ÏÂMHILL COUNTY REPORTER.
I>. I. A8BIRÏ. Publisher.
DEWET HAS ESCAPED.
Crossed Orange River With Bulk of
His Commando.
LONDON, March 5.—General Dewet
lost heavily in men and stores by his
incursion into Cape Colony, but he
seems to have made a clever escape
with the bulk of his commando. Ap-
I parently Commandant Hertzog crossed
the Orange river with him.
General Hamilton, who was pursu
ing, heard that General Dewet was
A. Meriting Collection of Itemi From the surrounded at Phillipstown, northwest
Two Hemisphere» Presented in a
of Colesburg. On arriving there he
found the Boers had not been at
Conde med Form.
Phillipstown at all, but had doubled
The nortn west woolgrowers' con back and were struggling across the
river at Colesburg. Apparently this
vention opened at Pendleton.
Is another instance of defective intel-
A Cuban agitator stirred up ! ligence regarding the doings of the
an anti - American demonstration in
Boers.
Santiago.
The Daily Telegraph has a dispatch
Carman, arrested at Manila for aid from Colesburg dated yesterday, which
ing the rebels, says he was not alone .says:
in the work.
“Numerous columns are still hunt
ing
for Dewet. This place is in a
A new course of study for Oregon
high schools has been adopted by the hubbub, and the troops are marching
off in various trains to press the
state board of education.
pursuit further."
Senator Carter, of Montana, talked
the river and harbor bill to death
CARRIED OUT ON LAKE ERIE.
speaking 13 consecutive hours.
M c M innville .............O regon .
tïtllb Of lilt Ml
H. G. Van Dusen, of Astoria, has
been appointed fish warden for Ore
gon, and Lewis Bean, of RoBeburg
deputy.
A robber smashed in a Grand Forks
B.' C., jewelry store window and es
caped with $1000 worth of jewelry.
No clue to the burglar.
Russia has withdrawn a portion ol
the Russo-Chinese agreement regard
ing Manchuria, and China has ap
pealed to the powers in the matter
A crowd of 40,000 people witnessed
the ceremonies attending the inaugu
ration of McKinley and Roosevelt
A heavy rain fell during the entire
day.
Oil is reported as having been dis
covered near the Oregon-Idaho line
on the Snake river. A Seattle syndi
cate has secured 1800 acres of land
there.
The fifty-sixth session of congresi
has closed and the fifty-seventh ses
sion opened. Vice-President Roose
velt presided at the opening of th«
new sesion.
T. Dletderlck’s sawmill at Manor
Wash., about eight miles from Van
couver, was burned. The mill wai
practically new, and had been In op
eratlon about a year. It was valuec
at $2500; no insurance.
The Boers have crossed the Orang«
river.
Outlook Is good for Oregon prun«
and hop crop.
Volunteers defeated a band o:
rebels in Leyte.
Dewet and the bulk of his command«
have eluded the British.
British officials do not believe th«
Boer war is near au end.
It Is rumored in Berlin that Am
basasdor White will retire.
Provincial governments will be es
tablished in southern Phlllppini
Islands.
Spokane capitalists will build I
$60,000 brewery and ice plant at Bakei
City. Or.
American preparations for depart
ure from China are practicall)
completed.
Cuban conservatives want to dis
cuss the senate amendments witi
Americans.
The I-a Grande, Or., sugar factor)
will buy lands and engage in th«
raising of beets.
Great Britain Is anxious about th«
report that France Intends to statior
a force at Hankow, China.
Count von Waldersee has Issued re
newed orders to allied force to b«
ready for a possible expedition.
All the appropriation measures eav«
the river and harbor and sundry civi
bills have been acted upon by con
grass.
The river and harbor bill, as agreed
upon in conference, carries $70.00(
for the improvement of the Wiliam
ette and Yamhill rivers above Port
land.
Judge Elbridge Hanecy was noml
■ated for mayor of Chicago by repute
iicans.
At Grioe, Tax., 12 woman with
hatchets, axes and rocks went to tha
postoffice and stote run by J. J. Grice,
in whioh bitters are sold, sud taking
the bottles outside, broke them all.
The tardies of Louie Burch and Addie
Taylor, troth 18 years of age, were
found in a deserted house in I .a Junta.
Colo. A revolver lying between them
told the story. .Young Burch's father
forlrade their marriage, and thia was
tire aause of the double suicide.
American machinery is being shipped
to eveiy part of the world.
Railway track elevation in Chicago
has cost tha companies over |l 7,000.-
000.
Foreign diplomata expect the Cnited
Mates to eatabliah a protectorate over
Cuba in regard to foreign affaire.
Troops in Pekin looted tire roof of a
Buddhist temple in the belief that the
tiles were of gold, but they were only
gold plated.
mru-DT ow. Mtn'
Large Number of the Acts of the
Oregon Legislature.
WITH
AND
WITHOUT
HIS
SIGNATURE
Bills That Were Passed by Both Houses. But
Which Did Not Receive His Approval
Until Alter Adjournment
Governor Geer has filed the follow
ing acts of the Oregon legislature.
While some of them were allowed to
become laws without his signing
them, most of them contain his sig
nature:
Senate bill No. 75, to require street
railways to provide vestibules or
! weather guards on street cars.
House bill No. 126, to punish kid
napping.
House bill No. 183, to provide for
recording chattel mortgages.
House bill No. 237, to fix the bound
aries of Columbia county.
House bill No. 88, to require bids
Twenty-one Men on Floating Ice— for furnishing public supplies.
Seventeen Rescued.
House bill No. 122, to punish tres
SILVER CREEK, N. Y„ March 5.— pass by cattle in certain counties.
House bill No. 177, to define loca
Twenty-one fishermen were carried
' out on Lake Erie, off Silver Creek, to tion of natural oyster beds in Netarts
night on floating ice, but 17 of them bay.
House bill No. 229, to fix weight of
were rescued.
The last seen of the four men they standard bushel of oats at 32 pounds.
House bill No. 346, to prescribe du
were still on the ice, but a high wind
was blowing up a big sea, and the ice ties of Attorney General.
House bill No. 225, governing re
was fast breaking up. They were
about four miles out, and there was ports of administrators.
House bill No. 19, to regulate con
a mile of open water between them
and the shore. When it was found struction of telegraph and telephone
that the men were cut off from shore lines along public highways.
House bill No. 292, to authorize
this morning a message was sent to
Dunkirk by the mayor asking for construction of Siuslaw and Eastern
railroad.
assistance.
House bill No. 179, to fix time for
A special train was made up, and
a party of rescuers brought a boat on salmon fishing in Alsea bay, river
a flat car. They worked heroically and tributaries, and to prohibit fish
all day. The 17 who were rescued traps and wheels therein.
House bill No. 313, to fix salary of
were taken off the floating ice with
great difficulty. They said that their county judge in Baker county.
House bill No. 172, to amend the
comrades probably perished, as they
law relating to the appropriation
were in perilous positions.
of water from lakes and running
streams.
BUFFALO GETS THE MEET.
House bill No. 97, to prohibit pub
Wheelmen Will Gather in the Pan lic contracts in counties of 50.000 in
habitants, except after public bidding.
handle City.
House bill No. 1, to amend the law
At the annual meeting of the Na
tional Assembly of the League of relating to mining claims.
House bill No. 39, to fix place of as
American Wheelmen held recently in
Philadelphia, the invitation of Mayor sessment of personal property.
Senate bill No. 13, to fix place of as
Diehl to hold the annual summer meet
of the league in Buffalo was accepted sessment of personal property.
House bill No. 200, to increase com
unanimously.
This action meets the hearty ap pensation of deputy county clerk in
proval of the entire membership of Malheur county and to provide assist
ance for clerk in Gilliam county.
that organization.
House bill No. 44, to aid Oregon
For this reason the biggest meet
in the history of the league will be Historical Society.
Senate bill No. 112, to provide
that held in Buffalo during the week
bounty for scalps of seals, sea lions,
commencing August 12.
etc.
House bill No. 65, to authorize ap
Fruit Man Alarmed Over Weather.
pointment
of clerks in state treas
VANCOUVER. Wash., March 4 —
Clark county fruit men are apprehen urer's office.
House bill No. 59, to punish poison- i
sive lest the present warm weather
continues long enough to endanger ing of domestic animals.
House bill No. 121, to authorize is
the fruit crop. There is some danger
of the trees budulng out under the suance of diplomas to certain grad
influence of continued warm weather uates of normal schools.
House bill No. 102, to prevent coer
to such an extent that a freeze or a
continued cold rain a month later cion of voters.
Senate bill No. 137, to create office
would prove disastrous. Up to this
time the winter has been most faovr- of county auditor in Multnomah
able for the orchards, and the pros county.
Senate bill No. 203. to incorporate
pects for a big crop the coming
Milton City.
Beason were never better.
House bill No. 100, to protect union
labels.
California Town Threatened.
House bill No. 5, to fix time and
Sacramento, Cal., March 5.—The
levee above the town of Washington, place of holding circuit court in sec
Yolo county. Is In danger of breaking, ond district.
House bill No. 144, relating to pub
owing to the wash caused by the high
winds, and a large force of men is lic presentation of dramatic plays.
House bill No. 20, making legal cer
working to save It. If the levee breaks
the town of Washington will be tain marriages.
House bill No. 311, to fix salary of
flooded and the railroad grade between
this city and Davisville will be nearly county judge of Malheur county.
House bill No. 249, to fix salaries
submerged.
of county treasurers.
House bill No. 146, making it a
Boors Cross the Orange River.
Colesburg. Cape Colony. Tuesday. crime to interfere with boundary
March 5.—Fifteen hundred Boers, marks of mining claims.
House bill No. 68, to prescribe
with whom, it has been alleged, were
General Dewet and former President method of apportioning state taxes.
House bill No. 24. to provide for
Steyn, found a spot at Lilliefontein.
near Colesburg bridge, where the relief of indigent soldiers, sailors, etc. ]
House bill No. 26. new military
Orange river widens, and the current
|
is slow, and they crossed, both men ’ code.
House bill No. 110. protection of
and horses swimming.
game, forests, wild flowers, etc.
Senate bill No. 201, to provide
Mayas Defeated by Mexicans.
MEXICO CITY. March 4.—There more efficient method of assessment
has been another battle between the and taxation.
Senate bill No. 177, to incorporate
rebel Indians and the Federal troops
near Tabi. The Mayas were found City of Wasco.
Senate bill No. 193, to incorporate
well entrenched, but the Mexican
troops rushed their position and the City of Grass Valley.
Senate bill No. 63. to regulate sale
Indians fled In panic.
of adulterated food, drinks, etc., and
define duties of dairy and fool com
Declared a Dividend.
missioner.
The Standard Oil Company has de
8enate bill No. 229. to amend As-
clared another $20,000,000 dividend.
DAUGHTERS OF REVOLUTION.
Large Win* Crop.
Lyons, France, reports that the wine
Will Hold Next Congress In Buffalo
crop oi France for the year 1900 will
June 14.
exceed 1,791,000,000 gallons, a yield
The next continental congress of that has t>een surpassed but three
the Daughters of the American Rev times in history.
olution will be held in Buffalo June
Military «nd Navy Maneuver«.
14. The invitation was extended by
The
war
and navy departments are
Mrs. John Miller Horton at the meet
ing of the D. A. R tn Washington. plannng for joint military and naval
D. C.. recently, and was accepted by maneuvers in New York harbor next
summer. .
a rising vote.
toria charter.
Senate bill No. 207, to amend Sea
side charter.
Senate bill No. 56, authorizing
County Courts to declare unnavigable
streams highways for floating logs.
Senate bill No. 174, to authorize ex
penditure of money for hatcheries.
Senate bill No. 189, relative to bi
ennial reports.
House bill No. 128, for distribution
of laws and journals.
House bill No. 275, to amend act
creating Southern Oregon Agricul-
tural societies.
Senate bill No. 138, making owners
of vessels liable for damage to pro
perty or land.
Senate bill No. 190, to amend
Soldiers’ Home act.
Senate bill No. 62, to fix time of
meeting of regents of State Univer
sity.
Senate bill No. 29-, to authorize
Portland to dispose of block 132.
House bill No. 62, to consolidate of
fices of Clerk of County Court, Clerk
of Circuit Court and Recorder of
Multnomah County.
House bill No. 21, to punish des
truction of records on public lands.
House bill No. 286, to change com
pensation of certain County Clerks.
House bill No. 149, to punish dese
cration of United States flag.
House bill No. 76, to amend act for
election of road supervisors.
House bill No. 33, appropriating
$1000 for Soda Springs.
Senate bill No. 162, fixing compen
sation of prison inspector.
Senate bill No. 79, correcting
boundary of Wheeler County.
Senate bill No. 210, prohibiting sale
of liquors within a mile of mines.
Senate bill No. 126, regulating
drawing of State warrants.
Senate bill No. 216, fixing salaries
of certain District Attorneys.
Senate bill No. 72, to declare the
jurisdiction of Justices’ Courts.
Senate bill No. 86, to create office
of State Bacteriologist.
Senate bill No. 221, to provide for
board to draft a Portland charter bill.
Senate bill No. 232, to regulate
building branch lines to railroads.
Senate bill No. 196, fixing salary
of Superintendent of Wheeler County.
Senate bill No. 23, amending school
law.
Senate bill No. 142, requiring state
warrants paid to be deposited in of
fice of Secretary of State.
Senate bill No. 234, fixing salaries
of County Treasurers.
Senate bill No. 116, authorizing
State Land Board to buy land at fore
closure sale.
Senate bill No. 44, fixing terms
of Circuit Court in seventh district.
Senate bill No. 114, defining elig
ibility of directors of corporations.
Senate bill No. 220, concerning sal
aries of Baker, Malheur and Clatsop
Counties.
Senate bill No. 227, for construction
of ditch to supply water at state in
stitutions.
Senate bill No. 87, to amend charter
of North Yamhill.
Senate bill No. 107, to incorporate
Yoncalla.
Senate bill No. 176, amending char
ter of Cornelius.
Senate bill No. 191, for primary
elections in cities of 10,000 inhabit
ants.
Senate bill No. 180. amending Aus
tralian ballot law.
Senate bill No. 202, accepting 1,-
000,000 acres under Carey arid land
act.
Senate bill No. 10, amending law
relating to jury lists.
Senate bill No. 161, incorporating
Hood River.
Senate bill No. 209, prohibiting sa
loons within 300 teet of schools.
House bill No. 294, making Van
couver avenue a county road.
House bill No. 334, governing
estrays.
House bill No. 113, defining duties
of surveyors.
House bill No. 208. relating to es
tablishment of public highways.
House bill No. 295, prohibiting mu
tilation of hides.
House bill No. 54, amending Ban
croft bonding act.
House bill No. 61, relating to incor
poration of cemeteries.
House bill No. 187, for service of
citations.
Senate bill No. 171, the Port of
Portland bill.
House bill No. 280, to annex the
panhandle of Union County to Baker
County.
Senate bill No. 139. the Orphans'
Home bill, appropriating $50 per
capita for inmates.
Senate bill No. 73. enacting the
Torrens system of public land regis
tration.
Senate bill No. 188, the primary
election bill.
House bill No. 189, to construct the
County Court of Multnomah County.
Son» of President John Tyler.
Three sons of President John TvleT
are now living. Gne is a member of
the Virginia senate, and another is
president of William and Mary col
lege.
Present Method of Branding Cruel.
Cattle men in south Dakota are gen
erally agreed that it is time to abandon
the present method of branding cattle
as cruel.
NOMINATIONS CONFIRMED.
Ailss to Be Assistant Secrstary of
Treasury, With Several Others.
WASHINGTON, March 6.—The sen
ate in executive session made the fol
Crowd of 40,000 Witnessed the
lowing confirmations:
Bradstreet S. Raciden, of Maine, to
Ceremonies
be consul of the United States at Ba
tavia, Java.
ON THE EAST FRONT OF THE CAPITAL
Milton E. Alles, of Ohio, to be as
sistant secretary of the treasury.
William A. Rublee, of Wisconsin, to
Oath Administered by the Chief Justice in a
be consul general at Hong Kong.
Downpour of Rain—President McKinley's
Naval Constructor Francis T.
Second Term—New Vice-President.
Bowles, to be chief constructor and
chief of the bureau of construction
WASHINGTON, March 4.—William and repair, in the department of the
McKinley a second time is president navy.
of the United States. He was ushered
George D. Gear, to be second judge
into that office in a city ablaze with of the circuit court of the first cir
more and finer decorations than ever cuit of the territory of Hawaii.
have graced the holiday loving na
Marshal B. Wooaworth, to be at
tional capital, whose streets re torney of the United States for the
sounded to the tread of more march- ' northern district- of California.
ing soldiers and sailors than ever
John H. Fester, of Colorado, to be
have participated in a like function, consul at Amoy, China.
and had as witnesses to the ceremon
Edward H. Anderson, to be sur
ies a vast multitude, who cheered fre veyor general of Utah.
quently whenever he or his vice-pres
Postmasters were confirmed as fol
idential colleague was visible.
lows:
There has been better weather on
Porto Rico — Robert A. Miller, at
inauguration days, and there has been Ponce.
much worse than that which attended
Oregon — Robert H. Robinson, Ar
today’s ceremonies. The day in the lington; C. G. Coad, Dallas.
early forenoon gave promise of being
To be mineral land commissioners
a golden spring day, but the weather In Montana—George L. Wales. Mon
war in a capricious moed, and by noon tana; Daniel Arms, Philippsburg;
a slow drizzle had begun, which lasted John T. Ingram, J. M. Hartley, Wil
with some intermissions and an oc liam H. Williams, P. T. Morris, Ed
casional lively downpour until late in win A. Jones, Iowa; Edwin S. Hath
the afternoon. The w’orst of the wet away, Charles D. Curtis, Montana;
weather, unfortunately, came just at | Miles Vananagh, Montana; Watson
the time that President McKinley was Boyle, District of Columbia; George
being inducted into office on the east i W. Garrett, Arkansas.
front of the capitol, in the presence
of a crowd estimated to number
VAN DUSEN NAMED.
40,000. But the air was .mild and
pleasant, and the day ended with dry !
An Astoria Man Appointed Fish
weather.
Warden for Oregon.
Roosevelt Sworn In.
The brilliant and impressive scene
in the senate, when the vice-president
elect was inducted into office, was re
served for a few hundred. The pub
lic had no part in it.
When the ceremony in the senate,
a little tedious, despite its brilliancy,
was over the floor and galleries
emptied into the corridors through
which the people jostled and squeezed
into the rotunda, and out on to the
platform erected from the east por
tico of the capitol building.
The President Inaugurated.
It was just 1 o’clock when the of
ficial party came through the main
doorway of the capitol. A deep hush
fell upon the assemblage as the pres
ident and the chief justice advanced
to the center of the pavilion. The
president removed his hat, and then
raised his right hand. In the intense
stillness faintly could be heard the
solemn words of the chief justice and
the measured response of the presi
dent taking the oath to maintain in
violate the constitution and laws of
the United States. He spoke in a
strong voice, easily heard by those
near the front of the stand. His face
looked very grave as the oath was
pronounced.
"He that handleth a matter wisely
shall find good; and who so trusteth
in the Lord, happy is he. The wise
in heart shall be called prudent; and
the sweetness of the lips increaseth
the learning.”
Kissing these verses of the XVI
Proverbs with bowed head, President
McKinley, for the second time, passed
completely into the full honors of the
presidency of the United States. The
book had been opened at random by
Clerk McKinney, of the supreme
court, who long has made it a point
to note as a matter of curious knowl
edge the verse which chances to meet
the lips of incoming presidents.
Veteran of Civil War Dead.
San Diego, Cal., March 6.—$fajor
Francis S. Earle, a prominent Grand
Army man, is dead. In 1860 he was
a member of a famous regiment of
New York militia, but the next year,
when the war broke out, he had
moved to Michigan, when he was ap
pointed adjutant of the Fourth regi
ment. by Colonel Woodbury. He was
advanced to assistant adjutant on the
staff of General Fitzjohn Porter.
SALEM, March 6.—The state board
of fish commissioners, consisting of
the governor, secretary of state and
treasurer, today held its first meet
ing, and appointed H. G. Van Dusen,
of Astoria, master warden, and Lewis
Bean, of Roseburg, deputy.
The appointments were made by
the unanimous action of the members.
The name of Representative Talbert,
of Clackamas county, was mentioned,
but the board decided that he is not
eligible under that section of the con
stitution prohibiting .members of the
legislature from holding an office
created by a legislature of which
they are members. F. C. Reed and
Lewis Bean were also candidates for
the office of master warden.
There were two candidates from
Astoria for deputy warden — D. H.
Welch and Fred Wickman. The board
decided that since the master warden
had been chosen from Astoria, the
deputy must be selected from some
other section, and Bean was elected.
LETTER FROM PAT CROWE.
Similar to the One He Sent Mr. Cud-
ady Recently.
OMAHA, Neb., March 6. — Pat
Crowe, one of the alleged abductors
of Edward Cudahy, Jr., has written
a letter to the World-Herald, post
marked Denison, la., March 2, touch
ing the kidnaping and asserting his
Innocence. The communication is a
long one and in many respects is a
duplicate of the letter written to Mr.
Cudahy three weeks ago. Chief of
Police Donahue says there is no
doubt in his mind as to the genuine
ness of the letter, and of its coming
from Crowe. Chief Donahue gave out
the contents of a letter he wrote Feb
ruary 9 to Steve Crowe a brother of
Pat, and which was written in an
swer to the letter received by Mr.
Cudahy at that time. The chief
says:
“If Pat Crowe will surrender him
self to me personally, I will waive all
my rights to the reward offered for
his arrest; also to the reward offered
for his arrest and conviction for the
kidnaping of Edward Cudahy, Jr., the
night of December 18, 1900. I will
further agree to do everything in my
power to protect him from any per
sonal violence or mistreatment while
he is In my custody, and will aid him
in every way to establish his inno
cence of the crime.”
Officers Made Raid on House.
Dewet Headed but Not Captured.
Chehalis, Wash.. March 6.—Deputy
Sheriff James Matson and a posse
made a raid on a secluded house a
mile and a half east of Centralia this
morning, and surprised and arrested
two men. who give their names as H.
B. Miller and James Mulligan. Both
men were armed with heavy re
volvers. and in the bouse were found
a number of articles which tended to
connect them with the numerous bur
glaries that have occurred in Cheha
lis.
London. March 6.—A dispatch from
General Kitchener, dated Pretoria,
March 4, says:
“Dewet was moving on Phlliopolls.
but was headed by our troops, and is
now marching on Fauresmith. Bab-
ington has dug up a Krupp, a pom
pom and some ammunition at Land-
fontein. Sixteen men of the Victorian
Rifles have captured 33 Boers and 50
horses at Seacow river. General Dart-
nell has captured a Hotchkiss near
Pietertieff.
Buy the Samoa.
San Francisco. March 6.—The big
British transport steamer Samoa has
been purchased by the government
and when she arrives in port $200.000
will be spent in fitting her up for the
transport service. The Samoa Is on
her way here from Hongkong, and is
expected to arrive In about ten days.
She Is 445 feet long. 23 feet 8 inches
in depth. 53 feet in width. Her gross
tonnage is 6396 tons.
On the Retired List.
Washington. March 6.—Two promi
nent naval officers were placed on the
retired list today by operation of the
law on account of age. They are
Rear Admiral Philip C. Hichborn. who
has been chief of the bureau of con
struction and repair for the past eight
years, and Pay Inspector H. G. Colby,
one of the ranking officers of the pay
corps.