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3S A - Ho Figures Against the Great American Figurer, John P. Robertson, of Salem. lie Says John P. Is the Host Consistently IncuBsiitent Calamity Howler on Earth When Joan P. 6oe to Hearen, What Will Oregon City, Octolwr 2t Alitor Statesman: : One of. .the most Interesting sialic.5 in the wliol domain of natural history is John P. Rotertson Thoroughly In--otisistenL he is yet 1 he iost consist ently inconsistent man that erer lived, lie I a natural born twiradox agt-n-la! am! an affable pessimist- Ill mis sion In life Is to j4k flaw ami s to exploit the wMlmtwotj the foibles ami the sins' of his fellows. He in not a grafter. No he Is not '-a ...reformer of the Capital Journal type. On tb contrary he.' in honest, lie Is always ax busy a a ls-e In the war;li lor some defect in a man, or an enterprise or a fwrtr, ami at happy an -a. lark when he finds ft, ami bring hl.n mag nifying glass to lieat upojt it. He is always tunning-'', a,nd snarling at something or someliody. but he seem always t o lie doing it from a mis taken sense of duty. lie In uttcrly oblbioun of hin own faults ami incon sistencies ami does not realize that ite 4 simply a modern .political J (Julxote whnw attack iin the citing order of "things are Just a di verting and no more cfTi'Ctlve than tlie charges of hin '.Illustrious, proto type upon the wind mill. .After., a varied career of over 20 yearn In Marlon county as an office seeker and an ofliee; holderin the latter ca pacity drawing hin salary with the aridity and regularity that in charac teristic of the clans he. lioll.n whii in dignation at the sight of an omee Itolder at Biuger Hermann's nice' hig. and lifts his voices. In hitter lamenta tioiin. With hint iio-m.ui and no par ty In Jailer Jhan another. It Is ; al ways worse. 's-With "hiiii there . I . no excelleiwe. hut . he can always gee defects. With hitii there never will U- any prosis-rily lecaiise his line In ca lamity. He In always foruinst. Show him a handsome woman and he will find a mole as large an a pin head at Hie. inner corner of her -left ear. and shake ; his - headt Show him . a fine f-jsM'imen of physical manhood a tut he will discover a wart a tk hack of hi neck, or Aii ingrowing toe nail iu his JhmH. Tell 1-liu lw in living In a ltealthy community and he Will start Iosr haste for-a hosiitland drag out a man in the last stages of eonnnmp tlon to prove that you are a liar. Tell him that we are having good limes and he will recall that lie ban seen the statinncnt somewhere that-on 4mm loans marfe from the state school funds thre have Imsmi :im forecliis tires: t "losing tils eyc.n to the fact that tW In a small proportion, ami that even It In nothing but the nftermnth of four year of Democratic prosjterlty. he winds up with the nual disserta tion mi the effect of trusts on sugar coal oil and lwrbed wire. Sometime he will die a tel move on up to the -pearly gates and .block the procession that Is moving In. explaining to St, Peter t hs t ; ffie-only ren.non- M r. ; Hash would mt tart-a national bank was l-ecanse-ln wm li liom-nt. V Then he will move lUn Avorks on to the tr'-s of the tiew Jerunah-m ami make- thej "lives of the angeln a brmhii. abusing tlie Itepnhlicnn imrtyfor refusing 10 ay tho natlonalilel-t in greulstks. leople who k to heaven witli tin Iiom of tindins ttwre" eiMlle-- Tlix ami universal barmony and in-rfectimi will discover their inlnfak when Mr. llol-ertsoit getn tliere with hin grip full of statinih-n and campaign text l-ooks. II Htatinth-n are f 1m cnlta srelui ami adjustable rt that unb't Jdn inanipulatlous always . leave tht Jtepublican i-party lu a hole. To prove that 'tin-Wilson law stimulated j-ort.n more than the MeKinley law. he athln up tlie ndiimn of. exsrts frrtn K-tolMr 1, to Anguxt :JI. 1 W1-4T months under the .JUi-Kiuley law. and then nddn up tlie col -mm of exjM-rt from S-ptemlnr 1. 1S!H. to July "11. 1W7. lwlng ;." months under the Wilson law, ami strike .an. a rer ase. lie takes articular aius. how ever, not to refer to the fact that hi NocmlM-r. 1SJC. there wan elected a Ietuo4-ratie -nsid'.iit. backed ' by a (.ongrej-n I N-imH-ra tie In isth bram-lien, Mvorn to reieal the M.uKlnley law, and tliat for '1 months (of its exist chce .the natural working of tin- law was imo-tlcally nnllitieirlby the cer tainty of" Its re-eal. Hej i1-m .'.takes IMtrttcidar iwtinn -mt to 'refer to the fact that the buslncsa inferentar of tlie cuuntry cgan to revlc at om-c ui on tlw-'Uctioii of McKiidcy lu Novem Ikt. INK', ml that for months i tfore the Wilson law was re-a!ei. Its 111 tffects werenlin-ounted ly the knowI.Hige' that it was certain to ! repeabil. Mr. Koltcrtsou'a treatment of thin questioti cmnen dangerously near to lieiag dishonest. Tliere arc few Intidllgent tuea w!k Orny that tlie people gtnerallyj are imw enjoying such an era of irotcr ity as wan never before known. r the extremely few who mayjliavc mj; itoizht aUmt It a few figures may b srmlttet. Mr. Itryan said, four years ago. that under ihe gold stand aid the n;ivliijrn leiits of tln couhtr.i' wotjld decreas-. AVImt are the act In 1CK the savings bank lejMnits bi the" t'n'ted Slates adraueed to; $2.'ZJt.r 3ut:t-"l. lclag 'nwn than t host of any other-two nations m tlie. fa"-c of ttse ghlM od eiioll t(fenei.l!f of iiij coitiblmnt bjssitn of " Austria, llnu gary. llitvaria. "Itefghnn, . Iemiiark, i'rance. Italy, tlie Netherlands. N.v way. Prussia. Switrerland, the United Kingdom. Australasia, t'anada, f!ap? lony. Indui. Natal, and the Crown )lonie;-.T1ie increase j In the 1-aitk dejositirs of the wuntry iu lstO over was 2.U-0.5IT. Tlie Increane in d;j loMn in tha t time .'was $1.7:";i.riH5.5:ir. Tlie Increase ier capita was over $st). The number of leponitors in l'i was ... l.'i,s;T. In IV-ty the numl-er was T.r-T.llt. Tli deiKvsits lu JSJV wfle J-.S74..V,ta. In 1S0; they wen ?I.Ws.tRMsc,. In the ten years end ing with lNtw there was aae increase in the numlter of the dej-ositors n ih Mii;'i banks of the count rv of -'icr fIW HIKE .4 Happen f '. . . . 1.r..niK On January 1. th Kavingn banks ditosits in Itryau's state' of Nebraska showel an lucreis ror tin? year of $:k4tMM..rroui 1SI to V.ntit lank !isit ituteasf I in Nctrsok-. over U ier cent.; Jn Kau;W nearly ! ier cent and, in North ami South iMkota over 1W per eit. In lictolwr, in tbej-acihe coast state and territories tlie- national bank! deponitn were $35SUK:. tn iunn -2. 1:sl they were $Tr7S,71S. an ineresis of $K,.j1Z.U7:Jl The reiort of ' tbv comptroller showed : that on l)ei-mlK-r 17, 15. there was ilcpos tied in the nathmal Isiaks of Oregon, Washington ami Idaho $172)4,'-Mal, wtiih? on lieccmter 2. there wan ibntosittsl $,T.il371. or more than iwki as much. nMHrts of the United States liu- rcau of Agriculture show an increase in th valuei of Orcaon' horses, muus. tiiwd. catthf and' sheep since lS!s cf f7JWlJt and ti the United States" or JiJ'SMMM't. From lW- to lS!n thw' was an advance in the value of the live stock of the country of jptgi, kio.ih?i, ami in corn, w'teat. Aits, ry-, barley, iHtatis'S. cotton, hay, tolKi-i ami tlaxof i;rj:t,KtMst. These, wit it the! ItK-rean? cf otlMr farm prodm-is. make a total lncrr,ase of over oa billion dollars, which Is just about tlie uerj amomrt of our national dvht. The exnrtn of our agriculteral pro-lucts for.' the v -ern iK9l-'.is-iK cxceln those for lM;r !N; by over .mM"!'- lh spite of the blighting curse of thi gold .-standard -t'cre. is not a sin gly prtJdtTet .of tl '"rni that is mt worth imoiv tialay t- it it was fn !. The purchasing oetr of farm !alKr !h g-rt-a tvt Ilia n ever iH-fore and a givcn. nnantity of farm pnxlnct will bring more than ever In-fore. For the ten leading products of the American farm, wheat, corn, oatn, lard, mens pork. Is-cf. cotton, wool, hay and butter there has been an average iu ereaso in value sim-e isis; of over 1-1 H-r -cnt. In the ten leading arthles of ; farm, consumption not raised by the American farmer, rk-e, . sisal .(of whicli binding twine is made) Itessc uier pig lton7 pVMrofetiiu. tin plate, cof fee, leather, sugary, - tea and cotton doth, tliere has Imk'o an average ad vance of only IU per cent.- . : -'-';IU-.the, Wiilatmnte tallr-x; this..ye ir bops arCiLa deinamt at 15, ?cnts. tom othy hay has bien 'selTlng' at $11 ikt ton. sheep at &J.5n stu-king calves at $H, yearlings at ?1K. two j-ear olds at three yt'iir olds at .TiTst, and cows at rjrom "f-Ht to ?.s. Wheat in selling at h advance of at least' :f per cent; more than It was ou the day1 ISr.va a. wan nominated iu 1S1HJ. Sujcar Hells at less ; than half .what it did :jt years .ago, wlieu Mr. Iloffrt s4 uit voting tlie Republican. ticket, farm nuichinery at Jess- tlian otie lialf, sacks, at, less than half, slicct ings aul drillings.. at barely one-third, silt at. Irnn than f one-third, cotton ticking at one-fourth, ami coal oil at oiir-tifih.iTruly tin? way of the kb-kt r. IJkc tltatiof toe traiisgrenwir, in hard. IJu tho decade from 115 . to ISVi wheat was often !e!ow "ill cents 'n Ci.U aco. Iu -1K5.H ami 1S".! it was lss than .V cents. Today iu Chicago if. ranges at from 7-" to M) ts-nts, in spile of the treiuetidiMis iiK-resse th.it in flooding the markets of the worl-1 frotu Argentina, ami Imlia ami lgypt Sml Itunnia. and the great states of tlie Middle Went. Mr. I.obertson complaiun that the Irtist.n have advanced the price of nails hnd barlKd wire from $: to $-"iiO ami or susar from $T. to f'J.70. T1m fac?n tit that S penny nails are now retail ing in Sah-in at $1 er keg. and hartsfl wire can Ih ioUglit for $l.V4h Sugar ,s lls at fI.r, and It never did nelk as low as $5, except for a few .weeks' when 11m light le-tweeti ,r bukle and IlaveriM'yer wan, at its heigbi, and sugar was at actual cost. Tlie same was the' case a short lhi.; ago with wire ami nails and other manufactured- products wlien times were" hard ami the markets were clotted. The jieriwid of Iemo"ratic prosperity wo cnjoyeil a few yearn ago in a gol starting point for the pessimiir to use lu bin comfntrisous: Vet. taking that as a starting Kint ami allowing for sugaj- wiling only ? 3, which lasted only a 'few weeks," the advance In sngar has Is-eu only :, ismus a lKiitmL T1m. yt-arly averaue l'r caiiita t-ousuuiptiou of sugar in the United State is- CI! iKiumi. The ndvam-e means 'tliat each consumer now lays less than dim; dollar jier 3'er for the sugar he consuiiies moro than he did w hen sugar was at Um lowest tlgaie ever known. Tho ailvam e in the wages of the laboring man in a single week over what he got four years asco will isty the advance. n the Sug!ir;for himself and family for a whole year. The advance In tlie prici of a single slwcp will more than pay the advance on the sugar a farmer and his wife will cat la a whole year. ; Tim advance in the price of a kens of na lis over the prevailing , prii-e iu ihe dajn of hard times ami a glutted market Is ?1 icr keg.; Five kegs will be-ild an average, cottage. That! adds $." to tlie cost of the cottage. Yet to nave the tailoring man that tire ibji lars Mr. ItolMTtsou would send - him back to the .times when nalln were cheap and wages were -low aiij no work half the time. J , ruild wire- now clls for :$l.tiO more than It-did In lHmoeraik- times. At it would cist $1M for wire for a five wire fence-n round a 4t acre farm. At Sl.tai it wouhl cast fTlAM t or wire to fence it. The advance In tho price of a 3-year-oH steer would almost pay th increase in the cost of thed wire. and the jsor vict'tnizeit fanner i inight raise fleers Inside that fence for ii yars wlthont having to go back to the hardware store J for more wire. The incre'as.Ml citst .of the wire for a UUI acre farm Would i be tuel by the advau. e Jn the price of a half doz en head of cattle. This would give you a fence good for 40 years around euo'igta. land, to pasture Hs Iies4l ca'ttk the year rotiml and the nigral ullowauce of wire for a live wire nil fi;i:-e u.2ht ceitaiiily ta.be accepted as -suilU'ieut. -. ' -- . -i-r Tin plate Is anotlMr source of Poru-list- grief, yet it Is now nclliflg Jn the East at $4 ler lox, whk-h is alnut St per cent, less than H ever sidd for prior to the emictment of the JleKiu ler law.Twenty years; ago It sohl at ftiTjer Iox. Under .the Me KJ nicy aud Iingley laws it has not only-sold for less than ever before, bat we are today manufacturing lu the United States more tin plate : than we . :Con smned -ten years ago. ami this Industry now puts at least $-JO.nio.ooo annually into the pockets" of " American work men that foniMTly - went Into the ptM-kets of tlie Welsh, ; , ". The advance on iuv poumis oi uoi i over what was hcin?r Iald four years i ape will boy enonsh of tin ware ; to stock a house, while the advance on; tle valut of the horses, cows, calves; and sheep of the average farmer will; bay htm enough sugar, coffee. . tin ware, tarbed wire and binding twiuo to last him a lifetime. i From every source there comes the satno rtory. )ur circulating medlo-m has thin year reached. f2.KMt".Hi' for the lirst time. Tlie iiK-reas shu-e ls!. has been nearly $iasMJM. In 1S0H our exports for ,be first time ex ceeded those of lireat Kritala. In 10 our total foreign .? buslaess exceitled (2,tKMMiMi,0fMt, ' and or - exiwrts ex cccthnl our ImiKrts by J47MM'K In the tlrst 107 years of our. national ex-istetM-e the total balance" of trade In our favor w as only !js:;.nuMK. mir ing the first three years of MoKiuley's Administration the total lwlanee of trade in our favor was $1.4S:!,IKMU0. From 1KJI7 to 1!KI) one billion of our foreign indebtmlness was paid off, ami we are now a creditor nation loaning money to rcat- Urttain. ;ermanj-, Sweden and Hussia, while our bonds da wing but 'Z ier cint. are selling at a premium in all the markets or the world. A popular 'sul'sciiption1 for -jtNMNMMNMi brings bids for wore1 than $l,-Ko.i ," and call money Is cheai er in New York and iniicago than In Ismdou, Uarin or JSerl'n. John Mitchell, President ofj the Unilol Mine workers of America, is a u I hori ty f" i tie stn tcmeut t ha t ; 1 2,- X0 bitnminous mine workers In West-. ern Pennsylvania, Ohio. Indiana aud Illinois were In January las granted an advance in their wages that will mean: for thorn in one year an increase of not less than ?12.n"MW. SniuucL ttompers, -1 "resident of IJjo American Feilera.tlon .of, Iabor, who ; rcporttnl 3.MMH men idle iu IMn;, bears tes- Schooihou5 at ljtnnizan's Patch, lwhr&'m i . l-V!v...' VWjj J,i4 J hi- -;r'- W-J&r wPhkiri- ;t:t::f j- " ' -t --Hmrnwn 11 ' " 1 " i . .. - . ' .':-. - ' . ! 1 -.",,.- . 'i : ;.... f- .... i , Mahoney township, near Shenandoah, ; s ' used , by strikers as a' meeting-piacc.( ; " i tlmouy that the year lcST7 Jirought - a radical change tor tie b:tter ami that the condition of. lalsr tislay hi such an to give A lie greatest satlsfae tiou. Even tlcTH'r.il Coxy, who in found thousands of it'l men i"ady to march with him n to Washington, and who. iu 1S5MJ. wan e;ti:Viinje Ore gon iu the, interests of ;;" calamity howlers. Is now 'busily eiigrgeil in building a $2TiM)i stcti. casting plant at Mt. Venioiv Ohio.- working with only half a force, Iwuuse of th scarcity of la I or4 When asked recent ly why he was not leading the "army of the common wear to Washington he replied: "I have N'en s busily en gaged in the construction of my steel ciistaic plant during these prtrsjM'rous times that I - have civen hardly - a thought. to iwlitics and hardly knew there was- a Presidential campaign on." ' - . Mitchell aud , ;omix;rs and Coxey a nd the farmers and laboring men of tlie country should Is at oih-is advis?d that the State S-hocd Itard of. Ore gon has foreios-I : mortgages In recent rears, that our boasted . pron- Ifrity Is only a . myth; that tbe -ftepttl- bc ts rs-ktng on its ihk, ami that we are rapWIly and certainly runhiug into the seething vortex of IiuiK?rialisnl and national oblivion. : JUNIUS. A PROSPEROUS CONDITION. Savings Banks Statistic Showing jln creased Prosperity Since 1800. Washington, J Oct. 27V The i foHow Ing statement Isn"l by the Comptrol ler of Cnrrency; tJiows the amount of deposits and the nniuls-r of depositors In the" savings? banks in the United States, in and ltmO: '-' lU(V-Numtier of banki. OSS; aggre gate deposit HJlKVi.4tK,4iH;f number of depositors, 5,0oo,4; areraffe de posits, ?:;7i;.rs. - ; ; -.: j . . - 1000 Nnmlier of Innks. 1002; - ag gregate deposits, f 2.n?).7in.y.i ;';ntim- I st of xb-posi tors; . 3,NUH, 01 ; i average deposit. $404.33. v r t ! . . Increstsoj ; since :lf?V Number of banks, 14; aggregate dcjwsits. $454. 2..l,4SfJ; nunwlir. of d tsHors,J S32, 5J7; average deposit, f 27..V3. I V ".-' WEST INDIA TRADE. Chicago. tV-t. 27 Railroad otth-ials say there is a marked Increase. In the trade" with the1 West Indies. Southern railrosid are doing all they can to en courage the growth of the trade. An officer of these lines says: ?There is a greater amount of stuff being ship ped to Culni than anybody I has "any idea of. Every j resnd mailing jfrmn Mobile ami Hher Iulf porta to Ha vana 1st heavily laden with freight The shipments consjst prlnciially df proviKi.His, t ctton gorsls.- clothing, household goods and tlie like.- But few farming' implements are shinned aud practically no machinery." LATE NEWS , FROM NOME Receiver McKenzIe, of tbe Ibices Involved ia Litigation, ARRESTED AKD WILL COME Oil Satires In the Yukon Valley Suffer from! Hyiterions Disease Ef fects of the fiecent Earthquake. SKATTLK. ; Wash., Oct.- 2.-T!ie steamship Valencia arrived In port to day, -from. Nome, with. .1011 passengers and $(S00.(0il in 1r?asare. The steam er left Nome October 1 5th, arid brings news of the arrest of UecelVer Mc Kensle, containtnl In an eitra issn?d by the Nome Chronicle. He was compelled to turn over the' gold taken from, teoutcstied prbiorty. McKenzie will be brought out on the first steam-en-'-'-.- ' , -' -'.' . ..'.; -Lucky" E. J. lialdwn, : of San Francisco "came out on the Valencia. He has litthto say of Nome, buv ex presses .himself as satisfied j with his mining ventures. s o TEIIK1KLK SUFFEUING. Seattle, Oct. 27. Iter. Father John I?. Kene, " In charge of the Hom-tn Catholic missions on the Yukon, has arrived at Dawson I with a terrible story of the sufferings of the natives In that valley, from an epidemic, of a tnysterlons diseas'e, resenibliug a -nml4iistf iot of iNKiuiMni.i. niea.-tl.n and typbohi fever,. At the Iloly Ci-o-s mission, sixty out oii l.si jmuans u-nn in less than i two - montlis, Fautitie' nnw threa tens the :f natives ns thev liave not Is-cu able to lay irp supplies of fish and game for the winter. jT1m plague lias leeu general ajl along. tu?-' river, a ml. along the coast of '.IteHhg Sea, and many natives have died. FortlTownsend, Wash-i : Oct.. 27. VIVID SCENES OF THE Eaf t Piflh PmHv K-inti nlinir nmpr nt Mlitl Fifth FenrlSYlvania passinr comer of Main :r . and Centre streets,, .Shenandoah', on their way to the mines. . .. i , 7. i; T o steanicrs. arrived from Nome, to- 0c;obeT J4th. . ;" ' " A reisrt has reached herefrom Yak i:t it, to the effii-t tha Mount SL Elias wirt lidly shaken up by the recent caftlniuake that did so much damage ivt Koliak. Indian tMpiiers and hunt cis. who were in the vicinity of the n-mitain haro retnrmsl to Yakutat, :u. I they say that tin mountain was ali ost broken iu pieces. The slus-ks wire so severe that -acres of ioe broke lo '-e near tho top of -1he mouirtain art came crashing down the sides, ci. rying everything Is'foro It. . .'lite Indians state that from where, tl e avalanche started clear to- the' b.: e of tlie mountain it made a track a!nit half : a mile wide, where uo si ow or ice remains. , i 4MI the Indian trapjs'rs have not re ttviied. and some fears tire cntcrtain cnl that they may have lteen caught by the avahim-lie. The Indians were frightened that they lost no time In returning to the village on Yakutat bay.'. " . ... J REPORT IS GONflRMED. C03IMISSIONEK ROCK II I EE HAS WIRED FROM I'EKlNl v Confirming the Suicide -of One Chi nese Official Conger Reports Re garding Reactionary Measures. WASHINGTON, Oct. 27. From an Independent source ' Scretary Hay has received confirmatory erldence of the reporteil sulcnle of Yn Slang, the fa mi t leal Gorefnor of the prorlnce of of Shan Shi, whose punishment was demanded by the powers for the mas sacre of a large numlior of mission aries. This message came from Spe 1al Commissioner Rockblll, as .fol lows: ' '. ' . ' f C ' "Shanghai, Oct. 22. Have reliable Informal! ion to the effect that Yn Si ang commlttetl sulchle on the 22d. S (Signl : ROCKHILL.": 4 It Is regardetl as probable by ? the State lHirtnmit officials - that Mr. ttockliin was mnacnuaintetl with the fact that the t 'hi neve tJovernmcnt had commanlcatetl information to this effect, so that com in? from auotlier point than lekin, whence tlie Chinese rcort emanatetl, 31 r., Rockhill's ad rice is regarded aa strongly corrolor- ative. -.' ' ' 4 A dismfch lias ben received from 31 r. Conger disproving the stories of the reactionary tendencies of the Im perial tJovernroent. 'The State , De rwirtment hail ireceivetl reports from varfcrtiH sources in China ami notably from Canton, through its agent there, to tbe effect that tlie; Imperial G.ov ernuient had - ortlered the removal from office of tbe Viceroys from 4 he' Sreat Yaugtse iiryruices of Nanking I 4 tbe GenerarSeglni ami, the Soutti To; tland, ' lite' latter ha viu; , 1."2 pas 'iigcrs. Both- sailed from Nome ;ou ami Hankow Im.h-3 use of their pro-foreign EcnUmeuts . . , . .. . . Sectxvtary liny cabled Mr. Conger to Investigate the report and , If it were fonnd to be true to make a forcible protest "to the. Imperial Jovernmen through the Chinese Commissioners at Pekln, LMItmg Chang and irince Chlng, : against the proposed aetlotu Today Mr. sponger reporte! that after careful inrestiga.tion the story of the, change in t administration had been found to be withonr foundation. The answer to communications from Germany and Great llritain. cnVbody- Ing the last agnement relative to the mitn door and the territorial integrity of China probably will go forward on Monday. It is said that from the first our Government has nerer been in doubt as to the action. It would: take upon this agreement, or rather the In vitation to approve the agreement. Itut Jt was not possible to move speed ily In the matter. : Tlie- point of Interest ts live treat ment that will be aceorded to. the thirl section o the agiieemnt. r'lative to the course to le pursued by the (dgnatorics, In the event that hey Cud themselves olwtnu-ted in the execu tion of .the -two preceding p;tragraphs. It.ls tiellcred that tlie State Ienart nicnt.wlll find It unnecessary .to vuter into any agrceuwui ' on this iiut in advance of the occiirtvuco of the cou- tinscucy referrctl 4o in the third see. tion. There can be no doubt of its full nccenta-uce of the first two arti cles in view of the fart tliat tliey are iiothin; more than " reaffirmations of the department's own. policies. DEWEY'S RROTHfeU DEAD. Montpeller, Vt, Oct 27. IMward Dewey, brother of Admiral Dewey, is dead, agsl 71 years. ; MONTANA POLITICS. Union " Iabor Party Endorses the Democratic-People's Ticket. nelna, Mont., Oct. 27. At midnight last night tlie 'Central Committee of the Union fjalior party, which had been iir-3 sens ion here all day; filed wFth the Secretary" f State the resignation of J A. Ferguson., candidate for Gov ernor, and tlie resignations of" the other, candidate on the 'state ticket, together with 'the nominations of Can dida tes - Oi the-Ftrsion. iHr-mwratic and Popurtst tickets to till the vacan cy. The Union Labor party now has GREAT COAL STRIKE. cx-( Jovernor Ja men K. Tole, Fusion ' camMdate for Gdve'nibr, at the lie:td of its ticket. Tho Fusion ticket is the W'illiam A. Clark ticket, against which are now opposed the imlefs-ndent or laly 'DemocratM ' and Rcpublians. Fergu son fats h withdrew to se-ure tlie election of Tode, as he had no chance of winning himself. Tins wan the last day iu which noniiuatious could bo made. . THEY TRUST BUEL.ER. British General Has Full Coniidtu. e of His Troops New York, Ot. 27. Tb military succession In South Africa Is still un certain, says, the London 'eorrespoiid ctit.of 4 he TrHume, and War Office authorities are noncommittal respit ing the relations of Lord RoIhtIs and General Bnlier. General ltnllcin jsm tilirity among the soldiers whjo fonirht llleb-r . liil'l CaiDMtt In ipiestioiited. An ottieer'.wuo has barely arrived in Tajc don from Natal says that every man who' served umler Ruller has alMolute faith In htm as a General, and wunld go anywhere with him. Not one word of criticism was ever heard from the Natal field forces against Genera! BuUer, whose cooluess was considered phenomena. His only rival iossessing the qual ities was Colonel Thorneyeroft. a giant in stature. who was one of the heroic fisurcn of th campaign, not wlthstamling Eord RoIktis . censure in the Spiotifcop fair. : Thorneycrort on one occasion had a cigar shot out of his mouth whiU he wan snio'ihijr. and. the next minute had lighted another without changing color. This officer, just from Natal, also states the General Ilolrts' b-nieney in generally 'condemned In South Africa, whera there is a deep con'rlction that tliere will ls continual trouble until the lawlessness Is punished with; rig orous severity. irV.7 f J WORK NEARLY ENDED, j i - . Washington. Oct. 27. The wprfe' of cti?ntliig the inhabitants of the Unit ed States 'was practically comptcted by the CeiHUH Bureau today andjiext weK inrecior .Mcrriani w ill ann.nmccJ me po)uianon or tne country. ( Hin statement, however, will 1 subject to some slight revision. All th he j re ui ami tnrns from Alaska are' not yet i the returns f rom t he America ni ol diers and sailors serving in the Phil jppiue.n and el.-ewhere abro.-il are not ctimplete. These figures will be mated.; -: '.' " - ' ' - esti- OPPOSED TO EXCURSIONS. Chicago, Oct 2T. The Record ftys: Gneral iassenger agents of several railroads are eaid to hare tegnn a. c:imalgiii against tbe so-called jiopu-la- excursion rates. Iu all the 3axa Hint ihese rtwlnciMl tariffs have Ist-n granlctl to tlio rolllc .1he,railro:td of ficials decjare that tncy .nave noi shown- a ;proiH unicicnt rto varnmt; tbeir bing JccpC inltei.-t. r AlortHMcr. J lie passenger uivu iiw uuu- . ment of thes rates would result in. the stimulation ot regular passenger traf fic : " . -' ; .-':::.: , , ---;' : MAY BE ARBITRATED. A STEP IN.. THIS DIRECTION TAKEN BY MIC HAY; If No Agreement Is Reachwt in IVkla Matters Will Re Submitted to Hague Conference. -'NEW -YORK.-Oct. 27. A step In the dire-tlon of the achi trillion of tlie Chinese ditticulties, a Washington iU.n patch to the , Herald says, has Ih-oii taken by' Svretary: Ha. lie iias -...1.1... 1 . -lnIV-..M fAll.iMn.1.A ......... lion made ny liussta tliat lu case of a protravtctl, divergence. f vhws the pu'sthMi of indemnity be referred to The 'Hague" 'Court for decision, and instructed him to consult- with his col league "as to the-demands ,ilK-ir aov ernuieuts will niak Uhu China iu this respect; Should he Teport that it is not possible to reach ;au agreement. then Secretary Hay intends to advo eate vlgorotisly the adoption of the Russian suggestion an tlie easiest method of obtaluiu a j satisfactory KolfltWllI " ' - J ' Secretary Hay and other olhYialsiof the Administration Ixiieve in general atidtratiou. but they-think it is in th, , iuterest-oC all the jwiwcrs ami '-Jhin. that ilirtn-t neirot ia tioiis sh.nihl i. first trhHl. Tho.so, who advocate arbi tration, however, argue tliat swiit:-r action could be secured by the n iir encj of the entire dispute to arhiii:i- uon ac mis nine iiian oy iH-gnimiig jjcgotiatlons In I'ekiu which may -Jc inueliiutcly prolonged ami finally pro duce no rsult.- j The authorities are ailvious to ib fain inforiiiatioii relative -to -the replies of Genua uy and, Great: liiitaiu on lie lluss5.ni suggestion. . .N'u infonti.it J n on thin i m ri 1 1 1 ban yet reached '-the State Department. Sluriild all tin ii-tions-consiit. tin authorities sa,va great obsiaiie in llw way of a 'satis factory solntion of the Whole Cliines ijuestioii will be removed. ' Oscar S. Straus. Mi.nlster to Turkey, said hi this city last, night: .-' "It Is proiK-r that the United Sfates Ellen Gowan Colliery, East Mahoney town- ship, near Shenandoah, about iwhich tliere has been much controversy. . ? should lead in the matter of arbitra tion. We' bavtf. liewr s'eaHnV to urge the course iiou-ine l'owers, aui ,n apis-ars to me that now is the. proper time for us to put our' word into deeds. The compact Isiwism Ger many aud Great I'.ritaiu. which mi doubicdlv has the .-approval of tcir I Government leaves nolli-iug to be sct- tbtl." c.-eid the amount of imleiiitiity wlikii China must pay to th: several govi rnineiits. Iu. case! a . s-tIou di.4- puie siioui'i jiris icaruiu, nitn-iiiMuj , tlie.matter Would have to lie, referred to arbitration, and if Jit in to bt- arbi tiafed. Tlie ' llasue Commissioii is tin- pieis-r lody for It to come .Is-fore." HAS A SPOTTED RECORD. Albany. Oct. 27. G. W. Vaughan. a fornwr ix-siilcfit oif thls city, has Is-eii arrcst.'Nl at Huiitingtoii, Or., for'send ng oleceri! literature, Ihrougii .the mails.' Vaughan had 'a pletty spitted record' while, lie livcil here, and it in not suri'risiiig that he has lx-en run ni,fr soim thing. lie was evidently trying to get some one Into troulri", when he inad( a 'complaint" to 31r. Clcmciis. of the Postal ,Depn ft ment, ami demanded. an Investigation, jay ing that he had res vl veil obscene let ters through the mall. " It ' Is'-thought that he sent the letters to himself, as experts say tlie writing li his. : O Baust&s' Bista i Ifce Kind You k':snr Bi,y TEXAS COTTON CROP, Damage Done by an Insect Will Ag gregate Millions. , Dallas, Texas, Oct. 27. W. S. KoIh ' . " J 9 Wr wf Mill III . ton planters Ti .ii s. ha j ga I hcrva Statistics from the" Brazos ' .-mil f T;bV rado valleys and. declares that , tlie 1h11 weavil has lestroycd ?,JWJMJf worth of this year's crop. ' ' THE CLEANSING AND healing: CURB FOR CATARRH (CATARRH - ' is EiyY Cream Balm Tmkj ent rloant to Hue, Conlalm so ia larioui rtrnif. IHlutrklysbiwrted. (iivtm relief at onr ' ltfpenr anl cleauaca Krtefot COLO "i HEAD Ilct-2s and IVofcects lte Membrane. torts th f uses of Taste and Smell Large Size, 5f cents at Druggists or by malt. Trial Flze, 10 cnta by maiL" ELY BROTHERS. 16 Warren Street, New Totk. -