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Newspaper Page Text7 TBI OmCIAL AND LIADINO FAtt! Or OILLIAM COUNTY. EAS TXSX3 TEK3 TSJ CZ2CULATI0' or at pafct a tsi counti. GONDON A1TB1TI1IM KITS. retLiMt nui nvMMi sv A. PATTI80N... litter aa rreprktei. fll Of mi MftU Oiwmiw 1 HhthmiI Vwwitf elsa., .. ., ,, I M par ioi , W Mr Mit M M Mr Beau Matama lMaJtwiaktaar(i UMm at caaearrTioM katkii id I Mali Mr ujm tfear )m rear n tdrtn). l sot Mia la U uo. at- ' f" M lUI nlhi ,. I M M tkr tnocnti.,, I 0)IM...M VOL. XII. CONDON, GILLIAM CO., OltEGON, TIIUKSDAY, JUNE 5, 1902. NO. 13. gl&be. 'i Lesjal ihiiMium fii ta a mm k etafs to ft tanr rntmmt tfcssa, at lee MMiiMhtMnMMiMiii laiwi-Jurf ft ItERR STEINHARDTS NEMESIS 3? BY . MACLAREN COBBAN. CHAPTER XII. I was no taken aback I could for the moment neither atlr nor apeak, while a new feeling, a feeling of ehaine, arose In me for appearing In that woman's preaenceaa hteinhardt's representative. After her outburst of surprise alio looked at tlio letter again, and at me. I row, uncertain. ' Fraulein," I said, "I do not Vnow what to say, I did not seek to noma this Journey mylf ; Herr Kttinhardt asked me to undertake It. H thought, and 'thought, , that your adver tlaement, In which, of courae.you could not ua many words, signified that you won very ill and alone iwtrhapa, and that you needed a "(I did not quite know how to put it; 1 added hurriodly) "a friendly hand," "Ho did not think that I could wish to am him for hU own sake, 1 uiean for the sake ol It la own peace?" Her German waa becoming too rapid for ni to follow without an effort; 1 waa not aura I understood her. "He ha business," I said, "which prevented him from coming himself." "I suppose," said she, with some touch of bitterness, I thought, "ho la atill alwaya very busy making more and mors money in your rich England." "It ia now," I answered, "a lawsuit that keeps him in England." "A lawmiit? A trial?" she ex. claimed, with a strange anxiety. "Is he in danger?" "Indeed, Fraulein, I do not know. Thtt other party to the trial think him self in danger from llerrSteinhardt; lie accumti llerr Kteinhardt of uaing, and making much money by uning, hia atent for chemiil dyea." "I think," a Id ahe, aimply, "you re not Kniniatiiii-I'H friend." To thia I had nothing to nay for a moment. I took re f nun in an evasion. "llerr Ptelnhardt." I aaid. "ha cent n to ad hia reprewMilalive. Hut it Hpiam them ia nothing for me to do." (I wait Mtanding uncertain, hut readv to (:o.) "What ahail I naj to him when I return.'?' "I wonder," an id ahe, mow 'than half to heraelf, "if you are th rwrnm I have reen lately?" I waa atHfth'd; I afared in blank In' wildermeiit. VVna the woman a niuni cT Th pupila of her keen rye atwmixt to rapidly dilate and contract, while alio rhuihI into vacancy, and at the aame time kept a referring glance on me. "A man," nhe continued, "who goes aliout and about, and evidently cam Kmmanuel great anxiety about aome thing." Conceive the midden turmoil of thought and feeling, of imagination and hope into which I was thus thrown! The Lacrioi mystery was until then almoat abaent from my mind; I seemed to have left it in Eng land, and though I certainly thought of It sometimes, it was as of something waiting In the distance for my return. How here was I presented with an allu sion of it a vague and uncertain allu sion, perhaps, but atill unmistakably for me an allusion here in an attic of an old house In Basel! What strange coincidence was this? Who was this woman that brought it before me again? I woa afraid to speak or to stir, lest I should break or dispel that filmy some thing her fancy or her vision had got touch of. "You are a pastor," she continued, looking at mo with more natural eyes; "Emmanuel calls you 'Reverend Mr. Vnwin.' It is surely, sir, a pastor's duty to bring repentance and forgive ness and peace to the hearts of men, and not pride, and fear, and condemna tion!" "Yon suy very strange things, Frau lein," I answered; "I think I hope I understand w hat you mean. Perhaps I deserve your rcbuko. But are you sure yon altogether know the terrible mystery?" "Achl" she cried. "There is then a mystery and part of the burden of it is with met Achl mein Gott! mein Gott!" "If you know" I Impulsively be 'gan, in ill-suppressed excitement. "I do not know anything!" she cried suddenly interrupting me, and spring ing to her feet. She paced nervously up and down the room, her fingers wildly playing with each other, or about her arms and her head. She stop)xd and looked at me, trembling in every limb and nerve. "You must go away, sir!" I lingerd uncertainly. "I'lease go av.ay, sir!" she urged. I cannot bear more now. Come again tomorrow. It may be that my God has sent you to me!" I withdrew without a word, some what awed by the emotion of the strange woman. As I closed the door I caught a glimpse of her with hands clasped and face raised, as if In en treaty or thankfulness. After leaving the house I walked for a long time, without knowing whither I went, about the streets of Basel and along the Rhine bank. In spite of my excitement I slept well that night. I spent the next day until evening wandering about the town, examining the windows of its sleepy shops, wondering at the content ed, bi-lingunl shopkeepers, and gazing at the glorious Swiss mountains which I was so near, yet which I must not think of visiting. I was again at the old house with the watchful, but heavy eyes soon after five o'clock. Poor Fraulein Haas seemed to have passed both a sleepless night and a weary day. She was evi dently ill at ease and anxious, and I jtitiej her. : : : : : "I fear, Fraulein," I said, thought of mn and my preamice "the gives you pain. What you may have to say to me I do not know, I am not able to guess, but it seemi saving it will give you great pain." "We must not care if we give our wives pain to do right, must we, llerr Pastor?" said she with a smile of sing ular sweetnitfs, "So," I answered; "but 1 would wind to lighten your pain, Fraulein, if I can." "I thank you," she aaid; "it may m that you can. But first I must suy this one thing: Emmanuel Stelnhardt of UrUach was very much to me many years ago. lie went away to England, but you w 111 understand, llerr Pastor, I have never forgotten him. For the first time I knew he was in very great danger and anxiety about a year and a half ago;" (lam almost started from my seat; that was the very time of Ii roix'a diaapiwarance!) "I learned It in a dream, indeed, dreams, ahlch the Almighty God sends oftener and clearer to his chosen ones than to other erons." (She was then a Pietiat, if not a maniac.) "His danger and anx iety then, I suppose passed away, for soon I raw no more of tiiem. But now for many weeks I see him and feel him more and more anxious than before, ami I am made to feel there ia always now another man near him making him anxious and afraid, and the other man seems to be you, I think, llerr Pastor." I sat silently marvelling. "I tell you all this plainly, llerr Pastor," ahe added, "because you are not one of those who laugh at dreams; for you know that the Kaered Scripture says that the great (iod reveals to thore who are ready to sc, many strange things in dreams and visions of the night." "You have, indeed," I aaid, "seen strange thnigs." "Will you now," ahe continued, "be plain with me? Tell me, il you know, exactly what is the thing, the serious matter, Im is anxious and afraid alHiut." "I can tell you, Fraulein," I said, "a very serious matter, about the dis covery of whh h I suspect he is very anxious. A little more than a year and a half ago llerr Steinhardt's partner in huines went to lmdon from Ijuicu shire, and It wus thought he never re turned; no trace of him could lie found. 80 his fate remamincd altogether a mystery for a yeai, until I went to he cure in tho village. Why the mystery should have been left so long, I cannot ray, because it was no great clevernes in me that after that mode it less of a mystery; perhaps tho Almighty left it ro long to give Emmanuel Steinhnrdt time to repent. Hoon after I came to the village certain things made mo sus pect that llerr Reinhardt's partner did not stay in London, but came home and then disappeared. I now know, from evidence that I have got, that he did; but what became of htm I cannot tell. I suspect that llerr Steinhnrdt put him out of the way, but I do not yet know that he did. I am sure, how ever, that the Divine Vengeance, which has thus far revealed it to me bit by bit, will yet make clear the whole hor rible crime." She heard me through in silence, gazing intently at me the while; but when I came to the end, she drew back and looked at me in anger and aston ishment. "But," said she, "who are you.Herr Pastor, to make yourself the minister of Divine Vengeance?" I was dumb for a moment under this warm rebuke. "I think, Fraulein," I aaid a length, "you mistake me. I do not put myself forward us the agent of Divine Venge ance. I first began to look into the mystery at the request of the missing man's orphan daughter, who long9 to know what has become of her father; since then all I have learned concern ing his fate has been revealed to me with littlo or no effort on my part." "Achl Mein Gott!" sho exclaimed. "The poor man has left a daughter!" "Yea," I replied; "and Herr Steln hardt. who ia her guardian, uses her very cruelly. If it were not for that, I think I should let the whole matter rest, and take no more part at all irf bringing the crime home to the guilty man. But so long as she is in danger I must do what I can, I must let the Divine Power use me. God has sent me to you, Fraulein; if you then have had anything more revealed to you than I yet know, I beg you will tell it me. "Ach, Herr Pastor!" she cried, "you know not what you ask I You ask me to condemn Emmanuel Steinhardt! me to condemn him! Ach! Gott! mein Gott! why hast thou laid this on me!" She clasped her !hands in her lap, and looked llxedlv before her. "Fraulein, I ventured to urge, "I only wish to hinder Steinhardt from going on his cruel, unscrupulous way." "What you may wish, Herr Pastor," she said, with her look still fixed on vacancy, "will not matter very much. The great God, I know, ia a God 'of justice as well as a God of mercy, and he will work his own will with both you and me! I have prayed for Em manuel, as a mother might for her only son! Surely my God will hear me! If he only had time and warning to re pent! Oh, was not that why I sished him to come! "What can I say, Fraulein, to les sen your pain? "You can say nothing, Herr Pastor. Leave me for tonight leave me, if you please! I cannot speak to you more now!" Hers waa such distress and emotion as could only be calmed by her being .let alone alone, or only with that Un seen Presence in whom she waa doubt less wont to seek strength and peace, I therefore went away without another word, and accompanied for time by the painful doubt whether it were well to pursue my inquiry, since It caused her such pain; whether there was not even something vindictive in following up evidence which would lead to the incrimination of even such a villain as BUinhardt. But all doubt was dlj-11ed by a let ter I received next morning from Bir ley. "Thou must come hack, my lad, at once," he wrote. "I was mistaken in my notion that Manuel would bring you know who, back home. Frank came home the same day you left; and hia father went off to London neat morning. I managed to get to see Frank. He ia in very low spirits, poor lad. Hia father has alinoK scared him into marrying the girl; but I don't quite think he can bring that about without asking me, at any rate. I shall not be at all surprised if he does ask me one of these days, fur he has not yet come down near so hard on me you know what 1 mean as I expect ed. I fancy he wants to reserve the chance for a last big squeeze. Put don't thou be afraid, lad; I'll stand by the lass and thee. Well, I 'prevailed on Frank to tell me the Iilackjtoo) ad dress, though I had to prumie much his father shouldn't get to know he had told me. I went straight away, and found her; and she was main glad to see me, poor thing. I told her what I had come for; and the end of it was he put kel up her little traps, and came back with me and here she is with me now. Hut I've not tome to the den yet. 'Manuel has only gone to liondon for the week, I find. He will be home on Saturday ; and then I ex pect he will want me to square up with him. So I say you had better come back at once." Here, surely, was matter for the gravest anxiety and apprehension, though it dil not aptear what there was to fear exactly, except that Stein hardt might somehow reclaim Louise from lilrley's charge, and again hide her away. But the fact is, my dread and suspicion of Steinhardt were such that I was prepare! for his committing the greatest and vaguest enormities. It was now Friday morning, and there was only another day during which I could think of Ixuiie as at rest in Bir ley's house. I could leave Basel that night by the mail train, and probably reach Timerloy late on Saturday night. Greater sttecd could not be made. But was I, after all, going to leave without knowing what was that damning some thing concerning Steinhardt which Fraulein Haas's "dream, or dreams," might reveal or suggest? I must en deavor to win it from her. - I called that morning, but was told. as on the first occasion, he would not be home till five o'clock in the after, noon. I got everything ready at my hotel for a prompt departure, and called again soon after the hour named. "So you have ome again," she said, wearily, when she saw me. "Yes, Fraulein," I answered, "and I have come in haste." "To urge me, I know. But why is it necessary? It is a terrible law that quick death should be brought upon one man because he brought quick death on another! a terrible law. I am not sure it is God's law. Think you it is, Herr Pastor?" "Fraulein!" I exclaimed, alarmed at her continued disposition to consider too curioBly and abstrusely, "I am sorry I cannot linger to discuss such things with you. I must travel back to Eng land in a very few hours, on most anx ious business, and I entreat you to re solve to tell me what you say has been revealed to you concerning thia crime. I have sail it already, Fraulein, and I say it again: what the great God may have in store for Herr Steinhardt for all hia wickedness, I cannot judge, and I do not seek to put out my hand to force; I say I do not desire to bring punishment on him, 1 only wish to be able to make him withdraw his hand from the perpetration of more cruelty and oppression." "Is he eo wicked, then?" she cried in an accent of the keenest pain. (Tot continued) MuiVtti Ten Fttt Long. Gen. F. C. Ainsworth, chief of the record and pension division of the army, is in receipt of several Interest ing relics from friends in the Philip pines and China, coinpritdng a collec tion of arms of different varieties, mod ern and archaic, u-ed by the Chinese. In the collection are two jinjuls, which look a good deal like overgrown mus kets. They are too heavy for soldiers to carry about the field, and are usually rested upon a parapet. One of these weapons is more than 10 feet long, with an iron barrel of one inch caliber. Both guna are in good working order, and Gen. A ins worth has had them burnished and added to the ornaments of his office in the war department. Making Artificial Diamond. TheChemikerZeitung describes some experiments in the making of artificial diamonds. Carbon was heated in an atmosphere of inert gas in an iron flask raised to a high temperature bv the elec tric arc. Bits the size of a pea were obtained having the hardness and crys talline form of a diamond. The crys tals have a gray tint that makes them worthless for jewelry, but their use in drills seems promising. A French chemist has made minute diamonds by heating pure carbon under pressure Odd Idea In Jewelry. One sees curious things in jewels there days, especially in the cheaper line. A girl on a street car the other day wore a brooch which looked exact ly like a aet of false teeth in brilliants. New York Letter. EVENTS OF THE DAY FROM THE FOUR QUARTER8 OF THE WORLD. A Cetnpfthentive tUvarw ef the ImperUnt tUppeainp el U Past Week, PretenUd la a CondenMd rrrn Which li Most Likely to Prove ef Interest to Our Many Readers Two men were killed ia a slide in a Mcrcur, Utah, mine. f Hon Michael Henry Herbert may be British ambassador at Washington. f Ex-Governor Sylvester fpunoyer died at bia home in Portland on Memorial day. The grandstand at Hawthorne track, Chicago, waa burned. Lots, $100,000. One man was killed and several in jured. President Roosevelt delivered a Me- " ? ' ' t I'VJ " ':- 1 ife - ; .- ) .J P SENATOR C. D. CLARK OF WYOMING. Senator Clark is one of the champions of the policy of national irrigation. He is a native of New York. Hia parents moved West at an early day and he got his higher edncationin the University tar and in 1881 located at Evanston, Wyoming. He declined appointment as associate justice of the state supreme court, served two terms in congress, was elected to the senate in 1895 and re-elected in 1899. He is a strong advocate of w estern development. morial Day address at Arlington cem etery, Washington, to an audience of thousands. . The teamsters' strike in Chicago is still on with no prospects of an earl settlement and the city is face to face with a meat famine. Many beautiful floral offerings were sent to Canton from all over the United States to be placed on the tomb of the late President McKinley. KEEP TELLING ABOUT IT. The public- has come to regard an ar ticle that Is advertised persistently aa possessed ot real merit. The advertiser therefore Is wise who remembers this fact, and, havlnir a rood thin;, keeps on telling the public he has it. Printers' int. The entire French cabinet has re signed. Fire in Brooklyn destroyed property valued at 175,000. Attorney General Knox ia confined to his home with a severe cold. v Bituminous coal workers jnay strike out of sympathy for the anthracite workers. Another eruption has occurred on Martinique. A party of scientists had a narrow escape. The 29th annual convention of the National Association of Corrections and Charities ia in session at Detroit. Professor Adolf Kossmul, who intro duced the Btomach pump into medical practice, is dead. He was born in 1822. The navy department haa ordered the gunboat Ranger, now at San Francisco, to proceed to Panama and relieve the cruiser Philadelphia, the latter coming north for repairs. Policemen's jobs will be offered to the highest bidders at Hazleton, Pa. t A committee of the Massachusetts house reported adversely on an appro priation of 125,000 fora military statue to the late Benjamin F. Butler. Mrs. McKinley'a condition remains about the same. She goes out driving frequently and visits the cemetery every day that the weather will permit. KINO EDWAR0'8 BIRTHDAY. 0hcla!ly Celebrated m London-Military and naval Paraoci. London, May 31. The birthday of King bdward, who was born ftovem ber 9, 1841, was officially celebrated yesterday, it Laving been decided, as announced in the official gazette, April 15, that hia majesty'a natal day was to be celebrated in London and on the home stations May 30, as being the most suitable to make a military dis play. On the other hand, foreign sta tions will celebrate it November 9, the actual anniversary of his birth. Great interest in the celebration waa apparently not diminished by the ex pectationa of greater series of events surrounding the coronation. The towns throughout the kingdom were gaily decorated and the shipping at th varl ous porta made the gayest display of bunting. The day was observed at all of the home military and naval head quarters with parades and salutes. The chief celebration was the ceremony of "trooping the colors," on the Horse Guards parade here, and the presenta tion of colors to the new Irish guards. of Iowa. He was admitted to the CURED OF LEPROSY. A Cue Is Succeufully Treated at St Louis by the Quareatine Officer. St. Louis, May 31. Dong Gongi the Chinese leper, who has for four months past occupied an isolated house near Quarantine, has apparently recovered from hia malady and will be released within two months unless the disease returns. A remarkable oil, the product of an East Indian tree, has been the sole treatment administered by Martin C. Woodruff, superintendent of Quar antine. Discoloration has disappeared from the patient's face and limbs, and feeling has returned to the spots of flesh which were insensible to the pi icking of pins or the touch of hot irons. Only on one of the patient'B legs and one wrist is the faintest red ness visible. Coal Famine In the Eeit New York, May 30. Another ad vance of 50 cents a ton was made in the price of soft coal by the retail dealers throughout the city today making the price (5.60. An advance of $1.60 per ton in anthracite coal was announced, Many small towns in New Jersey are beginning to feel the scarcity of anth racite coal. Suffern village has been in darkness for several nights, "having no electric light. Lamps are now used in Ridgewood. At Spring Valley, N. Y., the silk mill, the pipe factory and the shirt works shut down yesterday. Low Rate to Eastern Points. The Northern Pacific Railway Com pany ia now naming low excursion rates to all points East. If you are thinking of visiting the old home your childhood's home, write or call on any agent of the company and full particulars will be furnished you, or write A. D. Charlton, assistant general passenger agent at 255 Morrison street, corner of Third, Portland, Or., for de tails, rates, routes, etc. ' Squleri Formally Received. Washington, May 31. Tue secretary of state has received a cablegram from Mr. Squiers, United States mininster to Cuba, announcing that he had been formally received in that capacity by President Estranda Palma at Havana. Mr. Squiers suggested the desirability ol having a military attache for the legation at Havana assigned as soon as possible, and mentioned Captian Clark, United States army, aa a most suitable person for that post. NEWS OF THE STATE ITEM3 OF INTERE8T FROM ALL PART8 OF OREGON. fonmcrclal and Financial flappcalnp of U. pottancaA Brief Review of the Growth and Improvement of the Many laduttrlc Throojhoot Our Thrfvtaj ComnMMiwcaith iatcet Market Report. The registration throughout the state was slightly less than that of 1900, although in aome places It waa larger. The Travelers Protective Association of - America will meet In Portland ia June. : '. . " " State Superintendent Ackerman ia busy addressing pnblic school graduates in various parts of the state. Hop contracts continue to be filed for record in the various hop sections of the state. Twelve cents is the rul ing price. A mass meeting will be held in Al bany in the near future for the purpose of promoting the interests of the 1905 exposition. The work of removing the old street car tracks in Baker City preparatory to laying new for an electric line is well under way. The Sugar Pine door and lumber company, of Grants Pass, whose plant was recently destroyed by fire, will re build immediatley. The 22nd annual commencement ex ercises of the Chemawa Indian school were held last Thursday, when 16 pu pils received diplomas. A head-on collision occurred between a freight train and a light engine near Ashland. Several of the trainmen were slightly injured but none seri ously. Oregon Italian prunes are meeting with great favor in the East, and there will be - an increased demand for the product this year, with encouraging prospects for remunerative prices. T. W. Clark, president and manager of the Bandon Woolen Mills, of Oregon City, has returned from the East. He made a contract at Chicago involving $150,000, which will keep his mill in operation day and night until July 1, 1903. . Ex-Senator George W. McBride wae married a few days ago. Ten hones were burned in a ' liverj stable fire at Oakland. Lose, $5,000; insurance, $ 1,500. Professor L. R. Trayer, of Roeeburg, has been elected city superintendent of Salem's public schools. The postoffice at Ale, Marion county, was entered and burglarized of the en tire stock of stamps and stamped en velopes. Arthur McEwen, who represents a wealthy English syndicate, is in Baker City looking for paying mines that can be bought. Harry Granelli, a young man who at tempted to wreck the Harriman special train near Roseburg last week, has been sent to the penitentiary for three years. In the shaft of the Golden Wizard mine, of the Minersville district, near Sumpter, a most remarkable ore body is being developed. It was struck at a distance of 70 feet from the collar, and for 50 feet has continued high giade, with no immediate prospect of going out. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Walla Walla, 65H66c; blues tern, 67c; valley, 65c Barley Feed, $2222.50; brewing, $23 per ton. Oats No.l white, $1.251.30;gray, $1.151.25. flour Eesi grades, iz.8d3.4U per barrel; graham, $2.50(32.80. Millstuffs Bran, $1516 per ton; middlings, $1920; shorts, $1718; chop, $16. Hay Timothy, $1215; clover, $7.5010; Oregon wild hay, $56 per ton. Potatoes Best Burbanks, 1Q1.40 percental; ordinary, $1 per cental; growers prices; sweets. $2.252.50 per cental; new potatoes, 33c. Butter Creamery, 1617Kc; dairy, 12K15c; store, 1012c.. Eggs 15 15 c for Oregon. Cheese .Full cream, twins, 12H 13c;YoungAmerica, 13K14sc; fac tory prices, 1 IJ4C less. Poultry Chickens, mixed, $4.50 5.00; hens, $5.005.50 per docen. ll12e per pound; springs, 11 ll&c per pound, $3.005.00 per doe en; ducks, $5.006.00 per dozen; tur keys, live, 1314c, dressed, 1516c per pound; geese, $6.50(37.50 per docen. , Mutton Gross, 4c per pound; sheared, 3?c; dressed, 7Kc per pound. Hogs GroBa, $Hc; dressed, 7)($8c per pound. Veal 6)$8c for small; 6K7o for large. Beef GroBS, cows, 4c, steers. 5c; dressed, 88?ic per pound. Hops 12M15 cents per pound. Wool Valley, 12 14; Eastern Ore gon, 812c; mohair, 25c per pound. Jules Verne, the novelist, though now in his 86th year, still works at his desk for four hours a day. .. An American syndicate is planning a steamship line that will have a boat start every day for Europe, thus estab lishing the first daily service. Henry O. Havemeyer has just given 2,000 volumes to the library of the public school at Greenwich, Conn., erected by himself and his wife aa a memorial. CHICAGO TEAMSTERS' STRIKE. May Result In Stoppage ef 40,000 Mea at Stockyard. Chicago, May 30. If the four great packing concerns at the union stock yards shall not yield to the demands of the striking teamsters within a short time it may result in a general stoppage of 40,000 employes at the yards. Al ready several hundred persons have quit. The sitnation is becoming so involved that it apparently will be im possible for the union men to remain at work much longer without violating the rales of the Chicago Federation of Labor, under shieh they hold charter. Cnftsitujceafeetwcen. several of . fiieT firms and representatives of the union were held this afternoon in an (effort te adjust the trouble, but the packers re fused to concede any of the demand of the strikers, and the probability of an early settlement seems as remote as on the first day of the tie-op. Tonight 225 boxmakers employed at the National Box Company's plant struck because they had been asked to furnish boxes to the packers against whom the team sters are struggling. The American Express Company refused today to handle meat, because of the fear that its drivers would strike. Striking teamsters attempted today to curtail the meat supply of down town hotels and restaurants by surrounding -drivers for Swift &. Co., and threaten ing tbem. Policemen .sent in response to a riot call dispersed the crowd, how ever, and soon were in full possession. further steps to extend the strike were taken when orders were issued from the teamsters' headquarters that no coal should be delivered to concerns that refrigerate meat for "unfair" butcher shops or packing houses. This development promises the most com plete tie-up of teaming deliveries ever experienced in Chicago. Butchers that nse meat delivered by non-union drivers will lose their ice, and con cerns that mcke their own ice will lose their coal. SITUATION IN MINDANAO. Colonel Baldwin Suggests Wiping Out the Defiant Element Manila, May 31. Colonel Frank D. Baldwin, of the Fourth United States infantry, baa telegraphed to Brigadier General George W. Davis, in command of the United States troops in the island of Mindanao, that he does not conditions in the Lake Ldo district until the defiant element is wiped out. The natives pretending to be friendly are urging that this be done, as their own lives are in jeopardy, "which," the colonel adds, "we are in the highest sense under obligations to protect." "The defiant element," continues Col onel Baldwin, "respect nothing but powder and the sword. They will de stroy human lives until destroyed them selves." General Davis replied that, to meet the emergency in the way sug gested, would necessitate the capture of . . t. :..v. j : . 1 over iuik niui.it uuw buuuus j&meruaui troops as friends, which was forbidden under existing orders. NO FAVORS TO TERRITORIES. Senate Committee Wants Each To Stand on Its Own Bottom, Washington, May 30. The deciaion of the Republican members of the sen ate territory committee not to take up the omnibus territorial bill was based upon the fact that nc time could be given to the consideration of the bill at this session, and the further fact that the members of the committee think that each territory should stand on its own bottom, and not be carried along ' by a meritorious territory like Oklahoma. Probably a separate bill , may be passed for Oklahoma, but there is still vigorous opposition to both Arizona and New Mexico, on the ground that they have not shown a sufficient increase of population. Even if the Oklahoma bill be reported it is doubtful if it could get consideration in the senate under the present conditions. WILL PUT ON FAST TRAINS. To Shorten Time Between New York and the Pacific Coast Chicago, May 31. The Chronicle this morning says: The first of June will witness the first great step toward faster time be tween New York and the Pacific coast. There is a well founded report that there has been an agreement between the Pennsylvania and New York Central officials for fast trains to go on at once, and that the fast time to be made be tween New York and Chicago is to be 20 hours. This is a shortening of the time between these two places by four hours below the fastest trains now run ning, and almost six hours below the ordinary trains. Following the de termination of the Chicago & North western to put on a fast train from Chicago to Denver June 1, the action of the Eastern lines is regarded as having a direct bearing in the plans for quicker time to the Pacific coast. Solicited Campaign Funds.' Washington, May 30. The civil service commission has decided that funds were solicited and collected for the presidential campaign of 1900 from employes under Collector of Internal Revenue Henry, of Terre Haute, Ind., with his approval and co-operation, but holds that the evidence does not justify the institution of criminal pro ceedings against him or any of hia subordinates.