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VOL.
IX .
NEW BERG,
Y A M H IL L
COUNTY,
OREGON,
FRIDAY,
AUGUST
13, 1897.
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T > A P T I8 T C H I RCH.-SERVICES, SUNDAY 11
a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday school Sun
days at 10 a. m. Prayer m eeting Wednesday
evening at 7;30 o ’clock.
REV. G. F. JERARD, Pastor.
RESBYTERIAN <H I*RU H .—SERVICES EV-
ery two weeks as follows: February 7th
and 21st, March 7th and 21st, and A pril 4th and
18th.
J. A DAT, Pastor.
P
/C H RISTIAN CI1UR( II.-S E R V IC E S EVERY
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second and fourth Sunday at 10 a. m. and
7:30 p. m.
lR E E METHODIST.—PR A Y E R
MEETING
1 every Thursday at 7:30 p. m. Sabbath
school every Sunday at 10 a. m.
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E. CHURCH.—SERVICES SECOND, TH IR D
• and fourth Sundays o f each month at 11
a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday school every Sun
day 10 a. m. At M. E. church, Fafayette, first
and fitfh Sunday of each month.
R. A. ATKIN S, Pastor.
M
Q A L V A T IO N A R M Y -M E E T IN G AT BAR-
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racks on Main street as follow s: Tuesday
for soldier converts and recruits; Wednesday,
public; Friday, holiness, for Christians o n ly ;
Saturday evening, put lie : Sunday. all day,
comm encing with 7 a. m., knee d rill; holiness
m eeting 11 a. m.; fam ily gathering at 3 p. m.,
and grand tree and easy in the evening. Ev
erybody welcome.
SOCIETY NOTICES.
J OF THE WORLD.—N EW BERGCAM P.NO.
113, meets every Monday evening.
i r C .T . U.—BUSINESS MEETING THE SEC-
\y . mul ami fourth Wednesday in each
month.
O. F.—SESSIONS HELD ON THU RSDAY
in Bank of Newberg building.
I O. . evenings
AND L. OF 8.—NEWBERG COUNCIL, NO.
K , 168, meets every Friday evening in Ma
sonic ball.
F. AND A. M — MEETS E VE RY 8ATUR-
day night in C. V. Bank building.
A
O. U. W. — MEETS E VE RY TUESDAY
evening at 7:30 p. m. in I. O. O. F. Hall.
EAST AND SO UTH
-V IA -
The Shasta Route
-O F T H E -
SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO.
Trains leave and are due to arrive at Portland:
LEAVE.
ARRIVE.
(O verland Express.— ']
| Salem, Albany, Eng- j
j ene, Roseb’g, Grants |
| I’a.-s, Medford, Ash- [
♦6:00 p. m. ^ land,
Sacramento, ♦ 9:30 a. m.
i Ogden, San Francis-
1 co. Mojave, Los An-
j geles, El Faso, New
t Orleans, and East....,
♦8:30 ft. m. Roseburg >k way stations j* 4:30 p. m.
(V ia Woodburn, fo r)
Daily
! Mt. Angel, Silverton,
Daily
^ \\ est Scio, Browns- j except
except
ville, Natron and
Sunday.
Sunday.
(.Springfield............... J
f7:30 a. m. Corvallis A way stations ♦ 5:50 p. m.
f4:50 p. m. M cM innville & way sta's^f 8:25 a. m.
A ll above trains arrive and depart from Grand
Central station, Fifth and Irvin g streets.
D lu in g Cars on O gde n Ro ute.
Direct connection at San Francisco with Oc
cidental and Oriental and Pacific Mail steam
ship lines for Japan and China. Sailing dates
on application.
Rates and tickets to Eastern points and Eu
rope. Also Japan, China, Honolulu and Au
stralia, can be obtained from
J. B. K IR K LA N D , Ticket Agent,
134 Third street, Portland, Or.
Y A M H ILL
D IVISION.
Tassenger depot foot of Jefferson street.
A irlle mail (tri-w eekly)._____________________
9:40 aTmT L v ....... Portland......... Ar 8:05 p. m.
12:50 p. m. L v ....... New berg.......... L v 12:15 p. m.
5:10 p. m. A r ....... A irli e .............. Lv| 7:80 a. m.
Sheridan passenger (daily except Sunday)
9:30 a. in.
\\Lv .... Newberg.... .... Lv! 7:55 a. m.
.]A r ........ Sheridan.... ....Lv
“ •Daily, fD aily except Sunday.
C. B. FRISSELL, Agent, Newberg.
R. KOEHLER, Manager.
C. H. M A RK H AM ,
Gen. F. A P. Agent, Portland, Or.
THE GREAT
G O I ì D m S M E H
C O U N T R IE S
OF BRITISH COLUMBIA AND
EASTERN OREGON
S panish
From all Parts of the New
and Old World.
B E IE » A5D INTERESTING ITEMS
C o m p r e h e n s iv e R o r lo w
o f th e Im p o r t*
a n t H a p p e n in g * o f t h e C ur
ren t
W eek.
The natives of New Guinea are mur
dering Australian miners.
Federal and state authorities are
again in a tangle in Kansas and a clash
is expected.
The corn crop in Kansas is now said
to be damaged 50 per cent by the pre
vailing hot weather.
Senators Quay and Morgan are to go
to the Sandwich Islands to post them
selves on the country and its possibil
ities.
The internal revenue office has issued
orders to local collectors to seize tobacco
prize packages under the provision of
the new tariff law.
Over 100 tramps and harvesters took
possession of a freight train on the
Northwestern line, near Omaha, Neb.
The train was sidetracked, and the
sheriff and police were called upon for
assistance. After an hour’s delay the
tramps were dislodged. Tiie sheriff
had a desperate fight in trying to jail
the men, but was successful. The sur
rounding country is overrun with
tramps.
The following is an extract from a
private letter received in San Fran
cisco from Manila, Philippine islands:
“ Here things are in a frightful mess.
Spanish dollars have been introduced
at 10 per cent less value than Mexican.
Everybody wants to sell out. Native
brokers are all over the place trying to
sell their possessions, and find no buy
ers.
In the sugar provinces, cane
plants are being burned up for lack of
rain. ”
Samuel Wolf, a Jersey City contract
or, offered a dish of cream to the boy
who would hold his arm the loflgest
time in an ice cream freezer. A num
ber of boys who were around W olf’s
store contested for the prize. Willie
Lockwood outdid them all. Although
suffering great pain, he held his arm in
the freezer for four minutes. When he
withdrew it the arm was frozen stiff.
He was taken to the hospital, where it
was said it would be necessary to am
putate the arm.
J A letter received in Portland from
Juneau, Alaska says: There are 500
people now at Dyea, waiting to get ovei
the pass.
There are several more
steamer loads now on the way, loaded
to the guards. The Indian packers at
Dyea and pack animals have all the
freight they can carry to the lakes by
the time winter sets in. There will
be hundreds camping at Dyea and on
the lakes all winter, eating the provi
sions they have taken with them.
Other parties bound for the mines by
this route have to carry their own
freight over the mountains. The pricei
for packing across the mountain have
risen to 25 and 27 cents per pound, and
the packers are independent at that.
Kansas and Missouri are again being
scorched by h.‘at.
Six persons were killed in a moun
tain slide a tew miles from Berlin Sat
urday.
A non-union coal miner was shot
and killed at Scottdale, Pa., during a
quarrel with striking miners
The potters of Trenton, N. J., and
the sheet iron workers of Phillipsbnrg,
N. H ., now threaten to go on a strike.
The monitor Puritan broke her rud
der in New York and w ill be laid up
for a month, and will cost about $5,000.
George H. Walker, a Washington, D.
C., lawyer and former correspondent,
has been appointed assistant postmas
ter-general.
Four boys were drowned at Kansai
City while in swimming, four in Win
nipeg and two more at Boston, one ot
whom was 80 years of age.
Bluejackets from the warship York-
town and Boston were stoned ami beaten
by Japanese at Kobe, Japan, and some
of them were badly used up.
Andree’s north pole balloon is report
ed to have been seen in several place*
recently, but each time away off itl
course. Many have given him up at
lost.
Professor Anon, a professional high-
-VIA-
wire performer, fell from his wire, a
distance of 75 feet, while riding a bi
cycle at Ridgewood Park, N. J., and
was killed.
The monthly statement issued by the
director of the mint shows that during
July, 1897, the coinage executed at the
No Change of Cars Between
United States mints amounted to
»670,850.
BAKER CITY
A Missouri Pacific train ran into (
PORTLAND and j
freight standing on the main track at
SPOKANE
Yates Center, Kan., and Engineei
Joseph Clown *nd Fireman Cal Kowar
were killed. Other persons were in
jured.
Captain General Weyler has par
Connecting with
doned forty political offenders nndei
death and other hard sentences, at th*
suggestion of the home government,
and 1,000 Cuban exiles have been
TRAIL, ROSSLAND, MARCUS granted amnesty.
Assistant Secretary Howell has ren
NELSON, and All Kootenay
dered a decision in which beholds that
Mining Camps...
calfskins should be classed as “ hide*
of cattle,” and are therefore dutiable
under the new tariff, but at 15 per cent
ad valorem.
L o w R a te * and Through T ick ets
In the engagement of Chakdara the
British troops suffered but slight loss,
fo r Pamphlet* and tota lled Inform ation,
. bnt the native losa was heavy. His
W rit« to
thousand tribesmen were preparing tc
W. H. HURLBURT.
attack the fort when they were at
Gao. Paa*. A f t O. R A V. Co., Portland. Or.
tacked by the British column, nndei
Colonel Meikeljohn, and completely
O LIV E R A COLCORD, Agent*.
routed.
Ngwaiao. Oaaooa.
ARE
ALL
REACHED
T he 0. R. & N.
Shortest Line to Spokane
ALL RAIL ROUTE to...
P r e m ie r A Msasiinuted
I t a lia n A n a r c h is t.
by
T h e S t r ik e r « W o n th e D a y a t T u r t le and
S a n d y C r e e k «.
Madrid, Aug. 10.— SenorCanovas del
Castillo, the prime minister of Spain,
was assassinated today at Santa Agueda
by an anarchist.
The murderer fired
three shots, two of which struck the
premier in the head and the other in
the chest. The wounded man lingered
unconscious for two hours, and died at
8 o’clock tliis afternoon. His w ife was
but a short distance away when he fell.
Santa Agueda is noted for its baths.
The plaoe is between San Sebastian, the
summer residence of the Spanish court,
and Vittoria, the capital of the prov
ince of Alava, about 30 miles south of
Billie. .
The premier went there last Thursday
to take a three weeks’ course of the
baths, after which he expected to return
to San Sebastian to see United States
Minister Woodford, when that gentle
man should be officially received by the
queen regent.
The assassin was immediately arrest
ed.
He is a Neopolitan, and gives the
name of Rinialdi, but it is believed his
real name is Angele Angelo Golli.
The murderer declared he killed Can-
ovas in accomplishment of a “ just ven
geance” and as the outcome of a con
spiracy. He is believed to have arrived
at Santa Agueda the same day as the
premier, and was frequently seen link
ing in the passage of the bathing estab
lishment in a suspicious manner.
The remains of Senor Canovas will be
brought here tomorrow.
Marshal Martinez Campos has gone
to San Sebastian to attend the queen
regent.
Senor Sagasta, the liberal leader, has
sent the following telegram to the gi v-
ernment:
“ I have heard with deep pain of the
crime that iias thrown us all in mourn
ing, and I place myself at the orders of
the government and qneen.”
Most of the liberal leaders sent sim
ilar messages, placing themselves at the
disposition of the government.
The queen regent, on hearing the
sad news, dispatched her own physician
by a special train from San Sebastian.
Later, on learning that Canovas was
dead, she wired her condolence to the
widow.
The health of SenorCanovas had im
proved greatly of late. He had been
leading a quiet life, although he attend
ed to the business of state.
A t the moment of the assassination
he was waiting in the gallery of the
bathing establishment for his wife, who
was to join him for lunch. Suddenly
the assassin, who had the appearance
of an ordinary visitor, approached and
fired at him point blank, one bullet
passing through the body and coming
out behind the left shoulder, and the
other two lodging in the head. He fell
instantly, and only recovered conscious
ness long enough to speak a few words.
Several medical men and his wife
were unremitting in their attentions to
the sufferer, but his wounds were mor
tal, and he died in two hours. Extreme
unction was administered amid a scene
of mingled sorrow and indignation.
The assassin narrowly escaped lynch
ing at the hands of the waiters and at
tendants who rushed forward.
Detec
tives and civil guards immediately
secured him. He was very pale, trem
bled very much and evidently feared
that he would be killed on the spot.
He will be first arraigned before the
local magistrates at Vergara.
JACK
W ill
H AM BLET
ARRESTED.
B e T r ie d in L o n g C reek fo r th e
M u r d e r o f B en ja m in G u m in a n y .
Long Creek, Or., Aug. 10.— Jack
Hamblet, arrested in Boise City, Idaho,
last week, and for whom requisition
papers have been applied by Sheriff
Livingstone, of this county, will be
tried for the murder of Benjamin
Gammany, whom he killed in an alter
cation at a dance at Rock Creek on the
morning of February 23, 1894. The
circumstances of the killing are as fol
lows: Jack Hamblet, who lived in the
mountain, and was considered a quarrel
some and dangerous character, was
called to order during the night of the
dance by Gammany, who was floor man
ager. Hamblet resented the interfer;
ence, and, using abusive language, the
two men came to blows. Gammany,
who was considerably the smaller, was
getting the best of the fight, when
Hamblet drew his pistol.
The pistol
was taken from him and the men sepa
rated.
Everything was again compar
atively peaceable until about 3 o’clock
in the morning, when Hamblet renewed
the quarrel by asking Gammany to step
ontside with him. Gammany com
plied, and no sooner had the two men
reached the outside when Hamblet
turned and fired. The shot struck
Gammany's left wrist, and, ranging to
the elbow, entered the body. With
his death wound, body bent, and hands
crosseit on his breast, Gammany rau
back into the room. Hamblet fol
lowed him, and, reaching over his
shoulder, sent another ball into his
brain.
Then, defying any one to arrest him,
Hamblet mounted his horse and rode
away.
Armed parties started after
him, bnt he got into the mountain
fastness, and eluded all efforts to cap
ture him. Before leaving the «lance
hall Hamblet made the remark that
Gammany was his fourth man.
Those who touch each other
tometimes farthest apart.
S h o rta g e In K a t t fr n r e a c h Mtatea.
Hugh C. Wallace Talks ot
the Great Gold Strike.
EXTENT OF THE RICH DIGGINGS
I t I * E s tim a te d T h a t 100.000 M en W i l l
<io iu t h e S p r in g —C a lifo r n ia n
C h an ge«
H i«
M in d .
Tacoma, Aug. 10.— HughC. Wallace,
the prominent banker, who has proba
bly made a more careful investigation
of the Klondike than anybody on the
coast who has not actually been there,
having interviewed a great number of
the miners who came down on the Port
land last mouth, and other people who
have traveled in the upper YTukon coun
try and prospected along the main river
and its branches, said to a press repre
sentative:
“ There is no doubt that the Yukon
will yield more gold than has been
taken from any river on this coast, or
probably in any other part of the world.
Tiie Yukon runs through a country not
yet explored by white men, and its bars
are universally reported to be rich.
Miners w ho have worked along the river
since 1882 agree that ground »5 to »100
per day is easily found.
“ The existenoe of gold in such quan
tities along the main river is abundant
proof of rich diggings in other branches
than the Klondike. It is certain there
was two months ago somewhere between
»6,000,000 and »3,000,000 already taken
out and sent to Dawson City.
Fully
one-half of this, it is believed, will
come down on the next two steamers.
“ The gold thus far taken out ha!
come from two or three small creek!
emptying into the Klondike.
Reports
of other rich strikes have been obtained.
Returning miners unite in declaring
that prospecting has scarcely begun.
Men engaged in profitable enterprises
on Puget sound are leaving them for the
Klondike.
I am informed that profit
able diggings hnd prosperous towns in
Alaska are being almost deserted in
the rush for the new eldorado.
“ There w ill be a mighty and contin
uous stream of people from Puget Bound
for the next six weeks, and I believe it
is no exaggeration to say that there
will he 100,000 men go in next Febru
ary, March, April and May. To my
knowledge, letters are being received
daily from every section of this coun
try, and from European cities as well,
making inquiry as to means of reaching
Alaska in the spring.
“ Old Yukoners say the trip can be
made any month in the year. The
perilous and difficult part of the trip has
consisted heretofore of a climb over
the mountain passes requiring a portuge
of 28 miles from salt water to the first
of a series of lakes, forming the Yukon
headwaters. This difficulty is now over,
for since the using of W hite’s pass be
gan, three weeks ago, horses can be
used for packing outfits the entire dis
tance over the mountains, ami miners
themselves can ride if they choose. It
is three days from Puget sound to this
pass.
“ The effect of these discoveries on
business on Puget sound has been elec
tric, and the effect of the immense in
crease in the production of gold will
stimulate every artery of trade.”
N o K l o n d i k e fo r H im .
Port Townsend, Aug. 10 — An evi
dence that many people started for the
gidd fields of Alaska during tiie strain
of mental excitement was given here
last night, when the steamer Queen
sailed for the north. Just after the
steamer blew her whistle to cast off her
lines, an excited passenger, who had
»800 worth of provisions billed through
to Dyea, yelled out:
“ Boys, divide the d— d mess between
you; I ’m going back to California.”
The disgusted passenger refused to
give his name, bnt said lie would pre
fer to give up his outfit than to take
the chances of crossing Chilkoot pass
this fall.
Evidently there were several disciples
of counterfeiter Dean and wife, of Han
Francisco, yesterday hound for Alaska,
for just before the Queen sailed last
night, several well dressed yonng men
rushed around the city in quest of
change for greenbacks. They said they
were going down the Yukon river in
boats, and, in case they fell overboard,
paper money would be ruined by get
ting wet. In many cases they succeed
ed iri passing bills, two-thirds of which
have been found to be counterfeit. One
saloonist, in a hatch of »240 in bills,
received two »20 Confederate bills of
the inintageof 1862. Investigation de
veloped the fact that they were left
here by people who went north on the
Queen.
I m p r a c t ic a b le E x p o s itio n H r h fm M .
Paris, Ang. 10.— A hundred projects
for attractions for the Paris exposition
of 1900 were submitted to the commit
tee today. They included the building
of a copy of Bartholdi’s statue of lib
erty in New York harbor 600 feet high;
the construction of a restaurant under
water, to lie built of glass; an enor
mous vertical screw, with a nut fitted
as a cafe; a reproduction of the Trojan
horse, capable of holding 1,000 people,
and plans for fitting the Eiffel tower
with a spiral railroad and toboggan
ar* chute. The committee decided that
none of the schemeg were practicable.
C * u * h t by * M o w e r.
Wilbur,Wash., Aug. 10.— While cut
ting grain yesterday afternoon the 4-
year-old son of Peter McKay in some
way managed to get in the tall grain in
front of the machine, and had one of
hia little limbs completely severed.
The other was badly mangled, but Dr.
Young thinks that he can save it if he
can save the child’s life.
Cliambersburg, Pa., Aug. 10.— The
Blue Mountain peach belt of Southern
Pennsylvania and Western Maryland
is the only part of the country that will
have more than 20 to 25 per cent of a
crop this year. According to the view*
of Colonel Tames Englore, of Chambers-
burg, who has returned from a tour of
the peach states, the shortage is es
pecially great in Wisconsin, Ohio, Del
A flve-cent stamp must *dorn every
aware and the Esstern shore in Mary day book, ledger or other account book
land.
kept by s business house in Mexioo.
NO .
38.
A MOST TRAGIC FATE
CHURCH N0TICE8.
71 RIK N IH ’ C H l' K< ’ H 8 E K V1CB8 EVER Y
1 Sunday at 11 a, in. and H p. in. and Thur*-
ay at 2 p. m. Sabbath school every Sunday at
9:4.’> a. m. Monthly meeting at » p.'m. the first
Tuesday in each month. Quarterly meeting
the second Saturday and Sunday in ’February,
May, August and November, woman s For
eign Missionary Society meets third Saturday
in each mouth at 3 p. m.
ALFRED T. WARE, Pastor.
K 4 T M :
On# Column...... ..
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Unii Colum n—
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Prof— Ion*] Carda ...... .. . ...........Oas Dollar
Pittsburg, Aug. 9.— Out of the 2,000
Gold-Seekers Perish
strikers who camped at Turtle creek Three
last Saturday, barely 300 now remain
in
Alaskan
Ice Fields.
at Camp Determination. In addition
to tiie large number turned out of camp
and shut off from the free food distri
bution yesterday, many were drafted to OVERTAKEN BY SEVERE STORM
Plum creek, where the great struggle
for supremacy between the strikers ami
the New York & Cleveland Gas Coal One o f Th om I.oft a Noto Giving; an Ac*
Company w ill be carried on.
count o f T h e i r T e r r ib l e Suffer
A t Turtle and Sandy creeks the
ing;*» From Cold and Hung«*r.
strikers have practically won. Turtle
Seattle,
Aug. 9.— There now remains
creek mine, known as No. 4, is closed j
down as tight as the strikers can ever [ no doubt as to the fate of Charles A.
hope to close it by their present peace- I Blackstone, George Batcher and J. W.
fill means of agitation. It is true that | Malique, the Cook’* inlet miners who
a few men are still at work in the pit, have been missing since April. Black-
but they are not putting out any coal. stone’s body has been found, and on
bis body was a diary stating his part
The same holds good at Sandy creek.
Reports from Plum creek are conflict ners had frozen to death.
When the steamer L..kme sailed from
ing. Superintendent DeArmitt claims
that 255 men are still-working, while Seattle for Cook’s inlet, Alaska, in
the strikers say they counted but 80 go March, 1896, she carried among her
passengers Blackstone, Batcher and
ing into the pit this morning.
The deputies at Plum creek are hav Malique. The men attempted to cross
ing a hard time. Many are complain the portage glacier on u prospecting
It is
ing, and a number have resigned. They tour and were frozen to death.
are up from before daylight nnitl long evident Blackstone made his way down
after the sun has set. They are on a the glacier to where it pitches into
constant strain. A ll the mines are con Prince William sound. His body was
nected by private telegraph and tele found at the foot of the glacier, to
phone wires, and every stranger or gether with the remains of his dog.
body of strangers moving along the On his body was the following memo
highway are reported to the nearest randum;
“ Saturday, April 4, 1897.— This is
office by scouts, and the foreinVn or
managers of all the mines get notice. to certify that George Batcher froze to
A t the point upon which any march death Tuesday night, J. W. Malique
thus reported seems to be directed, died Wednesday forenoon, C. A. Black-
there is a stir among the deputies. As stone had his ears, nose and four fingers
those marches are of almost daily oc on his right hand and two on his left
currence day and night in all direc hand frozen an inch back. The storm
tions, the deputies are in a constant drove us on before it overtook uswithiu
state of apprehension and activity. an hour of the summit, and drove us
Tiie feeding and lodging facilities are before it, and drove everything we had
limited, and not adequate to the de over tho cliff, except our blankets and
mands made upon them, and what adds moose hide, which we all crawled un
to the deputies' discomfort is the fact der. The temperature is supposed to
that none of them are used to hard have been 40 degrees below zero. F ri
day I started for salt water. I don't
ships.
know how I got there with the outfit
Saturday afternoon.
I gathered up
T E S L A 'S W IR E LE SS SYSTE M
everything and have enough grub for
M e s s a g e * M a y li e Sent to A n y T a r t o f ten days providing the bad weather
don’ t set in. Sport was blown over
t l i . G lo b e .
the cliff
1 think I hear him howl
New York, Ang. 6.— Nicola Tesla
every once in a while.”
announced today the completion of his
It would appear that Blackstone
latest discovery, the "simultaneous
went over the cliff with the intention
transmission of messages by means of
of finding his dog.
From his diary it
the earth’s electrical currents to as
seems that he found his dog, and finally
many scattered points on the surface of
in order to prevent starving to death
the globe as may ho deBired.” This lie
ho was forced to kill and eat tho animal,
regards as by far his greatest achieve
but it-was of no avail; no relief came
ment. To a few intimates lie gave a
and he starved or froze to death.
thrilling demonstration of the operation
On May 27. just two months after
of his device for arresting and subject the men left Sunrise City, the body of
ing to control under natural laws the
Blackstone was found by George Hall,
natural substances in and about the
a prospector from Seattle, and the re
earth.
main« were buried. Blackstone was 39
His latest invention or discovery is years old, was a native of Oregon and
to produce such a disturbance of the had lived in Portland, Centralia,
electricity of the earth which can tie Wash., and Seattle.
felt and noted simultaneously at all
Batcher was a native of Montana,
parts of the globe.
was 36 years of age, and for many years
“ I am producing," said lie in tho followed mining.
course of liis demonstration, “ an elec
Malique was a native of Indiana,
trical disturbanceof intense magnitude, was 38 years of age, was a graduate of
which is continuing throughout the en Hamilton college, Mo., and was a prac
tire earth. In other words, 1 am pro tical miner. For many years he had
ducing a disturbance of the earth’s as a partner Mr. Hull, the hero of this
charge of electricity which can he felt story.
to the nttermost parts of the earth.”
“ And the result w ill be?”
F A T A L C H I C A G O FIR E .
“ That is almost incomprehensible.
This electrical disturbance by means F ive Firemen W i » r « K il l e d and Fifty
W m in d e d .
of certain simple instruments, oan be
felt and appreciated at any point, of the
Chicago, Aug. 9.— Five lives were
globe. In this way messages can he lost in an explosion thif evening dur
sent the entire earth around, nnd ho ing a fire in the Northwestern grain
taken up at any part of the earth with elevator, at Cook and West Water
out the aid or intervention of wires iu streets. Four of the dead are firemen;
any way at all. ”
the body of another fireman is thought
to be buried in the ruins. From the
M o w e d D o w n W i t h Cannon.
force with which the explosion swept
London, Aug. 9.— The London News the R|Mit on which they were standing,
puhlishet a letter from a Calcutta vol they must have been instantly killed.
unteer reiterating the statement that Either the bursting of a boiler or the
during the recent rioting there the artil explosion of mill dirt caused the havoc.
lery fired at a mob of 5,000 mill hands The four firemen, who were killed by
who were marching to join the rioters, the falling wails of the elevator are:
with the result that l,500of tho natives Jacob J. Schnnr, Joseph Striknmn,
were killed.
John J. Coogan and Jacob S. Strainer.
The secretary of state for India was
An unidentified man was blown into
questioned in the house of commons the river, but the body was not recov
July 0 as to thre accuracy of the native ered.
report that 1,600 persons were killed
Besides these dozens of firemen and
during the rioting, which hail just oc passers by were more or less cut and
curred in the vicinity of Calcutta, as bruised by glass ami flying dehiis. In
one of the results of the stringent meas all 51 firemen were injured.
ures taken by government officials to
prevent tho spread of and stump out
A S L U M P IN S I L V E R .
the bulionic plague.
He replied that
about seven persons were killed and 20 T h « Pr ic e Declined One nnd O n e- Q u ar t er
were wounded during tho riots referred
Cent« nt N e w York.
to.
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New York, Aug. 9.— Silver bullion
experienced Unlay the most violent
T o Cnniplitt« I I ik I moii H i r e r Tunnel.
New York, Ang. 9.— The Hudson I break of the season’s decline. In Lon
river tunnel project to connect New I don, the price dropped Jgd per ounce
York and New Jersey has boon revived. ! from yesterday’s price, selling at 2534d
Plans are now being perfected to re per ounce, as against 27 V I a month
sume construction where it was dropped ago. The New York price fell toSS^c
five years ago. Engineers say that an bid, a break of I l^c an ounce from yes
expenditure of »1,600,000 w ill com terday and 14c within a month. At
plete the work. Four million dollars this price tiie bullion value of the sil
hail already been s|mnt before the work ver dollar i* * trifle more than 43
was abandoned, at which time there cents.
London dispatches ascribed today’s
were 3,916 feet of completed tnnuel go
ing east from the shaft in Jersey City. j great weakness in silver to liquidation
One thousand feet of this distance ex- ! of New York holders of the bullion.
Such s decline as today's has not
tends east of the middle of the Hudson
been witnessed since June, 1893. The
river.
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India mints were closed to free silver
P r i i l i l . n l W i l l Not C o m . W « « t .
coinage June 26 of that year. On th*
San Francisoo, Aug. 9. — Mayor news, bullion fell in London from
Phelan today received a dispatch from 87fgd per ounce »n a price below 30<l,
Attorney-Genera I Mi-Kenna, stating hut it rallied sharply later.
that President McKinley hail assured
A huge cypress tree in Title, in the
him that the proposed trip to the Pa
cific coast hail been abandoned for this state of Oxaca, Mexico, ia 164 feet in
circumference.
y e a r . __________________
j
Calif or nia W h . n l for K m r l l .
4 4 ?trtft«Uf Bills Collected Monthly*
C LA IM S
ARE
ALL
TAKEN.
Clo ni lyk e T h r o n g . i l W i t h Di sappointed
Golp lluiiljr».
Han Francisco, Aug. 9.— Speaking of
the Clondyke output of gold, the chief
olerk of the mint said.
“ A ll the gold brought to this city
from the Alaskan mines w ill not ex
ceed »800,009, and all that has been
taken out this year and Bent to tho
other mints of the country will not ex
ceed »2,000,000. The gold from that
part of the country is generally from
700 to 800 flue and some of it rates 900,
the average being worth from »15.55 to
»17 an ounce.”
|
J. C. Butler, of the Pullman Gar
Company, is in receipt of a letter from
K. P. Taylor, a financial broker of
Seattle. A few days ago Taylor re
ceived word from some men whom he
aent to the Clondyke region last spring,
in which they inform him that every
claim within 150 miles of Dawson
City has been taken np, and that men
are rushing all over the country look
ing for locatitons. He says that star
vation and hardship stares many of
them in the face.
Captain Niehaum, of the Alaska
Commercial Company, who has made
a careful study of the situation, fears
there w ill be a great deal of suffering
in the mining regions this spring. He
thinks the people going are far in ex
cess of the supplies that have been for
warded.
A letter from Hart Humber, a pros
pector, dated Dawson City, June 18,
just received, shoWB that the gold seek
er needs plenty of capital. After reach
ing Dawson and paying the heavy duty
on his outfit, besides 80 cents a pound
for getting it over Chilkoot pass, he
will have to pay 25 eents a pound to
get his stuff from Dawson to the dig-
gings.
The rush to the Clondyke gold fields
is affecting the mineowners of the
mother lode in the vicinity of Sonora,
Jackson and Sutter Creek, and if it con
tinues w ill cause the closing down of
the mines in Calaveras, Amador and
Tuolumne counties, or their operation
with depleted forces.
In the past week 200 men have left
Amador county alone for the gold fields
iu the north and others are preparing
to follow. Some of them were hired
by mineowners in Alaska, hut many of
them went on their own resources.
The other counties have also sent ex
pert miners in large numbers.
A m Ex pe dit io n F ro m Bro ok ly n.
New York, Aug. 9. — A half dozen
ambitious Brooklynites are organizing
an expedition to Alaska to search for
some of the Clondyke gold. David P.
Watsons, of Brooklyn, clerk of the Re
publican general committee, is making
up a party, of which he will he one.
nnd which will leave early in February
to seek fortunes in the gold fields of
the North.
Ta co iu a I* C l o n d y k e Mad.
Tacoma, Wash., Aug. 9.— Desire to
rush off to the Alaska gold fields at
once, without waiting till next Bpring
is increasing all the time. Fourteen
steamers are scheduled to sail from
this port between now and the first of
September.
TO
LAY
TH E
DUST.
N ove l Sc heme of a N e w Jer sey R a i l w a y
Eng ine er .
New York, Aug. 9.— A dispatch to
the Herald from May’s Landing, N.
J., says: The recent discovery of Chief
Enginocr Nicholas, of the West Jersey
& Seashore railway, that crude oil ap
plied to the ground along the railway
tracks would effectually lay the uust,
has proven after thorough tests to work
far better than was first expected.
Both lines of track leading from Cam
den to Atlantic City are being thor
oughly saturated for a distance of six
feet on both sides of the track.
The oil ia applied on much the same
plan as streets are sprinkled. A water
and recently an oil train with sprin
kling apparatus sprinkled more than
20 miles. The work will be completed
iu a few days. One sprinkling a year
at a cost of »80 per mile, it is claimed,
will lay the dust effectually, but two
applications may have to he made.
The Pennsylvania system is to be
sprinkled with oil as speedily as possi
ble.
A M ic hig an T r a g e d y .
Grand Rapids, Mich., Aug. 9.— Last
A pril A. II. Dailey, of Jennison, sent
a letter to Mayor Hwift, saying he
wanted a wife. The letter got into
the newspa|>ers, and as a result Dailey
received 500 answers. From among
the offers he selected Mrs Hattie M.
Newton, a Chicago widow, and they
were married.
They quarreled and
finally separated. Dailey gave hia wife
three days to return. The time was up
at midnight last night and she refuied
| to return. Dailey foroed hia way into
her bedohamlier and shot her with a
musket. Dailey was arrested, and on
hia way to jail was allowed to go into
a saloon to drink. He slipped strych
nine into his beer and fell over dead
in a few minute*. The woman w ill
recover.
F a ta l Qu a rre l Ov e r Cattl*.
Madera, Cal., Aug. 9.— In a quarrel
over cattle in Crane valley, at Mc-
Hwain ranch, yesterday, l«etween Patsy
Reardon and L. A. Woodford, the lat
ter was shot and instantly killed.
Reardon gave himself up.
F lo u r on t h « R l«o .
O v e r S e v e n ty Mllllnne.
Chicago, Ang. 9.— Flour is rising in
price, and has reacheu »6 s barrel. Last
April it cost »4.10, the low price of the
year.
The advance has been steady
since, and some of those In the trade
think it will continue uatil war-time
prices prevail.
Washington, Aug. 9.— Th* latest offi
cial estimate of the population of the
United States is 77,000,068.
This is
made by the aotnary of the treasury an
officer whoeednty it is at fixed intervals
to report on the per oaptia circulation
of money in the United State*.
He
estimates that the preaent holding* of
money are »22.53 for every man, woman
and child in the United State*.
Washington, Aug. 9.— The bureau of
American republics had information
that merchant* of Rio Janeiro have
chartered two vessels in Han Francisco
to take cargoes of California wheat to
Rio. This is the first time that such a
thing has occurred and is attributed to
the short crop in the Argentine repub
8t. Petersburg, Aug. 9. — Word has
lic and Paraguay.
oeen received that during the recent
floou* 88 persons were drowned by th*
The common house ipsrrow flies at oollapee of s bridge at Ksrtle, province
of XlthoDia.
th* rat* of 93 mils* an hour.
It is mnch easier to find the man yoq
owe than the man who owe« you