The Hood River glacier., October 09, 1896, Image 1

It's a Cold Day When We Get Left.
VOL. 8.
HOOD RIVEROREGON FRIDAY. "OCT. 9, 1896.
NO. 20.
From AH , Parts of the New
' World and the Old. v.
OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS
Comprehensive Review of the 'Import
nt HaDMnlnn of the Put Week
' Culled From the Telegraph Columns
The killing ol Frank Hepburn, eon
of Congressman Hepburn, at Chester,
Ark.,' is now attributed to a political
oonspiraoy. The first report stated
that a duel was fought. ,
Lee Ah Mee, a waiter, was shot and
instantly killed by unknown assassins
in San Franqisoo, as a result ol a high
binder war. ' Another shooting affair
occurred the same evening, but no one
was killed. 4, ;'t ;' ..
Three dead bodies have been taken
from the Chioago river, and men. are
at work dragging the stream for more.
The remains are those of infants and
bad been in the water, for , some time.
The dootors assert that they had all
been drowned, and it is thought that
they have been the viotima of a baby
farmer. ' ' : ' - : ' '.' -
A fatal - collision occurred : on the
Southern Paoifio railway, bait a mile
south of Green's station, Oregon, re
sulting in the death of John MoGon
igle, of Portland, fireman, and A. N.
Toy, a brakeman. Five others were
seriously injured. ." The 'oollision was
J A- . . . '--
uuo 10 a oonauoior s oareiessness in
mislaying his papers and orders. f
" In Abbeville, S. C. Willedge Ma
lone, a hoy 14 years old. went with a
shotgun to a oolored woman, Mattie
Hellman, who owed him twenty-five
cents and told her he would shoot her
if she did not pay him.' She replied
that she had no money, and he would
have to shoot.' Thereupon the boy
emptied both barrels of the gun into
her killing her instantly. ' '; "
Cases of poisoning from eating
smoked ' wbitefish - continue to be re
ported from Wisoonsin. ' At Merrill,
in that state, Albert Radlofl and an
other man died of poisoning. Twenty
five oases in all are reported from that
town. Twenty additional oases are re
ported from Brotherton, .on the east
shore""" of Lake "Winnebago, some of
whom cannot reoover. Milwaukee has
also reoeived her share, and fifty peo
ple have, been poisoned in Oshkosh.
The 'news is causing a panio among
fish eaters and dealers. '.
For the third time in six months the
Sonora stage has been held up, near
Cloudman, Cal. ' Two masked men
suddenly appeared on either.side of the
road and covering with shotguns the
driver, ordered him to "hold up."' He
was then ordered to throw out the mail
saoks and told to drive on. The mail
saoks were rifled of registered letters
and left on the road where they were
subsequently found by the postmaster
of Cloudman. The amount seoured by
the robbers is unknown, but is believed
to have been large. , "; ,i i '-.'
The barge Sumatra, the oonsort of
the W. B. Arnold, from Chioago, with
a load of railroad iron, foundered off
Government pier, near Milwaukee.
Four sailors were drowned. .The oap
tain, mate and cook were resoued by a
life-saying crew.;; ,;:; j ; ;, ;i '', v, i
Jennie Love was shot in the head and
instantly killed by William Swanson
in St. Louis. The testimony of several
witnesses goes to show that the bullet
which ended the woman's life was in
tended for William Lee, a negro with
whom Swanson had been quarreling.
Jealousy about the woman is the cause
alleged. '
A vicious St. Bernard dog attaoked
a patty of sohool obildren in Marys
ville, Cal. Laura Baumann, aged 7,
was bitten about the faoe and head and
will probably die; Baby Knobs, was
almost torn to shreds, its arms and
breast were terribly bitten, and it can
not reoover. Albert Euohs was bitten
through the wrist, and will reoover,
unless rabies follows. . A little girl
was bitten in the leg, but will reoover.
"T)nn" Pavna and Lon Beokwith.
middle-weights, met in Cleveland, O.,
for a finish fight for f 250 a side and
the gate receipts in Lavao's gymna
sium. In the seventh round, when
Payne was all but knocked out, the
polioe burst in the doors and stopped
the fight, arresting all the principals,
seoonds and referee. Two hundred
spectators were in attendance,' and
only ten of them escaped, jumping
from the windows. All of the patrol
wagons in the oity made trip after trip
oonveying the crowd, whioh oontained
many prominent oitizens, to the sta
tion. . ; ..
It is reported that Lewis Gimm, of
-11 1 J i u A 4.1 a I
Uieveiunu, w. , wie iiuiuorui wjo auibjti-
oan 24-hour indoor biyole reoord, ' is
mentally unbalanced from the effeots
of his remarkable performance in that
oity last week. ; Gimm rode 486 miles
and 1,115 yards in 23) hours, break
ing the American reoord by more than
83 miles. . He would ,have fallen from
his wheel at the finish' but for the
Judges, who noticed the movements of
the rider and carried him from the
.traok. ..
A Touch of WomnlT Grace.
The members of the party composed
of federal generals who are touring the
oountry in the interests of the Repub
lican party unite in saying that the
most pleasing incident so far of their
journey was a delicate bit of oourtesy
shown by Mrs. Bryan, wife of the
Demooratio oandidate for president,
who, while the procession in honor of
the visiting generals was moving past
her house in Linooln, Neb., displayed
over her door a large portrait of Wil
liam McEinley, tastefully draped in
the national colors... It was a touch of
womanly garce, beautiful as it was un
expected, and General Alger says that
he will Cherish it as a sweet reoolleo
tion plucked from, .an aorimonious
campaign until the end of his days.
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Match GlrU on Strike.
Rather than have ' their , teeth ex
amined and repaired, half of the 800
girl employes of Edwin Gould's big
match , factory at Passaio, N. J., have
gone on a strike, and deolare they will
never work for suoh a horrid man
again..". Phosphorous, which is used in
making matohes, if allowed to act on
deoayed teeth, will evntoally subjeot
them to disease and , leave them orip
pled for life. Damage suits may re
sult.: Gould, therefore,; ordered the
girls to submit to an examination by a
dentist, but they refused. 1 -
V '. ' .' " '' 1 t' 'i '.: A
Will Bead just Wage Bate.
.The Carneige Steel Company, of
Homestead, Pa., has notified its em
ployes in the mills that a "readjust
ment" of the existing wage scale is de
sired by the oompany. This, the men
say, means another out in wages. Un
der the agreement with the workmen,
each side is required to give a ninety
days' notice of any change desired in
the wages paid. The present scale
expires January 1, when the new soale
will be put into effect. " .
" Storm on the Potomac.
Reports from the upper Potomao
show, that high winds did great dam-,
age to property this side of the moun
tain. - In addition to the1 wind, there
was a cloudburst that soon ohanged the
small tributaries into raging , torrents,
carrying away muoh farm property and
washing away many bridges. On a
short spur of the railroad leading to
Berkley Springs, thirteen bridges were
oarried off. ,-.
The Power Have Agreed.
There is, says a .London dispatch,
very good reason fox beliveing that an
important agreement has been reaohed
between the great powers and that all
danger of a European war has, for the
present passed away. ' It may now be
hoped that the danger has been con
jured by diplomaoy, whioh alone was
oapable of dealing safely and . ade--quately
with the problem.
' '; j Mine to Be Worked. ,'
Preparations are being hurried for,
the resumption of work in the Bison,
Little Johnny, Mehala ' and Resurrec
tion mineB, at Leadville. At least 500
men are expeoted to go to work soon.
' '.w""v Bead-End' Collision.
' Two freight trains oollided at Phil
son, on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad,
124 miles east of Pittsburg, Pa., mak
ing one of the worst wrecks in the his
tory of the road. Twelve tramps have
been taken from' the wreok, six of
whom were dead. The other six are
in a serious condition. The two en
gineers and firemen were injured seri
ously and one perhaps fatally. The
orew of the fast freight train lost con
trol of the train on a steep grade. It
was going at a high rate of speed when
it struck the other train, every oar be
ing thrown to a common center in the
oollision and ground to atoms.
It Was Bold Plot.
A plot to ovethrow the government
of Nicaragua and kill President Zel
aya, has been discovered and frustrat
ed. Some of the most prominent peo
ple are implicated in the plan, whioh
was well prepared. ; Since the olose of
the last rebellion, in which Zelaya was
victorious, his enemies and a majority
of his former allies, namely, the con
servatives, have been plotting to upset
the government by foroe of arms. The
barraoks . and palaoes were to .be. as
saulted simultaneously, and President
Zelaya was to be assassinated. . The
barraoks were to be blown up with
dynamite in case the assault failed. . .
,' . -.. , Another Big Deficit. :
A comparative statement of the re
ceipts and expenditures of the govern
ment for the month of September shows
the total reoeipts to have been $24,584,
244; expenditures, $26,679,585, leav
ing a defioit for the month of $1,995,
291. The defioit of the three months
of the present fiscal year is $25,194,129,
as compared with a defioit of $9,884,
658 in the corresponding months last
year. Reoeipts for the last month show
a loss as oompared with September of
last year of nearly $3,800,000 from cus
toms, and about $580,000 from internal
revenue. ' '
, Reviewing Stand Collapsed.
During the parade at the Iowa semi-.
centennial oelebration, at Burlington,
la., the reviewing stand containing
Vioe-President Stevenson, Governor
Drake, of Iowa, and staff, and many
other prominent people, ' collapsed,
throwing all to the ground and injur
ing thirty people. Vice President
Stevenson and Governor Drake esoaped
with slight bruises. y
Extracts "From . Report of
Commissioner Browning.
GETTING THE WORST OF IT
. Trouble Between the Prospectors and
' the Aborlgnes on the Colvllle Res
ervation Over Land Titles.'
Washington, Oot 7. Nearly every
report of a commissioner of . Indian
affairs is tinotured with sympathetic
lines for the poor Inidan. In so many
ways the report shows the poor Indian
is getting the worst of the deal. ' Much
of Commissioner Browning's report is
devoted to detail of transactions in the
Indian service, but in several instances
there are the usual complaints about
the encroachments of the white people
upon the rights of the Indians. One
of these is in relation to the Colville
Indian lands, in the state of Washing
ton. The '. last session of oongress
passed a law allowing mineral entries
to be made on the ceded portion of the
Colville lands. The government al
lows the Indians to take allotments on
oeded portions of Indian lands, instead
of confining them to the reservations.
This is to give the Indians the best
pick of the lands which the govern
ment pays for. , Until these allotments
are taken and the lands surveyed, the
oeded lands cannot be opened fur settle
ment. The olamor for permission to
secure mineral entries beoame so great,
however, that in the oase of the Col
ville lands, speoial ; permission was
granted to make mineral entries.
Here is what the commissioner says of
the Colville lands and the encroach
ments upon the Indians:
"Only a few weeks had elapsed after
the passage of the aet before the Indian
offioe began to reoeive complaints from
the Indians and letters from the white
entrymen themselves, indicating a
clear " and determined purpose on
athe part of the latter to use their
right to 'make mineral entries for
the purpose of gaining a foothold on
the reservation. Placer claims were
staked off on lands whioh were en
closed with fenoe and cultivated by In
dians. In the language of one of these
would-be settlersj this was done with
the 'intention of proving up and then
laying off a townsite.' He frankly
stated that 'there is not gold enough to
pay to work and in many places hard
ly enough to swear by,' and that, al
though the lands he desired were in
side of an Indian's enclosure, he
wished to make himself seoure in his
looation for a business plaoe as qucikly
as possible, in order 'to get the start ol
all other plaoersf' "
. The Indian offioe here at onoe began
the work of looking into the com
plaints, and, in a letter to the secre
tary, the opinion was expressed that
the rights of the Indians' were being
invaded. The .commissioner of the
general land offioe sent an agent to
make an investigation. , This agent re
ported that none of the lands on the
northern portion . of' the reservation
olaimed and improevd by the Indiani
contain minerals in such. Quantities
that they oan be profitably olassed at
mineral lands. The commissioner of
the general land offioe instructed the
land offioers at Spokane to aocept no
application to make mineral entries ol
any agricultural or ' grazing land on
the reservation olaimed by Indians,
upon whioh they . have improvements,
and the offioers were direoted to exer
cise -the greatest care to protect all In
dian occupants of lands on the reser
vation. . The Indian agent has been
instructed to co-operate with the land
offioers to protect the Indians.
On the other hand, it is asserted that
in many oases Indians have gone upon
good mining property at the .request ol
certain shrewd individuals, and are
holding the lands until the amount of
the mineral oan be definitely deter
mined by them. By the payment pf a
small amount of , money the Indiani
will pull up stakes and move over on
his reservaiton, leaving the claim to be
occupied by the speculator. While
occupied by the Indian, the claim need
not be worked to be held, and the man
who expects to seoure it can save the
$100 a year which must be expended
upon mining properties. '
In all the time that mineral has
been known to exist on the Colville
reservation the Indians have made no
move to have it extraoted. They will
not work mines themselves. In the
present instance it is believed by many
people that they are standing in the
way of the development of mines, and
this, at the request of men who expect
to make something out of the lands if
minerals to any extent are discovered.
Jealousy the Cause.
Peoria, 111., Oct. 7. The bodies of
Charles , Williams and his wife Belle,
both oolored, were found Sunday along
side the Rock Island railroad tracks.
Each died from bullet shots, and the
doroners's verdiot was murder and sui
cide. Jealousy is the supposed cause.
South Enid, O. T., Oct. 7, Frank
Royoe, a notorious bank swindler un
der sentence to the penitentiary, and
John Stearns and William Baker,
oharged - with horse stealing, escaped
from jail last night.
WEEKLY MARKET LETTE1.
Downing; Hopkins & Co.'s Review or
Trade.
Portland, Or., Oct. 7. Wheat has
taken a position as the leading specu
lative commodity, and there is a grad
ual return of confidence among the busi
ness and speculative public. . The res
toration among the first named class
has gone far toward helping the lat
ter," but the speculators were the first
to start it Imports of gold, which
have thus far been about $40,000,000,
oounting that already received and en
gaged and in tranist, will reach $50,-
000,000 before the end. Those best in
formed among the foreign bankers say
that the top figures will be reached in
side of the next thirty , days. The
movement, however, will oontinue af
ter that time on a moderate scale, as
our exports are heavy and the exchange
market will be too low for gold ship
ments to be oheoked. ' It also looks as
though our exports will be large until
the first of the year, as about all the
freight room has been engaged up to
that date, and steamers that have been
in the Indian trade are coming to the
Atlantio. ports for loads. This shows
that there is nothing in the Southern
hemisphere to tempt the boats in that
direotion. Last week our exports were
4,215,794 bushels wheat and flour from
both coasts and for the . past four
weeks have been nearly 20,000,000
bushels. - ; . -. .'-.
All the evidenoe is at hand : to show
that the arena of depression is gradu
ally passing away, and that the prioes
on farm products have touohed the
lowest point. . Inside of thirty days
there has been a surprising change for
the better. Wheat has advanoed 18
cents for Deoember; oorn and oats are
up 3 cents; rye has made a better im
provement than the other coarse grains,
6 cents. Chicago has not been alone
in the advance as prioes at other mar
kets have appreciated rapidly. This
advanoe in the faoe of only a fair
trade, with no short interest of any
moment and a moderate run of outside
buying orders, showed that it had
merit In the past a large part of the
big advances have been produoed by
the oovering of heavy lines of shorts.
The bulge of 82 cents last year was
largely the result of the oovering by
Pardridge, Roseoranz, and a few other
big shorts. This bulge has been differ
ent from all others, being based entire
ly on the cash demand and foreign
buying, as there have been no large
shorts. Another strong feature of the
advanoe in wheat is the faot that the
oash . markets have followed futures
closer than for years. Millers . and
shippers have taken low grades so fast
that there has not , been such a strong,
healthy condition in twenty years.
Farmers in the winter wheat country
are holding for higher prices,- but
within the past week there has been a
loosening up in offerings from Nebras
ka and Northern Kansas, the result of
the sharp advance. There is also talk
of the Northwestern movement enlarg
ing. Millers at Minnesota are paying
a premium for cash lots, and the best
posted men there say that the mills re
quire all the , wheat raised there this
year. The visible supply increased 1,
410,000 bushels on . Monday, and now
totals 50,116,000 bushels.
OREGON'S HOP (CROP.
The Tield Will Be About What Was
Estimated -40,000 Bales.
'. Salem, Or., Oot. 7. The hopyards
throughout the Willamette valley are
now deserted, picking having been
completed and the brokers and Eastern
buyers are busily engaged forwarding
samples and inspecting hops, prepara
tory to buying and filling orders al
ready reoeived, or at least expected,
says the Statesman. ' Many of the
growers have contracted their hops, in
odrer to prooure an advance to enable
them to pick. This course has been
followed to such an extent this year
that but a small percentage of the crop
is really in the hands of independent
growers, and they will, of course, hold
their hops until the market suits them.
' The crop of ; Oregon will prove to be
about what it was estimated earlier in
the season, .about 40,000 bales. The
quality, in most oases, is exceptionally
good, although some overdried bops are
found, and some few have been sam
pled that are badly tainted with mould.
Sevearl heavy shipments have been
made from Salem already,' the pur
chases averaging 5 to 6 oents, although
one heavy grower is reported as having
disposed of his orop in two different
lots at 7 cents per pound, one lot going
to a California firm, represented in
Salem by an agent, the other being
purchased by an Eastern . hop factory.
. . ' A Hypnotist's Responsibilities.'
i Atlanta, Ga. , Oot. 7. If the ruling
of Judge Foule, of Atlanta, obtains,
hypnotists will have to be very careful
what they order their subjects to do.
The judge holds . that the hypnotist is
directly responsible for the aots of, his
subjects. During a performance at a
local theater the subject of a hypnotist
imagined be was a monkey. He grabbed
a hat off a man in the audience and bit
a piece out of it. The professeor and
his business manager deolined to make
good the oost of the hat and the hyp
notist was proseouted before Judge
Foule on a charge of malicious mis
shief. The judge sustained the oharge
and bound the hypnotist over to a high,
er court
II
Railway Accident Caused by
Engine Boiler Exploding. ;
SCENES OF WILDEST CONFUSION
Six Persons Were Killed in the Smash
' Up, and One Man Went Crazy and
Sent a Bullet Through His Brain.
Osage City, Kan., Oct 6. A fright
ful wreck, attended by serious loss of
life, and made more terrible by the
self -murder of one of . the terrified pas
sengers, ooourred at 5 o'olook this
morning on the Santa Fe road, two
miles north of here. Seven dead
bodies have been recovered from the
wreok, and it is feared that other vic
tims are buried in the debris. - .
The wrecked train was the east
bound passenger No. 2, the same that
had suoh a thrilling experience -with
bandits in New Mexioo on Friday
night last.
The wreok was caused by the explo
sion of the boiler locomotive. The
enigneer should have stopped for wa
ter at Osage City, but, being behind
time, he endeavored to run to the next
tank. Though' it is not positively
known, the engineer and fireman both
having met death in the wreok, it is
surmised that this neglect was the oause
of the disaster. , . The train had gone
but two miles beyond this plaoe, about
to the Peterson coal chutes, when two
terrifio explosions were heard. The
locomotive was completely shattered.
The express, baggage and passenger
coaches came ; orashing . upon the
wrecked engine and the coaches that
were ahead were piled up in a heap of
wreckage. The poaches in , the rear
were derailed, but the passengers riding
in the cars esoaped serious injury.
The wreok was marked by scenes of
the wildest confusion . among the pas
sengers. The nerves of many were at
a high pitch as a result of their experi
ence with the road agents of New Mex
ico and when the orash oame, the first
impression of nearly all was that the
train had been attacked again by rob-,
bers. v
One passenger, William Beckler, of
Los Angeles, en .route to Chicago,
seemed to lose his reason. When the
orash came, he drew a pistol from his
pocket, and, in the presence of a car
full of terrified passengers, took his
own life, sendling a bullet into his
brain. Beokler had been drinking
heavily. He was about 55 years of age.
Owing to the extreme excitement
and oonfusion, little could be done to
resoue the injured and remove the
bodies of the dead until the morning's
sun appeared. Seven bodies were
finally recovered.
' The explosion broke the locomotive
entirely in two, and the front trucks
crashed into a ooal chute thirty feet
from the track. The explosion blew a
hole in the ground four feet deep. The
mail car, whioh followed the tender,
plunged into the hole and rolled over
on its side. The baggage car, next be
hind, was torn from its trucks and also
rolled over on its side. Third from
the locomotive was the express car,
whioh telesooped the baggage car, and
also rolled over on its side. The smok
ing car, a chair oar, and a tourist
sleeper, which were behind the express
car, were also derailed and overturned,
and though their oooupants were badly
shaken up, none were seriously hurt.
The Pullman coaohes in the rear of
the train remained upright, though
they were badly shaken up, - as the i
train was running forty miles an hour
when the aooident ocourred.
A BLOODY TRAGEDY.
Evidence of a Terrible Crime -t Ar
kansas. ; ' (. ..
Little Rook, Ark., Oct. 6. Great
excitement prevails at Devall's Bluff
over the discovery of what is 'believed
to be the bloodiest tragedy in the his
tory of Prairie oounty. Bud Chaffin
and five children are believed to have
been murdered. ' Suspioion- points to
Mrs. Chaffin and John King, her para
mour. , . - .. '' "' '
Chaffin, with his wife and five chil
dren, . lived on White river, between
Desaro and Devall's Bluff. John King,
a hired man, living with the family, is
said to have alienated the affections of
Mrs. Chaffin. . Neither King nor any
of , the Chaffins have been seen since
September 21. On that date King was
seen driving away in company with
Mrs. Chaffin. As they did-not return
and nothing was seen of the other
members of the family, the neigbobrs
began an investigation. When the
house was opened blood was found
spattered all over the floor and there
were evidenoes of a terrib'e butohery
having been committed, but no bodies
were found. The theory is that the
bodies were thrown into the river.
Efforts are being made to looate King
and Mrs. Chaffin. .
Constantinople, Oot' 6. A bomb ex
plosion laBt evening , caused a panio in
the Yenikapou quarter. A 'cordon of
troops was, detailed to surround the
Turkish quarter at Peronzagha. It is
said the military movement was made
in connection with the agitators against
the present regime.
FREDERICK COUDERf BACK.
Unearthed Valuable Information Per
.. taining to Venezuela Boundary.
New York, Oot. 6. Frederick R.
Coudert, the eminent lawyer and mem
ber of the Venlzuela commission, ap
pointed by President Cleveland to in
vestigate the Venezuela boundary ques
tion, returned to this oity today from
The Hague, on the 'French liner La
Bourgogne. , Mr. Coudert went abroad
for the purpose . of examining the old
Dutch reoords relating to th6 Vene
zuela boundary, and has spent consider-.
able time over government archives,
with the result that quite an array of
new testimony bearing upon the point
at issue , has been unearthed. Mr. ,
Coudert was seen tonight oonoerninft
the result of his trip. He said much .
bad been aooomplished.
"Immediately upon my arrival at
The Hague," said he,' "I met Professor
Barr, of Cornell . university, who, as
the representative .of the commission,
had already spent much time in gather
ing data. Together we went through
the reoords very thoroughly.' Then we
went to London, where many of the
reoords were transferred at the time of
the purohaseof Guiana, in 1815. Many
of these reoord had already been pub
lished by the British government and
very fairly." ' We found other useful
evidenoe, however, and both in Lon
don and Holland met uniform oourtesy
in the proseoution of our searoh." 1
, "Were all the records prior to 1815'
transferred to London at the time of
the sale?", he was asked. '
"No, indeed," said Mr. Coudert,
"not 'all of them. We found some
very valuable papers in the old Dutoh
reoords.
Just how valuable the recoids were
or what they tended to etablisb, Mr.
Coudert would not disolose, but reiter
ated his statement that they were valuable.-
.-
Another useful source of informa
tion, he said, was the propaganda at 1
Rome, where some of the most valu
able records were found. '
"The pioneers in this' territory," he
said, "were monks, chiefly of the order
of Capuchins, and their reports to
their home order oontain muoh inf or
mfition, which both parties to the con- '
troversy have been allowed to avail ,
themselves of. "' , -
Regarding the correspondence which
has passed between Secretary Olney
and Lord Salisbury recently, Mr. Cou- ;
dert said: ' . "'.:,.' :
"I understand that this correspond
ence deals with the subject of arbitra
tion generally and . cannot be specific
ally applied to Venezuela controversy.
The recent visit of Joseph Chamberlain
did not, in my opinion, have any con
nection with this case. So far as I
know . officially, nothing further has
been accomplished in the matter than
when I left, and if any negotiations are
being oonduoted by the executive of the
government to settle it, they are un
known to me. . I cannot say when the
commission's report will be ready, nor
whether it will be finished before Presi
dent 'Cleveland's term of office ex
pires." .
; CHANGED THEIR MINDS. '
Port Halt Indians Decline to Sell
" , ' Their Lands.
Pooatello, Idaho, Oot. 6. United
States Commissioners Hoyt, Goodwin
and Barge, met the Indian chiefs, fif
teen in number, of the Bannook and
Shoshone tribes of the Fort Hall reser
vation, at Ross Fork, ' today, for the
purpose of forming a treaty with the
Indians for the relinquishment of a
portion of their reservation. ' Fully
1,000 people came, from surrounding
towns to witness the negotiations.
The Indians had been promised a feast
by the commissioners and had looked .
forward to the oooasion for . many
weeks. They were there in foroe to
participate in the festivities whioh
promised so muoh enjoyment. When
about to go into council, one of the
Bannock ohiefs, Jim Ballard, a leader
of the faotion opposed to the sale of the
reservation lands, rode up on horse
baok, bedecked with paint and feathers,
and forbade the ohiefs of both tribes
assembled to paritoipate in the festivi
ties. Ballard evidently had the chiefs
under his control, for they refused to
partake of the dinner or listen to any
argument. The chiefs admitted they
had oonoluded to make a favorable
treaty, but upon witnessing the arrival
of speoial trains bearing hundreds of
whites to witness the oounoil, changed
their minds, y ...
A Brutal Prizefight. .
New York, Oot. 6. Jaok Collier,
of Rookaway Beach, and Kid Harris,
of Kentucky, fought seventeen of the '
fiercest rounds with bare knuckles
ever witnesed by old-time sports at Far
Rookaway. They were on their feet
when time was called for the eigh
teenth, but were so badly out and
bruised about the face that they were
unable to see each other, and the bat
tle was stopped. Harris' ear is half
gone; bis cheek, from eye to jawbone,
is out open and his faoe and body are
one mass of cuts and bruises. Both of
his eyes are olosed. Collier had both
eyes olosed, his left cheek cut open to
the bone, and was badly bruised about
the body. . - r- '
Recent Austrian observations in the
Mediterranean sea ' prove that the
deepest s.pot in that body of water is
nearly three miles in distance.