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"IT'S A COLD DAY WHEN WE GET LEFT." VOL. XII. IIOOD EITEK, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 25, LDOO. KO. 1. hood river glacier Publikhed Every Friday by 8. F. iiLVTHE. Terms o( subscription $1.50 a year when paid in advance. THE MAILS. The mail arrives from Mt. Hood at 10 o'clock a. ni. Wednesdays ami Saturdays; departs the same davs at noon. For Cheuoweth, leaves at 8 a. m. Tuesdays, Thnradavs and Batnrdara: arrives at 6 n. m. For White Salmon ( ash.) leaves daily at 6:45 a m arrivit At 7 : 1 Ti n. m. From While Salmon leaves for Fulda, Gilinor, Trout Lake and (ileuwood daily at A, M. ForBingen (Wash.) leaves at5:4op. in.; ar rives at 2 p. m. SOCIETIES. JAtnKb KCDE.1VAI1 uftiinan i.v i " I 87, 1. 0. 0. F. Meets first and third Mon - . r. i r . ti t T T T nciDPV I f Tlf. I." Vn days in each month. Miss Stella Richardson, N. 0. H. J. Hibbaru, Secretary. riAKRV POST. No. IS. G. A. R.-MeetsatA. i O. U. W. Hall second and fourth Saturdays of each month at 2 o clock p. m. Ail U. A. K. members invited to meet with us. M P. IsENBKito, Commander T. J. Cunning, Adjutant. niHnv w K. r... No. 16 - Meets first Satur- I i dav of each month in A. O. U. W. hall at 2 p. m. Mrs. Apulia Stranahan, President. Mrs. Ursula Dukes, Secretary. L. - iinnn HIVKR LODGE. No. 105. A. F. and A. II M. Meeii Saturday evenfiig on or before each full moon. O. l. Williams, w. w. D. McDonald, Secretary. TTOOD RIVER CHAPTER, No. 27, R. A. M. Jl Meets third Friday uight of each month. . G. K. Castnkb, H. P. G. F. Williams, Secretary. ROOD KIVER CHAPTER, No. 25, 0. E. 8. . Meets Saturday alter each full moon and two weeks tliereaiter. , Mrs. Mary A. Davidson, W. M. OLETA ASSEMBLY, No. 103, United Artisans. Meets second Tuesday of each month at Fraternal hall. r . v. beosius, m. a. ; D. McDonald, Secretary. 1TTAUC0MA LODGE, No. 80, K. of P. Meets H in A. 0. U. W. hall everv Tuesday nigm. Geo. Stranahan, C. C. " G. W. Graham, K. of U. & 8. 1IVERS1DE LODGE. No. 68, A. O. U, W. l, Meets first and third Saturdays of each month. O. G. Chamberlain, M. W. J. F. Watt, Financier. : H. L. HuWk, Recorder. 1DLEWILDE LODGE, No. 107, I. O O. F. Mcets in Fraternal hull every Thursday Big-lit. A. U. UETCHKL, n.U. H. J. IIibbard, Secretary. ffi F. SHAW, M. D. Telephone No. IL All Calls Promptly Attended i Office upstairs over Conple's store. All calls left at the office or residence will be promptly attended to. JOHN LELAND HENDERSON ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. ABSTRACTER, NO TARY PUBLIC and REAL ESTATE AGENT. For 21 vears a resident of Oregon and Wash- fnstnn. His had manv vears exnerienca in Real Estate matters, as abstracter, searcher of titles and agent. SallBiaction guaranteedor no charge. F. WATT, M. Surgeon for O. R. & N. Co. Is especially cqtilpped to treat catarrh of nosa and throat and rilfuaftea of women. Special terms for ollice treatment of chronic cases. Telephone, office, S3, residence, 31. HONEER MILLS Harrison Bros., Profs. FLOUR, FEED AND ALL CEREALS Ground and manufactured. Whole Wheat Graham a specialty. Custom grinning done every Saturday. During day. During tin iMiNy season addiuoni in the local columns. busy season additional days will be mentionc BOOD ItlVKR, OK BOON. pAPERHANGxNG, KALSOMINING, ETC. If your walls are sick or mutilated, call on E. I. ROOD. Consultnlion free. No charge for prescrip tions. No cure no pay. o:na hours frj a 8 A. M. till . P. SC., and all uight if necessary. J7C0N0V1Y SHOE SHOP. PKICK LIST. Men's half soles, hand eticked, $1; nailed. iieBt. 75c; second. 50c: third, 40c. Ladies' hand stitched. 75c; nailed, best. W)c: second, 35. Best stock and work in Hood River. C. WELDS, Prop. THE KLONDIKE CONFECTIONERY Ts the place to get the latest and best in l;onfi etionenes, u&miies, runts, loDacco, Cigars, etc. ....ICE CREAM PARLORS.... COLE & GRAHAM, Props. p C. BROSiUS, M. D. : ' PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. ? 'Phone Central, or 121. Office Hours: 10 to 11 A. M. : 2 to 3 and C to 7 P. M. M 1'. HOOD SAW MILLS Tommsbox Baos, Props. . .FIR AND PINE LUMBER., Of the best quality alwas on hand at pnots to suit the times. pMOTOGRAPIIS. The public is invited to call at my gallery and inspect my work. I aim to give eaiisfaction in all cses where work r . ... r. . 1.1 - is ml i list a to me. rrices xveasouauie, Out Side Views a Specialty. CHARLES RIGGS DALLAS & Sl'ANGLER, DEALERS IN Hardware, Steves anil Tinware l Kitchen Furniture, Plumbers ' Goods, Priming Tools, Etc We have a new and complete stock of hardware, stoves and tinware, to which we will keep constantly adding. Our ii.-iics will continue to be as low af Portland prices. E?imX3 TIIWiRE 1 SPE311LTT. EVENTS OF THE DAY Epitome of the Telegraphic News of the World. TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES An Interesting Collection of Item From the Two Hemispheres Presented In at Condensed Form. General Brabant has occupied Lady- brand. More Christians have been massacred north of Tien-Tsin by the "boxers." Kentucky Republicans indorsed the administration of President McKinley. Disease ia causing the deaths ol many American soldiers ia the Philip pines. Filipinos reject civil marriage, claiming it as no more than concu binage. Boer peace envoys will be allowed tc present their credentials at the state de partment. Collector of Customs Ivey has with' drawn his resignation and will serve out his term in Alaska. F. P. Dengal, who eloped from Tros ser, Wash., with a Mrs. Brackeuburg, was arrested in Spokane. There is a strong sentiment in favoi of Hepburn, of Iowa, for vice-presideni on the Republican ticket. Manila editors and correspondent! protest against the press censorship. Many papers are shutting up shop. Four persons perished in the fire in the Hotel Helena, in Chicago. Guests were forced to jump from windows, Elijah Moore, aged 19, who murdered Rev. Jesse Moore, his father, at Vex ter, Mo., November 1 last, was ex ecuted. Americans in Yucatan lose contracts on electrio and bridge work through being underbid by Englishmen and Germans. Fire destroyed the works of the Can ada Cvcle & Motor Company of St, Catherines, Ont., causing a loss ol nail a million dollars. Columbian rebels threaten Panama, great excitement prevails in that city and United States vessels have been ordered to the scene. An alleged nobleman, charged with forgery, in a Victoria, B. C, court, swallowed elass during the trial and will die. His name was Elliott. A factory is. now constructing at Corvallis to manufacture many articles of hardware, thus utilizing valuable timber that has been going to waste, Webster Davis was called upon to speak at the Missomi Republican con vention, but a debate on the question of appointing a committee to escort him to the stage came near disrupting the convention. - Secretary -Gage, in response to an in anirv from the house of representatives as to the extent of the mtiux ot Jap anese, has submitted a letter from im migration Commissionei Powderly, stating thrat the arrivals for the nine months ending March 81, last, were 4,427. General Buller occupied Dundee. Senator Clark, of Montana, has re signed. President Steyn's brother captured by General Buller. Great rush is on from Dawson to gold diggings of the Koyokuk. There is no hope of action by the sen' AtBontha Nicaragua oanal bill this session. Germany is seizing Congo Free State territory, and now occupies about 3,000 square miles. Senator Jones, of Nevada, introduced a bill making it a crime for railroads to blacklist employes. The United States court of appeals holds that a boycott is malicious inter ference with business. London papers want to ostracise Richard Croker in revenge for the posi tion Tammany has taken in the Boer war. Democrats complain of Kansas City hotel men. They object to paying five dollars per day for a bed in a room with four others. President J. J. Hill paid $140,000 for a Spokane flour mill in order to get an entrance to the city for the Great Northern. Porto Rico and Hawaii will send delegates to the Democratio national convention. Each island will be ao- corded six delegates. The grandstand, famous glass betting ring and all the buildings of the race track at Clifton, N. J., were entirely destroyed by fire, with a loss of 100, 000. The fire was the work of incen diaries. , Assistant Attorney-General Boyd has rendered a decision in the case ol ex rxrasa nnmnanies. in which he holdi thev are not liable to taxes as brokers, by reason of their issuing money orders and travelers' checks. An American laundry plant has been exported to China. rwr Ss.flOO.OOO capital is invested in this country in the manufacture of playing cards. Coal is worked so easily in China that in Shansi it sells for 13 cents per ton at the mines. nvid T. Haraden, who died a few days ago at Roxbury, Mass., had been kb n tha service of one firm of I piano makers. LATER NEWS. No new plague oases have been dis- covered In San Francisco. Frits Mayer, a murderer, was put to death in the electrio chair at Sing Sing. An Ohio statesman shot and killed his wife accidentally by taking her for a rat. Chicago is afraid of the plague. Coffee from an infeoted vessel found itt way into the city. Russell A. Alger says the statement that he had invested in recent Cuban enterprises is a lie. The United States supreme court de cided the Kentucky governorship case in favor of Governor Beckham. A bill to prevent interstate commerce in convict made goods was passed in the senate without division. Chinatown of Portland is to be cleaned tip to prevent the possible propagation of bubonic plague. Two workmen were killed and 54 injured at a strikers' riot in Berlin, One hundred and three arrests wen made. Mataofka, one of the Samoan chiefs thinks he has been treated shabbily bv Germany, and a revolt may oocur al any time. 1' lhpinos lost 52 men killed in an engagement at Agusan, in Cagyan province. American loss, two killed and three wounded. Two cars of kerosene were blown up, a car of bicycles smashed bv a collision on the Northern Paciflo which occui red about nine miles east of Spokane, The postmaster general has suspended Director-General of Post Rathbone and appointed Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Brystow as acting director general of post in Cuba. The Lodge amendment to the post' office appropriation bill continuing the pneuraatio service in cities where con tracts have been made and appropriat ing $225,000 for the same was adopted by the senate, 38 to 20. The Russian embassy has oonsidera bly perturbed governmental and diplo matic circles at Constantinople by in viting the immediate attention of the porte to the deplorable situation oi many districts of Armenia, resulting from brutal methods of collecting taxes and from persecutions. Rev. Dr. Edwin A. Sohell, of Chi cago, has filed a declaration in a suit for $25,000 da-nages against Rev. Dr Charles Parkhurst, Rev. Henry C. Jen nines, and Rev. Dr. Joseph F. Berry Dr. Sohell was formerly the general secretary of the Epworth League. He charges the defendants with entering in1) a conspiracy to injure his reputa tion, thereby forcing him to resign his official position. London is enthusiastic over the relief of Mafeking. British forces under Lord Dundonald have advanced as far as Laing's Nek. Fire destroyed the main portion ol St. Mary's school at Belmont, S. C Loss is estimated at $200,000. William H. Hunt, of Montana, hai been selected to be secretary of state lor the island of Puerto Rico. Street-car strikers of St. Louis are restrained from interfering with mail cars by a temporary injunction. Texas has declared a quarantim against San Francisco on account of the prevalence of plague in that city, Fenian sympathizers with the Boers made an attempt to blow up the Brit ish fortifications at Esquimalt, B. C Congressman George B. McCIellan son of "Little Mac," the federal gen eral, is being urged as a running mate for Bryan. Washington Democrats in convention at Spokane, indorsed Bryan for presi dent. James Hamilton Lewis for vice president. The Boers announce they will defend Johannesberg. and the consuls of the neutral powers have been advised look after their citizens. to Owners of Chicago breweries have defied the city ordinance requiring them to pav $500 license fee the first day of May each year. American warships are leaving Manila for Chinese ports to escape the hot weather which comes to that city every April, May and June. In the coast towns of Colima and Jolisco, Mexico, an earthquake caused houses to be submerged, boats swamped and several natives to drown. The statue of General Grant, pre sented by the G. A, R. to the nation was unveiled in the great rotunda the capital with impressive ceremonies In the senate, the proposition relafr ing to the tarnsportation of mail by the pneumatic tube system, was laid on the table by a vote of 82 to 16. A work train on the Guadalajara branch of the Mexican Central road ran into an obstruction, wrecking the engine and a number of cars and kill ing 11 men. Assistant Surgeon A. S. Lloyd, of the United States marine hospital ser vice at Chicago, has been ordered to San Francisco to assist in the work of prevention of the spread of the bubonic plague. Governor Roosevelt ha signed the bill compelling provision of seats for waitresses in New York restaurants. Average wages in Germany: House maids, $2.88 a month; laborers, $3.14 a week; carpenters, $5 a week. Minneapolis has established and maintained for a year three public play grounds for children at a cost of $300. New York ball players saved persons in a burning building by catching thetn as thay fell. OERS FOR PEACE Kruger's Message to th.e Prime Minister. BUT ONE REPLY IS f0StI5LK Authentic News Reported to Have Beea Uecelved From Mafeklnf KioU out Demonstrations. London, May 22. Displayed in the most conspicuous style In the JJaiiy Express, is the dominant war news of the morning: We have the best reason for statinz that in the last 24 ' hours a telegram bas been received at the foreign office, addressed personally to the prime min ister, from President Kruger, proposing terms of peace. The exact terms of the message cannot be stated; but we believe it is couched in an exceedingly humble strain." It is inconceivable, of oourse, that Lord Salisbury can have sent any reply except the one that stands ready on the lip of every Briton unconditional sur render. Authentic Newt of Mafeking, An extraordinary issue of the Gazette at Cape Town announces that in conse quence of what is believed to be authen tic news of the relief of Mafeking, Sir Alfred Milner will close the public offices today. ' The boisterous rejoioings over the news of Mafeking have become riotous in carts of London, Aberdeen and Bel fast, and elsewhere in the United King dom. In the Finschley district of suburban London, a mob stoned the railway station master's house and smashed the windows of a draper's shop, setting the building on fire also, although whether by accident or design it is not vet known. Two clerks were iujiued. The house of a Boer sympa' thizer at Harleston vas attacked by t large mob and the windows were shat tered. The police charged the mob and were greeted with a shower of decayed euBs. Numerous arrests were made and the police reserves were called out QUARANTINE IS IN FORCE Chinese Fasaencera to Be Detained at Astoria, Astoria, May 22. For the first time in the history of this port a quarantine has been established here against ves sels arriving from San Francisco. This relates particularly to Chinese pas gers, as thus far all others have been allowed to pass. Both State Health OtHcer Fulton and Quarantine Officer Hastings have received official notiflca tion of the existence of the plague at the bay city. and. while the latter has received no instructions from the de' partment to establish an inter-state quarantine he deems strict precautions necessary to guard against thb possible introduction of the disease here, and together with the state health officer, will inspect all. incoming vessels from that port and isolate all the Chinsese passengers. The first vessel affected by the new regulations was the O. R. & N. steamer Columbia, which arrived here this morning. She was detained in the Quarantine grounds ' until a thorough inspection was made and then allowed to come to the dock. Two Chinese passengers were, however, taken to the government quarantine station, where their baggage will be fumigated, and they will be held for about 10 days, Railroads In Nome District. San Francisco, May 21. Articles of incorporation of the Nome Railroad Company have been filed. The com panv propose to have a main line four miles long with a branch line two and half miles long. The incorporators are C. D. Lane, E. J. Cutchen, C. X, Willard, P. J. Millei and F. W Wynn. The capital stock is $100,000 The road will run from Nome toward Anvil creek in Alaska. The same persons have incorporated the Wild Goose Railway Company, with $100,000 a capital stock to operate 4 miles of road from the shores of Retiring sea near Nome, towards Anv" creek, with a branch line mil long. ' Holineux as a Conaoler. . New York, May 22. Roland J Moliueux did his utmost today to co; sole Fritz Meyer, who, in an adjoinii cell in the condemned men's quarte in Sing Sing prison, was looking fo ward to the occupation of the eiectr chair tomorrow for the murder Policeman Frederick Smith. Genor Molineux visited his son on Saturd; and told him to be brave during Meyei execution. An Insurgent Ainlnnh. Manila, May 22. Five hundred : surgents, half of whom were arm with rifles, ambushed 80 scouts of t Fortieth volunteer infantry in the hi near Aquasan, in the northern part Mindanao. The Americans routed t natives, killing 51. The Americs casualites were two killed and thr wounded. Judge "W. C. Hook of the Cniti States district court at Topeka, Kan decided that the section of the law pr hibiting people from coming into tl state and taking orders for liquors unconstitutional. Coal -Miners Fatal Quarrel. I . Memphis. May 22. Edward Wh ting ton and Dennis Brogan, coal mi era, enteied the lunch house of T. McKenna and became involved in quairel, during which Whittingt was shot by Mrs. McKenna, a) Brogan waa fatally wounded. Return ef the Philadelphia,. Ean FraDcisco, May 21. The cruis Philadelphia arrived today from S Juan del Sur, after a cruise la South I American and Central American waterr I MAY LOSE MILLIONS. By , Word Being; Omitted In a Oov eminent Treaty With France. New York, May 21. A docision just rendered by Judge Townsend, who is hearing in the United States circuit court the appeals from the decision of the board of general appraisers, under the customs administration act, lessens the duties on French brandies and liquors 60 cents a gallon, and in the particular suit which was brought by George S. Nicholas, an importer, takes $45,000 out of the treasury of the gov ernment. Nicholas, on June 10, 1898, received from France 80,000 gallons of the cor dial known as "Chartreuse." Col lector Bidwell assessed the duty on this importation at $3.25 per gallon. The Importer appealed to the board of general appraisers, and they affirmed the collector's action. Then the mat ter was brought into the circuit court and, when the hearing came up, coun sel for Nicholas Insisted that under the new treaty witn i ranee, maoe in 898. a vear later than the passage of the tariff under which the appraise ment had been made, the duty should have been only $1.75 per gallon. Copies of the treaties made between France and the United States were pro duced as evidence, and in the French copy the word "liquers" appears while from the American copy the word "liquors" is missing. This deci sion is in favor of the importers, and 11 it holds, rceans a loss of many million dollars to the government annually, AGUINALDO HEARD FROM. Ills Latest Proclamation to the In, surgents. Manila, May 21. A proclamation purporting to have been issued by Aguinaldo and dated May 4, from Pollilo island, one of the Philippine croun east of Luzon, is circulating in Manila. It says the commission ap pointed bv President McKinley was appointed without the authority of oon cress, and hence it cannot treat official ly. It urges the Filipinos not to sur render their arms at the instigation of the commission and on promiKS which congress may not ratify, and also urges the Filipinos to enthusastically wel come the commission when it arrives in the towns and provinoes, asking boldly for the form of government they most desire, as the Amerioans permit of free dom of speech. The proclamation closes with asking the Filipinos to strive for liberty and independence and again warns them against deception, In the Ca tar m a district about ouu oi the enemy attacked a portion of the Fortv-third regiment. The Americans killed 203 of the rebels. Only three Americans were wounded. Major John C. Gilmore and 100 men of the Forty-third regiment were am bushed May 8 near Pambugan, Samar, Seventv-flve of the enemy were killed and there were no American casualties, The transpoit Lennox has returned here after landing four troopB of the Eleventh cavalry to reinforce Colonel J. F. Bell. Two troops, Major Sime commanding, were landed at Legaspi and proceeded across the country to strengthen the garrison at Liago. lhey found numerous entrenchments manned. by insurgents between the towns, and were two days on their way. Their only loss was three horses. The oflicen report they killed 40 insurgents, but the natives deolare 80 were killed. Panama Canal Plot. Washington, May 21. Soon aftei the senate convened today, Morgan (Dem. Ala.), chairman of the committee on inter-oceanio cunnla, offered a reso lution directing the committee to thaki an investigation, sweeping in its char acter, of the dealings of individuals or corporations with a view to monopoliz ing a ship canal at Panama or in Nic aragua, and whether the individuals oi corporations propose to obstruct the United States in the construction of an isthmian canal. Morgan stated that the object of the inquiry proposed ia to enable the president of the United States to check and destroy a conspiracy founded on fraud, corruption and ar rogance, against the highest rights and privileges of the people and government of the United States. Hoarding House, persons ;t at he er en r fhe died from his injuries. PRIVILEGE IS DENIED Boer Delegates Will Not Be Admitted to Senate Floor. EFFORT TO BRING UP CANAL BIH The House Passed the Eight-Hnnr Bill! Also Bill Prohibiting Trafllo ia Convict Made Goods. "Washington, May 23. A pyrotechnio discussion of the status of the Boer oommissiouors now in Washington was precipitated in thq renate today by a resolution offered by Allen extending to the commissioners the privileges of the floor of the senate during their so journ in the national capital. The resolution was defeated by a vote of 88 to 21, but not until after a sharp con troversy between its author and Davis, chairman of the committee on foreign relations. Allen maintained that the resolution was in line with preoedouts, while Davis contended that in the par ticular circumstanoes the senate ought not to take any action that might be considered a recognition of the Boer diplomats until the president, who alone had the power to receive diplo matic representatives, had taken action, The postofiice appropriation bill was passed finally, the amendment to ap propriate $225,000 to carry out the ex isting oontraets for the pneumatio tube service being agreed to. An effort was made by Morgan to displace the Spoon' er Philippine bill with the Nicaragua canal bill, as tho unfinished business, but it failed by a vote of 21 to 28. The house today, under suspension of the rules, passed two important bills reported by the committee on labor one to extend the eight-hour law to all laborers employed under contract on government work and the other to pro hibit inter-state trafflo in prison made goods by bringing them under tho jur isdiotion of the police powers of the state. The former bill is designed to carry the law of 1892 to its conoluBion The conviot labor bill caused some sharp inqnirios from members from southern states, where prison labor is employed in the fields and in the mines, but noon assurances that it would not interfere with the production of coal, cotton or lumbor, the opposition was not pressed. THE WRIT DISMISSED. Kentucky Governorship Case Derided In Favor ot Beckham. Washington, May 23. The United States supreme court today decided that the Kentucky governorship case in favor of Governor Beckham, dismissing the writ of error from the Kentuoky court of anneals. The opinion was handed down by Chief Justice Fuller, and a vigorous dissenting opinion was delivered bv Justice Jlarian. Justices Brewer. Brown and McKeuna also dis sented from portions of the opinion The cane was dismissed from want of jurisdiction, it being hold that de termination of cases of this character and all contests for state officers must necessarily be settled by the political branch of the government. mat branch had acted in the Kentucky case when the general assembly took juris diction. There was no appeal from the assembly's decision, which was favor able to Goebel and Beckham, except to the tribunal of the people, which tri bunal, the chief justice said, was alwavs in session. He also said the case was purely a state case that Ken tucky was in full possession of its facul ties, as a member of the union, and there was no emergency which called for interference. In a Fit of Jealousy. Hood River, Or., May 23. Miss Ida Foss, a school teacher, about Ho years of age. was shot and instantly killed Sunday evening by Benjamin Waguitz. Miss Foss taught school at Trout Lake, across the river in Washington, and boarded in the home of Waguitz, who was paying some attention to her. In a fit of angei and jealousy he attempted to stab her, and afterward, while lot lowing her in the yard, shot her with rifle. After seeing what he had done he expressed great sorrow, and although having but one arm, he car rie.l her into the house and covered her with a blanket. He then went out leaned agaiust the rifle, with a foot-rule pulled the trigger, and fell dead. Nearro Shot Wife and Two Girls. Pueblo, Colo., May 23. Frenzied by a jealous quarrel with his wife, Calvin Kimblern (colored I. lormeny a cor noral in company M, Twenty-fifth United States infantry, this morning shot his wife twice, once in the abdomen and once in the neck, and then deliber atlv nnt the revolver to the heads ol - j --- . . . . . . 18-vear-oid Ethel Ktraussen ana li Tear-old Jessie Skaggs and fired, killing the latter Instantly, tne other gin nv ilia for some hours. The couple were employed at the Fries Orphan Home, of which the dead children were in mates. Kimblern murdered the two girls because they had told his wife that he had said he wished she would go away and never come back. More than 100.000 acres of peat are said to be still available in the Canadi an province of Ontario. Young Professor Murdered. Philadelphia, May 22. Professor R. W. White, 28 years old, an instructoi in the law department of the Univer sity of Pennsylvania, was struck down and brutally murdered last night. He left the university at 10 o'clock last night to board a train for German- town. Shortly before 11 o'clock he waa found in an unfrequented part ot Thirtv-secdnd street. His skull bad been crushed, evidently by an iron bar. He died in the hospital this morning without regaining consciousness. MINES AND MINING!. Noma Dullness Eclipses the Klondike Stampede ef 1888. Seattle, May 21. In point of num ber of passengers and tons of freight Seattle's Nome business eclipses the memorable Klondike stampede of 1898. Such scenes as were witnessed on the water front for the entire week, are a revelation even to those who were in Seattle at the time of the Klondike stampede. Then an occasional steamer departed for the north; now the daily sailings number from one to five. The Post-Intelligencer reeently pub lished what was believed to be a con servative estimate of the number ot people that would go north on Seattle's various steamers. Transportation men are now a unit in saying that the esti mate waa too conservative; that at least 8,000 more than was shown by the Post-Intelligencer's figures will join in the rush, for the reason that many steamships have been engaged for that run that were not scheduled at the time the figures were compiled. The boats are taxed to their utmost ca pacity, and there are hundreds of peo ple leaving daily who have only ''deck" accommodations. The present aggregation of fortune hunters is for the main part made uf of miners, men practical and experi enced in the affairs of gold digging. They appear to know what they are go ing north for. Coloiado and Montana, both mining states, have contributed a greater num ber to the Nome movement than any other two states. The state of Wash ington, perhaps, is sending as many ai either, and California ia not far behind. The four states have contributed mors Nome fortune seekers than all the rest of the Union. It is estimated that the Cripple Creek mining district alono is furnish ing fully 1,000 people. Leadville, Denver, Butte, Anaconda and San Fran cisco are each contributing large dele gations. But Seattle is supplying more than any one of the cities named. Exodus From Portland. Portland, May 21. This is the week for the first sailings from Portland foi Nome. Three immense cargoes ol freight and passengers have attraoted general attention. The steamers Eldet and Nome City, also the big freight boat Dispatch were the first to get away, all loadod to their complete ca pacity with freight and passengers. Moat of the early birds for Nome went with outfits large enough to provide fox a year, but some were noticed that had barely enough to last until the boats get through. Portland merchants report a good business for Nome travelers for several weeks, but sales have been heaviest during the past ten days. The crowd of passengers contained men of great mining experience and men who could not tell gold from corn meal. One crowd of nearly 50 hardy miners from Idaho had a portion of the Elder to. themselves. The steamboat companies have con fidence that everything will go well with the boats during their first trip. Ice and cold weather are oxpeoted, but not to a disastrous or even annoying degree. Tw6 round trips are planned for the Elder and Nome City this season. Not over 1,000 people left Portland on the first trip of these steamers, but iveral hundred went from here to Tacoma and Seattle for sailing. Tucomn'f Cape Nome Trafflo. Tacoma, May 21. With the sailingi booked for the first three days of tbii week, 11 steamers have departed from here to Nome, carrying more than 4,000 people and enormous quantities of pro visions, machinery and live stock. The Senator was the first boat to start, last Saturday, with 500 people. She waa followed Sunday by the Olympia, Alliance and Lakme. Those three boats had 1,000 mon aboard. The whole city watched the vessels sail, and there was great excitement along the wharves for day and night, begin ning long before the first steamer got away. The first Nome fleet has all got away, and the next sailings, which may be the last this season, will likely oocui in about 10 weeks. BEAVER CREEK PLACERS. Section of Idaho That May Take Mew Life Before Long. Delta, Idaho, May 21. Plaoer min ing along Beaver creek, in Shoshone county, is being talked of again. Sev eral miles of the creek remain unpios- pected. Water has prevented reaching bed rook at about 15 feet. . High ban along the oreek yield some gold, also the gulches. Trail gulch, above Delta, has produced over half a million in placer gold. After being worked a years, the old Myrtle claim still pays well. There are many plaoers that would yield several dollars a day, but some would yield much less. A. J. Prichard, who discovered the camp, talks of organizing a company to oper - ate a large placer mining camp piaut along the creek. Oregon Mining Companies. Salem, Or., May 21. A million dol lar mining company was incorporated this week, a Baker City institution called the Gold Standard Mining and Milling Company. Cfflces will be maintained in New York and Bakei City. The smallest company started was for $2,000, by Portland wen. MINING ONPAPER. Enormous Enterprises Started by Wash ington Stock Companies. Olympia, Wash., May 21. Mining companies having almost $3,000,000 capital stock filed articles of incorpora tion last week. Two of the million dollar companies are the Cascade Cop per Company, of Tacoma, and the Beh ring Straits Mining Company, of Seat tle. In fact, most of tlw new com panies that are now ready to Bell stock are Seattle off shoots that expect to reap a harvest In the Nome excitement,