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GAZETTE
VALLIS
WEEKLY.
DIHM Eatab. July, 1887.
GAZETTE Eatab. Dec, 1802.
Consolidated Feb. 1899.
CORVALLIS, BENTON COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1900.
VOL. XXXY1I. NO. 81.
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of ths
News of th'
Telegraphic
World.
ERSE TICKS FRO.u JriE WIRES
Interesting Collection of Items From
he Two Hemispheres Irc ntt
fn a Cor-lenset1 Z?ejin-
Smallpox is prevalent at Nome City.
Boxers are i eported on the Coiean
frontier.
Ttie shingle mill at Toledo, Or., was
totally destroyed by lire.
There is said to he a lack of harmony
between the allies in China.
Fire in Pomroy, Wash., destroyed
property to the value of $10,000.
Prince Tuan has an army of 15,000
men ready to light the foreigners.
Republicans of Idaho nominated D.
W. Standrod, of Bannock county, for
governor.
Prince Tnan has issued an edict to
fix a definite date for a general upris
ing iq China.
The steamer Cntch has arrived at
Vancouver, B. C, from Skagway, with
$300,000 in gold dust.
Milk dealers of Chicago are beiny
prosecuted for using formaldehyde to
preserve their product.
San Francisco Chinese may fight the
Boxers. American born Mongolians
are organizing a national guard com
pany. The steamship Garonne, just return
ed from Alaska, has been chartered by
the United States and will he used tc
carry supplies and troops to China.
England is alarmed over report that
Chinese are invading Siberia, thus giv
ing Russia an excuse for descending on
Pekin and holding territory conquered.
Germany, Russia and France have
come to an agreement regarding future
action in China. Russia will cairy on
a seperate campaign against Pekin on
the north.
The Chinese empress is alleged to
have proposed to Japan a wholesale
massacre of foreigners in both countries.
Li Hung Chang is said to have been
implicated in the affair.
New locomotives just put on by the
Denver & Rio Gtande Railway have an
unique attachment as a safeguard
against robbers, in the way of a nozzle
on the roof of the cab. These connect
with the hot water of the boiler, and
point at the rear end of the tender.
The nozzle can S6nd a mixed stream of
steam and boiling water at 200 pounds
pressure that would kill anyone in its
range.
Llama, Tex., was demolished by a
cyclone.
St. Louis Transit Company refuses
to arbitrate with the strikers.
Chicago Chinese, having just learned
of the trouble in China, are greatly ex
cited. Twenty persons were prostrated by
heat at New York. Temperature 100
degrees.
Foreign warships have their guns
trained on Che Foo, in anticipation of
an outbreak.
Fleet of the revolutionists has been
captured by government forces in Co
lombian relellion.
The big steel plant of the Federal
Steel Company, at Lorain. Pa., has
been closed down, throwing 4,000 men
out of work.
Two transports, with 1,200 officers
and men, sailed from Manila for Taku.
The hospital ship Relief has also been
sent to fTaku.
Mrs. Elizabeth C. Tolman, wife of
General J. C. Tolman, and a pioneer
of 1852, died at her home in Ashland,
Or., aged 71 years.
At New York city, Terry McGovern,
feather weight champion of the world,
defeated in three rourds, Frank Erne,
light weight champion of the world.
Sealing claims are to be arbitrated.
Russia, United States and England
have finally agreed on a method of dis
posing of long pending Behring sea
trouble.
In Bombay, India, for the week end
ing July 7, there were 9,928 cases of
cholera in the famine district, of which
G.474 were fatal, and in the native
states 9,526 cas.s, of which 5,892 were
fatal.
Joe Bartoui, a wealthy sheepman of
Westfall, Maiheur county, Or., was
accidentally killed while stacking hay
on his ranch, being struck by a derrick
fork, one prong of which pierced his
neck.
Peoria, 60 miies southwest of Dal
las, Texas, was swept by a cyclone,
killing three persons. Two churches,
several dwelling houses and an im
menjra amount of farm property was
destroyed.
The first suit for damages growing
out of the Fourth of July street car ac
cident at Tacoma, in which 43 lives
were lost, has been filed by Harry Gaul,
for the death of his son Harry, for $5,
000. Many other suits are expected.
Chinch bugs are doing great damage
to Kansas crops.
American trade with China is
chiefly in the region where the dis
turbance is greatest.
A steam automobile was built in
England in 1834. It was regarded as
a curiosity.
An Oklahoma woman wants a di
vorce, because her husband had killed
27 man. After the 26th she drew th
tine.
LAI hR NEWS.
Five hundred marines left Washing
ton for China, via San Francisco.
A well known packer says be feart
salmon will soon be exterminated.
Texas woolgrowers are holding about
4,000,000 pounds of wool for better
prices.
The allied fleet bombarded the fort
at Taku all night before they were suc
cessful. The report of the state banks of
Washington show a heavy- increase in
deposits.
General Dewet has again cut Lord
Roberts' communications and captured
100 men and a supply train.
Citizens of Porcupine district,
Alaska, have issued a petition protest
ing against British aggression .
Joseph E. Mullen, who was convict
ed in J Jew York for the murder of his
wife, was electrocuted in the prison at
Sing Sing.
A terrific wind, rain and hail storm
swept over the town of Ironton, Ohio,
demolishing a large planing mill, un
roofing several houses and uprooting
trees.
Senator Pettlgrew has a letter from
a Filipino general, purporting to give
the terms of an interveiw with Dewey
at the outbreak of the Spanish war, in
which the admiral promised Philippine
independence.
Four of the officers and employes of
the Tacoma Railway & Power Com
pany were arrested charged with man
slaugther for the Fourth of July street
railway disaster, in which 43 persons
were killed and over 60 injured.
The American policy of proceeding
as if the good faith of the Chinese gov
ernment were not doubted, while in no
wise relaxing effort to reach our min
ister, is believed to hold two chances
of success to the one chance of the othei
foreign governments.
The St. Paul Cold Storeage & Ware
house Company's large warehouse at
St. Paul, Minu., was destroyed by fire
The total loss is estimated at about
$150,000, with an insurance of $50,
000. The warehouse was filled with
butter, ftuit, tobacco, eggs, whisky
and other commodities.
Among the passengers on the steam
ship Amenta-Mam, which has arrived
at San Francisco from Yokohama, via
Honolulu, was K. Takahira, the Jap
anese minister plenidotentiary to the
United States. Mr. Takahira conferred
with the Japanese at Honolulu, and
will present their claim.' for damage as
a result of the burning of a portion of
Honolulu during the plague epidemic
there.
Lebanon, Or., had a $10,000 fire.
Lord Roberts has attacked Middle
burg. Tien Tsin and neighborhood are oleai
of Chinese.
Oriental war is affecting the world's
money markets.
Forty persons were injured at a street
car accident at Niles, Ohio.
The New York Republican state con
vention will.be held September 4.
Minister Wu has word that the
Pekin authorities are protecting the
foreigners.
Crop prospects in the Pacific North
west indicate a yield of 40,000,000
bushels of wheat.
The Cunary liner Campania cut in
twain a bark, which sank at once, car
rying down 11 men.
Colombian troops will fight the revo
lutionists outside of Panama, so as not
to endanger the ity.
Populists refused to go into the Idaho
fusion, and nominated a full ticket,
Democrats and Silver Republicans
fusing.
Li Hung Chang got a cool reception
at Hong Kong. Russia has called on
the border provinces of Siberia for the
reserves.
The Eight infantry is returning from
Cuba to go to China. Heavy artillery
has been ordered to leave Fort Reilly
for the Orient.
Hawaiian plantation owners are
trying to induce 5.000 Puerto Ricans
to move to the Pacific islands on a
three years' contract.
Documents relating to a plot against
the American authorities in Manila
have been found in a rebel lecruiting
office in San Miguel.
The Yaqui Indians, of Mexico, are
reported to have been broken up, and
the government will offer them induce
ments to return to their farms.
The Frazer river fishermen's strike
is now deemed beyond settlement, a
serious collision between peace officers
and strikers having taken place.
Count Castellane, husband of Anna
Gould, fought a duel with Connt
Orlowski in the suburbs of Paris, in
which Orlowski was slightly wounded.
The executive council of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor issued an ap
peal to all wage-workers to organize
unions or join those already in ex
istence. The Chinese minister at Paris has
notified Delcasse that the foreign min
isters were safe July 18. The Belgian
government has received word that
they were alive on the 20th.
A Birmingham, N. Y., school teacher
whipped a school boy and exploded a
torpedo. He may die.
A six year old boy at Acorn Ridge,
Mo., shot his brother dead as the re
sult of a quarrel.
Japan has appropriated 50,000,000
yen or war purposes. A yen is about
the same as our dollar.
The Christian Endeavor convention
in London will be attended by 10,000
delegates. 3,000 from America.
ACCURATE SAMPLING
Considered Essential to Ac
curate Assaying.
k PRACTICAL MINER'S VIEWS
Protests Against the Use of Assay Cer
tificates aa Documentary
.Evidence.
"Accurate sampling is qute as essen
tial as accurate assaying, for if the
sample does not truly represent the lot,
or mass, from which it was taken, the
subsequent assays will be valueless.
The assayer or chemist will usually re
ceive the samples already prepared,
but as be will occasionally be called
upon to take his own sample a knowl
edge of the art of sampling is essen
tial." In the Northwest a majority of the
samples brought to an assayer are
taken by the prospector, or other inter
ested party, and as the assay certifi
cates are often used as the document
ary evdence of the value oi the proper
ty, the assayer sbonld be very careful
to state on the face of such certficates
exactly from whence he obtained the
sample on which the assay was made.
If an assayer samples .the ore him
self, he owes it to his client so to state,
as it doubles the value of the certifi
cate. If he did not take the sample
himself he should place the lesponsi
bility of the sample where it belongs,
by stating who did take it. Without
some one known vouching for the ore
of the sample, assay certificates should
carry no weight as documents. This
can best be accomplished by the as
sayer seeing to it that bis printed cer
tificate blank is worded to cover the de
sired points, telling the whole story
and protecting him from any after talk.
I must protest, also, against the
habit of certain assayers in filling in
the value of the ore on the assay certifi
cate, as they do, at the price of the
metal in marketable shape delivered in
New York. It shows a gross ignor
ance on the part of the assayer as to
the value of the ore here, and often
misleads the prospector frightlnlly, at
the same tme furthering and opening
the door for fraudulent practice. I
have seen, this summer, assay certifi
cates upon which the copper of 5 per
cent ore was figured out at 18 cents,
equal to $18 per ton, whereas no smelt
er could afford to pay more than about
one-third that price.
A good practical rule to use in figur
ing out approximate values of a sul
phide ore, at present market quota
tions, is as lollows:
Allow $1.25 for every per cent of
copper the ore contains.
Allow 40 cents for every per cent of
lead the ore contains.
Allow 50 cents for every ounce of
silver the ore contains.
Allow $20 for every ounce of gold
the ore eonatins.
These values are for ore delivered on
the line of railway.
The prospector has to sample his
own claim and wishes to know the
truth. Naturally, I ask how he is to
do it, and the following remarks are
for his benefit, not for the professional:
In sampling a lead, if the vein is so
that it will all have to go for treat
ment, a section of uniform thickness
right across the whole face of the lead
should be taken for ore samples.
Another, and quite as satisfactory a
method, is to sample all the rock .that
comes out of the prospect, or sample
the dump, if there is any, by cutting
channels through it on the same princi
ple as in sampling a ledge.
It must always be borne in mind in
sampling that there is liable to be a
great difference between the dump and
the fine ore, and consequently a due re
gard must be had to getting the proper
proportion of each.
Hand-picked samples are never reli
able, and should always be avoided.
Experienced mining men frequently
take hand samples of particular classes
of the ore in a mine, have these assayed
and often from these results they esti
mate what grade of ore they are min
ing. This may be correctly done, and
it is wonderful how close to correct
assays experienced men can "guess;"
but it is uncertain at the bast, and
dangerous for inexperenced persons to
attempt to be guided by such estim
raates. Assays cannot be averaged, unless
one knows the actual weight of the ma
terial represented by each assay, and
only then by a long calculation, too
long to describe here, except briefly.
In nine cases ont of ten when the
"average assay of a mine" is spoken of,
it is incorrect and is usually obtained
by adding np a number of separate as
says and dividing the sum by the num
bers of such assays. It s quite correct
to take an average sample, have that
assayed, and call it the average assay;
but this is seldom done. The correct
average assay may be obtained by mul
tiplying the weight ot each lot of the
ore by the assay of such lot, and the
product of such multiplication and
divide this sum by the sum of the
weights of the various lota of the ore.
The quotient of such division will be
"the only correct average assay" obtain
able. O. M. ROSEN DALE,
In Portland Telegram.
Castle Crag; Tavern Burned.
Dunsmuir, Cal., July 23. Castle
Crag Tavern, a fashionable summer
resort in the Sierra mountains, was
destroyed by fire, together with its
contents , at an early hour this morn
ing There were 800 guests in the ho
tel. All escaped withont injury. The
fire originated in the laundry. The
total loss is estimated at $200,000.
The hotel was owned by the Pacific
Improvement Company, one of the in
corporations of the Southern Pacifio
Company. .
AUTHOR OF IT ALL.
H HDBf Chang Looked TJpon M Orig
inator of the Plot.
London, July 21. The Shanghai cor
respondent of the Daily Express says:
"Intense indignation is felt here at
the honors in Hong Kong that have
been accorded to Li Hung Chang, who
is looked upon in Shanghai as the orig
inator of the whole fiendish anti-foreign
plot.
"A Chinese merchant who has just
arrived from Pekin gives horrible de
tails of the massacre. He says he saw
European women hauled into the street
by shrieking Boxers, who stripped
them and hacked them to pieces.
Their dissevered limbs were tossed to
the crowd and carred off with howls oi
triumph. Some were already dead,
haivng been shot by foreign civilians.
He says he saw Chinese soldiers car
rying the bodies of white children aloft
on their spears while their companions
shot at the bodies. He gives other de
tails too horrible to be particularized
here.
"It seems that the Boxer leaders bad
organized a plan, including the offer
ing of rewards and rich loot, for the
annihilation of Europeans throughout
China, and that Prince Tuan's' soldiers
have been emphasizing the opportunity
the soldiers have had of seizing the
bodies of white women."
TORTURED BY BOXERS.
The Terrible fate of One of the First
Victims.
San Francisco, July 21. A Chroni
cle special from Victoria, B. C, says:
Advices received from North China
contain particulars of the awful torture
inflicted on the Rev. H. V. Norman,
who, with Rev. C. Robinson, was
among the first of the American mis
sionaries to become victims of the Box
ers. A correspondent writing from
Tien Tsin on July 7, says some refugees
who had arrived there gathered from
Chinese ghastly details of the torture
inflicted on Norman.
It seems that he fell into the hands
of Li, the head man of a little town
hard by the little Anglican mission,
where he and Robinson had their head
quarters. In a quarrel between Boxers
and Christians, the converts had driven
off the Boxers from the mission and Li
vowed vengeance. This he took in a
horrible manner when Norman was
thrown into his hands.
After his capture by the rioters,
from whom Li took the captive, the
missionaiy was stripped by the retinue
of Li and a collar of iron fastened to
his neck. A short chain was attached
and he was tethered to a stake. The
Chinese men, women and children then
poked sharp sticks into his flesh and
jabbed him with tridents. When he
sank down, weak Vitb the loss of blood
and half crazed by the awful torture,
and was unable to get upon his knees
even, the chain being too short, he
strangled slowly. Molten lead was
then thrown on his nude body and as
he writhed in agony, he was stabbed
to death. His body was cut to pieces.
Robnson, the other mssionary, was
slangthered without being so long in
agony. He was cut down by a mob
and hacked to peces almost instantly.
A number of the mission converts were
slaughtered. Some were asked to re
cant and those who did so to save their
lives were saddled and bridled and
forced to crawl to the temple idols.
THE HOT SPELL.
Caused Seventy Deaths at New York
Yesterday.
New York, July 20. The ho
weather today caused or contributed
toward the death of more than 70 per
sons in this city and vicinity. As
many more stricken ones are in the
hospitals', and some of them will suc
cumb before the night is over. More
than half the fatalities were among
babies and little children, and there
are now about 40 bodies of the lit tie
ones lying at the morgue at Bellevne.
This was the third day of the spell
of intense heat. Late tonight the tem
perature moderated. Early this morn
ing the sun began its deadly work, and
before the day was fairly well started
the hospitals were busy. On the
streets the temperature ranged from 93
to 105, and the official report from th
weather bureau, high above ground,
was 94 deg. shortly before 5 o'clock
tonight.
One death was from an attempt at
suicide made while the subject was
crazed with the heat. Many little
children are badly hurt by falls from
fire escapes, on to which they had
crawledfor relief from the oppressive
weather.
Transports Sail.
San Francisco, July 19. The United
States army transport Sumner, bearing
a detachment of troops, surgeons and
hospital assistants, sailed today for
Nagasaki where it is generally believed
further orders will be received direct
ing the vessel to proceed to Taku,
China. At least two officers who
Bailed on the transport are under direct
orders to join the forces nnder com
mand of Brigadier-General Adna R.
Chaffee, at Takn.
Mrs. J. S. Felton, of Corvallis, Or.,
whose husband died some months ago,
has been endeavoring to support herself
by raising chickens, but is having hard
luck. Of 800 fowls she has raised,
thieves have stolen all but three dozen.
Sidney Edgerton.
Akron, O., July 21. Hon. Sidney
Edgerton, aged 82, died here today.
He was the first justice of the supreme
couit of Idaho, and the first governor
of Montana, having been appointed by
President Lincoln. He was twice
. elected congressman from this district.
Chicago, July 21. James Nicol.
I vice-president of the Chicago board of
trade, was suspended for one year at a
meeting of the directors tonight. Too
charge was backet-shopping.
SHIP CUT IN TWAIN
Cunard Liner Campania Col
lided With a Bark.
THE SAILER SANK IMMEDIATELY
Bleren of Her Crew Were Ivowued
Campania Not Much
Damaged.
London, July 24. A dense fog hung
ver the Irish channel yesterday morn
ing, and the Cunard line steamer Cam
pania, en route from New York ior
Liverpool, struck the Liverpool bark
Embleton, bound for New Zealand,
amidships, cutting her in twain. The
Embleton sank immediately. Seven of
the crew were rescued, but it is be
lieved the other 1 1 members of the
ship's company, including the captain,
were drowned. The - Campania bad
her bows stove in, but arrived safely at
Liverpool, five and a half hours late.
The Campania had a narrow escape
from serious disaster. "The fog had
delayed her passage since Friday noon,
and a tender went out from Queens
town four miles, as Captain Walker
would not take the liner near shore.
At Tnskar light, the fog was becoming
denser every moment. - When the Cam
pania was about 30 miles northeast of
the light a phantom ship rose suddenly,
without warning, directly across her
bows. Thirty seconds later the phan
tom bad become a solid sailing vessel,
into which the liner crashed, her steel
forefoot going through the Embleton
like the clean cut of a sword, and
dividing her just abaft the mainmast.
The forward half sank instantly. The
stern swung viciously round, and the
mast and yards for a moment tore at
the Campania. A lump of wreckage
came down on her decks. Then the
stem of the bark also disappeared, and
.1 C f 1. .. 1 ; ,3 ...jrl.
the face of the sea was littered with
splintered timbers, boxes, barrels, the
npper works and lighter cargo, the deck
houses and such things. Then there
was nothing,
From the instant when the phantom
came into view from the bridge of the
Camnania until the last vestiue of the
vessel vanished some 60 or 80 seconds
had elapsed.
According to the Embleton 's surviv
ors, for nearly half an hour before the
collision, the captain and first officer
were below at breakfast, and, although
the fog whistle of a large steamer could
be heard every minute, the bark never
shifted her course, the- helmsman re
ceiving no order. When, at 8:25 A.
M., the second officer, to use his own
phrase, "heard the rush of a steamerVf
bows," he shouted down to the captain,
who rushed on deck, but he was too
late to give an order.
The Capmania was under one-third
steam. The captain, first officer and
pilot were on the bridge. The engine s
were instantly reversed, and the helm
put hard down. No precaution was
omitted. Some of her passengers had
even grumbled at what they called
superfluous caution. After the crash
and the sudden cries, the boats were
quickly gotten out. There were no
signs of panic; the crew was every
where at their stations; the bulkheads
were closed and everything possible
was done to save life.
Some of the Campania's plates were
bent by the collision; her forepeak
filled with water; her foretopmast was
broken short off and her steel rigging
torn and twisted.
The passengers held a meeting, adopt
ed resolutions ot thanks to the captain
and crew, and subscribed 700 for tbe
relief of the survivors and the families
Df the lost.
Eighth Infantry for China.
New York, July 24. Two com
panies of the Eighth United States in
fantry -moved off the transport McClel
lan this afternoon and started for Fort
Snelling, Minn. Other members of
the regiment are en route from Cuba,
and, after the recruiting of the organ
ization to its full limit, it will be sent
to Chiba. The men have been in Cuba
18 months, but they looked to be in
fine condition. About 2,500 persons
were at the docks to meet tbe soldiers,
and the Young Men's Christian Asso
ciation proivded coffee and other re
freshents. The other eight companies of
the regiment were delayed by a storm
aff Cape Hatteras.
Cleared the Track and Saved Lives.
Three Lakes, Wis., July 24. A
laborer early to day removed a pile of
ties from the Northwestern tracks, that
bad been placed there during the night,
just in time to prevent the passenger
train due here at 4:30 A. M., from
striking them. He also removed a
number of rocks from a bridge a short
distance away. His actions probably
saved tbe lives of 30 members of a
local club, who were on the train.
Engulfed in a Lavs Flow.
Yokobmaa, Jujly 23. Mount Azu
ma, near Bandaisan, which was the
scene of a volcano disaster in 1888,
broke into eruption Tuesday, July 17.
Hundreds of persons were killed or in
jured. Several villages were engulfed
by tbe stream of lava from Mount
Azuma, and great damage was done in
adjacent districts.
Heavy Artillery for the Orient. Dallas' Street Car Strike.
Fort Riley, Kan., July 24. Rush Dallae, Tex., July 25. Union mo
orders have come for the Seventh Unit- tormen are prosecuting vigorously the
ed States battery of heavy artillery at .Btrike on the Dallas Consolidated Street
Fort Riley to proceed with all haste to Railway, backed by the entire organ
the Orient, calling for oiders at Nag- ized labor forces of the city. W. D.
asaki. General Merriam promulgated Mahon. of Detroit, Mich., president of
the order in Denver. The battery was tjje Amalgamated Assciation of Street
organized during the Spanish war, and Bail way Employes, will reach Dallas
since that time has been idle. The tomorrow to take charge of the strike.
equipment embraces the heaviest cali
ber guns in the service, with full com
plement of mortars, attended by 250
men and 10 officers.
PROMISE OF DEWEY.
Filipino General Says It Was for
Inde-
pendence.
Sioux Falls, S. D., July 25. A let
ter has been received by Senator R. F.
Pettigrew fiom one of the leading com
manders of the Filipino army, giving
additional light on the claims of the
Filipino people as to the understanding
that was arrived at between them and
the Americans before the opening of
hostilities in the Philippines. The let
ter says, in part:
"Sinukwan Encampment, Philippine
Islands, April 12, 1900. Hons. R. F.
Pettigrew and G. F. Hoar, Senators,
Washington Gentlemen: I have read
in some American papers that Admiral
Dewey, compelled by you and other
senators, lovers of truth and justice, to
answer whether he made to us formal
promises of independence, stated that
he had 'never promised independence
to the Filipinos.' I, who, in the name
of the Filipino people, and of General
Aguinaldo, and as a representative of
both, have had the honor to confer sev
eral times with the admiral, make to
you the following statements, that you
may use them as you think convenient:
"In April, 1898, when the rupture of
hostilities between America and Spain
became imminent, and in the absence
qf my chief. General Aguinaldo, who
was then at Singapore, I solicited,
through the American consul at Hong
Kong, Mr. Wildman, to have some in
terviews with Admiral Dewey, with
the object of continuing the interrupted
negotiations between General Aguinaldo
and Admiral Dewey, through Mr.
Wood, the commander of the American
gunboat Petrel. My petition was fav
orably received, and I went with Mr.
Andrew Garchitorena, another Filipino,
on board the Olympia, in the bay of
Hong Kong.
"Once on board, the following inter
view, in French, took place through the
flag interpreter:
"Filipino Admiral, it having come
to our knowledge that a war between
your country and Spain is imminent, we,
who have fought the latter for our in-
I , 1 Ml- t 1 -
dependence, are willing, in obedience
to tbe desires manifested by you to
General Aguinaldo, thiough Mr. Wood,
to take part in tbe war as allies of
America, so long as it be carried on
with the object of freeing from the
yoke of Spain her colonies, giving them
their independence.
"Admiral Dewey The American
people, champions of liberty, will
undertake this war with the humani
tarian object of freeing from the Span
ish yoke the peoples under it, and we
will give you independence and free
dom, as we have proclaimed to the
world at large.
"Filipino We are very grateful for
this generous manifestation of the great
American people, and being made
throng ah avfmiral of their navy, we
value it more than a written
contract
and therefore place ourselves
entire disposal.
, "Admiral Dewey I place
disposal the ships of my fleet
at your
at your
for the
conveyance of both the Filipino leaders
and the arms you may get. Moreover,
I think my government is willing to
supply you with arms and ammunition.
"Filipino We are very thankful to
you for this new generosity of the Amer
ican people, and you may be sure that we
are ready to fight at your side foi the
independence of the Philippines, even
without arms, as we have done during
the recent revolution.
"Admiral Dewey America is rich
in every respect; she has territories
sparsely inhabited. Besides, our con
stitution prevents 'territorial expan
sion' outside of America; therefore,
the Filipinos may be sure of their inde
pendence, and not a bit of their land
shall be taken from them.
"After these conclusive and formal
statements, the conversation timed to
other details concerning the state of
the country. "
The letter is signed "K
andiino." He is a Filipino
who recently surrendered
A.r 3rican forces.
Alex
general to the
Massacre in Persia.
v iiicago, July 23. A special to the
Record from Peoria, 111., says: George
Shimoon, a Persian student who has
been attending college in Illinois for
several years and is passing the summer
in Peoria, today received a cablegram
from his home at Oroomiah, Persia,
stating that his brother had been cap
tured by Mohammedans and that there
has been a general massacre of 3,000
Christians in Oroomiah. The letter
states that the feeling of the Moham
medans against the native Christians is
growing, and that there have been sev
eral hand-to hand battles with fatali
ties on both sides. Mr. Shimoon's
father is a native missionary, and this
fact adds to tbe wrath against him and
his family.
Lynching ot a Negro.
Huntsville, Ala., July 25. Elijah
Chirk, a negro, who yesterday assault
ed Susan Priest, a 13-year-old girl, was
taken from jail in this city tonight and
lynched near the snot where his crime
was committed. His body was riddled
with bullets. Sheriff Fulgham defend
ed his prisoner to the last, but the mob
was too much for him. Will Yining,
who attempted to rash through the
crowd and up the jail steps, was shot
by the sheriff and dangerously wound
ed. After battering down the doors
and gaining an entrance to the jail, the
mob drove tbe sheriff and his prisoner
into the third story of the building.
The Dallas Typographical Union has
passed a resolution fining any member
riding on the street cars 925 for eack
offense.
ESCORT TO THE SEA
China Promises to Deliver Pe
kin Ministers Safely.
NOTHING PROVES THEM ALIYF;
Another Account Comes Through of
Tleir Massacre Rumors Abont i
l.i Hung Changs Mansion.
London, July 25. The Chinese min
ister. Sir Chi Chen Len Feng Loh, has
communicated to the press the follow
ing dispatch from Sheng, director of
the Chinese railways and telegraphs,
and Tao Tai, of Shanghai, dated Shang
hai, July 23:
"Information from Pekin. dated July
18, says that the Tsung Li Yamun de
puted Won Jai, an under secretary of
the department, to see the foreign min
isters, and he found every one well,
without any missing, the German ex
cepted. General Yung Lu is going to
memorialize the throne to send them
all under escort to Tien Tsin, in the
hope that the military operations will
then be stopped."
The Shanghai correspondent of the
Daily Mail, telegraphing July 23, says:
"A letter from a Chinese official in
Shang Tung has been received by an
active functionary here, containing the
following passage:
" 'At the beginning of the month
the foreign missionaries made seveial
attempts to send messages out of Pekin,
but, thanks to the strict watch kept on
the city, the bearers were all caught
and executed. On the 4th inst. only
400 foreigners were left alive in Pekin,
and one night, when the big guns were
incessantly fired, it was known that all
the legations and foreigners were fin
ished, although pretended telegiams
contradicted these facts.' "
The St. Petersburg correspondent oi
the Daily Mail asserts that there are
differences of opinion in the Russian
council of war. The minister of war,
General Kuropatkin, wishes to send
100,000 men to clear the rebels out of
Manchuria. On the other hand, ac
cording to this correspondent, Emperor
Nicholas wishes the operations limited
to the defense and pacification of the
frontier districts. Let two stronjj
armies, one of the allies in the south
and the other of Russians iu the north,
confront the Chinese, and the rising
so the czar is said to argue would
be bound to collapse. "We want no
conquests," he is reported to have de
clared at the conclusion jof the sitting
of the council. "What we desire is to
protect our frontiers and to steer into
smooth waterS' the Chinese ship of
state, now buffeted by the waves o'.
civil war."
There is nothing further this morn
ing that throws any light upon the mys
terious situation. Two urgent dis
patches were addressed yesterday by
the Chinese minister to the Pekin gov
ernment and the administration of tel
egraphs, strongly recommending the
lestoration of telegraphic communica
tion, so as to enable the powers to
leam of the safety of the foreign min
isters. Until such proofs are secured,
uo one here is inclined to alter the
opinion that the Chinese are merely
juggling to gain time.
Rumor circulates briskly around tbe
personality of Li Hnng Chang. He is
credited with a mission to offer to cede
to the allied powers two provinces as
indemnity for the Pekin outrages and
also to offer to restore order and give
facilities for trade with the outside
world, on condition of the surrender of
Kiao Chou, Wei Hai Wei and Man
churia by the powers and the with
Jrawal of all missionaries.
Chinese Laundries Close.
Chicago, July 25. The Chinese
population of Chicago is perturbed over
the reports from the various parts of
the city that because of Caucasian an
tipathy aroused by trouble in the Celes
tial empire a boycott has been institut
ed against Chinese laundries and truck
farms. Wu Sung Lee,, a hanker in
Chinatown and probably the richest
Mongolian in the city, says four laun
dries have been forced to suspend busi
ness during the past week, and Chinese
laundries generally report a falling off
of 50 per cent in their business. Bank
er Wu said today: "The white people
think we are in sympathy with the
Boxers, and that they have our moral
support. Nothing could be further
from the truth. Every Chinese in the
city regrets the trouble, and hopes that
the foreigners have not been murdered.
Some of us have even authorized the
Chinese consuls at San Francisco to
offer to the Chinese government our
services and our property, to the end
that the foreigners, especially tbe
Americans, in China may be saved."
Yellow Fever at Pinar del Rio
Havana, July 25. Yellow fever has
broken out in the barracks of the Sev
enth United States cavalry and the
First United States infantry in Pinar
del Rio. There have been nine deaths
during the last month, and 11 cases
are now under treatment in the hospit
als. Today General Lee moved the
camp three miles into tbe country, and
the quarantine will be strictly en
forced. . . , . t
King of Servia Engaged.
Belgrade, July 24. King Alexander,
of Sevia, has proclaimed his bethrothal
to Mme. Draga Maschin, a widow, who
was formerly a ladv-in-waiting to
Queen Nathalie, the king's mother.
Took Morphine and Died.
Seattle, July 24. Joe Greenwald, a
sporting, man, well-known all over the
Pacific coast, died here today from
morphine, taken with suicidal intent.
His people are well-to-do Californians,
living near Eureka,