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H IS ¡enees of a Party of rning Klondikers. [ caught IN A BUZZARD F IR S T J 5 T A T E M e n t> Crltu. Charged. Chicago, Oct. 25__ The press tonight obtained the one one great the famous L n e E , L . I T h e '“ ',n'{ testimony of th, l.r he 8Worn Adolph A. Luetgert.J ^ by O at of In d ia n *-O u ld Progress Made Upon Colum bia Fortifications. Standing tonight in the gloomv iail “ '■■” * « « » fh rjr K a n a f m P o p a l a t lo a * f H a a d r a d , O n ly P t v e S a r v lv o . C O N D IT IO N PRESENT FO RTS Food W a* of E .t iu ,.,., tffS E S E a Then»* M „ d e fo r F u r t h e r Im p roT tl. - - .......... - m e n u o f O r e g o n a n d W a s h i n g t o n '* Oct. 26.— O nly the merest I the lucky discovery o f the ^ged frightful diaholiBm of boiling his trail by one of their num- wife to death at midnight in a vtt in his factory cellar Tnnini a i 8ix members o f a party, following the i. ru n 'gh t, closely f . L. and Jnlius Trippo, attracted ___ fjole death by starvation on Luetgert made under oath a statement ¡trail late in'September, jty was headed by the Trippe 'rime ehPr0M. C0ncerning the fe*Hul ¡formerly of Chicago, and in- ¡worn «(h,ra8W< aKamSt *lim> tl,e fir8t worn statement yet made by him and rles Wilkes, o f Whateoin; Dogas, a miner from Ju- the first statement of such kind ever nown m newspaper annals. The i Fry, of this city ; W. G il- iflidav.t was put in writing in due ¡Woodsmann, and a prospector legal form, certified to by a notary. [,t Fort Wrangel. They left Ex-Judge William A. Vincent, the LCity for the States in a small lead mg counsel for the defendant, in , August 28, and after reaching tins celebrated case, the man to whose Jfork pre|>ared their outfits for brains and skill and energy Luetgert, hewnnd «U a u. ~— ---— bj ( ind arduous journey over the vitftorv irave°<v|t' ° * eB 1,8 Breat legal Itnil. nt to the [after leaving the Yukon river being m fd l The *e«ne ,i . . „ ountered a deadly Alaskan ,e Jali When ijUet?ert The trail was covered with trmlc the e M took the oath was as dramatic as the they lost their bearings, circumstances were unique. In the iviaions ran out, and after dimly-lighted jail corridor, Luetgert, r three days through a blind- standing erect, and grasping the bars jitorm, they were fin ally res- that still kept him from liberty, lifted iIndians and taken to Dalton’s his right hand and solemnly asserted, • post, where they were given as the notary administered the binding form. The grewsome surroundings iBperiences of the Trippes, who were a reminder in some degree of the ¡Seattle on the steamer Farallon midnight occurrences in the factory (would make columns of good cellar that have become familiar to "•matter. In many respects the hundreds of thousands who have fol icy tell is not m aterially diffor- lowed the details of the great trial. i the experiences encountered Few, if any, of the curious prisoners Snearly every w inter in crossing and turnkeys who were spectators had , blizzard-swept range of coun- any inklings of what was taking place. { between F iv e Fingers and the Luetgert, the notary and a representa | mountains. Unquestionably, tive of the press conferred together for ¡glit was extrem ely serious, and a few minutes and then Luetgert, with dous escape from death by out hesitation, made the affidavit and liUrvation and exposure w ill be signed it in ink with the hand that is /to miners coming overland alleged to have committed one of the (experienced guides and plenty most fiendish crimes on record. ions. The affidavit explicitly declares Luet- I by one o f the party, the gert’s innocence. The documcn' in • the Yukon to F o rt Selkirk was full is as follows: unusual incident. A t this “ To the Public: [ secured a rough map of the “ The result of my trial, ending to r which they were to travel. day, is a victory for me, because of the 40 pounds of provisions disagreement of the jury; but I am /started over the trail, leav- very much disappointed, and very I Selkirk September 18. The much surprised that the jury did not iwai clear and there had been bring in a verdict ot not guilty. ¡snow to obscure the trail over “ 1 did not kill my wife, and do not ib-corered range, known where she is, but I am sure it is ide good tim e fo r the first only a question of time until she comes , but soon found that they home. unable to reach Dalton’s " I did not go upon the witness stand i their provisions gave out. because my lawyer, Judge Vincent, 'hope was to meet incoming was b i..jrly opposed to my doing so, land surveyors, from whom and because lie advised me that it was nted to secure enough food to not necessary. I am grateful for the i to the cache. On the third tremendous change in public sentiment i the river, it began snowing, in my favor, and time will demonstrate i wind was icy cold They that I am not only innocent, but a very I bravely on, m aking the best grievously wronged man. “ Adolph A. Luetgert.” lible until they reached Hoot- “ Subscribed and sworn to before roe |Here they met a party of four 1 secured throe days’ rations this 25th day of October, A . D. 1897. Km. “ M. F. Sullivan, Notary Public." K lv e r* an d H a r b o r * . Washington, Oct. 25.— In the an nual report of General Wilaon, chief of emgneers, the i following is said about the mouth of the Columbia: The defenses include works of the older type, one garrisoned and one in charge of an ordnance sergeant. W ith the funds appropriated by the act of 1896, work was commenced during the year on five emplacements for 10-inoh guns on disappearing carriages, two emplacements for 8-inch guns on disap pearing carriages, and two mining case mates. A t the close of the year, the 10-inch emplacements were Oumpleted, and three 10-inch carriages mounted, A wharf had been built for the con- struction of the 8-inch emplacements, all necessary plant assembled and the excavation completed. One mining casemate was also under construction, With the funds appropriated by the act of 1897, an additional emplacement for an 8-inch gun on a disappearing car riage and a mortar battery for eight 12- inch mortars w ill be constructed. At the close of the year, plans for these works had been partially prepared. There are no existing works of defense on Puget sound.” The following estimates are made for river and harbor improvements for Oregon and Washington for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1899: OREGON. Upper Coquille river........................... „ Coos Bav ..................................... .. Siusiaw river......................... .. Tillamook Bay...................................... .. Columbia r i\ er below Tongue point .. - Columbia river and Lower Willamette .. 28.ÜU0 6*41,000 100,000 W, »4M) 71,500 300,000 &U.260 Gauging the waters of the Columbia river................................................. 1.000 Upper Columbia and Snake rivers....... . 20,000 WASHINGTON. Gray’s harbor...................................... ..*430,000 Puget sound................... ...................... .. 25.&/0 . 47,14)0 - 3,000 . 20,000 Cowlitz river.......................................- 1,000 No action hag been taken on ti/e ap propriation for a harbor of refuge at Port Orford, the secretary holding that the demands of commerce are not suffi cient to occasion the expenditure. The simple announcement is made that the secretary lias not approved the project at Yaquina, and no estimate is made. It is stated that the land has not yet been acquired for the lioat railway at The Dalles. For the same reason, nothing has been done on the ¡Seattle ditch. C E R T IF IC A T E S NOT R E Q U IR E D . J u d g e H a n fo r d 's R u lin g a s to W i v e s a n d C h ild re n o f C h in e se M e rc h a n ts . Seattle, Oct. 25.— Judge Hanford, of the federal court, today handed down a decision in a Chinese case, in which ¡they started for D alton's post. he holds that the wives and children of T h e J u ry D isagreed . f was getting deeper and walk- Chicago, O ct 25.— As Adolph Luet- | Chinese merchants doing business in extremely difficult. W orse gert, who has been on trial on a charge \ the United States do not have to have Itkii, the landmarks by which of having murdered his wife and boil certificates from the Chinese govern *ted to keep on the Dalton ment to entitle tiiem to enter this ing her body in a vat, heard this morn ¡becoming obscured by snow, country. Government officials here say ing from the foreman of the 12 men j [liter leaving Hootchai, they that, if the opinion is upheld by the who have been considering his case for timpossible to keep the trail, higher courts, it means that the impor the past 66 hours the words, “ We are W* they found themselves wan- tant section of the Chinese exclusion unable to agree upon a verdict,” he alessly over barren snow-cov- act which provides that sons and was as imperturbable as ever, evincing j daughters of Chinese merchant* doing their bearings gone and no joy. | business in tins country must secure 1 exhausted. The wonderful nerve of the defend- j | m it seemed as if they were des- ant was with him to the end. He j certificates from their home government »hsre the snow for a shroud and stood up, and with a good-natured [ is no longer the law. United States • lives in that God-forsaken smile on his swarthy face shook hands District Attorney Bnnker w ill at once f they came upon an Indian with his son, Arnold, his counsel and report to the treasury department Judge and it is expected ^ Here they purchased 16 fish, his business partner, William , that hat thfi the attornev-g attorney-genreal’s office w ill at ' that as their only sustenance, and in less than five minutes was led once take steps to have the case ap ded for the direction where back to jail. The jury was dismissed pealed to the supreme court. ved Daltons’ trading post was and the great trial was over. Treasury agents claim that if the de The snow storm had parti- cision bolds it w ill open the gates for a THE S TIC K E E N RO UTE. I before they met the Indi- flood of Orientals, for, if certificates are r simple diet o f dried salm- not required, any number of Chinese •*ot enough to keep up their al- Arran gem ent* B ein g M ad* b y a B ritish can claim to be children of merchants C om pany. energies, and after an- in the United States. IT1* traveling, they found that Winnipeg, Oct. 25.-F r a n k Water- Judge Hanford’s decision is in direct 1 confronted w ith danger as house, president of the Fort Wrangel, opposition to thst of Judge Lacombe, • wer. Glenora & Teslin Lake Transportation of New York. • second day after leaving the Company, passed through this city they ran out o f food for today on his way to London to appoint H U ND RED S O F P E O P L E K IL L E D I time. The trail was entirely agents and arrange for the trip from •*ith snow, and they were una- Europe to Dawson. From England T e r r ib le Loee o f L if e b y C y c lo n e la th e *te the Dalton cache by the I the first-class fare will be $1,000, sec P h illp p ln e e . » given them on the chart. ond-class. »750. These amounts in- Madrid, Oct. 26.— A dispatch from transportation of supplies and ■P*d in the woods, and w h ile elude Leyte, Philippine islands, says that T went in search o f the trail, other necessities for one vear. The ,Jtarteii out w ith a gun after j mpany will have a line of steamers place has been almost devastated by a cyclone, that many persons have been “ ’«J *t last obtained two salm- ' between ports on Puget ^ n d to the killed and that the damage to property (®»*ll stream, and they had 0f navigation of the Stickeen riv- is incalculable. rsapper, and out of the scraps er a distance of 180 miles * from Fort nr> The cyclone destroyed the towns of kfast the follow ing day. This 1 Wrangel. From the river to Teslin Tagloban and Hernani, on the island 115 miles, •tot food they tasted fo r three lake, a portage of about of Leyte, as well as several villages. •*«> the exception o f an owl pack train, will convey the traveler* It is estimated that 400 persona lost it being intended to have about 1,000 ‘ksysho hot and made into soup. their lives through the disaster. Trippe, 1 said tonight that he was Later advices from Manila say the nP as tiie third day passed lake and the river course to Dawson, cyclone occurred on October 12, and ®uir having eaten solid food, added that Carriga and Burga, on the foold, and only by the ex- in course of construction are to be used. eastern coast of Leyte, had been wiped W>U power were they kept „ v.. r .l flit 25.— This after- out, and that an immense wave swept [frozen stiff. Towards even- the island. Several hundred natives 1 third day in camp. G illies perished at Tagloban. The cyclone also swept the island of Sammar. The 'the location o f the trail, full extent of the catastrophy is not yet ‘ the help o f Indiana whom known, but the damage is estimated at ’ they made D alton's trading ___ ____ of guilty 7 , 600,000 pesetas.__________ *'*they obtained the first real penalty " it life imprisonment. 'had for neatly four days. W i l l De«tianA I> a «y. J^ting for two days, they re- m m — H— MaT B' ,ar" . . . Victoria. Oct. 25.— Hereafter every . , r w 25 — The Turkish gov- f march to the Chilkat pass, of goods not bought in Canada *JÎJJ ' » pound I the end o f their journey will have to pay before being al *»rth* her mishap. A l l o f the X 3 U . 1 « «•• the conquering lowed in the Klondike country. The weak from their suffer ter the invasion of Fai hem Pasha to Canadian government has seen fit to re _ w‘ ll be several days before Turkish troops under hrongh Poourka voke the regulation allowing prospec to their accustomed return to their homes tnroag tors to take in 100 poonds of goods free hi p ~ pass. Mon sen of duty, and customs officers w ill be Trikhala and Amirouu. near placed on the Sti. keen roote aa w ell as water is !|l.. Oct. 26.— Mrs. Carrie *k solution of salt ia at Tagiah lake and on the Yukon. 8?, a widow, has been gw onii equal to t he heat ever Bade ^383.83 damages for breach are #*iH ptwiaoed at T oleie ia Spaia. > Gernsrd, aged 71, a grains of red pepper a™ w the defendant j i W e have had a very nervous, sensi tive market in wheat the past week, hut tiie undertone has been very strong j at times, and prices were up 6 cents | over a week ago. The news has been quite bullish in tone, and foreigners have been liberal buyers of wheat for nearby shipment. About the only tiling thut at all favored the hears was tiie fact that rains had fallen moder ately over the drouth stricken area, and that fall work was again in progress in the winter wheat sections. Receipts j of wheat have been large, with an ur- 1 gent demand for good m illing wheat from nearly all quarters. Exports for tiie month of Septemlier were tiie larg est on record, footing up 26,000,000 hushelt. The American visible supply shows an increase of 199,000 bushels for last week, and now totals 24,629,- 000 bushels, against 57,286,000 a year ago. The fact that France has again been a large buyer o f wheat the past week lias done much to stimulate prices, and were it not that speculation is very light we Bhould have seen a far greater advance. W heat is on a legiti mate basis— the basis of supply and de mand— but every one seems to be afraid of it because they compare price* with what they were a year ago, and many predict declines, but while tiie cash de mand is as urgent as it is now, and foreigners are buying our wheat and flour at the rate they are now doing, there ia no chance for more than slight reactions and everything favors a higher range of values. We feel very bullish on tiie situation, and advise our friends to get hold of some wheat and it w ill soon show them a good profit. There has been more weakness shown in corn than the most sanguine bear had looked for, and as holders be came easily frightened and threw their holdings on a market that was narrow and w ith light trade at tiie start, the result ca" easily be foreseen— rather sharp decline w ith shorta the best buy ers. Receipts have been large. P o r t la n d M a r k e t . W heat— W alla Walla, 80@81c; V a l ley and Bluestem, 83@84c per bushel. Four— Best grades, $4.50; graham, $3.70; superfine, $2.60 per barrel. Oats— Choice white, 84@35c; choice gray, 82@83e per bushel. Barley— Feed barley, $19 @20; brew ing, $20 per ton. M illstiffs— Bran, $14 per ton; m id dlings, $21; shorts, $15.50. H ay— Tim othy, $12@ 12.50; clover, $10@11; California wheat, $10; do oat, $11; Oregon wild hay, $9@10 per ton. Eggs— 22 per dozen. Butter— Fancy creamery, 45@60c; fair to good, 35@40c; dairy, 26@35c per roll. Cheese — Oregon, ll^ o ; Young America, 1 2 ){c; California, 9@10o per pound. - Poultry— Chickens, mixed, $2.50@ 3.00 per doezn; broilers, $2.00@2.50; geese, $4.00@5.00: ducks, $3.00(g4.00 per dozen; turkeys, live, 8@ 9c per pound. Potatoes— Oregon Burbanks, 35 @ 40c per sack; sweets. $1.40 per cental. Onions— Oregon, new, red, 90c; y e l low, 80c per cental. Hops— o@ 15c per pound for new orop; 1896 crop, 6@7o. W ool— Valley, 14@ 16c per pound; Eastern Oregon, 7@12o; mohair, 20 (2 22c per ponnd. Mutton— Gross, best sheep, wethers and ewes, $2.60@2.60; dressed mutton, 5c; spring lambs, 5% c per pound. Hogs— Gross, choic3 heavy, $4.50; light and feeders, $3.00@4.00; dressed, $5.50@6.00 per 100 pounds. Beef— Gross, top steers, $2.75 @8.00; cows. $2.60; dressed beef, 4 @ S )£ c per pound. V eal— Large, 4 j^ @ 6 o; small, 6 ) { @ 6o per pound. B e a ttie M a r k e t . Butter — Fancy native creamery, brick. 23@25o; ranch, 10@15c. Cheese — N a tive Washington, 10@ 12c; California, 9% o. Eggs— Fresh ranch, 28@30c. Poultry— Chickens, live, per pound, hens, l l % c ; spring chickens, $2.60@ 8.00; ducks, $3.50(34.00. W heat— Feed wheat, $26 per ton. Oats— Choice, per ton, $31(322. Com — Whole, $22; cracked, per ton, $22; feed meal, $22 per ton. Barley— Rolled or ground, per ton, $22; whole, $22. Fresh Meats— Choice dressed beef, steers, 6c; cows, 5 j{o ; mutton sheep, 6c; pork, 61{c; veal, small, 6. Fresh Fish— Halibut, 4c: salmon, 4 (35c; salmon trout, 8c; flounders and sole, 8)4(34; ling cod, 4(35; rock cod, 5c; smelt, %% (34c. Fresh Fruit— Apple«, ?5o(3$l per box; Sal*way peaches, 50<360c; clinga, 30(340c; prune«, *4 <3 \ o per pound; pears, 75c(3$l per box. Ban F r a n c is c o M a r k e t . W ool— Nevada 11 <3 13c; Oregon, 13 <3 14c; Northern 14(316c per pound. Hope— ll(3 1 6 c per pound. M illstu ff«— Middlings, $20(323; C al ifornia bran, $16.00(3 16.50 per ton. Onion«— New red. 70<3S0c; do new silverskln, $1.00(31.15 per cental. J Butter— Fancy creamery, 27 (3 28c; do set-onus, 25(326c; fancy dairy, 28(3 24c; good to choice, 201322 c per pound. Cheese— Fancvm ild, new, 13>^e; fair to good, 7<38c per pound.. Eggs— H iotw , 18(326 c ; ranch, 86(3 8 8 ‘sc; Eastern, 16(323; duck, 30c per dozen. Potato««— New, in box««, 80(3 70c. C itru« F r a il— Oranges, Valencia«, fl.6 0 @ S .0 0 ; Mexican lim e«, $2.50(3 8.60; California lemons, choice, $3.50; do common, $1(32 per box. Hay— Wheat, 13916; wheat and Ml, $11314; oat, $10® 11; river har- horley, $10® 13; G o v e rn input ia C la im « W ill F u l l — A e v e n ty -F iv ® B$ S a tisfie d M illio n s A l* r e a d y S u b s c r ib e d f o r It . New York, Oct. 25.— Russell Sage oreated a sensation in W all street late yesterday by announcing tiiat he had been invited by President M oKinley to form a syndicate to bid on the Union Pacifio railroad on tiie basis o f satisfy ing the full government claim in tiie Union Pacific. Mr. Sage invited sub scriptions to a plan to be hereafter brought out by him. The payment ot the government olaim in fu ll is under stood to be the first condition in this plau. Mr. Sage’s representative an nounced last nigh, that lie had received subscriptions for over $76,000,000 within two hours o f his announcement It was said that he would continue to receive subscriptions until his plan was subscribed at least three times over. As to the bond transactions, Mr. Sage thinks there is unlimited capital avail able for settlement of the Pacifio road debt without loss to the government. Among the subscriptions reported to Mr. Sage's Union Pacific scheme were the following: Mr. A stor’B subscription is eoid to have been received by cable. Borne of the names are said to represent other interests besides the subscribers. It is said a large insurance company w ill subscribe $10,000,000. Mr. Sage goes to Washington today to confer with the president and tiie attorney-general, at their request. N ew York. Oct. 85.— A Herald d patch from Havana say«: A la uewspaper publishes and vouch«« the follow ing: A t Chasoapebo. ia 1 district of Ban Julian, belonging to t municipality of Melana del Snr I were concentrated 3,500 persons, reooncentradoa w ere the only ants of the place. Now there five survivors, the reet having died eff hunger and fever. In Havana c ity Ik is no unusual sight to see 10 o r I S dead on one plasa early in the ing. The employers employ regdlor roundsmen to remove bodies frees the parks. There is no abatement in the a c tiv ity of the rebels in '.he western provinces. The special regiment o f V eragoe eat ita way to the Rubi hills in P tn o r d o ! Rio, stumbled aoroas a dynam ite boaafc and lost 10 killed and 41 Further on thev came across but it failed to explode. The aoldiesa became terrified aud refused to proceed. Iu Havana province 100 rebel« off Raoul Arango’s command entered a a d raided a town. They carried aw ay m. quantity o f clothing and proviaiow» without a shot being fired by the garri son. Near Artemisa, Havana proviwea. a band of insurgents under Auoa a t tacked and macheted the Spanish g oes ilia force stationed on the Ne estate. In a railroad collision bets miss and Mangas several soldiers wese killed. Inhabitants of a suburb of H s n o a report hearing firing just outaida th a town last night. The firing continues for several hours, and thia m oraio® some wounded troops w ere brought ia. N o details o f the fight have beea a t tained. A n o t h e r F ilib u s t e r * New York, Oot. 35.— The H eraM kaa made investigation into the alleged d e L A U N C H B O IL E R E X P L O D E D . parture of the filibustering e x p e d itfo » from N ew York on the schooner Bilvoai A c c id e n t to O n e o f th e B o a t * o t t h * Heels laBt Saturday. Aa to the suspic T a zo *. ious circumstance« attending the depar Boston, Oct. 25.— The boiler o f one ture o f the vessel, H. P. Brown, h er o f the steam launches of the battleship agent said: “ There ia nothing suspic Texas blew up w h ile it was alongside ious about the sailing o f the S itvar the battleship, and a number of men, Heels. She took nothing which eo a M including two officers and a surgeon, be regarded as contraband goods. 8 h » ■ailed for Norfolk and C h a rl««le a ha were injured, none fatally. The explosion occurred just as the search o f a charter. A « her ageat, E launch reached the side of the ship, should oertainly have known if aba h ad having towed down two ship’s boats taken cargo from thia p ort.” Despite the emphatio denial aff fu ll of meu who were engaged in the naval parade. On tiie launch at the Brown, the Herald learns from a lb a r tim e were 35 men, including Lieuten sources that the Silver Heels did leaoa ant-Commander Delhanty, Lieutenant N ew York Saturday night loaded w H b Bristol, Ensign Wadhams and Dr. W. arms and ammunition, and that A w R. Dubose, the ship' ssurgeon. The went direct to sea. A t some point ew smokestack, the top o f the boiler and the high seas she is expeoted to trans part of the canopy over the boiler were fer her cargo to another oraft v k i d t blown into the air, and what was left would have armed men on kuaid, Teaaaa of the launch caught fire from the whose destination ia Cuba. flame that followed tiie bursting o f the Estrada Palma, the Cuban repraeawtn- boiler, but tiie fire had little to burn. tive, said: “ I am positive that no armed expedi In the pit with the boiler John P h il lips, an oiler, and John Fisher, a coal tion left this port for Cuba.” passer, were thrown violently against H o l d - U p on S ls k ly o a M oantatm . the wooden partition. Fisher was Ashland, Or., Oct. 25.— D. C. P lt - badly injured internally. Ph Hips es caped with severe bruises. The cox ser, a gardener, livin g four m iles oouthi swain, Thomas Sullivan, was thrown of Ashland, came to town this morning against tiie side of the launch, but and reported that, w h ile retnrwln® was only bruised, and the sailor with from a trip to Northern California, him was completely blackened by soot, where he had been with a load o f p e - but unhurt. Dr. Dubose had two front duce, and w h ile on Siskiyou mountain, near Steinmnii, where the stage pan« ■ teeth knocked ou t crosses the railroad, at 7 o ’clock lank, evening, be was stopped by tw o high B O N ES W ERE M OVED. waymen, who ordered him down fro m his wagon with drawn revolvers, a fte r M a r c o * W h i t m a n '* C r a v e a t W h l t m a i which they rifled his pocket« o f aandk M iss io n O p e n e d . containing $48 in silver, but over W alla W alla, W ash., Oct. 25.— This looked $30 in gold in a trouser« porhta afternoon Marcus W hitm an’s grave, at The robbers then told him to get e n Whitman mission, seven miles west of h i« wagon and make him aelf s c a m , W alla W alla, was opened, preparatory which he did in a burry, reaching hta to the erection of a mausoleum o f briok home at 8 o ’clock, and not reporting ta and granite thereon by the Whitman the local authorities until this morn Memorial Association. President Pen ing. The authorities are now investi rose, of Whitman college; a few stu gating the case. Pitaer ia not able tw dents and newspaper men only were give a very complete description off tbw present, besides the contractors. highwaymen. Near the surface o f the mound in one corner, four skulls nearly intact were C h * r o k «* * A r e A n a lo g . discovered; also a number o f minor L ittle Rock, A rk ., O c t 35.— A ape— bones. The skull o f Dr. Whitman was oial to the Gaaette from F ort S n i t k reoognixed by the gold filling in one ol •ays: It ha« tasked out here that thw his teeth and a tomahawk wound at the full-blood Cherokee« have been ssr s t l j base o f the skull. arm ing themselves and securing largo Dr. Whitman, h i« w ife and 11 asso quantities o f ammunition for aoeerak ciates, massacred 60 years ago. are sup- weeks, hut it ha« been especially h r k k poaed to be buried in the grave. since the return o f the attorney ea st t o The bones were brought to thia city Washington to enjoin the Dawes oeoe- th i« evening, to be classified by physi mission from proceeding to make th e cians. A fte r being placed in a gluts oitiaenship ro lls The m ajority eff I t a case for inspection for a few days, they Cherokees are opposed to the treaty, w ill tie returned to their reaiing-piaoe, but the most bitter feeling 1« anteeg- and the mausoleum of brick and granite the ignorant full-bloods T h ey arw erected over them. prepared to resist any attem pt tw T h a Y c r k c * T c t a s c o p «. W illiam s Bay, W ia., Oot. 35.— Charles T. Yerkes' splendid g ift ia now in the possession of tiie university of Chicago. Shortly after noon, Mr. Yerkes form ally presented to President W . R. Harper the keys to the obser vatory which oontains the Yerkes tele scope. The ceremonies covered two hours, and the greatest refracting tele scope in the world, having a 40-inch lens, is dedicated and ready to be uoed by astronomers from every part o f the globe. change their tribal government. Bw immediate outbreak is anticipated, h o t a great deal depends upon tbs aotien off tbs council next Monday. Tacoma Womaa K ill* H o m lf. Tacoma, Wash., Oct. 85. — Mow Frank A lw yn , w ife of a aa loon-keeper, shot herself in the breast at as ea rly hour thia morning, dying almost in stantly. The act waa committed lot SL Joseph’ s hospital, where she wan admitted last night. She carafnlly- planned for her death, wrapping ban- self in a rubber blanket, so the be# clothing would not become bloedy. fih e rir o o d D e p o t B u r g l a r i s e d . Sherwood, Or., Oct. 26.— The Sooth* She left a note saying she waa tired aff ern Pacific depot at this place was en life with directions for her funeral. tered by burglars Sunday night, and a In a bureau waa found a shroud, rnodn box containing about $20 in cash and by herself, with a card pinned on lb a ll the tickets belonging to the office upon which waa ” Bury me in thin** Mrs. A lw yn waa 86 years old. were taken. A F rcm a ta r* l i p l n l n . K x a m ln a tlo n o f C a p ta la L * ? « r l * | * . Chicago, Oct. 36.— The officer* of the army constituting the court of in quiry to examine into the f»ots connect ed w ith the alleged ill-treatm ent of Privata Hammond by Captain Love- ridge, o f the Fourth infantry, arrived at F ort Sheridan today and began the work o f investigation. A s the senior officer of the oourt, Colonel Bimon Sny der, o f the Fifteenth infantry, open* the proceedings and took charge of S Kingston, N. Y ., Oot. $5.— A t Ran- endale today tha premature explosion of a blast in Snyder’ a cement quarry killed Arnold Johnson instantly inflicted probably fatal injurtae these others. A b y s s ln la a s D * r .M l* tl* [ Cairo, Oct. 86.— News