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I ..ISSUED IN.. .SEMI-WEEKLY SECTIONS ..EACH.. TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. oooooooooobooooooooo i i- 1 ii - it I ii i ii ill til r r i i i .r. - i : i: i 'Vjv v i i r r -i r r i vtv - ' " ja - '1 I - - - - ' ' i - i . i , .. , .j, ; . : . '. ' ! ! ! ' ' . . - vuu. u.-iiu. 1. I - - v-t f .,. . - . . , , 1 : ; i i . i , . , , , , : . SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 18l 1900. j ! 1 SECONfr SEOTONEIGHT PAGES Special Values Splendid assortment just in-some of the best values we have evcrljad Crash toweling of every kind. We buy thiSe goods direct from headquarters and can! save you inonev Nniri .11 belt buckles. cliain purses, embroidery lac curtains; ceunterpanes, hosiery, underwear and a general assortment of furnbhing goods and notions. Genu?ne sUrHnc silver bracelets, with lock and key, for $ I. , ng Shoes and Shirts, hats, overalls, work; pants, dress pants, collars, lies and any thing you want for men's wear. y THE NEW YORK RACKET , There's where you get you money's worth ' i :" ' ; '- ! ! " : ; Salem's Cheapest One Price Cash Store LeLdies ON TUB LIGHT Blue Smtlm. Plat Sntlm, Red Kid amd White Kid, ( L " - J. - I J Special $1.50 fy SHOE STORE 94 STATE FOR A DORMITORY. Superin tendent T. W. Potter pf the Salt in In dian Training School at Chemawa, was in the city yesterday; f Mr. Potter is considerably elated over the receipt of news assuring him i that 4he proposed new brick dormitory s1or girl at the SaV-m institution was new aur-d. II recently received a letter frotn United Sute Senator GeoJ'W. McBride. say injt that "his amendment appropriating $jo.ono kr a new ritIs brick 'dormitory had heen agreed Xa by the conferrecs anil is now safe." Congressman Toti jiin; has also been working faithfully in "In-half of this -measure and was partly .instrumental in bringing about its fav orable consideration by the Jonferrces. i TljfK SHERIFF; SUED. Bertha Magiiire plaintiff, vs. F. V. Durbin'. defendant, is the title f a -new suit filed in department No, I of the Miate circuit corn-t for Marion county yesterday. The -plaintiff alleges that hc is the owner f. an ice wagon, valued at $125; that the d?frnd.mt on iMarcli 17th. unlaw fully seized the wagon,! and now holds the "same and refuses to deliver the same to the tdaintiff. the rrhtlul owner, bhe, therefore, asks for judgment for the recovery of the wagon, or, if recovery cannm he had. for and for $5 damages, together with the costs of the action. Carson & Adams are attorneys ior the plaintiff. I FOR VANCOUVER Five car hxids if rinnnn nassed through Salem on. the northbound freight yesterday af ternoon. They were; en route from the IrcsKho to Vancouver Uarracks. This 1$ the 42d Anniversary of the Use of Steam fire i! s 1 i nan Tbis U L our special sale if' ladies taikir made suits is still in proKTess. SUIT SALE - .- - I ' ' : ' ' i j " " ' ' J " Special Values...!.!.. ... .U -7S Special Values...'. $t8.oo Value?...:. .$.J3 $12.50 Values.....!..- ..... ....S-o-oS Values.....' ... 4-90 $7.50 Values.....! ... .$-2l-85 O $jooo Values ;....$.5 - Also some very special bargains in in Table Lineiis Clothing VWWWWWi Poarty Slippers I FANTASTIC TOE STREET ROBBERS OUTWITTED, Were Unable to Rob a Through Ex press in Texas. St. Louis, Mo.; .May 17. A special to the Post Dispatch, from Longview, Texas, says: 'About midnight, while! a through passenger train on the Texas & Pacific was talcing water -at Glad creek, near here, an attempt was made to rob the train. Fireman Dobhs was covered with a pistol in the hands of a man who ordered i him to get off the engine. Engineer Jacquish opened wide the throttle and.drsppcd to the floor. Neither of the robbers was able to catch up with the train. NO END IN SIGHT. St. Louis. Mo.. -May 17. The culmin ation of the prolonged struggle be tween the St. Louis Transit Company and its army of employe, is not yet in sight, notwithstanding the conferences held during the past week. FOR OREGON ROADS. Gov. T. T. Gcer yesterday received a letter from iR. S. Person. Acting Auditor for the Interior Department, at Washington, D. C, regarding the 5 per cent of the net proceeds arising from the sale of public lands within the state of Oregon, during the fiscal year, July 1. l0 to July 1. 1899. The amount thus found due the state is $4404 06, which -will be received in a few days? This money will be apportioned, among the several counties in the state, according to acre age, to be used in road building. s ;0lAlBl.S, CO EARLY. 50c Belts r nr entire line of dog tollar belts in white and btack at the above price. Some are worth 75 to $15- French flannels a very new line just received. ; ; Wool Challies for waists and suits just in. ( Silk foulards for waists and suit select patterns! in any length desy-ed. Mercerized foulards ln,iutin2 thi cbovc, looks as' well and wears as well. HELP IS NEAR Mafeklng Relief Expected to Send Good News Soon. LORD KITCHENER IS IN COMMAND Bo?r Stormers, on Saturday, Fell Into ft Trap and Krorer's brand sob Hade a Prisoner. " LONDON, May ill-England still waits with intense and almost breathy ki interest for the news of the relief of Maftking. A crowd, remarkable for the number of men in evening dress, ami including many ladies, lin gered around the war office even after midnight, hoping for some announce ment. Only reluctantly did the peo ple disperse-when the lobbies of the war ofhec were finally cleared, with the word that nothing had been received. One thing seems clear, the town still holds out. Were it otherwise, the Boers" wire, laid to the camp of ths bcleaguerers, would have Hashed the news. Skeleton messages from Lourenzo Marques, baed on information that leaked out at Pretoria war office, show that the Boer stormers on Saturday fell into a trap. Colonel Baden-Powell ermittcd them to seize one fort, and he then surrounded and overbore them before the large forces near at hand peiceived the strategy. It was tbn that Sarel Eloff, President Kruger's grandson, and a part of his commando were taken. and fifty Boers killed. The Canadian artillery contingent of the Rhodesian force is now" 'reported to have reached Buluwayo, on May ad. The distance from Buluwayo to Mafe-, king is 490 miles. As the railway is open all the way to Pitsany. twenty eight miles from Mafeking, where Col. Plumer is. the Canadians may yet take part in the relief. " It is unofficially asserted that Lord Kitchener is in command of the Mafe king column, and that the news of the relief cannot 'be expected until '-'Monday. General French, scouting northward, found the Boers in strong force at Rhcnostcrspruit. thirty miles front Kroonstadt. Generals Botha. Delarey and Olivier, with artillery, were hold ing the position. N ' President Stcyn. according to one dispatch, has gone to Pretoria. An other says he is a fugitive at Lindlcy. The Free Staters arc surrendering on all sides. A dispatch from Cape Town says that proclamations arc being print ed there to be published on the Queen's birthday; May 24th. annexing the Free State. One of President Steyn's brothers, who is a prisoner of General Brabant, says that the Free 'Staters will accept annexation. Those who took up arms the second time, he explains, hadlo do so under threats of instant death if ihey refused. - General Buller is pushing straight ahead without opposition. Apparent ly he is aiming at Laing's Nek, which is the direct road to Transvaal. MANY FOR NOME. Vessels Loaded with Passengers and iFreight, Sail Northward. , Seattle. Wash.: May 17: The steam er South Portland the schooners Spo kane. Falcon and Anna M. Camptcll. and the barge Skookum. sailed for Cape Nome today. Onlyvone. the South Portland, carried passengers. The Skookum . after innumerable delays. Enojnes In Baltimore. $1 Shirts a swell line of fancy shirts formerly sold at $1.25 and $.1.50 good styles and fast colors. See them. Summer Hats The most correct styles in. crushers, straws and linens at the very lowest prices. Underwear 'Silk fin ish balbriggan New silk balbriggan Mercerized cotton Linen Mesh ' Linncttes etc. for summer wear. was towed to. sa tonight by the tug Richard Holyoke. ; Shc has by far the most valuable cargo? cf the; lot. It consUlu of 1.250.DOO feet of lumber, 300 Horses,' mules and cattle. 250 sheep 125 hogs and about aooo tons ofimachinerjr and : general merchandise. j . OFFICIALLY WELCOMED. . '-' '' - 1 '; . -i . I v jf - New ! York. May 17. Th principal event in connection with the fisit. to this city, of the Boer delegates; occur red today when-theyl were received at the city hall by the mayor, and, in ac cordance with the resolution: passed by the municipal assembly, officially wel comed to the chjr.';. ' A GOLDEN FONT, j - i ' r -: ! ; Indon. May 17. The son? of the Duke aid Duchess of York was chris tened iiK the private chapel of Windsor Castle today in; the presence oj Queen Victoria, Water, brought from the river Jordan, and contained; ini a gold ion I, was used in the ceremony. FARES REDUCED, j . Spokane. Wash.. May 17, 0n and alter Juty tst next, passenger larrf in thi state will be reduced to j rents per mik on the Great Northern road. A LOW RATE.; Washington. May 17. All railroads have agreed to a rate nf one fare for the round trip for the National Republi can Contention at Philadelphia. RIVERS AND HARBORS. Washington. May t7. The IIou ttday passed the special ri-er and har bor bill .carrj'iJ-ST $400,000 for surveys ami emergency work. ; CONSPIRED TO DEFRAUD. . Havana. May 17. The principal charge against the Havana postmaster, E. P. Tkimpson. who, wjth W. H. Reeves deputy auditor oi the island, and Edward Moya and Jorge Mascaro, Cuban clerks in the stamp department, was arrested yesterday, will be :that he entered into a conspiracy with Cofydon Rict, a clerk who has. confessed to the knowledge of many of the transactions and will give evidence for the "govern ment to shiefd G. F. W. Ncely. the ar rested financial agent of posts. " The prosecution says Thompson 'received, vouchers and ordered that changes, be made in books and accounts with the manifest intention of shielding Ncely. i I THE PRESBYTERIANS MEET. REV. C. 'A. DICKEY IS ELECTED MODERATOR.! Of the General Assembly ihSt. 'Louis: The Temperance Conimittcc Makes Its Report. ST. LOUIS. Mo.. May 17 The Presbyterian General Assembly today elected Rev. Cha. ; A. Dickey.; D. D.. moderator, to succeed Rev.. Robert F. Sample. D. D., LL. D- Rev. Dickey is president of the Presbyterian hos pital. The other candidates for mod erator were Rev. D. W. :Fisher and Rev. Wm. McKiblcii, of Cincinnati. , In the General Assembly of the Pres byterian church toty, the report of the permanent committee on temperance contained the following: "We are not discouraged, but we confess that we,.are perplexed and sad dened regarding the ajathy of a large portion of our church. We seem to have reached ta crisis ini this work. The Presbyterian jtempcratice j host is at Kadcsh Barnea. Must it turn back for many years of wilderness 'wander ings, or will the General Assembly command the people" that ihey go for ward?'' r THE HOY WITH THE SPADE Ko weight of ages bows him down. " That barefoot boy with fingers brown. There's nothing empty in his face.. No burden of the human; race Are on his back, nor is he dead To joy or sorrow, hope of dread. For he "can grieve, and he; cari hope, . Can shrink with all his soul from soap. No brother to the ox is he. He's second coiin to the; mce; fie Iposens and lets down his jaw rtd brings it up bis gum to "chaw." There's naught but sweat upon his brow, . ; Tis slanted somewhat forward now. His eyesxare bright, with eager light. He's working With an appetite Ah. no! That boy not afraid T(j wielJ withal! bis strength bis spade! Nor has he any spite at fate i He's diggiug angleworms forbalt. 1 Chicago Tribune. SENSITIVE, i "You move every spring, doii't you?" "Yes.. When I've impoverished mjf' self buying coal all: winter can't stand it trw eta v ant r that hotise Bret red hot in summer for nothiag--Chicago Kecorc. ii ; ' r '.: N - THE DIFFERENCE. "Filthy lucre doesn't mean ' goIL: 1 means bank bills aHer tney nave ocen m circuiation tor a aozeu ycia. jvw erviiic Journal j i- ! -. :: - FROM DOUGLAS. Sheriff R. L. Stephens, of Douglas county, yesterday afternoon brought .to the insane isyhim from Roseburir. Jas. E. Wharton, aged 2t years. .Wharton had been studying mental science when he became violent ly insane. Sheriff Stephens returned to Roseburg on the California express last night. -; ' ; t -.' .. I . CtnT FV,YF.RS Sheriff AV. SV. Gage, of Coos county, was a Salem vis itor yesterday, having come here to bring Percy i Allen, convicted of the crime of rape, to the penitentiary. "Al len was sentenced to serve fifteen years at bard Jatwr. ? RECORD Made by Republicans of Montana in State Convention. PARTY TRAITORS TURNED DOWN Clark's Supporter Denonue?d and Democrats and Their Corrupt Tract lees Scored. ;: BUTTE? Mont , May 17. Tlie state Republican convention met here this morning. The morning 'session was very brief and harmony prevailed.''-' When the convention re-asscmblcd this afternooiti and the list of delegates was reported from .the committee on credentails. ex-Uniteda States; Senator Saiukrs moved as anlamcndmcnt to strike cut the name T State? Senator Ben. D. Phillips, of Chateau county, as a delegate from Teton county. Phillips had voted for W. A. Clark, km Senator. The motion to strike Phillips from the list was adopted amid a chorus of ayes, and a number of noes. Z. T (Burton, of Teton, was made permanent chair man. The platform commends the ad ministration of M'Kinley, nd calls for the re-election of Senator Carter; it de nounces trusts, and on local affairs says: " "We denounce the present Democrat ic state government, both in the execu tive and legislative department?, as in competent and unworthy of the c.ori.i demre of the people. They have by their administration of the affairs of the state brought disgrace to Montana, ruined the good reputation of some of its citi 7i ns. defied our laws and made bribery and corruption synonymous with demo cracy, i "We heartily commend the action of those Republicans who stood; by their party in the' election of a United States Senator in the last Legislature. "We also denounce in unmeasured terms, the betrayal of Republican prin ciples by 'the eleven Republicans who voted for and assisted in the-election, at the last Legislative Assembly, of a Democrat in the person of W..A. Clark to the United States Senate, i "We denounce the statement recently trade in the United States Senate, that So per cent of the people of Montana favor a Democratic United States Sen ator, nr matter who he may be. and as sert that the people of Montana, if given an opportunity, will send as our representatives, two Republican Sena tors." Thomas II. Carter. United States Senator, was elected a delegate and chairman of the delegation to the Na tional Convention. -The other ?five dele gates are: C. W, Goodale. Henry Dion, David E. Folsom, Tyler B. Wordcn and John F. Forbis. The alternates elected were: W. F. Sanders. J. R. McKay. Wyllis A. Hedges, f William Lindsay. M. L. Davidson and J. F Hendricks McKay, Hedjtes and Lindsay were members j of the Legislature; , and refused . to vote for Clark with the other Re publicans. iEx-Justice W. H. Dcwitt was elected state chairman. IN KENTUCKY. ' Louisville Ky., 'May 17. The state Republican convention met here this afternoon, and elected four delegates to the National Convention, four alter nates, and two Presidential electors, and instructed them to votel for Mc Kinley for President, and W. O. Brad ley, of Kentucky, for Vice President. The convention, elected Governor Taylor and ex-Governor Bradley, del egates to the Philadelphia convention by acclamation. Gov. Taylor's pres ence was the occasion for tremendous applause. -j." A HORRIBLE BUTCHERY. Colon. Colombia, May 17. News has been received of a victory by the Gov ernment trvp.j over the insurgents, in a battle in Vetas district, which began May nth, and lasted seventy hours Generals Leal and Ilerrera were among the killed, who are said to have been very numerous.! the slaughter being de- scirbed as a horrible butchery. POSTOFFIOE BILL. Senate Again Discusses the Pneumatic Tube Service. WashingtonMay 1 7. Th e 00 s 1 offi c e appropriation bill was considered in the Senate today. The committee amendment for the extension of x the pneumatic tube service created some debate, and was under discussion when the measure was laid aside for the day. Wolcott. chairman of the committee on nostofhecs and nost-roads, vigorously attacked the committee s proposition to appropiate $750,000 for : the: pneu matic tube service, declaring the ex tension of the service wa unnecessary. and the appropriation a - waste of money. ' SMOKE ON A LONG 'ROUND TRIP. urine the volcanic emotion in the Hawaiian islands last summer the smoke rose to a height of between five and si mile and then drifted away to the northeast. At a distance, of 600 miles frohi Hawaii it settled upon the surface of the sea and was then carried back by the ijorthcast wind to Its place of ortsm, where it arrived a fortnight after its original departure and covered the entire groapv of islands with its heavy pall. MR- MA X I M K NOCK ED O FF HIS 41 AMD. "I read with more than ordinary in terest your recent intervictvxwith llud son Maxim, the inventor of -smokeless powder' remarked a New York mer-, chant, j, according to the New York Commercial. "One reason why it was interesting to me was because of an nniKiul ineidpn ,-hi"h wi -h means of my becoming acquainted with Mr. Maxim.: i - "The i inventor, you know, has but one harid'rthe -other having been b'owii off wh'ili he wa exnenmrntincr with some high explosive, The first time I ever saw Mr. Maxim was one. night on an elevated railroad train. He waj; a stranger to me at that time, and my attention was attracted to him by the actions .!of a half-drunken.' burly ruf fian, who sat r in the t cross scat oppo site -and:, persisted in annoying hint m one way and another, 'A "quiet protest rom the stranger brought a torrent of vile language from the ruflian, ac companied by a hostile demonstration liead. lhe stranger paid as little at--lent ion to the outrage as' Hsiblc and kept on reading his newspaper: I rw- iicca inn me stranger nau.an artm- ciai icii nana, wnicn was gioveu aiui looked Very much like the other one. When he got up to leave the car at his station the ruffian leered at him. and getting up from, his seat followed him out? It wa n't niy station, but feeling -almost certain that the strang er would need some protection, I fol- oweu itheni out of the. car. The stranger went down the taf$ firnt, the fufiian a few steps behind him. grumb- mg allvtlic way; and I next. hen the straugef reached the bottom of the stairs he stepju'd out to the middle of the sidewalk, apparently making room for theiruffian to ta him. -Instead of accepting the opportunity to go his way. he? made directly for the stranger. who sent out a good right-hander, which caught the scoundrel on the point of the jaw and knocked him clean acros the curb and lauded linn all. in a heap in the gutter, where he ay .quivering hkc a beef hit with an axe. A grewsomc part of . the mid- tiigut incident was that as the stranger anded his knockout blow litnartifieial liand became detached and. fell --to-., the pavement with a clatter. 1 -confess that 1 was 4 little startled at this, and be fore I 'could recover 'myself he had picked up his artificial hand, put it un der his'arm and walkcl off. V'-AI though he hadf demonstrated his ability to take c.re of .himself, up . to that . time, cid not know hut he would need tuc as a witness latere and overtaking him, gave him my card. He gave me his in return.: and not till I got home and. ooked iat the card did I know that he stranger who had so handsomely protected himself against a ruflian was Iudsori 'Maxim. "Since then we have liecome very good friends and have of ten wrindered what sort of an account of the" affair the police got from ' t lie man wc left at the foot of the stairi.. M ADE HAPPY M ATCH AGBECABLR TKUMINATIOX OP A YEAR'S COKHKSrUNDENCE. Mr. Annie L. Shlnabery, of Virtrinla, atid than. Cooper, of VctVy, Harried Yesterday. THc marriage in this city yesterday afternoon of Mrs.- Ami ic L. Shinalicry, of Hot Springs, Viminra. to Cli is. Cooper, of iMcCoy, Polk county, was the Iwiiipy consummation of a year's faithful coTresiMUidence that originated throtijr'l a marriage bureau. : The elated husband is a native m New York state, having been lrn aul rais ed in Otsego county. Alter having traveled pretty extensively over the country he finally landed -in- the coatt country he finally landed on the coast country. In July he came to the Willamette valley and liegan to n'k for H. Alexander,, a wealthy bachelor, residing near McCoy, and for 'whom tic has been working continuously wiue. His I em nlover t'Kik great : tdeasure in ttasitig CtKrjier about the girls and al- visng lurn to get married and (bring a cook "out on the farm." .Finally-Coop- er concluded to follow tlve advice of his employer and about a year .ago began a correspondence through a marriage bureau with the woman to whom oc was .married yesterday. The corrc&pon dence. was continu! fr a year when the-touple concluded to become mar ried.: Accordingly on April nth, Coop er stltt his prospective wife a ticket and the necessary amount uf money to bring her to Salem. - . .- Mrs.; Shirwbefy arrived in Salem on the ovcrlaiul train iWednc.sday morning anl she immediately went to the 'Hotel Sa lem. A telephone message brouiiht Cooper to the city Wednesday afternoon anil, neither ocwg disapjwnntcd in the other, it was decided to perpetuate the match and accordingly arran irit ius were made for the marriage. 1 lie cere mony was performed in the parlors of the dlotcl Salem at 2 oclock ycter(kiy afternoon. Rev. Joint Parsrms. of the First Methodist church, was the ofli ciatin? clergyman, and the ceremony was witnessed by a number of persons at the hotel. , - Coojier is .1.1 year of age and a hard working, industrious and intelligent farmer and his Jrarnk and honorable ap pearance is assurance that 'her will pro vide a pleasant and ' comfortable lrotne for his better half. Mrs. Cooper is of German parentage and is only 23 years of age. She has the appearance of be ing an honest, hard-working woman and will doubtless make a willing and suitable helpmate to her industrious husband. Her parents reside in West Virginia and arc well-to-do. Her firt husband died about: eighteen months ago and she " was accompanied to Ore gon by a little son iged about two years. : ' ' Mr. and 'Mrs, Cooper will this morn ing go to iMeCoy, where they will begin housekeeping with Mr. Alexander,, C1 1 O XT. X .A. . Ifcl lied Yoa H3T8 Hmn Bocl fckirts and waists, f ... .- - - - -.. -