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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.
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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.
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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.
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R O U TES
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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
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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.
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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 .
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T h « C u b »n P a t r io t R e le a s e d
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MAN.
F rom
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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.
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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
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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.
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▲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.