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NO. 46. VOL. VI. EVENTS OF THE DAI }nie o\ the Telegraphic NeWS of the World. [< kS FROM THE WIRES •• Collection of Items Frona „ iff iniapherei Presented ln B i/ouclensed Form. iam, Am., special says ... colored, was lynched He attempted to as >Diith, aged 17, while she ... iy to school. baa been issued granting i Armenian prisoners, ex """,',.'".. . n need to death for mur isoi the amnesty include Armenians under sentence death for other offenses than murder. advices from Spain, it tamed that the Spaniards osly defeated by Phil :. t - iii the combined naval - . ■ v Noveleta from No- The Spaniards lost from Paris says it is sug ar Britain, France and wen most interested, offer ii the Cuban question in exit a conflict between Tinted States, and ter • i It lr E. i irbes, representing a Lon ived on the last steamer rient in San Francisco, with 1 instruments valued He claims they are works aid be admitted free of cuitv. The customs authorities are withholding the instruments, however, until the duty is paid. ster of Dcs Moines, la., rs look up worthy cases • a and delivered presents visrraas morning. Sev lUrs was subscribed by •:..::; - • r the purpose. Scores ■'■ received from poor ohil •. ;at they desired Santa : i bring them. Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, has proposed an amendment to the sundry civil appropriation bill, providing for auxiliary fishcultural stations at points to be selected by the commissioner of fish and fisheries in Oregon, Washing ton or d California, for the propagation of salmon, trout and other fishes. The amendment appropriates $17,600 for the purpose. Jerry Burke, the colored boy, who hacked Mrs. John Foss and her daugh ter, Mrs. Cavanaugh, with an ax, at their home at Clio, Livingston parish, Louisiana, last Sunday, was captured by a posse of citizens about a mile from the scene of the crime. In view of the fact that the ladies are not dead, the plan to burn him at the stake was abandoned, and he was simply riddled with bulk The secretary of the treasury has sent to congress a computation of the Pacific railroad debts as made by the government actuary. The statement shows that the advances to the Union Pacific, including the Kansas Pacific, by the government, will, at maturity, the first of next July, amount to $92, --846.255, of which sufficient has been re paid to reduce the amount to 53,289, --593. The balance due on account of the Central Pacific on July 1 next will be $60,318,377. Dr. Thomas Powell, of Missouri, re tfatiy made some remarkable experi ments before a party of doctors in Los Angeles in order to prove the efficacy (f bis remedy for certain diseases. ' He alarmed the physicians present by in jectixig bacsillus tuberculosis and bac illi diptberial into himself, appearing to take them without evil effect. He sho injected some bactina: into two flnaea pigs, which promptly died. fiis next experiment will be to inject fpntnm from a woman . dying of oon f-apticn into himself. The acnual statement of construe non published by the Railway Age, of Uicago fchows that during 1896 only JtjO2 miles of railway lines were built ja the United States. This is one mile '^than the total reported for 1895, ™ the smallest mileage -built in any Tear Eil *c 1375. The number of lines "| which this track was laid is 163, »uich is eleven less than the number 1 aew lines added in the. previous • ear- Track was laid in thirty-eight forty-four states and territories, J2B longest mileage was built in Cali orai_ a IS7 miles on eight lines. > : Paris paper publishes interviews { ™ Prominent men of France and a G ci P diplomat, all of whom reproach neat Britain and Spain for abandon f k MCcc in the Mexican j expedition *as tbe object of which, they say, „ to create an American government cocuterbalance the power of the Lcitf States. -- hß,Russian ambassador, M. de Neli • fcas had an audience with the ihi • °f Turkey, at which he urged Bra n Production of reforms and the Arm' 111* of amnesty to imprisoned t ,^mau s . The sultan asserted that lite i S agreed upon by the powers ised to iHd beeU executed and Prom' few<3° l£SUe an amnesty decree in a field 1? 61 race riot occurred near May- • fired L I' and a hundred shots were rioted residence of Tom Chambers, b^jjg,' BU(i the house afterwards been ' A Dumber of negroes have tto ni , arued t0 leave town, ; and more ° T UDIe is expected. -* " X £5% - sp by Soutbera Paciflo -train was held ft\ masked men about 200 miles orde^ 1? Antonio, Tex. Three men Bad, v u' f c eD ß ineer to stop the train, At r^ c cue stood guard at the en tenrl^ el *° others we through the **** car and secured about $70. f v^J^^^^B 9 - vi ■ • v^ ' j /ju\ I - BH HI ■ , FRIDAY HARBOR, SAX JUAX COUNTY, WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 81, 1896. CONGRESS IN SESSION. Senate. Eighth day—The senate today passed the immigration bill, known as the Lodge bill, with a new section provid ing that the exclusion shall not apply to persons arriving from Cuba during the continuance of the present disor ders there. The strength of the bill was greater than had been expected, the final vote being 52 to 10. As passed, the bill amends the immigra tion laws so as to exclude from admis sion to the United States all persona over 16 years old who cannot read and write the language of their native country or 6ome other language, but an admissable immigrant over the age of 16 may bring in with him, or send for his wife or parent or grandparent or minor children or grandchildren, not withstanding their inability to read or write. The Cuban section added to the bill provides that the act shall not ! apply to persons arriving in the United j States from any port or place in the | island of Cuba daring the continuanoe '•■ of the present disorders there; provided '< such persons have heretofore been in- I habitants of that island. The house ; amendments to the bill concerning : lands of the Atlantic & Pacifio Rail- i road Company were nonooncurred in. ; Ninth day—The main event of the day was the presentation by Mr. Came ron of the report of the committee on foreign relations favorable to his reso lution, recognizing the independence of Cuba. The proceeding was brief and perfunctory, the report not being read, and an agreement was speedily reached by which the resolution and I report go over.until after the holidays. I Aside from the Cameron report Morgan \ of Alabama presented a further report on thß same lines, embodying the views of himself and Mills. The offer ing of the reports severd as a prelude to several brisk exchanges between sena tors. Mr. Gear made an unsuccessful attempt to take up the Paoifio railroad funding bill, and then gave notice it would be urged after the holidays. Tenth day—The senate was unex- '. peotedly diverted today from Cuba to the Pacifio railroads. An unusually large orowd was in the galleries, an ticipating that Vest would continue his speech begun yesterday on the at titude of Mr. Olney toward the Cam eron resolution. Soon after the session opened Mr. Pettigrew called up his resolution relative to the trust notes of the Pacifio railroads. The senator made a savage onslaught on the Pacific railroads in general, charging that a combination of private interests was seeking to absorb the roads and close out the government. This opened the entire question, and Mr. Morgan Sol- j lowed with a bitter arraignment of the Pacifio roads, charging them with fraud and crime on a gigantic scale. The speech lasted until shortly before I o'clock, when the morning hour ex pired, thus sending over the Cohan \ question until after the holidays. Mr. ! Call secured the adoption of a resoiu- j tion asking the secretary of state for j information relative to the killing of ; Charles Gavin, an American citizen, by the Spanish forces in Cuba. Fur ther than this the session was unevent ful, and the senate adjourned for the j holiday recess, lasting until January 5. j House. Eighth day—The house today passed i the third of the regular appropriation j bills (that for the support of the army), | and entered upon consideration of the j legislative, executive and judicial bill. ; The latter bill carries $21,669,369. or , $36,399 more than the law for the cur- i rent year. Fair progress was made to- \ day. It is expected this bill and the military academy appropriation bill j will be passed before the holiday re- : cess. The army bill, as passed, makes no provision for the army and navy hospital at Hot Springs, Ark. Ninth day—Almost the whole day ; was devoted to a debate on the pro- j of the bilL relating to the con- j trol of the new congressional library. ; Both the appropriations and library committees offered plans for the future \ care of the building. After a some what acrimonious contest, the appro- ; priationa oommittee gained the vie- ; tory, defeating the substitute of the i library committee by a vote of 27 to 85. ! An amendment designed to plaoe the ; employes of the library under civil ser- \ vice law was also defeated, 27 to 73. Librarian Spofford's salary was raised ! from $4,000 to $5,000. The senate j amendments to the immigration bill \ were nonooncurred in. Bartholdt. chairman of the immigration commit- j tee, sought to have the bill and amend ments recommitted to his oommittee. Tenth day—The house today passed : the legislative, executive and judicial ; appropriation bill, and then ad j lurned j for the holiday recess. This is the first time in the history of congress that the legislative bill has been passed be fore the holidays. The day was de voted to the annual debate on the civil j service law, and, as usual, the attempt to strike out the provision for the com mission was overwhelmingly defeated. There was a good deal of threshing over of old straw and sparring for po litical points. Brossiug, chairman of the civil service commission, defended i the law. The bill as passed carries = $28,669,869.02—536,379 more than the ourrent bill. During the morning hour a bill was passed authorizing the railroads in the Indian territory to change their alignments New York, Deo. 23.—The competi- j tion between the American sugar re finery and the firm of Arbuckle Bros., ooffee merchants, is on in earnest. Another reduction of one-half a cent j per pound in the wholesale price of roasted coffee was made today, the second reduction this far, and there is a margin yet of four or five cents, it is said, before rock-bottom prices can be reached; that is the price at which a bare margin of profit can be made by the roasters, if any at aIL TREATY IS COMPLETED Arbitration Agreement Ready for Congress. US SATISFACTORY TO ENGLAND Certain Senat rs >Tay Opp He It on Account of Oli!f>v» Attitude on the Cuban Question. Washington, Dec. 25. —There ia no onger any doubt that the general arbi tration treaty between the United States and Great Britain ia practically jompleted to the satisfastion of both governments, and that its presentation ;o oongress may be expected in the lear future. Several minor amend ments have been suggested and accept jd from time to time during the prog ress of the negotiations, but it is now jonfidently believed the copy which «ras forwarded to Lord Salisbury by 3ir Julian Pauncefote about a week *go will at once receive the formal ap proval of the British premier and be returned to Washington in time to be presented to the senate for ratification immediately on the reassembling of congress after the holiday recess. As already outlined, the life of the treaty purposely is made very short— anly five years—but this is with the ex pectation of a renewal for a longer period if it shall prove to work well, md also to afford easy opportunity for amendment. Its purpose is to dispose peaceably and honorably of such ques tions as arise between the United States and Great Britain as will not idmit of adjustment by the ordi nary methods of diplomacy, exclud ing questions involving the national honor. The personnel of the arbitra tion commission is to be of the highest jharacter—men selected from the ju- Siciary of each country in equal num bers, three from each side, and pro vision is made against a failure through \ tie vote by the bringing in of an um pire. Neither the Venezuela question nor the Behring sea issue is to go before this commission, but its first work probably will be to close up the Alaska boundary controversy and some other Dpen issues of minor interest, but real importance. Unlike the Venezuela boundary ar rangement, this treaty must go to our senate for ratification, and the house sf representatives will also have an opportunity, indirectly, to pass judg ment upon it, for legislation will be necessary to provide the means to main tain the commission. The fate of the project in congress jan only be conjectured at present. Some fear is expressed that the issue made by Secretary Olney over the Cu ban question may somewhat jeopardize this crowning piece of diplomacy by inciting criticism and the display of ill feeling on the part of some senatois who feel their prerogatives have been invaded. It is known alao that other jenators favorable to the project of ar bitration have their own peculiar ideas ibout means, which they may attempt to carry out by amendments to the treaty. If these are of small import ance, they may be acjepted by the British government, but the whole great project of a general arbitration treaty is one which diplomats feel must be entered upon with the greatest cau tion, and the agreement so fir effected aas been achieved with such difficulty ■ that any considerable departure from the scheme proposed by the amendments possibly could lead to the failure of she treay and thus give a formidable setback to the whole movement. "X" RAY IN COURT. %. Photograph That Proved Damaging to the Defense. Chicago, Dec. 25.—A Roentgen-ray photograph, showing the picture of a 3kull and the different bones and an imbedded bullet, provided valuable tes timony in Justioe Kehoe's court at the Desplaines-street station. Frank Du gan, 363 Park avenue, was the defend ant. The charge was preferred against bim by Thomas Talyor of assault with intent to kill. The night of December 10 a quarrel jccurred, during whioh Taylor struck Dugan. The latter drew a revolver and shot Taylor in the left side of the head near the temple. Taylor went to the office of a physician, who dressed the wound, but was unable to find the bullet. Taylor's testimony wis unsupported when he appeared in court, and when the defense put in the claim that no shots had been fired during the encoun ter, and that Dugan had only struck Taylor on the side of the head with the revolver, it appeared that no case had been made out. City Attorney Ingram introduced W. C. Fuchs, who said he had taken an "X" ray photograph of Taylor's head a few days after the alleged shooting took plaoe and had discovered the bul let near the left temple. The photo graph showing a full-sized head of Tay lor was then shown to the court The features of Taylor are visible, and a round black spot marks the place in the man's head where the bullet now lies. . Justioe Kehoe, at the suggestion of Prosecutor Ingram, allowed the intro duction of the photograph as evidence. Floods in Northern Greece. Athens, Dae. 25.—Great floods in Northern Greece have been caused by an overflow of the Salambra river. Enormous damage has been done, vil lages have been inundated and a num. ber of persons have been drowned. Drown- d in Sicilian Flood*. Cantania, Sicily, Deo. 25.—Heavy rains have flooded the valley of the Simto river, and much damage has re sulted. Bight persons were drowned. HOLD-UP IN BLUE CUT. Daring Work of Train Robbers Near Kansas City. Kansas City, Dec. 25. —Blue cut, made historic through the operations there of the James and Younger bands, when they were pioneers in the train robbing business, was the scene tonight of its fourth hold-up by road agents. At 9:20 o'clock tonight, the St. Louis and Chicago express, which left Kansas City at 8:45, was flagged at Blue cut, and came to a standstill. Masked men immediately covered the engineer and fireman and compelled them to get down from their cab. At the same time another member of the band uncoupled the express-car from the rest of the train. The robbers quickly climbed aboard the locomtive and express-oar and before the sur prised trainmen had time to collect their wits, tae bandits were speeding down the steep grade beyond Blue cut, with the engine and express-car. The express-messenger, A. J. Frier, of St. Louis, was a prisoner in the express oar. When they had gone a safe dis tance the robbers halted and proceeded to rifle the contents of the express-car. They forced the messenger to give up the keys of the smaller safe, and open ing it secured several packages of money. They then attempted to blow up the larger safe with dynamite, but on being told by the messenger that it contained no valuables, they desisted. They then boarded the engine and went about two miles down the track where they abandoned it and made good thbir escape, having secured sev eral thousand dollars. When the robbery became known at Independence, a posse of county officers set out for the scene of the hold-up, and at midnight, County Marshal Kesh lar was arranging to send out a fcrce of officers from Kansas City. It was at Blue cut in 1881 that the James gang held up a Chicago & Alton express train, and made one of the big gest hauls in the history of train-rob bing. A few years later, another big tarin-robbery was committed at the same place, and two months ago to night, on October 25, a hold-up at Blue cat occurred. The men who planned the robbery in October were novices, and got nothing. Two mem bers of the gang have since been arrest ed, and are in jail. FOUNDERED IN THE GULF. Many Lives Lost in a Bark OH' Vera Cruz. San Diego, Cal., Dec. 5.—A terrific storm occurred in the gulf of Cam peche on the 11th and 12th of this month. Among other casualties re ported is the wreck of the bark Jamaica with twelve passengers and moat of the crew lost. She was bound from Campeche to Vera Cruz, and had a val uable cargo and some treasure aboard. She encountered a norther on the night of the 11th, but got through until the afternoon of the next day, all'the time working we&tward toward Vera Cruz. So long as the ship remained in good condition she scudded before the wind toward Vera Cruz., and at one time that port was sighted, but one accident after another occurred to the rigging, finally making it impossible to live in the enormous seas. With almost all the sails blown away tne Jamaica re turned and attempted to back into Campeche, but without success. In the afternoon of the 12th the rud der became disabled, throwing the ves sel at the mercy of the storm. The passengers took up the boats, which were repeatedly swamped. Most of the crew simply p"ut on life preservers and jumped into the sea. The captain was one of these. He strapped 100 Mexican dollars on him and, clinging to a barrel, tried to reach shore. The survivors saw him sink owing to the weight of the metal. The sight was a terrible one as one passenger after another sank, the boats proving unmanageable. The crew was all drowned, and only three men and a boy of the passengers escaped. The vessel sank soon after she was aban doned. The wreck occurred off the port of Dos Rayas, Tabaco. Tramp 3d Across The Continent New York, Dec. 25 —Mrs. Estby and her daughter, Clara, aged 19 years, the transcontinental pedestrians, com pleted the journey from Spokane to this city at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon. They left the Western city May 5, on a wager with a New York woman that they could cross the continent in less than seven months. The conditions of the wager were that each woman was to leave town with only $5 and earn their living en route. If auy siokness befell either, the time con sumed by it was to be abstracted from the total time. On the way across the continent they did housework, sewing, and sold photographs of themselves. At Lin coln, Neb., Mrs. W. J. Bryan fed them and bought photographs. In Ohio they called on Major and Mrs. McKinley. Spain's Warlike Preparations. London, Djc. 25 —A Rome dispatch to the News says: All indications here seem to prove that Spain has been preparing for the event of warlike com plications with the United States. The hurried manufacture of a large quan tity of cartridges has been ordered at Brescia, and four cruiser a have been ordered from the Ansaldo yards in Genoa. Colfax, Wash., Deo. 25.—The O. R. & N. Cos freighthouse, depot, shops, water tank, coalbankers, and about forty freight cars on sidetracks are in possession of the county treasurer and under guard, having been levied upon by him to enforce the collection of a debt for delinquent taxea of 1895. Busi ness is carried on with difficulty. Freight is loaded and unloaded on a box car on a switch. Engines are re iuiwu coal and water, and traffio is in terfered with in other wayi. WASHINGTON ROADS Commissioners File Their Annual Reports. .. VERY ELABORATE AND COMPLET Recommended Appropriations fox , Completion of State Road— Commissioner's Report. Olympia, Wash., Dec. 22.—The state road commissioners have filed their final report with the governor. It is very elaborate and complete, illus trated with photographs taken from different points in the mountains along the proposed Cascade road. Altogether the report does great credit to the com mission. The retiring board, believing that the state road should bo carried on to final completion on all its branches, has recommended the following appro priations: For widening into a wagon road of that part of the present four-foot road fom a point seven miles above Marble mountain to Gilbert Landre's cabin, to make the road available for heavy wagon traffic, $4,000. '* ? For improvement of the trail be tween Landre's cabin and Perstiall's cabin, 1000.. .. X--•.- —- --"-» Forj widening into a wagon road of the present four-foot road from Per sball's cabin, near Cascade pass, to the mouth of Bridge creek, including the construction of a bridge at the lat ter point, $2,200. _ For the construction of a wagon road from the mouth of Bridge creek to the head of Lake Chelan, $3,000. For the improvement of the trail from the mouth of Bridge creek to Twitsp pass, $1,000. For widening into a \ wagon road of the present four-foot roadway from the mining camp of Gilbert to the mouth of the Twitsp, including a bridge across Twit9p river, near the latter point, $2,500. For extending the wagon road. on the Colville Indian reservation from Crow's Nest, its present terminus, on Granite creek, to Eureka camp, $1,200. For the construction of a wagon road from Curlew lake,: on the Colville reservation, to the present term inns of the wagon road on Sherwood (or Dead- ; man) creek, $7,000. ' j Total appropriations recommended, '\ $21,900. The Washington state dairy commis sioner, in his report to the governor j for the year 1896, says, the past season ! has been one of , lower prices for dairy J products than any previous season, but! says further that when one considers | the general average low prices of all j farm products, it cannot be wondered at that dairy products should come in for their share of the general depres sion. Our markets have, however, maintained, except for a very short period, a generally higher average price : than in any of our neighboring pro- j ducing states. . - : O . , The question of competition with California and Oregon products, says i the commissioner, is a serious one. A 1 solution of the question of meeting this competition must be found with the understanding that it is impossible to keep this butter out when our mar kets warrant its importation, and this question will be a very hard one to ' grapple with. \, * - '■■'>',* I During the past year there have been > several new creameries and cheese fac tories started, the majority, however, being to a ceratin extent experimental in nature and necessarily small; but several with large capacities have been built ".V.-V-V.. ', .';.;. :.■ ■- .-r-/"' -• Following is an ; approximate esti mate of our imports: Butter, about 377,500 pounds; cheese, about 37,500, j bei*ig about one half the importation of i the previous year. The exports from j here to Alaska have been the means of ; relieving our markets at various times. With our increased trade in that terri tory and a probable demand from the Orient, the : outlook for the future is not without hope. . \ The total estimated value of our dairy products is $840,643. vv : The expenses of the commission for the year has been $3,595. ; ■ ? n The Cruiser Brooklyn. Philadelphia, Dec % 22.—The cruiser Brooklyn, which has been lying at League Island navy-yard i since going into commission four '} weeks ago, will start on her first official cruise next Saturday. f She will steam for the naval station at Newport, R. 1. After her torpedoes have been taken on board, the cruiser will proceed to Brooklyn where the citizens of that municipality will formally present to the ship a handsome silver § : service. After this ceremony and the | attendant festivities are ' concluded, the ship will go to Hampton Roads and join the At lantic squadron. ;\ : I .-:-' v Smelting Works to Start Up. , Kansas City, *P Deo. 22.—1t is an- ' nounced that the Kansas City Smelting ; & Refining Company's works, which for some time past have been operated with a reduced force, will > start -up January 1 in all departments. The ■ greatest number of men which have j ever been employed by the works, j namely 609, will :be exceeded by 100 hands. 1':/''''.^ ■ '•" •. '"'' .. : ' Police-officer Killed. Kansas : City, Dec. 22.—■ Patrolman j George W. Noah, the oldest man in 1 point of service on the Kansas City \ police force? was found dead in a gully j a mile from the city this morning. A j bullet had ; pierced his heart, and it is believed he was 3 killed in a fight while trying to arrest some one. : Of all the men, women and children in Great Britain every seventh person j is a depositor in the Postoffice Savings j bank.- BURNED TO DEATH Awful Fate of the Wife of a California Mining Engineer. : . San Francisco, Deo. 24.—C. W. Has kell, superintendent of the Savannah mine at Grog Gulch, in Madera coun ty, has arrived in this city with the re mains of his wife, who was burned to death last Thursday night. The body will be placed in a vault here prepara tory to sending it to New York city for burial in the Trinity church graveyard. The lady was a daughter of the late Dr. Livingstone, of New York, and a relative of the Vanderbilts and Kis ■ams. She was married five years ago in Denver to Mr. Ha§kell, who is a graduate of the United States naval academy at Annapolis, and was for a number of years connected with govern ment engineering work in various parts of the country. Mr. Haskell's * bands were badly burned in attempting to smother the fire in his wife's clothing. She had placed a candle on a box in the kitchen of the house and got upon .another box to get some cake and other food to pre pare a luncheon for 8 her husband and herself. The bottom of her clothing touched the candle, and' in a moment her dress was in a blazs. She ran screaming out into the yard toward her husband's office, where he was en gaged iwriting a letter. Seizing a blanket from a bed in the office, he ran to his wife's assistance and / tried to smother the blaze. He was only par tially successful in this effort, and only succeeded in extinguishing the flames with a bucket of water. . ,: He carried the dying woman into the house and attempted with the rem edies at hand to alleviate her agony, but she died twenty-four hours after the accident. WILL HANG FOR IT. j Two BfcCatm Brothers to Pay the Death Penalty. Olympia, Wash., Deo. 24.— more 1 names were today added to the list of names of men who must pay the death penalty at an early day in King county, the supreme court having affirmed the judgment of the lower court in the case of the state vs. Michael, James and John MoCann. Michael, the father, and John and James, sons, were charged with killing a man named Cicero, August 21, 1895. At the trial in the lower court, the fa ther was acquitted and the brothers were found guilty of murder in the first degree. James McCann a candi date for road supervisor, and Cicero opposed him, and j much bad blood ex isted between the families for some time preceding the crime. The morn ing of the 21st Michael picked a quar rel with Cicero, while the latter was working> on the road. s In the after noon, the MoCann boys renewed the quarrel, and James knocked Cicero down. Cicero went home and got a rifle. The two brothers followed. ' Cicero shot James in the arm, and they grappled, both falling. John dragged Cicero out and shot him in the head with a pistol. The defense made a strong fight in the ■ lower court, and i upon appeal raised many objections at every stage of the proceeding, from empaneling the jury to the charge by the trial judge. However, the court finds no error in the proceedings of the superior - court, and I affirms • the judg ment. In the opinion, written by Judge Scott, and; concurred in by all of the justices, the belief is expressed that there was sufficient evidence against Michael to warrant his con viction with his sons. J DRANK WOOD ALCOHOL. And the Wonder .is That Any of the Rascals Recovered. : Mattoon, 111., Dec. 24.—Two deaths, the result of alcoholism, have occurred, and several men are under the care of physicians,, and more deaths may be an- ; nounoed. A number of young men, ranging.; from 17 to 23 years of age, j and belonging to a club having rooms in a business block, started ■in on a holiday.celebration last Sunday. One | young man supplied the crowd with crude § alcohol, and \ the 1 youths com pounded a mixed drink of alcohol, wa ter, sugar and cinnamon drops. About half a gallon of alcohol was used, and several gallons of the mixture was con sumed. Some of the partakers became ! intoxicated, and yesterday ' John Mad- j ison - died. This evening Bert Well- j man died in convulsions. The investi-j gation of J the coroner's jury brought to | light that the alcohol; had been taken i from the Mattoon gas works, and is j what is known as wood alcohol, con- ! sidered to be a deadly poison if taken { in any quantity. Physicians express ! surprise that any of the young men sur vived. -"'"';. '-" •■'•'• '•-•'' ■'"•"': '. *' ■-'! ! —, , m By His Own Hand. . • : ;I Parsons, Kan., Deo. 24.— E. H. Hun-1 Backer^ chief train dispatcher of the ] Missouri, Kansas &;, Texas railroad \ here, committed * suicide today by shooting >■{•■ himself with j a revolver/:] He had been drinking to excess. ;,; j Let's take hold . hands;} Mr. Grocer, and dance! I -. We've got some beautiful business for you and with you; and for and with your customer. .- . *". ..J Schillings Best is the t tea. Pay every customer's money back that don't like; it We'll pay you. l^ There's money in it " 45chil'in|&Cpinpmay 199 I SaaFnacuc* PBICE 5 CENTS. NORTHWEST BREVITIES Evidence of Steady Growth and Enterprise. ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST From All the Cltlea and Towm of th« Thriving Sister States —Oregon. The sheep inspector of Benton coon* ty says there are very few soabby sheep in that couuty. Prominent men in Heppner say that they will build a telephone line from Heppner to Loug Creek, in Grant county, if they can arrange for a satis factory bonne. The legal complications that have so long arrested the operations of the Divilbiss quartz mill in Coos county, have finally been satisfactorily adjust ed, and the miners of the Johnson creek district will now have free use of the mill. Superintendent Morrison, of the Westeren Union construction d«part» ment, has finished receiving and sior ing at Flavel 2,000 poles for the main telegraph line between Astoria and Portland. It required two acres on which to stack this material. While leveling off the grounds about the house on his Blind Slough ranch, in Clatsop, Martin Impo found buiried two feet in the earth an Indian stone weapon, shaped like a ship's marlin epike, having a hole bored through the handle, which had evidently been made by a stone implement, says the Astorian. Some very old residents claim that Rogue river was up where the Grant's Pass depot now stands in 1862. The river bed has deepened and widened very much since then, and there is very little probability that it will ever overflow its left bank again. The winter of '62 made gulliea and gulches where all was level before. Fully 100 men are hard at work along the Alderbrook water front cut ting wood for their winter's use, sayi the Astorian. During the recent freshet hundreds of cords of wood, and about 2,000 shingle bolts from the Cowlitz river were thrown upon the beach. It was an interesting sight to see these men cutting huge logs into stove-wood lengths, and rolling them np the beach to their home?. They used a large instrument like a pair of ice tongs with which to drag the logs along. Fisher and William Logan, brothers, were caught out in the cold snap of last month in Crook county, while driving cattle. They left their cattle and tried to reach the cabin that was their des tination, but, thinking they could not find it, they built a fire under a rim* rock end remained there all night. It was the coldest night, and others who were out say it was thirty-four degress below zero. The men made them selves as comfortable as they oould. They had no blankets, and while sit ting around the fire both fell asleep, and after awhile young Logan waa awakened by his clothes catching on fire. On waking np he found that both of his feet were frozen. They also discovered when daylight came that they were in sight of the cabin. Washington. There are said to be fully 500 cafes if measles reported and unreported in Walla Walla. The Northern Pacific Railway Com pany paid $9,008.60 taxes into the Lewis county treasury last week. Burglars attempted to open the safe in the office of Indian Agent Erwin, at Fort Simcoe, one night last week, but failed to get away with anything of value. The United States revenue cutter Bear has been taken to Quartarmaster harbor to be put on the drydook for re pairs to her hull. A $5,000 contract has been let, and extensive repairs are to be made. Work will be resumed at the Cowee man shingle mill, in Cowlitz oounty, «i soon as the water recedes sufficiently to permit of it Attorney Fisk will have charge of the plant. It is the inten tion of the company to pay off all claims as soon as possible. A mandamus sued out to compel the commissioners of Jefferson county to make a special levy to pay certain road warrants was quashed last Saturday at Port Townsend. The effect of the de cision is thought to be to invalidate the road warrants issued under the law ol March 7, 1890. It is estimated that to build the tele pohne line from Eastern Washington to Puget sound points it will take 16, ---000 poles, 1,884 miles of No. 10 bard drawn copper wire, 15,000 cross-arms and braces and 82,000 pins and insu lators. The estimated cost of material and labor is $72,000. The Washington Mining Company has been incorporated for $1,000,000. The stock is divided into a million shares of the par value of $1 eaoh. The trustees for the first six months are J. Lynch Montgomery, of New York; Ralph L. Clarke and T. E. Jefferson, of Spokane, and John L. Retallack, of Kaslo. The last season's work at Hall <fc Bishop's logging camp, in Clallam county, is one to be proud of. At the beginning of the year two miles of rail road were put down, and einoe then the loggers have been busy getting out logs. The season's cat amounted to 7, ---000,000 feet, most of which was towed to Hadlock, and from there was dis tributed to different points on the Sound and British Columbia. Forty men were employed in the camp throughout the year, at an average of $2 60 per da - *