3$ - vv uibMAi VUUA IY rtrilllHtO BV1RT tflVMM IV A.ATTlON.... Editor and Proprietor. CBIORIFTIOX R4TIII Aim .... Im .4 . II not .M 1 ..i... '"""' - I? fct tnitiiil.ai a i a w too GO D GLOBE. VOL. IX. . EVENTS OF THE DAY CONDON, GILLIAM CO. OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1800. NO. 49. Epitome of the Telegraphic wewi of the World. TERSE TICKS FROM Tllfl WIEES An Interesting Collaetlon orliam, rrara the Twe Ilomlapharo Pweaatea' ' la Coadeaead Worm. The Nicaragua canal bill will be pushed through both house thli mouth. Mexican liberal favor the candl iluoy of President Dial for re-election by a vote of three to one, . N... The league of Republican ' club ' of Oregon convened at the irmorr in Port land, with 800 delegate present. Mn. Lillie ' Devreaux . OUke bu announced bnr candidacy for the prei deuey of the National Women Suffragiit Association. , tt , ( ': Member of the Algonquin Club, a leading social organisation of Bridge- port, uinn., nave declined to entertain . W. J. Bryan. . .... .The plague in Honolula ha broken oat in eeveral isolated place oateide of the orglually in footed district, and ita progrese ia regarded aa acrioua. John D. Rockeieller la no longer president of the Htandard niiriimniM He resigned last December, but the facta were kept secret until now. Fifty-seven paintinga,' the property of Austin H. King, ol I'rovldeuce, It ., were aold at auction in New York for 177,375, an average of $1,866 per picture. Adtllbort S. Ha, tha iw fTnltof. State conaul at Iretorla, waa received by the Tranavaal government, and pre at-nted hia credential. He created an excellent impression. . ' - Secretary Hoot haa aent to eongreaa an anstraot 01 tne militia force of the United State. It show, the total nam ber of men available fur military duty, but unorganlaed, aa 10,848, ISO and an aggregate organlaed atrength of 106, .,, , . - Aatorla, Or., now baa the right oi immediate transporatlon. A dispatch from Waxhiuuton atataa that u.n.A George W. Moilride'a bill providing for each baa (waned the aenate. Tbla means a bonded warebouae at Aatoria and the unloadinu of h-Untl fraiuht at that place. By way of proration for the great atruggle now in progress, the lloere in the year 1898 bought from France alone, guna, aworda, carbine, platola, cartrldgea, lend, alno, powder cape, fusee, etc., to the invoiced value of 380,000, according to a report of the atate dartment from United State Conaul Covert at Lvona. A movement haa legun in Oakland and Berkeley to amid relief to the IXinkhoUir colonic, in Manitoba, which are auffering for food. The Donk ho bora are represented aa worthy peo ple, greatly attached to their rellgioua belief, which reaemblea that of the (Junker. The will tuit lM. ..ma and were driven out of Russia by the compulaory military aervioe. The British are preparing to Invade the Free Stale. William Henry Gilder, the eiplorer, died at hia home In Morrlatown, N. J. The transport Ben Mohr and Meade have arrived at Son Franclaco ftom Manila. Condltiona in Cuba are inch that the - people are not yet ready, for eel f -government. Major-General Otla hu, appointed a civil governor in Northern Luaon and opened the hemp porta. The Northern Paddo ' haa aelected Everett, Wash., aa the point from which they will ehlp to the Orient. Henry Wattereou aayi the Louisville & Nashville Railroad ia the head and front of the preeeut trouble, in Ken tucky. The Echo Mountain houee, a large hotel near Pasadena, Cel., waa de atroyed by fire. The Ion U eatimatud at $100,000. . .. The nativea of Borneo are in leliel lion. The trouble ia aerloua enough to demand the attention of a British nan boat and marinoa. The Hay-Pauncefote treaty, amend ing the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, relative to the oonKtrnctlon , of the Klninim. canal, waa algned at the atate .depart ment by Secretary Hay and Lord Paunoefute. The famoua Cherokee hydraulic gold mine, of Oroville, Cal., from which tl8.000.000 in sold haa Ixwn ulm. and comprising 100 m ilea of water ditchea, 80 mllea of "debrta" canal, and 1,600 acrea of patented channel, baa been purchaaed by a Pittsburg ayn d irate. The adjutant-general haa reoeived a telegram from Assistant Adjutant Gen eral McCain, at Vanoouver barraoka, stating that colonel Kay, at Fort Gib bon, Alaika, re porta the safe arrival there of Lieutenant Herron and party, who were auppoaed to have been loat while exploring the Copper river oouu LATER NEWS. AS THtll TME3 TEX CISCELATIO Of AST PAPKI 1W TH C0PKTT. a I i ,.,?, 1 M, t, "ya t wHtojsnusM ADYSKTMIX0 BATS. frfaaa1nial oarea.. rusaaaluKa ....... Baal . 1 ,41 ft ateatfe i v ar aisaiB I ataaaawaaia a as b, ajwDtb ia a aar mu tooalawmaeaaaraaeMUaMM aaa The Corbett-Jeffriea fight will take lace at Coney Island about the middle of May. ; T. Daniel Frawley haa made arrange menta to take a copmany of acton to Cape Nptne. An alliance, offennlve and defensive, haa been consummated between Eng land and Fortagal, , , The Engliah nation haa aettled down to the realisation that tla war m. the Boera will last long time. Governor Tavlor of KnnnV. t... declined to aign the peace agreement Mid the caae will go to the conrte. A deatructive Are vlalbwl th i Han Salvador. Central A total loa ia eatlwated at $1,000,000. The United Btate tran.nnrt nr,lnn.. bia arrived at Ban Franclaoo from aianila. ba made the trip in 80 daya. Three ballot-box atuffera of Philadel phia were aentenced to Imprisonment for two year, and to nav a firm of f nan each. A resolution expressing aympathy with the lioera waa adopted by the aen ate. It waa offered by Allen, of Nebraska. Lord Roberta haa addretaed a letter to 1'reaidenta Kroger and riteyne, com plaining ef the wauton deatruction of property in Natal. v . Three children of P. O'Arnr. Hvlno near South Union. Waah.. wm nniann. ed by drinking the water from an abandoned well. Six men weie Injured by an explosion in the Columbia firecracker worka at Foatoria, Ohio. A Urge part of the factory waa wrecked., It haa been .decided by the secretary of the navy to appoint Commander Pea ton Sohroder to be the firat naval governor of the gamoan island ol Tutuila. The houee committee on military affaire will Investigate into the Idaho mining riote at Wardner, which the leaerai troopa, nnaer General Merriam, auppreaaed, In Chicago, 7,000 workingmen who have been engaged on building in course of construction, quit work. It ia the beginning of a war between tabor and the contractot. The jury in the caae of Iiolaid B. Molineaox, convicted of poisoning Mr. Adams, returned a verdict Of guilty of murder In the lint degree It la aaid the trial haa coat $200,000. TbOBoer. have taken lnkandla, a Zulu land magistracy. The magistrate the night previou exploded the maga alne, and, with hi staff and police, evaouated the place and proceeded to Eehowe. Lord Robert and General Kitchener have atarted for the front. The iniurgeuta have been driven ont of Legaapi, province of Albay. Thouaamla viewed the remaina of Senator Goebel at Covington, Ken. Affair, In Santo Domingo are in a turbulent condition. Insurrection if breeding. ; -, It ia aaid the dowager em pre of China ia afraid to depoee the emperor at present. v Onaooount of the aerloua roadbed washout on it Lewiiton dlvialon, the itonnern ractno will loae $100,000. The transport Tathan and Sherman arrived at San Francisco from Manila. On board the Sherman are 78 invalid aoldier. Fire at Little Rook, Ark., deatroyed property to the value of $265,000. The J. P. Juinn Dry Good Company will loee $150,000. Britiah troop orod' the Upper Tugela river at Kolendrlft with th nh. ject of itorming the Boer poeitiona, but were driven back. Three hundred Spanish prisoner re volted at the treatment they received a, me nana of Filipino, dispersed their captor and hold the fort. . The largest office building in the world ia to be erected in New York City, by the Alliance Realty Company. It will be 20 atorlee high and will cost $4,000,000. Preaidant Itavemeyor, of the Ameri can Sugar Refining Company denies that the leading refiner! na of the com pany were closed down aa a result of the loaa of bueineaa. Flah commissioner of Oregon and Washington have leaned a statement that only cltiaon were granted license and that falxe claims may have been made In some instance. : The mortality in the city of Bom bay, India, in one day waa unprece dented. There waa a total of 408 deaths. The situation is aggravated by uig euveni oi lamina rerugeea. Word haa been reoeived by the de partment of Jndian affaire and by th ponce aucnorniee of - fresh trouble among the Indian of Upper Laird, B. O. Seven member of Scotch family are said to have been murdered. , The Sunset Telephone Company ol Oakland, Cal., hee mortgaged to the Old Colony Trust Company of Boston, its entire possessions In California, Ne vada. Ariaona and New Malmv aa curity for the payment of gold interest bearing bonds to the amount of $3,500.' 000. ' TORNADO IN ILLINOIS ' ' laaarttaa aa4 1 aer uw there after. Lacal MvartiseaMa will ta all ease k eaanee te the aartv antarln Ma,aa4aal4tar aelaw aaUarM M taalekae' Town of Collinsville Nearly Wiped Out jlfOCBTEKIf PEES0X3 IKJDttED The Storm Waa (avaralr Felt at St. Lsuls. Whara It Caaaad Muh Uautasa. St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 10. The town of Collinsville, 111 12 miles from St. Loni, on the Vandalia. nilimil nor. rowly escaped destruction by a tornado today. Fourteen person as, re injured in the immediate vicinity of the village, some of them fatally, and there waa much damage to property. Minera who live in the outskirts of town lost most by the wind. A group of three residences standing on a hill were re duced to splinters. The injured are: Faul Quarandl, aged 85, severely bruised and burned, perhaps fatal; Otto Odderhole, 17, arm broken, internally injured, serious; Sophie Fix. 17. aktlll fnu-tnrait an.l hrulaed, thought to be fattally injured; Newton Anderson, scalp wound and (ruined face, not aerioaa; Theodore Lawrence, cut and bruiaed and intern ally Injured; Frank Kobart, aerioualy bruised; son and daughter of Frank Kobart, severely cut and bruised; Tony Skalla, wife and two children, badly bruised; Barney Falette, scalp wound and arteries cut; Tom I'omatta, left arm broken. The last two named were blown several hundred feet from their house into a field. About 2:80 A. M. the storm waa first felt at a point one mile south of Collins ville. The Drat house demolished was that occupied by Frank Kobart. He, bia son and daughter. l.nWoA in the debria and it waa some time before they were rescued, bruiaed and bleed ing, irom ine wreckage. From thi place the wind awept to the north, it path being west of Collinsville, about a quarter of a mile, and the last trace Of the Storm Is observed at lltirhtvllla a manufacturing suburb, one mileaway. After the Kobart house, a - group of three dwelling waa felled hv thin.i They were occupied by John and Paul Marquette and Philip Crossan, and their familiea. All the oocupanta eacaped injury, except John Marquette. Hia hurts from falling timber are not severe, nut ne l badly burned, for Ihe debria caught fire from an overturned lamp and the flamea reached him before the neigh bora could rescue him. The Ilightville Coal Comnanv'a Imll.timr waa the next attacked, the immense smokestack being leveled to the ground and the walla somewhat damaged. From there the wind reach ad the Vandalia tracks, laying waste telegraph poiea tor tne autance or a quarter of a mile. Beyond the Vandalia tracka stood a group of large frame hoc tee oo- oupm oy tne Lwreuco, Odderhole and Fix families. The storm leveled them, and nothing ia left, aave a mass of wngtea wreckage. It was here that Mr. Odderhole and Mr. Lawrence re ceived their serious injurlea and here alao the members of the Fix family were wounded. That the children were not killed ia a marvel. Harry Fix and hi aiiter Sophie were aaleep in the same room on the second floor. The fuMmw A4.laa Broaght by the Em . . : prasa ef China. Victoria, B. O., Feb. 11,The ateamer Empress of China, brings the following Oriental adVices: A terrible accident ia reported from the Wnhu river. A junk was caught In a snow squall and turned turtle, all on board, numbering 20 In all,, being drowned. From Nago-Ya, Japan, comes newa of another terrible accident. A lire broke out January 88, in a large spin ning mill at Koryo Mura, in the Owarl prefecture. Two buildings were de atroyed and 81 factory girls burned to death. Six were injured badly and a number slightly injured. The Fleur de Lutus, as the junk be ing sent from Hong Kong to the Paris exposition ia called, ha started on her aaveoiuroue trip Irom the China tea to the French capital. The junk, .which ia one of the common Chinese kind, it 72 feet long and 28 feet wide. She Will StOD On the route at Ralirnn Bin.,.. pore, Colombo and Aden. . The junk will be towed through the Suet canal. Captain Bourdonnet, who ia in charge of her, ia accompanied by his wife, one Freuch sailor, nine annimatna and nln Chinese. A great conflagration occurred at Kiuang, December 89. In all 800 building, were destroyed. The cause of the fire ia not known. The damage will exceed $1,000,000. Most of the buildings destroyed were big shops. At tsatgon, an Innimite woman hai given birth to twins, joined together after the manner of the famoua Siamese twins. The infanta were placed on ex hibition immediately after their birth and it ia intended to send them to the Pari exhibition. The French paper at Saigon protested against thia treat ment Of the newlv hnrn infant Ml .Via ground of inhumanity. An injunction waa applied for. but waa refnaml hv the court. " According to a diapatch received from Nganking, the provincial capital of Annul, and translated by the North China Daily News, it eeema that, en couraged by the successes of the ma rauding band in Shantung, a number of ruwniea oi tne former province have lately banded themselves into a society called the Siao Tao Hoi, or Little Swords Association, having the same objects In view aa their predecceaor, the Tai Tao IIul, or Great Swords As sociation, that of plundering convert! na men pi weaitn. Tne new associa tion, it appear, commenced lta work on the Yank Tee river, and raided a wealthy family of the name of Wu, a few mile, north of Wuhn. away a large quantity of spoils and wounding several persona. The next step of the bandita waa to plan a raid on a number of Christian familiea liv ing near Wuhn, where there ia an American mission chatwl in th pf a missionary,- but the inhabitant became alarmed and summoned aol dier. which Beared 1WIT th m.Mnit. era, all of whom boldly declared that they belonged to the Little Swords, whose mission waa to exterminate con verts to ontaide religions and missionaries. BURIAL OF LAWTON Gallant Soldier Laid at Rest With Fitting Honors. A XATIOS'd TRIBUTE TO A HERO Thm Praaldaat, HI, AdrlMr and Ma. - Offleora of High Kank Attended . the Vanarsl. STORM AT ST. LOUIS. Caaaad On Doata aad Haa.y Pivpart? house seemed to senaratu ami iimiw and sister were let down with their beda to the ground floor. There they were found upon their couches, which had not been broken by the fall, Harry not injured in the leant, but Sophie crushed under a fallen timber. Tha Work T a ttaad. Walla Walla, Feb. 10. Frank Royce, farmer, living 18 mile north east of thia city, on the Washington A Colombia River railroud, left the city thia afternoon in a drunken condition. When he reached Dixie he became involved in a fight with a man named Rufua Wood, biting bia nose nearly off. Royce proceeded to the home of ma grand lather, IS. F. Royce, with whom he had been living, about two milea above Dixie. Woods followed in pursuit of Royce, and the two men continued their struggle in the pres ence of the elder Royce. Frank Royce pulled a gun and shot at Wood, but missed and kilted hia grandfather. Young Rovce then fired hota at Woods, but without effect. Harpar Bankruptcy, New York, Feb. 10. The reorganis ation committee oi Harper A llros., publisher, representing over f 1 1,650, 003 of the oompauy'a indebtedness, baa filed an answer in the clerk 'a olllce of the United State district court to the petition in Unkruptcy filed on jnuuary n against tne com pan v. The answer denie that Harper A Itro. have committed the aots of bankruptcy or any of them aet forth in the petition, and aver that Harper Sc. Bros, should not be declared bankrupt for any oauae, and tliay pray that they may be in quired Into by the courts. , St. Louia, Feb. 11. Considerable damage to property In rariou parte oi the oity and vicinity was wrought be tween 8 and 4 A. M. bv a wind farm that reached a velocity of 60 milea an honr and waa of the nature of a torna do." The barometer fell to 29.25, the lowest point ever reached in thia vicin ity, according to the weather human oflicial heie. Previou to the wind atorm a; terrific thunder atom had raged for eeveral hour, the rain fall ing in torrent. The rainfall waa 1.0 inchea. Mrs. Susie Thompson became en tangled in a live wire, whioh had been blown down, and waa killed. In the burned district between Franklin nue, Morgan street. Third nd swth streets, $20,000 worth of property waa deatroyed. At 827 North Third street, the four atory building occupied by the George A. Benton Commission Com pany and the Sage & Richmond Com mission Company was blown down. It waa next door to one of the building destroyed in Sunday'a fire, and ita walla had been weakened. At the ruin of Penny & Gentle's department store, Broadway and Franklin avenue, a cupola left standing at the west end oi tne norm wan ana a huge brick chimney topped by a tall sheet iron smokestack were carried down by the force of the wind. Polioeman Ferie, who had been standing near, had a narrow escape from death. Much delay and considerable damage waa suffered by nearly every railroad nntnrlno th oity from the east side of the river. At jenerson city, Mo., the wind and rain atorm was one of the most severe ever felt there. It waa followed by a fall of 63 degree in temperature and a snow atorm, which ia now raging. Anton Heieter, aged 65, waa blown from his door onto a stone walk and killed. ; Washington, Feb. 11. Major-Gen. oral Henry W. Lawton waa buried to day in the national cemetery, at Ar lington. It waa a nation's tribute to a national hero, and the sorrow of a whole . people waa expressed when America added the chaplet of cypres to the brow that so long had wom the , ...... . laurei. The burial service beneath the leaf less trees at Arlington waa preceded by service, In the church of the Covenant, on Connecticut avenue, at which every department of the army and navy with in reach of Washington, Lawton' old comrade of the line staff, the diplo mats corps in all it brilliance of uni form and decoration, and as many citl sens of all denreea aa wera fortnnata enough to find standing room within the walls, were present. Bnt the crowd within waa Insignifi cant compared with the thousand, who braved the lowering winter day for a gUmpee of the flag-draped caisson, with ita military eaoort, aa it passed trough the street,. Hundred more made the toilanmei nilarrima lington to hear the last words pro nounced above the open grave, where president, cabinet and minoral mm. manding the army stood with bowed heada until the last volley had been fired and the bugle sounded "taps." For a day and night the body of the aoldier lay in state in the Church of the Covenant. So it lay thia morning, when the door were opened, tioopera frOm hia Old Command rith aawra drawn keeping vigil at the head and foot. Beneath the soft "lights of the altar rose a tropical jungle of palms, ,nd mgner man tne nag-draped coffin rose banke of flowere, tributea from every quarter of the land. At his head hung in dim folds the battle flag from San Mateo, still on it bamboo staff, and supported by one of the men who waa near him when he fell. From the ceil ing hung the red centered flag of the Eighth corns, under which h hart nn perpetual fame in two island war. About, a the ahrill pipe of the organ trembled with the opening anthem, atood grouped hia superior and hia brother officers, with whom and for whom hia life work had hn Ann Close to the coffin aat President Mo Kinley, and on hia right the secretary of state. With them were the secre tary of war, the attorney-general, the secretary of the navy, the postman ter pen era 1, the secretary of the treasury, the secretary of the IntwrW ii th secretary of agriculture. Close by were Mrs. Lawton, little Manley and the others of the family, and to the left General Mile, General Merritt, Gen eral Brooke, General Shafter and their ataff officers, all in uniform and all Lawton 's cotnmradee, who at one time or another had camped and fought with mm. in tne body of the church was a scarcely less notat'e gathering, aasist ant secretaries and heada at hnnvm the military committees of the house and aenate, diplomats, the Orientals in their flowing robe of somber color, and the Europeans resplendent in deco rations, among them the Spanish min ister. There were delegation from the Loyal Legion, the G. A. R. and other pauiouo societies. ' MINES AND MINING. X-BVtMsawa and Tnrn will Bnlga ' -apa Noma This tfaaamar. There will be lawlesnnes and a reign of terror in the new gold fields at Cape Nome. Alaska, tltoxk limtTiOp in thai opinion of John G. Brady, governor ol the territory, and George H. Wright, postmaster at Cape Nome, unless con gress takes steps to establish civil gov ernment on a firm foundation and makes lawa defining the proprietorship of claims. Governor Brady and Mr. Wright are in the Kai mi obtain the appointment of United Statei judge at Sitka. Circle-City and Cape Nome. An extraordinary rush of gold seekers to the last namd nla a. pected next May when communication with the outside world ia reopened. Mr. Wright believes that before tbeend of the summer, there will be 60,000 persona in Cape Noma '"We want the general land law ex tended to Alaska, an w k... homestead right," said Mr. Wright last night, "otherwise we cannot help having a great deal of trouble. W are without the legal form of govern ment. We have organized, one of oui own. electing a mayor, a conncil, i chief of police and other officers, but naa no atanding In law. There were 2,000 men there last year, and they agreed among themselves to obaerv tcu oiner a ngnts, but it will be dif- wren, wnen we nave 60,000. "In law, nobody haa any right to tb beach, between the high and low watei mark, where there are rich deposits ol gold. It ought to be laid off in small plota for the sale of the mineral right. Though cold was diarmrmA In r.nc Nome a year ago last September, w did not get the newa in Seattle until last May. We suspected at first thai it was a acbeme of the steamship com- iuii k tee i passenger, aa tne Yukon business waa eettino- aWk. T ti. graphed to Washington to be appointed postmaster and waa appointed ovei night by wire. I got to Nome July 4, when there wa not a sluice box in th district. "Lumber came in later. anA ln $3,600,000 of gold waa taken out last summer. One claim in Anvil creel paid $175,000 in five weeks. I know because I handled the money. Thret claims in Snow gulch paid $500,000. J INSURGENTS ANNOY Albay Province Much assed by Them. liar- THE AMERICANS SUFFER LOSSES Babonlo Flag-an and BmaJIpos Among the arillplnos Operations of Boll ad Beacon In Lmoa. at nf Kowspafwr AdTertialnc. Between the acts recently at Wallack'a New York theater, ushers distributed among the audience alipa with a brief printed state ment politely asking the recipient to indicate by a check mark In the list of various advertising forma employed which one had attracted him to the per formance newspaper, bill boarda. window lithograph or something else. Eleven hundred slip were handed to the nshers, and of - that number 991 had been at tracted by the newspaper soieiy. Vanaauela Troop, Iata.de Hraall. Buenos Arrea. Feb. fi A Hianah from Rio Janeiro says the Veneauelan troopa invaaeti jJraxiiian territory, and were opposed by the forces of the latter repuouo, w&ion were forced to retreat after a serious fight. Henry Hughes, a hero oi the old navy, haa been admitted into the county almshouse at Chester, Pa., at the age oi vo year. Cannonading doe not interfere with the sending of wireless telegraph mea agea. Thi has been tested in South Africa." - -r - During the last year 25,203,901 bush els of grain and 8,198,518 gallon of molasses were used for the manufacture pf liquor in this country. 4 Bigamist in liunaarr are rennlred by law to live with both wives in the aame nouae. ' . . The National Live Stock association recommend leaiimr oovernmant . ing land. , Alan Arthur, eon of the late presi dent, live in Europe. He find that nu income goes further there. KansaaClty is to have another in terurban electric railroad, to run to Olathe, Kan., 81 milea diatant ;' Murdered Ilia Family. Denver, Feb. 9. A special to the Time from Blaokhawk, Colo., say: W. M. Allen, a carpenter, thi morn ing shot and killed his daughter Zula, eiied 6 year, in her bed, then shot hia wife twice and finally shot himself in tne oreaat. me lather and mother are dying. The oauae assigned for the hooting, a expressed by Mra. Allen, la because she waa compelled to live in Blackhawk. The family formerly lived la llllnoia and Kansas City. Stolen Money Returned. London, Feb 11. The sum of 20, I DO, the balance of 60,000 stolen from J'arr'a bank a year ago, haa been my larioosly returned The notes were found thi morniuir nnolnami in . I teamer passbook riumer'a Pore Defeated. Pretoria, Feb. 11. Colonel Plutner' force, on February 2, attaoked the Boer position near Kamonsta and, after heavy fighting, including an endeavor to take the place by atorm, the British were repulsed. Their loss 1 unknown. No Boers were injured. ever Storm at Minneapolis. Minneapolis, Feb. 10. Minneapoli todav experienced tha a - va mw SBAaVf TT storm oi tne winter, liusineas la par alysed, and train are late. Bodj Wa.he4 Aahora. San Francisco. Feb. 11 Tha yAw of Burton M. Hardiman, cousin of Mrs. J. K. Miller, of Oakland, better known in the literary world aa Florence Hard iman Miller, baa been washed ashore on Angel island, in the bay of San Francisco Whether death waa caused bv suicide or accident ia nnV Hardiman', home waa in Oswego, Kan., where hia mother and one of hi iatera reside. Klota la Martinique. Fort de France. Martiniane. Fr1 11 A mob of about 1,200 has since last Monday been preventing the harvesting of sugar cane. The movement 1 ex tending and troopa have been sent in all directions. An Infantry poet of 25 men waa attacked and finwl nmniu assailant, killimr nine man and wonndinn IB. In the oommima nf T.a Franooia, two incendiary Area have occurred on plantations. San Francisco, Feb. 11. Acting Im mieration Commissioner Ri-hell at thia port, haa forwarded to National Immi gration Commissioner Powderly, at Washington, a protest against the in tended colonisation of a large tract of land in California with 1,600 Russian emigrant now in the Northwest terri-1 tory. - San Franoisoo. Feh. 11. Tha TTna Statea transDort Loiran arrivnA tnHav from Manila. The vovami nnnnnlrf 9a dava. The Loiran bromrht 11 nuuin. eer. February 8. Robert Oiht lata oi company , .twenty-second infantry, died at eea from dysentery. The body wa einoaimeo. ana Drought here. On the Yukon the gold ia well below the surface, but at Nome it . lie neai the top of the around. Manr claim. have been staked out, but there ia t vast region still to be explored. Tbt formation la very peculiar. Back ol the beach, which ia white sand, and rising 10 feet above it, ia a flat etrij called tundras, which extends from two to. four milea back to the moun tains. Thia has a layer of moss or peal on top, then cornea a layer of bine clay irom o to is inches thick, and then th white sand to bedrock 25 feet below. The gold in the white sand run from 50 centa to $1.50 a nan. and tha nav streak of ruby sand on the bedrock rum $5 to the pan, beside, coarse gold. - "One of the (teamer took 850 torn of aand shoveled at random from th beach to San Francisco last year. It waa put into a amelter and viaMo,! $9,000 in gold. The beach haa been prospected for 15 mile. Nobody .own wnere tne gold came from. Some think it waa from hilla down by glacier, and some think it waa thrown up by a volcano. "Governor Brady wanta Alaska to come in aa a state when the population haa been increased by the rush next summer. He ia the one man that all the people there have absolute confi dence in. If we are admitted to the Union we can take care of ourselves. Miner began coming down from tht Yukon last fall, and mora will mm If we do not get authority to protect ourselves we shall have trouble." In Delaware last week the National Cape Nome Mining de Transportation company waa organlaed with a capita .. a . A,, ,,w . ..... r n a,uuu,uuu, to estaDiian a steamship line and work with machinery claimt vering 920 acres of beach and tund ras. Frrancis B. Thurber, F. L. Lor ing and George Crawford are the incorporator.' Manila, Feb. 18. Of late the In snrgenta in Albay province, Lnaon,! have adopted harassing tactics against the towns which the Americana have garrisoned They camp in the hills and maintain a constant fire - upon the American outpow. When the troop ally against them, they scatter, re turning wnen me American retire. They shoot burning arrow, and have thne bnrned a large part of the town of Albay. Indeed, most of the towns in that province are practically deserted, except by the garrison. Scarcely any of the inhabitants return to their home. They are camping in the Inter ior, and it is supposed armed insurgent prevent them aoinar hank. Tt la ed that there is much suffering among them, owing to lack of food. Aa a re sult of these condition, the hemp bust neaa in that section ia seriously hin dered, and ships going for cargoea are compelled to take gang of coolies to do their loading. Hemp held ia the interior ia quite inaccessible. Colonel Bell will take two regiment and a battery through the province- of North Camarinee and South Camarinea, going there on transports. - Many in surgent retreated to that part of the' lsutna irom uavlte and Batangaa prov incee. Another expedition will soon tarat to garrison towns along the north coast of the island of Mindanao. Guenilla warfare continues south of Manila. Two attempts have been made to ambush the Americana. Col onel Schwan, while returning to Manila with hia staff and an escort of 100 cav alry from Batangaa, was attacked by tne insurgent, me latter were dis persed, but the Americana had fire wounded. Lieutenant-Colonel Beacon, with six companies of the Forty-second infantry, had a two hour' figbt with General Pio del Pilar command, which at tempted to ambush the Americana along the trail through Morong prov ince, near the lake. Here, alao, the lnsogenta were dispersed, but the Americans bad eeveral wounded, among them a captain. General Bell is operating southward through Zambale province with a email force. Another expedition ia proceeding northward from Subig. It ia reported that the insurgent general, Alejandro, ha recovered from hia wound and haa assembled a large force in that district. The plague continues. TAaht ni were reported last week among the nativea and Chinese. There ia no ex citement, however, and business and social life are undisturbed. Smallpox ia prevalent among the nativea along the railroad and in the town on the northern coast. Two officer of the Thirty-sixth infantry have died of the disease and another officer and several soldier have been stricken. ASSIMILATION OF CHINA. The entire season' output of grain bags from the Walla Walla peniten tiary has already been applied for, and ninny application have been refused Realise of lack of capacity to supply 'hem. The price ha not yet been lied. It ia estimated that 10,000.000 cks will be needed for the season's grain, only one-eighth of which can be manufactured at the state prison. The Spokane & British Columbia Telephone A Telegraph Company has obtained a mandamus to compel the Spokane city council to grant a fran chise for this company in the streets of tne oity. ita application for a fran chise waa rejected last June. The company claims that ita right to equal protection unoer tne constitution en title it to the same rjrivi Wa in hnU.i. Ing up bnainess aa la granted to tha rival company. Mining Con.entloa Delegate. Governor Rogers, of Washington, if anxious to appoint delegates to the In ternational Minimi Conventinn whih meet, in Milwaukee, Wia., in June. It is desirable that tha stata ha n represented at the convention, and the governor will ariooint inr nmntu uiuawn wao may wisn to attend. Three delegates will go from the state nnlver sitr school of mininir. and tha the agricultural college school of mining. Dlaaater la To Great Speed-Chinee Paatnaaatar la Trad. Chicago, Feb. 18. "The greatest question of our time ia whether the as similation of the commercial force of China by the world will be a quick or alow process," declared Benjamin I. Wheeler, president of the University of California, who passed through Chicago today on hia way East. "If the pro cess be speedy," he continued, "there i likely to be a disastrous disturbance, but if it be natural and unforced, a peaceful adjustment will be insured. Therefore, the question, not so much of tne Chinese aa of China, is of para mount Importance to American. "The pressure of ages ha made of the Chinese, pas tm asters in commerce. Their lack haa been iron, and aa the commercial development of thia coun try ua oeen cnaracteristically that of metal,, they have seemingly been dis tanced. But let them once acquire In struction from the Western world in the metal arts, and they will be able, with their genius, to revolutionize the commeroe of the globe." Billiard la Colorado. Denver, Feb. 18. A blizzard la weeping over Colorado. The central and northern portions of the state are in tne throea of the storm which ia gradually moving southward. Snow has been falling in the mountain near ly all day, with no prospect of imme diate abatement. A yet railroad traffic haa not been affected to any great extent, but a continuance of the term will seriously interfere with it. Report from Southern Wyoming and Western Nebraska are to the effect that a bliszard has been raging in that vioinlty today and is continuing, Methodists in this country propose so raise zo,uoo,ouo aa a "80th century thank-offering fund." This immense sum will be used for educational, char itable and church purposes. Family Waa Asphyxiated. Chicago, Feb. 13. Martin Jordan, an engineer, hia wife Mary and their 5 months -old boy, were accidentally asphyxiated by gaa last night in their home at Forty-third street and Stewart avenue. Blsoali Company's lira. ) Worcester, Masa., Feb. 18. Fire , today in the Gilliam block, occupied by the National Biaouit Company, com . pletely gutted the building, doing $00.. QOOdamajre.