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WHEAT, OATS AND CORN.
A Very Favorable Statement From the
"Orange Judd Farmer."
Chicago, Oct. 2. The October crop
report of the Orange Judd Farmer,
basing its estimate upon oounty returns
and threshing results, estimates the
rate of yield of wheat at 12.6 bushels
and the total crop at 459,589,000 bush
els, divided into 260,000,000 bushels
winter and 199,000,000 bushels spring.
Threshing shows the winter wheat
yield larger than was expected, but the
quality is poor and a considerable part
of the crop will never enter commer
cial channels.
The yield of oats is phenonmenal,
exceeding all expectations, and making
new records in Iowa and the North
west. The measure from maohine has
been a constant surprise since thresh
ing began. The oorp is estimated at
904,000,000, bushels, or 210,000.000
bushels larger than last year, with 80
bushels to the aore. Iowa alone has
over 200,000,000 bushels, with nearly
47 bushels to the acre. The quality is
not in keeping with the size of the
crop, much grain being stained.
The condition of the corn crop Oo
tober 1 is 92. 5, a high average. It is
matured safe from frost, and is drying
rapidly. .There is every indication of
a rate of yield larger than anticipated,
necessitating a final upward revision of
all estimates of the orop.
Peary's Great Failure.
New York, Oct 8. Lieutenant
, Peary's colored servant, Matt Hender
son, and Professor L. L. Dyche, of the
Kansas state university, arrived from
the Arctio regions this morning on the
steamship Silvia. Lieutenant Peary
and the other members of his' party
who left Halifax yesterday by rail, are
expected to arrive in New York this
evening. '
Professor Dyohe, while retioent as to
the details of the expedition, admitted
that it had been a failure. He deolared
Lieutenant Peary had not managed to
forge much further north than on his
previous expedition. He would not
give any reason for the failure other
than the lack of food. When driven
back in the first attempt to reach the
North Pole, Peary deoided to press for
ward in 1894. He had buried food in
the ioe, but oould not locate the oaohe.
He was obliged to kill his dogs one by
one and feed them to others. Dyohe
and his party lived on walrus meat
when they oould get it.
The professor states emphatically
that the party would never have reach
ed America had it not been that when
just on the verge of starvation, Peary
and Henderson killed some musk oxen.
Professor Dyche brought baok about
4,000 specimens of Arctio flora and
fauna. '
An Insurgent Defeat.
London, Oct 8. A dispatch to. the
Globe, published this afternoon, from
Madrid, confirms the report from Ha
vana, telling of the defeat of the insur
gents at Portrere, Las Vergas, near
Santa Espiritus, province of Santa
Clara. The Globe dispatoh says that
a Spanish column, oommanded by Col
onel Rubin, met 2,900 insurgents under
the command of Sanchez, Serafln and
Castillo, and ' that the government
troops dislodged the enemy, killed for
ty insurgents and wounded many
others, including Serafln and Sanchez.
The government troops only sustained
the loss of eleven, inoluding Colonel
Rubin. It is further stated that thir
teen of the followers of Sanchez after
ward surrendered.
To Use a Pneumatic King.
Chicago, Oct. 2. Dan Stuart has
sent to Chicago for a pneumatic ring to
be used at the Corbett-Fitzsimmons
contest The ring is stakeless and the
upper rope is upon the same principle
as the tire on a bicycle. On the floor
is a big rubber mat, which can be in
flated just sufficient to make it springy
to the feet of the boxers and yet not
retard their movements. A fall on the
pneumatic mat or against the rope
oould not result in injury.
OUR INDIAN CHARGES
Their Fishing Rights on the
. Columbia River.
PROTECTION WILL BE AFFORDED
A Report on the Wonderful Painted
Rocks at Tumwater and Wlshain
Spokanes and Their Lands. .
Washington, Oct 8. In his annual
report the commissioner of Indian
affairs has something to say about In
dian fishing on the Columbia. "From
time immemorial," says he, "the In
dians have been accuatonied to fish in
the Columbia river, but inch . by inch
they have been forced back by the
whites from the best fishing grounds,
and not allowed to fish with the whites
in common as provided in the treaty
oonoluded June 9, 1855. They have
borne this denial with patience, but
urged that they be restored to their an
cestral and treaty rights. Agents have
twioe been sent to investigate and as
certain the best method of settling the
matter. Both reported that it was the
duty of the government to proteot the
Indians in their treaty rights to their
valuable fisheries, and reoommended
that the attention of district attorneys
for Oregon and Washington be called
to the matter in order that proceedings
might be instituted in the federal
courts looking to the protection of the
Indians, and with a view to enjoining
encroaching parties from further inter
ference with them. "
The commissioner says that such ac
tion has been taken and that the dis
trict attorney of Washington has al
ready been instructed to take measures
to protect the Indians.
Indian Agent Irwin, of the Yakima
agenoy, who recently visited the fish
ing grounds at Tumwater and Wisham,
has something to say about the cele
brated painted rocks which is inoluded
in the report of the commissioner.
The commissioner, commenting
on
thiese rocks, says:
"They bear the faces and figures in
unfading colors of a race of people long
extinct. Though the Indians have no
knowledge of the people who painted
these rocks, it is evident that this was
fishing ground before the confederated
tribes of Yakima Indians existed.
anA ,
that the anoestors of these tribes had
been accustomed to fish there long be
fore the white men appeared on the Co
lumbia river."'
Agent Irwin quotes from Lewis and
Clarke's history which describes the
painted rocks prior to 1810.
Commissioner Browning says that it
is a source of gratification that the In-,
dians belonging to the Upper and Mid
dle bands of Spokane have finally lo
cated upon their allotted lands and
left the city of Spokane.
There has long been trouble about
the Chehalen Indians and the commis
sioner says that the department of jus
tice has been instructed to institute
suits to put the Indians in possession
of the lands claimed by them and al
lotted to them, and to quiet the title.
He says these Indians have long been
harrassed and annoyed by trespassers
olaiming to have some sort of title to
the lands.
The report of the commissioner
shows that during the year, 541 patents
have been delivered to the Siletz In
dians in Oregon; 1,576 to the Nez Per
ces in Idaho; and that 218 allottments
have been approved for the Nez Per
ces; schedules of allottments to the
number of 974 have been received from
the Warm Springs Indians, but have
not been acted upon. Special Agent
Worden is continuing the work on the
Klamath reservation and additional
surveys have been reoommended.
The Companies Will Fight It Out. '
Seattle, Oot. 8. The city oounoil
has passed an ordinance requiring that
the el'eotrio wires in the business dis
trict of the city be put underground,
and giving the companies ninety days
in whioh to remove their poles from
the streets. The eleotrio companies say
that the expense of the change would
be so great that it would be impossi
ble for them to make it, and they are
preparing to make a hard fight to test
the right of the oounoil to enforce an
ordinance whioh, the eletrio companies
claim, amounts to confiscation of prop
erty. The fact that some of the com
panies are in the hands of receivers ap
pointed by the United States oourts
adds to the contest the feature of prob
able contempt of oourt by the council
if it attempts to have the wires of the
companies changed, without first hav
ing a petition granted by the federal
oourt. . ' ' . ' ,
China Fays France's Claim.
Paris, Oct. 8. It is announced that
China has aooorded full satisfaction to
France for the recent attack upon the
French missions in China.
European Sugar Crop Short.
London, Oct. 8. It is predicted by
an eminent authority, Giezeker, that
the European sugar crop will be 1,200,
000 tons short of the average.
CAROLINA'S SUFFRAGE.
A Measure Which Will Disqualify a
Majority of the Negroes.
Columbia, S. C, Oct 8. The re
port of the suffrage committee of the
constitutional convention was made to
day. It provides for the registration
of qualified voters. The qualifications
of electors given in the following sec
tion are regarded as practically dis
qualifying the majority of the negroes,
on account of the educational and prop
erty requirements:
"The person applying for registra
tion most be able to read and write
any section in this constitution, or
must show that he owns and pays
taxes on $300 worth of property in this
state; provided, that at the first regis
tration under this constitution and up
to January !, 1898, all male persons
of voting age who can read and write
a clause in the constitution, or under
stand and explain it when read to
them by the registration officer, shall
be eligible to register and become elec
tors. A separate record of every per
son thus registered and sworn to by the
registration offioer shall be ' filed, one
copy with the olerk of the court and
one in the office of the secretary of
state, on or before January 1, 1898,
and such person shall remain during
his lifetime a qualified elector, unless
convicted of some disqualifying crime.
The certificate of the clerk of the court,
or seoretary of state, shall be sufficient
evidence to establish the right of said
class of citizens to register and exercise
tne iranomse. '
AS VIEWED BY TRUTH.
The Marlborough-Vanderbilt Engage
ment Commented Upon.
London, Oct. 8. Truth says, com
menting upon the engagement between
the Duke of Marlborough and Miss
Vanderbilt:
' British mammas and their daughters
will soon be clamoring for protection,
if all the prizes inthe marriage market
are to fall to American damsels; the
mania for title is inherent in the Anglo-Saxon
and it is vain to contend
' against it. But the matter is some
what serious to' the United States.
That country must be a great loser
through the accumulation' of its wealth
crossing the ocean, and the United
States will do well to manufacture the
coveted title at home, for it is a wood
en nutmeg that is easily bought The
existence of titles, it is true, is not in
accordance with the simplicity of re
publioan institutions, but, in view of
the heavy drain, this might be over
, looked, and the parents of any girl
might be allowed to buy her a title,
say for 200,000 pounds. The publio
treasury would thus be well filled with
dollars, and the girl would remain at
home. There would be still the diffl
culty of finding husbands in the home
market, for the Americans are strongly
opposed to becoming rich through their
, ladies as British noblemen are in favor
of this mode of enrichment."
THE COMMITTEE, OF SEVENTY
An Effort to Revive the New York Re
form Movement.
New York, Oct. 8. A. movement
nau pun VMtk jivvv mua uv iqvitd lai o
committee of seventy, or to oreate a
.'similar body to take steps necessary to
I bring about a union of all anti-Tammany
forces. This movement is in
spired by the action of the good gov
I ernment olubs convention last night in
I nominating a tioket against the advioe
of a majority of the executive commit
I tee. The chances for success were con
sidered good by those who took the in
I itiative. Dr. C. H. Farkhurst has tele
I graphed as follows to Charles Stewart
Smith, who is at present at Stamford,
Conn. : . .
"Our only chance is to hold a mass
meeting and institute a new committee
of seventy. Last night's inconsiderate
and inharmonious action cannot but
fall dead." '
Dr. Farkhurst is confident that a
combination of anti-Tammany organi
zations and electors is possible. He
attributed the action of last night's
meeting to "youthful -enthusiasm" and
"excessive zeal. " He says that the
good-government clubs, while claim
ing to be the successors of the commit
tee of seventy, have not taken up the
duties and purposes of the committee,
and that therefore the only thing to do
is to recreate the oommittee.
Must Carry a Retail License
Leavenworth, Kan., Oct 1. The
United States internal revenue officials
in this city have received notice from
the department at Washington to col
lect retail license from the Keeley in
stitute at the National Soldiers' Home
at Fort Leavenworth. The ground is
taken the liquor is sold to inebriates.
The government of the home refuses to
make payment, claiming that the gov
ernment runs the Keeley cure, and the
Home is consequently a partner in the
business. .
Condition of National Banks.
Washington, Oct. 2. Deputy Con
troller of the Currency Tucker has
called on national banks for a state
ment of their condition at the close of
business September 28, and also for a
statement of taxes of all kinds paid by
them during the fiscal year.
THE PAWNSHOP AGAIN
What Durrant's Attorneys
Will Try to Prove.
THE OTHER RING IN EVIDENCE
Oppsnhelm's Store and. Dr. Cheney's
Medical Lecture Will Again
Figure In the Trial.
San Francisco, Oct 2. Since the
adjournment of the Durrant trial Fri
day, the prisoner's attorneys have visit
ed the Cooper medical college several
times, and have had frequent inter
views with students whom they will
put on the stand in hopes of braoing up
the alibi whioh the defense hopes to es
tablish. )
It is thought that several of the col
lege boys will testify to having seen
the accused between 1 - and 2 o'clock
the afternoon of April 8, but if any
will give evidence of the faot that Dur
rant wps in the college until 8:80 in
the afternoon he is not known. Attor
neys for the defense are building much
on what E. A. Diggins will testify to.
Diggins is a member of the sophomore
class, but frequently attended the sen
ior class lectures. There he met the
defendant , The latter claims that he
spoke to Diggins during Cheney's lect
ure, the. afternoon that Blanohe La
mont disappeared, but Diggin's mem
ory is rather hazy just at present i
Gilbert F. Graham has been sum
moned as a witness both by the prose
cution and the defense. For the prose
cution he will swear that Durrant,
several days after his arrest, asked for
his note book, which he wished to
keep several days to compare with his
own. For the defense Graham will
say he saw Durrant at the college on
April 3 about 8 o'clock. Durrant in
sists now it was Graham who offered
to loan his notes instead of being asked
to give them. Graham denies this and
doolares it is absolutely without proof.
R H. Carter, one of the students at
the Cooper medical oollege, may be one
of the strongest witnesses for the de
fense. He corroborates the story which
Durrant tells of his movements be
tween 1 and 2 o'clock on the afternoon
of April 3. " Carter has been subpenaed
to testify for the defense. In speaking
of his knowledge of Durrant's move
ments on April 3, he said: "I believe
I saw Durrant and F. R. Ross together
on Webster street about 1 o'clock Wed
nesday, April 3." -
Carter will make one of the strongest
witnesses the defense will put on the
stand, while he can not swear posi
tively as to the date he met Durrant,
he is fairly certain that he is not mis
taken. Attorneys for the defense have
hopes that Carter will be able to swear
positively to the date when he takes
the stand. His testimony would mean
much to the man who is being tried for
his life.
When proceedings are opened to
morrow morning, (Jnarles I. .Lenahan
will be called to the stand to tell of
having taken a diamond ring somewhat
resembling the one worn by Blanche
Lamont, to Pawnbroker Oppenheim.
At first, a great deal of importance was
attached to this witness by the defense,
but of late his testimony has lost
weight, as he did' not visit the store
until April 13. Again, Lenahan does
not bear the slightest resemblanoe to
Durrant, and it is impossible that one
oould be mistaken for the other. Their
dress was dissimilar, and in personal
appearance they form a strong con
trast,' on account of a difference in
size, build and facial expression.
District Attorney Barnes and Captain
of Detectives Lees are getting ready to
put in their rebuttal testimony, which
they expect to make almost as strong
as the direct. They will have a lot of
writing experts to Combat any testi
mony that might implioate Rev. J. G.
Gibson in having written the address
on the newspaper in which Miss La
mont's rings were sent to her aunt,
Mrs. Noble.
Already calculations are being made
for Durrant's saftey should the verdiot
of the jury be unsatisfactory to a por
tion of the community. It is believed
unless he is convicted an attempt ' at
violence will be made. The sheriff has
made new plans for keeping a mob at
bay, and is preparing an extra defense
of the oounty jail.
Now that the Rev. J. George Gibson,
pastor of Emanuel church, has virtual
ly been accused by Attorney Deuprey
of committing the murders which have
made his church notorious, he has seen
fit to break the silence he has maintain
ed ever since the discovery of the
orimes. Mr. Gibson has allowed him
self to be interviewed for publication,
and the first question asked was:
"What do you think of Mr. Deu-
prey's speech as an argument in defense
of Mr. Durrant?"
Well, it is a mystery to me how
any man of Mr. Deuprey's age and ex
perience could deliver such a reckless i
talk, when he had in his hand the life
or death of a fellow-being. Reading
between the lines it is easy to see that
the speech was not the one he intended
to deliver. It resembles the sermon
prepared Sunday morning', after the
preacher discovered that for , various
reasons he could not use the one he had
worked on for weeks. "
"Why did you remain silent so
long?".
"Because, as a witness, I had no
right to talk, and I was willing to
take my share of newspaper critioism. "
"Do you think the situation is
changed?"
"Yes; I am virtually accused of the
murder. My name is singled out from
among all the witnesses and uttered in
loud tones to the jury. - Mr. Deuprey
has declared the fight on. The issue
now, according to him, is between W.
H. T. Durrant and myself. The speech
gives me-the right to conclude that Mr.
Durrant concurs in the accusation, and
through his attorney acenses me of
having some connection with the mur
der of Blanche Lamont. The public
must have notioed that I never accused
him of crime." . -
M. Gibson talked sarcastically about
Deuprey, and, asked what he would do
if arrested, Raid, ironically, that he
would send for Deuprey to defend him
" Were yon surprised at this charge
against you?"
"Not at all. His accusation is in
harmony with all the aotions of the
defense from the beginning. You
surely think I am very simple if you
suppose I have been in ignorance of the
work going on in the 'underground
railway.' " "
"Do you think the defense will
spirng some surprises on you?"
"That is a good question, but I don't
care to answer it in publio. I think I
can smell a rat as well as any person.
I hope the rat, for his own sake, will
Choose the right moment to come out of
the hole. When he appears the cat
will not have a bell on its neck."
. " Your handwriting is going to figure
in this case?"
- "So Mr. Deuprey says. He knows
what he is talking about. He is just
as sure of my handwriting as he was of
Dr. Cheney's testimony. "
"What is your opinion about the
handling of the case?"
"In these days, when analogy does
duty for logic, it is positively refresh
ing to know that at least two lawyers
think the people do not see any differ
ence between a bluff and a fact."
"Don't you think they are working
faithfully?"
. "Yes; they are piling up exception's,
which are crushing the righteousness
out of their case. Every technicality
is a curse thrown in the face of a ' the
friend they profess to defend. No wit
ness has done so much against W. H.
T. Durrant as the actions of his attor
neys. I would rather be hanged than
be defended by such means as Deuprey
and Dickinson are employing."
"What do you think of Durrant?"
"Whatever people's ' opinions are
there are few who do not think that he
deserves a wealth of sympathy, because
he is unfortunate enough in the hour of
trouble to have as his best friends two
men whose fame outshines their wis
dom." What the prosecution believes to be
testimony of the most vital importance
in the Drnrant case has at last been ob
tained from a student at Cooper col
lege. For months the porsecution and de
fense have labored to find someone
among the accused student's classmates
who could give some definite informa
tion regarding the leoture which Dr.
Cheney delivered April 3. It had been
impossible to find such a student No
one knew definitely that Durrant was
there. No one could tell anything (hat
might indicate that he was not there.
At last comes a student who can shed
light upon the subject Charles A.
Dukes, the young man who sat next to
Durrant in the lecture-room, will take
the witness stand and swear that after
being unable to tell whether or not
Durrant was present at the lecture, the
accused student asked him as a favor to
him to say that he was there and that
he remembered the faot.
' Dukes tells his story only with the
greatest reluctance. He says he drew
the only inference that could reasonably
be drawn from the request whioh he
could not grant. For the sake of his
classmate Dukes deoided that he would
not speak.. He says Durrant wanted
him to remember the fatal day and' his
presence at the leoture without any
reference to the truth or the facts. He
added:
. "I oould not grant his favor, but I
wished to remain silent, as I did not
want to hurt his case if I oould not
help it"
A New Federation. :
' Denver, Oct. 2. One of the most
important meetings of railroad em
ployes ever held in the West will occur
here October 19, when over 200 dele
gates, representing 7,000 members in
Colorado and adjoining territory of five
of the best-known labor organizations
in the country, will assemble and the
Federation of Railway Organizations
will be perfeoted. The outcome of the
meeting is not dreaded by railway
magnates, as every superintendent,
manager and receiver of every great
Western system has indorsed the move
ment : The organizations which will
take part in the conference are the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers,
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, Or
der of Railway Conductors, Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen and Order
of Railway Telegraphers.
CULBERSON IS FIRM'
Big Fight Will Not Take Place
If He Can Stop It.
DEPENDS UPON THE LEGISLATURE
He Has Not Receded From His Fur
pose to Kn orce the Law Regard-i
less of Judge Burt's Opinion.
Austin, Tex., Oct. 1. The follow- .
ing from there is direct from the gov- '
ernor's office, and is self-explanatory:
Governor Culberson stands firm in
his position against prizefighting. He
intends to suppress it and will exert
every power of his office to that . end.
He believes the law, as it now stands,
is against prizefighting, and that the
decision of Judge Hurt is fundamental
ly wrong. His proclamation issued
Friday does not recede one inoh from
his his declared purpose to enforce the
law, regardless of the Hurt opinion.
He simply begins with the mild pacific1
measures, before force is used. The
legislature will convene Ootober 1, and
the case against Controller Finley, it
is expected, will be set for hearing in
the supreme court, October 10. Should
the decision of the supreme oourt be
against the state, there will remain the
law against disturbances of the peace.
. Ex-Governor O. M. Roberts has writ
ten Governor" Culberson, commending
his action in convening the legislature.
There are grave doubts, however, about
the legislature passing the law with
the requisite two-thirds vote to give it
immediate effect. Inquiries sent : to
members, so far as heard fronl, indioate
that a law to take immediate effect
making prizefighting a felony, will go
through by an 'overwhelming majority.
It is thought, however, by those favor
ing the fight, that Governor Culberson
should have celled the legislature after
Judge Hurt's decision and before the
fight, as the club has already spent
thousands of dollars. He waited, how
ever, three weeks, and to prevent it
now will cause serious loss to innocent
parties and be an act of injustioe. Sev
eral members of the legislature are
known to entertain this view, and it
may be they can muster enough force
to prevent a two-thirds majority.
Eleven senators can defeat the emerg
ency clause, and it is well known the
senate and governor were not on good '
terms at the adjournment of the legis
lature last winter.
Chicago, Oot. 1. The Tribune will
tomorrow publish interviews with a
number of Texas senators and repre
sentatives giving their position regard
ing the passage of the law with an
emergency clause to prevent the Cor-'
bett-Fitzsimmons fight. They are
without exception favorable to the law.
A Talk With Fitzsimmons. ;
San Antonio, Oct 1. Fitzsimmons
arrived here today. He was in a mood
for talking, and, in response to a ques
tion, said:
"The articles of agreement call for
my fight with Corbett to take place at
Dallas, and if the fight cannot be held
I will certainly claim my $2,500 forfeit
from the Florida Athletic Club. If I
get the forfeit, I do not care where I
fight Corbett It can take place in
Mexico, Indian territory or Coney isl
and any place possible so I can get a
ohanoe at Corbett.
"I want to say right here I don't like
the way Brady is figuring in the affairs
of the Florida Athletio Club. . In re
gard to picking a referee, he wishes me .
to name my referee before October 81,
so he oan fix him; that is certainly his
object. But I will not pick my referee
until the day of the fight Brady says
if I do not pick a referee pretty quick
he will substitute Peter Maher for Cor
bett' 1 know from an inside source
that Brady has an interest in the Flor
ida Athletio Club. If anyone says he
has not, I will bet $500 that he has,
and prove it. I think Stuart is an up
right man, but I don't like Vendig,
and you can put that down. "
MR. SMITH EXPLAINS.
The -Financial Position of the Oregon
Improvement Company. ' .
New York, Oot 8. President
Smith, of the Oregon Improvement
Company, issued a ciroular to stock
holders defining the financial position
of the oompany with reference to the
default in interest today ' for the half
year on the second consolidated 5 per
cent bonds. The total assets, ' when
the present management assumed con
trol, amounted to $580,630, of which
$22,669 was cash. Since July 1, there
has been received $58,000 from t San
Franoisoo. The only debt now owed ,
in New York is $107,810 due the sink
ing fund. There Will be due Decem
ber 1, next, $437,610, against which
there is now on hand $58,000. Mr.
Smith states the net, earnings in the
interval will merely "pay the first mort
gage and sinking fund requirements.
From $287,500, to $852,500 will be
needed for repairs to steamships and .
coal mines. It is not believed in the
fiscal year, ending November 80, the
fixed charges will have been earned.
These amount to $660,600, on the out
standing bonds.