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VOL. XII.
CONDON, GILLIAM CO., OIlXGONf THURSDAY. MAY 29, 1902.
NO. 12.
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11ERR. STEINHAIIDTS NEMESIS
BY f. MACLAREN COBBAN.
CHAPTER X Continued.
"Manuel," said lie, "la a double
dyed villain, If lie dix-i aught to harm
I'nul'a gi tt ! 1 ran what he' a up to,
though ; h linn given no account of
Paul' afhilra yet, and If ha t-itrt get
Loulao to marry Frank li ntxtln't. He
may wnnt all the money he cun got
hold of toon; the plaintiffs in that pat
ent cam have appealed, ami he'll ha'
to 11 p war attain ami fight . at th' H' Xt
alttlng of the court. Hut ho ahamiot
plunder tint laa. I mult And If alia'
with my alxter, and if he'a frightening
her ami II In In", !)' th L dt I mun
get a writ of mandamus or eummat,
and tak' th' Ian whoa in wl me. I'm
guardian aa much a hint, and if the
would rather bide wl' me he ran
, not take her. Yea; I ahalr Bet about
it."
I drew hilt attention back to the ur
gent iifvcMt-ity of doing something In
her father' rase had ho anything to
"Well, now ,li-t ma think," aald h,
"We'll Hiij.M(w Tunl rnino home that
nlktht lttt, you think, very lutv wl
hid little lortmnttteitu carried in hla
haml; h ull out li it hundkt'rchlef to
blow hla rtiiw, or hi reenter watch to
know the time, ua ho eoinea down the
lime, and no ho lrorn thut tit ket. - It 'a
near ono oVIork. nay be, and thero'a
not a Unlit anywhera burning; yea, by
tho I-d! hut thero ia!" h oarlnimod,
turning and entt-hing hold of my arm.
"Right in th' road, an it were, an ho
coino by tlia ond, ha m th' light
Unit burna nil night In old Jaquea rot
tnge! (IJirlay alwaya jtronouneoil iha
numo 'Jake.') 'Th' owd ehan aeldoni
ia ut to ld; ha uxually ait or lioa "p
in that ( hair of hla all night ami an
day, 1'aul wan aye fond 0' th' old
rhap: now dm-a he lift lateh and go in,
iunt to nav Miow-de-do,' or dora he
think it Ih too late, and h'd bit go on
and aeo what fctnlnhardfa. up tot If
we rould only get th' old rhap to aneak
and tell uai"
CHATPKK XI.
It la not neeaiary to detail how we
finally miirtHxUxl, after five daya of
hard labor, under the direction of a
idiyrtician, in getting old Jamiea to un
derstand what wo wanted to know,
namely, whether hla nephew, 1'aul La
rrois, had vinited him on the night of
thu ll.th of 3!aivh, 18S2.: we did auc
retnl, linwever, in not only getting him
to undorotaud, but in obtaining India
mitahle evidence, Mr. Ijicn.ix had
Uixl at the cottage that night and
had left for the Jaojiea a package of
Paris aH)ra U'aring dates from the
10th to the 10th of the month and a
atatemuut to this effiN t was (signed by
the old man, who had euhViently recov
ered the owe of iiis right arm to aign
hla name legibly.
The anxiety and excitement of those
five days had been so grcut for me that
for aome little time I waa almost proa
tnttcd. I need scarce say that I wua
much encouniged by our aticcvaa w ith
jHijuoa: I hud the jiaiwra with hla
signed declaration, witnessed, of course,
by Wrley and myself, securely locked
away in my desk. This should have
atimuhtted me to immediate further
action, and, I have no doubt, would
have, had I not been still cnlen up with
anxiety aboni Ixuise. What .if the
hope I cherished as the end of. all this
the hope of taking her from the fears
and dangers that hung about her, of
having her as my very own, my wife!
whta if thia hope was being baulked
while I waa thus busy? The mere
thought of such a contingency waa
enough to bring my fabrh of careful
evidence regarding the Lacroix mystery
to nought. If I could only discover
where she was! and that she still
thought of me, as I fondly believed she
had done a little while she waa yet in
Tlmpelt ley! still refused to yield to
the cajoleries and threats of Bteinhaidt,
nnd hoped I would deliver her! Hut I
hud no news, and I waa devoured with
anxiety.
No news except the confirmation
from IHrley that eho waa not with Mrs.
Bteinhardt. He had written to his
sister inquiring about Louise, and had
been answered to that effect; Mrs.
Bteinhardt hud reason for supposing
she waa in Blackpool, but at what ad
dress she could not say,
I entreated Jiirley to go to Blackpool
to endeavor, to find out, if he could
spare the time. But he needed no en
treaty, for ho himself waa also becom
ing anxious about her,
"I mun spare the time, said hej
"and I mun go and find her, It's, of
course, no use asking 'Manuel where
Bhe ia."
But before he had arranged to set
out, something occurred which obviated
the necessity of going, and produced re
sults of a more remarkable sort; and
thia I must proceed to relate. '
Aa I have already indicated", my ex
perience of the way in which such evi
dence aa had regarding Lacroix'a fate
had rather come to me t han been found
by me tended to make me what I may
call "a waiter upon Providence." I
conceived I may say, I was convinced
I should best attain further result,
by keeping myself open to evidence
more than by ranging about and rack
ing my brain in search of it. All fear
being at rest that our experiment upon
old Jaquca might have fatal or un
toward results (he was now. more alert
than ever, and frequently asked, in
writing, for "the girl"), I had betaken
rnyaelf to a former habit, and every
day almost went into town to the free
library to read. Sometimes I read a
book, and Home times the newspapers.
I waa thus occupied one afternoon
with The Times. I turned with a curi
:
:
osity which waa half Ihttle to the
agony column," and my attention
waa at onre arrested by thlat
"TO KMMANUKL bTEINU All DT
In Kngland. Kinilollaaa In Basel send
thia. Though you me have forgotten I
not yon. I am in very much trouble
and fear from you, o.any times since
fimt, now attain. Coma to me, come,
before the 'Too late' muat be gewrit
ten." (A Band addrena waa ap
pended.) . . J' -
V a it not natural that I ehould at
once think thia waa addreased to the
Kmmaouel Hcluhardt I knew? There
might be other, of the name In Kng
land, but surely no other to w hom the
implication, which I read between the
llnca of thU advertisement, of broken
faith w ith a woman would so well ap
ply. And she Meemcd In urgent dis
tress; she begged him to go to her, It
waa scarcely probable, I thought, that
Kteiuhardt would ee it; he road little
of newspaper literature, I knew, and
hia usual paK-r waa the local daily.
What, then? In spite of my "ah
horrence of him, and my w ish to avoid
him, should I not, for the woman'a
sake, inform him of this? I pondered
thia idea all the reat of the day, until
the evening, when I took it to Blrley.
"Certainly," suid he; "the scamp!
Let him know of it. I auppo&e he only
married my sister becausa she had a
a vi fnc
Ho I called on Hteinhardt that very
evening.
"Thank you, Mr. Unwin," said ho,
when I had told him my errand; "but
some kind friend baa already sent me
the paper" (taking up a ropy of The
Times). "Yea," lie continued, reading
it over and chuckling at Its composi
tion. "1 suppose she thought she must
write English for an English papei."
(He laid the papei down.) "I'oor
Kmilio, she wants me; but ' I can't go,
you know. I must go to Ixindon about
my lawsuit again. I might send Frank,
but 1 really want him here." He
paused and looked at me, meditatively.
"You are doing nothing, Mr. Unwin.
Would you go for me? Yon would,
really and truly, do better than
1
should. She thinks she would like to
ace me and apeak to me, but she
wouldn't, fhe ccins to be very ill-
dying, I suppose alio thinks herself,
poor woman and to seok to people
kick and dying ia more in your way
than enin. Hit will Ilka to liear you ;
alio always liked clergymen; she liked
me a little when we thought I waa go
ing to be a a clergyman
He turned slowly to the fire, took tip
the poker, and carefully raked out the
ahes from the bottom of the grate.
Waa memory leading him back reluct
antly to thorni days of hia youth, and
compelling him to ask himself whether
for all he hud gained since then he had
not paid too great a price?
"Well,"did he, manifeetly shaking
something off, and turning to me,
"what do you guy, Mr. Unwin? I will,
of course, pay your expenses, and you
w ill take Einilie"ft letter from -me, and
money I daresay she means she needs
it." .
"lam much obliged to you, Mr.
Rteinhardt," said I, "but"
"Oh." said he, "it is I will be
obliged, but of course that does not
matter."
"It is so unexpected," I continued;
I might have added, "and extraordi
nary."1 . "Well, yes; I duresay it is. But yon
know what the Frenchman says about
the unexpected."
"Let me consider it for a day; and
if I decide to go I ahull be ready to set
out at once."
"Oh, yes; consider it, and consult
your friends. But if you do not go,
nobody will go."
I went immediately from him to
Birley, and stated at once the extraor
dinary offer I had received.
"Go, Iad,"aaidhe; "it will. be a
pleasant holiday for you, and the pooi
woman, of course, would rather tee
somebody from 'Manuel than only get a
letter from him."
I hesitated ; I did not desire a holi
day then, even on the Continent wheie
I hud never been, but at the same time
some change waa !ccoming necosrary
considering the low condition to which
my finances had sunk.
"But," anld I, "I believe he has
asked me only to get me out of the way
for some purpose. --1 think he suspects
I have been finding out something;
more."
"And. what does that matter?" asked
Birley.. "Look here, my lad j I know
you're in a way about Louise. Now it
strikes me if you go away for a little
while (and you may aa well go at
'Manuel's expense), things will turn
out better for you than you may think.
You see, at the aame time as you vare
away, he ia away, too. Frank must
como back to the works, and there will
be no reason for keeping Louise at
Blackpool. Take my word for it, he'll
bring her home; I ahull manage to
see her, and it alio claims my. protec
tion as her other guardian, I 'shall tak
her home with me, and when he comes
back he can't ta' her from me. Don't
you see, lad?"
I admitted tue force of the reasons
he urged, and all next day (which was
Sunday) turned them over. My going
might certainly be to Louise's advant
age and to my own. Even if Stein
hardt brought her. back to Timperly
only for a visit of a few days, there
would be sufficient opportunity for Bir
ley to take her home to himself. On
the other hand, my refusal to go would
bring no advantage nor prospect of ad
vantage. And might not, indeed,
Steinhardt'a offer be a suggestion of
Providence?
Fo on Monday morning I railed on
Htelnhnrdt and taid I was resdy to set
out at once, and in the afternoon I
wa whirling through beautiful Ierby
shire on my way to Imdon and the
Continent. I could not forbear feeling
something like delight at tho change
from terrible Timperiey to tl.eae bright
scenes although I scarcely knew where
1 waa journeying, or for what. Could
I then have guered what strange things
I would bear when I reached tho lo me
unknown city of Busel on the Rhine,
could I have guessed that I waa being
hurried along by the Divine Vengeance,
that I waa not so much deputed by
Hteinlmrdt t see Entitle 'Haas aa by
;bat Overruling Power who was im
pelling that man on to hia docm, what,
1 have oltett wondered f litre, would my
feeling have been aa I waa borne along
with ruslt and roar in the railway
train? . , ,.,
The fi"t night of my journey I rest
ed in London. I went to that hotel
(Itacon'a) in Great Queen atrcet, where
Mr. Lacrolx had commonly stayed on
hia visita to London, but Hound noth
ing of contequence.
I was wretched, cold and hungry,
when, atH Qt 7 o clock in the morning
of the third day, I left the train at
Basel. I permitted myself to be taken
to a hotel, whore I ordered breakfast.
Alter partaking of which I revived, and
began to think of the errand on w hich
I had come.
Hnce my aniva! I had Wen uncer
tainly using French and German, and
I had been answered in either languago
(I found later that in the hotel, at
least. I might aa well ne my native
English); but 011 inquiring my way
from the LudwiHtrasce to the obscure
atreet I nought, I had to draw exclus
ively upon my stock of German. I dis
covered that Frault'iu Emilie Haaa
lived in one of a row of old tall housea
(not unlike tome of thoM) in tho city of
Edinburgh), with little windows in the
eteep grey roofs, which gave , the im
pression of eyea with sleepy, heavy
lida. Up and up the bare stairs of the
house I stepped, till I think I was on
the fourth Ujor at any rate, I was aa
hirfh aa I could cliuib. 1 knocked at
the door of a humble "apartment" of
two rooms, and an old wrinkled woman
appeared. I inquired in German, for
Fraulein Haaa, and waa informed., she
waa from home, "giving her daily lee-
eon." Hie waa not, then, ill? Oh,
no, she waa not ill nlie waa well. I
a-ked when she would lie at home, and
waa told "at five o'clock in the after
noon," Fo I deported till then, with
about six hours in which to tax my in
genuity in gueseing why fruulein
Haatt'a demand to tee Steinbardt bad
been so urgent, since the was net dy
ing, not even ill.
At five o'clock I called again, anfl
found Fraulein Haas a. home. I waa
afked to come in. I looked curiously
at the Fraulein. Sho was a middle
aed woman, of the thin, nervoua type
of German (or, perhaps, Swiss), with
briwht. keen, grev eyes. She rose.
smilingwbut perplexetly to receive me,
and wbited lor me to state my business.
"I come front England," I said in
German.
. Then you do not want me to give
lessons," said she, pushing away a
"prospeetua" evidently laid ready for
presentation; "my mother thought you
had come for that."
"So," said 1 "I come from Eng
land to see you, and then to go buck
again." '
She looked bewildered. I took from
my pocket a copy of tho Times adver
tisement, and handed it to her. At
once the expression of her face changed ;
pale before, it became paler now, and
Iter eyea .seemed to dilate, aa with
fear.
"But you," said she, "are not Em
manuel Steinhardt? Perhaps, how
ever," she made haste to add, "you are
hia son? He married, I know." I
shook my head.
"I am no relation at all lo ' Herr
Steinhardt. Very likely that will ex
plain who I am" and I gave her
Steinhardt'a letter.
She waa moved when she enw the
handwriting. She read the letter
through eagerly. It waa short, I could
eeo.
"He thinks I am ill, and in want of
money of his money! Ach! Thia
will not do! You must go away sir!"
(To b. continue;!)
' - Niinlng th Child.
Now, ncefsnrily, when the new girl
baby arrived there was much diaciiFsiqn
among the members of the family aa to
what her name should be.
"We will call her 'Geraldina,' "
said the fond mother.
"Why not call her 'Esmeralda?' "
asked the first grandmother. "I saw
that name in a story once, and alwavs
Lwanted to try it on a baby."
"Oh, murmured tho second grand
mother, that "would never do. Let
us call her 'Fanchon.' "
I'But don't you think 'Eltessa' is a
pretty name, and so odd, too?" put in
one of the aunts.
"Excuse me, ladies," ventured the
poor father, who fat near by, but you
seem to forget that we are trying to
find a name for a human being, and
not for a 5-cent cigar."
Knew How to Take Froude.
The late historian, Samuel Rawson
Gardiner, used to say of Froude;
"Whenever I find myself particularly
perplexed on any point I look to see
what Froude has to say about it. I al
ways find hia help invaluale, for I can
trust implicitly in his unfailing in
stinct at arriving at false conclusions;
and the more positive he becomes the
safer I feel in adopting a diametrically
nppoiste view."
Area Occupied by Indians.
In 1890 the area of the, national do
main occupied by Indians aggregated
116,000,000 acres; today it aggregates
85,000,000 acres, which" is about as
much land as we have in the states of
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
i VENTS OF THE DAY
FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF
THE WORLD.
Cofflpnhtajivs Rtvii of tt Important
Kappcainsi ' th P Weak, Praacntad
aa a OfMkftKd form, Which li Meat
Dktry t Preve e4 InUrut U Our Many
Raaaara,
Tl war In South Africa ia practical
ly ended.
Fire in Bait We City destroyed
valuable property and toA one life.
Coinage has been resum! at the
rhiladulpUft mint aft an Idieneaa of
18 oara. '- .
According to the view taken by noted
scientists, the worst eruption of Mount
LPeleo ia yet to come.
A terrible disaster occurred at a
Fernie, B,C., coal mine in which 125
to 150 Uvea were lost.
An effort will probably be made to
prevent the shipment of toft coal into
the anthracite region. .
Captain Georce Cowie, a well known
naval officer who served under Admiral
Farragnt n the Civil war and waa
chief engineer of the battleship Indiana
in the war with Spain, waa killed at
Rah w ay, N. J., by an express train.
Peace in South Africa ia now believed
to be at hand.
A Negro fiend waa burned at the
stake in Texae. -
The Rochambeau statue waa on-
veiled at Washington amid impressive
ceremonies.
The senate waa entertained at an
Oregon salmon luncheon Thursday by
Senator Mitchell.
The Prebbyterian General Aaaembly,
in session at New York, adopted the re
port of the committee on creed re
vision. Quiet is being restored at Fort de
France and other cities in the West
Indies where the volcanic eruptions
occurred.
The senate passed the bill providing
for an assay office at Portland and con
curred in the house amendments to the
Columbia river bridge bill.
The planing mill owners of Portland
have secured an ijunction against inter
ference by strikers. The situation re
mains critical, both sides determined
to fight to the end. ,
Six lives were lost by a, storm at
Cincinnati.
A temporary injunction againat the
beef trust ia in force.
Fire at Philadelphia destroyed prop
erty valued at 100,000.
An eruption front Mount Pelee
caused a panic at Fort de Franca.
Eighty-two bodies have been recov
ered from the Fraterville mine, at Coal
Creek, Tenn.
Mr. Ilarriman has announced a re
duction to three cents er miie of pas
senger rates on all hia lines in Oregon.
The United States has formally
turned over the government of Cuba to
the people of that island. W lid en
thusiasm prevailed.
The membere of the Building Tiades
Council of Portland, about 2,500 men,
are on strike in Buport of the demands
of the Millworkera' union.
The president is about to issue a
proclamation creating additions of sev
eral million acres to the Yellowstone
and Teton orest reserves in Wyoming.
The house has passed the naval ap
propriation bill.
Lionel E. G. Carden will be the Brit
ish minister to Havana, Cuba.
In the Goliad, Tex., tornado 98 per
sons were killed and 103 injured.
A million dollars' worth of sheep and
lambs were lost in a Wyoming blizr.ard.
Two hundred men and boya were
killed in a mine disaster in Tennessee.
A hurricane in British India result
ed in the loss of many lives and heavy
damage to property. , ;
An unsuccessful attempt was made
to assassinate the -governor of Vilna,
Russia, formerly:' chief of police of St.
TetersDurg. '
Lord Pauncefote's condition remains
about the same. Ho suffers somewhat
from the heat, but . his condition is
reported to be fairly satisfactory.
Alphonso XIII is nowjking of Spain.
A race riot at Atlanta Ga., resulted
in eight deaths. . '
Mount Pelee is again active. A new
volcano has broken out to the north.
An anarchiet plot to take the life of
the king of Spain has been discovered
A tornado swept through Texas, kill
ing 60 people and injuring a hundred
more.
A high wind along the California
coast did much damage off San Fran-
isco. -"
There are not fewer than 40,000
Syrians in the United States, and !
tween 2,000 and 3,000 in Chicago. :
liie trie canal, in isew xork, was
the flrBt artificial waterway begun in
this country. Grcund was broken for
this enterprise July 4, 1817.
It has been found that at the present
price of alcohol in liermany, about 13t
cents a gallon, alcohol compbetes with
all forms of motive energy in engines of
less than 20 horse power.
PRODUCTION OF NICKEL.
Places Whtrc DcpotlU Ara Found ia Thia
Country.
Washington, May 24. Mineral Re
sources of the United States, 1901, pub
lished by the United States geological
survey, and now in presa, will contain,
among other things, the report of Dr.
Joseph Hyde Pratt on nickel, for 1901.
The two principal sources of nickel
are the nickeliferona pyrrhotite, the
most widely spread of the nickel ores,
and genthite, especially the garnierite
variety. In thia country the domestic
. 1 4 . 1 -.:..t-..i v . .
lt iSd orVnne-Lf
in Missouri, since the shutting down of
the Gap nickel mine, in Lancaster
county, Pennsylvania, about 60 milea
west of Philadelphia, about 10 years
ago. una mine waa woraeu irom aoout
1863 to 1880, when this mine waa
abandoned because of the abundant
supply of nickel matter from Canada.
Traces and small amounts of the nickel
minerals , genthite and garnierite have
been found in North Carolina, but not
in commercially sufficient quantities,
though a deposit of nickel ore averag
ing 1.5 per cent nickel ia reported from
Morgantown, Purke county. Similar
occurrences of nickel filiate are found
in Oregbn, where the per rentage of
nickel ia much greater than in the
North Carolina minerals. The Oregon
deposits are on Piney mountain, in
Douglas county, about three miles a
little north of west of Riddles, a station
on the Southern Pacific, and a bigb
grade cobalt ore deposit ia beirg de
veloped in the Laetern part of the
state.
Nickel ore is reported to occur in
some quantity at the Congrena mine, in
Upper Nine-Mile section, about 14
miles north of Keller, Ferry county.
Wash. This section was formerly
worked for copper and gold, but waa
abandoned. In the latter part of 1901
the claims were again taken up and are
now being developed for nickel.
8AYS PEACE IS ASSURED. -
Confident Assertion of a London Paper Cabi
net Council Summoned.
London, May 24. The Daily 'Chron
icle this morning claims that peace in
South Africa is practically assured.
This is also the general impression
with the other newspapers' and the
public, although the former do not go
so far as the assertion in the Chronicle.
Cabling from Pretoria the corres
pondent of the Times says the Boei
meeting there is not necessarily final,
and it is believed that the Boer dele
gates, after obtaining certain informa
tion on certain points, will return to
Vreeniging. , ,
The firman cfficials have given no
indication of the course which the ne
gotiations between Lord Kitchener and
Lord Milner and the Boer delegates are
taking. That conferences are occurring
regarding the basis upon which peace
shall be declared is the- som total of
the information which the war office
has vouchsafed up to the present,
though it is intimated that a definite
announcement of the result, peaceful or
otherwise, may speedily be expected.
The impression that peace is close at
hand has obviously taken a strong bold
of operations on the stock exchange.
The buying of consuls and gilt edged
South African shares continues, it is
believed, in behalf of well informed
interests.
A cabinet council has been summon
ed for today. While the government
departments are discreetly silent, it is
generally accepted that the summoning
of the cabinet is directly connected
with the South African peace con
ferences.
More Trouble at Moscow.
St. Petersburg, May 26. Reports
have reached here of a fresh series of
labor disturbances at Moscow. No de
tails are obtainable, but it' is known
that Grand Duke Sergius, governor gen
eral of Moscow, who had come to
Tearskoe-Selo to be present at the re
ception of President Loubet, left burr
riedly for Moscow last night, without
waitiug to participate in the military
review. The imperial family has
abandoned its intention of visiting
Moscow. .
Boy King is Popular,
London, May 26. The Madrid cor
respondent of the Times says the atti
tude of the populace toward King Al
phonso is the happiest omen of the
new reign. Everywhere the appear
ance of the king caused a- pleasant sur
prise, saya the correspondent, and the
acclamations grew in intensity.
Floods In Wisconsin.
La Crosse, Wis., May 24. A con
tinuous rainfall of six hours has caused
numerous washouts on roads entering
La Crosse, and traffic is demoralized.
The town of Houston, Minn., is prac
tically under water. Root river, a
small stream in Eastern Minnesota, is
on a rampage, and much damage is
feared.
Fatal Powder Explosion.
Redding, Cal., May 24. The plant
of the Deltile Powder Works, located
near Delta, was blown up today, kill
ing two persons and seriously injuring
three others. The cause of the explo
sion has not yet been ascertained.
Kosher Meat Riot in New York.
Boston, May 24. "Kosher, meat"
disturbances broke out in the West End
today. About 300 Hebrews men,
women, and children, attacked three
meat stores. The- windows were
smashed and the stock ruined. The
police arrested the ringleaders, two
women and a man. A customer who
was leaving a store with a piece of meat
was assaulted, and a woman was in
jured during tbestampedeof the crowd.
NEWS OF THE STATE
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALl
PART8 OF OREQON.
CawiflMrcial and Financial rUpptnings at kv
porttnc A Brief Review of the Grewfe
and Improvement of the Many Indue trka
Throughout Our thriving Commonwealth
Ltteet Market Report.
About 60 teachers attended the Clat-
P ? Bfai
1 last week.
An interesting meeting
waa held.
The registration in Clackamas county
baa reached almost the figures of two
years ago and it ia expected before the
rolla close it will be greater.
A company has been formed at
Grants Pass which proposes to furnish
electric power and light to all the towna
in Josephine county. Applegate falls
will be utilized.
Arrangements have been made for
the commencement exercises of the
Eastern Oregon State Normal School
at Weston, which will be held June 8
to 12. Governor Geer and State En
perititendent Ackerman are expected to
be present on June 12.
A burglar entered a Junction City
saloon and secured $275. While he
waa at w ork, the bartender, who waa in
the back locking up, came to the
front of the building and tried to stop
the thief. The latter (hot and killed
the bartender and then escaped.
The new rural free delivery mail
routes to be established from Troutdale
and Cleone have both been approved by
the special agent and will be in opera'
tion in a few weeks. They will join
the two routes from Gresham, and will
practically cover all the territory from
the nine mile poets eastward to Orient
lying in Multnomah county. The four
routes will comprise about - 40 square
miles.
A report comes from the Winterville
placer mine, Baker district, announc
big the discovery of a $420 nugget, the
largest ever found in this mine.
Articles of incorporation of the Dick
son Placer Mine Company, Baker dis
trict, have been filed for record. The
incorporators are all of Philadelphia.
V. W. Tomlinson, Allen H. Eaton
and C. W. Riddell, the University of
Oregon debaters, defeated the Univer
sity of Washington at Seattle last week.
A rich mining claim, discovered 50
years ago and the locator driven away
by Indians, has been found. The mine
is on Jack creek, Jump-Off-Joe district,
Southern Oregon.
Tillamook is being benefitted by a
rate war between two navigation com
panies. The settlement of the weavers' strike
at Oregon City hinges upon the recog-
l it ion of the union.
Professor F. S. Dunn, of the Chair of
Latin in the University of Oregon, has
tendered his resignation, to take effect
at the close of the college year.
The Geiser Grand Hotel Company has
been incorporated at Baker City with
a capital stock of $100,000. The new
corporation has acquired the Gieser
Grand hotel.
State Senator G. C. Brownell, of
Oregon City, fell in trying to catch a
train at that place, and narrowly es
caped being ground under the wheels of
the last car. He was bruised but not
seriously injured by the fall.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Walla Walla, 65s'66c;
bluestem, 67c; valley, 65c.
Barley Feed, $2222.50; brewing,
23 per ton.
Oats No.l white, $1.251.30;gray,
1.151.25.
nour .best graaea, fZ.8d3.4U per
barrel; graham, Z.5U2.80.
Millstuffs Bran, 1516 per ton;
middlings, $1920; shorts, $1718;
chop, $16.
Hay Timothy, $12 15; clover,
$7.5010; Oregon wild hay, $56 per
ton.
Potatoes Best Burbanks, 11.40
per cental; ordinary, $1 per cental;
growers prices; sweets. . $2.252.50
per cental; new potatoes, 33c.
Buttei- Creamery ,1617)$c; dairy,
1215c; store, HK312HC
Eggs 15 15 )4c for Oregon.
Cheese Full cream, twins, 12)4
13c ;Young America, 13K14Kc; fac
tory prices, 1 1J4C less.
Poultry Chickens, 'mixed, $4.50
5.00; hens, $5.005.50 per dozen,
HM12c per poTjnd; springs, 11
llKc per pound, $3.005.00 per doz
en; ducks, $5.006.00 per dozen; tur
keys, live, 1314c, dressed, 1516c per
pound; geese, $S.507.50 per dozen.
Mutton Gross, 4c per pound;
sheared, 3?4c; dressed, 7Mc per pound
Hogs Gross, 6Je; dressed, 7)$8c
per pound.
Veal 6H8c for small; 6&7c for
large. 5
Beef Gross, cows, 4)r; steers.
5Kc; dressed, 88)c per pound. .
Hops 1215 cents per pound.
Wool Valley, 1214; Eastern Ore
gon, 8 12c; mohair, 25c per pound.
The Moorish government has granted
to France a contract for the coining of
$3,000,000 worth of Moorish money.
In Colorado last year sugar beets
grown on irriagted land averaged $80
an acre, and on non-irrigated land only
$16 an acre.
Among the band of
which recently fought
troops, near Monastir,
dressed as a, man. She
the lighting.
revolutionists
YIELDS TO UNIONS.
Hesse Votes to have Ships Built at
Navy
. Yards Eight flour Day Issue.
Washington, May 24. The house of
representatives almost completely sur
rendered to the demands of labor in
terests in providing that one ahip of
each kind shall be built in the "govern
ment navy yards. Appeala of organiza
tions have been pouring in upon con
gress in the way of petitiona ever aincn
the beginning of thia session. It
would seem that nearly every labor
organization in the country sent each
member of congress a separate petition,
asking that ships of the navy be built
in government yarar. The object of
thia was plain. The unions inaist that
whenever labor ia employed on such
abipa the government standard of eight
boors shall prevail. The house adopt
ed thia amendment, in spite of the as
sertion that the cost would be a great
deal more and that it waa doubtful if
the abipa would be aa good.
Another great victory for the labor
ing interests was the passage of the
house bill providing that all work en
tering the government contracte should
be performed by labor employed but
eight hours. If the bill should pass
the senate in its present shape it
would mean that labor on the ships '
that are not built in government yards,
aa well aa that on any other work
which ia to become government proper
ty, must be performed on the eight
hour schedule. Just how far-reaching
this legislation will be defends upon
the construction which executive offi
cials of the government give the law
when it is finally enacted. Some say
that it would enter into every piece of
steel or stone used in a government
building and every bit of iron or steel
in a ship. It ia a move in the direction
of eight hours, and the laboring organ
izations believe if they can get thia leg
islation enforced, that with the threat
of compelling the building of more ships
in government yards they have practi
cally won the eight hour fight through
out the country.
ANTHRACITE MINERS.
No Change he the Pennsylvania Coal
Strike
Both Sicks Still Firm.
Wilkesbarre, Pa., May 24. Tho
tenth day of the anthracite coal min
ers' strike passed off very quietly, not
a single incident developing which
would in any way tend to change the
present situation. Most of the mem
bers' of the three committees left for
their homes tonight. The three dis
trict presidents are still here. Presi
dent Mitchell kept close to his office all
day.
Mr. Mitchell was disinclined to talk
on the proposition of calling out the
engineers, firemen and pumpmen, un
less they are given an eight-hour day at
the present wages, except to say that
he expects the mineowners to comply
with the demands of the union. In
quiries at the offices of. the big coal
companies here today failed to elicit '
any definite information as to how the
operators will meet the latest demands
of the miners. At the office of one of '
the largest companies it was said no
definite plan had yet been derided
upon. The general impression prevails
that most of the companies will refuse
the demands and that , non-union men
will be imported to take the places of
the engineers, firemen and pumpmen.
WILL BE ARBITRATED.
Famous "Pius Claim May Ba Settled at
Last. .
Washington, May 24. Secretary
Hay and Ambassador Aspiroz, of Mexi
co, today signed a convention providing
for the arbitration of the famous "Pius
claim," based on the application of the
Catholic church in California for overdue
interest of trust funds in the custody of
the Mexican goyernmnt. The claim in
volves about $1,000,000, and is the
first case to go before The Hague tribu
nal in any form. Under the terms of
the agreement each of the parties will
select two abitrators and they will
choose another from the eligible list of
The Hague tribunal, who shall sit as
umpire. It is expected that the treaty
will be ratified by the Mexican con
gress, now in session, in time to per
mit the arbitrators to meet in Septem
ber next. .!
For Removal of the Maine.
Washington, May 24. A bill has
been introduced by Senator Lodge pro
viding for the removal of the battleship
Maine from the harbor of Havana and
the recovery of the bodies of the Amei
ican sailors who sank with the vessel.
The bill appropriates $1,000,000.
Pension Bills' Reported.
Washington, May 24. The commit
tee on invalid pensions yesterday re
ported verbally the senate bill to in
crease the pensions of those who have
lost limbs in the military or naval ser
vice of the United States, or were to
tally disabled in the same. It is esti
mated by the committee that nearly
7,000 persons are affected by the bill,
although the number is rapidly in
creasing. The committee decided also
to report the senate bill increasing the
pension of maimed soldiers.
Mora Time for Danish Treaty.
Washington, May 24. Secretary
Hay has requested the Danish govern
ment to enter into a protocol extending
for one year the period of time allowed
for the ratification of the treaty of ces
sion of the Danish West Indian islands.
This action is necessary to keep alive
with Turkish the treaty as ratified by the United
was a woman States senate until tho Danish rigsdag
was killed in ' ran act finally upon it at the next ses
sion in September.