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THE YAKIMA HERALD
Balirr. Tur.li-T * MrComb, rabllahera.
NORTH YAKIMA WASH.
I< NEWS OF IHE IKK
I'iini ,'r ,h •ii-i *•■ Kf*vlf>w «>f ttn- Import
ant Hhpphi.liii. <>r iii.- r>.«i Wffk
I ..I N.I K-oin ISM Telegraph rolnmoi.
Emperor William is on a visit to
Sweden.
A big strike for an eiirht-hour day is
anticipated in Cuba.
A regiment of Canadians desire to be
Sent to South Africa in the event of war I
with the Boers,
Checks for $5,000,000 have been is-
Bued by the irovernnient lor the antici
pated October interest.
The permanent organisation of the
American Hide & Leather Company
was effected in New York.
The Crown cotton mills, of Dalton. '
Oa., has established a world's record
by paying a dividend ol B8 per cent.
The state (rrain commission of Wash-
Ington has reaffirmed the grades adopt-'
cd last year, and made them permanent.
The navy department has directed
that the Eagle aud Yankee be accepted
at the Portsmouth navy yard by Octo
ber IT.
The navy department has awarded
the contract for building the Ports :
mouth dock t>> John Pierce, of New
York, at $1,800,000,
Relics of Spanish rule in Cuba are to
be disposed of. The pro|>erty of Cu
bans that was confiscated by the Span
iards will be returned.
The insurgent leader. General d<
Castro, is. making much progress in '
Venezuela. lie is following the cOtirM
pursued by the revolutionists in 1893. I
A passenger train collided with a
freight train 18miles southeast of Kan
sas City. lour people were killed and j
four others more or less seriously in
jured.
News has been received from Alaska
to the effect that the front of the Taku !
glacier was shattered by a recent earth
quake. Thousands of tons oi ire were
precipitated into the sea.
The master of the Norwegian cuttei
Martha, reports that on September 8,
on the north coast of Kiiil; Chalres is-'
land, he picked up an anchor and buoy
marked "Andree Polar Expedition."
It is probable that after the first of
the coming year railroad employes will
have to pay fare when traveling over
any but their own lines. Influential!
shippers will also be obliged to pur-:
chase their tickets.
The steamer Kohn Mam foundered
in a typhoon off the Japanese roast,
poinu' to the bottom like a stone. She I
had GO passengers on board, the major
ity being women and children. Twelve
of these were drowned and two fatally
Injured.
Captain Dreyfus has been pardoned
by the council of ministers.
Colonel John Milev, Inspector-gen- !
eral of volunteers, is dead at Manila, j
Hawaii will endeavor to secure set
tlers from northern Italy and Sweden.
Mark Hanna says it would be more
than disgrace for us to sell the Phillip- !
pines,
At a lumber yard tire in Los Angeles
three men were injured, two <>i them
totally.
tine battalion of the Thirty-fifth will j
Pail from Portland on tint Elder within i
10 days.
Schemer Kestner, chief exponent of!
the cause of Dreyfus, died on the day ;
the captain was pardoned.
A prominent Filipino has approached
Genera] McArthur in the matter of;
releasing the American prisoners.
The empress dowager of China Is I
onid to lie seriously ill and Earl Li I
Hunt: X,'hunj4 has been recalled to!
power.
President KniL'er has been Informed
that the will receive no help from Ger
many in the event of war with Great
Britain.
Labor unions have ordered all work
In connection with the Chicago fall fes
tival stopped until au agreement if
reached.
After a six weeks' sie^e Jules (iner
in, the French anti-Semitic agitator,
surrendered when the army was about
to attack his fort.
Mrs. Mary Brooks, who has been in
a Michigan prison for 98 years has been
pardoned, she Immediately married
the man who had her convicted.
Representative Dalsell, of Pennsyl
vania, says that both the senate and
house will present bills in regard to
currency legislation at the next session
of congress.
O. N. Peck, a prominent farmer liv
ini; ut'ar Lexington, Morrow county,
Oregon, <1 i**< 1 from hemorrhage of the
lniu;*. Tin 1 neighbor! thought lie had
nnall|"'x, became frightened and re
fn>ed to bury him. uncl two phytidflM
j>erforuie<l the task uuaidud
LATER NEWS.
Thi' United States, cniisor Olvmpin,
with Admiral Dewey on board, bus ar
rived at New Ymk.
The Kearsar>re made 17 knot? in hei
triii I run.
Otli wil hold Bnblg aa ft ban oi op
era ti( ms.
The local revolution in Argentina
lIHH heCIl f|llel|ed.
The Dakota hoys will l>e entertained
hy the people of Portland.
lA>\<i7. and 04 folio wen surrendered
to r.yrne- at Kegros island.
Vice-Presldent Hobart is ill, and
may ii"t again (inside iii the wnate.
The remaining six companiei of Mon
tana volunteers have arrived in S.au
Francisco.
i Mi-' Cbineee exclusion not la can*
in/ considerable uneasiness in <lij»l>>
matic eicrles.
Three new cases, making 9] sn far
nntl t> deaths is the yellow fever rejxirt
from New Orleans,
More bubonic plague is reported at
Alexandria. There are. four new cases
at Sparta, Portugal.
The large Dungenesi coal mine in
West Virginia, which has bees lying
idle fur twii years, has resumed.
A relief expedition has been sent by
the mounted polioe to Mackenzie trail,
where great buttering is said to pre
vial.
Dewey's ships are in need of repairs,
and several million dollars will be
■pent in overhauling and remodeling
them.
Mrs. Steinheider, of Dorchester,
Neb., ended her life by winding wil
low witlw- around her throat until she
■ucceeded In strangling herself.
The insurgent! have captured the
United r-tate- gunboat Uradenta, In
the orani river, where she was patrol
iii).'. One officer, an Oregon boy, and
nine of her crew are misting, The Ie- ■
trel reports that the Urdaneta was
burned by the Fhliipinos and her guns
ami ammunition taken.
William l'.onney, a noted explorer,
is dead at London.
At Key West Sunday 80 new cases of
yellow lever and two deaths were re
ported.
As a result of religious riots, Ferroll,
Spain, has been proclaimed under mar
tial law.
The plant of the American Tin-Plate
company, at Atlanta, Ind., was de
stroyed by lire; loss, $160,000.
Friends of Genera] Maximo Gomel
<ay they will push the old patriot for
ward in the coming Cuban elections.
The steamers City of Seattle mid ( Ht
tnne City, which have arrived from
Alaska, had v combined cargo of $500,
--000,
A French paper Fays that Colonel
.louanste, president of the Rennes court
martial, voted for the acquittal of
Dreyfus.
The district of Adien, in Asia Minor,
was visited by an earthquake, and ac
cording to the latest advioes over 900
persons perished.
Itetweeu It,0(10 Rn«l 4,000 marine en
gineers on the Great Lakes threaten a
strike unless their demand for a 12 '.j
per cent advance is met.
The Colombian (:ovornn>ent hns'is-
Rued a decree closing her ports to ships
having the bubonic plague on board,
arriving from infected ]>orts.
Dispatches from Johannesburg re
]xirt a complete dislocation of the Hand
mining industry. The exodus con
tinues and all the mines, are closing.
The excitement of meeting his chil
dren has produced a serious reaction
in the condition of Dreyfus, and it is
feared that it may be necessary to send
him to Malt! or Madeira.
Congressman Hawley, representing
American capitalists, has purchased a
large sugar estate in Cuba, in the prov
isos of Mstans— A million and a
half will be expanded in improving it.
"liig Dan" Dougherty, a notorious
bankrobber and murderer, who has
been serving h sentence in Manchester,
England, has been pardoned and is
thought to have started for this country.
Official rc]H>rts nf two liattlt'f l.c
tweru the Mt'xican-' ami Yaquis have
reached l^w Angelee, The Mexicans
were viotorkNu in i«>th engagement*,
but suffered oottiidenblt loee. War
I is ptoeeadtogi daapita the oflicial aa*
DOB cement ol tu^p»-asion of hostilities.
ULTIMATUM TO IN1A!
England Serves Notice on
the Boers.
FORMER NEGOTIATIONS OFF
l'r<ipn«F«l ■ for n ritini **»«lll»»ui^nt of tli•»
] ••llt'« Will 1- •■ i oil iMilltl i ■ i I fit til H
] MTft lt)M|iHt()i l'r«iit|»« ill Nwlnl.
London, Sept. 27. —The officials ol
tin- foreign office tins evening give out
the text ol the letter of the secretary of
state for the colonies, Joseph ( hamher-
lain, to the I'.ritish hitrh commissioner
in South AiricH, Sir Alfred Milner,
dated September 24. The I'.ritish re-
ply expresses regret that her ma jest ,\ 's
offer No. A, of September b, has. bMO
refused, iiii'l sayg:
"Die object her mifjest>'s iiovern
nient had in view in the, recent ues:o
tiations lias been utated iv ■ manner |
which cannot admit of misapprehen
■ton, viz: 'I'm obtain such Immediate
rcprest'iitation for I'itlanders as will j
enable them to secure for themselves ;
that fair and just treatment which was
formally promised them in ins 1. and
Which her majesty intended to secure
for them when she granted privilege!
of self-government t<> the Transvaal. ;
No conditions less comprehensive than
those contained in the telegram of
September 8, can be relied on to effect
thai object.
"The refusal nf the South African
government to entertain the offer thus
made, Coming, as it does, alter four
months of protracted negotiations,
closes tive years of extended agitation,
and makes it useless further to pursue
discussion on the lines hitherto fol
lowed, and the imperial government is
BOW compelled to consider the situa
tion afresh and to formulate its own
proposals for a Bnal settlement of the
issues winch ha\e been created in
South Africa by the policy constantly
followed lor many years by the irovern
nient of the republic of SouthjAfrica.
It will communicate the result of ith
deliberations in a later dispatch."
A telegram received from Calcutta
announces tiie departure of the trans*
jMirt Chidhana for South Africa, and
the last transport for the Cape will
leave India tomorrow.
A special dispacth from Pretoria says
that the members of the volksraad, be- j
lievinn that the British notes are in-j
tended to gain time for the concentra
tion of troops, ur^e the government to
adjourn the rand immediately and to
■end Great Britain a note declaring
that further mobilisation will be re
garded as mi unfriendly act. Trenches,
earthworks and sandbag defenses are
, being erected in all tin; available ap
proaches to the capital.
X.ii.i in Hie a olkiraad.
Pretoria, Sept. 27. —The Imperial
dispatch was read today in the volks
raad. President Kroger announced
; that the reply of the government of the
South Afrcan republic would be pre
sented to the volksraad tomorrow.
Troops lit tii* Nntiti.
Durban, Natal, Sept. 27.—Seven
hundred and tifty men of the Leicester
shire W-'inient. ?."iii of the Royal Dub
lin lusilleers, 200 mounted infantry
and the iSiifhteenth hussars ha\e arrived
at Dundee from Ladysmith.
Vietermaritzbupj, Natal, Sept. 27.—
The troups that have been moved from
Ladysmith to Dundee will form a new
company at Qlenooe, their places being
tilled by others from India. The. move
ment was executed hi smartly and un
expectedly that the Boer spies were un
aware of it until it was actually ac
complished.
DISASTERS IN INDIA.
KitrlliquHke*. tI. >.■<!■ and I himl m! til .-■
ill I ->i».-l Illrn.ti.il M 4.
Calcutta, Sept. 27.— Kartqnakes,
floods and terrible landslides occurred
at and near Darjeeling, in the lower
Himalayas, last uiirht. Gnat dainai;*'
was done, and 110 fewer than 60 natives
perished. There was h rainfall of 28
inches in 8S hours. Three bad land
slides took place between Darjeeling
and Souada, Involving the trans-ship
ment of a railway train of passengers.
Aooordlag t*i the latest reports, nine
Eniopean children and "JO natives were
lost hetweeu those two ]>oints. The
whole Caioatta road is blocked, and
the Paglajohn Hue has been seriously
damaged.
About 100 acres of tea have been
destroyed bom Jalapahai to Buchill.
At the latter place some 0,000 feet of
Water supply pipe has lieen ruined.
The electric liL'ht plant has suffered
seriously, and the town is in darkness.
There is gnat fear of further rain.
A dispatch from Jalpni'.Tiri, on the
river Teesta, 40 miles southeast of Dar
jeeliog, khvs that b boat crossing the
Teesta with three Kuropeans and six
natives wax swamjied by the hiL'li
waves. The lx>dy of one of its occu
punts hnR been found 14 miles down
the river. It is reported that the
Knorpeans, Anderson, Kuster and
A\ hitman, jumped overl>oard. Their
fate is unknown. Search parties have
been sent to look for them.
LOPEZ HAS SURRENDFRED.
1.ai.l Dunn ll'- Anna Wllll Slily-lnul
Wg(.hin«ton, Stjit. 27.—Two impor
tant dispatches from <'tis at Manilx
were maile public today liv the war
department. Hie/ ale as follows!
"Manila. Sept. 'J7. — Adjutiint-( ien
ernl, Washington: GeMfaJ liuL-hex,
at 110 110. rep(.rt^ that I^^pez and M
Hrmeil men suiTendered to llyrnes, at
[Caatellano, Negne. An election w.is
I h«'lil in that island October 2. Kili
j jiinos sought n OOBterenoe, The chief
linMtrgenta of l'anay wished to know
I what promise could be them in
tease of formal unbmission. They were
told that no answer was possible until
they surrendered, and the force dis
, banded. OTIS."
"Manila. Sept. 27. —Adjutant-lien-
, pral, Washington: l'.ates returned
', from Join on the 21st of September,
I having placed garriaoni at siassi and
! I'.uiiL'liiiiH, iii the Tawuii grouj>, OM
Company at each place.
"Affairs in the archipelago are satis
factory. Hates saw chief ol Inflnrgenta,
; Zamboanga, who is still anxious to re-
I ceive United States garrison on oondl
tion of withdrawal should Agoinaldo
MOOeed in Luzon. The jiropositior
; was not entertained. Zamboanga v
I having trouble with more Hatos in the
vicinity, who have railed the United
states flair. Dato Cagayan, of sulu
islands, visited Jolo and gave adhesion,
and desired to raise the American 11ji)_'
instead of the Spanish Bag on the is
land. The Ameircan tla^ will be raised
there lor the purpose of giving six
months' notice in order to establish in
the archipelago cutomi regulation*
under the protocol of l^So between
Spain, tieriiiaiiv and Great liritaiiL
Bates' report will be lent by mail,
""OTIS."
CAPTURED BY REBELS.
- _
Anirrlrnn (Miuhoitt hihl t'riMv in Fill
plllll IlilllllH.
Manlia, Sept. "J7. —It is re]>orted
that tin- Insurgent* have captured the
tinted States gunboat Irdaneta, in
the Orani riviT, on the northweit side
of Manila bay, when she was patrol
-1 iiiLT. One officer and nine of crew
ari- missing.
The gunboat Petrel, Rent to investi
gate, returned and reported that the
I'rdaneta was beached opposite the
town of (Irani, on the Orani river.
She was burned and the following L'lins
With their ammunition were Captured!
one one-pounder, one Colt automatic
gun and one Nordenfeldt, 26 milimeter
jun. Tlie crew of the I'rdaneta are
prisoners, or have been killed. Further
details are lai-kiiifj.
WninHU'M Work in Kti£li«nil.
New York, Sept. 27.—James O'Con
uell, president of tlie International
Machinists, who had Keen a delegate to
the. British trades congreM meeting
'held in Plymouth, England, sjx>ke to
the Central Federated Union oi his
ixperiences and observation! at the
congress and *m«ng tha working
classes in England. lie did not have
j i hi^'h opinion of them, The Condi
j ;iou of the English working men, wo
j nen and children, he said, was dejilor-
I ilile. The difference of sex seemed to
ntirelv lost siL'lit of. He sjiw tlie
women going abont in ologa, dressed in
men's clothes, in blacksmith and other
, ihops, wielding the sledge hammers
' with the men.
Rallaf Expedition.
Victoria, I?. C, Sept. 27.—News
reached here by the Cottage City that
! relief expedition has been sent by the
mounted police to the Mackenzie trail
where treat suffering is said to prevail.
The last arrival from the Mackenzie
was an Australian named Kdwardson,
who, after losing his supplies, was a
week without food. A prospecting ex
pedition which returned to Dawson
alter 10 weeks on the upper Klondike.
Porcupine and Stewart rivers, reports
that although colors nre found there is
no yold on any of the crocks of these
departments.
Ain.rhKii l'rl>i>iifr a .
Manila, Sept. 27. —Two Knulishmeu
who had been held by the insurgents
since June, have arrived at Angeles.
They have reported that the Filipino
congress has resolved that 14 America!
prisoners shall l>e surrendered Wednes
day or Thursday. They have, how
ever, no information as to the where
abouts of Captain Charles M. Rocke
feller, of the Nineteenth infantry, who
disappeared in April last, and from
whom nothing has been heard. They
assert that three Americans who were
captured by the rebels are acting as
officers in the insurgent army.
American* liivh«l*» <>«-rniany.
London, Sept 21 —The Berlin corre
spondent of the Daily Mail, in a dis
patch dealing with the threat increase
of American iron and steel imports into
Germany, says:
"I learn that the Garvin Machine
; Company and the Nile tool works are
trning to erect lar^re plants in Berlin.
Other important American concerns,
including the Buffalo Forge Company,
are expected to follow suit. There is
an average of £2,40<i value of iron tools
alone imi>orted weekly boa New
York." _
Killed by 5...1« Fuuiilnln Explnalon.
Vacaville, Cal., Sept. 28.—1'.y the
Bzpkwfatß of a m>.l«i fountain in a bakery
hxlav, Karl Amllfr, an employe, \va*
kille.l. The jn-ojirietor. who was till
ing the fountain, wua uninjured.
[KPfiSIIION 111 PORTLAND
A Mammoth Exhibit of the
Products of the Northwest.
INFORMATION AND RECREATION
Th» iMilr, Opening S»|!trmncr SS. Will
ICmi Hit mill Kvrnliiß I'litll Ili'lulirt
ZH —Attmrtliiiia Niimrrutia*
The Oroiion Industrial Kxposifion at
Portlanil this year in (join* •" •"' »
(irainl comliirmtinn of fair, lum 1 ion
certw mill thrilling pSCfomaßoeS l>y
World-renowned pvfonMffl.
All the products Of tin- Wttn North
wept will be attractively exhibited.
(irains, pntHd'H, fruits, (lowers, vegets>
lilph, etc., will all be shown, hii 1 man
ufactured articles will be attru. tivel.T
arranged.
The amateur photographer! ol the
world will make a <HMi>lHy of their
work, anil cash prim — "g***g from
f: t t-ii $S6 will I* HwarltNl. Thla art
exhitiit is ROißg to bt n urt'at fiiture,
uinl RnMtonn SlSl^wlun are invited
to oontribntc to it.
Thfl music at the exposition at Port
land tins yi'iir is fiolng to ba of the
very lest. Ilrnnt'tt'h full military
bud will five both classical an.l popa<
lar concertH fvcry aftt'rin>"ii an 1 cvpn
in-.', and its music in really irrni 1.
While the exposition at Pattito l libh
all the beet featurei «f > fair, the lull
Riiil uninteresting features are din lully
cut out, md everything is nuuie bright
iiri'l interesting. The amusciiK'iit fea
ture comprises performancei by the
■Teat I'liainz tr<mix', tliis being tlieir
first appearMKM in America. Tho
wonderful listen Maoarte will uive.
tlirillinu' perfonn*noes every evening,
aii'l Major (ianz. the smallest tir.tn in
the world, will l>e on exhibition, an.i
there will l«o an immense merrv-u"
round for the children. There will be
uo lack of healthful amusements.
The immense exposition building has
lieen niK'le as pretty as a picture, and
you can imagine what a scene of sjilen
ilor it will present when Illuminated
by its 3.niio electric lights.
A new feature thin year U ii repro
duction of Multnomah falln, the pride
of all Oregon. It is 80 feet high, has*
the PKine rustic bridge as the original,
tmd is worth coming milen to see.
Portland in a line city to visit, nn-.l
there are thousands of sights to sm<
and you can Fee many of them for 6
cent" by riding all over town on tha
electric cars, which run everywhere.
The price of admission to the expoti
tiou is kept down to ?."i cents. ;iii ! all
the railroads and steamboats will cany
people during the fair at specially luw
rates.
The Orepon Indnptrinl Exivisitinn
nt Portland is pom« to lie one of ttaa
events of the year, and it in fint-clMi
in every respect. It sjiurt-s no expense
in being Interesting and attractive, and
has lolid bosineM men liehinil it. Its
general oommlttee of management
comprises the following well-known
gentlemen:
11. c. Breeden, praldent; I. N.
l'leischner, vice-president; R, .1.
Holmes, treararer; W. B.'JjMihlft, sec
retary; K. ('. Masten, >■ lltant secre
tary; 11. K. Posche, \ uilitor; Qeorgo
L. Baker, superintendent; ,T. I. Mar
■ball, Ben Selling, H. L. Pittock, D.
S<dis Cohen, (.'. B, Willmns, l).i!i Mo-
Allen, A. B. BteJnbaoh, .1. E. Thielsen,
D. M. Dunne, K. ('. Jodwn, I-. M.
SpieL'l, Sil'. Siche], 11. I). Ham- Ml,
It. S. l'airue. General 0. Summer-. Col>
.inel I. N. D.iy, George Fuller, K. S.
J Edwards.
THE FIRST MONTANA.
Six Compute* lSrtum on the Tm mport
Pan Francisco, Sept. 25.—The Uni
ted states transport Zealandia arrived
from Manila via Yokohama today, hav
ing on lKiar.l six oompaniM of the Fint
Montana volnnteen, A bolmj greeting
was extended to the returning loldien,
whose pafe arrival was umonnoed liy
the bloving of Fteam whistles and the
discharge of cannon.
Notitirtition of the Zelan.lia'e com
ini; was promptly jhven, auil togl went
out to wet the bnuupoit. <)np tag had
on board a number of offloiall of Call
forma and of San Francisco, an 1 mem
bers of the local reception cominir.ce,
reinforced by a lirasn band. The othT"
carried (iovernor Smith, of Montana;
United States Senator Carter 11111 a
party of Moutanans, who were rocifor*
ous in their joy at beholding their ml
dier kith and kin once more.
The health of all on board is excel
lent, and there was but one death on
the voyage, that of James Ashton,
Fourth United States, cavalry, who died
September 19 of pneumonia. A-ide
from this case there was no sickn<-.< on
board the transport during the trip.
<HU llerimifin a rmhulir.
New York, Sept. 2!i. — Apropos of the
charges of TaiMUHwn iv CathoUa
churches in the Philippine! by Ameri
can soldiers, a correspondent o{ tht
Times calls attention to the fact th*t
in a recently published bciok bmnd by
a l'aulist father a li^t is piven of
"American Converts from I'roteastant
ism," in which appears the name of
Colonel E. S. Otis. L^iteU States army.