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>u>*. Yamhill County Reporter ». H. HAKNHAKT. Fubll.b.r M c M innville OREGON. 4 Interesting Collection of Current Events In Condensed Form Doth Continents. From CUBA'S TIME NOT X YET. 5 J House Refused to Take I'p Belligerency Resolution. Washington, Jan. 20.—Cuba had a hearing in the house today, and for a time it looker! as though parliament ary precedents would be set aside and I the senate resolution, recognizing the insurgents as belligerents, would be at- 1 tached as a rider to the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill. DeArmond, a Missouri Democrat, precipitated the issue by offering the resolution as an amendment, but a point of order against it was sustained. DeArmond appealed. He urged the Republicans, who had professed friend ship for the struggling Cubans, to override the decision of the chair as the only chance of securing action on tlie proposition. Bailey, the leader of the minority, and other Democrats joined in the ap peal. The excitement became intense, but the appeals of Dingley, the floor lea<ler of the majority, as well ax other Republican leaders, to their a-sociates not to join in the programme succeeded. Colson warned his side that, unless ho was soon given an opportunity to vote his sentiments on the Cuban ques tion, he would co-operate in any revo lutionary method to secure ac.ion. The Republican tactics kept to the front the point that the minority was seeking to override the rules of the house, and they got every Republican in the house, sustaining the chair by the vote of 152-114. A Democrat, I Fleming, voted with them, on the ground that he could not violate the rules. During the debate, Bailey challengefl Hitt to give the house an assurance that an opportunity would be offered to vote on the resolution passed by the senate at tlie last session, but he re ceivefl no reply. Before the diplomatic bill came up, the army hill was passed. LATEST Intense Excitement Contin ues in Havana. PRUDENCE MUST BE EXERCISED No Hostile Demonstration Against the American Consulate—North At lantic Squadron Sails. FROM BIG DAWSON. 4 Twenty-Two Klondike!*» Arrive on the Steamer Corona. Seattle, Jan. 19.—Twenty-two per sons arrived here tonight from Dawson City on the steamer Corona, bringing with them a small amountof gold dust, and drafts on the North American Trading & Transportation Company and the Alaska Commercial Company amounting to between $800,099 and $1,090,000. In the party was one woman, the only woman to come out j this winter. The party consisted of Andrew Oleson, E. H. Jenkins, Leon ard Sedgwick, E. Thomassini, D. Camp- | bell, L. V. Grady, W. M. Kaufman, T. E. Brenier, Joe Braud, H. C. Bolong, Carl Hunt, Colonel Brosius, J. J. Baker, B. Tragedio, Chris Nueber, James Wardell, J. O. Berth, James O’Brien, W. H. Welsh, H. T. Coffin, H. L. Burt and Miss Lou Keller. The amount of drafts brought down represents the proceeds of sales of claims to the Cudahy, Healy, Yukon & Klondike mining companies and private parties. The largest individual amounts were brought by the following: D. Campbell, $130,099; E. H. Jen kins, $125,000; Leonard Sedgwick, $190,000; Andrew Oleson, $120,000; T. E. Brenier, $46,000; Joe Braud, $15,000. In reference to the food situation at Dawson, tonight’s arrivals corroborate previous reports that, while food is scarce, there will be no starvation. They consider that it will be impossible to get a relief exedition in at this sea son of the year. Relief expeditions can easily reach the foot of Lake Labarge, but the trou ble will begin when the Yukon river is reached. The Yukon is filled from shore to shore with great ice ridges from 10 to 20 feet high, the ice being thrown up in great blocks, and stand ing at all sorts of angles. Men with dogs can make their way by hugging the shore, but no great amount of sup plies can be carried with dog teams. A roadway can be cut through these ice ridges, but it would require a great amount of money, and it is doubtful if the work could be completed before the ice moved out of the river in the spring. The proposed use of reindeer in this country is considered entirely imprac ticable. Heavy snow storms have occurred this week on the Chilkoot pass, and travel has been practically impossible for.days at a time. Inspector Stuck-' land of the Northwest mounted police stationed at Tagish, was delayed five days near the summit by snow and wind. A detachment, consisting of 30 meu of the Northwest mounted police, have arrived at Skagway. They were to have been stationed at different posts in the interior, but, owing to the short age of provisions, and the cost of trans porting supplies, the detachment will remain at Skagway for the present. The Belgian government has issued Havana, Jan. 18.—Although out Invitations to a Bugar conference. wardly order is restored here, great ex Joel Putnam, a retired shoe manu- citement continues, ami unless the facturer of Boston, committed suicide newspapers exercise, under the present by shooting. press censorship, great prudence, a gen The casino at Willard beach, South eral revolt is probable with much Portland, Me., valued at $31,000 was bloodshed, because in such an event destroyed by fire. the army and volunteers would fratern ize. The United States supreme court has General Blanco’s position is more decided that heirs cannot recover in difficult because his methods of warfare surance on suicides. disqualify him to urge energy upon the Emperor William celebrated the cor mob. The rioters intend going in a onation fete on Sunday with all the pacific manner to the palace to request usual |ximp and ceremony. Genera) Blanco to release Senor Jesus A steamship, supposed to be one of Trillo, a prominent attorney, who lias the Allan line, was sighted to the east been unjustly charged by political in ward of the Brand Links, heavily list triguers with fomenting mob violence. ed to starboard. Up to the time this dispatch is sent General Sir Arthur Power Palmer, no hostile demonstration against the K. C., will succeed Gen. Sir Willliam American consulate lias taken place. Lockhart as commander of the Tirah General Fitzhugh Lee, the American field force on the northwest frontier of consul, and other consular officers wit India. nessed the riots from the balcony of the Hotel Ingaleterre. On the first The executive committee of the news of the riots, when a crowd of Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen is 5,999 men had massed in Central Park, holding its annual session at Peoria, and began stoning windows anil shout 111. The membership increased 3,990 ing “Death to Diario,” “Viva Wey- during the last year. ler,” ami "Down with autonomy 1” Forty persons were killed and 18 in General Parrado, General Solano and jured by an explosion of gas in one of General Garrichs rode up ami General the mines of the Donezares Company, Solano ordered the cavalry to charge in Tagenrog district, on the north the mob. The cavalry commander re- shore of the sea of Azov, Russia. plied: British steamer Newlyn is reported ‘' Whom Today’s session of the senate was disabled in latitutdo 51 north, longi Spaniards tude 26 west, with her shaft and pro brief. Practically the only business Spain’ am peller gone The Gladis towed her for accomplished, aside from the routine generals?’ 33 hours, but was obliged to drop her. proceedings, was the passing of the ur The commander then dismounted gent deficiency appropriation bill. The Three suicides occurn’il in New York measure, as finally passed by the sen and endeavored to persuade the mob, city Sunday, W. P. Morrison, a stock ate, carries $1,913,810. The Teller in which were a number of officers and broker, by hanging; Bertha Valenier, resolution, providing that bonds of the several adjutants, to retire. a waitress, by carbolic acid, and Sig United States may be paid in standard General Garrichs, an intelligent, no mund Politsko, also by carbolic acid. silver dollars, was favorably reported ble Cuban, whose loyalty has never Dr. D. E. Salmon, chief of the bu by a majority of the finance committee, been doubted, confronted the leaders of reau of animal industry, has found and notice was given that it will be the mob, Major Fuentes and Captain both a preventive and a cure for hog called up at an early date. An effort Calvo, of the artillery. Major Fuentes cholera, in the form of anti-toxine was made to fix a time for the final resented the rebuke, and General Gar serum. Of 244 animals treated in vote on the pending census bill, but it richs. infuriated, snatched several dec orations from the breast of the officer, affected herds, but 39 died. He asks was abandbned until tomorrow. saying: an appropriation sufficient to carry on Idemnity for Lynching. "Yon have dishonored the army.” the work thoroughly. Major Fuentes and Captain Calvo Washington, Jan. 20.—President A fire in the Boston dry goods store, at Butte Mont., which did $25,000 McKinley today sent to the senate a were arrested. General Solano, in an interview, has damage, narrowly missed creating a message with a report from the secre panic in the Maguire opera house, ad tary of state relating to the lynching in denied that he called the rioting offi joining, in which "Under the Dome” 1895 at Yreka, pal., of Louis Morena, cers drunkards, but be confirms the re was being given, Several men were a Mexican citizen, and the demand of port that he characterized them as trampled on in the rush, but no one the Mexican government for indem- "unworthy of the uniform they wore.” Some of the papers having criticised nity. The president says: was seriously hurt. "Following the course adopted in this language, Seneral Solano said: HIS SATANIC MAJESTY. The Peoria, Ill., water works were "I used those words, and I am will sold under decree of court to bond the case of the lynching of the three Italians in Louisiana, in August, 1896, ing to sustain them at the point of my Indiana Parson's Son l'la.ved the Devil holders for $1,500,000. I have recommended the appropriation sword.” in a Realistic Manner. Destructive brush fires in the oolony by congress, out of humane considera Wednesday and Thursday nights the Chicago, Jan. 19.—A special to the of Victoria, Australia, have done an tions and without reference to the theaters and cafes were closed, and the enormous amount of damage. question of liability of the government miltary band did not play at Central Times-Herald from Bourbon, Ind., In a fight over a game of cardB at in the premises, the sum of $2,090, to Park as usual. When the newspapers says: Rev. Mr. Aikin, pastor of the Sandy Forks, Ky., eight men, all col be paid by the secretary of state to the were being attacked General Blanco Bethel church, <ui Sunday night took ored, were killed, and four seriously government of Mexico, to be distrib i called upon several friends to use their for his theme “His Satanic Majesty.” wounded. uted among the heirs of Louis Mo influence to calm the rioters. They re He is an eloquent man, and he painted plied that they deplored the outburst, the arch-fiend in vivid colors, At the W. J. Trenholin, former comptroller rena. ” The president also sent to the senate, but did not know the leaders. They climax of the description, a being of the currency, has retired from the dressed to represent a devil, with a presidency of the American Surety in response to a resolution, a report of offered to do everything in their power large head and switching tail, ambled to calm the outbreak, and pointedly the secretary of state and the corre Company. suggested that General Arolas should up the aisle, blowing smoke from its spondence relating to the arrest in 1897 Governor Budd, of California, has try to calm himself also, as he was "in nostrils and bellowing: ordered an inquiry to be made into the in Colombia of Harry K. Spring and "I am the devil, and I want all of creasing the disturbance by his intem Charles W. Ne.son. mental condition of Salter D. Worden, you." perate and insulting language. ” At the trainwrocker. one point the mob moved toward the The audience became panic-stricken. Greatest on Record. While at smnll arms practice at Washington, Jan. 20.—Accordl ng to private residence of Senor Bruzon, the Men, women and children were hurled Tampa, Fla., four men on the cruiser statistics at the treasury department, civil governor of Havana, but was to the floor and trampled upon in the Marblehead were injured by an explo made rush for the door. In the confu the value of exports by the United promptly dispersed bv the police. sion, two seriously. sion the stove was upset and the build States for the calendar year 1897 aggre A Determined Suicide. Funds have been secured in London, gated $1,100,000,000, an increase of ing caught fire. Before the horrified Chicago, Jan. 18.—Albert C. Green members hail regained their senses, the and three immense sugar beet factories <93.000,000 over any preceding year. leaf, a bookeeper, committed suicide will be erected at Chicago, Marysville tire had made such headway that all Another record was smashed with today by jumping from the 16th floor and Red Bluff, Cal. the trade balance of <356,000,000 in of the Masonic temple. He had been attempts to save the church were in vain. Mrs. Eliza Kohler, widow of a well- favor of Uncle Sam, the highest point known San Francisco liquor dealer, lias ever reached in the history of this out of employment for some time. and. This morning George Aikin, son of becoming despondent, decided to make made an assignment, with liabilities country. the pastor, confessed that he, in com away with himself. His first attempt ' of $333,174; and assets, $323.735. Exports for the fiscal year which was made in the Chamber of Commerce pany with other noys, rigged up a devil Since the serious illness of Cornel ins ended June 30, 1897, were <1,032,000,- building, where he was caught in the suit, and, knowing the subject of his Vanderbilt, William K., his brother, 000, thus furnishing a third recot.l, act of jumping over the railing to the father’s sermon, concealed himself has lieemne the actual dominant force for the top notch prior to these figures rotunds and ejected from the building. and awaited the arrival of the audi was reached in 1892, when the exports He then went to the Masonic temple, ence. in the New York Central railroad. amounted to $1.015,000,000. Bread- The court martial of Captain O. M. stuffs furnished the bulk of the expor ascended to the 16th floor, climbed TO STAND BY THE GUNS. upon the railing and jumped off into Carter, which has been in session at tations in every instance. the rotunda. His body struck a mar Savannah, will sit at Augusta here ble landing on the third floor,shattered Two Additional Regiment» of Artillery after for the convenience of witnesses Indian Appropriation Bill. A»ked For. a slab two inches thick, and landed on A Chicago syndicate with $1,000,- Washington, Jan. 20.—The Indian the balcony of the second floor. The Washington, Jan. 19. — In a com 000 has purchased the 1,200,000-acre appropriation bill, as reported to the body was reduced to a mere pulp, munication to congress today on the Isipez ranch in Northern Mexico,which house today, carries $7,727,204, Greenleaf's fall was witnessed by care and preservation of the government has on it valuable deixisits of asphalt against estimates of $7,375.517. Of scores of people ¡ d the rotunda. fortifications and their armament. Act um. the amount recommended, $270,000 is ing Secretary Meiklejohn calls on con Coal Trust Indicted. American schooner George W. Whit reimbursable to the government. The gress for an additional force of two reg Springfield, III., Jan. 18. — The grand total amount for the sup;x>rt of Indian ford has been ordeied forfeited by the iments of artillery, imperatively re Colon supreme court for loading a car schools, from other than the treaty jury of the Sangamon circuit court to quired to keep the guns ami mortars go at Porto Bello in violation of port funds, is $2,574,540. For fulfilling day indicted 10 of the companies form treaty stipulations $3,250,249 is ap ing the alleged Springfield coal trust. throughout the country in good condi regulations. They are charged with conspiring to tion, and to use them effectively when Charles Marsh, arrested at Kansas propriated. defraud. The companies formed the required. He incloses reporta of Gen City for swindling J. F. Calhoun, of Enough of the Sealing Question. Springfield Coal Association and ad eral Miles and others on the subject, N|s>kane, is the well-known confidence London, Jan. 20.—Great Britain has vanced the price of coal 50 cents per and says the most practicable and eco man, known by the alias of Boston again declined to reopen the sealing ton, claiming they were compelled to nomical plan having in view the pur Charley. question. It seems that her previous advance the price to consumers because poses for which the fortifications and The Oakland, Cal., authorities have refusal gave as its reason that while the they advanced the wages of their em armaments are provided, as to quarter suspicions that Joseph Rtes ide, the negotiations were pending between the ployes. The advance in wages to their the artillery force by units of organiza trainer, whose mangl<-d laxlv was found United States and Canada, Great employes was 7 tion in batteries. Itehind the .tuns ♦oey cents per ton. alongside the railroad track at Shell Britain could not reopen the matter. are to use, as far as the existing force Escape of Lieutenant Turney. Mound, was murdered. will go, caring for the remainder by To this the United States replied that Calcutta, Jan. 18.—The report of the luitable detachments from those garri- Sanford B. Dole, president of the no negotiations were pending, and re Hawaiian republic, has arrived at San newed the request, but the foreign escape of Lieutenant Turney, of the ions. The present authorized strength Francisco, en route to Washington, office sends its regrets that the govern- British survey party, recently attacked of the artillery force of the army is in whore he will discuss annexation of the ment does not see its way clear to re- by tribesmen in the province of Mek- adequate to the proper care and preser rana, Belochistan, is confirmed. vation of their armament. islands to the United States. open the question. Killed at a Blind Tiger. Italian brigantine Celestia, while Substitute for Anti-Scalping Dill. Earthquake In Italy. on a voyage from Venice to Savannah, Barboursville, Ky,, Jan. 17.—New» Wzrh’ngton, Jan. 20.—The bonse London, Jan. 19.— A dispatch from was lost on the south side of Waitings' committee on commerce today voted to reached here today of a bloody tight at Rome says there was a severe earth island. The crew landed safely and report the anti-scalping bill in the a "blind tiger.” Wednesday night, on quake shock today at Argentina, 18 were taken to New York on the form of a substitute prepared by Sher Sandy Fork, in which Robert Caldwell, miles southeast from Ferrari. Several steamer Antilia, from Nassau. man. The substitute follows the gen Smith Helton, John Williams and Tom buildings and a church were wrecked The Bakers' union, of Chicago, has eral lines of the original bill, with Wilson, all colored, were killetl. and many persons injured. begun a war against the American Bis- some additional features. It places a Goverament Pigeon Loft. London, Jan. 19.—A special dis cnit Company, and incidentally against penalty on railroad officers who deal Atlantic City, N. J., Jan. 18.—The patch from Cairo says that a party of all employers of nonunion bakers. The with scalpers. Sherman will write the United States government is to have a friendly natives has captured the Derv officers of the union say they will carry report and present it tomorrow. carrier-pigeon loft in this city, to be ish poet of Sarfich, taking 10 prisoners the war into every state where the The agrarian socialistic movement used in connection with the naval and obtaining concessions of quantities American Biscuit Company does busi- I service.. I of supplies. in Hungary is aeriou ne«« Over One Henry Savage Laynor Tor tured by Thibet ns. ATTEMPTED TO REACH CAPITAL Ho anti Native Companions Crippled aiel Disfigured for Life by Pun ishment Inflicted. London, Jan. 17.—The Daily Chron icle, in a description of the experiences in Thibet of Henry Savage Landor, the artist, who narrowly escaped death at the hands of the Thibetans when en deavoring last autumn to reach Lassa, the capital of Thibet, says: "His valuable diary and notes, in cluding interesting photographs, was only interrupted when Mr. Landor himself was under torture. One of these represents the scene of torture of a native companion, tied naked to a tree and slashed and bruised by a cir cle of hideous beings dancing around, jeering at and taunting their victim. Another photograph, taken after the rescue, shows two unrecognizable men, all the hair burned off their heads, the akin lacerated and seamed with burns, and in place of their eyes two ghastly slits. “Mr. Landor lost one eye. The Thibetans repeatedly held white-hot irons so close to the eyes of their cap tives as without touching them to shrivel and wither them. Mr. Landor was rescued when nearly dead, after be ing three days without food or water, by a party including Mr. Wilson, Mr. Larkin and Kasak Singh Pat. nephew of the rajawar of Askote, who had beard from the natives that a white man was doomed to be beheaded in the interior of Thibet. Mr. Landor had almost lost liis reason. After three hours’ attention he regained sufficient consciousness to say where he had con cealed his camera. They had a photo graph taken of the savages cowering in terror of the avenging whites. "It is not probable that Mr. Landor will ever be well enough to return.” FORT SMITH STORM. The List of Dead Number» Forty-Three —About Seventy Injured. Fort Smith, Ark., Jan. 17.—The la test official death list shows a total of 43 lives lost in the tornado which swept through Fort Smith Tuesday night. Not less than 7-0 others are injured, a large number of them seriously, and several are expected to die. The work of removing the bodies from the ruined buildings progressed j today. Five new names were added to the list of the dead. Two bodies were dug from the ruins of the Smith | block, from which 11 had previously been taken. The full extent of the storm may be comprehended from the fact that 35 miles northeast of the city a quantity of tin roofing from Garrison avenue buildings was found. A woman was taken from the ruins of the Burgees ho tel today, and was identified as Mrs. Ida Innis, of Elm Spring, Ark. Her brother is missing, and it is believed hie body is still buried in the ruins. Business in the devastated districts, where the buildings were only partially damaged, was resumed today. Ladies of the city are at work distributing food and clothing to the needy. The relief committee,composed of prominent business men, finds difficulty in hous ing the sufferers. One hundred and fifty buildings were demolished, and will have to be rebuilt to accommodate the people. Orton and Wright, two of the dead, were Indian territory farmers, and had just stepped into the Smith building for shelter. Memphis, St. Louis, Kansas City, Little Rock and other cities wired readiness to lend aid if necessary. The number of dead will not exceed 50. STRIKE NOW ON. Hundred Thousand Operatives A fleeted. Cotton Boston. Jan. 19. —The fight between employer and employe in the New England cotton mills is on, and what it will lead up to cannot be foretold. The great corporations in New Bedford are (ilent, and thousands of operatives are i<Jlo. while here and there discon tent has cropped out all day, the most serious being at Biddeford, Me., when 3,200 persons refused to work, thus closing two mills, and at Lewiston, where one mill was crippled by 300 weavers staying out. The general wage reduction is estimated to affect 127,000 persons in about 150 mills. Tonight finds the textile operatives everywhere intently interested in the New Bedford strike, for there the real strength and endurance will come, and upon the outcome will depend the ques tion of an industial battle the entire length and breadth of the New England states. The chief point in this will be discipline. From the point of view of the inillowner the New Bedford situa tion is now a lock-out. Intervention bv the state board of arbitration this week is hardly likely to be allowed, and no overt act on the part of the strikers and no attempt to open a mill is expect ed for a number of days. The New Bedford strikers will receive strike money from operatives elsewhere, but the sum total will be reserved until a protracted battle brings on want and hardship, which the unions will then try to relieve. All the New Bedford mills opened at the usual time. When noon came the lights went out, speed stopped, over seers and second hands prepared to make everything snug, and mill gates were closed indefinitely. The labor unions did little work today except to carry out plans of campaign which will be developed only as fainthearted weavers seek to return to work. Of the other strikers, little has beeufl developed in them as yet to forecast thW future. All of the employes of the Ln-1 conia and Pepperell mill works in" Biddeford struck because they were anxious to, while the weavers alone in the Androscoggin mill simply took matters into their own hands, regard less of other departments. These two strikes, with identical issues, will serve only as minor fights along the line, unless the strike fever grows and they become the nucleus of a general fight in Maine cities. One other minor fight now is at Bur lington, Vt., where the Queen City mills shut down indefinitely because the operatives refused point-blank to accept the reduction. The trouble, however, began a number of days ago, but reached the acute stage today. Taking today’s events throughout, it may be said that things came to pass- just as expected. It is the immediate future which awakens apprehensions. WORK BEING I I , j PUSHED. Klondike Relief Expedition Will Not. Be Abandoned. Washington, Jan. 19.—Arrangements for the departure of the government-^ expedition for the Klondike are being pushed. Under date of January 12, Sifton, minister of the interior for Canada, wiote Assistant Secretary Meiklejohn as follows: "Referring to the conversation which passed lietween us on the subject of furnishing an escort for your relief ex pedition, I have given instructions that a sufficient number of men be sent for ward to Skagway for the purpose, ami I have no doubt they will be waiting upon the arrival of your people on or before the 1st of February.” A. Sifton telegraphed the following Sat urday evening: "Ottawa, Jan. 15.—Mv reports in dicate no immediate flanger of starva tion at Dawson, but great necessity for provisions being distributed between U' Fort Selkirk anil Skagway at various posts. I believe ice has formed all the way through. Our provisions are be ing pushed flown by horses and flogs. I intend to keep supplies moving until Vanderbilts in roaaexalon. the waterways are open in the spring, New York, Jan. 17.—The control of to avoid the possibility of disaster.” the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Eight Killed Over Card». Company having been obtained by the Middleboro, Ky., Jan. 18.—A spe reorganization committee of the Union cial from Ilynen says there was a tight Pacific, the Vanderbilts are now in vir on Sandy Fork. Eight men were re tual possession of a through transcon ported killed, as fe lows: John Wil tinental line. The New York Central liams, Doc Wilson, Bob Colwell. Tom is the first road in the combination Shelton, Peter Barrough, Mark Pa8ie, from this point. At Buffalo it con Eli Howard and Abel Coombs, all col nects with the Lake Shore for Chicago, ored. Sim Paine, Harry McComas, Ed from which point the chain is carried Martin anti Lew Gossman are serious on to Omaha by the Chicago & North ly wounded. Intense excitement pre western, and from there the Union Pa vails ami further lighting is expected. cific, the Oregon Short Line and the O. The fight occurred over a game of R. & N. Co. lets the line to Portland. cards. The extraordinary bloodletting All these roads are Vanderbilt roads, began Wednesday, when a party of ne and the total mileage is 18,420. groes, who were playing cards, got into a dispute concerning the way the game Negotiation» Successful. was progressing. Drunkenness added San Francisco, Jan. 17.—A cable to the brutality of the fight. Four gram from London announces the suc men were killed, and subsequently the cess of the mission of Willard E. fighting was renewed by friends on Greene, who recently left for Europe both sides, until the mortality list is in the interest of the beet-sugar syndi equal almost to the casualties in a mil cate which has been negotiating for itary engagement. The feeling aroused lands in the Sacramento valley. Satis giveB rise to apprehension of more factory arrangements have l>een made crime. to secure the proper persons to culti Seven Persons Drowned. vate the beets. Contracts have been Colon, Jan. 19.—A boating party, signed bv which 150,000 acres of land near Chico. Marysville and Red Bluff consisting of United States Consul have been secured, and the work of Ashley, Dr. Haffman, the GermaJ erecting three immense sugar factories cosnsul; Master Mechanic Mott ami will be started at once. The syndicate four others are supposed to be drowned! The body of a boatman has alreadjl lias a capital of <15,000,000. been recovered. M New York, Jan. 17.—The World says: E. N. Whitton, a banker, re ceived word yesterday that Professor A. J. Keeler, F. C. Kingsiey and Thomas Field, ail of thia vicinity, had lost their lives in Arizona while in quest of treasure. The supposition is that the adventurers, who hail secured treasure in gold and precious stones, were murdered by a roving band of Na vajo Indians, Mr. Whitton says he will at once send an agent to Arizona to get ail the particulars of the affair. A Washington, Jan. 19.—Consul-Gen eral Gudgeon, at Panama, cabled the state department todav announcing th8y_ drowning of Consul Ashley at Colon.T No details were given. Ashley was ap? ~ pointed only a few months ago, and had been well-known in this city and Vir ginia as a newspaper man. Hold for America. Sydney, N. S. W„ Jan. 1».—The steamship Mariposa saied todayfor San Francisco, via Auckland, carrying 450,900 sovereigns.