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KLAMATH I VOL. VII. KLAMATII M\jAjÄ|/MAlAlA|AlAtAfAV FALLS, ' lor the first time. He r<«M and angrUy rung tlie twill. I’rmently we went in to dinner. I, of courae, «nt next to him 5 * T on liia right, nml nothwd with «<,me cu < riosity. as lie i urv.ll, thut Id» )i«nda lì MM'ined am-MM-d in very fine lemon- i co|or«d gb.vea: a second look assured BY J. MACLAREN COBBAN. me tliut they »ere merely stuinwl. ilia son's hand» »ere similar, tint of a deeper Ime. For tlie first tiino it «. eiirred to me that mv boat »us th« lord INflittDl'ClTtiN. N"W nml again furnace mouth« o|iened of tl.e (Tiemicul llye Work». "They were your work«, I supp»«, Mv 1« I n» Hl—Gerald t'i»»in «nd gl «, | mi), M fwri. ioua glare, **U«v. Gerald I ’»•In. II A ,** I am gUM of lurid II.ime M. Hteinhardt," I »aid, "that I pa»M»l aalM||y stylnd on the ♦•«• *•" *d onv«d- III. k»red <,|| (I,n ,1,,)^, Mh,| rj,|g„ iMiliind. after entering the village'"* I was alone on my «ide of the table, for. though I have laid laid« i-lrr I looked n great repulalon miim .I |,al .intir.«. for III« |>r«M.|it at Insst, I me I r. • ,<lh d tlm I’rophet'« de-crlp- and had to «|wuk to him, or be silent. "Y«a," »aid lie, rather abruptly. am »till in orders. Now that I «njuy tlon in tl.,- ii |, | Teatament of th« Valley Iniailtv and II'“ «♦”••»«• of ill'"* |»’ity lloi' 1 "r lopliet, In which men Then after a pause, "You cume by that w..rrl<’« »Iii. li |»r«7 "l«‘" III« sul«>nlm- -.or In, i t«, .trungu god«, ami cau«ed road then.?" Ho I re|.ite>l how I h id lost my »ay, at» rl«ri< mor« than tli« lay mind ran tludr «"ii. aii,| daughter, to "pain and how I hud lu-en struck (1 did not (•..n.rlvw, 1 wl niywll 1« writ« mil tl.e la Moloch.” Thia, .tram» narrative of event and rip. ri- • 'ireii, waa ot, of the Topheta of m<al- suy, "disagreeably") with the iinpres- erne »huh. in the Providence of Gist, •.rit day«, i i which 11>« «on. and daugh sion of ferm ions energy my first view ha«« worked »m l> • change in my con ter. . f | ng|U|„| arn nmd" (o |,n«a of tl.e valley gave me. " 'Ferocloua energy,' " he refuelled, dition. I promised myself ami my ■ i tha Moi.-ii of friends ■'"•• »•»•»III« •«" »•»•* I wo 'll.I kt ■ • I Hi and tb« Baal of all-devouring with a »mil«, looking at me a« if he ilk«—I tlie phrase, and thought tl.e let do tin», Imt until now I could not bind Imiu.trv ter of me for having uttered it. "It is mil'll to my desk, I bav« had too And -tdl i. I looked and thought of mu. Ii other occupation, desultory, |a r ll.i. th« t. .1 tower <4 the ruined mill a great place for industry, and it will hap», but ngrooable in abort. Ilk» tlie ' ■ I o« ii . |, || h|(|, a loud i lang, ami Ire greater Vet." 1 asked him how it hap|amed tliat a man in the parable. I have married a l' ' ’• "I" ■ into the air to mingle alt,. Y»t that la tl»« very r«aa<>n why »•th tl. other Miunda the frantic large mill waa unuM-d and falling in my friends in town ha«« |w»t»rr.l ma. -<r> mug <,f pi^a ai„| neighing oi ruins. "Tliat is mine," he answered. "It ami now grow clamorous to know all I" " I »aa not aurpri«cd; 1 wa« alarut it rimy Imve h««n g<»»f enough » •m.-h . | r.-p.ired tiy the m cho not to ia unlucky. It was u spinning mill; to remind me that, though it la prover h” «urp> -d nt anything that might once one of the floor« fell through, kill ing many p-ople, ami twice it waa l.ial > l>og)men gel handooni« »ivea, nt li.i| p n tn tliiw atrang« region. 1 it i. .pul» out <>( llm common for so or pi» ■ I. h .»«ver, hurriedly down the burned, all in 10 years—yea, all in 10 years." dinary looking a priest aa m)self to 1« bv « r gh path, ami found the "And Imlay it seetua to have added »in a lady av beautiful and dis- r> a l mt . tho valley and the village. I to ita work of killing." lie Im.km! at |ingulali»l a« (they am pleaard to say) oar ! i" . e. and «aw a dim crowd of me. "You have not heard, |-erliap»," my wife 1»; ami, further, that though I < | ;<• a1«.ut the ruined mill, but tho Il liaa law’ll »l.i«pere<l fl»« Imiklng cler •treat' blink and evil-aniellllig, waa I raid— “What?" ical tutor, ham had th« audanty to as lot«ren and it, ami 1 had perforce I related what I had seen and heard. pire to ladle. i»l very high rank inde«l, to let my <uri...ity wait. I continued "Have you lieard of this?" I.u asktxl, their a.plrationa ha«« usually I»*« lbw vii lage, which, I glancing from one to another. over« lisl med »Hh colUumely, ami, f 'und lay lieliind the niany-«toreyed No; None of them hud heard. la.tly, they are eunaumed with wonder null toward the mouth of th« valley and "I must mvi to it,” ho said, and that I aliould have lighted upon a re- I •« to the high road by which I stirred as if he would set out at onee; fill".I and delicate Frenchwoman in tlie •I uld hare entered it. 1 had, aa it but he aildeal, "after dinner." wild, of lam a.hlr« of all conceivable • !■ b. the iw k door. And after dinner lie retout; »nd 1 pla.-ea l'«rliapa, they add, with a B. I '« I *,ia well into the village I touch of sarcasm which I can com- I ...... I an arrangement of low building« thought ta-tter of him than 1 bad at pla.-rntly emlure, I »aa th« only treat wji. blu'.k walla to the r.otd, from first been <li*p*«-.i to do la-cause of liia uro Ilk" a gentleman al.« had ever Been » ii I. * in « no eound <4 life or work, kindly feeling, though it were only for pigs. Hut my story la all loo terrible ami it. Inati-a I, Hi« vileat ami atrangeat , In the drawing room, however, I »»« ■arloiia to lx introduced with |»-r.iage ii . Ila tl .t ever offeoded the «enae, struck with the altered manner« of the «1.1 from the midat of which roae a family in tlie temporary absence of its CHAPTER I. t ».-ring chimney that amoked con- head. Mr«. Hteinliardt was g"»*ipy About two year« ago I accepted a . ur- vimwlly I lo-ae, I gu.-.’.-d. were part ami kind—even motherly; Frank threw a. y In the village of Tintperlay, »lllnn I tlie I'liemical » >rka of which I had off his »»kwardne»» and sliyiie*», and a few miles <>( a large lancj.hire town heard I found tlie rectory at the delightml me with hi« «kill on the If I had had much choice I would u t llier «n I ■ f tlie village. I did not go piano, »bile Mademoi*elle laicr. ix was ha>e chosen a cure <4 stall« among mill — tl « re. t r waa in l.vl ill —but aaaed very bright and winrome. Yet, u<>w hand, and miner». I would have pre to )«• direct, d to my l.alginga com erring with her and now observing I a l - "ii e t- ,i and then I prepared t 1 I.or (»lieu, for instaiii-e, she rat near (erred to perform my dull«, under a clear «ky, rather than under a caii"|u . ' dinner at tlie liou.e of Mr Fm- Frank at the piano), 1 could not but St.-uil.ardt, on« of tlie creator» remark that a look of mdneaa over- of.inoke, within call of fluid« and «->!• rather than In a I .reel of tall an I |. r la 4 the Tofihet into which I «pread her sweet face— of ra'lne-», and lie wa. rector'« church chimney« and black hem I. of coal pit» hi I "i.o-e.! a« of anxiously waiting for sometliing Hut aim« I • •• disappointed in mi wa-din. and I had corre«|><>nded with or some one—whenever »he ««« left to |..,|« <4 a cur« in a certalu |.lea-ant ill Inin c i 'Thing the curacy, and bad her own thought. This ex|.re-*ion I I. ge of FusscX. I reeolved to go to Tim mail« thi« dinner arrangement a week »»■ableto account for aatisfactonly l«>rley in lancashire Fo «hen one ag. .. I a-kc I my landlady where I very soon. I find I mijw’rley Hall. dark afternoon of February I alighted • I We had l»vn some time in tlie draw- "Ol., ..nd al.e, l.a.king at me witli at the n.-arvet elation <>n a branch rail . ing room alien the door la’ll soundi-d a way, and aek.al a follow pa«aetig«r, who a • ; *1 eye of re»|iect, •'you'll la’ g'" I. ml peal, and at once 1 saw that aub- looki.l like a native, and who waa hurry mg t" Mu«ter St««enlieart'»?'' (ao »he dued expression of patient Waiting on magnate'. name) ing away, whether he omihl dire, t me pr n un.ed tli» M 1.« I at. r ix's face tla-h up into one of b> riin|H-rl«y —when I wa. anewered ' ll< • at th* other «nd o' th' village on eager expw tancy. For a moment she with a curt "Jinn," I waa n<»t dlecon •lil» Hr. »" (»he called it "Brew"), looked at the dmir nitli her pala lac« rerted I received a eomewhat Ullin "«top a bit. mon.** Sb« »ent to the gone paler, and listened w ith quick ear, I r of the room and called, “Dick, till rhe heard tlie voice of the visitor, trlligible direitlon from a .tali' ll por i I ) i mini tak* the par«on up to alien her eager hope collapsed and sank ter, and leaving order, conc-rning my Then turning mt > dee|>er sadness than before. It luggage, I went out into tlie dark ami \! -ter Steenhoart’a." I . me, .1," «ai l, "llv'll tak tin, mon," was a rich, cheery voice 1 lieard come thn dririle to walk to Tluipcrlry I trani|s-d for halt a mile or ao along «ml »itliCrvw. from tlie hall. 1 »«« anmaed , and • lion a minuti’ a well paved r «1, and lh«n (according "1« tli' new parson come?" it asked te> <11 na tion, I thought) I turned down r t»" later alic called from the bottoni of Mime one. a narrow lana ta’tween a hedge ami a ..I the ataira, "That's Jim," said Mrs. Hteinliardt “Art ready, paraon? Th* lad's wait- with a langli—“my brother." w.a.len fence. I trudged some distance through deep mud, now »tumbling up n ing"— This, then, »as tlie gentleman who I | «itiiely laughed to myaelf Mv had come to smoke n pipe. He en- lump» <<n th« firm edge of the cartaav and now plunging Into hole», when th. in M'metit increaaed when 1 aaw niy tenwl—a tall, stout, ruddy Englishman, lane "M'in"l to lose itself ill a fluid I ."¡ide. « I' Ullg Hercule« in clog«, who gone M.mewhat grey. He at once took i ightei'ily have "taken" me to Tim- |H>«.e«»ion <4 tlie nx>m and <4 tlie per- lies ita tad a little and then resolved t. oriel Hull ami farther under Ilia arm. son» in it. His bright ami ample pres* return to th« rtaul. My «yoa were n » I in |<rley Hall I diauovered over- em-e extinguished tlie gaui'y. gorgeous tianl to tha dark, and I |ierceived a ..koi the valley from the aide oppo furniture, and his voice, instinct with f'.'t path aero.» the field inclining back toward th« road. 1 »truck int< site t<> that from which 1 had tirat humor and un m -I'- c •> s ioiisne««. filled thia, thinking it would eave in« »..me new..! it. >"<>n 1 »«a in its drawing tlie void will«tv usually reigned in tliat diatanc«. Hut I »»>n found to nil r, in, »liuking hand» »till Mr. (or room. Vexation that "the shortest way arcosr ||»rr i I n i. aiiuei Steinhurdt, for 1 aaw la tha lolignat way round.” I )»’rse- it , ti e tlmt lie wa« ol pure Teutonic (To b» ronilnuod) trred over the xaldcn gruss. ami some l.r.ed.and 1 hoard, when lie had spoken times eomthing .-law liesidcs grass. and , few words, tliat lie must have »|>ent Divorca In Europa. pn-ently la-gnn to a««nt some» list of ill liia voutli and part of hia manhood Divorce was established in Germany in the Fatherland: lie »poke perfect II. « pleaaanl odors <4 rusticity, ami my , in 1876. From ISK1 to 1885 tlie year- apirita ro»e a degreo or two. I paawd I ugliah, but with an indescribable, j ly numlier of divon’ea waa almut 8,000, a low Ida, k w.aalen building, and tell tale a< cent. I had just time to w hile of late years it exceeds 10,000 m ti.-o bi« burly figure, hia somewhat gueared it waa a cow hone«; I heard In England divorce was established in tha animal, pulling at their chain, and roundel «boulders, and bis massive 1857. During the years 1858 1802 the munching thoir fond, By-and-hy 1 l,a]d bend, when I was introduced to annual numta-r was ntaint 200; in 1804 found myself again on a tolerably g>«*l In« wife, a tall, liandsome, Ijiiicaaliirc almut 550; in 1898 alxmt 050. In road, came u|..n aomn houses of the woman (her ap*< h betrayed her), with Austria, where only non-Catholics can grey I.air, evidently a g.««i deal older auburbiin reml-detachi.l villa descrip apply for a divorce, the numta-r of de tion (at on« of which 1 knocked and tl nil he. then to Miss Louise Imcroix, whom I "ill only say at present tliat mand« for divorce increasisl 25 |ier cent inquired niy war), ami soon, »tumbling in four years, ami in Belgium about 20 ami eplaeliing through exasperating •he |<«>ke<l reflnod and foreign—a rare j |a'r cent in four years. exotic in thi» region of surprises; and, mud and cinder«, camo out upon the edge of tlm valley in which Tlniperlej lastly, to "my son, Frank,” a young Hard on the Cook. mm <4 <’»<• ,,r two-and-twenty, who lay, Ixirii John Town-end, n British gour I Mood anil gazed around me. Such looked in every way and spoke like an a »pcctai Io I had never «ceil ladore. I I iiglisliimin. Tlie“« introductions over, met <4 50 yours ago, would often call to li.tcned Vi and fell tho feveriah mail of we eat down to wait for tlie announce* . tho footman in the middle of dinner: the life of l.iinca.liiro industry. The nient <4 ‘linner. There was very little I "Tell tlie cook to come to me tliis birr ami buia of tlmiiRand. of apindle«, sai.l they reemed constrained, anil I I moment." which occasioned rather an th« awift click and thud of «buttle and wa«. perhaps, «by. No one seemed to awkward pause. Then, on thccntrance loom, and the regular aob and reapira- think of trying to set mo at niy ease. j of tlie poor cook witli very red face from • ion of mighty engine, mingled with Mr. Steinliarilt sat watching Hie clock, the i-ombineil effects of the kitchen tire • ho riiab of wntei and tho plaintive ami at intervals throwing questions and mental confusion, lie would ad.lresa punting of .ome machine »« of an en- ..ver hi" slioiil.ler to hia wife. (One her in n voice of thunder: "Pray have alaved geni of the Arabian Night«. I ,|ue*ti..n I noted was, "Is Jim coming the goodness to taste that dish and tell • oiild not. at tlral apportion the «oiin.l- ut all'."'—which «lie anawered, "Jim me if you do not agree with me that it to the varioti. group, of building« be -aid he might look in after dinner and is beastly." neath me. On my right wa« a many ~moke a pi|»'”—•»’I I wondered who atoried mill, whoa* bright window, Jim wa«- I "“M wishing I had not sc- A Big Hog. (cd thi» invitation for my flrst even »ere reflected in the gla«.y aurface of a Down in Vlado«ta, Ga., recently, a ing in Tiinperley, when the voting ladv l»ind, on the banka of which there hog was killed, whose gross weight was grew, peiiaivn and forlorn, n few «crnl.by ,.dgiMl her chair a little nearer to mo, 1,2B0 pound«; his net weight was 1)55. tr«w»w. On niy Mn aggregation of nml ««id. with tho sweetest of »miles Each ham weighed 102 poitnds. Thia long low building« with gla.a roofa, nml tho most musical of tone«: tut monster produced 501 pounds of "You coma from tlio south — from • hut looked with thoir ahining back« ; lard, or nearly a tierce and a half— like mon«troue, croud.ing dragon» <4 |,ond.>n; J""7” I enough to last a small family atamt Iler accent was that moat delightful «ntediluvian daya. Farther up the val I four years. Besides tho lard, there ley waa another group of building« of all foreign accents—tho accent of an ; was nearly a wagonh ad of snusage from educated Frenchwoman. I answered wrapped in a cloud of «team. Iinme- this one pig, to say nothing atamt dish diuteiy liefore me waa a ruined mill, that I hud come from Ixmdon, though pans full of hogshead cheese, liver pud | was not native thero. Unroofed and gaunt, with ita bell tower "I, also," "»id »lie, "come from the ding ami other products. ••nd Ita tall, cold chimney outlined south; from Ixuidou last, hut from ngninat the »ky ; behind It waa another Right in Thtlr Lint. Paris Iwdore." group of irregular building«. A doton "Those cold Boston girls naturally Here «a« common ground for pleas •all chimney» |Kiuri.l their amoke into enjoy tho Abta’v 'Holy Grail' decora ♦he Itilphuroua air, which waa pervaded ant reminiscence, and we became tions in the public library." friend« at once. by a certain glow—inaullicient to di»- "Why?" While wo were talking I happened '■pule tliedarkneaa, but enough to make " Because a frieze is right in their ♦ho dream which wound down tho val to glance across In Mr. Hteinliardt'a di ley gleam like a black gigantic «nake. rection: lis was looking straight at me liae." ! HERR ST MWIWÎ i è REPUBLICAN. KLA.MATH COUNTY, OKEOON, APRIL ..VENTS OF THE DAY 1<>, HM»2. SOUTH CHINA REBELLION. NO. 1. Statt Imurgtnli Now Number About 60,000 Me»— FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE WORLD A Cemprthtnilve Rtvltw ol th« Important Happening* of the Put Wttk. Preteated in t Condtnud form, Which I* Mott Liktly to Prove ol Inltrttt to Our Meny Rtedssa, Six [Xirsons went burned to death in a fire at Johnstown, Pa. The »enata will vote on the oleomar garine bill in a lew days. _ The Northern Pacific blockade in North Dakota is ta-ing raised. The senate considered the Danish purchase scandal in Ms ret session. Sixty thousand Chinese are in re- Izellion in southern China provinces. The German emperor's American built yacht Metixzr HL has »ailed for Southampton. Ai ling President ta halkburger will meet the Ikair leaders soon and discuss (a-ai-e terms. Republicans mid gained one alderman city election. Democrats each in the Chicago rile tran»|»>rt f -h’-rilan has sailed from San Praneim-o for Manila with 1,2K.'> soldiers ef the Twenty-ninth in- fantry. Fl«»»! stination again becoming serio is T»enty-two men an explosion in a Tennessee coal mine. A six story building in Philadelphia »as entirely destroyed by fire. Ixzss, »110,000. Dr. Thomas Dunn English is alive, but his physicians say he may die at any moment. Many Armed with Modern Rifle*. Victoria, B. C., April 3.—With re gard v> the disturbances «in Kwang Hi, the North China Daily News, copies of which were receive«! by the steamer Empress if Japan toilay, aays: "The central government in Pekin, according to a telegram received by the l<x:»l mandarins, are in a most per- turhed state, owing to the serious news simultaneously received lately from Canton and Kueilin, the capitals of the two Kwang provinces. The high au thorities of the two provinces report tliat the dixbanded soldiers of General Feng Txe Tnairi, nurnlzeririg nearly 4,000 men, have joined the insurgents of Kwang Si, which lias rendere<l the situation in the south very precarious and the crisis a dangerous one. These men were all armed with modern fire arms in 1900, which they refused to give up when dislzanded. The insur gents now number some 60,000 men, and when enough supplies in food have Ixien gathered in by them, we may ex pect Uz iiear some serious news about them." 1 he CliineHe appear to believe that a Mohammedan retiellion in Kansu, h’-adwl by ex-Prince Tuan, is really im minent, a« various rumors of tliat na ture have l>een telegraphed and have created an impression that insurgents are already in the field, but the fact : seems to lie that preparations ab ne are rumored to be on bait. Tung i’uh Shang would tie the general in com mand of the rebels, and by all accounts no movement under his direction is- likely to prove very formidable. Fire partially destroyed a Cincinnati PERRY EXPLAINS TO LONG. theater, but the audience escaped un harmed. Did Not Make Inducrtti Remark* in Chile Pension Commissioner Evans has Credited to Him. been given to understand that his resig Washington, April 3. — Secretary nation wa» desired. Long has received from Captain Perry, High wind at Pittsnurg resulted in commanding the battleship Iona, a re injuries to many |>er»ons in churches ply to the department's inquiry regard and a heavy pro|«rty lists. ing certain indiscreet remarks which James R. Garfield, son of the late were said to have been made by that President Garfield, has accepted the position of civil service commissioner. officer at a Chilean banquet. Captain Perry declares that while in Chile be The house has paaaed the army ap was not at any time present at any din propriation bill. ner or other meal where any toast or Germany will not oppose Russia's speech was made by him or others; nor did he at any time say anything, either policy in the far East. The naval appropriation bill carries in public or in private, that could be construed to mean that he favored »925,000 for the Puget Sound navy either Argentina or Chile in tlie event yard. of war. Captain Perry says he ie also Cecil Rhodes left most of his fortune innocent of making the alleged indis to the promotion of his educational creet remarks of offering to sell the scheme. Iowa, whicli were currently reported in Heavy rains in the South have cause.! Chilean newspapeis. Secretary Long the Mississippi to overflow ita lianas, has replied to Captain Perry, inform ing him that his explanation is perfect flooding many miles of territory. ly satisfactory. Resolutions to investigate an alleged hriliery scandal in connection »ith the Fin» Monument for Rhode*' Grave. sale of the Danish islands were adopted New York, April 3.—Gardner Will bv the house. iams, manager of the De Beers mines, Senator Mitchell has asked the com merce committee to increase the appro- priation for the Columbia river and ita tributaries »1,009,000. The indications are for an early ad journment of congress. Cecil Rhodes, "the uncrowned king of South Africa,” is dead. Mias Ellen M. Stone, the Amoriean missionary, is on her way home. has left Ixmdon for South Africa. He says he will arrive in time to attend the last stage of the funeral of Cecil Rhodes. The grave will lie marked by a fine monument, to 1 m > erected by the dead statesman's personal friends and business colleagues. It is propo-ed that the gun carriage which bore "lxmg Cecil” during the siege of Kim berley, and which will convey the body up the steep side of Matoppo, shall ile stationed on the summit of the hill as part of the memorial. There may lx* some difficulty in the United States getting a coaling station in Cuba. Wirtlt** Telegraphy'* Latut. A passenger train struck a buggy in New York, April 3.—Wireless corn the suburbs of Pueblo, killing ita three munication was maintained on the ocean lietween the Umbria, which has occupants. just arrived here, and the Campania, Another mounted force of 2,000 men outward bound, while tho former's ap is ix’ing raised in Canada for service in paratus was down. While the operator South Africa. nlioard the Umbria was exchanging Two masked men held up an Em- dispatches with the Campania, the poria. Kan., hotel, but were unable to chief officer informed him that the ragged rigging attached to the main break into tlie safe. mast had fallen overborad. The appar The president is receiving dozens of atus continued to work, nevertheless, applications for the governorship of the for some time. Signor Marconi, who Danish West Indies, aliould those is in this city, «as informed of the oc islands lie sold to tlie Unit«! State’s. currence. foshna Wilbour, United State»consul at Dublin, Ireland, died at Rutherford, N. J. Tho poatofflee department has stopped the frauilnlent »chemo of a swindler who advertised a way to open cash registers w itliout keys. Mrs. Catherine Soffel. wife of the Pittbsbnrg warden, has lieen indicted on three counts, charged with aiding the Biddles to escape fiom jail January 30. ITEM8 OF INTERE8T FROM ALL PARTS OF OREGON. Commercial and Financial Happening* ol l.a- portance —A Brief Review of the Growth and Improvement* of the Many lndu*tr>u Throughout Our thriving Commonwealth — Ute*t Market Report. Salem has taken the preliminary stepi to installation of city light plant. The farmers’ co-operative telephone line from Echo to Pin lieton will tie completed about May 1. About half the telephones in Oregon City are out of business as tl.e result of a live electric light wire dropping on them. The receipts of state land office for March were »39,885.44, or the large-t amount received by the present clerk for any one month. A contract for 12,000 pounds of the 1902 hop crop is the top rword in con tracts at Salem. Quite a number are reported at 12 cents. Marion Cunningham, an Oregon pioneer of 1853, and one of the mont prominent citizens of Harrisburg, has passed away, aged 69 years. The Propoied Surrender. Heidelburg, Transvaal, April 2.— Commandant Allsirts has called a meet ing of the Boers in his district to take place 35 miles east of the Spring sta tion, in order to discuss the proposal for a general surrender, it ia said that General Ilans Botha has summoned » similar meeting at Amsterdam. A party of constabulary and native scout* were ambushed near here. Six of tin party were killed. The Boers el ml cl pursuit. Surrender, are occurring daily. Ticket Headed by W. J. Furni*k, sf Pendleton, fee Governoe. Portland, April 3.—The Republic«* state ticket for Oregon carries Hies« names: Governor—W. J. Furnish, Umatilla county. Supreme Judge—R. 8. Bean, Lans county. Secretary of State—F. I. Dunbar, Clatsop county. Ftate Treasurer—C. 8. Moore, Kla math county. Attorney General— A. M. Crawford, Douglas county. State Printer—J. R. Whitney, Linn county. Superintendent of Public Instruction — J. H. Ackerman, Multnomah county. The Republican platform declares fur the following state and national issues: Retention of the Philippines. Arraignment of the trusts. Chinese exclusion. Protection where needed. I-abor's right to organize. Salaries for state officers. Government aid and control of irri gation. Opening of the dalles of the Colum bia river. No leaxe law for government lands. Federal conservation of fisheries. The Grout oleomargarine bill. The initiative and referendum. Extension of the primary law over the state. While no price has yet been fixed by For Rcpreientative, Srcond District. eithei the ftahermen or cannerymen it Portland, April 2.—The Republican ix generally understood that the price will open the same as last y ear—5 cents convention of the Second congressional per pound for the smaller fish and 6 district yesterday named for representa cent» [ier fiound for all over 25 pounds. tive J. N. Williamson, of Crook county. The clam cannery at Skipanon has started up for the season and will be kept in o|ieration until late in the fall, GAME WARDENS TO MEET. packing about 50 cases per day. Indi cations are that the clams on Clati-cp Official* of Eight Statu Likely to Hold a beach are as plentiful as ever before, if not more so. Conference Soon. Helena, Mont., April 3.—There is an Since the outbreak of cholera at exiellent prospect that the game war- Manila there have ta-en 90 canes ami ;o <iens of eight Northwestern states will deaths rejszrtud. hold a meeting early in the summer, The house committee favorably re- ported the hill for 20 (n’r cent Cuban either in the National Park or at some other convenient (dace, and exchange tariff reduction. The plague situation in India is grow views looking to co-operation in trie ing worse. Over 70,000 deaths are re work of protecting the game of the Northwest. The states that are ex ported monthly. pected to lie represented at the meeting Tlx- senate will tako up the Nicara are Montana, Idaho, Washington, Ore gua canal bill as *»>n a- it ha»di-|«zxed gon, Utah, Wyoming, North Dakota of the Chinese exclusion measure. and Minnesota. Fouth Dakota would H ixh I k in the South caused immense lie inclmled, but there ia no game war den in that state. An effort will also damage to property. lie made to have a representative pres The loss in Tennessee by the recent ent from the Northwe-t Territory. tl.sxl ia estimated at »4,000.000. Major John Pitcher, a ting superin Rismevelt declares himself in favor tendent of the Yellowstone National of a more stringent Chinese exclusion Park, is heartily in favor of the meet ing, and lie has written to State Game law. Warden Scott, of Montana, suggesting A general uprising is lx>ing planneil that the meeting lie held in the Na in Macedonia to throw off tlie Turkish tional Park about June 15. yoke. OREGON REPUBLICANS. NEWS OF TH ESTATE For Reprucntative, Fir*t District Roseburg, April 2.—The Republican congressional convention for the First district, held here yesterday, nominated Representative Thomas II. Tongue, of Washington county. G. A. R. ON PEN8ION8. Rogue river valley orchardista have begun a united and determined cam paign against the codling moth. Matter* That Wtrt Complained of ia Its Re Thousands of gallons of poison have port to tha PraaxirnL lieen sprayed upon Southern Oregon Minneapolis, April 2.— Jndge Ell trees with the hope of destroying the much dreaded disease, or at least pre Torrence, commander-in-chief of the venting it from doing so much harm Grand Army of the Republic, just beck this year'as it has in the past. from a conference with the president The supreme lodge of Oreg n, A. O. •>n pension matters, says the re(x>rt of U. W., will meet in Portland June lu tlie G. A. R. pension committee was to 20. * submitted to the president over a week Olivpr Grace, a pioneer of 1843, died ago. At hia request, however, it will at his home at Silverton last week. not ie made public for some time, aa He was born in 1829. the pre ideut has under consideration The Western Union Telegraph Com the selectii n of a successor to Pension pany has eubscribed »1,000 to the Lewis Commissioner Evans. Judge Torrence, di-cuseing the re|X)rt said: and Clark exposition. “The committee fonnd no fault with The Prohibitionists of Portland and the pension laws aa they now exist, but Multnomah county have nominated a rather with the manner in which the city and county ticket. ia»» have lieen con-trued and adminis About 70 teachers from ali parts of tered hv the (>en»ion bureau. A de- ire Clackamas county attended the teach for a change in the office of commit- era’ institute in Oregon City last week «ioner of pensions has been steadily grow ing for two years past, until now The Tillamook County Bank, of Till it is almost universal among the veter am<x>k, has tile«l articles of incorpora ans. Conservative Grand Army mee tion with the secretary of state, Capi iielieve, and with good cause, that great tai, »10,000. injustice has been done to many de- Preparations are being made to in- -ervtng and worthy claimants. AH the crease the water supply of The Ualles. veteran soldier of the union desire« is During the summer months tlie re.-er- that the laws lie justly and fairlv ad- mintatered, and all who are entitled to voirs leach a very low stage. re« eive their benefits shall enjoy them The retail clerks of Baker City are without diminution or unreaaonable trying to secure an agreement among ■ letays. and that every unworthy claim the merchants to close their places ol shall be rejected and every fraudulent business on Sunday. Most of the pensioner stricken from the rolls. merchants are willing to agree to such "The atmosphere of the pension bu a proposition, provided it is generally reau has been such aa to create an im observed. pression that a great many fronds are attempted by the old soldiers, but it ia PORTLAND MARKETS. worthy of note that according to the last report of the commissioner, ont of Wheat—Walla Walla, 64c; bluestem, 159 persona convicted of frauds against 65c; Valley,64@65c. the bureau la-t year but 10 were sol Barley—Feed, ?20(g21.; brewing, dier» of the Civil war, of whom t .o ♦ 21@21.50 per ton. were deserter«. Many convictions were Oats No. 1 white, |1.15@1.22M; for offenses against the old eoldiers, and not by them. The records show gray, $1.10@1.20. Flour—Rest grades, f2.80@3.40 per that only one uld soldier out of 73,000 has been convicted of fraud against the tiarrel; graham, *2.6002.80. Millstuffs—Bran. *18 per ton; mid government. Certainly that is a won dlings, *20; shorts, *20; chop, derfully good showing.” Incidentally Judge Torrence denied »16.50. Hay — Timothy, *12@13; clover, that he was to be made pension com *7.50@8; Oregon wild hay, *5@6 per missioner, or that he was a candidate for that or any other office. ton. Potatoes—Best Burbanks, *1.10@l.25 percental; ordinary, 70080c percen tal; Early Rose, *1.25@150 per cen tal. growers' prices ¡sweets, *2.25@2.50 [>er cental. Butter—Creamery, 22S@25c; dairy, I8@20c; store. 13@15c. Eggs—13@14c for Oregon. Cheese—Hull cream, twins, 13@ 13'vc; Young America, 14@15c; fac tory prices, 1@1 He less. Poultry—Chickens, mixed, *3.50@ 4.50; hens, *4.50@5.50 per dozen, 11@ UH'* l*r pound;springs,11011$fc per pound *304 perdosen; ducks, *5@7 per dozen; turkeys, live, 12@13c, dressed, 14@16c per pound; geese, *6H @7 per dozen. Mutton—Gross, 4c per pound; dress ed, 7@7Hc per pound. Hogs—Gross, 6iic; dressed, 6H@7c per pound. Veal—8@8H for small; 7@7H for large. Beef—Gross, cows, 3Va@4c; steers, 4@4 -jc; dressed, 6H@"'vc per pound. Hops—12013c per pound. Wool—Valley, 13015c; Eastern Ore gon, 8@12.Hc; mohair, 21021Hc per pound. Author of "Baa Bolt" Dead. Newark. N. J., April 2.—Dr. Thomas Dunn English died yesterday. Dr. English, who was a writer of some note, whs widely known as the author of "Ben Bolt." He was born in Philadel phia in 1819, and whs graduateli from the University of Pennsylvania as a doctor of medicine in 1839. Later he studied law and was admitted to the Philadelphia bar. He engaged in jour nalism in New York from 1844 to 1859, when he came to Newark to practice medicine. He served two terms in con gress from New Jersey. To Take Up Purchase of Frier Lands. Sioux Falls, ’. D., April 3.— Right Rev. Thomas O’Gorman, Catholic bish op of South Dakota, baa gone to Wash ington to hold a conference with Pres ident Roosevelt in reference to the pro posed purchase by the United States of lands belli by the friars in the Philip pine islands. During the conference it will lie decided whether Bishop O’Gor man shall proceed direct from Wash ington to Rome to assist in the negotia tions with the pope. Bill Laid Before Senate. A health resort for invalid soldiers of the regular army is to lie established at Washington, April 2.—Lodge, chair Fort Niobrara, in Nebraska. man of the committee on Philippines, today reported to the senate the bill Overland limited trains are to lie temporarily to provide for the adminia- provided with telephone ser ice while tra'ion of thesffairsof tha talanda. He standing in depots at Chicago, Omaha said in submitting the report he hoped and San Francisco. to call up the measure for consideration Tlie owner of a Chicago tenement at an early date. Rawlins, of the >ame has been sued fo- |25,OOO damages by committee, offered an amendment to Mrs. John McGinnis, whose two chil the Philippine g> vo-nnrent bill, in th« dren were killed by sewer gas and her nature of a substitute for it. It repr*. aenta the views of the minority. own health impaired.