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V- f "IT'S A COUP DAV WHEN WE GET LEFT." VOL. XII. ' IIOOD, RIVER, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 22, lflOO. NO. 5. HOOD RIVER GLACIER Published Every Friday by 8. F. JtLVTHE. Ternn ol subscription 11.50 i year when paid In advance. THR MAILS. The mall arrives from Mt. Hood at 10 o'elook a. m. Wednesdays and Saturdays; depnria t lie tame days at noon. Kor Chennweth, leaves at 8 a., m. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays; arrives at p. m. Kor White Salmon (Vt ash.) leaves dally at 8:43 a. m.; arrives at 7:ln p. in. From White Salmon leaves for Fulda, Gilmer, Trout Lake and tilenwood daily at 9 A. M . For Blnnen (Wash.) leaves at 5:4o p. m.i ar rives at i p. m. SOCIETIES. J AIR EL KEDEKAH DKfiltEE LODOE. No I 87, I. O. O. . Meets first and third Mon ays in caeh month. Ml-flSTEU.A, RlCHAr.DSON, N. G. II. J. Hibbari), Secretary. C1ANBY POST, No. Ifi, O. A. R. Meets at A. O. V. W. Hall second and fourth Kiitur ays of each month at 2 o'clock p. m. All U. A. It. members invited to meet with us. M I'. Ikknblko, Commander T. J. Cunni.no, Adjutant. CANBY W. U. C, No. 16-Meets first Satur day of each month in A. (). U. W. hall at 2 p. m. Mrs. Aiiklia Stranahan, President. Mas. Ursula Dikes, Seeretary. HOOD RIVEK LODGE, No. 405, A. F. and A. M. Meets Saturday evening on or before each full moon. (). E. W illiams, W. M. I). MctloNALD, Secretary. HOOD RIVER CHAPTER, No. 27, R. A. M. Meets third Friday ninlit of each month. G. R. Cabtner, II. P. G. F. Williams, Secretary. HOOD RIVER CHAPTER, No. 25, O. E. 8. Meets Saturday alter each full moon and two weeks thereafter. Mus. Mart A. Davidson, W. M. OLETA ASSEMBLY, No. 103, United Artisans. Meets second Tuesday of each month at Fraternal hall. F. C. Bbosius, M. A. 1). McDonald, Secretary. AUCOMA LODGE, No. 30, K. of P. Meets iu A. O. U. W. hall every Tuesday nitiht. Geo. Stranahan, C. C. (yjy. Graham, K. of R. & 8. RIVERSIDE LODGE, No. 68, A. O. V. W. Meets first and third Saturdays of each month. O. G. Chamberlain, M. W. J. F. Watt, Financier. H. L. Howe, Recorder. IDLEWILDE LODGE, No. 107, I. O O. F. Meets in Fraternal hall everv Thursday n in lit. A. U. Uktchkl, N. (J. H. J. Hibbard, Secretary. tfi F. SHAW, M. D. Telephone No. 81. All Calls Promptly Attended Oftlc upstairs over Copple's store. All call: 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 yean a resident of Oregon and Wash ington. Has had many years experience in Ral Estate matters, as abstracter, searcher of titles and agent. Satisiaction guaranteed or no charge. J F. WATT, M. D. 8urgeon for O. R. & N. Co. Is especially equipped to treat catarrh of nose and throat and diseases of women. Special terms for office treatment of chronic caxes. Telephone, office, 33, residence, 31. piONEER MILLS Harbison Bros., Pttors. FLOUR, FEED AND ALL CEREALS . Ground and manufactured. Whole Wheat Graham a specialty. Custom grinding done every Saturday. DuriiiK the busy season additional days will be mentioned in the local columns. BOlin ltlVEIt, OREGON. pAPERHANGING, KALSOMINING, ETC. If your walls are sick or mutilated, call on E. L. ROOD. Consultation free. No charge for proserin- 4lnn VI. .... -.i nn liuud. tuic Mir 'fij . Offlea hours from 0 A. M. till 6. P. SI., and ill night if necessary. CONOMY SHOE SHOP. PRICE LIST. Men's half soles, band sticked, $1 ; nailed, best, 75c ; second, 50c ; third, 40c. Ladies' hand stitched, 75c: nailed, best. 50c; second, 35. Best stock and work I in Hood Kiver. V. WKLUS, rrop. THE KLONDIKE CONFECTIONERY Is the place to get the latest and best in Confectioneries, Candies, Nuts, Tobacco, 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 6 to 7 P. M. . JT. HOOD SAW MILLS Tomlissos Buos, Props. FIR AND PINE LUMBER..'... Of the best quality alwas on hand at prices to suit the times. gUTLER & CO., BANKERS. Do a general banking business. HOOD RIVER, OREGON. DALLAS & SPAXGLER, DKALEES IS Hardware, Stoves and Tinware Kitchen Furniture. Plumbers' Goods, Pruning Tools, Etc We have a new and complete stock of hardware, stoves and tinware, to which we will keep constantly adding. Our prices will continue to be as low as Portland prices. IEP1111I6 TIIWIBE I SPE5IAITT- EVENTS OF THE DAY Epitome of the Telegraphic News' of the World. TERSK TICKS FROM THE WIRES An Interesting; Collection of Items From the Two llomlxphorea Presented in a Condensed Form, British marines killed and wounded 40 Boxers. Robeita' line of communication is again open. General Grant reports the capture of San Miguel, a rebel stronghold. The summer residence of the British minister at Peking has been burned. Seven persons were drowned by the upsetting of a boat on Lake Bennett, Alaska. Four people were killed by the de struction of a large cooperage plant in Brooklyn. Robert's forces had a hard battle wtih General Botha, but did not defeat the Boer leader. Pennsylvanians will push the candi dacy of former governor Pattison for the vice-presidency. The money appropriated by congress for use at the mouth of the Columbia will be used at once. Two persons were drowned at South Bend, Ind., by the capsizing of a boa( on the river, at that place. Methuen and Kitchener, in an en gagement with Dewet's troops, scat tered the Boers in all directions. Terry MoGovern, champion light weight of the world, knocked out Tom White in three rounds at New York City. New York capitalists have secured concessions from the government of Honduras to build a railroad in that country. Wood workers of Chicago threaten to go out on July 1, unless their wages are increased. The strike will involve 8,000 workmen. Two city detectives of Kansas City undertook to stop a street fight between a crowd of negro men and women and as a result a man and a woman were killed. News has been reoeived in New York of the murder of Dr. Edna G. Terry, in charge of the station of the Metho dist Episcopal Woman's Foreign Mis sionary Society at Tsung Hua, China. Thomas Lewis, a miner of Tucson, Ariz., has been arrested on a charge of setting fire to the Catelina forests, where 5,000,000 feet of timber were destroyed. A miner who was with Lewis claims that Lewis became in censed because the pine needles hurt his feet and set fire to them, causing the most disastrous forest fire ever known in the Southwest. Fifteen hundred Boeis surrendered to General Brabant. Half the town of Frances, Wash., was destroyed by fire. San Francisco's Chinatown will be released from quarantine June 22. Boers have evacuated Laing's Nek, and Buller is encamped on Joubert'a farm. San Francisco Chinese have won an other case against the board of health of that city. The steamer China arrived at San Francisco from the Orient with 656 Chinese merchants. Mrs. George H. Baker, widow of the poet and ex-minister to Russia, is dead at her home in Philadelphia. Postmaster Graham, of Salt Lake City, Utah, was convicted of unlawful cohabitation and fined $250. Americana at Chin Kiane are in need of protection, as a large number of Boxers have halted at that place. Russian authority says the present trouble in China will be put down, but a terrible upheaval will come later. Alnin Anonata Lehmann. once a singer of international reputation, is dea- at Santa Cruz, Uai., aged 80 years. The president has issued a proclama tion formally announcing the establish ment of reciprocity agreement with Portugal. A score of passengers were injured, BDTT1A severely, bv the derailing of a train on the-Great Northern, near Sum mit, Mont. General Otis says the Filipinos are quick and anxious to learn and suggests that an educational system be adopted in the islands. General MacArthur reports the cap ture of Rhizon, near Mexico, and Ca restany at Alcala, both important, the latter a very important leader of the guerrillas in Pingasinan provincee, Lu zon. The Yaqui Indians are causing trouble for the Mexicans. They occupy the impassable Bacatete mountains, a range 60 miles in length, and it requires the utmost vigilance on the part of Gen eral Torres' 6,000 troops to hold them in chuck. The bubonic plague has entirely dis appeared from Honolulu. Harry Kimball Shaw, of Pittsburg, Pa., gave a dinner at Paris to 25 per sons that cost S,000. Ex-Senator Quay, of Pennsylvania, has announced his candidacy for re election to the senate. The shortage in Cuban revenues oc casioned by the defalcations aiscioeea will be reimbursed by the general defi ciency bilL LAIfcK NEWS. Roberts may seize Delagoa bay road. Chinese forts at Taku fired on foreign ressels, but were soon foiced to sur render. Russia has demanded of China an in demnity of 50,000,000 taels for the damage done ti the railroad from Tien Tsin to Pekin. John Vass, one of the best-known mining experts on the Pacific Coast, died of consumption at Baker City, Or., aged 46 years. Trouble is rife in the northern part of the Republic of San Doimngo. Many arrests have been made, includng lead ers of the former government party. In consequence of the gravity of the situation in China, England has order ed the Seventh Bengal infantry at Simla, India, to proceed to Hong Kong. J. C. Pardee, aged 86 years, a brake man on the Southern Pacifio traiu, who lives in Ashland, Or., was killed at Dunsmuir, Cal., by bein run over by a train. Information from Pekin, brought to Shanghai by , refugees, says that the city is in a state of panic. Incendiary fires are of nightly occurrence, and scores of outrages are reported. Wo men and children from Tien Tsin are pouring into Shanghai. The chief danger there is the fact that the native town, behind the European settlement, is full of bad characters, whose atti tude is becoming every day more inso lent and menacing. At Needles, Cal., the federal quaran tine inspector has been prevented from molesting passengers on Santa Fo trains at the state line and his authority is ignorned by the railroad officials. Or ders have been issued to all conductors to take up the pass of the inspector, Mr. Jenkins, if presented, and collect his fare. Jenkins has wired to Surgeon Kenyotm for instructions. The con ductors have also been ordered to give the inspector no information. S. J. McCowan, superintendent of the Phoen x, Ariz., Indian Industrial School, haing been directed to inves tigate the condition of the Pima In dians on their reservation on the Gila river, 80 miles from Phoenix, who were reported to be suffering from famine, states that 8,000 Pimas and an equal numoer oi Papagoes are in great distress. Congress has appropri ated $33,000 for the relief of the In dians and rations will soon be distri buted. A second-class naval station will be established at San Diego, Cal. Churches and residences of foreigners in Tien Tsin have been burned. . An extra session of congress may be convened owing to the Chinese war. China will have a heavy bill of dam ages to pay for the Boxer outrages when order is again restored. Fire destroyed the Home for the Friendless children at Leadville, Colo., causing the death of four of the inmates. Francis of Orleans, Prince of Join ville, son of the late Louis Philippe, king of the French, is dead of pneu monia, aged 82 years. Three persons were killed and 16 seriously injuied by a collision between an express train and a train filled with race-goers near London, England. G. P. Rummelin, a well-known merohant of Portland, Or., was mur dered in New York city, presumably for the purpose of robbery. His throat was out from ear to ear. A native rising has occurred in the Gambia colony, West Africa, and two British commissioners and six members of the police have been killed at Sann kandi, on the south banks of Gambia river, by Mandingoes. The party had gone to Sannkanndi to settle a question ot local administration, when the Man dingoes suddenly attacked and mur dered thjm. The Mexican government, following the example set by Texas, has quaran tined against San Francisco, and until notice to the contrary is given, all per sons who have been in San Francisco within a period of 15 days will not be allowed to pass the border until they have remained in quarantine for a suf ficient length of time to make op the 15 days. The Mexican quarantine relates to passengers only. The border authorities have the matter in hand. Journal specials from towns in South west Nebraska tell of violent rain and wind storms with some hail. At Syra cuse, f inches of rain has fallen in 24 hours. Damage to crops is heavy. The Little Nehama valley is one vast lake, and many families have been compelled to abandon their homes. Freight trains on the Burlington have been abandoned. Weeping Water creek, at Weeping Water, Cass county, is the highest known for 10 years and Missouri Pacific trains are delayed. Abbe Mareux, the astronomer, has discovered and sketched through the big telescope in the optio palace of the exposition, at Paris, a remarkable spot on the sun, forming a part of an extens ive group, and having a diameter of nearly 40 kilometers. This spot, he says, will remain for seven days, and become visible to the naked eye. He predicts the appearance of other spots in July, August and September, inferr ing that the heat during these mouths will be very great. Kansas has 300 flour mills, with a capacity of 10,000,000 barrels a year. The proposed ocean cable between Copenhagen to Iceland will be 404 miles long and cost about f 850,000. Many Americans who went to Paris with the expectation of making ex penses by working are penniless. The census office is to handle the statistics of the 75,000,000 people of this country with intricate electric machines. THE ALPHA LANDED Had No Trouble Getting to Cape Nome May 25. DID NOT TOUCH AT ST. MICHAEL Brought Buck Four Passengers, Vflt Quarter of s Million Claims Blcher Than Reported. Vancouver, B. C, June 19. That the gold fields of Cape Nome are richer and more productive than has yet been represented, is the story brought down by the steamer Alpha, which arrived from the North tonight. From a single claim, worked by 20 men in the employ of Jack Brady, $15,000 was taken out in one week and the same claim panned out $56,000 within a month. As an earnest ol Cape Nome's golden pro ductiveness, the Alpha brought down $250,000 in gold dust. There were five passengers on board, and the dust belonged to four of them, in the fol lowing amounts: Jack Gill, of Seattle. $145,000; J. C. Mongahan, of Denver, $40,000; Frank Green, of Kansas City, $30,000; Glen Tinsley, an old Dawson miner, who went to Nome last year, $35,000. Unusual interest has followed the Alpha's trip, not only because she was the first steamer to sail for Cape Nome, but more especially on account of pos sibility of international complications, the Alpha being a Canadian bottom and Home not being a sub-port of en tiy. But the skipper had no trouble with the customs regulations. He sailed from Vancouver on April 5, clearing for St. Michael. He says he was so menaced with icebergs as he approached St. Michael that he pro ceeded directly to Nome, landing 153 passengers and their supplies on the beach on May 25. and sailing for Van couver on May 80. The Alpha was carried by the ice to the Siberian coast, and for five days was packed in the ice unable to move. She finally made Nunivak island, where she found the San Francisco whalers, Alexander and Jeanette, with about 100 passengers each, also trying to reach Nome. After spending three days more in very heavy ice near Pri byloff islands, the Alpha finally made Nome, whither the Alexander had pre ceded her two days. So overjoyed were the miners at the double arrival of the Alexander and the Alpha that a civio holiday was declared, and the Canadian boat was received with sa lutes, all the customs regulations being waived, although as she had cleared from Vancouver for St. Michael the discharge of her freight was in direct contradiction of the custom laws. . Nome was rather dull during March and April, work being entirely sus pended on account of cold weather. Several times dining the winter the settlement narrowly escaped total de struction by fire. All the buildings are said to be flimsey structures, and no fire protection is afforded. The extent of the gold-producing area of Nome seems much greater than was at first supposed, and all over the coun try men are reported to be washing from 15 to 25 cents to the pan in gold. Golden Gate and Mascot creek are turning out well. Topcock is the big gets find of the season, where it is con sidered nothing remarkable for a miner to make $30 a day on many of the claims, although the gold is found in intermittent streaks. It was on Top cock creek that $56,000 was cleaned up in 30 days. Topcock is 15 miles from the sea, and 50 miles south of Nome. One thousand people are working thero now, and there have been clean tips from $25,000 to $50,000 on 100-foot claims. The Colombian Rebellion. Kingston, Jamaica, June 19. The Royal mail steamer Don, Captain Davis, which anived here today from Colon, brings news of an important battle fought on Friday last about 10 miles outside of Panama. According to this information the insurgents forces were victorious and some 200 of the government troops were killed. It is inferred that Panama may already be in possession of the rebels. The latter are strongly entrenched at Sau Joaquin, near Santa Malta, and all the govern' ment troops at Baranquilla had been dispatched to Santa Marta, when the Don left Colon. Help From Manila. Manila, June 19. The Ninth regi ment has been ordered to Manila, whence it will proceed to China. Manila, June 19. The gunboat Con cord, with marines aboard, has sailed under eealod orders, supposedly for China. The British cruiser Buenaven tura has sailed for Hong Kong with troops and stores for Hong Kong and Tien Tsin. nitii In m IMnlnr Gar. "Chicacro. June 18. John II. Donlin. a prominent contractor here, died while sitting at the table in a Chicago as Nnrtli woetern rlintnff car between Waukcgan and Kenosha Wis., last evening. Donlin, witn two irienas, were on their way to Eagle river, Wis., where they intended to spend several days fishing. Dea Molnea Auditorium Burned. Des Moines. June 19. The L Moines auditorium, used for a conven tion hall, which was constructed a fear ago at a cost of $50,000, was de stroyed by fire today. It was Insured for $25,000. It was occupied by the Commercial Exchange and the T. W. P. Chase Amusement Company, the latter holding a lease and conducting a vaudeville show. All the seats, effects aud scenery were burned, making a total loss, as now estimated, of $40,000, with 827.000 insurance. POLICE WERE WITHDRAWN. It. Louis Street Can Now Run Unmo lested-All Quiet. St. Louis, June 16. The predictions that yesterday witnessed the beginning of the end of the great street railway strike were corroborated today when the police department withdrew its officers from all the cars and power houses of the St. Louis Transit Com pany and returned them to their regu lar beats. The Transit Company con tinues to augment its force of non union men and its transportation facili ties at a ratio that promises to see the system in full swing before many more days have passed. Much interest is being shown by the general public in the coroners' inquest at present in progress over the bodies of strikers and a citizen killed last Sun day by members of the sheriff's posse oomitatus. The testimony adduced at today's hearing does not deny that Deputy Sheriff Marsh Bhot Frederick Bohne, the citizen in question, but the witnesses disagreed as to the deputy's provocation for shooting. There was testimony from about 85 witnesses, consuming three hours, after which the jury returned a verdict of homicide. A sensational feature of the inquest was the conflicting statements made by witnesses as to whether Police Lieu tenant Stack ordered the deputy sher iffs to fire on the crowd. Several of the deputies testified that he ordered the posse juard to shoot, while Stack declared he did all in his power to pre vent the deputies from firing. The disappearance of Deputy Sheriff Marsh was a startling development at the inquest. It is believed that Marsh has left the city. No further search will be made for him probably, unless friends of the dead man seek to prose cute him, the verdict of the ooroner's jury being practically an exoneration. Charged With Conspiracy. San Francisco, June 16. Ernest Emmrich, chief olerk in the quarter master's department, U. S. A., has been arrested, charged with conspiring with J. W. Bartholomew, also under arrest, to defraud the government by approving bills for supplies that were never furnished. He was released on $3,000 bonds. On his person was found a note made payable to him from the American Box Factory, which has been paid considerable money for sup plies that it is claimed were never de livered to the government. Bartholo mew is the secretary of the concern. The boxes were used in packing guns and ammunition for shipment. Eight Miners Killed. Canmore, Alberta, June 16. A ter rible gas explosion occurred in Can- more coal mine yesterday afternoon, lesulting in the instant death of eight men and the injury of several others. The cause of the explosion is supposed to have been the carelessness of one of the miners in opening his safety lamp in violation of the rules, and in a por tion of the mine where to do so was dangerous in the extreme. This miner is believed to be one of the unidenti fied victims. A Wedding III June. Astoria, Or., June 16. Governor T. T. Geer, Oregon's chiof executive, and Miss Isabelle Turllinger, were married in Astoria this afternoon, under cir cum stances as happy and surroundings as pleasant as could be desired. Tht weather did not promise well, but re' suited in a boautiful sunset as tin bridal party started away on their spe cial car, amid a shower of rice. Thi ceremony was performed at the First Presbyterian churoh, by Rev. Henry Marcotte, pastor of the church. The Ashantee Rebellion. London. June 16. The Daily Ex press has the following dispatch from Prahsu, dated yesterday: "There hai been another fight on the line of com munication of tho Kumassie relief ex pedition. There are 10,000 Ashanteef surrounding Kumassie, and 6,000 fac ing the relief force, lho leaders 01 the rebellion include Ashantuab, Queen ol Ofesu." Tortulng a Murderer. London, June 16. A Shanghai dis patch, dated yosterday, says: "A Chinese steamer, laden with arms and ammunition, cleared from Shanghai today, bound for Tion Tsin. A notor ious murderer, who was delivered by the municipality of Shanghai to the Chinese authorities, is being slowly stoned to death in a cage. Thousand! of spectators watch his agonies daily." Thirty Miles From Peking. Berlin, June 16. The Berlin paperi have a dispatch from Tien Tsin saying that the international force has arrived within 80 miles of Puking, but that tht distance remaining must be traveled on foot, as the railway is completely destroyed. This, the dispatch says, will require three days. Six Million Destitute. Simla, India, June 16. Over 6,000, 000 persons are now receiving relief. There was an increase in Bombay ol 8,200,000 last week, owing to the re turn of destitute people who deserted the works on account of the cholera scare. The prospects of a fair mon soon are somewhat improved. Bishop Wflmer Dead. Mobile, Ala., June 16. Right Rev. Richard Hooker Wilmer, Episcopal bishop of the diocese of Alabama, died here this morning, aged 84 years. Five Miners Killed. Biwabik, Minn., June 16. A terri ble accident occurred today at the Hale mine, three miles from here, in which five men were instantly killed by an explosion of dynamite. Druggists and Hutelmen'Eielnded. St. Paul, June 16. The grand lodge of Odd Fellows today voted to excludi druggists and hotel-keepers from thi ordei in this state. William McGreg or, of Minneapolis, was elected grand warden WAR ON THE WORLD Chinese Forts Open Fire on Foreign Warships. LITTLE DAMAGE WAS DONE Fortifications at Taku Opened the Co flirt by the Kmpress' Orders Now in Hands of Powers. London, Juno 20. China declared war against the world when the Taku forts opened fire upon the international fleet. The accounts of what took plaoe are still unsatisfactory, the best semi official information being the dispatch received at Berlin from Che Foo. A press dispatch from Che Foo, dated yesterday afternoon, says: "The forts on both sides of Taku are now occupied. Tfie Chinese opened fire unexpectedly. The casualties to the mixed force were as follows: "Killed British, one; German, three; Russian, one, and Frenoh one. "Wounded British four; German, seven; .Russian, 45, and French, one. "Chinese torpedo boats were seized." The Shanghai correspondent of the Daily Mail telegraphing yesterday says: "The forts began firing in obedience to the orders from Pekin, conveyed in the personal edict of the empress dow ager, by advice of Kang Yi (president of the minister of war.) Soveral war ships were struck by sheila from 13 inch guns of the forts. The heavy Russian losses were due to the blowing up of the magazines of Maudshur. "Four hundred Chinese are reported killed. The Chinese, who were re treating, fell into the hands of the Rus sian land force." The Daily News has the following from Che Foo: "Two of the forts were blown up. The 33 warships at Taku aggregated 200,000 tonB, and carried more than 800 guns." TRIP OF THE ELDER. Account of the Journey From Portland to Dutch Harbor. Dutch Harbor, June 7. Thus far has the good ship Elder, with her en thusistio collection of goldseekers, pro grossed on her way to the land of promise. Under lair auspices has the journey been thus far, and the light of hope kindlos each eye has the future is contemplated. Many have suffered from the trials which 'the capricious mood of "Old Briny" has inflicted on them, but not severely; for, to give Old Briny credit, thus far he has boen very lenient with ns. Our time has been passed in . visiting the Bick and needy, who, like the poor, are always in evidence on a sea trip, and various social diversions, consisting of enter tainments in the afternoon and song services in the evening. Our worthy leader has been Judge Galbraith, and to him we are deeply Indebted for his many kindnesses in helping out the programme. We are also honored by having in our midst a poet, John E. M, Shea, who has been inspired to write a poem aboard, entitled, "The Voyage of the Elder." Among the faces fa miliar to Portland people are: VV. T. Hume, W. S. Chapman, Captain. Wat son, George W. Hazon, Joe Ben Lane, Silvey Stuart, J. D. MoKinnon, Cap tain Lyons. We have but few ladies aboard. Among them are Mrs. Gal braith, Mrs. Hume, Mrs. Tuttle, Mrs. Wilson and Miss Jewell, Captain Randall is quite popular, and has won much praise by his gen tlemanly and considerate deportment. Mr. Ileywood, the purser, and Mr. Owens, the freight olerk, also deserve special mention for their courtesies. As the days go by and the trials of sea sickness are over, the jollity at meals increases, revealing many original char aoters, and there is much by-play of talk. At our entertainments, too, much of originality is brought out in the remarks made, creating no little merriment. And so, day by day, in our lonely floating home on the track less ocean, we have our simple pleas ures, each hoping, in his heart, that Dame Fortune may smile upon his ven ture and that he may return to his friends in dear old Portland a success ful and happy man. Colombian War. Kingston, Jamaica, June 20. Pas sengers who arrived from Panama on board the British steamer Don, from Colon, bring details of a battle which was fought June 13 and 14 on Bejuua plain and Anton hill, between govern ment forces composed of three battal ions and numbering about 1,500 men, and a force ot revolutionists nnder Gen eral Belasarobe Parras. It is asserted that 400 soldiers and 85 officers of the government force were killed and that the forces of the government army were divided. The passengers of the Don further assert that General Parras addressed a letter to General Campos, the governor of Panama, demanding the surrender cf the city, adding that otherwise the place would be taken by force. When the Don left Colon, June 16, General Parras was 15 miles from Panama, with 1,500 well-armed infan try and 500 cavalry. It was believed that General Campos would be com polled to surrender the city. Mew York Apartment House Burned New York, June 20. The Miner apartment-house, a six-story structure at Madison avenue and Sixty-third street, was destroyed by fire this morn ing. The property loss is $260,000, Only three of the ten apartments in the building were occupied, but so rapidly did the fire spread that many of the persons in the building escaped with difficulty. Several were over come by heat and smoke, and were car ried out of the building by the firemen, TRAIN IN A HAIL STORM. All Windows on One Side Were Broken and Much Damage Done. Kansas City, Juno 20. The Burling ton passeugor train from Denver reach ed tho Union depot late last night in a sadly wreckod condition, having passed through one of the severest hail and wind BtorniB which railroad men say they ever encountered. The train ran into the storm botweon Falls City and Rulo, Nob., 40 miles west of St. Jo- soph, Mo. The railroad mon say that at times it seemed as if the cars would be lifted from the tracks. The storm struck the train in an open piece of country, and the engineer threw opon the throttle in the hope of running away from it. The train was filled with people, and in the cars there was great excitement. With all the wind and rain came hail. Hail stones fell as large as baseballs. Every win dow in the north side of the Bleeper, three coaches and one mail-car was samelied. Glass flew all over the cars, and many of the passengers were cut by flying fragments. Water poured in through the windows, and fairly flood ed the cars. The mail clerks in the mail-car climbed up near the roof of the car to keep dry. Much of the mail matter was damaged by water. The damage done the cars and sleeper will amount to about $500. Every window in the engine cab was smashed by the hail. CODE FOR THE PHILIPPINES. Commissioners Are at Work on One foi September. Manila, June 20. Judge Taft and his colleagues of the civil commission are studying the different legislative phases of the situation preparatory to the work of enacting now laws on Sep tember 1, when they will ass time legis lative powers. ' The subjects have been tentatively divided among them as fol lows: Judge Taft Crown lands, land titles, the churoh and the civil service, the last-named with a view ot bringing from the United States a good class ol government employes, who shall event ually replaoe army officers in the civil ' administration. Judge Wright Internal improve ments, constabulary, commerce, corpor ation franchises and the criminal code. Honry O. Ide Banking and currency . and the organization of civil courts. Bernard Moses Revenues, . taxation and schools. The commissioners have established ofliueB in the same building with Gen eral MacArthur, and are receiving, dis cussing and absorbing the opinions of army and navy men and of foreigners and Filipinos. The people of Manila seemed pleased with the demooratio course of the commissioners. FIGHT TO A FINSH. St. Louis Transit Company Rejects Strikers' Offer. ;t. Louis, June 20. War to the knife was the slogan adopted by the striking employes of the St. Louis Transit Coin jinny today. This extreme action was decided upon this afternoon ' when the proposition adopted by the striking street-oar men yesterday look ing to a settlement of the strike waa turned down by the Transit Company. President Gompers, of tho Federa tion of Labor, called on President Whittaker, of the transit company, to day in the interests of the strikers and remained in conference with him and the board of directors for some time. The conference broke up'at 1:15 P. M,, and Gompers announced that all nego tiations between the strikers and the transit company were again off. Whit taker refused to submit the question of reinstatement 0' the striking employes to arbitration. Whittaker said the best he could do if the strike were de clared off would be to place the strik ers at the bottom of the list, and give them work as they are needed. President Mahon, of the interna tional Association of Amalgamated Street Railway Employes, made this statement this afternoon: "This is now a fight to a finish. President Gompers told me this after noon that he proposed to turn the en tire power of the American Federation of Labor, with iti membership of 2, 000,000, against the transit company and fight the issue out if it takes five years to do it. The boycott to be de clared will apply not only to the tran sit company, but to evory person, every business man, every corporation or in dividual favoring them in any way." Two Fights With Filipinos. Manila, June 20. The United Statei forces had two engagements of import ance last week. The troops under Gen eral i unstou ami ueneral uraut organ ized an advance with part of five regi ments and two guns against 500 rebels in a mountain stronghold east of Biaha cota, where it was supposed Captain Roberts, of the Thirty-lifth regiment, who was captured last month at San Miguel de Mayumo, was held captive. The Americans operated nnder many difficulties and over an exceedingly rough country; but the rebels retreated, only a few resisting, and the stioug hold was occupied and burned. Aia result of last week's scouting, 60 Filipinos were wounded, 200 killed and 240 rifles, with 24,000 rounds oi -ammunition, was surrendered. Two Americans were killed. Washington, June 20.-1116 follow ing cablegram was received at the Jap anese legation from the Japanese gov ernment at Tokio: '.'The situation in North China is daily growing more se rious. The imperial government lias consequently, in addition to the fleet already at Taku, decided to dispatch a military force of about 1,000 men to Tien Tsin in order to strengthen the hands of the Japanese minister in China. The latter is in full concert with the other representatives of tilt, principal po wen."