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Yamhill County Reporter F. II. HAKMIAHT, Fubllshrr. M c M innville OREGON. luteresflnK Collection of Current Event* in Condensed Form Both Continents. From A COLLEGE THE "RUSH." TRAIL IS lie mi Ke I Seriously to Three Berkeley Freshmen. A Few t»f Tho<*e Gathered at Skaguay (' mu Now Kseitpe. Berkeley, Cal., Sept. 2.—There will be no more "rushes” at the university of California, if President Kellogg’s latest mandate is obeyed. I Half «lazed, his jaw broken, his face a bleeiling mass, Benjamin Kurtz, a newly entereil freshman, was found I wandering aliout the campus on Mon day night after the rush between the I two lower classes. In the struggle i some one put his heel on Kurtz’s face, ami may have sustained an injury of 1 the brain. An examination showed that a piece of flesh had been torn from I one nostril. The upper lip hung by a I shred, and the ragged nature of the tear made the injury more serious. All the front teeth were gone. Four teeth ha«l been knocked out of the lower jaw and the bone in which they had been im bedded was broken out with them. Both upper an«i lower jaw were smashed and the flesh of the face was crushed ami bleeding. There were two other serious casual- I ties. Frank Marshall, a freshman, had his right leg broken just above the ankle. Conlon, another freshman, also came out of the cpjnbat with a broken leg. Seattle, Sept. 1.—The following let- ; ter was received per steamer Utopia, which arrived in Seattle tixlay: Skaguay.Aug. 25.—The jam is broken on the Skaguay trail. A number of ; outfits have gotten over, and there is a VESSELS AND PORTS PLUNDERED steady stream of moving humanity, mixed up in an almost indescribable mass of horses of all sizes, ages ami Achiiiese Attacked a British Steamer, conilitions, mules, st«*ers, milch cows, Ma<*Na<*re<l FaMneiiger» and Crew goatH ami dogs, also vehicles of every and Looted the Ship. «lescription and kiml to be imagined. Three steamers ate now unloading on Tacoma, Aug. 31.—The Northern Pa lighters, which convey the freight as cific liner Columbia arrived today on near the shore as possible, where it is her maiden voyage from Yokohama, )oa«le«l on wagons or carried aliove high with 127 passenger* ami a full cargo of tide. The Utopia is unloading at the freight She was delaye«! on several oc «inly wharf—a very shaky structure. casions and forced to lie to 24 hours on Two piledrivers are at work on another account of tiie breakage of her machin dock, which is intended to be a sub ery. One of the firemen died of heat apo stantial one. plexy, and was buried at sea. The A new sawmill got up Bteam for the Columbia’s cargo includes 1,700 bales 1 first time this morning. Rough lumber of silk, valued at #500,000, which will is worth #27 per 1,000, but cannot be go acorss the continent via the Northern got half fast enough at any price. The Pacific today on a special train of eight city of tents is not being displaced, but baggage cars. The Columbia bripgs reinforced by a city of “shacks” of all Oriental advices up to July 27, as fol ; sizes and degrees of finish. Skaguay is lows : , the boom town of Alaska. Every man News has just reached Hong Kong of whose heart failed him when he en the prevalence of pirates on the Canton countered the first hardship has turtle«! river, and one of the most daring out townsite boomer. Four weeks ago rages perpetrated. One of the sons of Skaguay was not known; today there Captain Chung Kwei, a Straits million are not less than 3,000 people here, in aire, Kung Ah Phin, who recently went addition to those on the ships in the to Canton, was the victim. He, in com harbor. They have surveyed off the pany with a few of his relatives, hired townsite, the first comers having first a flower boat, and they were proceed choice. The Unite«! States commis ing to their native place. On the sec sioner is issuing some kind of a certifi oml «lay the boat stuck in the mud, and cate for a fee of #5; then the squatter coul'l not proceed. During the night, sticks up his tent, shack, or corral, an«! a gang of men with painted faces and is ready to "skin” the first tenderfoot fully armed boarded the boat. With that comes along. Transfers by quit revolvers leveled at the passengers, claim are quite ■ common, and as high ' they commanded silence while four men as #200 has been paid for a choice loca began at once to look for plunder. Ah tion. Phin brought from the Straits jewelry Skaguay has all theusuai accompani amounting in value to #5,000 and #2,- ments of a frontier mining town. j 000 in notes. These the pirates took, Dance halls ami scarlet, women are besides clothing, ejc. When they had plentiful, while roulette, faro, and stud I satisfied themselves that nothing more poker and craps find devotees ready to was to be obtained, they left the boat, tempt fickle fortune’s smile. after threatening the victims with in There is no danger of.a famine here, stant death if they made a noise till though there may be shortage in certain hours afterward. In the morning, in lines. On all sides, “smiling plenty formation was at once sent down to as if conjured by some enchanter” here | Canton, but before the authorities had J abounds. Great piles of bay, grain, j time to send a gunboat, the pirates had flour, bacon, sugar anti all the necessa ’ made their escape. Up to the present, ries are in stock apparently enough to nothing more has been heard of them. last for some time to come. There are Mat Sallet, a notorious brigand, with not less than 2,000 horses at work on 200 followers, raided the government the Skaguay trail, but it is hard to get station at Pulch Gaya, captured Mr. i anyone to contract to deliver you over Newbronner, the officer in charge, the summit—at any price—but you can killed a corporal, and then sacked the get over for about 30 cents a pound, if treasury of #20,000. The town, which j you are willing to wait and contract by consisted entirely of wooden and kajang 1 sections. The packers at this end of houses, was then fired, and every build the trail do not like to contract farther ing destroyed. Gaya ¡8 the export and than the first hill, six miles out, then import center of a considerable district, one has to hire another outfit. and the population is largely Chinese. At Dyea the Indians are moving the Sallet at last accounts was fortified at freight, in an almost unbroken stream Inaman, and it is feared will attack Sandkan and massacre the Europeans, from the landing to Lake Lindeman, ami it is no trouble to contract to get after looting the town. A daring piracy is reported off the one’s entire outfit over at one trip for No one coast of Acheen. The British steamer 30 to 35 cents per pound. Pegu was .attacked by six armed Achi- should come expecting to get over this nese. Captain Ross managed to force fall for a less rate, and no one should bring boats. There are boats, set up, his way through and reached the deck, i hotly pursued by his savage assailants, knocked down, in sections, and single boards on both trails from the landing one of whom ha«l meanwhile laid hold of the carving knife from the table. As to the base of the summit, but not one the unfortunate skipper, badly wounded has yet been taken over. Bloody Outrages Occurred in Chinese Waters. The 17th meeting of the farmers' national congress convened in St. Paul Tuesday. The supreme court of Oregon has de cided that a jury cannot be discharged on Bunday. Mrs. John Drew, the famous actress, died at Larchmont, N. Y., after an ill ness of three years. Table cutters employed in the four largest glove factories in Gloversville, N. Y., have struck for an advance in wages. About 800 skilled men are out. By a vote of 53 to 35 the Pennsyl vania state Democratic committee de clared vacant the seat of William Kar ri tv in the national Democratic com mittee. ATTACKED BY MOONSHINERS. At a Spanish cabinet council it was decided to summon the next class of Deputy MarNlial*« AmbuMhe«! and Sliot 80,000 reserves, 27,000 of whom will in ArkniiNHM. bo sent to Cuba and 13,000 to the Phil Little Rock, Ark., Sept. 2.—Two ippine islands. deputy Unite«! States marshals are dead, A landslide occurred at tunnel No. 4, two seriously wounded and two more on the Northern Pacific, several miles I missing as a result of an attack upon a west of the summit of the Cascades. 1 posse of officers by a gang of desperate Eaatbound and westbound trains were I moonshiners in Searcy county. The delayed. dead are: B. F. Taylor, of Searcy A genuine flying machine, it is said, I county ami Joe Dodson, of Stone coun- was seen at Sterling, Colo., a few days ' tv. The wounded men are the Renfrew ago by G. A. Nenstein. Mr. Nenstein ! brothers. The names of the missing noticed a large black object in the men were not given, but they are sup southeastern part of the heavens, trav posed to be deputy sheriffs of Searcy eling rapidly toward the northeast. Ho county. Taylor, one of the murdered men, watched it pass clear across the heavens, moving quite rapidly in a straight line. was 60 years old an«l was one of the He watched it until it passed out of wealthiest men in Searcy county. Dod eight, and is convinced that it was a son was a well-known deputy and has been a terror to moonshiners. He was bona tide flying machine. The naval officers who compose the leading a raid when the terrible affair l«oar«l recently appointed by Secretary occurred. T1 e officers had approached to within long, of the navy department, to pre pare plans for the erection of an armor 30 yards of an illicit distillery, when plate plant to be operateil by the United they were fired upon from ambush. States government, have concluded Taylor and Dodson fell at the first vol their inspection of the steels plants of ley, dea«l in their tracks. The shooting t he country, and are now ready tore- occurred 35 miles from Russellville, at port. Plans will be drawn up for a a point 10 miles south of Witt Springs. The locality is in the mountains, and government factory. has for many years been a favorite ren Ten saloons in Kansas City, Kan., dezvous for moonshiners and counter were raided by the |a>lice and #3,500 feiters. News of the tragedy was worth of liquors seized and [toured into brought to Russellville this morning the gutters. Saloon furniture and fix by Dr. Pack, who came after the cor tures filling ten big drays were seized oner. and carted to police headquarters, where The men who did the shooting are it will be burned. supposed to be a gang of moonshiners A dispatch from Buenos Ayres says led by Horace Bruce and John Church, the wheat crop in the province of two of the most desperate characters in Banta F«* is calculated at about 10,000 that part of the state. tons, scarcely more than enough to supply the province for the year. A tlliastly Experiment. What is true in Santa Fe province is Chicago, Sept. 2. — The trial of said to be true in the other provinces, Adolph Luetgert for the murder of his that is, none will furnish more than wife, began in earnest today, the pre enough for home use. liminary work of securing the jury hav The jewelry store of W. IL Finck, ing been completed. Contrary to the expectations of the at Seattle, was burglarized and goods to the amount of #10,000 taken. By state, the jury will be asked by the de sawing the iron bars off the window, fense to witness an experiment in the as he was, struggled to get to the bridge, the burglars secured an entrance to the vat in the basement of the sausage fac this man stabbed him terribly in the store. With a seven-pound sledgeham tory. This is to be the result of an ex abdomen and when he fell, the rest of mer and an eight-inch punch they periment conducted by Luetgert'* the piratical gang surrounded the pros broke the handle off the outside door attorneys Saturday ami yesterday. The I trate man and hacked him savagely, of the safe, and tb«*n easily pried the body of a man of about Mrs. Luetgert’s actually disemboweling him, and leav age and weight, who met death by vio door open. ing him a mangled corpse on the deck. lence Thursday, was taken to the fac- j The mate and the steersman were Five orphan children have been tory on Diversev avenue and immersed Both these shipiMsl from Honolulu to San Fran in a solution of caustic potash. Experts the next to be attacked. cisco. The government officials will reported that after boiling the body in men were on the bridge, and in spite of not permit them to land unless #500 a 15 per cent solution of potash for the j what resistance they < ould offer were The boatswain, how liouds are furnished for each of the same length of time as the stat«* alleges | soon cut down. quintet as a guarantee that they shall Luetgert disintegrated the body of his ever, climbed up the funnel stairs and not become public charges, but so far wife, the complete skeleton of the escaped the onslaught of the pirates. Returning to the deck, two more of the necessary amount has not been cadaver remained intact ami the soln- raised by the Salvation Army officer to toin ha«l but little effect upon the the crew and three Chinese passengers were killed. Thirty or forty passengers whom they were consigned. clothing. according to one account, were killed As a result of the test, the defendant ! or met their death by jumping over Official information received at Ma nila conflims the reports previously will, it is said, ask Judge Tuthill to 1 board. The vessel was then thoroughly published as to the disastrous character remove his court ami jury to tlu* base halted. One of the Achinese wag of the eruption of the Manyon volcano. ment of the big sausage factory for a placed at the wheel to steer the ship Several village* were completely de few hours and witness another experi nearer land; others plundered the cap stroyed. At Lihog 150 bodies were re ment which the defense claims will tain’s cabin, taking a repeating rifle covered and buried, ami more remained completely «lisprove the state’s theory j and a revolver. The safe was opened, in the lava. At another place 200 per of disintegration. #15,000 taken, ami the pirates made son* were missing. Some of the bodies of. .n the direction of Simpang Olim. Theatric»! Train Wrecked. ri-oovcred were so completely calcined St. Louis, Aug. 31.—The passengers The vessel was a frightful sight, the as to <>e unrecognizable. and train crew of the midnight special deck being spattered with blixxi and Advices from Rio de Janeiro state of tin* Chicago «St Alton, which arrived th«* entrails of the victims. that the fanatics attacked several con in this city at 7:45 A. M. for Chicago, Official information receive«! at Man voy* of provisions ami ammunition in narrowly <*Hcap«*d death in a wreck the interior a few days ago ami a bloody near Alton this morning. Tin* engine ila confirms th«* reports previously pub- battle followed. The fanatics were was derailed while proceeding at a lished as to the disastrous character of forced to retire after severe losses. The high raft'of speed by spreading rails, the eruption of the Mayon volcano. Bracil inn troops had 28 officers wound ami went down a 45-f«a«t embankment. Lava covered th«* whole mountain to its ed. The fanatic* are now reorganising The tender, three baggage oars contain base, and the obscuration of th«* sun by their force* ami another attack on con ing scenery and wardrobes of the Digby the clouds of ashes was so great that in voys is expected, as the fanatics are in Bell company and Hopkins theatrical th«* neigh ter hood of the disaster artifi cial light had to lx* used at 3 o’clock in need of ammunition. company, and a postal car, followed th«* afternoon. Several villages were Involved in the question of inter and rolled on top of the engine. Peter completely destroy«*«!. At Libog 150 Rafferty. of Bloomington, the engin«*er, pretation of section 22 of the new tar laslies were recover«! and buried, «nil was taken out fatally injured. Fire iff. with regard to the 10 per cent dis mor«* remained in the lava. At another criminating duty on foreign goods com man Charles Johnson of Bloomington; [dace, 200 persons were missing. Some ing to the United States from Canada Mail Clerks Robert Maltimore, of Jer- ■ of the Ixslies recovered were so com or Mexico, which i« now before the at seyville. Ill., ami W. F. Simper and pletely calcin«*«! as to lx* unrecognizable. torney general for decision, is another Samuel Grebbs, of Chicago, crawl«*«! qmwtion of equal if not greater magni out of the wreck severely hurt. A great danger threatens the sugar tude. Il involves the question of planters in Java, from a widespread dis Fntal Collision In Germany. whether this discriminating duty of 10 eas«* which attacks the roots of the cane. Berlin. Sept. 1.—A collision between The roots rot ami tin* cam* dies. |s'r cent does not apply to all goods im- The |s>rted in foreign vessels landing at passenger trains took place near Voh- planters stand helpless before th«* dis winkel at midnight. Three locomo United States |sirts which are not ex ease, which may ere long bring on a empt from discriminating tonnage taxes tives ami six carriages were wreck«*«!, failure of the sugar crop. It has already by express treaty stipulation. The two persons were kilhsiami 14 injured. struck four provinces, and has broken mutter is now Indore the attorney-gen Of the taller, it is tl. ",*.;:‘*t probably 12 out even on well-kept estates. will sue« umb to their injuries. eral, awaiting an interpretation. According to a Tokio dispatch, it is Another attempt lias been made to reported that next year's budget will Rtrlke in Ohio Settled. destroy the life of President Entire of Columbus, O., Sept. 2.—The coal show a deficit of 25,000,000 yen, even Franc«'. Tim's minutes after the pres though th«* fullest economy isobserv«*«!. ident had passed the Madeline church strike is consider«*«! settle*! here. The The deficit is chiefly due to the extraor in Paris on hi* return from Russia, a plan is to resume at 64 cents am! work dinary expenditures, sanctioned by the tenili was expl«>l«ni inside the railing [tending arbitration. The direct par diet. around the church. An arrest followed immtnliately, and the rail«*«l field wa* ties in the conference a«ljustment are Advi«'es from Taipeh, North Formosa, clows I by the police, who began an ac President Ratehford, of the miners, and state that the rebels have tx*en particu tive inviaatigation into the outrage. the executive committee of the opera larly active, but no serious fighting has Nobody was injured by the explosion, tor«. A number of the latter were in taken place. but tlw* affair, following so oloiely the oity today, and the result is that a Serious flood* are reported from vari ii|s»n others of a similar nature, caused decision may be looked for at any ‘ ous parts of Japan. moment tire greatest excitement. CUBA'S OPEN. — Another Rleh Strike. American Manufacturer« Excluded. A Fatal Fire. Venice, Sept 1.—A great fire oc curred today, and it is believe*I nine men were burned to death and that their bodies are buried in the debri*. FOR LIBERTY. Quinton Banderas Telia of the Progrès* of «he War. Evidence of Steady Growth and Enterprise. ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST From All the the Cities Thriving and Town» of Sister State» -Orefon. The spring run of ealmon at Celilo was a failure this year. The hay harvest in Wallowa county is over, ami farmers are busy garnering their wheat. A stu lent of fruit culture in Jackson .•ountv savs that yellow jackets are death on all kinds of moths that prey on fruit. One of the tramps injured in the wreck south of Roseburg drew #100 out of his pocket ami asked to be well eared for while that lasted. The schooner Bella, built on the Siuslaw by Eli Hansen, was [furnished with masts last week. The Bella has been a long time building? Hon. Thomas H. Tongue has suc ceeded in locating the lost muster rolls of the companies of volunteers that fought the Rogue river Indians in 1853. The sawmills up the North Santiam are being fiperateil to their fullest j capacity. Many of them are cutting ties anil bridge timbers for repairs on the O. C. & E. Eighty acres of the Ginn place, near Weston, which was threshed last week, averaged 52 bushels of wheat to the j acre. This is the largest yield yet heard of in that section. Engineer Halcombe, with a crew of men, is now engaged in making a sur vey of the Nehalem bar, with the ob ject of getting an appropriation for jetty work. Hi* is doing the work thoroughly, and will also make a sur vey of the Tillamook bar later. Astronomer S.S. Gannett has the in struments in place for receiving time by wire from St. Louis, in order to estab lish a meridian line at Baker City for the geological maps that are to be made by the federal authorities of the Baker mineral district. The Astoria carnival this year has eclipse«! anything of the kiml ever held in that city. It is the intention to effect a permanent organization of a regatta club, the objects of which will be to collect funds anil otherwise pro mote the annual carnival. The state fair to be held in Salem this year promises to be a success in every way. The O. R. & N., with its usual generosity and care for the state’s interests, is the first line to an nounce a reduced rate to Salem during the fair of one fare for the round trip. Work is being pushed on the con struction of the Astoria & Columbia River road to Goble, and the officers say they will have trains running be tween Astoria ami Portland by January 1. The affairs of the road are in goo«l hands, and being conducted in a busi ness-like manner. L. C. Coleman returned to Jackson ville from San Francisco last week. While at that city he had four sugar beets, raised on Griffin creek, analyzed at the Spreckles refinery. The result showed that they average«! 10 ounces in weight, contained 16.53 per cent of sugar and co-efficient of purity of 85 pei' cent. The percentage of saccharine matter is high, especially as the beets are not matured. Those containing 14 per cent sugar, with a co-efficient purity of over 80 [«er cent, are considered good. Should beets raised in other parts of Jackson county turn out equally well, a factory may be up in the near future. Each of the fair associations in Ste- vens county will hold a fair this fall, one at Kettle Falls, September 29 and 30, an«! Octoter 1 and 2, and the other at Myers Falls, September 29 and 30, and October 1. New York, Sept. 1.—Th«* Journal xml Advertiser says: The sensationally victorious march of the Cubans under Maximo Gomez anil Antonio Maceo, the entire length of the island, in Mar tinez Campo’s time, has just teen luplicateil by Quintin Banderas. Th«» negro war captain, than whom noC'uhma. jf the colored race, excepting npW« Maceo, perhaps, lias won greater honors in the struggle for independence, le«l 12,000 men from the eastern end of the island, where the patriots in arms are strongest, to the western end, where, since Maceo’s death the Cuban cause has not prospered so well. Those 12,- 000 men represented all branches of the Cuban army service. They penetrated into the provinces of Matanzas, Havana and Pinar del Rio, strengthening the existing forces in each of theBB provinces to such an extent that the coming win ter campaign there may be expected to be «ven as disastrous for the Spanish as in th«* times of the redoubtable Maceo. The news of the brilliant achieve ment was brought to the Journal am! Advertiser by the mail from Havana in an autograph letter from Banderas him self. In it he requests the publication of the proclamation that he issued on taking charge of the department. Banderas says that the secon«! invasion of the west was made in compliance with plans that were complete«! by Maximo Gomez, the general-in-chief himself, in June last, and that the march was effected with little or no trouble or molestation from the Spanish troops. The proclamation intimates that there have been wholesale deser tions from the Spanish army in Havana province into the Cuban service. The rest of the proclamation is di rected “To the Men of My Race,” ami is as follows: “It only remains for me to appeal to the men of my race, to point out to them that we owe the liberty of our fathers to the revolution of 1868, an«l it is my duty to present to them the example of that noble figure, Major- General Antonio Maceo, who died on the field for the liberty of his country.” Spain Will Never Yield. Denver, Sept. 1.—Count Henri Pen aloza, of Paris, is spending a few days in the city upon mining business. The count is an American by birth, a Span iard by descent and a Frenchman by adoption. He was born in San Fran cisco in 1869, while his parents were spending the winter in California. In the course of an interview Count Pen aloza said: “As long as Spain has a man or a penny in the treasury the ^Spanish gov ernment will not consent to the inde pendence of Cuba. A country1 whose call for military funds was subscribed four times over and which has s«m^ 200,000 soldiers to Cuba, is not in WiF impoverished condition so often de scribed.” Count Penaloza is exiled from his native country on account of the Carlist proclivities of his family. IN BEHALF OF INDIANA MINERS. A Large Relief Fund Subscribed Lebanon. . at Denver, Sept. 1.—A special to the News from Lebanon, Ind., says: An immense meeting was belli last night at the opera house in behalf of the starving coal miners in Indiana. Thomas J. Terhune made a statement of the condition of the miners as he found it while making his investiga tion as Governor Mount’s special com missioner. He said: “There are 8,000 families in this state in destitution. Thirty thousand people are literally starving. A few years ago they received #1.25 per ton; now the average price paid is about 35 cents per ton. A good miner can make #1 a «lay and is allowed to work two or three days each week. They are compelled to trade at company stores and the prices they pay are left entire ly to the mine operators. The miners admit that they cannot live upon the present scale of wages.” A large subscription to the relief fund was raised. E. V. Debs left Terra Haute for St. Louis last night to attend the confer ence called by the national executiv«* board of United Mineworkers. He says there has been a remarkable change in public sentiment on the injunction question; that whereas three years ago there was hardly any dissent from the course of judges who were issuing re straining orders against the strikers, the preponderance of sentiment now is in opposition. Tacoma, Wash., Sept. 1.—A letter to the Ledger has just been received from the north fork of the McMillan river, Alaska, from George Lemmon,addresse«! to his wife, in South Tacoma, giving j particulars of a fabulously rich strike | on this tributary of the McMillan river. He and his partner went there from the Yukon on information from an In dian, who accompanied them, last spring, and he savs they have struck a locality richer than the Klondike. In three months they have made a cleanup of #55,000. He says they have a lard bucket an«l a bean can full of nuggets, Washington. J and although they have no scales, they Much of the grain around Colfax is , believe it will run at least the amount named. They have stake«! off five yielding more than 40 bushels to the claims, and he tells his wife to send up acre. The turfmen of Walla Walla have four friends, whom he designated, as quickly as possible, to locate the ad arranged for a race meeting in that city joining properties, the law being that for October 20, 21, 22 and 23. one man can locate only one claim. The shingle mill at Cosmopolis is The letter was sent down by the In running a night and a day crew, as are dian, who takes #500 or #600 worth of the box factory ami planing mill. nuggets to lay in a fresh supply for the The ruling price for pack horses in winter. Lemmon says he will not be Ellensburg last week was #20, aif«l the out before next summer, and thinks his tendency of the market is still upwards. friends can reach there by the<ii«ldle It is reported that the Northern Pa of October over the Chilcoot pas' Mc cific will at once put on six more com- Millan river is between 200 and 300 pounil locomotives between Ellensburg miles south of Klondike, and until an«l Hope. lately has been an unexplored region, Kittitas county is advertising for bills lit* expresses fear of scurvy breaking out this winter unless they can get some for building a bridge across the Cle- green vegetables in, but adds that Elum river, and also across the Yakima nortiing would induce him to leave the at Thorp. diggings until next year, as by that Th«* steam beating apparatus for the time they are confident of having sev marine hospital in Port Townsend has arrived, and is being put in by the con eral hundred thousand dollars. tractor, who expects to have the work Flour Pay» No Duty. finisheil on time. Washington, Sept. 1.—Consul Fow The Spokane Spokesman-Review says ler, at Chee Foo, China, rtqxirts to the that never in the history of Spokane state department that foreign flour pays lias there been such a demand for har no import duty in that country. H<* say* that one-third of the flour import vest hands, an«l that unprecedented wages are offered. From #2 to #4 per ed goes to Canton. Alxmt 850,000 «lay and board is tendereil in many sec pound* of flour front California is sold tions. in Chee Foo yearly. The Chinese in Lists of school land of Lincoln, Walla that part of China consume corn ftxxl Walla and Aiiams counties subject to mostly. lease have been sent to the respective Philadelphia, Sept. 1.—Twelve hun- county auditors by the board of land dred trousers-makers struck today for «xrmmissioners. After these lists have ehorter hours, better pay an«l abolition been poste«! 30 days, the lands will be of the sweat system. offered for lease. Hamburg, Sept. 1.—The agreement arriv«*d at between the leading Amer ican dynamite companies and the Nobel trust has been ratified. Its provisions exclude American manufacturers of dynamite from the South African market._________________ FIGHT A Convert to Buddhism. New York. Sept. 1.—A most uunsual ceremony will be performed this even ing upon the platform of New Century hall, on Fifth avenue, when Countess M. de Canavaro will be receive«! into the Bmldhist faith by Dharmapala, a [«riest ot the Brahma-Somaj sect. The priest will repeat in his native language the formula of the oath of Buddha, which will be repeate«! by the prose lyte. This will be but the second cere mony of the kind ever performed in this country. Countess de Canavaro is an American woman, about 45 years old, a native of California, who married a foreigner. Further than that she will say nothing whatever about her family affair* j i Thinks Andree Will Return- New York, Sept. 1.—Evelin B. Bald win, an Arctic explorer of some note, when seen by a reporter in Brooklyn last night, declare«! his belief that An dree will come back safely from bi» From the southern part of Thurston journey in search of the north pole. Mr. county com«*« the gratifying report that Baldwin has just returned from Europe, the hop crop of that vicinity is giving where he talke«! with leading scientist*, excellent promise. Tf!e lice have not all of whom share hi* belief. bothered much this year, and the crop now maturing is of excellent quality, Friendship. Me., ha* a great grand« and the yield ororaire* fair mother but 53 years old.