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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
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at
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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
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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,