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GAZETTE.
CORVALLIS
WEEKLY.
UHIOH EMtab. July. 1807.
GAiKTTE Kstab. Dec, 1803.
Consolidated Feb. 1899.
CORVALLiIS, BENTON COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, WOO.
VOIa. XXXVII. NO. 46.
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of tk-2 Telegraphic
News of the World.
TERSE TICKS FROiJi JHE WIKES
i: Interesting Collection of Items Froa
he Two Hemispheres Pres lt i
in a Cor-lensed ivm- V.
British troops
in Airica have been
rdered to China.
The screen door combine has beat
forced to dissolve.
A census shows that the City of
Mexico, Mexico, has a population of
over 400,000.
Eight distinct earthquake shocks
were felt in Jacksonville, Fla., but no
damage was done.
The Venezuelan government has de
creed the resumpion of payment of in
terest on all debts and loans from Nov
ember. Many people were killed and injured
in Venezuela by an earthquake, and
railroad and telephonic communication
is interrupted.
There have been serious tax riots in
the Serat district of Roumania. Two
local officials were killed, and the
troops who were sent to enforce pay
ment were resisted by the peasants,
who killed eight of them.
The Susquehanna Coal Company, at
William Peun, Pa.,- granted the de
mands of the mineworkers in that col
lliery and will resume operations.
This is one of the largest collieries in
the country, 700 men being employed.
By the explosion of a alcohol vat at
the Homestead stael works, at Pitts
burg, three workmen, Andrew Dlikiv,
Michael Donder and John Harnett,
were terribly burned. Dolikiv and
Donder, it is thought, will die. The
explosion was caused by alcohol com
ing in contact with natural gas.
Official confirmation has been re
ceived at Vienna from Mostar, in Her
zogovine, of the reports of a collision
growing out of a boundary dispute be
tween, an Austro-Hungary military pa
trol and a force of Montenegrin sol
dieis. One Montenegrin was killed
and several wounded.
A belated dispatch from Pretoria
tells of the failure of British negotia
tions with General Botha for the sur
render of the Boers. Botha received
General Paget's flag of truce courteous
ly and admitted his defeat, but said i;
was impossible to treat for surrender at.
long as any burghers wished to contin
ue the war. President Steyn was more
irreconcilable. He refused to even see
the bearer of a flag of truce.
The young man who for several years
annoyed the Pullmans in Chicago by
demanding money of them and calling
himself Gustave Pullman, has been ar
rested in New York. He called at the
hotel where young George and Sanger
Pullman are living and sent his card
up to the former. Pullman had him
ejected and he returned and demanded
$60,000. He was again put out and on
his third visit was arrested.
France may send a large force to
Canton.
China proposes an indemnity of $40,-
000,000.
President Kruger will travel incog
nito in the capitals of Europe.
The official announcement of the to
tal population of the United States fox
1900 is 76,295,220.
Emperor Nicholas, of Bussia, will
propose another conference with a view
of settling the Chinese question.
General D. M. Frost, for 50 years
one of the best known residents of St.
Louis, is dead at that city, aged 77.
Major Henry J. Hearzy, editor of
the Daily States and one of the strong
est newspaper writers in the South, is
dead at New Orleans. He was 60
years of age.
The transport Hancock has arrived
at Manila with three companies of the
Fourth and four companies of the
Twenty-fifth infantry and three officers
and 100 men of the marine corps.
The United States transport Mead
arrived at San Francisco, 28 days from
Manila. The Mead brought 254 sick
soldiers, 5 insane and 18 dead. Eight
piivates died on the voyage.
Smallpox has broken out on a num
ber of Indian reservations in the West
and it is feared that when the cold
weather sets in the epidemic will be
come more widespread and more malig
nant. The government of Russia for the
second time within two months has
imposed a special tax for the benefit of
the Red Cross Society. The first was
a tax of from 5 to 10 rubles upon li
censes to travel abroad, according to
the length of the time for which the
license was granted, and now railway
tickets are taxed 5 kopecks when the
fare is 2 rubles or upwards. It is esti
mated that the ticket tax will yield
$125,000 yearly and that on licenses
$100,000. It is understood that the
czarina, whose interest in the Red
Cross Society is keen, originated the
idea of imposing the taxes.
The well-known Spanish painter,
Joaquin Sarolla, has been awarded a
ffirst-class medal in the Paris exposi
tion, and all those who admire his
'works are pleased at his success. The
Madrilenos call Sarolla "the painter
pf the sun," because no one can sur
Jpass him in those wonderful scenes or
ioutdoor life painted in full sunshine,
'brilliant light everywhere, dazzling
to the eyes, with heavy shadows lying
Where the light cannot penetrate.
LATER NEWS.
Two men were killed in a railroad
ftooident at The Dalles, Or.
The big Atlantic liner St. Paul suf
fered a serious accident at sea.
Kitchener is to stop pursuit of Boera
and estabish garrisons among them.
The king of Corea sent the allied
troops a large gift of flour, rice and
cigarettes.
Experiments with storage reservoirs
for irrigation are being made in Mal
heur county, Oregon.
An immense crowd attended the un
veiling of the statue of the late Presi
dent Carnot at Lyons.
Professor Scburman replies to Sixto
Lopez, in which he shows it is for the
highest good of Filipinos for Americana
to succeed.
The suit of the state of Texas against
the Waters-Pierce Oil Company for
penalties amounting to $109,000, for
alleged violation of the anti-trust law
af 1899, ended in favor of the company.
The deaths from the lailorad WTeck
near Keswick, Cal., now number
three,. James Hart, of Charter Oak,
la., died from the effects of his injur
ies. The name of one of the other
killed has been discovered to be E. J.
Bowen, of Castle Rock, Wash. B.
Woodruff, of Ashland, Or., may re
cover. Suit was filed in the United States
court at New Orleans, by M. F. Mc
Loughlin. of New York, and F. J. Vir
gin and C. L. Loep, of Tennessee,
against the Wells Faigo and Southern
Express Companies for an accounting
of the affairs of the Texas Express
Company and for $500,000 damages.
The petitioners state that they held
stock in the Texas Express Companv,
which did business in Louisiana and
which had a working arrangement
with the Wells Fargo Company for
a division of receipts of the business
done in these sates. Thev charge that
the Wells Fargo Company broke faith
and obtained control of the business
themselves.
The latest reports from the ill-fated
mine at Berrysburg. W. V., show
that 13 are dead and three are so seri
ously injured that they cannot recover.
Two men were found dead in a part of
the mine which has been abandoned.
The door at the mouth of the mine was
shut, and two men weie blown through
the door 250 feet from the month. The
pause of the explosion has not yet been
determined. The coroner's jury rend
sred a verdict that persons named and
3thers unknown and unidentified came
to their deaths by an explosion caused
by the firing of powder and dynamite
in the south entry of the sontrfmine,
sither accidentally or intentionally, by
persons unknown.
Harvard defeated Pennsylvania in a
football game by a score of 17 to 6.
A serious strike of street railway
employes is on in Jamaica.
A letter written by a private in a
Manila hospital states that Aguinaidc
is dead.
The close of the campaign in New
York city was marked by a parade oi
87,000 Republicans.
The naval increase programme foi
1901 involves the construction of 3:
vessels of 151,600 tons displacement.
Osgood Field, grandson of Samuel
Osgood, the first postmaster-general o,
the United States, died in Paris, aged
77.
Sensational disclosures which wert
brought out at a criminal trial at Ber
lin showed the corruptness of the po
lice force.
A German force had a hard fight
with Chinese regulars in a pass neai
the great wall, in which the Chinese
were defeated.
The safe of the Farmers' and Mer
chants' bank at Jackson Center, O.,
was blown open by desperadoes and,
$5,500 was secured.
General MacArthnr has cabled a list
of casualties during recent engagements
with Filipino insurgents, showing nine
killed and 11 wonnded.
The steamer Senator arrived at Seat
tle from Nome with 333 passengers and
$500,000 in treasure. She encounter
ed a succession of violent gales.
The population of Vermont, as an
nounced by the census bureau, is 343,
641, against 332,422 in 1890 an in
crease of 11,219, or 3.3 pel cent.
Twelve miners were killed by an ex
plosion in a mine at Berrysberg, W.
Va. The explosion was the result of
an accidental discharge of dynamite.
Commander Booth-Tucker and sev
eral other officers of the Salvation
Army, have purchased homes in Monnt
Vernon, in which city it is said the
American headquarters of the army
will be located.
The navy department has directed
Admiral Retney, at Cavite to convene
a court of inquiry to inquire into the
charges of cowardice against Captain
Hall, United States marines, preferred
by Minister Conger at Pekin.
The joint commission appointed to
investigate the desirability of a pneumatic-tube
system for the Chicago mail
serivce will make a favorable recom
mendation to the postmaster-general.
This improvement is expected to bring
about a revolution in local mail facili
ties. Five thousand honey bees, as they
leave the hive, weigh about one
pound, but when the insects leturn
from their visits to the flowers,
freighted with honey, they weigh near
ly twice as mush.
The untruth of today is called a lie;
the untruth of a hundred years is
called a legend.
The average man would rather lose
$5 on a horse race than a nickel
through a hole in his pocket.
SHE MUST BE DEPOSED
Powers Determined to Re
move Chinese Empress.
CREATION OF INDEMNITY TJND
Other Question Considered Is the
tablishment of Foreign
Ministry.
Washington, Nov. 5. It was state,
today in quarters well versed in Chi
nese affairs, that outside of the ques
tion of indemnity, punishments, etc.,
now under hegotiaton at Pekin, there
are three vital and far-reaching ques
tions to be determined, viz.: First,
the removal of the empress dowager,
personally and through the influence of
her advisers, from all participation in
the Chinese government; second, the
creation of an indemnity fund by the
increase of China's customs revenue,
either by the payment of the duties in
gold instead of deprecited silver, as at
present, or else doubling the preseat
silver duties from 5 per cent to 10 per
cent ad valorem, and third, the estab
lishment of a minister of foreign af
fairs, in place of the old and cumber
some system of the Tsung li Yamun.
The demand for the retirement of
the empress dowager is said to result
from the conclusion now generally
accepted that the imperial govern
ment of China was responsible for tht
Boxer uprising. As the empress dow
Bger was the ruling authority of the
imperial government during the upris
ing, this responsibilty is brought home
directly to her. There is understood
to be no purpose, however, to visit
apon her any personal punishment or
indignity, but merely so to foim the
reconstructed government as to ex
clude her from all participation in it.
ft is deemed advisable for that rea
son that she should remain permanent-
y away from Pekin, and that ner au-
isers also shoull be kept away from
Ihe seat of government.
The plan of doubling China's cus
toms duties has arisen from the need of
finding a source to pay war indemni
ties, which the various powers demand.
THEY GIVE NO QUARTER.
German Troops in China Obey the
Kaiser's Instructions.
Berlin, Nov. 5. Considerable impa
tience at the meaaerness of the nes
from China is finding expression here.
The inference is that German -censorship
over such "information Ib very
Etrict. Letters from privates in China
ieg n to find their way into the Social-
jDemocratic papers, showing that the
German troops give no quarter. The
Bremen Buergber Zeitung publishes a
letter from a soldier in Pekin, who
said he witnessed the following scene:
"Sixty-eight captives, some of them
not yet adults, were tied together by
their pigtails, beaten bloody by the
Germans, compelled to dig their own
graves, and then shot en masse."
The Halberstadter Volks Zeitung
prints a communication from Pekin, in
which the writer says:
' No prisoners are taken. All are
shot or preferably sabred to save am
munition. Sunday afternoon we had
to bayonet 74 prisoners. They had
killed one of our patrolmen. An entire
battalion pursued them and captured
74 alive. It was cruel; it was inde
scribable.'' Escaped From Alcatraz.
San Francisco, Nov. 5. Three pris
oners have escaped from the United
States military prison on Alcatraz is
land. Among the escaped prisoners
was Frank Kinne, who was under a
sentence of 15 yea is for desertion and
treason. Kinne was brought here a
few months ago in irons from Manila.
He had deserted his command and ac
cepted a commission from the rebel
army. He was caught leadu g a charge
of rebels. In the number captured by
the American troops at the time Kinne
was taken were several American pris
oners. Kinne claimed to be himself a
prisoner of the Filipinos, but the
Americans who were with the party
declared this to be a falsehood, and de
nounced the man as a traitor and a
rebel. He was tried by court-martial
and sentenced to serve 15 years at Al
catraz. The others who escaped with
Kinne are C. F. Huntington, under
sentence of 10 years, and J. M. Potts,
serving five years.
Scared Her to Death.
Rochester, New York, Nov. 5. The
authorities of Allegheny county are
looking for the persons who manufac
tured a skeleton ont of animal bones
which frightened Mary Oldfield, of
Karrdale, to death Wednesday night.
Mary Oldfield, accompanied Dy two
fiends, was returning from a Hallo .
ween party, where they had listened to
gruesome stories until their hair stood
on end. When about to enter the
woods a rattling of bones was heard
overhead, and looking up the trio
were overcome with horror a seeing a
skeleton of gigantic proportions sweep
ing down on them from above. With
a cry of terror Mary dropped dead. A
searching party found a wire leading
from the ground to a tree top to which
was attached a skeleton by a pulley.
Sues Asylum Officers.
Chicago, Nov. 5. Andrew Fo-.sythe,
who was released from an insane asy
lum yesterday by Judge Dunne, has
brought suit against the superintend
ent and other officers of the asylum.
He alleges he was illegally detained.
Granted the Increase.
Hazleton, Pa., Nov. 5. Cuyle Bros.,
stripping contractors, today granted
their men an increase of 10 per cent in
wages.
WU ON NATIONAL HONOR.
The Chinese Minister's Speech at the
Carnegie Institute.
Pittsburg, Nov. 6. With a grate
ful enthusiasm past all precedents, the
fifth founder's day of Carnegie insti
tute was oelebrated today. In and
around the beautiful building more
than 6,000 people thronged in their de
sire to express to Andrew Carnegie
their appreciation, to the distinguished
guest of the day, Minister Wu Ting
Fang, their homage, and of the treas
ures of art and science and literature
their regard. Minister Wn, the
speaker of the day, was greeted with
prolonged applause. He said in part:
"China has a great deal to learn
from this young republic. I hope,
however, that she will learn, not the
arts of war, which have for their sole
end and aim the destruction of life, but
the arts of peace which make for the
happiness and welfare of the people.
No nation can become really great by
war. True greatness does not lie in
the extent of territory nor in the
strength of battalions, but in the char
acter of the people. From personal
observation I am inclined to the belief
that the American people possess the
element of national greatness in a high
degree.
"The test of loftiness ot character is
to possess boundless power without
abusing it. Wealth is power. Where
can you find such vast accumulations
of wealth in private hands as in Ameri
ca, with so little attendant evil felt by
society? I have seen countries where
the rich oppress the poor and the poor
curse the rioh. There money is the
root of all evil. The reverse seems to
be the case in America. Here the rich
use the ample means at their disposal
for the benefit of the people, and the
people have good reason to bless the
rich. In other words, American men
of wealth are public . benefactors. I
have not far to go for an example. In
your midst you have a signal instance
of this class of philanthropic men of
wealth. This institution is an endur
ing monument of the founder's munifi
cence. Here one can- find the most
effective means for the enlightening of
the mind and the uplifting of the soul.
Books, paintings and sculpture and
specimens of objects possessing educa
tional value are accessible at all times
and to all persons. The day will soon
come when foreigners will visit this
city, not so much to see the great in
dustrial establishments as to see this
institution, which spreads its influence
far and wide. This city will be equal
ly famous for the great educator as for
a manufacturing center. May this
standing monument of the founder's
benefaction stimulate others to follow
this noble example. May the 'Found
er's day,' which I heartily join with
you in celebrating, be ever observed
from year to year as an event of na
tional interest."
After the exercises a reception was
tendered to Minister Wu in the art
gallery, where the distinguished guest
met and shook hands with about 1,000
people.
Lived 123 Tears.
New York, Nov. 5. George' Wash
ington Freeman Horner Green, a former
negro slave, died in the alms hospital
at Hempstead, L. I., yesterday at the
reputed age of 123 years. Green is
said to have been born on a farm near
Elizabethport, N. J., on January 1,
1777. He was sold to a Virginia
planter named Horner, by whom, it is
said, he was sold to General Washing
ton. In 1812 he was made a free man,
and then came North and was employ
ed by George Green, a Long Island
farmer, with whom he remained for 40
years. Green's faculties remained un
impaired until 15 yeats ago, when his
sight and hearing began to fail, and he
entered the poorhouse, where he had
lived ever since. He used both whisky
and tobacco, but is said never to
have shown any bad effects from either.
He was married several times and is
said to have been the father of 37 chil
dren, most of whom are dead.
Socialist. arrested.
New York, Nov. 6. Six speakers
of the Socialist Labor party, who in
sisted on talking to an enormous crowd
at Seventh street and Avenue C to
night, were arrested by the police, who
claimed they had no permit to speak.
A good deal of clubbing was done by
the policemen, who numbered over 30.
The Socialists went back to ther head
quarters, overlooking the corner, after
being bailed and talked again. The
corwd hooted the ploice, and the offi
eeis, enraged, charged the crowd.
They used their clubs on a good many,
heads and arms and drove them back
from the street, clearing it. Then
thev took the men to the station-house.
They were in cells only a short time
when they were bailed out.
Confessed to Arson.
Dallas. Texas, Nov. 5. Hiram P.
Erwin was today convicted of arson.
The jury returned a verdict of five
years in the penitentiary. Erwin con
fessed to having burned property on
which there was $15,000 insurance,
and claimed the owners had hired him
to do so.
Rebuilding of the Spanish fleet will
be entrusted to French builders. The
Spanish government has given en order
for eight ironclads of 12,000 tons bur
den, four armored cruisers of 8,000 tons
burden each, and 100 torpedo boats.
The order is to be executed within 10
years.
. Buddhist Revival In Japan.
Tacotaa, Nov. 3. According to Yok
ohama advices, the Bnddhists of Japan
are making great efforts to celebrate
the beginning of the new century by
active missionary work. The recent
arrival of some sacred relics from Siam
was made the occasion of an extraor
dinary demonstration of devotion to
their faith. The roads over which the
relics were borne were covered with
cloth, which was afterward sold in
email pieces at more than 10 times its
alue. realizing over 62,000 yen.
THE SIBERIAN TRADE
Russia Contemplates a Duty
on American Products.
MAY GO INTO EFFECT JAN UAH Y 1
Paclnc Coast Exporters Would Be Ai
leeted A Matter of Beep
Concern.
Portland, Or., Nov. 7. Coast ex-
porters who have been working up a,
tine trade with Siberia are somewhat
concerned over the report that the.
much-talked of duty un American goo 3 sj
entering Russian territory will be en-i
forced after January 1. This matterV
has been und:r discussion for several)
years, and periodical threats of its en-j
fDrceuaent have been heard from timej
to time, but thus' far no decided action
has been taken. The probabilities of
something being done are greater now
than they were on account of the new
ports in the Pacific provinces being
much better suppied with American
goods than ever before. American
lumber has been used in ties, bridges,
and for other building purposes in con
nection with the great Siberian rail
road. Pacific coast wheat, flour, oats
and other provisions have also found a
big market among the thousands of the
czar's snbjects who have swarmed into
the ports of Vladivostock and Port
Arthur and the surrounding country,
which is being tapped by the great
trans-Siberian railroad.
The levying of this duty Is a matter
jf deep concern to this coast, as it is
from these ports that most of the large
shipments of lumber and flour have
been forwarded, and already a start
had been made in other lines. Ex
porters who are in touch with the situ
ation are not disposed to discuss the
matter very freely yet, and hope that
the issue will be again postponed, as it
has in the past; but the lact that a
number of hurry orders for flour have
been received by parties who are sup
posed to be in very close touch with
the ruling powers at Vladivostock and
Port Arthur, would indicate that
there is more than usual cause for
alarm at the present time. Russia
has recently established a steamship
line between Odessa and Vladivostock
and Port Arthur, and if the duty is en
forced, it will probably be with a view
to shutting American lumber and flour
ont of the Siberian ports in order that
the same commodities from the Black
sea will be given the preference;
COREA KING'S PRESENT
Gives Food and Tobacco to the Allied
Forces Situation In China.
mgku, China, Nov. 6. A gift of
a large quantity of flour, rice and to
bacco from the king of Corea to the al
lied forces has arrived here and been
forwarded to Tien Tsin for distribu
tion. The present was accompanied
by a letter from his majesty expressing
bis friendship and good will to the
allies, and begging them to accept the
supplies. There were in all 3,116
sacks of flour, 986 sacks of rice and
2,000 boxes of cigarettes, which have
been apportioned among the respective
troops. The share of the Americans
has been forwarded to the men at Pe
kin. ,
The gift caused considerable com
ment here, especially in view of the
fact that the letter from the Corean
ruler expressly requested that the sup
plies be equally distributed among the
forces. This naturally includes the
Japanese. Cigarettes are sought after
as souvenirs.
Outrages of the Boxers.
London, Nov. 6. Dr. Moirison, wir
ing to the Times from Pekin, Novem
ber 2, says:
"The evidence in the Pa Ting Fn
trial to fix the responsibility for the
massacres showed that an American
lady, before execution, was led naked
through the city and that her breasts
were cut off. The destruction of two
temples is not an adequate punishment
for such inhumanity."
Characteristics of Allied Occupation.
London, Nov. 6. "Advices from
Tien Tsin," sayi the Shanghai corre
spondent of the Times, "show that
confusion, disorganization and absence
of security are the chief characteristics
of the allied occupation."
Sew German Loan.
Berlin, Nov. 7. It is ascertained
from a source apparently reliable that
another and even larger imperial loan
is forthcoming. Leading financiers of
Berlin and Frankfort coroborate this
statement. The cost of the China ex
pedition, which is much more consid
erable than has hitherto been admitted,
must be covered by such a loan.
Transvaal Exhibit Shut Up.
Nbw York, Nov. 7. A dispatch
from Paris to tho Herald says that the
exposition authorities have closed the
Transvaal pavilion because Mr. Pier
son, the Transvaal commissary-general,
refused to remove the inscriptions in
sulting to England, with which the
walls are covered.
The government is experimenting
with a compact emergency ration for
troops in active service.
Two Killed In a Wreck.
Redding, Cal., Nov. 6. In the
wreck of a Southern Pacific "freight
train near Keswick today, two men
were killed and three others injured.
The dead are an unknown man and Al
Bryan, of Denver, Colo.
Population of Indiana and Florida.
Washington, Nov. 7. The popula
tion of Indiana, as officially announced
today by the census bureau, is 2,516,
462, as against 2,192,404 in 1890, an
increase of 234,058, or 14.7 per cent.
NEW EMERGENCY RATION.
Experiment on Troops In Active Service
in the Field.
Fort Reno, O. T., Nov. 1. The
board of officers detailed by the war
department to find, if possible an emer
gency ration that will meet all the re
quirements of troops engaged in active
warfare, while away from their base
of supplies and in a hostile country,
where provisions are scarce, lett here
yesterday with a detachment of 25 men
from troop A, Eighth Cavalry, for ex
perimental purposes. The men will
observe the same routine as if they
were engaged in an active campaign
against the enemy. The members of
the board are: Captain W. Fountain,
Eighth cavalry, and Captain S. W.
Foster, Fifth cavalry. Captain and
Assistant Surgeon J. D. Poindexter,
stationed at Fort Reno, accompanied
the exepdition. A single ration is sup
posed to contain enough food to sustain
a man a day. and in its package weighs
slightly more than a pound.
The board has two different emer
gency rations, witn which it will ex
periment. The first is a ration pre
pared by the board after an examina
tion and analysis of the food prepara
tions used in nearly all the European
armies. The board's observations and
conclusions are embodied in the ration
which was manufactured under its
supervision. The second is a ration
produced by a company at Passaic, N.
J. The New Jersey ration consists ol
tea in place of chocolate, and a combi
nation of meat and breads tuffs, com
pactly arranged. The board's own ra
tion consists of two cakes of pure sweet
chocolate, three cakes of a combina
tion of meat and breadstuff's in com
pressed form, and small quantity of
salt and pepper for seasoning. Cap ain
Fountain, who is president of the
board, said of the experiment:
"Our expedition will leave Fort
Reno just as if it had been oalled sud
denly away from its base of supplies to
fight an enemy in an unknown and
hostile country. Ihe routine daily life
will approximate as closely as possible
the conditions of actual warfare. Five
regular field rations and five of the
board 's emergency ration will be issued
to each man at the start.
' 'For two days the men will live on
the regular army ration. On the third
day this field ration will be abandoned
and the men put on the emergency
ration, which will be their only food
for five days. The test will tie as rig
orous as possible so far as food is con
cerned. The result will form the basis
of the board's report to the war depart
ment. "At the end. of the seventh day we
will leave reach Fort Sill. The men
will still have a three days' supply of
regular field rations, which will be
enough to take them back to Fort
Reno."
COLLISION AT SEA.
The Cnnard Liner Saxonia Cuts Down
the Schooner Mary Mosquito.
Queenstown, Nov. 7. The Cunatd
liner Saxonia, Captain Pritchard, from
Boston, October 27, which arrived here
this morning, brought 15 members of
the crew of the fishing schooner Mary
Mosquito, which the Saxonia sank off
Gloucester on the day of her departure
from Boston. One member ot the crew
was drowned. The Cnnarder was not
damaged.
Dr. Bond, of Chelsea, Mass., one of
the Saxonia's passengers, made the fol
lowing statement regarding the acci
dent: "We were proceeding at reduced
speed in the log and blowing the
whistles about 6 P. M., when the look
out reported a sail ahead. The engines
were stopped but the steamer's way
carried her into the Mary Mosquito,
making a big opening amidships and
flooding the schooner. The Saxonia's
crew wo rked vigorously and got out
two boats. Into these 15 of the crew
scambled and put off from the fast
sinking vessel. Fortunately the sea
was smooth. All the men are Portu
guese. One of them unfortunately fell
into the sea was drowned."
TWO MEN WERE KILLED,
An Accident in the Railroad Turds at
The Dalles.
The Dalles, Or., Nov. 7. A collision
between freight train No. 21 and a
switch engine on the tracks of the O.
R. & N. in this city at 3:15 this morn
ing resulted in the death of John Mc
Vey and Al Nash, both switchmen in
the company's employ. The freight
train arriving from the East ran, as is
its custom, onto the sidetrack at the
foot of Jefferson street just as a switch
engine with a caboose attached ap
proached from the west. The engineer
of the switch engine saw the freight,
and judging it to be standing on the
siding, ran ahead, striking the freight
engine, which was still on the switch.
MoVey and Nash were riding on the
front of the switch engine when the
collision oconned, and were both
thrown directly under the switch en
gine. Besides having one leg caught under
the trucks, Nash was crushed about
the body and died at 5 o'clock. Mc
Vey was terribly injured across the
stomach, but lived four hours after be
ing taken from under the engine. He
was an unmarried man, 25 years of
age, whose people are said to live in
Oalkand, Cal. Nash was 40 Years old,
a native of Salem, Or., and had a wife
and child in Portland. Both were
highly thought of here and general fa
vorites ampng their fellow-workmen.
Both engines were considerably dam
aged, although not wrecked.
Acquitted or Grain Fraud.
Chicago, Nov. 7. The jury before
whom Lloyd J. Smith was on trial last
week, charged with irregularities in
the management of grain elevators, re
ported a verdict,- of acquittal. Mrs.
Smith, who has sat beside her husband
during the trial, fainted as the clerk
finished reading the verdict.
1 a
Sweeping Republican
Victory.
NEXT CONGRESS REPUBLICAN
McKinley Carries New York by 150,000
Big; Landslide in Illinois Maryland,
West Virginia and Nebraska in the
Bepublican Column.
New York, Nov. 7. It became evi
dent at a very early hour this evening
that the election of McKinlev and
Roosevelt was assured. The president
carried the state of New York by 150,
000 plurality.
As the night progiessed, it only
served to confirm this judgment, but
the returns from Illinois revealed a
like condition. The. Repulbican plu
rality of 1896 was greatly reduced, but
it was still far too large to be over
come. On the cthei band, the returns from
Indiana, Michigan, the two Dakotas,
Utah and Wyoming, as well as Nebras
ka, seem to indicate steady Republi
can gams over 1896. Delaware, Mary
land and West Virginia, have given de
cided Republican pluralities.
The count in several of the far West
ern states was naturally so delayed as
to give little indication of the opinion
there, but they had ceased to have a
determining effect, and before 10
o'clock the Democratic leaders had
given up the contest and it was an
nounced that Mr. Bryan had gone to
bed and was sound asleep.
The whole story was easily and
briefly told. The Republican ticket
would have a larger electoral vote than
four years ago, but in the larger states
of the East and Middle West the plu
ralities of 1896 had been greatly re
duced. Masschusetts had fallen from
174,000 to 50,000 New York, 268,000
to 150.001, and Illinois from 142,000
to 100,000 or less.
The 57th congress seems to be Re
publican by a substantial working ma
jority.
Bryan carried all the Southern
states, as usual, along with Colorado,
Idaho, Montana and one doubtful state,
Kentucky, by a small plurality.
Doubtful states which went for Mo
Kinley are Maryland, West Virginia
and Indiana, all by small pluralities.
McKinley's purality in Ohio is 75,
000, in Michigan 80,000.
Nebraska, Bryan's home state, went
Republican by a small plurality.
The New England states and Penn
sylvania are, as usual, in the Republi
can column.
McKinleys plurality in Iowa is 100,
000, Kansas 30,000, Minnesota 30,
000. THE COAST,
California, Oregon and Washington
all went for McKinley.
The contest was close in tjaiitornia,
but it is expected the state will give
McKinley 10,000 plurality.
flrpoon cives McKinlev 14.000 plu
rality, but few counties going Demo
cratic.
Washington goes for McKinley by a
small plurality, probably 5,000, but
the state ticket is much in doubt, with
the probability that Rogers. Democrat,
is elected governor. The legislature
will be Republican.
The electoral vote will probably be
as follows: McKinley, 292; Bryan,
155.
Disastrous to Sheep and Goats.
Monroe. Or., Nov. 7. Sheep and
goat raisers in this vicinity are greatly
alarmed over the abundant growth this
season of the poison fungus or toad
stool. Goats and sheep seem to have a
great liking for the stuff, and its poi
sonous qualities are sufficient to kill the
animal which eats it.
Will Be Hanged December 31.
Spokane, Wash., Nov. 7. Edward
Rice, convicted of the murder of Matt
Afaiipv nt Wnzdrier. Idaho, was today
sentenced at Wallace to be hanged on
the last day of the century, December
81. His wife was granted a divorce in
Sodkane today on the ground of cruelty.
lone Secures Flouring; Mill.
Hepner, Or., Nov. 7. At a publi
meeting at lone Satuiday evening the
capital stock of the new flouring miV
and elevator was all subscribed. The
enterprise is to be located in a most
excellent farming region.
Bloh Discovery in Curry County.
Gold Beach, Or., Nov. 7. George
Bailey, who has been prospecting on
the headwaters of Johnson creek for
years, recently found an old bed of
poiphry that carries free gold and has
sold out to a California company for
140.000.
Heppner Defeated Baker.
Heppner, Or., Nov. 7. A match
game of football here Saturday resulted
in the Heppner team beating th
Baker City team, 1-6 to 0. A large
crowd witnessed the game and the
weather was perfect.
Off for New York With Mather.
Seattle, Nov. 7. Charles E. Mather,
who was arrested in this city two
weeks ago on a charge of having pawn
ed $45,000 worth of jewels, the prop
erty of New York merchants, was to
day taken into custody by Detectiv
Nugent upon a governor's warrant oi
extradition. Nugent left with his pria
oner tonight for New York.
Senor Silvela, the premier, has made
the emphatical declaration that Spain
mast have a powerful navy again.