i* mu August 15, subject to a few days’ eS. tension, if necessary. The evacua tion of the other portions of Chins depended on circumstance*. LOOKING FOR WAY OUT. San Francisco Employers end Labor Lndtn Confer—Strike May Be Called Off. San Francisco, Aug. 5.—Confer ences have been held today with 1 view of bringing the pending loc«l strikes lu a close. While nogppre- ciable result has been gained, Navor Phelan, who is laboring hard to bring about an adjustment, expresses con fidence that the controversy will end witbin a week. Labor leaders and prominent merchants are alike Inqie- ful that tomorrow at the latest will see peace restored, and the striking workmen will return to their former employment. Mayor Phelan has in his poaMwion a letter from the City Front Federa tion asking for more light upon feat ures of the terms of ¡a-ace upon which the employers insist. ' letter This will be laid before the Employers' Association and numerous confer- dices held, Whatever decision is reached will not directly affect the striking iron workers, who are not included in the City Front Feder»- tion of unions. The new feature* of the day in volved Oriental labor. The Japanes* Labor Union voluntarily called upon Japanese employed on the water front to stand in with the strikers, and the Chinese crew of the steamer Coptic was prohibited from working ashore by the Federal authorities, in pursuance of the exclusion act. In response to a protest by lalxir leaders that the Chinese crew of the Coptic was doing work ashore, Chief Chinese Inspecotr Dunn received instructions from Assistant Secretary Taylor and Commissioner Powderly to order the crew back to the Coptic and to prevent and further infrac tions of the law. Eight or nine vessel* were working on the water front today, ail increase over yesterday. At the Pacific mail dock the remainder of the freight and baggage was placed aboard the Coptic, and she left on schedule time. Vermont Will Not Be Destroyed- New York, Aug. 5.—It is stated1st the Brooklyn navy yard that the ide* of destroiyng the old frigate Vermont which for the past 40 yeais ha* doo* duty there as a receiving and training »hip, ha* been abandoned. All that is of value on the vessel will fe t*- moved and the hull preserved*** relic. Just what disposition »w made of the »hip will I* derided by the authorities at Washington * present she is infested with ’*ti’ bugs and fleas, and is believe» contain micro!«*. Baldwin Arctic Exploring Partv. Nicaragua Friendly to America Vardo, Norway, Aug. 2.—The Arctic exploring ship America, with Evelyn Baldwin, leader of the Bald win Zeigler i-x|xxlition on board has saile.| from here. There were 426 dog* and 16 ¡«niea almard. The ves sel* course was toward Cape Flora when- Mr. Baldwin expects to join the Irithjof and Belgica. the other two vessels of the expedition, which left several days ago. Mr Baldwin intend* to push as far north as possible. Managua, Nicaragua. Aug •>.—TJ* congress of Nicaragua aaariub^ ** night, when President Zelavs nsJ* message advocating the Monroe <* trine, welcoming the assistance of1 United States against European onization in South America. *B® ting forth that Nicaragua is *nI1 for the construction of the N:c*rMu* canal by tne United State». Revolution in Venezuela. Willemstad Island of Curacoa. Aug. 2 —Dr. Rangel Gardiraa, at the head of 3 (MM) men, ha» revolted again»» President Castro. Vene zuela. The insurgent* are near San tiago de Tachena. on the Colombian frontier The Venezuelan govern Trutr *1 Piaci and Friendship, ment has sent 10 (MM) troopa to the Madrid. Aug. 1.—The minister of •MM of the uprising. Other out- '■’K' ’’ •'i"-t..l Th.- «Me foreign affair* is engaged upon an extradition 1 ‘i-STT* *n'1 fr,end*f)ip with 'lent <•»<«>. Constitutional guaran tee, have 1.,-n aus|>ended, and com- the I nited State*. plication, with Colombia are feared NOW HAVE IT. War Mav Be Declared- i I Port of Spain. Trinidad. AUK ■’ In consequence of the resi$**,h>B Senor Palido, minister of "*r ‘ feared that President Cn»tro. o zuela. as propose! to the c*b'nrt- declare war against C*( withstanding public -'•’"’L l-at. against such a move. Th- P it is understood, suggest»"1 * porta be handed to the mini» e ‘ Colombia. It 1» feared that ■ serious complication will 10 present situation.
