The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-04-19
THE OKLAHOMA BOOMERS.

No News of The Missing Denmark. "
Specials From All Parts of the Country.
New YORK, April IS.-The steamer
ALSdtid arrived from Gibraltar this
morning but brought no news sof the
wrecked DaJlmGrk's passengers.
DECLARING a DIVIDEND.
New YORK. April 18.-The directors of
the Oregon Improvement company have
declared a quarterly dividend of one per
cent. on the common stock. The pre-
ceding quarterly dividend was at the
rate of one and half per cent.
TWO APPOINTMENTS.
WASHINGTON, April 1s.-The president
to-day appointed Edward A. Lacy of
Michigan to be comptroller of the cur
rency and Timothy Guy Phelps of San
Francisco to be collector of customs at
San Francisco.
THE OKLAHOMA BOOMERS.
Arkansas CITY. April 1S.-At five
o'clock this morning the boomers were
alive and getting ready for crossing the
Cherokee strip. There were nearly thirty
to move in en- orderly manner along
established trails. If any depredations
are committed the whole line will be
stopped and the guilty ones turned back.
The procession will be accompanied by
about twenty to thirty reporters on ponies
UmIed States commissioner Bonsell
has allowed two men to construct
bridges at Salt creek and Chillicooa creek
and charge the boomers twenty five
cents to cross.
An old ferry boat on the Salt fork
which has laid idle for years will be
brought into service.
TRENCH HALF-BREEDs.
WNNIpEG, April 18-Gabriel Dumont,
Riel's lieutenant in the northwest rebel
lion. has returned from Montana and
is addressing large meetings of Indians,
urging them to petition the government
to pay all their losses which occurred
during the rebellion, telling them that g
given number of French half-breeds, well
armed, coald whip q similar number of
any other nation in the world.
EoUe4 EXPERIENCE.
LUrHEn, Mich April ia piece of
bread lodged in Job Brewers throat to-
day and in q few minutes he was un-
conscious. Mrs. Brewer did not lose
her presence of mind, and poured severA
dippers of water down his throat. The
bread became sufficiently softened and
had apparently slid down into Brewers
stomach, but by that time he was nearly
drowned by the water. Mrs. Brewer hero
ically persevered, and by rolling her hus-
banu over a barrel and then substituting
artificial respiration soon had job on his
feet again. He had come very neal
death twice in an hour, but his wife had
saved him.
WRECKED SAILORS TO RETURN.
WASHINGTON, April lS.-The navy de-
partment has received a cablegram from
lieutenant Wilson, of the Vdndalid, stat
ing that the steamer Rockton has been
chartered at Sydney and would arrive at
San Francisco, May 10th. Lieutenant
Wilson is at Sydney, where he will make
arrangements for the departure of 30C
officers and men of the United States
vessels wrecked at Apia, who are to be
brought to this country.
INSTRUCTIONS TO SAMOAN COMMISSIONERS
WASHINGTON, April 18.-Secretary
Blaine's instructions to the commits
sioners of the United States at the Ber-
lin conference, it is stated, are that they
must insist on the maintenance of Sa.
moan independence. The United States
will pay no indemnity for the alleged
aggressions of American citizens in Sa.
moa. The proof is deemed conclusive
that Klein sought to avert bloodshed anG
not to provoke it.
''oKLAEOA-g on BUST"
KANSAS CRY, April i9.-A wagon has
passed through this city which bore the
following scrawl in rude letters on the
canvas cover: "ChintZ bugs in Illinois
sickloaned in Nebraska; White Capped
in Indiana; Bald Knobbed III Missouri
prohibited in Kansas; Oklahomy OF
hsst."
AN ENORMOUS MASS.
WASHINGTON. April 1S.-The amount OF
business that IS being imposed upon the
postotice department outside of legiti-
mate current work may be inferred from
the fact that during the twelve working
days of April over q, 600 applications fol
appointment as fourth-class postmasters
have been received at the Office of the
first assistant postmaster general. This
IS equal to an average of over ninety
two applications for every hour during
the entire period named, which would
in turn be an average of one ard hall
for every minute. If assistant Ciarksor
remaining days of the month, including
Sundays, to the perusal of the apolica
tions thus far received sin "a April Isl
he could not 60 through this mass o.
matter.
TOMMY AND PATSY.
BosToN, April 1S-Tommy Meadows
Australian, is anxious for another go al
Paddy Duffy. In n letter Meadows
says that Duffy is quitter and that in the
second and thirty-frst rounds he wanteC
TO stop the fighting. The Australian is
confident he can defeat Duffy, for he say
if any Boston club will give a reasonable
purse he will fight Duffy ten or ifteer
or twenty rounds and if he does not pu
the Boston man to sleep in that time h(
will be satisfied to lose the purse. Bos
ton sporting men do not take any stocl
in Meadows statement that Duffy want
ed to quit. Letters received in this city
from Californiahs who witnessed the
battle show that Meadows was the ont
who wanted to quit; not Duffy.