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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-23
PRAIRIEs AND WOODS ATTIRE.
Heavy Loss to Farms and villages in
South Dakota and Wisconsin.

HURON, ;. OAK. Sept. 22-Word from
Villas says that the town and surround
ing country were badly damaged by prai-
irle fires this afternoon. BY hard WORK the town
was saved from total destruction. A hard
wind tanned the flames, and everything in
their course was wiped out. No estimate OF the
damage can be had tonight, but 1t Is especially
heavy 10 grain aud farm property. The town
OF Bradley is also reported badly damaged.
ASHLAND, sept 2--The weather during the
past lew DAYS has been intensly hot and dry
Early last evening il was noticed that forest fires
were under way snd seemed TO scoot along at
almost the velocity Of prairie fires. Several
honest leaders toward the reservation lost their
shanties and barely escaped with their lives.
During the day the atmosphere had been heavy
with smoke from the surrounding fires
Reports from down the Omaha road
state thar the damage will De the heaviest
ever known unless the hames are soon put out
over 100 acres are said 70 be mass OF flames
wires are down TO 8 considerable length Il Is
last spring
IuRTLE LAKE, Wis, sept 22-The village of
Comstock was nearly destroyed by FIRE today.
The fire caught from forest fires
raging Ia this nsighoorhood. Comstock
is Rear the city OF Cumberland, which is in
great danger OF scorehing. If no rain falls
soon, ihere viii be still greater loss of property
Is il Is impossible 10 stop the fire. everything is
so dry.
MASpAS. s. OAK, Sept 22.-The fire which
swept over the Sioux reservation ON SATURDAY..
proves to have burned everything IL the shape
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Glut OF Salmon in the PuyaIlup.

OltiLeu.
Not for many years has there been such rua
OF silver salmon as at present fisherman
with spear or gig can easily capture 100 Of
them in a day. Unfortunately, there does MOI.
seem to be any ready means OF obtaining mar.
ket for the immense surplus of fish that are b.
ing taken from the waters OF Puget sound and
IN some localities the royal fishes are being sold
at 81 each. Carey and VIII Stewart went down
the Puyallup river in a boat Sunday, and made
catch OF 800 fish. They say the banks of the
river are strewn with dead salmon, many Of
them being the choicest OF silversides. The
humpbacked and crooked nosed dog-salrnon
ara not in favor as food fish, except BE- the
siwashes, who eat them with gusto; bnt many
thousands are yearly use1 by orehardists, who
assert them to be excellent fertilizer for fruit
trees. Monroe Annis has increased the yield OF
his hops 500 pounds to the acre By fertiliz,ng his
land with one dog salmon to every two hills. II
Is pity TO see such an excellent fish az the sill
Verslde and such a valuable fertilizer as the dog.
salmon going 70 waste along the margins of
every stream in the country
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THE PUBLIC LANDS.
Condition OF the Surveys Making in the
State This Year.

Surveyor General Thomas II. Cavanaugh. of
Olympia, arrived at the Occidental hotel last
night. He is an old newspaper man. having be-
gun work in that line on the ST. Louis Democrat.
For a time he was over the land offices of Wash
ington, Oregon and Idaho. In 1854 he resigned.
and during the four years following he edited
the Republican PGrtisd8 at Olympia
In speaking of the surveys, ne said: s'Tbere
are deputies out on ninety townships in the
state this summer, and they will survey about
100000 acres of land. They usually get the
field work done before rain sets in, and then the
plass are completed ana approved in the early
spring.
ave have had much trouble in getting sur
veys made az the old rates offered BY the denart-
ment, SIS, So and Sl2. Such compensation was
really about hall of that needed for surveying
through the heavy timber. In 1870 this state
was allotted $4,000 Tor surveys, but on the dav
for letting the contracts there was not a single
application. bad 10 hunt up men TO take
contracts for sll 600 and the rest OF the $4,000
was not used because surveyors would not do
the work for the compensation offered.
Congress passed law making the rates s25
So and SO, and OF the $4,000 allotted for surveys
this year. every cent is applied for"
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Kitsau County Tax Levy.

OLYMPIA, sept. 22.-lspecial.I- IAN important
school tax question, presented in a eommunica-
ton from the commissioners OF Kitsap county,
was passed upon by State Auditor Reed today.
The school law passed by the last legislature
provides that county boards may levy tax for
school purposes Of not more than 10 mills or less
than 4 TIE revenue law passed at the same
session directs that the tax levied for county
school purposes shall not exceed mills. The
kitsap county board desires to levy tax of less
than mills, which it is authorized to do under
the revenue law, but which it is forbidden to do
by the school law. Auditor Reed holds that as
the revenue act became a law alter the approval
Of the school law, the provisions of the revenue
law on the subject prevail, and that the COM
missioners may therefore levy any rate not to
exceed mills.
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THE RUSSIAN HUNGER
Peasants Without Food or Work
and Winter at Hand.
YET TALK OF WAR GOES ON.
The Arab Rebellion Growing Formid-
able - Storms in Great Britain In
creasing and Destroying Shipping.

ST PETERSBURG, Sept 22-ReDorts from Tam
ooif and adjacent provinces announce that the
zemstyos has provided for resolving OF the land
and 10 furnish supplies OF grain until January
next Alter that date there will be the greatest
difficulty TO insure food for the people. As the
collection of taxes is impossible, the salaries OF
local administrative bodies are suspended.
The scarcity of oats and hay is compelling
farmers TO sell livestock at mock prices
Desutution is also staring In the lace
a large number OF people who have
been employed upon public works, as work
upon the latter must stop when frost sets in.
The masses OF the people rely entirely upon the
government to help them. This being the state
OF affairs in the present mild weather, the
gloomy prospects held out By the coming win
ter can be cas- y imagined. AT an extraordinary
meeting of the authorities of the government OF
saratoff, just held, it was decided to petition
the imperial government to prohibit the expor-
tation of millet, well as rye
Almost all the government officials have vol
unfairly contributed portion OF their salaries
to the famine fund. There is public talk Of
bringing bread from America and Egypt
LONDON, sept. 2.-Reports from all parts OF
North Wales, England and South Scotland tell
OF irreparable damage TO crops by storms
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EMBEZZLER WILCOX INDICTED.
The Port Townsend Bank Clerk Too IL
to Appear i'm Court.

PORT TOWNSEND, Sept 22.-lSpeciaL wv. A.
Wilcox, the Ascending cashier of the Port
Townsend National bank, was indicted by tho
grand jury today for forgery and grand larceny
by ENLIGHTENMENT. He came here from Portland
in the early part of last year well recommended
He Is charged with having forged the name of
ii. r. Morgan, large stakeholder. TO a check for
$50 on September 10, lS9o, and 20 have embez-
zied SS27Si during the summer OF 1890
Wilcox fed and was arrested in Cali
fornia by Chief Delaney, of the Port Townsend
police force, six weeks ago and was brought
here in a critical condition. Wilcox is appar-
entity in the last stages Of consumption, and too
Ill 10 appear in court. lie was admitted TO bail
In the sum OF $4,000 In each case this evening,
II. Z. Morgan going bail. Wilcox returns TO
California in search of health.
Atus Woodbury. and William Barger were in
cicted for grand larceny today, charged with
stealing two and half tons of pig iron from the
Puget Sound Pig Iron Company at Irondale on
August L. They are fishermen, aud took the
iron 10. ballast in their sloops.
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CONGREGATIONAL ASSOCIATION.
Annual Convention at Tacoma-Rev.
Rrown's Address-Growth OF Church.

Browns Address-Growth OF Church.
TACOMA. Sept. 22.-lSpeciaL. 1.-The Congrega-
tionai Association OF " Washington was called to
order here today by Rev. II. p. James, of Colfax,
L. f. Hooker. of Medical Lake, being made tenn
porary scribe. K, A Beard was elected moder-
ator, n. T.. Hooker clerk and Mr.. Tomb assist
ant clerk.
Committees as follows were nominated:
Credentials--F. A. Heart, I. McConnaughty,
o. r. Thayers.
Nominations-D. D. Clarke, of South Bend: s.
II. Cheadle, OF North Yakima; Thomas Sims, of
Tacoma
An address of welcome was made by C. o.
Brown, of Tacoma, who said:
Problems of vast Importance are pressing for
solution and the tide OF population is pour
ng in upon us beyond all precedent 1t has re-
NAMED for this state TO illustrate the full tide Of
this great movement of population. How
marvellous has been the development OF Wash
ington. In 1860 there were here but IL 900
whites, the Indians then being uncounted. in
ls70, 5000 in 1850, eco, and in $780, so 600,
Increase OF nearly six fold in ten years. / beg
sou TO understand, brethren, that I
am not engineering any real estate
boom. am looking at these astonishing figures
To catch, II possible, their significance to the
Kingdom of Our Lord. No may lay his ear
10 the ground amid these mighty facts without
hearing the tramp OF the mighty millions, aud
there is room for them all. When our 5000
square miles are as thickiy populated as the
square miles Of Massachusetts, we shall have
lo,M0oO0 OF people In Washington-the millions
are coming.
AZ the evening session, Rev. McIafferty,
president of the Ministerial Alliance, delivered
an address showing that the theological semin-
aries OF today had tendency TO draw the
preacher away from the congregation in meas
nre. However he showed that more people were
reached now then ever before, especially
through the press.
Rev. Wallace Nutting, of Seattle. followed
with a sermon from the text "The love OF
Christ constraineth u.s. the subject of which
was "The Tyranny of Jesus" lie held that
man is not wholly independent when submitting
10 the commands of the masterful mind, and
that il is better for him to submit and be con-
trolec by Gods word.
These present from Seattle were: Revs Wal
lace Nutting and George Ii. Lee and wife. Mrs.
Camp. James Campbell and Ii. Bianman and
wife.
The statistics submitted show:
Number of churches September, 1890, 81; Sep
TENDER, 1891 10I
Members in January, 1891, $500; in septem-
Der, 1881. $500.
In the past twelve months fifteen church
buildings have been erected at a cost OF sI25 000
Entire number OF church buildings, Co; value,
$4,000.
Number o! ministers, 20.
benevolent contributions during 1890, $l0,lI2
Home expenditures during 1890, $74.s37
Members OF Y. L. 5. G. 4. societies, 1000
sunday school scholars, $500.
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sir Ki,,ita. County Irrigation sensm.

ELIESsRusG, sept 22.-ispeeiaL Notice OF
sieeii0n has just been issued by the directors ~
the Middle Irrigation district for the purpose of
voting 90 bond the district for $4,000 Bids for
construction viii then be asked. One OF the
mosi reliable contracting FIRMS in the state hiss
. representative here and offers 10 take bonds
si par for building the ditch. IL IS understood
other similar propositions viii lie made. In
the present condition OF business II
10 expected some very low bids will
b. received. This ditch viii e
hitx miles long, twelve feet wide
u the bottom and eighteen gu tor. with the
water four feet deep, aud brings under cu.tiTa-
tiou shoat 1000 additional acres OF land. II
will he OF great eeueat 10 the people of Eilens-
burg and this valley. Tire demand for bonds
and the certainty thst the ditch will - built.
causes = revival Ia the spirits of the pSople, and
lhey think they will soon he out of the woods So
far IS the financial stringency is concerned.
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TACOMA, Sept 22-ISpecial. IA c. Fazel to-
day began an action for divorce from Fanny L.
Fszel, his wife.
Bids are being called for here by the Northern
Pacific FOR shortening its line st Granite, Idaho.
Contractors King and Dickinson have been
notified that the three 'fS road TO Port Gardner
cannot be finished before November.
County Commissioner Fay exhibits q branch
OF a crabapple tree two feet long which con-
tains twenty-four crabapples thereon.
The Buckley bridge over the White river, con-
Meeting King and Pierce counties, has been fin
ished at a cost of t2,9O1
The Republican Central League has elected
8. 7. Armstrong president
Since the Union Pacific has removed its port
captains Office from this city to Seattle, J. E
Harmon has become local ticket agent.
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Par.imonious school Board Condemned.

PORT TOWNSEND, Sept 22-tSpecial- 1.-The
teachers OF the public schools presented resolu-
tons 10 the school board today condemning the
action OF the board in discharging one OF the
teachers, ms tending to destroy the grading and
efficiency OF the schools. The teachers notified
the board that they would continue to serve
faithfully. notwithstanding the reduction
of salaries, but at the proper time
would take legal action to enfore the contracts
and protect their rights. These resolutions
were passed at q meeting last night, but the
teachers gave the board an opportunity to re-
store the salaries before entering their protests
The board last week reduced the salaries from
Is to 20 per cent and refused to restore the sal
aries today. Public sentiment, is with the teach
ers, ana opposed TO the paTsimonous policy of
he
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OF hay aud wheat in stacks, and the range from
the CannonbaI river TO the Moreau


NEW ORLEANS. Sept. pa Picaytnes San An
tonic, Tex, special says: General Stanley has
kilograms today from General Lazerous, COM
mander OF the Fourth Military Zone of
Mexico, stating that the invasion
of Garcia and his band had ended.
They were twenty-seven miles from Reynosa on
Monday, and were scattered in order to try to
cross into Texas few have gotten across. A
thousand mounted Mexican troops have the rest
almost surrounded, and American troops on
this side are waiting to intercept any who
may attempt to cross. General Lazerous says
the object of the band was robbery, and that the
raid had no political significance.
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EXTRA SPECIAL BARGAINS IN DRESS GOODS

hope nv children will also bless you. Tel ls
rienta (he is good and STAYS near my Erarsn
TO perform the last merciful service wifhoas
ceremony or any following more than y0urseIt
May you and your wife and children ever be
happy. Yours, J. VI. BALMAcEDA
T. ). Please comply with the intimate sifais
OF honor recommended to you last night 10
wards the persons you know.
Attached 70 the letter there was another briel
postscript calling attention 10 the fact thai
other letters would be found addressed 20 hil
wife and mother, and requesting that they b
delivered. These letters simply contained ths
unfortunate mars farewell.
Minister Egan assures your correspondent
that in neither letter is there the least reference
to the motives that drove Balmaeeda 10 suicide
LONDON. Sept. 22--The English governmeF
has officially recognized the provisional Cover
ment of Chile.
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CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The British admiralty has decided to relieve
the six ships now serving on the Halifax station
They will be relieved on the expiration of their
present commission, and their place viii be
taken by more powerful and modern ships. The
changes will all take place by 1892.
The Jordan Beasley ieud, near Harrodsburg
KY, which a week ago caused the sheriff tc
ask for troops, has been settled for the presen,
by the surrender OF owen, William and John
Beasley, and the escape TO Kansas of James and
"Old Jack" Beasley.
The health authorities of Kinburn, q suburb
of London, are investigating the sudden death
of a man supposed 70 have died from cholera.
The man died after an hours illness, after
apparently suffering from the symptoms oil
cholera
The pope is organizing an international con.
gress, to be held al Frieburg in 1892, to arrange
European Catholic Democratic Union.
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LONDON, Sept. PA Dutch Journalist, one OF
the survivors of the Italisn steamship Taormi-
ma, which recently sunk of the coast of Greece,
has written q letter in which he makes serious
charges against the Italian officers. He says
that the Taormina's crew. led by the first OFF,
Ger, Basiye, deserted, and they clambered like
rats on board the Thessalia- Only handful of
sailors, the journalist adds, remained loyal, and
they were unable TO lower the Taormina's boats,
which were filed with miscellaneous articles,
and so securely fixed and sheltered from the sea
that il was impossible 10 launch them. Coutin-
uing, he says that the passengers could not find
any life belts. life RATS, or nfe-savng apparatus
OF any kind, and he attributes the great loss of
life 10 these defects
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sullivan's Gang viii Have to Go

NO matter what imaginary relation Sullivan
thought existed between the men he abducted
ana the bank defaulter, he had no right TO seiIa
them as he did. When American institutions
are perverted TO such similarity with those Of
Russia it is time for radical change some
where. A private detective system which
recognizes no law is an outrage on society. The
last legislature passed bill which would have
driven this vicious business from the state, but
that monumental ass, Laughton, vetoed the bill
and our citizens remain unprotected. such bush
ness should not be tolerated in a civilized com.
munIty. sullivan and his gang will have 70 90
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PASSENGER LISTS.

SAN Francisco. Sept 22.-FolIow is the
umatilia's passenger list:
Fer Seatue-M.ss Tinker. ;. Arronson and
Vile, Mr.. Baker and girl. A {. Baker and son
Ms. Anna higd, James Petersen, Nrs. Peterson.
Miss kierskl, Miss May PortSou, T. NJ Newell
- }. Patterson. = Cohu, /. Olc0yich, James
Mooney, Nav Aaydeld. Master Burke, J. Buster,
IAcoina-Nrs. ". A. Hagan, Il. Ch8deer
TROUT CREEK, Mont, sept 22-Passed here
on No. Northern Pacific train:
Mrs Alfred Hummer, c. z. F9fer and wife "
+. singles, Master Franklin Eugles Master "
r. E0g-es, Miss Madeline Engles, Miss Francis
Da4tnlsn, 4. Is. bunworth. Mrs }. \. Chandler
MT Chandler and seven lrsi-class ami Iteen
secoad-ClaSS passengers
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The New westminster Fair.

NEW WESTMINSTER, B. C., Sep. 22-lspecial. r
The number of entries for the Royal Agricul-
tural exhibition is double that of last year, and
a great success is assured. Every available inch
of room in the large buildings and every stall
in the stOckyards is occupied. The exhibits are
magnificent in every division. Lieutenant
Governor Nelson officially opens the exhibition
tomorrow All arrangements are made for
american" day. Thursday, when the great
professional single scull takes place and the
championship lacrosse match. The oarsmen
are all in splendid condition for the struggle.
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Europeans Fighting African Natives.

LISBON, Sept. 22.-Advices from Portuguese
Guinea say that a French mission station in
that region has suffered al attack from natives
who killed ten attaches of the mission. Port
uguese gun-boa has been sen: to punish the Of
tenders.
BERLIN, Sept. 22.-The Tdgebldtt today pub
lished q dispatch from Zanzibar saying that
Commander kreutEer with a detachment of
German colonial forces and a force OF picked
Zulus, has started for that portion OF the in
terror where the wadigo uprising occurred.
The FTeistnnige Zsitung says that Herr Richter
proposes the cession of the southern portion of
German East Africa TO England, on condition
that the latter refunds the indemnity Germany
Maid 10 Zanzibar
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Fees of state Land Cruisers.

OLYMPIA, Sept. 22.-[speciaLl state land
commission decided today to inform tho agents
recently appointed to cruise lands for the state
that the impression prevails that the statutory
fee Of 10 cents per acre is exoroltant, and the
cruisers will be invited to state to the commits
sion the rates at which they win be willing to
cruise the various classes into which tho COM
mission will divide timber lands.
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FUNERAL DIRECTORS AssoCIArIoN
The Men in Sable Meet I'm Annual Con-
Neutinn at RnriIan IL.

portland. sept 22-FSpecisl. The fourth
annual convention OF the Northwest Fnn-
erai Directors Association began in this
city this morning. Tho fraternity WAS
well represented. The meeting was called 10
order bv President O. II. Harlan. of Tacoma
who delivered the annual address, and the re-
ports 81 other officers were submitted
All show the association 10 be in good
financial standing. The present membership
Is about IN. Officers Tor the ensuing year were
elected, after which the association listened to
. lecture or embslming hy Professor L. ".
lutis. Of the College OF Embalming OF New
York. In the evening they attended the Mar
guam Grand in a body.
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Shining InfeliienncA.

PcKr ANGELES, sept 22.-5 !. m-Psrtly
Cloudy; brisk west wind Tug Tacoma, VITA
bark Mount Washington in tow. cleared for
NaaalmO 81 p. n. Five-masted schooner an
ctored in the bay at 4: IS D. m.
SAN FRANCISCO, sept 2.-Sailed-Stesrner
Cmaitlls, fer Victoria aud Port Townsend,
bark Arcsurus, Tor Port HadIock.
DePsrted-Sr Willamette Valley. Ysqufna
bay; hkta Arago, Tacoma: bktn J. A. FaIken-
berg, SitkS
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SUICIDE AT NIAGARA.
MIRA. Dell Rathbun, Wearing a Profus
ion of Diamonds, Jumps I'm the River


NIAGARA FALLS, \. Y, Sept. 22--Mrs Dell
Rathbun, of Buffalo, whose mysterious disap-
pearance from Chicago a short time ago caused
sensation, committed suicide at Cedar island,
on the Canadian side, this morning by
Jumping into the river above the falls
The authorities, hearing that the body
OF a woman was floating down the river, none
having seen her jump into the river, made
search and found the body before it went over
the falls. The woman had proiusion of dia-
monds On her person and u sum
OF money. Thinking from the dispatches
OF TINS morning that the unfortu-
nate woman was the missing Mrs Rathbun, the
Canadian authorities communicated with Buff
ialo, and tonight Frank Rsthbun. her brother
in-law. and Warren +. Miller, q friend of the
family, arrived Upon being shown the BODY
they at once recognized it as that OF Mrs Rath-
bun. When asked how they accounted for the
suicide they said nervousness was 10 doubt the
cause of the act.