Junction City bulletin., January 24, 1901, Image 2

JUNCTION CITY BULLETIN
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EVEIITS Of Tilt DAT
Am Interesting Colkcdon of Items From tht
Two Hemispheres Presented te '
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Condensed Form.
Queen Victoria Li dead at her Os
borne Loose borne, at Cow lee. Isle of
Wight. She waa almost 82 years old,
and had reigned longer than any ether
monarch in the world.
Verdi, the composer, it seriously ill.
The severest storm on record is re
ported from Alaska.
A strip of Benton county, Oregon,
may be annexed to Linn.
A fire at Walla Walla destroyed
125,000 worth of property.
The next Grand Army encampment
will be held at Cleveland, Ohio.
The Veneauela government is trying
to blackmail the asphalt company.
Speaker Reeder, of the Oregon legis
lature, has announced his committees.
A new pure food law is now being
considered by the Oregon legislature.
A bill is before the Washington leg
lslatore for the abolishment of fish
traps.
Ex-Congressman George W. Cowlea,
aged 78, is dead at hia home in Clyde,
N. Y.
A measure has been introdaced'fn
the Oregon legislature to increase the
monument fund to $20,000.
The aenate has confirmed the nomi
nation of James S. Harian to be attorney-general
of Porto Rico.
A new countr, named Clearwater,
will probably be created by this ses
sion of ibe Idaho lgeislatnre.
John II, RuBsel, a well known the
atrical manager, is dead at the state
hospital at Middletown, N. Y.
The governor of Idaho has recom
mended a memorial to congress asking
for popular election of senators.
A measure is before the Washington
legislature providing for the purchase
of the Thurston county court house for
a state capital.
Rev. Charle E. Conrad, M. D., a
noted missionary, died at Quincy, 111.,
aged 81. He waa in Calcutta during
the Sepoy outbreak.
. . The revenue cutter Grant la to make
cruise along the coast near the United
States-Canadian line to investigate the
wreckage, of which so much baa come
ashore lately.
West Point cadets agree to abolish
hazing.
Enraged Omaha citizens burned a
pestbouse.
Germans contemplate a cable line
around the world.
The naval appropriation bill provides
' fcr four new warships.
Astoria 'a big export sawmill will be
located at Tongue's Point.
The term of duty in the Pbilippinea
may be limited to two years.
Minister Wn urges Americana to
enter into trade with China.
Havana citizens petition congress to
lower duty on Cuban products.
America's protests against Venezuela
have been defied by that government.
The boose will devote most of its
time tbia week to the aopropriation
bill.
British ship Mnel Try van foundered
in English channel and 11 Uvea were
lost.
T. W. Bartley, of Moscow, has been
appointed fish and game warden for
Idaho. '
Anarchist plot to kill prominent
Ameiicans disclosed by member in a
conit trial.
Severe cold weather prevails in
Cuba. There has been much suffering
at Santiago.
Count de Lubersac and Baron de
Rothschild fought a duel in France in
which the former was wounded.
An Idaho bill for the repeal of the
stringent law against gambling has
been introduced in the bouse.
The Oregon legislature will be asked
by the managers of the Spokane expo
sition to appropriate $50,000 for an ex
hibit at the fair.
Two men, while rowing across Ni
agara river, lost control of' their boat
and were carried into the rapids. One
of them was swept over the falls and
drowned. The other was rescued.
All hopes for the recovery of Queen
Victoria are gone and the announce
ment of her death is hourly expected.
All members of ber familr are either
at ber bedside or gome- there as fast as
steam can carry them.
DIAMOND SMUGGLER CAUGHT
Had Them Snugly Hidden la the Pockets el
Belt Ht Wort Around tils Waist.
New York. Jan. 21. United States
Marshal Alcott, of the Frry district,
has formally seised in this otty $17,800
worth of diamonds, whioh were
brought into this country by Antonio
Ansenian without paying duly on them.
The goods were found oa Ansenlas'
person by United ' States customs offi
cials as Ansenias wasleaviug a steamer
of tne Hamburg-American line at Ho
boken.
Ansenias was not arrested but the
diamonds will be held pendini a decis
ion of the Treasury department as to
whether he is giilty of smuggling.
His defence is that he is a Cuban
merchant, and that he is merely pass
ing through this country on his way to
Cuba. The diaomnds were concealed
in the pockets of a large belt which
Ansenias bad around bis body, and
were accidentally discovered by a cus
toms inspector who happened to plaoe
hia hand on Ansenisaa' back as the Ut
ter was leaning over a trunk. There
are 128 separate ai tides, of an ap
praised valuation of $11,000, which
with 60 per cent duty added would
make them worth $17,600.
THE IRRIGATION MOVEMENT.
It Receives Strong Support From Secretary
Hitchcock.
Washington, Jan. 21. Secretary of
the Interior Hitchcock was to have
been heard today by the bouse commit
tee on public lands on the subject of
irrigation, which is attracting atten
tion in many Western states, but being
nnable to come to the capitol, be sub
mitted a statement. This strongly
supports the policy of Irrigation, and
says that a vast acreage capable of sup
porting 60,000,000 people should not
be left a desert. Mi. Hitchcock points
eat the remarkable results experienced
in the valley of the Nile, practically
redeeming Egypt from bankruptcy.
Professor Newell, of the geological sur
vey; Professor Pinchott, oi the agri
cultural department, and Representa
tive Newlands, of Nevada, who started
the movement by a bill for irrigation
storehouses along the Humboldt river
in Nevada, also strongly supported tbs
plan. The hearings today were on the
Newlands bill, but this has brought
up the whole subject as applicable to
Western states, and particularly Cali
fornia, Oregon, Washington, Idaho,
Nevada, Utah, Montana, Wyoming,
Colorado, Kanasa, Nebraska, South
and North Dakota.
, DARING HOLD-UP.
Two Men Tried to Rob a Fifth Avenue, New
York. Restaurant.
New York, Jan. 21. Two robbers,
armed with 32-caliher Colt's revolvers,
entered Mailtard's restaurant and con
fectionery store, near the Fifth Avenue
hotel, just as the place was being
closed at midnight, and ordered tbs
cashier to throw up his bands. In
the place were a half, dozen 'waiters,
and the very boldness of the robberi
i:.rcted attention. The cashier had
several hundred dollars of the day'i
receipts on the desk before him, and it
is supposed that he did not move
quickly enough to satisfy the robbers,
for one of the men discharged his re
volver. The bullet crashed into the
wall back of the cashier; who caught
up the cash and dodged underneath
the counter. The waiters concealed
themselves underneath tables. The
shot attracted a Broadway crowd, and
the police were notified. Brandishing
their weapons the robbers dashed from
Maillard'a, the crowd falling back and
giving tbem all the room they wanted.
One turned into Twenty-fourth street
and succeeded in making bis escape.
The other dashed across the pavement
of Fifth avenue to Madison square,, and
was captured by a policeman. He
said he was Edward Burgess, a steam
fitter. -
Conference on Cannal Treaty.
London, Jan. 21. United States
Ambassador Choate and the secretary
of state for foreign affairs, the Mat
quis of Lansdowne, had a second 'con
ference today on the amended Hay
Pauncefote treaty. An outline of the
action Great Britain intends to pursue
was not developed, and no definite de
cision is likely to be reached by Great
Britain for several days.
General A. J. McKay Dud.
New York, Jan. 21. General An
drew Jackson McKay, a distinguished
veteran of the civil war, died in this
oity today. He was quartermaster
general on the staff of General George
W. Thomas in the army oi the Cum
berland. Burned by Molten Copper.
Tusoon, Ariz., Jan. 21. Juan Lo
pez, a workman at the Copper Queen
smelter, was burned to death by molten
copper which fell from a swinging pot
under which he stood. His clothes
were set on fire and his body horribly
disfigured by the liquid metal.
New Ships Building.
Ships that will be worth in the ag
gregate $29,725,000 are now la pro
cess of construction at the shipyards
along tiie Delaware river.
WILL Dt Oil 1IAIID
Farquhar's Squadron Ready to
Move on Venezuela.
If THE TROUBLE IS NOT SETTLED
Minister LoomTt Dispatches Tampered With
The Scorpion Will Remain at La Guayra,
Where Her Presencs is Necessary.
Washington, Jan. 91. Nothing has
been heard over night from Minister
Lomia regarding the situation in Veu
esuola. Navy department olllolala
deuy that any Instructions have been
given to the North Atlantic squadron
to move over from Florida to Veneaue
la. The ships, however, are in perfect
cruising trim, and could sail within a
few hocrrafter the receipts of orders,
though it is not believed here, that
there will be any necessity for their
movement toward Veuesuela.
The urdsrs to the Scorpion to pro
ceed to Gunnoco from La Guayra have
been cour.teMrmauded, and she will re
main at La Ouayra, where ber prea
ence is retarded as necessary. By di
rection of the state department, Min
uter Loo is is has protected to the Yen
esuelan government against the exer
cise of censorship over any of his olti
cial commtnfeationa, and it is under
stood that the protects have been effecj
tive. I
- It cannot be gathered that any very
late advices! have caused the change in !
the department's plana relative to the
movements pf the Scorpion In fact, it
is said that nothing has been received
to show auv marked change in the
status in 'eneauela since yesterday,
when Minister Looitiis apoke of the'
suppression! of a rebellion among the!
troops in Caracas, the inception of
which waaj unknown to the depart
ment of state. The fact that anch a
movement ubuld gain headway in Cas
tro's own capital, however, is very slg
nifieant, and this rebellion among the
troops may have led to the decision to
retain the
orpion , at La Guayra, the
nearest por
to Caracas.
The naval
authorities were consulted
daring the
lay as to the feasibility of
ie-er.forcin
the American tfnval force
now in Venezuela, but while some such
thing is
prospect, it cannot be
any positive orders have
learned tbs
yet gone
ot. The Hartford is not
within read
of the cable, being on a
Port of Spain for Barba
cruise front
dos, at which place she is due in
about two days. She may lie tinned
back from that port, unless the situa
tion improves. The Lancaster sailed
from Port of Spain for the Cape Verde
islands, so sue is entirely beyond reach.
There is no disposition on the part
of the authorities here to go to any un
usual length in dealing with this situ
ation, as they say frankly that it is not
a part of their purpose to browbeat or
coerce the Venezuelans by a formal
naval demonstration', unlets such a
course is forced on them, which is not
believed to he at all likely. But it is
quite certain that. Amlral Farquhar
will shape the movements of the North
Atlantio squadron so as to keep in
close touch with the navy department
and he will not be far away from a
cable end for many days at a time
after he leaves Florida.
Mr. Loomis' protest against any cen
sorship of his official msil on the part
of the Venezuelan government was not
idly lodged, and he acted by the de
partment's direction only upon a well
gionnded suspicion that his cables were
being tampered with or unreasonably
delayed
WATCHING AN EMBEZZLER.
The Conf identlal Clerk of a New York Whole,
sale Hour Sails for Europe.
London, Jan. 21. The alleged for
ger for whose extradi'ion the United
States autboriites are asking is said to
be Sigmund Hertz, alias Eraden, of
New York city. He is supposed to
be on board the steamei Corinthian,
which left Halifax, Sunday, Jan. 7,
for Queenstown and Liverpool. The
police of those cities are watching for
him. 1
Acting 'under instructions from Chief
of Detectives George F. Titus, the
Scotland Yard officials were cabled
yesterday to arrest at Queenstown or
Liverpool as he steps off an incoming
steamer, the alleged defaulting confi
dential clerk of a large wholesale house
on Walker street, New York City, who
is said to have embezzled 550,000 of
I She firm's funds at the time of bit
flight, and to have embezzled nearly
; $200,000 before he was even suspeoted.
Want Back Pay. ,
Barre. Vt., 'Jan. 21. Many granite
putters and tool shitpener are taking
aotion toward pushing their claims of
back pay for work done in the service
of the government of the United States
neatly 80 years ago. The claims arise
ont of the building of the Boston and
New York postoffices, the work on Dix,
Hurricane and Fox islands, and work
in navy yards. The claimants worked
10 hours a day instead of eight, and
tbey are now trying to collect pay for
the extra two hours a day. The navy
jard men got their pay two years ago.
ANARCHISTS' PLOT.
Planed to Kill Prominent Americans Disclosed
In Corut Trial
New York, Jan. 23. Ellas Masorua,
a Greek, the complainant in an assault
case, which ramo before Jud.a Kel-log-,
ot Yonkers. N. Y., this morning,
told a startling tale of a plot of lreek
anarchists to kill prominent Ainarioaua,
and would have told more had the
court not stopped him and turned him
over to the police, that they might
quietly investigate the case. Several
arrests have a I roan y been made, and a
number mora are planned.
On the stand Masuraa raid that In
Greece he had been a member of an
anarchist society. Some time ago it
fell to bis lot to kill a public man iti
the United Rates, and he was orderod
to come to this country and place him
self under the ordeis of the American
branch of the society. He had nevet
beard the name of the man he was to
murder, snd, understood that, as in
otner cases, the man who waa to be
the ietiin was to be selected after his
arrival in this country.
After reaching A in erica, Masuraa,
accoiding to his 'own story, went to
Yonkers, aud affiliated himself with
a branch of the organisation, aa well
as one in New York. Fiuatly he be
came (tightened, withdrew and refused
to cany out the mission entrusted to
him. r rout the time he left the organ
isation be claims he was annoyed and
threatened by members of the society,
lie remained firm in his determination
not to obey the orders, however, and
yesterday sis of the men came here
and begged htm to return. When be
still Mused, one of the sis, which one
he could not say, attempted to stab
him. The blow was aimed too high,
however.
Masuraa Whs apparent. willing to
tell more about the society, but Judge
Kellogg adjourned the hearing aud
committed the prisoner to jail, ponding
further examination. Masuraa was
examined by the police, and as a re
sult the war.ants were issued. Joseph
aud James Klptaukas and Frank Ilia
taigos were arrested by the police. One
other Yonkera man aud two New York
ers are named on other warrants, and
the polka are smirching for them.
The police assort that tbey Itelleve the
tory told by Mssurss, and they say
that the affair has led to the discovery
of an anrchist band of a dangerous char
acter. SNOW STORM IN ALASKA.
Cxnplets Tie Up Resulted on White Pan and
Yukon Railway.
Seattle, Jan. 28i The steamer City
of Seattle, January 14 from Lynn
canal, reports a great snow storm io
Sonneastern Alaska. For five days
succeeding January 7 the fall was par
ticularly heavy, completely tying up
the White Pass etc Yukon railroad.
The highway was still blockade I when
the Seattle sailed.
Betweeu Skauway and White Horse,
the interior terminus of the road, there
were eight engines and three rotaries
stalled. Several of the engines were
diawing trains on which were from 10
to 12 passengers each. All of the en
gines were without water, having to
melt snow. A train near the summit
of the mountains back of Hkagway ran
short of provisins. the crew having to
pack food for the passengers from
Eraser, over two miles distant. The
storm appears to have extended well
towards Dawson, carrying down the
wires of the Dominion Telegrnph Com
pany. Highwayman Will Die.
Spokane, Wash., Jan. 33. P. B.
Callahan, a highwayman, lies dying at
Sacred Heart hospital, as the result of
last night's adventures. At midnight
Callahan entered Garabaldi Albi's fa
loon, one block from police headquar
ters, took a drink with the proprietor,
and covered him with a gun.' 'Albi
l an away and gave the alarm. Calla
han robbed the till, then ran down
Washington street. In the darkness
he plunged over the Great Northern
retaining wad, falling on boulders 18
feet below. Both his jaws were I Tok
en, and the base of his brain injured.
He was taken to the hoxpital where he
will nrobably die. Albi is a brotherof
William Albi, who killed a robber
named Lacey two years ago, In revenge
for having held him up.
Gists Works to Close Down. .
Haitford City, InL, Jan. 23. The
American Window Glaus Company and
the Independent Manufacturer's Asso
ciation today agreed to close their
plants until Aripl 1, instead of June
1. Eighty factories and about 80,000
workers will be affected. The object
of the shot-down is to curtail prod no
tion anl maintain prices.
Soldier Commits Suicide.
San Francisco, Jan. 28. Edward M.
Baytel, a convalescent soldier, com
mitted suicide at the Presidio yester
day by shooting himself through the
head with a Krag-Jorgensen rifle. He
was a Rurelah, enlisted in Chicago,
and assigned to company E, Thirty
seventh infantry. His sister resides in
Pullman, III.
New Negro University. ,
. The University of West Tennessee,
Which has just been chartered in that
state, is to be built at Jackson by
prominent negio educators.
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Venezuela Trying to Squeeze an
American Concern.
ENGLAND WILL GIVE NO PROTECTION
Offers to Rutora the Asphalt Property for
One Million Dollars Insurgents
Cain a Battle.
Port of Spain, Trinidad, British Wt
Indies, Jan. S3. The arrivals today
from VeuesuvU confirm the reports of
the existence ot a critical condition of
affairs in that republics. A former
Venezuelan minister asserts) that the
politicians at Caracas are making a de
termined raid on the Bermudas
Asphalt Company. He adds that they
tried it before ou a tmdt scale,
equeKlrig f.10,000 out of the company,
when United Mates Minister Loom!
protested and stopped further action oi
this dcrl!tlon. The government, the
miulster also says, listened to reason
then, but has now lost its head and
offered to restore the property for f I.
000,000, although it is said to have
been illegally taken, by a dictatorial'
decree. In addition,' the assertion is
again made that if foreign governments
penult the action of the Yeiiesuelan
authorities to pass without some pro
test, all foreign investors will be driven
from South America, tor the latter al
ways claim tbey are being Illegally
plundered. ' In this connection, the
assertion is made that no former Van
esuelan government would have darl
to act as tbia one does toward Wash
ington. It la explained that the Veil
exuelau authorities are counting on th
disinclination of strong uatlous to co
erce weak cues.
At the office of the Orinoco Com
pany, whose two steamers were re-
fcently seised by the Venezuelan su-
thnritles, the manager says the British ,
minister at Caracas. Mr. Haggard, baa
Informed the American minister that
the British government will not pro.
tect the company because its share
holders are Americans. The company
is said to be losing heavily through
tiie seizars cf the stesmers.
The commander of the French cruiser
Suchel, atatioued at Curapauo for the
protection of the large French interests
in that vicinity, reports that disturb
ances are increasing. The insurgents
of Veuesuela have just gained a battle
near Guola.
Germany Not Interested.
Berlin, Jan. 23. The German for
eign ofllce shows no iuteiest whatever
in the reports regarding the situation
in Yenesuela, and characterise tiie
newspaper accounts of the difficulty
ss exaggerated.
A WESTERN FIGHT.
But the East Is Willing to Help Obtain Appro,
prletlon for National Irrigation.
Washington, Jan. 23. Some hun
dred prominent dally Kstern newspa
pers recentty have editorialy expressed
views favorable to a system of national
Irrigation. It would seem that the
Fast Is well in line in wishing the de
velopment and reclamation of the
great area west of the hundredth meri
dian, and that it is realized that such
a development would benefit the entire
country and be a national benefit, add
ing to the general wealth and power of
tbe nation. While the East Is thus
willing to assist and co-operate, it ex
pects, of course, that the West will
make ' its own tight. F.very local
Western organization of whatever
character chambers of commerce,
boards of trade, commercial clubs,
business associations everything with
a president and secretary should dis
cuss aud take action upon this ques
tion of national irrigation and govern
ment appropriations for the building
of storage leservoirs, and then stand
ready to co-operate with the National
Irrigation Association, for whatever
procedure is necessary.
Accident to the Bailey.
Washington, Jan. 23. The torpedo
boat Bailey has come to grief again.
The accident whioh dinabled her iu
this case is peculiar. While lying in
Newport, about to undertake a trial
trip on the following day, the Intense
cold froze the water in her boilers,
bursting a number of the tubes. The
boat has been sent to NewVork for re
pairs, snd the trial board has been
ordered home.
School Act Pstied.
Manila, Jan 23. The act establish
ing the department of publio instruc
tion was unanimously passed by the
Philippine commission today, after a
debate between commissioner Moses
and Judge Taft, over the section per
mitting religions instruction in school
houses, . ' ' .
Piano Two Hundred Yean Old.
D, Decker, of Chnrlottiville, Ind.,
is the possessor of a piano made 800
years ago and which is yet in good con-
jdition and of excellent tons. It 1
I made of solid mahogany.