The Argus., March 21, 1895, Image 1

ITHE El AT OLYMPIA
JAMES FAIR'S ESTATE
Another and a Later Will Has
Been Found.
THE
ARGUS,
Washington's Fourth Legisla
tive Session Adjourned.
SENSATION IN THE CONTEST CASE
THE GAVEL FELL AT MIDNIGHT
It Wl Left With a Young Lady Teacher
In Ilia l'ubllo Sehooli, and Warm
Friend of tha Senator's, and Was
Written lu Her Presence.
San Fkasi-ihco, March 20. The con
tention in the conrta over the millions
left by James Q. Fair developed another
sensation this morning. When the
cane was called before Superior Judge
Slack a great stir was caused by the
Introduction of what purports to be a
later holographic will written in lead
pencil on two sheets o( legal cap paper.
It was brought into court securely
framed between two plates of glass by
Reuben Lloyd, who has been retained
in the case by Mrs. Uelrlchs and Vir
ginia Fair, daughters of the deceased.
This alleged will divides the estate
almost equally between the two daugh
ters and Charlie Fair. It bequeaths a
few thousand dollars to certain orphan
asylums, and makes no provisions for
Bitch a truBt as the estate is left in con
trol of under the will previously filed.
Messrs. Angus and Outliers are two
of the four executors named in the pre
viously filed will. Referring to this
alleged will, Attorney Lloyd informed
the court that the document, according
to its dale, was executed three days
Inter than the will previously filed. He
said he would prove that the existence
of this will had been known to several
persons, and that it had Anally been
found in the possession of a very es
timable old lady, whose name Llovd did
not divulge,' Lloyd said the old lady had
not produced it because she had read
of ttie other will being offered for pro
bate, and had supposed that it was a
later document than the one she held.
The fact that this new alleged will has
been presented in court by Attorney
Lloyd would indicate that Charlie Fair
and his sisters have joined forces to con
test the will of their father.
The attorneys who represent the exe
cutors under the will previously filed,
and of which the original copy was
stolen, intimated very strongly that
they believed this latest alleged whl to
be a forgery. The caBe was finally con
tinued to April 2.
The alleged will produced to-day be
queaths to various brothers and sisters
of deceased and their children about the
Bame amounts as was left to them
under the will previously filed. Under
the first will the. families of theso
brothers and sisters would acquire a
large proportion of the estate at the
death of Fair's children, Charles, Vir
ginia and Mrs. Oelrichs, but under the
will filed to-day the brothers and sisters
and their families would receive only
the amount of cash stated in the will
btul the balance ol the f -10,000.000 estate
could be distributed at once among tha
three children of the deceased.
The special bequests to relatives and
charitable institutions are:
HU sister, Mrs. Crothom 00,000
II brother, William hilr M.OOO
ila biolhor, KiIwhM Kalr S0.0U0
Minister, Mary Amlerson 200,00
ills nlew, J&iieLumlay 10,001)
llli uepliow, James H. Fair 10,000
Human Ostnollo orphan asylum (0,000
Hebrew orphan asylum ''U!!
Ti.ar.hnra nflltalnn fund lif anv) 60.01)0
1'. oteslant orphan asylum 60,000
Herman Oelrlcns 0,000
Herbert Clarke tO.HOO
CharleaE. Htewart 6000
James 1.. Angus 10,0110
Louis Urease 10,000
His son. Charles Fair, is left (500,000,
to be paid to him by the executors be
fore the final division of the estate. All
the rest of the estate and properties of
whatsoever kind is left to his three
children. Theresa Oelrichs. Charles L,
Fair and Virginia Fair, share and share
alike, ana uieir cniiaren torever.
Should any child die without issue, said
child's Bhare is to go to the surviving
children, share and share alike. The
will appoints James L. Angus, Thomas
Urotliers nnd nr. Livingstone executore,
without bonus.
THE KKKl'EB OF Till WILL.
San Francisco. March 20. It now
turns out that the new will was left in
charge of Mrs. Nettie L. Craven, a prin
cipal in the public schools, and who was
a great friend of Senator Fair. The will
was written in the house of Mrs, I las
kins, with whom Mrs. Craven lived, and
in the presence of both witnesses. It
came about in this way : Senator Fair
had gone to visit Mrs. Craven, and their
conversation turned to willB, and Fair
said that his lawyers did not seem to
gej his will just as he would like it, and
made several other remarks, which led
Mrs. Craven to propose that he make a
new will then and there, and have her
as witness, and that he make a pro
vision in the will for a fund for the sup
port of school teachers who hod taught
for twenty-five years or more. To all
this the senator agreed, and then sat
down and wrote the paper which was
presented to the court to-day. The
reason assigned for keeping the new will
so long in the background is that the
custodian did not look at the date of the
will when Fair died, and when the other
will was made public she thought it was
one of later date,
Jensen's Patent Valuable.
Astohia, March 20. Mathias Jensen,
of the Jensen Can filling Machine Com
pany of this city has sold the right to
manufacture all his machines for mak
lug can bodies, and that known as a
double-ending machine, for a considera
tion of $16,000, The purchasers are
t.; hi or go people. The sale has been
pending for some time, but was deferred
owing to the suits between Norton Bros.,
oi Chicago, and the Jensen company for
inirmgement ol patent.
The 1'resldent of Mutual lire.
Nkw Yohk, March 20. Colonel M. V,
B Kdgerley, president of the Massachu
sei if. Mutual Life Insurance Company,
died ai the Now Netherlands hotel tcv
dav. Colonel Edgerly was known
throughout the country by his conned
tion with various insurance compmies
In 1882 he was the I) mocntic enndi
thite for governor of New Hampshire
but wus (h feated.
Their Reward It Small.
London, March 16. The mayor of
LoweBtoff yesterday publicly presented
to the crew of the fishing boat Wild-
flower, which picked up tile survivors of
the steamer Elbe, the sum of 75. This
amount was subscribed in response to
an appeal made by the mayor. The
crew were also presented with a photo
graph of -the surviving officers of the
Elbe, which was sent witn a letter ex
Dressing the gratitude of the North Ger
man Lloyd Company. One hundred
pounds will be privately presented to
VOL. 1.
THE POSTAL EMPLOYES.
Combination Formed to OTerturn Cer
tain Regulations.
Wahhinoton, March 20. The post
oflice department has information of the
formation of a powerful combination of
postal employes, designed to bring pres
sure upon congress to overturn certain
regulations and rules of the department.
The employes have been encouraged by
success in attaching to the lastpoBtoffice
appropriation bill an amendment which
Buspended an order of the department.
This order was issued last June and
directed that before May 1, 1805, all
railway mail employes should remove to
some point along the line of route on
which they were employed. This was
unsatisfactory to most of the clerks, and
they obtained legislation overruling the
order. The reason for issuing the order
is explained at the department as neces
sary because at the time the order was
issued there were about 1,300 railway
mail employes in the service who did
not live on the lines where they worked.
When there was an accident or anything
else that requires emergency men, those
who were on leave and away from the
line where they worked escaped the ex
tra duty, and it fell upon those living on
the route. Uf the 1,300 who were living
oil the lines where they worked, almut
300 have notified the department they
have or will remove their homes to the
point requested, l'robably all of them
will so remove, notwithstanding the leg
islation overruling the order. The de
partment is now informed that since
the failure of legislation in the last con
gress increasing the pay of employes a
combination has been formed to pass
this legislation and also to overturn the
rules of the department which are un
satisfactory to them. A high ofliicial of
the department said to-day :
"This combination includes some
thousands of employes in the railway
mail service, in the letter-carriers' ser
vice and in postotlices. They are all in
the classified service and protected from
removal. The effect of this combination
would be to create a sentiment against
the civil Bervice law, which protects
these employes."
STOLE THE WHISKV
Thousand of Gallons Taken by Meant
of a Syphon.
Columbia, S. C, March 20. In 1802
Henry Bieman, of Walhalla, 8, C, sold
to W. C. Tatum four government distil
leries and bonded warehouses, situated
at distances of half a mile apart. Tatum
at once closed the distilleries, and be
tween 8,000 and 10,000 gallons of corn
whisky in bond were locked in the
warehouses under the government seal
The night of September 5, two days be
fore the expiration of the bonded period,
three of the distilleries were burned.
Only seventy gallons were Btored in the
fourth. Deputies Vanderford and King
were detailed to investigate the fires.
They failed to find at the sites of the
burned warehouses any of the signs
which burning whisky would leave.
After collecting evidence suHicient to
implicate severel persons, full confes
sions were obtained, showing that soon
after the purchase by Tatum one of the
warehouses was secretly opened. One
end of a hose was inserted in a barrel ot
whisky, and the other was placed in a
barrel at the foot of a hill forty yards
distant. This eyphon process was re
peated nightly, until the entire stock of
whisky in the four warehouses had been
removed. The empty barrels were fl led
with water, and the staples, which had
been removed from the doors, were
skillfully replaced. The government
expects to hold Tatum's bondsmen re
sponsible. John Farmer, ABbury Hyde,
Tony Watkins, William Whitman and
John Rowland have been arrested and
held for trial.
THE EDICT SUSPENDED.
Cathollo
Knights of Fylhlas to Make
Their Kaster,
Fall Rivbb. Mass.. March 20. At
the instance of II. A. Habugue, Dr. L.
P. Degrampre and Dr. P. Ecollett, of
this city, and Judge Chouquette, ' of
Providence, Monsignore Satolli, the
papal ablegate, has issued a decree
temporarily suspending the edict of
Pope I.eo, relating to Catholic member
ship in the Knights of PythiaB. The
gentlemen returned from a visit to
Washington to-day, whether they had
been sent by Lafayette lodge of this city
to ask a hearing on the matter, iney
represented that one lodge of Pythians
in this city consisted of 250 French
Canadians, and one lodge in Providence
included 160. They said so far as they
were able to observe, they could see no
conflict between Pythianism and Catho
lic doctrines, and were very solicitous
for a suspension of the edict, so that
they might perform their Easter duty.
His grace seemed much surprised at the
facts presented, and was evidently much
impressed with the maimer of the men.
He announced that he would suspend
the edict temporarily, and would issue a
formal decree to that effect in a few
days. He promised to bring the matter
to the attention of the Vatican at the
earliest nossiblo moment, but would
hold out no hopes that his action would
be endorsed as permanent policy to be
followed.
QUIET AT NEW ORLEANS.
Cott.m Arriving Freely and Men Busy
on the Levees. ,
Nkw Orleans, March 20. A gang of
negro laborers, who crossed the river
this morning to unload the Bteamer
Etolia, of Elder, Dempster & Company,
were met on their arrival by a number
of white men and told that they would
not be allowed to work, and commanded
them to return to this side of the river
at once. Later a company from the
Screwmen's Association, of Jefferson,
came over and applied for work on the
steamer. After a brief conference it
was agreed that the work on the Etolia
should be divided, the Jefferson men
taking one-half and the negroes from
this city the other. No further trouble
is anticipated at that pint.
The whole river front presented a
more decidedly lively appe ranee this
afternoon than at any time for the past
week. Cotton is arriving freely, and
the men are busy at work hading ships,
without molestation on the part of any
QUO,
HILLSBORO, OREGON. THURSDAY,
THE CUBAN SITUATION
Condition of Affairs in
Eastern Island.
the
MORE INTERNAL DISTURBANCES
Advloee by Steamer Say There Are
Now Fully Six Thousand Insurgents
Vn ler Arms-Rubl and Ma.ao C'onl
dent of Taking Santiago.
Kiev West, Fla., March 19. The first
clear and trustworthy statement of the
condition of affairs in the eastern end
of Cuba Is brought by a passenger on
the steamer Mascotte.. He said :
''I have traveled throughout the
mountainous district constantly since
the trouble began, and matters are now
in a much worse condition than at the
beginning. The fighting was started in
a desultory and scattered way, but the
forces gradually became crystalized, and
there are now fully 6,000 insurgents
under arms. They are in a dozen or
more detachmentB, but are giving the
government no end of trouble. In many
caBes the Spanish troopB have been
beaten back with heavy loss. The most
reproachable event of the war so far is
the pillaging and burning. The insur
gents have gained confidence Bince the
beginning of the trouble, and matters in
the eastern district are in almost as bad
condition as during the war of 1808.
New leaders are springing up, and by
force of their intellect and ability they
have induced the insurgents not to hold
off longer for the arrival of leaders. The
general opinion in Santiago is that if
the insurgents can hold out until sum
mer the yellow fever will help them
greatly. It is said that both Kubi and
Masso are confident of taking Santiago
before October. The Spanish troops are
f;uarding every road, ana nobody is al
owed to pass without giving the strict'
est account of himself. It is as much as
a man's life is worth in Santiago to talk
in favor of the Cubans or to tell the
truth. Several persons have been shot
on account ot tins, instances where
the Spaniards were defeated have been
DHblisheu as government victories, four
Snanish cruisers were in the harbor of
Santiago one week ago, now there are
but two guarding the eastern coast, and
one on the southern."
The passenger also said the revolt
would kill business in Cuba for two
vears. Money is already scarce, and
priceB are nign. a panic is leareu. it
seems to be the general impression
among the Spaniards that the United
States feels bitterly toward me &pamsn
government, and would like nothing
better than an excuse to seize the isl
and, hence their hatred of the Ameri
cans.
BROMAN'S INSURANCE.
The Starshfleld Man Had a Policy Iteady
In Cane of Accident.
8an Fhancibco, March 19. Gustaf
Rrnman anneared in Judge Joachim's
court yesterday in answer to a charge of
perjury preferred against him by Mrs.
Constance Roy. The case was continued
till to-morrow. The detectives were cor
rect in their suspicion that Broman
would have some insurance policy on
his life before he gave out that he would
attempt the foolhardy trip from Coos
bay to this city in a twelve-foot boat.
The detectives' idea was that if on the
trin the boat would be found on some
beach bottom up, Broman's friends
would claim the insurance on the ground
that he had been drowned, and it would
have ultimately found its way into Bro
man's Dockets. Yesterday an agent of
the United States Accident Insurance
Association called at police headquarters
inquiring about Broman. He said that
Broman in August last had taken out
what iB known as a $6,000 and $10,000
accident policy with his company. He
added:
"We have the cower to cancel a policy
at any time, and we will at once give
Broman notification of the fact that his
policy is canceled."
THE PULLMAN COLONY.
Its Leaders Mow Selecting a Site in the
South.
Chicago, March 10. A large number
of the Pullman strikers of last summer
with their families and others intend to
settle this spring, as a colony, in the
South. A meeting was called to-day, at
which a committee was appointed to
make prospecting trips to view the va
rious sites which are under consider
ation in Tennessee, Alabama and Louisi
ana. It is said that of the Pullman
strikers, who, it is alleged, were black
listed, over 200 have been unable to ob
tain work elsewhere. Most of these will
be members of the colony. Many of
those who now have employment in the
Pullman shops are anxious to cast their
lot witli the colony. It will also have
many others both employed and unenv
nloved at the present time. All the
Btores in the colony will be co-operative
A member of the colony save :
"No positive franchises for supplying
its members with public necessities shall
be granted by the association. The
manufactures will be of a varied char
acter, but will be those that can utilize
Buch mechanics and laborers as are
members of the colony. One of the
manufacturing plants proposed will
build railroad and street-cars."
Forty-Three Bodies Taken Out.
TKoniAU. Australian Silesia, March
19. Forty-three bodieB have been re
covered from the Iloheggen mine. Re
ports yesterday of a disastrous explo-
sion and fire were received and a niinv
ber of miners are unaccounted for,
Archduke Frederick, owner of the mine
will pay a pension of 100 florins each to
the widows. The widows and orphans
will also receive a pension from the
Miners' Benevolent Fund.
A Flour Millers' Combine.
Grand Forks, N. D., March 19. The
flour millers of the Red River valley of
western Dakota and Montana hav
formed an association for the purchase
f wheat and the selling ot us product,
Twenty-one mills are in the combina
tion,
NEW REVENUE LAW.
Soma of the Main Provisions of the Act
Passed at Olynipla.
Olymtia, Wash., March 19. The new
revenue law passed at the last session
of the legislature, which has not yet re
ceived executive approval, provides for
the exemption of hospitals, free public
libraries, orphanages, institutions for
the reformation of fallen women, homes
for the aged and infirm and the ground
upon which such institutions are situ
ated, when they are supported in whole
or in part by charity and the proceeds
devoted to charitable purposes. The
law provides for the biennial assessment
of real estate and the semi-annual col
lection of taxes. Assessments made bi-
enially are made upon the odd num
bered years, with reference to the value
of the property, April 1, preceding the
assessment, rersonai property win oe
assessed every year. Fruit trees, except
nursery stock, will not be assessed for
four years after taken from the nursery,
and a maximum assessment of $300 is
fixed on male animals kept for breeding
purposes. Real estate will be listed on
the assessment roll each year, and the
valuation on the evenly numbered years
will remain the same as equalized by
the county board for the preceding year.
The assessment books will be placed in
the hands of the assessor on the first
Monday of February each year. When
land has been platted into lots or blocks
and where several lots in any block, or
where several blocks in any plat are
owned by any person, firm or corpora
tion, they may be grouped where prac
ticable. The assessor is made clerk of
the countv board of eaualization. and in
counties of from the first to the ninth
class inclusive it is made the duty of
the assessor to extend on the tax rolls
the rate per cent necesBary to raise suf
ficient tax tor state purposes, as deter
mined by the state board of equaliza
tion. Delinquent tax penalties are reduced
from 5 to 2 per cent, and interest from
20 to 12 per cent, which amends section
; and all taxes are made payable on or
before May 31 of each year, after which
the penalty is attached ; provided that
taxes may be paid semi-annually. One
half of the taxes may be paid on or be
fore the 31st day of" May, and the re
mainder may be extended to November
30 following; but if the remaining half
is not paid on or before .November 3t
then the one-half is delinquent, and a
penalty of 2 per cent attached, together
with interest at the rate ot iz per cent
per annum from May 31 preceding, until
paid. Taxes on real property are a lien
from and including April 1 of the year
they are levied until paid, but as be
tween grantor and grantee the lien will
not attach until the first day of the suc
ceeding year. Taxes upon personal
property snail be a lien upon all per
sonal property of the party assessed
Applications for judgment and orders of
sale for taxes and assessment are ex
tended to the third instead of the second
calendar year following delinquency.
PLACER MINING IN BAKER.
Rich Strike Made In an Abandoned Mine
Near Baker City.
Bakib City, Or., March 19. A won
derfully rich strike was made yesterday
in a placer mine situated in a gulch just
below the Virtue mine by C. F. Case-
bier, a veteran prospector of this county,
The gulch wherein the claim is located
has been fabulously rich in coarse gold,
hut nf lata vears was thought to be
worked out. Last year Mr. Casebler lo
patert a rlnim and began work "drift
ing," and yesterday he found this rich
itnnnnit mntainini? several hundred dol-
--r- ,, ,
lars in nuggets and coarse goiu. vuo ui
the pieces is composed of quartz and
gold, and is valued at $150. Several
smaller pieces were found ranging from
flO nn. The strike is only additional
evidence that the placer mines of this
conntv have not been carefully and
thnrriiiirhlv worked, in every iubuuicb
where abandoned claims have been re
located rich strikes have been made.
The fact is, gold may be found in almost
every pan of dirt taken from the gulches
in our mountains, ine oniy urawuay
in the scarcity of water during certain
portions of the year. If a canal were
taken out of Powder river, near Sump
ter, for irrigating and mining purposes,
it would prove of incalculable benefit to
the promoters of the project, and not
only develope a vast amount of valuable
placer mining properties, dui reclaim
thousands of acres of valuable fruit and
farming land.
THE FIRING REPEATED.
This Time the Beport Says the Ameri
can Vessel Was Sunk.
Nn York, March 19. The Herald's
special from Key West, Fla., says : Pas
sengers on the steamer which arrived
from Havana last night bring news ol
reports in circulation there of further
depredations by Spanish cruisers on
American vessels along the Cuban coast.
The latest report is that the Spanish
gunboat Arcedo fired into and sunk an
American schooner on ruerto oei raare.
It is reported that the crew of the vessel
numbering sixteen personB perished
with it. It is not known whether the
schooner had arms or carried an expe
dition for the Cubans. It was reported
in Havana that the schooner had sailed
from Key West. Inquiries, however,
fail to show that any boat is missing or
unrarjorted. except those engaged in le
gitimate trade. Many sailed recently
for West Indian ports with fruit cargoes.
Puerto del Padre iB a harbor on the
northeast coast of Cuba, in latitude
21:17 north, longitude 70:42 west. It
has a long and narrow entrance, and af
fords excellent anchorage. It is not far
from the place where the Spanish gun
boat urea on tne Aiuanca.
Tacoma's Water Supply.
Tacoma, March 19. The board of
public works returned from the prairie
late to-night, bringing news that Mel'
ville spring was turned into the city
flume early this evening, and that a
2,000,000-gallon pump was successfully
placed in operation at Crystal springs.
This probably insures a plentiful supply
hereafter, while a gravity supply is be
ing secured.
Liquor Seised by Customs Officers.
Port Townsknd, Wash., March 19.
While the steamer Willapa was at Dyea,
Alaska, sixteen cases of liquor en ronte
to the Yukon mines were seized by cus
toms officers.
MARCH 21. 1895.
PACIFIC MOTES!.
Condensed Telegraphic Re
ports of Late Events.
BRIEF SPARKS FROM THE WIRES
Budget of News For Easy Digestion From
Different Parts of the States of Wash
ington, Oregon and Idaho Items of
Interest to Pacific Coast People.
Cigars are being made in Walla Walla
out of tobacco grown in that locality.
Work has been stopped again on Sa
lem's city hall. Funds have run out.
Crook county. Or., is putting in a
$1,200 vault for the safe-keeping of its
records.
Hundred of tons of potatoes are being
shipped from Whidby island to British
Columbia for seed.
The cost of running the city govern'
been reduced $1,600 annually,
There is a rumor that the Great
Northern will build to Ellensburg,
Wash., branching off at Rock Island.
Thirteen men are employed at Aber
deen making plats and calculating areas
of tide lands for the local board of ap
praisers. Sheepmen about Wallula, Wash., are
moving their sheep and preparing for
the lambing season, which promises to
be unexcelled.
One of the moneyed men of California
is expected at fataha, Wash., soon in
the interest of a projected plant to con
dense milk at that point.
The Franklin county, Wash., treas
ury is looking expectantly for $6,934 in
taxes which the Northern Pacific will
pay in some time this month.
Farmers about Walla Walla are rais
ing another $2,000 to prosecute their
freight rate reduction claim Deiore the
interstate commerce commission.
It is said that the W. C. T. U. at Gold
Hill, Or., iB the largest in the state,
with the exception of the one in Port
land, having forty members after being
organized only a month.
The bobwhite qnailB ordered at Walla
Walla from Kansas have arrived, and
have been turned loose on Mill, Spring
and Cottonwood creeks. Although eight
dozen were ordered, owing to the care
less way they were packed only twenty
eight arrived alive.
Frank Seders, brother of John M.
Seders, a well-known horse trainer of
the Middle states, has arrived from the
East to make Spokane his home and to
pursue bis vocation. His father will ar
rive from Illinois April 1 with a string
of seven trotting horses.
Gilliam county, Or., has a fugitive
horsethief, Hugh Medlock by name,
who appears for food or something every
once in a while, and is given chase by
the officers. He escapes on the back of
a faithful horse which he has trained so
it clears barbed wire fences like a deer.
Notwithstanding the low price of
wheat, a larger acreage is being sown in
the north part of Benton county than
ever before. It is usual to summer fal
low a part of the ground, but the entire
area is being sown to grain this season.
The farmers are nearly through sowing.
A strong effort will be made to have
Mrs. Grier, the Garden Springs, Wash.,
murderess, pardoned. The principal
points urged in her favor will be the
circumstantial character of the evidence
and the woman's state of health, which
it is claimed will result in insanity if
she be keot in confinement.
The track on the Great Northern be
tween Everett and Lowell, Wash., is
being raised eighteen inches, which will
bring it above high water mark. It is
understood that the force at work on the
tunnel in Everett will shortly be in
creased, and that gangs of men will be
gin work on each end of the tunnel.
Controller Weed says last year the
running expenses of Spokane averaged
$13,750 a month, viz.: Salaries, 12,000,
and electric lights. 11.750. Now the sal
ary list is about $9,500 each month, and
the bill for lighting, etc., (550 a month,
or $10,060 in all. This would make a
saving of $3,700 a month tnis year over
last.
A telegram from Monte Cristo, WaBh
announces that the main vein in the
Mvsterv mine has widened out so that
the outDUt of that mine alone will be in'
creased 100 tons a day, and will be suf
ficient to run the concentrator to its mil
capacity, 200 tons of ore per day, with
out taking into account the Williams
and the Pride of the Mountain mines,
The government has increased the
mail .service between Baker City and
(.'arson. Union county. Or., and com
mencing April 1 the stage line of Beggs
Bros, will make daily trips between
Baker City and the point named, via
Sparta.' Carson is within seven miles
of Cornucopia, to which place a branch
line will be ruu. Baker City people are
very much elated over this increased
service.
The directors of the Owyhee ditch
have decided to issue bonds and take up
their notes. The holders of the majority
of the notes have signified their willing
ness to make the exchange. While the
notes are not negotiable very readily at
face value, the bonds will be as good as
gold, for they are a first mortgage on the
property and will float at par.This
will also place the ditch on a sure toot
ing, as it will give the company ten
years in which to raise the money for
payment ol its debts.
There has been considerable fluctua-
tion in the amount of ore shipped from
West Kootenai, Idaho, this winter,
mostly caused bv the uncertainty of the
weather and the frequent breaking up
of the roads, Bavs the JNelson Tribune,
The ore shinned in November was val
ued at $104,500, in December at $101,-
825, in January at $266,025, and in eb
ruary at $121,462. The January ship
ments even do not represent the full
productive capacity of the country, but
thev represent more nearly than the
others the productive capacity of the
district with the present means of com
munication, provided these means of
communication are kept at a maximum
of efficiency. In forming an idea of the
present production of the country, the
ore shipped from the Blue Bell mine
and from Ainsworth for reduction at
Pilot bav should also be taken into ac
count. No returns of this are available,
but the value of the ore now accumu
lated at Pilot bay must be considerable.
NO. 52.
ARMENIAN SUFFERING.
Many Lives
Lost From
Starvation
Poverty and
London, March 18. The Daily Tele
graph has a dispatch from Moush, data
not given, and forwarded from Kara
yesterday. It says that the commis
sioners have learned that the Armenian
priest, Hatchadoor, and his son were
ordered by gendarmes to sign a docu
ment ascribing the massacre to . the
Kurds, and clearing the Turks of all
blame. The Hatchadoors refused to do
so. Gendarms then placed heated tri
angles around: their "necks. The com
mission desires to examine the two vic
tims, but the latter are too ill. The
Turkish government tried by every
means to compel the survivors of the
massacres to return to their respective
villages, and rebuild the huts. They
promised money, seed corn, exemption
from taxes and the restitution of prop
erty. Nearly all refused, and subse
quently were terribly treated. Some
returned, and now are literally starving
if not dead. Many who were wealthy
and respected are now in abject poverty.
The correspondent quotes an instance
of villagers practically naked, and sub
sisting on millet seed. The stock of this
seed, he says, must have given out a
fortnight ago. These people had no
hopes of help and probably are dying or
dead. If assistance be sent through the
delegates in Moush or the American
missionaries in Bitlis, some lives may
be saved. He writes of girls of 14, six
daughters of victims of the massacre,
who returned to Semal half naked, and
died without food or fire in a hut at
night during a snow storm. He names
six villages where the few survivors of
the massacres are starving.
LANDS GRANTED IN IDAHO.
The Selection of Those Given
the Enabling Act.
Under
Washington, March 18. Secretary
Smith has overruled the commissioner
of the general land office in a decision
affecting the selection of lands to com'
plete the grants of the state of Idaho
under the enabling act. The commis
sioner had Be vera I selections for cancel
lation because the particular tract
selected was less than a quarter section,
the law providing that selections for
losses must be in tracts not less than a
quarter section. The secretary states
that in the cases chosen by the commis
sioner it appears there are other selec
tions by the state adjoining the tracts
of less than a quarter section, and he
construes the law to mean that the state
shall make its selection in as compact a
form as possible, and that its lands
shall not be scattered about in forty and
eigbtv-acre tracts. When there are
other selections adjoining, in all more
than a quarter section, the secretary
holds that they are valid.
AMERICANS RELEASED.
They
Were In Jail In Nicaragua
for
Lynching a Native.
Washington, March 18. The state
department has received a dispatch from
United States Minister Baker at Ma'
cagua, .Nicaragua, dated march o last,
relative to the cases of seven Americans
who were held under arrest at Matlgtipi
Nicaragua, since September last, on a
cnarge oi lynching a nauva oi
who had con leased to naving paruupawu
in the murder of a German in the neigh
Whnnd. Tha minister reoorts that
after the seven men had been in jail
some time two of the party Dr. Gilman
and Fred Hoppe confessed to having
committed the lynching aione, anu de
clared the others knew nothing oi it.
Thereupon the five innocent men were
released. Gilman and Hoppe were held
in jail and were tried for the lynching
last January. They were acquitted, and
the minister reports they were Bet at
liberty.
WORSE TNAN HANGING.
Horrible Treatment of a Condemned
Murderer In Colorado.
Denver, March 18. Henry Tyson was
tried to-day by a jury to ascertain his
mental condition and found sane. Ty
son, on the stand, said he was convicted
for murder six years ago, but had never
been sentenced, as he was found to be
insane. In 1889 he was sent to the
Canon City penitentiary. He said he
was placed in a dam cell and Kept in
solitary confinement therein for three
years, during which he saw and spoke
to no one and had aDsoiuteiy no exer
cise. On being released from the dark
cell in 1892 he had to be carried out. He
was deaf and his eyes so swollen that
he could not 8ee. He has slowly recov
ered partial sight and hearing. Tyson
will probably never be sentenced, as
the laws under which he was convicted
have been altered.
ABOUT THE NAVY.
Action of Secretary Herbert Regarding
Nomination of Cadets.
Washington, March 18. Secretary
Herbert has decided that he will recog
nize and confirm the nominations of
naval cadets received by him from out-
going members of congress, under the
:r.i nmiainn tair,B.f in tha aval
annvnni-iatinn Kill in flinoa onaOM whinh
Jr l,nHH into th denartment be-
fore noon March 4. There are three or
four cases where the nominations came
in after the hour of 12, and the secretary
" L80:Zrr,L.0K":
ho.i fhompoivea ranapf! tn hnld nftw hp
has referred to the attorney-general the
legal Question, and will withhold his de
cision as to these cadets until an answer
is returned .
Fava Was Irregular.
Washington, March 18. The officials
of the state department are somewhat
surprised at the action of Baron Fava,
in communicating directly with the
governor of Colorado respecting the pro
tection of Italians in that state. His
course was irregular, but it is not prob
able any official notice will be taken of
the matter, particularly in view of the
extremely discreet and temp rate man
ner in which the ambassador presented
his case to the state department.
Everett, Wash., claims to have a fine
site for a military post in the tract of
the Tulalip Indian reservation, where
ZOO acres are available lor military purposes.
Every Important Bill Was Passed Cpon
and It Rolled Up to Its Credit Many
Meritorious Measures The End Capie
Without tha Usual Crush or Jam.
Oltmpia, March 16. The fourth ses
sion of Washington s legislature ad
journed sine die at midnight. It had
its work well in hand. Every important
bill was passed upon, and the end came
without the usual crush or jam. Not a
bill was up during the day that did not
receive proper consideration, and so
well had the siftings committee worked
that only a few were killed. Governor
McGraw occuptl an ante-room signing
several bills. He was also for a time an
interested listener to the debates. Dur
ing the day and night over eighty-two
bills were passed. Large crowds ol
ladies and gentlemen filled the lobby
until a late hour. Both houses worked
spasmodically during the last hours.
There was a recess from 9 to 10 in tha
senate, and unimportant bills wers
taken up alter that.
The fourth legislature surprised every
body by leaving a very good record be
hind it. Two weeks ago it looked very
much as if little good would be accom
plished, but about that time both houses
settled down to business, and it rolled
up to its credit many meritorious meas
ures, rue people were given a gram in
spector; the state land department was
recognized; the military wastefulness
was stopped ; the deficiency evil in pub
lic offices was made an impossibility in
the future ; interest and penalty on taxes
was reduced ; a non-deuciency law was
enacted ; county expenses were reduced ;
the county salary lund was partly abol
ished; the school-book trust was crip
pled, and laws were parsed that will al
low cities and towns to validate their
enormous debts and fund the same.
The general appropriation bill was the
last to be considered. There was a dif
ference of about $100,000 between the
house and senate bills, and the confer
ence committee passed several hours of
the afternoon and evening in considera
tion of these items. The principal one
was $50,000 for the military. The con
ference was not ended until 9 o'clock,
when minority and majority reports
were decided upon. It was 11 o'clock
before the house by a party vote adopt
ed the majority report, which, among
other things, gave the military $40,000
for two years.
One of the most exciting incidents of
the session occurred in the house this
morning, when Hutchinson's senate bill
to provide for the state publishing its
school text books came up for consider
ation. There was a most eloquent de
bate over the measure, and its final pas
sage was greeted with enthusiastic
cheers. The state printer will now pub
lish text books, and it is claimed thu
school children will be able to purchase
them for about 33 per cent of the pres
ent rate. The passage of the bill was a
direct slap at the American Book Com
pany and other trusts of this character.
The house defeated the senate bill for
the submission of the question of woman
suffrage to a vote of the people. The
bill was placed on the calendar under a
suspension of the rules, the siftings
committee having shut it out, and sev
eral eloquent speeches were made in its
support. It resulted in defeat by a vote
of 46 to 19, failing to receive the neces
sary two-thirds, and the question of
woman suffrage will be a dead letter for
at least two years.
NEGROES FOR LIBERIA.
The International Migration Society's
First Installment.
Philadelphia, March 16. The Dan
ish steamer Horsa sailed from here this
evening for Savannah, having been char
tered by the International Migration So
ciety to take about 200 negro colonists
from Savannah to Monrovia, Liberia.
The steamer is under command of Cap
tain Henry Wiborg. The emigrants will
be accompanied by an agent of the so
ciety. The Horsa will probably arrive
at Savannah Sunday, and, if possible,
will sail for Liberia the same day. The
society has organized its first party of
emigrants with great care, selecting
them mainly from Mississippi, in mak
ing the selections only men, both single
and married, of good physical condition
have been chosen and permitted to join.
The married men will be accompanied
by their wives and families. The so
ciety has made arrangements to give
unmarried colonists ten acres of land,
and those married twenty-five acres
upon their arrival in Liberia. The Li
berian government will shelter the colo
nists for three months until they have
built their own houses. Good mechan
ics, carpenters especially, it is claimed,
can have plenty of work at good wages,
while those familiar with farming work
can engage in coffee-growing.
Bplllad Ammonia In the Water.
Hamilton, O., March 16. Ex-Gov
ernor Campbell, after placing a glass of
water to his lips at dinner last evening,
rose, staggering and foaming at the
month apparently speechless. He man
aged to say, "My throat is burning."
An investigation showed that a servant
had placed a bottle of ammonia in the
ice chest in such a way that when the
lid was closed the contents were spilled
into the drinking water. Physicians
admlniBtered antidotes quickly, but the
"-governor is still suffering severely,
Portugal and Brasll Made Up,
iondon, marcn 10. ine central
News' correspondent at Lisbon savs that
y,e British minister in Rio de Janeiro
has been successful in his mediation be-
tween Brazil and Portugal, that the en'
tonto has been renewed, and that dip-
lomatic relations will be resumed soon.
The coolness between the countries be?
gan when a Portuguese warship carried
Admiral da tfama and other conspicuous
insurgents beyond tho jurisdiction of
the Brazilian government.
'New English Battleships.
London, March 14. In the house to
day Civil Lord of the Admiralty Robert
son said : "Since the beginning of 1894
seven battleships have been started in
the course of construction in England,
a in France and none in Russia.
Ljdla Thompson Was Hurt.
New Yobk, March 14. A train on the
Third avenue line crashed into the
bumpers at Third avenue and Thirty-
Fourth street to-day. iiydia mom peon,
supposed to be the actress, was injured
internally. Mathilda Fisher, M, rt
eived bodily injuries. .
thesrew.