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The. Hooc River & 3V It's a Cold Day When We Get Left. VOL. VIII. HOOD KIVEIt, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1897. JSTO. 52. CUBA HAS AN INNING. THEY'RE AT IT AGAIN. THROUGH A TRESTLE. aeier Epitome of the Telegraphic vj : News of the World. TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES An Interesting Collection of Items From the New and the Old World In Condensed and Comprehensive Form More than 100,000 cases of salmon have been left over from lust year's pack at Astoria. The famous Tombs prison in' Hew York is to be torn down to give way to a new and handsome structure. , Clouse Clodius, aged 17, was struck .. by lightning and seriously injured at his home on Mill creek, Walla Walla county, Wash. . Portland,' Or., will celebrate the Fourth of July this year. Committees have been appointed and plans dis cussed to have the finest celebration ever seen in that oity. ' Adolph L. Luetgert, a well-known sausage manufacturer of Chicago, has : been arrested aocused of murdering his wife and . burning her body in acid to hide the traces of his crime. : The New York Herald's special from Madrid says no doubt remains that the work of pacification in the Philippine islands is at a standstill. The gravity of the situation there has been fully revealed by a correspondent in Manila, who gives many incidents with dates to show that the insurgent bands are still active. Special reports., from the principal fruit and grain centers of California an nouce a general rainfall, which in a few cases has injured the. hay crop and in ' other' sections has come too late in the season to be beneficial. The California wheat crop will be generally light, but growing cereals look much better alpng the foothills than on the plains. Firms and individuals in this ooun . try interested in trade with Cuba, and who desire peaoe in the island as soon ' as possible, have sent to the secretary of state a memorial, setting forth how their business intersets are suffering, and giving facts about the struggle in Cu'ba, in the hope that measures may be devised to terminate the war. " , The general traffic manager of . the O. B. & N. says that all the railroads interested have agreed to put into effect the new grain rate on June 9 next. This action will be in aooord with the law passed by the last Washington leg islature, making a reducfion of .10 per cent on previous rates. It is estimated . that the new rate will effect a saving for the farmers of Eastern Washington and of Northern Idaho of from $150, 000 to $200,000 a year. . George Francis , Train has reopened his claim to the city of Omaha, and he intends to press it to the last. If he wins he will be worth $20,000,000; if he loses, he will be no poorer than he is now. Certain of his friends have in vestigated the matter, and they arc convinced that his cause is 'just anc that the claim growing out of the ok. Union Pacific litigation and subsequent proceedings in which he was legally declared a lunatic is valid.- "' . Four men were drowned at the Clfff house in San Francisco. Two blacksmiths of Brownsville, Or., have invented a new maohine for pul verizing' Clods. . It has been tried, and it is said, works to perfection. " They have applied for a patent. Of the 114 Chinese who came on the steamer Victoria to Tacpma, only fifty will be admitted. . The other sixty-four will be returned, orders from the secre ' tary of the treasury to that effect hav ing been received. Judge Day,' of Ohio, qualified as as sistant secretary of state. Bockhill, whom he sucoeeded, will remain until Assistant Secretary Day becomes en tirely familiar with pending negotia tions, when it is expected he will be appointed to some foreign mission. ; Harry Flynn was drowned in Lake Michigan, near Chicago, and 1,500 - people saw him die and were unable to aid him. -During .i the excitement .; whioh prevailed Albert Mattari, a spec tator, dropped dead. It is supposed : - that heart disease was the cause of the second accident. The O. R. & N. will send experts tc the Seven Devils mining' district tc make estimates of the probable traffic of that region. The company is figur ing' on dividing the freight business . with the Union Pacific. The construc . tion of a sawmill nearRiparia is a part of the company's plan. The cabinet has decided to send one ' of the new gunboats now building on the Pacific ooast to Sitka, Alaska, about July 1. Great activity in Alas ka, "growing out of the gold discover , ies, has made the president and cabi net deem this step advijjble .for safe guarding Ameriem interests , The recall of the f-rr-.s troji Crete has been received with r 'sig:i:ition by the Athens public. The Delyannis or gans attack, the ' government bitterly for appealing to Europe, but most of the papers aocept this as inevitable and violently attack the Ethnike Hetairia, asking it to render an account of its action - ' President's Menage Brings on a Sharp Iebate In the Senate. Washington, May 19. Cuba en grossed the attention of the senate to day. ..The public interest in the sub ject was shown by the great . orowde whioh beseiged the galleries throughout the day. ' Two phases of the subject were pre sented. First oame the question of the relief of destitute and starving Amer icans in Cuba, and at 2 o'clock Mor jan's resolution caused spirited debate. Ihe first question was presented in. the president's message. ' Immediately fol lowing its reading, Davis, chairman of the committee on foreign relations, pre sented a favorable report on a joint res olution originally introduced by Gal linger, appropriating $50,000 for relief of American citizens in Cuba. The resolution is as follows: v' "Resolved, By the senate and house of representatives of the United States, in congress assembled, that the sum of $50,000 be and the same is hereby ap propriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated for the relief of destitute citizens of the United States in the island of Cuba, said money to be expended at the dis cretion and under the direction of the president of the United States in the purchase and furnishing of food, cloth ing and medicines to such citizens and for transporting to the United States of suoh of them as deisre and'who are without means to transport them selves." Davis asked for immediate consider ation of the resolution, and there was no objection. The only speech made was that of Gallinger, who spoke briefly. He'said he had been impressed at the great mass meeting attended by 8,000 persons yesterday with the state ment made there by a correspondent who had traveled through stricken dis tricts of Cuba. .This gentleman had stated that there was an abundance of food in Cuba, and that it was needless to give relief in that direction. The real trouble, he said, was that the Cu bans were herded in tile towns and pre vented from going out to get the food. The most effective relief, Gallinger said, would be a demand by the presi dent and the government that the Cu bans be released from their bondage in the towns and permitted to go where they could secure food. The senator was ready to assume his share of re sponsibility for such a step. Stilt, if the resolution just reported gave some measure of relief, he would heartily support it without urging the other plan of relief he had suggested. The resolution was then put on its passage, and, without' division, it passed unanimously, there being no re sponse to the call for the noes. It had taken exactly eighteen minutes for the reading of the message, the presenta tion of the committee report and the brief speech and final passage of the resolution. . . In the House Washington, May 19. The house oonfere.es on the Cuban question today made a party issue of it and adjourned without taking any action. President MoKinley's message was received with out demonstration, and on its heels Hitt asked unanimous consent for con sideration of a bill in response to the president s request. Bailey asked for consent to consider in connection with the bill an amend ment embodying Morgan's resolution for recognition of the Cubans as bel ligerents. Dingley would not consent to consider the amendment, nor Bailey to consider the, bill without amend ment, so, the question was sidetracked. The( Special Message. Washington, May 19. President Mc- Kinley today sent to congress a message recommending that an appropriation of $50,000 be at once made for the relief of destitute Americans in Cuba, and the removal to American soil of such as wish to come, but art without means to make the journey. The president s message to congress was as follows:. "To the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States "Official information from our con suls in Cuba establishes the fact that a large number of American citizens in the island are in a state of destitution, suffering for want of food and medi cines. ' This applies particularly to the rural districts in the central and east ern parts of the island. The agricul tural classes have been forced from their farms into the nearest towns, where they are without work or money. Local authorities of the several towns, however kindly disposed, are- unable to relieve the needs of their own people and are altogether' powerless to help our citizens. , . "The latest report from Consul-Gen eral Lee estimates that from GOO to 800 Americans are without means of sup port. I have assured him provisions will be made to relieve them. To that end I recommend that congress make an appropriation of not less than $50, 000 to be immdeiately available for use under direction of the secretary of state. It is desirable that part of the sum which may be appropriated by congress should, in the discretion of the secretary of state, also be used for the transportation of American citizens, who, desiring to return to the United States, are without means to do so. "William MoKinley, "Executive Mansion, May 19, 1897." Friends of the Patriots Meet in Washington. SYMPATHY FOR INSURGENTS Senator Chandler Would Send an Arm; to the Island to Stop the Atrocious Wsr Spain's Action Compared. , Washington, May 18. An enthusi astic audience of men and women, many of them well known in Washing ton, packed the Columbia theater to its doors this afternoon, at a monster mass meeting held in behalf of the cause oi the Cuban insurgents. The theater was appropriately decorated. Seated on the platform and participating in the exer cises were Senators Gallinger and Allen, ex-Senator Butler, of South Carolina; Rev. Hugh Johnson, pastor of the Met ropolitan Methodist church; Rev. How ard Wilbur Erinis, and a number of others identified with the interests of the insurgents. :,' : ' General William Henry Brown, pres ident of the Cuban League, called the meeting to order and introduced Sena tor Gallinger as the presiding officer. The latter made a brief address and read a number of letters and telegrams of regret, ambng them being those from Senators Frye and Burrows, and Com mander Clarkson, of the Grand Army of , the Republic Senator Chandler sent the following letter of regret: "Washington, May 18. Senor A. A. Guirie, Washington Dear Sir: Al though unable to attend the meeting tonight, I send a few words of sym pathy, and of hope for the relief and independence of Cuba. '. As I wish to see the United States declare and main tain the independence of the island, as France did that of the American colo nies and made the United States a nation, of course I shall, as a practical friend, vote for every method pending to the same beneficent end. I hope and believe that congress and the president will soon formally recognize a state of war and Cuban belligerency. This step followed as it will be by all the other independent nations of the Western hemisphere; cannot fail to insure the Cuban independence which is sought for. Moreover, without delay, . we ought to send a fleet to enter the har bor and an army to land upon the soil of Cuba; first, to proteot the lives and property of American citizens, and sec ond, to stop the atrocious and uncivil ized methods of warfare adopted by the Spanish generals. : "In advocating all these measures, I am conscious of no passionate hostility to Spain. In 1861, she recognized the Southern Confederacy within less than three months after its military struggle began, and, surely, if she cannot hold Cuba . without making one vast desert and graveyard by driving the inhabit ants into the cities to starve, and by hanging, shooting or garroting Cuban officers and soliders for rebellion and incendiarism, she ought to lose the island. If, between 1861 and 1865, one Confederate general had been thus put to death, all the powers of Europe, with one accord, would have sent their fleets and armies 3,00(dniles across the ocean to end such barbarism and to establish and maintain the Southern Confederacy. Yet, General Robert E. Lee and all his generals were as truly guilty of rebel lion and incendiarism as was Theodore Mendez Gonzales, who was shot for that offense at Cabanas fortress in Havana Monday last. '.' . "We blame England for abandoning the harmless and peaceful Armenian Christians to massacre by the Moslems and for submitting the liberty-loving Greeks to slaughter by the Turkish des pot. England reports that we dare not stop the methods of uncivilized warfare applied at pur , very doors in the American Crete the fair island of Cuba; and both charge and counter charge are justly made. . "In helping to make Cuba independ ent, we are observing a traditional and universal American policy; the duty to promote at the first good opportunity the severance of Cuba from Spain. In 1896, the Democrats ' pledged them selves to do this by their declaration of sympathy for the people of Cuba in their present struggle for victory and independence; and the Republicans de clared that the United States should endeavor to 'restore peace and give in dependence to the island.' There need belittle fear that these pledges will be violated. President McKinley willingly recognizes the binding force of the platform upon which he was elected, and will soon do his part to ward making Cuba free and independ ent. He mSy proceed with what will soem to impatient spirits to be undue caution, with the cries and groans ring ing in his ears of unarmed men, women and ohildren enduring inhuman cruelty and dastardly murder, but he will not fail to be faithful in his pledges, and he will before long register the decree which went forth in his triumphal elec tion that Cuba should be taken from the control of Spain, and made peaceful and independent. In this faith in a great party and its president, let us rest patiently and most hopefully. William E. Chandler." The letter was received with enthus laam. Greeks and Turks In a Fierce Engage ment Two Thousand Killed. Headquarters of the Greek Army, Domokos, May 19. The Turkish attack on the Greek right wing began at 2 P. M. , but the flank attacks are considered to be feints, and it is believed the main attacks of the Turks will be m,ade on the Greek center, where Crown Prinoe Constantine is in. command Two Greek cannon are doing great exe cution on the principal Turkish column, which is advancing through the hills. The Turkish infantry at several points is in contact with the Greeks. The attack on General Smolenski, near, Almyros, is only a strategic operation, and the Turks will endeavor to cut be tween the two Greek armies, occupy the road leading to the Othery moun tains, and thus cut off the retreat of the crown prince. . Must Not Be Crushed. , Constantinople, May 19. Represen tatives of the powers yesterday drew 'up a note which will be presented to the Turkish government as soon as one of the embassadors receives the necessary instructions from his government.. This note does not deal with peaoe condi tions, but merely repeats the request for an armistice and declares the pow ers will i not permit Greece to be crushed. Although it is assumed in some quar ters that the porte, in accordance with Eastern usages has demanded more in order to obtain less, it is pointed out that if the Turkish government desired to bargain it would not have formulat ed its conditions officially. . ' The powers have agreed to protest against the cession of Thessaly to Tur key and the abolition of 'capitulations. Two Thouxand Killed, - Constantinople, May 19. The gov enror of Janina telegraphs that a divi sion of Turkish troops under Osman Pasha, after having fought two days be fore Arta against superior forces, suc ceeded in inflicting great ' losses and dislodging the Greeks from their strong position. - - . . Constantinople, May 19. Osman Pasha telegraphs from Louros, Epirus, that after a desperate battle near Arta, Saturday, the Greeks retired to Acta with a loss of 2,000 men killed. The Turks had 250 killed and wounded. - .... i .- London, May 19.-According to a dispatch from Athens to the News, the Greek retreat in Epirus became so dis orderly that it caused a panic in Arta, where the prisons have been broken open and many prisoners have escaped. Athens Is Excited. London, May 19. The correspondent of the Telegraph at Athens says: This afternoon has been one of great excite ment. - The whole city turfted out to, discuss the news of the fighting, and the newspapers issued special editions. The impatient crowds gathered -around the offices of the ministry of marine, questioning everybody coming ont and finally invading the building. , The minister of justice, M. Triauta filaca, announced the news as it was received to the anxious crowds. The ministers have been sitting in council until a late hour. AVord has been re ceived that Gen. Mavromichaelis has been severely wounded in the leg, and obliged to relinquish his command to another officer. v Lull in the Battle. ' London, May 19. The latest news from the seat of hostilities by way of Athens shows that the battle yesterday oeased about 9 o'clock in the evening, but will probably be resumed this morning. Thus far no account of the fighting has been received from the Turkish side. It is evident from the Greek account that the Greek forces have suffered a serious defeat; and if the left wing has given way, as appears probabla, Edhem Pasha may be able to cut off the Greek retreat and separate General Smolenski at Sourpri from the main army: Turk Must Come Down. London, May 19. The -conditions proposed by the porte as the terms of. peace with Greece have been freely dis-. cursed in the lobbies of parliament to day, and the idea of the retrocession of Thessaly, and of such an indemnity as is already suggested, is ridiculed as im practicable and absurd. At the outside an indemnity of 5,000,000 or 6,000, 000, and a slight strategic rectification of the frontier, are considered as likely to be the terms as finally settled upon. ' Arid Land Act Not Operative. ' Olympia, Wash., May 19. Assistant Attorney-General Vance has handed an opinion to Governor Rogers, in answer to an inquiry addressed by the governor after his tour of investigation of the arid lands of the state, as to whether there is any arid land act in the state which is operative, and which gives the governor the power to appoint a com missioner of irrigation or other officer to execute the provisions of what pur ports to be an arid land act. Mr. Vance advises the governor that he is compelled to hold that the arid land law of this state is inoperative, for lack of a legislative provision for an ofnoer to execute the intent of the law,: and that there is no authority vested in the governor to create an office not pro vided lor by law.. The Country Editor Knocked, But Was Not Admitted. WILL SOON BE ACCOMMODATED Be Made a Pressing Appeal .to Be Locked Up In San Quentln Prison for Sight Years for Manslaughter. .... .. San Francisco, May 17. W. A. Se horn, editor ofythe Willows Journal, Glenn county, made a pressing appeal today at San Quentin to be locked up for eight years for manslaughter. , "I have no warrant for your commit ment," said Warden Hale, "and must refuse your request. " "Then I shall stay around here until I am locked up," was the reply. Sehorn waited at the prison ' till late in the evening, hoping he would not have to spend another day outside the walls. At last, he went-to the hotel near the prison gates, there to remain until necessary papers for his incarcera tion are furnished. "I have been found guilty of man slaughter," Sehorn explained, "and as the supreme court has affirmed the de cision of the Glenn county court, - I hastened here to surrender myself. My first obligation is to my bondsmen, those good friends of mine who stood by me in my hour of trial. I want to release them so they may not. feel un easy ' about me. That is the reason I desire to begin to serve my seritence. It may look strange, my trying to break into jail, but I realize there are eight long years for me within San Quentin's walls, and I am eager to begin at once to serve my time. It would look more natural for a man to stave it off as long as possible, but in my case I can have no peace of mind till the punishment begins." , " Sehorn was convicted of shooting and killing Dr. J. E. Putman, a druggist at Willows, two years since. : Sehorn. still maintains that he shot in self defense, or rather, with a strong conviction that he was defending his own life in shoot ing. Twice the jury disagreed. On the third trial, Sehorn was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to eight years' imprisonment, t Last Monday . the judgment was affirmed by the suv preme court. ' ' " " , -,';.,, A BLOODTHIRSTY INDIAN. Killed Four White Men and Is Looking 4 ; for More to Shoot. Eldorado Canyon, Nev., May 17. An Indian' called Ah vote shot and killed two teamsters of the Southwest ern Mining , Company, named Lee Franzen and Ben Jones, on the ore road between the mines and the mill this afternoon, and then went to the cabin of Christopher Neilson, a prospector, and killed him also. - The teamsters left the mines this afternoon on the down trip, but did not arrive at the mill on time. Manager Charles Gracey, supposing they had broken down, did not suspect anything out of the way until an Indian came in about 6 P. M., and reported .that Ahvote had taken a gun ; and might kill the teamsters. Gracey at once sent a man up on horse back. Six miles up the canyon, the latter found the teams, while the bodies of the teamsters lay on the ground near their wagons. He returned and warned the people at the mill. A. H. Gracey, the foreman, drove fourteen men in a wagon ' to the , scene, and brought the bodies down to the mill. Franzen had several bullet holes in his body, and Jones one. A party went to Neilson's cabin early this morning and found him dead in bed. A( Chinaman, just arrived, reports that' Charley Monaghan, who lived alone on the bank of the river, was also shot dead in bed. It is feared that the Indian has several more victims who live alone on the route he probably took after killing the teamsters. '.'' More Chinese for Nashville Exposition. Tacoma, Wash., May 17. Collector Saunders today received directions from the secretary of the treasury to admit the remaining sixty-four of the 114 Chi nese bound for the Nashville exposition, who were brought here three weeks ago on the steamer Victoria. The telegram from Washington says that' this action is taken upon the -urgent request of the Nashville exposition officials. . The first fifty of the lot were sent East last week, including the 261 recently admit ted at San Francisco. This makes 875 Chinese already admitted for attendance at the exposition, in addition to a con siderable number brought over by the Canadian Pacific line. The Chinese have certificates entitling them to re main in the country one year after the exopsition closes, but, like the Chinese admitted on similar terms for the At lanta exposition, it is considered doubt ful if they can be collected and sent back when their certificates expire. Explosion at a Fireworks Factory. Cincinnati, May 17. There was an explosion at the powder mills of the A. L. Due Fireworks Company, at Read ing, 0., this afternoon. Samuel Sher boli was fatally injured. Frank Moore and George Buckenbruck were slightly injured. These three were the only ones in the building when the explosion ocnurrad. The loss was only $300. Accident to a Santa Fe Train Near Ard more, Indian Territory. Ardmore, I. T-, May 18. A south bound passenger train on the Santa Fe road, known as the Chicago and Galves ton express, went through a trestle six teen miles south of here at 6 o'clock ' this morning. Fifteen persons, pas-. sengers and trainmen, were injured. Several of these are seriously hurt, and it is believed that two will die. The accident oocurred near the town ; of Marietta. A heavy rainstorm, amounting almost to a waterspout, caused a sudden rise this morning of ' all the small streams in that vicinity. The accident occurred at a point where a steep, narrow gulch was spanned by a wooden trestle. The foundation work supporting this trestle was un dermined by the sudden rise of the little : stream which flows through the gulch, . and the trestle went down under the heavy weight of the train. So great was the speed of the train, however, that the engine and tender, the ex press, mail and baggage cars and one passenger coach passed over the narrow chasm, though 'the trucks of several of these cars went to the bottom, several feet( below. The coach next to the last, the one immediately in front of the Pullman, was left standing directly over, the ohasm, one end resting on either bank of the gulch. The Pullman . remained on the track. , The four coaches which were dragged by the lo-, comotive across the broken trestle were badly wrecked. The baggage car tele scoped with the passenger coach, which -was the smoker, and the latter was all but demoralized. , Most of the injured were riding in these coaches. J. M. Grider, the Wells-Fargo ex- ' press messenger, was so badly crushed , by a : heavy car chest, that he cannot live. E. T. Spark,, of Oakman, I. T., was crushed in the wreck of the smok er, and is also mortally injured. NO MORE SUGAR-BEET SEED. Government Has Distributed Ten Thous- and Founds Among Fanners. Washington, May 1 8. The sugar beet seed whioh the agricultural depart ment has been distributing is practic ally exhausted, about 10,000 pounds having been sent out to farmers in about fonr-fifths of the state?, The seed has been distributed in package ', of an ounce to half a pound, purely for experimental . purposes. The beets grown from the seed will be analyzed and the saccharine matter dcterm ined to ascertain where beets can be profit ably grown for the production of sugar, . These experiments, it is said, will be of immense value, as the best undoubt edly can be produced with profit in many of the states. Wherever it can be so produced, it will give the farmers a new crop. -.', , All the surplus vegetable seed in the possession of the agricultural depart ment is being distributed through con gressmen or government agency to the people in the flooded districts along the Mississippi 1 for planting as soon as the waters subside. ' The Statue Unveiled. Philadelhpia, May 18. In the city which placed on his brow the laurel crown of achievement, the memory of George Washington was honored today in monumental bronze. The cord which released the saddling flags from the figure of the first president was drawn by the country's latest exeoutive. Surrounding him were men in whose veins runs the blood of those patriots who battled shoulder to shoulder with Washington, and with him made pos sible the scene enaoted today. It was a notable gathering, including the presi dent, vice-president and cabinet officers, officers and privates of the army and navy, and the direct descendants of the molders and makers of the nation.-. Bullfights Forbidden. ,w City of Mexico, May 18. The city government forbade any bullfights to be given today. ; The authorities claim the bulls provided for the fights are so poor they do not . justify the price of admission asked by the management. Enrique Mercio, a Spanish bullfighter, has visited the famous bull-breeding farms of Atenco and other - places, and his judgment is that none of the bulls shown him were worthy of the ring. The poorness of the animals is becom ing a serious matter, and it begins to look as if bullfighting would stop for lack of animals to fight. The govern ment is firm, and no performances will " be allowed with inferior cattle. v A shipload of bulls has been ordered from Spain to meet the emergency. ' . Doesn't Concern War Department. . Washington, May 18. The war de partment, having been informed that there has been an outbreak of lawless ness in the western portion of New Mexico, and that the respectable citi zens there have been terrorized by threats from a lawless element, the matter was brought to the attention of Acting Secretary Meikel john, by Dele gate Ferguson, who had heard from the legal officers of Socorro of the state of affairs. The acting secretary,- how-' ever, deoided that in its present shape the case was not one requiring the ac- ' tion of the war department, and sug gested that the judicial authorities be' consulted. Portland, Me., claims a cat able to iaj "papa" and "mamma,"