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Yamhill County Reporter r. >1. BAKMIAKT. Publl.har, McMINNVILLE ............. OREGON. gatarrttlng Collection of Current Event* In Condensed Form From Both Contlneuts. The supreme court of Forresters is In session in Denver, Colo. The coffee crop of Brazil promises to resell 10,000.000 bags, as against 9,000,- 000 last season. Two young ladies from Alameda anil Kan Francisco have gone to Trin'ty county upon a prospecting tour Th y «reequipped with complete miners’ out fits and are determined to work hard to find a paying claim. Edwin Corbin, of Chicago, has dosed a deal amalgamating the United Starts an<l Canadian Lakes Fisheries Com panies, whereby the control of 20 com panies passed into the hands of the British company with *5,000,000 cap ital. The British, Russian and French ministers to Greece have notified their respective governments that it is im- jMissible for Greece to payan indemnity exceeding £3,000,000 Turkish. It is understood that negotiations are on foot to induce Turkey to accept a smaller sum than the amount originally demanded. The county recorder in Great Bend, Kan., has reported the release of over *60,000 in chattel and real estate mort gages since August I, and half of the crop lias not been threshed. It is pre dicted that by the new year the county will lie in better sha|>e than ever ladore and will look back on the largest acre age of wheat in the history of the county. Paul .1. Henning, who has just ar- I rived in San Francisco, says the Amer ican flag is flying on ('lipperton island. He has been living on the island with two other men and they successfully blocked the attempt of Captain Murt- ray of the ship Kinkora, to hoist the British flag there three months ago. The Kinkora was wrecked and the three Americans held as wreckage nearly a million feet of lumber, which was washed ashore. II. M. S. Conics vis ited the island later, but did not dis turb the Stars and Stripes nor enter a claim for the lumber.* Peters & Roberts’ furniture factory, of Portland, Or., Mas damaged by tire to the extent of *6,000. President Faure, of the French re public, visited Russia, ami was royally welcomed by the czar at Cronstadt. It is reported that the government of Brazil is negotiating with n Euro|s*an nation for the sale of one of her war ships in course of construction. Governor Lord has pardoned Clar ence Wad«* out of the Oregon |smiten- tiary. He has been adjudged afflicted with consumption ami not expected to live. It. is officially announced nt Buenos Ayres that a very large crop of grain is anticipated in the Argentine Republic. The wool clip, it is further stated, will be a heavy one. A Seattle man has gone to Boston to «ecu re *200 young ladies for an ex)iedi- tion to the Klondike gold fields. It is said he will fit out a steamer and start early in the spring. The warehouse of IV. P. Fuller <H Co., in Portland, Or., was completely destroyed by tire. The loss is about |50,000 partly insured. The origin of the tin* is uncertain. A S]M*eial from Lander, Wvo., says: Daniel Tracy, a miner from Leadville, has uncovered a vein of gold ore two feet eight inches w ide in the Wind River range, on Gold creek. The ore is literally gemmed with gold the full width of the vein. G. II. Steel, sheriff , ami Sam Young, ex-sheriff of Leslie county, were both kilied in a combat at Hyde, Ky. Both men fought to <les|s*ration with pistols, ami Isith fell dead in the fifth round. Steel was a Democratic leader and Young a Republican. They quarreled over politic*. A great strike is on in the building trades at Buda Pest More than 30,- 000 men an* involved. The strikers, in the endeavor to prevent others from working, came rejieatedly in conflict with the ]s>lice, and des|s<rate pitched battles ensued in several of the princi pal streets of the city. Two hundrt*d ]<ersons have been injured, some dan gerously. The |s>liee have arrested 100 of the ringleaders. RESULT OF N. Y. Only Twenty Meeting Between Miner« and Operators Ended in a Disagreement. Pittsburg, Aug 26.—At the coal operators’ meeting thia afternoon, the miners’ ultimatum to return to work at the 69-cent rate, pending arbitra tion, was rejected. The operators will now carry out the plan made at the Cleveland conference, and will open all their mines. The operators’ conference was in secret session for several hours, and when the doors were opened the press •ominittee announced that the mines would certainly Is* started with the old diggers if possible, or with imported men, if the old men refuse to work. A committee was appointed, composed of representatives of every firm in the dis trict, to map out the mole of procedure for the resumption. The press committee issued a state ment tonight purporting to be an ac- ,-ount of the proceedings in conference. After reciting the several propositions under discussion in the conference, and which assert that the miners peremp torily reject all the propositions sub mitted by the operators, the report says that the operators have exhausted every* effort in trying to bring alsmt a settle ment with the officials of the miners, whose proposition could not be accept 'd, because it meant an advance of 27*^ per cent in wages, and would entail irre parable losses on the producers. The report adds: “Amieabl * anil conciliatory methods have failed to convince or to move the leaders. The responsibility for what ever privations follow to the miners and their families must rest ujion the miners’ officials. The miners' officials having rejected the proposition made for an agreement, the operators can only ask the miners to consider the ex- isting conditions and ask themselves whether they are justified in continu ing a line of action which is dicta torial.” Then it is broadly stated that the action of Ratchford is not above suspi cion, and it is strongly intimated that the miners’ officials are acting in league with the Hocking Valley operators, against the interests of the Pittsburg district miners. At noon the conference between the coal miners’ national district officials and the operators closed, and the con ference adjourned without day. The miners' representatives did not recede from their original proposition to settle the strike by arbitration and start the mines at the 69-cent rate. The operators offered to divide the dif- erence between the 54 and 69-cent rates, making the price at which the miners should start 61 *s cents per ton, but this was rejected. Then additional propositions were made. One was to start the mines without fixing any price for 30 days, and then to pay the rate agreed upon by the board of arbitra tion. This was also refused the miners, as they said they had been fooled too often tp trust the operators. They de clined to work for a month, giving the operators the output for that length of time without knowing what wages should be paid. A proposition was then made to operate the mines for ten days without fixing the price, a board of arbitration to tix the price for that time. Presi dent Ratchford insisted that nothing but the 69-cent rate could possibly be accepted. The operators were firm, but the miners were equally determined. Every argument of the operators was met by the miners’ leaders, it was, therefore decided to end the conference. President Ratchford gave out the fol lowing statement: ‘‘We have disagreed. Our proposi tion remains unchanged. Beside our proposition to arbitrate we made them a second one along the line of bringing alsiut a general conference of the miners and operators of all the mining states. They refused to lend their efforts in that direction and the strike was con tinued. We have no other plans for the future.” Immediately after the close of the conference, ,1. B. Zerbe called a meet ing of operators for 2 o’clock this after noon to discuss the plan decided upon at the ('leveland conference to make a fight to start the mines with the old men if they can be induced to <lig at 54 cents, or to import men to take their places. Others, however, say they will not aid in carrying out this plan, and favor a complete surrender. Quiet prevails in the strikers’ camps alsiut the DeArmitt mines. Both sides are awaiting the decision of the court in tin* cases of the five men arrested on Saturday morning. The Stirkeen Route. San Francisco, Aug. 26.—A new route is to be established to the placer fields of the Klondike. The journey will l*e made from this city to Wrangel, where a steamer will Is* taken up the Stiekeen river, a distance of 70 miles. Telegraphic advices from the New From that point to latke Teslin the York Herald's eorre*|smdent in Rio trip will la* made by stage. Lake Tes Janeiro state that the official report of lin is a* the head of the Hootitigula o|s*rations against the fanatics around river, and from there a steamer will t'anudim during the last few weeks ply on lewis ami Yukon rivers to Daw show that 2,400 Brazilian troops have son City, a distance of 450 miles. The lieen wounded. Great difficulty is stage line will la* owned and managed fiatml in trans|s>rtiug arms, ammuni by John Allman, the well-known stage tion and stores to the government ow proprietor. He wilt place 10 coaches ing to interference bv the fanatic«. In ami 100 horses on the road. The fare the meantime large fori-es of fanatics, for the staging is to l>e *1 a mile for all well armed, have ap|*>an*d in the passengers. states of Sao Paulo and llaran. They Parchment used on the best banjos is have invaded several plantations and made from wolf skin. small tow ns. H. J. Hatchett, formerly secretary of the ls>s Anglees chamber of Commerce, wlro hail charge of the lets Angeles ex hibit at the world's fair and mysteri ously disappeared lefore the exposition closed, is said to have Isen seen in t'hicago. His wife has mourned hint as dead. The informant states that Hatchett told him he had concluded to drop out of sight, ami can Hone, I him to say nothing about having met him. President McKinley spoke at the Grand Armv encampment at Buffalo SKAGUAY THE CONFERENCE Paris. Aug. 26. — Baron Macau, one of the chief promoters of the charity liazaar, of the Rue Jean Goujon, which was burned May 3, with the loss of over a hundred lives, has been senten ced to pay a tine of 500 francs. One *• the employes of the cinematograph establishment, the section in which the fire broke out, was sentenced to one year's imprisonment and fined, anil an other employe was sentenced to eight months’ imprisonment and to pay a fine. i TRAIL IMPASSABLE. Men Have Crossed Tliiee Week«. It hi ES p 5 Seattle, Wash., Aug. 25.—Th» Evidence of Steady Growth steamer Rosalie arrived here this morn i ing from Dyea and Skaguay. She re- and Enterprise. ■ ports that there are about 4,000 people at Skaguay, and that the trail is still impassable. About 900 miners are THEY WILL START I P THE MINES working upon it, ami it is expected ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST that it will la* ready in a few week:-. Not over 20 men have crossed ever it ir. From All the Cltle. end Town» •f Hope to Secure the Co-operation of the last three weeks. the Thriving: Slater Stat«« Friendly Operator« Bow Between At Dyea the miners are getting —Oregon. across as rapidly as.cculd be expected. Workers and Non- Worker». Juneau is rapidly filling up with Lane county warrants are selling at Pittsburg, Aug. 24.—Developments miners from Dyea and skaguay, who 102 cents on the dollar. in the coal mining situation in Pitts propose to winter there. Seven carloads of old wheat were burg district will be watched with un shipped from Sheridan last week. usual interest this week. Both sides Bunton Girl« for Alaska« A Polk county farm located near An were apparently at rest today, but it Boston, Aug. 25. — Ralph K. Mont was developed that at the conference morency, of Seattle, is here on a novel tioch was sold for *10,000 last week. tomorrow there will probably be dis exfiedition. He is going to take a ship- The foundry at Oswego has started ruption. By many it is believed that ; load of handsome young Boston girls up on a two weeks’ order, and may run M. D. Ratchford, president of the to Alaska—about 206 of them, he ex longer. miners’ organization, will not be pres pects. In an interview he said: The hoard of management of the ent. It is claimed he will stick to his “My main object is to get a good Commercial Association of Umatilla assertion that he will not agree to arbi steam vessel around to the Pacific to county has decided to send an exhibit trate unless all the states involved are do a general transportation business be of Umatilla products to the Spokane represented. It is a well-known fact tween Puget sound and Alaskan» jsirts that the operators of other states will next summer. You can’t get a craft of fruit fair. An injunction has been granted by not join local operators in a movement any sort out there for love or money. for arbitration. If Ratchford is obdu With 200 young women passengers at Judge Fullerton against Coos county, rate, the conference will be useless. *250 apiece, making *50,000, and restraining the sheriff from selling the This, in brief, is the situation and it lomething on the freight, I shall make property of the Southern Oregon com- party, attached for delinquent taxes. is apparent that both sides are making , i good profit.” There are 26,000 acres planted in preparations for movements that will Would Compel Baclielor« to Wed. prunes in Oregon—15,000 of them in be to their benefit. From a reliable source it was learned New York, Aug. 25.—Charlotte the Willamette valley, 6,500 in the that if the operators start mines on the Smith, president of the Women’s Res- Rogue River valley. The coast coun lines laid down, other mines will also i cue League, called on the Central Labor ties and Eastern Oregon have 2,000 be started by the miners. It is pro Union to explain her new scheme for acres. posed to select operators who are not compelling marriageable bachelors to A miner arrived in Marshfield a few represented at the conference, and who marry. She was too late to get the days ago from the Salmon Mountain are friendly to the miners. They will i floor, but she buttonholed several of the mines with about five ounces of gold. be given iiermission to mine coal at the ilelegates. He had with him one nugget worth rate demanded and the coal stored. By She said she had statistics to show about *38. He found the gold on John this means it is expected to get a fund that there was an intimate connection son creek. from the union miners that happen to between her scheme and the labor ques- The Klamath River Lumber Com be working, and with this fund pay ex . tion. The great competition of women pany’s mill at Pokegama started up in penses of a tight against imported labor. in the field of labor, she held, was be full blast last week, and will be kept The miners’ officials are making ar cause 60 per cent of the men refused to in operation right along, a big drive of rangements to have a fund on hand to marry. She said she was going to Bos 4,000,000 feet of logs having arrived. send foreign labor home just as fast as it ton to start a campaign against the About 25 men are employed. arrives. With mines operated under Republican and Democratic candidates Engineer J. G. Holcombe is making the jurisdiction of the labor leaders, for mayor there, because both of them and with friendly operators who desire } are bachelors. She did not believe that preparations to survey the Tillamook to make a profit, they hope to have an a bachelor ought to hold an elective and Nehalem bars. Alfred Williams available and large fund. This plan | office, because no man could possibly and Fred Arthur have engaged to assist has been outlined, and will be submit , act on questions of public morality un in making the sounding. It is done with a view of preparing an estimate ted to the national officials if the con less he was married. ference proves a failure. She was preparing a pamphlet upon for the improvement of the Liars. Elk and deer hunters on the Lower Religious services were held in the her scheme, and intended to show that several camps today, and all were if bachelors were com|>elled to marry Nehalem and Salmonberry rivers report Two and largely attended. Notwithstanding the and the army of unmarried women game very scarce this year. religious air pervading the camp, a con | were to became housewives and mothers, three years ago elk were so plentiful flict between workers and strikers took | wages would go up. Even if all the that they could be easily tracked, but place in the afternoon, during which bachelors in Greater New York were to this season they are so scarce that three strikers were badly hurt, but none marry there would be still 100,000 tracks are not to be found, only rarely. are in a serious condition. Five of the women without husbands. It is re There are nine combined harvesters men who are working for the New ported from Boston that Mr. Curtis, the operating in Sherman and Gilliam York & Cleveland Gas Coal Company I Republican candidate for mayor of that counties. By this method of harvest this afternoon went to W. A. Semen’s | city, has already announced his engage- ing, farmers near the railroad are en boarding house, half a mile from Oak j ment to a young woman. abled to start their machinery and Hill tipple, where a number of strikers teams going in the morning and by are quartered, for the purpose of per KAIULANI’S AMBITION. noon have their wheat in the ware suading the strikers to go to work. The houses. meeting was a stormy one, and resulted Tlie Prince«« Hope« She May Yet Rule Progress in laying the rails on the in Antonio Podasky being shot near Over Hawaii. Astoria & Columbia River railroad has the heart, the bullet going nearly San Francisco, Aug. 25.—Princess been delayed by bridge construction at through his body. Gonronng Pitnold I Kaiulani, who has just attained her John Days. A temporary bridge will was shot in tl> eye and Bostiste Dal- majority, will return to Hawaii in be completed this week, and tracklay meise was cut with a razor The in October after an absence of 10 .veal's ing beyond that point will then go jured men are all strikers. This was spent in England and on the continent. ahead. Work on the grade is progress the only disturbance recorded at the She has hojies of being made queen of ing rapidly. camps today. The aggressive workmen the present island republic if annexa The Oregon Land Company has leased escaped before the men in the Oak Hill tion fails. She is watching for a the evaporator of the Salem Canning camp were aware of the fight. chance. When it comes she looks for a Company, ami is building several evap The report that Sandy Creek camp compromise between the republicans orators of its own. It expects to handle will be abandoned is denied by the and the royalists in favor of herself, strikers today, and they say that the j for the chances of her aunt, ex-Queen 2,000 bushels a day of fruit and vege tables, with a special view to the Al men will be sent there from Plum Creek I Liliuokalani, being restored to power aska demand, for wh ch orders are al and Turtle Creek. are generally conceded to be slim in ready on hand. In addition to the general missionary 1 any event. work for the week, the leaders have de The total salmon pack of the Colum The princess w ill arrive in New York cided to direct especial work to the pre about September 25 from England. She bia river is 474,500 cases, according to vention of operations at the Sandy I w ill probably stay for a short time in reliable statements from all packers. Creek mine. The strikers say they this city, visiting w ith ex Queen Lil- The Fishermen’s Union cannery heads will resume their marching tactics in I inokalani, who w ill then be residing the list, with 52,000 cases, Fully 80 the morning, claiming that under the here temporarily while congress is not per cent of the pack is royal cbinook, ruling of Judge Goff, in the West Vir in session. Kaiulani's father will ac and the general quality is excellent, ginia eases, they are given this right. Most of the steelheads ami bluebacks company her. Samuel DeArmitt says tonight that were utilized for cold storage. 150 to 175 men will be at work in the Murdered Man's Avenger. Plum Creek mine tomorrow. Washington. San Francisco, Aug. 25.—A sensa It is announced that the New York tional scene was enacted in Judge Seven cents is now paid for fish in & Cleveland Gas Coal Company will Dunn's courtroom at the close of the Blaine. make eight evictions tomorrow from trial of Eugene Kenny, charged with The season for shooting ducks and different company houses. It is not the murder of Patrick Dolan. The jury geese began on the 15th inst. probable there will Is* any trouble. found that the defendant was insane at Huckleberries from the Blue moun The sheriff does not say tonight what thetimeof the commission of the crime, course he will pursue in the morning ami the court was just about to order tains are selling in Dayton for 50 cents should marching begin, but thinks he him remanded for examination by the a gallon. is reailv to meet every emergency. The Star route daily mail service be lunacy commissioners, when Michael Sympathy for the strikers by the Dolan, a brother of the deceased, tween Blaine and New Whatcom will farmers and citizens is not diminishing sprang at the murderer, and, grasping be re-established Septemlier 1. in the least. Today there were alsiut him by the throat with one hand, beat The assessment of Douglas county 700 visitors to the camp from Sandy him on the head and face with his right creek, and many farmers who came until the bailiff ami other officers in this year is increased nearly *1,000,060 over the valuation of last or any previ brought wagonloads of provisions. terfered ami took him into custody. ous year. Citizens of New Texas sent wbrd that they had plenty of food for the men and The Northern Pacific Railway Com Bees in Posse««Ion of :* House. wanted them to call on them when Elizalieth, N. J., Aug. 25. — Bet's by pany became owner of 9,000 more acres needed. the thousands have, during the last few of land in Chehalis county, having re Ratchford’« Expectations. months, made honey and flourished in corded a government patent for that Columbus, O., Aug. 24.—President a palatial residence in North Broad amount of land last week. Ratchford said tonight before leaving street. abandoned by its owner for the The Islam! County Horticultural So Pittsburg that he expected its the re summer, ami the municipal officials ciety has met anil decided to hold a sult of the conference tomorrow with are very much worried, because the fair at Coupeville about the middle of the Pittsburg operators a conference of bees must be banished from the house, September. The executive committee all coal operators and miners of the ami every one shirks the dangerous is busy selecting premiums. The fair country would Is* called soon to con task. will be larger and will be continued I sider a settlement of the strike. He longer than last year. Live« With h Broken Neck. did not anticipate any other result from Niles. Mich., Aug. 25. — The case of The state land commissioner is pre this conference. Secretary Pearce will Patrick Kelley, whose neck was brok paring a schedule of the state school 1 also attend the conference. en by a fall several weeks ago, is at and granted lands in each county of the Lagos, West Coast of Africa, Aug. 24. tracting much attention. At first he state. These lists are to be posted in ' —The king of Benin, after wandering was paralyzed lielow the hips, ami it the county auditor’s office of the sev in the bush since the capture of Benin was not supposed he could long survive, eral counties for information of those City by the British last February, but he is now able to sit in a chair and seeking to lease. A schedule for Yaki came in on August 7. with 800 un move his legs. He is improving so ma has already been completed, and arms! blacks, and surrendered to the fast the doctors think he will soon lie other counties will be taken up as fast British commander. out again, as well as ever. as (ossible. Three Men Killed. Better wages are being paid at pres Murder Followed by Suicide. Cairo. III.. Aug. 25.—Three men were ent for harvest hands than ever before Nashville, Aug. 24.—J. B. Rich, a instantly killed and eight injured by in the history of Adams county. young white man, shot and killed his the explosion of a boiler at the brick- i Farmers have bid as high as *3 per day wife tonight, at the home of her mother, | yard of IV. B Halliday this morning. for help to do the same work that hail in the Kist Nashville. He then killed The dead are: Rulev Bradley, en been done in the past for *1.50, and not hi« brother-in-law. shooting him twice. gineer; Gideon Ricks. Henry Schiller. half enough men could be secured even He shot him self twioe, inflicting fatal All spring-sown grain All the killed and injured were negroes at that figure wound«. Rich, a week ago. fih**i ■ bill except Schiller. The cause of the ex is now ripe, and in order to save it for divorce, alleging infidelity. Today farmers must harvest soon. plosion is unknow n. he was arrested, charged with kidnap The constitutionality of the grain in ing one of the children, and it is sup Crore 1 ilea, like oetriohes, «wallow spection act. passed by the legislature pose* I the arrest enraged him and led tv pebbles and «mall stones for the pur- I of 189ft, is to be tested in the supreme th»' commission of the crime. po«e of grinding their food. oonrt. | i Scheme by Which Strikers Hope to Raise Money. A REINDEER EXPRESS Goverument M» y Furnish «'•■■ertlan Between Alaska Point«. Washington, Aug. 25.—Some inter esting statements relating to the gold region in Alaska ami the reindeer ex- ]s'rimeiit there are brought out in the annual statement of United States Com missioner of Eilueatoin Harris, sub mitted today. Touching on the im|s>rt- ance of extending the introduction of reindeer into that territory, the re says the reindeer stations ought t able to furnish 500 reindeer trained to the harness at once for use of miners on the Upper Yukon river. ‘‘It was my purpose,” the commis sioner goes on "to detail three of the skilled herdsmen and 300 tarined rein deer to the Yukon region the present summer.” If this arrangemment is carried out as intended, an important experiment will lie in progress during the coming year at the gold mines. The plan of the bureau has lieen to arrange a rein deer express, connecting towns in a line from Behring straits to Kisiiak island. Superintendent of Reindeer Stations Kjollmanni last September proved the practicability of this by making a trial trip on this route. Two of his party were able to take the steamer at Kat- inai, sailing to Sitka in March. This ararngement once completed, it will he (Hissible for business companies in San Francisco and other cities to hold com munication with their whaling fleets (hiring the winter, north of the Arctic circle. There have been maintained in Alaska 20 day schools, under the supervision of the interior department, with 23 teachers and an enrollment of 1,267 pupils. A public school was opened at Circle City in the Yukon mining dis trict, but the department’s agent, writ ing from St. Michaels, says he is afraid he will be forced to discontinue it, be cause of the exodus of the city’s popu lation into the region nearer the re cently discovered mines. The influx of miners into the Yukon has caused a demand for reindeer for freighting purposes. In the original plan of the purchase and distribution of reindeer, the puqiose was to secure a new food supply for the famishing Eskimos of the Behring sea and the Arctic ocean region, but it is now found that reindeer are as essential to white men as to Eskimos. The wonderful Yukon placer mines are situated 25 to 100 miles from the great stream. Pro visions brought from the south and landed on the banks of the river are, with great difficutly, transported to the mines on the tributary streams. Last winter mongrel dogs, for transportation purposes, cost from *100 to *200 each, and freight charges from the river to the mountain range from 15 to 20 cents jier pound. The trained reindeer make in a day two or three times the distance covered by dog teams, and have the ad vantage that they can use the abundant moss as food. TRAMPS ARE BLAMED Misplaced Switch Derails an Excursion Train Near Chicago. Chicago, Aug. 25.—An engine at tached to a heavy excursion train on the Chicago & Calumet Terminal rail road was derailed last night near Riv erdale. The passengers were thrown from from their seats by the jar and one man was probably fatally injured, Seven others received slight injuries, After a delay of two hours the engine was raised to the track and the train proceeded. It is very evident that the accident was caused by a misplaced switch, be lieved to have been the work of tramps. The switch was found broken in two places. The baggage-car was telescoped over the cab and coal tender. Murray, one of the injured, was riding in this car, and was caught in the debris. He was dug out unconscious and may die. The force of the shock was so great that the track was literally torn out of the ground. There were 500 passengers on board, and had the train not been running at a slow rate of speed, a ter rible loss of life would have resulted. California’« Klondike. Carrville, Cal., Aug. 23.—William Truax and bis partner, an actor named Dillon, have struck what is said to be one of the richest ledges that have been found in this district. The men only arrived here about noon on Monday, and before sundown Truax, who is a miner recently from Cripple Creek, had founl what will probably mean a for tune for both. This latest find is sit uated on Morrison creek just below the Graves brothers’ claim and above the Davis placer mine. The two men were up at daylight yesterday morning, ami by noon had stripped enough to show them a ledge two feet wide of wonder ful richness. Dillon came from Sacra mento, where he was stopping. Gold In California. Quincy, Cal., Aug. 25.—The le- port which came from the vicinity of the Thistle shaft that "Lucky Antone,” an Italian, had made a *10,000 strike in a week, is confirmed by J. W. Cordoroy, a stagedriver, who also brings the news that Charles Fish, who has a grave) claim at the junction of Nelson creek and Feather river, took *3000 from his claim last week. Nel son creek is considered the richest stream in Plumas county and many paying claims are located along its banks and bed. Ice Htnrked the Way. London, Aug. 24.—A special dispatch from Gjaetsvar, Norway, says that Captain Beade’s polar expedition, com pose*! of Austrians anil Hungarians, has safely returned from the icy sea. The ship was unable to proceed beyond lati tude 80 degrees 40 minute« north, on account of great masses of ice. Messrs. Eaton and Faxon have made collections of nearly 40 species of North American sphagna or peat moseea. with many varieties, in all 172 specimen«. I