Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-07-29

aned 300 snd costs todsy 20, assisting
Her Asiesty's sailors 90 desert.
The salmon run on the northern
coast has proved very heavy, and the
tins are full.
The Indian murderer of Yeomans on
Skeena River, nov in gaol here. vas in
tervieved this evening. he said be
killed Yeom ans because the latter failed
TO report the death Of bis son. who Was
drowned while IN the murdered man $
employ. YeOmars, IL appears, Was
afraid 10 tell the father. Had be done
80 II is probable the murder would not
have been committed. The magistrate,
with two officers, entered the Indian
village and seiZsd the prisoner. held
court, heard the evidence and con-
mItted him for trial. They then hur-
rIed him TO a canoe and Sc irted for VIC
toris in ihe face of 800 warriors, who
stood armed with knives threatening
war.
Valuable gold diggiugs have been dis
covered on Lone Greek. tributary 70
Skeena River. Six hundred dollars was
taken out by one man in two DAYS.
Two other men found $l7Oo in three
hours Men are deserving the Gamer
les and f,ocking 70 the d I2gings.
The llvoii Opera Company appeared
to a full house tonight.
4 Bankrupt Government
HAVANA, July 29-Tte regular troops
QuaIteEed at Puerto Principe. not hav-
ing been paid for long time. and
credit bsing refused them. went to the
stores and forcIbly supplied themselves
with provisions. The fact having beeu
Photographed t. she Captain General. be
sent for the Director General of the
Treasury, who declared that the only
dIsposaols money of the Government
or the island was So, 0Oe at Villa Cara.
which was at once ordered By tsle-
graph to Havana and thence RENTED
to Puerto Principe.
The Spanish war steamer Consep-
scion received from Madrid sailing or
der,, but there being no fund to pay tue
crew, she could not leave. Meanwhile
the crew are dying Of yellow fever. Up
Ia today sixteen men hlG fallen vie,
Tins, among them two mldshlpmen.
one of them q nephew of General
Beaumont (Sequeudo C4po). The Di-
rector General If the Treasury having
asked the well known banker, l.. NJ.
Bor2es, for loan of 100000, was re-
fused.
Release OF the American Prisoners.
MEXICO, July 28.-The American pris-
oners have bell released. 10 Is pre-
sumed that Secretary FrelInghuysen re-
quested their release The released
men say that they were confined five
days IN separate cells. When informed
of their sentence for defaHing the Gov
eminent, they asserted Their complete
innocence.
Wrecked or Valparaiso.
LONDON, July 2S.-Advioes here state
that the British ship Aros Bay, from
Dundee, April 4th, for San Francisco,
has been totally wrecked off Valpa-
raiso. The crew We're saved by the
steamer Alki, IRON New ior for Val
p iraiso.
Henry N. stanley In London.
Henry Nj. Stanley, the African ex-
plorer, arrived at Plymouth this even
ng. In an interview with al Asso
cIated Press representative, Stanley
said that he had returned to England
that he bad completed the
work of establishing satisfactory trad
ing stations along the Congo river, from
it's mouth to Stanley Pool, 400 tales by
river. When he left the Congo coun- |
try he was suffering badly from bron-
,hitis, but Was much benefited by the !
sea voyage. He eulogizes the trading |
of the country in the vicinity |
Of the Congo river. He consiSers that |
General Gordon Commands perfectiy |
practicable route of escape from khar- |
.oum by way of Zanzibar on the east,
,r down the Congo to the west coast. |
II the Nile is blocked Stanley considers |
hat General Gordon oin, during the |
present season, ascend the Nile from
khartoum to YoBdola, a distance Of
'0J miles, in eight days; thence proceed
% Bohar and ElRsplz.l aud JOIN Lup-
on Bey, who commands 4OO troops,
having IN their possession 10000 of
money. Gordon could then proceed
With this addition to his forces to Fan
.ibar. Should the soldiers refuse TO
AXE this journey, or should some other
'ause prevent the plan, Gordon could
ross to Uganda, reach Stanley's sta
ions and proceed down the Congo.
stanley considers the route traversed by
Sir Samuel AID Lady
Baker, and Italian and Austrian mis-
ionaries cannot be lnsurmouptabie to
fordon, the soldier, traveller and explor-
II. If garrisons at intermedia points
hould be endangered. Gordon could
IKE them along. If they refuse to 40
ompany him at first, they would he
IRE to follow after he had gone. Hs
the sanding Of large Ems lish
orce to eXtricate General Gordon
'ould be a most precarions undertak.
az, and would bs likely attended with
great deal of loss and OK 'ense. Eng
Ish troops would be- unable to stand the
Innate.
Stanley comments on ihs abandoning
4 the Congo ire .ty. He considtrS the
saving of the Congo in the hands of
he Portuguese very lnimioal 10 Eng
aud's interests. The population of
dadeira prepared an ovation for Stan
ey when his steamer arrived there. but
lie was unable to land owing to qaaran-
Inc regulations.
Cholera.
PARIS, july 29-Thirteen deaths from
ihol-ra ut Marseilles last night; At
roulon II; ct Nanailitte. village near
(oulon |. The mlstral, "A strong wind
rom the northwest, Is prevailing, and
he weather is cooler. Inc mortality is
in the country among the
PEASANTS.
shipping Intelligence.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 70. - Sailed
Ialy 9th. bark Henry Buck, for Ia
,lma. Juiv 9th staamer Draonn for