Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-03-23

/ ance. \ proposition has been re-
celved flom Gilmore, DIR. Damroseh
and Theodore Thomas.
/ Hundreds Destitute and Homeless.
San Francisco, March IA re-
port from Folcst City, dated Friday
says the fire destroyed tie entire
! business portion of the town. HUI.
dreds are homeless and in the streets
tonight. Scarcely anything was
saved. and the people barely escaped
with their lives. There are no pro-
VISIONS i'll the town, excepting what
are contained III Hein,zrn = tile-proof
cellar, which is safe. One thousand
pounds of flour Is said To he ali that
Ia saved, and much suficrinr must
ensue before the destitute can be
provided for. Only few snail
! buildings on the outskirts of the
town are left standing. The Bad
Mountain company's mine, build
inGs, dumps, lumber house, timber
yards and tlume are all safe. This
renders it possible for many of the
poor to go TO work as soon as they
can get housed. Seventy-six build
| inGs were burned, with an estimated
loss of Il quarter of million. 1t is
/ impossible to ascertain the amount
of insurance, hu' 1t is believed to be
quite small. \ dispatch of to day
says that gang of Chlnamen last
/ m. bot hnl = hA l.f
and organized bodies of men are
now starting to exclude or drive
them from the town. All were pro-
vided with some food and shelter
last night, but all teams are gone,
and any hour may bring snow
storm, thus preventing all comnuni-
cation. No lumber is to be had un-
til teams can be brought from the
valleys. The fine originated III the
kitchen of the Forest House. The
water works were insufficient, and
the fire apparatus in bad condi-
ton.
| Sudden Change In the Weather.
ST Louis, March 19-One of the
| severest changes in the weather that
nas taken place this winter occurred
this evening. The mercury in the
afternoon marked II degrees. At
IL o'clock it fell below freezing,
with nearly an inch of snow on the
ground. Reports from Omaha, and
other points in the northwest, say
that the mercury is all the way from
zero to II degrees below.
The Whole County Inundated.
GREENWOOD, Miss, March 10
Tallahatchie county is overlooked
and Greenwood submerged The
water is only II inches below that OF
1882, but is rising slowly. From
Greenwood to Henry Island the
whole country is submerged. Some
of the largest Iazoo river planters
are fearing that their interests will
be seriously damaged.
a New Ireland i'm America.
WArERB'RY, March 1S.-At the
close of lecture on St. Patrick by
Father Lilly. of Ohio, to night,
Father Walsh introduced Patrick
ESan, former Secretary of the land
league. as " the little man who made
the British lion tremble." E.an
said: Ireland is to-day in the
bands of most brutal aud coerciye
foe, who are hanging innocent men,
bayoneting women and shooting
down children. England" he said,
with her spies and informers and
packed juries, is trying to crush out
he national life of Ireland. but
there is new Ireland on this side of
the Atlantic which she cannot tram
pie out, and which will hold her to
reckoning for the crimes committed
at home" He believed Ireland's
long night of slavery was approach
ing its dawn, and that measures for
its national Independence would be
successful.
The Oregon and California Railroad
Leased Ia shs Oregon and TranscOn-
tincntai for 90 Years.
New York, March 19.-An agree.
ment has been made that Oregon
and Transcontinental shall complete
and equip the remaining 125 miles
of the southern extension, and re-
ceive therefor $4,000 900 in first
mortgage bonds, issued ut the rate
of $4,000 per mile, and 81, 500 900 |
second mortgage bonds; also that the
Oregon and Transcontinental Com
pany shall lease the Oregon and Cal
ifornia system for 90 years, and pay
rental, first, amount of the fixed |
charges, being interest on the first |
and second mortgage; second, $50.
600 year to maintain the organiza-
ton of the Oregon and Californis
company; third. $500 900 per annum
for three aud one-half years, to be
distributed as dividend ut the rate |
of y per cent. per annum on the
preferred stock of the Oregon and
California, and fourth, to pay, from
AMI after July LIST, 1856, to the
lesser company. 80 per cent of the
gross earnings, with guarantee
that this percentage will be sufficient
to pay the fixed charges of 10000
per annum for the maintenance of
the organization, and minimum of
2 per cent. dividend on the preferred
stock.
Reduction OF Area OF Moses Reservation.
Executive MANSION,
February %, 1883.
1t is hereby ordered that the tract
of country in Washington Territory,
lying within the following described
boundaries, viz:
Commencing at the intersection
of the forty-fourth degree of longi-
tude, west from Washington with
the boundary line between the Uni
ted States and British Columbia;
thence due South fifteen miles;
thence due East to the Okinakane