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NAvAL-PLATE FRAUDS.
The Rules Committee Urged to Ha
the Matter Sifted to the Bottom.

The Rules Committee Urged to Have
the Matter Sifted to the Bottom.
WASHINGTON, May 1S.-Representativ
Dunphy of New York had a hearing to-
day before the House Rules Committee
on the resolution to investigate naval
plate frauds. He went into the details of
the frauds to show the committee the de-
STABILITY of probing the matter to the
bottom. Mr.. Dunphy said the frauds for
which the Government had already
assessed the Carnegie company $40, ,00e
occurred between November, 1892, and
September, 1893. The same class of evil
dence, he said. showed that similar irreg-
ularities occurred prior to November,
1892, and subsequently to September, 1891.
1t was further urged that the investiga-
ton now being made by officers of the
Navy Department would be futile. as
there was no power to summon witnesses
or to administer oaths to those who vol
UNFAIRLY appeared. Mr.. Dunphy had sta
tistics showing that 81, POO, 900 would soon
fall due to tho Carnegie company. The
payment could not be detained, and If
paid it would cut off investigation and
destroy all means of redress.
Speaker Crisp and his associates on the
committee questioned Mr. Dunphy as to
the details of the alleged frauds. He
specified one instance in which the armor
plate in the Monterey is said to contain
blow hole eighteen inches long. The
man who saw the hole when the plate
was cast, it is alleged. dropped his
card in the hole and is said to be ready to
locate the defective plate and identity it
by his card.
The committee took no action, but Mr..
Dunphy believes they will report back
the resolution with Recommendation
that will start the investigation at once.
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INCENDIARISM AT GAIT.
Another Fire, Causing Loss of Three
Thousand Dollars.

Another Fire, causing n Loss or Three
Thousand Dollars.
At an early hour this morning tele-
phone message was received at this office
from Gait that that town has been visited
by another destructive fire, which was no
doubt from incendiary origin.
Flames broke out at 1916 in the Phoenix
building. owned by M. A. Sparks,
and occupied on the ground floors
by E. L. Stone as a saloon and a
barber-shop and upstairs as lodging
house, and before the flames could be
gotten under control the entire building
was destroyed.
The building was situated between a
livery-stable and the Commercial Hotel,
and for the second time within few
hours the little building seemed doomed
to destruction, as did also the stable
adjoining the burned property. Several
times the two buildings caught, but the
fire was extinguished before much dam
age resulted.
Several people occupying rooms in the
upper story of the Phoenix building
narrowly escaped with their lives.
The loss is estimated at So, 900.
The people of Gait are very indignant,
and justly, too, over the fact that this is
the second serious fire within forty-eight
hours, both of which are believed to have
been of incendiary origin.
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CUMBERLAND PREssYTERIANs,
Yesterdays Session of the Assembly
Devoted to Routine Business.

Yesterdays Session of the Assembly
Devoted to Routine Business.
EUGENE Orr, May 1S.-The General
Assembly of the Cumberland Presby-
terian Church to-day took up routine
business. The report of the committee
on the credentials of Mrs. Woolley, as a
minister, was referred to the Judiciary
Committee. Elder j. II. Cooley, DIR.
Goodnight and r. w. Lewis were ap-
pointed committee on Y. 2. S. G. Il. A
memorial for the purchase of a tract of
land near Chicago for a theological semi
nary was considered. The report of the
Board of Education was presented by
Rev. j. IL. Bergen, Secretary, who made
a thrilling appeal in behalf of the board
The principal work this afternoon was
the appointment of standing committees
At o'clock the pupils of the public
schools, about 500, marched into the hall
and sang 'Sweet Oregon" Receiving an
encore, they responded with a familiar
patriotic air, in which the assembly
Joined enthusiastically. The formal cere-
mony of reception to the General Assem-
bly, was held in Willard Hall last evening.
Hon. 5. III. Friendly, Mayor, made an
eloquent aud cordial address of welcome
followed by Rev. a. +. Cowan of San
Francisco in behalf of the Pacific Coast.
Replies were made by General IL. H.
Norman of Tennessee, Rev. A. l.. Good
night, Rev. j. L.. Cooper. ID. D., Presi-
dent of Cooper Institute, Mississippi, and
others
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BoNACUM-coRBETr CASE.
Decision Handed Down in the Famous
Injunction Suit.

Decision Handed Down in the Famous
Injunction Suit.
OMAHA, May 1S.-A special to the
Omaha Bee from Nebraska City says:
The decision of Judge Chapman IN the
famous injunction case of Bishop Bona
cum of the Lincoln diocese against Father
Corbett of Palmyra, was handed down
to-day. Bishop Bonacum had secured a
temporary restraining order preventing
Father Corbett from drawing funds de-
posted in the Palmyra bank, on the
ground that the money belonged TO the
parish, and denying to the priest the priv
llege OF saying mass or occupying the
parsonage.
On the motion made by Father Corbett
to yacate the injunction Judge Chapman
decides as follows:
The pleadings present sharp and
distinct issue of fact, a determination of
which will require an examination of the
discipline of the Catholic Church, as well
as evidence upon the question as to
whether the complaining Bishop agreed
with his superiors to suspend his author
ity over the defendant. The Bishops
right and title to the parish or mission
property is not disputed, neither is his
right or power to remove priest from
office in his diocese. Father Corbett
Ao was HOG lawfully I0HlON6us
upon the legal question argued on
this motion touching the jurisdiction of
the court, | am satisfied from an exami-
nation of the cases cited and the law of
the case that this action comes within the
rule authorizing civil tribunals to inquire
whether Or not civil rights are denied the
individual. While it is the duty of
court of law to avoid, if possible, the
assumption of jurisdiction when ques-
tions ecclesiastical or spiritual are alone
involved. yet they find from experience
that no fixed rule can safely be estab-
lished which will enable them in all cases
to do so."
He denied the ruling asked for by the
defendant, and says the authorities are
all in favor of the Jurisdiction of civil
courts in such cases, for when civil
rights are abridged or denied the law Of
the land is above and superior to all
ecclesiastical tribunals. That part OF the
injunction forbidding the defendant to
occupy the parsonage at Palmyra is mod
itied. The case will be tried in this city
June 9th.
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snecial to the REcoRp.uS1oN.

Special to the REcoRD-UNIoN.
CHICAGO. May 1S.-G. e. Jones of Sal
vador is in the city aud of the reported
trouble there says:
81 am much amused by reading the
accounts of the rebellion now said to be
in progress i'll Salvador. 1t has not
reached the proportions and dignity
given it by the Americans. 1t is highly
magnified. I left there about the middle
of April. / heard of no disturbance at
that time. When l reached this country
I read an account of the rebellion, which
was said to have begun in the city of
Salvador on the evening OF April 10th.
On that evening l sat in the plaza with
number of ffellow-Americans and watched
the drilling of the troops. The news Of
the uprising was surprise to me indeed,
In to-day's dispatches it is stated that the
rebels were defeated at Santa Ana and
had fallen back on San Sennata, and
another battle was expected in day or
two. To a man acquainted with the
topography of the country such state
ment is absurd. San Sennata is over
one hundred miles away from Santa
Ana and an almost impossible mountain
divides the two places. There are no
roads of any kind and it would take
several weeks to scale the mountains.
president Ezeta is fully able to attend
to the wants OF all his rebellious subjects.
He is man without any personal fear,
and has one of the best armies for its size
in the world. 1t is composed of about
10000 young men, equipped with modern
guns, and is an exceptionally well-drilled
body of soldiers. He is well liked by his
people and especially by the foreign col
ony. He is progressive man, and the
only Central American ruler who goes
about without a bodyguard. On a pleas
ant evening you can meet him strolling
about the park or the plaza, just like any
citizen of the town.
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ARMY OF THE coMMoNwEAL.
The Idaho Train Stealers to be Re-
turned TO Boise City.

turned to Boise City.
GREEN RIVER (Wyo.) May 18.-Judge
Riner, accompanied by United States At
torney Fowler and Clerk of the Court
Kirt, arrived from Cheyenne this morn
ing. The Industrials were taken before
Judge Riner and upon an application of
the United States Attorney an order of re-
moval was made for United States Mar
shall Rankin of Wyoming to deliver the
prisoners before the United States Court
of Idaho at Boise City forthwith. Two
companies of the Seventh Infantry have
been detailed as an escort. The special
train to transport them left at 8 o'clock
this afternoon.
Marshal Pinkham received message
from Deputy O'Brien, in Wallace, Idaho,
stating that Jefreys, the leader of the In
dustrials from Spokane, had arrived there
and rented hall, and 1t is believed
that it is the intention to mass the men
there for the purpose of capturing a
Northern Pacific train. The Coeur d. Alene
miners have offered to give them
assistance. The deputy said that the
Marshals will be of little use if an attempt
is made to capture train, for the feeling
is bitter against them.
NO TROUBLE AT CGUR D'ALENE.
SPOKANE (Wash.), May .1s.-Advices
received by the Associated Press tonight
do not corrobOrate the sensational reports
about the situation in the Ceur d. Alenes,
as sent out from Boise, Idaho. At Wallace
sixty wealers are in the barracks. AT
Wardner few come and go daily. They
aro peaceable. Public sentiment Is di-
vided for and against them. Work is
proceeding as usual in the Bunker Hill
and Sullivan mines. The miners have re-
considered their decision to strike for
higher wages. All Coeur d'Alene news
from Boise may be discredited, as that
place has no direct communication with
North Idaho.
Judge Hanford has issued an important
writ to United States Deputy Marshals
here. They are directed TO board each
eastbound freight train between Sprague
and the Idaho line and warn Industrials
not to climb aboard. Those who disregard
the war ling will be arrested and con-
veyed to Seattle. Under this order
Deputy Marshal Vinson sent crews of
deputies all along tho line tonight, and
numerous arrests are expected to-mor-
row. The situation here remains un-
changed. Nightly meetings are held by
the Coxeyites and their sympathizers,
but they are making little headway.
CoXEY, BROWNE AND JONES MUST GO
TO JAIL.
WASHINGTON, ay.1S.-Commonwe
Leaders Coxey, Browne and Jones have
again been defeated in the courts, and
sentence will be passed upon them to-
morrow. After arguments lasting over
an hour this afternoon Judge Bradley, of
the District Supreme Court. refused to
grant the writ OF certiorari for which ap-
plication was made several days ago.
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toward the Recorder, evidently not wish
ing to look at the unfortunate prisoner.
Then he said:
I'VE find him guilty of murder in the
second degree.n
The moment these words were uttered
confused murmur was heard. and
Meyer sat down in his chair absolutely
crestfallen. His hands twitched nerv-
ously, and his whole appearance showed
plainly that he was disappointed with the
verdict.
trial. and the Recorder gave him two
weeks to file his reasons. This will act
as stay of sentence, and Meyer will
probably receive his banishment for life
In the beginning of June. He was taken
back to the Toombs Prison.
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AUSTIN REGATTA.
Wind Interferes to Great Extent
With the Racing.


With the Racing.
AUSTIN (Tex), May 1S.-A terrible
wind, blowing straight down the course
this afternoon, interfered to great ex-
tent with the racing, as the water was
very rough. The principal event was the
three-mile race with turn. a consolation
open only to scullers who had not won a
race during the week. The racers were
j. j. Rice. Harry Parker, Fred Plaisted,
George Hosmer and Ed Durnan. 1t was
closely contested, though the rough water
prevented any record breaking. Durnan
headed Hosmer only few feet, the latter
winning in 24:47.
In the mile and half race between the
State University crew and a Galveston
team, the Galvestons had long lead
over the safety line, making the run in
14:47.
The balance of the afternoon was de-
voted to tub-races and other aquatic
sports.
The great four-oared challenge race for
$1,000 side will be rowed tomorrow
afternoon. Hosmer and Gaudaur being
in charge of the respective crews.
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THE DECKER CASE.
Brother and Daughter. of His First
Wife ArrfYe at Yreka

Wife Arrive at Yreka.
YREKA, May 1S.-Ben Mitchell, brother
OF Mrs. Decker, and Nevada, the daugh-
ter, arrived IN Yreka on the noon train.
The town was wild with excitement.
People wish to see the mother before
they will become convinced that fraud
has not been perpetrated. Attorney Far
rahar says the mother will arrive to-
morrow. Old-timers see a great resem-
blance between the girl who left Yreka
twenty-seven years ago and the mother
as she then looked. The Grand Jury will
not permit Decker to be interviewed by
his attorneys or the arrivals of to-day un-
til the mother arrives on the scene.
Mitchell and Nevada Decker will not ap-
pear before the Grand Jury until to-
morrow, in company with the mother.
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revenue Cutter wolcott.

SAN DIEGO, May 1S.-The United States
revenue cutter Oliver Wolcot., eight days
from Port Townsend. arrived this morn
ing. She will be overhauled at once, and
on Wednesday bids for supplies will be
opened and the cutter at once put into
service. She will patrol from Port Har-
ford to the Mexican line.
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Attempt to wreck a TraIn.

WORCESTER tMass.). May 1S.-Tramps
attempted to wreck the night express on
the Boston and Albany road, near Corda-
vile, by piling ton of fish-plates on the
track. The train was going forty miles
an hour and went through the obstruc-
ton, only the locomotive being injured.
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Breckinridge Asked to Withdraw.

LEXINGTON, May 1S.-A petition has
been gotten Up here and was forwarded
to Washington to-day asking Colonel
Breckinridge to withdraw from the race
for reelection to Congress. 1t bore the
signatures of q score of old friends of Col
onel Breckenridge, who want some other
man in his stead.
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Forest Fires In :Rhode Island.

PROVIDENCE, May 18.-The first re-
ports of the forest fires about West Green
wich and Exeter, which said the fires
were under control, were premature.
They are raging fiercely and 600 men are
doing their best to cheek them. Head
fires and plowing are being resorted to.
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A Wife-Murderer ExecuUed.

ASTORIA Orr. May 1S.-The execution
of John Hansen took place here promptly
atnoon to-day, behind temporary screen
erected in the yard connected with the
Jail The crime for which he was exc
cuted was the brutal murder of his wife,
during drunken frenzy, July 26 1893.
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Anarchists TO be Shot.

MADRID, May 1s.-A superior council
of war confirmed the sentences of death
imposed upon five Anarchists convicted
of completely in a plot to murder Cap
tain-General Martinez Campos in the
Liceo Theater. 1t is expected they will
be shot tomorrow.
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The Bribery Charges.

WASHINGTON, May 1s.-It is probable
the Senate committee appointed to inves-
tIgate the charges of the attempted
bribers of Senators Kyle and Hunton,
and the alleged operations of the sugar
trust to injure legislation, Will begin its
sittings early next week. 1t is probable
the committee will hold open sessions.
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Home Savings Bank wreckers.

SAN Francisco, May 18.-R. II. Nc
Donald, Jr., Hiram L. Graves, Charles
Montgomery and A. L. Jenkins, officers
OF the wrecked Peoples Home Savings
Bank were brought into court to-day to
answer Co charges of embezzlement. The
first indictment against Mcdonald was
found TO be defective, as the names of
witnesses were not attached, and the
arraignment on that charge was post
poned. Then the four men were ar
raigned for abstracting the Swanberg
securities from the bank. They were
given until Tuesday To answer.
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Death of Mrs. J. b. Haspin.

New YORK, May 1s.-Mrs. Eliza Hag-
gin, wife of j. B. Haggin, the well-known
racehorse owner and breeder, died in this
city to-day. Inquiries made at the Hag-
gin residence elected the information that
no details of the death would be made
public until tomorrow.
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SHOT HIMSELF IN THE HEAD.
Well-to-Do Pioneer of Tacoma Com
InitS Suicide.

mitS Suicide.
siTAcoMA, May 1S.- Alexander Mar
shall Adams, aged az years, one of the
pioneers of Tacoma. committed suicide
this evening at his home in old Tacoma.
by shooting himself in the head. Death
was instantaneous. He left no letter or
message of any kind, and no reason is
known for the deed. He was worth
about $4,000, and leaves wife and two
children. His wife, to whom he was
married in Tacoma in 1878, was an Ore
gon City girl. and her maiden name was
Maggie Ralston. Adams was an expert
accountant by profession, and at the time
of his death was private Secretary to
John S. Baker, Tacoma capitalist.
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Shortage of Vaccine Virus.

CHICAGO, May 1S.--A shortage of vac
cine virus is threatened, and the local
health authorities are alarmed at the out
look. This city is using from $4,000 to
100000 points a day, and this, with the
heavy demand from the country, has
caused the draining of the market. One
OF the largest manufacturers in the coun-
try recently burned, largely decreasing
zba
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a Young Woman commits suicide.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 1S.-Ida Soren-
son. young woman who came here from
Portland. Or, committed suicide tonight
her hand she held photograph of John
Simms, manager OF the Western Iron
Works. The woman formerly frequented
the Palace Hotel, and correspondence
from various men showed that her career
was not what it should have been. Miss
Sorenson fired pistol ball into her brain
and died instantly.
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eral weeks past, and are now liable to
confiscation for serious violations of the
revenue law. Collector Welburn has for
two or three weeks been Investigating all
four establishments. aud about two days
ago report detailing the results of the
inquiry was forwarded to Washington.
The specific revenue law violated by
the four distilleries provides that the
usual bonds required ofdistillers must be
furnished by persons having no interest
whatever in the distilleries. 1t is charged
that the real owners of the distilleries
have operated them under the name of
their employees and furnished the bonds
themselves. 1t is said the Government
officials have decided to allow COM
promise, and that the distilleries will not
be confscated. The four distilleries have
a capacity of 800 gallons daily.
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STORM ON LAKE MICHIGAN.
Eight Vessels Driven Ashore With
in Chicago's City Limits
ALL OF THEM TOTAL LOSSES AND
TEN MEN DROWNED.

Close Call of Twenty-seven Men Work.
ing on the Water Works Crib, One
Mile From shore "A Schooner
Wrecked just South of the Mil
wankee Lighthouse, and Six of Her
Crew, Including a Woman Cook,
Lost, Only One Sailor Being Res
cued.
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Federation Question Disposed OF,

ST. PAUL (Minn.), May 1S.-The engi-
neers to-day disposed of the question of
federation by continuing the present plan
with slight notifications. 1t is allowable
for the brotherhood men on any railway
system to federate on certain conditions.
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Two vessels Confiscated.

TOLEDO, May 1S.-A Blades special
from Amherstburg says the two pleasure
steamers. Leroy Brooks and Visitor,
seized for infringing Canadian fishery
laws. have been conhscated by the Do
miniOn Government.
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EXAGGEB TED REPORTS.
l-seTsg
Statements Of the Uprising in Sal
vador Greatly Magnihed.
EzETA ABLE TO ATTEND THE WANTS
OF REBELLIOUS SUBJECTS

The Industrials Who Captured a Train
in Idaho on Which They Reached
Green River, Wyoming, Before Be-
ing stopped by Government Officers.
United States Troops to Boise City
.Coxey, Browne and Jones Again
Defeated in the Washington Courts.
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miraculous Escape From Death,

ANGELS CAMP, May 18.-Henry Har-
ris, a miner, to-day fell to the bottom of a
seventy-foot shaft, and with the excep-
ton of dislocated arm was uninjured.
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Severe Winter in Alaska.

NANAIMo (B. c., May l8.-The steamer
Bertha arrived here to-day from Kodiak,
Alaska. She brought down Captain Lar
sen of the sealing schooner Undaunted,
which was wrecked last March in the ice
foes off Copper River. For a month the
schooner's crew lived on floating ice,
with scanty supply of provisions,
which they saved from the wreck. After
undergoing extreme hardship they were
picked up by a passing vessel and taken
to Kodiak. The Alaskan winter has been
unusually severe, the ice drifting further
south than ever before known.
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Portion of a Trestle Burned.

RENO New, May 1S.-Trestle No. 2, on
the Nevada, California and Oregon Rail
road, was discovered on fire last evening.
j. NJ. Fulton, with crew of men, went
to the scene, about two miles from town,
and worked until o'clock this morning.
Seventy feet OF the trestle was destroyed.
No train was run north to-day. The in
coming train will have the passengers and
baggage transferred A large force of
men are at work. The trestle will be re-
paired by Monday. 1t was insured.
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Hin Working on a Tarifr Bill.

ST. PAUL, May Washington special
dispatches say Senator Hill has been for a
week at work on substitute for a COM
promise tariff bill. He will boldly de-
mand its acceptance.
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a Forcar Under Arrest.

ST.. Louis, May 16.-The forger who has
been flooding the country with worthless
Wells-Fargo money orders is said to.be
in custody in San Antonio to-day. The
prisoner is James M. Breeding, dentist.
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Restoration of Freight Rates.

New YORK. May ls.-The Atchison has
issued, simultaneously with the Missouri.
Pacific, notices for the restoration of
freight rates to the schedule. All lines
have issued the required ten days. notice.
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wilson's Murderer Escapes.

WASHINGTON, May is. "A steamer
which arrived at New Orleans from Blue
fields last night brought brief dispatch
from Captain Watson of the San Fran
cisco to the Navy Department. 1t reads
as follows:
'Arguellas escaped May 9th. I have
sent this by steamer to New Orleans.
"WATSoN.o
Arguellas is the man who murdered
Wilson, an American living at Kama.
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VIOLATED THE REVENUE LAWS.

Four Distilleries Liable to Conf1sca-
ton by the Governments.
tilleries near Fresno have been under
surveillance of revenue officers for sew
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LONDON, May 1S.-The report that the
yacht Valkyrie foundered with the loss
Lof all hands, is denied.
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New and Costly Hotel for Los Angeles.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 1S.-Chicago
parties have closed arrangements for the
erection of a 100000 hotel on Fort Hill,
Los Angeles. They have secured one of
the best hotel men in the United States
who will furnish il as a tenant. The
hotel will be constructed under the di-
rection of ID. Ii. Burnham, who was
Chief of Construction of the Worlds
Columbian Exposition at Chicago.