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.