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CANAL He Does Not Accept Amer ican Rule. GEN. MILLER REPLIES TO LOPEZ Tlie Latter Says a Philippine Revolu tionary Government Existed Before the Paris Peace Treaty. BILL PASSES SENATE. Miller’s Troops Landed. Raleigh, N. C., Jan. 21. — The coun cil of the colored men of Alabama, called by Congressman George White and 20 other leading negroes of tlie state, was held here last night. A memorial to the general assembly was drafted, and an address to the col ored people of the state was issued. In the first they asked the legislature to continue its appropriations to the schools and charitable institutions, and “not to pass any laws, the effect of which would be to blunt our aspira tions, reduce our manhood and lessen our usefulness as citizens, but guaran tee to us an equal chance with other men to work out our destiny.” Corpus Christi, Tex., Jan. 24.—The United States revenue cutter Alma was driven on Padre island about 15 miles south of here Wednesday during a storm,and all on board escaped to land. There were several revenue officers aboard. The party divided and each wandered over the island looking for a sail. James A. McEnery, special treas ury agent of the district of Texas, and Bedford Sharp, of San Antonio, assist ant United States district attorney, sighted a craft and signalled it and werejtaken off the island and brought to the shipyard at Corpus Pass Today another vessel was sent to Padre island to look for the rest of the Alma’s pas sengers. Admiral Cervera’s Watch. Wichita, Kan., Jan. 24.—Admiral Cervera’s watch, it is claimed, is owned bv Lieutenant Betts, company E, Twenty-third Kansas volunteers, a negro, who is home from Cuba. It is a fine gol<l watch, the case set with diamonds and rubies. Inside “Paschal Cervera” is engraved. The watch was secured by Betts, according to his story, from a Spanish pilot—the man who guided Cervera’s ship out of San tiago harbor July 3. As a reward Cer vera gave him this watch. Being in straitened circumstances and wanting to go home, he sold it to Betts for $52. Beef for Manila Soldiers. ; CHEMICAL PRESENCE IN MEAT Strongest in Language of Any Testi- inonjr Yet Submitted la. Behalf of Major-General Miles. Washington, Jan. 23. — Major W. H. Daly, chief surgeon with General Miles, and whose field service stretched from Tampa to Porto Rico, whose re port condemning beef furnished the expeditionary forces created a sensation some weeks ago, made his long- awaited appearance as a witness before the war investigation committee today. Daly’s report was the strongest in language of those submitted by Miles in substantiation of his attack on the beef supplies. On being sworn the witness identified the report submitted as his own. He was willing, lie said, to stand by his report. It was wholly voluntary, and was not called out by any request or in obedience to. any cir cular or letter. At Tampa he had no ticed a quarter of beef hanging free in the sun on shipboard, and he became interested in the experiment of having fresh slaughtered beef placed under such moist climatic conditions to see bow long it could stand it. “I observed,” he said, “that flies, especially bull flies, did not affect it; did not alight on it, or if they did they got away from it very quickly.” He had cut off a piece of that beef at Tampa and cooked it, but it neither smelled or tasted naturally, He no ticed indications of chemical presence in the meat that brought back recoliec- tions of chemical stuff he had used to preserve elk in hunting expeditions in the Rocky mountains some years be fore. All that day and next he had an unpleasant taste. In that previous hunting expedition he had analyzed the chemical preserv ative and found it to contain borax and salicylic acids, These' were to be used externally on elk, but he had rubbed it into the raw flesh and also injected it. Questioned as to these ingredients he said borax was not safe to be used in connection with food, nor for ordi nary medicinal purposes, while sali cylic acid was most nauseous, loath some and disgusting, and almost al ways destructive of digestion. Washington, Jan. 24.—The house coinage, weights and measures commit tee by strictly a party vote ordered a favorable report on the substitute for house bill to fix the standard of value in the United States and for other pur poses. The bill provides in f substance that the standard of value in the United States shall be the gold dollar; th<u all contracts existing and in fu ture shall be computed in reference to the standard; that there shall be estab FROM A DIFFERENT SOURCE. lished a treasury department of issue The German Version of the l'reaent and redemption; that greenbacks shall Difficulty In Samoa. be retired and that upon their retire Hamburg, Jan. 23.—According to ment gold bills shall be substituted news received from Samoa, Chief Jus- therefor. tice Chambers on December 31 an Archbishop Ireland Win*. nulled the election of Mataafa.who was Washington, Jan. 24.—The secretary returned by a sextuple majority, and of the interior has affirmed the decision declared Malietoa Tanus, son of the of the commissioner-general of the land latter king, Malietoa, who is still a office in the famous case of Archbishop minor, to be king. Tiie three consuls Ireland, involving title to 33,1*8 acres recognized Mataafa’s people as the pro i of land in Minnesota. He holds that visional government. Malietoa Tanus, Tamasese, another under the first contract made with the St. Paul, Minnesota & Manitoba Rail claimant for the throne, and Chief Jus road Company, July 17, 1880, Ireland tice Chambers, it is added, went on was not the purchaser, but that under board a British warship, whereupon the second contract, adopted March 30, the provisional government closed the 1883, he was the purchaser. Accord court. A British warship then landed ingly the lands covered by the first a detachment of blue jackets, and later contract will not go to Ireland, while the court was reopened under the pro he will receive those covered by the tests of the provisional government. second cont ■ t. No Official Report at Washington. Reported Murder of Spanish ! Major Daly Testifies That Eagan’s Beef Was Bad. Officers. Labaun, Island of Labaun, British Borneo,Jan. 24. — She steamer Labaun, which has returned from the island of Palawan, in the southwestern portion of the Philippine archipelago, reports that the Spanish governor of the island and a number of Spanish officers were murdered by the natives while issuing ftom church. The natives then re tired to the hills, taking the women and children and some men as prison ers. San Francisco, Jan. 24.—The trans- 1 ports Scandia and Morgan City, which ' are soon to sail for Manila, will carry i a large supply of California meat to feed the soldiers stationed in the Phil ippines. On the Morgan City, 4,000 cases of canned meats have been Killed in a Mine. placed, while 40,000 pounds of frozen Baker City, Or., Jan. 24.—S. W. beef will be put on board the Scandia Johnson was instantly killed by a pre next Sunday morning. mature blast of giant powder in the Dynamite Attempt. May Queen mine, near the Red Boy South Omaha, Jan. 24.—About 3 mine, today. Johnson was aged 47 o’clock this morning an attempt was years, and lately came from Indiana. made to blow up with dynamite the His wife is at the May Queen mine, residence of F. B. Towle, the manager and he left two brothers and other rel of the Omaha Packing Company. A atives in Indiana. flickering light on the porch attracted I Memorial Tablet to Bagley. a passer-by, who stamped the fire out. Annapolis, Md., Jan. 24. — The Examination developed that it was a fuse connected with a package contain memorial tablet placed in the naval academy chapel in memory of Ensign ing six sticks of dynamite. Worth Bagley, who was killed on the Another Big Trust« Winslow off Cardenas in the late war, Milwaukee. Wis., Jan. 24.—The was unveiled today in the presence of National Enameling & Stamping Com a large number of naval officers and pany will be the name of the Granite others, ware trust, which includes the Kieck- Clayton-Bul wer Treaty. heifer Company, of this city. The London, Jan. 24. — The Daily News company will be organized under the | laws of New Jersey, with a capital editorially today says: “The Clayton- etock of $10,000,000 seven per cent pre Bulwer treaty is a singular document, ferred stock and $20,000,000 common signed by a weak American adminis tration in peculiar circumstances, and etock. ________________ for Lord Salisbury to insist upon its Commissioners From Agninaldo. unconditional observance now would be St. Louis, Jan. 24.—Lasoda Matti neither gracious nor wise.” Burgos and J. Lunaa, commissioned A Denial From Rome. representatives of Aguinaldo, the in Rome, Jan. 24.—The Tribune an surgent leader of the Philippine' islands, passed 20 minutes in St. Louie nounces that the Italian cruisers B.ba today, en route to Washington. Their and Etna are shortly going to China, mission is to persuade Uncle Sam to re but that the rum r of the Italian gov linquish bis bold cn the Philippine ernment’s intention to seize a Chinese port is premature. islands. _________________ Washington, Jan. 23.— There is still lack of official reports as to the situa tion in Samoa, but it can lie said that the state department is moving in the matter with due deliberation, and with full regard for maintenance of the tri partite agreement for government of the islands. The navy department’s order to Ad miral Kautz, on board the Philadel phia, at San Diego, went today. They were simply to “make ready.” If, as stated in the press dispatches, the Philadelphia is not in condition to go to Apia, it is supposed the vessel’s hull will be cleaned by divers. PAUL JONES LOST. Bret oik Mobile, Ala., Jan. 23.—The govern- ment steamer Pansy touched at Biloxi, Miss,, this afternoon, ami reports find ing on Breton island a part of the stern of the naphtha launch Paul Jones, also a yawl boat with bow smashed and other email articles from the launch. Tlie condition of the wreckage tends to show that the naph tha tank blew ut> and tore the boat to pieces. The Pansy met the Maud with Messrs. Jones and Taggart on board. The latter visited the wreckage and identified it as part of the Paul Jones. No bodies were found. The launch had the following pleas- ure seekers on board: Josepli Brink- ham, Louisville; Miss Margerie Wood- land, Chicago; Colonel Harry C. Yo- cum, St. Louis; Miss Florence Yocum, his daughter. The crew consisted of three men. whose names are unknown. A Curious Beattie Verdict. Seattle, Wash., Jan. 21.—The jury In the trial of Isadora Schoppe, for the murder of Gue Hoyer, has brought in a verdict of “not guilty by reason of insanity.” To Control Cuban Tobacco. Havana, Jan. 21.—Propositions of American capitalists to control the Cuban tobacco production and manu factures are taking definite shape. It is not settled whether this will be in conjunction with an English syndicate or in opposition to it. The plan origi- nated with some New York bank/, and includes banks in Boston, Wash ington and other cities. Several pro moters and speculators have been work; ing on the scheme, but they represent ed no capital. The present syndicate is said to be com posed entirely of banks. Double Fay for Soldiers* Salem, Or., Jan. 21.—Volunteers now in the United States service, re gardless of state payments, will be paid by the United States for their aervicea, between the time of enlistment «nd the time of mustering in. Such is the practical effect of a decision rendered l»y tiro controller of the currency, which reverses his decision of last fall, holding that deductions should be made by the pay department. Tha decisions are contained in a telegram, wi.icli was received by Governor Geer. The Ashen of Columbus. Seville, Jan. 21.—The Spanish aux iliary cruiser Giralda arrived here this morning, having on board the lepnted ashes of Columbus. The municipal authorities took charge of the coffin on board. Tlie Giralda fired a salute, to which the land batteries replied, and the prucessiop was then formed and the toffiu transferred to the cathedrul of Seville, which contains the tomb where the remains of Columbus were firs, deposited. A Costly Flower. Boston, Jan. 21. — The far-famed Lawson carnation sold for $30,000. The purchaser is Thomas F. Lawson, a financier well known in this city and New York, and in honor of whose wife the wonderful plant was named. Mr. Galvin,who bred the flower, announces that he has accepted the offer of Mr. Lawson and that in future the flower will blossom solely for the public gar dens of the city of Boston, that being one of trie conditions of the sale. The Keeley M otor. Philadelphia, Jan. 21.—The Press publishes an article covering with il lustrations over a page of space, giving the details of the investigation made by that paper of the dismantled work shop of the late John W. Keeley,which investigation, the Press contends, cleat- ly proves the mysterious Keeley motor to have been a delusion and a decep tion. and that the alleged mysteiioua forces wete the result of trickery. Washington, Jan. 21.—Senator Mc Bride today reported the bill which he had previously introduced, extending the privilege of immediate transporta tion to tiie port of Astoria. The bill extends the privilege of the immediate transjMirtation act of June 10, 1880, to that port, and tlie effect will be to al low the shipment of goods in bond from Astoria instead of going through tlie port of Portland. Abandoned at Sea. Copper Bonin Open. Mine.. Schley Given a Sword. Nothing for Coo» Bay. A Bcliooner Wrecked. New York. Jan. 25. — Rear-Admiral Schley was presented tonight witn a jeweled sword by his brother meml>ers of the Royal Arcanum at Carnegie Mu sic hall, in the presence of 4.UUU per sons. Washington, Jan. 23.—It is learned that the rivers and harbors committee has left out the appropriation for Coos bay. An item of $100,000 was made by the department. The committee says there is not enough commerce at that point to warrant the expenditure. San Francisco, Jan. 21.—From re- ports brought in by the steam collier Wyefield, Captain Cartmer, some un known schooner has gone to pieces off Point Reyes, and the probabil'ty is that all hands were lost, as the wreck has not been reported. More Troop* for Cuba. Savannah, Ga .Jan. 24.—The United Hawley Re-elected. A Hank Burglarised. Washington. Jan. 24.—The hospital States transport Manitoba sail»! today Hartford, Conn., Jan. 21.—The two Arthur, Ill., Jan. 23.—-The bank ahip Relief has been ordered to Manila. for Havana. She had or, board six here was entered by burglars last branches of the assembly met in joint The vessel is now at New York, and i troops of the Seventh cavalry, which night. The lose is beiweeen $4,000 session and declared General Joseph R. I Hawley elected United (-states senator. arrived this morniDg from Macon. will go via the Suez canal. 1 and $5,000. Tbs bandits escaoed. PACIFIC COAST TRADE. Seattle Marker*. Item. of General Inter.«t Gleaned from tlie Thriving I’aclUn • State«. Crueliy on the High Seal. Steelhead Salmon Scarce. I Onions, 85@90c per 100 pounds. Potatoes, 20$(<425. Beets, per sack, 75c. Turnips, per sack. 50<3 75c. Carrots, per sack, 45 @ 60c. Parsnips, per sack, $1. Cauliflower. 50(3 90c per doz. Celery, 35 (3 40c. Cabbage, native and Californi* $1.00(31-50 per 100 pounds. Apples, 35(350c per box. Pears, 60c @$1.50 per box. Prunes, 50c per box. Butter—Creameiy, 27c per pounds dairy and ranch, 18<322c per pound. Eggs, 27c. Cheese—Native, 12@12!^c. Poultry—Old hens, 14c per pound, spring chickens, 14c; turkeys, 16c. Fresh meats—Choice diessed beef steers, prime, 6t,@7c; cows, prime, 6 >*c; mutton. 7>ac; pork, 6(3 7c; veal, 6 @ 8c. Wheat—Feed wheat, $23. Oats—Choice, per ton, $24. Ilav—Puget Sound mixed, $9.00® 11; choice Eastern Washington tim othy, $15. Corn—Whole, $23.50; cracked, $24; feed meal, $23.50. Barley—Rolled or ground, per ton, $25(326; whole, $22. Flout—Patent, per barrel, $3.50; straights, $3.25; California brrnds, $3.25; buckwheat flour, $3.75; graham, per barrel, $3.60; whole wheat flour, $3.75; rye flour, $4. Millstuffs—Bran, per ton, $14; shorts, per ton, $16. Feed—Chopped feed, $20 @22 per ton; mbldlings, per ton, $17; oil cake meal, per ton, $35. Steelhead salmon are becoming scaicer as rhe season draws to a close. Portland Market. So few ate being taken that the cold Wheat—Walla Walla, 59c; Valley, storage plants at Astoria have refused to receive any more, and the quantities 61c; Bluestem, 62o ;>er bushel. Flour—Best grades, $3.20; graham, delivered of late were so small that they did not pay tor the trouble of $2.65; superfine, $2.15 per barrel. Oats—Choice white, 41@42c; choice handling them. Private buyers are paying 5*^ and 6 cents a pound, but gray, 39@40c per bushel. Barley—Feed barley, $22 @24; brew the supply is only sufficient for local demand. The season ends February ing, $23.50 per ton. Millstuffs—Bran, $17 per ton; mid 15. dlings, $22; shorts, $18; chop, $16.00 Puget Sound University* per ton. The new management of the Puget Hay—Timothy, $9@10; clover, $7 Sound university, of Tacoma, propose @8; Oregon wild hay, $6 per ton. to pay the debts of the university and Butter—Fancy creamery, 50 @ 55c; endow it under a subscription scheme, seconds, 45@50o; dairy, 40@45o store, to be known as the 20th century fund. 96 @ 80c. All endowment notes given will be Cheese—Oregon full cream, 12t*o; made payable within 10 years, and Young America, 15c; new cheese, will draw interest at the rate of 5 per 10c per pound. cent per annum. It w ill require but Poultry—Chickens, mixed, $2.25(33 $50,000 to settle all debts and put the per dozen; hens, $3.50@4.00; springs, I college in good financial condition. $ 1.25@8; geese, $6.OO@7.OO for old, AV at erworks for Elgin. $4.50g)5 for young; ducks, $5.00® II. V. Gates, of Hillsboro, has con 5.50 per ddzen; turkeys, live, 15® tracted to put in a gravity water sys 16c per pound. Potatoes—65@ 70c per sack; sweets, tem and an electric light plant in El gin, Or., construction soon to com 9c per )>ound. Vegetables—Beets. 90c; turnips, 75o mence. The water will be carried through a flume for a distance of over per sack; garlic, 7c per pound; cab two miles. A part of this power will bage, $1 @ 1.25 per 100 pounds; cauli be used in running a large flouring flower, 75o per dozen; parsnips, 75o mill. Mr. Gates has contracted to em per sack; beans, 3c per pound; celery ploy local labor in the construction of 7O@75c per dozen; cucumbers, 50c per box; peas, 3@3lsc per pound. the plant. Onions—Oregon, 75c@$l persack. Geo. AV. Dent Dead. Hops—15@17o; 1897 crop, 4@6c. George W, Dent, brother-in-law of Wool—Valley, 10@12c per pound; General U. S. Grant, and uncle of U. Eastern Oregon, 8@12c; mohair, 8. Giant, jr., candidate for United 26c per pound. States senator, died at Oakland, Cal. Mutton—Gross, best sheep, wether* He was 79 years of age. For 16 years and ewes, 4c; dressed mutton, 7^jC, Mr. Dent was appraiser of customs at spring lamb*, 7'ac per lb. San Francisco. He was appointed by Hogs—Gross, choice heavy, $4.25; President Grant, and held office until light and feeders, $3.00(34.00; dressed, retired by President Cleveland. Mr. $5.00(35.50 per 100 pounds. Dent came to California in 1853. Beef—Gross, top steers, 3.50@$3.75; cows, $2.50(38.00; dressed beef, Herring Flailing at Fort Townsend* per pound. On the 18th the docks of Pott Town Veal—Large, 6zl,@7c; small, 7 @8* send were lined with people watching anglers catching herting, which were per pound. so plentiful in the bay that in a single San Francisco Market* haul of the jigger one to four herring Wool — Spring—Nevada, 10@19c pet I were landed. The fishermen enjoyed i pound; Oregon, Eastern, 10@ 12c; Val the sport, while the onlookers secured ley, 15(3 17c; Noithern, 9(3 11c. a mess of herring by simply picking Millstuffs—Middlings, $22 @24.00; them up off the dock. bran, $20.50(321.50 per ‘O’ onions—Silverskin,50@ 75cper sack. A Thief Ceurht. Butter — Fancy creamery, 24o;i About a week ago $500 in coin and some valuable articles were stolen from do seconds, 21 (3 23c; fancy dairy, 22c; an old man named John Weaver, near do seconds, 18(3 20c per pound. Eggs — Store, 27 @28c; fancy ranch, Canyonville, Or. Curtis Hartline, 22 years of age, was arrested there by Con 29@31c. Citrus Fruit—Oranges, Valencia, $3 stable T. J. Butcher on a charge of Jiaving stolen the money. After his @2.50; Mexican limes, *6g)6.50; Cali arrest Hartline admitted his guilt and fornia lemons, $2.00@.800; do choioe, $3.50(34.50; per box. was held to answer. Boggs Makes Revelation«. Brave Girl. Ex-Treasurer Boggs testified in court recently that about $70,000 of the war rants involved in the warrant suit against the city were not signed by him while he was treasurer of the citv, but were signed three days after hia term expired. “It’s a dreadful thing,” he said, with a gloomy air. “that ice cream makers are getting so unscrupulous that they put glue in the frozen mix ture to give it firmness.” The pretty girl set her lips together for an instant. “That may be true,” she responded, rubbing the spoon suggestively over her empty plate, “but I do not believt» one dish of it ever would make anybody stuck up.” Ami he had to order a second allow ance.—N. Y. Recorder. Soldier From Walla Walla Dead. F. J. Carlyle, of Walla Walla, re ceived a telegram from Manila, inform ing him of the death of Allen Carlyle, | his brother. The deceased was a mem ber of company I, Washington volun teers, now at Manila. His death was ascribed to typhoid fever. New York, Jan. 21.—The Atlantic trans;>ort line steamer Menominee, which arrived from London, brought to port Captain Honeyman and 22 members of the crew of tlie British tramp steamer Glendowner, which was Th« Aatorla 1*11.1. (Tub. abandoned at sea in a sinking condi Secretary Lyman, of the Astoria tion January 12, while on a voyage Push Club, has been authorized to visit from Philadelphia to Sligo with a cargo the creameries at Albany, Rainier and of corn. Skamokawa for the purpose of making observations and reporting to the Dispatches, But No Newt. Washington, Jan. 21. — It was stated creamery committee of the association. at the department of state today that First Columbia River Smelt* dispatches had been received from The first Columbia river smelt of United States Consul Osborn at Apia, the season were offered for sale in an but as to their nature tlie officials had Astoria market on the 18th. They nothing to say beyond that they went were taken at Cathlamet, and tho con to confirm the news dispatches printed signment did not exceed over 50 in the morning. pounds. New Y’orlc, Jan. 24.—A dispatch tc the Herald from Valparaiso. Chile, says: The copper boom is creating great enthusiasm among the miners. Caravans are starting to work new mines, and those that were closed down are now in full activity. Relief to Go to Manila. COXST At Portland, Or., on the 18th, sailors on the German ship Margaretha told startling stories of alleged cruel treat ment on the part of Captain Rasch. The sailors, to a man, relate a series of outrages perpetrated since the vessel left her home port some eight months ago, that if true, whether committed with or without cause, are exceedingly startling, cruel and inhuman. They allege that ever since they started out they have been in danger of getting killed one way or another, and they as- sett that not for anything could they OREGON SHORT LINE. be induced to again go to sea under Captain Rasch, The Transfer of tlie Road Delayed by a command of I.aw Suit. crew, 25 men all told, have laid their New Yoik, Jan. 21.—Th fact devel complaint before the German vice- oped today that the transfer of the Or consul. egon Short Line to the Union Pacific, Portland a Reserve City. which the directors of the latter road I Portland is now a reserve city, and have been empowered to make, is like thousands of dollars heretofore kept in ly to be delayed by a suit brought by San Francisco and New York by the C. II. Venner, of Boston, as a Union bankers of Oregon, Washington and Pacific shareholder, against the road, Idaho will come to Portland. The con in which he is in a small way identi- dition imposed upon national banks in tied. A meeting of the stockholders of reserve cities is that they shall carry the Union Pacific was held at Salt 25 per cent of their deposits in avail Lake city, January 10, when authority able funds, instead of 15 per cent. was given the Union Pacific board to Portland banks havj been carrying increase tiie common stock $28,000,000 from 30 to 60 per cent ever since the in order to take over the Short Line. I panic of 1892 and ’93, knd the new This matter will be considered iu the condition will not be a hat ship to early part of next month. them. McBride’s Astoria Bill. Part of Her Stern Found on Inland—Was Blown 1'p. THE MEN; Washington, Jan. 24.—The Nicara gua canal measure, known as the Mor gan bill, has passed the senate by a vote of 48 to 6. An important amend ment was first adopted which is as follows: “That if the president shall be un able to secure from the governments of Nicaragua and Costa Rica such conces sions as will enable the United States to build and perpetually own and corrtro1 said canal, the president is authorized to negotiate for a control of or a right to construct, maintain and perpetually control some other canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and the president is required to negotiate for the abrogation or modifi cation of any and all treaty obligations, if such exist, as shall in any way in terfere with the construction, owner ship and perpetual control ot any such canal; provided that no payments shall be made under the provisions of this act to or for the benefit of the stockholders of the Maritime Canal Company, or for any of its property, unless the president shall decide to keep the canal under the concessions granted to said company.’’ Gold Standard Bill. The Officers and Crew Had an Experi ence on an Island. COLORED Devoted to Condition and Advancement of the Negro Race. Dawson, via Port Townsend. Jan, 24. —The situation here is gloomy. The number of sick is increasing, and the six hospitals are full. The mounted police have donated for the help of the poor some $30,000 in cash from their treasury. This leaves them with but $4,030 cash on hand. j Commissioner Ogilvie called a meet ing to decide on ways and means for relieving the situation, and a memorial , asking for aid will be sent to Wash ington. It is estimated that $9,000 a month will he required to pay for the treatment of indigent patients. The death rate this winter has been almost as great as in the summer. Several stampedes to new fields have recently occurred, but in each case the goldseekers weie disappointed. REVENUE CUTTER ASHORE. OF There Were Only Six Votes Against It in That Body. Manila, Jan. 24.—President Lopez *>f the Visayan federation has replied to President McKinley’s proclamation of the 9th. fie claims that the revolu tionary government antedates the Paris treaty by over two years. He says he has never been officially notified of the existence of the treaty, and that there fore he declines to recognize American authority, and refuses to allow Ameri cans to disembark in force, without ex press orders from the government at Malolos. General Miller, the com mander of the American expedition, replied that the Americans cannot rec ognize President Lopez’s authority, be cause the Filipino republic is not rec ognized by the powers. He also ex GLOOMY OUTLOOK AT DAWSON pressed regret at the determination of Hospitals Filled to Overflowing With the Filipinos to resist just claims. ludigent Sick. New York, Jan. 24.—A special to the World from Washington says: General Miller’s expedition has landed on Guimaras island, three miles ftom Ilo Ho, without opposition, General Otis cables from Manila. Landing was necessary because of the crowded con dition of the troops on the transpoits. Experience has proved that soldiers lose spirit and fighting qualities when confined long on board ship, so the war department asked General Otis to as certain if it was possible for General Miller to land his expedition near llo Ilo. He cabled that it was, and was then instructed to order a landing. It was deemed inadvisable to advise this expedition to return to Manila without having landed, because it was feared the natives of Luzon would think the Filipinos at Ilo Ilo repulsed the Americans. COUNCIL The Dalles Slot Machine«. Struggles of tlie Young Mind. Tim following are extracts from ex amination papers presented by pupil* at a prominent private school in tbi* neighborhood: In history—Q.: "What was the character of Henry VIII?” A.: “Henry VIII was a congenial, libertine.” Ill rhetoric—Q.: “What is an epigram?” A.: “An epigram is a figure of s|>ee<'h sometimes used in a Joke ami some times on tombstones ’* Definitions—“A myth is a half fish and half woman.’’ “The vowels are five— a, e, I, o, and it, ami sometimes w and y.’’—New York Tribune. From I lie Found. Lodger—How do you buy your sau As a result of the semiannual license recently placed upon all electrical slot sage», Mrs. Knag? Mrs. Knag—Oh, by the pound. machines by The Dalles council, $250 Lodger—Ah, 1 thought it was some lias already been collected and turned where near the pound, from the horsey into the city treasury. flavor.—Larks. F. E. Thompson, who left a trail ot It is 18 years since the first Japanese bad checks on a local bank from Seattle to Kamloops, in the interior of British newspaper was established, and now Columbia, is under arrest at the latter there aie in existence 575 daily and point. He has drawn between $500 weekly papers, 85 law magazines, 35 and $1.000 on a $10 deposit made at medical magazines, 11 scientific and ® large number of religious journals. Seattle the day before Christmas.