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THE BArTLEsHIP OREGON.
Navy Department Endeavoring to Get Her
Ready For Sea.

Navy Department Endeavoring to Get Hei
Ready For Sea.
NEW YORK, Oct. pa Herald
Washington special says:
There will be no further delay in
preparing the battleship Oregon for
sea. The navy department is working
industriously to get her out of the con-
tractors hands. Il is said this activ-
ity is not due in any way to the idea of
prospective trouble with Great Britain
or any other nation, though it is ae-
mitted the vessel would be of great
benefit in case OF difficulty occurring.
Three 13-inch guns for this vessel
have been shipped, and as soon as the
gun car returns the fourth will be sent
to the works of the builders. Two OF
the mounts. for the 13-inch guns are
already in San Francisco. and the re-
naming amounts for these weapons
were shipped yesterday. The ship
ment of the eight-inch guns has been
commenced, and it is expected that by
December l the main nnd secondary
batteries for this vessel will be in posi-
tion.
The armor for one turret is still un-
delivered, but, according to Captain
Sampson, this will be shipped to San
Francisco some time next month, and
ought to be fitted to the ship by De-
cember /.
1t is expected the governments trial
OF this vessel will take place during
the winter, and that she ought to be in
commission during the spring or early
next year.
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TELEGRAPHIC.
MISS CUNNINGHAM rEsT1FIEs.

What Durrant Told Her After His I'm
prirsonment.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 23.-Dr. Gil
bert F. Graham was recalled for fur
ther examination in the Durrant trial
this morning, but was soon withdrawn,
and Miss Carrie Cunningham, a news
paper reporter. was called. She testi-
fed that on August, Is Durrant told
her that while he was repairing the
in the wall and saw Blanche Lamont
on the second landing of the belfry.
An effort was then made to obtain
light on the statement said to have
been written by Durrant to his attor-
neys, ITO be opened if he should be
convicted, and to bereturned if he was
acquitted" District Attorney Barnes
intimated a week ago that Durrant had
shown Miss Cunningham: an envelope
bearing such an inscription, but the
court ruled the question was improper,
W
Miss Cunningham was then tempo
rarily excused, and DR.. Mays was
called to rebut the testimony OF the
preceding witness on the hallucina-
tions of women and the effects OF gas.
He was asked what condition a man
would be iu if he inhaled gas from the
burners. The witness replied he would
be unconscious in three minutes.
Miss Carrie Cunningham was then
recalled for further eross-examination,
but nothing important was elected
when court took O recess till o'clock.
George r. King is annoved, but in
no way exercised over the rumor cur
rent in the mission to the effect that
he has no alibi for the night Minnie
Williams was murdered. The young
man thinks he is more competent to
settle the question of his whereabouts
on the evening OF the 18th of April
than the residents of the mission.
He claims that he can establish q
complete alibi for that fateful night in
April, and that he can produce wit
nesses to tell where he was at certain
hour and how he passed his time. He
is very confident concerning the re
liability Of his alibi, and ridiculed the
possibility of its being shattered. He
says he spent the evening, as he otter
did other evenings, at the Tivoli, ant
that nothing unusual occurred. Tt
the police George King made the state
ment that he was at the Tiyoli on the
evening of April 13. and that he wa
accompanied by Zach Howard. Thi
statement is verified by Howard.
That George King and Durrant were
both absent from the Christian En-
deavor meeting at the Vogel residence
on the evening Minnie Williams me
her tragic fate has ever been signifi
cant fact to the mission people. 1t il
probably due to this coincidence tina
the rumor was started. King and Dur
rant were intimate friends, and it wa
natural for people accustomed to see
ing them together to connect thei
names.
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OVERLOOKED THE COIN.

(, When Mr.. S. r. Balkwill took
charge Of the defunct German-Ameri.
can bank at Tacoma yesterday morn
ing. he found the contents to consist
of $1.l0. There were no books and no
memoranda to show what had become
of them or the money. How the doll
lar-ten came to be overlooked is mys-
terry as the balance OF the work had
been neat and clean. The city of Ia
coma had $4,000 on deposit in the
bank, and of course that snug sum has
disappeared, as far as the city is con-
cerned forever. There will come a
time when bank wreckers and robbers,
who get away with municipal funds,
will be punished, but it will be in the
remote future. When our laws are so
framed that not only the custodian of
trust funds, who swipes them, but his
friends who get part of the plunder,
are sent to the pen, public money can
be deposited with some hope of it's be-
ing forthcoming, q condition that does
not exist at present.
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THE TIN-PLATE INDUSTRY.

Special Treasurer Agent Aver was
recently instructed to ascertain and
report upon the condition of the tin
plate industry in the United States.
He has just submitted his report to
the department. The report covers
the operations of the fiscal year ended
June 80. 1895. The facts presented
show a marked increase in the number
OF mills for rolling the steel sheets, or
"black plates" which form the body of
commercial tin. The largely increased
consumption of the steel sheets from
American rolling mills indicates not
only the accelerated growth of this
branch OF the industry, but an actual
preference for American-rolled sheets.
During the year the production in the
United States was 1891 ,073 pounds,
an increase of 30 per cent over the
previous year. Forty-eight firms were
producing, during the quarter ended
June 80, 1895, against forty the previ-
GUS year. Twenty-eight rolling mills
were producing black plates during
the quarter. against twenty during the
same quarter in 1894.
OF the forty-eight firms that were
producing commercial tin and tin
plates during the quarter ended June
80, 1895, thirty-nine used wholly Amer
lean plates and nine used both Ameri-
can and foreign plates. The proper
tion of American sheets used during
the quarter ended June 30, 1895, COM
pared with the entire production of
tin and tin-plates, was SO
per cent, against u per cent used the
previous year. During the year eight
firms permanently discontinued pro-
duction. Twenty-six new firms en-
gagged in the active business during
the year, Of which seventeen are MAX
ing preparations to make black plates.
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UNJUST AND DISHONEST.

Special United States Attorney ).
De Witt, who has been taking de-
positions from claimants in Indian de-
probation cases, at Portland for some
time, will go to Hillsboro in few
days, to take testimony in the case OF
George Reeves, after which he will
come here. Quite number OF claims
of citizens of this and Crook county
will be heard, and the evidence filed
away until some future time. These
Indian depreciation agents have been
sent out by the government for these
many years, but we never heard OF any
money changing hands on account OF
these investigations except such as
was paid out of the treasury for their
salaries. The truth of the matter is
that the United States will not pay its
debts to its citizens. 1t will pay bonds,
salaries or work done under special
contract, after calling for bids, but
other debts it will not pay. Let prl-
vate citizen perform any service for
the government, no matter how neces-
sary or how important, if the heads OF
the departments have not specifically
contracted for it the debt will not be
paid. We would rather trust the
meanest Digger Indian for dollar,
than to trust our great and glorious
Uncle Sam for cent. We would
stand reasonable show of getting the
dollar, but the cent would be 'fgoner"
snre. Several years ago an Indian de-
probation agent examined into num-
ber of cases of parties in this neigh
borhood and reported favorably on
them but the money came not. We
remember one of these cases in which
Captain Henry C. Coe, OF Hood River,
was called as witness. It was as to
the burning Of property at White Sal
mon in 1867. Captain Coe was at
that time boy of or 10 years OF age
and lived at Hood River. After put
ting innumerable questions to the Cap
tain. the agent finally asked. "aow do
you know that the Indians burned the
property?" "Iknow" said the captain,
getting riled, ''because have the In
dian who did it." He had too. The
indian was old sc ultus Dave" who
cheerfully came into court and testified
to setting fire to the house. That was
some seven years ago. but the money
has not been paid yet, and it never will
be. Why then the expense? Why
the annoyance to those who have
honest and Just claims? Why the repeti-.
tion of the farce of taking testimony?
We are a great nation of 10000. 600
people, but we are unjust and dis
honest as a nation, to every individual
member OF It. --74---==-=- --=
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business. The idea of raising sheol in
little by mud peak in the Olym-
pic range, when we have some of the
finest chimneys for the great interior
fire place, on the continent. What is
Rainier for? What Hood? or Adams?
or st. Helens? If not for going into
the volcano business when desired.
OF course there is no volcano, and
there will be none until some of the
peaks named are invited to participate
in the celebration; and when they do
break loose, we will require no bino-
cled scientist to discover them. They
will be visible, yet they will be ''Out
of sight,
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culture to go to seed, or Connecticut
Delaware and Rhode Island combined
would not equal the reservation taken
out of the heart of Oregon. New
Hampshire, Vermont, New Jersey and
Massachusetts are but little if any
greater in area than the reservation,
and the great state of New York is
only five times as large. There is not
one solitary reason why the reservation
should have been made and none why
it should be maintained.
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PEOPLE OF JUNEAU EXCITED.
Fear They VIII be Included In British
Territory.

Fear They VIII be Included In British
Territory.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.-The people
of Juneau may possess their souls in
peace, said Superintendent Duffield,
of the coast and goedetic survey, as to
the possibility of that city being in
cluded in English territory if the re-
suits OF our survey of the boundary
line between Alaska and the British
possessions as far as made, may be ac-
cepted as assurance. They seem to be
unnecessarily worked-up over the situa-
tion. They should know that the COM
missioners acting in behalf of this
country of Great Britain will have no
voice in the final determination of the
dispute, as it will be settled by the
high officials of the foreign affairs of
fees of the countries.
The mission of the commissioners
is to furnish data upon which these
functionaries can reach a conclusion,
and it is with this end in view that our
engineers have been in the field this
summer and last. If our line is ac-
cepted Juneau will fall many miles
within the American line. OF course,
if England's claim as to the location
of the dividing line running through
Clarence straits and Bachran channel
and computing the 10 marine leagues
specified in the treaty from the outer
shore of the islands, along the coast
instead of from the mainland, is re-
cognized, Juneau would probably be
in danger of becoming British town,
but l do not see how, in the face of the
facts, such a settlement can be
reached, and do not believe there is
any great danger that the matter will
be determined on this basis.
General Dutfleld says that practically
all the gold district on the Yukon
river district lies within American ter
ritory, as determined by American
surveyors. Furthermore, he thinks
the prospects are good for the United
States holding Chilcat pass, the pos
session of which is regarded as of i'm
portance, as it is the gateway to much
of the interior country OF the North
west.
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THE MONETARY ROAD oU

Mr.. Carlisle seems at last to have
got at the secret of our financial
troubles.
Our monetary system is radically de-
fective. We have outstanding S346, ,0O0,-
600 OF legal-tender greenbacks and
about $500, ,0O0,0 Of other demand
notes which the government under
takes to redeem in gold. If this were
all the problem might be easily dealt
with. But under the law when gov
ernment note is cancelled it must not
be destroyed, but must be reissued.
Thus with less than $500, ,0OO, 900 of gold
all told. nearly half Of which is mort
gagged, the government undertakes not
only to redeem about $500, ,oOO, 900 of cir
culating notes, but also to redeem all
those notes over and over again.
The currency of the country is thus
a convenient siphon. Anybody who
pleases can manipulate the gold reserve
at will. The government has practi-
cally no power whatever to impose
restraint upon such operations. All it
can do is to borrow more gold by
the issue OF more bonds every time the
supply runs low. That is costly pro-
cess and dangerous one.
The remedy lies in taking the gov
ernment out Of business as a bank of
issue and freeing treasury operations
from their unwholesome connection
with the business of the country.
But that will require an enormous
change. 1t will involve the retirement
OF about $500, ,0O0, 900 of paper currency
and its substitution by something else.
Such an operation rcust be fraught
with grave danger if it is undertaken
lightly or without a masterfui consider
alton OF principles and methods. Itin-
wolves problems of the most delicate
character with which no congress that
was ever elected could be competent to
deal except under expert advice.
The one financial need, therefore, is
of an expert currency commission, nom
partisan in character and made up of |
the very ablest men whose services can
be had. Such commission could per-
feet plan for making the stupendous |
change that seems necessary. The
best thing congress can do is to create
such commission and then legislate
according to its suggestions.-New
York World.
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1T TAKES 4 STATE.

Eastern papers seem to think it is a
nice thing to have the government set
apart vast tracts on the coast, for forest
reservations. The theory is all right
but the eastern editors do not UNDER
stand the vast areas included in these
reservations, but speak of them as
though they were small public parks
of few thousand acres. How would
Massachusetts look with slip of ter
ritory 250 miles long by from thirty to
sixty wide taken out of her amidships?
There would not be enough left for
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Cannot Live the Day Through.

Los ANGELES, Oct. 24.-At 1890
Lieutenant-Governor Millard's condi-
tion was not greatly changed, though
he had not rallied from the sinking
spell of the early morning, and his
pulse on the left side has entirely
ceased to beat. 1t is asseraed he can
not possibly live the day through.
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WE DARE NOT DO 1T.

Senator Davis is speaking of the
Venezuelanrdispute takes the position
that all that is required to restrain
England from land-grabbing is to
maintain firm front. That as he says
England has given Canada as hos
tage' of peace" The plain interpre-
tation of this is, that in case of war
with England we would gobble Can
ada. Would we? Our Republican
contemporaries are now filled with
complaints about our agricultural in
dustries being ruined by Canadian
competition. Canadian hay, Canadian
eggs, Canadian lumber, Canadian bar
ley, dairy products, cattle, etc., etc, are
said to be running our home markets
and driving the American products
down to pauperOprices. Could we af-
ford to take Canada If we had the op-
portunity. = If the complaints alluded
to are true, most assurredly we could
not. The winters there are long, and
the Canadian has many disadvantages
to contend with that we have not
but somehow in spite of the high lati-
tude and extreme cold, our northern
neighbor has such prolific soil such
energetic people, that we cannot COM
pete with her. With tariff in our
favor of an average of 20 per cent Of
values-she is still able to under-sell
US in, our own markets. Surely to take
Canada under our wing, and to let her
products come in competition with
ours on equal terms, would be ruinous
to our farmers. They would have tc
abandon their farms in the Mississippi
valley and go north into Canada, where
farming can be carried on more
cheaply, and where they would be able
to compete with the Canadian. This
does not seem reasonable to us, but il
some of our contemporaries are to be
believed this would be the natural re
suit of annexing Canada.
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Battleship Indiana.

INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 23.-Indianans
have subscribed nearly $4,000, to be
used to purchase silver: service and a
library for the battleship Indiana.
Governor Matthews has appointed a
committee which shall have charge of
the expenditure Of the money, and the
presentation of the gifts. 1t is ex-
pected that General Harrison will
make the presentation at the proper
time, as the construction of the ship
was ordered while he was president.
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MIRACULOUS CURES.
Found to be of an Imaginary Order or
Not to Exist.

EOun0 20 De OF an imaginary order or
Not to Exist.
DENVER, Oct. 23.-E. B. Jorden, of
Ontario, CAL, stopped here en- route
from Chicago to his home to investi-
gate on behalf of friends the alleged
miraculous cures performed by Francis
Schlatter, who is treating over 1000
persons daily by laying on of hands.
Mr.. Jordan has reached the conclusion
that Schlatter is person of unsound
mind, and that his pretension to be
divinely inspired is nonsense. He
thinks Schlatter possesses magnetic
power by means Of which he can help
persons suffering from rheumatism,
but that his healing power does not go
beyond this. Mr.. Jordan made care
full inquiry regarding number of al
legged cures and found them all to be
of imaginative order.
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LIMA, Peru, Oct. "a "A leading ar
ticle in the Commercial says that If the
United States is to retain its prestige
it must make its influence impressive
in the question at issue between Great
Britain and Venezuela. If the United
States remains inactive and suffers
blockade of Venezuela, England may
vet be triumphant.
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The Law Upheld.

LITTLE Rock, Oct, 23.-The SUI
preme court rendered decision in the
Corbett case. Judge Leatherman's de-
cision was reversed and the prizeflght
law sustained. Corbett was remanded
back to the custody of the sheriff of
Garland county. Chief Justice Gum,
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Harley Creek Gold Fields.

CHICAGO, Oct. pa special from
Great Falls, Mont, says: -
A stampede is being made for the gold
fields on Harley creek. and the hills
are teeming with prospecters who
have staked out every foot of ground
in the vicinity OF the first claims, and
are out with new town, christened
johannesburg as token of the future
camp. The rock is of a dull terra
Gotta color, and crushes easily, but it
bears gold in large quantities.
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Wel,-Knovn ox,o,o a.h,...

LONDON, Oct. 23.-The death of II.
B. Cotton, president of. the Oxford
university boat club, and bow oar of
the university eight for the last four
years, is announced.
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in delivering the opinion, severely
criticised Chancellor Leatherman, say
ing he had no authority for his action
in the habeas corpus case.
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RUSSIA AND JAPAN.
Preparations For the Expected Struggle
Hisahla EYerYWhere.

Preparations For the Expected Struggle
VISIBLE Everywhere.
LONDON, Oct. PA special from
Shanghai says Russian squadron of
Is ships has left Vladivostock for
Chemulpo and Flu San. The Japanese
fleet in Formosan waters, it is also
stated, has been recalled, and it is an
nounced on excellent authority that
several British warships have been Or
dered to sail for Corea.
1t is stated at Shanghai that the
Japanese reply to the demand of
Russia that the former evacuate
Corea is couched in pacific but firm
language, and protests against dicta-
tfon by Russia in Corean affairs. 1t is
regarded at Shanghai as certain that
Russia will permanently occupJ Flu
San.
The Shanghai dispatch also says the
situation is most. grave, and prepara-
tions for the expected struggle are
visible on all sides. But it is hoped
the solution OF the difficulty will be
found in Russia and Japan agreeing to
divide Corea.
Van wyck Victim of Apoplexy
WASHINGTON. Oct. 24.-Ex-United |
States Senator Charles II. Van Wyck,
of Nebrask, died this afternoon in his |
apartment at the Portland flats. He |
was stricken Monday last with apoplexy
and his conditionhas since been criti-
cal. He showed slight improvement
Wednesday morning, but at night
grew worse, and since then his death
has been momentarily expected. At
his bedside were Mrs. Van Wyck; a
laughter, Miss Fannie, and his wife's
brother, Marx Brodhead.
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BUFFALO, Oct. 2.-The worlds rec
ord for railroad speed over a great dis
stance was broken today by special
train on the Lake Shore & Michigan
Southern railroad, which ran from
One Hundreth street, Chicago, to Buff
falo creek, Buffalo 510.1 miles, in 4S1
minutes and seconds, at an average
speed of 63.6 miles per hour. This
time includes stops. Exclusive of stops
the run was made in 40 minutes and
10 seconds, and average speed of GA. .se
miles per hour.
The New York Central's record oi
September IL was an average speed oi
64.0l miles per hour, including stops
and 64.26 miles per hour exclusive ot
delays
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LIKE A. METEOR.
The Speed of the Record-Breaking Train
on the Lake shore Road

The Speed of the Record-Breaking Train
on the Lake Shore Road.
CLEVELAND, o., Oct 24-The worlds
record-breaker on the Lake shore rail-
way passed through Cleveland at $40
A. NJ. today, en- route from Chicago to
New York. 1t consisted of a locomo-
tive and three Wagner vestibuled cars.
The party consisted of DIR. NJ. Walter
Webb, third vice-president of the New
York Central, who September IL,
lowered the worlds record on that
line; his secretary, Mr.. Leonard; the
official time keeper of the run, Cen
eral Superintendent w. H. Commit,
of the Lake Shore; A. J. Smith, gen.
eral passenger agent; E. Handy, chief
engineer; Assistant General Superin-
tendent Blodgett; S. P. Gage, chief
clerk to the general superintendent:
and f. B. Cook, chief clerk of Mr.
Blodget.
The train left the Lake Shore station
at Chicago promptly at $3.50 o'clock,
pulled by mogul engine. Every ar
rangement had been made to expedite
the run. Switches were spiked, and
all trains sidetracked for the flyer
sped like meteor through the night.
Brief stops were made at Hillsdale and
Toledo, to change engines, and Cleve-
land was reached at S:504, or 320 min
utes out of Chicago. The distance
tance from Chicago to Cleveland by
the Lake Shore is 357 miles, so the en-
tire trip, including stops, was made at
the rate of mile in 534 seconds.
The engines were changed in Colling-
wood in about 90 seconds and the train
rushed on again.