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° 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