The People's republic., January 13, 1899, Image 1

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C'e»|latrllui« o f I I im b im F r« m
i n •ruu I'r . i . i i l . i l
I n n ( ' u m <I* h . « 4
F ufm .
(Senator Halo has I won iciiruiiinxted
liy the Mutuo Republican».
• Inn. Jtieoph I!. Choate w ill I ni our
Host ambassador to (b e a t III Hain.
Dr. II. Howard Webb, president of
(ho Wagner I ’alac«« Car Company, la
mentioned aa sonoeaanr lo Kcnalor Mor*
l i l i aa senator from Vermont.
Tim Ihal formal «tata dinner nf lha
awaaon look plaoe at Ilia W h ite House
Thursday. when I'reaident and Mra.
M cK inley ait t ír tatuad Iba u i e ui bar a of
tlm cabinet.
A sensation baa boon created in (lar*
many by ilia publication In a Cologne
|>a|M*r ol an allngrd conversation bad
w ith (lie late P rin t» Hisniaiek, In
wbiob ba predicted tba fall of the Aus-
tria n am piro.
An American named Boynton, who
la trying Io travel around the aarlb
w ithout money, umt with a terrible fall
into a o I innui w hile entering Franca by
night through the Pyienoua. lie waa
seriously injured.
Another dtaagracahle onrisnqnrnre of
tlm lata war hue Iteen pístente»! to the
government of clalma from the cable
«<>m pan tea
for
damages sustained
through tlm aueiwnaton of th e ir bual*
tiesa by tlm United Htataa m ilita ry and
naval forcea. Tim aggregate amount
of tbaae claims cannot bo foretold.
Repreacutatlve Tongue, of (begun.
1ms prepared an amendment tu the b ill
for codllh atlon of tlm law a of Alaaka,
now pending in the bonae, providing
for the licensing of main huainaaa con­
ocí ns in the territory, and eapeciully
tlm liquor buaiueva.
M r. Tongue says
that the Treadw ell uilues do«» not pay
anything In «ha way of laxaa to the sup­
port ol tlm territo ria l inatituliona, and
that from tlm legion eiirruuinltng Jo*
n e u u about 94,000,000 in gold ta pro­
duced annually, and «luce not contribute
a cent to the government.
LATER
Sebastian
Bach M ills , the w ell-
known composer and pianist, died in
Wiesbaden, Germ any, n g e d «10 yours.
Tho pruilm inary report of tho Nica
ragua canal commission shows that it
w ill require about flUfi.OOO.OOO to
build the canal.
Encouraging reports of the condition
cl affairs in M anila and Porto Kino
readied the war department from the
/officers commanding the troops in those
¡departments.
HONORS
NEW S.
T lm F a rm e rs ' hank of Inw ood , < !» .,
was entered by burglars, who arcund
f 3 d , iioo and esrapo<|.
The ruvagea of grip SOMME Hm mom*
I mus of tlm national house and senate
may ooui|iel an extra sossinu ol oon*
ir s s .
A disastrous (n ig h t wreck occurred
>m Site Wabash, at B elleville, Mich,
Tlm hwa on rolling stock is estimstisl
at 9 8 0 ,0 0 0 , w ith 9*1.000 lo»s 02 a store*
house.
T hirteen persons were killed ami
from 80 to 48 Injured in a railway col­
lision near Bound Brook, N. J. There
waa a Imad-end colliaion ladween a
local traiu and tlm Black Diamond ex­
press.
President Alonso's ad vanes guard is
w ith in six leagues ol l.a Pas, capital
of the republic of B olivia. It is lik e ly
a decisive battle w ill la« fought Boon
between the government troops and
tlm rebels who now hold lire capital.
I t is pro|Mrs««l that a memorial he
erected at M anilu to tho memory of all
Americana who fell In tiro capture or
died of disease during lira campaign.
The proptiaal is that all AtnericMins now
r«*sidcnt In tlm Far Bast, of whom
there Is a very considcralde nurulair,
•houl I I» invited to contribute toward
thio ohJecL
F .lip ln o committees have made a
form al proteat, and President M c K in ­
ley has lx*en warned from Patio, M adrid
and London not to attem pt to take
forcible poesMsion of Ilo I Io.
The
ground is taken that tlm American
claim
nf s«ivereignty is premature,
and that the United Hl ale« is not the
IMisaessor of tlm Philippines u n til the
peace treaty is ratified. The F ilip in o
agent at Hong Kong says a light w ith
the Americans at Ilo I l o ia unavoida­
ble, but little apparent uneasiness is
felt at Waaidngton.
The Cincinnati Express Gax«itt<) has
collected .lata anent tire operations of
Irainvobbers during tlm past year. Tiie
effect of federal Juried lotion upon train
rolrneiies is evidenced in Mexico. Dur­
ing the past year there was not even
att attem pt at train robliery in the sis*
ter republic. The crime is punishable
there w ith instant death. Tim record
for 1898 is as follows: Numlter of
train liuld-npe, 38; tiuiulier of stage
robberies, 7; number <>f |uiasengers and
train men shirt, 4; number of robbers
killed, 8; number of robbers shot, 6.
Captain It. It. Hhaw and tire crew of
the B ritish hark O le s Huntley, long
The Havana aftermxm |>apera sent a given up for lost, are alive and w ell,
tin ill through the city w ith a report and on their way to Liver|>ool. They
that a ’ »oture and elocution chainIwr abandoned the Glen Huntley in a tierce
liad lie e ti found at Iho rnaidence of the gale June 4, 1HUH. Fur 104 days the
Hpiiuieii m ilita ry governor, adjoining 11 sailors lived on Tristan d ’ Aounhn
tlm palace. Tim papera declare«« I that isle, more than 1,800 milea south by
there the Hpanialt official« questioned west ol tlm ('ape of Good II«»;», They
and murder.•«, political prisoners. A c­ misdated on |>engidn eggs ami tlm ffcslr
cording io tiieir accounts, tlm floor of of sen eagles and shared with 73 white
the ehamher waa covered w ith drh«d inhabitants tho scanty stock of provi­
blond, and Ils walla were indented w ith sions that tho captain of a passing ves­
machete strokes. A n excited crowd sel had given them.
•«am gathered outside the house which
A t a tire which broke out In the H o­
was last oeeapied by General Pairado. tel Kiclmiieu, at Pittsburg, Pa., throe
General Maxim o Guinea, from his guests lost their lives and five people
ram p, 200 miles westward, near N e r­ were badly hurt.
eis«», has issued a proclamation to the
Colonel Potter, special emissary of
Cuban army advising against disband­ General Otis to llu Ilo, repnrta that the
ing u n til the proceedings at Washing* rebela threaten to burn the town tl the
t<ni regarding the pay of the insurgent Americans hour bard tlm place.
troops have been completed.
Governor Lee«1y, of Kansas, has oom-
ily tlm purchase of a large block nf muted the sentence of J, It. (kilean,
stock of tlm t ’albarien railw ay, in Cutía, who, w hile casldei of tiie Hate hank, of
I« Huis A Co., bankers, representing Fort Hcott, in 1898, stole 983,000 of its
English capilaliata, have scoured a oon- funds.
tro llin g Interest in that line.
The
Four dead, two injured, one of these
aame men have also Ixxui laige pur*
chasers of tlm stocks of Hagiiaand Cion- perhaps fatally, and the loss of proper­
ty of tlm Southern railw ay to the
fnegoa oom pan lee.
amount of about 938,000, ia the result
Tlm m onthly treasury statement of of a wreck which oocnried at Knox­
tlm public debt siniwa that at the close v ille, Tenn.
of business, December 81, the debt,
A heavy wind storm swept over the
leas cash in the tieasnry, amounted to
91,139, 176,280, an increase daring the remote section of Scott county. A rk.
mouth of 91.792,799. This increase A t Ihdee, a school hone«» was blown
is dim to tlm delivery of 8 per cent down ami three pupils were kill«*d, an­
bonds of tlm new issue, previously |uiid other was fatally wounded, and a doaen
or more snalninc«l more or h'os injuries.
for.
A t Evansville, In«).. M inot G arrett,
A tremendous landslide nooorre«l near
E lg a r Gardner, E lija h Hoott, Frank Spenoe'e Bridge, on tbo Canadian P a­
C u rl and W illia m M oiris, Ixiys ranging cific railroad. A mountain which has
in age from 10 to 13 years, were given long been an object of curiosity to
a puliliu whipping in the polite court trav«ders crashed Into the Fraser river,
for stealing sume old wash boilers. dam ming it completely, and sending
T h e ir parents were given tho option by tho water in torrents over the fertile
J migo W in frey nf whipping the boys or Nicola valley. Tho course of the river
having them sent to the reform school. was changed oompletely.
Governor Itoosnvelt, G reater New
Aooordlng to late advioos from D aw ­
Y o rk ’s new exeuotive, has oatalblshod son, the Unit«*! States government w ill
a code of ruhw to govern Ilia conaitlere- lx« called upon to relieve Indigent m in ­
tioii and determ ination of applications er« in the Klondike.
The Dawson
for pardons ami commutations of am* Nugget saya there ia a strong move­
tenca.
lie w ill not exercise executive ment on f«e»t at Dnwaon to send a rep­
nleinciicy in hel.alf of a man who hna resentative to Washington for the pnr-
b um convicted of murdering or abusing pose of enlisting the United States
Ilia wife, nor w ill he panton any hab­
government in tho cause of aiding in
itual c rim inal.
His mercy w ill I» remedying the great distress which
shown only to those whose sentenoe prevails among tiie miners of tho Y u ­
seems to have been severe or whoso
kon,
oom mission of a oriino was the result
A t the annual convention of the
of iuflucnoe.
and
A most rem arkable wedding has Hiotlierhood of Steam Shovel
taken place at the village of T ra il, (>., Dredge Engineers and Cranesmen of
four h io th e is being married to four sis­ Am erica, held in Chiosgn, resolutions
ters. The four knots were tied nt the were adopted, urging congress to pass
homo nf the brides, who are tho daugh­ tho Nicaiagna canal h ill and also that
ters of a far mor named Janies Hooli- a law should he passed making eight
stcttcr. T heir ages range from 18 to hours a day’s work on said canal. Res­
28, ami tlm ages of their respeetive olutions were also passed urging con«
husnbnds vaiv only slightly.
The gress to pass tlm rivar ami harbor b ill
grooms are four sons of John Hummers. at tlm pr«*aent session of congress, ('on-
The oeremony of mnrying the four gress was also urged to create a labor
couples iNioiipied n I most an hour, the commission of three union men to see
same nlergyman |ierformitig a ll. Tlm that the laws in tho interest of work­
four brothers and their wives w ill live ingmen wore enforced on all govern­
ment work.
w ith in a stone's throw of each other.
SI le e r ftetva I te m s.
C O U N T Y , OKKUON, F R ID A Y , J A N U A R Y
Mrs. John (¿nark, nged 100 years,
died at Iter home near Galena, HI.
Lieutenant Commander Sumner G.
Payne, U nited States navy, rotirotl,
died in Ashville, N. C.
James McDonald, ngod 109, a resi­
dent of ('hip|M*wa Falla, W is,, «lied at
St. Joaepli'a hospital, M ilw aukee,
A Pittsburg company has reeoivod a
-ontract from the United States govern­
ment to re-equip Morro uaatle in H a v ­
ana.
TO
A DEAD
13,
1899.
S O L D IE R .
Ssrvle«»» w« MV Iho K o m a ln s n f C w la n a l
Slav b ry .
New York, Jan. 10.— A Herald dis­
patch from Havana says: Tbe tsxly of
Uolenel M aybry, of tiie First Texas,
rested in state in a tent near I»e*s
lieadquaiters at Buena Vista on Thurs­
day. Short services were held at B
•/clock by Chaplain Watson, Generals
I» e , K eifer and Hasbrouck being pres­
ent. The body was brought to Havana,
being escorted to the Almandarea river
by his entire regiment. I t w ill go to
M iam i on Friday to be forwarded to
Texas.
A djutant-G eneral Dnrst, of the F ifth
Ben 0 . W o n lo y, of Astoria, Elected The Selection of Clerks and Other savalry, is c ritic ally ill w ith m alarial
fever.
Employes Occupies the Tim e
S ecgeant-at-A rm s of the H om e
Lee's former forces are heing lessened
at O lym pia— E. H. Guie
— Two Minor Resolu­
day by day. Four
companies now
doing provost duty in the suburbs have
Chosen Speaker.
tions Passed.
Iteen detache«! from his command and
Salam, Jan. 10.— Both honxea of the
O lym pia, Jan. 10.— L io u te n a n t^ o v - ordered to report to General Ludlow.
When tbe American occupation took
logislatiVA asoomhly convcnml at tlm ornor Thurston Daniels callwl the M-n- place tiie members of a lottery company
sppoint«*d tim e, hut bnyoud «nganixing ate to order at 13:80 P. M . The lobby that was famous a few years ago in a
litliw waa done. The houao up,*in aouie waa crowdod, ami unusual interest was Hon then city made an attem pt to secure
tim e in electing a aergeaut at-arms, manifested in the protwhle organiza- a concession here. Local papers hare
and tlmn |Htsaed a couple of resolutions tion under fusion or Kepuhlicancon- apparently >«een subsidised, hut G en­
Tim senate was called to order at 10 trol.
Tire lieutenant governor gave eral Brooke declares that so long as the
o'clock by President T aylo r. T he roll- way. w ithout making any remarks, to American occupation lusts lotteries w ill
call showed all preuutit hut three.
Secretary of State W ill D. Jenkins, be barred.
The resolution (or a Joint com mittee who read the official roster of those eu-
Smallpox has become epidemic at
to confer w ith a commit!«» from the title<l
to seats.
Strerctary Dudley M ariana, and General Lee lias ordered
Washington legislature relative to de- Kslmlriian called the roll. A ll were a number of infected bouses burned.
vising a Joint regulation for (hiring in present. Judge Anders, of the state F ranklin Koott, a private of tbe One
the Columbia river, was referrwJ to supreme court, administered the formal Hundred and Sixty-first Indiana, has
tlm oommitt«» on fishing industries
' oath.
tbe sinall(iox. Two hundred and fifty
K elly's resolution for IB commit!«»
On motion nf Senator M ille r, of nanigoes arrived on Thursday on tbe
clerks for the senate, to 1» under the Thurston county, secondml by Plum m er trans|>ort Covedonga, and were turned
control of the sergeant-at-arms, went of Spokane, and (kite of Pierce, a il fu- loose in a bodv.
sioniata, the rule« of the last senate
to the committee on education.
S A N T IA G O 'S
TRADE.
Cameron's resolution for tiie secre­ were adopted tera|M>rarily.
On motion ef K eitli ol Pierce, fu­
tary of state to provide |4 worth of
postage stamps and 9 1 worth of news­ sion ist. the roll waa called on the elec­ O r n e r a l W * » < t*a R e p o r t S h o w « I t 1« on
t h e iM c re N a e .
paper wrappers was adopted, after tion of as4«cretary, ami Dudley Ealiel-
Washington,
Jan. 10.— The trade ol
man,
of
Taooma.
a
Democrat,
secretary
Helling hud made an unsncceesfuul a t­
of the last senate, was unanimously Santiago is already showing a surpris­
tempt to out tlm stamps down to 93.
Other officers
selected ing gtowlh under Am erican adm inis­
Tlm ruhw of the s|>eolal session were re elect«*!.
adopted for the senate, alter which an tiiinnniinously were: Assistant Secre­ tration. General Wood has subuiitte«l
tary lle rltc rl de Wolfe, Republican, of a report to the war department, in
adjournm ent was taken.
Ta«*oma;
sergeant at-arms,
Bdward which he states that the policy ol non-
T h e I»»» In lh a lln u s e .
Wheeler, Republican, of Seat tie; as­ discrim inative interoonreo extended to
The house was called to order at sistant sergeant-at-arms, Ix«e Sm ith, the vessels of a ll nations in Santiago
10:30,w itli K|>eaker Carter in tho chair. (us ion ist, of Fremont, King county; province has greatly facilitated the re­
Tim roll-call allowed a quotum present. m inute clerk, M. J. McGinnin, fusion- establishment of commercial relations
and lias been one of tiie chief features
Bit members answering to tneir names. ist, of Snohomish county.
On motion of McKeavy, the further in the restoration of comparative proe-
On motion of Moody of M ultuoniah,
' Ri»ak«r Carter was declared speaker election of officers was imstponed, ami tx»rity in commerce, industry and agri­
for this session, some doubts having on motion of K eith, the election of culture.
Outward cargoes of sugar and o ther
np.
Iteen expressed as to tlm legality of president pro tern was taken
tlm continuance of llid s|»cial session K eith pluced High of C lark, iu nomina­ products are being graudallv found for
organisation. Seaker Carter express«nl tion, and . Preston of King, named shipping, hut exportations from tiie
I bis giatiiide in a few remarks.
M egler nf W ahkiakum . T h : vote was: mines of the province have contributed
The election of Carter was followed Megler (Republican), 14; High (fusion« the hulk of the exports.
. “ The fa c t,’ ’ saya General Wood,
by a resolution ofhrreil by C u itis of ist), 17; M ille r (Democrat), of W alla
I Clatsop, continuing in office the otimi W alla, I; one blank (H ig h ); one a I went “ that the mines were put into opera­
Ilig b was declared electe«!. tion at an early date after the capitula­
officers of the house, clerks, etc., ex- (B aum ).
oept the sergeant-at-arms. The resolu­ M egler voted for M ille r. W illis Rand tion of Santiago was im portant in
tion was adopted by a vote of 4U to 0. and Raleigh George, of O lym pia, were that the employment of large numbers
of natives «luring a c ritic al period was
The motion of Ke«*der, of U m a tilla , elw ted pag«Mk
K e ith , Plum and Warburton were stimulate«! by tbe facilities for ship­
that the house prooeed w ith tlm elec­
tion of a sergeant at-ainia was amended app«>int<*l a committee to notify the ping ores.’ *
Tiie div-.sion " f customs and insular
by W halley of M ultnom ah, to enable house ami Governor Rogers that the
affairs of the w ar departm ent ban re­
the Republican meralxus to hold a cau­ seuule had organised.
ceive«! from tiie coll««ctor of cm toms at
cus. A recess was therefore taken for
T h e II o u a e O r g a n l i e s .
Huvana, Colonel Lasker H . Bliss, un­
h alf an hour, but a full hour elapsed
O lym p ia, Jan. 10.— C. E. C line, ex-
before tlm caucus adjourned ami an- Bp<«aker of the house, call«*l the session der date of D<x-einbur 29, 1898, his re­
n<iun<wd its choice. Tlm plum fell to to order at 13:18, ami announce«I port.
Colonel Bliss says that the first seri­
Ben S. Worsley, of Astoria.
piayer by Rev. A. G. Sawin, pastor of
ous embarrassment he met with on tak ­
A house ooncurrent resolution was tiie O lym pia Baptist cliuich.
ing charge of the custom-house at H a ­
then introduced providing for tho ap-
J. M . Page, assistant clerk of tho
pointment of a oommiltea of three of last house, read the list of nmiiitiers vana was caus«Hl by the fact that the
tlm iio.ise and two of the senate to ex­ oertili«*! to the house by the s»s*retary Spaniards had removed nearly every­
amine tho books and accounts of tiie of state. C. E. Boyce, of King, was thing except tiie hare walls and floors,
is first official step was to obtain a fu ll
state tri-usurer.
absent, ami was reported dangerously
Representative Myers introduced a ill at his home. A ll other members list of employes in the custom-house,
their salaries and n ation ality, and next
house ooncurrent i.wohition providing were pr«*eent.
information as to their general charac­
for tho apnointment of a oom iu it tee of
A cting Speaker C line appointe«l a
three of the house and two of tiie sen­ com mittee of thr««e to escoit C hief Jus­ ter an,I reputation (or integrity.
Colonel Bliss says that, aa was to be
ate to m«ret with a like committee to lie tice Gordon into the bar of the house.
appointed by the legislative assembly Tiie hitter at once administered the ex;>ecte«l, the several places in the cos-
t«.m house when he assumed «barge
of Washington to investigate the nee«ls owtli of office,
of further legislation for the protection
Tl,o speaker announced that nomina- were ohiefly held hv Spaniards, the to­
The
o f li» h iu the Colum bia river,
tiona of candidatea
for teiii|sirary tal number employe«! being 339.
The afternoon session of tlm lions«« s,w«ak r were in order, and rtoognised problem that confronts him , he say6,
o|»ned w ith a resolution by Myers that
p ave( of Whatcom, who an- is how to repair a house from founda­
tlm clergymen of the oity be invited to nouncei it as the wish of the caucus tion to roo( without a material disturb­
o|s»n tire sessions w ith prayer.
that the a|»aker be elected as a porma* ance of it occupants and w ith o u t in -
Topping of Coos, offered a concur-| „ent officer. He nominated E. I I . , terfering w ith their d aily business.
Under this condition, lie remarks, lie
rent resolution providing for the ap­ G uie in a stirring sp««ecli.
cannot of course begin by tearing the
pointm ent of a committee of throe, one
Judge C alvert se<*ondod the nomina­
from the house and two from the sen­ tion, ami moved that the secietary cast house down.
ate, to examine tho IxMiks of th«t secre­ the unanimous vote for M r. G uie; sec­
P ilg r im a g e Kn«le«t In R io t.
tary of state ami report w ith in IB days. onded also by Jodge M cDtinald, of tho
Paris, Jan. 10.— T iie socialist annual*
W illiam son of Cronk was then given opposition. I t was ordered, and Repre­ pilgrimage today to the tomb of Blan-
permission to submit a re|»ort of the sentative Bellows, of C la ik ; Pender- qui, in the cemetery of Pere la Chaise,
s|»cial committee on clerkship abuses, ga«t, of Douglas, and Mount, of Spo­ le«l to riots between rival partisans of
which upon being read led to tho first kane, were appointed by the chair to Henri Rochefort, editor of the Intrans-
conflict of the seeelon. T he nwolution escort the new sixxiker to the chair. igennt, and M. Juaies, e«litor of the
provides for swc«>ping reductions in the M r. C line referre«! to the newly el«a*ted Socialiat Petite Repnhlique.
Many
number of clerks, and is the same one speaker as one of tho ablest and best were injured, amt the police made a
that was burieil by the senate. Sev­ members of the last legislature.
number of arrests. The wreath intend­
eral motions to refer were lost, and the
Speaker G uie, in-assuming theo hair, ed for the tomb whs trampled upon.
repot t was adopted.
s,x»ke briefly hut pointedly upon the
l ii a u r g e n t « K e a p o r t E u r o p e a n « .
Follow ing art« tho officers of the events of the past two years, dtxdarcd
Madri«l, Jan. 10.— A«lvices were re
bous«« of representatives: Speaker. K ¡ ¡t the duty of the legisliiture to disixise
<*eive«l here to«,ay from a lending m er­
V. ('s ite r, of Ashiam l; chief clerk, A . prom ptly of the senatorial election,
chant nt Ilo Ho. to the effect that agri­
C.
Jennings, nf Albany; assistant prom i sot I fairness and im p a rtia lity ,
cultural operations in the vicinity of
clerk, A. V . It. Hnyder, of M cM in n ­ then proclaimed hia readiness to take
Ilo Ilo have not been interrupted, and
v ille; rending clerk, Frank M olter, of the oath, which was administered by
that all the insurgents respect the Eu-
Portland; calendar clerk, D. B. M ackie, C hief Justice J. Gordon.
lopcans, both at Ilo llo and on the
of Portland; a*«rgcant-at-arnis, B. H.
W. F. D illon, ol Cowlitx, was unani­ island of Negros.
Woraley, of Astoria; doorkeeper, M. mously elected chief clerk.
P reaon t K e le a a e <»f P r is o n e r « .
P. lsenlx«rg, of The
Dall««e; pages,
The rules of the house of 1897 were
Madrid, Jan. 10.— Rio«, the Spanish
Rolx«rt Duncan and Charles Lane, and adopted, u n til the committee on rules
commander, telegiaphs from M anila
Frank Swope, of Porltuud.
can report.
Theeae are the ofllceia of the senate
(fin e r officers elected were: Post­ that strained relations between the
this afternoon:
master. A . B. Peasley, of Okanogan; Americans ami insurgents prevent steps
Preeident, I. C. Talyor; chief clerk, nssirtnnt, E. K. H a ll, of Htevens; Ixiing taken in fuvor of tho release of
H. L . Morehead, nf Junction C itv; pages, Fred M itsner, Esterly Rinehart, the Spanish prisoners in the P h ilipp ine
nsaistant clerk, J. Fred Yates, of Oor- Morris Tw«x»d, of Thurston, and Ray islanda. Ho adds that he w ill act in
that direction as s«xm as it is possible.
vallis; resiling clerk, J. D. Leo, of Davidson, speaker's page, of Seattle
Both Branches at Salem Re- Members o f Both Branches
at Olym pia Are Induct­
tain the Organization of
ed Into Office.
Special Session.
BUT
LITTLE
BUSINESS
IS
TRANSACTED
Portland; calendar clerk, F. 0 . M id ­
A leaolatinn commending President
dleton, of Portland; sergeant-at-arms, M c K In le v ’a war policy, as well as hia
Joseph ri. Purdom, of G rant's Pass; pence policy, by Judge Calvert, of
m ailing clerk, 11. II. Hum phrey, of Sa­ Whatcwm, was unanimously adopted.
lem; doorkeeper, W . W . S m ith , ol
Messrs. Wicker sham, McDonald ami
Clackamas.
Falknor were appointed a committee to
Horgeant-at-Arms Purdom, of the notify the governor of the organisation
senate, this
morning
presented to |o( the house and its readiness to receive
President Talyor a fine gavel, made of any communication lie may have to
Josephine county nianannita.
The im part.
old gav««l was never ornam ental, and
IVsnth o f a F ainnn« R e tlr ln g e r .
it had become innoh frayed by long use.
Notw York, Jan. 11.— The death ia
B ills were intnxluoed in tbo house as
announced in Br«x»klyn of W illia m
follow«:
Peake, tho famous belliingor, aged 94
Hawson of G illia m , providing for
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the sinking of artesian wells m arid | years.
lands.
Rol«t lln n k R u b b e r y .
Mcxxly of M ultnom ah, increasing the
Asliburnhnfii, Mass., Jan. 11.— D u r­
nninber of justices of the supremo ing the night robbers blew o|x’ii the
court by two, and providing for the safe of the F irst National hank, secur­
appointm ent of the same u n til the gen­ ing between 9 1.800 an«l 93.000, and es­
eral election in 1900.
caping. The building was damaged
McQueen of Lane, fixing the lia b ility to the extent o f 9‘J.OOO by a heavy
of common c rrileis .
charge ol dynamite.
I m m 'g r n t l u n a t a « n F r a a e l i « « .
Han Francisoo, Jan. 10.-—The report
of the im m igration commisshui for
I December shows that the total im n ii-
(ra tio n into the p«»rt of San Francisco
was 420 persons, of whom 93 were fe-
males.
Thera were 149 Japanese.
’ Twelve assured Japanese were deport
e«l, and 37 others were not adm itted
who coulil neither read nor w rite.
I le e u r r t C a ie b o f H a l i b u t .
Vancouver, B. C ., Jan. 9.— W ith her
rigging and decks covered with ice, the
steamer New England arrive«, in port
early this morning w ith a record catch
at the halibut hanks off Queen Char­
lotte islands. The steamer had 180,-
000 pounds of fish. During the three
months the New England has been en­
gaged this season she has brought to
port 600,000 pounds of h a lib u t
Medicine was tiie first profession to
which women were adm itted in Russia.
NO. 3ft.
CLOUDS OVER AFRICA
NO
A P P R O P R IA T IO N .
a e t l- C I v ll B er v le e R efo rm er« V lr lo r lo u s
I n th e M ouse.
Washington, Jan. 9 .— The a n ti-c iv il
service reformers scored a victory in
tbe house Uxlsy. The executive legis­
lative and ju d ic ial appropriation b ill
was taken up (or consideration, and
then, when tiie appropriation (or tbe
TH IN DERER’« FIERY LANGUAGE c iv il service commission was leached,
Evans made a motion to strike It onL
This motion has been made annually
for a doxen years or more, hut in v a ri­
Cromar*« P ia la W ord s a t R k k r t a a a -
ably failed. But today the opponents
K b o d ea P lan « a Capa T o w a -
of the law laid great stress on the fact
C alro K a llr o a d .
that they oould not get a decisive vote
opon tiie proposition, and were there­
London, Jan. 10.— A ll «vents seem fore compelled to seek its nullification
to work together in European politics in thia manner. Even these appeals
to increase the tension between G reat failed to bring out tiie full strength ot
Britain and Fiance. The past week the opposition, though the motion to
has brought Madagascar and Egypt for­ strike ont carried by a narrow margin,
ward as in ita n ts just when tbe mutual 67 to 61. Thie waa in committee ot
irrita b ility waa subsiding. Even the tiie whole, where no record waa made
moat conseivative observers begin to of tiie vote. M«xxly gave notice that
take a pessimistic view of the relations lie would demand a record vote in the
between the two powers. This in- house, where tiie friends of tiie civ il
dudes those who up to the present have service law ex|x»ct to reverse the deci­
>onsideied tiie belligerency to be due to sion.
wpersensitiveneas upon the part of
When the senate convene«! trxlay tbe
France and to the unnecessary gruff-
neas upon the part of Great B ritain in resolution offered yesterday by Hoar,
insisting on what she considers to be calling on tbe preshlent for inform ation
as to the instructions to the coinraii-
her right«.
The past 24 hours brought the pub­ sionern who negotiated tiie treaty of
lication of Madagascar blue book,which Paris, together w ith ail correspondence
was followe«! by a leading editorial in ami reports relating to their work, waa
laid before the senate.
Chairm an
the Times denouncing Fiance in lan
guage so fiery for that conseivative Davis, one of tbe commissioner«, asked
newspaper that Frenchmen are resiling that it be referred to the foreign rela­
the two together and are construing tions committee, but Hoar insisted
them as parts of a deliberate policy in ­ that the senate had as much rig ht to
spired by one mind. T h a t m ind, in such information aa the members of
the theory of the man in the streets, the foreign relations committee, and
is Joseph Cham berlain, the secretary that the president should determ ine
of state for oolonies.
Other paper« whether the senate should have it.
may storm and scold and not be no­ The resolution was adopt««] in secret
ticed, but when the Times becomes session. In support of the resolution
abusive, foreigners interpret it as being offered some tim e ago by Vest, in oppo­
the voice of the government. In the sition to expansion, Callery delivered
pretent instance, some Englishmen an extended Bpet*ch.
A t the oonclusion of Caffery’s argu­
w ill place the same construction upon
its utterances, recalling how the Times ment, Morgan announced, on behalf
led the “ no surtender’ ’ cry over the of the Nicaragua canal committee, the
Fashoda incident, under evident in­ acceptance in modifie«! form of the
nmemlmenta offered by Berry before
spiration.
One fact is certain, pnblic opinion the holidays to tiie pending canal h ill.
in Great B ritain w ill not sanction the The am*uidmenta were not paxaed upon
government to swerve an inch to avoid by the aenate.
Tension B etw een England
and France Increased.
war w ith France, thinking that if it
M IS S IO N A R Y
O UTRAG E.
must oouie this ia the best tim e to have
it out.
C a th o lic P rt««t B r u t a lly T r e a te d la a
M any poopie give importance to the
C h in e s e T illa g e .
issuing of the Madagascar blue book
Berlin,Jan. 9. — Letters received here
almost simultaneously w ith the quiet from Kiao Chou, the German fortified
hut unmistakable announcement at sstlement in the province of Shang
Khartoum by the British agent there, Tung, China, give details of an outrage
Viscount Cromer, in hia remarks to the upon Father Stenx, the German C ath­
ehiekhs, that Great B ritain has set her olic missionary, November 9 last. T iie
seal upon Egypt. If there waa a doubt missionary was about to leave T ie-Tati,
in the minds of her European rivals province of Shang Tung, owing to the
that G reat B rita in intended to fore­ anti-Christian feeling. Finding h im ­
close the mortgage upon which she has self confronted by crowds of Chinese
expended so much labor and blood to who were clamoring for the destruction
secure, it must have been set at rest by of the Christians, he took refuge in a
the utterances of Lord Croni«r, in hut, but he waa dragge«i out, his cloth­
wjiich the word “ protectorate" was ing torn from hia hack, and he was
w ritten in large letters, though tbe struck w ith sticks and pricked w ith
government’s mouthpiece carefully ab­ knives and lan«»s and his beard torn
stained from using that incendiary o u t The Chinese threatened to flay
word. A more definite notice that him alive. The follow ing day, hia
Great B rita in ’s tenure of Egypt is per­ persecutors prepared to hang him by
manent could not be asked.
the wrists. F in a lly , a mandarin in ­
In the meantime an enterprise of the terfere«! in hi« behalf, but compelle«!
utmost moment in the furtherance of him to leave the distriot w ith a prom­
Great B rita in ’s domination in Africa is ise never to return.
atxiut to be consummated.
Cecil
D a v l« In San F r a n c la c o .
Rhodes, the ex-premier and alleged in ­
San Francisco, Jan. 9.— The United
stigator of the Jameson raid, and the
so-called “ Napoleon of Sooth A fric a ," States torpe«lo-boat Davis arrived today
is going to England to arrange for from Astoria, via Tillam ook, and after
pushing forward the Cape Town-Cairo taking on coal proceeded to M are isl­
railroad, so long the dearest dream of and. She proved to be a good sea boat,
im perialists.
A definite proposition but owing to the heavy weather along
w ill be presented by M r. Rhodes to the coast she did not attem pt • greater
London capitalists for an extension of speed than six or eight knot«.
The Davia crossed out of the Colum­
the railroad from Buluwayo to Lake
Tanganika. He does not pretend il bia about two weeks ago, but pnt into
w ill be a paying investment from the Tillam ook to -«scape a storm.remaining
start. Its importance for some years there u n til Wednesday morning, when
w ill be political instead ot commercial, she again headed south. She was in
and he hopes to persuade tiie British oommand of Captain Thomas F . N e ill,
government to smooth the way bv and A rth u r Zwicker and J. E. W olff,
guaranteeing 3 ({ per cent interest on of the firm which b u ilt the vessel, were
the bonds to cover the cost of construc­ in charge of the engine and boiler-
tion. But one barrier stands in the rooms.
way, in the form of the Congo conven­
A m b a s s a d o r to R u s sia .
tion, guaranteeing n eu trality of the
New York, Jan. 9 .— A dispatch tc
part of tiie continent a l * i t Lake Tang­ the Herald, from Washington, says:
anyika, which even the autocrat of The president has practically selected
Rhodesia w ill find hard to force. Here W illia m Potter, of Philadelphia, for
Germ any has tiie veto on Great B r it­ ambassador to Russia. M r. Potter wai
ain's advance, which she cannot be formerly minister to Ita ly , having been
expected to waive w ithout an indem­ stationed at Rome during the Harrison
n ity.
adm inistration.
H ia record during
that period has been carefully exam­
PASSED TH E SEN A TE.
ined by the president and Secretary
Hay, and both feel confident that he
No D e b a te o e D la tr le t o f C o lu m b ia B ill
w ill satisfactorily fill the St. Peters­
— F ir s t A p p r o p r ia tio n M easu re.
burg post.
Washington, Jan. 10.— A t a brief
C x p lo a lo u In S h ip y a r d .
session of the senate today, the first of
Loudon, Jan. 9 .— A big boiler being
the regular appropriation bills to be
teste«! in H e w itt’« ahipbuilding-yatdi
reported to tiie body, tiie D istrict o(
at Barking burst today, and the super­
Columbia b ill, was passed. It carried
intendent, engineer and eight other
a trifle over 97,000,000, and was passed
men were killed . About 40 persons
practically w ithout debate. The pres­
were injured, some fa ta lly . The whole
entation of a memorial liom a camp of ship-building works were wreck««!. A
Confederate veterans in opposition to
woman was found dead 800 yards from
the proposition of Butler of North Car­
tiie scene of the disaster. A number
olina to pension ex-Confederate soldiers
of men aud hoys are missing. Windows
was made the text by A llen of Nebras­
h alf a m ile away were shattered.
ka for some remarks, during the course
I.lf«* In ip r tso n m u B t.
of which he said that Butler, in making
M adrid, Jan. 9 .— Colonel Jnlison
his proposition, and tho president, in
suggesting that the nation care for the San M artin , who was in command of
graves of tbe Confederate dead, had the Spanish garrison at Ponce when tbs
been cairied away by their enthusiasm. United States troops under General
Miles landed on the island, and who
The house was engaged all day on abandoned the place w ithout resistance,
the legislative, executive and judioiacl has been sentenced to imprisonment
h ill and complete«! it substantially ns for life. He w ill be incarcerated at
reported, except tbe items for the civil- Ceuta, tiie Spanish penal colony in
service commission, which went over. Morocco, opposite G ibraltar.
M o r r ill’s S u c c e ss o r .
G iv e n Vp for L oot.
Boston, Jan. 10.— The owners of the
Boston brig M ary Gibbs, Captain Hor­
ace Coombs, now 130 «lays out on a
voyage from Newport News to Para,
Braxil, have nbamloned a ll hopo of tiie
vessel, although they s till believe
tiiere is a chance that the crew may
have been rescued by some ship bound
eithttr to the Pacific or to oome remote
quarter of the globe. The M ary Gibbs
carried eight men and a cargo of 860
ton« of coaL
M ontpelier, V t ., Jan. 9.— Governor
Smith has tendered the plaoe in the
United States senate, left vacant by the
death of Senator M o rrill, to B. F.
F itielil. of this city. M r. F ifield has
not yet accept««I.
Washington, Jan.
3.— The bouse
committee on Indian affairs today or­
dered a favorable report on the h ill
granting to the K e ttle River V alley
road a right of way through tha Col-
v illa Indian laaanration, Waahlngtow