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IG GRAPHIC ____ Kl IIM H IP T H H O h Tear R 1 T IM ....................................... • i i Month* Three Month*. ....................................... *1 31 ............................ ....... . ••N n rlitlM P ric e P a y a b le a bly la A d v a i M . 7f * la b a r i Ad dross G r a p h ic . N eaocrg. Oregon. CHURCH NOTICES. jlRIENDS’ C H U R C H .-S E R V IC E S EVERY Sunday at 11 a, m. and 8 p. m. and Thurs- ay at 2 p. m. Sabbath school every Sunday at V:4o a. m. Monthly meeting at 8 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 month at 3 p. m. J T lA P T IS T CHURCH.—SERVICES, SUNDAY 11 J j a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday school Sun days at 10 a. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at 7:30 o’clock. NEWBERG GRAPHIC. NEWBERG GRAPHIC. VOL. X. NEW BERG , NEWS OF THE WEEK From all Parts of the New and Old World. B R IE F ANI) IN TE R E STIN G ITEMS RE SBYTERIAN CHURCH.—SERVICES E v ery two weeks as follows: February 7th ’ nd 21st, March 7th and 21st, and April 4th and C o m p r e h e n s iv e R e v i e w o f t h e I m p o r t 18th. J. E. DAY, Pastor. a n t H a p p e n in g , o f t h e C u r ree M e t h o d i s t .— p r a y e r m e e t in g r e n t AVeek. every Thursday at 7:30 p. m. Sabbath school every Sunday at 10 a. m. F A French expedition is reported mas E. CHURCH.—SERVICES SECOND, TH IR D sacred. • and fourth Sundays o f each month at 11 The Chinese are endeavoring to settle a. m. and 7:3o p. m. Sunday school every Sun day lo a. m. At M. E. church, Fafayette, first matters with Germany. aml.fifth Sunday of each month. The Chickasaw and Cherokee Indians GEO. H. BENNETT, Pastor. are to colonize in Mexico. Cl A LV ATI ON A R M Y -M E E T IN G S IN THE O Free Methodist church every Tuesday night. A vessel lias sailed from Portsmouth, N. H ., for the Klondike. The National Guard asks for an ap SOCIETY NOTICES. propriation of »3,000,000. OF T H E WORLD.—NE W BEKG C AM P, NO. There is a possibility of a rate war , 118, meets every Monday evening. between Western railroads. \ \ J C. T. U.—BUSINESS MEETING THE SEC- A party has left San Francisco to I I . ond and fourth Wednesday in each month. survey a new route to the Klondike. San Francisco merchants are being O. O. F.—SESSIONS HELD ON TH U RSD AY • evenings in Bank of Newberg building. prosecuted for selling adulterated olive AND L. O PS .—NEWBERG COUNCIL, NO. oil. • 168, meets every Friday evening in Ma A t Salinas, Cal., two burglars clever sonic hall. ly jailed the jailer and a deputy F. AND A. M.—MEETS E V E R Y 8ATUR- sheriff. • day night in C. V. Bank building. A tremendous rich gold strike is re O. C. W — MEETS E V E R Y TUESDAY • evening at 7:30 p. m. in I. O. O. F. Hall. ported on Dog creek, a tributary of the I Yukon. The son of a New York millionaire E A S T A.MD S O U T H died in the county hospital in San Francisco. The Georgia senate wants to send state convicts to Cuba to tight for the insurgents. Senator Perkins has introduced a joint resolution authorizing the presi dent to appoint a committee to draft a code of laws for the territory of Alaska. The man who helped hang Frank Butler, the “ murderer of the moun tains,’ ’ in Australia, was arrested in San Francisco, accused of larceny of a coat. One of the most horrible lynching, Trains leave and a e due to arrive at Portland: ever known in Nevada has occurred at Genoa, 14 miles from Carson. Aram über, who last week shot and killed f Overland Express.— Hans Anderson in a M illerville saloon, Salem, Albany, Eug ene, Roseb’g, Grants was taken by a mob of masked men and j Pats, Med.ord, Ash*> * 6:0 0 p. m. < land, Sacramento,,V * 9:30 a.m. hanged to a cottonwood tree half a Ogden, San Francis- j mile from the jail. When taken from | co, Mojave, Los An- | | his cell, the victim had nothing on hut | gcles, El Paso, New ' 1 (.Orleans, and East.. .. J | This was torn off by the Rose burg A way stations * 4:30 p. m. a shirt. lynchers, and the nude body was left C Via Woodburn, fo r i | Mt. Angel, Sil verton, j Daily Daily dangling in the air for six hours. As except < West Scio, Browns- y\ except the body was being pulled up the mob Sunday. i ville , Natron anti , | Sunday. (.Springfield............... j | When satis |7;30 a.m Corvallis A way stutions f 5:50 p. m. riddled it with bullet*. fied that the man was dead the vigil antes dispersed and returned to their Express train daily,(except Sunday.) 4:50 p. m. L v ....... Portland......... A rl 8:25 a. m. homes. 7: 0 p. m. A r .... M cM in v ille....... Lv. 5:50 a. m. E. L. Hewes, the Wichita mountain 8: " j*. m. A r... Independence.... Lv.| 4:50 a. m. boomer, who has been at Wichita for A ll above trains arrive and depart from Grand three weeks trying to organize a party, Ventral station, Fifth and Irvin g streets. has left for Olkahotna City without a single follower. A t different times he claimed to have from 600 to 1,000 D in in g Cara on O g d e n R o u te . boomers ready to follow his lead into the country. M w I K A A YAM H ILL D IVISIO N . Passenger depot foot of Jefferson street. A irlie mail (t r i- w e e k ly ).___________________ ~9:40 a. m. L v ....... Portland......... A r 3:05 p. m. 12:50 p. m. Lv....... Newberg......... Lv 12:15 p. m. 5:lUp. m .,Ar....... \irlie .............. Lv 7:W g. a . Sheridan passenger (daily except S u nday)__ . Lv ... ....Ar .Ar! 9:30 a. m. . Lv ... .... Newberg.... ....Lv ■|Ar ........ Sheridan........Lv •Daily. f Daily except Sunday. C. B. FRI8SELL, Agent, Newberg. K. KOEHLER, Manager. C. H. M ARKHAM , Gen. F. A P. Agent, Portland, Or. 0.R.&N. TO THE OIVE8 THE CHOIOE OF T W O TRANSCONTINENTAL R O U TES OREGON GRE1T NORTHERN RY. SNORT LINE. V IA V IA SPOKANE, SALT LAKE» MINNEAPOLIS, DENVER, ST. PAUL OMAHA AND AND CHICAGO. KANSAS CITY. LO W E S T R A T H TO K A 9 T E R .N C I T I E S . ALL Ocean Steamer« Leave Portland E vary 5 Day# ----- roa----- SAN FRANCISCO. Steamers Monthly from Port'and to Yokohama and Hong Kong, via the Northern Pacific Steamship Co., in cen- nection with the O. R. A S. Fo r full Information call on O. R. A X. ***n t, O LIV E R A COLCORD, Ntwacno, On., or address W. H. H U RL8U RT. Gen Pa**. A f t O. R. A X. Co., Portland, Of D H ’ l i N I .^ M K * !> :«* ; • < l i | N e t le e « « r i l l bo la o o rt e tf t b o r a t a o f T o a e o a ta p o r M a o . P Direct connection at San Francisco with Or« 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 1RKLAND, Ticket Agent, 134 Third street, Portland, Ur. O IM One Column............................ .Twenty Dollar« H a lf Column................................. Ton D ollar« Professional Card« ........................One Dollar Toru Hoshi, envoy extradordinary and minister plenipotentiary from Japan to the United States, was a passsenger from the Orient on the City of Peking, which 1 as just arrived in San Fran cisco. He will leave for Washington at o n v carrying with him instructions in reference to the Hawaiian treaty of annexation which w ill be considered by the United States senate. When the German reinforcements, consisting of four companies of ma rines, numbering 33 officers and 1,200 men, and a company of naval artillery, arrive at Kiao Chau hay, for which point, as already cabled, they w ill soon set out, they w ill bring the German force there up to 4,666 men, the lar gest body Germany has ever sent be yond Eropean waters. It is understood that the reserves had to be drawn upon. Surgeon-General Wyman, of the marine hospital service, has submitted his annual report to Secretary Gage. It shows that during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1897, the total number of patients treated at hospitals and th. dispensaiies connected with the service was 54,477. Although the total num ber of patients treated was 673 in ex cess of those treated during the pre vious fiscal year, the exjienditnrcs were »538,536, which is »21,000 less than the previous year. The annual report of James H. Ecklea, controller of the currency, for the year ended October 31, 1897, opens with • brief resume of the history of the legis lation which constitutes the present National-bank act, and invites the at tention of congress to amendments to the law recommended in former report», without specifically repealing them. The controller renews his recommend ation of last year, urging that national bank examiners he paid an annual sal ary instead of fees, as now. Further information from Washing ton respecting the proposed canal and locks for the channel at the dalles is to the effect that it i. proposed to pash the work with a deal of rapidity. The contract syatem and modern methods of excavation and building have made it clear that years need not be spent upon a work of this character. If the con tract for improving the Columbia by a small channel at the dalles is adopted it will no doubt he stipulated that tbe work must be done with rapidity. MRS. The Y A M IIIL L M ’K IN LEY C O U N T Y , OREGON, F R ID A Y , DEAD. P r e s id e n t a n d O t h e r M e m b e r « o f t h e F a m ily a t t h e D e a th b e d . Canton, O.. Dec. 14. — Mrs. Nancy Allison McKinlby passed from this life at a few minutes past 3 this morning, with all her children and other imme diate relatives at her bedside. She did not suffer any in her last hours, hut gradually passed from the deep, palsied sleep, in which she had rested almost constantly for the past 10 days, into the sleep of death. No word could be secured from the house for some hours before dissolu tion. A t 2:35 an undertaker was sum moned and the first publicity was given of the death. The end was almost beautiful in its peacefulness. She seemed to sleep so soundly that it was difficult to tell whether she had yet breathed her last. Tiiis condition continued for half an hour. The president and all ole the family were by her side. There was no recognition, however. Her last consciousness was hours before her final taking away. The tenth day of Mrs. McKinley’s illness was marked by a number of material changes such as improved the condition of the patient, and as dark ness approached it was felt by those around her that she had finished the last «lay of her life’ s journey. She was resting comparatively easy at that time, bnt was a great deal weaker. A t the dawn of day it was felt that tiie end was at hand, for about that time site experienced one of the sinking spells common to the illness, and for a long time seemed so nearly inanimate that it was thought no rally was possi ble; hut the rally came, and with it a small amount of liquid nourishment, the first sli/3 had taken since Monday. This was followed by such peaceful re pose as to revive the hope, which tvas realized, that she would live through the day. In the afternoon another period of anxiety was experienced by the watch ers. Another sinking spell came, and for a time it seemed as though it would he the last. After that, she continued weak and low. The doctor called at 5:30 o’clock and reported that he found a material change for the worse, such as he regard ed as certain to bring about final disso lution during the night. He hail not even a faint iiope that she could live until morning. AN IM P R O M P T U COURT. Tryin g; to F ix t h « R e s p o n s ib it y Sm ith M u rd e r». fo r the TIIE ROOT OF TUE EVII A M ex lra n B ie rn tlo n . JL RIVERA A FR EE T h « C u b »n P a t r io t R e le a s e d b a n a s F o rtre s s . 17, 181)7. MAN. F rom Ca Havana, Dec. 13.— General Rivera, the insurgent leailer, who was capture«! in March last in Pinar del Rio by the Spanish troops under General Hernando ile Velaseo, and who was recently par doned by royal decree, lias been release«! PROMINENT MEN SIGN THE CALL from Cabanas fortress, where he has been imprisoned for several months, an«) sailed toilay by the steamer Colon C o n fe r e n c e W i l l B e H e ld In N e w Y o r k for Cadiz, his home. In t h e M id d le o f J a n u a r y — E f Tiie Colon also carries hack to Spain 800 sick, wounded and otherwise in- fe c t on S ta te L e g is la t u r e ». j capacitate«! soldier . New York, Dec. 14.— The following In the skirmishes of tiie last ten days call was given out tonight by Ralph M. the insurgents have lost 113 killed and Easley, secretary of the Civic Federa 1,000 prisoners. Eight chiefs and offi tion of Chicago, who has been acting cers am! 53 armed privates have surren- for a committee on reforms of quasi dereif to tiie Spanish. The Spanish political organizations for tiie past column, in tiie same period, has lost three weeks: live officers and 22 soldiers killed, with “ Tiie object of this conference is to i 11 officers and 110 soldiers wounded. bring together men with practical ideas Juan Cossio, who was in charge of from all the large cities, and especially tiie insurgent dynamite corps in the from state, in which substantial pro province of Puerto Principe, is dead at gress lias been made in reform. The ! the insurgent camp. He was a cousin programme w ill include speeches made of Evangel iua Cossio. by men of national reputation in hot!) Tiie insurgents fired a cannon shot political parties, as well as reports into the machinery of tho plantation of from practical men as to the working Mr. Rigby, an American, in tiie Man of the various laws now governing pri zanillo «¡¡strict, destroying tiie ma mary election caucuses. Considerable chinery. Tiie insurgents have forbid attention will be given to tiie question den grinding in that neighborhood, ‘How to get voters out to tiie primaries,’ under threat of burning the fields. after fair laws are secured. Special in T h e F i g h t in P i n a r d e l K l o . terest w ill be taken in reports from New York, Massachusetts, Maryland, Havana, Dec. 13.— Latest reports of Illinois, New Jersey and Ohio, where tiie late fight in Pinar del Rio province legislatures will be in session. Head show tiie Spanish loss was more than quarters will be opened at tiie Hotel claimed. The dead or wounded include Manhattan, New York, December 27, one colonel, one major, seven captains, 1897. 11 subordinate officers anil 74 privates. “ Believing that our oaucuses or pri Moat of tiie wounded will «lie. Tiie mary election customs or laws lie at the rebel loss was 14. Tho rebels used ex very root and source of our entire elec plosive bullets. tive franchise system and that tiie re W a n t D e L o m e K o m i led. sults in our larger cities are due in a New York, Deo. 13.— The Spanish large measure to the defects in such practices and customs, it, therefore, colony in this city lias been «livided by follows that to purify this system is to a petition sent to Madrid at the time take a long step in tiie direction of hon of tiie assassination of Premier Canovas, esty, economy and efficiency in every asking for the appointment of a stmng brand) of the public service; and fur successor to Senor de Lome. According ther believing that tiie enactment of to the World tho petition was drawn so laws to prevent corrupt practices an«l as to attack Senor de Lome without throw the safeguards of a regular elec mentioning his name, and among the tion around the caucus or primary will 40 prominent Spaniard, who signeil it encourage many good citizens to take were several friends of tiie minister part therein, we, the undersigned, tor who did not ace any attack upon him the purpose of discussing and discover in the apparently harmless recom ing, as far as possible, tiie precise de mendation. Tho result is a bitterness fects in the various systems which now among tiie factions almost as strong as Tiie peti obtain, and tho remedies, and take their hatred of tiie Cubans. such action as may seem necessary in tion says: “ For Spain to succeed in her rela tiie premises, do hereby join in calling a conference of persons interested in tions with the Uniteil States flie must said questions to convene in the city of have in Washington a representative ol New York, on the 15tli dav of January, ability and firmness, whose lioart will beat with the pulsations of our mother 1898. “ We deem it desirable that the con country, hiu I witli a head balanced to ference be made up from men of all huso all his diplomatic relations on an parts of the country and without regard indisputable right, and not allow the right to bo curtailed in tiie least by un to party or factional aifiiations. ’ ’ The call is signed by prominent men founded demumls or unjust pretensions from tiie opisising party.’ ’ from all sections of the Union. Convention to Consider Pri* mary Election Reforms. Hazelhurst, Miss., Dec. 14.— In an open field, without a house in sight, on a high hillside, with a crowd of eager men waiting to avenge the terrible murder that lias taken place in Law rence county, in case a conviction was reached by the impromptu court, the scene lighteil by flaring pine-knot torches held aloft in the hands of the waiting mob, the three negroes, Giles Berry, W ill Powell ami Tom Wallen, INDIAN T E R R I T O R Y Q U E S T I O N were standing trial for their life last C c n g r e a i W i l l S e tt le I t In a G e n e r a l night at Bankstone Ferry. B ill. The negroes were arrested with Lewie, who was lynched Friilay, at the ! Washington, Deo. 14.— The indica place of the original crime, but were tions are that this congress will pass a released on their promising to appear general hill for the entire rehabilitation next morning as witnesses. They did of Indian territory. The measure as not put in an appearance when ths now planed is to make it embrace trial was ready to begin. Search was everything that has been sought to be made for them by the mob, and the accomplished in the past by tiie Dawes negroes were caught ami brought baca. Indian commission,which is still nego Then the suspicion that they were im- tiating with tiie five civilized tribes, plicate«! in the original crime arose. but which w ill be here next week to According to their own story, thet report tiie discouraging existing condi weie with Lewis the night before. Thr tions. Tiie hill covers all thequestions three men testified that they slept in a of citizenship, allotments of lands, dis cottonliouse a mile ami a half from the positions of townsites, mineral lands, Smith house, where the terrible butch jurisdiction of tiie United States courts ery took place, ami that Lewis wai over tiie present reservations and other with them all night; at least he war matters hearing on the extinguishment there when they went to sleep and wa of tribal organization. Tiie first steps there when they awoke the next morn in tiie matter have been taken by tiie Indian committees of both tiie senate ing. There are about 200 men in the mol and house. constituting a committee of the wiiolt It is understood that in a few days for the trial. Reliable reports today there will he a session of tho commit from a messenger who was at the sceno tees at which these matters will he say that the mob is very moderate in gone over and steps taken in tiie way its acts, and has cooled down consider of settling tiie problems by congres ably. Berry and Wallen, though badly sional enactment. In view of the large scared, maintain their denial of any amount of work necessary to be done, however, it is not probable that any complicity in the crime. A telephone message from Hon. W al bill can be passe«) till well toward tiie ter Caterings, of Geogetown.Btates that end of the session. two other negroes have been arrested I)a<l P h i l a d e l p h i a F ir e . on suspicion. Philadelphia, Dec. 14.— Fire broke Wesson, Miss., Dec. 14.— The three out shortly liefore 10 o’clock tonight in negroes arrested in the Monticello the six-story buihling at 809 and 811 neighborhood in connection with Char Chestnut street, occupied by the manu ley Lewis, the negro lynched for the facturing firm of John A James Dobson quintuple butchery of the Smith family, as their wholesale and retail rooms. after a long trial were declared not The fire had its start in the basement, guilty, but were given until Monday to and the flames shooting up the elevator leave the county. shaft destroyed the entire interior of the bnilding and contents. General C o n v ic te d o f W i f e M iird e r. Bakersfield, C'al., Dec. 14.— David Manager Berry, of the Dobson carpet Davidson, the Randsbnrg wife-murder house, stated that the stock in the er, was today convioteil of murder in building would amount to »500,000. the first degree, with the penalty of The building was owned by the firm, life imprisonment. He is sai«l to be and was value«! at about »60,000. the son ol a prominent St. Louis phy H a i t i a n M in lu lry K m I| i i i . sician. The defense was insanity, and Port An Prince, Deo. 14.— Tiie min during the trial Davidson appeared ob istry has resigne«!. As yet, tin com vious to his surroundings, hut ex|iertf position of its successor has not been declared that he was shamming. definitely settled, hot several well- E d u c a tio n o f i ) r * f C h ild r e n . known men are mentione«! who Will Washington, Dec. 14.— The house command the confidence of Haytian. committee on education has reported and foreigners alike. This morning, favorably the bill to ai«l the educators while attemling mass at Notre Dame, in the states and territories in teaching President Sam made a circuit of the •rticnlate speech and vocal language to city on horsebai k e*«-orted by his staff deaf chihlren before the are of school officers, but without special military age. display. _______ The insurgents have literally wiped Matamoras, Mex., Dec. 14.— Panta out the Spanish town of Guiaa of 800 eon and Victorisno Guillen were shot inhabitants. in the jailyard this morning for the Senator McBride of Oregon, ha. in mnrder of Dr. Manuel Carpio. Five troduced a bill in the senate to aid in policemen were in the firing platoon, the construction of an aerial tramway and neither man waa killed by the first and railway line from Dyea to Laka discharge. Bennett. Antigo, Wis., Dec. 14.— L. E. Book Three thoausand horses,worth »300,- man, cashier of the defunct Antigo 000, lie beneath the snow on the White bank, was arrested tolay on a charge pass trail. Six hundred camper, rep of embezzlement. Hi* shortage will resent an investment of »500,000 for reach $18,000. outfit, and provision*. DECEMBER C h in a F o rce d to Y ie ld . Peking, Deo. 14.— The Oerman-Chi- nese difficulty is practi«-ally settled. The Germans refuse to discontinue the occupancy of Kiao-Chou hay. The gov ernor of Shan Tung province has been removed from office, but will not be any further degraded. No monojioly of mines and railroad, is conceded Ger many, but that country is given a pref erence. Finally, the area immediately surrounding Kiao-Chou bay is »et apart exclusively for Germany. China yields on all otbar points. In s u r g e n ts N e a r H a v a n a . New York, Dec. 13.— A dispatch to the Work! from lluvana says: An im portant battle is expected hourly. The insurgents have planned tiie most for midable demonstration against Havana of tiie year. General Parrados has started from this city witli a strong column of tro«ips to meet tiie insur gents. Honor Caneljas, tiie confidential agent of tiie Spanish government, went w itli him to ascertain tiie real condi tions in lluvana province. General Rodriguez, witli tiie com bined Cuban forces under Juan Del- gailo Ladarez ami Rafael Zeckurilinas, is t‘in amped about 20 miles south of here. He has fully 1,000 men, w ho a«e well armed and is said to have a Hotchkiss rapid-fire cannon. Etnio Consalo has hanged Antonio Rivera and a negro nameil Usman. They went to Consalo from Blanco witli money and a proposition that lie lay down his arms anil aocept autonomy. A note was pinnuil on the breasts oil the hanged men announcing that any one coming on a similar mission would meet a like fate. H U r v I n i < uhnns In N e w Y o r k . New York, Dec. 13.— Tiie Journal and Advertiser says: Weyler’s policy of extermination, which lie called re- concentration, lias resulted in an enor mous influx of (Julians into New Ymk. Hundreds if not thousands of them are dying of hunger here. The number of these refugees is varionsly estimated from 12,000 to 20,000. Perhaps tiie great majoi ity are absolutely without means. There are men and women among them who were worth thou sands of dollars before tiie war began, hut are now penniless. Home of these are working as waiters, porters or seamstresses. Emilio Agremonte, president of the Marti Charity Association, says tiiat many of them have actually died from starvation, and that the majority have preferre«! to live quietly in misery rather than lot their desperate want* he known to those who could help them, but who have in the past known them to be people of wealth, influence and refinement. S pain A r r m o t'H b .n a o f C r u e l!/ . New York, Dec. 13.— A Herald dis patch from Madrid says: A storm ol indignation has been provoked here hy news of tortures inflicted by tiie C'ulinn rebels upon inhabitants of Guisa, where women and chihlren are alh-ged to hare been liound and burnt alive. The details are given hy the Iniparcial, a pajier by no means favorable to tiie present government’s policy, and ths news is now officially confirmed. On* of the ministers says that aa far as known at present the only crime tiie unfortunate creatures app«*ar to have been guilty of it that they favored tho acceptance of autonomy. Reno, Nev., Dec. 13.— A wreck oc curred on the N. C. A O. railway about five mile* north of this city this morn ing. Two or three passengers are re ported to have been injured. NO. 4. TIIE ELLIS ISLAND H E Is Supposed to Have Been Set t y Incendiaries. INVESTIGATION W IL L BE MADE T e n M illio n * o f R a ilr o a d T ic k e t. W e re T h o u g h t to H o v e B u r n e d —O ne of Th em T u rn e Up. New York, Deo. 18 — Facts have come to light that sugg«‘st the possi bility that tiie mysterious fire that de stroyed the great immigrant buililings on Ellis island a few months ugo, was Btarted by thieves, who had carefully planned a »10,000,000 robbery, says tiie Journal and Advertiser today Ten of tho trunk lines leading to tiie West, including tho New York Central, the Pennsylvania, the Erie, tiie Delaware, Lackawanna «ft Western and lire New York, Ontario «ft Western, unite in maintaining a railroad on the island, and at all times there are quantities of tickets there. Genernl Ticket Agent Robinson, of the Ontario & Western, says that on the night of tiie fire a conservative es timate would place tiie value of tickets in tiie island office at »10,000,000 The tickets, with much cash, were looked in drawers in wooden cases and desks, and the entire parcel was sup posed to have heon totally destroyed. The different roads posted notices tiiat if tickets of a certain form and serios should he presented, they shoulil ho taken up and fare demanded. A few days ago a ticket issued by the Ontario «ft Western from Chicago to Kansas City was received from a pas senger anil found to be one of the tick ets supposd to have been burned. Tho part of the ticket calling for passage from New York to Chicago has not yet been presented. Now tiie officials are asking bow- many other tickets out of the »10,000,- 000 worth are in existence. It is deemed not impossible tiiat tiie entire lot was stolen and hold until conductors should forget the warning. Commissioner Sennor, who was in charge of Ellis island at tiie time of tiie fire, deems the hypothesis by no means improbable. “ Tiie origin of the fire was never learned,’ ’ he said. “ It began in a tower of tiie main building some dis tance from the offices occupied by tiie ruilroail people. Every one of the gov ernment guards wero busy getting tiie immigrants sufely out. It is not im possible tiiat thieves deliberately start ed tiie fire in tiie expectation, justified by events, that the ticket office woulii be quickly deserte«!.” General Ticket Agent Robinson sail] he conlil scarcely believe that any such wholesale robbery had taken place. " I have communicated with other roads, and they have had no such tick ets presented us yet. I think it more likely tiiat tiie report of sales for tiie day preceding the fire was not correct. Of course, though, if someone liad nse«l tiiat ticket, if it was honestly disposed of, it should have turned up sooner. An investigation will be made.” TR A IL Se ver al L iv e s TO Los t K LO N D IK E . In W hite Ho rse R a p id s . Victoria, Dec, 18.— Five or aix, and perhaps seven, lives have been lost in the White Horse rapids, Lewis river, during the last two months, according to John Hepburn, who arrived from there today. A boat built for four or six men was found below tiie rapids one morning, hut there was no trace of tiie occupants. They must all have been drowneil. Other parties lost their out fits, but managed to save their lives. There is now very little open water between the raphls and the lakes, most of it being frozen over. A t White Horse rapids there are about 30 people, and there nre 85 at tiie foot of Marsh lake. There are at least 100 more below W hite Horse rapids, ami many others have gone into th« Hootalinqua country to prospect durii the winter. Hepburn had heard of n«> strikes being maile on the Hootalimjua or tributaries, hut a man named Davis washed »1,600 from the river bars lust summer. Hepburn believes that rioh strikes will be made on the ilootalin- qua this winter. A t Tagish house, the weather was bitterly cold, the thermometer regis tering 42 degrees below. People were met making their way down all along the route to head of Lake Bennett. Among the goldseekers was a woman, who was ptiiling her sle«i all alone, ami she was making fair time. Lake Bennett was still open 15 miles from the foot, on November 17, am) (lie mercury sto«j<l at 24 below. At te m p t on the Aultan ’s Life* London, Dec. 13.— The Athens corre spondent of the Chronicle says that on Momlay last, two soldiers in the im perial service at the Y ildiz Kiosk, the palace of tiie sultan, made an attempt on the sultan’s life. This was frus- trateil hy the attendants of the sultan. The sultan had the men torture«! in the hope of extracting the names of the instigators, but both succumbed with out revealing anything. C h in a l l l f i a In . London, Dec. 18.— A dispatch from Pekin says that today the tsung-li- yamen telegraphed the viceroy of the provinoe of Pe-chi-li, north of the prov ince of Shan Tung, that China, having complie«l with her demands, Germany umlertakes to evacuate Kiao Chou at a date to be fixed hereafter, and will re ceive instead as a coaling station the Ham-Buh inlet, in the province of Foo Kien, over against the island of For- moea. al ▲A tot U s ì a i BUI« Collected Monthly* OREGON STATE B r ie f R e v i e w of the W e e k tho State. NEW S. Through««* Thirty-four marriage licensea were issued by the Marion county clerk in November. Fishermen on the Umpqua are ship ping sturgeon overland via Drain to Portland. Four panthers were killed near Marsh field last week. One measured 1% feet from tip to tip. Manager Dorwin increased the force at tiie Jewett mine and w ill hereafter run night and day shifts. Samuel Henry, a veteran of the civil war, celebrated his 94th birthday an niversary at Jacksonville last week. It is estimated that over 20,000 boxes of apples have been shipped from the Coquille valley this Beason, and there are severul carloads yet to be forwarded. Ttie owners of the Oregon Bonanza mine oontemplate running a blind tun nel, to begin on the Powell creek side of tiie mountain and extend westward a distance of 800 feet. Another shipment of Wallowa coun« ty liecf cattle was made from Elgin the latter part of last week by a Chicago ilealer. He paid 3 cents for the steers weighed at Joseph. A lot of cattle were recently bought on Smith river, in Lane county, and driven to Harrisburg. Tiie average weight of 16 of the baml was estimated to lie 1,750 pounds each. A three-foot ledge of bituminous coal lias been found in the south end of Jackson county, as good as that pro duced in eastern states. Indications are tiiat tiie vein is very extensivo. Tho judgment in favor of the state of Oregon and against Baker county has been recorded in Baker City, and a tax levy will have to he made to raise the amount of the judgment, »10,928.60. It was blowing a gale when the Chll- kat crossed the Coos bay bar Monday, and two tremendous seas hoarded the little steamer. Her stern waB stove in, anil she is at North Bend, undergoing repairs. An old store buihling, a landmark, at Utter City, Coos county, collapsod during the recent storm. As many sur veys started from the old building as a corner, some trouble w ill be caused in running lines. It is a forogone conclusion that we will lie treated to the operations of a first-class English mining company, in the Aslilanil district very stain, ns one of thu best and largest quartz mines is now being listed on the London mar ket. A t tiie Clackamas hatchery about 1,- 000,000 young fish have been turned out so far this season. There are now about 5,000,000 eggs in the troughs in till Binges of hatching. The eggs were obtained from tiie Little White Salmon river station, in Washington. There wus a heavy run of salmon in tiie Siuslaw this year, and at the Florence cannery 3,500 cases of canned sulmon and 600 barrels of salmon were recently shippeil to San Francisco. Mr. Ilurd says tiiat 10,000 cases could have been put up had the market price justified. During the last two months one man I iuh shipped from Brownsville, to out- sidu markets, 1,150 turkeys, 660 chickens, 71 geese and 95 docks, mak ing a total of about 15,000 pounds of poultry shipped by him alone. There are several other poultry buyers in Brownsville, who have ehip|ied a large amount also. There have been sliippeii from Med ford station tliis senson thus far aliout 40 carloads of apples, anti there re mains to lie shipped yet 20 carloads more of merchantable apples. This includes fruit hauled from the Apple- gate and siirrouniling country. Two ourloails of dried fruits of different varieties have been shipped eastward from that station, too, and about eight carlomls more remain to be shipped. Tiie Alabny Fruit Company lias shipiied to Davenport, la., 600 boxes of Oregon winter apples. The oompany is also arranging to ship a carload of winter apples to Missouri. There is a good ilemand for Oregon apples in the East, but they must he salable. This oompany has drieil 8,000 pounds of apples, which were not good keepers. It is also now arranging to oarry out the experiment of drying vegetables for the Alaska traile. While workmen were excavating a ditch in Elgin, at the intcresection of Front ami C. streets, last week, at a depth of two feet or a little more they began to uncover human b«jnes, ami in a short time almost the entire skeleton was unearthed. A few feet further on they unearthed portions of another skeioton. From the shape of tiie skull founil, the remains are umfoubtciily those of Indians, bnrieil long before the whites settle«! there, says the Elgin Recorder. There has been received at Astoria a fish from the life-saving crew at Fort Canhy tiiat no one seems to recognise. Borne pronounce«) it a devil fish, and others are certain it is an octopus. It is about three feet long and of dark brown color. Its girth is probably 10 or 12 inches and from tiie tail to tha gills varies bnt little in size. Tha head is attaohed to the body with a sort of swivel, and tha mouth is hid beneath a olump of tentaclea about a foot long. * A Lake county man who left last June to assist in driving 8,000 head of sheep to Amailee, Cal., iiaa returned. He says that the sheep were bought be fore shearing or lambing for »1.78 to »2 a head, and that Flanagan A Dunn, the purchasers, have ma«le a little for tune on the speculation, as the culls of the band are worth »3 a head at A m i- dee. He thinks their profit will be nearer 200 per cent than 100. They had a incceasful drive and spent the summer in the Byoan country, in Lake county.