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Yamhill County Reporter
». H. HAKNHAKT. Fubll.b.r
M c M innville
OREGON.
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Interesting Collection of Current Events
In Condensed Form
Doth Continents.
From
CUBA'S
TIME
NOT
X
YET.
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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.
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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.
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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.