Moro observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 18??-1897, December 10, 1896, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text•RIPTION RATES : a LLAR PER YEAR ADVANCE. •L A N D & SONS VOL. PUBLISHERS. • fssional C iri «'« * IX . H I K IN 'K x<4 -O R D MOHO, ( «V I I . M O O R K u A ..B A N K E R S . all the courts of thia state I r a n sa ct a General all the courts ot this s ate Banking Business N otri Public. Reil * MORO OREGON Letters of credit issued available ou Easteru states O r r g i)« . RKES i, UOORK M O O R E BROS. t-Liw md NjtarjPublh . E s tât« C«vil» étio n s m a,le a t a li po ints «->n favo rable J®'” 1* , > .g h i e ie b a iic e «ud te iv g ra i'h 'c Ir a n — Jyrs so!«l *»n N e * Y o rk , *'h ic »g o , e t Louis eau » ran »"w o, P o rtla n d , T h r halle» »na u r i o u i p o iu ls lu O regon aud W ashington. . Collection Agent. J. M. PaTriRioN, Cobhtet ! J . K 9* H V N C K . I'resbtent. ia and Plats furnished C. First National Bank M a i n S t .. M n r n . O re K * ■ ¡STING ICE OF THE PEACE. : No. S, b h e rm a n V o u n tv , M o rn , tir e s „,4 _ _ __ , t»Q ,, _ „ .. n tio n t i r e n to a ll C o lle c n c n » en- e. T erm s reason ab le. P ro m p t n - e W a tk in s B u ild iu g , U pstairs T h e D a lle s , Or. A general tanking business transact ed. deposits received, sul*je«t to tight j draft or check. Col 1-ct ions made and proceeds promptly remitted on »lay of collection. Sight an»i telegraphic exchange sold on New York. >au Francisco and Port i i ,s u lu - l» IB K t H I M ; ------------------------------------------ - D. P. T hompson , J \ o . S. S chvxck , 'A SM IT H ^*Ü " ,LI *3KO- A- li. M. B eall . L’ bbb , i ICIAN AND SURGEON. The Dalles National Bank ! O f D a l le » C it y . O r * D rug S tore er M o r « . o r e K»n President............ Cashier .. D GINGTON and Z. F. MOODY XI. A. MOuDY General Banking Business Transacted OLIVE HARTLEY S1C1ANS AND SURGEONS. • •e.» . . . Sight exchange sold on New York, } San Francisco, Portland. Or. Collections made on favorable terms at all accessible points. O re g o n . -------- D. - asro Hotel. Special alten- ’ » diseases of women and child- V \ a i T C I l M a r s h a ll C R A SS VALLET. ORECON. V. O ’LEA R Y --------D KALKB I X -------- spector of Sherman Co. ...w h ip s & S a d d le ry ... VXI M K u t le d je , O re g o n Deputy, Grass Valley, Or. ihdxwitz , F A ÍT T E K K OF HARNESS, BRIDLES. HOBBLES, ITC .1 » , Deputy, Rufus, Or. Special Attention Given to Orders...................... l^eputy. Kent, Or. CARPENTERING a r s ix v s « c a n n a L E S A N D M O R O W agox repair shop re and Express Line la G vaee V a lle y . O re g o n . .S A L L E N - P roprietor E. C. Mahanv....... T ra U ra l m echan ic, capable o f d o trg a ll k it <1 ‘*f * arp en ter w o rk a o 4 w u o t n - )a ir-.n ¿ has t «tabi lateU a» a bo re and re »pe** f u l l t t o ii ta • »bare o t »be p n b le pat'O bage lu a ll cs-es t a t i f a t ii u c g u arau te—'1 1< ro ilo ’el at 8 a. m. Montlay, sv ard Friday. n a tilla House. The Dalles. »I '«•day,Thursday and Satunlav. * I he rotimi trip, ?£ 60 : one «a* E I. WEST. linger. loro. Oregon -eivht, 41 cent« a 100, «mall '5 and £5 cent«. Orders for r expr. ss packages promptly ully attended to at reasonable L a r g e s t a n d M ost C o m m o d io u s ppiy to C. IL W illiams, Moro. H o u se in M oro. C ity hotel W e ll K e p t. G o o d M r a l» . G o o d B eds. . M A IL R O U TE <£. BROWN, PaopBisroa. of customers carefully attended to. Patronage of the public ia respect fully solicited by the management. IT. WASCO AND MORO H E N R Y L. K U C K M a n u fa v tu n r of aod D ealer la ■ilLU r u t u t u fOUTE. re pared to effer first-» lass ac- tto n s to the traveling public -y coaches. good teams and se ating drivers. JU I*. ARK1VR«. Harness, Saddles. Bridles, Collars, Wips, Spors, Stirrups, Ships, àc. TENTS AND WAGON COVERS — «:• Sa a Miro--------- li ai a. M — 10 15 a . m W e co.............lW.00 A. M ---- L j S r. a Grunt-------- t.jo r. a C cr.tivM w i ll be ( I r e n to a ll b a n n t*« i M m y e»re. > x p re *» aod o th e r p e r s is tí y d l i t e r a l A11 kind« of repairing promptly and neatly done. Second St.. Near Moody’s W arehouse The Leading Dealer in Sherman County In First-class “ Up-to-Dato” .................... ODLES, HARNESS! SUPPLIES Of Eier Kind in My Line of Goods. ........WASCO, OREGON. ve now on hand a large stock of Harness and Saddles, Collars, Bridles Kobe«, brushes, Curry Comb«, Ac.. Ac. Any person in need of anything line will save money by giving me a call before purchasing elsewhere. ,A DE&COOLEY HOTEL Charles Slade—SLADE & COOLEY, PROPRIETORS-J. O. Cooley. T h e L e a d in g H o te l of G ran t. Located within 100 feet of the depot. New building, new fnrniture. and •rvthing first-class. Commodious rooms, well and neatly kept. Table supplied *b the best the market affords. Proprietors of Hotel will meet all trains. Special attention to coinmercia .velers. Stages leave for Goldendale and Moro every morning. TOP • • Where all the Tourists, Drummers, Farmers, Merchants, Stockmen, Miners, and Everybody else stops. . . . • • • ..............ALL TRAINS STOP AT HOTEL MAT1LLA H O U S E D lott A F ish . Proprietor«. T H E D A L L E S , OR. S I IE K M A X EVENTS OF THE DAT < OI N T Y , OHEGON, T ill H SD A V , D Ei EM BEH ID, We Print Envelope«, Tags, Bill Heads, le tte r Heads, Posters, Statement«, Pro* ■ ' '■ 1 * Kota Heads, liooks. Briefs, >ale Bills, Pam phlet«. Anything on the Earth in the Line of Printing, so I>on't send Your Orders out of the Countv. f» F ls<h;. NO. O rte r» by m all p ro m p tly Ailed. LM t:»p acd ren a (¿ lick and 8. N aat b. C. IKKl.AND & SONS, M oro, su eru u m c o u n ty . Or l> * -« lli In t h e I ' j r r r n r r s . A Paris disptach saya that a terrible disaster has occuired in the Pyrvueea A score of Spaniards, cresting ou f»>ot, had reached (ìavarnie, lu France.where E p it o m e o t t h e T e l e g r a p h i c they related with apparent renwrse that they had left a woman, uuable to N e w s o f t h e W o r ld . pfOOOMd, w ith her husband aud bro ther, two hours distant. Guides hur ried back to the rescue aud beard calls TERSE TICKS FROM TUK WIRES' for help, when a snddeu avalanche blocked the mountaiu puss so that the guides were obliged to return to Gav- A n li it e r e a t lu g C o lle a tlo u o f I t t u i l F r u w aruie and w ait there for two days. When they dually reached the ill-fated t h e T w o ll a u i l a p b e r e s 1‘ r e s e u le d trio, two of them w ete dead and tbe In a C o n d e u t e d F o r a . third waa dying. The fighting cruiser Brooklyn, the T h e J u r y D i d n ’ t H e« H i m S h o o t . newest addition to the United State» navy, has been tested aud accepted by John Thiel, who was supposed to the government. have filed the shot that entered the John Abel, a workman at the Nelson head Of a young girl at a we»lding party Morns dressed beef works, St. Louis. in R itzville, W ash., has been acquitted It was proved that be bor Mo., was horribly burned w hile at by a jury. work. The flesh on the right leg was rowed the gun, aud that the shot was parboiled. Abel tripped on tbe greasy fired from the gun, but no one saw him floor in the rendering -room, and fell fire it, and so the jury discharged him. into a vat of botliug grease. r a t a l F o i l i n g o f a F u « * l. Jane Shelly, the 14-year-old daugh A fight between old man Harrison ter of Joseph Shelly, a farmer living and his two sous and Morgan and his nine milea south of Olympia, W ith, two sons, Tom and Caleb, cceutred iu was reaching for some object ou th» one of the mountain Counties of Ken m aotlepiece. when her c'othes cavgbt tucky. The elder Morgan is dead. fire from the fire in the fire plaoe. She Both sons are dying. Both the Har was terribly burned and died after a rison boys are also dead. few days of suffering. H tra e h by i u K le e tr lc C a r. Delbert Crawford, a young man 19 In Dtuver an electric car struck a years old, was found tw elve miles from Pendleton, dead beneath an over carnage containing Mrs. JohnC. XI >nt- turned loaded wagon. He was hauling gomery. w ife of a prominent Denver grain to the city, and the wagon ran capitalist, and two other ladies. The off tbe grade into a canyon. His four- carriage was wrecked and Mrs Mont horse team st<xxl a ll night hitched to gomery waa so badly injured that the tbe wagon, and were found the nett cannot recover. morning co re red w ith snow. KUI«<1 by Toarber«. T. J. Henry, liv in g on the Apple- Count Finickenstetn, an intimate gate, near Jacksonville, O t ., on Novem friend of Emperor W illiam , of Ger ber 23 last went OTertoone of the min many, has been mortally wounded <n ing camps to look for a job cooking for bis estate. It is supposed he was shot the miners. He started home over the by poacher«. He was one of the W atkins trail. A storm started up wealthiest landowners in Germany. and he wandered about in the moon- tains and froze to death. The whole M u t a r m l by K u rd s . com m unity turned out to search for A Constantinople dl»patch »ays that him , and aaceeded in finding his body. under the pretext of revengiug an old He had crawled into a brush pile and grievance. 10.000 Kurds raided the was frozen to death He leaves a province of Mamoutel ul Axis, where widow and six children practically des they burned and pillaged the village» titute. and massacred the inhabitants Jennie Ward, a well-dressed young F r « iir h W o u ld E i r l u i l * O u r F o r k . woman, created a sensation by w alk At a mats meeting held in Pans, ing a k n g Wabash avenue, Chicago, smoking. People turned and stared at France, of the organised Farmer»’ the woman, but the paid no attention Union, tbe dealers in salt meats adopt to them, and continued to send blue ed a resolution in favor of the exclusion clouds of smoke heavenward. She of American pork products, in view of was placed under arrest by Detectives the fall in the price» of swine. Wool ridge and Schubert aud locked up J u m p e d F ro m • H o te l W in d * « . at the Harrison-street station, charged Mrs. Eliza Cummings, aged 55. a w ith disorderly conduct, and when her case was called for trial in Justice w ealthy woman of Hillsboro, O., com Richardson's court she failed to spear. mitted suicide in New York by jum p “ This is som ething terrible.’’ said the ing from a third-story window of a be tel. court, “ and as a warning I w ill fine thia woman <1 for amoking. It ia ter H lo w n f"p b y N a t u r a l G a a F . ip l o e t o a . rible. ” A natural gas explosion at Mounds A freight train of thirty cars leaded ▼ill«, W. V a., followed by fire totally w ith lumber and shingles from the featroyed the <10.000 dw elling of M. W est got beyond control on s heavy V’. A. Weaver. Tbe sensational feature grade east of Mullen tunnel, on the was the fact that tbe persons in the Northern Paciflo road, and ran away aouse when its roof was lifted in tbe air Tw enty-six car» were scattered along a ind its four w alls were blown out. all distance of eight m iles, when the en •ecaped w ith slight in ju ries Mrs. giue left the track. Ed Jarbeau, head Weaver, her 6 months-old babe and 4- brakeman, w n killed. Fireman Young rear-old son were thrown from a sec had h it collar bone broken, and En ond story window into tbe front yard, gineer John Flunn'a leg waa broken, with no harm to the babe. The ser beside« internal injuries. Conductor vant girl at the back kitchen door was John McBean'a thigh was broken, and blown across a let, and the plumber, bis back wrenched. It is tbe worst whose carelessness canspd the explosi» n, wreck tbe Northern Paoific has ever came off w ith a few scratches had from the point of damage to track and rolling stock. J a p a n K e n o u n r e a a V r e a t y C la u s e . United States Minister Denby, at Thirteen prisoners escaped from a jail in W yandotte. Kan. Three have Peking, has informed the department been captured and tbe officers are ic of state that the Japanese government, pursuit of tbe others. has officially and form ally renounced Rev. B. XI. H ill, formerly a mission- that part of the treaty between China sry to Chins, was stricken w ith paraly and Japan, made at the close of the re sis w hile delivering a sermon at hi» cent war, which provides that all ar church in Bentonville, Ark. He cannot ticles manufactured by Japan -ss »nb- jecta in China shall stand upon the recover. same footing as those imported by Jap George W. H ill, a w ell-known snese subjects into China. printer and stationer, of Portland, Or., shot and killed him self. He was of a T h e F lit• Im m o n a -S h a r fc e y F lg h * . despondent nature, aud about five years Robert Fitzsimmons and Tom Shar ago attempted suicide by taking mor key fought for a purse » f <10 000 in phine. San Francisco before the N ational Farmers in the vicinity of Tacoma Club. Tbe contest waa to be ten have lost many thousand« of bushels rounds, but Sharkey was knocked net of potatotes because of the cold One in tbe eighth round. Tbe refer»e. farmer had 6,000 bushels stored in his however, gave tbe fight to Bbarkty. barn, and nearly the woble lot was de claim ing that Fitzsim m ons deliberately stroyed. fouled Sharkey by striking him below The prisoners in Bedford, Ind., made tbe b elt a despetate effort to escape by setting A C h r is t m a s P r e s e n t f o r V’. s j s r d . fire to the jail. But for the tim ely The London Telegraph snnonnee« discovery of tbe fire by the sheriff, some of them would have escaped, and others the donation of £ I Ofl as the opening of a national subscription to preset t to would have been cremated. Mr. Bayard, tbe United States am has Fifteen-year-old Emma Taylor, an •ador, a Christmas farewell g ift of re orphan, has been held as an important spect and good w ill. Tbe paper has an w itness against four men who, on editorial t f unstinted eulogy of Mr. Thanksgiving night, attempted to rot Bayard, “ w ho.’ it saya, “ like his a car fu ll of passengers in Kansas City. illustrious n«niesake, has beta ‘sat s The young girl saya that the made peur et sans reproche.* ** the masks for the robbers and knew A B r u t a l M u rrte r. heir plana It is believed by the po lice that tbe girl was seized by the gang Intense excitem ent prevails in E.i<-t and made to do their bidding S t Louis over tbe brutal murder of Advices received at Tampa, F la., Christopher Ludwig, aged 52. by Harry from Havana are that W eyler w ill soon Scbroeltzer, ged 28. Schmtlrzer »truck issue another tobaoco order prohibiting Ludwig on the head with an a i, k ill the exportation of rtmedioa tobacco ing him instantly. Tho murderer es from tbe islands of Cuba. This was caped, but is being pursued by a posse not included in his other order, and a M in e r C ru s h e d n t M u r r a y . great deal has been exported. Havana At Murray, Idaho, a cave in of the manufacturers have petitioned Weyler to close the Cuban ports to this to- Small Hopes mine, killed Gus Holmes. baooo, a i Northern and Eastern manu Holmes was w otking In a »1 >pe and facturers were buying all of it for e x filed a blast which probably caused the cave. portation to this ooontry. M e t T e r r ib le D e a th s . Oue of the boldest robberies ever perpetrated occurred in Alameda, Cal. Two firemen met death w hile fighting Two unknown men called Charlie flames in the Bt. Monica Roman Cath Berry from hia house and relieved him olic church at Chelsea, N. J. They ran of <45 in gol 1 Berry went home late into the bunriug church w ith the hoa^ and was followed by the robbers, but and did not heed the warning cf the did not know it at tbe time. He was chief. The w alls fell in burying them called to tbe door by repeated knock in the ruins. ing«, and upon opening it be was M u r d e r S il ll G oes O n . grabbed by tbe men. His mouth was A Constantinople dispatch says a closed by one and the entire pocket cut by the other form his pant«, in which massacre has occurred at Evock, in he carried the money. The men then which 100 Armenians are reported to have been killed. made their escape in the darkneaa. Viceroy Li Hung Chang ia again in t 'p r ls ln f n t M n g a d o x o . disgrace. He entered the imperial News has been received by the Italian park and hunting grounds w ithout sanction. Tbe punishment for tbe consul in Zanzibar that the oaptMins of offense ia to be deprived of all hia tbe Italian warships Volturno and ranks and decorations, bat tbe emperor Htaffeta and about six other officer« merely deprived him of a year's salary, have been killed by tbe Somalia at am ounting to 26,000 taela. Tbe count, Magadoxo, on tbe coast, and 100 men it is believed, w ill ask to be allowed to have been wounded. retire to bia native province on the T u g F illili B u rn e d . plea of ill-health, as he has been dis The tng Edith, of Seattle, burned appointed in obtaining a position of in fluence in »he Peking government. near Doffiemeyer's point, and is prac MAIN OFFICES of the U. P. R. R .. O R. A N. Co. and Should tbe effort« of tbe empress dow tically a total loss. The tng waa act W. U . T. Co. Stage offices of the XIoro, Prineville, Du ager in his behalf auoceed, ha w ill ing as a tender to a dregder aud waa fur, Tygh Valley, Oak Grove, Antelope, Bake Oven and beooma vioeroy of ChihlL oa her way to Seattle. Goldendale Stage lines. H otel R ates to S u it th e T im es. . uhok BOOK AND JOB PRINTING MORO OBSERVER 5 0 PER Y EA R . OUR O ld G l o r y W ashington, A n n u a l R ep o rt ot th e t a r y o f I n t e r io r . IMPORTANT tuil»»l« of RKCOM RENDITIONS Govsrnmuut Lands I u til of K e t n lu l*o » » e » » lo n B u n d -A id e d D e b ts a re Deo. 7.— Under the Brioe, a large number of Paciflo coast salmon ire to be planted in Eastern waters A ash car. ci tain ing 6,000 000 eggs, is now on the way east, and the eggs w ill be planted in the Kenuebec, Penobscot, Merrimac, H ad sm , Delaware and Sns- |u< iianna rivers. Already 8 000 year lings have b< en tim e d loo-e in th« P.Ti*«b-c >t. The c unuiisfrinu is grati fied with its work ou the Pac.flc coast this year. This year 30,000,000 eggs have lieen hat» lied, three times is many a« wrre hatch« d in any previous year Of the»e, 26 000,000 were hatched at ihe new station at Baitle creek, a trib utary of the Sacramento river in Cali- f ruia. The c <intnimioner secured a site which bel< ng«d io the California com m is-ion, an I has built an addition al hatchery there, it is now regarded as one of the la st stations in the Unit- e l State». N it the least important ao- t on of th • fi-b c miui'hioti is the trans- er of »teel brad trout irotn t ie Pacific to the Atlantic coast, where a large number have Isen planted. S e c r e direction of (kunmissiotier It u a .la S e ttle d . W ashington, Dec. 7.— The annual re port ot Secretary of the Interior Francis was made public today. It deals with all the various branches of the intei tor department during the past year, and makes a number of important recom mendations. It proposes a solution of the vexed problem of the ton 1-aided railroads, deals exhaustively with the peusiou administration, reviews the progress of the Dswt-s com iuisiion ne gotiation«, aud touche« upon various matter« of especial significance in the Wear. The report opens w ith a discussion of the public domain. It show« the total numlier of acres disposed of up tJ June 30 last to be 946.000.o00. leaving the public domaiu »till vacant estim at ed at 600,000,000, not iucludiug the district of Alaska, with an artia of over 369,000,000 acres. Secretary Francis urges upon O'in- great the necessity for legislation for reclamation and disposal of lauds w ith in the and regions Unless tbe Carey act coaid be amended ao as to give the state power to pledge lands for their reclamation, he says, it would be bet ter to place the lands under the direc- ticn of the states, only so far as may be necessary t > secure their reclamati u for the benefit of actual settlers. The total amount paid by the govern ment on pennons aud c o t of di-t i ’mt- leg the same, for the last thirty-ens years, is <.’,034 817.769 The presect number of pensioners, whi'-h is 970.678, is greater by 4,666 than in 1893, when the m txim um annual cost was reached, aud i« greater than ever before. This ia due to the death of old a* 1- diers aud the continued payment of al- I owslcm to their heirs, w hile the amount paid is decreased through the death of invalid pensioners leaving no dependents. lucres«e from <8 to <13 per month is xecom m nded for all wholly di*>abl**d and dest.tute Mexican war survivors. Under the bead of Indian affairs, the Mcretary repeats the recommenda- ti< n of bis predecessor for a com mission of three, one of whom snail bean army officer, to take the place of theccm m is- sioner. Under the head of bond aided rail roads the secretary says he has com plied with the joint res» latiou of June 10. 18U6, requiring him to c»>Ltinue the issue of pate its to buna fide purcha»ers of lands «old by bond aided railroacs. but ssTs be declined to issue patents to all surveyed lan ia rn application of the Us ntral Pacific. He «ays: “ The representatives of the Central Pacific further c intend that their r »ad is net in default to the government, ano that if it were, tbe Unds are not covered by the government mortgage, aod cannot be held to secure tbe same I do not agree with either of these statement». Tbe table presented clear ly shows the Central Pac.fi; road is in default to tbe governm ent “ In my judgment, it is much better for thi» government to accept lam ? turn in cash for its claim against the*e rands, if by so doing that claim can he • e f 1 *ti and the connection between the government and the only roe i« it ha« ever ai l«rd by direct subsidy be effect ually severed. Such a eolation of this vexed que.-tion Wvul i nites the hearty approval of the people generally, and rtlieve the legisl «t irs aud a.l bran hes of tbe government of a tr» ublesome problem and a trying responsibility.’’ a D e a th o t M a jo r O vg o o d . CUT DOWN BY CUBANS. tlu » *« lrr« l» *>f tV <.n i t <1 e (I H p A M la rd t T i» k e u I o 11 to « MU A. Cincinnati, Dec. 7.— \ special to the Commercial T.ibune from Key We»t, h ia ., aays: Pa*sengers by steamer from Htvana tonight say that a train with 500 wounded Spanish eoldiers arrived there today. It was »»id ui et «jf tb«' ji came from the vicinity of San Cristobal *ud Cainlelaria Nodefi. i:e statement c old be bad as to what battl«e-fiel i they came fr« m. Rumors prevailed ou their arrival that Weyler had sus tamed an> th, r defea*. C, nnter state iii*nts were also n ade that the van guard of Maceo's army ha 1 been de bated. Mo.eover, it was announced that Weyler is on the eve « f attempting to »tottu s»>me of the h ill t p* where Maceo ia entrenched, aud thi« ha» r .l< d great eip*ctati<»ns in Havant. Several A tn e n o n correspondents at Havana have had friendly warning- t h a t Weyler isc«~>ntemplating dep rung ixime of the more outspoken cues be au»e their reports do nut please him. HAS M l« » o u r l FOUND A CURE ALL D o rtn r W ill Iu w r u la te K v e r y D i» e a » e . fo l Colombia, Mo., Dec 7. — Dr. Thoms» Pow« 11, of Columbia, seems to have 1-arued how to luocultte a man's sys tem so as to render it impervious to d is ease germa As vaccination prevents • mallp* x, so tl is discovery w ill ward off acatlet fever, consumption, dip- tberia s n i every other disease caused by germs. So confident is Dr Powell of the truth of his diacovery that be has written largely for scnntific journ als on the su lject, and bat tested it ¡ra d ica lly by exposing h im s-if t o i l mauuer of disease«. He entered this week into au agreement w ith California capitalists by which he is to be paid <*-*.000 for one third interest in the d is covery, A stutaiium w ill le ereetei to Las Angeles and experiments b gun If tu'ceaaful. Dr. Pow ell's fortune is assured. L u m b e r a u d T a r t if. Tacoma, Dec 7.— An important con fer« nee. in which Pacific c»*ast lumber man are taking great intenat. w ill b* held at Cincinnati. December 15, 1896 the <all was issued last month by Cni- cago lumbermen. The lumber a«*ocia- t ons in the country have been invited »«» »end repreaentatives. the object be ing to det«rm ne upon sw ie acti n that w ill result in lumber being given great er recoguuton in the tariff laws to be enacted during th • next four years Tbe Pacific Pine Lumber Company, of C ali fornia, and the Manufacturer's Asso ciation of the Northwest w ill each »end reprea* ntativem New York. Dec. 7.— A special from B ig F i r « In O tta « a a . (iuim aro, C»maguey, gives tbe foil w- Ottawa, Dec. 7.— A terribly destruc ing details of the death of Xiajor D.iui tive fire broke out in Mrs. Turner's con <h»good the football player who o m- fectionery establishment on Sparks nianded a Coban battery during the re street today, and extended to McDon cent Beige of the town of Goimarn ald’« furnishing store aud to the store General Garcia ordered Xlaj >r O-go»»d of G. M. Holbrooke, a clothitr. whose to open fire upon tbe Spanioh forts. bni rin g as w ell as Turner’s and Mc Two hour« later a large fort, known as Donald's were gntted, everything be Fort Monfau. located on a h ill 709 ing consumed. On the top fl Kir of this yards from tbe town, was a b a n ioned building was the bcottisb Rite ball. by its defender«, who took refuge in All its paraphernalia is lost. From the town. Holbrooke’s the fire continued to the On the rco n d day of tbe seige, Ma- large drv gtxids establishment of G. j ir Osgood, under heavy fire from the Bote & Co, Duly a part of tho front Spaniards, was training oueof his pieces w all is standing. The loss is about on the fort« A Mauser ball struck <400, QpO. him in the forehead. He uttered the D u d a N a r r o w K « r» p **, word “ W ell,” and, bending forward on bis cannon, bugged it and breathed Astoria, Or., Dec. 7.—Charles Byers, his last in behalf of Cuban litxrty. an employe of the water commission, Tbe news of his death deeply impressed had a narrow escape from death this President Cisneros aud the comui.iud- morning. W i t h a number of others, ing o ffc rs, all of whom had great re- • he was engaged in letiuu hin g an old gard for the American officer. jip e by dipping it in h< t tar. He was standing on a length of pipe that r» li d J u l m J . H t ig lt e a . fiorn under him, and he was thrown Woodburn, Or., Dec. 7.— John J head Cist toward the huge caulrin n in Hughes, an old and highly respectable which the tar was boiling. Byers kept pioneer, died at his h»>me in Hubbard, his presence of mind and gr»sped the Tuesday morniug. He was born iu sides of the vessel, but could not pre Ohio, September 27, 1827. In 1853 he vent his feet and legs from being b.idly crossed the plains to Oregon, aud in burned. His injuries are not hnch a a this state he made his home until he w ill result in ¡»ermaueutly disabling died. In early days he followed m in him. ing, and for nineteen years he lived Women make poor cipt.tius, but the near Butteville, whuie he carried ou a uunery barine»». very beat of lieutenants. D y n a m ite D ic k K ill e d . Arlington, Or., Dec. 7.— E B. Com fort, aged 82, died here last night from a paralytic stroke. He cro-sed the plains w ith an ox-team and settled in the W illam ette valley in 1845. He was also a pioneer of G illiam county, having been in the mercantile business in this town sixteen years ago, aud was one of tbe first six residents. Mr. Comfort was esteemed for his strict A stock company has been formed in business integrity and uprightness of Springfield, Ma»s., to manufacture mu character. He was tbe first postmaster sical instruments of aluminum. of Portland. New Kirk, O. T ., Deo. 7. — Dyna m ite Dick, a notorious territory out law, over whose head hangs a reward of <300, was shot and killed iu a fight w ith deputy sheriffs sixteen m iles west of this city this morning. Dan Cra vens, a member of D ick’s baud, for whose arrest a reward of <300 is czt, was badly wounded aud captured. In te r fe r e d W i t h H u ld ie r ’ e I ’ e n a to n » , T h e T u r k la A f r a i d o t I ’ e, Des Moin»«, Ia., Dec. 7. — Federal officers of tbe sontbrrn district of Iowa w ill next week arrest the officers and trustees of the soldiers’ home, at Mar shalltow n, for com m itting a misde meanor against the federal govern ment by interfering with the pensions of soldiers who are inmates of the home. London, Deo. 7. — The Constanti nople correspondent of tbe Mail hears that the porte has decided to decline the p.tymeut of all claim s for indem nity for massacres, except those ad vanced by Americans. Alexandria, Dec. 7.—The court of appeals today issued a decision con demning the Egyptian government to repay tbe funds advanced by caisse for tbo purpose of the Anglo Egyptian ex pedition to Dongola. London, Deo. 7.— A Times dispatch from Melbourne »ays that on account of tbe crop deficiency, Australia requires 100,000 tons of wheat aud flour from America, and that half of that quan tity baa already been ordered. A u s t r a li a * « W h e a t S h o r t a g e . E v id e n c e ot S te a d y G r o w th a n d E n t e r p r is e . ITEMS OF GENERAL F ro m C it ie s A U th e T h riv in g and H le t e r INTERES! Towne o f th e M a te » — O re g o n . Apples have »old for lower prices in Lakeview thio fall than f r a number of year», some selling as low as 50 cents a hundred. A «ingle bean plant of the n a w va- r*e *T. grown on the farm of W. L Curtis, near Forest (¿rove, yielded 514 beans, w eighing 4 1-8 ounces. The cannery slough aud log boom, near the month of Coos river, is filled with drift. It looks as though it would be an expensive undertaking to cltar the jam. Another body was found fl u tin g in tbe lower bay near Marshfield last week, aud is supposed to be that of one of the firemen of the Arago. Thia is the sixth body found. A rtie owls are bring seen in all part» of the coast counties. A live one wat captured on Pouey «lough. Coos coun ty. The bird was a beautiful specimen aud was not in any way injured. Captain E. H. Hansen, the builder of the senooner General Stglin, has nearly completed the three-masted schooner on tbe hiuslaw. Her length is 118 feet; width of beam, 32 feet; w ith a capacity of 174 tons. A »lx-point elk was recently killed on the west fork of Cow creek, in the southwestern part of Douglas county. The caress weighed 1,200 pounds. Tne hunter used the meat to bait bear traps and says be caught three bear» and ex pert» to catch more. A Coquille man aiya that a great rainy log« w-*nt to sea during the late fiesbet. notw ithstanding the fact that it was stated they bad been caught in the boom at Parkersburg He says comparatively few log« were saved, and estim ates the loss at between 500 aud 1,0(0. A spruce log was sawe*i at H im ye’. A Wneeler'a m ill, which, when rolled cn the camsg«-, had to be hewn off on tbe upper side to allow it to pass under the timbers which supnort the roof of the m ill, says the Nehalem Tim*-«. U nfoit jnately the height of the roof support is not given. FL^G INSULTED. T r a m p l e d t 'p n n 41 (Ttcer a. by T u r k la h New York, Dec 7.— A letter from an American missionary for nearly twenty years a resident of Constantinople has been received by Rev. Dr. btrong. se> retary of the Americi n Evangelical League, which confirms the recent statement of Rev. Dr. Cyrus Ham lin with relation t o t h e status of A m eri cans aud the American flag iu Turkey, especially with regard to the occasion when the flag waa torn and trampled upon in an Armenian village. The letter is dated S pteober 30, and says: fh e ra- aby police officer, Hassan Cbaonsb, who tore down and destroyed our flag, was caught the Sunday fell jw - ing the mas-acre, with <6r)0 upon him, obtained from the Armenians on his promise to save their lives, and whom he had treacheroc-ly given up to death. Everybxly is aakiag whether Mr. Ter rill w ill do anything to vindicate the honor of our fl.ig but yet we bear ol nothing being done ” Another letter from Constantinople dated fc* ptember 3U, only five days af ter the occurrence, says: “ Hataeky, the honse which Mias Gleason and Mrs. Seeleve occupied, was looted and the servant left in charge doubtless I oh bis life. Men wearing uniforms beaded the Ynob which attacked the house and palled down and tore to shreds the United States flag that bad keen bung ouL ” A DARING HOLD-UP. U ig h v r a y n ie n L o o t t h e O f f l r e o f a L o u ! * B . m i l * g C w u .|> a u y . St. St. Louis, Dec. 7.— Three highw ay men, w ith drawn revolvers, entered the office of the Home Brewing Com pany, at 3 o’clock thia afternoon, and held up the cashier, Robert Haver- kamp. f rcing nim to hand over <400, and then, not being satisfied w ith the amount, w*ut behind the counter, loot ed the m rn-y drawers and secured from <500 to <800 additional. When the hold-up occurred, there were present in the office the cashier, a half drz -n clerks and several custom er». Two of the rubbers he’d the oc cupants of the office iu line w hile the other went throngh the safe and money drawers. When the desperad- es had taken all the m iney, they produced ropes and bound, hand and foot, everyone in the office This required nearly ten m in ute«. and it seems marvelous that they were not discovered. Having bound their victim s, the rob bers warned tnem against making & noise under pam of instant death. V» cea the thieves bad gene out, one of the clerks managed to free himw-lf and then l.t«»rated the others. Tae police were at once notified by tele phone. Upon leaving the office, the robbers mounted a North Breadway car and went south when they left the car and went toward the river. Tbe brewery employes w* re unable to give the police gocxl descriptions of tbe men. Over 40.000 head of beef cattle from Malheur and Harney connties have been sold thi» »evson, acc >rd:ng to the estimates cf those who b«ve hired pas tures to the drover*. This represent» more than <1,000.000, or a little in ex cess of <12 per capita for every man, woman and child in both of these coun ties. A car w eighing 54.600 pounds, and carrying a monstrous gnu carriage, w eighing 85,100 pound», destined f< r C. PTURED A BURGLAR. Fort Stevens, at the mouth of the Co lumbia river, was oonpled to the west F l u c k y A c t n f a H o m a n W h o F o o c d a bound freight train which passed M a n lu H e r B o o m . through Pendleton Satutday. Toe car Portland. Or . Dec. 7 — Mrs. EL E wm specially constructed for its heavy Liddy of this city, made a plucky cap load. It had eight pairs of wheels. ture at 1:30 o'clock this morning of an aged aneakthief, who was in the act tf VV breaking into ber bouse, th e was The woods at the headquarters of tbe eating lunch upstsirs w ith a woman, Wishkah river are said to be infested wn»n she thought she heard a window by a large number of big gray wolves. raised in one of the side room«, dow n The high price of wheat is enabling stairs. and, rushing down, »hi opened many farmers to pay eff their mortgage a door just in tim e to see a man, who indebtedness, and as a result releases was half-m -ide an open window, m ate are being tlrd in unprecedented num a hurried exit. ber w ith the county auditor of Colfax The street door was near at hand, county. and Mr». Liddy, who is a muscular The total receipts of the second an woman, ran out joat in tim e to see the nual exhibition of the W aehingt-n thief running up the street The state fair, held at N?rth Yakima, from woman ran after him and caught him. bpetember 23 to October 3, 1896, were “ What d'yer want?” exclaimed tne <3 943.95; the disbursements w»re thief, at tbe same tim e trying to break <3,922.10, leaving <21.85 cash on hand. away from tbe woman, who bad hold The W aterville Big Bead Empire of his oollar. “ I want you ,” answered says: “ Evidently there is more likely Mrs Liddy, as she took a firmer hold to be a deficiency than a surplus of and began walking her prisoner back wheat in Douglas county next spting, to tbe bouse. A wetnan in the house telephoned and the m ills may find difficulty in ob taining tbe necessary supply. There is tbe police stition . and when the patrol good reasc u to lock for fair prices all wagon am ved , Mrs. Liddy turned her prisoner over to Officer Nicolai. of next year.” Mra. Rose Zettler, of Tacoma, con victed in the Pierce coouty superior court of ¿he crime of grand larceny and sentenced to IS months iu tbe peniten tiary at hard labor, w ill have to seive her term, the supreme court hav>ng affirmed the decision of the superior court for refuting a new tiral The Ellensburg creamery, from Feb ruary 1, 1896, to October 30, 1S96, ran 274 days; the milk of 600 cows was need end 1,713,700 p ou n is of milk were worked; 21,280 pounds of cream were bougnt, aud 76.631 pounds of but ter made; the average price a pound for butter was 20 ’4 cents, and for butter fat 3 cents. Customers were charged 3 l3 cents a pound for m akirg butter. Official returns from all ccuuties ex cept Skamania, show the vota ou presi dential electors in W ashington to have been: McKinley. 39,122; Bryan 61.- 647; Palmer, 1.450; Levering, 733. Bryan’s plurality, 12.663. Corrected n turns show the staudiug of the legis- laturetobe: Stnate, Republican!-', 13; opposition, 21; h< m e. Republicans, 13. opposition, 61; with oue district a tie Oue day last week, as the P u t Townsend Southern express wa« h« a«l ing toward Port Tow usend a fire was noticed iu the re-id»nee of Georg» Cooper of Lelaud. The train was stopped and all hands including half a duzen passengers w» re soon at the scene extinguishing the blaze which at the tim e was gaiuiug much headway. The fire originated from a defe«’tive flue. A large portion of the roof of the d w e ll ing was destroyed. The damage amounted to about <100. No insurance was carried. “ Bud” Sm ith, a half breed of Chop valley brought to Tacoma Inst we»k five deer, which he saya he shot iu oue band. He used a single shot non repeating W inchester rifle. He found tbe deer lying down aud, as they did uot see him, he dropped them oue niter another. It is a fact, says the Ledger, that fn q u eu tly a band of deer or antelope can all lie killed before running away if found lying down or qnietly feeding, providing the hunter keo?s out of sight. After each killin g the ■ then» seem to l-ect-me so excited and ‘»-wilderei that they only circle aroun their dead companions. TRAVELS OF HNMAN. F o u g h t a P it c h e d B a t t l e In a C a l i f o r n i a T n. jw A ngel's Camp, Cal . Dec. 7 — A pit ched battle was f- ught en the streets ot A ngel’s Camp this evening betwt-en tw o officers and Robert Hinman, the desperado who is wanted at R«weburg, Or., for breaking j»il aud shooting a deputy sheriff. Before the constable had an opportunity to prepare for H in man's arrt'.-t, be broke away and ran op the 6treet, which was fu ll cf people. The officers followed him, firing at ev ery step. Hinman turned and took a shot at each of his pursuers, but w ith out effect. The officers’ am munition was fiually exhausted, and they were obliged to give up the pursuit, w hile their man disappeared iu the darkness. A posse was org mi zed and sent in pur suit, but up to a late hour he had not be» n found. It is thought by the offi- cers that he was hit by one of the shots. Spain has fewer daily papers than any other European country, aud four- fifths of those she has, are owned and edited by Hebrews. B u r u e d l»> W ashington, Dec. 7 — A special d is patch received at the war department saya the n sid e u c e o f Chaplain M. C. Blaine, at E'ort Ringgold, Tex., burned this morning, and Blaiue and his (laughter were burned to death. Mrs. Blaine escaped. The chaplain went upstairs to save his daughter. M. Moreau, the em inent French sci entist, says that p»'rsist,ut dreaming is oue of t'le most invariable symptoms of m sauitv. A l» e -p .» n « » e n t S a r r a m r n t o G i r l . Sacramento. D»xj 7.—A young worn in named N ellie Heath, the daughter jf a jew ler iu this city, committed »uicide this evening, having shot her- telf iu the left breast, aud expired a few minutes later. She was 18 years old. It is believed the girl had grown despondent over her criopled condition. Logan, Utah, Deo 7. — Hyrum Jep pesen, James Christiausou, sr., and his son James were buried in a snowshde yesterday afternoon iu Logan canyon. Jeppesen fiually extricated him self, but the father and son were both killed.