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Budget of News for Easy Digestion From
Different Parts of the States of Wash
ington. .Oregon and Idaho Items of
Interest to Paelflo Coast People. ,
" Parkhursting '" is not unknown in
Tacoma.
Spokane pays $1,700 monthly for its
electric lights. , ,
The Bucoda-Tenino Enterprise is go
ing to move to Cosmopolis.
A stage is to be run from Fort Klam
ath to Crater Lake next summer.
Spokane's City Council proposes to
pay only $8 a month for arc lights.
The first pile has been driven for a
new cannery Sam Elmore is going to
build at Astoria.
A threshing hand in Wallowa county,
Or., has spent $56 trying to collect $27
due him for wages.
Representative Belts is shipping 200
Oxford grade bucks from Pendleton to a
. Montana purchaser.
The Spokane bureau of immigration
has decided to repeat the fruit fair next
year, the date selected being the first
week in October.
A lot of nursery stock shipped from
New York inftsted with woolly aphis
was destroyed by State Inspector Ton
neson at Winlock recently.
' Work has begun at the Cascades on
the job of raising the State Portage rail
road to higher ground, so as to get it out
of the way of the canal work.
St. Joseph's Hospital of Aberdeen has
issued a neat pamphlet commemorative
of two years of very successful work on
the part of the Sisters of St. Dominic.
It is thought now that the county seat
will remain at Snohomish, as a three
fifths vote was required to change it and
this, it is believed, Everett failed, to se
cure, f
The attendance at the Cheney Normal
School continues to increase, and now
the enrollment in the normal depart
ment is ninety-eight, the largest number
ever enrolled at this season of the year.
Klamath and Lake counties, Or., will
sell in all this fall about 15,000 head of
cattle. Will some local statistician let
us know whether the increase in sight
is sufficient to make up for this drain
upon the herds?
Many of the farmers around Spangle
are going into hog-raising quite exten
sively. ' There will be a large number of
hogs ready for market next year. The
1 farmers are anxious to see a large packing-house
in Spokane, so as to have a
home market.. . , . ' .
John W. Clinton is logging opposite
rVinnilln f!it,v on an extensive scale this
season, employing about eighteen men
and two teama. He has Bix acres of low
ground completely covered with logs,
waiting for high water to run them out.
In the cases of the State against Potts
and against Parker, charged with murder
in tne second aegree, inea iasi ween in
Harney county, the verdicts were guilty.
' Parker was sentenced to seven and one
half years and Potts to twelve years in
the penitentiary.
Oakesdale's water and electric light
projects have finally come to grief.
Judge' Sullivan has sustained and made
permanent the injunction against the
proposed bond issue. The bonds exceed
the town's legal indebtedness, and the
electric light plant, the court finds, has
decreased in value.
The November issue of the Puget
Sound Lumberman says: "The recent
shipment of 600 red cedar doors and a
quantity ot window irames to Johannes
burg, South Africa, per bark Levenbank
by Wheeler, Osgood & Co. of Tacoma
marks another epoch in the door trade
of the Pacific Northwest. Only three
years ago the red cedar door trade was
tinknown east of the Cascade Mountains.
The doormen of the Pacific Northwest
will, however, have the same difficulty
' in introducing their goods that the cedar
shingle men had, namely, the prejudice
of custom. It is always hard to intro
duce any new material in the older com
munities; but, once introduced, the ex-
-cellence of the material will speak for
itself. ' The door trade of the Pacific
Northwest in our humble opinion has a
bright future ahead."
. Japan in no hurry.
No Answer Received as Yet to Our Offer
' to Arbitrate.
Washington, November 16. It is
stated here in official circles that Japan
has not . yet accepted the invitation of
the United StateB to submit the ques
tion of peace with China to our media
tion. While the statement is probably
literally correct, there is reason to be
lieve that Japan has requested as a pre
liminary to action upon our invitation
that she be informed explicitly just what
terms China has to propose as a basis of
a treaty of peace. Up to this moment
Uhma has not submitted any dennite
proposals, so that the delay appears to
De rather on her part than on Japan's.
It could not fairly be expected that the
Japanese would halt in their triumphant
march ana perhaps anord their oppo
nents a very potent opportunity to rally
from their disorganized condition, unless
Japan is furnished, with some satisfac
tory proposition by China that may be
binding beyond question upon the latter.
No such satisfactory proposition has yet
been made by China, but on the con
trary the Chinese tenders so far have
been on a basis that could not be ac
cepted with safety and consistency by
Japan.
For instance, a Chinese proposition
was that Corea be evacuated by both
Chinese and Japanese troops. Inasmuch
as the principal cause of the war was
Japan's contention that the entire Co
rean administrative and financial system
must be reformed on modern lines, and
that Japan must undertake the task, a
temporary occupation of the country at
least by Japan was a necessary condi
tion. And consenting that the Japanese
troops evacuate China immediately
would also violate all precedent, for it is
customary in such cases for the victori
ous nation to remain in possession of the
captured territory as a pledge until the
payment of the war indemnity. But,
disregarding these points of difference,
it is becoming more evident that the in
terference of European powers is a stum
bling block in the way of a settlement
of the war through the medium of the
United States, nearly all having inter
ests in the East which they regard as
paramount to our own. An official who
has given much attention to the subject
is of the opinion that Russia will never
consent to anything which looks like an
indefinite occupation of Corea by Japan,
unless she is herself allowed to take pos
session of a portion of Corea for the
Eastern terminus of the Siberian rail
road. France is reported to have de
manded a coaling station on the Island
of Formosa, and Great Britain has
reached out for the Island of Chusan.
Japan's outlay. '
Tokio, November 16. Japan has not
yet received any peace overtures , from
China. If Japan accepts America's offer
of mediation, she will do so only upon
certain conditions concerning the ques
tion of indemnity. It is understood that
Japan's actual outlav for the war up to
the present has been about 30,000,000.
FEOM THE FRONT. '
Washington, November 16. The Jap
anese Minister to-night received the fol
lowing cablegram from the Japanese
government: Our army occcupied Ta
lien Wan the afternoon of the 8th in
stant, having destroyed the Chinese
torpedoes. Our fleet, transports and
torpedo-boats are safely anchored in the
bay. The torpedo station with ignition
equipments, charts of submarine tor
fiedoes, eighty cannons and telephone
ine were captured.
yamagata's army.
Tokio, November 16. Dispatches from
Field Marshal Yamagata say that he is
continuing his anvance on Manchuria.
His left division is marching upon Siu
Yon Ching, where a force of 20,000 Chi
nese under General Ma is encamped.
The right division recently routed a
large force of Chinese cavalry on the
road to Lin San Kwan, which was oc
cupied later without opposition from the
Chinese. The division is now advancing
upon Wo Tin Tang, where the Chinese
under General Tso have taken a posi
tion. '
THE DEFEAT AT KIN CHOW. ! .
London, November 16. The Tien Tsin
correspondent of the Times says that
Prince Kung sent' back to Port Arthur
General Shiu with 2,000 men. They
made a vigorous defense eastward of
Kin Chow November 7, and fought
throughout the day. They checked the
Japanese advance, though unsupported
by the other commanders. Another se
vere fight took'place November 8, when
General Shiu was overcome by the Jap
anese then occupying Kin Chow. Some
thousands of refugees, fleeing from Kin
Chow toward the villages in the vicin
ity, were mistaken for the enemy by the
Japanese, who fired into them from the
defenses, killing hundreds.
Sugar Investigation Cases.
Washington, November 15. Judge
Cole in the District Court, District of
Columbia, to-day overruled the de
murrer in the case of Dr. William Mc
Cartney of Washington and E. R. Chap
man of New York, brokers who refused
to answer certain questions before the
Senate sugar investigating committee.
This was in the nature of a trial of the
case, and the decision means that Have
meyer, Searles and Seymour, recently
indicted, and the newspaper men, Ed
wards and Shriver, first indicted, will
have to stand trial.
Murder In Oklahoma.
Perry, O. T., November 15. News of
a duel reached here this evening from
Sumner, ten miles east of here on Mule
creek. A. R.. Yuree, postmaster at Sum
ner, was shot and killed by M. 8. Gard-
ner, who was a rival claimant for the
same tract of land. The men quarreled
about Gardner trying to build a house
on the land. Yuree ran at Gardner with
an ax, when the latter shot him.
RATESTO SPOKANE
Advance in the New Commodity
Tariff to the Interior.
AVERAGE OF THE ADVANCE
An Increase 'Which Will Put the Coast
Terminals on a Better Basts List of
the Commodities on Which the Bates
Are Unchanged.
Portland, November 15. Commodity
rates from Chicago, the Mississippi and
Missouri rivers to North Pacific termi
nals were advanced October 20. Rates
to intermediate points have been ad
justed, and advance will be made to-day.
This will put the Coast oh a better basis
with the interior. Out of 109 commod
ities, however, only forty-two have been
raised. Among " the commodities on
which rates are unchanged are the fol
lowing: Agricultural implements, apples and
cider, axes, beer, glass bottles., pressed
brick, broom corn, butter, butterine,
eggs, cheese, dressed poultry,' canned
goods, cereals, cereal products, lamp
chimneys, coffee, condensed milk, crock;
ery, earthenware, fresh fruit, furniture)
nails and spikes, horseshoe nails, linseed
oil in tank cars, starch and syrup.
The table below shows a comparison
of the old commodity rate to Spokane,
the new rate to Spokane and the rate to
Coast terminals from Chicago and com
mon pointB carload lots:
Coast
New. Rate.
II 34 fl 80
80 80
88 88
1 26 . 1 25
1 25 1 10
1 67 7 80
1 25 72U
1 62 83
1 23 1 10
1 16 1 16
1 83 83
1 50 83
1 28 83
1 87 1 05
1 65 1 10 '
1 16Ji 47
Old.
Baking powder, etc $1 26
Candles, etc 70
Coffee, roaBted 80
Plate class... 1 22
Axle grease 1 14
Hardware, mixed 1 47
Fru.t Jais 1 17
Alcohols, high wines 1 26
Matches 1 15
Peanuts 1 00
Paint, n. o. s 1 25
Paper, building and roof
lug.!: 1 16
Soap, common- 1 12
Twine, binding 1 27
Woodenware . 1 65
Fence wire 1 09
Of the commodities mentioned in only
a few instances are the rates lower to
Portland than to Spokane fence wire,
for instance. , The average advance on
other articles over the former rate is 11
per cent. On candles, coffee and plate
class the rate to Spokane is made the
same as to Coast terminals.
ROBBED BY COOK'S GANG.
Passenger Train Held Up by Fifteen Un
masked Villains. '
Foet Smith, Ark., ' November 15.
Train No. 2, southbound on the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas road, was held up and
robbed at 10 p. M. at a little siding,
Blackstone, five miles north of Muskogee.
There were fifteen men in the gang, all
unmasked. The switch was thrown and
the train run into a track on which were
several box cars. An attempt was made
to enter the express car, but it was un
successful. The robbers, finding them
selves foiled in this, commenced robbing
the passengers, who up to this time
had been merely kept under guard by
men stationed in either door of each
coach. Two hundred and sixty dollars
in money and eight gold watches were
secured. The robbers then withdrew.
One of the train crewtilaims to have
recognized Bill Cook as one of the ban
dits. The reason that more money was
not secured laid in the fact that, while
the robbers were endeavoring to get into
the express car, the passengers disposed
of much of their valuables. The scene
of the hold-up is in the midst of the
Cook rendezvous, all that country lying
between the Arkansas and Verdi Oris
rivers being particularly, suited to the
purposes of lawless bands. Almost the
entire force of Marshals are now in that
country. V
' Chloral Found In the Stomach.
Tacoma, November 15. Chemist
Davidson to-night reported to the Coro
ner that he found chloral in quantity
sufficient to kill in the stomach of Madi
son M. Bartlett, whose dead body was
found on the sidewalk the morning of
November 5. Some thought Bartlett
had been murdered, but this clears up
the mystery and leads to the conclusion
that he took an overdose of the drug be
fore closing his cigar store to go home
early that morning. At the inquest sev
eral witnesses testined that Jtsartiett
sometimes used chloral and morphine to
produce sleep, and the theory is that he
took the drug that night downtown in
order that he might sleep as soon as he
reached home. . lhe Uoroner s jury,
which adjourned awaiting the chemist's
report, will hold its final session to-mor
row.
Diphtheric Mucus In the Eye.'
Cincinnati, November 15. Dr. Eman
uel Schwab of Madison Pike, Walnut
Hills, is suffering from an affliction of
the eyes, resulting from a peculiar cause.
tie has among his patients one who is
Buttering from diphtheria. While visit
ing his patient he was in the act of ex
amining the throat when the sufferer
coughed. As he did so a piece of mucus
from the throat struck the doctor in the
eves. Dr. Schwab finished his work. In
a few hours one of the eyes began to
burn, and soon became inflamed. He
realized that the poisoned mucus had
affected the tender lining of the eye, and
when it refused to yield to simple treat
ment lie called an oculist. An examina
tion developed that the poison had im
pregnated the muscles of the eye, and
that it was a serious case.
THE ACT INVALID.
The Obligations of the Arizona Counties
Cannot be Enforced.
. Phojnix, A. T., November 15. The
Republican will publish to-morrow the
substance of a recent ' decision by the
Supreme Court of the United States,
which invalidates the Territorial in
debtedness, amounting to $750,000. ' The
decision was in the case of Charles Ed
ward Lewis vs. Pima county to enforce
the collection of 2,250 coupons attached
to 150 bonds issued by the defendant
county in 1883 under an act of the Leg
islature of that year directing the Board
of Supervisors to issue bonds to the
amount of $200,000 in favor of the Ari
zona Narrow Gauge railroad. The Leg
islature construed its authority to enact
such-' a law in spite of the restriction
which confined its appropriation of pub
lic money to " the necessary administra
tion of its internal affairs." Suit was
brought against the county three years
ago, and the verdict was rendered for
the defendant, Judge Sloan holding that
the legislation creating bonds was spe
cial and contrary to the Harrison act.
The United States Supreme Court takes
no account of this view, but declares
that the Legislature was restricted by a
clause which confines it to this species
of legislation only in favor of improve
ments which facilitate the administra
tion of internal affairs. The decision
closes in the following language:
"We are compelled to hold that the
bonds in question create no obligation
against the county which a court of law
can enforce."
This decision affects an issue of $200,-
000 by Maricopa county in favor of the
Maricopa and Phoenix railroad and an
issue of $250,000 by Yavapai county in
favor of the now defunct Prescott and
Arizona Central. ,
FOR THE DELEGATES.
Instructions Agreed Upon by the Seattle
Chamber of Commerce.
v Seattle, November 15. The Chamber
of Commerce to-day agreed upon the in
structions to the delegates to the Trans-
mississippi Congress to, be held at St.
Louis November 26. The delegates will
be instructed to oppose free coinage of
silver ; favor the building of the Nicara
guan canal ; favor appropriations for the
Lake Washington canal; favor transfer
ring government lands to the State;
favor giving Alaska local or territorial
government; favor the removal of the
bonding privilege to foreign railroads.
CONSPIRACY CHAEGED, .
Simon Rumpf, formerly a jeweler in
this city, who defrauded his creditors
and left the country, 'had three more
suits commenced agamBt him and Joseph
Mayer to recover on goods sold. W. and
S. Blackinton charge conspiracy on the
part of Rumpf and Mayer to defraud all
persons and corporations that would
trust them.
bequisition papers refused.
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to give Chief of Police Rogers of this
city requisition papers for Matt Ries, a
notorious bunco man arrested in Los
Angeles last week. The Governor held
that the Sheriff was the proper person,
as the State would thereby save $5 a
day. Ries is under a three years sen
tence to the penitentiary for operating in
this city, and while his case was being
heard on appeal to the Supreme Court
jumped his bond.
HIS COFFEE DRUGGED.
Deputy United States Marshal Outwitted
by His Prisoner.
St. Louis, November 15. Deputy
United States Marshal Henry Miller, of
San Francisco reached St. Louis to-day.
He left San Francisco last Thursday with
Henry Smy the accused of using the
mails to defraud Chicago merchants.
Monday afternoon at Little Rock, Ark.,
Smythe disappeared from the train so
mysteriously that Miller haa not yet re
covered the prisoner Smythe's wife and
daughter were on the train.
" When we reached Texarkana Mon
day," said Miller, " Mrs. Smythe made
coffee in the car and prepared the meal.
An hour and a half afterward I had a
dreadful pain and was almost overcome
by a drowsy teeiing. My head leit as n
it was in" a vise. None of the others
were taken sick. The inference is obvi-
s- Early in the afternoon, when the
train reached Little Rock, I walked
along the platform to the front car, and
when I got on board I did not see Smythe.
I noticed that while I had been on the
platform the watermen had unlocked the
rear door to supply the drinking tank,
and Smythe had evidently skipped by
them."
Northern Paelflo Connection.
Tacoma, November 15. It is an
nounced that an English syndicate has
contracted to build the Fraser Valley
and Burrard Inlet railway, fifty-one
miles long, from Sumas, Wash., to Van
couver, B. 0., providing the city of Van
couver gives the promised subsidy of
$550,000 and grants an extension of one
year's time, or to December 31, 1895, in
which to build the road. The line was
to be finished by December 31 next, but
the business depression prevented. The
arrangement made is that the English
men shall take the subsidy and then
build, own and operate the road. By a
traffic agreement already provided the
line will be in reality a branch of the
Northern Pacific running into the Ca
nadian Pacific's territory, as originally
intended. The Northern Pacific's ob
ject, it is said, is to cut rates to Van
couver, if the Canadian Pacific cuts
rates into its territory. If the extension
of time is granted, the line will be built
early in the summer. Over $60,000 has
been spent on it to date,.
GOLD BOND ISSUE
The Leading New York Bankers
Discussing the Problem.
THEY HAVE PLENTY OF GOLD
Investors Are Expected to Subscribe
largely. While the Banks Will Fur
nish to Depositors Freely the Gold
Necessary to Take the Bonds.
New York, November 14. Five Pres
idents of national banks, who are re
garded as the leaders of the bank Presi
dents in New York city, met in the of
fice of Henry W. Cannon, President of
the Chase National Bank, late to-day.
They were Mr. Cannon, President Nash
of the Corn Exchange National, Tappen
of the Gallatin National, Simmons of
the Fourth National and Williams of the
Chemical National Bank. These gentle
men had attended a meeting of the
Building Committee of the Clearing-
House Association and gathered in the
office of the Chase National to discuss
the impending government loan. The
consensus of opinion was that the bank
ers of New York would give up large
amounts of gold for the purchase of the
new issue of government bonds. It is
expected that investors will subscribe
largely for the new bonds, and the banks
will furnish to depositors freely the gold
necessary to take the bonds. This deci
sion is of importance, for the banks rep
resented at this informal conference with
the Union Trust and the United States
and the Central Trust Companies hold
the bulk of the gold in New York. Pres
idents King, Stewart and Olcott of the
trust companies mentioned have already
extended the administration their assur
ance that the new issue will be taken
care of. When the February issue was
made depositors had difficulty in obtain
ing the gold from banks, and many only
secured legal tender, which was pre
sented at the subtreasnrv to obtain cold.
The government thus failed to secure
over $38,000,000 gold for the $58,'000,000
needed by the sale of $50,000,000 bonds.
The decision of the bankers to give up
their gold freely will consequently net a
larger amount of gold to the government,
the result of the forthcoming issue being
estimated at over $50,000,000. It is un
derstood in New York that the new issue
will be' announced within forty-eight
hours, if the circulars and subscription
blanks can be prepared in that time.
THE TRIP POSTPONED.
Senate Commerce Committee Will Walt
Until Congress Meets.
Washington, November 14. About
the only Senatorial excursion authorized
during the last session of that body was
one granting the Committee on Com
merce authority to make a trip to Cali
fornia for the purpose of examining the
sites for the proposed deep-water har
bor on the Pacihc Uoast. The struggle
is between Santa Monica and San Pedro,
and the rivalry between the two ports
and conflicting railroad interests have
been so strong that the committee has
been unable to come to a satisfacr
tory conclusion. It was the intention to
have made the trip during the past sum
mer, but the elections intervened to
prevent. Senator Ransom, Chairman of
the committee, reached Washington to
day, intending to arrange for an early
start, but so many of the members of
the committee are unable to get away
that the Chairman to-day decided to
postpone the matter until Congress
meets and the committee has an oppor
tunity of getting together.
NOTHING TO PREVENT IT.
Nuns May Teach in Public Schools in
Pennsylvania. , ''., '
Pittsbubg, November 14. The Su
preme Court in a majority opinion
handed down by Judge Dean confirms
the decision of the lower court declaring
that the employment of sisters of the
Roman Catholic Church in the common
schools of Gallitzinborongh sis not un
lawful, inasmuch as no proof has been
submitted that religious sectarian in
struction is imparted by the sisters dur
ing school hours. The opinion says that
the fact the women are Catholics does
not disqualify them under the :constitu
tion, and quotes from article 1 of the bill
of rights which extends to all men the
right to worship God according to the
dictates of their conscience. The opin
ion further declares that the selection of
Catholic teachers by the School Board
is not a violation ot law, and says the
fact that these teachers contributed their
earnings for a religious purpose has no
bearing on the matter. Judge Williams
delivered a minority dissenting opinion.
Ericsson's Trial Again Postponed.
New London, Conn., November 14.
The new torpedo boat Ericsson started
early for the course in Long Island
Sound, over which she is to have her
speed trial, but met with an accident,
which will again postpone the trial in
definitely. She had just started on the
course when ran eccentric snapped on the
starboard side.
Important Witnesses Missing.
Santa Rosa, Cal., November 14. The
celebrated case of the People vs. Mrs.
Elizabeth J. Bryan for the murder of
her sister, Blind Nancy Meagher, last
February, came up in the Superior Court
to-day. Owing to an inability to secure
some important witnesses the case was
again continued, this time to December
12. '
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DOMINION OF CANADA.
An Address Before the Geographical
Society on Her Resources.
EDiNBURGH.November 14. Sir Charles
Tupper, Canadian High Commissioner,
delivered a lecture before the Geographi
cal Society to-day upon the resources
and general economic condition of the
Dominion of Canada. He dilated upon
the influence of federation upon the eco
nomic position of the Dominion as seen
in the enormous developments of trade
and commerce, and the prosperity of the
country generally since the establish
ment of the Dominion, especially in the
expansion of foreign trade. Canada's
trade in 1893 and 1894, he said, was the
highest ever reached, and the increase
since 1877 has been 90 per cent. The
stability of trade had been remarkable.
In spite of the McKinley law, the finan
cial disturbances and the fall of prices
Canada has been little affected. The
demand for staple products and exports
was as high as ever. The situation of
the country lay in the soundness Of its
banking system and the prudence of its
traders. The excellence of the national
credit had been shown in the success of
the recent loan, which was now at par.
He referred to Canada's expansive coal
and iron resources and deposits of nickel,
and expressed his belief that wheat
would continue to be the great staple
product of the Northwest long after the
United States had ceased to grow it as a
profit or to export it. The French
treaty, he said, had sealed the power of '
Canada to regulate external trade rela-.
tions. The Ottawa conference would do
much to promote intercolonial and im
perial trade, the development of steam
ship lines and ocean cables.
THE FOREST FIRES.
Much Property Destroyed and Many
....'...) lives Lost. ....-
Memphis, Tenn., November 14. The
forest fires from Arkansas have broken
out in North Mississippi on a more ex
tensive scale. The entire Yazoo delta is
threatened. Memphis is hemmed in on
three sides by vast fires, and it is im
possible to enter the city without pass
ing through miles of heated air and
smoke. The fire in Mississippi started
ten miles south of Memphis, and ex
tends south of De Soto and Tunica coun
ties to the town of Tunica. Its origin is
credited to a recent visit of inspection
paid by officials of the Illinois Central.
The section foreman, anxious to make a
good showing, set fire to the dry grass
along the roadside and soon a con flag ra- .
tion had spread through the forest.
Plantations have been wiped away with
buildings, fences and crops. A great
deal of cotton is still ungathered, and all
is in the line of flames. There are
rumors of negroes lost in the confiagra-
tion. The Arkansas fires are along the
line of the Little Rock and Memphis
road from the river thirty-one miles in
land. The most destructive fire is in
Lost Swamp twentv-five miles from here.
The fire near Mound City has burned
itself out alter doing much damage.
Near Edmondson two negroes, one a
young girl, were burned to death in the
swam p. Many bones, said to be human,
have been recovered.
THE COOK GANG.
Further Depredations by the Indian
. Territory Outlaws. , f ,
Muskogee,vI. TV, November 14. The
Cook gang held up a farmer and stole '.
his horses and saddles six miles from
here early this morning. They are '
headed toward Port Gibson, and a posse
started out to-night, xesterdav seven
of the gang we"nt to the -farmhouse of
James Dickens near irerry and demand
ed food, which was refused. The out
laws then bound Dickens, his wife and
daughter, and plundered the house.
They were not released- until neighbors
arrived in ine evening, .turner iucas, a
member of the gang under arrest at Fort
Smith. Ark., made a full confession Sat
urday of his connection with am Uook.
Lulu Cook, who was arrested last week '
at Tahlequah, is at liberty on bonds..
She has written a long statement to the
nnblin. charo-ino- that the Marshals har
assed her brothers, Bill and Jim, until ,
they were forced into outlawry.
DIFFERENCES SETTLED. '
Atchison and Topeka and Southern Pa
- cine Will Exchange Business. -
Chicago, November 14. Private ad
vices were received in this city to-day
from New York stating that the mission -of
A. C. Walker, receiver of the Atchi
son and Topeka, had .been successful. -An
agreement had been reached be
tween his road and the Southern Pacific
on all differences that have divided them
for more than a year past. The Atchi
son and Topeka, it is understood, prac
tically secures all for which it had been
contesting. Its right to ticket . pas
sengers to San Francisco via Los An
geles at short-line rates is admitted and
fully secured for the future. - Further
more, the Atchison and Topeka has se-'
cured a guarantee from the Southern Pa
cific that it will be allowed the right of
ticketing passengers to San Francisco
and Southern California points over the
Southern Pacific tracks on as favorable '
terms as are given any of the Southern
Pacific connections from any other , di
rection. ''' ' :
: He Ran the Adams Aground. 7"
Washington, November 15. Thepro-
i : r, 1 , u r T :
tenant C. F. Norton, who was tempo
rarily in charge of the cruiser Adams
when she ran aground in Behring Sea,
reached the Navy' Department to-day.
Secretary Herbert has not yet approved -the
verdict of the court, which is under
stood to have found the accused guilty
of error of judgment only, and sentenced
him to a reprimand from the Secretary
of the Navy.