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Show J . M NEWS' SUMMARY,; 't IWoaEa JsmO , ti'mUA ...Thejrssr-o- f ; France, The batioeat sect!on( o( gcraaton, Oreen county, la., wa: 'JrV$7e fire the Slat Lora $60, dVI ,.s m The Navy department baa been ad rimed pf Uie sail Ip (pf the battleshto 11 JTovva lromA.capuicotjr Panama. bartti l 4 a Vtii'eeiw. i'a-- i a of the the possession been began for 50,000 atte2bf John GeuJfl. near tl Seattle. : idea ator Dottlverof IbwAV while In announced that Got. Chicago Saturday Shaw of Iowa would be a candidate '' - for the presidency, t ' held were men Wednesday up Eight Wight at Grange City, Wash., four miles below Biparia. and robbed of $104. Two men did the work. an nnarcbiat, baa been Jobanij , 'the police Switzerland. In arrested threat--f letters' his found possession fn j enlog the life of 'Emperor Francis Joseph. it te stated on authority that Messrs, T Wilson, Raynor nndVarker constitute - 11 the legal aid to be employed by Ad- miral Schley In the approaching court ' of Inquiry. - between tbe - Lan- AbeaVynnewfJor,qchred Al- Colorado, recently. Tha snow fell In a blinding sheet for an hour had was fallowed by a serere ? JmQxtrtto,' ! t' v ' Judge Dixon of Pueblo has issued an injnnctlon to restrain the elate boa rdf, of equalization from acting further in tbe matter of eaaeasing the property of corporations under the new'' revenue lew. f A special train of forty carlodda of potatoes left Stockton. Ll., Friday for the middle and (Southern States, The pots tews are raised on the riser islands west of the city end tewed there on . bargee. , , Ther. transport Shbriiiaa will lease San Francisco next fiSaiorday with a number of teachers for Philippine schools, and tbe transport Suranerwill follow on the Igth with another large delegation of teachers' The large flour mill of .Nelson Story at Bozeman, Mont, was destroyed by fire last week. The mill had a capacity of 500 barrels a day and waa salued at d $60,000. Tbe fire canght from an bearing oo a shaft John Andrews of Bed Lodge, Mont, waa Instantly killed by John Rogers la) week, who mistook him for a bear, end sent n btillet through his heart The men trei4 with a party enjoying nn onting at the Lewis ranch, Warehouses of the Willamette paper mill end of the Crown paper mill et Oregon City, Ore., were destroyed by fire last week. One hundred tbits of paper end one hundred tons of sinphnr n tbe Crown warehouse were de- pine , OaKs; . . ., 1 ' (Utica (N. T.) Letter.) It is characteristic of the American people to cherish the pUces and events made historic by deeds of their ances- .li tions. It stood upon the estate of CL Gerrit Lansing and was considered one Of the finest oaks In the section Ths tllt of LafoyoUo. tors. The localities rendered famous While worthy of attention as a tree of revolutionary by our forefathers 4f attractive growth 'days, the sturdy patriots of 181$, tbs jt is to at event Thich occurred in 1825 that the tree 61 and the of boys we ita name of LaFayette Oak. In youths who went out to battle agalnat the Spanish oppressor all appeal to 1824. when the Marquis de LaFayette our finer sensibilities and the mark- 'started on his triumphal tour of the 14 ing of them so future generations may states which then comprised the Unbe reminded of tbe glorious deeds that ion, after an absence of over 40 years, to make " this the, the country was In a furor of exalts-me- at have contributed Qd everywhere the greetings ts nation of the present day is great d eon of France were source of satisfaction and pride,, .The the fervid. After his tour of the west, he part taken by Nelr York state to the came east on the Erie canal, whlah making of history haa been prominent and throughout tbe commonwealth had just been completed and arrived In Rome, June $, 1825. There he was may be seen tablets' and monuments met by a company of distinguished citthe of erected by grateful descendants nations defenders. Here to Oneida izens from Utica, White boro sad county art the Oriskany monument Rome and the militia. A speech of which marks ths scene where, In 1777, Welcome was delivered and a reception the American forces under the strong-hearte- d tendered the general, after which " party were escorted to patriot, Gen. Herkimer, enthe cana 4heJ r boat waa awaitone of lwfitw the and the enemy fought gaged decisive battles of the revolution, and ing them. That night they proceeded n shaft to the modest little cemetery to Oriskany, LaFayette being the guest to the town of Stubea which shows of Col. Gerrit Lansing, who waa under where were - Interred the remains of his command at. Cornwallis surrender Baron Steuben, n herd of Washing ton's at Yorktown in 1781. As bs wax proOther points of Interest there ceeding to the home of CoL .Lansing, day. are, some marked. end others some x moet enthusiastic demonstration was what neglected, while n few nre com- accorded him. When the mansion waa paratively unknown. One of the'' last cpproached, the throng became- so class Is to be seen to Uticas suburb, dense that LaFayette waa obliged to a stand beneath one of the trees oriskany, and Is known locally as the talde of Ahe estate and there remain while Lafayette Oak. - The oak is a grand specimen of the the multitude passed, ehaking, hand tree family and is located at the cor- and also delivering n few words of Tbe tree under which L ner of Dexter avenue and Utica street it .was Fdyette stood was marked and from Judging by Its appearance, probably n 'sturdy little shoot' to the that time to the present It has been wilderness when Columbus landed to caired the LaFayette Oak. stroyed. A noteworthy incident to connection Emmett A. Nealand, the young man' America. When the Revolution was wlta.the a be to LaFayette Oak la the fayct had grown who recently applied in Seattle for a being dedded. it e, that at one time It was used as a tree of considerable size and It Is writ of habeas corpus to4 his release visits heartregular infrequent though to that many suppose from the nary, failed Ao substantiate sick being made ly carriers of ths mail to 'and weary patriots found rest his claim that be hadeen coerced into ita protecting branches.' It was tne spot to deposit mall for traders enlistment by bls father in order to a- magnificent specimen of the o&A with the Indiana who lived in great prevent his marriage, and mnst remain when the work of clearing the ground numbers In the forest west ot Orkts-an- y In the service. and to receive letters for ths for settlement was under way. It was Charges of maladministration have spared because of its grand propor "east" been preferred agalnat Dr.' Henry Brown. presidlng elder, and Dr. P. A. Cool, pastor of the First M. E. church of jS'pokane, and Rev. T. U. Dodson, pastor of the church of Coenr dAlene. Additional charges of fraud and deceit are made against Dr. Cool. The body of a man was found beside tbe railroad track near Edgewood, Cal laat week. The head was badly mutilated. In hta pocket was found n bank bookof tbe Hibernian bankof 3an Francisco bearing the name of Simona Erik-eo- n. It is though) he waa robbed and thrown from n freight train by traippa. ' A very rich quarts ledge, haa' been discovered near Malheur City, Ora. An sassy has been wade which goes The .strike $210,33 gold - to ahe ton, was made by two poor men while digging a ditch. They are making from $3 to $5 per day each by pounding' the rock to a mortar by hand and then washing it, using quicksilver to catch 1 . the gold. t New has reached Denver that a mob si;om noble-hearte- ,V Ny -- oser-heate- According toad rices from Caracas, Venezuelan state of Care be bo, the former produce of Gnarico end the town of Aregua bare retolted against President Castro, ( 'Brigadier-GenerFred D. Grant haa en route to San Francisco Ted at am the Philippines, after a three months Ue will sail on the JeaTe of absence. al transport Sheridan. The delay In the promulgation of the d edicts necessary to complete the 01 at Peking is due to the content, plated humiliation of Prince .Chang by Emporer William. On August 21at the buildings of the etockyards company In Honolulu were destroyed by fire end seventy-firhorses were burned to deeth. Three cottages were also consumed. Bogus gold dust and nuggets hare been sent to the Klondike in large quantities and disposed of as the product of rarions claims. Many persons nre said to hare been rictimizcd. A negro, Dick Hill, who killed Ed t Barry, n white man, at Philadelphia, pro-toe- r , le e post-offic- - Alias., fvas killed at Summerville, near Macon, Miss., while resisting arrest a the hands of a posse of 100 men. e The Nebraska City, Neb., Daily has been sold to the Mortop Printing company of which J. Stroking Moof Agriculture', is rton, tbe fiead and will be edited by him. The Nicaraguan congress haa ap- commercial proved the Marry-SansoStates and ,tbeCjnited .with treaty' reassemwill It probably adjourned. of ble In the latter part Januray next. Tbe navy department haa succeeded, by tuesos of ita notice to the press, In learning tbe whereabouts of Gustaf E. Claesonwho was the man at the wheel on the- Texas in the battle of SanTri-bnn- , ls brewing rmge.j -- N I Troulil Vtican ore Kw mindtd of Dirtinfuitb erf Vuitor. .Vote X5hc ' ranchers and tbeep owners near " der, Wy.rrer te-jr- . rrs n tiago. ' Eire that broke out id the fair I grounds face track, St Loula, Saturday haa burned tbe remaining buildings afternoon, consumed about a dozen belonging to William Radcllffe nt a tables, valued at $3,500, and burned to Grand Mea lakea The trouble began, race valuabitf derfth la number of oni of Mr. Radcliflfe's guards v when ' , f horses. killed a ranchman in n controversy t Tba War 'department haa approved over the right to fish to the lakea made by tbe local engineer Since then nil the contract the buildings on at San Francisco for tha construction tbe fish batch Including place. of lbs Osktand can al, which is to ery, ha been destroyed by, mob. extend from Oaklsnd harbor to San - Two Seattle lawyers fcave In. hand Leandro bay. two acorn of cases against tbo nearly announcTbe edict baa been received Canadian Pacific Navigation company court in connection with tbe wreck of tbe ing that It is tbe intention ofto tbe Peking. steamer to return unostentatiously Islander, wbich are to be InstiTlheif majesties will gtve 100,000 taels tuted for damages for loss of life, lose as n farewell contribution to the dis- of property and injury to health. tressed people of Siogan-Fo- . with an tojnnctlon . In accordance had Governments kept Issued by tbe Alontana other , If the supreme coart( waa troops at Peking until the protocol is restraining F, Augustus Helnze from it Is uigned, as Great BriUin doing, .tbe 'Minnie Mealy mine, nt . regarded as probable that the Chinese operating Batts, pending ah appeal from a dewould display greater willingness ' cision to favor of Heinze, the Minnie carry out the spirit of the protocol. Healy haa been closed down. An appeal to President McKinley for The atage running from Uklab, Cal who are beMendocino was held np at 4 oclock protection for the negroes to was afternoon about ten miles ing lynched for their crimes, Thursday formulated and Indorsed by the Negro from Ukiah. The express box was con Territorial Baptist Sunday-schotaken and two passengers and the , ventlon in session in Oklahoma City driver robbed. Tbe nmonnt of booty Saturday. secured la not known. E. R. Coon. the counterfeiter who Daring tbe last fiscal year, 15,662,706 was arrested at Baker City, Or., last .Acre of public domain were disposed General week baa been examined before United of, and tbe receipts of tbe The $1,702,160Land office were States Commissioner F. L. Moore and of lsit those year by bound over to tbe United State court exceeded neipte $502,402, and tbe land disposals by In the sum of $3,60A He waa unable to ' furnish bonds. 4 $.107,008 acres. - TheBiabeo, Arizona, mines are beAndre,-th- e General The visit of United coming a close rival of tbo Uaited the to of War, Minister French which Verde Copper company to tbe amount V States training ship Hartford" to and value of their product. It la aaid France, had pnt Into La Rochelle, maneuvers, tba Copper Qtfeen la shipping from four western army the witness to five earloads of bnllioa a day, equal was the occasion of a little i to about 200,000 pound of copper. demonstration, Bert Hillman, who escaped from the . In the annual. report of the State 8. W. Idaho penitentiary on the 22nd inat Bird of Health, Secretary the past ten haa been captured. He Was canght .Abbott says that during in four miles south of Meadows, to Wash. vestigated malaria of years every ease traced to two farmers score of S to 1. Merritts work cradtf a deep Impression on the New Yorkers who regard him as a pitching wonder CURRENT NEWS AND NOTES OF His friends look upon him as tha best THE GAME. pitcher In the Nef Tork State League. He' le likewise x slugger from the league In batting $ PropcU ( a BtMaat far Aaotfaar with tbe leading . average of $69. splendid Year Tha hatlonat Leaxaa Policy I Merritt's future to tbe baaebaU world SUll for War to the Bitter End. aad lX certainly one.of. brilliant proaHix ' la BASE BALL MATTERS 0 NOUTinVEsr. KOTIS, slug-gersvll- le, Method WU Ueftood. PITCHER CAR RICK, It can be stated authoritatively that This well known member of the so far ns the National League is con- Washington club first played ball pro- -, cerned, there is absolutely no chance fesslonally In Lima, O. In the followfor n compromise with tbe American ing season he played ia Canton, 0., League next fall or wtnter, on the only Warren, Pa., ami last ia Adrian, Mich., basis that tbe league would his home. His work attracted the ataccept, namely, maintenance of. pres- tention of Tatay" Tabeaiq who draft- ent circuit and teams with complete cd him, but he was so well fixed tor equality under a new national agree- pitchers that he fanned him out to ment, writes Francis C. Richter In Fort Wayne, to 97 Carrlck accepted Philadelphia Sporting Life. Never was terms with tha Newark club, aud did the. feeling agalnat ths American ao well that he attracted the attention League more bitter in National League Of President Freedman ot the New circles York dub. Carrlck failed to get RU The National Leaguers nre confident salary to Newark and jumped to New that all ot their clubs will make hand- York, and remained there until this last-name- . . Iatan, named for an Indian chief. It then had bright prospects and was Island Swept Away by Bapoelra located on the bank"of the river, but ... Muddy, now. as ILwas Jortl. la not as it In the palmy days of steamboating years ago it died with the navigation on the Missouri river one of the most of the Missouri. Cow Island, too, la noted localities on that turbulent and gone. Like many smaller islands in uncertain stream was Cow Island, sit- the river it has been swept away by uated In the river about seven miles the vspacious current ot that stream above Weston and opposite the olff until now not an acre Is left, and the town of Iatan. It. then contained about fact that such an Island ever existed 1,000 acreB and was densely covffed is unknown to tbe present generation. with a primeval forqpt of cottonwood. The old Missouri has cut some high It acquired ita peculiar name from the capers within the last half century, time fact thatrat an early day some and the channel Is not where It once In th last century- a French traded. was. At the foot of the bluff at Wesn hers In ascending therlver, found ton, where stood Warners warehouse, solitary cow, the .first ever eee$ so from which the bales' of hemp were within one then high up and the only rolled directly onto the bows of the She' been LOST MISSOURI ISLAND. lfu-g- a ' some profits, with the possible exception of Boston and Chicago both of whom stand the strain early. - They also have it figured out that nt least -t-wo-thirds of the American League clubs, and perhaps all, must inevitably lose money operating under n twenty-five-cetariff with an Inferior Western circuit; and that one more season, with salaries forced still higher by a ayatematle - raid on all American League playera next winter, must inevitably fores that organisation to tbe waiL That this wlU,be the policy ot the National League ia well assured, Without considering the measures that may be prosecuted to disrupt the American League ot which we have nn inkling through the Johnson-Mo-Gracontroversy. - AMERICAN LEAGUERS FIRM. On tha other hand. It can also be stated justly that the American League is la no more conciliatory mood than tbs senior organization, principally for tha reason that its Western circuit is not up to the major league standard, and will have to be remodeled before n new national agreement makes both circuits permanent fixtures. This doubtless troubles tbe American League more than the financial quee-tlonIt le claimed that lossee the first year cut no Ice, as the backing is am pie, and loss, pending permanent establishment of a new thing, was ex pected. The real trouble will be in Adjusting the circuit In the west, where proper cities are not available, and where Invasion of Pittsburg nd St Louis is being made haxardoua owing to the success, popularly, ot the National League clubs already therein located. Tbe above gives, to a crfutshell,- - the exact situation in both leagues, and from It there appears to be no Immediate deliverance; hence It la idle to 'Speculate further on the chances- - ot peace for another year at least Rather let ue expect further scheming and maneuvering, and prepare for probable sensational mov, In coiicUu-ion- . u maybe stated positively that the end of the ten-yecompact of the National League next fall will entail no change of membership or circuit while the war Is on, at least! unless tbe American League he extinguished and another Improved twelve-clu- b circuit be evolved. season. Carrlck said, as his reason for go tog to Washington that he considered w . ar BOLDING HIS OWN. Among the mtoor league graduates ot last season whose work in the National League this year has been above the mediocre is Pete Childs, who is cavorting about the keystone sack of ths Chicago team in such n way as to arouse the jealousy of fellows like Bobby Lowe, Tom Daly - and other atari. In Obe game he had 12 chances without ao eirorJind.twq.hlU, and his dally average ot chances U in, the vicinity of eight For a big fellow, Childs Is exceptionally spry. He Is a heady baserunner, hits the ball hard And is Always prepared for an argument in defense ot his team when bis Judgment and that of the umpire conflict Early to the season he was with 6t Louis, where he did good work as A utility man, but he could get no ' WILLIAM M. CARRICK. . there was $300 due to him for his wort last season, and, therefore, tailed to appreciate n raise of $500 offered hto$ for hia season, especially as he wM offered more money to go to Washington. While Carrlck haa been very unfortunate in Inability to land victories this year, as 10 consecutive defeats will show, he pitched some very good ball, and the best tribute to his ability comes from his manager, who says he bTsatisfied with his work. MERCER NOT RELEASED. Win Mercer has not been .released outright by Washington, gays Manlercer became disager Manning; heartened over bis showing, and gave out the report that he bad been released. I have persuaded him to go home for a weekor two and get a good rest, and when in condition rejoin the team. I still believe Mercer ball player and great; a first-clas- s pitcher when in condition, but handicapped as he. waa with la injured limb. It was simply impossible for him, to do good work." rv. -Y F IT ft froden will issue a dtd m liar to that of Jim Hart to Cominkey. He did not in 90 and 91, when the fans -- were extremely desirous to see both Boston teams meet, and there is no reason to suppose there will be any change of base on his part Hart knows that there will be good money to such a series, and he will not be a gainer if he does not play them. In such n series he has nothing to lose and everything to gain, especially as or his club la liable to be a bear it, writes Jacob C. Morse in Boston Journal, In ease he wins he will have all the prestige of defeating a leader in the American camp, My, wbat crowds there would gather 1& this berg If the two Boston teams were to meet! You would find that the resources of even such. a big place as ths National League grounds hern would be taxed to the utmost. People would come from all parts of Nsw England, and even New York, to attend such contests. Well, I wouldn't be n bit surprised if Charley Somers were to issue a challenge to ths Nationals If be does not get one a Ia Hart, but 1 would be mightily surprised if it were accepted. If It isnt no one will die of worry. it I Ull-end- er, PLAYERS ARE THE ATTRACTION. had hundreds of miles; boats. Is now an immense willow sand stolen,' doubtless, by the Indians from bar and the river is a half mil away. the white settlement-o- n the MississipChronicler ' Chicago pi near St Charles, driven up the to preriver and placed on- the island Mmn Tcflo Ice. vent her escape. The French gave to between Moscow and Vladtime ihe Vacbe de . the Island the name "Isle ivostok on the Pacific via Siberia by the English meaning of which was of the Trans-Baiktha ' In completion wu Island "Cow Island." The reduced to nineteen haa been railroad Interformer days n place of historic est and was n noted landmark, not days. The rail route le uninterrupted of ths only among the early voyag end up to Lake Baikal, this part steamboat men,' but the early explor- trip by fast train requiring about eight ers ns welL Lewis and Clarke landed days The lake Is crossed by an IceEngland here and replenished their lardtr with breaking Steamer, built-- in several deer on July 8, 1804. ' They and taken to the heart of Asia In found at the head of the island a large pieces, to' be reconstructed on the lake nine , . PETE CHILDS, -lake, now called Bean lake, contain- aids. Ths steamer trip requriee of shore . southern hours. the Later fowL IV ing beaver and, many water place on the regular team, because was the first beaver they ha4 eeen. this Inland sea la to be skirted by ths several other good youngster had a railroad, ao that there need be no prior Chance. In Chicago he haa won Captain Martin, another explorer, winTrans-Baika- l, n tered here with a detachment of troops change of "cars. The the hearts ot tbe fans. And here Major Ing, on road that is, the part of the road east in 1818-1-9. Last year Childs 'played second for his famous expedition to the Yellow- of the lake, which has Just been fin the champion Utica team in the New Amur on the stone, held a council with the Kansas lshed, runs to Stretensk, Tork StaU League and headed the secIndians on Aug. 24, ,1819. Tb Island river. This place Is reached to eleven ond basemen. He hatted above $00. was first opened by Major John days from Moscow. The .trip on the Before that be played in the Atlantic a week, and Dougherty of liberty. Mo., the father Amur steamers requires League. th on another railroad which that who been from Journey has by of county the congressman Ington present Massachusetts 1b Vladiof had been searching for him, and ia district, who in his day was a famous rung from the boat landing to GIANTS BEATEN BY PYGMIES. the presence to the neighborhood o hours trapper and a member of the Ameri- vostok consumes thirty-twNew York team Journeyed np again wearing stripes. The 4 Italian laborers. Is skeleton found near Monnkj can Fur Company, find spest many mors. The through fare, in The n recent Sunday to play an nude Utica to reindeer Purchases of Utah is supposed to be that years . among the Indiana. .The fur about $88. exhibition game and ran against a for pleasant, shipment States United by tbe company had a number of trading named who man to the a Ilnnter, of person of George Merritt, disapsnag The chronology of both the Chines where to Alaska daring the present and twlrler of the Utica nine. seven years ago, leaving behind posts on the upper Missouri, star the does peared far as fifty reliable Is exand Hindoos fairly merchandise which they nhowa that 450 young GlanU but all of ths fell carpenter tools and about $300 do they keptwith the Indians for furs. back as 2200 B. C., before which It be- Merritt gave the bucks have been secured, cost of th him ftom changed three hlU and they, were taken Into was Qa City parties. Spring The comes town of misty. Major Dougherty laid "off the large Tnnsus breed camp by the local aggregation p y . a s stranger ia tbot vicinity. landed in Alaska is $30 each. ol al Franco-.America- first-clas- I ! i nt - , i i d i. End-cltff-es I s. SJ-be- ed It was supposed by a few of the National League magnates that tne prestige of the old organization would carry it along, and attract the people, to tbe gates, even If the team was not-winner. Just how foolish this Idea was has been demonstrated. The American League magnates saw that they bad just one chance. This was to' put winning teams to the three cities where they bad to fight the National League. This they have done with the exception of to Philadelphia, where Connie Mack is having anything but the best of luck. Chicago Chronicle. - DIAMOND GLINTS. the Boston League team In hatting with the splendid average ot $65. CapL Hugh Jennings, of the Phillies, says that Boston U not n factor in tha league race. He thinks that Pittsburg, St Louis and Philadelphia will fight it but for the bunting. Jennings has certainly Infused new life Into the Quakeritea and they are play- ing tbe game for all It Is worth. Old Joe Quinn is certainly one of the veterans of baseball. He has played on nine championship teams, one In St Louis, five in Boston and three in Baltimore. Quinn's professional work-begain St Louis In 18$4, when ho was 19 years old, which would tc&ko him 36 years old, and Quinn says the figures are right Quinn confesses to having played second base professionally for 17 years. Jimmy Collins leads American animals i V. n 1 |