N E W BE R G GRAPHIC.
A D T X B T I8 IN O
C olua...— .....
f t I C o l u m n . .........
Frol fMtloaal Carda...
BATH .
..Twenty Dollart
____ Toa Dollart
........ Oat Dollar
B eadlac K o tlta t W ill Bo l a t i r t e « a « «Ma
B ato o t T oa Coate F o r U bo .
advertíalos Billa Collected Monthly
C H A P T E R X.
Long since the moon has mounted the
heavens; now it Is at its full. A myriad
stars keep company with it, the hush of
sleeping nature pays homage io i;. Sol
emnly, slowly, from the old belfry tower
the twelve strokes of midnight have
sounded on the air.
Vera, rising cautiously from beside Gri-
aelda, who is, as usual, sleeping the sleep
o f the just, slips gently on to the bare
white across which the moonbeams are
traveling delicately.
Sleep has deserted her. Weary at last
of her efforts to lose herself and her hate
ful thoughts in unconsciousness, she de
termines to rise and try what study may
do for her. She steps lightly across the
room, opens the door aud speeds with all
haste over the corridor, gaunt and ghost
ly in the dim light, down the grand old
staircase, and enters a room on the left
o f the library, where one day she made
the discovery that comfort was to be
found.
Striking a match, she lights a lamp
upon a side table aud proceeds to exam
ine the book shelves. Taking down one
that she thinks will please her, Vera
kneels upon one of the deep window
seats, looks outward, trying to pierce the
soft and scented gloom.
The opening of the door rouses her. It
is quite an hour later—an hour forgotten
by her as she read. W ith a sudden start
she looks up, turning her face over her
shoulder to the door, to see who can be
coming in at this unholy hour.
H er
heart grows cold within her as she sees
—Seaton Dysart!
In silence they stare at each other.
Vera, Indeed, so great is her astonish
ment, forgets to rise, but sits there curl
ed up among her furs, with a little frozen
look of fear aud detestation on her per
fect face.
“ I have disturbed you,” says Seaton
at last, breaking the spell, and speaking
in a distinctly unnatural tone.
“ I did hope I should have found pri
vacy somewhere, at some hour,” says
she, coldly.
“ I came for a book,” says he, contrite
ly. “ Now that I am here, will you per
mit me to say a few words in my own
defense?"
"Oh. defense!” says she, with undis
guised scorn.
"Certainly, i would prove to you how
entirely you hsve wronged me,” says he,
firmly. " I acknowledge that once my
father expressed a wish that 1 should
marry you,” coloring darkly, "always
provided you were willing to accept me;
and I " —slowly—“ acceded to that wish.”
"B ut why, why?" demands she, flash
ing round at him.
“ I do not wonder at your question. It
seems impossible there should be a rea-
*on,” replies he, coldly; “ for ever since
the first hour we met you have treated
me with uniform unfriendliness, I had
almost said discourtesy.”
“ There is a reason, nevertheless,“ says
she, hotly. She has come a step or two
nearer to him, and her large, lustrous
eyes, uplifted, seem to look defiance into
his. “ Your reason I can fathom—but
your father’s—that, I confees, puzzles
me. Why should he, whose god is money,
choose the penuiless daughter ^ of the
brother he defrauded to be---- “
“ Defrauded?” interrupts Seaton, with
a frown.
“ Call it what you will,” with an ex
pressive gesture of her hand—“ undertake
his defense, too; but the fact remains
that the iniquitous deed that gave to
your father what should have been ours
was undoubtedly drawn up by ray uncle.
I have heard all about it a hundred times.
Your father hardly denied it to mine
when last writing to him. His taking
us home to live with him was, I sup
pose, a sort of reparation. T o marry me
to you, and thus give me back the prop
erty he Btole—is that a reparation, too?”
She is as pale as death, and the hands
that cling to the back of the chair near
her are trembling. But her lips are firm
and her eyes flashing. It occurs to Sea
ton, gazing at her in breathless silence,
that if she could have exterminated him
then and there by a look she would have
done it.
“ You degrade yourself and me when
you talk like that,” says Seaton, who is
now as pale as she is. “ For heaven’s
sake, try to remember how abominably
you misrepresent the whole thing. I f my
father had a freak of this kind in his
head—a desire to see you married to his
only son—sorely there was no discourtesy
to you contained in such a desire. It was
rather—you must see that—a well-meant
arrangement on his part. It was more,”
boldly. “ He loves me; in wishing to see
you ray wife he paid you the highest
compliment he could. I defy you to re
gard it in any other light.”
“ You plead his cause well—it is your
own,” ssys «he, tapping the back of the
chair with taper, angry fingers. “ W hy
take the trouble? Do yon think you can
bring me to view the case in a lenient
light? Am I likely to forget that you—
you aided and abetted your father in try
ing to force me into this detested mar
riage?”
“ Pray put that marriage out o f your
head,” says he, slowly. “ You hsve taken
it too seriously. I assure you I would
not marry you now if you were as »-ill-
lug as yon sre unvilling. I can hardly
put it stronger.”
"When my grandfather left this prop
erty to your father," she says, slowly,
“ he left it purposely unentailed. Your
father, then, »e r e you to cross his
wishes, could leave you, as I have been
left, penniless. To avoid that, you would
fall in with any of his views. You would
even so fsr sacrifice yourself as to—mar
ry me!” Oh, the contempt in her tone!
There is a long pause. Then Seaton,
striding forwsrd, seises her by both srms
sod tnrns her more directly to the light.
The grasp of his hsnds is ss a vise, and
__afterward—It seemed to her that be
hid. involuntarily, ss it were, shaken
her slightly.
N E W BE R G GRAPHIC.
NEWBERG GRAPHIC.
■ C a a O K IP T IO N
Dae Tear
Mr Montha.....
Throe Month.
BATH.
*1
■aheortpUoB F rloo F a ya h lo la r a r l a h l r
la Adtra
VO L. X IV .
NEW BERO , Y A M H IL L
concentrated tone. She can see that his
face is very white, and that it is with
difficulty he restrains himself; she is con
scious, too, perhaps, of feeling a little
frightened.
Then he puts her quickly from him and
turns away.
“ Pshaw, you are not worth It!” he
says, his manner full of the most intense
self-contempt.
C H A P T E R X I.
A gleam of moonlight coming through
the open window puts the lamp to
shame, snd compels Vera's attention.
How sweet, how heasenly fair the gar
den seems, wrapped in those pale, cold
beams! She can see It from where she
sits on the deep, cushioned seat of the
old-fashioned window, and a longing to
rise and go into it, to feel the tender
night-wind boating on her burning fore
head, takes possession o f her.
Catching up a light shawl to cover the
evening gown she wears, she steals, care
fully as might a guilty soul, by Griselda’s
bed, along the dusky corridor, dowu the
staircase, and past the servants’ quar
ters, where a light under Mrs. Orunch’s
door »-arns her that that remorseless foe
has as yet refused to surrender herself
to slumber.
A small door leading Into the garden
is close to this, and moving swiftly up
the narrow stone passage that brings her
to it she opens the door, and so closing
it after her that she can regain the house
at any moment, she turns to find herself
alone in the exquisite perfumed sileuce
of the night.
How long she thus gives herself up to
the sweet new enjoyment of life she
hardly knou-s until she hears the ancient
belfry clock telling the midnight hour.
It startles her. Has she indeed been
here so long? What if Griselda should
wake and be alarmed for her?
She
moves quickly In the direction of the
house, and at last, regaining the Inner
garden, begins to think her pleasant so
journ at an end.
She has neared the shrubberies and in
voluntarily turns her glance their way as
they lie upon her left; Involuntarily, too,
she seeks to pierce the darkness that en
velops them, when she stops, and presses
her hand convulsively to her breast. Who
Is It—what is it, moving there, In the
mysterious gloom?
“ Don't be frightened. It is I, Seaton,”
says a most unwelcome voice.
“ A h !” she says. She is angry beyond
doubt, and still further angered by the
kno»-ledge that there is more of relief
than coldness in the simple exclamation.
" I had no idea you were here at all,”
she says, faintly, after a pause that has
grown sufficiently long to be awkward.
" I am afraid I have startled you. I f I
had known I should not, of course, have
come here.”
"Y ou make it very hard for me,” she
says, with a touch of passionate impa
tience.
"That is unjust,” says he, roused in
turn. “ T o make yonr life easier is my
heart's desire.”
“ Are you succeeding, do you think?
Does It," with gathering scorn, "make
my part smoother, »h en you compel me
to see that you stay away, or only come
here at hours inconvenient to you, be
cause—because o f me?"
She turns aside sharply, ami walks a
step or two away from him. Somehow
at this instant, the growing chill o f the
early night seems to strike more sharply
on her senses, and a shiver not to be
suppressed stirs her whole frame.
“ You are cold," he exclaims, coming
up to her with a hasty stride. “ YVhat
madness It is, your being out at this
hour! Come, come back to the house.”
She agrees silently to this proposition,
and follows him across the grass to the
small oaken door that had given her
egress—only to find it barred against her!
Beaton, having tried It, glances at her
in mute dismay.
“ Gruneh must have fastened it, on her
way to bed. The bolt is drawn,” says
he, slowly.
“ Do you mean that I can't get in?”
asks she, as if unable to credit so terri
ble an announcement.
“ Oh, I dare say it can't be so bad as
that,” hastily. “ Only,” hesitating, as if
hardly knowing how to explain, “ the
front door is of coarse locked and chain
ed, and the servants, with the exception
o f Gruneh, all asleep at the top of the
house; a late arrangement of my father's,
as the original servantV quarters lie be
low. I am afraid, therefore, that if we
knocked forever. It would have no effect.
However, I can try to do something, but
in the meantime you must not stay out
here in the cold."
"Y ou may feel It cold. I don’t,” re
turns she .perversely. “ Not so long as
the moonlight lasts, shall I find It lonely
either. I,” raising her unfriendly, beau
tiful eyes to his—" I assure you I shall be
quite happy out hers, even though I stay
till the day dawns and the doors are
open again.”
" 'Happy” ” As he repeats her word
he looks at her with a keen scrutiny. " A
word out o f place, surely; given the best
conditions, I hardly dare to believe you
could ever be 'happy' at Greycourt.”
"Happy or unhappy,” says she. with
quick resentment, her mind being dis
tressed by this awkward fear of having
to pass the night from nnder any roof,
“ surely it can be nothing to you! Why
affect an interest in one who Is as hate
ful to you as I am?” A little fire has
fallen into her tone, and there is ill-sup
pressed contempt in the eyes she lifts to
his. Perhaps he is driven by it into an
anger that leads to his betrayal.
"H atefu l to me! Do you think yon are
that, Vera?" says he, In a low tone, bat
one full of fierce and sadden passion—
passion long suppressed. “ Do yon hon
estly believe that?" His manner Is al
most violent, and as be speaks be catches
hntb her hands in his. and crushes them
vehemently against bis breast. “ I would
to heaven,” he says, miserably, “ that
” Uow dare y o u f he says. In a low. | that were so!”
C O U N T Y , OREGON, F R ID A Y , F E B R U A R Y
A m If stupefied by surprise, Vera stands
motionless, her hands lying passively In
his. Bhe Is aware that he Is looking at
her, with a new, wild, strange expression
in his eyes, but a horrible sense of being
po»-erless to resist him numbs all her
being. Aud suddenly, as she struggles
with herself, he bends over her, aud
without warning lifts her hands and
presses warm, fervent kisses on the
small, cold hands.
Then she is aroused indeed from her
odd lethargy, and by a sharp movement
wrenches herself free.
"D on 't," she cries, faintly; "tt la In
sufferable! I cannot bear it! H ave you
no sense of honor left?”
Her tone calms him, but something
within him revolts against the idea of
apology. He loves her—let her know It.
l ie will not go back from that, though
her scorn slay him.
“ Thare is nothing dishonorable,” he
says, steadily. “ I lore yon; I am glad
you know It. Despise me If you can, re
ject me as I know you will, I am still the
better for the thought that I have laid
bare to you all my heart. And now—
you cannot stay here,” he goes on quick
ly, as though fearing to wait for her next
words; “ the night Is cold and damp.
There Is the summer house over there,”
pointing in Its direction; "go and rest
there, till I call you."
Vera hastens to the shelter suggested,
and sinkiug down upon the one seat It
contains, a round rustic chair in the last
stage of decay, gives way to the over
powering fatigue that for the last hour
has been oppressing her.
Reluctantly
she does this, and quite unconsciously.
Obstinately determined to fight sleep to
the last, she presently succumbs to that
kindly tyrant, and falls into one of the
most delicious slumbers she has ever yet
enjoyed.
How long it lasts she never knows, but
when next she opens her eyes with a
nervous start, the first flush of rosy du»-n
is flooding hill and valley and sea. Some
thing lying at her feet disturbs all her
preconceived fancies. It must have slip
ped from her »h e n she rose. Regard
ing it more earnestly, she acknowledges
unwillingly that it is Seaton's coat, a
light gray one. When she » ’ as asleep,
lost to all knowledge of friend or foe,
then he had come and placed that coat
across her shoulders.
Her eyes are large and languid with
sleep broken and unsatisfied, her soft
hair lies ruffled on her low, broad brow.
She looks timidly, nervously, around her
ns one expecting anything but good;
her whole air Is shrinking, and her whole
self altogether lovely.
T o the young man standing in his shirt
sleeves, half hidden among the laurels
and looking at her, with admiration gen
erously mixed with melancholy in his
glance, she seems the very incarnation
of all things desirable.
He presses her hand and hurries her
over the short, dewy grass into the
shrubberies that form an effectual screen
from all observation of those in the gar
den beyond, and so on until they come to
the small oaken doorway through n’hich
she had passed last night, and which has
proved more foe than frieud.
Once Inside the longed-for portal, her
first Impulse is a natural one; it is to run
as fast as her feet can carry her to her
own room.
(To be continued.)
C O A C H M A N K E P T HIS
EVENTS OE THE DAY
W. D. J E N K I N S DIES.
He Was Secretary
F R O M T H E F O U R Q U A R T E R S OF
D IG N IT Y .
In c id e n t a lly H la E m p lo y e r 1'ad H ie
W a y in a R o u n d a b o u t F a sh io n .
TliJ* la one o f the m any stories that
are floating about town concerning a
man v e ry w e ll known In the capital,
who la spending the summer In E ng
land, says the Washington Post. He
has taken a country house over there
fo r the season, and la livin g a grand
seigneur with a troop o f dear only
knows how many servants. These
English servants, so their Am erican
master has discovered, are quite un
like the menials to whom he Is accus
tomed In bis own country. T hey are
specialists. Each one o f them Is hired
for some one particular work, and pro
fessional etiquette forbids them to
trespass on each other’s preserves,
H o w strictly they keep them each to
his ow n work the Am erican did not
know till, sauntering Idly out o f the
house one day, be espied a watering
can, which had been left by a gardener
at a little distance from the mansion
on the edge o f the drive. I t occurred
to him that It would be amusing to
play at being a gardener. H e would
wateT the flowers himself. So, calling
to a man servant, who happened to be
passing, he bade him fetch the w ater
ing can. The man straightened him
self up and touched his cap.
“ Beg pardon, sir,” he said, tn a tone
o f respect not unmixed with surprise,
" I ’m the coachman, sir.”
“ AH right,” answered the Am erican;
“ bring me that cnn.”
“ Beg pardon, sir,” repeated the man,
"but I'm the coachman, sir.”
“ W ell, w ell,” said the American,
know you’re the coachman. B ring me
the can.”
The coachman touched his cap again
snd repeated his form er remark. IAght
danmed on the American.
“ Oh," said he, “ you're the coachman,
are you? W ell, cearhman. you go round
to the stables and have my four-ln
hand brought round at once.”
The coachman saluted and walked
sw ay. The coach and four drew up at
the door a fe w minutes later. The mas
ter climbed In.
"N o w ," said be, “ drive me to that
w atering can."
The order was obeyed. T h e horses
paused a hundred yards do»-n the
drive.
“ G et down and band me the can,
now ," ordered the master.
A moment later he « a s contentedly
w atering the floorers. H e bad the can,
the coachman's dignity bad been pre
served. and all waa well.
T H E WORLD.
21, 1902.
of State of Washington
NO. 14.
Addroaa, Oaarne, Mawbarf, Orafoa.
NEWS OF THE STATE
From 1897 to 1902.
O lym pia,
Feb. 17.— Word has been
received hero from Ban Francisco that
ex-Becretary of
IT E M S O F IN T E R E S T FROM A L L
T H E Y FAVOR P A N A M A .
Engineers Before the Senate Committee on
Interoceanic Canals.
P ARTS OF OREGON.
Washington, Feb. 17.— A lfred N oble,
c iv il engineer and a m ember of the
Commercial and Financial Happenings ol Im
Btate W ill I). Jenkins
Happenings of the P u t Week, Presented
Mr. Jenkins left Olym pia a year ago for
portance— A Brief Review of the Growth
isthmian canal commission, was liefore
the senate committee on canals. M r.
N oble said it would l>e necessary to
In a Condensed Form, Which Is Most
C alifornia, »h e r e he was interested in
an oil company.
end Improvement! of tha Many Induatriea
have
Throughout Our thriving Commonwealth
Panama and Colon in order to control
sanitation. H e thought the conditions
Com prehtiulvt
Review of the Important
Likely to Prove of Interest to Our Many
city
Baturday
morning.
W ill D. Jenkins was one of the prom
Readers.
Prince H enry
U n ited States.
died in that
inent men of Washington.
is on his way
to
the
He was a
— Late«! Market Report.
native of Indiana, t>eing lorn in Tip|>e-
The new furniture factory at Cor-
canoe in 1841. A t an early age he
vallis has started operations.
nine W est and settled in Kansas, where
F ire at Wisdom , Mont., destroyed
Oregon horses have given
1 letter
at 16 years o f age he established
120,000 worth o f property.
service in the Yukon than any other.
weekly newspaper called the Clarion.
M artial law has been declared at
Contractors are at work on the re
Trieste, Austria, on account of riots.
modeling of the lavatories in the state
house.
General B ell has st»«ip ed out the re-
b elllion in Batangas province, Luzon.
A gasoline lamp exploded at Adams,
causing $4,000 damage in the fire that
The treaty for the Danish W est In
resulted.
dies w ill come up in the senate this
week.
Only 166 electors have registered in
Y am h ill county, out of an approxi
Because they could not get whiskey,
mate total of 3,050.
three Osage Indians in Oklahoma drank
a concoction o f wood alcohol, vanilla,
cologne and Florida water.
The Republican congressional
m ittee for the First district w ill
in Portland February 20.
A British force was caught in a Boer
trap on the K lip river and two officers
and 10 men killed and a large number
wounded before they gained shelter.
V olum e 39 o f the Supreme Court Rec
ord w ill be issued from the state prin t
ing office in aDout a month.
John A . Johns, an Oregon pioneer of
1851, died at the borne of his son,
south of Balem, aged 81 years. •
W1I.L D. JENKINS.
N O SUCCESS W I T H O U T IT .
N o brilliant success in businesi is
on record where the value of nevs-
paper advertising was not recognized
and employed with profit.—Oshkosh
Times.
*I.e»'is and Clark exposition stock has
been increased to $500,000.
T h e president w ill announce his de
cision in the Schley case in a few days.
Representative Tongue
has intro
duced a new irrigation b ill in ihe
house.
A company has been incorporated in
California to develop the island of
Mindanao, P . I.
Troops have had to be cal led out in
France to preserve order among striking
leather workers.
Bantos-Dumont’ s airship burst while
he waB making a trial, and the inventor
had a narrow escape from drowning.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., has passed
the danger point in his sickness. The
president has returned to Washington
com
meet
Some few years later he established the
Smith County Pioneer, which is now-
one of the leading county papers of that
state. In 1881 Mr. Jenkins came to
Washington and located at Seattle, lie
aided in establishing the D aily Chron
icle aud hcl|>cd edit that paper w hen it
was the leading state journal. In 1883
he removed to Whatcom and with
others established the D aily R eveille.
Later, he served three terms as mayor
of that city.
In I860 ho was cciuuih
supervisor for Western Washington.
Shortly after the formation of the Pop
ulist party, in 1892, Mr. Jenkins be
anie one of its leaders.
In 1896 he
was nominated by that party for secre
tary of state and was elected.
Since
retiring from cilice a year ago, he had
interested him self in oil
ventures.
About two years ago lie was stricken
w ith a malady that puzzled the physi
cians, hut later it was diagnosed as an
abcess, and from this he has never re
covered. He leaves a w ife and five
children, three girls and two boys.
M ERGING
Big
SAVING S
Consolidation Scheme
BAN K S.
That
Is
Under
Way at Cleveland.
Russia expresses herself well pleased
at the Anglo-Japanese alliance, but
Cleveland, Feb. 18.—A t three meet
hopes the United States is not a party ings held during the past week, the
to it.
prelim inary arrangements were com
Commander Booth-Tucker, of the Sal pleted in this city for one of the most
consolidations in the
vation A rm y, has taken the oath of a l gigantic hank
legiance as a citizen of the United history of money and hanking in Ohio.
In general the plan contemplates the
States.
consolidation of nearly all the t-maller
Lord K itchener made a concentrated
savings hanks in Cleveland and w ill
movement of all available troops against
eventually absorb a number of hanks
Dewet’ s forces, nut the Boer leader
in nearby towns. The elim ination of
managed to slip through the lines.
the smaller savings hanks means their
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., is nearly out absorption into one great associated
hank to lie located somewhere in the
of danger.
heart of the city, with a capitalization
The senate w ill construct a new
ol more than $1,000,000. A t Orst no
tax reduction b ill.
new capital stock w ill lie issued, but
The oleomargarine b ill lias been the capital stock of all the (tanks going
into the associated bank w ill lie turned
passed by the house.
into a pool to form the capital stock of
The Anglo-Japanese alliance was the the combined hank. It is planned to
work of M arquis Ito.
include in the consolidation from the
The dowager queen of Italy w ill make start all the sm aller outlying hanks In
the city, some 15 or 20 in number. It
a tour of the U n ited States.
is noL probable that the names of the
S ix men were killed and six fatally hanks interested w ill lie announced un
injured in a battle in Kentucky.
til all have signed the agreement.
T h e work of developing the P h ilip
CLEARED OF YELLOW JA CK .
pine islands w ill consume years.
The increased demand for lumber in
Eastern Oregon lias caused Raker C ity
m ills to enlarge th eir capacity.
Th e state printer has an extra force
at work getting out the blanks, ab
stracts, ta lly sheets, etc., to be used
at the coming state election.
The state land hoard lias not yet
finally disposed o f the application of
the P ilo t Butte Development Company
for a contract to reclaim aridjland.
V ery little of the 1901 prune crop re
mains in the hands of the growers in
the W illa m ette valley. Growers who
are still holding their crops want 4 %
cents per pound.
absolute
control of the cities of
were favorable for yellow fever during
most of the year on the isthmus.
There is no yellow fever in
as far as he knew.
M r. Noble said
lie
Nicaragua,
considered
the
price of $40,000,000, asked by the Pan
ama Company for its property, as fair
and reasonable. The expense of oper
ating the two lines proposed would be
practically in proportion to the lengths
of the canals.
“ Taking the whole proposition, do
you consider the Panama proposition
better than the Nicaragua proposition?”
asked Benator Hanna.
“ I think it is ,” promptly responded
the witness.
Colonel Peter C. Haines, an engineer
and member of the isthmian canal com
mission, said that neither the Panama
nor the Nicaragua route combines all
the advantages, Dut that each presents
some good points. The Panama route,
for instance, was shorter, while the
Nicaragua route was more desirable
from a sanitary point of view. Upon
the whole, he said, he favored the Pan
ama routo us combining more advan
tages than any other. He thought, he
said, that the engineering difficulties
could, with the building of the Bohio
dam on the Panama route, be overcome,
but he admitted that some problems
would result in that connection which
never have !>een solved.
Colonel Haines said, in reply to a
question, that if the proffer of the
Panamu Canal Company to dispose of
the property to the United States for
$40,000,000 had been made before the
report of the commission recommend
ing the Nicaragua route was made, he
then would have lieen in favor of adopt
ing the Panama route.
Ashland is to lie the western term in
us of a new telephone system which REPLY T O S C H L E Y ' S APPEAL.
is to reach into Eastern Oregon through
Klnmath and laike counties and into President Will Announce His Conclusions in
a Few Days.
Modoc county, California.
W ashington, Feb. 17.— One of the
The heavy rains in Southern Oregon
principal subjects discussed at the cab
have turned the Rogue river into a rag
inet m eeting today was the reply which
ing torrent. Borne damage lias been
the president w ill make to the appeal
done in the lowlands. Th e water is
o l Adm iral Schley. The president lias
higher than for 12 years.
given a good deal of attention to the
The annual school meetings which matter, and it is understood that in
have heretofore been held on the first the course of a few days, probably by
Monday in March w ill this year be the m iddle of the week, he w ill bo
held on the third Monday in June. ready to announce his conclusions.
School officers whose terms would, un
The president outlined his views of
der the old law, expire next month w ill the Schley case by reading his first
continue in office until June.
draft of his decision. Some modifica
Pendleton has decided to adopt a re tions were made in it today, and in
trenchment policy, the first act of which view o f the fact that it is subject to
further, and possibly im portant changes
was to let one policeman go.
in text, members of the cabinet hack
Ashland is investigating the matter their indisposition to discuss it by the
of a comprehensive sewer system for asse;tion that it is unsafe at this tim e
the city. An estimate places the cost to predict what its exact effect w ill he.
at $20,000.
It ¡ h a lung document, and one of its
features is the clear and concise presen
A company is being organized to con
tation of the facts regarding the Santi
struct seven telephone lines from Pen
ago fight as given the president by
dleton to the small ou tlyin g districts
the captains engaged in that battle,
which are not at present supplied.
who recently were summoned to the
A petition is lading circulated in and W h ite House to confer w ith him . The
around Baker C ity asking congress to decision is couched in the president’ s
set aside Crater lake and adjacent land usual vigorous tone.
sufficient to make a national park.
C O L O M B IA W A N T 8 A C A N A L .
The price of hops continues to ad
vance steadily. Buyers around Balem
are offering 13,4 cents per pound, but II th* United Statei Dota Not Build It,
the growers in most cases refuse to sell
Europeans May.
at that price.
Monterey, M ex..F eb . 14.— Colom bia
stands ready to duplicate any conces-
Partland Markets.
aiona Nicaragua is w illin g to make.
W h eat— Quiet. W a lla Walla, 63®
63 Vie; bluestem. 64064 4 c ; Valley, There need be no question about the
Has
title of the Panama waterway. The
6314c.
Bean for 100 Yean.
United Btates can have it w ith a guar
B arley— Feed,
$19©20;
brewing. anteed title.
Havana, Feb. 18.— Major W . C. G or $20®21 per ton.
Colom bia is w illin g to g ive the
ges, chief sanitary officer of Havana,
Oats— No. 1 white, $1.1001-25; gray, United States full control of the terri
says the principal work of the sanitary $1.0501.15.
tory through which the canal passes.
department for the past year has had
Flour— Beat grades, $2.8003.40 per It wants the canal b u ilt, and in the
for its object the extermination of y el
event the United States sees fit to ac
low fever, and that he has many rea barrel; graham, $2.50 02.80.
Mlllatuffs— Bran, $18 per ton; mid cept the Nicaragua route, the govern
sons to believe Havana has been actu
a lly purged from the disease. During dlings, $21; shorts, $20.50; chop, $17. ment of Colum biu'will take'steps to in
terest European powers in the con
the past 100 years, M ajor Gorgas says,
H ay— Tim othy, $11012; clover. $7®
yellow fever has lieen epidemic in H a 7.60; Oregon wild hay, $5®6 per ton. struction of the Panama canal.
These declarations were made tonight
vana, and all sanitary measures that
Potatoes— Beat Burbanks, 90c®$1.25
have been taken have had no effect. per cental; ordinary, 7 0 ® 86c per cen by General Rafael Reyes, Colom bian
General disinfection, as carried out for tal, g row ers' prices; sweets, $1.76® delegate to the Pan-American congress,
ami in all proliability the future presi
other diseases, had been tried to no 2 per cental.
dent of Colom bia, who is among the
purpose, but yellow fever disappeared
Butter— Cream ery, 2 6 0 2 7 4 c ; dairy, visitin g Pan-American delegad— «dio
upon tlie introduction of the system 18@20c; store, 11 ©18c.
are at present the guest* ot this city.
based on the k illin g of infected mos
E rrs — 20®21 t ic for fresh Oregen.
General Reyes stated th »t he Lad not
quitoes, on the theory that by such
Cheese— Full cream, twins, 13® fu lly decided, but intimated that he
mosquitoes only could the disease lie
1 3 4 c; Young Am erica, 14©15c; fac would return to Colom bia w ith in the
transmitted.
Since September 28,
tory prices. l ® 1 4 c leas.
next few »'eeks and take the presi
1901, not a single case o f the fever lias
Poultry— Chickens, mixed, $303.50; dency.
been reported, and this condition ia no
hens, $4®4.26 per dozen, 9 0 10c per
unusual that, in the opinion of M ajor pound; springs, 10c per pound. $3®
Quacn ef tht Navy.
Gorgas, it puts aside all question of 3.50 per dozen; ducks, $6.50 0 7.60 per
New
Y
ork,
Feb. 14.— The battleship
chance.
dozen;
turkeys,
live,
110124c;
Illin ois, which today dropped anchor
dressed, 14®16c per pound.
Mutton— Gross,
4c
per
pound; off T om pkin sville after its final trial
Hundreds Were Killed
run from N ew port News to New York,
St. Petersburg, Feb. 18.— The latest dressed, 7 0 7 4 c per pound.
H ogs—Gross, 5 \ c ; dressed, 6 4 0 7 c has proved herself the queen of the
news received here from Shamaka con
per pound.
firms the appalling character o l the
navy. In every test she has surpassed
V eal— 8 4 ® 9 c per pound, dressed
earthquake at that place, and adds
the Alabam a, the Oregon, and even her
B eef— Gross, cows, 3 \ © 4 c ; steers. siater ship the Kearaarge. The tests
that 300 corpses have already been
taken ont ol the ruins. The piles of 4 0 4 4 c ; dressed, 6 4 © 7 4 c per pound were rigorous and fu lly demon st rate«!,
Hops— 1 1 0 1 2 4 c per pound.
wreckage are so vast that the search is
her officers say, her snperiority over
neceasarily slow. Most of the victim s
W ool— N om inal.
Valley. 13015c; other vessels of her class of which the
mohair. country can boast. Her maintained
were Mussulmans. The survivors are eastern Oregon. 8 0 1 2 4 c ;
speed was 15.7 knots.
encamped ontside the ruins o f the city. 2 1 0 2 1 4 c per pound.
The rebel gunlioat Libertador cap
tured and sank a Colombian gunboat. Havana Is in Balter Condition Than It
Renewed riots in S|iain have resulted
in the death of a number of people and
the injury of scores.
T h e im perial German yacht Hohen-
zollern has arrived at New Y ork , one
day earlier than was expected.
Northern Pacific switchmen at Mis
soula, Mont., are on strike.
Young Teddy Roosevelt is silgh tly
better, although the crisis has not yet
passed.
San Francisco chamlier of commerce
favors the admission of Chinese mer
chants.
England and Japan have formed an
alliance for the preservation of China
and Corea.
Colombia offers the United States a
guaranteed title to a waterway for the
construction of a canal.
Governor T aft favors bringing some
native Filipinos to this country and ed
ucating them.
The Marquis of Dufferin, ex-governor
general of Canada and ex-viceroy of
India, is dead.
Fire at Springfield, 111., did
m illion dollars damage.
A new geyser has been fonnd
Yellowstone National park.
over
in the
T aft strongly opposes the im|g>rtation
of Chinese to the Philippines.
John H ill, a planter st West Baton
Report Is Confirmed.
R«mge, L a ., baa given to the Louisiana
Washington, Feb. 18.— The state de
state university $25,000 lor the erection
partment has receive«! cable advices of an alumni building and library.
confirming the report that the ransom
N o Book o f In s tra clto n a .
Herliert Biekneee was aent to ja il
Ten thousand dollars have been con
money for Miss Btone has been | «id to
W ea ry W atklna— I see here In the
Fort W ayne, Ind., for contempt
the brigand captors. It ia not known tributed to the national fund for a Mc
paper about bow to git on a trolley
court. H e persisted in callin g on bia
when her release w ill occur, but it is K in ley mem orial by the working men
car and off.
w ife, who is suing for divorce.
understood that the brigands have of Homestead, Pa.
H ungry H iggins—I bet you won't tee
Peter Quinn, aged 35, who inherited made a condition that they shall have
no piece about bow to git on and off
England's imports of iron snd steel
o f freig h t car*. That kind o f tblDg a fortune from bia father, squandered a period of a*week"or ten «lays in which are increasing, w h ile the exports are
com et by nature, er It don't come at it in high liv in g and baa just died In to make sure of their safe retreat be (ailin g off. British trade papers are
fore the prisoner is given up.
New Y ork, a home lest wanderer.
a l l — Indianapolis JournaL
alarmed.
A farmer ami w ile, liv in g near New
Y ork, received a legacy of $5,000 from
a man whom, as a hungry wanderer
they befriended 16 years ago.
Captured Thirty I
M anila, Feb. 15.— Captain W illia m
Swain, of the F irst infantry, in an en
gagement w ith insurgenta at
Paranaa,
Samar, recently captured 30 bolomen
and 4 riflem en.
ican
casualties.
not known.
There were no A m er
The enemy’ s loss is
I t has been
learned that
two hfnira before the fight, Lnkban. the
insurgent leader, was with the natives
engaged by Captain Swain's command.