It's a Cold Day When We Get Left. TVT 7 - f ' - X ' :f f" "f, ,.S HOOD RIVER, OREGON, FRIDAY. JULY 26; 1895. u NO. 9.: 3food iver (Slacier, PUBLISHED EVKBY FBIDAY BY 1 S. F. BLYTHE. SUBSCRIPTION PRICR. -,. . . One year 00 Six months ........ 1 00 Three month! ....... , 60 Stijfle copy Cut. the GLAciER- BARBESHOP, . , s HOOD HIVEB, OR.- ' GRANT EVANSProprietor. Shaving And hnlr-cuttiug neatly done.. Satis. faction R'.iarRiiieed. " GUARDED: BY INDIANS Bannocks Control'the Passes Into Jackson's Hole. , f CONFLICTING REPORTS ARE SENT Governor Richards, of Wyoming,' -In-' tends That the Indians Shall Be , Made to Respect the law.' V v Cheyenne, July 25. The first ad vices of .authentic-nature from the' seat of the Indian troubles,, in the Jackson Hole region reached J Governor' Rich ards today in the shape of telegrams sent by courier from Marysville, Wyo., to Market Lake, Idaho, from Adjutant General Stilser, of the governor's staff, who was sent into the reigon to. inves tigate the troubles between the Indians and the' whites. " One message sent Sunday from Marysville is as follows: "Scouts who have oome in from the . moun tains report the Indiaris ; ; in force at the junotion of Granite creek and Fall river. All passes into Jackson's Hole available - to horses are guarded by Indians. : Captain Smith, who'- has just oome irv was wounded in the breast by Indians. Other prospeotors were driven .. from '! ; the -..moun tains. Pickets are guarding the various moun tain passes. Horses are equipped ready for a march and everybody is armed. " A seoond message sent yesterday, by Stilser from the Teton pass, ' near' the Idaho-Wyoming line, says;,,..,,,, . c t ttt a i ; .1 1 .... vv e nave amvou uwo xui.jyui idiuiu trip. , Settlers in the 'basin .are uneasy. It is reported there that many Indians from Fort Hall are leaving to' JoiU'j those in the mountains."1 Indians' from other reservations are, reported joining them. Letters and, couriers have been sent out by Jackson Hole settlers 'ask-, ing for aid, with those who'- havi? re-' sponded, they will go on to the moun tains to 'meet the Indians tomorrow. The settlers have given up hopes of sav ing their crops, and are prepared to take all their women and children "out of the region. " - Governor .f Richards'.vBtates f 'thatno movement " of state .. troops into the Jackson Hole country will be ordered until further i information is received. He sent word to General. Stilser,. wh is expooted to!'reach 'Market 'Lane ' to night, to report as fully as possible on the situation, particularly as to j the success of the Indian polioe in induc ing the Bannocks. ' the' only known offenders among the. Indians, to return to their reservation. ; : - '.' . ' In conversation - today ; Governor , Richards said he "believed the' Indian polioe would be able to-arrest ' all -the Indians now off their reservations, and if they experienced any ' difflotilty the regulars would be ordered,, out to assist them. .., ., . ...; ,.,; ,;if-.-J : , "This Indian trouble must be' settled quiokly," said. the governor, ,. '.'and. un less the Washington authorities take deoisive aotion I will ' order "out ' the state troops to arrest all roving Indi ans. I am determined the Indians shall be made to respect the laws of the state as well as their white neigh bors. . ,. -r:" ,;-r;. ''The authorities at Washington are careless in regard to oorrespondence'on the subjeot. My predeoessor, Governor Osborne, wrote a letter to the interior department, relating to the Indians killing game last summer, The' letter was never answered,71 and ' neither was one I wrote last month. " , f w " . P .. . T Think They Have Him; ..' . Klamath Falls, Or., July 25. Local detectives hereabouts, who have been at work on the capture of the stage robber who has ; been , -until; lately") so regular ; in ;his : Klamath Falls-Ager stage "hold-ups",Athink they have the man. At any rate Sheriff A. A. Fitch and James Engle arrived ' yesterday evening from Pokergama, where they arrested a young.man known -.-as 'Watt Piersorfl who is now in oustody of Dep uty United States Masrhal S. T. Sum mers. Pierson resides' at - Keno, a small place on the Klamath Falls-Ager stage road, and it , is . claimed pn the night of one of the-. robberies he ;was absent from home and f was" "seen to re turn early in the morning. He .will be given a preliminary trial.' ' ." FLOODS IN NEW MEXICO. Torrent Bushes'' Through New Mexico, v ' Doing Immense Damage, ' f Silver City, N. ' M. , July 25. Be tween 8 o'clock and midnight Sunday night, .five inches of , , rain fell in this oity and on the mountains to the north. Before 9 o'clock, the water was rushing down the mountain sides in torrents, and a few minutes later the business streets of this city were '.filled with 1 a flood from four to eight feet deep.The grade of the streets is heavy, and, the water rushed through the streets with such swiftness that crossing was im possible. A foot-bridge which had been constructed so that the people in the lower part I s town !, could cross to a place of safety in case . of flood, was swept away, and all means of getting out of the flooded ' district was out off. The night was intensely dark, and for three hours the people of,, the city were panlo stricken. " Soores, of people gave themselves up for lost when some of the weaker buildings began to crumble before the destructive' flood, Nine of the buildings were washed down .and many others injured, but, strange as it may seem, no -lives were lost. " The business part of the city beggars de scription, v Many, i buildings are set tling, and the amount of, the loss may reach thousands ,of dollars more than the losses which are , now certain. Some estimates place the loss as high as 1300,000, but this is probably exces sive,1 The railroad company sustained heavy loss, and it will take more than a week to repair the. track so that a train oan tie got ' herei Telegraph com munication has just been established. .CLAIMED BY, ENGLAND,., The tittle Island of Trinidad off the ' Coast of Brazil. New York, July 25. A Herald dis patch from Buenos Ayres says: A correspondent in Eio Janeiro tele graphs that advices to the English le gation' there deolare-that England claims the island of Trinidad as her own. One cargo of coal, it is reported, has been landed on the island already. In f view,"of this ; It was decided by Brazil's ' cabinet to formally protest, and a message to that effect was at onoe sent to Brazil's minister in Lon don; ' Fierce artioles have appeared in the Brazilian papers denouncing Eng land for her appropriation of territory belonging to Brazil, , as that ' country affirms, f The correspondent ' says that these artioles" ask -particularly '' where the Monroe doctrine applies now. They desire to see it used as a political me dium in settling the question. Senor Cabral, the.,coyernor.,of .the territory of Amapa, f has., arrived( jn Para, and.says i thatxin rnany cases French marines provoked trouble in that territory, .a-.. Followers of Governor Cavilho, of the state of Bio ftrande do Sul, have protested to the' federal government against granting any indulgence to the rebels in View of the prospect of $ re sumption of aotive fighting ft ,1 N i POOR i. CONDITION. California Fruit Sold in London ' .Was a-Fraud. London, JulyT 25. Reports have been current that the " consignment of California fruit which arrived here last week by the steamer Paris; from New York,' .and was sold at ; Covent Garden market at auction Friday last, was not looked upon with favor in some quar ters. " Several leading dealers who pur chased' Jthe fruit were interviewed. They all said they were " disappointed with the goods, f which,., when, opened for inspection" previous '.to ' the sale, seemed firm and hard. - But the dealers say .they Ibecame .discolored when the papers were. removed and ..the fruit ex posed to the air..; They , also, said . the plums were not of desirable quality. One of them said: i , ,': We aooount for ; the ' large j prioes paid for the fruit by the fact that fruit is scare on the continent and in Eng land. ! The next lot will not realize the same prices."; ' j, . ' Another dealer said: - . t "I lost the money -1 paid ""for the fruit' The fruit is undesirable for table use, so far as the English buyer is concerned,'' r r.JL. "f One of the largest dealers ' has writ ten- to White Co.v the auctioneers, demanding a rebate, on the ground that the fruit is not a desirable kind. The dealers showed samples of the fruit in support of their critioism. The Hawaiian Expedition. . San Franoisco, July 24. Consul Wilder of Hawaii says he does not think there is any t foundation , for, the news from Pott Townsend' that vessels have been loaded there with munitions of "war for the Hawaiian islands, and that an uprising ,. against the existing government may take place next Sep tember A telegram published yester day stated that the United States gov ernment has instructed the customs au thorities of the Puget sonnd district to prevent the fitting out of , filibustering expeditions for Hawaii. Mr. Wilder said that be had no information about an order having been issued and he did not know of any shipment of arms from Puget sound ports. ! Furthermore,, he says the royalists have no money with which to' make suoh 'warlike preparations. , ' IS BROUGHT TO TRIAL The Durrant Case Now Beiore the .Court. THE NEWSPAPERS SIZED UP Proceedings Begin by the Defendant's Counsel Moving for a Change of , -Venue-rolnies Tragedies.. : " ; San Francisoo, July ', 24. Hundreds of people surrounded, the county jail this morning, eager ! to see William Henry Theodore Durrant taken , to ., the new city hall to be tried for the mur der ' of Blanche Lamont ' and Minnie Williams, in .Emanuel church 7 last April. It was supposed that Durrant would be kept in jail . until - near, the time for commencing the trial. The waiting crowds were disappointed. " At 8:45 Sheriff Whalen sent his private buggy to the oounty jaiL Durrant and Chief Jailer Satler entered this open buggy and started hall. No one saw the deputy jailers, handcuffed and the alone for the city them start except Durrant was not pair attracted no attention as they drove quietly through the streets. The early . hour disap pointed watchers at both 'ends of the journey.. ; After Durrant had . passed into the courtroom where he was taken for safety, crowds began to. gather at the jail and all the streets in the vicin ity were black with people until long after the hour for opening the court. People early filled the- oorridors lead ing to the courtroom of Superior Judge Murphy, before whom Durrant is to be tried..'.' f.c , !::,.; .'t' 5 i t-y . A squad of deputy sheriffs and de- teotives kept the crowd on the move, until the regular hour for opening the court. ' Deputies guarded both doors of the courtroom and admitted none but jurors, attorneys and newspaper - men. These occupied ' all ' the seats in the room; all chairs being taken out, and Judge 'Murphy peremptorily ordered that none others be admitted. V ' .Purrant's father,,., who greatly re sembles his son, and who looks to be only about the same age, was early at court to meet his son.. , The two sat in quiet conversation, as the room gradu ally filled up.: ,When Durrant was first arrested, his mustache hid - his mouth, and his ; long hair gave him the i appearance of a student."-Now bis closely cropped hair gives him the appearance of a criminal, and ' his clean-shaven lips reveal the ooarse sen suality of his mouth. " Three months' confinement in jail have made his nat urally colorless complexion even more pallid and pasty.' " He is fatter' than when arrested, and his eyes were very bright as he glanced around the room. It is only by an effort that .Durrant seems able to fix his attention on one subjeot, but he frequently forces him self to concentrate his eyes and mind. 1 The defendant,. was represented by Attorneys Deuprey, Dickinson, , and Thompson. District Attorney Barnes personally appeared for " the prosecu tion, i . accompanied by Assistant ' Dis trict Attorney Peixotto. . Captain of Detectives Lees and all : the " detectives under him were in or about the court-room.--1-' When - Judge Murphy ' said, "The case of W. H. T. Durrant, mur der," Barnes said, "I am ready for the people." ' Attorney Dickinson -for the defendant,, then formally moved for a change Of venue ' stating that if : it should appear that it would be impos- sible to secure an unbiased jury or should a state of feeling be enveloped as would render a fair trial improbable he would reserve the right to- .renew his aotion which he asked the judge now to pass upon. In support of his action Dickinson said he would, sumbit affi davits of the defendant ' The . judge insisted that the affidavits should be read although the counsel said that the reading would occupy today and to morrow. Attonrey Deuprey then began to read i Durrant's; affidavit I which stated that owing to publications in the local press the minds of the publio are inflamed against the . defendant and the press and the people are violently prejudiced against him so that he be lieved he oould not have a fair trial. In support of this statement Deuprey read as part of the affidavit excerpts from three' morning and three' evening pa pers published in - San Francisco , in cluding practioally every thing that has been written .about the Durrant mur der.. I.-".-. ';",! ;..' :-' .;'..' V-'' ; The reading of Durrant's affidavit oooupied , the court until noon, An adjournment was then' taken , until,. 2. Thereafter the reading of the affidavit with the newspaper clippings oooupied the oourt without'interruption during the rest of the aftenoon. , On the Turkish Frontier. . , if Constantinople, July 25. A thous and men belonging to the Third army corps has been- ordered to mobilize at Macedonia. In an encounter at Uskup, 100 miles northwest of Salonica, be tween insurgents and Turkish ' troops, the former were defeated with ; a loss of thirty killed and '('thirty ITwounded. The ministers , have - decided to ' send 3,000 men to reinforce Turkish ' troops in Crete. i 1 SOUTHERN COAL COMBINE. Will Control Almost the Entire Output of Several States. , Chicago, July 24. A . special from Chattanooga, says: , , Within the next three months the manufacturers of the South are to feel the grasp of the biggest . coal combine ever formed. It is to embrape and control ; almost the entire ' output of nearly all the mines in Virginia, Ken tucky, Georgia and Alabama, the total value of which is nearly f 500,000, and this is to be the capital stock of the or. ganization. This movement was start ed months ago and 'ater several "meet ings have been held, and the last one at Lookout Mountain two days ago. For more than a year -prices on coal and coke have been going down and down, until coke is now being manu factured and coal, mined at: a loss to the companies. . Every., mine and ; every c6al dealer has put its. product on the market "at , whatever figure it could bring. It is to establish a standard of prices that the combine is to be formed; in snort tne purpose of the organiza tion is to advance the price of coal ' to all consumers, but especially to manu facturers, 2 per cent v .- W-w f i -ii -. There, were nearly thirty reprsenta tives of the big mines at , the meeting on the mountain. . Altogether the,. com bine will include seven-eighths of the coal-mining interests of the South and represent - millions of . dollars. The mines interested are located in what is known as the seven chief mining' dis tricts of , the South, f At present there are no officers, except Mr. Pratt, of the Jehoo mines, who was made tempor ary president ,t .until the-', permanent officers were named., . One effect of the demoralization in the price, of coal and coke has been a gradual decrease in the wages of miners until the scale of wages is now lower than it was ever .known to be ' in ' the mining" districts.' The coal men claim that if the. combine is forced ; they will be able to restore wages of the miners' to;! their former scales., ' HJJ. vtai !.;:;;,'"v':: ' ;.'"" An advance of 2 per cent has already been made on steam coal at Atlanta, and a similar advance will be ordered in all other southern cities. .. - THE COLON " STRIKE. Dock. Laborers and Brakemen on the . Panama Road Go Out. '. : New York, July 24. A special to the World from Colon says: : ' ' Word oomes from Panama that., the dock laborers -and brakemen on the Panama railroad there have joined the strikers. The railroad officials did not expect this. Affairs are ; becoming more and more complicated. ' The rail road clerks are holding secret meetings. The Colon brakemen have, petitioned for more pay, bnt are still working. It is reported that the government is ready to adopt conciliatory measures. , ,. Mr. Outen, of the Danish West In dies, who resides at Galum, has been telegraphed for by Prefect Guzman to act as mediator, as he stands well with both the labor societies and with the government ;. '', i --,.;; The British consul was appealed to to secure' the release- of Fraser, , the West Indian shopkeeper arrested on a charge of inciting the West Indian contingent '" f ..the Panama ; railway hands to.' strike.;' s Fraser is a British subject, and the government released The Barcelona . Steamship'- Company laborers discharged the "cargo of the Spanish steamer Panama on a promise of increased wages, the ship's captain having refused to allow his crew to do the work. ' - The Panama is bound to Port Limon.',' ' ' ': ,.."' '. . ) . 'i. . Charley Fong Sing' Ambition. :-. New .York, July 34. Charley Fong Sing, an American born Chinese, has applied to- the " police civil ; service board for appointment as , patrolman, to do special duty in tracking Chinese criminals.' He has had training for the work in , San ' Franoisco, where he closed up many opium joints and gam bling dens. , Charley was 18 years old when he shipped with Lieutenant De long on the exploring ship Jeanette. He was one of the party from the Jean ette that was rescued by the Russian expedition.'" He received a medal from the secretary of the - navy in recogni tion of his bravery.' "After his return from the Greeley expedition, Charley came here - and married an American girl, who converted him j..tq Christian ity. ; She; is now , living in ; Astoria, Or. ,' where Charley owns a hotel, i ,;. .. ,1' Insurance Company Reorganized , New. York, July 24. At a meeting of stockholders . of .the American- Fire Insurance Company, of " New York, held today in accordance "with legal notice, the company was' reorganized with a capital of $200,000 and a sur plus in , addition of ' f 1,00,000. .; . The available gross, assets are. $625,000. The shareholders are. also ' subscribing $200,000 additional capital and $100, 000 surplus, over half pf-whioh has already been takehi' ''' - " ;; "', v !1 Receiver for a New York Paper.,.. . t V. New York July 24. A motion , has been entered ' before ..judge McAdam, of the superior court of! this city,- fot the appointment of a receiver1 for 1 the New York Daily Mercury 11 DROWNED LIKE RATS A Terrible Collision in the r ', Gulf of Genoa. ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY LOST he Passenger Steamer Maria P. Ran Into by the Ortigia and Stink, Car- " - tying Down Her Precious Cargo. ' ; 'Genoa,' July 23. The Italian steam ers Ortigia and Maria P. collided off Isalia point, at the entrance of the Gulf of Genoa, today."' The latter sank and 146 were drowned. -! V F ,:. The Maria P. was bound from Naples to La Plata, . There was a crew of sev en teen, and the passengers numbered 173. She was ' entering the Gulf of Genoa at 1:30 this morning, when she met the Ortigia outbound.1 ,They did hot notice each other until a collision was inevitable. The bow of-f the Or tigia orashed into the starboard of - the Maria P., penetrating six ' yards and ripping up the steamer like , match wood. The water rushed in, through the hole, and the Maria P. sank in a few minutes."-''.'. -"",': fir? x" . The majority of the passengers were asleep at the time of the acoident,- and had no time to escape after the alarm was given. ?. They were engulfed :with the vessel. , The Ortigia remained on the spot until .6 o'clock, in .order to pick " up the survivors. , She rescued fourteen of the crew and twenty-eight of. the " passengers of the -. Maria P. Other steamers have' been: dispatched to tne scene or tne disaster, and are now searching for further survivors. The Ortigia s bow was smashed for a space of twelve feet along -the', water line. . There is some comment upon the fact brought to mind, by the .disaster that the Ortigia once, collided . on the same' spot ' with the Frenoh steamer Oncle Josephie. ' ' ; ' ' ' , ' The sky was overcast "at the time of the acoident, "and there - was little sea. Both captains were asleep,'.' and Third Officer Revelle was on watch on the Ortigia and Second Officer Angelo was on watch on the Maria P. -. The Ortigia was going at the rate pf eleven. , miles an hour, and the Maria P, at , the rate of eight miles. Both vessels saw the lights of the , other and continued on their proper roads until the mistake was made, it, is; not established by whom, that brought the Maria P. broadside toward the ., Ortigia, r Third Officer Revule, of the Ortigia, saw the danger and ordered 'the engines re versed. But the order' " came too late. The Ortigia struck the Maria P. ; mak ing an enormous gap in her side. - All the boats of the Ortigia were lowered, and the crews rescued all ; they could of the survivors. ., The latter, for the most part, remain in such a state of terror since the rescue that they are unable to give a single detail of the 'disaster. "' ' ''':.'' ,v "; I Captain Ferrara, ' who was saved, says he was sleeping in the cabin when he was awakened by cries' and a great noise. He rushed upon deck and saw the Ortigia backing off, while his own ship was sinking. ' Seeing that all was lost, he jumped into the sea, where he was picked up by the Ortigia's boat. The survivors lost everything Second Officer Angello, of the Maria " P. , who was on watch on that - ship when she was struck by the Ortigia, was drown ed. , Among the saved is a child eight years old who is the only survivor of a family of seven who went down with the ill-fated ship. .An inquiry into the catastrophe has been ordered. , ;, ,,, ,. ' ' The Ortigia had twenty -five passen gers on board. " The wife, brother and second son of Captain Ferrara, of the Maria P. , -were drowned. : ' ,,: At the conclusion of 1 the sitting of the chamber today, at ' Rome, the min ister of .marine announoed the news of the disaster in the midst of a profound sensation, adding that an officer, a sea man and 144 passengers of the Maria P,' had perished. , t ., i, A Magnetic Performance Exposed, t r Tacoma, July 22. Miss Pearl Aid rich, aged 19, daughter of ; a. Presby terian minister of this city, exposed the so-called magnetic force performance given by Miss JAbbott ' Miss Aldrioh did everything done "by Miss Abbott with perfect ease, explaining how each trick was accomplished. She disclaims any supernatural force,' and' 'says "that every trick was done simply by plaoing the members of the committee in such positions that t the force they exerted was lost on the subjeot , ; ; Strikers at Puerto Barrios Killed. ' " New York, July 23. -A ' special to the World from Quezaltenango, - Guat emala, says: The laborers at the rail road construction camp at Puerto Bar ries endeavored to , leave work' ; in ., a body. The military was called out and a . fight ensued between -100- soldiers with- rifles .and .800 .'strikers partly armed -. with pistols. Eleven strikers and three soldiers "were killed. 1 -"" ; ' " " '.-1' , , .... , Macedonians and Turks Fight. , . . -t Constantinople, July 24.--Advioes from Salnica state that 125 ; Macedon ian insurgents had an encounter with a detachment of Turkish troops near Strumitz, in the Maleish mountains. CAUSE OF j THE RIOTS. Explanation of the Recent w. in-China. Ma.BBm... Viotoria, July 25. The Empress of India arrived this evening with Tokio advices to July 12. . The Japanese authorities are in pos session of information from China, giving a new explanation of , the riots in Sze Chuan, and directly implicating the Peking government. Among the commercial stipulations in the peace treaty with Japan, that of opening the remote interior to foreign ' trade has met with the strongest objections from the court and the tsung li yamen, and it is alleged that Vioeroy Lin was se cretly instructed to foment disturb ances in order to prove that the Upper Yang tse, , provinces .were unsafe to strangers.,; .By ,this means, j, it was hoped that aliens might be prevented from availing themselves of the newly granted privilege. .r But since the out rages have been presented with awhol-' iy unexpected spirit, tne government has taken fright and endeavors to es- 1 cape , the responsibility :by degrading Lui and making him the scapegoat. .' This is more than the deposed viceroy '-. is willing to endure, and his followers, , threaten, in case he 1 is subjected .to publio trial", as the French envoy, pro ses, to "publish 'facts iculpating some of the highest dignitaries of -the empire. ?If Liu must fall, he is deter-" mined' that ; others greater r than he ' shall go down with him.-'; i '. , '.' A , Miners Overcome by Gas. p.... Angel's Camp, Cel., July 25. The . vioimty of the Utica mine , here re-, . sembles a battlefield, with the dead and . dying lying round. ' ' Scores of men are stretched out, while those most serious ly affected are being' conveyed -'to the ,; remove the bulkhead of the Utioa north' ' snait, nity or sixty men were overcome '; by; the escaping gas. ,; As one -man . 1 J C .11 ...I j. j- 1 t xi his place. .Finally the,. jbulkhead had., to be blasted out, ' and " the gas issued ,. in such volumes that no ' one could go '. near. SJ'"'.' ''-"' " '. '.;.! - ' The water in the stickle " compart- : ment of the, mine is ' about fifty feet nuuvn him nun invri k,i i i. in h.h i" the fire is extinguished, although this not certain. "Flooding practically, , ceased this morning. '.' Granting' that the fire is out, it will take fully .a month to pump the water out of the stickle. Angel's oamp will not recover from the effects of the catastrophe for a long time, as hundieds of men. with families are thrown temporarily out of . employment; , . ;''". ,s ; ; Protest Against the Durrant Play., San 'Francisco, July 24.-" Local clergymen are making a vigorous pro test against the production of "The Durrant Case," a play based on the Emanuel church murders which was recently written. In preaching on the subject last evening Rev, W. , W. Case of the Howard street Methodist church said: ' ' f'The 'dramatization of the horrible murders1 at the Emaunel ' Baptist church," he said, "should ''be'',' con-' demned. ' Theater managers who put such a play on the boards would do more to corrupt the youth of the ( city : than all the hell-holes of iniquity that flourish in San Franoisco. , Such plays., would tend to cultivate a morbid spirit , and lead the young men and women on the way to destruction." " The Treasury Notified. Washington, ! July 22. The secre tary of the treasury reoeived a telegram today from Mr.' Jordan stating that W. -H.' Crossman & Bros, had withdrawn '" $1,000,000 for export from the sub treasury in exchange for United States " notes. Secretary Carlisle declined to discuss the matter, but : some officials who have beerj watching the exchange ., market express the opinion that. the-, shipment is the beginning of a move ment in opposition' to the syndicate, : who, it is alleged are' holding up ' the rates of exchange, which it is ' desired ' td break down. ' ' " " '.Lumbermen Meet in Seattle, - ' ";- ' Seattle, July 22. At a meeting 'of' the Lumber Manufacturers' Association of the Northwest today, there was an unusually large attendance. The local association was absorbed by the lum-: ' ber manufacturers' association, and six ' more large firms became members. The question of increased prices was - con sidered, and the schedule, adopted early in the month was readopted. ' '' ",.'; Forest Fires in Alaska. ! ' ' Port Townsend, July 28. Immense forest fires on either side of the Alaska ' inland, passage are . reported 1 by the steamer, , City ;of Topeka, and were; on ' such an immense, scale and grandeur , that the scenes . witnessed were mag nificent Much valuable timber,, has been destroyed.' No fatalities orc acci dents are reported. " v ' - - . The Alleged Eustis Interview. , London, July 28. The alleged inter-, view with United States Ambassador , Eustis,' published by the Paris Figaro, ' is still attracting attention. The Sat-' urday Review says of it that it showed braggadooio first; then confidence, then total forgetfulness.