Adams County news., February 09, 1898, Image 1

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ALL AROUND.
..£ HOME AND ABROAD.
Items of In! rmntion Gathered From
a Wide Area—Political Happen
ing* and InduNtrinl Notes—Crimea
and Accidents.
The president has nominated William
McMicken of Washington to be surveyor
general of Washington.
11. I*. (Ipy has been confirmed by the
senate as I'nitcd States attorney for the
district of Washington.
The burning of the Melntire block i?i
Winnipeg caused a loss of $300,000.
A Tokio paper states that there are
some 00,000 troops in Vladivostock ready
to take the field at a moment's notice.
The lit. Rev. Kthc'bert Talbot. I). I)..
LL. 1).. former missionary bishop of Idaho
and Wyoming, has been enthroned as
bishop of the. central Pennsylvania dio
cese of the Protestant Episcopal church.
On December 24, the Japanese merchant
steamer Xara Maru ran on a hidden rock
of the Pescadore group and sank imme
diately. Of her 80 passengers and crew
seven only reached the shore. The drown
ed were all Japanese.
According to the statistics of the Jap
anese customs authorities, 10 foreign seal
ing schooners, 12 British and four Amer
ican entered Hakodate and Yokohama
during the year 1807. Their aggregate
catches were 88.12. a dccrcae of 13,514 com
pared with that of 1800.
Harry Albury, 18 years old, is dead in
the hospital at Brooklyn, X. Y., of lep
rosy. He died of tubercular leprosy, and
it is said that there are not more than
half a dozen such eases in the country.
Thousands of sheep are reported to have
perished frun cold and starvation in west
ern Wyoming. The cold has been intense
for 00 days and old-timers say that it is
the hardest winter they have seen for 10
years. Carbon county has 500.000 sheep,
and floekmasters there fear the loss will
amount to 25 ■oer cent. Losses among
cattle will not be so heavy, as owners had
been preparing for several years to feed
tlieii stock during severe weather.
The Sawyer and Goodman sawmill at
Marionette. Wis., was destroyed by fire
Thursday. The plant was valued at
$150,000.
The First Presbyterian church at Xew
Albany, Tnd., the largest in the city, was
destroyed by fire Thursday night. Loss.
$50.000; insurance, $20,000.
The Clierokec-Lanyan Spelter Company'*
large plant at Rich Hill, Mo., was de
stroyed by fire. The plant was valued at
.$150,000. *
A revolution has broken out at Sail
Jose, Costa Rica.
The Japanese government is seriously
considering the retention of Wei Ilai Wei
for an indefinite period, even aften China
pays the war indemnity.
A cow derailed the north bound Texas
special on the Iron Mountain road, 30
miles south of St. Louis, resulting in the
death of the engineer and fireman and
slight injury to two passengers.
It is reported that the Cross river ex
|>editi<!i, composed of Niger coast protec
torate troops, was massacred while de
stroying towns about Assay cntek. The
ltoyal Niger company has sent a force of
constabulary to rescue the prisoners.
Six firemen, including a district chief,
a captain and a lieutenant, were killed
at a Boston fire, which burned out the
interior of a live-story building on Mcr
rimac street, occupied by G. W. Bent &
Co., manufacturers of beds, bedding, etc.
An order reducing the shop forces be
tween Omaha and Ogden has been issued
by the Union Pacific. Two hundred and
seventy-five men are dismissed from the
shops at Omaha, Grand Island, North
Platte, Sidney, Cheyenne, Laramie and
Ogden. One hundred of these come from
Omaha. The ofticers of the road decline
to say how long the reduction will be
in force. The Omaha shops worked 1000
men 40 hours during the week.
The United States canal company is
about completing its examination of the
western division, including Lake Nicar
agua and westward to the Pacific, on !
Monday next. The commissioners have !
examined the ground several hundred feet
<#ep by boring. The commissioners will
travel on foot from Ocha to the Caribean
sea at the rate of about three miles a
day, examining both sides of the route i
and wading 20 miles through the swamp. |
s\ cablegram received at the war de- |
juutment from Dr. Jackson at Alton, i
Sweden, announces that the Manitoban. j
chartered by Lieutenant Devore for the j
~ llutverament, had just sailed from that ,
port tofWew York with 630 reindeer and
7* Inlander* Jo care for the animals and
drive them. The \» ar department is now
making arrangement* for the transporta
tion of the deer across #he continent from
New York to Seattle.
The war department has recalled the j
attention of congress to the need of ad 1
ditional military protection in Alaska,
and in this connection "Informa
tion received at this department indicates
the necessity of legislation to provide ef
feetive means for controlling the disor
derly element among the large number
of people now flocking to Alaska, and for j
preventing persons who or* without an
adequate supply of food and clothing from
entering the territory to perish during
the severe winters, unless relieved by the
government."
T. W. Flannigan, R<»l Frost, Henry
Svarl and C. C. Forster of Milwaukee.
\\i lumber men, have gone to Se
attle. wheVe they will purchase &10.000,000
feet of sugar pine with a sawmill plant,
in northern Oregon, near the border line.
The «leal will involve $400,000. Fred
Carney and his son Frederick, with four
Chicago, capitalists.including Perley Lowe
and n. Wilbreck, have also left Wiscon
sin for California, where they will close
a deal for a sawmi.l plant and 600,000,000
feet of NUgar pine on a river in the north
ern part of California, near the Oregon
l»order. The deal involve* $000,000.
A dispatch from Santiago de Cuba an
nounces the arrival there of the Austrian
third cla«s cruiser Donsu.
HANGED AT HILLSBORO.
l»ald the Dentil Penalty for n Crime
Commit(eil Four Year* Ago.
Hillsboro Ore.. Feb. 5. —Gu» Waehlin,
! the murderer, was hanged here yester
| day.
i The erime for which Gus Waehlin suf-
I fred the death penalty was the murder of
John 1-). Ledriek, a rancher of Washing
! ton county, about March 10, 1894.
Waehlin, although only 23 yars of ape.
served a term in the Oregon penitentiary
for larceny of a cow from Ledriek prior
ito 1804. He had just been released from
the penitentiary when he went to Led
rick's farm, and taking a club, beat his
brains out. After burying tlie body in
the barnyard, he took what money Led
j rick had and with a team drove in Port
j land, where he sold the horses,
j Waehlin disappeared and for two years
! no trace of him was discovered. In the
! meantime Robert Buck, a rancher, was
j arrested and charged with the murder,
j but he was discharged at the preliminary
examination. In September last Waehlin.
who was suspected of being the murderer,
was arrested in Morrow county, brought
here and found guilty.
It was known that Ledriek and Rob
ert Ruck had not been on good terms and
Waehlin endeavored to fix the crime on
Ruck.
LIVE STOCK TRUST AT OMAHA.
Exchange llus a llule to Freeie Out
Independent Operators.
Omaha, Feb. 4. In the hearing of the
United States against the South Omaha
Livestock Exchange, ex-President Rich
ard Gilchrist was on the stand. He was
closely questioned and some of his testi
mony bordered on the sensational. He
admitted that the exchange was a monop
oly so far as the control of the sale of
stock on the local market is concerned.
No man can handle stock there who is
not a member of the exchange, who has
not paid in $1000 for bis membership. Mr.
Gilchrist explained how one rule of the
exchange had been used for the purpose
of freezing out a combination of stock
growers and farmers, who had sought to
avoid the rules of the exchange and han
dle their own business on a co-operative
plan.
BANNOCK AND SHOSHONE LAND
Commimiloiier Hoyt Concludes a
Treaty for Its Sale.
Poeatello, Idaho, Fob. 4.—C. G. Hoyt of
the Fort Hall Indian commission, practi
cally concluded a treaty with the Han
nock and Shoshone Indians of the Fort
Ilall reservation, for the lump sum of
$525,000. The treaty also carries a pro
vision for the payment of $75,000 to the
Indians for the rel'nqishment of their
hunting rights in Jackson's Hole.
The treaty is the result of the commis
sion. About one-fourth of the land to be
sold is fine agricultural land and tTie bal
ance mineral land. It is thought that
the treaty will be ratified before congress
adjourns.
A MARVELOUS SILVER DEPOSIT
Some of the Ore Hun* 20,000 OmiecM
lo the Ton.
El Paso, Tex., Feb. 4.—Mining men in
this city arc excited over a phenomenally
rich silver deposit discovered the other
day on the line of the Kio Grande, Sierra
Madre &, Pacific railroad, in Mexico, 100
miles from Kl Paso. Francisco Consado
of this city discovered the de|»osit three
miles north from the railroad track, where
it had been tramped over for months tin
noticed by railroad men. Consado brought
samples of the ore to this city which as
sayed 20,000 ounces of silver to the ton.
BOY KILLED IN A GLOVE FIGHT
Hltfli School Lad* Were Settling «
Dispute.
West Bend, Wis., Feb. 4. —During a
glove contest between Carl Llndback and
Willie Klants, high school boys, Lindback
fell dead in the fourth round. The young
men had been unfriendly and decided to
settle their differences with gloves. Short
ly after the beginning of the fourth round
Lindback received a stinging blow which
felled him to the floor face down ward. His
friends ran to his assistance and were hor
rified to find him dead.
DYNAMITED BY INSURGENTS
I'Mirngcr Train Wear Curaaruya.
Cuba, Wan Shaken I p.
Havana, Feb. 4.—The insurgents have
dynamited a passenger train near Cam
guy a, partly destroying the engine and
derailing the cars. The detachment of
Spanish cavalry has been engaged with
an insurgent force under Colonel Lazo
at the Aguvo plantation. Havana prov
ince. The Spanish reports of the affair
says the insurgents were captured and
that the Spaniards had seven men
woundedi
.To Secure Alankau HuMlnenN.
San Francisco, Feb. s.—The Alaska
Commercial Company and the Southern
Pacific railroad have entered into a com
bination to obtain a share of the Klon
dike travel. According to the arrange
ments made, through ticket i from all
eastern points will lie sold to Dawson
City via San Francisco, through passen
gers being given preference on the Yukon
river boats from St. Michaels to IXiwkoii
City.
Fvneral mt Hon. J. P. Smith.
Miami, Fla., Feb. 7.—The funeral of tl.e
late Hon. J. P. Smith, director of the bu
reau of American republics, will be held
at his home in Urbana, 0., Tuesday at 2
p. m. His frieqds, Dr. S. M. Musgrove,
Cuptain William S. McGinnis and Hon. G.
| 11. Hamlctt, accompanied Mrs. Smith from
Miami with the r^jj^ins.
j Ice in winter and l * {inn in
mr have r lo
of man.
IJITZVILLE, WASHINGTON, L EISIU'A liV !), 1898.
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES.
A GLANCE OVER THREE STATES
Shliifcle Mill* In Western WnMliliiß;-
ton lleMuniliiK: Operations—Wheat
Shipment* From the Sonnd-Xewn
Froiu the ItnnKeH of Montana-
Work on the Hullroad to I.cwlm
ton, Idaho.
Tacoma is to make a test of vitrified
brick pavement.
Nearly all of the 207 shingle mills iu
western Washington have commenced cut
ting again.
'Ihere is renewed talk of the establish-1
ment of a steel plant in Port Angeles by j
eastern people.
Ix>ggers from Olympia are cruising 011!
the upper reaches of Klk river, iu Che-■
halis county, with a view to opening up ;
I a big camp.
During 181)7, out of every four mar-1
riages iu Walla Walla county, one #li- j
vorce has been applied for. There were
141) marriages recorded.
General fund warrants of Chehalis eoun-;
ty have been called up to and including
No. 2311, dated April 0, 181)4, amounting
to about $10,000. All of the warrants
drawing 10 per cent are now out <.f the j
way.
Spraying fruit trees for insect pests has '
begun in Yakima county, and in a short j
time all the orchards iu the valley will j
show up perfectly white from the appli
cation of the official spraying recipe giv- j
en out from the state horticultural bu- !
reau.
The British ship Jordanhill has cleared j
from Tacoma with a full cargo of wheat,"
the 40th cargo for the season. She car
ries 132,025 bushels, valued at $1)5,000.
Exports thus far amount to 0,000.000 i
bushels, valued at $4,200,000.
The superintendent of public instrue- .
tion holds that it is illegal to donate, (
rent cr lease public school property for ;
use as a dance hall or kindred purposes
at social entertainments. There is noth- .
ing iu the law authorizing such use.
either by the vote of the electors or by
act of the directors.
Warren Blagden, who was recently 1
buried at (loldendale in the Odd Fellows"
cemetery, was an early and respected cit- j
izen of Klickitat county. He was born j
in Maine in 1824. In 1848 he was mar
ried to Miss Lvdia Tupper at Sycamore. J
Illinois.
The movement to form a drainage dis :
triet comprising the vast swamp west of ;
Colville is meeting with some vigorous!
opposition from settlers up the valley.
Those in the lower end of the proposed
district are strongly in favor of drainage. |
and will push the enterprise.
One of the most important derisions'
ever rendered in the state, and the first
one of the kind ever rendered, is that
handed down by Judge Neal in the case
of the Spokane Street Railway Company
and the Inland Telephone Company
against the county commissioners. The
court held that a franchise is subject to
taxation the same as the property of a r
corporation or an individual, or the prop
erty owned by the company owning the '
franchise.
The re|H»rt of the Washington state j
grain inspector for January shows that :
during the month the local receipts of j
wheat amounted to 083 cars, as against !
115 cars during January, 1807. Rati mat- j
ing from the first receipts of the 1807 crop I
in September last, Tacoma has !>ccn the j
salt water terminal for 8210 carloads of j
wheat, measuring about 0,000,000 bushels, \
The inspector's report states it is esti |
mated that about 75 per cent of the crop ;
has been moved.
Montana.
The business men of Great Falls arc or
ganizing to push the Kdmoiiton route to
the Yukon.
The Montana State College of Agricul
lure lias just received three dynamos,
which constitute the initial equipment of
its electrical laboratory, and they will
also be used for lighting the college build
ings.
i The Billings committee to raise the
subscription toward the Sisters' hospital
report the full amount of $3000 subscrib
ed and the offer of several eligible sites
free.
The Big Horn basin ranges are reported
to be in fairly good condition and the
winter thus far has been extremely favor
iflble to stock interests. There are in the
neighborhood of 100,000 head of sheep
being wintered in the basin, about half
of vhicb were driven in last fall from Yel
lowstone county.
The Milk River valley, in Montana, is
looking forward to a pro*perous year. The
wool growers have the most encourage
ing prospect of years. There will not be
so many range cattle shipped in, but the
ranchmen will increase the number of
their holdings and improve the quality of
the stock.
A new departure was made in court
procedure by Attorney Lyter of Great
Falls a few days ago. He was to have
submitted an argument before the district
court at Choteau, but being detained at
home by sickness, Mr. Lyter addressed his
remarks to Judge Smith, at Choteau, over
the telephone.
Active work has begun on the extension
of the railroad to Lewiston. Thirty two
men are making their headquarters at
Kendrick. At present they are taking
track alK>ve town and taking it to a point
below Juliaetta, where it is used to riprap
along the track.
Stock shipments over the Burlington
last week were the largest in the history
of that road, Besides some 700 cars of
sheep and cattle transferred from the
Northern Pacific, the Burlington handled
nearly WXiO cars of stock received for ship*
I inent lietween Billings and Newcastle, a
distance of 301 miles. The Billings yards
alone contributed 1400 ears of beef cattle
and feeders and 401 double dedfc cars of
sheep. Tn addiJi«%Lthere 400
|<y " '* *•"•« * s ship'Htrfn over {he
-l
J for the city of Butte for the year 18117.
i The report shows the total number of
deaths during the year to have been 471.
or a little less than 1 per cent of the city's
j population. The report further shows
that out of the total number of deaths,
| ;{l3 were males and 158 females. As class
! iticd among diseases or causes the report
i shows 42 have resulted from pneumonia:
mining accidents, 33: other accidents, 3:
| consumption, .'JO: suicides, 20.
The late W. (J. Latimer was a pi< necr
of pioneers in King county. He built the
; tirst liou.-e that was used for school pur
| poses in King county. It was located on
■ the back end of the lot where the Sullivan
; block stands now. Mr. Latimer built the
house iu 1853, and in the spring of 1851
turned it over to Mrs. I). K. Blaine for a
school house. It was iu Mr. !«atimcr's
house that the tirst regular church ser
' vices were held iu Seattle. Hev. I). K.
! Blaine was the otliciatiug clergyman. Hi*
I tirst sermon was delivered on the first
j Sunday of December. 1853. Mr. Latimcr
was one of those who helped load the first
1 vessel that sailed awav with a load of
Puget sound lumber. He served King
county as treasurer from 188*2 to 1800.
Idaliu.
| The officials at the Nez Perie agency arc
now engaged in preparing the roll* for the
semi-anuual Indian payment. The dis
bursement. amounting to about $80,000,
will be made about March Ist.
The bonded indebtedness of Kootenai
| county, by the treasurer's re
port to the board of county commissioners,
is $144,000. Of this amount $0000 bears
8 per cent, $0000 7 per cent, and the re
mainder 0 |>er cent interest. The entire
sum becomes due within the next 17 years.
The greatest amount to l>e paid iu any sin
gle year is in 1000. when $10,240 becomes
due.
The record of mortgages released in La
tah county during December shows that
fully $00,000 of mortgage indebtedness has
been discharged. It is estimated that
fully $150,000 of mortgages has been paid
during the six months from July to Jan
uary. With a considerable proportion of
the wheat crop still unsold, it docs not
seem an exaggeration to put the amount
of mortgages that will have been paid lu
the year following July 1, 1807, at $250.-
000 to $.100,000.
The report that three men were drown
ed in the Pend d'Oreille river near Mr.
Markham's ranch has been confirmed. The
names of the men an? Carl flagan, (.
Randall and O. Hawkland. The three
men were in a boat which became fouled
in some thin ice. U. J. Sage, who lives
down the river, beard the men shouting
about 0 o'clock in the evening and tried
to get to them, but found that impossible.
The empty boat was afterward recovered,
with "oiiip letters and •» Swedish Wide
The bodies have not been recovered.
The justices of the supreme court, who
are the custodian* of the state law library,
are making energetic efforts to improve it.
They have recently secured a full set of
the Lawyers' Reports, annotated. The
funds for the improvement of the library
have all been derived from the fees paid
by attorneys, but a new resource has just
been discovered. Section 807 of the Re
vised Statutes makes a continuing appro
priation of $150 a year for the library.
Since the admisHioti of the state this ap
propriation has not been drawn until now.
The matter was recently taken up and (In
justices have directed the auditor to cred
it the library with the appropriation for
all the intervening years. This will give
the library something over $1000, wiiicl.
will l»e immediately available.
ORDERED TO YUKON RIVER.
Moil lien \ew« to Mounted Police
CnunfN tiree-t Kneltement.
Salt I-ike, Feb. 7.—A special to tlio
Tribune from Butte, Mont., says:
Information received from Lethbridge,
on the Canadian boundary, is to the effect
that great excitement has been canned
there by orders received from the domin
ilon government tlint ever}' man of Ihe
mounted police hold himself in readiness
to proceed to the Yukon at a moment'*
notice for temporary duty.
Superintendent Dean has received no
tice to go to McLeod *o relieve Major
Steel, who was ordered to the Yukon and
had left for that place before the arrival
of the second mewage. Five men were
also ordered to the Yukon ami left yester
day. The orders, which were received by
wire by the officers in command from the
division, are said to l>c due to the exist
ence of serious trouble between the Can
| adian and United States authorities in
Alaska relative to the attempt by the
; Americans to g<4 provisions into the Yu
kon free of duty, ostensibl> for the relief
I of distress, but in reality for sale to the
| highest bidders.
JAPAN TO INVADE KLONDIKE.
Five TtiouNfind I.n liorera Will De
ne end I'pon Daw won Clt> .
San Francisco, Feb. 8. The Cull Hays:
"Japan in going t«> invade the Klondike.
A standing army of 5000 a ble-bodied la
borers is being got together for the gold
fields and in a month or ho they will make
a descent upon Dawson City. One of the
Nippon Yusen Kaisha Ht<»ainers w ill bring
them here, but as they will not land on
the soil of the United States, there H-ill
l»e no one to say them nay unlets Great
Britain taken a hand. One qflftfce Japan
ese steamer*" that has been carrying la
in rem will be used to carry the men to
their destination It is added that the
Japanese will be brought over by a syn
dicate, and trouble 011 the Klondike i*
predicted."
Captain W. H. Hall la l)rail.
San Fran< isco Feb. 7.—Captain \V. G.
Hall, the shipbuilder an'i designer, die t
yesterday morning at h.s home in this
city, lie was one oi me be-*' known men in
»hippinp circles on t! [r « <ml*v 1 and his
shipyards turned out many of the fast
1 est vessel* o( the sailing fleet.
AlltT
HeJCoiildn't F *
[ San Franciani, Feb "
1 hi» inability
i navigation. J
Cjie Vl»i-
WRECKONNORIRN PACIFIC
CARS WENT THROUGH TRESTLE
Killed Two TrainpM Wlio Were
llcatliiu Their Way. n Third Se
riously Injured nud a Fourth
Sllithtly II ruined—lt una la k Cau
tiously I nder Slow Orders.
Pasco, Wash., Fob. 7.—The east bound
passenger train on the Northern Pacific
went through a turtle a few miles west
|of Council about 4 o'clock yesterday
i morning. Four men were beating their
way at the time. Two were killed, one
! >ei ioiisly injured and the fourth slightly
| bruised. One of the mail clerks received
a slight cut upon the head, the other
! trainmen and the passergers escaping un
hurt.
The dead are .John (Julvert and I*. J. I*e
land. The injured man gave his name a*
Peter Smith.
On (Jul vert's body were found letters of
rccommcndaticn from the superintendent
of the Sutro Street Railway Company,
Sail Francisco, and from the Duliith
Street Kailwav Company, also a shipping
receipt for a l>ox from Taeonui to Bos
ton, and a telegram to him fi*oin Bos
ton saying "Come at once," and signed
"G. S."
A small note I>ook was taken from Ice
land's coat, on the first page of which
was written: "Diary of P. J. Leland,
from Los Angeles to St. Loflis." This
contained an account of his trip up to
the night before his death. There were al
so letters of recommendation from parties
in both cities. Coroner If. <>antcnhcin
went to the scene of the wreck 011 an
extra train ami returned during the after
noon with the bodies of the dead. Kverv
effort is being made to locate relatives.
The injured man claims to have been
aboard the steamer Corona, recently
wrecked during the passage to Alaska,
losing his outfit in this wreck. He was
endeavoring to beat his way home when
overtaken by a second disaster.
Water from melting snow has l>ocn giv
ing considerable trouble for the past few
days, and the train was proceeding cau
tiously under slow orders. Had it l>oen
running at the usual speed many more
must have been killed and injured. The
engine and mail ear of the wrecked train
are lying upon their sides in the ditch.
The express and baggage cars, also n
tourist sleeper, are derailed. The remain
der of the train was brought, back to
Pasco and proceeded east over the O. R.
St X.
BLOODY SHIRTS DISCOVERED.
KtlilnUlr n roul Trim** Wiim Coiii
uilltcil \eiir I'n I <111 ni" Htver.
Colfax, Wash., Feb. 7.- Kvidcnce of
what is undoubtedly a foul murder was
discovered near here yesterday by K. K.
l/oyd, while walking along the I'alouse
river, one mile west of Colfax. Loyd's
attention was attracted by a pile of cloth
ing lying in the mud by the river bank,
lie picked up one of the garments, which
proved to Ist a white shirt, ami further
search revealed another white shirt and
an undershirt. In these was wrapped a
pocket book and diary. In the former were
two drafts issued by the Banco tie Occi
dent of Mexico on the Anglo-Califoruian
bailk, limited, of San Francisco, payable
to/John Hchicss, for $000 each. The drafts
were written ami printed in Spanish and
were dated May 2. 1802. There was als-i
what ap|>carcd to lie a copy of a deed or
contract written in Spanish at (Guatemala,
and signed by Juan M. Iliibin, also n cer
tificate from the clerk of the court of
Multnomah county, Oregon, that the fore
going was a true copy of the declaration
of intention to become a citizen of the
t'liited States. The copy stuck to the
pocketbook and was so badly torn it could
not lie read. The certificate was signed by
\V. If. Harris, the clerk of Multnomah
county, Oregon, dated September 14.
1892.
One of the shirts was covered with
blood and had five clean-cut holes, tin
doubtcdly cut by a knife. The boles were
in various parts of the garments, as if
made during a struggle. Around the
neck of the shirt was a great deal of blood
and blood stains were plainly visible
around each hole in the garment. From
the ap)>carance of the clothes, they had
lain there a long time, and had probably
l»ccn washed by the river, as they were
filled with dirt, and the pocketbook was
thoroughly soaked. All the writing was
in Spanish except the certificate mention
ed above. The two bank drafts were neat
ly executed on fine paper, but appeared
to have l»een in the water a long time,
and the corners were badly worn.
Thre is no doubt that a murder has
In'cn committed and evidences of the
crime thrown into the river, which at last
gave up its secret. The pocketbook was
wrapped in a flour sack, and around this
was wrapped the two shirts. Deputy
Sheriff Matlock was notified and went
out to Loyd's house at the fair grounds
and examined the papers and garments,
hanging the latter in a stall near the race
track to dry.
John Schiess was undoubtedly the own
er of the property, and it is presumed he
wijs murdered. When some one is found
who can rend Spanish the identity <<f the
dead man may learned.
Hntlf Mlm-r %»i»h> vlated.
I San FraiU'ihco. Feb. 7. Sam Martino
vitch. a miner from liutte City, Mont..
| was found dead in his r<» 111 at a hotel
having l>een asphyxiated by gas. A draft
foi $000 was found in one of his pocket*
and there is no reason to suspect that
death was not accidental.
Vioand for Ala«k<«.
Victoria. B. C., Feb. 7.—The steamer
Queen left yesterday morning with 500
miners for the Yukon. She will be fol
lowed today" by the Danube with over
inure " '
/ic poor relation < *n wonders if the
%* ' • *
SAVANNAH'S EPIDEMIC OF FIRE
Dm matte of l|ll2<Vaoo l»> Fin men
StnrtliiK la a Hay Wiirelioune.
' Savannah, (ia., Feb. 7. Savannah's epi-
I dciuic of lire continues. Damage to the
amount of $125,000 was caused by a lire
which started in a hay warehouse on the
wharf at the foot of Jefferson street. The
lire started iu the hay in the warehouse
jiiiid threatened to be a large conflagration
I by the time the alarm was turned in.
The tire communicated to several brick
buildings on Ray street and three of them
were entirely gutted. The heaviest loss
was sustained by Charles t'onklin & Co.,
who carries a $100,000 stock of hardware,
' with an insurance of $75,000. There have
been a dozen tires here within the last
two weeks and there is considerable talk
of iirchug*.
Before the tire which broke out in the
i liav warehouse had Im>cu brought under
I control, flames burst out in the magnili
j cent Cathedral of St. John, the Raptist,
I the seat of the Catholic church in the
i Mate <>f Georgia, and it was soon a mass
of ruins.
All of the lire engines iu the city were
engaged at the other fires. 1 lie conse-
I qucncc was that it was nearly an hour
I before an engine arrived to turn a stream
on the valuable property that was fast
going to waste, or other property around
that needed protection. The tremendous
shower of sparks that was carried up in
the heat for an hour or more fell in the
square and on other buildings made a
grand spectacle. The fire started in the
organ loft and spread rapidly through the
church. Everything was removed from ■
the rooms in the vicinity and it was only ]
after a struggle that they were saved/
At midnight the destruction of the ca- j
thcdral was complete. The cathedral costi
$22,000 and was insured for $6000. It
was one of the finest ecclesiastical struc
tures iu the south. The edifice contained
many works of art. all of which were
saved.
SAYS HE DID IT FOR REVENGE.
liflrw Confesses to the Murder of a
llrot her anil Sinter.
Fairfield, Gal., Feb. 0. —Frank IWew has ;
confessed that he in a fratricide—a double !
murderer. On the 9th of last November 1
the little town of Dixon was thrown into
a condition of extraordinary excitement
by the dent ha from poisoning of S-oimi Be
lew and his sister, Susie, who lived in the
name house, Bruno Klein, an employe of
Heli w, was also poisoned, but recov
ered after a severe illness, Louia and
Miss lielcw were each engaged be mar
tied, and suspicion of having placed in the
water kettle the |>oison which caused their
deaths at first, fell ti|M»u a rejected suitor
« f Miss lielcw. This man waa not arrest
ed, however, the officers being satisfied of
his innocence. Detectives worked secret
ly on the case and were soon convinced
that Frank Hclcw had murdered his
brother and sister because he had been
disinherited and coveted their property.
The authorities were aided by Frank's
brother-in-law, John \V. Bird, who alleged
that Frank had tonfessed his guilt to him.
Frank lielcw was arrested on Thursday
night and at Hot protested his innocence,
denouncing Bird as » deliberate falsifier.
The officers predicted that Itelcw would
weaken ill jail, and iH'fore he had been
in his eell IS hours he had told the story
of the poisoning twice to reporters iu the
presence of two different jail oflieials. At
first Hclcw said he did not know why he
had committed the crime, but subsequent
Iv said: "I guess I killed them for re
veuge; they had slandered my wife."
The officers are unwilling to admit that j
Ik-lew's motive attained the dignity of re j
veuge, insisting that he committed the J
murder through cupidity and for the sole!
i purpose of securing the six or seven thou
jsaiul dollars possessed by his brother and
i lister.
SILVER AS A LEGAL TENDER.
To Teal the Conalltatlonnllf > of the
llliiml-Allison Ai'l,
Detroit. Mich., Feb. 8. Fred A- linker,
a prominent attorney of Detroit, has filed
an annuel to a suit brought against him
in the Oakland county circuit court, in
volving the constitutionality of the Hland-
Allison act and other lawn pertaining to
silver an a legal tender.
Stephen Kaldwin bought a farm upon
which Mr. Baker held a mortgage that
hccamc due to the amount of $.'lO4, in
cluding intereHt. Mr. Ba'dwin tendered
Mr. llaker '104 silver dollar* and asked
for the cancellation of the mortgage. Mr.
Itaker refused to surrender the mortgage
for the 364 silver dallars, but agreed to
cancel it if he received enough silver dol
lar* to equal the present bullion value of
silver of 304 gold dollars. This condition
was declined by Mr. Baldwin and he filed
a suit in equity, asking for a decree com
manding Mr. Maker to cancel the mort
gage in view of the tender made.
In the answer Mr. Itaker submits that
under the power "to coin money, regulate
the value thereof, and of foreign coins
and fix the standard of weights and mean
ures," the congress of the United States
has no in< re authority or power as far
as pre-existing contracts for the payment
of money are concerned to diminish or
increase the number of grains of pure
gold or pure silver in the dollar, in which
a contract has been lawfully expressed
I than it has to pre-existing contracts to
change the number of grains in an ounce
or the numlier of inches in a foot, or feet
in a yard, or to change any other stand
ard of weights and measures. Several of
the leading attorneys of Detroit are in
terested in the case.
K nlit Ifiit Mllla to Hriumr.
S. 11.. Feb. 7. The Wintluop
knitting mill* at Lakeport. which have
l»een cloned down for several month)*, re
sumed operation* today on full time.
l4vunolhe Works Fiiilrd.
Providence. R. 1.. Feb. 5 The Khude
Island loeotnotive work* filed a petition in
ituolvency yesterday, placing the assets
PROCEEDINGS Of ffl»
DISCUSS THE NATION S AFFAIRS
I.CMilern In llotli lira iii lit-n n( tlic \n
• I«»■!«• I I.etf lalnttir** (oiimiiui** Tiuiv
In Talk us Well an Trailhiiof Some
I'llbllc llualne»«—W lint lla» Keen
Hone.
One of tin* features of Thur*da> '•> se«
1 "ion of tin* somite was a speei h by Senator
J I'alTery of Louisiana in |»|m»i tof tlit?
• resolution reported by the I'ominitti'e on
(elections, declaring that Henry \V. t'or-
I bett is not entitled to a sent in tin- -ciialei
I from Oregon. Mr. t'orbctt Mas appoint /
j I'd liy the governor of Oregon after the
I failure of tin* legislature to i*li*rt to sin
jeeed Senator Mitchell. Senator t'atfery
I I'hiinied that no governor had tin* an
thority to appoint a man to till a varan< v
I —a vaeimey beginning with a new term .
after the legihlaturc had had an opportnn- "
! ity to eleet and failed to do so. The ag
lii'iilt lira I bill was tinder consideration I
during the greater part of the afternoon ™
i and finally passed. After a brief e\e<
I ntive session the senate adjourned.
In the house the consideration of the
1 fortifications appropriation bill was re
snmed. The debate drifted into politics
and Mr. Itnrkc, democrat, of Texas, and
Mr. Grosvenor, republican, of Ohio, joined
| issue on the subject of McKinley pros
! perity.
(•riinllnK Hlnlitn of Wn).
In the house a bill was passed if
amend the act of January 31, IHftfl, pant
in# rights of way through the public do
main for tramways, canals and reservoirs,
so as to grant those lights to cities and
private corporations. At present, the
rights of way arc given only for mining
and irrigation purposes.
The senate passed a bill providing for
the erection of a public building at Menu
niont, Tex., at a cost not to exceed $HN),-
(MM). Senator Lindsay then took the floor
to speak on the resolution of the Ken
tucky legislature, asking him to resign.
The senator review his votes against sil
ver in fhe extra session of 1800, which
repealed the purchasing clause of the
Sherman act, and continued:
"In the discussion of the bill I declared
1 would vote for no amendment which
merely experimented with a change of
ratio or that did not provide reasonable
safeguards to insure the maintenance of
the parity of gold and silver dollars. I
stand tinlay precisely where I stood then,
when I received the unanimous indorse
rtient of the democrats in K»* .iiickv for
senator. If those who were in accord
with me four years ago are not so today
it is because they have changed then
opinions; but I protest against being de
nounced as a betra\er of my tmst be
cause my views remain unchanged." The
I senate adjourned until Monday.
CoilMl l-'orf mention**.
The somite was not in session Satur
l day.
The house during it* rutin l session had
under consideration the hill milking ap
propriations for fortifications ami coast
defenses. Little interest MS'iticd to he
mai)ifc^t«ml in the proceedings, less than
one half of the member* being present
during the wwion. Tin* hill wan passed
hy (ho house currying $4,110,102, agaiimt
$0,157,141 last. year.
Teller F»v«rn Anu<• \n f lon.
Senator Toller of Colorado iH-im ,h| the
entire three hour* of the »e*
nion in the senate Monday in discumriiig
the Hawaiian annexation treaty.- During
I lie course of hin H|H*eeh in favor of an
ucxiition, Senator Teller took occasion to
nay that he should have lieen glad to dis
cuss the treaty in open session. and to the
remark lie added the opinion that the
time had almost come wVn the question
of annexation should lie debated on a hill
looking to legislation l»y hotli liouhom of
congress rather than on the basis « »f the
treaty. While he thought there might
he a hare |K>ssibility of receiving the nee
essary tW) vote* to ratify the treaty, he
conceded that under the present circum
stances this wan exceedingly doubtful, and
he thought the xooncr the faet wan recog
nized and a change of front made, the bet
ter it would In* from all |>oints of view.
The house panned the military academy
hill with only one more important amend
ment. The debate on the measure was
desultory and touched a variety of po
litical topic*. Am pax Mcd, the bill carries
143 A.540, being $20,032 less than the
amount carried bv the current law. The
bill to limit the periow for the refunding
of the certificate* of def>o»it of |n7O t.»
Doecmlicr .'II, 1H1H». was passed.
NORTHERN PACIFIC BOUGHT IT
Tnken In KlfO-Fhe Mile* of Track
In Xontnnn.
Anaconda, Mont.. Feb. 0. The Anacmi
da Standard, on private inf< rmation re
ceived from New York, announces the
nale of the Montana I'nion milroad to the
Northern Pacific. The tcrma are not vet
made public.
The Montana I'nion in a connecting
link in Montana between tin* I'liion Pa
cific's terminus near Hutteand the North
ern Pacific line at (iarrison. The load
in about 55 mile* long. It wan operated
originally under a joint arrangement l»v
the I'iiion Paeillc :ni<L the Northern Pa
cific. The purchase in of importance, an
it makes complete the Northern Pacific's
through line from St. Paul I<» the coast
via the ci(ie* of ltutte and Anaconda.
\V. 11. Iturns. president and general
manager of the Montana I'nion. who has
declined to confirm the report of the mile,
ha* left for New York, and it is reported
from that city that promptly ou his ar
rival there the formal transfer will lie
made.
OfKth of lieu, .loltn <«wl»ran*.
New York. Feb. 8. (icnerul John
Cochrane died last night at his home in
this city. General Cochrane was in IHtW
nominated for vice president of the Unit
jed States on tiie independent republican
I ticket. 15ener.il John Fremont beinc
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