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for furniture,
ine of undertak-
adverilslnr..tocl£
kins wheeled down from
M * iljr W tl Monday afternoon,
Hu/freng the followtim morning.
asked Sherlock Holmes.
John Ranee appeared to be some­
Mr. anJ Mrs. Eli Seete of McMinn­
what irritated at this digression.
ville visited ill town Funda£ y ‘
“ He was an uncommon drunk sort o’
man." he said. “ He's ha' found hisself
cd the niornln
in the station if we hadn't been so
■church,
took up."
re
'TIis face— his dress—didn't you no­
tice them?” Holmes broke in. impati-
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CH APTER IV.
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It was 1 o'clock when we left 3 length of nis strides. He was talking part muffled round----- "
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“ That will do,” cried Holmes,” What
I.auriston Gardena. Sherlock Holmes all the while, and working himself up,
led me to the nearest telegraph office, no doubt, into a fury. Then the trag­ became of him?”
"W e'd enough to do without lookin’
Colonel Hemphill, founder of the At­
when he dispatched a long telegram. j edy occurred. I’ve told you all I know
Dallas is to have a stave mill.
He then hailed a cab and ordered the nyself, now for the rest is mere sur­ after him," the polireman said, in an lanta Constitution, is dead.
aggrieved
voice.
“
I’ll
wager
he
found
driver to take us Co the address given mise and conjecture. We have a good
Portland is in the lead for securing
The New York Republican state con­ the next reunion of the Army of the
working basis, however, on which *o his w-ay home all right."
us by I.estrade.
“
How
was
he
dressed?”
vention will be held at Saratoga Sept.
“ There's nothing like first-hand evi­ start. W e must hury up. rur I waut
Philippines in 1603.
“ A brown overcoat."
23.
dence." he remarked: "as a matter of t ' go to Halle's concert to hear Nor-
“
Had
he
a
whip
in
his
hand?”
j The postoffioeat Riverdale, Tillamook
fact my mind is entirely made up up­ *Jl’»n Neruda this afternoon.”
The threatened strike of mineis county, has been discontinued, the
“ A whip— no."
on the case, but still we may as w~." WlT.his conversation had occurred
“ He must have left it behind." mut at San Juan, Colo., has been averted mail tuning sent to Tillamook.
learn all that is to be learned."
l - t . . —*• our cab had been threading its
“ You amaze me. Holmes,” said I. W»V through a long succession
of tered my companion. “ You didn't by compromise.
happen to see or hear a cab after
State Treasurer Moore has received
"Surely you are not as sure as you pre- dingy streets and dreary by-ways,
Senator Burrows of Michigan an­
from Master F’ish Warden Van Dusen
tend to be of all those particulars
In the dingiest and dreariest of them that?”
nounces
that
he
will
tight
reciprocity
“ No.”
$2,095.60, the amount of fish licenses
which you gave.”
our driver suddenly came to a stand.
“ There’s a half sovereign for yon.” with Cuba on constitutional grounds.
collected during July.
"There is no room for mistake.” he
"That’s Audley Court in there." he
my companion said, standing up and
The president has ordered that the
answered. “The very first thing which said pointing to a narrow slit in the
W. Fitzgerald, alias Kramer, was
taking his hat. “ I am afraid. Ranee,
I observed on arriving there was that line of dead-colored brick. “ You'll
list of soldiers dying in the Philip­
that you will never rise in the force.
liefore the justice court at Oregon City,
find
me
here
when
you
come
back.”
a cab had made two ruts with its
pines
lie
telegraphed
home
every
two
charged with forgery.
lie was bound
Audley Court was not an attractive That head of yours should be for use weeks.
wheels close to the curb. Now, up to
as well as ornament. You might have
ovei to the circuit court.
last night we have had no rain for a locality. The narrow' passage led us gained vour sergeant's stripes last
The government of Venezuela has
week, so that those wheels, which left into a quadrangle paved with flags and P'eht. The men whom you held in
The funeral of John Beiling was held
forcibly detained three American ves­
such a deep impression, must have j lined by sordid dwellings.
your
hands
is
the
man
who
holds
the
been made there during the night. ! W e picked our wav among groups of clew of this mvstery. and whom we sels for government use in the present at Oregon City Tuesday. He was a
veteran of the Spanish war and a
There were the marks of the horse's ) dirty children and through linos of dis­ are seeking. There Is no use of argu­ rebellion.
member of the Third regiment, O. N G.
hoofs, too. the outline of one of which : colored linen until we came to No. 46. ing about it now: I tell vou that it is
The
International
Typographical
was far more clearly cut than that of the door of which was decorated with so. Come along, doctor.”
The Columbia Parking Company’ s
union convention at Cincinnati ad-
the other three, showing that there a small slip of brass, on which the
W e started off for the cab together, journed Saturday, after votiug $2,000 safe at the Dalles was blown o|ien Mon­
was a new shoe. Since the cab was j name Ranee was engraved.
leaving
our
Informant
Incredulous,
but
day night.
The robbers secured a $5
to the striking miners.
there after the rain began, and was < On Inquiry we found that the Con­ obviously uncomfortable.
gold piece ol the date of 1834 and about
not there at any time during the morn- j stable was in bed, and we were shown
"The
blundering
fo
o
l!"
Holmes
said
In
the
athletic
sports
at
Cliftonville,
$6 in change.
lug— I have Gregson's word for that— into a little front parlor to aw'ait his bitterly, as we drove back to our lodg­
England, Murrvy, the Irish champion,
it follows that It must have been there \ coming.
ings. “ Just to think of his having such defeated Puffy, of Georgetown, the
Flight thousand cut-throat trout have
He appeared presently, looking a lit- an Incomparable bit of good luck, and
during the night, and. therefore, that
world's champion, in the 100 yard !>een placed in the head waters of the
it brought those two individuals to the tl irritable at bing disturbed in his not taking advantage of it."
These trout
dash. Murray’ s time was 10 seconds Milk and Clear creeks.
slumbers.
house.”
" I am rather in the dark still. It is
came from Reno. Nev., and reach a
“ I made my report at the office,” true that the description of this man fiat.
“ That seems simple enough.” said I;
temarkahly large size, one having lieen
“ but how about the
other man's he said.
tallies with your idea of the second
Prices of iron continue to advance, caught in the Truckee weighing 30
height?”
Holmes took a half sovereign from party in this mystery. But why should
with
marked
activity
in
all
lines.
pounds.
“ Why, the height of a man. in nine j his pocket, and played with it pen­ he come back to the house after leav­
cases out' of ten can be told from the | sively.
Agents lor the Colombian govern­
ing it? That It not the way of crimi­
Dr. Clarence Crane, who has lieen
length of his stride. It is a simple csl- j “ W e thought that wre should like to nals.”
ment are enlisting men in San Fran­ appointed to the ini|x>itaiit position of
culation enough, though there is no hear it all from your own lips.” he
"T h e ring, man the ring’ That was cisco.
su|ieriiitendent of the Burrage Hospital,
use mv boring you with figures. I said.
what he came back for. If we have no
Lomardo, the most noted Italian on Bunkin Island, in Boston harbor,
this fellow’s stride, both on the clay
“ I shall be most happy to tell vou olher way of catching him we can al­
outside and the dust within. Then I anything I can,” the constable an­ ways bait our line with the ring. I brigand after Mussolino, lias lieen killed was horn in Salem, Or., in 1872, and is
a grandson of the late Hon. A. A.
had a way of checking my calcula­ swered. with his eyes upon the li'tle shall have him, doctor—I’ll lay you by troops.
tions. When a man writes on a wall, j golden disk.
McCully, one of the sturdy pioneers of
two to one that I have him. I must
An
Eastern
syndicate
has
purchased
his Instinct leads him to write about
“ Just let us hear it all in your own thank you for it all. I might not have
the Pacific Coast.
the
Omaha
street
railway
ttick
for
the level o f his own eyes. Now, that wav, as it dccurred.”
gone but for you, and so have missed
Seventy-five tons ot hay was burned
writing was just over six feet from
Ranee sat down on the horsehair the finest study I ever came across; a $ 6 , 000 , 000 . '
near Gaston Sunday.
the ground. It was child’s play.”
sofa and knitted his brows, as though study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn’t
F'rench soldiers are meeting with se­
“ And his age?” I asked.
determined not to omit anything in we use a little art jargon? There’s rious resistance in their work of clos­
Two hundred and forty Salem people
“ Well, if a man can stride four and his narrative.”
the scarlet thread o í murder running
went to Newport Sunday on the South­
ing religious schools.
“ I’ll tell It ye from the beginning.” through the colorless skein of life, and
a half feet without the smallest effort,
ern Pacific’ s trial excursion. Other
he can't be quite in the sere and yel­ he said. “ My time is from eight at our duty is to unravel it and isolate it.
It is expected that the miners of
low. That was the breadth of a pud­ night to six in the morning. At eleven and expose every Inch of It. And now Kansas, Arkansas and Indian Territory valley towns sent good quotas.
dle on the garden walk which he had there w>as a fight at the W hite Hart: for lunch, and then for Norman Neruda. will strike about September 1.
The Baker City council tins called
evidently
walked across.
Patent but, bar that, all was quiet qnough on Her attack and her bowing are splen­
for bids to furnish and maintain 40 arc
Pitt
burg
glass
workers
have
received
leather boots had gone around and the beat. At one o'clock it began to did. What’s that little thing of Chop­
street lights for one year from Novetn*
square toes had hopped over. There lain, and I met Harry Marcher—him in's she plays so magnificently; Tra-la- concessions from their employers of 7
l>er 1. The contract w ill be let Sep­
is no mystery about it at all. I am who has the Holland Grove beat— and lalira-lira-lay?”
per cent and 5,000 will go hack to work.
tember 1.
Leaning back in the cab, this ama­
simply appyling to ordinary life a f»w we stood together at the corner of
Conductors and motormen cn South
r f those precepts of observation and Henrietta street a-talkin'.. Presently teur bloodhound caroled away like a
The , growers of Bartlett pears iu
deduction which I advocated in that — maybe about two, or a little artei— T lark, while I meditated upon the Chicago street railway lines have re- Southern Oregon will this week liegin
article. Is there anything else that thought I would take a look round and many- sidedness of the human mind. I ceived an advance in wages from 17 to packing and shipping fruit. Sixty car­
I 21 cents an hour.
see that all was right down the Rriy.
puzzles you?”
loads will he ship|>ed to Flastern mar­
“ The finger nails and the Trichlnop- ton road. It was precious dirty and
S T R A N D E D IN T H E D ESER T.
The official estimate of the Hunga- kets during the season.
lonely.
Not
a
soul
did
I
meet
all
oly.” I suggested.
I rian wheat yield for the present year is
“ The writing on the wall was done the way down though a cab or two
Judge Boise of the supreme court has
I 106,122,000 bushels. This is about
went
past
me.
I
was
a-strollin'
down,
Fully
Equipped
Steam
er
Rcits
on
Sands
Bor­
with a man's forefinger dipped in
rendered a decision that building and
22,000,000
bushels
above
the
July
esti­
thinkln'
between
ourselves
how
un-
blood. My glass allowed me to ob
dering the Colorado River.
loan companies in Oregon cannot col­
mate.
serve that the plaster was slightly common handy a four of gin hot would
lect a combined interest and premium
There
does
not
seem*
to
be
much
use
be.
when
suddenly
a
glint
of
li-jht
scratched in doing it. which would not
Plague has lieen officially proclaimed charge to exceed 6 per cent
have been the case if the man's nail caught my eye in the window of that for a ship in the desert country of Cal­ to exist at Odessa, Russia.
Fire completely destroyed the O. R.
bad been trimmed. I gathered up same house. Now. 1 knew that them ifornia, whii h borders on the Colorado
some scattered a sj from the floor. It two houses in Laurlston Gardens was river, yet travelers in that region may
The cruiser Cincinnati has sailed for & N. stockyards at The Dalles Monday.
was dark in color and flaky—such an empty on account of him that owes see there s veritable ‘ ‘ship of the des­ Barcelona, Venezuela, to protect Amer­ The origin was parks from an eaxt-
ash as Is only made by a Trlchonopoly. them, who wont have the drains sped ert.”
Far from any body ol water ca­ ican interests.
liound passenger train. Several sheep
1 have made a special study of cigar to. though the very last tenant th»t llable of flouting even a mud-cow,may Ire
and 60 head of hogs perished.
ashes— in fact. I have written a mono­ lived In one o' them died o’ tynhoid found a big stermwheel steamer, accus­
Edwin S. Minor lias been nominated
The Oregon supreme court hr Ids that
graph upon the subject. I flatter my­ fever. I was knocked all In a heap, tomed to ply up and down the river, by Republicans of the Ninth Wiscon­
self that I ran distinguish at a glance therefore, at seeing a light In the win­ carrying passengers ami freight.
a shipper is bound by his agreement
sin district for congress.
She
the ash of any known brand of cigar dow, and I suspected as something
that property shipped is of a specified
or of tobacco. It Is in just such de­ was wropg. When we got to the lias been lying there since last Septem­
The tug Jacob Kuiier, while coming value, and cannot disregard the agree
ber,
stranded
higli
and
dry
on
the
tails that the skilled detective differs door----- ”
down the hay near St. George, Staten merit and bring action for damages at
“ You stopped and then walked back sands a mile and a half from the Island, blew' up and five of the crew common law.
from the Gregson and I.estrade type.”
to the garden gate,” my companion in­ stream’ s preeent course.
“ And the florid face?” I asked.
were killed or drowned.
This strange condition of affairs has
"Ah. that was a more daring shot, terrupted. “ What did you do that,
The little folks will lie delighted
come about simply because ¡the Colo­
though I have no doubt that I was for?”
Green and Gaynor, fighting extra­ withthe dog and pony show at the Port­
Ranee gave a violent jump and rado, a mighty stream, but one of the dition from Canada since last May, land Folks’ carnival. It is one of the
right. You must not ask me that at
stared at Sherlock Holmes with the ut­ most tieaeherous of rivers, chose to cut have been released by Judge Caron of features of the Jalxmr Oriental Circus
the present state of the affair."
most amazement upon his features.
I passed my hand over my brow.
a new channel for itielf early in the fall Quebec.
They were wanted in this Carnival aggregation which furnishes
“ Why, that's true, sir,” he said, without notice or warning.
“ My head is in a whirl.” I remarked;
country for irregularities in connection the principal part of tho amusement
“ the more one thinks of it. the more “ though how you come to know It.
One night last September the Alviso witli government contracts.
features of the carnival.
mysterious It grows. How eeme these Heaven only knows! You see. when I
tied up to the shore a couple oi miles
two men— If there were two men— In­ got up to the door, it was so still and
General
Jacob
H.
Smitn,
recently
Portland May Gat Next One.
to an empty house? What has become so lonesome that I thought I ’d be none above Needles, awaiting telegraphic
Koosevelt, is
of the cabman who drove them? How the worse for some one with me. I orders. She was loaded with passen­ retired by President
Council Bluffs, Iowa, Aug. 14— Dele­
could one man compel another to take ain't afeared of nothing on this «ide gers and supplies, ami as travel is seriously ill at Portsmouth, Ohio. gates to the annual reunion of the So­
poison? Where did the blood come o’ the grave: but I thought mavhe it sometimes leisurely pursued on the The doctors call it nervous red lapse, ciety of the Army of the Philippines
from? What was the object o f the was him that died o’ tvnhoid inspect­ Colorado, all hnnds turned in for a and attribute it to strain of Samar have nearly all airived. Generals Hale
murderer, since robbery had no part ing the drains what killed him. The gapd night's sleep. I’etween 3 and 4 campaign and subsequent worry and
and F'unston are expected tonight.
In it? How came the woman’s ring | thought gave me a kind o’ turn, and o’ clock, Ca| tain Babson was aroused excitement.
Portland, Or., is in the lead for secur­
there? Above all. why should the sec­ I walked hack to the gate to see if T by Indians, who warned him that for
The North American Trading and ing the next reunion.
ond man write up t h e German word could see Mureher’s lantern, hut there some reason the river was falling rap­
Transportation Company’s warehouse
Rache before decamping? T confess wasn’t no sign of him nor any one
idly, and advised him to pull out into
that I cannot spe any possible way of else?”
at Fort Cudahy has been entirely des­
PORTLAND MARKETS.
midstream
as
quickly
as
possible.
reconciling all these facts.”
“ There was no one in the street?”
troyed by fire.
“ Not a livin' soul, sir, nor as much This tiie captain tried to do, but the
My companion smiled approvingly.
Wheat— Walla Walla, 60(861c for new
Canadian Pacific directors have de­ crop; 63(164c for old; valley, 65c;
“ You sum up the difficulties o f the ar a dog. Then I pulled myself to­ water had already gone down so low
situation succinctly and well.” he said. gether and went back and pushed the that his prow stuck fast in the mud clared a semi-annual dividend ol 2 per bluestem, 63c.
“ There is much that is still obscure, door open. All was quiet inside, so I when he got up steam and tried to cent on preferred stock and 2X per
Barley— Feed, $18.00 per ton.
taough I have quite made up my mind went Into the room where the light turn the paddle wheels and move out cent on common.
on the main facts. As to poor Le- was a-bumtn'. There was a - c e - ’ te into navigable water.
Flour— Beet grades, $3.06(83.60 pei
And there he
strade’s disovery. It was simply a [ flickerin' on the mantel-piece— a red ha« stuck ever since, la-coming resigned
An attempt was made to assassinate barrel; graham, $2.95(13.20.
blind Intended to put the police upon wax one— and by its light I saw----- ” to his situation perforce and ho|iefnlly Prince Obolinski, govervnor of the
Millstufls — Bran, $15(116 per ton
a wrong track, by suggesting social- \ "Yes, I know all that you saw. You awiating the flood water that comes province of Kharkow, Russia. He was
middlings,
$21.60;
shorts,
$18;
ism and secret societies. It was walked round the room several times,
down at the times of the melting of the slightly wounded.
chop, $17.
not done by a German.
The A. and you knelt down by the body, and
If you noticed, was printed some­ then yon walked through and tried the Colorado and Wyoming snows.
Oatn— No. 1 white, $1.00111.06; gray,
The steamer Miowera, just arrived at
what
after the German fashion. kitchen door, and then----- ”
Victoria, B. C., from Australia, brings 95c. <1$ L00.
W
H
A
T
T
H
E
WISE
O
N
E
S
SAY
Now a real German Invariably prints
John Ranee sprang to his feet with
reports of a terrible drouth. Millions
Hay — Timothy, $12dl6; clover,
In the Latin character, so that we may a frightened face and suspicion In his
of sheep have died.
$7.60dl0; Oregon wild hay, $6@6 per
safely say that this was not written bv eyes.
He that hath wife and children hath
ton.
one. but by a clumsy imitator, who
"W here was you hid to see all given hostages to fortune; for they are
Sir Joseph Dimsdale has presented
Potatoes — Beet Burbanks, 76(186c
overdid his part. It was simply a that?” he cried. "It seems to me that im|>ediment8 to great enterprises, to King Edward $575,000, the corona­
rose, to divert Inquiry into a wrong you know a deal more than you
tion gift of the City of I/Ondon towards per cental; ordinary, 60c per cental,
either
of
virtue
or
mischief.
channel. I'm not going to tell vou ! should.”
growers prices;
sweets. 12.00(8 2 26
the King’ s hospital fund.
Holmes laughed and threw his card
much more of the case, doctor. You
The only real belief is in absolute
per rental: new potatoes, 5Q«60r fur
know a conjurer gets no credit when across the table to the constable.
conquest; and the earlier the bettle
For international Mining Congress to Oregon; $1.00 for California.
“ Don't get arresting me for the mur­ begins, the easier and the shorter it
once he has explained his trick, and
be held at Bette Sept. 1-5 a rat*- from
Butter—Creamery, 20(122c; dairy
der.”
he
said,
“
I
am
one
of
the
hounds,
If I show yen too much of my method
will be. If one can keep irritability
of working you will come to the con­ and not the wolf: Mr. Gregson or Mr. under, one rnav es*a|>e the atruggle to all points in the Pacific Northwest of 17dlHc; store, 17(817Hc.
one fare plus $2 has lieen made.
clusion that l a m a very ordinary Indi­ Lestrade will answer for that. Go on,
Eggs— 19d20c for Oregon.
the tdeath with passion. — Juliana
though. What did you do next?'.’
vidual after all.”
At the final session of the meeting of
CFieese— Full cream, twins, 12H
Ranee resumed his scat, without, Ewing.
“ I shall never do that.” T answered:
the Colonial premiers held in the dl3c;YoungAmerica, 13HQI4)$c; fac­
“ yon have brought detection as near however, losing bis mystified expres­
There are twenty-four hours in a office of Colonial Secretary Chamtier-
tory prices. I d 1
I***.
an exact science as It ever will he sion.
dsy, and not a moment in the twenty- lain it was derided to art on the princi­
Poultry—Chickens, mixed, $3.00d
1 went bark to the gate and soprd-
brought In this world.”
four in w hich a woman may not change ple of Imperial preferential trade wher­ 4.60; hens, $4.60(16.60 per dozen,
Mv rompsnlnn flushed tip with pleas cd my whistle. That brought Mar­
her mind.— De Finol.
ever possible.
lldll V
per pound; springs, l i d
nre at my words and the earnest wav cher and two more to the spot."
“ Was the street empty, then?”
In which I uttered them. I had al­
U H c per pound, $2.60d4 00 per dot-
If yon wish to be miserable yon must
After three days of fighting at Barce­ en; ducks, $2.60(83.00 per dozen; tur­
“ Well, it was. so far as anybody that think about yourself about what y.jii
ready observed that he was ss sensi­
tive to flattery on the score of his art could be of any good goes.”
want, what you liks, what respect peo­ lona. Venezuela, President Castro’a men keys, live, 13d 14c, dressed, 16(11 He per
“What do you mean?”
a* any girl could he of her beauty.
ple ought fo pay yon, and then to yon were beaten. losing 60 men and Gen­ pound; geese, $4.00(86.00 per dozen.
The constable's features broadened
“ I'll tell you one other thing." he
nothing will Fie pure. Yon will lie as eral Bravo, their commander.
Mntton— Groes, 2Sd-Tc per pound;
said. "Patent-leathers and Square into a grin.
Mrs. Elizabeth Young, the oldest dressed, He per pound.
■‘I've seen many a drunk chap In my wretched as yon chorxw—Charles K ings-
toe« esme In the same cab and they
Huge—Groes. Htgc: $ reseed, 7<S7j$r
artreas on the American stage, died
walked down the pathway together as time.” he said, “ but never any one so ley.
M endlv as possible— arm In arm. In cryin’ drunk as that rove. He was a?
Sunday at the Actress Fund Home, on per pound.
Veal— 7(18c per pound.
sfl probability. Wiien they got Inside the gate when I came ont. a-leqnln' up
As many as 7,287 men have lieen Staten Island, aged 62 years.
Beef—Grose, cows, i d 3
steers
they walked up and down the room— agin the ratlin's and a-sinein’ at the elei ted to the national boose since the
King Edward’s coronation was cele­ 3 X d * )$ e ; dressed, 7d8c per pound.
or rather. Patent-leather* stood it'll pitch of his lungs about Columbine's American congress was organised. The
while Square-toes Walked up and New-fangled Banner, or some such number d .«e not include those who brated by 41 American gunboats at
Hope— 16dl7c; new crop 17(818c.
down. I could read all that In the stuff. He couldn't stand, far less have oo-npied seats and lieen thrown Caveito on Saturday.
They dressed
Wool— Valley, 12Hdl6¿Eastern Ore
dust: and T could read that, as he help.”
ship ami fired a salute of 21 gnus.
gon, S d H lie : mo hail. ?6<826c pound
out
on
conteate
“ What sort of a man was he?”
walked, he grew mo-e and more ex-
1
IN SCARLET.
Said a Great Iron Plant Will Be Established
at Great Falls—Manganese Necessary (or
Smelling, which Hai Hitherto Been Lack,
ing, Has Been Discovered Close at Hand
in Jefferson County.
Great Falls, Mont., Aug. 19.— Presi­
dent llill, ol the Great Northern rail­
way, will erect a monster steel and
iron plant hero, for which plans have
been drawn, according to information
from those in clone touch with the rail­
way magnate.
Wendenday night, it
lias since developed, Mr. Hill purchased
a half interest in the Conrad iron
mines in Choteau county, for $25,000.
The mines lie in the Sweet Grass hills
and constitute a veritable mountain of
ore. There is enough mineral in sight
to keep an ordinary plant supplied for
a hundred years, according to Air.
H ill’s experts who have examined the
property. W. G. Conrad, owner of the
mines, has confirmed the sale to Mr.
Hill.
One factor will* h has been lacking in
the reduction of the iron ore to metal
lias been manganese, which ininera1 is
neivssary as a fiux in the smelting. To
overcome this difficulty,
President
Hill, together with United States Sen­
ator Paris Gibson, has purchased the
recently dbeevered deposits of man
ganese iu Jefferson county, on the line
of the (ireat Noi thorn.
Seventeen
thousand dollars wete paid to Ira
Meyers, of Great F'alls, for this prop­
erty. Mr. llill and his party inspected
the Manganese deposits Friday and
Mr. Hill expressed himself in high
terms regarding the showing made.
Before leaving Great Falls Mr. Hill
made the remark that he would estate
lish an industry in Great Falls that
would employ more men than a number
of railroads.
Along the line of the (ireat Northern
Mr. llill has been acquiring de|Kisits,
paying (or one group near the Spokane
& Northern line $60,000.
This deal
was made through J. D. Farrell, presi­
dent of the l’ai ¡tie Coast company
San Jose, Costa Rica, Atig. 18— New«
has reached here from the camp of the
Colombian revolutionists in the Agua
Dulce district, that after a naval
engagement the Colombian government
gunlxiat Boyaca was captured by the
revolutionists. Three hundred govern­
ment soldiers and Generals Orialza and
Henao, and supplies and munitions of
war and provisions w ith the lloyai o.
The Colombian revolutionists are said
also to have oaptured a gasoline launch
which was in the government service.
Psnsms Fear« An Attack
Kingston, Jamaica, Aug. 18.—1
The
tor it isili steamer F'loriilan, from Liver­
pool July 24, for West Indian and
Central American ports, lias arrived
here from Colon und reports consider-
able insurgent activity in ttie neighbor­
hood of the Isthmus. An attaek on
Panama was feared, and the Colombian
government was making strenuous ef­
forts laigely to reinforce the garrisons
there and at Colon.
C A S T R O ’S E N D NEAR.
Belief General at Washington That Venezuelan
Government Must Fall.
Washington, Aug. 18.— The belief is
general here that the end of the Castro
administration in
Venezuela seems
eertain. Castro now hold« only Car-
racas and its port, I.a Guayra, w bile
the revolutionary army surround him.
1 lie gunlxiat Marietta has arrived at
I ji Guayra. If necessary it will trans­
port l astro from \enezuela. According
to latest repot ts Castro is being hemmed
in from three Hides.
Ten days ago
Castro was reported us Having left tho
capital with a force to nirot the revo­
lutionary general, but subsequently he
changed his mind and returned.
M A N Y T O BE T H R O W N O U T .
FARMERS O R G A N IZ E .
Harvester Consolidation, It la Said, Will Abol­
ish 10,000 Positions.
Company With $50.000,000 Capital to D<al
in Grain, Frovisions, Etc.
Chicagc. Aug. 19.— The lnteroeean
says:
Pierre, H. D., Aug. 18.— The Farmers
Following the Internwticnnl Harvest­ National Co-operation Exchange Com­
er Company’s public declaration that pany lias filed articles of incorporation
economy in the inniifacture and distri­ with a capital stock of $50,000,00«.
bution of agricultural maeliinery was
The purpose of the corporation is to
the motive for effoeting the$20,000,000 1 1 iiy, sell ami deal in grain, provisions,
merger, several of the Chicago com­ live stock and all kinds of produce on
panies that make up the combine have commission and otherwise and for the
issued letters to their general agents purpose of building and equipping
throughout the country ordering a re­ grain elevators, warehouses, cold stor­
duction of about three-fourths of the age plants, stix-k yards and whatever
totul numlier of employes representing muy be necessary to carry on the busi­
these companies in the field.
The ness of the corporation.
other companies in the combine are
One-fourth of the capital stock will
preparing to follow their example. he used for building the elevators,
Equally radical reductions in the office yards, branch offices, etc., and Knottier
forces are being planned by all, it is fourtli w ill be made a cash fund for tho
said, for the near future. Ten thousand purpose of dealing in cash grain and
men iu all are exjicrted to lose their provisions on the board of trade. The
positions.
,
remaining half of the capital stock will
be left virtually with the farmers in
W A N T T O B EC O M E A M E R IC A N S the various lianks where the money has
lieen raised to enable them to cany
Members of Religious Orders Expelled From their crops fora more favorable market.
This will give the furmeis $50,000,-
France Plead to Be Sent Here.
000 hack of their intereHtsto help them
Home, Aug. 18.— Members of relig­ in se or ing better prices fur their pro­
ious orders expelled from France, es|>e- duce. Tiie stix-k book« will be «qien to
ciully sisters, are applying to the Vati­ hanks throughout twenty states.
can to lie sent to the United States. A
reply has lieen sent to them |>ointing
8 0 M E S T R O N G A F F ID A V IT S .
out that there are no vurancies in the
United States, and liesides, calling at­
tention to the difficulty arising from N«w Yorkers Swear They were Forcibly Taken
to Coal Mines.
the fact that the ex|>cllcd sisters do not
sjieak the English language. Canada
New York, Aug. 18.—Tliirty-two men
has lieen suggested as a better field, as and boys have made affidavit that they
sisters are comparatively scarie there, were taken from this city a week ago
and because French is spoken in a by a detective for one of tiie railroad
large |»irt ol the Dominion.
lines, and in a locked car were sent fo
The applicants, however, do not take Bittston, Pa., where they were com­
kindly to the suggestion and |iersist in pelled to work in the washeries con­
their requests to lie atilt to the United nected with tiie coal mines. Two of
States.
the men who swear they were shang­
haied made their escape and are hack
Canada Fean We’ll Gat Greenland.
in this city. They tell in affidavits
Ottawa, Ont., Ang. 19.— A portion of furnished' to the World how they were
the Canadian press is considerably dis- lured to Bittston, how their ear was
quieted over the rumot that the Cnited attacked by strikeis, how they were
States is likely to acquire the territory fired upon, and how they were finally
of Greenland by purchase from lien- rescued by an armed liand and brought
mark. This is regarded as a menace to to a shed near the coal mine.
the national entity of the Dominion,
None of them was told, according to
and accordingly an effort is being put the affidavit, that lie was wanted to
forth to stir up the public mind U|sm take tiie place of striking miners.
the subject with a view of having Green­ tV hen the men asked if there was not a
land some day in the near future made strike on where they were going, they
Canadian territory by purchase.
were told by the detective, whom they
knew as tiie ‘ ‘agent,’ that there was
Forty Cent« lor Picking Hops.
no srtike, hut that they were wanted
Woodburn, Or., Aug. 18.— About 30 to build a new railroad.
hop growern convened in this city nnd
Macedonians and Turks Fight
adopted a resolution establishing the
picking price of hops at 40 cents a box.
Vienna, Aug. 18. — A fierce 16-hour
Other subjects discussed were haling liattle between the Mecedonian rebels
and caring for hops, contracting, the and Turkish troops is reported from
"crim e” of hop-rejecting by dealers on Gradsk, Vilayet, Turkey.
Sixty-five
fiimsy pleas, and the need of teneficent relxds fought 2,000 troops with Gatling
laws for the grower, and a state in­ gnus and dynamite bombs.
Every
spect* ir.
relnd was either killed or woonded.
The Turks massacred the wounded.
The tremps lost 48 killed and 246
Favor American Intervention.
I
Berlin, Ang. IH.— .»any politicians wounded.
here seem inclined to allow the Unite I
Englishmen Want Money Beck.
States to settle the trouble in Vene*.
nela. Home even suggeet the advisa­
San Francisco, Aug. 18 — A suit for
bility of the United States sending an $40,000 foralleged fraudulent practice
expedition to restore order, or even to in the sale of mining stocks lias lieen
annex Venezuela.
brought in the United States circuit
court against Ji seph Hamilton Brother-
Alger Want« That Toga
ton and John Charles Kemp van Ee.
Detroit, Aug. 19.— General Alger will The litigation arose out of mining stock
make a formal announcement of his *ales effected by Brotherton ami Kemp
candidacy to succeed the late Senator van Ke in London in the year lHMgs;
McMillan. He will proFwbly lie op- The suit is brought by Samuel Wheeler,
poeed by .McMillan’s eldest non, Wil- of Ixindon, and the Westminster Con­
faMM.
tract Corporation, Limited.
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