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VOL. VII. NO. 23. \i\VS OF THE WEEK From all Parts of the New and Old World. BRIKF AND INTERESTING ITEMS Comprehensive Review of the Import' ant Happenings of the Gar- • '■' rent Week. The Minnesota state board of par donS refuses to pardon the Younger brothers. The National Republican League co« --tention met in Detroit. Delegates were present from nearly all the states XI),. departure from Portland of the British ship Glenelvan brings the grain fleet for the present season up to 77 vessels compared with 68 the year be fore. Ad vices from Constantinople indicate that the sultan is obdurate regarding trie acceptance of the peace proposals. Edhem Pasha is hastening back to Do mokos, and the furloughs of all Turkish officers have been canceled, in readiness for a renewal of hostilities. vices from the south of France )iow that the destruction by. the floods there was greater even than earlier re ports indicated. The losses are esti mated at 200,000,000 francs in the aggre gate. Hardly a village has escaped damage, and the number of persons drowned is nearly 800. . | E. M. Waite, about 70 years old, who was the oldest printer in Oregon, dropped dead in Salem. The printers were to play the barbers a game of baseball. Waite carried a printer's towel as a banner for the printers in the parade. He fainted from the heat ami never regained consciousness. The parliamentary South African commission, which has been inquiring into the Transvall raid, has agreed upon its report. The report will ex press an emphatic opinion that what ever justification there might - have been for action on the part of the peo ple of Johannesburg, there was none whatever for Cecil Rhodes' conduct in subsidizing, organizing and stimulat ing an armed insurrection against the government of the Transvaal. " Henrique Laulley, Portuguese vice consul at .San Francisco, is at Monterey, Cal., at the request of the Portuguese minister at Washington to make a thor ough investigation regarding, the dis tnroance over the hauling down of the Portuguese flag from the pole i; above Manuel Ortin's grocery store and the homing of the flag. Ortin'slnot&ca tinn to the minister at Washington re sulted in the investigation. \ Laidley declares if the affair is not satisfactorily explained the Portuguese government will demand an apology from the Unit »ed State?. Deports from the North say the Al aska Commercial Company's steamer Arctic was crushed by ice. - .. . The International Gcldmining con tention at Denver selected Sal Lake City as its next meeting place. By the explosion of a lamp Samuel W. Brown, a miner, and his s wife, Mary, were burned to death in bed at Pittsburg. Five thousand wrought nail workers of South Staffordshire and V North Worcestershire have struck for 10 per cent advance in wages. Preparations are on foot in Dublin for the Parnell anniversary demonstra tion in October, and it is believed this jear it will be larger than ever.,. ,\ .yV-? t The British government has notified the collator of customs at Vancouver that no duty Kill be charged on salmon brought from the United States. v ; The statement of the Bank of Spain, which has been formally gazetted,: has increased the adverse comment on the bank management. It shows a note circulation of 136,000,000 peaatasin excess of the authorized issue. • „ --, Fully 900 men are employed on the ''ranch line from Sloeao, crossing to Slocan lake. About 450 men are on each end of the line working toward the center, and the contract require! that grading be concluded by October 15. !t is expected that trains will be run over the road by December 1. : Twelvo wiles of wagon road have been complet ed from the crossing inland. v : The difficulty growing: out of the fourHiary dispute between Costa Rica an'l Nicaragua is nearing the point liere diplomacy and arbitration xwill f* out of the question. The boundary commission appointed "by ex-President Cleveland shortly before he relin quished his office has suspended work for two months to watch the actions of k°th sides before proceeding further. :^ What is said to be the greatest j oil discovery ever made is reported from Alaska, Some gold prospectors several Months ago ran across what { seemed to be a lake of oil. The lake was fed by Innumerable springs, and the eurround ing mountains were full of coal. They "ought samples to Seattle t and ; tests Proved it to be of as high grade as any *Ter taken out of Pennsylvania wells.; f l is said there is enough oil and coal in the discovery to supply the world. li 's close to the ocean; in fact, expert* :&i that the oil oozes out into the salt ■water. : . . „ . The ninth session of the trans-Mia sissippj commercial congress is being **eltl in Salt Lake. Every state and ter ritory west of the Mississippi river will lbe "' '. .';." '. A statement prepared at the mint bu reau shows the number of silver dollars at the Unit*! States mints dur laß the fiscal year was 81,901,701, oa *>eh the seigniorage, or profit to the Jjwernment. 'amounted to $6,836,104. Ahe profits have been turned into tho treasury from time to time, the coin* He progressed. THE ISLANDER DEADLOCK ON TARIFF. Joint Conferees Are Still Far From an Agreement. Washington, July 16.—The tariff conferees found themselves today ap parently further apart than at the be ginning of the conference. There was no immediate prospect of agreement, and more than one member stated that the entanglement was such that settle ment might be indefinitely prolonged. They stated, in a very reserved man ner, that there are numerous questions of difference, but refuse to go into de tails, even to other senators and mem bers. Nothing can be settled, although there have been partial agreements, un til sugar, lead and lumber are definitely disposed of. The best reports represent the house conferees, with Speaker Reed behind them, as holding out for the house sugar schedule, without any change whatever, and the senators are quite determined not to yield to this extent. The house conferees insist that this schedule must be definitely fixed before other questions shall be again taken up. One of the questions of secondary importance, upon which sharp differ ences have arisen, is the senate amend ment for a stamp tax on stocks and bonds. The house members opposethe amendment but the senators, while not wedded to it, insist upon it as necessary for revenue. The representatives also resist strenu ously the 20 per cent duty placed ujkhi hides, and at the same time persistently hold out for a restoration of gunny bags, cotton ties, etc., to the dutiable list. A senator who talked with some of the conferees said: "They are in a deadlock, and they are tied up all along the line. It looks as if the situation must remain un changed for a week,*' THE TREATY OF ANNEXATION. Senate Committee Will Report a Reso lution for Its Ratification. Washington, July 16.—The senate committee on foreign relations today agreed to report a resolution for the ratification oi the Hawaiian annexation treaty without amendment. Ot the 11 members of the committee seven were present. Those present were Davis, Cullom, Foraker, Clark, Morgan, Tur pie and Daniel, and of these, all but Turpie and Daniel cast their votes for the resolution for ratification, Sena tor Frye's vote was also cast in that interest by Senator Davis, Mr. Frye having left instructions to this effect. Senators Daniel and Turpie did not take a positive stand in opposition to the treaty, but both expressed the opin ion that it was not expediennt nor con sistent with the vast importance of the subject that the treaty be pressed to immediate consideration, and that if the senate was not to take the subject at the present session, the better course woul be to leave it in committee until the senate should be prepared to pro ceed with its consideration. Turpie expressed himself as inclined to favor the treaty, but said be thought it should be amended. He, however, withheld his amendments on the sug gestion that the majority would oon sider it preferable to have the amend tnents offered.in the senate. A RESERVOIR BURST. Five Persons Were Drowned and Two or Three Are Missing. Poughkeepsie, N. V., July 16.— The two large reservoirs in the Fish kill mountains, which supplied water to the towns of Matte wan and Fishkill, burst their walls at 2 o'clock this morning, and the water that was released swept through the Duchess valley, causing ruin and death. Five bodies have been taken from the wreckage left in the wake of the flood and there are known to be two and probably three more lying somewhere beneath the piled debrjf. The flood washed away 200 yards of the Hudson River railroad track. There were two reservoirs in the mountains, the lower one a mile dis tant from the other. The upper one gave way, letting a volume of water into the"ravine. The Van Buren and Timonin brickyards on the Hudson, just below Dutchess Junction, are a mile distant from the site of the lower reservoir. Without warning the flood reached them through the ravine and made general havoc. Buildings were torn in pieces and the occupants car ried away in the raging flood. JOHN F. CAPLES NAMED. The Portland Attorney for Consul at Valparaiso. Washington, July 16.—The president today sent the following nominations to the senate: W. L. Merry, of California, to be minister to Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Salvador. . _ H. N. Allen, of Ohio, to be minister resident and consul-general to Korea. For United States consuls names were sent in for 24 different cities, in cluding John F. Caples, of Oregon, to be consul at Valparaiso, Chile. Charles M. Webster, of Montana, to be collector of internal revenue for the district of Montana.. In the executive session of the senate there was a general agreement to take up the contested nomination of M. H. McCord to be governor of Ariaona. These confirmations were made: Lieutenant-colonels to be colonels — G. V. Henry, Third cavalry; L. H. Car -1 penter, Seventh cavalry; S. B. M. Young, Fourth cavalry; J. M. Bacon, First cavalry, and the list of cavalry promotions sent to the senate yesterday-. At a meeting of the Royal Botanic Society, it was stated that Bereral of the ftreets of Baeingrtoke, England, had had to be repaved owing to the 1 flagstones being forced oat of position i by an undergrowth of fungi. FRIDAY HARBOR, SAN JUAN COUNTY, WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1897. Iff BE SETTLED SOON Good Prospects of Bringing Strike to an End. DE ARMITT COMES TO TERMS Joins the Other Operators for a Settle ment on a True and Uni form Basis. Pittsburg, July 16.—The prospeot for a settlement of the great miners' strike is brighter tonight than at any time since the struggle began. The cheer ing announcement is made tonight that ! W. P. De Arniitt, president of the New York & Cleveland Gas Coal Company, ■ whose 1,200 men have been constantly I at work, and without whose assistance I the success of the movement would have | been jeopardized, has agreed to join the other operators for a plan of settlement of the strike on a true and uniform basis. This result has been brought about by the efforts of the members of ! the joint committee, who have been working assiduouslcy to this end since the meeting with President De Armitt yesterday. This afternoon they called I on De Armitt and submitted their plan, to which he agreed. Then thecommis ' eion met the miners of this district, and the proposition also received their ap- I proval. Under the terms of the agree ment, Mr. De Armitt consents to sign I a contract which will bring about a con dition of true uniformity in the Pitts burg district, according to the plan formulated, but which failed 18 months 1 ago. General Little, of the Ohio board of arbitration, said tonight if the plan is i carried out it will not only affect Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, but will be a bar ; rier against recurring troubles. No disturbances of any kind occurred durjng the day, and quiet reigns in all parts pf the district. Depends on De Aniiitt's Miners. Cleveland, July 16.—The fate of the great coal strike depends upon the ac , tion of the miners in President De Ar mitt's mines, say local operators. Un ! til the strikers succeed in inducing I these men to come out there can be no coal famine, and failure to close these | mines means a loss of supremacy in J districts which the strikers now control, i In the action pf the strikers yesterday, these operators whp have persistently | refused to concede the possibility pf the 1 strikers attaining their end found much encouragement, CRISIS IN CUBAN AFFAIRS, Fate of the Insurrection About %o Be Determined. Washington, July 16,— Maximo Go mez has changed radically his plan of campaign. A letter from him was re ceived in Wa«hington today, Hereto^ fore the commander of the army of ; liberation has waged a waiting war, i But for reasons which seem good to him, the leader of the insurgents has pow adopted an entirely different policy. "It mast be settled quiokly," General ' Gomez says, speaking Pf the war. He tells that it is his purpose to force a crisis as speedily as possible. To this end he has left the scene of bis long delay near La Reform a, on the eastern edge of Santa Clara province, made his way across Santa Clara and Matanzas provinces, and is now within Havana I province. He intimates that he re j zards some quick, bard blows in the j vicinity of Havana as vital to the cause, I and that he will direot them in person. The letter was received by an officer of the insurgent army who came to j Washington recently. Its contents I cannot be made public further than has been indicated. They are not in j terpreted as altogether encouraging by j the receiver, but rather as showing the j near approach of a desperate situation, ' a crisis in Cuban affaire, The officer , in receipt of the letter from Gomez will leave at once for the island. He be j lieves the fate of the insurrection is about to be determined. The feeling that the immediate fu ture is to produce results in Cuba is I shared by the administraiton. Within ! the last few days three American con suls on the island, located at Matanzas, i Sagua and Santiago de Cuba, have asked for leaves of absence. Under ordinary circumstances the requests would be i granted. Mr. Barker, the consul at Sagua, has not been away from his post in three years, and has been urged by his physician to take a vacation for reasons of health. But the state de partment has notified all of these con suls that it is not compatible with pub lic interests to grant leaves at the pres ent time. I Consul-General Lee was fully expect ed to come to this country in July. It is stated that he will not leave Havana now because of the possible develop ! ments. - Hussars Mistook the Orders. Paris, July 16.—A special dispatch from Nancy, capital of the department of Meurthe el Moselle, shvs that during 1 the maneuvers of cavalry there yester -1 day the hussars mistook the orders, with the result that two squadrons dashed j upon one another. Dozens of troopers were felled to the ground insensible, many had legs or arms broken, or sus tained serious injuries. One was killed. > The Accident to the Impwor. Berlin, July 16.—The public is still greatly excited by the news of the in jury to the emperor on bis yacht. A special report has been issued giving details of the accident It says a heavy piece of canvaßS fell from the mainmast laud was blown aft, striking the em peror edgewjse on the head. He wm wearing only an ordinary naval cap »t the time. At the same moment a piece of rope ■truck him in the eye. The emperor, according to the report, is now i improving rapidly. OREGON OFF FOR HAWAII. Th« Administration Thinks a Battle- Ship Is Needed There. . ■-' . New York, July 14.—A special from Washington says: ; ' :"~"':-:'':x~. ; J Recognizing the gravity of ; ; Japan's attitude toward Hawaiian annexation, the administration has decided to bend the big battle-ship Oregon to Honolulu j to relieve the cruiser Philadlephia and the old corvette Marion, now stationed there. The orders were issued by the navy department Monday. . The Marion returns home at " once and ncr instructions will ;go to Hono lulu by the steamer leaving San Fran , cisco July 17. The Philadelphia is in I a very unserviceable condition in conse puence of her long anchorage in semi tropical waters. The Philadelphia will remain at Honolulu, however, until the Oregon reaches there, and perhaps longer. . It has been intended by the navy de- j partment for some time to send the cruiser Balitmore to Honolulu, but it will take longer to make repairs than ! was expected at first, This unexpected i postponement of her assignment to the islands has served a good purpose in al lowing the navy department to send the ! Oregon, one of the most formidable ships in the service,: without giving Japan an opportunity of construing this action as a display of unfriendliness on the part of the United States, In detaching both the Philadelphia and the Marion, the navy department ! will not weaken its naval force at Hon olulu. The Oregon is more formidable | than both, and oabable of combating ! any vessel in the Japanese navy. She , ( is so far superior to the Japanese orui- : { ser Naniwa, now at Honolulu, that com parison is out of the question. How Japan will view the assignment j of the Oregon to Hawaiian waters re- ' mains to be seen, but it is certain that if other vessels are sent to support the •' Naniwa the United States will respond ! | in a vigorous manner that will leave no doubt as to the determined policy of the administration that foreign conn- ! tries must keep their hands off Hawaii. _ CREEDE IS DEAD. ; ' Millionaire Mlneowner Committed Sui ■ . . . cide at Los Angeles, ; ;• ■ Los Angeles, July 14. —Nicholas i Creede, the millionaire minepwner, af- j ter whom the town of f Creede, Colo., | was named, committed suicide with morphine this evening, at his home in this city, because his wife, from whom . he had been : separated, insisted upon renewing their marital relations. | On January 4 last,' Creede and his j J wife separated and agreed to dissolve at , once, as far as possible, without legal , | proceedings, j Mrs. Creede accepted i 20,000 cash and surrendered all fur- j ther claims upon her husband, at the . ' same time voluntarily withdrawing | from the premises. "It was understood after (he necessary time had elapsed, j . Creede would institute legal proceed- . ings arid begin suit for absolute divorce. J At that time it appeared that both hus band and wife were well satisfied that i they were not required to maintain in* j timate relations, and while Mrs, Creede | coohsidered the amount of oash settled , upon her was insignificant as compared with her husband's wealth, she left him and took up her home in Alameda. ] About three weeks ago she returned to • Los Angeles and proposed to her hus band a reconciliation. This was much to Creede's distaste, and he endeavored to avoid his wife, but, being unsuccess ful, he | determined to end his life. This evenning he \ took a large dose of morphine and went into the garden to die. ,He was discovered by a servant, | and medical aid was summoned, but he died two hours after, " | ! Mrs; Creede was notified of her hus band's death, but declined to discuss the tragedy. 1 The 2-year-old child of j Edith Walters Walker, adopted by ' I Creede over a year ago, is in the care of his friends at Escondido, Mrs. Creede declaring she would ; riot \be bothered I with I the child when she separated from her husband. . An Englishman Borrowing Trouble. * London, July 15.—The Globe, com menting upon Japan's attitude toward t Hawaii, says: ./'-':;:.- ■" .. /;: : '.'.-I j "The Japanese know the strength of the American .navy and are | perfectly.| I aware of their own superiority. It does not require the knowledge of an expert to foresee that in an ocean conflict the { United States would make a poor show ing. It is morally certain that the Jap- j anese * ships would ravage the Pacific coast of the United States, should that | country once become involved in hostil- . ities with Japan. In that event Spain : would have an; opportunity of which she would hardly fail to take advan tage." : ■ --;.V- .: V"_:,j '-':_■ . ', Rioting Begins in Danville. • I * Danville, 111., July 15.—The strife '•', between . the miners commenced in this district tonight. About 400 or 500 i Belgians gathered at the Pawnee mine, i and, when a cage full of colored min ers who had been at work reached the ; top of % the i shaft, they were assaulted with ;different? kinds of weapons, some i using knives and others staves. - One ■ of ;v" the colored miners secured a revolv- j er and defended \ his life. Shots were j U fired, wounding several strikers. ■_'. This » infuriated the 4 striking miners, and they retaliated by an exchange of shots, at the ' same : time retreating to the r- woods. It is reported that one miner was killed. , • ,; " : Sadden Death of John Wiley. Seattle, July 15.—John Wiley, presi dent of the board of regents of the uni versity of Washington, a prominent attorney, and one of the leaders of the | silver cause in this state, died today of ! pieuro-pneumonia. : I ■ ■ _ S i A St. Louis woman had a guardian appointed for her husband on proving that be spent all of his pension money $80 —every month for patent medi jdntt. "MAKE GOOD PROGRESS" Anxiety to Reach Complete Agreement. EXTRA EFFORTS OF CONFEREES Several Hundred Minor Amendments Agreed Upon and Others te Be Compromised. Washington, July 13.—Both the bouse and the senate conferees appear satisfied with the progress that has been made. Several hundred of the minor amendments have been agreed upon, many of them mere changes of phraseology, and on a large majority of them the house conferees naturally have yielded. None of the real import ant problems in the bill, however, have as yet been solved. All of them have received more or less considera tion, and there has been a free ax ohange of opinion. The temper and disposition of the senate and house con ferees on these important matters have in this way been ascertained. In sev eral cases the conferees are very close to an agreement. Both sides show a commendable spirit of conciliation, and, while in each instance each side seems to be holding out strongly for its contention as to rates*, there has not yet appeared on the horizon anything which portends suoh difficulty as would not in time be surmounted. There is the best of reasons for be lieving that several of the main points of contention will be compromised. This is especially to be believed of lum ber, hides and wool, and possibly sugar, though on the latter the house confer oes are standing particularly firm for their schedule. On the subject of reciprocity the drift of opinion seems to be in the di rection of a substitute. Certain of the house provisions—that is, the list of articles that can be used as a basis of reciprocity treaties—will be broadened, but \he senate provision requiring the ratification of the treaties will be dis carded. Several of the eminent lawyers in both branches of congress question the constitutionality of the power con ferred on the president by the senate reciprocity provision. The stamp act on bonds and stocks provided for in one of the senate amend ments has not yet been affected. The revenue that will be furnished by it furnishes a strong argument for its ac ceptance in view of the heavy anticipa tory importations, and there is talk of widening its scope so as to include a tax pn actual transfers, but on all recorded sales, The necessity of revenue also fur nishes a strong argument for the resto ration of the house rates on imported tobacco. It is impossible to estimate yet when a final agreement will be reached, and, although various dates are given as to the length of time the bill will remain in conference, ranging from tomorrow to a week from tomorrow, one of the most influential of the conferees said tonight that all arrangements were pure guesswork. He says the decision on matters of great importanoe in the bill were so interdependent that an ulti mate decision on one might involve a complete agreement on others, and that the final agreement might come at any time after the rest of the matters of secondary importance were out of the way. When the report is completed, it will at once go to the house, where it is not likely that more than one day will be allowed for debate. DRAGGED TO DEATH. Horrible Murder of an Aged Woman in New Mexico. Las Vegas, N. M., July 18.—Accord ing to a report received from La Cinta, on the Canadian river, Teodora Salas, 80 years old, was cruelly murdered by Antonio Lucedo, aged 18, and Teodoro Lafoya, aged 22. It seems that La foya's sister had been ill for some time, and it was claimed that Salas, who was considered by the ignorant and super stitious natives of the neighborhood aa a bruaha, or witch, exercised her wits over the young girl. * Following the advice of his mother, Lafoya and his companion, Lucedo, fol lowed the old woman to a place about three miles from San Lorenzo, where, after being frightened, she was pre vailed upon to go back with them to the girl's house and cure her. They placed her on the saddle of Lucedo'sj horse, he mounting behind. After go ing a short distance, Lafoya pulled his pistol and killed the old woman's dog, which was following, saying that he had got rid of one witch and would now get rid of the other (the old wom an.) Thereupon, he threw a lasso over her, and, starting his horse, jerked her from the horse. He then instructed Lucedo to attach his lasso to her feet, and the two, starting their horses on the run, dragged the woman to death, not a ves tige of clothing being found on the body when discovered. After lingering around the place for a few days, the murderers disappeared. The mother of Lafoya was arrested, she having told the officers who called at her house that she had told her son and Lucedo to kill the old woman. Frank Smith's Sentence Coinmated. Boise, Idaho, July 13.—The board of pardons today commuted to life impris onment the * sentence of Frank Smith, ! who was sentenced to hang at Moscow, for the murder of Emil Fox, at Oen essee, in January, 1896. A Yellow Fever Quarantine. Madrid, July 13.—The government baa decreed quarantine against vessels arriving from Costa Rica ports, owing to the prevalence of yellow fever there, SWEPT TO HIS DEATH. Frederick Kirn Caught by an Avalanche Ob Mount Hood. Portland, Or., July 14.— Frederick Kirn, an Albina groceryman, met a fearful death on Newton Clarke gla cier, on the north slope <A Mount Hood, eysterday afternoon. In the ascent of the mountain he strayed from the path and was caught by a mass of sliding rock, which carried him 300 feet down the steep side of the mountain to the brink of a cliff, over which his body was plunged to the rocks, 400 feet be low. Kirn left Portland late last week, and reached Cloud Cap Inn. He asked Mr. W. A. Langille, of the inn, several quesitons about the ascent of the moun tain, declaring his intention to make it the following day. He declined the services of a guide. He had examined the road with his field glasses, he said, and would have no difficulty in follow ing it all the way up. He retired early and arose in the morning at 4 o'clock, drinking a cup of coffee before he started on the climb, whioh he did at 4:30, all alone. When at 5:30 yesterday afternoon Kirn did not return, Mr. Langille be came alarmed for his safety, and started in search of him. He soon found that he had good cause for his alarm. Kirn's trail could be easily fol lowed to within 700 feet of the summit. At this point it varies from the regular trail, which it had thus far followed, and led away to a treacherous, rock covered district near the head of New ton Clarke glacier. Here Mr. Langille discovered, to his horror, that the un fortunate man had been caught in a mass of sliding rook, which he had probably loosened with his feet, and had been carried with it swiftly to the brow of a precipice below, over which the furrows made in the snow by the small avalanche disappeared. Work ing his way cautionsly, and with the skill of the veteran mountaineer that he is, to the edge of the cliff, Mr. Langille saw the body lying among the loose rock far below at the mouth of the gla cier. Kirn's death had been swift and terrible. It was then 8:30 and growing rapidly dark. Mr. Langille, being all alone, could Hot bring the body back to the inn, and after nightfall would have had to take desperate chances even to reach it. Had there been any chance of the man's being alive, he would have taken the latter course, but no one could have survived such a fall an instant, He therefore returned to the inn and telephoned the news to the police sta tion. Captain Barclay, who was on watch when the message oame in, at once dispatched Partolman Velguth to Kirn's residence, 853 Albina avenue, to acquaint bis family with his fearful fate, -.;■■-' '-:-.' -'. '.-■ .. THE LAST SESSION. The Christian Endeavor Convention . Closed Its Labors. .;.. . San Francisco, July 14.—The last open sessions of the international Chris tian Endeavor convention were held to day. The attendance at the morning and afternoon meetings were large, and at night those who managed to obtain entrance to either of the pavillions in the evening were fortunate, for only 25,000 could be accommodated, and 10,000 more sought admission. Esti mates made by leading | business men agree that the people brough there by this great gathering will leave not less than $1,000,000 in our city. : All the leaders of the movement are pleased with the success of their efforts, and with the outlook for the future of the lociety. s .;.•'/■ ;'-..::';~-■--.. ■ • ! With the end of the convention the ! thousands of ; visitors, delegates and j others will take advantage of: the op portunity and the cheap rates to visit many places of interest throughout the state. Arrangements have been made for excursions to Monterey, Mount Hamilton, Yosemite, Santa Crua moun tains, Stanford university and other in teresting places, even taking in the Southern country as part of their jour« ney. -:'..:■'.,.."■ - .■'■■■ ■ ■ ■. •• •,., Salt to Eject Lieu-Land Settlers. Colfax, Wash., July 14.—The North ern Pacific j has ; begun ■ ejectment pro ceedings against J. D. Halliday, James W. Harper, Eli ;; B.■ • Spray i and 3R. H. Hibbs. The defendants are lieu-land settlers. Halliday and Harper live in Turnbow flat, near v Palouse and : Pull man. The complaint sets forth the same facts as in the Slaght case, in volving " the townsite of ? Palouse. It is understood that this is the beginning of ejectment suits to involve every lieu laad settler. : The settlers have banded together and will fight the case to the highest court Meetings have - been held, committees appointed and money subscribed for this ; : purpose. % Some of the land * has" been I settled for 20 yeari and is well improved. Forty Killed In a Collision. . Copenhagen, July About mid night, atGjentofte, an vexpress- train \ from Belsinger ran into a passenger train standing at \ the station, wrecked eight carriages, killed 40 persons, and injured many others. Most of the vic tims are of the artisan class. The dead and injured have been conveyed in am bulance trains to this city. The col lision was due to an error made by the •ngineer in reading the signal. Forty bodies were extricated. The number seriously injured is 84. - Lost With All oni Board. New York, July 14.—A special to the Herald from, Long Beach, L. L, ■ays: A single-matsed, sloop-rigged craft, on which it is supposed there were several persons, was caught in a terrific storm off: the coast and went down. Before the disaster the craft had been rocking wildly in the storm, its sails torn away, and aboot the last that witnesses on sliore saw was a sig nal of distress waring from tht boat Ihere is little doubt that all on board perished. PRICE 5 CENTS. NORTHWEST BREVITIES Evidence of Steady Growth and Enterprise. ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST ma AU tk« CltlM u< Tewas «f | the Thriving Slat** §tmU» —Ovegoa. - '.. v-'- ; ■.•"-;■ Edward Walker was killed near Bro naugh by a bucking horse. In Sumpter, Baker county, a man was knocked down and robbed of $150. Jacob Burckhardt fell in the river at the foot of Flanders street, Portland, V and was drowned. , An enterprising man named Long has put in a photo gallery, a newspaper and a steamboat at Woods. . :;(A v The Pendleton roller mills are grind ing about 2,000 buhsels of wheat every 24 hours, turning out daily 400 barrels of flour. x „ : J Goods to the amount of $633 were stolen from a store at Pleasant Hill. "0 Rewards aggregating $350 are offered for the apprehension of the thieves. The Eastern Oregon Association of Baptist churches held its annual meet ing at Adams. L. E. Penland, of Helix, was elected moderator, ami Rev. Hugh Miller, of Pendleton, was elected clerk. .-. v V--Z-V: The McKenzie wagon road across the Cascade mountains is " now free from snow, and in good condition for travel. Several thousand head of cattle have al ready been driven across the mountains on this road. - A band of sheep that were being driven to the Canyon creek range, back of Strawberry, in Grant county, ate some poisonous weed just before reach ing the range, and several hundred of - them died on the hillside. Denny pheasants -will be more numer- ; ous in the Willamette valley this year than ever before. The weather was fine for hatching and raising the first crop, now being cared for by the cocks, while the second crop is being hatched out ,--.; ; .--/■ ' --Y-.- ■.-•■'» . Pocahontas, an old Indian woman who has been • roaming up and down the coast from Rogue river to Humboldt for years, is reported to have perished while attempting to cross the moun tains from Crescent City to 'Happy Camp, on the Elamath river. She was caught in a snow storm. . ,■< -•, . r- h ■ For the scalps of gophers and squir rels, Marion county pays i 10 cents apiece for the former in quantities of 10, and 5 cents apiece for the latter In amounts of 20. For wildcats, $1 is the rate, coyotes $2 50, bear $1.50, and cougars $2.50. During the month of June the county treasurer paid out on this aooount about $192. Mr. Wilcox, of Eagle Lake, missed one of his cows a few days ago, and when he finally found her, he discov ered that she had adopted a young fawn, and was taking proper oare of it. A few days later she gave birth to a calf, and now the calf and fawn re ceive the game motherly attention. Washington. The Okanogan river is so low that navigation has been suspended for the season. There are 2,100 children of school age in Walla Walla, being an inoreaes ol 81 above the census of last year. The Washington State Philiologioal Soceity held its second annual conven tion in the state university at Seattle. Work on the new cannery building at Blame is advancing satisfactorily. A force of about 95 or 80 men is employed in construction. Ed McNeil, of Tumwater, has mad* a number of violins of Washington wood. The violins are said to be of excellent tone. The plat of township 24 north, rang* 11 west, has been placed on file in the Olympia land office, and the township thrown open for entry. George Brown was drowned in the Hoh river, Chehalis county. Indian! who recovered the body say he was seized and held under the water by mammoth crabs. John H. Walsh, of Oakesdale, has re ceived from the secretary of the navy his appointment as a cadet at Annapo lis. Emery Hathaway, ot Seattle, has been named as an alternate. William Chambers, 18 yean of age, was hunting a bob-oat that had been eatohing chickens on his father's ranch ■ear Asotin. In his eagerness to catch the animal he fell over a precipioe and was instantly killed. A number of men have visited West port and other points in Chebalis county lately, with a view to making estimates on the material advertised for the government Jetty work at the harbor mouth. The Great Northern shops at Bill yard are now employing a larger fore* than ever before. There are 189 mea obi the payroll, exclusive of the various clerks in the store department, seotiou men and numerous other employes. The two engines that rolled several haadrtd feet down a mountain side some weeks a§o, near Kalispell, have been put in the shops for general re pairs. The receipt! for the school fund at the oflce ef the land commission, in Olympia, for the quarter ending June to, aggregate $2t,241.10. The receipts ip>m Wb^man county alone for leases of sohool lands amounted to $6,000. The eitisnea of Anaoortes are some what hampered by took of bank facili ties through which to transact the large • amount of business that their new in dustries fnratah, sad it is probable that anew beak will soon be establish**)