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Show NEWS SUMMARY. NORTHWEST NOTES. curious report gained credence in Mexico City Christmas that Aguinaldo had arrived in Mexico. A school for training railway experts has just been established in Berliu. It will open next month. The Chilcat Indians, who it is claimed murdered a man named Elkins two years ago, are again raising a disturb- II. .T. Ilannan, who is under arrest in San Francisco on the charge that he committed a murder in Greensbury, Ra , has applied for a writ of habeas corpus. Ahurinifon the application will be held in the sunt,ior court. An invitation signed by Mayor Phelan of San FraneUco and the grand officers of the Native Sons of the Gohieu West, has been sent to Admiral Dewey requesting his presence in this city on A ance. Xo more Indians will be permitted to leave their reservations for Wild West exhibition purposes. They cannot secure the consent of the Indian bureau. The urgent deficiency appropriation hill, the first of the important supply bills for the government expenses, is practically made up, and the total will amount to about $71,1)00,000, The bank of Montreal has subscribed $10,000 to the relief fund of the British soldiers in south Africa. The directors ef the bank added ST, 500 to this amount in personal subscriptions. John E. Robson, the bridge contractor, w ho was murderously assaulted by a burglar in his office in iiouxl'ity, la., last week is dead. There is no satisfactory clue to the murderer. The United States supreme courtlias rendered decisions in two cases involving land grants in Mew Mexico, both opinions being by Justice Beckham, and both adverse to claimants. Captain II. W. lijornsted, formerly of Thirteenth Minnesota voluutecrs, who has been appointed Captain in the infantry, now in the Phillias ippines, reported at the lresidio. The stories regarding a Fenian invasion of Canada telegraphed to Ottawa from the United Statvs arela"ghed "the Fifty-secon- d at by the militia department, the gov- ernment and the people there generally. Representative Kerry of Kentucky, a member of the river and harbor committee, does not agree with the view of Chairman lturton of the committee that there will be no river and harbor hill this year. An agent of the lloer republic is in El Iaso, Texas, for the purpose of enlisting men for the present war with (treat Britain, lie is well supplied with funds and claims to have come from the Transvaal. Former Congressman Ben Clover committed suicide at his home near Douglass, Butler county, Kan., last Despondweek, by shooting himself. and from sickness povency resulting cause. was the erty Edith liarres, a young girl, whose home is said to he in Tacoma, Wash., and who was taken sick at Omaha recently, while playing with a Vanity Fair" Theatrical company, is dead at the city hospital, Kansas City. Taking effect on January 1, 1900, common labor at the Carnegie steel works, Pittsburg, was increased to $1.50 per day, and all other day turn and tonnage labor (with certain exceptions), will be increased in proportion. The fatal wounding of Deputy Sheriff William Rainbolt of Chevaz county, N. M., by two desperadoes whom he and a posse w ere trying to capture, is reported. Rainbolt with others had been in pursuit of the outlaws for several days. A resolution expressing sympathy with the Boers in their war with Great Britain, identical with the one adopted by the board of Aldcrineu last week, nas been offered in the New York city couueil. 1rcsidcntGuggenheimer ruled that the resolution was out of order, and it was laid over. Canada is preparing to make a strong hid for that class of American corporations known as trusts." . A representative of the Dominion government has arrived in New York City to confer with representatives of the largest companies having their main offices in Admission day, September 9, 1900. Ataspeeial election held in California it was decided to bond the city of San Francisco in the sum of $1..V0,000 for About 30,000 public park purposes. votes were east, and the proposition carried - a vote of four to one. One of the most disasterous Hoods in in the history of the state of Washington is raging along the Nooksaok river in Whatcom county. It is estimated that $30,000 worth of damage has been done to farms and buildand still the waters show7 no indiings cation of subsiding. While engaged in digging a cut for a miner's ditch on Butte Creek, Chico, Cal., Frank Cable and a man named Conner were buried underseveral hundred tons of rock and earth. After several hours work the terribly mutilated body of Conner was recovered. Cable's body lias not yet been found. President John W. Springer of the National Live Stock association has issued the official call for the big annual convention of the association to meet in Fort Worth, Texas, on February 10. The convention will be composed of delegates representing all of the largest Live Stock associations in the country. The boiler of a locomotive on the Denver A Rio Grande railroad blew7 up t- at Minturn, (olo., last week killing juackcubush and in- so badly that Fireman Salden juriug he died a few hours later. Alexander II. Wilson, roundhouse foreman, and T. R. Richardson, caller, were also injured, hut not seriously. The relatives of Hyde W. Rickey, son of J. K. Rickey of the Hoffman House, New York, are anxious to discover his whereabouts. He was a guest of the Talace hotel, San Francisco, for a short time last month and left there, ostensibly to go to a sanitarium to undergo a surgical operation. He has not been seen since. A dastardly attempt was made last week to wreck a Chinese Methodist mission church at Victoria, B. C. While the congregation, principally Chinese, was worshipping, a bomb made of lead pipe filled with g'unpowder, was exNo one was injured. The ploded. deed is ascribed to heathen Chinese jealous of the introduction of Christianity among their countrymen. The Carbon Hill company gave $.300 to each widow and $100 to each child of a miner hilled in the recent explosion at Carhonando, Wash. Mothers dependent upon lost sous for support were treated on the same basis as widows. This donation of the company represents a total of about Relief fund contributions from all parts of the state will amount to a large sum. J. L. Johnston, of Laramie. Wyo., who is serving a life sentence for the murder of Willis Strang, a boy whom he killed at a ranch in Brown's Park, has been granted a new trial. Young Strang while on his deathbed stated that Johnston did not mean to shoot him and that it was an accident. The judge who tried the ease would not admit this statement as evidence, but the supreme court now orders that the statement be admitted. This evidence alone will doubtless acquit Johnston. The Union Pacific is considering f another big project which will Engineer S. 11. $10,-00- 0. cut-of- shorten the main line of the road several miles and do away with one of the steepest hills between Omaha and Ogden. A corps of surveyors are now in the field east of Cheyenne, Wyo., New York. running lines west of Atkins and enter L. who Packard, formerly the city from northeast instead of from Eugene conducted the Investment Security the east, as at present, with instrucinstitution, tions to make the line a straight company, a has been convicted in New York shoot and with easy grades. Archer of using the mails to further schemes hill, which necessitated helpers on all to defraud, and was remanded for sentrains or the freights doubling to tence. get over the hills, will be avoided. has addressed letters A negro named Lucius Miller, emSecretary Long to Senator Hale and Representative ployed at a Union Racific grading Boutelle who look after naval legisla- camp on the Ilanna-IJan- a f at tion in the senate and house, relative Hanna, Wyo., armed himself with a to the plan of refitting the historic old pitchfork, and swearing he would kill craft Constitution, as a naval training every man in eainp, started on his mission. He cracked the heads of several ship. W. IT. Gilbert, a bankrupt hardware graders and was having everything his merchant from Winston, N. C., has for- own way when he went to the contracmally declared to United States Com- tor's supply wagon, where he met Troy missioner Ileacock in San FVancisco Pendleton, a white man. Pendleton that he will no longer resist the legal watched his chance, when he wipped effort to send him to North Carolina out his revolver and fired full in the negroes face killing him. for trial. cut-of- ea to hold a consultation as tw what they should do with us; and imagining that vve were both ignorant of their' language, or. what is more probable, caring little whether we knew it or cot, they canvassed the most terrible resolutions with perfect coolness and freedom of speech. PTER X. The Ventana. Tom Lambournes face wore somewhat of a blanched hue, through which the stripes of his tattoing seemed blacker ti an ever. A severe cut on his forehead, from which the blood was oozing, did not add to his personal appearance, lie scarcely knew a word of Spanish, hut seemed instinctively aware that vve had fallen into hands nearly as dangerous as his former acquaintances, the Mussolongos, for he said: "Master Rodney, I fear we have run our last knot off the and our sandglass wont run again, unless heaven gives the order to turn. Yet, if I could lut get or.e of these musket, to have a shot at the rascally before its all over with us, I would be content. As it i3, I am all over blood, from clew to earring, h ami they have choked me by shaking a quid down my throat. Hush, Tom, said I, for I was listening to a discussion which took place among the Spaniards. Do you understand their lingo? A little. What are they saying? he asked, with growing interest. I will tell you immediately. But as they all spoke at once in the sonorous Spanish of the Catalonian coast, mingled with obscure slang and nautical phrases, some time elapsed before I could understand them. Meanwhile, how terrible were the thoughts that filled my mind. If these fellows murdered and cast us into that awful chasm, the deed would never be known; until the day of doom our fate and our remains could eo more be traced than the smoke that melts into the sky. Even if we escaped unhurt, hut were detained so long that the brig sailed without us, what could be our condition, penniless, forlorn and unknow7n, in that foieign island? But this was a minor evil. Then I burned to avenge the lawless treatment to which we were subjected, and the blows and bruises their cowardly hands had dealt so freely. I heard one say, one Gompaneros, of these fellows is tattooed and would sell very well to the South American planters with the rest that w7ill soon be under hatches. He is worth keeping, if he cannot ransom himself; as for the other El muchaco! (the hoy) said they, glancing at me. Si el page de eseabo if he is allowed to return, a complaint may find its way to the senor alcalde, whose alguazils may come and borrow our topsails and anchor for a time; whereas, if we have him where the others w7ent yesterday Where? Into the ver.tana, hombre! was the fierce response; and then no more will be heard of the affair." My blood grew cold at these words, and I scarcely knew what followed, till the first naan who spoke came forward and addressed us. Inglesos, said he, we have decided that one of you. after swearing not to reveal our hiding place, shall return within four hours, bearing a fitting ransom for both, else, so surely as the clock strikes, he who is left behind goes into the ventana of the mountain, where never did the longest sea line find a bottom not that I suppose any man was ever ass enough to try. Santos! do you hear? he added, striking his musket-but- t sharply on the rocks, when perceiving that Tom was Ignorant of all he said, and that I was stupefied by It. Si, senor, said I, and translated it to Tom I.amhourne, who twirled his tarry hat on his forefinger, stuck his quid in his cheep, slapped his thigh ' vigorously, and gave other nautical manifestations of extreme surprise and discomposure. Ransom, Master Rodney? he reiterated, in tl e name of od Davy, who would ransom a poor Jack like me? ' The whole crew would table their months wages on the capstan head aye, in a moment, Tom, I replied, CII m m m m CIIAP'l Eit YllU (Continued.) I remember well when, from a wid forest, I saw before me a long blue ridge. It was the Sena Leo.uia or the Mountain of the Lioness, as the niggers theieabout t;'l it, the highest in North or South Gum a Glad was I, Master Rodney, to ste the tlag of old England waving on the fort ard in the bay. There was a sir, p of war at anchor there, the v.ive; and when fired the evening pun you would have bought a whole met was saluting, there are so many n being eaves and dents in the mountains and along the shore. I soon made my way hcr.m to England, but was more laughed at than whith pilied for my queer figure-heafrightened some fo'ks, my old mother especially, for she banged the door right in ray face, and called for til police when I went to her old bunk at Deptford. However, I got used to all that sort of thing; but as folks are so and uncharitable --ashore. I have left Deptford forever, and keep always afloat, to be out of harms way. So thats the yarn of how I became tattooed, Master Rodney. d, ill-br- Finish the Tom, brandy-and-wate- r, said I, and now well make a start for the brig noon is pa-and the atmosphere cooler than it was. Your very good health. Next time e we splice the ashore, I hope it will he in Cuba, said Tom, finishing the contents of my flask arid then becoming so jovial that he broke s the last at once into an old two verses of which were somewhat to this purpose: I learned to splice, to reef and clew7. To drink my grog with the best of the crew, And tell a merry sfory; And though I wasnt very lug, Aloft Id climb, nor care a fig To stand by my gun. or dance a jig, And all for Britains glory! When home I steered again I found My poor old mother run aground, And doleful was her story; She had been cheated by a lawyer elf, Who married her for her old dads pelf, But spent it all, then hanged himself. Hooray for England's glory! Just as Tom concluded this remarkable ditty with tones that made the volcanic grotto to echo to glory, a voice that made us start exclaimed, close by us: Bueno! Ha! Ha! Los Anglesos burrachios! On hearing this impertinent reflection on our sobriety vve both looked up and saw what the next chapter will tell you. t, main-brac- su-son- CHAPTER IX. Dangerous Company. Behind us stood eight fellows, five of whom had muskets, and three heavy They were apparently bludgeons. Spanish seafaring men; but whether contrabandistas of the lowest class, a portion of a slavers crew, or merely drunken brawlers, we could not at first determine. However, they soon made us aware that robbery was their object, and that they were in no way averse to a little homicide if vve interfered with their plans in the least. Some had their coarse, but glossy and intensely black hair confined by nets or cauls; others had only Barround celona handkerchiefs their heads. The spots of blood upon these, together with several patches and discolored eyes, showed us that these modern Iberians had been fighting among themselves. Their attire, which consisted only of red or blue shirts and dirty canvas trousers, was rather, dilapidated; but something of the picturesque was imparted to it by the sashes of glaring red and yellow worsted which girt their waists, and in which they had long knives stuck conspicuously. By their bearing, their dark glaring eyes, their muscular figures, their bare arms, chest and feet, their bronzed, sallow and .usY visages and more than all by their rags, which were redolent of garlic and coarse tobacco, It was evident that we had fallen into unpleasant society. Several bad silver rings in their ears, and on the hare chest of one I saw a crucifix marked either with ink or gunpowder. These fellows had come from the inner or back part of the cavern, where they had evidently been observing us for some time before they so suddenly appeared. Acquardiente, said one, approvingly, as he applied his fierce, hooked nose to my empty flack, and then placed It In his pocket. A second snatched and a third apaway my courier-bapropriated my telescope, which he tuck in bis sash, g, Taking up a si: me which lay at hand. I was about to hurl it at the load of the latter when the muzzle of a tot kid musket pointed to my breast, and the butt t f another roughly to my back, admonished me that discretion was the belter part of valor. 'El page de escoba ha. ha! (the cabin hoy), said one contemptuously, as he examined my attire a smart blue jaiket, with gill anchor buttons, which Ilislop had given me. My whiih contained only a few shillings, and tny gold wah, a present given to me by my mother when I went to Fton. were soon taken from me. As for poor Tom, he possessed a short, only a brass tobaceo-bablack pipe, and one shilling and sixpence; yet he was speedily deprived of them by one who seemed to be the leader of the gang. You rascally Jack Spaniard! said Tom, shaking his elenc bed fist in the robbers face, if ever I haul alongside of you elsewhere. look out for squalls! At this they all laughed, and seized us by the arms, dragged us into the back part of the tavern or fissure in the rocks, leaving one of their num- her, armed with a musket, as sntinel, at the entrance, v lit re he lit a paper cigar, and stretching himself on the gra.-shank, placed his hands under his head, and proceeded to leisurely smoke in the sunshine. These proceedings filled us with great alarm; now7 that they had robbed us of everything save our clothes, what could their object be? One of them product d tvo pieces of repe, with which our hands were tied. Dragged by some, and receiving severe blows and bmises from the clenched hands and musket-butt- s of others accompanied by the imprecations and coarse laughter of all we were conveyed through a grotto, or natural gallery in the rocks, the echoes of which repeated their voices with a thousand reverberations. The only light here was by the reflection of the sunshine at the entrance, where the basalt was coated by a white substance, the debris of some old volcanic eruption; for the slope up which vve had been ascending all the morning formed a portion of the great Peak. And now vve became sensible of a strange sound and a strange odor pervading all the place. Through a rent in the rocky roof of the grotto there fell a clear, bright stream of sunlight, that revealed the terrors of the place toward which our captors dragged us. On one side there yawned a vast black fissure or chasm, in the somber masses of obsidian and red blocks of lava which composed the floor of that horrid cavern; and from this fissure there ascended, and doubtless still ascends at times, a hot, sulphurous steam, which rendered breathing difficult and Induced an inclination to sneeze. From the depth of that hideous chasm, the profundity of which no mortal eye could measure, and no human being could contemplate without awe and terror, vve heard a strange, buzzing sound, as if from the bowels of the inner earth, far heaven alone knows how far down below. In fact, vve were upon the verge of or.e of those natural spiracles which the natives term the nostrils, or avenues through which the hot vapors of that tremendous Piton ascend; and the buzzing sound that made our hearts shrink, we scaicely knew why, was caused by some volcanic throe at the bottom of the mountain, whose base is many a mile below the waters of the sea. The fissuie was also twelve feet broad, and across it there lay a plank, forming a species of bridge. Two of our captors crossed, and then ordered us to follow them. I follovied like one in a dream; but my heart was chilled by a terror so confidence. deadly that I had no power or with Im sure they would, and the capthought of resistance. My first fear and Master Ilislop, too, for hhe tain was that the plank might be trundled from under our feet, and that we matter o that, rather than poor shipwould be launched into the black abyss mates should come to harm; hut As for me. said I. with growing below; but such was not the object of these Spaniards, as Toni and I were confidence. I am. as you said, senoreB, permitted to pass in safitv. only the page de escoba (To be continued.) The remainder of the thieves folanfound we in ourselves and lowed, OTerlooked. other grotto, the rcof of which w7as I cant see why covered by stalactites, that glittered Mrs. like gothic pendants of alabaster in the those people next door dont take a light that fell from the upper fissure, hint. Theyre always sending over to which formed a natural window, and borrow something. If w7e did the same, through it we could see the thin, white they might have an excuse, but weve steam ascending and curling in the never got anything from them yet sunshine. Mr. Beeswick My dear, you are misNow, supposing that they had us In taken. Didn't we get the measles from perfect security, our captors proeeed- - them? ap-pli- td log-lin- porte-monnai- e, cargo-pudde- rs well-nig- x, y low-roof- Bees-vvic- e, |