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CONDON, GILLIAM CO., OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1900.
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VOL. IX.
THE OFFICIAL AND LEADING PAPER
OF GILLIAM COUNTY.
GLOBE
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
New of the World.
TKRSE TICKS FROM THR WIRES
An Interesting Collection of llama rrori
. tha Tata Hemlapheree Preeented
n C'unilen.ail form.
Over 600 I?ritih prisoners captured
at Stormberg have reached Pretoria.
I! til lor him destroyed the Colenio
footbridge, and makes no further at
tempt to advance.
Armour's canning department, Chi
fr caito, is rushed night and day filling
' ' orders fur the English army,
' A drunken wlfo In San Francisco bar
charged her husband with murder and
he ia lielng held by the authorities.
The oarrenoy bill, according to
Washington correspondent, will be
rushed through the aenute without
aiiieudment.
The (treat Northern will inaugurate
a new departure. A large block of the
company's atock ia to be distributed
among the employee at par.
It I mild that England bad been
warned by General Butler, whom ahe in
now turning down, tliat it would not
I wine to attack the Boers until bet
ter prepared.
' : , Should all Spanish war pensions no
. asked lie allowed, it would Ctiat $J.
- ; 728,000. The Hoventy-flrst New Yorki
asks for annual allowance) which ag
gregate $34,602. ,.
Yaqui Indiana plunder, kill and bun
villages and the Mexicans do not tee in
to make much headway in whipping
the savages. An entire Mexican regi
. ment seems to have disappeared.
' Tlie Fenians are organising at Italia,
lo, N. Y., for an invasion of Canada.
They expect, it ia said, to raise 125,000
" men, and have two carloads of arms
aud uinuitoua of war in concealment.
There is disaffection among the Free
Stater troops. Tbey complain that
Cronje's men are overbearing and bet
ter fed than they. The Tranavaaler't
, are auspicious and the situation ia be
, coming grave.
The president of the New York
prison association, who has made an
investigation of the Cuban prisons tells
, horrible tale of the conditions there.
Offenders of all c lueses sleep in filth
and vermin. No beds or clean clothing
is provided. Money or iniluence U
necessary beforo they can secure their
freedom.
, ' The members of the senate committee
on privileges and elections . deolare
they will carry on the investigation ol
Senator Clark's case without regard to
the decision of the Montana supreius
court under which Wellcome was dis
barred from practice on charges of brib
ery in connection with the senator',
election.
The United States cruiser Mont
gomery has been on a secret mission
and the American ling may soon Host
over Liberia. The little country hai
long desired an American protectorate
and it may now be given. Mason ol
Illinois will introduce a resolution ol
inquiry in the senate, asking the pur-
pose for which the Montgomery was
sent to Liberian waters.
The Grangers' warehouse at Rose
burg, Or., was destroyed by Are; loss,
$4,000, fully insured.
A sis-story building, 00 years old,
waa destroyed by Are in New York, en
- tailing a loss of $HO,000.
At San Francisco the Carlisle In
dians defeated the university of Cali
fornia in a football game; aeoge, 2 to 0.
Julius Baldwin is dead at his horn
at Tho Dalles. lie was one of the old
est and most prominent ploueers of the
Northwest.
Thirty men perished In a colliery
horror caused by fire damp explosion
4- at the Brazuoll mine, near Browns
ville, Pa.
',. Lander's French-Canadian following
is protesting against Canada sending
any more troops to help Kngland in
South Africa.
Mrs. Potter Palmer will be appointed
by President McKlnley director of tha
American woman's department at the
Paris exposition.
The state department will investigate
the action of the British government
in sesing several cargoes of American
flour off Dolagoa bay.
The train wreck noar Pomona, Cat.,
in which one life was lost and foui
were Injured, was caused by the break
ing of a locomotive whool.
At Rome the pope solemnly inaugn
, rated the holy year by performing the
- Impressive ceremony of opening the
holy door of St. Peter's cathedral.
The charred remains of W, J.
Thomas, a farmer, and his three chil
dren, were found in the ashes of thelt
home, 11 miles sonthwest of Chilli
oothe, Kan. It is supposed that Thomai
murdered the children aud then set Are
to the house aud took his owu life.
Aliout a year ago Thomas' wife com
mitted suicide by taking poison.
Admiral and Mrs. Dewey have taken
a pew in St. Paul's Roman Catholic
church, Washington.
The entire crop of sugarcane and beet
for 1800-1000 will amount to about 8,.'
000,000 tons about the same amount
as last year.
Exports and imports at the five prin
cipal ports of Porto Hico for tha'
months of May, June and July show
' a balance of trade in favor of these
Jiortl of 1347,883, '
LATER NEWS,
Boutelle will probably never return
to congress.
The Itoer trenches at Colenso are
bomb proof.
Pingree's tax resolution was defeated
In the Michigan senate.
People are tired of Colombian war
and ask for intervention.
Ilritish Columbia has sent a gold dis
play to the Paris exposition.
If Dolagoa bay is closed the Boors
will raid Portuguese territory.
Hie SUM & Straub failure tn Phila
delphia is a clear case of looting.
An important witnoss against Sena
tor Clark has confessed to perjury.
Robert Cornelius, aged 20, wat
found dead in the woods near Olencoe,
Or.
Fosslliferons remains of a glgantio
sea serpent were found on the coast ol
Chili.
At its last meeting the cabinet dis
cussed the agricultural possibilities In
Alaska.
Iluller's army on the Tngela has now
reached the euoromus strength of 28,
000 men.
Luzon hemp potts will be opened in
time for supplies to roach this country
by next harvest.
A London dispatch says Russia lonps
to aelte Herat, aud she only waits fot
England to occupy Dolagoa bay.
O. O. Goad, of Dallas, Or., has been
appointed assistant sergeant-at-arms in
the United States senate.
The Doers have mounted a new gun
at Ladysimth in the place of the one
captured by the Ilritish cavalry.
The clerk of the court of appeals has
refused to administer the oath of office
to mom tiers of the state election board
in Kentucky.
A Colorado Midland passenger and a
SanU Fe freight collided near Palmer
Lake, Colo. One fireman was killed
and two engineers were hurt.
An English military expert asserts
that the time has come for a change in
the cabinet, lie favors either a dicta
torship or an all-powerful military
minister.
Miss Florence Blythe Hinckley,
heiress to the Plythe millions, was
quietly married in Sun Francisco to A.
A. Moore, Jr., deputy attorney-general
of California.
Americans bare captured another in
surgent stronghold. Many rebels were
killed, wounded and captured and an
amount of ammunition aud food taken.
Their supposed impregnable position
was north of San Mateo.
An Ottawa dispatch says that treason
Is talked openly among the French Ca
nadians, and all of their memtwrs have
retired from parliament. All the lat
ent hostility to Ilritish rule has !een
aroused by Canada's action in sending
troops to the Transvaal.
San Franciscans are arranging for a
big pro-Boer demonstration.
E. O. Hodges & Co., one of Boston's
largest banks, has closed its doors.
In the engagement at Ladysmlth Fri
day, 10 British were killed and 16
wounded.
England has discovered that her mil
itary resources were overestimated by
80,000 men.
Mat Chandler, the old-time pugilist
and former partner of John L. Sulli
van, is dead.
The queen has given warning that
British subjects must not help Boers or
Free Staters.
Plague of a severe type is raging and
many deaths from that cause have oc
curred in New Caledonia.
Sydnoy raget, William C. Whitney's
racing partner, has left this country to
Join the British rough riders. ,
A Paris dispatch says that France
would be happy if the Delagoa bay in
cident caused an anglo-American quar
rel. Alfred Borlini was arrested in San
Francisco wL He on his wedding trip.
He is charged with being a bank de
faulter. Iowa termors have formed a syndi
cate to grow rice in Texas. They have
seoured options on 14,000 acres of land
to cost $245,000.
The Boer amy on Moddor river is
growing greater each day. They are
building trenches within three and one
half miles of Methuen's picket line.
The Northern Paclflo wreck in Idaho
waa a bad one. Aftor 10 days the last
body had not been recovered. The
trainmen were to blame.
Governor Geer, of Oregon, does not
approve of Oregon citlaena contributing
to a fund for Lawton's family. He
thinka the state should look after her
own heroes' familes flrt.
The Conntess of Canavarro thought
she was a convert to Buddhism. She
entered tholr convent and changed her
niind, and has applied to friends in
son Francisco for assistance.
' Winston Spencer Churchill hits
cabled to the London Post of his escape
ifrom the Boer prison. He made his
way overland from Delagoa bay and
soa'led walls while guards were not
looking. He Journeyed for six days,
walking at night, with nothiug to eat
but chocolate.
The Pittsburg baseball olub has
bought the piok of the Louisville team
,for a sum said to be $35,000 cash.
Mrs. C. A. Burling, mother-in-luw
rt Hear-Admiral William T. Sampson,
Jdied at hor home In Koohestor, N. Y.,
agod 76 years.
, Ex-Sheriff Wels, of Dayton, O., has
received by mall a commission from
President Kruger appointing him a
(brigadier-general in the Boer army.
IWeis is a personal friend of Kruger's,
and once visited him In Africa.
PLAGUE IN HONOLULU
The Disease Gets a Foothold
in the Islands.
SIX DEATHS HAVE OCCUURED
rha Epldninla la Confined to tha Chi
asa (Juartar Mcaaurea Takna ta
HUin It Out.
San Francisco, Dec. 80. The trans
port Centennial, which has reached
here from Honolulu, confirms the re
port that bubonic plague exists in that
ilty. There had been no new cases of
the disease, however, from December
12 up to the time the transport sailed,
the 18th. The quarantine at the ort
was to I raised tha 10th. There war
little anxiety among the residents ?
Honolulu, according to Captain Eagles,
of the Centennial, as the plugne was
confined to the Chinese quarter of the
city. That part of tho city was under
strict quarantine, and no ingress or
egress whatever was allowed. Up to
the time of the sailing of the Centen
nial, there bad been six deaths.
The Centennial arrived at Honolulu
from this port with horses December
15, but was not allowed to dock nntil
tho 10th. Even then none of the crew
was permitted to land. All Inter-island
traflio was at a full stop, as no steamei
could enter the port. The citizens
have subscribed $25,000 to fight tkf.
plague.
The transport Newport has arrived
from Manila in ballast, with no news
of importance.
The Centennial will be kept in qaur
antlne till tomorrow. There Is no
trace of the disease on the vessel, and
as has been demonstrated, there Is no
likelihood of its finding lodgment there
bnt still there are many Hawaiian rats
that have made a home on the steamer,
and they have all to be caught and sac
rificed before the vessel will be allowed
to dock. Hats are said to be the most
prolific means of spreading the plague.
Tbey carry the germs from port to port.
IN STRONG POSITION.
Boars Have fortified tha Hllla at Col
anao Tranrhea Bomb Proof.
London, Deo. 80. A dispatch to the
Daily Mail from Pietermaritzburg,
dated Saturdoy, December 23, Bays:
"Every day reveals some fact regard
ing the strength of the Boer position at
Colenso. Thanks to the services of
Continental olllcers, the character of
the campaign has changed. We are no
longer fighting a foe who relies upon
guerrilla tactics, but we have to deal
with what Is rapidly becoming a disci
plined army, enjoying the advantages
of knowing the country and of selecting
the scene of contest without the bur
dens of cumbersome commissariat.
"The Boers have converted tho hills
near Colenso into fortresses of immense
strength. Everywhere they have
splendid trenches, many of them bomb
proof. Tramway lines permit the
shifting'TST guns with astonishing rap
idity. The main positions are con
nected with the outlying positions by
underground passages, and the forts
proper bristle with machine guns that
command the approaches. Probably
mines are laid.
klrml.h at Tugela.
Chevoley Camp, Natal, Wednesday
A heavy Boer gun on Bnlwana hill
fired steadily upon Ladysmith through
out the morning. Ladysmith did not
respond.
The enemy having been again de
tected attempting to improve their
tranches facing General Buller, the
British heavy guns opened uion them
and the Boers scampered back into the
hills.
Tho British patrols sighted the en
emy in force on tho extreme left.
Nine Boers were killed In a skirmish
that followed, and six Boer wagons
were captured.
Clan-Na-Oael Talk.
New York, Dec. 29. Relative to tht
attitude of tho Irish revolutionary soci
eties toward the government of Great
Britain at the present juncture of
affulrs, the Evening Post today quotes
an officer of tho Clau-na-Gael as say
ing: "Englond can lie only made to feel
by physical foroo, and we're now going
to give her some Boer treatment. We
did intend going out and sinking the
first expedition from Canada to South
Africa, but thought it better to wait a
little. We can mobllizo our men with
out much difficulty for an attack on
Canada, and we are fairly well armed
as well as tho United States troops
In the Spanish war. We have lots of
Springfield ritles, aud are handy with
the bayonet.
Tha Movement In rhlladelhla.
Philadelphia, Deo. 20. There is a
general movement among tho Irish
here to aid the Boers in their war with
England. A call was sent out today
for a special assessment on every mem
ber of the Order of Hibernians, of
which there are 26,000 in this city.
A return of $25,000 is expectod, which
will holp to swell the gouoral fund of
$1,000,000 which organizations
throughout the oouutry sock to raise.
'Frlaoo la Noed of Cunt.
San Francisco, Deo. 80. The Exam
iner soys: There ore over 00 vessols,
each carrying from a few hundred to
ovor 2,000 tons of coal, bound from
Newcastle, Australia, to tho Hawaiian
islands. From the same Australian
port to San Francisco there are but 20
vessols bound with similar cargoes.
The coal destined for Hawaii Is chiefly
for use of the sugar plantations, but
the diversion of the supply from this
port has caused a scarcity of fuel and
a consequent Increase in price.
AMERICANS BUY A CANAL.
At Lea.t Thar How Own aa Intaraat la
tha Panama.
New York, Deo. 80 The incorpora
tion of the Panama Canal Company of
America is said to be the first move in
a plan to transfer the Panama canal to
Americana in order that it may have
a better chance in the struggle with
the Nioaragoan concessionaries. The
banking houses and Individuals who
are understood to be Interested are:
August Belmont Sc Co., Knhn, Loeb &
Co., Levi P. Morton, Charles K. Flint,
J. E. Simmons, president of the Fourth
National bank; Edward Sweet, George
Sheldon & Co., Baring, Magoun & Co.,
and George W. Young, president of the
United States Mortgage & Trust Com
pany. In addition to these, several banking
houses in San Francisco and In cities
in the South and West are interested
in the company. The Herald says this
incorporation of an American company
is the result of negotiations between
representatives of the French company,
Including Baron Openbelm, who came
to this city from Paris several months
ago, and leading financiers of America.
The representative of -the French com
pany came to this country empowered
to transfer the rights of the company
having now been incorporated, the
transfer will very shortly be effected,
the transfer to be given formal approval
by the shareholders In France. These
shareholders receive shares in the new
American company in proportion to
their holdings in the old.
This "Americanizing" v of the Pans
ma canal, as one of the gentlemen in
terested in the new company styled it
yesterday, has been brought about in
order to place the Panama canal on a
footing in America more satisfactory to
the French company, and to place it
on the same base aa the Nicaragua
canal before the United States govern
ment. An isthmian canal commission, with
Rear-Admiral Walker as chairman, la
now at work making an exhaustive
study of all possible routes for a canal
across the Isthmus of Central America.
This commission was created in the
closing hours of the last congress, and
$1,000,000 was appropriated for its use
through tthe river and harbor bills.
Its report will undoubtedly be final as
far as the UnltedStates is concerned as
to the best route for a canal. Its par
ties, both engineering and exploring,
are now scattered over Central America,
obtaining material to assist the com
mission In forming conclusions.
! The French company, realizing the
importance of the commission's find
ings, has taken the steps which have
been described, believing that the canal
commission would naturally be enabled
to judge more impartially between the
two routes with both under American
control. The gentlemen of the French
company long since recognized that
the undertaking of a canal across Nica
ragua either by the United States or by
private parties with the assistance or
indorsement of the United States would
be a most serious blow to their project,
but the American financiers who havt
formed the new company, now that the
two routes are on an even footing, and
that judgment will be made only on
the grounds of engineering and general
desirability, they argue that th
"Americanizing" of Panama ia the
only way by which the 400 shareholders
can have any hope of any return from
the $200,000,000 which has gone out of
France and into the canal, and they be
lieve that this arrangement can pro
duce only good feeling between the two
countries.
Since 1884, when the French com
pany was formed, there has been ex
pended in work on the canal something
like $8,000,000. Several thousand
men, mostly negroes from Jamaica,
have been employed, and experts de
clare that the 'money has been proprely
expended, and that good progress has
been made. There la a large number
of men at work on the canal at the
present time, and this force will be
found at work by the canal commission
when it goes over the route, which will
probably be during February. The
canal Is alwut two-fiths completed,
and the new American company esti
mates that the cost of completion
would be about $100,000,000.
Hilton Palntlnga at Auction.
New York, Dec. 80. The gallery ol
paintings collected by the late Judge
Hilton is about to be sold at auction.
It ia composed of nearly 200 paintings,
mostly by modern French artiste, and
is valued at more than $500,000.
Among the masters represented are
Meissonicr, Cort, Daubigny, Gerome,
Vibert, Makort, Munokasy, Bourgereau
and Tissot.
Quarantlua Agalnat New Caledonia.
Melbourne, Victoria, Deo. 80. A
passenger who arrived here on board
the steamer Australian from Noumea,
New Caledonia, where the plague is
raging, has been quarantined, and eight
others have been placed under surveil
lance. Money for Improvement.
St. Paul, Minn., Deo. 80. The
Great Northern directory today in
creased its capital stock $7,500,000,
for the purpose of acquiring new prop
erties and making extensions and im
provements on the Paciflo coast. The
Sioux City & Northern and Pacific
Short Line, in Iowa and Nebraska, are
among the new properties to be taken
in.
8ona'a Band Goea to Parte.
New York, Deo. 80. Commissioner
Genoral Ferdinand W. Peck, of the
United States commission to the Paris
exposition of next year, has appointed
Sotisa's band as the official American
baud to play at the exposition.
A Chrlatmaa Polaonlng.
Borboursvllle, W. Va., Dec. 28.
Three members of the family of Man
ford Pollock died last night, having
been mysteriously poisoned while eat
tug their Christmas dinner,
RETURNING IN BANDS
Filipinos Terrorizing Unpro
tected Towns.
NATIVES ASK FOR ASSISTANCE
Colonel Mara Loaea tha Track of tha
Prleonere He Haa followed Gen
eral Wheeler Goea Month.
Manila, Jan. 1. The insurgents
who evacuated the coast towns between
Dagupan and Vlgan, fleeing to the
mountains before the advancing Amer
icans, are returning in small bands to
the towns the Americans do not oc
cupy, terrorizing the natives and
Chinamen, who showed friendship for
the Americans. The natives and
Chinamen are seeking the protection of
the American garrisons'.
Colonel Wessel's cavalry, while
scouting in the vicinity of Trinidad,
found evidence of Filipino soldiers be
ing in that vicinity, but it was impos
sible to bring about an engagement.
The recent increase In the garrison of
Namacpacan against the threatened
rebel attack on Christmas day averted
trouble.
Colonel Hare, of the Thirty-third in
fantry, who has been following a party
of American prisoners, lost track for
three days, about December 20, of such
signs and evidences of their passage as
they customarily left behind them. It
is thought the prisoners were separated
and conveyed to remote parte of the
mountains, thus increasing the difficul
ties of General Young's troops to effect
a rescue.
General Wheeler, who was recently
in Manila requesting an appointment
touth in the line of the expected cam
paign, is now at Paranaqne.
Americana Captured Stronghold.
Washington, Jan. 1. General Otis
cables the war department today as fol
lows: "Manila Colonel Lockett, with a
regiment of two battalions of the
Forty-sixth, (Colonel Schuyler), one
battalion of the Forty-fifth (Colonel
Dorst), and one company of the Twenty-seventh
infantry, and two guns (Cap
tain Van Deusen, ) attacked the enemy,
600 strong in a mountain stronghold
beyond Mont Alban, northeast of San
Mateo. A large number were killed
and wounded, and 24 were taken pris
oners. Lockett captured one cannon,
40 rifles, 20,000 rounds of ammunition,
500 pounds of powder, arsenal fortifica
tions, all their food supplies and con
siderable other property.
"This captured point, located on a
mountain trail, waa formerly supposed
to be impregnable. Our casualties:
Lieu'enant Enlow, Eleventh cavalry,
and five enlisted men wounded, mostly
slight. Private Matson, Forty-fifth in
fantry, drowned."
Not American Yeeeela.
Port Townsend, Jan. 1. The pur
chase of foreign vessels by the United
States government for use as transports
during the Spanish-American war and
their subsequent sale by the govern
ment to private citizens has resulted in
complicating matters for purchasers
from the fact that after purchase of
such vessels the government refuses to
allow them to be documented in the
United States as American vessels.
The case in point is the steamship
Scipio, which was recently sold by the
navy department and waa afterwards
refused documentation. - The purchaser
applied to the secretary of the treasury,
asking that if he should break the
Scipio up, whether the material of
which she waa constructed would be
subject to duty if Bold In the United
States. Yesterday Collector Heustis
received a circular letter covering the
above case from the treasury depart
ment in which Acting Secretary Spaul
ding saya that upon the sale of said
vessel in a port of the United States
the material or materials taken there
from would not be regarded as an im
portation within the meaning of the
customs laws, and would therefore be
exempt from duty.
The Plague Scare.
San Francisco, Jan. 1. The steamer
Gaelio arrived here this afternoon from
the Orient, via Honolulu. The Gaelio
was sent to quarantine, owing to the
plague scare, but her cabin passengers
were allowed to land, towboats plying
between the steamer and the city for
the purpose.
The press correspondent at Honolulu
says there have been no new cases of
plague since last advices. There have
been several sudden deaths, and in
each instance rumor assigned the
plague as the cause. Investigation
proved otherwise. The board of health
now claims but two deaths were caused
by the scourge, the remaining cases be
ing doubtful or suspicious.
Bobbed or SIS.OOO.
Walsenburg, Colo., Jan. 1. W. J
Milsap, a prominent stockman, was
seized by two men when about to enter
the Klein hotel and was robbed of
f!2,S)00. The money was mostly in
his coat and vest pockets and these
garments were' torn from him. No
trace of the criminals has been found.
Mr. Milsap was on his way to Mexico
to buy cattle.
Big Liner Ia Aahore.
London, Jan. 1. A large German
mail steamer, believed to be one of the
Hamburg-American liners, has gone
aground during a terrino gale in East
bay, about a quarter of a mile off Dun-
geuess, the southern extremity of Kent
Heavy seas are breaking over the ves
sel, and life-boats are unable to reach
her. Fears are entertained for the
safety of the passengers.
It ia reported that the position of the
liner ia very serious.
A DOUBLE TREATY.
fortagneee South Africa Ia to Be Di
vided Up.
New York. Jan. 1. A dsipatch to
the Herald from Berlin says:
The Lokal Anzieger publishes the
contents of the German-English-Fortu-guese
secret treaty. This double treaty
will have executive force as soon as the
Swiss jurists,- Messrs. filaesi-Hensley
and Goldau, have given a decision in
the Delagoa bay arbitration.
The decision, it is expected, will be
given in January or February and will
probably be in favor of England, in
which case Portugal must pay to Eng
land and America an indemnity of 1,
900,000. England obtained in ,1891
from Portugal the right of pre-emption
in Delagoa bay, and the cession of Del
agoa bay to England may therefore be
expected In March next.
It Is possible that President Kruger
may now declare war on Portugal and
attack Delagoa at once.
In order to prevent any interference
by France or Russia, Enlgand con
cluded a secret treaty with Germany
regarding the complete partition of the
Portuguese colonial possessions. Ger
many is to receive all the Portuguese
possessions in Asia, with 20,000 square
miles of territory and 1,000,000 inhab
itants. Germany further receives in
Africa all Portuguese territory north of
Mozambique, except a strip of land
three miles wide, for Mr. Cecil Rhodes'
trans-African railway. For this the
German government will pay Portugal
25,000,000 marks.
REST AT ARLINGTON.
Burial of the Kartjrred Heroea of the
Maine.
Washington, Jon. 1. Upon the
windy heights of Arlington cemetery,
the Maine dead, brought from Havana
by the battleship Texas, today were
laid away in their final resting places.
with simple religious services, and the
impressive honors of war, in the pres
ence of the president, members of his
cabinet, officers of the army and navy
and other officers of the government.
A cabinet officer, surveying the flag
draped coffins before the ceremony be
gan, said: "The lives of these men
cost Spain her colonies." But there
was no note of triupmh in the grim
scene today. With a touch of sadness
and solemn gravity, the nation per
formed its duty to the dead and gave
its defenders a Christian burial at
home, in soil hallowed by patriotic
dead.
Battle With Bobber.
Seattle, Jan. 1. Two masked men
held up a Ballard street-car at 11
o'clock tonight. There were eight
passengers aboard, and a regular fusii
lade of shots waa fired. One of the
passengers inside the car, C. E. Plimp
ton, opened fire on the hghwayman en
tering from the rear, and three shots
were returned. One broke Plimpton's
arm and the other entered his breast.
Shortly after midnight the police
found near the scene of the Ballard
street-car hold-up the body of one of
the two bandits. He bad been almost.
instantly killed by a bullet from a
passenger's pistol. The body is still
unidentified.
Big Buffalo Mine Turns Out Bleb.
Baker City, Or., Jan. 1. A sensa
tional strike was made today in A.
Geiser s Big Buffalo mine, two miles
west of this city. The miners took
several samples of ore from the tunnel,
which today tapped the 80-foot ledge.
By assays just returned to the owner
of the mine, the samples all show gold
values ranging from $18 to $102.75 in
gold and five ounces of silver to the
ton. Mr. Geiser, who was formerly
part owner of the Bonanza mine, said
today that If the values hold out
throughout the Big Buffalo, the prop
erty will be equal to the Bonanza. The
Big Buffalo ia within plain sight of
this city.
Killed Hie Young Wife and Blmaelf.
Winnipeg, Jan. 1. Pierre Dentzer,
a German farmer, aged 50, living near
Rath well. 100 miles from Winnipeg,
shot and killed his 19-y ear-old wife in
a fit of temper. Dentzer then carried
his baby to a neighbors' house and re
turned borne. The authorities were
notified, and on approaching the house
ound that the woman's body bad been
dken inside the house and a cross had
been raised by Dentzer on the ground
where she had been shot. Dentzer had
spread a sheet on the floor, placed his
wife's body on it, blew out bis brains.
Went Through a Bridge.
San Bernardino, Cal., Jan. 1. As
No. 83, west-bound freight train over
tha ftiwte Fa route, was crossine Calon
creek bridge today, about 12 miles
north of this city, nine cars went
through the bridge into the creek bot
tom. Six of the cars weie loaded with
cotton, one with telegraph wire, and
one with general merchandise and sul
nhnr. The cars caueht fire and made
a terrible conflagration, destroying the
entire contents and irameworg. ao
one was killed.
A Hurderoua Collector.
Chattanooua. Tenn..Jan. 1. Samuel
Mills, a collector for an installment
house, this afternoon attempted to seize
furniture in the house of Mary Ven
able, colored, for a small debt. The
woman attempted to prevent it, and in
the struggle that ensued Wills shot the
woman and her little son and daughter,
all seriously. Aims was arrested.
Buller'a Sphere of Action.
Cape Town, Jan. 1. Colonel Otter,
commanding the Canadian contingent
nf troops. Is to Join the staff of Buller,
nil the members of which are proceed
ng to Natal, indicating that Buller'a
rphere will shortly be confined to
fN'atal.
Boaton Sympathy for Boera.
Boston, Jan. 1. The common coun
cil of Boston today, after a spirited de
bate, adopted a resolution of sympathy
for the Boerst ,
CONTRABAND OF WAR
Rosebery Wants the Govern
meat's Position Defined.
POSSIBLE CHANGE OF POLICY
Sir Charlee Dllke Warna Agalnafi
Haaty Overturning of
Precedenta.
London, Jan. 1. Lord- Rosebery
writes as follows this morning to the
Times:
"There are disquieting intimations
which appear to point to our govern
ment having treated foodstuffs as con
traband of war. As this is a matter of
supreme importance, I venture to ad
dress this line to yon in the hope that
it may elicit an authoritative statement
on the subject."
The Times, commenting editorially
upon Lord Roeeberry's letter, saya:
"Too little is known of the seizures
for any valid inference safety to be
drawn. An emergency might arise
when certain foodstuffs would be re
garded as contraband while others
would not, especially if the latter were
intended for concombatante. There
might, for instance, be reasonable
grounds for treating canned goods aa
contraband and flour as legitimate."
After admitting that it "would be
nnadvisable to create a precedent which
might some day be invoked against
us, " the article concludes as" follows:
"While we fully share the view that
bo serious change of policy should oc
cur without cogent reasons and ample
consideration, we cannot but ask our
selves whether, in the event of Great
Britain being engaged in a war, the
action, either of the enemy or even of
neutral powers, in a matter upon
which such great divergence of opinion
still exists ia likely to be governed by
any precedent we or any one else may
have set in the past, rather than by the
immediate interests of the moment."
A NEW YORK FIRE.
Two Seven-Story Bulldlnga Ware De
stroyed Firemen Injured.
New York, Jan. I. The two seven
story buildings at 425 to 435 East
Twenty-fourth street, occupied princi
pally by the wall-paper factory of Wil
liam Campbell & Co., were destroyed
by fire tonight. The loss ia fully
$500,000. The plant of the New York
Hygienic Ice Company, which occu
pied the basement of 425, and that of
the Manhattan Electric Light Com
pany, on the first and second floors of
the same building, were totally de
stroyed. A large portion of the east
side gets its lights from that company,
and was, on account of the fire, cast
into complete darkness. The Campbell
company employed 400 hands, who
will be thrown out of work by the fire.
The properties of all three firms are de
stroyed beyond the hope of saving a
dollar's worth. The losses are partly
covered by insurance.
Three hook-and-ladder men, Andrew
Degnan, Joseph Shaughnessy and Jos
eph Bessinger, were caught on the sixth
floor othe building, and escaped with
great difficulty. All were severely
burned. Shaughnessy and Bessineer
were sent to Bellevue hospital. The
other hook-and-ladder men were caught
on one of the high window ledges, with
the flames roaring all around them and
the dense smoke making them almost
imperceptible from the street. Exten
sion ladders were run and firemen
brought them down In an almost un
conscious condition. One of the men,
Lee Potter, was very severely burned,
and was sent to Bellevue hospital.
TWO TRAINS WRECKED.
One Person Waa Killed and Fourteen
Were Injured.
Denver, Colo., Jan. 1. The Chey
enne flyer on the Union Paciflo rail
road crashed into the Boulder Valley
train, at Brighton, Colo., at 6 this
morning. One man was killed, Win
field Randelman, express messenger,
Denver, whose body was burned to a -crisp.
Fourteen persons were injured.
The Boulder Valley train left Denver
a little late this morning, and as usual
stopped at Brighton, which is the junc
tion for the Boulder Valley line from
the main line to Cheyenne. The Chey
enne flyer also left Denver late, and
coming Into Brighton in the early
morning dusk, ran into the rear end ol
the Boulder train, telescoping two or
three cars and derailing the passenger
locomotive.
Section gangs from Denver yards and
half a dozen passengers occupied the
Boulder train. The mail and baggage
car and the smoker of the flyer were
burned. Mrs. Young was in the chair
car with six children. None of the
children were hurt, although she re
ceived gerions injury. The wounded
were brought to Denver and taken to
the hospitals. Conductor McAllister,
of the Boulder valley train was crazed
by the accident. He attempted to
jump into the burning wreckage, and
had to be forcibly restrained.
In his proclamation to the burghers,
Baden-Powell makes the extraordi
nary statement that the American gov
ernment has warned others of her In
tentions to side with England should
any of them interfere.
General White Maa tha Fever,
Ladysmith, Sunday, Deo. 24, via
Pietermaritzburg General White has
bad a slight attack of fever, but is
now convalescent.
It is reported that General Joubert is
again in command of the Boers here.
The military authorities appear confi
dent, but they are very reticent.
About 2,000 claims have been filed
so for for pensions for disabilities re
ceived during the Spanish-American
war.