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A d te r tis in , Rill* Collected Monthly.
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
S u b s c r ip tio n P r i e « P s y s b l s
In A d va n e o .
VOL. X II.
NEW BERG ,
L A TER NEWS.
Boutelle w ill probably never return
to congress.
The Boer trenches at Colenso
bomb proof.
are
Pingree’s tax resolution was defeated
in the Michigan senate.
I f Delagoa bay is closed the Boers
w ill raid Portuguese territory.
The Stahl & Straub failure in Phila­
delphia is a clear case of looting.
Y A M IIIL L
PLAGUE IN HONOLULU
The Disease Gets a Foothold
in the Islands.
People are tired of Colombian war
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TE R SE TIC K S FROM THF. W IRES and ask for intervention.
British Columbia has sent a gold dis­
play to the Paris exposition.
A n I n t e r r a t in e C e lle o t lo n o f I t e m i F r o r »
t h e T w o l l e t n l . p l i e r « « I -Tenente«!
*n » t'ondt'iiH ud F o r m .
DEATHS
HAVE OCCURRED
T h e E p id e m ic I * C o n fin ed to th o Chi*
littMe Q u a r te r —Mean urea T a k e u to
S ta m p It O u t.
C O U N T Y , OREGON, F R ID A Y , J A N U A R Y
A M ER IC A N S
BUY
A
CANAL
A t L ea n t T h e y N o w O w n an I n t e r e s t
th e r e n a m e .
NO. 7.
5, 19(H).
J RETURNING IN BINDS
New York, Dec. 80— The incorpora­
tion of the Panama Canal Company of
America is said to be the first move in
a plan to transfer the Panama canal to
Americans in order that it may have
a better chance in the struggle with
the Nicaraguan concessionaries. The
NATIVES ASK FOR ASSISTANCE
banking houses and Individuals who
are understood to be interested are:
August Belmont & Co., Kuhn, Loeb & C o lo n e l H a re L o s e , t h e T r a c k o f th e
Co., Levi P. Morton, Charles It. Flint,
I 'r l . o i i e r . l i e H a . F o l l o w e d —Hen*'
J. E. Simmons, president of the Fourth
e r a l W h e e l e r H o e . S o u th .
National bank; Edward Sweet, George
Sheldon & Co., Baring, Magonn & Co.,
Manila, Jan. 1.— The
insurgents
and George W . Young, president of the
United States Mortgage & Trust Com­ who evacuated the coast towns between
Dagupan and Yigan, fleeing to the
pany.
In addition to these, several banking mountains before the advancing Amer­
houses in San Francisco and in cities icans, are returning in small bands to
In the South and West are interested the towns the Americans do not oc­
terrorizing the natives and
in the company. The^Herald says this cupy,
incorporation of an American company Chinamen, who showed friendship for
Americans. The
natives and
is the result of negotiations between the
representatives of the French company, Chinamen are seeking the protection of
including Baron Openheim, who came the American garrisons.
Colonel Wessel’s cavalry, while
to this city from Paris several months
ago, and lending financiers of America. scouting in the vicinity of Trinidad
The representative of the French com­ found evidence of Filipino soldiers be
pany came to this country empowered ing in that vicinity, but it was impos
to transfer the rights of the company lible to bring abont an engagement.
The recent increase in the carrison of
having now been incorporated, the
transfer w ill very shortly be effected, Namacpacau against the threatened
the transfer to lie given formal approval rebel attack on Christmas day averted
by the shareholders in France. These trouble.
Colonel Hare, of the Thirty-third in­
shareholders receive shares in the new
American company in proportion to fantry, who has been following a party
of American prisoners, lost track for
their holdings in the old.
This “ Americanizing’ ’ of the Pans three days, about December 20, of such
ma canal, as one of the gentlemen in signs anil evidences of their passage as
terested in tho new company styled it they customarily loft behind them. It
yesterday, has been brought about in Is thought the prisoners were separated
order to place the Panama canal on a and conveyed to remote parts of the
footing in America more satisfactory to mountains, thus increasing the difficnl'
the French company, and to place it ties of General Young’s troops to effect
on the same base as the Nicaragua a rescue.
General Wheeler, who was recently
canal before the United States govern­
in Manila requesting an appointment
ment.
An Isthmian canal commission, with south in the line of the expected cam­
Rear-Admiral Walker as chairman, is paign, is now at I’aranaqne.
now at work making an exhaustive
A m e r ic a n s C a p tu re d S t r o n g h o ld .
study of all possible routes for a canal
Washington, Jan. 1.— General Otis
across the isthmus of Central America cables the war department today as fol­
This commission was created in the lows:
closing hours of the last congress, and
“ Manila— Colonel Lockett, with a
$1,000,000 was appropriated for its use regiment of two battalions of the
through tthe river and harbor bills. Forty-sixth, (Colonel Schuyler), one
Its report w ill undoubtedly be final as battalion of the Forty-fifth (Colonel
far as the UnitedJStates Is concerned as Dorst), and one company of the Twem
to the best route for a canal. Its par­ ty-seventh infantry, and two guns (Cap'
ties, both engineering and exploring, tain Van Deusen,) attacked the enemy,
are now scattered over Central America, 600 strong in a mountain stronghold
obtaining material to assist the com­ beyond Mont Alban, northeast of San
mission in forming conclusions.
Mateo. A large number were killed
* The French company, realizing the and wounded, and 24 were taken pris­
importance of the commission’s find­ oners. Lockett captured one cannon,
ings, has taken tho steps which have 40 rifles, 20,000 rounds of ammunition,
been described, believing that the canal 500 pounds of powder, arsenal fortifica­
commission would naturally be enabled tions, all their food supplies and con­
to jndge more impartially between the siderable other property.
two routes with both under American
“ This captnred point, located on a
control. The gentlemen of the French mountain trail, was formerly snpposed
company long since recognized that to be impregnable. Onr casualties:
the undertaking of a canal across Nica­ Lieu’ enant Enlow, Eleventh cavalry,
ragua either by the United States or by and five enlisted men wounded, mostly
private parties with the assistance or slight. Private Matson, Forty-fifth in
indorsement of thq United States would
fan try, drowned.”
be a most serious blow to their project,
but the American financiers who have
N o t A m e r ic a n V e s s e ls .
formed the now company, now that the
Port Townsend, Jan. 1,— The pur­
two routes are on ail even footing, and chase of foreign vessels by the United
that judgment w ill be made only on States government for use as transports
the grounds of engineering and general during the Spanish-American war and
desirability, they
argue that the their subsequent sale by the govern
“ Americanizing” of Panama is the ment to private citizens has resulted in
only way by which the 400 shareholders complicating matters for purchasers
can have any hope of any return from from the fact that after purchase of
the $200,000,000 which has gone out of such vessels the government refuses to
France and into the canal, and they be­ allow them to lie documented in the
hove that this arrangement can pro­ United States as American vessels.
duce only good feeling between the two
The case in point is the steamship
countries.
Scipio, which was recently sold by the
Since 1884, when the French com­ navy department and was afterwards
pany was formed, there has been ex­ refused documentation. The purchaser
pended in work on the canal something applied to the secretary of the treasury,
like
$8,000,000.
Several thousand asking that if he should break the
men, mostly negroes from Jamaica, Scipio up, whether the material of
have been employed, and experts de­ which she wus constructed would be
clare that tho 'money has been proprely subject to dnty If sold in the United
expended, and that good progress has States. Yesterday Collector Henstis
been made. There Is a large number received a circular letter covering the
of men at work on the canal at the above case from the treasury depart­
present time, and this force w ill be ment in wrhich Acting Secretary Spaul­
found at work by the canal commission ding says that upon the sale of said
when it goes over the route, which w ill vessel in a port of the United States
probably be during February. Thf the material or materials taken there­
canal is about two-fiths completed, from would not be regarded as an im­
and the new American company esti­ portation within the meaning of the
mates that the cost of completion customs laws, and would therefore be-
would be about $100,000,000.
exempt from dnty.
San Francisco, Dec. 30.— The trani*
An important witness against Sena­ port Centeuuial, which has reached
tor Clark has confessed to perjury.
here from Honolulu, confirms the re­
Bnller has destroyed the Colenso
port that bubonic plague exists in that
Robert
Cornelius,
aged
20,
was
footbridge, and makes no further at'
city. There had been no new cases of
found
dead
in
the
woods
near
Glencoe,
tempt to advance.
the disease, however, from December
Or.
12 up to the time the transport sailed,
Armour’s canning department, Chi'
Fossiliferous
remains
of
a
gigantic
the 18th. The quarantine at tlie |>ort
cago, is rushed night and day tilling
sea
serpent
were
found
on
the
coast
of
orders for the English army.
was to lie raised tho 19th. There war
Chili.
little anxiety among tho residents
A drunken wife in San Francisco has
A t its last meeting the cabinet dis­ Honolulu, according to Captain Eagles,
charged her husband with murder and
cussed the agricultural possibilities in of the Centennial, as the plague was
lie is being held by the authorities.
Alaska.
confined to the Chinese quarter of the
The currency bill, according to a
Buller’s army on the Tugela has now city. That part of the city was under
Washington correspondent, w ill be
strict quarantine, and no ingress or
rnshed through the senute without reached the enoromus strength of 28,- egress whatever was allowed. Up to
000 men.
amendment.
the time of the sailing of the Centen­
Luzon hemp poits will be opened in nial, there had been six deaths.
The Great Northern w ill inaugurate
a new departure. A large block of the time for supplies to reach this country
The Centennial arrived at Honolulu
company’s stock is to be distributed by next harvest.
from this port with horses December
among the employes at par.
A London dispatch says Russia longs 15, but was not allowed to dock until
It is said that England had been to seize Herat, and she only waits for tho 10th. Even then none of the crew
was permitted to land. A ll inter-islaud
warned by General Butler, whom she is England to occupy Delagoa bay.
now turning down, that it would not
C. G. Coad, of Dallas, Or., has been traflio was at a full stop, us no steamei
be wise to attack the Boers until bet appointed assistant^ergeant-at-arms in could enter the port. The citizens
have subscribed $25,000 to light t « .
ter prepared.
the United States senate.
plague.
Should all Spanish war pensions now
The Boers have mounted a new gun
The transport Newport has arrived
asked be allowed, it would cost $2.- at Ladysimth in the place of the one from Manila in ballast, with no news
725,000. The Seventy-first Now Yorkt captured by the British cavalry.
of importance.
asks for annnal allowances which ag­
The Centennial w ill be kept In qaur-
The clerk of the court of appeals has
gregate $84,602.
refused to administer the oath of office antine till tomorrow. There is no
Yaqui Indians plunder, kill and burs to members of the state election board trace of the disease on the vessel, and
as has been demonstrated, there is no
villages and the Mexicans do not seem in Kentucky.
to make much headway in whipping
A Colorado Midland passenger and a likelihood of its finding lodgment there
the savages. An entire Mexican regi­ Santa Fe freight collided near Palmer but still there are many Hawaiian rats
ment seems to have disappeared.
Lake, Colo. One fireman was killed that have made a home on the steamer,
and they have all to be caught and sac­
The Fenians are organizing at Buffa­ and two engineers were hurt.
rificed before the vessel w ill be allowed
lo, N. Y., for an invasion of Canada.
An English military expert asserts
They expect, it is said, to raise 125,000 that the time has come for a change in to dock. Rats are said to bo tho most
men, and have two carloads of arms the cabinet. He favors either a dicta­ prolific means of spreading the plague.
and munitons of war in concealment. torship or an all-powerful military They carry the germs from port to port.
There is disaffection among the Free minister.
IN S T R O N G P O S I T I O N .
Stater troops. They complain that
Miss Florence Blythe - Hinckley,
Oronje’ s men are overbearing and bet­ heiress to the Blythe millions, was B o e rs H a v e F o r t if ie d t l i e H i l l s a t C ol-
eu so—T r e n c h e s B o m b P r o o f.
tor fed than they. The Transvaaler’s quietly married in San Francisco to A.
are suspicious and the situatien is be­ A. Moore, jr., deputy attorney-general
London, Dec. 80.— A dispatch to the
coming grave.
of California.
Daily Mail from Pietermaritzburg,
The president of the New York
Americans have captured another in­ dated Saturday, Decomber 28, says:
“ Every day reveals some fact regard­
prison association, who has made an surgent stronghold. Many rebels were
investigation of the Cuban prisons tells killed, wounded and captured and an ing the strength of the Boer position at
a horrible tale of the conditions there. amount of ammunition and food taken. Colenso. Thanks to the services of
Offenders of all classes sleep in filth Their supposed impregnable position Continental officers, the character of
the campaign has changed. W e are no
ami vermin. No Iteds or clean clothing was north of San Mateo.
longer fighting a foe who relies upon
is provided. Money or influence ii
An Ottawa dispatch says that treason
necessary before they can secure their is talked openly among the French Ca­ guerrilla tactics, but we have to deal
with what Is rapidly becoming a disci­
freedom.
nadians, and all of their members have
The members of the senate committee retired from parliament. A ll the lat­ plined army, enjoying the advantages
on privileges and elections declare ent hostility to British rule has been of knowing the country and of selecting
they w ill curry on the investigation ol aroused by Canada’s action in sending the scene of contest without the bur­
dens of cumbersome commissariat.
Senator Clark’s case without regard to troops to the Transvaal.
“ The Boers have converted the hills
the docision of the Montana pnpreme
San Franciscans are arranging for a near Colenso into fortresses of immense
court under which Wellcome was dis­
strength.
Everywhere they have
barred from practice on charges of brib­ big pro-Boer demonstration.
E. C. nodges & Co., one of Boston’ s splendid trenches, many of them bomb
ery in connection with tho senator’»
proof. Tramway lines permit the
largest banks, lias closed its doors.
election.
shifting of guns with astonishing rap
In the engagement at Ladysmith Fri­
The United States cruiser Mont­
idity. The main positions are con­
gomery has been on a secret mission day, 10 British were killed and 16 nected with the outlying positions by
and the American flag may soon float wonnded.
underground passages, and the forts
over Liberia. The little country has
England has discovered that her m il­ proper bristle with machine guns that
long desired an American protectorate itary resources were overestimated by command the approaches. Probably
and it may now be given. Mason ol 80,000 men.
mines are laid.
Illinois will introduce a resolution of
Mat
Chandler,
tho
old-time
pugilist
inquiry in the senate, asking the pur­
flk lr m ls h a t T u g e la .
pose for which the Montgomery wa* and former partner of John L . Sulli­
Cheveley Camp, Natal, Wednesday
van, is dead.
sent to Liberian waters.
— A heavy Boer gun on llnlwana hill
The queen has given warning that
Tho Grangers’ warehouse at Rose-
fired steadily upon Ladysmith through­
British
subjects
must
not
help
Boers
or
burg, Or., was destroyed by fire; loss,
out the raorniug. Ladysmith did not
Free
Staters.
$4,000, fully insured.
respond.
Plague of a severe type is raging and
The enemy having been again de'
A six-story building, 90 years old,
many deaths from that cause have oc­ tected attempting to improve their
wns destroyed by fire in New York, en­
curred in New Caledonia.
trenches facing General Bnller, the
tailing a loss of $80,000.
Sydney Paget,W illiam C. W hitney’ s British heavy guns opened n|>on them
At San Francisco the Carlisle In­
racing partner, has left this country to and the Boers scampered back into the
dians defeated the university of Cali­
hills.
join the British rough riders.
fornia in a football game; score, 2 to 0.
The British patrols sighted the en­
A Paris dispatch says that France
Julius Baldwin is dead at his horn«
would be happy if the Delagoa bay in­ emy in force on the extreme left.
at The Dalles. He was one of the old­
Nine Boers were killed in a skirmish
cident caused an anglo-American qua. ■
est and most prominont pioneers of the r e d .
that followed, and six Boer wagons
Northwest.
were captured.
Alfred Borlini was arrested in San
Thirty men perished in a colliery Francisco wLile on his wedding trip.
C la n - N a - G a e i T a lk .
horror caused by fire damp explosion He is charged with being a bank de­
New York, Dec. 29.— Relative to the
at the Brazncll mine, near Browns­ faulter.
attitnde of the Irish revolutionary soci­
ville, I ’a.
Iowa larmers have formed a syndi­ eties toward the government of (treat
H ilt o n P a in t in g s a t A u c tio n .
Lanrier’s French-Canadian following cate to grow rice In Texas. They have Britain at the present juncture of
New York, Dec. 80.— The gallery of
is protesting against Canada sending secured options on 14,000 acres of land affairs, the Evening Post today quotes paintings collected by the late Jndge
any more troops to help England in to cost $225,000.
an officer of the Clun-na-Gael as say­ Hilton Is ahont to be sold at auction.
South Africa.
The Boer army on Modder river is ing:
It Is composed of nearly 200 paintings,
Mrs. Hotter Palmer w ill be apjiointed growing greater each day. They are
“ England can be only made to feel mostly by modem French artists, and
by President McKinley director of the building trenches within three and one by physical force, and w e’re now going is valued at more than $500,000.
American womau’e department at the half miles of Methuen’s picket line.
to give her some Boer treatment. We Among the masters represented are
Paris exposition.
The Northern Pacific wreck in Idaho did intend going out and sinking the Meissonier, Cort, Daubigny, Gerome,
Vibert, Makart, Munckasy, Bourgereau
The state department w ill investigate was a bad one. After 10 days the last first expedition from Canada to South
and Tlssot.
Africa,
but
thought
it
better
to
wait
a
liody
had
not
been
recovered.
The
the action of the British government
little. We can mobilize our men with-
Q u a ra n tin e A g a in s t N e w C a le d o n ia .
in sezing several cargoes of American trainmen were to blame.
out much difficulty for au attack on
Melbourne, Victoria. Dec. 80.— A
flour off Delagoa bay.
Governor Geer, of Oregon, does not
Canada, and we are fairly well armed passenger who arrived here on board
The trainwreck near Pomona, Cal., approve of Oregon citizens contributing — as well as the United States troop«
the steamer Australian from Noumea,
in which one life was lost and four to a fund for Lawton’s family. He in the Spanish war. We have lots of New Caledonia, where the plague is
were injured, was caused by the break­ thinks the state should look after her Springfield rifles, and are handy with
raging, has been quarantine« 1, and eight
own heroes’ fannies first.
ing of a locomotive wheel.
the bayonet.
others have been placed under surveil-
The Countess of Canavarro thought
lance.
At Rome the pope solemnly inaugu­
T h e M o v e m e n t In P h ila d e lh la .
she was a convert to Buddhism. She
rated the holy year by performing the
Philadelphia, Dec. 29.— There is ft
entered their convent and chaDged her
M o n e y fo r Im p r o v e m e n t .
impressive ceremony of opening the
mind, and has applied to friends in general movement among the Irish
St. Paul, Minn., Dec. 80.— The
holy door of St. Peter’e cathedral.
here to aid the Boers in their war w ith Great Northern directory today in­
San Francisco for assistance.
The charred remains of W . J.
England. A call was sent ont today creased its capital stock f 7,500,000,
Winston Spencer
Churchill
has
Thomas, a fanner, and his three chil­
for a special assessment on every mem- for the purpose of acquiring new prop­
cabled to the London Post of his escape
dren, were found in the ashes of their
lier of the Order of Hibernians, of erties and making extensions and im ­
from the Boer prison. He made his
home, 11 miles southwest of Chilli-
which there are 25,000 in this city. provements on the Pacific coast. The
way overland from Delagoa bay and
cothe, Kau. It is supposed that Thomai
A return of $25,000 is expected, which Sionx City & Northern anil Pacific
scaled walls while guards were not
murdered the children and then set fire
w ill help to swell the general fnnd of Short Line, ip Iowa and Nebraska, nre
looking. He journeyed for six days,
to the house and took his own life.
$1,000,000
which
organizations among the new properties to be taken
walking at night, with nothing to eat
About a year ago Thomas' wife com­
throughout the country seek to raise.
in.
but chocolate.
mitted suicide by taking poison.
’ F r is c o Is N e e d o f C on i.
t o . » ’ . B on d flo r a to P a r ! . .
The Pittsburg baseball club has
Pan Francisco, Dec. 30.— The Exam­
New York, Dec. 80.— Commissioner-
Admiral and Mrs. Dewey have taken bought the pick of the Louisville team iner says: There are over 60 vessels,
General Ferdinand W . Peck, of the
a pew in St. Paul’s Roman Catholic for a sum said to be $25,000 cash.
each carrying from a few hundred to
United States commission to the Paris
church, Washington.
over
2,000
tons
of
coal,
Nmnd
from
Mrs. C. A. Burling, mother-in-law
exposition of next year, has appointed
The entire crop of sugarcane and beet of Rear-Admiral W illiam T. Sampson, Nswcastle, Australia, to the Hawaiian Sousa’s band as the official American
for 1899-1900 will amount to about 8,- died at her home in Rochester, Ji. Y., islands. From the same Australian band to play at the exposition.
port to Pan Francisco there are but 20
000,000 tons— at>out the same amount aged 76 years.
A C h r is tin a « P o is o n in g .
as last year.
Ex-Sheriff Weis, of Dayton. O., has vessels bound with similar cargoes.
The coal destined for Hawaii is chiefly
Rarhoursville, W . Va., Dec. 28.—
Exports and imports at the five prin- £ec*>Ave<*
® * il a commission from for use of the sugar plantations, but
Three members of the family of Man-
ripal ports of Porto Rico for the1 ?‘rw,idl’nt Krn8’er appointing him a the diversion of the supply from this
ford Pollock died last night, having
months of Mar, June and July show I w indier-general in the Boer army,
port has caused a scarcity of fuel and teen mysteriously poisoned while eat­
a Italanee of trade in favor of thee« W eU 1S a P " ’" ' “ * 1 ,nend of Kruger’s, a consequent increase in price.
ing their Christmas dinner.
port* of $847,882.
, and once visited him in Africa.
Over 500 British prisoners captured
at Storm berg have reached Pretoria.
RATES.
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A
DOUBLE
Filipinos Terrorizing Unpro­
tected Towns.
I.
to He
Dl
New York. Jan. 1.— A dsipatch to
the Herald from Berlin says:
The Lokal Anzieger publishes the
contents of the German-English-Portu
guest) secret treaty. This double treaty
w ill have executive force as soon as the
Swiss jurists, Messrs. Blaesi-Hensley
and Goldau, have given a decision in
the Delagoa bay arbitration.
The decision, it is expected, w ill be
given in January or February and will
probably be in favor of England, in
which case Portugal must pay to F.ng-
lund and America an indemnity of £1,
900.000. England obtained in 1891
from Portugal the right of pre-emption
in Delagoa bay, and the cession of Del
agoa bay to England may therefore be
expected in March next.
It is possible that President Krnger
may now declare war on l’ortugal and
attack Delagoa at once.
In order to prevent any interference
by France or Russia, Enlgand con
eluded a secret treaty with Germany
regarding the complete partition of the
Portuguese colonial possessions. Ger­
many is to receive all the Portuguese
possessions in Asia, with 20,000 square
miles of territory and 1,000,000 inhab­
itants. Germany fnrther receives in
Africa all Portuguese territory north of
Mozambique, except a strip of land
three miles wide, for Mr. Cecil Rhodes
trans-African railway. For this the
German government w ill pay Portugal
25.000. 000 marks.
R o b b e d o f •lS .O O O .
K i l l e d H is Y o u n g W i f e a n d H im s e lf.
Rosebery Wants the Govern­
ment’s Position Defined.
POSSIBLE
S ir
CHANGE
OF POLICY
C h a r le i D ilk e W a r n «
Aguiusfc
llu s t y O v e r tu r n in g o f
P re c e d e n t«.
A M u rd e ro u s C o lle c t o r .
One P erson
W e s K ille d and F o u rtee n
W e r e I n ju r e d .
Denver, Colo., Jan. 1.— The Chey­
enne flyer on the Union Pacific rail­
road crashed into the Boulder V alley
train, at Brighton, Colo., at 6 this
morning. One man was killed, W in­
field Randelman, express messenger,
Denver, whose body was burned to a
crisp. Fourteen persons were Injured.
The Boulder Valley train left Denver
a little late this morning, and as usual
stopped at Brighton, which is the junc­
tion for the Boulder Valley line from
the main line to Cheyenne. The Chey­
enne flyer also left Denver late, and
coming Into Brighton In the early
morning dusk, ran into the rear end ol
the Boulder train, telescoping two or
three cars and derailing the passenger
locomotive.
Section gangs from Denver yards and
half a dozen passengers occupied the
Boulder train. The mail and baggage
car and the smoker of the flyer were
burned. Mrs. Young was in the chair
car with six children. None < of the
children were hart, although she re­
ceived serious injury. The wounded
were brought to Denver and taken to
the hospitals. Conductor McAllister,
of the Boulder valley train was erased
by the accident. He attempted to
amp into the burning wreckage, and
had to be forcibly restrained.
Chattanooga, Tenn.,Jan. 1.— Samuel
Mills, a collector for an installment
house, this afternoon attempted to seise
furniture in the house of Mary Ven­
In his proclamation to the burghers,
able, colored, for a small debt. The Raden-Powell makes the extraordi-
woman attempted to prevent it, and in nary statement that the American gov­
the struggle that ensued Mills shot the ernment has warned others of her in­
woman and her little son and daughter, tentions to side with England should
all seriously. Mills was an-eated.
any of them Interfere.
B n l l e r ’ » S p h ere o f A c t io n .
B ig L in e r Is A s h o r e .
CONTRABAND OF WAR
London, Jan. 1.— Lord Rosebery
writes as follows this morning to the
Times:
“ There are disquieting Intimations
which appear to point to our govern­
ment having treated foodstuffs as c6u-
traband of war. As this is a matter of
supreme importance, I venture to ad­
dress this line to you in the hope that
it may elicit an authoritative statement
on the subject.”
The Times, commenting editorially
upon Lord Roseberry’s letter, says:
“ Too little is known of the seizures
for any valid inference safely to bo
drawn. An emergency might arise
when certain foodstuffs would be re­
garded as contraband while others
would not, especially if the latter were
intended for cuncomhatants. There
might,
for instance, be reasonable
grounds for treating canned goods os
contraband and flour as legitimate.”
After admitting that it “ would be
R EST A T A R L IN G T O N .
(inadvisable to create a precedent which
might some day lie invoked against
B u r ia l o f th e M a r ty r e d H e r o e s o f th e
ns,” the article concludes "gs follows!
M a in e .
“ W hile we fully share the view that
Washington, Jan. 1.— Upon the
no serions change of policy should oc­
windy heights of Arlington cemetery,
cur without cogent reasons and ample
the Maine dead, brought from Havana
consideration, we cannot bnt ask oar-
by the battleship Texas, today were
selves whether, in the event of Great
laid away in their final resting places,
Britain being engaged in a war, the
with simple religious services, and the
action, either of the enemy or even of
Impressive honors of war, in tho pres­
neutral powers, in a matter upon
ence of the president, members of his
which such great divergence of opinion
cabinet, officers of the army and navy
still exists is likely to be governed by
and other officers of the government.
any precedent we or any one else may
A cabinet officer, surveying the flag-
have set in the past, rather thau by the
draped coffins before the ceremony be
immediate interests of the moment.”
gan, said: “ The lives of these men
cost Spain her colonies.” But there
A NEW Y O R K FIR E .
was no note of trinpmh In the grim
scene today. W ith a touch of sadness T w o S e v e n -S to r y B u ild in g s W e r e D e -
s t r o y e d —F ir e m e n I n ju r e d .
and solemn gravity, the nation per
formed its duty to the dead and gave
New York, Jan. 1.— The two seven-
its defenders a Christian burial at story buildings at 425 to 435 East
home, in soil hallowed by patriotic Twenty-fourth street, occupied princi­
dead.
pally by the wall-paper factory of W il­
liam Campbell & Co., were destroyed
B a t t le W i t h R o b b e r s .
Seattle, Jan. 1.— Two masked men by fire tonight. The loss is fully
held up a Ballard street-car at 11 $500,000. The plant of the New York
o’clock
tonight. There were eight Ifygienio Ioe Company, which occu­
passengers aboard, and a regular fusil­ pied the basement of 425, and that of
lade of shots was fired. One of the tlie Manhattan Electric Light Com­
passengers inside the car, C. E. Plim p­ pany, on the first and second floors of
ton, opened fire on the hghwayman en­ the same building, were totally de­
tering from the rear, and three shots stroyed. A large portion of the east
were returned. One broke Plimpton’s side gets its lights from that company,
and was, on account of the fire, cast
arm and the other entered his breast.
Shortly after midnight the poljce into complete darkness. The Campbell
found near the scene of the Ballard company employed 400 hands, who
street-car hold-up the body of one of w ill be thrown out of work by the fire.
the two bandits. He had been almost The properties of all three firms are de­
instantly killed by a ballet from a stroyed beyond the hope of saving a
passenger’s pistol. The body is still dollar’s worth. The losses are partly
covered by insurance.
unidentified.
Three hook-and-ladder men, Andrew
B i g B u ffa lo M in e T u r n s O u t R ic h .
Degnan, Joseph Shanghnessy and Jos­
Baker City, Or., Jan. 1.— A sensa eph Ressinger, were caught on the sixth
tlonal strike was made today in A. floor oijthe building, and escaped with
Geiser’s Big Buffalo mine, two miles great difficulty. A ll were severely
west of this city. The miners took burned. Shanghnessy and Bessinger
several samples of ore from the tunnel, were sent to Bellevue hospital. The
which today tapped the 80-foot ledge. other hook-and-ladder men werecanght
By assays just returned to the owner on one of the high window ledges, with
of the mine, the samples all show gold the flames roaring all around them and
values ranging from $18 to $102.75 in the dense smoke making them almost
gold and five onnees of silver to the imperceptible from the street. Exten­
ton. Mr. Gelsor, who was formerly sion ladders were run and firemen
part owner of the Bonanza mine, said brought them down In an almost un­
today that if the values hold out conscious condition. One of the men,
throughout the Big Buffalo, the prop­ Lee Potter, was very severely burned,
erty w ill be equal to the Bonanza. The and was sent to Bellevue hospital.
Big Buffalo is within plain sight of
tw o
D r a i n s w r e c k e d .
this city.
Winnipeg, Jan. 1.— Pierre Dentzer,
a German farmer, aged 50, living near
Rath well, 100 miles from Winnipeg,
shot ami killed his 19-yeur-old w ife in
a fit of temper. Dentzer then carried
his baby to a neighbors’ bonse and re*
turned home. The authorities were
lotifled, and on approaching the house
iund that the woman’s body had lieen
T h e P la g u e S c a re.
aken inside the house and a cross had
San Francisco, Jan. 1.— The steamer ueen raised by Dentzer on the ground
Gaelic arrived here this afternoon from where she had been shot. Dentzer had
the Orient, via Honolulu. The Gaelic spread a sheet on the Door, placed his
was sent to quarantine, owing to the w ifs’s body on it, blew out his brains.
plagne scare, lint her cabin passengers
W e n t T h r o u g h a B r id g e .
were allowed to land, towboats plying
San Bernardino, Cal., Jan. 1.— As
lietween the steamer and the city for
No. 38, west-bound freight train over
the purpose.
The press correspondent at Honolulu the Sante Fe lonte, was crossing Cajon
says there have lieen no new cases of creek bridge today, alioat 12 miles
plague since last advices. There have north of this city, nine cars went
been several sudden deaths, and in through the bridge into the creek bot-
each instance rumor assigned the torti. Six of the car* weie loaded with
plagne as the cause. Investigation cotton, one with telegraph wire, and
proved otherwise. The lioard of health one with general merchandise and sul­
now claims hot two deaths were caused phur. The cars caught fire and made
by the sconrge, the remaining cases be­ a terrible conflagration, destroying the
entire contents and framework. No
ing donbtfnl or suspicious.
one was killed.
Walsenburg, Colo., Jan. 1.— W. J.
Milsap, a prominent stockman, was
seized by two men when alioat to enter
the Klein hotel and was robbed of
$12,900. The money was mostly in
his coat and vest pockets and these
garments were torn from him. No
trace of the criminals has been found.
Mr. Milsap was on bis way to Mexico
to buy cattle.
I n v a r ia b ly
Address, Q aireic, Newbsr,. Oregon.
TREATY.
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Cape Town, Jan. 1.— Colonel Otter,
commanding the Canadian contingent
of troops, is to join the staff of Buller,
ill the mem tiers of which are proceed-
ng to Natal, indicating that Buller’s
phere w ill shortly be confined to
Natal.
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G e n e r a l W h it e H a « t h e F e v e r ,
Ladysmith, Sunday, Dec. 24, via
Pietermaritzburg— General W hite has
had a slight attack o f fever, but is
now convalescent.
It is reported that General Joubert 1«
again in command of the- Boers here.
The military authorities apjiear confi­
dent, tint they are vot y reticent. ‘v
London, Jan. 1.— A Urge German
mail steamer, believed to ne one of the
Hamburg*American liners, has gone
aground daring a terrific gale in Float
bay, ahont a quarter of a mile off Dun-
geness, the southern extremity of Kent.
Heavy seas are breaking over the ves­
B o s to n fly m p a th y f o r B o e rs .
sel, and life-boats are unable to reach
Boston. Jan. 1.— The common coun­
About 2,000 claims have been filed
her. Fears are entertained for the
cil of Boston today, after a spirited de­ so far for pensions (or diab ilities re­
safety of the passengers.
It is reported that the position of the flate, adopted a resolution of sympathy ceived during the Spanish-American
for the Boers.
war.
liner is very serious.