ir IA3T3S123TI2I3TS2CSCJJ1UT10 . HI OFFICIAL AND LEAD J HQ PAFC1 OF OILUAI COUNTY. CF AST rAF&3 13 TSI CUSXTT. V, t . .DTXXTII BATS. reiUIMM IT MY Tt'MV T A. PA1TISON.... Editor ead reprlter. profess! ua a 4 HMMtll MM I MM BN.i aif ootaaiB. a. Jug. laataaa lamb wm a eduual Meatus pm m cmmi par Use tet CfttCRimON MATKIl ? one rtr (to MiiBW) It (I ant fil la aav.uca. III tROtllltl ti WWHlWHMMIIHllltHW tHMWOHMIW I M llir num Hi i . i it as f ling It uitl,..MMMMMM ..HMMiNmn.h..h..i M va ma mm k datfxf OMM, at left. aaslaai knM 1 VOL. XII. CONDON, GILLIAM CO., OIlXGONf THURSDAY. MAY 29, 1902. NO. 12. CONDON w (jrLUBIIi. : ' 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.