LAI tR NEWS.
iTUIILL COSIlï lEPOBTER.
General Botha is showing Increased
D. I. AIB0BT, Fab Haber.
activity.
The Boers attacked Hammonia, but
McMINN V IL U........... ORHGON.
were repulsed.
The United States cruiser Brooklyn
has proceeded to Taku.
Chinese have begun the destruction
of missions at Shan Tung.
At Angeles, Luzon, General Aquino
surrendered to General Grant.
Tenprehenaive Review of the Import
Chinese situation exercises depiessiug
ant Happenings of the Pant Week
Called From the Telegraph Columns. influence on trade in Germany.
Many workers in Pittsburg are idle
Hill sentiment is worrying Chari«« pending the adjustment of wage scales.
The poatoffice at Union, Oregon,
A. Towne.
Americans and British were the first was looted by burglars and $160 was
carried away.
to break into Tien Tsiu.
A weeks scouting in North Luzon re
Germany does not yet consider that
sulted in 60 rebels being killed and 40
she is at war with China.
wounded. One American was killed.
Bear-Admiral Watson homeward
The Indians on Rainy river, Ontario,
- bound has reached Suez.
threaten an uprising. Three thousand
The East reports many deaths from are gathered near the mouth of Rainy
excessively hot weather.
river.
Small|>ox has broken out in the
The great lumber yards, covering
poatoffice at Alpha, Wash.
half a mile, at Black Rock, a suburb of
United States Commissioner liawsoa Buffalo, N. Y., were burned, with a
has been chosen governor of Nome.
loss of $400,000.
Allen Cochrane, a young man of
The steamship Nome City, which
Myrtle Creek, Or., was dragged to made the trip from Portland to Nome,
rescued 47 people on the way, the
death bv a horse.
Outbreaks are now expeoted in crews and passengers of two wrecked
Southern^Jhiua. Indications of upris schooners.
Over $10.000,000 worth of property
ings at Nankin and Canton.
Torpedo-boat destroyer (ioldsborougk was destroyed, many lives lost, many
made the round trip run between Taco persons injured and at least 1,600 lives
imperiled by a fire on a dock at Ho
ma and Seattle in about two hours.
boken, N. J.
An uprising against British rule ir
The transport Sumner arrived at
the island of Baralonga, South Sea, hac
taken place, 100 British being killed- San Francisco from Manila with 43
sick soldiers, 70 discharged men, 12
China is said to have immense quan insane patients and 10 members of
tities of arms and officials assert that the hospital corps.
she will stagger humanity if driven to
A special dispatch from Shanghai,
it.
dated June 30, says that all on board
Governor Roosevelt baa informed ths the United States battleship Oregon
Republican uational committee that he which went ashore in the Gulf of l’e
will give three solid weeks to campaig* Chi Li, have been saved.
There is
work after August 1.
some chance that the vessel may be
Minister Wu Ting Fang is said to be floated.
playing policy at Washington being
Terra Urrea, commonly called Santa
desirous of standing in with whioh Teresa, the young señorita who, it is
ever side that wins in China.
alleged, helped to incite the various
Two deaths were caused by excessive Yaqui Indian rebellious in Mexico, was
heat and humidity at Chicago. The shot at Clifton, Ariz., by G. N. Rod
thermometer registered HU degrees on ríguez, to whom she had been married
the street, and the humidity was al two days befóte. The young woman
most at the saturation point.
was regarded as a saint, and hundreds
A new gold beach has been discovered ol Mexicans chased Rodríguez into the
65 miles below Cape Nome. Gold is mountains, where he was captured,
among the grass roots. A thousand after a hard fight. He was unmerci
men are there and over a million lias fully beaten and narrowly escaped
lynching. The girl will live.
been takpn out in a few weeks.
President Kruger íb still at Macha*
After suffering with Bright's disease
for six months, and with all hope of dodorp.
recovery gone, William .1. Montgom
Japanese laborers of Hawaii are on
ery, a well-known mining man of Salt a strike.
Iarke, Utah, committed suioide by
Porter’s Cuban tariff schedule must
firing a bullet through his brain. be revised.
Montgomery bad been a resident of
Sixty passengers
from
Dawson
Utah since 1866.
brought out $250,1)00.
Russians are moving 30,000 men to
Lord Roberts is preparing for the fi
ward New Chwang.
nal battles of the war.
Democrats of Arkansas nominated
Japanese fishermen at Stevenson, B.
Jeff Davie for governor.
C., are said to be arming.
St. Louis strikers now believe their
Dole was inaugurated governor of
only hope lies in boycott.
Hawaii on the 14th inst.
An attempt was made to assassinate
Colorado still maintains a quaian-
Emperor William of Germany.
tine against San Francisco.
I)r. Jameson lias been elected a mem
Penitentiary at Salem has 180 pris
ber of the Cape parliament.
oners less than a few years ago.
Two deaths and many prostrations
Germany has ordered 25 big guns for
from heat in Pittsburg, Pa.
immediate dispatch for China.
Hot weather and no rain is disas
Speaker Henderson has been renom
trous to crops in North Dakota.
inated for congress in his district in
Storms played havoc with the crops Iowa.
at The Dalles, Or., and in the vicinity.
England is making poor headway
Steamer Cleveland anived at Seattle with the rebellion in the Gold Coast
from Nome. She reports five wrecks. Colony.
Heavy rain and subsequent floods are
Boers attacked the British at i.eua-
doing great damage in British Colum kal aud Roedvalspruit, but were beat
bia.
en back.
Director of Posts in Cuba Rathbone
Spreckles Bros, haie purchased ths
has now been permanently suspended California Lumber Company's sawmill,
and may be prosecuted.
at Marshfield, Or.
Chinese minister in Berlin says the
Will Larkin, a logger, was drowned
empress cannot be deposed, but might at Monroe, Or. John Bavnon 'atally
l>e coaxed off the throne.
injured at Niagara.
Ex-Governor Talyor, of Kentucky,
Stockmen of Polk county, Or., have
dogged by detectives and broken in united and offer liberal bounties tor
health, is at Niagara Falls.
scalps of wild animals.
President McKinley wants to know
The steamer Geo. W. Elder, which
why the Mouocacy did not fire on the arrived at Portland, made the round
Taku forts when tired upon.
trip to Nome in 83 davs.
Boers in small bands are harassing
David Bell, formerly one of the best
large columns of the British. Dewet known lumbermen of Canada, is dead
leads the guerrilla o|>erationa.
at his home in New York city, aged 79
At the Seaside Athletic Club, noCey years.
Remains of Reinhart Brook, of Port
Island, N. Y, Gue Ruhlin knocked
laud. recently drowned by falling off
out Tom Sharkey in the 15th round.
The force under Admiral Seymour the Bailey Gatzert, were found near
has been located. Admiral Keinpff re Kalama, Wash.
In Chicago, two slaughter houses oc
ports it is ten miles from Tien Tsiu.
cupied by Hess Bros., and Ruddy
Roosevelt is going to Oklahoma to Bros.. were destroyed by tire with a
attend the Rough Riders’ convention, loss of $70,000.
but will not make political speeches.
Ralph Platt, formerly of the Oregon
Chinese difficulties affect Kentucky’s volunteers, just arrived at Tacoma
ginseng trade, by which hundreds have fiotn China. He claims to lie accred
made their living. Prices have gone ited agent of the Chinese emperor on a
down.
special mission to Washington.
Illinois Demcoiats indorsed Bryan
The Southern Pacific and Santa Fe
and the Chicago platform, and nomi roads have perfected a traffic deal that
nated Samuel Alschuler, of Aurora, (or is designed to control effectually all
governor.
the passenger business in California,
T. B. Fargo, brother of J. O. Fargo, within the territory of the two com
president of the American Esprees panies. The main features of thia
Company, and of William C. Fargo, agreement are an interchange of tick
founder of the Welle Fargo Express ets to San Joaquin valley pointe, no
Company, is dead at his borne in Now Sauta Fe passenger trains te Lee An
geles and no rate cutting.
York, aged 67.
ÎHE NEWS
T t HE WEEK
Ill ORANGE RIVER COLONY
Boers Active With Guerrilla
Operations.
AN
ENGAGEMENT AT
LINDLEY
A Htrnnt Belief That It Will Take From
Three to Hix Month* to Subdue the
Moeri—Two Attackfi.
London, July 8.—Active Boer guer
rilla operations are reported from half
a dozen points in the Orange river col
ony. Boer officials from Michadodorp
aver that a part of the British convoy
was captured June 24 near Winburg.
The Lourenco Marquee correspondent
of the Times says:
“Both the burghers and the foreign
ers who are arriving here profess a
strong belief that it will take from
three to six months to subdue the
Boers.”
Another dispatch from Lourenco
Marques says:
“A consignment of a foreign firm
marked ‘Dutch cheese, damaged,’
proved, on landing, to contain army
boots for the Boers. It passed the cus
toms, however, with unusual dispatch,
and the British consul is making pre
sentations to the Portuguese govern
ment.”
A Battl«* at Lindley.
London, July 3.—The war office has
received the following from Lord Rob
erts:
‘‘Pretoria, June 28.—Paget reports
from Lindley that he was engaged on
June 26 with a body of the enemy who
were strongly reinforced during the
day. A convoy of stores for the Lind
ley garrison was also attacked on June
26, but after a heavy rear-guard action
the convoy reached Lindley in safety.
Our causalties were 10 killed and four
officers and about 50 men wounded.
The fight reported yesterday was under
Lieutenant-Colonel Grenfell, near Drei-
per. Brabrant came up during the en
gagement. Total casualties of the two
columns, three killed and 23 wounded.
“On the previous day, near Ficks-
burg, Boyes' brigade was in action
with a body of the enemy. Our casu
alties were two officers killed, four
men wounded and one man missing.
“Methuni found yesterday that the
Boer laager near Vaohkop and Spitz-
kop had been hastily removed in the
direction of Lindley. He found the
enemy 12 miles and captured 8,000
sheep and 500 head of cattle, which
the enemy had seized in that neighbor
hood. Our casualties were four men
wounded.
“Hunter continued his march yester
day toward the Vaal river unopposed.
Many farmers along the route have sur
rendered.
“Springs, the terminus of the rail
road from Johannesburg, due east, was
attacked yesterday morning.
The
Canadian regiment, which garrisoned
the place, beat off the enemy. No
casualties are reported.
“Lieutenant North repoited missing
after the atack on the construction
train, is a prisoner of the Boers.”
THE
Caaler’s
Belief
Colurna
Natives.
Attacked
London, July 2.—Advices received
here today from Prahsu, Ashantee, un
der current date, say the telegraph
line has been reopened to I’urosu. and
that Colonel Burroughs, with 500 men,
will move immediately. Colonel Bur
roughs, with 500 men, is expected to
reach Bekwai in two days. The rebel
lions Ashantee« are reported to be in
strength near Fomen, where severe
fighting is expected.
STRIKES
IN
China’s new railroad from t euton to
Hankow, with its branches, will ba
1.000 miles long. It will be built by
American capital.
Re». Charlea 8. Wing, of Brooklyn,
told the New York Methodists that all
the heat Methodists were against the
amusement restrictions.
The park board of Baltimore has for
bidden the use of antomobilee in any of
the pub'ic parks or pleasure places in
the civ under the control of the board.
HAWAII.
The Japanese Laborers Want Contracts
Annulled.
Honolulu, June 18, via San Fran
cisco, June 30.—A series of strikes has
been inaugurated bv Japanese laborers
on several of the islands. It is report
ed that the Japanese have been told
that they are free American citizens
now aud that the American laws pro
vide that no workingman shall receive
less than $1 a day. The laborers de
mand the cancellation of their con
tracts, and that the plantations shall
pay each individual laborer the $2.50 a
month, which, by the terms of the con
tract, are to be paid to the immigration
companies, in consideration of the
companies having brought the laborers
to the islands and guaranteeing his ser
vices during the contract period, or to
replace him if be deserts. So far as
the $2.50 per month is concerned, th«
plantations aie willing to accede to the
demands of the laborers, it is stated,
but they are not willing to consider the
contracts as having been annulled by
the territorial law. A delegation sent
to the Association of Maui by the Jap
anese immigration companies received
violent treatment from the strikers,
and they were forced to return to Hou
olulu.
Kxpelletl From Board of Trade.
Chicago, July 2.—Charles R. and
Albert (J. McClain, of the commission
firm of McClain Bros. & Co., who for
some weeks have been on trial before
the board of trade directors for main
taining and operating a bucket shop,
were found guilty tonight aud by
unanimous vote expelled from member
ship. United States postal officials
arrested the McClains last November,
Cliafte’e Force«.
San Francisco, July 3.—The trans- charging them with using the mails to
l>oit Grant, which sails for Nagaski, defraud. They were indicted by the
and thence, it is believed, to Che Foo grand jury aud put on trial before
or Taku, will carry 500 men of the Judge Kohlsaat, in the United States
Sixth cavalry, which, in addition to a district court, Judge Kohlsaat took
hospital corps, made up at the Presi the case from the jury and entered a
dio, 300 recruits and 200 marines, will verdict of not guilty. Then the board
constitute the force going to China. of trade officials took the matter in
The Ninth infantry and a signal corps their own bands, with the above result.
from Manila and the marines already
«Jueen Keceived the Kliedlxe.
in China will complete General Chaffe’s
Loudon, June 30.—The khedive of
forces, making 6,000 to 8,000 in all.
of Egypt paid a state visit to tjueen
Three surgeons will accompany the Victoria at Windsor Castle this after
hospital corps.
Assistant Surgeon noon. Accompanied by the Duke of
John T. Halsell will have charge of Y'ork and the Turkish ambassador,
the medical department on the trans Antopulo l'asha, and staff, he drove in
port.
state, escorted by the Iloushold cav
alry, to the Paddington station, where
Be nd eniatin ’ a Probable Mlatnkr.
he took a train for Windsor. The
Berlin, July 8.—Since the receipt of Duke of Conuanght there joined the
Admiral Bendeniatin's dispatch an party and accompanied bis highness
nouncing the arrival of the legations at to the castle. The procession at Wind
Tien Tsin with Admiral Seymour, the sor was escortedjbv the Life Guards,
foreign office here has received no aud adetatchment of grenadiers formed
further information either way. While a guard of honor in the quadrangle of
admitting the possibility that Admiral the castle. The queen received the
Bendemann was misinformed, the for khedive at the principal entrance. A
eign office assumes the correctness of warm greeting was given to the Egyp
his dispatch until the contrary is tian visitor.
proved. It admits, however, that it is
Navy Yard Wage* Cut.
very singular that the other powers
New
York,
July 2.—It is reported
have not reieived news similar to that
that the laiard of wages at the Brook
cabled by Admiral Bendeman,
lyn navy yard has recommended a cut of
wages for several of the grades of me
Hiirnrii by Melted Copper.
chanics aud machinists. The report
Phoenix. July 8.—John Markev.
has been approved, it is said, by Secre
e-uploved in the smelting works of the
tary Long, and will go into effect in
United Verde mine, at Jerome, was
burned to death aud two Italians were July. The present board, which meets
annually for the adjustment of wages,
severely burned last night. Markey
was a skimmer ou a converter. He is composed of Naval Constructor Watt,
had poured the contents of the con Lieuteuaut-Commander Morrell, Lieu
verter into the great ladle and the tenant Gibson and Paymaster Jackson.
It is said the men intend to appeal to
crane «as hoisting it when the pail
broke, pouring a large quantity of the secretary of the navy, through the
seething copper over Markey and par commandant of the navy-yard, against
the reduction.
tially over the Italians.
Markey's
Bobber in * Pullman Car.
clothing was burned from his body and
Omaha, Neb., July 2.—A masked
he lived but a short time, dyiug in
robber started through the lNillman
fearful agony.
ear on the Omaha Billings train, on
One fireman waa killed and 11 other the Burlington, after leaving York,
firemen injured and nearly $300.000 Neb., this morning.
He got two
worth of property was destroyed by tire watches and $70, but took alarm,
in the nachlue shop of the Best Manu pulled the air brake and left the traiu
facturing Company in Pittsburg, Pa.
before completing hie work
Washington. June 30. — The follow
ing Hawaiian poatortices have been ad
vanced to the presidential class: Hono
lulu, «alary, $3,200; Kohals. aalaiy
$1,000; Hilo, salary $2.100.
The
postmaster at HonoliUu has been ap
pointed, but those tor the other places
mentioned have not l>eeu selected. The
appointees for offices in Hawaii must
be residents of the islands.
section windmills «ere destroyed and
crops blown down.
Th.
by
Cape Coast Castle, Jnly 2.—Colonel
Casler left Kiawassa the morning of
June 28 with the intention of rein
forcing Captain Hall at Bekwai with
400 men, 200 carriers, a seven-pounder
and a Maxim.
When half a mile
from Dompoaesi he was fired upon
heavily from the bush. Captain Ron-
pell aud several men fell at the first
fire. The casing of the water jacket
split after half au hour’s firing aud
uine meu, including Lieutenaut Ed
wards, who were workiug the seven
pounder, were put out of action half
an hour later. Major Wilkinson was
shot.
The force then charged the
bushes, discovering a stockade 80 yards
distant in the bush, so carefully con
cealed that its existence could not be
suspected. The stockade was carried
at the point of the bayonet, aud the
force retired.
The casualties were six officers and
87 men. The enemy’s loss was 50
killed aud many wounded. It was es
timated that the natives numbered 10,-
000, one-half of whom had muskets.
Paris, July 4.—In the competition
for the world’s championship for pro
Salt Lake, July 2.—The remittitur fessionals. under the auspice« of the
tn the case of young Al>e Majors, af racing club of France, toriav, the
firming the judgment of the lower American, shoenfield, won the weight
court and ordering that the death sen throwing contest, covering 11.81 me
tence lie earned out. was made out by ters. The high jump was won by
the clerk of the supreme court today, Sweeney, of New Orleans, who cleared
and later mailed to Judge Hart. It 1.80 meters, with Shoenfield second,
now become« the duty of the court to clearint 1.76 meter«. Sweeney also
resentence the yontbfnl prisoner, which, won the long jump with 6.99 meters,
it is expected, will ba done some time and Sboentield was second with 5.67
next weez.
meters.
C m . of Ab. Majors.
▼••••I
BACK
AGAIN.
Msd. a R.oord-Breehl.g
Round Trip.
Portland. July 1.—The steamer Geo.
W. Elder tied np at the Ainsworth dock
Dock and Three Ocean Steam at 8 o’clock last night, ater a voyage
of nine days from Nome City, havtug
ships Burned.
made the round trip, including five
days lay-over in Dutch Harbor and six
days discharging cargo at Cape Nome,
LARGE NUMBER OF LIVES LOST
in 84 days. She brought 13 passengers,
none of whom report that they struck
Her trip is the quickest
Property L ors Keaehei Over SIO.OOO,« it very rich.
Two days before the de
<>OO —VeNsela Destroyed Are Htiale, on record.
parture of the Elder, the Nome City
Bremen and Main.
arrived off the beach, and Captain
Randall, of the Elder, believes she
New York, July 4.—Over $10,000,- will be in Portland again in about id
, 000 worth of property was destroyed, days.
The Elder took up 325 passengers,
! many lives lost, many persons were
j injured, and at least 1,500 lives irn- mostly from Portland, and landed them
' periled by a fire that started among with their belongings safely on the
cotton bales under pier No. 2 of the beach. The O. R. & N. Co. had made
' North German Lloyd Steamship Com- lightering arrangements, which en
I pany, in Hoboken, N. J., at 4 o’clock abled the Elder to get quick dispatch,
[ this afternoon. In less than 16 min and she was much better off in this
utes the flames covered an area of a respect than many ot the other, steam
quarter of a mile long, extending out ers. Five ships reached Nome before
ward from the actual shore line to the she did, the first of them being the
bulkheads, from 600 to 1,000 feet away, San Blas. The stampede to Topkuk.
anil had caught four great ocean liners the new district where it is reported
and a dozen or more smaller harbor that $45,000 was taken out, was at its
height when the Elder was in port and
craft in their grasp.
Stories in regard to the loss of life another find was reported at Port Clar
are conflicting, the number being vari ence, up the beach in the direction of
ously estimated at from 50 to 200. Up Kotzebue sound. The day before the
to midnight 10 bodies had been recov Elder sailed a miner came to Captain
ered, but they were all so badly Randall and offered to guarantee hitu
burned and blackened that identifica 320 passengers at $20 a head for a run
to this new field, lie failed to return
tion was impossible.
The hospitals in New York, Hoboken again to make good his guarantee, and
and Jersey City are crowded with in the captain did not wait for him.
jured and men are being brought in Money is plentiful, wages and meals
by scores.
high. Great difficulty was exper
Those who gathered along the shores ienced by many of the vessels in get
I
of the Hudson river to witness the great ting men to handle the cargoes, ami
conflagration saw a spectacle they can I much delay has been experienced on
never forget, and one that will always I this account. Many of the crews of
have a conspicuous place in the history the boats “jumped” as soon as they
of New York. River and bay were en reached the beach, and here again the
veloped in a pall of black smoke Elder was fortunate as she lost only
through which angry flames, bursting tour meu by desertion three of whom
as from volcanoes on the Jersey shore were from the c-tbin where they were
and in the water iteelf, leaped like not missed owing to the few passengers
spirits into the air. The surface of the carried on the return trip. Smallpox
water was covered with floating and broke out on the steamship Ohio whicti
blazing masses of freight thrown in took up 700 people from Seattle, and
haste from the doomed vessels, all un she went into quarantine at Egg
noticed in the mad race to rescue more island. She was still there when the
precious human life threatened or be Elder left. Other steamers which
ing sacrificed in the great ships. And were at Dutch Harbor at the same time
through the pall of smoke a great with the Elder came straggling in after
crimson sun, enlarged to thrice its size her arrival at Nome having been de
by the haze, glared like an enormous layed at Dutch Harbor by the difficulty
eye as it slowly sank in the west.
of getting coal. The price is $12 a
Such was the tremendous spectacle ton which all the captains were more
presented on the surface of the Hudson than willing to pay, as they could not
river as if it had been some holiday get along without coal. There is a
pageant. It was made tragic by the great abunauce in the yards at Dutch
realization that in that smoke and be Harbor but only a limited force of men
neath the turbid waters scores of lives to handle it.
had been lost or were then in their last
GETS SUGAR PLANT.
desperate struggles against death.
The spectacle was witnessed by New Industry Has Been Secured for
thousands from both shores, and by
Newberg, Or.
other thousands who crowded upon
Newburg, Or., July 4.—This evening
every ferry boat, every excursion boat
closed the last day of the time given
upon every river craft that could be
Newberg and Yamhill county to secure
secured for the purpose. The crowd
the $800,000 beet sugar factory offered
upon the banks of the river was almost;
by Eastern capitalists on condition of
as great as that which formed to wit
the pledging of 5,100 acres of sugar
ness the triumphant return of Admiral
beets and the donation of a factory site.
Dewey.
This day has Been a great effort put
Two Hundred Lost«
forth, and the result tonight is that
New York, July 4.—The losses sus 5,000 acres has been defintely pledged
tained in the fire by the North German and the money is on hand to pay for
Lloyd Steamship Company in Hoboken the factory.
An inirnense mass meeting was held
yesterday, are tonight conservatively
placed at nearly $10,000,000, and the in Crater’s hall this afternoon, which
loss of life, merely guesswork at even was addressed by Governor Geer. The
this late hour, will reach probably as hall was densely packed, and crowds
high as 200, and there are over 300 went away, unable to get in. The gov
men in the hospitals in this city, Ho ernor gave a very practical and encour
boken and Jersey City, badly burned. aging address, which was well re
Upto 11 o’clock tonight 18 Ixalies ceived. He dwelt upon the undevel
have l>een recovered. Eleven of these oped possibilities of the state and
were placed in a row at the morgue in pointed out the necessity of such man
this city and numbered, this being the ufacturing concerns as the beet sugar
only means the authorities have of industry for building up the industrial
maintaining any sort of identity over prosperity of Oregon. Such an enter
the corpses, as they are so badly prise, he said, would bring more peo
charred and dismembered that identi ple, and more )>eople Oregon must have.
fication will be made only by trinkets Governor Geer emphasized the fact
oi pieces of clothing that were found that our country is wheated to death,
about them. The only way the steam and our only salvation is diversified in
ship officials have of approximating the dustry. He referred to the prosperity
loss of life is by comparing the list of which exists in the beet-raising sec
those reported safe with the list of the tions of the East .and in Union county,
employes on the steamships.
of our state, as an example of what this
Late tonight Gustav Schwab, the enterprise will do for Newberg, Yam
general agent of the North German hill and Oregon. Other enthusiastic-
Lloyd line, gave out a list showing speeches were made by local orators.
what men ou each vessel had been
At the close of the meeting subscrip
missing up to that hour. On the tions were taken for acreage. Con
Saale 255 men were employed, and tracts have been signed and reported
only 127 of these nad been accounted for 5,100 acres. A public meeting was
for upto 11 o’clock, leaving 128 men held in McMinnville today, and a tele
actually employed as officers, sailors, phone message received here states that
stewards, engineers, coalpassers, oilers several hundred acres were taken
aud trimmers to be accounted for. there. The committee canvassing for
The Bremen had 204 men aboard, but subscriptions for the site has the total
only 127 of these have been found. The amount subscribed from Newberg's
Main had 137 employes on aboard at citizens alone. The sugar factory for
the time, aud of these only 27 have Newberg is now assured.
been reported safe.
The site obtained consists of 50 acres
hereon
the bauk of the Williamette
Tian Tain Araenal Taken.
river.
St. Petersburg, July 4.—Vice-Ad
miral Aliexeff telegraphs to the minis
Murderers Sentenced.
ter of war, General Kouropatkine,
Seattle, July 4.—The Indians con
from Taku, under date of June 29, via victed of the murder of Mr. and Mrs.
I’ort Arthur, June 80, as follows:
Horton,of Eugene, Or., at Lynn canal,
"The arsenal at Tien Tsin, which last October, were sentenced at Skag
offered a powerful base of operations way, June 27. Hanson, who killed
for the Boxers, who have greatly dam Horton, will hang. Williams, who
aged the European town, has been cut Mrs. Horton's throat, under threat,
taken by assault.”
of Hanson, was sentenced to 50 year«.
Kichitoo also 50 gets years. Another
The imposing buildings of the Gor- is given 30 years, and two others 20
don Memorial college, at Khartoum, years each.
are almost completed, but the prepara
According to Salt Lake City figures,
tions for putting them to practical ac
count are still in their very early the number of Mormons now in exist
ence is 360,000.
stages.
American* Wlu From Frenchman.
Hawaiian I’mtoffcr«.
American women, it is estimated,
hold 1140,000.000 of national bank
Mock and $137,000,000 of private and
state bank stock.
In Germany one man in 313 goes to
college, in Scotland one in 360, in the
United States one in 3,000, and in Eng
land one in 6,000.
Well-to-do young mon in Berlin are
taking drugs which induce heart weak
ness. in order to avoid compulsory mil-
jtary serried.
ELDER
REVOLT
ASHANTEE
Family W» Wr.rked.
Kelso. July 4.—By an accident on
the Ostrander logging railroad, four
miles north of this place, yesterday
forenoon, a voting son of Clark Walter«
was killed, bis wife and daughter each
had an arm crushed and Walter«'
shoulder was dislocated, and he was
otherwise bruised. Several other pet-
son« were slightly injure.].
The University of Berlin will soon
have three chairs of anthropology and
ethnology.