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TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR.
NEED THE RELIEI
(Captain Ray's Report Outlines a
Very Serions Condition in
Klondike.
It Is So Bad the Matter Will
Again Be Laid Before
Congress.
Synopsis Telegraphed to the
War Department by General
Merriam.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—General Mer­
riam, under instructions from Acting
Secretary Meiklejohn of the war de­
partment, opened at Seattle the dis­
patches brought by Special. Messenger
Wells from Captain Ray, the depart­
ment's special representative in the
Klondike, and forwarded an abstraot oi
them to the department by telegraph.
Acting Secretary Meiklejohn was so
:much
impressed with the statements
wired that he submitted the dispatch
at once to Secretary Alger, who is now
convalescent at his home, and after
consultation between these officials, the
paper was sent over to the White House,
where it formed the subject of consid­
eration by the cabinet meeting. It
laid at the department that the reporc
of Captain Ray fully justifies all that
has been done by Secretary Alger and
Assistant Secretary Meiklejohn, under
the authority conferred by congress to
relieve the situation in the Klondike.
Worse Thau
WEM
Suspected.
The state of affairs in the Klondike
as thus revealed is worse than was sus­
pected at the war department, and in­
deed so large is the task that remains
to be executed, in order to ensure the
safety of life and property on the Amer­
ican side of the line alone, that the war
department officials have determined to
advise congressas to the factsand place
upon the legislative branch the duty of
devising ways and means to meet the
exigencies of the case.
OVER THE EDMONTON ROUTE
Party From Cliicaco Will Not Go the
Usual Way to Klondike.
CHICAGO, Feb. 2.—Thirty-one pros­
pectors, under direction of the Yukon
Valley Prospecting and Mining com­
pany, left for the Klondike in special
coach over the Chicago, Milwaukee and
St. Paul railroad. The party will pro­
ceed in a' Canadian Pacific tourist car
by way of Winnipeg and Calgary,
British America. It is expected the
trip will take four days. The overland
route with sledges by way of Edmonton
will be taken from Calgary. An outfit
of huge flat sleds, with 75 horses as the
motive power, waits to take the party
and its freight over the 1,000 miles of
snow and ice to its destination at the
headwaters of the Pelly river.
Kloudilte Fever at Dubuque.
DUBUQUE, la., Feb. 2.—Between 40
and 50 gold seekers will leave here for
Alaska within the next two weeks.
Two parties will leave. They will go
by way of Skaguay pass, without dogs.
A third party, from Clayton and Alia
makee counties, will also leave. A
party of 10 will leave here next Mon­
day for a point 600 miles north of Daw­
son City, with 12 dogs and will, go via
Chilkoot pass James Elwell of Cass
ville, Wis., who came down from the
Klondike last fall with $75,000, starts
Feb. 16, with a party of 25 and a oar
load of Dogs. _____
With Steam Snow Sled.•
SEATTLE, Wash., Feb. 2.—A party of
84 from Stamford, Conn., have arrived
%ihere and have purchased the schooner
Moonlight, on which they will sail
next Thursday for the month of the
Copper river. They have with them a
•now Bled with a 20-hprBe power
engine. The sled weighs abont 70 tons
and is propelled by a stern wheel fitted
with spikes to toatch in the ioe, with
paddles for snow.
Hekla Brought Reindeer.
T, NEW YOKE, Feb. 2.—The Thingyalla
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line steamer Hekla, which has arrived
vj-ftom
Copenhagen, Christiania, Chris-
'Ataansand, Shields, brought 85 reindeer
for the Klondike. The original ship
which seven
ment was 42 animals, of
died on the passage.
IOWA Parties Start 4sl
ELDORA, la., Feb. 2, —The first party
^of Eldora men to go to Alaska gold
fields left here headed by .William
Holly, a veteran miner.
ALLEGED PINE CONSPIRACY.
Commissioner Herman Replies to tbe
Charges of Rev, (illfllltan.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—Commissioner
Herman of the general land office has
submitted to the seci\ _.ry of the inte­
rim a report on the charges preferred
by Rev. J. A. Gilfillan, that a con­
spiracy exists with the object in view
of obtaining all the timber on the Chip­
pewa reservation in Minnesota at 50
cents per 1,000 feet, just as the large
lumber companies are now getting the
dead timber. The commissioner says
that no contracts have been entered
into between the Indians and outsiders
wherein less than $4.25 per 1,0D0 feet is
offered for the dead timber. Thirty
contracts entered into for logging have
been approved by the office, the price
obtained for the timber ranging from
14.25 to $5.75 per 1,000 feet.
MAKE MORE APPARATUS.
Stillwater Prison School Furniture Proven
to Hu opular.
STILLWATER, Minn., Feb. 2.—George
B. Alton, state inspector of high schools,
recently sent a letter to Warden Wolfer
asking that the state enlarge upon the
manufacture of high school apparatus
at the prison, and the board of prison
managers has acceded to his request
by giving the warden permission to
make such changes and employ the
help necessary. The high school ap­
paratus now manufactured at the prison
consists of sets, numbering 128 pieces
each, and they have given such satis­
faction that the scope of the factory
will be enlarged upon.
BAD FLAW IN THE MAIN.
Disaster to Duluth's New Waterworks
System,
DULUTH, Feb. 2.—A sensation of no
mean. order was developed during the
afternoon when it was reported on the
streets that the new force main of the
supplementary water system had flat­
tened out. .An investigation revealed
the fact that the rumor was true, and
that workmen had been busy all day in
the main strengthening it. This main
is the new one that has just been com­
pleted at a cost of $750,000. Just- how
much of the pipe is damaged has not
been ascertained.
VOORHIS SUCCEEDS GRIGGS.
President of the State Senate Now Gover­
nor of New Jemey*
TRENTON, N. J., Feb. 2.—Governor
Griggs 6ent to boih houses of the legis­
lature a communication giving notice
that he had filed his resignation with
the secretary of suite to take effect at
midnight. The two houses then passed
resolution providing that President
Voorhis of the senate should take the
oath of office as acting governor at once
and Chief Justice McKio administered
the oath. A concurrent resolution eulo­
gistic -of Governor Griggs was ulso
passed by the house and senate.
BOMB AT HAVANA.
The House of Ex-Mayor Diaz Partially
Wrecked.
HAVANA, Feb. 2.—At about midnight
a man named Luis Coro Lazo, who re­
cently returned to Cuba from the Af­
rican prisons, exploded a bomb at the
private residence of the Conservative
ex-mayor of Havana, Senor Miguel
Diaz. The noise of the explosion was
heard throughout Havana, although the
scene of the explosion was at Jesus del
Monte. The door was broken and a
large hole'was made in the house. The
Diaz family and those inhabiting
neighboring houses were panic-stricken.
Lazo drove to Jesus del Monte from
Havana! in a cab. He was captured
while attempting to escape.
Buys More Lumber Tarda.
MANKATO, Minn., Feb. 2.—The Lam.
pert Lumber company of this city has
bought out the five lumber yards of the
Hanson & Lampert company, which
goes out of business. Those yards are
located at Mankato, Sleepy Eye, Lam
berton, Lake Benton and Sanborn.'
The Lampert Lumber company now
has 13 yards in Southern Minnesota.
The capital stock was increased from
160,000 to $150,000.
Detective* Asked to
MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 2 A. P. Loomis,
Wilson's attorney in the recent mur­
der trial, has begun suit against In­
spectors Nick Smith and John P. Hoy,
each of them, to reoover $10,000 dam­
ages for their treatment of his client.
The complaints relate that Wilson was
compelled to have his picture taken,
and that oopieB were given to the pa­
pers as photographs of an alleged mur­
derer.
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Alice Neilson, the prima donna of
the Bostonians, was legally separated
from her husband, Beujnmin Nentwig,
by Judge Henry at Kans-is City.
COAST DEFENSES
Congressman Cannon Explains
That Ours Are in Very Good
Condition.
That Is the Reason the Appropri­
ation Bill was Cut to Four
Millions.
The More Important Ports Are
Now All Very Well
Protected.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—Chairman
Sannon of the house appropriations
committee has been asked to explain
how it was that the appropriations for
coast defenses this year were only
$4,144,012, whereas the estimates sub­
mitted by the war department were
three times that sum. In reply, he said:
"The coast defenses are now in much
better condition than the general pub­
lic is aware of. The last congress ap­
propriated nearly $17,000,000 for coast
GEORGE Q. CANNON.
defenses and with that sum the fortifi­
cations hnv been pushed rapidly and
wisely. Much less is appropriated now
because much less is needed from this
time on, unless there should bo some
special emergency.
Four millions will be about the
amount sot aside for coast defenses.
By the end of the next fiscal year, all
the great cities of the country adjacent
to open harbors will be in condition by
means of fortifications together with
submarine mines, torpedoes and the
navy itself. The original plan of coast
defense adopted by the Eudicott beard
provided l'or a total expenditure of
about $100,000,000. Since then we have
expended ab mt $40,000,000. Progress
in ginnery is so lapid that it would be
unwise to equip our fortifications fu
with expensive guns ami machinery
only to have them become out of dale
in a short time.
Can Knpel Invasions.
"We are now in a shape where we
can repel invasion at the great centers
of population and commerce. We have
not attempted to fortify small ports
which give access only to small blocks
of population. The general theory of
our coast defense must le to prevent
destruction of large commercial inter-'
ests and the levying of blackmail by
strong naval powers. ,The advance of
modern railroads, with which this
country is gridironed, has made it pos­
sible to concentrate large armies at
any given point on the coast upon
short notice. No foreign country would
attempt to bombard a harbor except for
the purpose of destroying a large city.
A landing at one of these small places
would be for the purpose of operation
by troops. Those operations we would
have to meet with the army, and the
enemy could make a landing in an ob­
scure inlet quite as well as in a harbor
front of a small city. With the $40,
000,000 already expended, and an addi­
tion of 10 per cent of that sum or less,
we can, and will, keep our commercial
ports free from danger, and that is the
proper policy for us to pursue in view
of the present condition of the treasnry
and the great demands of the public^
service."
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BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA FRIDAY, FEB. 4, 1898
Healthy Place torSaVe. 'v*
MANKATO, Minn., Feb. 2.—The vital
statistics for 1897 show 667 births and
214 deaths in Blue Earth county, and
347 births and 92 deaths in Mankato.
The death rate in this oity is less than
ight to the thousand of population.
Additional School Bonds.
DODGE CENTER, Minn., Feb. At''a
special .school meeting held here the
proposition to vote $5,000 additional
bonds for the new school house was
carried—87 to 28.
NEARING THE END.
The Ohio Senatorial Investigation la
About Over.
COLUMBUS, O., Feb. 2.—The investi­
gation into the alleged attempt to bribe
Representative Otis to vote for Senator
Hanna during the late senatorial con­
test is trapidly drawing to an end. The
committee held a brief session after the
senate adjourned. Attorney T. C.
Campbell was the only witness exam­
ined. He was recalled for the purpose
of allowing Senators Robertson and
Garfield, who were not present last
Friday
when Mr. Campbell was on the
swnd, to question him. Neither of the
senators, however, asked a question,
and the only queries were made by
Chairman Burke. Mr. Campbell told
o{ his personal relations toward Otis.
He said he had infrequently
V. Aeted as Attorney for Otis
awl always considered Otis a straight
forward* and honest man. Campbell
ctai&ed that he had been a supporter of
MoKinley in the presidential campaign
on account of his views on the tariff
and said he had made a speech in
Cooper Union hall for which the presi­
dent and Senator Hanna had both sent
him notes of thanks.
It is believed the committee will
complete its work this week and that a
report, or rather two reports, wiU be
submitted soon. Senator Garfield will
probably submit a minority report
while Chairman Burke will submit the
report for the majority.
TROUBLE FOR WINE GROWERS
Very Serlons State of Affairs Exists in the
California Market.
STOCKTON, Cal., Feb. 2.—The wine
growers of this state have a very se­
rious proposition staring them in the
face, according to Charles A. Wetmore,
tho prominent wine man of Stockton,
who has just returned from San Fran­
cisco with the information that a sale
of 240,000 gallons of wine has been
made by the Anglo-Californian bank,
to: the California Wine association.
The price paid for the bulk of the lot
waB 8 cents, and the balance, including
the choicest dry wineB and about 10,000
gallons of port, waa sacrificed at 9
cents. The 8 cent price represents a
valuation on ordinary wines ready for
shipment, which would be equivalent
to not more than 6 cents for similar
old wines in country cellars, and de­
ducting the cost of detention, rocking
and clarifying, it would represent a
vaulation for similar new wines in the
country of not exceeding 8 or 4 cents.
uiy dealers have anticipated a break
in prices and have kept out of the mr
ket, hop.ng to secure wines at almost
their own figures. The result is that
there is no sale for a liir^e quantity at
auy price. With millions of uolhr
invested in tho wiuo Lusiuess in the
state the producers are in a most pecu­
liar position, aa.l if they do not succeed
in checking the cut rates, Mr. Wetmore
declares they will have Do go out of the
business.
QUESTION OF JURISDICTION.
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State Luirs Govern tlio North Half or the
Colvilln Kuitervatioii.
SEATTLE, Wash., Feb. 2.—The doubt
hitherto existing as to whether criminal
cabes in what is known as the north
half of the Colville Indian reservation
in this state came under federal or
state jurisdiction, has been settled by
United Siates District Judge Hanford,
whoprdered Anton Michel, anlndian
accused of assaulting another Indian,
released on a writ of habeas oorpus and
torned oyer to the sheriff of Stevens
connty. The department of the inte­
rior recently notified the county offi­
cials that the north half of the reserva­
tion waB still a reservation, notwith­
standing the fact that it was open to
mineral entry, and +hat they had no
control over it. Judge Hanford ho^ds
that the land involved has been re­
stored to the public domain, and that
tlie.federal authorities^have no juriBdio
Ijnn jr.
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Valuable liuitlo.
V^lf&pEO, Feb. 2.—Tibbets, the Bos
tonfojfcazler, was before the extradi
tioirtourt at Regina during the day
and was remanded for two weeks. The
prisoner is addicted to the use of mor­
aine and a doctor had to give him an
injection before he could appear in
ootirt. Twenty-six thousand dollars in
cash and a lot of valuable jewelry were
fonnd on him and a female companion.
The woman was using the money as a
feustle.
Spirits Shipped to Japan.
PEORIA, Ills., Feb. 2.—Within the
past few days hundrods of gallons of
spirits have been shipped from Peoria
to- Japan to be used in the manufacture
ot smokeless gunpowder. The spirits
play an important part in the process
and local houses have found an excel­
lent market tor their goods.
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British Steamer Is Interrupted
While Attempting to Land
Arms in Morocco.
Brief Naval Engagement Pol
lowed, the Englishman Be­
ing Defeated.
Villages Favorable to Foreign­
ers Demolished and Many
Residents Killed.
TANGIER, Feb. 2.—The British steam­
ship Tourmaline, it is officially an-'
nounced, while attempting to land
arms and stores on the coast of Mo­
rocco, was intercepted by the Sherifian
steamer Hassani, whereupon she
opened fire.
The Hassani reciprocated and cap­
tured one of the ship's boats, with
three Englishmen.
The Moorish troops then demolished
tho villages favorable to foreigners,
killing a number of the inhabitants.
The difficulty appears to have arisen
from the operations of a British min­
ing company, the Globe Venture, a
syndicate acting under a treaty where­
by the Sus chiefs granted a trading and
mining monopoly over 160,000 square
miles of the Sus district.
LONDON, Feb. 2.—A dispatch to The
Daily Mail from Mogador, Morocco,
Bays
that an expedition having occu­
pied Erkzes (presumably on the Sus
coast) with the assistance of the rebel
tribesmen, the sultan's troops attacked
and defeated it after severe fighting,
capturing four Englishmen.
CONCERT OUT OF TUNE.
Karopean Power* at Odds Over the Ques­
tion of Crete.
LONDON, Feb. 2.—There is an impres­
sion here that the sultan, in the end,
will be compelled to accept Prince
George as governor of Crete. It is
strong enough to provoke discussion of
the consequences, namely, that the
Turks, with Mohammedan feeling
aroused, will be less disposed than ever
to evacuate Thessaly, and that the
Balkan states, already disturbed and
restless, will be likely to ask compensa­
tion for Greece's virtual gain in Crete.
Tho European concert as to the near
East, is temporarially dissolved, with
Germany and Austria on one sido und
the other powers on the other, but it is
not beyond re-establishment.
Swiso Tillage Destroyed*
BEKNE, Feb. 2.—Tho village of Ran
dogne, in the canton of Valais, has
been burned to the ground. A woman
and two children perished in the
flames. The disaster has caused great
distress.
Germany Demands More Concessions.
PEKIN, Feb. 2.—Germany has de­
manded further concessions in the
shape of railroads in the Shan Tung
peninsula, as compensation for the
sailor Schulz, who was murdered by a
Chinese mob while on sentry duty.
Conspiracy Against the Shah.
BERLIN, Feb. 2. —The Post 6ays it
learns from Russian sources of the dis­
covery of a conspiracy at Teheran,
Persia, to murder the shah and to in­
stall a younger brother at the palace.
GUARDED BY DEPUTIES.
Self-Confessed Doable Murderer Jailed at
Burlington, la.
BURLINGTON, la., Feb. 2. —A. B.
Stormer has confessed the murder of
Mrs. Fanny Rathburn and her daughter,
Mary. The confession was made to
Chief of Police Greiner and the county
attorney. Stormer say6 he committed
the deed Sunday, Jan. 23. He killed
tbe mother first in the cellar. Then he
enticed the little girl into the room
above and after a terrible struggle to
outrage her, cut her throat
Stormer and Cox, an alleged accom­
plice, are now locked up in the county
jail and strongly guarded by deputies,
armed with Winchester rifles. Sheriff
Smith has issued a proclamation to the
effect that any attempt to break into
the jail and lynch Stormer will be met
with summary treatment by the depu­
ties, who will not hesitate to shoot.
One of the Gang Killed.
WATEKTOWN, S. D.. Feb. 2.—Sheriff
Neill, assisted by Marshal Wood and
deputies, captured a gang of thieves
after an exciting chase. The thieves
attempted to escape in a lumber wagon
but were followed by the officers. One
of their number was shot and killed
whileattemnting-to encftpe.
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PRICE: FIVE CENTS.
WILL RELIEVE THE MAINE.
Cruiser Montgomery l'rcparioff to Leave
for Havnua.
KEY WEST, Fla., Feb. 2.—The
cruisur Montgomery arrived here dur­
ing the afternoon lrom Tortugas. After
coaling it is expected that she will pro­
ceed to Havana to relieve the Maine,
which will go to New Orleans.
All Qutat at Hnvani.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—No word has
been received at the 6tate department
troin Consul General Lee since Satur­
day last, which is taken as an indica­
tion that all iB quiet there and that the
situation remains unchanged.
Fonrth Blicsard of the Winter.
DETROIT, Mich., Feb.*2.—The fourth
severe blizzard of the winter is playing
havoo with railway scheduleB nearly all
over both peninsulas of Michigan,
Deep snows and intense cold prevail all'
through the northern districts.
Severe Blizzard Raging.
MARQUETTE, Mich., Feb. 2.—The se­
verest blizzard of the season has been
raging all day from the north and
the northwest. The waves on Lake
Superior are higher than in years.
APPROPRIATION BILLS.
Senate 1 asses the Army and Legislative
Measures.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—The session
of the senate lasted six hours, two of
the general appropriation bills, that for
the army, carrying $a8,244,492, and
that for the legislative, executive and
judicial departments, carrying $21,658,
620, were passed, the latter consisting
of 121 pages, occupying the attention of
the senate during the greater part of
the session. After a brief executive
session the senate adjourned.
Bad Fifty Majority.*
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—The house of
Representatives has buried the Teller
resolution, declaring the bonds of the
Uui.ted States jaytvblein „8ih^£, under
an a'dverse majority of 60 votes. "The
Republicans were solidly arrayed in
opposition, with two exceptions, Mr.
Linney of North Carolina, who voted
with the Democrats and Populists, and
Mr. White of North Carolina, the only
colored member of the house, who
Divorced at Ninety-two.
BUTLER, Ind., Feb. 2.—Andrew Case
beer, 92 years old, has been granted a
divorce from his wife, Mary Jane Case
beer, but a few years younger than
himself, who now lives with a daugh­
ter in Chicago.
ALL TRAFFiC IMPEDED.
Severe Snow ana AVintl Storm Prevailing!
in New York.
NEW YORK, Feb. 2.—Since 3 a. m.
snow has been falling in this city and
vicinity, and a strong west wind and
falling temperaturo call forth many
predictions of a blizzard. All day there
was a fog on the bay in addition to the
blinding 6now, and traffic on the water
was impeded seriously. There was one
serious ferryboat collision and many
accidents were narrowly averted. The
cable elevated roads in this city and the
trolley lines in Brooklyn and Jersey
City kept plows in constant service and
were not badly impeded. The cold
weather filled the city lodging houses
to overflowing and many women and
children who applied for shelter were
Bent to the different hospitals. Trains
and railways terminating in Greater
New York and Jersey City were de­
layed by the 4torm, but none to a great
extent.
Ministerial Association Organizea.
NORTHFIELD, Minn., Feb. 2.—A num­
ber of ministers of different denomina­
tions met here and informally organ­
ized a local ministerial association. The
association will hold meetings every
second and fourth Monday of each
month. Topics pertaining to sociology
will be. especially discussed and the
prime object is to promote a fellowship
feeling among the clergy.
SElTLKD A STitlKK.
Indiana Labor Commission Hakes Peace
In the JPlate Glass Industry*
ANDERSON, Ind., Feb. 2.—The In.
diana labor commission has effeoted a
settlement for one year among the
thousand workmen in the Elwood and
Kokomo plate glass plants and the
Pittsburg Glass company. In this city
agreements were entered into on wage
and working regulations and artioles
drawn up covering a year. It will be
filed in the county courts here and at
Kokomo, and it will be regarded as a
civil action, violation of which during
the year by either workmen or the
company, will be considered and pun­
ished as a contempt of court. The El­
wood plant resumed with 600 men.
Such an agreement as entered into is
new feature of up-to-date labor cm*
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