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YAMHILL COUNTY REPORTER. OUR LAWMAKERS. Doings of Importance at the State Capital— D. I. ASBlilY, I’ubl'ilier. M c M innville ........... O regon . ÍÍT5 Of HIT MT Bills Passed. License Bill Defeated. Two hemispheres Presented in a Cjudanud Form. Ex-King Milan is dead. All the saloons in Topeka have closed. The pacification of Panay is com plete. The senate passed the naval appro priation bill. The Philippine tariff act has reached Washington. Thete is no longer any doubt of the plague at Cape Town. Rids for Manila harbor improvements will soon be advertised. The disorders in Madrid and other Spanish cities continue. The house voted to ask for a confer ence on the war tax bill. Mrs. Nation says she is going on a world tour of “joint” smashing. An order is being prepared for the organization of 10 new regiments. The Mammoth has been added to the list of Eastern Oregon pioducing mines. A ballot box was stolen and three were hurt in an election riot in St. Louis. The Chinese plenijiotentaries will be excluded from meetings of the foreign envoys. The new regiment of the Twenty eighth infantry is to be organized at Vancouver. There is a lack of cordiality between army men and the Philippine com missioners. Lloyd Griscom, United States secre tary of legation and charge, at Con stantinople, is coming , home on leave of absence. He has not resigned, as had been reported. The Ohio supreme court holds that the state supervisor of elections (the secretary of state) is the final judge of all controversies arising under the •lection laws of the state. Senator Foraker has reported a bill providing that Hawaiian coins may be received at par for all government dues, and that when once so received, they shall not be again put in circula tion. The followers of General Maximo Gomez triumphed in the Cuban con- •titntional convention. The clause making him eligible to the presidency of the republio was adopted by a vote of 16 to 14. Portugal, it is said, will send troops to aid the British. A good vein of coal has been located near Pendleton, Oregon. French troops in China disobeyed Count von Waldersee's orders. Three lives were lost and four people badly injuied in a lloston tire. Dewet and Steyn have issued a proc lamation saying they will outer Cape Colony. lai Grande, Oregon, farmers protest •gainst alleged discrimination of army horse buyer. An unknown man nt Salem. Oregon, drove over an embankment and sus tained serious injuries. One British general was killed ■nd another severely injured in an en gagement at Orange camp. Colonel Albert D. Shaw, former com- mander-in-chief of G. A. R., died sud denly at his home in Watertown, N. Y. Professor Van Max Pettinkofer, the distinguished German chemist, com mitted suicide by slnaitiug himself in • tit of melancholy. Three men have been arrested at Manila, Iowa, for the robbery of a United States Express Company’s safe. They secured $40,000 in money and other valuables. The condition of ex-King Milan, of Servia, has taken a turn for the worse. Both his lungs are congested, the heart is very weak, and his malady mis en tered an extremely critical condition. Kitchener reports that eastern move ment of British troops has u|>set plans of Boers. Coming marriage of Ptincesa of As turias greatly displeases the Spauisb students. Typographical Union No. 13, of Bos ton, will call a strike in every book •nd job office in that city in case ths master printers refuse to sigu the union scale at once. They demand that women typsetters shall be treated as “journeymen compositors,” and re ceive the same wages as men for doing the mine work. Alfred Vanderbilt has given $3,- 700.(100 to his fiance, Elsie French, as her marriage portion. A Montreal paper warns Egnland to cease insulting French-Canadian*, declaring the British government holds Canada through the people of Quebec province. Abraham Oppenheimer, a Philadel phia cilisen of 80 years, astonished all observers by doing some wonderfully fancy skatiug on the pond in Fremont park. England’s Action on the Nicara Senate bill 16, lor the licensing of stationary engineers and firemen was defeated .Monday. Woman Suffrage Defeated. An Interesting Collection of Items From thi nutro mt m An effort was made in the house Monday to reconsider the vote by which senate joint resolution 71, for woman suffrage, was defeated. The vote for reconsideration was lost, 28 to 21. Law Without Governor's Signature. Governor Geer Monday filed the barber Sunday closing bill without his signature, thus completing the proceedings necessary to make it a law. As it bears an emergency clause, it went into effect Monday and will make barbering on next Sunday a crime. Passed Both Houses. The following bills have passed both houses: House bill 2, relative to school libraries; house bill 91, to pro hibit barbering on Sunday; house bill 208, appropriation for legislative ex penses and deficiencies; senate bill 12, providing for sale of school lands; sen ate bill 15, exemption of earnings of judgment debtors; senate bill 17. fix ing fees of witnesses in Douglas, Jack- son and Josephine counties in criminal actions; senate bill 95, fixing salary of judge of Clackamas county. Incorpor ation bills, Sheridan and Whitney. Signed by the Governor. The following bills have been signed by the governor: House bill 8, amend ing Albany bridge act; house bill 4, appropriating $45,0(10 lor Oregon agri cultural college; house bill 25, appro priating $47.500 to Oregon state uni versity; house bill 180, for payment of scalp bounty warrants; house bill 224, relative to Portland tax ley; house bill 257, relinquishing ground to United States for postoffice at Salem; senate bill 8, relative to licenses on state fair grounds. (A law without governor’s signature); senate bill 19, to pay ex penses of Indian war veterans to Wash ington; senate bill 89, to submit initia tive and referendum; senate bill 104, removing incline at Cascade locks; senate bill 11, to authorize Portland to levy a special tax; incorporation acts for the following places: Rose burg, Canyonville, Silverton, Elgin, Summerville, Baker City, Antelope, Dallas, Sumpter, Myrtle Point, Med ford. The Vote for Senator. The vote for senator. Monday stood: Corbett 80, George H. Williams 23, William Smith 25, Binger Hermann, 6, not voting 1, absent or paired 5. Aid for Orphanages. gua Canal Project ALMOST EQUAL TO A FLAT REFUSAL A Counter Proposal, Likely to Cause Extended Negotiations, Will Soon Be Presented Through Lord Pauncefote. London. Feb. 11. — it has been learned that a reply will shortly be sent to the United States Nicaragua canal project. It will not comply with the senate’s demands, neither will it be in the nature of a flat re fusal, though for purposes of immediate construction it will be tantamount to such a refusal. It will consist mainly in a counter proposal or proposals, likely to necessitate extended negotia tions. The nature of the proposal is not yet ascertainable. Lord I’annce- fote will likely be the medium through which the answer will be sent and by whom the subsequent negotiations will be conducted. In British official opin ion, it is likely that several months will elapse before the matter reaches a conclusion, by which time the llay- Pauncefote treaty will have elapsed, on the basis of the senate’s amend ments. The British counter proposals are now formulatin.', and it is hoped an entirely new agreement,, satisfac tory to both countries, will eventually be reached. Commented on in Washington. Washington. Feb. 11. —So far as can be ascertained, the admlinistra- tion has not had any iutimation of the counter proposals the London dispatch says will be made in the matter of the Nicaragua canal project. There is a feeling of regret that the British gov ernment has felt constrained to adopt such a course, as the hope was enter tained that the amendments to the Hay-Pauncefote treaty might have been accepted in the spirit in which they were made. Senator Morgan when informed to night of the new stand taken by Great Britain, said he believed that if Great Britain has decided to take tha action stated, it would creata resentment in tho senate and among the people and distrust of the moves of that govern ment. He hoped it might result in some action on the pending bill at this session. Senator Morgan, however, was not willing to say what action, if any, he proposed to take to briug about such a result. One suggestion made tonight as a possible counter proposal by Great Britain was that in return for conces sions made bv her she might desire an open port on the Alaskan coast as an entrance into her gold fields in the Klondike. ARRESTED FOR ROBBERY. Three Well-Known Men Were Trailed Through the Snow. Sioux City, la., Feb. 12.—Three men, believed to have been implicated in the theft last night at Manila, la., of a United States Express Company’s safe, said to contain $40.009, were ar rested at that place this morning. They were traced by their tracks in the snow. The men are John Jack- son, John Stovall and Charles Hayes. All live at Manila, and are well known. Their reputations heretofore have not been bad. They stoutly protested their innocence. Mrs. Jackson, wife of John Jackson, was also arrested, but at a preliminary hearing, she was released. The three men are in jail, having been unable to furnish a bond, fixed at $12,000 each. None of the money or valuables, has been recovered. The safe that was stolen contained in the neighborhood of $40,000. Two thousand dollars was in cash, and the remainder in draftB, checks and various valuables. While the robbery undoubtedly was deliber ately planned, as the horse and wagon were in waiting in a convenient spot, it is not believed that the men knew they were making so rich a haul. They had no means of knowing tlie contents of the safe, only that it was used in carrying valuables. The Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul train ou which the safe was taken from Sioux City, arrived at Manila at 8:05 P. M. The Omaha train was late, and James Sturtevant, of Sioux City, the express messenger, did not hurry in unloading the goods and pack ages from his car. The express box, with other articles, was placed on a truck on the depot platform, and then Sturtevant aDd the baggageman went to the other end of the platform to get another truckload. When Sturtevant returned he noticed the articles on the truck were disarranged, and a glance showed that the iron box was gone. There was great excitement, and no time was lost in spreading the alarm. Marshal Fearall hastily assembled a posse. Snow lay thick on the ground, and it did not take long to discover the tracks of two persons, who evident ly had been carrying something heavy directly from the truck, as it stood on the depot platform. They carried the safe a distance of about two blocks, and then loaded it into a wagon, which had been left there in waiting. The wagon was driven about a mile and a half out iuto the country, and there the safe was forced open and the contents abstract ed. The men abandoned the safe and went their way on a new track. It was not difficult, however, to trace them, and this morning three arrestB were made. The authorities say the shoes of two of the men under arrest fit exactly the tracks in the enow. THREE LIVES LOST. The house committee on corpora Result of i Fire in a Boston Brick Building— tions Wednesday rendered a favorable Four Others Badly Injured. report on the bill by Holcomb provid ing state aid for all orphan asylums of MORE MEN FOR KETCHENER Boston, Feb. 12. — Three persons lost not to exceed $10 per annum per in their lives »nd four others were badly mate. Reinforcements for the South African Army— injured in a fire in a four-story brick dwelling in Harrison avenue early Bills Passed. Boers Held Up a Natal Train. this morning. The house Wednesday passed bills as London, Feb. 11.— Public attention There is suspicion that the fire was follows: By Mulkey, to give old bor has again been turned toward South of incendiary origin and two arrests rowers of school funds the benefit of Africa by the dispatch of reinforce have been made, Harris Levin and his same rate of interest as given to new ments and the publication of Lord borrowers; by Smith, of Yamhill, to Roberts dispatches. Rumor has been wife Bertha. Levin had a shoe store on the first amend the charter of Sheridan; by in circulation that Mr. Chamberlain floor of the building, and the arrests Masters, to reduce fees of witnesses had reconsidered his South African and jurors in Douglas, Jackson and policy, and was contemplating a round are made on the suspicion that naptha Josephine counties; by Porter, to re table conference with John Morley aud or somehing of that kind caused the duce ttie salary of Clackamas county Sir William Vernon Harcourt, and fire. Men and women jumped from the judge from $1,200 to $720, beginning in the recall of Sir Alfred Misner. burning building and firemen and po 1909. The appearance of the bubonic licement rescued others from smoke The senate Wednesday passed the plague at Cape Town seems likely to following bills: Senate bill No. 77. re add to the difficulties of th} situation. filled corridors and hallways. The second-stoiy was occupied by quiring that senteiice of death be exe The authorities there have decided Daniel Hart, bis wife, her sister and cuted at the penitentiary, by the super intendent or a warden; senate bill No. upon a wholesale extermination of four children. They all jumped from 83, relating to the proof of writings; rats. Should the disease spread, it a window. One of the children was will necessitate changes in the mili badly burned and suffered internal in senate bill No. 86. to create the office tary arrangements. juries by jumping, and died. Mrs. of state bacteriologist, without pay; Today Sir Alfred Milner makes an Hart was badly hurt. senate bill No. 85, relating to title of The third story was occupied by floating logs; senate bill No. 103, to other earnest appeal to employers to authorize district and county high allow as many men as possible to eu- Daniel and Thomas Brennan. The lat in the colonial mounted defense ter escaped, but Daniel jumped three schools; senate bill No. 115, a substi roll forces. stories to a shed and suffered serious tute for the original, to tlx the fees to The Boers held up a Natal mail train injuries. be paid county clerks; senate bill No. The fourth story was occupied by 188, to amend the charter of Vernonia, near Vlakfontein. The few soldiers Mrs. Frances Riley and Mrs. Barry. Columbia county; senate bill No. 192, ou board exhausted their cartridges, Mrs. Riley was overcome by the smoke to incorporate Grass Valley; seuato and the Boers tiieu robbed the passen and suffocated. Her body was discov afterwards allowing the train to bill No, 108. to amend the scalp boun gers, proceed. ered after the flame» had been sub ty law. dued. Mrs. Barry jumped from the Transports Requisitioned Passed by Both Houses. fourth floor aud is in a precarious con London, Feb. 11.—The government dition. Bills passed by both houses are as follows; Senate bill 12, providing for has requisitioned three Castle liners to Transport Ashore. sale of school lands; senate bill 119, transpoit reinforcements to South Santiago De Cuba. Feb. 12.—The ameudiug charter of Sheridan; senate Africa. The remount department is bill 17, fixing fees of witnesses in uncommonly active, its agents buying United States transport Rawlins went Lkmglas, Jackson and Josephine conn- largely in several parts of the world" aground this morning on a coral reef ties in criminal actions: senate bill 95, Following yesterday’s war office an near the wreck of the United States fixing salary of judge of Clackamas nouncement. recruiting today was collier Merrimac. She arrived at day brisk. break, intending to embark the troops county. of the Tenth infantry for New Y’ork. Wreck in a Snowshed. Signed by the Governor. The pilot attempted to pass on the The governor Wednesday signed the Truckee, Cal., Feb. 11. —Spreading wrong aide of the Merrimac, and following bills: House bill 257, re rails in the snowsheds just east of Bins struck the hidden reef hard. Three linquishing ground to United States for canyon caused the wreck of a freight powerful tugs pulled unsuccessfully all postoffice at Salem; house bill 127, train last night. Several cars were the afternoon in the attempt to float amending Myrtle Point charter; house piled up. part of them being thrown to the ship. It will probably be necessary bill 120. amending Medford charter; the bottom of the hill and demolished. to rig elaborate tackle before she can house bill 3, amending Albanv bridge The snowshed was torn up for a dis be gotten off. She is in no danger, act; house bill 4, appropriating $45,- tance of 300 feet. No. 4 Atlantic ex and the likelihood is that she is not 000 for Oregon Agricultural College; press had pissed the point but a few injured. house bill 25, approprating $47,000 to muni tea before tho wreck occurred. Will Take Part m Inaugural Parada. Oregon State University; senate bill 102, amending Sumpter charter; sen The Yale undergraduates have de Will Try for New Constitutions. ate bill 104. removing iucliue at Can cided to take part in the inaugural Alabama and Virginia will both try parade in Washington next Marvh. oed« locks. for new state constitutions during 1901. The Vote. The vote Wednesday stood: H. W. Corbett, 30; George W. McBride. 21; William Smith, Democrat, 26; Binger Hermann, 7; C. W. Fulton, 2; F. A. Moore, 1; S. A. Ixrwell, 1; not voting, 1. _______ For Clark Sword Fund. In the bouse Wednesday Eddy in troduced a concurrent resolution pro viding for an appropriation of $262 for the completion of the Captain Clark ■word fuud General Mayberry Prentiss. Bethany, Mo., Feb. II.—General Mayberry Prontiss, one of the oldest surviving generals of volunteers of tne civil war, is dead at his home here, aged 81 years. He was known as the ’’hero of Shiloh." He defeated Gen eral« Holmes and Price at Helena, Ark., July 4, 1862. He was the last survivor of the Fits John Porter court martial. He was in the volunteer service tn Illinois during tbs Moraes exoitemeut in early days. fx-llino KIWI DE ID Exiled Ruler of Servia Passed Away at Vienna. NEITHER HIS WIFE NOR SON THERE tie Retained Possession of His Faculties Until Within a Quarter of an Hour of His Death —Body to be Interred in Slavonia. Vienna, Feb. 13.—Ex-King Milan, of Servia is dead. He passed a sleep less night and was unable to take suffi cient nourishment. The remains will be interred at Kronchol, a sacred monastic shrine in Syrmia, Slavonia, with the honors due a member of the reigning dynasty. The illness began with influenza. Milan left his bed too quickly, and the result was pneumonia. The doctors also found faty degeneration of the heart, which was the actual cause of death, as the danger immediately aris ing from the lung trouble had been overcome. Fearing a fatal issue, the doctors caused messages to be sent King Alexander and ex Queen Natalie, but although Milan desired to see them and himself sent messages re questing their presence, neither came. I Natalie’s reply, which was to the ef- I feet that she would come if her pres ence was really desired, reached him just before death. Emperor Francis Joseph, who sent an aid-de-camp to the deathbed, has ordered a military funeral, as Milan was formerly the colonel of an Austrian regiment. It was Milan’s written wish that he should be buried at Svr- rnia. He said he had been greatly disappointed at the absence of his son, whose ingratitude has provoked much comment in Vienna. According to the Neue Freie Bresse, he said to his j physician: “1 feel that I must die, but it is very sad to be compelled to i die at 47." Ex-King Milan, who was born in ■ 1854, abdicated the throue in favor of his son, Alexander I, March 6, 1889. The circumstances that compelled the I king to abdicate arose from the policy that he had pursued at the beginning of bis reign, both in domestic and for eign affaire. The new Seivian consti tution was adopted by the grand Skup shtina January 2, 1899, bv a majority of 494 votes against 75. The ministry of Nikol Cristich resigned. The king was unwilling to appoint a radical cabinet, aud applied first to Jovan Ristich, but could not induce that statesman to form a cabinet. The radicals refused to take office unless Tuschnovich. revolutionist, who bad been condemned to death for participa- | tion in the Timok valley uprisin , ! shonld be given the portfolio of the in terior. The king’s throne was at stake. He determined to appoint liberal pre fects and sub-prefects, and attempted by pressure on the people to bring in a liberal majority in the elections in the autumn. The radicals became en raged at the determination to exclude them from office. Cristich was un willing to play so dangerous a game, | and told King Milan that it was im- , possible for him to remain in office, j Milan abdicated the throne in the pres ence of the ministers and chief digni taries, and the members of the diplo matic body assembled in the konah to celebrate the anniversary of the elec tion of Servia into a kingdom in 1882. On being promised a liberal yearly al- I lowance, he agreed in 1888 to go into perpetual exile. It was decided that Queen Natalie should likewise live abroad. Queen Natalie, however, came back, and was only expelled af ter desperate resistance on the part of her adherants in 1891. The Tax on Banks. Washington, Feb. 13. — Senator Aid- rich today sent the following dispatch: “Mr. A. B. Hepburn, chairman Ameri can Association of Bankers, Chase Na tional Bank, New York City: Am re ceiving a large number of letters from banks throughout the country, sent in response to request issued by your sec retary, demauiing that the tax ou bank capital shall be entirely removed. The house retained the entire tax and the senate has reduced one-half. No action is possible in conference except to agree to either the house or the sen ate provision or to adopt some compro mise between the two. I hope this statement will save the members of your association and the members of the finance committee much unnec^e- •ary correspondence.’’ Pnrchssing for Morgan. Ironton, O., Feb. 13.—Col. E. J. Bird. Jr., late superintendent of toe Martin Iron & Steel Compauy, is here representing J. P. Morgan & Co., for the purchase of the plant of the Hang ing Rock Iron Company, the Belfonte Iron Works Company, the Kelly Iron & Nail Company, the Martin Iron & Steel Company, the Norton Iron Works Company and the Ashland 8teel Cora pany, Ashland, Ky. If the deal is consummated, other plants will tie erected here. Raided a Depot Mexican! Defeated Indians. Mexico City. Feb. 19.—The federal troops in Yucatan have had another battle with the rebel Indiana who were strongly intrenched, but the Indians were onahle to withstand the charge on their position.aud fled in all direction*. Many of the Indians would like to be released from the tyranny ot chief* who inflicted the penalty and torture, and commit many barbarities to infuse terror into their adherent*. Temakah, Neb., Feb. 13.—The rail road depot in this town was raided by unknown persons last night and 85 cases of liquor, consigned to people here, were destroyed. Temakah is a “<fry town,” under the local option law*, an i it is believed a party of wo men took <he law into their own hands. AT THE EXPOSITION. States Ar* Alive to the Impwtance of Making Comprehensive Exhibits. The different states and territories of the union are alive to the importance of the Pan-American exposition and all of them will be represented there in a befitting manner if present plans car ry, as is almost safe to say they will. In some instances appropriations have been made fur buildings aud exhibits and there are now in various legisla tures bills pending for appropriations. New York state has appropriated $300,000 aud is erecting a beautiful permanent building. Illinois has appropriated $75,000. Connecticut has made a preliminary appropriation to cover the expenses of an exhibit and the state board of agri culture has passed a resolution unani mously asking for an additional appro priation ot $25,000. Massachusetts has appropriated $15,- 000, with the expectation of an addi tional appropriation. Wisconsin has appropriated $25,000 and is erecting a building. Ohio’s appropriation is $30,000. The state is putting up a handsome building which is now nearing comple tion. Rhode Island has appropriated $15,- 000 with the assurance of more if it should he necessary to carry out the state’s plans. Missouri has guaranteed an appro priation of $25,000 to $50,000, and within the last fortnight the Mijsouri commission has resolved to ask for $100,000. Alabama proposes to appropriate $25,000. and a bill providing for such an appropriation is now pending in the state legislature. Georgia appropriates a sum neces sary to pay the expenses of an exhibit. West Virginia will have a handsome building. In advance of the action of the legislature a guarantee fnnd has been subscribed by her citizens to pro vide for a building and exhibit. California has completed arrange ments tor an extensive exhibit throngh the state board of trade and the Loa Angeles chain her of commerce. The board has endorsed a memorial from the water and forest association to the state legislature asking that the state make an appropriation of $500,000— equal to that given by the federal gov ernment—to have California properly represented at the exposition. Michigan has appropriated $40,000 for a building and exhibit. Iowa has appointed a commission of eight. The agricultural and horticul tural boards are arranging for partici pation in the exhibits. Oregon, Mississippi, Louisiana and other states will be suitably represent ed, owing to the great enterprise of citiens, who are volunteering private subscriptions with the intention of ap pealing to the legislature for reim bursement. The New England states are com bining for a New England building and private subscriptions are being taken in Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire in anticipation of legisla tive action. Plans have been made for a magnificent building ot colonial architecture. Maryland has a state commission and the Baltimore Manufacturers’ As sociation are co-operating with this body to raise money for representation. In a number of states bills asking for appropriations for exhibits at the exposition are now pending. They are as iollows: Washington, $50,000; Oregon, $35,000; Idaho, $30,000 Mon tana, $50,000; Indiana, $100,000; Pennsylvania, $100,000; Kansas, $50,- O00. In all the other states, with only one exception, official recognition has been given the exposition by the selection of representatives, members of women’s boards of managers or commissioners and through whoso efforts legislative action is being agitated LOST A MILLION AND A HALF. Glass Plant Burned in a Pennsylvania Town The loss Is Estimated at $1,500,000. Rochester, Pa.. Feb. 1. — The town ot Rochester, on the Ohio river, about 25 miles from Pittsburg, today suffered the greatest tire in its history. The loss is estimated at $1.500,000. The fire started just after midnight in the copper department of the National glass plant, the large-t tumbler plant in the world, located outside Roches ter. The night employes turned out with their own hose aud endeavored to subdue the blaze, but a strong west wind was blowing and the flames soon spread to the packing department. The plant occupied several acres of ground and employed 1,500 persons. The fire departments of nearby towns were called upon. Millions for Automobiles. It is estimated that during the first five years of this century the enormous sum of $100,000,000 will be expended by puichasers of auotmobiles. It re mains to be seen, if the prophecy comes true, what style of vehicle will secure the bulk of the bnsiness. At the Pan-American exposition all stvles of automobiles will be exhibited, and then we may be in beter position to judge of the respective merits of the various makes and methods of opera tion. Plague at Cep* Town. Cape Town, Feb. 13.—The govern ment has decided to give notice to the foreign nations of the fact that Cape Town is infected with bubonic plague. There is no longer any doubt as to the nature of the disease. Joseph Cham berlain has addressed a communication to Sir Alfred Milner approving the • / .... —. — latter's remarks made in his reply to Interest in Cmada. the Afrikander deputation sent with The legal rate of interest in CaDsda a resolution addressed to Queen Vi®- in now 5 per cent- toria.