JUNCTION CITY BULLETIN
AN IXDSrSNOKST PAt'EK.
A. T. BWTTlCnWORTW. JR.. Editor.
Ml ANNA SI.KSaT,
AmmIuM BdUar.
EVEHTS Of I HT
An Interesting Collection of Items From Ui
Two rcmbphcru Printed in a
Ctminmi Form,
Tbe Dallas, Or., woolen luilli will
resume operations.
Tbe arrest of Chief Harjo is expected
to end the Creek uprising.
A ForeW Grove. Or., flooring mill
frill be moved to Portland.
Enovysat Fekin reached an agreement
on tbe question of punishment.
Volunteers who enlisted in the
Northwest may be mastered oat at
Vancouver.
A bad train wreck on the Baltimore
& Ohio was caused by the engineer go
ing to sleep.
The Cable Cove mining district in
Eastern Oregon baa taken on a new
lease of life.
Judge Caples has resigned his posi
tion as consul at Valparaiso, and will
return home.
The oron prince of Germany was
decorated with the Order of the Garter
at Osborne house. . ' .
The Oregon supreme court lias de
ecided that tbe Multnomah county bi
cycle tax is illegal.
An intoxicated man at Colfax,
Wash., attacked another with an ax
and seriously wounded him.
Premier Roblin stated that the Man
itoba government was making attempts
to purchase tbe Northern Pacific Hail
way in Manitoba but so far, be said,
nothing definite has been done.
George W. Kingsbury and Anthony
Smale were instantly killed netr Butte,
Mont., in the L. E. R. mine by fall
ing from the cage while being hoisted
toward tbe surface. It is supposed
they were overcome with gas.
Charles II. Ferguson, a well known
insurance man of Louisville, Ky., and
president of tbe National Association
of Underwriters, is dead. Mr. Fergu
son had been in ' failing health for a
year. He was born in Oswego, N.
y., August 13, 1846.
: Orders have been given to pot tbe
cruiser New York in commission at the
New York navy yard. This vessel is
undergoing extensive repairs prepara
tory to her departure lor the Asiatic
station, which will be her cruising
ground for the next two years. She
has been selected as the flag ship of
Bear Admiral Kodgers, who is to have
command of one of the two divisions
of the Asiatic fleet.
At Ilo Ilo 50,000 Filipinos have
sworn allegiance.
The murderer of Sheriff Summers, in
Montana, was run down.
Recruits for Transvaal mounted police
are being enlisted at Victoria.
Filipinos in arms after March next
will be ineligible to hold office.
Baldwin has completed arrange
ments for bis Acrtic expedition.
In a battle with Kentucky moon
shiners two officers were killed.
Germans believe Roberts' frank
avowals hastened tbe queens' death.
Sixty skateis broke through ice near
Brooklyn, and two boys were drowned.
There is much speculation in Wash
ington as to the probabilityof an extia
session of congress.
Fire in a Washington hotel entailed'
a loss of $3,000. All the guests es
caped uninjured. 4
A sympathetic strike, which means
a complete tie-up has been voted by
Northern Colorado miners.
Tbe revenue cutter Grant has started
on one of the most perilous voyages
ever undertaken. Shipping men and
underwriters of tbe entire Pacific coast
will anxiously await her return, for
she goes in search of missing vessels
and distressed mariners. Twenty-five
vessels bound for Puget sound and tbe
coast are miHsing, supposedly driven
north. Vessels from Alaska report the
entire west coast of Vancouver island,
250 miles of rocks and reefs, strewn
with wreckage. The Grant will ex
amine every square inch of Vancouver
coast as far north as Cape Soott in
email boats and launches, and will
search every piece of wreckage for iden
tification. Emperor William of Germany, bas
been appointed a field marshal in the
British army as a birthday token.
' Owing to tbe famine, thousands
have died and there has been great dis
tress in the provineoof Sban 81, China.
The leader of tbe Creek Indian up
rising has been captured and it is
thonght this means tbe end of tbe in
surrection. A bill providing for a bounty of 1
cent per pound on sugar made from
Idaho beets has been introduced in the
house of tbe Idaho Igislature.
GUISSIPPE VERDI DEAD.
Composer jf Some of the World's Finest
; Operas Passes to the Ortat Beyond.
Home, Jan. 28. A special dispatch
to the Patria says that Verdi, the com
poser, is dead. He was born in 1813
near Parma, at Jthe foot of the A per
sines. At 11 be was the orgauiat of
Roncole, his native village. He first
married the daughter of the conductor
of the theater of La Scala. For 60
years he has made the villa of St, Ago
tha, near Buweto, bis favorite resi
dence. After the death oi his first
wife be married Mm. Strepponl, who
played in the first performance of bis
"Nabucco," at Milan, over 55 years
ago. Verdi's father was the keeper of
an inn, a fact which would seem to
prove the theory of some men of
science that all banian beings are boru
equal in possibility. What Verdi has
done for mankind cannot be measured.
4Ernani," Rigoletto," "II Trova
tore," "La TravailA," "Aida! theee
names tell the story of what joy and
peace and pleasure the genias of ths
Italian of humble origin has brought
to bis kind. His compositions have
been very numerous. As early as 1347
be wrote the '"Masnadieri." It was
composed for Jenny Lind, and was
sucg at Her Majesty theater in Lon
don with the great soprano the prin
cipal part. "TrovHtore" is bis most
popular opera. ,4Aida" is his greatest
work, but opinions vary on this point,
as they vary about the greatest of
Shakespeare's plays. Signor Verdi did
other things than write mosio. He
was a member of the Italian ar I la
ment, and aerved his country in tbe
capacity of minister of puhlio instruc
tion. France gave him the let ion of
honor, Russia gave him tbe order of
St. Stanislaus, Italy the order of the
crown, and Egypt tbe order of Osmau
ieh. Australia presented him with a
cross of commandership oi the order
of Frans Joseph. Of late years Verdi
wrote works that are almost as well
known as his earlier efforts. They are
Othello" and Falstaff." The lat
ter was written when the author was
79 years of sge.
HANGING OF STICKEL
Washington Man Who Mnrdered Three People
, Confessed His Crimes.
Kalama. Wash., Jan. 28. Martin
Stickel was hanged in the jail yard at
9:37 o'clock Friday morning, fur the
murder of W. B. Shanklin, near Kelso
in November, 1899. Stickel was taken
from the cell at 9:45 by Sheriff Hunt
ington and four attendants. He
walked to the scaffold ' unassisted, and
ascended the' steps with steady tread,
showing that he was determined to die
like a man. He stepped to the centos
of the trap door, stood erect and said:
"Gentlemen, I bid you good-by.
God help yon; God forgive me. This
la the last time I will see yon on this
shore. Jeans help yon all; Jesus take
me; take me now."
By tbe time tbe . last words were
spoken, tbe sheriff and his attendants
bad strapped Stickels legs together,
his hands to his sides, placed tbe black
cap over bis face, and the noose around
his neck. .
At 9:57 Sheriff Huntington grasped
the lever and suddenly sprung the
trap. The condemned man fell seven
feet, and his neck vras almost instant
ly broken. At 10 o'clock doctors pro
nounced life extinct. The body was
cut down and placed in a coffin, to be
turned over to the murderer's mother
and brother. It will be tken to Catlln
for burial.
The hanging was private. Every
thing worked like clockwork. There
was no trouble in any respect. The
spectators were very quiet. There was
no talking or.demonst ration.
Stickel was born in Adams county,
Iowa, February 9, 1870. He had re
sided in this section about 12 years.
The condemned man slept well last
night and ate a hearty breakfast.
Death of a Hero or San Juan.
New York, Jan. 28- After suffering
for more than two years with Cnban
fever, Alfred Rosetsky, who is said to
have been the first American soldier to
ford San Jnan creek, where tbe fierest
of the Spanish fire was directed, in
the battle of San Juan hill, bas jnst
died in a Newark hospital. He con
tracted tbe fever in Santiago, and was
a mere skeleton when he got home. At
San Juan Rosetsky fought in troop C,
Sixth cavalry. His clothes were cut
by bullets, and while he was ascending
the hill with a number of other sol
diers, a shell exploded close by t'nem.
A lump of earth struck the young sol
dier in tbe side, knocking him sense
less. After the battle he was person
ally complimented for bis courage by
General Wheeler.
Collier's Weekly in South America.
With the idea that South America
may supplant South Africa and China
as a war news center, Collier's Weekly
sent a special correspondent and a spe
cial photographer to Venezuela. Temp
ests in teapots are common down there,
but this is one that looks like it might
boil over and burn the cook.
Tenth National Irrigation Congress.
Tbe Colorado Springs National irri
gation Congress is anLouueed to meet
July 12 to 16 next. This will be im
mediately preceding the Trans-Missis-ippi
congress at Cripple Creek.
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Great Devastation in New Heb
rides and New Britain.
NUMBER OF NATIVES WERE DROWNED
French Traders Reported Trying to Stir Up
Anti-British Feeling in Former Islands
Innumerable Craft Wrecked.
Victoria, B. C, Jan. 28. Great
devastation was wrought and a number
of natives were drowned by the hurri
cane in the New Hebrides and New
Britain, December 7, 8 and 9, accord
ing to news brought by the Aorangi,
At Herbertshohe, while tne settlement
was asleep, a tremndous sea carried
lighters, boats, ketches and wreckage of
all dsorlptlons ashore. luuumsrable
craft were wrecked. The steamer
Stettin, the steam yacht Klberhard and
tbe goverinent steamer Stephen were
saved by running to Matupi for shelter.
The uiissiou steamer Kingfisher was
totally wrecked and the government
wharf washed away. December 8 the
stone breakwater surrounding the New
Guinea wharves gave way and vesseles
inside were all wrecked, with losses
amounting to 100,0 0 marks. A num
ber of natives were drowned and many
injured.
Tha Aorangl brings news of a fire at
Greta mines, N. 8. W., in which five
lives were lost. Rescue parties worked
all night, but were driven back after
very effort. Finally the mine was
ordered sealed down in an effort to
fight the fire, and the wen were aban
doned to their fate.
On arrival at Sydney from Victoria
tbe bark Defiance rejiorted passing a
derelict vessel of from 300 to 80') tons,
100 feet long, keel outward, evidently
wrecked a mouth ago, la 84 south, 100
east.
Tbe Sydney Mail publishes a state
ment from its New Hehride corre
spondent stating that French tradors
and sailors have been at those islands
endeavoring to stir up antl-Britiab feel
ing among the natives of tbe New Heb
rides. The allegations is made that
the French traders have represented to
the natives tint England's ower is
waining, and have promised them var
ious privileges for allegiance to French
interests. It is said that tbe natives
are being encouraged in various acts
of lawlessness against British traders,
and tbatajostive murderer of an Eng
lish skfprP named Captain Kasmlth
was shielded from punishment by tha
captain of a French ship. Serious
trouble is predicted in the New Heb
rides. While the steamer Titus was at tha
Gilber group, at Butaritari island,
November 16, some excitement was
caused by a terrific report, lhe na
tives had beard it and were terribly
frightened, bnt they could offer no ex
planation. The oplnon was expressed
that it was dne to a severe volcanie
disturbance on some neighboring isl
and. Extraordinary results have been ob
tained in New South Wales by the gov
ernment engineers who have been bor
ing for oil wells, and a number of
tanks have been completed.
Spanish Drydock Not Wanted.
Washington. Jan 28. The naval
board, headed by Judge Advocate Gen
eral Lemley, appointed to decide on
the advisability of purchasing the large
floating drydock in Havana harbor
from tbe government of Spain, reports
that to place the dock in thorough
shape and to prepare it for a voysge
wonld involve an expenditure of over
$500,000, and that a dock oonld be
bnilt new at a figure not greater, Ad
miral Endicott, chief of the burean of
docks and yards, has recommended
that, as there is no present necessity
for tbe acquisition by this government
of snob a dock, the tender of the Span
ish government for its removal to tha
Untied States shall not be accepted.
Secretary Long has approved this rec
ommendation. The Anjlo-German Alliance
London, Jan. 28. The Daily Chron
icle, in the course of an editorial on
the "threatening aspect of Russian
policy in China,'' refers to the report
that Emperor William will be appoint-';
ed a field marshal of the British army,
and says: "We hope the report is cor- J
rect. A German alliance is one we
A. -Mm at . a a TTT 1 '
canuoi anora to inrow away, vvno can
tell how soou we may need its pieatige.
If not its active co-operation?"
Hazing at Annapolis.
Washington, Jan. 28. Representa
tive Sherman, of New York, today in
troduced a resolution which was re
ferred to the naval committee, provid
ing for appointment of a select com
mittee of five members of tbe bouse to
investigate hazing at the naval acad
emy at Annapolis;
To Raise Small Fruit
Florida people are going more and
more into tbe small fruit and oranga
bnsiness.
MUST SERVE IN THE ARMY.
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rinni Will Us Enforced to Conform With Rus
sian System, j
i't. Petersburg, Jan. lO.The min
litry of war has completed a draft' of a
law to regulate the military service
ia Finland in conformity with the
system adopted iu the empire at large.
It ia expected that It will be put in
force early iu the year.
Goverucir-Ueneral Kohrikoff has late
ly issued instructions to the governors'
of the province iu Finland urging a
stricter enforcement of tha ordinance
of last July regarding public assem
blies. Tbe complaint is male that
this ordluanoe is evaded under pretext
of amusements' aud entertainments.
Among the amusement which require
which social, scientific and eoouotulo
questions are discussed or where ad
dresses are made. Assemblies which
are permitted must be watched over by
the polk, whose duty it will be to
suppress demonstrations.
In order to meet tha boycott of un
popular officials by hooseowuers and
hotelkeepon, Governor Geuoral Robrl
koff has purchased, for f 350, a dwell
lug bouse in lUUlnitfors.
For the purpos of cultivating closeer
relations with Bulgaria, the govern
ment bas entered into an agreement
with Prince Ferdinand's government
reducing telegraph toll from 40 to 33
centimes a worl, aud introducing an
international money order system sim
ilar to that in vogue in Uowia.
ARRESTED FOR OLD MURDER
California Man Must Return to Texas for Trial
Confesses His Crime.
Sacramento, Cal., Jan. 80. Frank
Hyatt was arrested here tonight for
the murder of Steve Presaley, commit
ted in Wrath county, Texas, July 7,
1889. Hyatt has mada a full confes
sion, claiming self-defense. He had
been residing in this city for the last
nine years, aud was employed in the
railroad shops under the name of
Charles Eaves. He has a wife and
stepson. In bis slgueJ confession, he
claims that it was his Intention to re
turn to Texas next year anJ stand trial
for the killing. He says the quarrel
between himself and I'ressley, who was
the stepfather of his former wife, oc
curred over some building material.
I'readey picked tip a large stone to
throw at him. He struck at Press
ley's aim with a club, to make him
drop the stone, and tbe latter, in dodg
ing, was struck on the head and died.
Hyatt claims that he feared be would
not get a fair trial, as all the wltmmtos
were relatives of 1'ressley, so he fled.
THE G. A.R. ENCAMPMENT.
Cleveland, O., Preparing to Receive 430,000
Visitors Next FalL
Cleveland, O..Jan. 80. Members of
tb subcommittee of the national G.
A. It. council of administration, who
are in the city, predict that 160.0U0
veterans will attend the encampment
to be held in this city this fell. The
local committee expects 450,000 visit
ors to come to tbe city during the en
campment. Tbe members of the sub
committee, who are General F. M.
Sterrltt, of St, Louis; Colonel James
Scott, of Fairfield, 111.; and Colonel
Armstrong, weie in conference today
with the local committee. Tbe city
will be asked to raise a fund of about
$75,000 for the entertainment of the
old soldiers. Free accommodations
will be provided for about 10,000 de
legates. The Erie Railroad, which is
not a member of the Central Passenger
Association, has announced that it
will grant a rate of 1 cent a mile for
the1 encampment.
Piracies Near Canton.
Washington, Jan. 80. The follow
ing cablegram was received at the state
department today from United States
Consul MoWade, at Canton, dated to
day: "Pirates at Simyonkec, near
Kanichuk, attacked a European house
boat early Sunday. They killed a
Chinese boatman and wounded severe
ly Brookhurst and Spalinger, Euro
peans. Piracies ooour daily in the
vicinity of Canton."
Judge Caples Coming Home. "
Valparaiso, Chile, via Galveston,
Jan. 80. The United States consul at
Valparaiso, J. F. Caples, of Portland.
Or., has resigned. The United States
minister, Henry L. Wilson, of Spokane,
Wash., is going to the United States on
leave of absence. Messrs. Caples and
Wilson will both sail on the next
steamer from Valparaiso.
Carnegie's Tube Project
Pittsburg, Jan. 80. lhe Pittsburg
Post says: "Negotiations are pending
in New York at the present time which
if successful, will result in the Carnegie
Company abandoning its plan of build
ing a great steel tube plant in Con
neaut, O. ; Joshua Rhodes, chairman of
the board of the National Tube Com
pany, admitted that the officials of
that company were making overtures
to the Carnegie Company for the
abandonment of the Conneant plan.
How far along these negotiations have
progressed Mr. Rhodes could not say.
Engineer's Carelessness the Cause
of a Bad Train Wreck.
FIYE.PERSONS WERE INSTANTLY KILLED
Mistook the First Section of Passing Train
for the Second fireman and Forward
Breakmen Were Also Sleeping.
Parkershurg, W. Va., Jan. 80. Plvsji
persons were killed and one severely
injured aud two euglues and 10 loaded
cars were wrecked by the mistake of a
train crew this afternoon between IV
troleom and Volcanic Junction, on the
Battiinore & Ohio Railroad. The en
gineer was asleep at his post and mis
took tha first section of a passing train
for tha second. Thinking belli had
passed he pulled his train ou to tha
main track and sped onward to what
would seem to have necessarily been
hit death.
All five men killed were plunoJ un
der tha wreck and at a late hour to
night only one of the bodies had beeu
recoveied.
UioacoiJeut occurred In a rut on
a curve on a heavy down grade and at
the end of a. bridge. The third sec
tion of No. 87 was on tbe siding at Pe
troleum with orders to wait there until
tha second section of No. H8 JiaJ
passed east. Engineer Davidaon who
escaped with slight Injuries was the
engineer on No. 87 aud went to sleep
on the siding. When the tint section
went by ha thought it was tha second
and started out onto the main track.
His fireman and forward brakeman,
both of whom were killed, must also
have been alecp, for they allowed biui
to take the train out. Tha conductor
of the first train No. US after he paused
saw Davidson pulling out and tried to
wave him to slop, but failed. Tha
conductor of fourth 87, seeing the third
section pull out ran forward after it as
fast as possible his englueer whistling
down brakes and the conductor of th
wrecked train ran over the tops of
the cars uutil he reached the car next
to the last one wrecked in his attempts
to stop the engineer, but none of them
attracted his attention in time. Con
ductor Lang tuausged to jump la tlma
to save his life.
The fast trains tonight were paxsod
around the wreck by way of Mounds
vllle aud tbe Ohio Klver Railroad.
BROKE THROUGH ICE.
Sixty Skaters on Large Pond Near Brooklyn
Two Boys Were Drowned,
New York, Jan. 80. Sixty skaters,
including many women and children,
broke through the ice on a large pond
back of ' EvergToen cemetery, today,
and in the wild Mruggle for ll'e two
boys were drowned. The ice over the
center of the pond, where the water
was deepest and where the skaters were
assembled in greatest numbors, sud
, denly sank.
j The whole crow J was panic stricken,
i Men and women fought to save them
j selves, and children suffered in the
une iul struggle. The screams of the
skaters were Jieard by men employed
j in a factory near by, aud they ran to
Uhe pond. They dragged long planks
' with them which were punhed toward
the center of the pond. Along thi
footing a life line was formed. Effort
was first made to rescue the women
and children. Hy twos and threes
they were taken from the water aud
hustled along the planks to the shore.
The police reserves and surgeons ar
rived in ambulances and succored
many of the half-drowned skaters.
The bo lies of the two boys were recov
ered. She Turned on the Gas.
New York, Jan. 80. In a flat io
West Thirty-sixth street, there died as
the result of Inhaling illuminating gas
a woman whoee son says she came of
one of the roost distinguished families
of Tennessee. She was Mrs. Anna
Terry, the widow of Dr. C. C. Terry, a
graduate of the Harvard medical
school, and until his death, elgtit yeais
ago, one of the most distinguished
surgeons in New Enlgand, Dr. Terry's
death was accidental, his brain having
been pierced by tbe foil of a fencing
master with whom he was engaged ia
practice. Mrs. Terry wai found dead
in bed. Tbe house was redolent of the
odor of gas, and the stopcock in Mrs.
Terry's room had been found turned on
full, A policeman, who was sum
moned, reported the case as oue of ap
parent suicide.
. The Danish Antilles Deal,
Copenhagen, Jan. 80. It appears
that only a single member out of tbo
15 comprising the finance committee
of the Folkething opposes the sale of
the Danish West Indies to the United
States. The objector is starting a
nwespaper campaign in favor, of their
retention, bnt the finance committee of
tbe Landsthing will shortly report in
favor of tbe sale of the islands. The
agitation of the inhabitants ot the
islands against their sale is largely
artificial, and, therefore, of sot much
weight. .