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HEMS FROM AIL AROUND CONDENSED NEWS OF WORLD Crimen and Casualties in All LnndN- ParaicrnpliM About l*rouilnent PfrNonn- Business Condition* In Hrlef—Peculiar Incident* Be* corded by Many Observer*. Benjamin T. Hill was hanged at San juentin prison in Califoniia Wednesday or the murder of his wife. Hill made a ull confession, expressed penitence and ied bravely. Senator Allen of Nebraska has sent the allowing dispatch: "Hon. Silas A. Hol omb, Lincoln, Neb.: Tender all state roopa without delay. In the event of •ar with Spain I desire through you to lace my services at the disposal of the tate, to serve the country in such capac y as you may assign me in defense of le national honor and Cuban liberty." In the aldermanic elections at Chicago le reform element won, electing 25 out f 35 candidates. Those elected have ledged themselves to demand for the tv compensation for all public franchises. The municipal election at Milwaukee, resulted in a landslide for the demo atic-populist ticket, which elected the itire city ticket by a plurality of about >00. David S. Rose will be the next ma tt. The republican city ticket at Tacoma, 'ash., was elected by majorities ranging om 300 for Johnson Nickeus for mayor 1061 for W. A. Sternberg for treasurer, le republicans also elect six out of eight uncilmen and wil have a good lworking •ijority. In Topeka, Has., the republicans elect all their candidates save two council 3n. In Leavenworth the republicans ?cted four out of six councilmen. In ichita the republicans elected all their ndidates save two aldermen. Fort ott, Hutchinson, Lawrence, Indepenjd ce, Abilene, Hiawatha, McPherson, raett, Yates Center, Eldorado and Ui •d also elected republican officers. MOTHERHOOD. rs. Plnkham Declares No Woman Need Despair. rhero are many curable causes for srility in women. One of the most mmon is general debility, accom nied by a peculiar condition of the x>d. SVrite freely and fully to Mrs. Pink m. Iler address is Lynn, Mass. She 11 tell you, free of charge, the cause your trouble and what course to te. Believe me, under right condi ns, you have a fair chance to become j joyful mother of children. Mrs. cy Lytle, 255 Henderson St., Jersey y, N. J., certainly thinks so. She says: 4 1 am more than proud of Lydia E. ikham's Vegetable Compound, and mot find words to express the good ias done me. I was troubled very Uy with the leucorrhoea and severe mb pains. From the time I was tried, in 1882, until last year, I was ler the doctor's care. tVe had no Idren. I have had nearly every ;tor in Jersey City, and have been Kelvin Ilospital, but all to no avail, aw Mrs. Pinkham's advertisement -he paper, and have used five bot« of her medicine. It has done more me than all the doctors I ever had has stopped my pains, and has aght me a fine little girl. I have a well ever since my baby was born, artily recommend Mrs. Pinkham's .icine to all women suffering from ility." • BEST LEAD IS THE LEAD THAT WEARS LONGEST. It Ii Kaowfi as WESTERN (HUE LEAD Write to ua about It. Our book on painting BENT FREE. reland Oil S Paint Mfg. Co., PORTLAND, ORIOOW. UPTURE PERMANENTLY CURED TOUT KNIFE. SYRING . ELECTRIC >LE or TORTURING TRUSSES, no matter ng standing. Investigate this method. It baa he test for years. Endorsed by the leading ians of the U nlted States and Europe. fl,ooo :n successfully treated. Men, women and •n cured without harm or danger or loss of HundredN treated at home by our hi . Call or write for circular and question Examination and consultation FREE, is the :o-Mechanical Treatment Go. 1 l-I Washington Portland, Or. HIR TABLE May be wall or poorly furnished accord is* aa too make use of your opportune tin in buying your auppllea. U CAN PAY Tour local dealer half more than you ought, and tbua do without half you peed, or you can mall ua your order and lire on the fat of the land for the same amount you would lnveit In the other caae. Bend for our big PBICE LIST Juat out. IE BE4TTLE TRIDINfI 00., GENERAL MERCHANTS, g AVE. SO., SEATTLE, WAtH, UR LIVER sH 'a Revealed Remedy will do It. Thrst rill make you feel better. Get It from ugglst or any wholesale drug houae, or ewart A Holmes Drug Co., Seattle. l£~Pftin der 'y * * Og(GOHOtPODpURIfI(R. RESTORER I Ibr tracing and locating Gold or Silver I Ore. lost or burled treasures. M. D. ' roWLEK. Ho* 3a7.Houthliik'ton.Conn. An ice trust has been formed in Chi cago with a capital of $3,000,000. Sheriff Waldiick of Cass county, Mis souri, was shot while arresting two men. Twelve thousand acres of Alabama coal I lands have been purchased by a syndicate. A dispatch from Pekin says that Li Hung Chang is in the pay of Russia and a traitoi to Chinese interests. Over 500 horses will participate in the ! spring meeting at the Cumberland Park I track, Nashville, Tenn. i Lewis Adams, aged 17 years, is in jail at Norman, Oklahoma .charged with steal ing a horse from his grandfather. Steps are to be taken at Chicago to or ganize a national association of horse breeders and horse dealers. E. K. Woodbury, 80 years old, was kill ed at Port Chester, N. Y., while trying to j rescue his bicycle from under a train, i It is expected that 100,000 names will I be added to the National Volunteer Asso ! ciation list now open at Lincoln, Neb. | An absentniinded man in New York en i tered a neighbor's house by mistake, was I taken for a burglar, shot and instantly I killed. | The Missouri State Board of Equaliza- I tion has fixed the value of real and per- I sonal property in the state for taxes of ! 1898 at $959,290,907. Seven children, 30 grandchildren and 40 great-grandchildren of Eli Reed attended his 90th birthday anniversary at his home near Old St. Louis, Ind. Mrs. William C. Whitney, wife of ex- Secretary of the Navy Whitney, is not ex pected to recover from the accident that happened to her while hunting in North Carolina recently. The Pavey bill, proposing an amend ment to the New York constitution so as to allow the state to dispose of the canals to the federal government, hus been de feated in the state senate. I The property damaged by the recent flood near Greensburg, Ind., will exceed .$150,000. At least a dozen people were drowned in that vicinity. In the vicinity of Princeton, Ind., the damage will ex ceed $300,000. Very destructive prairie fires have oc curred in Texas. The blaze originated in Pecos county and swept the whole of the Glass Mountain country. Over 000 miles of country have been devastated. A tribe of Yaqui Indians has been sub dued by a ruse of the Mexican govern ment Its chief was taken for a visit to the capital, appointed a general and given ; a uniform. After his return to his tribe [ he regarded himself as the ruler of Mexi co, and with his 800 warriors has aided to preserve peace among other tribes. The Tiehbome claimant is dead at the ago of CO. He spent 10 years in prison for false impersonation of the heir of a noble family. His lawyer made a speech to the jury lasting nearly two months, for which and other offenses he was dis barred. In round figures the amount of gold which has been imported into this coun try since the movement started, on Feb ruary 25, which is on the way now, and which has been ordered for importation, is $40,000,000. This includes nearly $0,- 000,000 from Australia. C. W. Wilson, a Cuban hero, is in Hot Springs under treatment. The Little Rock Democrat says that Wilson served in the Cuban army directly under General Go mez, participating actively in 32 battles, jHe received 17 bullet wounds and had part of his right foot blown off by a shell, lie was imprisoned in Moro castle Decem ber 2 last, under death sentence. He was pardoned through the instrumentality of Consul General Lee and taken on the Maine, where he received his first medical and surgical treatment. He afterwards reached New Orleans and from there went to Hot Springs. He is now suffering from the effects of his wounds and completely j broken down in health. Furniture and all portable property is being removed from New England coast residences in fear that Spanish privateers will loot summer resorts. The Little R<.ek, Ark., board of health reports live cases of smallpox in the city. All the sufTerers are negroes, who are confined in the pest house. Out of 59 counties in Colorado, 27 have women superintendents of schools, and every school board has one or two women members. A large quantity of rejected tea was re cently returned to China from New York as the result of examinations by officials | of the treasury department. It is said that a combination has been formed at Pittsburg, Pa., by big river coal operators to corner the southern c-mi mar ket in anticipation of war prices. The Well man polar expedition has se cured the Arctic steamer Fridtjof for its trip to Franz Josef land. The Fridtjof is | considered the best ice steamer in the world. j, The original copy of the declaration of j independence in Jefferson's own hand [ writing has just been found among the archives of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia. A Michigan man has in his posses sion a piece of hard tack biscuit, issued to him as a part of a ration during the j late war. Though 33 years old, the bis j cuit is in an excellent state of preserva ! tion. Hudson Maxim, brother of Hiram, the inventor of the famous Maxim gun, has invented a cannon to throw torpedoes into the air. It promises to be even more deadly than his brother's death-dealing | invention. j The authorities of the Missouri experi- I ment station have detennined to continue [ experiments with sugar beets at least another year, as their work has not def initely settled whether the cultivation of the beet will be profitable. Near Frankfort, Del., W. S. Long killed a blackwnake that had a gold finger ring around its body. The ring had undoubt edly been around the snake's body a long time, as it was deeply imbedded and could not be removed until the snake had been cut in two. A. W. Tilton, a young fanner, living near Belle Plaine, Kan., was killed in an unusual manner the other day. His windmill l>eing out of order, he had gone up to fix it, when a strong gust of wind set the wheel to revolving, ditching his coat and choking him to death. Evidences of the prehistoric peoples who inhabited the valleys of the Gila and Salt rivers in Arizona have recently been discovered, and enough testimony has been found to reveal the fact that in these valleys once dwelt a mighty and prosperous people numbering not less than 2,000,000, and probably 3,000,000. In spite of the unfavorable year the Italian budget for 1897-8 shows a surplus of between 2,000,000 and 3,000,000 lire. (The value of the lira is 19 3-10 cents. HAWAII 10 BE ANNEXED MINISTER SEWAII'S ORDERS Instructions to lialMe the American Flu ft Over the Islands an Soon ax War 1m Declared Between the Inlted States and Spain—Pacific Cubic Plans. Chicago, April 9. —A special dispatch to the Inter-Ocean from Honolulu says: It is generally understood here and un disputed that if news is received here that war has been declared between the United States and Spain, or any other country, the American minister and Ad miral Miller have orders to raise the stars and stripes over Hawaii and to maintain them at any cost. Such instructions, say the local papers, were received from Washington in the last mail. The statement has appeared without contradiction in the Star. Both Minister Sewall and Admiral Miller are reticent concerning the report, neither of firming nor denying it. The necessity of immediate action in such an emergency is at once apparent. Spain has several warships in the Paci fic, which could scarcely make their way to the American coast without having an intermediate coaling station. The Ha waiian islands are the only available place. A single war vessel could success fully defend this harbor and the coal sup plies here against half a dozen such craft as Spain has in the Pacific. So that, af ter all, an opportunity may be given for a practical illustration of the oft-repeated argument that these islands are the stra tegic point of vantage iu the Pacific from a. naval point of view. The news that congress had voted $50,- 000,000 for war materials caused the greatest enthusiasm here. So thoroughly American is Honolulu that every one is eager for war news. It quite sui>ersedcs in the public mind the news concerning the progress of the annexation treaty, In case war is declared and there is a call for volunteers the islands will likely send a large company of militiamen to enlist under "Old Glory"* A company is already in process of formation, and the roster presents the names of several prominent business men. Senator Brown has introduced in the legislature a bill authorizing the con struction by the Pacific Cable Company of a cable between the United States and these islands. Hie Pacific Cable Com pany, better known as the Seymour Com pany, is the one whose bill in the Ameri can congress has just been reported fa vorably by the committee. The Hawaiian bill gives exclusive cablc rights to the islands for 20 years. The cable must be laid within 18 months after the passage of the act by the American congress, and be extended to Japan with in three years. It must be capable of transmitting 15 words a minute. The toll rate between here and San Francisco is not to exceed 35 cents per word, and to Japan 90 cents per word. In case of war the president may seize the cable and ex clude all messages he sees fit. A guaran tee of $25,000 in government bonds must l»e put up by the company. There seems but little doubt that the bill will speedily pass, and the long-ex- ] pected cable will probably be laid late this summer. If the United States goes to war with Spain there is scarcely any doubt that the cable will be laia in very short order. ALL ABOUND MAEKET EEPOET. Wheat Quotations, Wool Figures and the Price of Produce. Following are the local quotations. Wholesale prices are given unless other wise quoted: Wheat at the warehouse—Country points: Club, hulk, 57c;! sacked, 59c; blues torn, bulk, 57£ c; sacked, 62c. At Spo kane: Club, bulk, 54Jc; sacked, 57c: bluesteni, bulk, 50£ c; sacked, 59c. Oats—At Spokane, f. o. b., $18(a>18.50. Rye—Country points, f. o. b., Gs@7oc per cwt. Flour—Per barrel, $3.75. Hay—Timothy, $10.50@11 per ton; wheat hay, $9; alfalfa, $10. Eggs—Ranch, $3.75@4. Wool—Fine medium, 6@7c per lb; me dium, s@6c per lb. Produce—Fancy creamery, 40 and GO lb tubs, 28c per lb; 5, 10 and 20-lb tubs 29c; prints, 30c; eastern butter, 25@26c; country butter, in rolls, 20@23c per lb; cooking butter, 10c; cheese, twin, full cream, 13@14c; cheese, twin, skim milk. 9s@loc; ranch eggs, $4.75@5.25; honey, white comb, 13&@14c; fancy, 15c per lb. Vegetables—Potatoes, 40@42c per cwt; onions, $2.75@3 per cwt; beans, ls@2c per lb; cabbage, $1 per cwt; squash, $1.50 per doz; cauliflowers, $1.50 per doz; green onions, 23 @ 25c per doz; lettuce, 20c per lb; spinach, 5c per lb; rhubarb, 8c per lb; tomatoes, $2.50 a box; sweet po tatoes, $3 per cwt; radishes, 40c per lb; green peas, 10c per lb; asparagus, 25c per lb; artichokes, 90c per dozen. Poultry—Chickens, live weight, 9@loc per lb; dressed, ll@12c; turkeys, live, 11 @12c; dressed, 12@13c; ducks, live, 10c; dressed, U@l2e per lb; geese, live, 10(8 11c; dressed, 12@12&c. Meats—Beef cows, live, $3@3.25 per cwt; dressed, $G@G.SO; steers, live; $3.25 @3.50; dressed, $0.50(5)7; hogs, live, $4.75 @5; dressed, $G@G.SO; mutton, live, 4(5 4£c; dressed, B@Bsc per lb; dressed veal. 7@Bc. Portland, Or., April 11.—Wheat —Firm; Walla Walla, 80c; valley and bluestem, 82(3;83c per bushel. Tacoma, April 11.—Wheat, Firmly held; No. 1 club, 80c; No. 1 bluestem, 83c. Colfax, April 11.—Wheat is stronger to day and some dealers are ixiying GO cents for No. 1 wheat, sacked in tlio ware- Metals. San Francisco, April 11.—Silver bars, house. 55£ c; Mexican dollars, 45£@46c. Bar silver —55ic. Mexican dollars—44Jc. Lead—Quiet; brokers', $3.50. Lake copper—Quiet; brokers', $11.76 @12. There are 595 Bible classes and 332 Bi ble training classes connected with the Young Men's Christian Association in America. The San Jose scale was recently found at Westminster, Md., in oranges shipped from California. Emperor William of Germany has in formed Ambassador White that his sym pathies are with the United States. THE ADDRESS OF THE POWERS Join iu a Friendly rommuuleatlou In the Interest of Penee. I Washington, April 7. —The representa tives of the six powers of Europe seeking to avert war between Spain and the ! United States, called 011 the president at noon today. The governments of Great I Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Aus tria and Italy were represented. Within a few minutes all the ambassadors had 1 been ushered into the blue room and the ! president immediately left his office and went down to meet them. Sir Julian Pauncefote, as representative of the powers, presented the following: "The undersigned, representatives of Germany, Austria-Hungary, France, Great Britain, Italy and Russia, duly au thorized in that behalf, address, in the name of their respective governments, a pressing appeal to the feelings of human ity and moderation of the president and of the American people in their existing differences with Spain. They earnestly hope that further negotiations will lead to an agreement which while securing the maintenance of peace, will afford all nec essary guarantees for the re-establishment of peace in Cuba. The powers do not doubt that the humanitarian and purely disinterested character of this representa tion will be fully recognized and appreci ated by the American nation." President McKinley replied as follows: "The government of the United States recognizes the good will which has prompted the friendly communication of the representatives of Germany, Austria- Hungary, France, Great Britain, Italy and Russia, as set forth in the address of your excellencies, and shares the hope therein expressed that the outcome of the situation in Cuba may lie the mainte nance of peace between the United States and Spain, affording the necessary guar antee for the re-establishment of order in the island, so terminating the chronic con j dition of disturbance there which so deep ly injures the interests and menaces the | tranquility of the American nation, by the character and consequences of the struggle thus kept up at our doors, be sides shocking its sentiment, of Human ity. "The government of the United States appreciates the humanitarian and disin terested character of the communication now made on behalf of the powers named, and for its part is confident that equal appreciation will be shown for its own earnest and unselfish endeavors to fulfill the duty to humanity by ending a situa tion the indefinite prolongation of which has become insufferable." The call was quite brief and at 12:20 p. m. the representatives of the powers went over to the state department and made an official visit. Their entire official suites of attaches accompanied them. The call evidently was by appointment, for they were at once shown into the diplo matic room, where they were joined by Secretary Sherman and Assistant Secre tary Day, with whom they were closeted. Inquiry at several embassies and lega tion shows that the reply of President McKinley has created a most favorable impression among the ambassadors and ministers. It was cabled immediately to London, Paris and all other European capitals. QUIETER DEMAND FOR STAPLES llrmlntreet Heportu Trn«le a Little Dull Kant. New York, April 9.—Bradstreet's says: A sensible quieting of demand for staple goods is perceptible in the various detail ed trade reports coming to hand this week. At the outset matters affecting foreign relations has been such as to discourage new business, but this tendency has been considerably accentuated by untimely cold weather, which has checked the usual Easter demand to a considerable extent. Reports from the west are that the liaavy rush of spring business is about over and that orders coming in now are filling in charucter. Here again reports of unsea sonable weather are met with. A fairly good business is reported, glowing out of the raising of insurunce rates consequent on the disturbed foreign outlook. Frost is reported to have done considerable dam age to the peach and other fruit crops of the south and to early planted tobacco. A fairly satisfactory trade is represented at the northwest. Lake navigation is now open, and anticipation is that a prosper ous year's business will be done. Wheat shipments (including flour) this week are slightly larger than those of last week and considerably in excess of last year, aggregating 3,773,720 bushels for that period, against 3,550,004 bushels last week, 2,030,000 bushels in the week a year ago, 1,804,000 bushels in 1800, and 2,934,- 000 bushels in 1895. Business failures in the United States this week number 220, against 220 last week, 232 in the corresponding week of 1897, 230 in 1890, and 225 in 1895. Busi ness failures this week in the Dominion of Canada number 38, against 38 last week. PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. Something of the Talks and the Act* of Roth Branrhea. After the presidents message was read I and referred to the foreign relations eom mittee in the senate Monday, Senator j Stewart t<;ok the floor and declared that intervention without recognition of the j insurgents would look like eonquest. The senate, at 1:15 p. in., on motion of Sen- I ator Allison, adjourned, and the senate committee on foreign relations was call ed in special session to consider the mes sage. The reading of the message in the house was greeted with scattering applause from the republican side and groans from the democratic side. The galleries made no demonstration. The message was re ferred to the committee on foreign af fairs without delmte, and the house pro ceeded with the District of Columbia bus iness. For calling a central telephone girl a silly goose and threatening to come and box her ears, a man was condemned in Vienna to 14 days in jail. j Jojseph Jefferson will not withdraw fronl the stage this year. On the con trarjy, he is already forming plans for noxA, season. 11l Alabama then are 4,063 white schools, 2,283 colored -*'hools, 4,764 white ttui chers, 2.2(H) colortsk teachers, 104,802 ite pupils and 113,015 colored pupils. . i silver coin is usutlly in currency for about 27 years. I Spring Humors That pimple on your ami, those erup "1 I'flve taken Hood's Sarsaparilla for "igl't- «l.en I rose in the morning I lions, itching and burning hives, just shortness of breath and dizziness, and it f-lt worse than when I went to bed. ... ~ • | | | has given me so much relief that I recom 1 Became Very ftervoua surely indicate impurities in the blood, ! ®.. ~ . .. . ~ . , . . . , ... , , . , ...... menu it as an excellent medicine. And had sick and dizzy headaches. I was ch should have prompt and careful at- j MRg. e. JOHNSON, Colfax, Wash. almost tired of life and did not care for tention, as do boils, carbuncles, ulcers.! , anything. I went on this way for a year salt rheum and the severest forms of | or more when one day a friend advised me scrofula. Hood's Sarsaparilla cures all hu- j to try Hood's Sarsaparilla. I procured a mors of the blood of every form and J / bottle of this medicine and began taking degree. / \ *he first bottle helped me I Tlmt Tired Feeling. / \ S ot the **ond, and kept 011 until I had « A m , . . / \ taken four bottles, when I was completely So common in the spring, is also due to / G?% \ , „ SAMUEL WHITF the weak, thin, depleted condition of the J /O/NrVV \ * Birch Bay, Wash, blood. Make your blood pure by taking I /\i ESv The Family Depend ipon It. Hood s Sarsaparilla, and you will be strong \ j JL 1 "Four years ago I began using Hood's and ready for work, will have a good ap- \ I W wifF J Sarsaparilla in my family and the results petite and good health. Try Hood's Sar- \ I 1 were so satisfactory that we have since saparilla this spring. \ I will ill / depended upon it as our family medicine. "My daughter was afflicted with liver WL 'k ///i. / j l l has kept us in good health most of the trouble and had a sallow complexion. She time, and we have had little need of any , . , tt ~ 0 ... . . oLher medicine. We believe that for dis lias taken Ilood s Sarsaparilla and her , n,.,,* „M> n„o eases of the blood, Hood s Sarsaparilla complexion is clear. Another daughter "To express my thanks for the great good has no equal." GEO. HARVEY, had eruptions on her hands, but after tak- [ have derived from the use of Hood's Fort Simeoe, Wash, ink Hood's Sarsaparilla the eruptions are Sarsaparilla. About a year ago I became N. B. —If you decide to take Hood's all gone." MRS. M. E. HILL, perfectly worthless. I could sleep but a Sarsaparilla, do not be induced to buy any Brookficld, Wash., few minutes at a time during the whole j substitute. Be sure to get only Hood's. Hood's Sarsaparilla Is America's Greatest Medicine because it cures when all others fail. Sold by all druggists. $1.00. Six for $5.00. PREACHED OF PLAGUE. Ilecniiite It Wiim In the Sermon He Rouarht. Many years ago an English clergyman in a small town preached as his own a sermon that he had bought, and which had been originally preached in London when the plague was raging in that city. After reproving the vice of the people the sermon went 011: "For this vice it is that God has vis ited you and your families with that cruel scourge the plague, which is now spread ing everywhere in this town." At his uttering these words the people were all so thunderstruck that the Chief Magistrate was obliged to go to the pulpit and ask him: "For God's sake, sir, pardon the inter ruption, and inform me where the plague is, that I may instantly endeavor to pre vent its further spreading." "The plague, sir?" replied the preacher. "I know nothing about the plague. Whether it is in this town or not, it is in my homily."—Chicago Inter Ocean. AN OPEN LSTTfcK YO MOTHERS. We are asserting in the courts our right to the exclusive u.se of the word 'CAaTOKiA," and " PITCHER'S CASTOR 1 A," as ourTiadc Murk. T, Dr. Samuel Pitcher, of liyannis, Massachusetts, was the originator of " PITCHER'S CAS fOKIA," the same that has borne and does now bear the fac simile signature of CHAS. H. FLETCHER on every wrapper. This is the original " PITCHER'S CASTORIA " which has been used in the homes of the mothers of America for over thirty years. Look Carefully at the wrapper and see that it is Ihe kind you have always bought, and has the signature of CHAS. H. FLETCHER on the wrapper. No one has authority from me to use my name except The Centaur Company of which 2has. H. Fletcher is President. March 8, :*97> SAMUEL PITCHER, M.tt The London Gazette has awakened to the fact that the Queen's Jubilee took place last June, and hus just published an elaborute account of the celebration. HOW'S THIS? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that can not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obliga tions made by their firm. WEST & TRUAX, Wholesale Druggists, To ledo, O. WALDINO, RINNAN & MARVIN, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally, act ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur faces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75c per bottle. Sold by all Druggißts. Hall's Family Pills are the best. A curious fact has been noted by the Arctic travelers—snow when at a very low temperature absorbs moisture and dries garments. •hake into tour shoes Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It cures painful, swollen smarting feet and instantly takes the sting out of corns and bunions. It's the greatest comfort discov ery of the age. Allen's Foot-Ease makes tight-fitting or new shoes feel easy. It is a certain cure for chilblains, sweating, damp, callous and hot, tired aching feet. We have over 10 000 testimonials of cures. Try it today. 80 dby all druggists and shoe stores. By mail for 25c. in stamps- Trial package FREE. Address Allen 8. Olm ■ted, Le Roy, N. Y. A microbe that lives anil multiplies in strong nlchohol has been discovered by Veley. It is believed that this accounts for the fact that rum sometimes deterior ates on a sea voyage. FIT# Permanently Cured. No llto or nervousnes «»«• after Ural day's use of Dr. Kline's Ureal Nerve Restorer. Send for VKKK tn.oo trial bottle and treatise. DR. R. U. Kf.TN K f . >»;«j Arch street, Philadelphia, Pa. There is a club in Penang, on the west coast of the Malay peninsula, composed of Chinese, who hold debates in English. After being swindled by all others, send us stamp fnr particulars of Kin# Solomon's Treasure, the ONLY renewer of untidy strength. MASON I'HKMK'AL CO., P. O. liox 747. Philadelphia, Pa Holland is the only country in Europe that admits coffee free of duty. Two bottles of Ptso's Cure for Consump tion cured me of a bad lung trouble.—Mn- J. Nichols. Princeton, Ind.. Mar. 26. 189;> Postage stamps came into existence about 00 years ago. In 1800 there were about 500 varieties in existence. In the spring cleanse your system by t&ing Dr. Pfunder's Oregon Blood Purifier. New York's comptroller says the city debt is now $30,000,000 beyond the legal limit. A Lady tried Schilling's Best tea and did not like it. She tried it again and made it according to direc tions. It's her only tea noj»^. / u» Hill ON THE PASS DEAD UNDER MOUNTAIN SNOW. Two Hundred People Overtaken hy Slide on the Trail—Hundred* of Men at Work in Relayn Shoveling Away the Debrln In Seareh of the Dead and the DyliiK, Skaguay, Alaska, April 3 (via Seattle, April 9). —At about noon today on the Chilkoot trail between The Scales and I Stone House at least 100 men met death, J and a large number of others were in ' jured more or less seriously, in a snow slide. The dead were crushed under an I avalanche of snow and ice, which came j down from the mountain side upon the I left-hand side of the trail about midway j between The Scales and Stone House I Sixty-nine dead bodies have been thus j far recovered, and the names of 150 miss ! ing one.4 have been reported as unaccount led for. It is barely possible that some of these had succeeded in crossing the pass j before the avalanche occurred. A con servative estimate is that between 75 and 100 persons were killed. The point at which the accident occurred is some five miles above Sheep Camp. The j nearest telephone station is four miles dis | tant. The Scales is some five miles above Sheep Camp. The telephone wires at this point were carried away by the slide. This fact makes it difficult to obtain further particulars at this time. A blinding snow storm was raging all day upon the sum mit, and as a consequence many of those in the vicinity were making no attempt to travel. Zebarth, Sprague and Steven son of Seattle were traveling together as partners and were found side by side in bed. Thousands of people were encamped in the vicinity of the accident at the time and were soon upon the scene rendering such assistance as was possible. Upon re ceipt of the news, points below Dyea tele- ; phoned up to know if assistance was re quired and received answer to the effect that 5000 people were at work upon the debris and were only in each other's way. All day Saturday and Sunday a south erly storm with chinook wind, rain and snow prevailed in the vicinity, and it is believed the softening of the snow on the mountain side by those agencies was the cause of the avalanche. The quantity of snow and ice that came down in the slide is estimated at thousands of tons. It swept directly across the trail, which, not withstanding the fact that the weather was unsuitable for travel, was thronged with wayfarers. The last vestige of the trail in the vicinity was wiped out of ex-. istence, and where it leads is now a moun-; tain of snow and ice, under which are many dead bodies that can not be recov ered for days to come. Two or three thousand men are work ing in relays of as many as can stand side by side, shoveling away the debris in search of the dead and dying. Twenty- I two dead bodies have been recovered and , identified and 25 have been taken out ; alive. MINES OF THE NORTHWEST. Stir In the Cueur d'Alene DJMtrlct— Development on the Republic. Lute transfers give the agreement of sale of the Blue Grouse group of silver load claims by William Williams to W. F. Zumhoff for $20,000. There are four claims in the group, and they lie on the south side of Carbon gulch, on the r.ruith-1 west side of Sunset motuitain, in the i Coeur d'Alenes. The principal develop- j ment work has been done on the Blue Grouse, and this claim had a fine showing last fall, which has b"?eii improved since. ; If the sale is consummated there will be j a chance for all the claim owners in the ; Blue Grouse territory to get together and build a wagon from l)ohson sum mit to the Blue fflouse, Manhattan, Auia- \ zon and Parroti. Such a road would be ' about two milf/s long, but it would be a j splendid grade/ and afford the best facil- ! ities for ore hauling. It would put the mines within ojght miles of the railroad at Wallace, and teams could easily make the round trin in a day. The cost of j the two miles \jf road would not exceed j $2500. It woulU open all the territory on ■ the soulfcr Mnp part of Sunset moun-1 tain an<|lMaJ\railr<md to follow in its , wake. U jjjf I \ Iron Colt. The ' ive of an English syu- j dicate led an option on the ( Iron ( lossland district, which is the the Iron Colt Mining Coiupai The price is withheld. The ch ters are P. Burns, the wholes# William Mackenzie, the To y man; J. Ferguson and M eal agent of the Mon treal idicate. The sum of r JPt3O pent in this property k, but it shut down There is a large ix to 35 feet wide, from $9 to $10 per '11 good condition 1 for a strong company to go in and make a mine of it. It is opened up to a depth of 800 feet, and about 10(H) feet of tun nel work has been done. Republic .Ulne lieveiopnienln. The development at the Republic mine is said to continue satisfactory. The wonderful high grade ore chute in the Republic still continues, with a six-foot vein. The chute now crowds 200 feet in length, and promises to continue indefi nitely. Three shifts have been put to ! work on the drift north of the tunnel on the 200 foot level, and good rock is now being taken from that drift. The lower tunnel is now in about 100 feet, and running through hard syenite, which makes slow work. Three shifts are be ing run on the Republic in all the drifts and tunnels. A IIIk Flume. The new flume of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company at Anaconda runs par allel with the old flume, which was built ' when the first smelter was erected, about 13 years ago. The new flume is four feet deep and eight feet wide, and is constructed to last for years. Over 2,308,- 000 feet of lumber were used. Some idea of its magnitude can be gained from the fact that its construction cost about $220,000. The Lout I<o(le. F. H. Oliver of Rossland is credited with having paid $25,000 for a half in terest in the Lost Lode claim, in Ste vens county, Washington. Assays made from ore taken out during the recent | strike in the 200 foot tunnel go $02.50 1 in gold j>er ton. THE X-RAY MACHINES. I To He Introduced Into the Govern ment Service. Lynde Rradley, an expert electrician of Milwaukee, Wis., has perfected plans for j the use of the X ray on board war ves ! sels and on the field, and in case of war will immediately enlist in the government service. Mr. Bradley says that while it would be a simple matter to bring the X ray into use on a warship considerable diiliculty would be attached to the in- I troduction of the machine in the field. A small engine, boiler and dynamo would I have to be mounted on wheels for field use, and the X-ray machine mounted on a carriage. The apparatus, however, will be much lighter and more portable than may be imagined, and his field apparatus could be furnished in a week. "X have been thinking of this matter fur months," said Mr. Jiradley today, "but have waited for hostilities to begin before taking any active steps. The great help that the X ray would be to surgeons lies in the quick, easy and painless method of loot ing a bullet or splinter in a man's body, a fracture of a b<;iie or other Rcrious in jury." A llonit Koiik Purcliune. Hong Kong, April 10.—The United States has purchased the llritish steamer Zufiro. The Men often mnkes a dozen nests, leaving all but one unfinished and unused. n ONE ENJOYS Both the method anil results when Syrup <>f Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and act* gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys tem effectually, dispels colds, head aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. 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