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REINDEER WILL DIE. ■5 ACTUAL STARVATION. Washington, Deo. 29.—The most Binghamton, N. Y., Doc. 30.—Dr. Nansen, the Arctic explorer, was asked Dawson City and Fort Yukon profound distress prevails among many OREGON what he thought of the plan of bringing M c M innville thousands of people in Cuba, btarva on Reduced Rations. ■Ul— ----------------- tion not only impeiuls, but is an actual reindeer for taking relief to the Klon "V T fact. The preaident has been informed dike miners. He said if the reindeer of the facts from sources whose reliabil were taken overland across the country they Would probably reach Alaska in SAYS JOHN LINDSAY OF OLYMPIA ity cannot be doubted. He has gone to the length of his constitutional power time to accomplish the desired object, in calling the state of affairs to the at and if they could reach Alaska they SBtorMlliiK Collection of Current Kr-.U would be of great assistance in the re Yukon Piled High With lee. Making tention of the American people. The state department has used all of its In Condemn«! Form From lief work. Tiie difficulty would be to Teaming by the River Route authority to mitigate conditions, aud get the deer transported. Doth Continent«. an Iinponibility. the letter to the public sent out by Sec Dr. Nansen said the moss on which Bailie and Waldo Orem, children, Port Townsend, Dec. 28.—John retary Sherman the day before Christ- were asphyxiated by coal gas at tiieit the deer fed was about the only food Lindsay, of Olympia, Wash., who lias mas pointed out the way to further they would eat, and they would starve bosne in Leipsio, O. before they would eat much of any just arrived here from Dawson, says alleviate the miserable condition of tiie The barge Canisteo, which went thing else. They had sometimes been that there will surely be starvation conceit tradoes. Today the sum of ■drift off Cape Cod, has been found in trained to eat bread, lint not very suc there this winter. $5,000 was received bv Assistant Secre Barnstable bay, with all the crew well. cessfully. While there was an abund He examined into the food situation tary Day from certain charitably dis The Auditorium at Kansas City, re- ance of moss in Norway, lie thought it in a thorough manner, he says, and posed persons, whose names are not. •ntilly burned, will be rebuilt at once, would be impossible to gather it in after satisfying himself that there disclosed, ami this sum will be remit ■nil will be ready for occupanoy Sep- such quantities as would lie necessary would be starvation, he sold his outfit ted by telegraph tomorrow morning to tesnber 1. for the feeding of 500 deer in transpor and, in company with Frank Ballaine, Consul-General Lee for disbursement In a saloon row between Kentucky tation from Norway to Alaska. The 1 of Olympia; Tom Stoney, of Victoria, among the more pressing cases. mountaineers at Manchester, Will deer themselves seemed to know how anil Bob Glynn, of Seattle, started out It is hoped by the department of state Burdy, James Philpot and Bob Gregory to gather it better than human beings, on foot, each man drawing 11 sled carry that the Amerie: a people will conn* to were killed. the relief, ami piomptiy, by subscrip He believed that if 500 reindeer were ing about 140 pounds of provisions. Lindsay says the Dawson people de- tions of money, clothing ami supplies Veins of gilsonite of sufficient size to shipped from Norway it would be im- The newspapers warrant development have been dis possible to keep more than a small per I clare that there is no great amount of of various kinds. covered on Willow oreek in the Middle centage of them alive until Alaska food at Fort Yukon, as has been al are expected to lend a generous aid in leged. The river rose sufficiently and carrying forward this movement. Tiie should be reached. Park, Colorado. According to his opinions, Iceland remained open long enough to enable machinery for distributing lias been M. Tunakoshi, Japanese vice-consul food supplies to have been brought provided by the state department, and at San Francisco, has been hurriedly horses would be better for this work, from Fort Yukon, had there been any Consul-General Lee lias undertaken, recalled to Tokio. It was thought he for they would subsist on the moss of there, so the majority of the people at with the aid of the American consular would be secretary to the legation at the Arctic regions ami also on hay or j Dawson refused to go down to the »gents in Cuba, to give personal atten other provender. They were also 'Washington. hardy, and would do the work after camp, preferring to remain in Dawson. tion to the alleviation of distress by the The French embassy at Washington they reached Alaska almost as well air Not more than 300 or 400. people took distribution of tiie gifts of the Amer denies that M. Maillard passed through the deer. It would be milch easier to advantage of the transportation com ican people. One line of steamers ply Washington en route to Cuba to invest pany’s offer to take the people to Fort ing between New York ami Havana— transport them, lie said. igate for his government the conditions Yukon free of charge. the Ward line—it is said, has under mi the island. When the miners at Dawson found taken to forward any contributions of HAWAIIAN ANNEXATION. Jacob Stryer and wife were cremated that no more provisions would reach goods to General Lee, at Havana, ami » their burning farmhouse in Fayette Recent Event« In the Emit Will Prob the town by the river route, they an it is believed that the American rail •ourity, Pennsylvania, Within 48 nounced that a meeting would be held roads will do their part by carrying the ably Hasten the Event. hours, six others burned to death in Washington, Dec. 30. — “Affairs in to take steps for an apportioning of the goods to the seatoard. that county. The Spanish authorities have con China anil tiie East generally,” said provisions in the town. Those that Frederick Walsen, state treasurer of Senator Cullom, “have put an entirely had plenty, they said, must share witli sented to remit all duties on relief sup Colorado, was married to Miss Emma plies so forwardeil. The state depart different complexion upon Hawaii’s those who had not. titorck, aged 35. After the war, Wai- Captain Constantine, of the North ment directs that they lie sent direct to prospects for annexation. Since con sen's broken health was nursed back by Lee, either money gress adjourned for the holidays there west mounted police, interfered, and Consul-General flic bride’s mother. Consul- has been a marked change of sentiment told the miners that no such thing draft, or check, or goods. The burgomaster of Wieschowitz, a concerning Hawaii, and it would not would he permitted. The meeting was General Lee tonight cable*! the state suburb of Prague, has been arrested. surprise me if the pending treaty not held. department just wiiat is wanting at tliis Lindsay says the output of the mines juncture, and his list is as follows: Many compromising papers concerning should be ratified by the necessary two- will be greatly curtailed this winter the recent riots in Prague were found thirds of the senate. Summer clothing, second-liand or in his possession. It is alleged that he “It would be the height of folly to because of the scarcity of food and otherwise, principally for women ami ■SHisteil in placing the bomb under the let such an opportunity slip as Hawaii light. Coal oil sold for $45 a gallon, children; medicines for fevers, includ German schoolhouse at Wieschowitz, presents to tiie United States at such a and candles as high as $150 per box of ing a large proportion of quinine; hard which the Czechs attacked and at critical time. Here is a most desirable 100. Even if men are able to work bread, corn meal, bacon, rice, lard, tempted to demolish recently. piece of properly only waiting for a their claims, they cannot get light to potatoes, beans, peas, salt fish, prin cipally codfish; any canned goods, es Fire destroyed the large pipe organ nod from Uncle Sam to become his do so. These statements are borne out by pecially condensed milk for the starving in the Great Northern hotel, Chicago, own, without firing a gun or precipitat all returning Klondikera, quite a num children. Money will also be useful entailing a loss of $20.000. Although ing any troub.e. Mae fire was confined entirely to the "As son as congress meets we will ber of whom have reached here in the to secure nurses, medicines and for Few of them, however, many other necessities. argan, it stmt out such clouds of smoke get at the treaty, ami my impression past week. teat many of the guests became is that a number of senators who have take as gloomy a view of the situation BURNED TO DEATH. alarmed, and a serious panic waH nar hitherto been against ratification will as does Lindsay. Dr. B. L. Bradley, of Roseburg, rowly averted. be found on our side. It lias always Or., says that food is scarce, but lie Terrible Fate of a Woman and Uri Sheepmen in Southern Colorado are been my opinion that we ought to have does not think that there will be actual Aged Mother. Hawaii, ami I am confirmed in this be taring thousands of sheep by snow and starvation. Neither do W. B. King, Pittsburg, Dec. 29.—During a fire at lief more than ever by the recent course extremely cold weather. of Merced, Cal.; P. J. Holland, of New Haven, a suburb of this city, in The Northern Pacific Railway Com of events iu the Orient." Butte, Mont; Thomas Stoney, of Vic the residence of Mrs. Mary Ann pany hiiH reduced wages of car repairers toria, or Robert Glynn, of Seattle, all Browdv, this evening, Miss Nancy FIRST COLONY READY at Superior 25 cents a day. of whom arrived this week from Daw Browiiy, aged 46, was bunred to death, -• - The schooner Bailors Loherman, l’rogre«« of the .Salvation Army*« Work son. Most of them left there Novem and tiie mother, aged 76, was so badly Captain Plummer, from South River, ber 2. in California. burned that she cannot survive tiie As an eivdence of the scarcity of food N. J., for Boston, foundered without New York, Dec. 80.—Commander in Dawson, Lindsay relates the case of I i night. Miss Browiiy, who came here warning Sunday morning off Highland Booth-Tucker has started for California Dr. Van Sants, formerly of Spokane. about a month ago from Butte, Mont., Iwglits. No lives were loHt. to visit her mother, lost her life in try to complete the work of founding the Charles W. Winkler, a brakeman on first of the Salvation Atm.V colonies in Van Santa is an elderly man, and lie ing to eave some personal property. tee Columbia & Puget Sound railway, this country at Soledad near Monterey. ing without provisions or money, he She went to the upper floor after the was run over by a coal car and killed Most of the cottages have already been offered a gold watch for a sack of flames had made good headway on the ei the Seattle yards. Winkler forin- built and the work of cultivation is flour. He could not get it, and lie re structure, and was suffocated. When •rly lived in Butte City, Cal., wliere well installed on the farm of 500 marked to Lindsay: the house had been gutted, the body of "God only knows how I am to keep Miss Browdy was seen hanging over a he has relatives. acres, but numerous applicants are body and soul together.” joist, and, in the presence of about 500 A bomb, made of gas pipe and filled ready to start the moment Booth Tuck Lindsay says 200 or more miners are people who had gathered at the scene, with powder, was exploded in the Ger- er reaches San Francisco. prospecting at the mouth of Stewart was literally burned to a crisp. The nan theater, in Olatnez, Monrovia. The commander said that there was river, but as yet. it is not known what mother threw herself into the burning Little damage was done, but the inci- no doubt that the experiment would success they have achieved. building twice in an endeavor to save rimit caused great excitement among prove a great success. Claus Spreckles, Henderson creek, five miles below her daughter, but each time was tee German residents. he said, is erecting a million dollar Stewart river, and 40 miles from Daw dragged back, not, however, until she The Turkish government, replying to beet-sugar factory in the immediate son, is a promising stream that is being was so badly burned that the physicians the representations of Greece, has ex neighborhood, which will be able to developed this winter. The weather say she cannot recover. plained that the tiring upon the Greek consume all that the colonists can pro gunboat Act i uni by the Turks at Per- duce, and the product of as many about the Stewart and Big Salmon THE CZAR ADVANCING. rivers has been bitterly cold, 70 degrees vatwa, on Saturday last, ns the vessel farms as they may care to start in the below zero being recorded at Major neighborhood. whh leaving the gulf of Ambracia, was “I shall spend several weeks in the Walsh’s camp, 12 miles below the Big Kincliuu, a Remarkable Point of Vtint« duo to n misunderstanding. age, Now Occupied. Salmon, on November 17. Jacob Sarigs, of Ooraminli, Persia, West and take a look at our Colorado The Yukon river between Dawson and St. Petersburg, Dec. 39.—The Rus farm in the Arkansas valley before I aow in Cincinnati, giving talks on Fort Polly, froze completely over No sians have occupied Kinchau, north of Persia and Armenia, has just received return," said the commander. "A del ■ letter from friends in iiis Persian egation of mon connected with a tin vember 18. The river is piled full of Port Arthur. ice in great ridges, as high as an ordi home, informing him that 11 baud of ning establishment, in Chicago recently C»n Defy the World. nary house, and a roadway will have came to me and asked that I establish raiders from Koordestan had massacred San Francisco, Dee. 29.—E. I*, Shop* to bo cut through it before the dog or a farm near that city. They were not •11 the inhabitants of a Persian Chris horse teams can operate upon it. The hard, who recently returned from tian town, 800 souls, near Salmas, out of work, but said they would posi- rather go into something that promised outlook, therefore, for taking supplies China, where he had an official Persia. down to Dawson in the immediate fu tion, commenting u|sin the reported a permanent occupation than to remain Peter French, a prominent cattle occupation of Kinchau by Russia, said ture is not good. man and landowner of Harney county, where they were.” today: Inspector of Mines McGregor left Oregon, was killed by a man named Ilan tlaly’. Ila.t Fall. ‘‘Kinchau is an important walled here 11 week ago with a number of dog Oliver. It is reimrted that the deed city (not an open port), at the head of Boston, Dee. 30. — Dan Dajy, the teams mid horses to make the attempt was a cold-blooded murder. The vic popular comedian, and one of the lead the gulf of L:.u Tung, and it commands tim was shot in the back of the bend, ing lights in the "Belle of New York” to reach Dawson with about 20 tons of tiie mouth of the liver Yalu, where Ui« bullet coming out between the eyes. company, received probably a fatal in provisions, but nothing has since been the battle lietween the Japanese and A land dispute is said to have been the jury at the Park theater last night. At heurd of him. Chinese was fought, and the other im aaiiao of tlm trouble. the close of the first net D.ilv makes a portant rivers which flow into the gulf. Teary’11 Next Trip. The Overman Wheel Company, of "flying entry,” sliding in on an in It is about equally distant between the New York, Dec. 28.—A dispatch to mouth of the Yalu river and the ter Oiicopee Falls, Mass., Inis made an as clined wire. In some way either the signment for the Ismetit of its creditors. wire or handle broke, Daly falling to the World from Washington says: minus of the great wall of China. It Henry B. Bowman, president of the the stage, striking on the shoulders Lieutenant R. E. Peary, the Arctic ex commands the railway system recently plorer, who returned from England on constructed from Tien-Teen to the cap ripringtiuld National bank, has been ami back of the bead. apfMiinted trustee. AI licit 11. Over Two physicians were summoned the 8L Paul, immediately upon his ar ital of Manchuria, anil is of tire-eminent man is president of the com puny, amt from the audience, and worked over rival in New York, took the train for importance as a strategic post. the principal owner and bus given out him half tin hour, hut could not bring Washington. Lieutenant Peary tonight "The seizure of the point shows that a statement showing that, on Novem him hack to consciousness. lie was was enthusiastic over his reception in Russia has practically taken possession ber 10, last, the assets were $1,318,000 then sent to the Ma-saehusetts general England, and the gilt to him by Alfred of Corea, Maucliuria and the gulf of ■ad the liabilities $539,000. hospital, and at an early hour he was I’. Harmaworth. tiie wealthy English Lan Tung, and possesses a significance Frank G. Farley was accidentally still unconscious, the physicians believ man, of the Windward, a fine ship, which will cause consternation among Its allot and instantly killed by Ed. Alvord, ing he was suffering from concussion of w hich the explorer will us«* in his trip the diplomats in the Old World. to the Arctic next year. Mr. Harms- situation is such that its possession in Tekoa, Wash. Both men were O. the brain. worth als«i furnished funds for the ex- practically places Russia in a position K. *t N. conductors. At the coroner s Utica, N. Y., Dec. 29. — A special p«*dition. Lieutenant Peary said the to defy the world.” inquest, the evidence showed that Al from Amsterdam says that one of the Windward will l;e sent to New York vord was turning the cylinder of a re The gizzard of a hen recently killed engine houses of the Sanford carpet eurlv in the spring, and he will start volver so the hammer would not rest on at Csivington, Ga., contained 31 brass mills was wrecked by an explosion, north the latter part of July. Lieuten a cartridge. Thu weapon wasj»dia- ' tacks, 31 birdshot, two pins, a tiny ■barged, and Farley fell and «•xpired presumably of dynamite, at 10:30 ant Peary started for Sew York tonight brass ring, a bit of steel and some without utteiing a word. The jury «X- o’olock. Only two walls were left to finish work on his narrative which crushed brass caps. standing. Few facts can be ascertained. is in the publisher’s hands. onerated Alvord. Frank Murphy, a San Francisco patrol-wagon driver, admitted that lie tins I the shot that struck Baldwin Gardiner, the stock broker, Christmas night. He fired two shots at Stroh, the burglar, one of which struck Gard- »er, and may cause hie death. Liberty, Mo., Dee. 29. —A wreck oc curred at the Memphis toad depot here last night. Local train No. 58 broke in two on the down grade coming into town, and the two sections came to gether tn froivt of the station. Five |iersons were injured, two serioualv. The injured are: Miss Tilly Smither, of Liberty; Mrs. Shelton, Colonel Jesse Poore, of Gohlen City, and Floyd Qu 1 n t hard, Mias Smither is still on- conscious, The conductor and brake- man wera slightly injured. 5 SENSATION Thousands of Cuban« Are in the Direct Di«tre««. I)r. Nansen'« View« (Ipon Alger'» Klon dike Relief I lan. Stenographers employed by the de fease in the Luetgert case have struck. Attorney Hannon will ask the state to famish a copy of the testimony each day on the ground that Luetgert has no money to pay for a stenographer. P Pittsburg, Dec. 29.—Captain O. B. Hayes, aged 88, on Friday night while walking from Osborne to Haysville, was overcome by the cold and fell and was rapidly freezing to death. He was found by John and Harry Bishop, and carried to their stable, where he re mained all night. Later he was re moved to his home. At New Orleans in 1861 Captain Hayes hauled down the Pelican flag of Louisiana and ran Muskets were first ur»i in 1414 by up the Stars and Stripes. This act »he French army. cost him hie steamboat. Spain's Findings of the Commission Reach State Department. TOTAL NEARLY HALE A MILLION IlHin»«^« Not for l*roH|>«etlv« Catch Allow«*,I—Conj-resM Wer« XVIII It«* A»ke,l to Fay It. Washington. Dec. 27.—The findings ! of tiie British-American commission chosen to assess the damages for seiz ures of Britisii ships in Behring sea have been received by tbe state depart ment and tiie British embassy. The strictest reticence is maintained, how ever, on the general character of the findings, though it is admitted the total award against the United States is 464,- 000, which includes principal and in terest. The finding against this gov ernment is no surprise. Tiie controversy has occupied the at tention of the authorities here and in London for the last 11 years. At the outset the tone of the controversy was belligerent, suggesting a possible re sort to aims. Thia was following the seizure, by the United States steamer Corwin, of tiie British sealers Carolina ami Thornton, on August 1, 1886. The facts of the seizure were not known until some time later, and in the mean time, the Corwin had taken the On ward ami Favourite. The same policy of seizure and confiscation occurred during tiie next sealing season, despite the protests of Great Britain, the United States steamer Rusli taking the Savward, Grace, Anna Pack, Dolphin, Alfred Adams, Triumph, Junita. Path finder, Black Diamond, Lilly, Arctic ami Kate and Minnie, and the cutter Bear taking the Ada. Tiie claims for these seizures wide range, beginning with the of the vessels and outfits, and includ ing not only tiie value of sealskins con fiscated, but also the skin's which might have been taken if the ships had not been seized. This last feature of prospective damage caused tiie main contention. In tiie case of each Brit isii ship, the largest item of tiie claim was for estimated future catch. For instance, in the case of the Carolina, tiie claim for the ship was only $4,000, while that for skins which might have been taken that year it she had not been seized was $16,667. Each ship estimated a prospective catch of from 8,500 to 5,000 skins, the value being from $3.50 per skin in 1887 to $12.25 in 1889. The total of the claims, without interest, amounted to $439,- 161, and with interest at 8 per cent and other charges, the total reached $786,166. Tiie only official statement that could be secured here of the judgment reached by the commissioners is con tained in the following announcement given out at tbe state department: “file award of the Behring sea claims commission lias been tiled in the department. The claims as pre sented by the British government on account of Britisii vessel» seized in Behring sea, aggregated, with interest, $1,500,000. These included several cases not embraced in tiie settlement proposed by Secretary Gresham. Tiie award now made amounts to $294,- 181.91, to which will increase the total about 50 ¡sir cent. The awaril is final, an*i disposes of ail cases before it. Pay- merit under the treaty must be made I • within six months.” The departmental officials, it is as- Mimed, will proceed at once to prepare a bill or an amendment to one of the appropriation lulls for submission to congress, covering the necessary appro priation to pay the judgments, for, be ing bound by treaty not only to pay any judgments rendered, but to pay them promptly, the government is in honor hound to take the remaining steps toward a settlement in short or- der. There appears to be little doubt that the United States carried its point on tiie question involved, as the prospec tive damages were evidently scaled down to an insignificant amount, or reji*cted entirely. While the depart ment officials will make no definite an nouncement to this effect, intimations are given that the smallness of the awaril precludes the possibility of any allowance having been made on account of prospective damages. The Ameri can claims commissions established the precedent that no prospective damages could ba included in a claim, and the present award is evidently on tiie same line. General J. W. Foster, who is now in general charge of Behring sea affairs, said tonight, as to the award, tliat he was not surprised at the result. Presi dent Cleveland having officially de clared that $425,000 was 11 just and equitable sum in settlement, ami hav ing ap[s>int«*il as the American commis sioner to adjudicate the claims a close personal and political iriend, it could hardly be expected that the latter would strenuously contend for an award of a less amount. Mr. Foster was absent from the country tn Japan when congress tisik action on Presi- 'lent Cleveland’s recommendation, but he regarded the commission as the proper method of reaching a settle ment, ami the only one which would satisfy the country. Heavy Fog In Rngland. Slain l»y Conjo Native«. London, Dec. 28.—Heavy fogs pre- vailed in the district of London and over the British channel, the Mersey, the Clyde and the Tyne. There have been numerous shipping accidents, and much inconvenience has been caused to traffic by delays and stoppages. It is feared that several lives have been lock Lisbon, Dec. 27.—A dispatch from St. Paul >ie Lonada, Portuguese Lower Guinea, says that the natives of the llunibo plateau, in the Portuguese col ony of Angoia, have massacred a Port uguese officer, a sergeant and 12 men. Reinforcements have been sent from St. Paul de Luanda. Angola is south of the Congo E'ree State. The colony lias lieen held by the Portuguese since 1488, and they have a numbar of forta •nd commermal establishments. AT THE CAPITAL. Wrath. Over Wood ford’• Note I'ncHllt'il for. Washington, Dec. 29. — Officials here are somewhat surprised at the ex hibition of feeling at Madrid over the latest note of Minister Woodford de livered to the Spanish foreign office the day before Christmas. While the note itself will not be made public at pre sent, it is said that there is no reason whatever why it should be withheld, save the fact that preceding steps in J the negotiations have not yet seen the light of newspapers and it is desirable when publication!* made to preserve a complete chain of events in their nat ural order. Possibly the correspond ence will be shortly called for by con gress, in which case it is not likely to be withheld on the ground of public policy. The last note presented by Minister Woodford was in answer to the Spanish note, called forth by Woodford’s very first note upon hie arrival at Madrid. In his initial note the United States minister pointed out the interest of his country in the early termination of the present struggle in Cuba and asked when such conclusion could be expect ed. The Spanish government in its reply acknowledged our interest in the matter, but suggested after stating what it intended to do to ameliorate the con ditions in Cuba, that the United States could best exercise its good offices by stopping filibustering. To this Wood ford responded witli his note of last week. It is said to bo a purely argu mentative statement of the position taken by the United States, and the facts set forth are those so strongly drawn in the president’s message to congress, of which it was supposed the Spanish public had been fully advised through newspapers. The most forcible statement in th» note is based upon facts collected and published recently by the United States treasury department, exhibiting the great expense to which the United States had been put by reason of its efforts to patrol the enormous coast line in pursuit of a few filibustering expedi tions an<l the remarkable success of gov ernment officials in stopping these ex peditions as contrasted with the feeble efforts of the Spanish authorities to maintain a patrol around the island of Cuba. All these facts were included 1 in Woodford’s note, and w'hile he put 1 them 111 his own language in presenting them to the Spanish foreign office, it is said the statements concern only the events which have already been touched upon. FOOLHARDY PROJECT. Captain W. C. Oledrive, of Boston, to Walk Acron« the Atlantic. Chicago, Dec. 29.—A special to th» Times-Herald from New York says: Captain W. C. Oledrive, of Boston, has planned to walk across the Atlantic ocean. He will begin his journey July 1 and will be accompanied by Captain W M. Andrews, famous by reason of j ms voyage across the Atlantic in a j small boat. It is nothing new for Cap- - tain Oledrive to promenade the waves. That has been his pleasure and profit these ten years. Captain Andrews, who is to lie the companion of tiie wa ter pedestrian, will journey in a brand- new 14-foot small boat ami in this merely repeats a feat performed in 1878 and again in 1892. Captain Andrews is the man who lias brought about the whole affair. Here is his own state ment: “Incredible as it tnav seem, next year we are really going to walk mid sail down Boston harbor, out onto tiie ocean and over to Havre, France, through the great bore of the river Seine(and up to Paris, to be there to at tend tiie exposition of 1900 in our new seagoing slices and the smallest, fastest and best boat that ever crossed tbo At lantic ocean, the Phantom ship. Every vessel we speak on the ocean will re port one of us walking and sometimes towing tiie boat in calm weather. "The seagoing shoes of Mr. Oledrive are the most wonderful part of the whole affair. They are a pair of cedar boxes five feet long with tins on the bottom and sides. They are very light and capable of sustaining 140 pounds, and as Oledrive weighs only 180 pounds they are as good to him as a steamer'« deck." PENSION OFFICE ORDER It« Design Is to Expedite Disposition of Vending Claims. . Washington, Dec. 29.—A new or der, the enforcement of which it is be lieved will expedite the disposition of pension claims now pending has been issued by Commissioner Evans. It ih as follows: “Hereafter claims for increase of pensions will not be considered within 12 months from the last action, allow ance or rejection.” ’’The necessity of the new order,” sai<l an official today, “grows largely out of calls made on the office for state ment of the status of pending cases by means of congress. These calls have been answered to the exclusion of other claims ¡lending, which, it is said, have been taken up in their order. It is only fair to there cases which have not bad any consideration that they should be taken up as promptly as p<ia- sible. San Jose, Cal., Dec. 29.—As a result of a Christmas debauch, Lagora Moline, a Chilean woodchopper, met a terrible death near Los Gatos. He dra deeply and with three fellow-world caroused in his cabin until far into I_ „ night. Then he took a lighted lamp and went into the yard. He stumbled and fell, the lamp exploded and th» burning oil ignited hie clothing, lift was bnrned to death, but his fate KM not known until morning, when hi* charred body was found.