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T Hooe River lacier. It's a Cold Day When We Get Left. VOL. X. HOOD IHVER, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1898. NO. 11. SCHLEY IS GENEROUS. filLES MARCHING ON. LATER NEWS. I 1 ipinaldo Grows Ugly COMPLICATIONS ARE AHEAD Insurgent Chief Drunk With the Wine ' iJ of Success Warned by General An- i ' decson Has . Assumed the" Hale of . Dictator .Loudon,' Aug. 8. A dispatch to the Time irons Cavlte says: It is becom ing more apparent daily tliat there are . BerioUB 1 complications " ahead. ' The Americans' never made a greater mis take than in bringing Aguinaldo and , the insurgent leaders here giving thorn aims and, ammunition for free use from the Cavlte arsenal. Aguinldo, fearing annexation by the Americans, openly 1 oppose them.": "'-.'.' Either 'ho has hecn encouraged by some foreign power, or he has a false , . notion of the 'strength of the Philip pine revolutionists, failing to roognize ' that their reoent successes are due to .,' the concentration of the Spanish strength at Manila, consequent upon the presence of the Americans. Al though he admits no foreign recogni tipn, he talks, of his government and 'dictates to the American authorities in absurd and inflated term a. He has 1 oompelled jtHd"natives of the southern approaches to Manila to register their bullocks and ponies, and instructed the , owners not to supply them to the Amer icans for transportation without his sanotion. .' ;. ' Brigadier-General Anderson prompt ' y adopted firm measures,, warning Aguinaldo that force would be used to impress the means of transportation, which were ultimately forthcoming. Aguinaldo'a attitude makes future operations against Manila problemati cal. ' In my opinion, with the aid of ? '-. the fleet, the city might have been already American. Nothing but the complications with the natives pre vented an advance. ' '.' - I am convinoed that the Filippinos will never capture Manila unaided, and if the Americana withdraw, the fate of the nativoa under Spanish rule would be worse than before. Insane Miner'! Deed. - Seattle, Aug. 8. A L'peoia! to "the Times from Roslyn, Wash , says An drew Warge, an Ani-tmn miner, this morning shot his wife and two small ohildren and then killed himself. Warge was insane ; ' , ,, ; . 1 , Porto Itlcans Protested. ' London, July 80. Aocordlng to a dispatch from Berlin, a newspaper there professes to know that the Porto Rioan POBT OF NIPB. ' Map shpwlng location of the Important port won by tUe expedition under Command. it Cowles. - donlal legislature has adopted a reso : 1 ion protesting against American oc cupation of the islands as a violation of the principles that the United States went to war to enforce. Willing to Divide the Honor With Ills Brother OIHcers. .. Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 8. Shortly aftei the great naval victory oft San tiugo, in which Cervera's fleet was pursued and destroyed by the American vessels of war under Commodore Schley, Captain John Schley, cousin of the oommodore, wrote a letter of con gratulation for the victory won. Today he received a reply, whiuh, in part, was as follows: "Flagship Brooklyn, Off Santiago de Cuba, July 22, 1898. My Dear John: The victory of July 8, so complete in its results and so rich in glory for our country, was the joint product of every one fortunate enough to be engaged, and I ought rathor to thank you in their name than to appropriate the con gratulations to myself. ' " "Surely, it was large enough to win laurels for all, and I assume no other GENERAL JULIAN PARRKDA. " Spanish Commander t Quantanamo Who Re fuged to "Capitulate.'1 pride in it than the lucky place of this ship in the line was. where the first heavy assault was made, and afterward, by hex speed and her direction, she was enabled to keep in the 'scrap to the finish. "The sweetest thought and the great est satisfaction comes from the fact that our conduct that day has won the THE ISLAND OP PORTO RICO. people's love and earned the nation's admiration. It is this which encourages us in the public defense, no matter with what risk to ourselves. If it means peace' to our beloved land and per mits us to return to our loved ones, and to our people, our efforts were well directed. ';' - . "Thanking you again, my dear cousin and schoolmate and friend, I am always very sincerely yours, , "W. S. SCHLEY." , . AUGUSTI WILLING. Will Surrender as Boon' as He Can Do So Honorably. London, Aug. 8. A special to the Daily -Mail from Hong Kong, dated August 1, says: Admiral Dewey has received word from Captain-General August! that he is willing to surrender as soon as he can do so honorably. It is believed he will only make a show of resistance. Dewey expects to take the city -without lpsing a single man. Should Dewey and Merritt begin the attack, August! will propose to capitul ate on these terras: The Spanish troops to march out with the honors of war; the soldiers and officials to be permitted to return on parole to Spain, and an assurance to be given that the lives and property of Spanish residents will be proteoted from naval attaok. The Spanish officer who reported in Manila the destruction of Admiral Cervera's Squadron was - treated as a traitor and threatened with death. While riding near Malate the other day, Geneial Anderson narrowly escaped being shot by the enemy. , : . Populace Enthusiastic' ' Ponoe, Porto Rioo, via St. Thomas, D. W. I., Aug. 8. Colonel Hullngs, with 10 companies of the Sixteenth Pennsylvania, has occupied Juan Diaz, about 10 miles from Ponce, on the way to San Juan. The American flag was raised, and great was the enthusiasm of the populace. SttU . hiiiiii f 'V ' f 'ff; , Meeting Hut Little Resistance in Porto - Kin. Ponce, Porto Rico, via St. Thomas, Aug. 3. General Miles hourly expects. the arrival of transports having on board Brigudior-Goneral Schwan's li vision of 0,00,0 men, and also the Mo hawk, with the Fifth regular cavalry, General Ileniy's division, consisting of 8,400 men, and including 86 pieces of artillery, has been ordored to march Immodiutely to Yauco . from Ponce to be ready to join the movement nortii to San Juan on the l(ith. The Penn sylvania regiment was sent this morn lug toward Juan Diaz, eight miles north of Ponce, en route to San Juan.' Miles says be has no intention of making a landing of troops at San Juan, especially as the place is only a road stead, where transports are liable to , suffer from prevalent storms. The railroad from Ponce to Yauco is now in possession of our troops. Gen eral Stone found five mines on the track. These weie destroyed and the track is uninjured. Our troops found 17 Spaniards in the Yauco hospital, all of whom had been wounded in Tuesday's fight. A proclamation has been issued by the authorities of Yauco as a United States oity, expressing delight at an nexation and the. administration of General Miles and welcoming our troops. The mayor of Ponce has called upon residents of that place to exercise calmness and circums'peotion under the new and desirable conditions. Miles has issued lengthy orders of instruction to General Wilson, military governor of Ponce province and city, until - General Brooke's an ival. It is of the same tenor as the instructions which Miles gave to Shatter at Santi ago, both orders being based on the administration instructions given to General Merritt regarding the govern ment of the Philippine islands. CHICAGO HOLOCAUST. Several Killed and Injured In a Hotel , Fire. Chicago, Aug.' 8. Three killod and 14 injured is the record of a fire that broke out at 2:80 o'clock this morning in theBerwin hotel, North State streot. Starting in a bicycle repair shop ad- unoo Main Hoiufi flail tfoadi joining the hotel, flames spread to the basement of the hostelry and then, eat ing their way to both the front and rear stairways, cut off escape to a dozen guests. Some in the panic that ensued jumped to the sidewalk 'and sustained broken legs and amis; others waited in their apartments and were rescued, while most of the guests made their way out of the building by nutans of a fire escape leading into an alley. When the fire was discovered, it was burning fiercely on a lower floor. Pe destrians raised a cry of warning, which aroused the guests, and they appeared at the upper windows of the hotel in their night attire. ' ! , Fresh Meat for 8 barter's Army. Tampa, Fla., .Aug. 8. The trans port Miohigan sailed yesterday from Port Tampa and crossed the bar of the hay today. She was loaded with fresh meat for Genoral Shafter's army, be- GEN. JOHN J. COPPINGER. sides a quantity of other supplies. General Coppinger, of the Fourth army corps, with headquarters in this city, received orders to go to Porto Rico. Happenings Both at Home and Abroad. A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED Interesting Collection of Items From Many Places Culled From the Press Reports of the Current Week. The embarkation of Toral's troopSj it is expected, will have been accom plished by August 15. The goveinment of Hayti has de clined to permit-this government to erect a weather station on its domain ' Havoc was caused by lightning at Ked Oak,- Neh, Three persons were killed and considerable property de stroyed. Orders have been received at the riavy yard, Chailestown, Mass.to expend 110,000 in repairs upon the old frigate Minnesota. . Nearly all the people of South Amer ican countries are in sympathy with Spain and refuse to believe stories pi American victories. A Madrid telegram to the London office of the New York Herald says the government has received a telegram announcing the surrender of Manila to Admiral Dewey. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Soott has ruled that in the oase of mortgage notes on real estate,' where payments are made on the installment plan, a separate revenue stamp for each payment will not be required. .' The North sea whalers are again at work. Operations near Point Barrow were resumed April 15. Inland Esqui- mos are starving and coming to the coast for food. A deer station is to be established at Point Barrow. The oavalry is anxious to proceed to Porto Rico, but will be obliged to re main here until the Spanish prisoners of war have been transported to Spain, which it is believed will have been ac complished before the next month is well advanced. 1 An attempt by the crew of the stearner Wanderer to get men and arms for the Cuban army ashore a Bahia Honda was defeated by the Spaniarda The Americans 'were forced -to retreat, with five wounded. ' The Spanish re port oi the artalr says tne American losses were considerable. , The northeast coast of England has been swept by a great storm. Fishing fleets have had narrow escapes,' being obliged to relinquish all' their gear and nets and run to the harbor for shelter, where many other vessels were com pelled to seek refuge.-. North-bound trains have been delayed by the force of the wind, whioh has caused consider able damage inland, crops having been flattened. There were some minor wrecks in the North sea. A powder mill at Elmira, N. Y.,r blow tip, killing thq owner. , ' Two men were killed as thei result of an explosion in the Coney mine, near Skykomiah, Wash. . . The Illinois circuit court has ruled that the express companies must pay the tax on express packages. The' alleged charges of bad- faith against the United States attributed to Premier Sagasta are discredited by Washington authorities as Inventions designed to prejudice the successful progress of the present peace negotia tions. ',-;'' A Madrid dispatch says General Cor- rea is arranging for the reception of the Spanish troops which surrendered at Santiago de Cuba, and preparing sani tary stations to prevent the introduc tion of diseases into Spain. ; ' Strict neutrality is to he maintained by England, and Watson will find no facilities" at Gibraltar. The British governor there has so assured tho Span ish consul. Spaniards are busy putting the bay of Gibraltar in a more com plete state of defense. The Hong Eong correspondent of the London Daily Mail says the viceroy of Canton has announced to the foreign office the complete suppression .-of the rebellion in those distriots. He has announced also that four cities have been reoocupied by the imperial troops. With the understanding that no in demnity will be demanded -and that the Spanish sovereignty in the Philippines will be respected, the Spanish news papers consider the terms of peace at tributed to President McKinley as be ing acceptable. - The papers, however, protest against hostilities being con tinued by the United States after Spain had sued for peace. " . Admiral Dewey, at Manila, has dis patched the Raleigh and Conoord to gather up 11 Spanish craft, which, ac cording to information sent him by Consul-General Williams, are at vari ous places lnhe Philippines. Among these vessels are three gunboats at San Miguel, Luzon islaiifl, and four at Port Royal, Palawar island. Four mer chantmen with oar goes of tobacco are reported at Cayagan, Luzon. The same dispatch reports that the English traders at the coal mines at Batan, Luzon island, have been imprisoned and sub jected to ill treatment otherwise by the Spaniards there. x Generals Merritt has asked to have his command increased from 30,000 to 60.000 troops. The Peruvian government is sending agents to Europe to purohase' warships for the purpose of strengthening her navy. . , The designs of tho three new vessels of the Illinois type are to be ohanged so as to make their minimum speed 18 knots an hour. If the ooal operators of the Pittsburg district do not conform with the terms of the Chicago agreement by August .10, 5,000 miners will be ordered to strike. President McKinley, it is said, will call an extra session of both houses of the terms of peace offered by the Un States. . ited The steamer Humboldt has arrived at San Franoisco from St. Michaels, bringing down about 40 people from the Klondike. The purser says that about 11,000,000 from the gold fields was brought down on the steamer... Lieutenant R. P. Hobson, of Merri mao fume, is with his mother at Lithia Spiings, Ga. The meeting between mother and son was a pathetic one, The son kissed his mother, who threw her arms around his neck and for sev eral minutes rested her head on his shoulder, shedding tears of joy. ' Following is an official statement giyen out by authority of the president on Tuesday as to the terms of peace oflered by the United States: "In order to remove any misapprehension in regard to the negotiations ae to peace between the United States and Spain, it is deemed proper to say that the terms offered by the United States in the note handed to the French am baa sador oil Saturday last are in substance as follows: The president does nob now put forward any claim for peouni ary indemnity, but requires relinquish ment of all olaim of sovereignty over or title to the island of Cuba, as well as evacuation by Spain of the island; cession to the United States and im mediate evacuation of Porto Rico and other islands under Spanish sovereign ty in the West Indies and like cession of an Island in the Ladrones. The United States will oocupy and hold the city, bay and harbor of Manila, pend ing the conclusion of a treatv of peace, which shall determine the control, dis position and government of the Philip pines. If these terms are accepted by Spain in their entirety, commissioners will be named by the United States t6 meet commissioners on the part of Spain for the purpose of concluding a treaty of peace on the basis above in dicated." The United States - comimssioners who are to prepare a code of laws for Hawaii will sail on the Mariposa, August 10. Advices from Havana confirm 'the report that General Garcia has relin quished his command and gone home to Camoguey. Intrigue among the powers of Europe to shut us out of the Philippines is said to have been checkmated by Pres ident McKinley's course.. A Madrid correspondent says thot a band of 800 OarlistS recently appeared near Seo de , Urge, in Catalonia, and the tioops are pursuing them. The London , Times announces that the Royal Ulster Yacht Club has ar ranged to challenge for the America's cup. 'Xhe JNew York Yacht Club will be notified of the decision immediately. General Merritt has sent notioe to Washington that he was about to com bine with Dewey in a joint demand for the surrender of Manila, thus forestall ing the insuigents, and. this movement may cause a rupture, President McKirjley'a proposal has reached Madrid, and the Spanish cabi net met Monday to consider and decide upon the reply to be made. The terms offered.it is quite likely, will be ac ceded to immediately. Hostilities in the Antilles in that case will be sus pended at once. The governor-general of Manila, tele- garphing to Madrid, says that' aid is in dispensable to resist the imminent at tack of the American forces under Gen eral Merritt. The foreign warships in the bay, the dispatch says, answered the salute in honor of the' queen's saint day, and the American vessels display ed the American flag. Some of the members of the Spanish conservative party question the utility of preserving the Philippines because of the enormous cxpensse that a suppres sion of the insurgents would entail. The latest dispatches from Captain-General Augustin are so despondent about the resources at his disposal that it is sur mised that the fall of Manila is immi nent. General Greely announces that he is now in direot communication by cable with General Miles' headquarters at Ponce, having sent the cable instru ments from St. Thomas. The British officials who coiflrol the cable are will ing to tarnsmit messages for the United States government over it, provided our forces are in possession of the cable terminals, but they will not allow their cables to be used if the instru ments are out in at any intermediate point 1 I Miles' Easy Conquest of Porto Rico. VOLUNTEERS SURRENDERING Supplies in Abundance for the Amer ican Troops Revenue From Custom House People Are Overjoyed at the Arrival of the Army. - - ' Washington, Aug. 2. General Miles, in command of the Porto Rican expedi tion, sent the following dispatch to Sec retary "Alger, which was made public at the war departmental lOo'clook to night: "Ponce, Porto Rico,' Aug. 2. Secre tary of ' War, Washington, D. C. : Four telegrams reoeived, and answered by letter. Volunteers are surrender--ing themselves wi tli arms and ammuni tion. Four-fifths of the people are overjoyed at the arrival of the army. Two thousand from one place have vol unteered to serve with it. They are bringing in beef, cattle and other sup plies. The custom-nouse has already yielded $14,000." As soon as all tho troops are disembarked, they will be in readiness to move. Please send any national 'colors that can be spared, to be given to the different municipali ties. . ' '.''''' ' ; I ' "I request that the question of the tariff rate to be charged in the parjts of Porto Rico occupied by our foroes 1j submitted to the president for his ac tion, the previously existing tariff re maining meanwhile in force. As to the government and military occupa tion, I have already given instructions issued by the president in the case of the Philippine islands and similar to those issued at Santiago de Cuba. "MILES. "Major-General Commanding." DESERTING TO AMERICAN CAMP Spanish Volunteers Glad for the Chance to Lay Down Their Arms. K Ponce, Porto Rico, via St. Thomas, D. W. I., August 2. No forward movement of the army, is expected for several, days. tThe transports with General Brooke's army corps and the remainder of the First corps are arriv ing slowly. Our troops will probably remain quiet until the bulk of the army has disembarked. Only three transports have arrived since yesterday. They have. juBt appeared in the offing, and only one has been made out. It has on board the Fifth Ohio cavalry. . General Miles will retain his head quarters at the custom-house at the port of Ponce, while General Wilson will be in immediate command of tho troops in the city. , . ' - ( General Wilson posted Genoral Ernst's brigade, consisting of the Sec ond and. Third Wisconsin and the Six teenth Pennsylvania regiments out a mile and a half on the military road, after dusk last night, , retaining two companies of the Sixteenth to act as provost guard in the city. Captain Allison has been appointed provost marshal, and, with the aid of the local constabulary, has preserved excellent order, although most all the entire population of the oity remained Mi the Btreets celebrating the arrival of theiri American liberators until long after midnight. , Many of them had been forced into the service of Spain to escape perse cution. : . . Business in the citv has -enjoved a great boom eince the arrival of tbe Americans. ' TROUBLE WITH GARCIA. He Was Invited to the Flag-Ralslnc , at Santiago. , Washington, Aug. 2. The war de- partmei t has received the following: Santiago de Cuba, Aug. 2. Secre- tary of War, Washington: I have the Sun of Saturday, July 23, in which comments are made as to my treatment of General Garcia. I desire to say that General Garcia was invited by me per sonally to go into the city of Santiago at the time I entered it, but he declined on the ground that the Spanish oivil ' officers were loft . in power. It was fully explained to him Uiat those oflio- . ials were continued in'power until it was convenient to change them for oth ers. Uenerai uarcia s assistance to me has been ourelv voluntary on his nart and he was told" at the beginning that 1 did not exerqise any control over him, exoept such as he ohose to give. ' The trouble with General Garcia was that he expected to be placed in command at this place; in other words, that we ' would turn tne city over to nim. 1 ex- plained to him ; fully that we were at-' : war with Spain, and that the question of Cuban independence could not be considered by me. Another grievance was that, finding several thousand men entered the city without opposiiton from General Gafcia, I extended my own lines in front of him, and closed up that gap, as I saw that I had to de- pend on my own men for the invest- . mont of the place. SH AFTER." V