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TAMillLL COUNTY REPORTEB. D. I. À1BIBY, fubllahar. I ALASKA TELEGRAPH LINE. BANDS OF ROBBERS. THE PRESIDENTIAL TOUR. Chief Place* and Date* to Be Visited by Me- it Will Probably Be Two Years Before in Good Working Order. It la Depredation* of Thieve* and Pirate* Increasing In Vicinity of Pekin. Kinly and Party. The following are the principal Berlin, April 30 — Field Marshal Submarine Cable Line To Be Laid places the presidential party will visit Washington, April 29.—Were it not Commercial and Financial Hap on their coast tour, with dates: Count von Waldersee in a dispatch w*k‘ on n for the great difficulties of transport ¡Washington, left.................... April 29 penings of the Week. from Pekin, reports that marauding Within 90 Days, ation in Alaska, the government mil .Memphis................................. April 30 itary telegraph line from Valdes to has increased near Hosiwu and Matu, New Orleans...............................May 1 the Yukon river and down to St. and that junks used as transports be Michaels would probably be in work ITEMS FROM ALL OVER THE STATE tween these places have been attacked. MUST BE GUARANTEED FOR TWO YEARS Houston, Tex.............................. May 3 _______ I Austin, Tex. ........................... .May 3 ing order by the close of the coming i I San Antonio, Tex...................... May 4 summer, but under conditions as they A Brief Review of th* Growth aud Improve Lieutenant Colonel Arnstadt has been sent from Tien Tsin to the disturbed Contract Ha* Been Let to New York Man foi jr; paHO, Tex., rest..................... May 5 Campreheniive Review of the Important flap, exist it will probably be two years be ments of the Many Induitries Throughout district in command of a composite ......................... $70,000 (• Complete the Line end ... Pul E! Paso, leave............................. May 6 peninp of the Paet Week in a Condensad fore this line in its entirety will be Phoenix, Ariz............................. May 7 column. Count von Waldersee also Our Thriving Commonwealth. working satisfactorily. Work was It Into Succeesful Operation. Form From All Parts of the Globe. Redlands, Cal............................. May 8 reports, under Pekin date, as follows: j not begun in earnest until late in Los Angeles............................... May 8 ‘‘Colonel Hoffineester, command the season of 1900, when by dextrous Athena has secured a sti-eet rock ing the Fourth infantry and two com Washington, May 1. — General Del Monte................................ May 10 The reward for l’at Crowe’s arrest labor the men of the signal corps, crusher. panies of mountain artillery, attacked Greeley has approved the recommend San Jose.................................... May 13 under Major Green, took hold and made has been withdrawn. Work of building a road to Blue the enemy April 23 by the great wall, ation of the board of signal officers San Francisco........................... May 14 phenomenal progress with the line. The amnesty proclamation will be It is l>eyond a possibility, however, river, on the Calapooia side, has lie- 10 kilometers south of Hai Shan making the award for laying the cable Sacramento............................... May 20 extended to July 1. Kwan, and forced them to retire with from Juneau to F’-agway, Alaska, to Portland, Or............................. May 22 for them to keep up this pace this gun. German casualties were large in summer, owing largely to the diffi Flans of a telephone line from Baker hoavy losses into Shan Si. We lost W. II. Brixie, of New York, he l»eing Tacoma, Wash......................... May 23 their recent expedition to Shan Si. culties encountered in getting their to the Panhandle is under considera four wounded and captured four flags the lowest bidder. The contract price Spokane.................................... May 27 and four old pattern guns. General is $70,000. The successful firm will Butte, Mont.............................. May 28 Eight men were burned to death lines, fixtures and supplies to interior tion. Vovron intimates that he intends to Helena, Mont........................... May 28 and several injured in a fire in France. points from which they are working. A burglar proof safe arrived at Ash- evacuate the neighborhoood of Shan be requried to construct, lay and put Yellowstone Park..................... May 29 . in operation the entire cable system Active operations in laying the line I and last week for the First National Ting and return to Pao Ting Fu. A party of Boers blew up the rail not be commenced l>efore late Bank. in 90 days from the time of the Anaconda.................................. May 31 road between Graspan and Cape Col could His extended outpost* remain at Sin Salt Lake......... 7........................ June 2 award. It will then be turned over in March or the first of April, and ony. The telephone line from Grant's Lei. I am keeping a force at Ansul- to the signal corps for operation, Leadville....................................June 4 up to this time no advices on this Troops will not be withdrawn from subject have yet been receievd in Pass to Williams is complete and in ing pass. ” being guaranteed first for two years. Denver....................................... June 5 operation. China until the indemnity question Washington. During the current week the fish Cheyenne................................... June 5 is settled. County roads between Baker City commission steamer Albatross will Colorado Springs...................... June 6 It is hoped that by the close of this In Pursuit of the Chinese. Washington well digger was buried summer season Fort Gibbon will be and John Day are said to be in very cruise off the Oregon coast, making Pike’s Peak............................... June 7 London, April 30.—A Reuter dis soundings in the hope of finding new Pueblo....................................... June 7 alive in a shaft by the dirt caving connected with St. Michael, and this bad condition. patch from Pekin says the headquar Kansas City.............................. June 9 in on him. will bring the latter point and Skag The Hood River Fruit Growers’ ters staff has received a telegram from i species of sea life. At the conclusion Kansas City............................. June 1C way within 15 days of each other, Morgan and his syndicate has pur Union is beginning to receive orders a British officer accompanying the of this cruise she will outfit at Seattle Chicago..................................... June 11 for a summer’s cruise along the Alas chased the Leyland trans-Atlantic whereas they have been heretofore two for strawberries. exjiedition to the effect that on April ka coast, when the study of food Buffalo...................................... June 13 months apart, and oftentimes nearer line of t seamen. 23 the Germans crossed into Shan Si Fred J. Runmmel was killed at the The contract has been let for the three months. This will be a tremen Mammoth mine, in Eastern Oregon through the Kouk Nau and Chang ■ fishes which has been conducted Washington............................. June 15 through two past seasons will be con laying of a cable from Juneau to dous saving in time, and an unques recently by a snow slide. Chen Liu passes, in pursuit of the tioned advantage to the military and cluded. Skagway, Alaska. JAMES DOUGLAS REID DEAD. Thieves broke into a saddle shop at retreating Chinese, whom they fol Fire in Pittsburg resulted in the other government officials. lowed 18 miles, fighting a sharp ac The question of how the line shall The Dalles several days ago and made loss of one life and a property loss MAY BE ANDRADA. The French troops remained Ex-United Stole* Consul and "Father of the be constructed along the great bend away with several pieces of harness. tion. estimated at $225,000. in occupation of the passes. The Ger Telegraph." of the Yukon has not yet been de- W. C. Peterson agrees to put an mans returned April 25, and the Wrecked Three-Masted Ship Discovered Oil Frick has purchased a large amount terimned. This neck of land is be electric light plant in Brownsville if New York, May 1.—James Douglas of land near Camden, N. J., and may tween 30 and 40 miles wide. Should French handed over the passes to Queen Charlotte Islands. the city will pay $45 Reid, known to the telegraphers as establish a great steel plant there. them and returned to their previous the line follow the river it would be six lights. Vancouver, B. C., May 1.—The “The Father of the Telegraph,” is outposts. The Germans are said to The president made a large number much longer than an overland section, Horse rustlers with two car loads of have had four men killed and five steamer Tees, arriving tonight from dead at his home in this city. He of civil and military apjxiintments and could not be reached in summer, The the north, brings news of the finding was born in Edinburg, Scotland, before starting on his western tour. except by a large repair force, stolen horses are dodging the officers officers and 80 men wounded. by Indians of a three masted ship March 22, 1809, and came to America “Jack the Ripper, ” whose crimes which would make it expensive and somewhere in the the eastern portion Chinese loss is not known. wrecked off the coast of Queen Char in 1834. He entered telegraphy in startled the world years ago, has been difficult of maintenance. During of Malheur county. lotte islands. Identity of the vessel 1845, when he assisted in the oragniz- arrested at Ludwigshaven, Bavaria. the past winter an officer has been in Governor Geer will be asked to MEXICAN MINISTERS, is at present unknown. The bodies ation of the Atlantic & Ohio telegraph The business portion of Wautoma, the field to see what can be done grant a pardon to J. G. Luhrman, of several sailors are said to have been company for the construction of a Wisconsin was totally destroyed by across country between Fort Gibbon who was sent to the penitentiary from found nearby. The story of the fire. Loss, $100,(MM); insurance, $50,- and Fort Egbert. On his report the Baker county in June, 1900, convicted Diplomatic Relation* Resumed With Autoría wreck, as given by the Indians to the series of lines connecting Phialdel- phia, Pittsburg, Buffalo, Detroit, of manslaughter. 000. department will act. The signa) and American Republic*. officers of the Tees, was exceedingly Cincinnati, St. Louis and New Or British forces continue to capture corps is feeling its way cautiously, Work has again been resumed on j Washington, April 30.—A complete vague. The Indians either could not leans, the most extensive service pro small bands of Bix'rs. Some ~ ammu- so as not to make the same errors as the Golden Wedge mine, at Galice. read the name of the vessel, or were reapproachment between the govern not sufficiently alert to note it, for jected at that time. Becoming ac were ascrilied to the Canadian author nition and.supplies are also reported quainted with Prof. S. F. B. Morse, A new irrigating ditch has been ities, who attempted to build a tele taken. ments of Austria and Mexico has been they could give no clew to the ship’s a mutual attachment sprung up be started, at Bly, in Klamath county. Japan has bought a large amount graph line from the two ends without brought about, and as a result each identity. The masts of the craft tween them, which led to Mr. Reid’s It is not thought that the fruit was 1 of Bombay cotton which formerly making a survey of the route, and in country is about to send a minister to were broken off short, and she was appointment as superintendent of the injured by the recent heavy frosts in j consequence, at the close of a season, has been purchased in the United the other. This terminates an inter generally demolished, The only the- Magnetic telegraph company, a line found that the two ends that were tc Hood River. States. ory of the identity of the ship ad- extending from New York to Wash The Hherman county court has national estrangement dating back to vanced, and that seems very improba ington. The Chilean claims commission have connected had over lapped each At the same time he re has almost finished its work, only six other for some miles, ope going on raised the stock insjiector’s salary to the days when young Maximillian of ble, is that the wreck may possibly be tained his connection with the Atlan one side of a mountain and the othei Austria sought to gain a foothold in the Andrada, which took a pilot off tic & Ohio company. He entered $300 per annum. more claims remaining to be dis on the opposite side. And for weeks Mexico, and lost his life in the ad the mouth of the Columbia last De posed of. A considerable amount of wheat neither party knew of the proximity was sold at The Dalles last week for venture. A bill has passed the Mexi cember, and has not been heard of the service of the Western Union tel A lioard of administration has lieen of the other. egraph company in 1850, where he re can congress providing for a minister since. It is suggested that she may mained until 1889, when he was ap 50 cents a bushel appointed by the dowager empress to Austria at a salary of $15,000 an for the purpose of reorganizing the The Coos county court has ordered nually. Austria will take similar ac have drifted north to the present loca pointed United States consul to Dun- tion of the wreck. government of China. fermlie, Scotland, thorugh the in that the road poll tax be paid in cash, HEAD WAS SEVERED, tion by sending a minister to Mexico, fluence of Andrew Carnegie, who as a The trial of Captain James V. Reed and that the road supervisors collect and this will close the long and his ojx'ned in Manila. It develops that the tax. DOZEN BUILDINGS BURNED. b >v serevd as messenger and telegraph toric separation. operator under Mr. Reid at Pitts the money he received was to cover “Black Jack" Ketchum, a Noted Desperado The Mexican government has also Last week, while Jack Simmons the shortage of his predecessor in Hanged. Rope Jerked Head from Body. taken steps to resume diplomatic Score* of Families Rendered Homeless at Pitts burg. He relinquished this office in was driving for a load of hay on the office. 1897. The statue of Prof. Morse in Innes-Kelsay ranch, near Paisley, a communication with South American burg. Central park, this city, was erected Clayton, N. M., April 27.—Thomas gust of wind lifted the rack off the countries, the first move in that di Presiilent McKinley and party has E. Ketchum, alias “Black Jack,” the wagon and carried it several rods and I rection being the appointment of a Pittsburg, May 1.—Fire at the cor by the telegraph fraternity through left Washington. robber, was hanged atT :21 P. dropped it into a slough. Mexican minister to the Argentine ner of Carson and Seventeenth the efforts of Mr. Reid. The Cuban commissioners have train M. yesterday. The rope broke but South side, resulted in a started for home. A Southern Pacific steam shovel republic. For many years there has streets, his head was jerked off. been no diplomatic intercourse be property loss estimated at $225,000. WEARING OUT THE BOERS. and outfit will immediately begin fill Marauding has increased between The execution took place in side tween Mexico and her sister republics consumed over a dozen buildings and Pekin and Tien Tsin. a stockade built for the occasion. ing in the Rice Hill railway trestles on the southern continent, as there rendered a score of families homeless. with earth. The switch will be ex The flames were discovered in the Lord Kitchener Reports on Capture of Smal Turbulent province of South Cama- The inclosure was crowded, 150 spec tended, a water tank built, and other | was little commerce between them, Fore*. tator* having been admitted. basement of a four story department rines, Luzon, is nearly pacified. and few political questions requiring improvements made near Isadora and When Ketchum mounted the plat store and in a very short time the diplomatic representations. Recent London, May 1.—Lord Kitchenei Cardinal Rampolla has resigned the form at 1:17 his face was very pale, Rise Hill. ly, however, Argentina has made a entire building was burning furiously. continues the process of wearing down office of papal secretary of state. but his eye swept out over the crowd friendly move by accrediting a min It was in ruins within 30 minutes. the Boers, who, however, are very PORTLAND MARKETS. Negotiations for the renewal1 of the very coldly and boldly, as if he had ister both to Washington and Mexico A panic ensued among the custom active in the Kroonstadt district. Driebund will be opened shortly. Wheat—Walla Walla, 59060c. ; City, and Uruguay has taken similar ers and employes, which resulted in no fear. A priest stocsl at his side, Here they recently derailed two trains Albians are said to be committing as the rope was put around his neck. valley, nominal; bluestem, 61c. per action. The selection of Mexico City what started at first a report that and also captured, after a severe fight, bushel. The condemned man had consented eight persons had perished. This wholesale atrocities in old Servia. as the place for holding the congress Flour—Best grades. $2.7003.40 per of American republics has had a fur was happily found to be untrue after 25 men of the Prince of Wales Light this nt the last moment. Ottomans ask help of French to to Ketchum horse, whom they stripped of their declined to make a speech barrel; graham, $2.60. ther influence in inducing Mexico to the fire had been controlled. rescue ex-sultan from living grave. horses and accoutrements and then Oats — White, $1.35 per cental; extend her relations with South and before the noose was put around his A shower of the burning timbers liberated. Li Hung Chang compliments neck. He merely muttered “Good gray, $1.25 01.30 per cental. were thrown from the burning build Central America. Colonel Plumer’s force captured a American stand on indemnity ques by,” then said, “Please dig my grave Barley—Feed, $17017.25; brewing, ing, carrying destruction in all direc small laager of 45 men, including the tion. very deep,” and finally, “all right, $17017.25 per ton. tions, and several other stores and a notorious Transvaal State Engineer THE NEW COMET. Millstuffs—Bran, $16 per ton ; midd number of dwellings were swept by Munick, who planned the destruction Dissolution of Alaska transporta hurry up.” His legs trembled, but ling*, $21.50; shorts, $17.50; chop, the flames. The losses are pretty of the Johannesburg mines in the tion combine has caused a big cut in he kept his nerve. When the body dropped through $16. well covered by insurance. rates. spring of last year, and also his Hay—Timothy, $12.50014; clover, Brightest That Ha* Appeared to View for Over the trap the half inch rope severed father. James Callahan was acquitted of the Nineteen Year*. $709.50; Oregon wild hay, $607 head as cleanly as if a knife had • Bank Officiali Arrested. complicity in the Cudahy kidnap cut it. Mr. Cummings, who is visiting The laxly pitched forward per ton. Elkhorn, Wis., April 30.—The new ping. Seattle, May 1.— Frank Oleson, Durban on behalf of the Canadian Hops—12014c. jM'r lb. ; 1899 crop, with blood spurting from the headless ' comet which was observed this morn cashier, and J. S. Stangroom, book- government, is favorably impressed Repairs to cost $5.(MM) have been trunk. The head remained with the 607c. the defunct Scandinavian- with the possibilities of trade be recommended for the Astoria Federal black cap and flew down into the pit. Wool — Valley, 12013c.; Eastern ing at the Yerkes observatory, at Wil-¡deeper, building. Oregon, 9012c; mohair, 20021c. liams bay, is said by astronomers to ¡American bank of New Whatcom, are tween Canada and Natal. per |a>und. be the brightest that has appeared under arrest on warrants charging Enthusiastic meetings were held all Pueblo Teacher Disappears. Robberies On the Panama Road. Butter — Fancy creamery, 150 for 19 years. Notice was received them with receiving deposits after over the country in honor of Grant'a birthday. Pueblo, Col., April 29.—A local 17 'se. ; dairy. 12 's014c. ; store, 100 yesterday by telcgrajih from Harvard the failure of that institution. Ole Colon, Colombia, April 30.—Bands 1 lc. per ]>ound. university that a comet had been dis son was arrested here and Stangroom of robbers have for the past fortnight Henry Meldrum, of Oregon City, sensation is caused by the mysterious Stangroom is now been raiding stations along the rail Eggs — Oregon ranch, 14014 l s c. covered at Queenstown April 23, and at Whatcom. has lieen appointed surveyor general disappearance of Mrs. Mertie Buerger, per dozen. observed at Cajre of Good Hope on exchange teller of a Seattle bank, and road line during the night time and who for 12 years has been a teacher in of Oregon. Poultry—Chickens, mixed, $3.50; the morning of April 25. Its position lives here. Oleson was formerly sec have also been looting shops, wound the Pueblo schools. Bloodhounds Von Waldersee reports four engage followed a trail from Mrs. Buerger's hens, $404.50; dressed, 11012c. per at that time was about 16 degrees retary of the board of public works ing several persons during their dep ments, in which the Chinese were house to and under a bridge over pound: springs, $305 |ier dozen; southwest of the sun. Its position here, and a prominent politician redations. Chinese have been the He savs the principal sufferers. The government badly defeated. Fountain creek, a shallow stream. ducks. $506; geese, $607; turkeys, this morning was some 15 degrees and newspaper man. James Douglas Reid, ex-United The Arkansas river, some distance live, 10012c; dressed, 13015c. |>er north of the sun, indicating a very arrests are the result of a mistake, has increased the force at the railroad and that the receiver of the bank has stations and is doing its utmost to Rtates consul and "father of the tel- further on, has Is'en draggid, witlqjut pound. rapid northeasterly movement. acted hastily. Cheese — Full cream, twins. 130 egraph, ” is dead. suppress the robberies. Nothing could be seen of the celes result. 13 4<*. ; Young America, 13 ' s 014c. tial visitor last evening at sunset, but Hon. J. C. Trullinger, ex-Oregon Counterfeiters et Butte. per pound. Not Credited at Washington. this morning Professor E. R. Frost, Nebraska Prairie On Firs. legislator and prominent citizen of Potatoes — Old. 75c.0$l per sack; assisted by F. R Sulliavn, saw the Butte, Mont., May 1.—Two of what Astoria, is dead. Valentine. Neb., April 26.—Word Washington, May 1.—The depart new. 2024c. jaw pound. new comet appear above the horizon. is supposed to lie a big gang of counter ment of agriculture has receievd no, General Ketterlee rejxirts that the received from the southwestern part of Mutton — Lamb* 4\c. per About 20 minutes before sunrise it feiters were arrested here today and information beairng on the report this (Cherry) county is to the effect Chinese only left Kukuan when they that disastrous prairie tires are raging pound gross; best sheep. $8; wethers. could be plainly seen, although the identified by several people on whom : that has been circulated in England were forced to do so. dressed, 7c. sky was quite bright. It was of an they had passed bogus $10 gold ¡-harging Boer emissaries with inocu there; that the buildings of one cat $5; ewes, $4.50; Women members of Washington tle ranch have been entirely w iped out j*er pound. orange color, with two prominent pieces. They got rid of quite a num lating horses shipjied to South Africa Pan-American commission came out and that other ranches are threatened. Hogs — Gross, heavy. $5.7506; kits or streamers. It remained vis ber. William Dougherty, one of with glanders and other maladies. ahead in legal contest for expnese Details are very meager, and it is im light, $4 7505; dressed, 707 4c. per ible until 15 minutes or more after them, has lived here for years, and is Secretary Wilson places no credence money. sunrise, when it faded away in the supposed to have only been connected in the story. Hr says, however, that possible to learn the name of the pound. Veal—Large. 607 4c. per pound; growing light. It was too low in the with the gang a short time. John it is possible that it might have been Americans surprised a Filipino ranch which has suffered the losa of its sky to be observed by the 40 inch Mulligan, the other, has been here camp. One reliel major was killed buildings, which is alsmt 60 miles smal), 8 4<‘ per pound. probably by hostlers or other Beef—Gross, top steers, $50 5.25; telescopic, and the sky was so bright a much shorter time, and was a fare done, and several staff officers captunil. from here. The report says that the attendants aboard ship. There has The Americans lost two men in the tires startl'd about 4 o'clock in the cows ami heifers. $4 500 4.75; dressed that nothing could be seen with the dealer until the law caused the games I been no examination of the horse beef, 84c. prr pound 12 inch instrument. to close. engagement. s^^iments by the department. afternoon. Prait* for German*. Ths Gevsmmsat Will Refund. Forty-eight thousand Turks have Payment of Postal Order*. Dldoysl Utterance* Supprtixd. l.ake Niagara la the largest fresh been exiled during the last 11 years. Washington, April 30.— Commis water lake between Lake Michigan Berlin. May 1.—The latest Chinese 1 Washington, April 30. —The con Bloemfontein, Orange River Col and Lake Titicaca. In Peru. Wolves arc increasing rapidly in sioner of Internal Revenue Yerkes, specials to arrive here show that the troller of the treasury has decided ony. April 29—The provost marshal, Minnesota farm lands have ad presiding over a court of summary many of the forest lands of northern in pursuant of the action of the German troops behaved with the that postal money orders are payable United States supreme court in de greatest gallantry during the engage only by postmaaters upon whom they vanced more than 100 per cent In jurisdiction, has announced his inten Canada. value during the past seven years. tion of suppressing disloyal utter A German savant points out that claring the tax of 10 cents on export ments with the forces under General ! are drawn and to whom notice of the bills of lading unconstutional, has Liu, storming the stronghold of the issue thereof has been sent. It has The carrying and collection of malls ances. He has ordered a British sul>- rural postmen were in existence in informed inquirers that the amounts enemy. The Chinese artillery, al-1 been the practice heretofore to cash In France, It Is officially decided, ject named Mitchell to la' deported to Egypt 4.(MM) years ago. paid for the stamps will be refunded though firing splendid guns made in ( money orders at poetoffice« other than shall be conducted on automobiles. Ceylon for abusing an army order to A company with a capital of $1,- on claims of the value of $2 or over. 1898 at the arsenal in Han Yang, those on which they are drawn and At numerous mines In Htberla. 3.000 the effect that householders shall sus- (MM).(MM) has been organized in Vine- It is estimated that about $800.000 aimed badly. The Germans demol pend a boaftl outside of their doors men and 600 horses are used on a land. N. J., for the making of flour has been collected under this tax ished the fortifications near the gate- I for the postmasters cashing such or single property to produce gold not giving the names of all the occupants from sweet potato«. ders to turn them into the postoflice of the great wall. exceeding $2,000.000 per annum. I since it went into effect, July 1, 1898. department as vouchers. of that particular house. M c M innville . OREGON.