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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-27
MUST DODGE A CRUISER
Sharp Watch Being Kept on
Supposed Filibuster.
WAS FOLLOWED TO MOBILE
The Pilot Boat Somers N. Smith Has
Been Acting Suspiciously-An Un-
fruitful Search Made-Owners
Deny All the Rumors.

Mobile, Ala. Dec 26.-If the pilot boat
Somers n. Smith of Pensacola, gets cut
of this port with filibustering eNpedi-
lion, she will have to dodge the revenue
cutter Seward d. River end the cruiser
Nor Jgomery off ehe bar. The Smith
was here in August last, was docked
and blackleade1. She had speed
wheel put in aul also took off the Inquire
three from her smokestack and Went to
sea at night, b)1nd. rumor afterwards
sad, 10 Cuba with so men on board and
{. lDt cf arms spd amm"nltioa
No trace of this expedition was after
ward found, however, AMI William
Brs1.ell, commodore of the Pensacola
Pilots association, presumably the
owner of the tug, denied emphatically
that the Smith was in the filibustering
business.
Two weeks ago the tug reapppeared
in Pensacola, and came Immediately
under suspicion. The papers there say
the cruiser Montgomery was set to
watch over her. The papers also said
the Smith needed docking for repairs
but that the Mobile docks were too
busy to take her. Nevertheless she
arrived here Thursday and went on the
Mobile ways at the foot of Augusta
street, to be repanted. The manager
of the ways says the paint on her does
not need renewing and is just as good
as when put on four months ago. She
is said to have been followed as far as
this port by the cruiser Montgomery.
Telegraphic orders We're sent for her
| through Mobile last night and the col
| lector was notified to be on the lookout
| for filibusters. United States Mar
| shall Simmons went OH board the tug
| to-day and had the boat searched, but
| nothing was found on board. BraZZel
| who is with the Smith. says there is nc
| intention of filibusterng, and that she
| is merely here for repairs. The cutter
| Seward dropped down river this evening
| and came to an anchorage opposite
| the exit of the marine ways and lies
| there with steam up and keeping ar
| eve on the Smith. Persons from the
| lower bay report that the cruiser Mont
gomery has been off the bar for th'
| ma st "a hours.
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ENGLAND TAKES A HAND
Seventeen Warships Back-Up
Her Ultimatum to Corea.
JAPAN Is READY TO ACT
1t Is Rumored That England Has Landed
Force in Corea and Forced the
Reinstatement of McLevy
Brown as Adviser.

London, Dec. pa special dispatch
from Shanghai says: 1t is reported
that Il British warships are off Chem
ulpo, Corea, southwest of Seoul, sup
porting the British eonsuls protest,
really amounting to an ultimatum,
against the kings practically yielding
the government of Corea into the
hands of the Russian minister.
The protest is specially directed
against the dismissal of McLevy
Brown British adviser to the Corean
customs in favor of the Russian nomi-
nee. The news has produced conster-
nation at Seoul, which is heightened
by the knowledge that Japan has a
fleet of so warships awaiting the re-
suit of the British representation which
Japan fully supports. Japan is irri-
tated by the arrival of Russian troops
in Corea, and it is believed she Will
oppose them.
According to adyices from Toxic,
Japan has offered to assist the officers
at Pel1in in drilling the Chinese army
and to consent to postponement of
the war indemnity. Many of the Pc
kin officials favor the proposal
According to a dispatch to the Daily
Mail from Shanghai it is reported there
from reliable sources that British
force landed at Chemulpo OH Sunday
Levy Brown. The same dispatch re-
| fers to "a native rumor that the Union
| Jack has been hoisted on an island in
| the mouth of the river Yangste kiang.
| The Pelin correspondent of the
| Times says: "The government refuses
/ to place the Ii Kin under foreign con-
| troll as security for the loan proposed
| by the Hong Kong and Shanghai bank
and asserts that unless the loan is
procured without this condition ar
rangements will be made for a Russian
guaranteed per cent loan of 100000
| 600 taels, to be issued at 93c.
THE security will be the land tax
which would remain under Chinese ad-
| ministration. China in return would
give Russia monopoly of the rail-
roads and mines north of the great
wall, open a port to the railway arc
| would agree that a Russian would
succeed SIR Robert Hart as director oi
the Chinese imperial maritime Gus
TOMS If these conditions should bt
permitted, British trade Interests
would suffer severely
The Shanghai correspondent of th
Times says: The sloop Phoenix sail
ed to-day Sunday under orders 7
Join the British squadron. The utmos
secrecy is preserved with regard Z
the latters movements, but gossil
here suggests that its destination i
| Tao Lien Wan"
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CONFLICTING STATEMENTS.
Different stories Told of the Food stu
tion AT Dawson.

Seattle. Wash. Dec. 26.-Among the
passengers Of the steamer Hosalle'
which arrived here tonight from SKA
quay and Dyea, Alaska, We're six men
who recently left Dawson city. bring
ing advices up to Nov. 2. The men
were Frank Ballaine, John Lindsay,
Tom Storey. r. Gwynn, w. b. King ana
L. J. Holland.
Conflicting statements as TO the food
situation in Dawson are made by THESE
men. Lindsay asserts with great posi-
tiVeness that want already exists In
Dawson and that unless food Is taken
into the camp from the coast men Will
suffer from hunger.
Ballaine. Bradley, Gwynn and Hol-
land say that there Is more alarm out
side concerning the Dawson people than
is felt by the residents OF that place.
They admit that there Is no food 20 be
bought in Dawson except where man
is found who Is coming out Of the coun-
try and who has more grub than ne
could use on the way up the river They
say, however, that except for the fact
that some Of the men viii be put on
short rations. thereby diminishing the
output of the mines this winter, the
shortage of food viii not be felt. The
exodus Of men from Dawson To Fort
Yukon and 10 points on the coast has
materially relieved the situation al
Dawson.
Between Pelly river and Dyea the
party passed hundreds OF camps, where
snow and iee-Bouud ktondykers haVs
camped for the winter. Many OF them
were well supplied with provisions ano
by paying s. per pound IL was poSs. blt
for them 10 procure -four and Other
necesasr.es From Five Fingers tbs
Yukon is frozen mass Of ice boulders
running a. high as l. feet. blocking tht
canyon from wall 10 wall and makins
HysH4 "a uWHfN
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not as strong as it was last week. 1t is
believed careful consideration of exist
ing conditions has done much to change
the sentiment. The conference COM
mittee of the operatives in which are
representatives of all the textile unions.
held another meeting tonight wherein
the wage discussion was resumed. The
meeting adjourned subject to the call
of the committees secretary.
The only information given out was
that a new proposition to the manufac-
surers was proposed and the plan was
unanimously adopted. Its details were
not divulged. \ manufacturer tonight
volunteered the opinion that the new
proposition might offer an acceptance
of the cut-down, provided the present.
schedule was restored when a margin
of profit to be mutually agreed upon,
shall warrant such action.
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IT MAY PROVE MEMORABLE
FRIDAY WILL WITNESS THE CLOSE
OF THE GREAT WHEAT DEAL.
Letter, Sr., Says His son Has Been Ben
efactor to the Iarmers-A Squeeze
in Oats Il Expected.

Chicago. Dec. 26.-Friday, which win
witness the close of the great Letter deal
in wheat on the board of trade. bids fair
to prove a memorable day In the trade.
No great excitement is expected in the
wheat pit, but in oats a squeeze of the
shorts may occur.
1.-The wheat deal of my son has brought
TO the farmers of the United States 10 or
j. cents more for their wheat than Ii he
had not gone into it, said l.. Il. Letter
to-day in talking of the great battle be-
tween Joseph Letter on the one SIDE and
the elevator companies on the o her. My
son has been the benefactor of the agri-
cultural industries of the country to h p
extent that the seller is now debating
the price of his product. not the pur-
chaser. Chicago makes the market pric
Of wheat. not Liverpool. and the local in
fluenccs which have been so long for
constantly lower prices have ceased to
control Chicago markets.
The first purchases Of wheat by Joseph
Letter were made in July last at "a Ger is.
The price for real wheat. such as the
farmer sells. has been between 80 cents
and 81 for several days. This makes "A to-
tai advance since July of about ;5 c nts
Letter sr., gives to the ordinary cours of
the markets credit for between 20 and -
cents of the rise The remainder he at
tributes to the substanantial support
given to prices by Letter 1r. during the
last six months.
1t is believed that Mr.. Letter has be n
turning a trick on trade in oats while
ever ybody was watching wheat. For
weeks the oats pit has been praa' ically
deserted. Last week there was a disa-
greeable surprise 10 the men who had
sold 5000 C0u bushels of oats for Dec m
Der delivery when they learned no oats
were being delivered. They then awoke
10 the fact that In all the Chicago eleva-
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LOST THE BARGE.
A schooner Cut the Canisteo Adrift From
Its Tug.

Boston. Dec. 2s.-The tug Q. B. Sanford.
Captain Pierce. while coming around
Cape Cod Saturday night towing the
barges Nayaug and Canisteo. lost the Last
named barge and up 10 late hour to-
night nothing had been heard OF the
missing vessel. The accident was caused.
so Captain Pierce says. by large four
masted schooner passing between the
two barses cutting the hawser and set
ting the Canisteo adrifL The tug was
unable 10 ind the drifting barge, SO Cap
tain Pierce decided 10 tow the Nay
across the bay 10 Boston light. where she
was anchored and the Sanford then re-
turned in search of the Canisteo.
All day yesterday the tug steamed
about in the vicinity Of where she parted
from the missing craft. but TO no avail
and when the thick snow set in the san
ford returned To Boston. After taking on
a fresh supply of coal they viii resume
the search. The canistea IL commanded
oy Captain Rausch Of HOboken- has Q
cargo of IUoo toms of coal and carries a
crew of four mem.
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MAKES SPAIN WEAR Y.
Says She viii Not Tolerate Interference
in the West Indies.

Says She Will Not Tolerate interference
in the West Indies.
London, Dec 26-The Madrid corre-
spondent of the Standard says: Gen
era Woodford's note dwells at length
upon the Spanish complaint against fill
clustering and other moral and mate
rial assistance given in the United
States to the insurgents, which the
Washington government reassertS 1t
has done all in it's power to check, with
the view also of satisfying the repre-
sentatons made by Spanish diplomacy.
The Madrid papers say the note is so
very friendly and so laudatory of the
present home rule policy in Cuba and
Porto Rico that there is a general inn
preston in official circles that the rela-
tions between the two governments
have a decidedly reassuring aspect.
"At the same time, papers of every
shade of opinion, including the minis
terial organs, censure very Sharply the
conduct Of the United States govern
ment and are unanimous in saying that
the compliments the United States pays
the new Spanish colonial society cannot
make a proud nation tolerate the pre-
tension OF foreign government to
have the right to criticise and condemn
the conduct of Spanish generals and OF
the late Spanish government In dealing
with the rebellion.
"They equally resent the American
pretension to interfere in the Spanish
West Indies, which is repeatedly
claimed in the notes and the preSiden-
tial message and more recently in Sec
retary Sherman'S advocacy of relief for
distressed Cubans. The press is most
dissatisfied with the Woodford note on
account of the arguments used a. re-
flute the Spanish complaints against fill
ibustering America is charged with in
f1inging upon all the rules and usages
of international law in order TO suit
the aims of its encroaching policy In
the West Indies.
1T Is an open secret that the note has
/ caused surprise and displeasure in off,
cial circles, because the government
/ had hoped that President Mckinley
/ and Secretary Sherman would refrain
from increasing the embarrassment of
/ the situation in Spain in consideration
of all the concessions already made TO
] Cuba.
THE government will delay replying
to the note for several weeks, as the
United States took nearly two months
to reply to the Spanish note. When IL
! does reply Senor Sagasta will rebut the
| arguments o fthe note in a friendly. but
! firm tone. The government cannot
| longer risk the accusation of not being
! in touch with national feeling. which Is
getting very weary of American inter
| ference. The Spaniards think the note
| gives Sagasta an excellent opportunity
to reply to criticism which naturally
could not be challenged or noticed
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FROZEN TO DEATH.
Two Fatal Cases Resulting From Expo
sure in Philadelphia.

Philadelphia. Dec. 26.-John Colmer II
years old. was found dead from exposure
in an outhouse in the rear of 26oi arr
shall street this afternoon. He lived wi h
his grandparents. He left home early or
Christmas morning and was not again
seen alive by his relatives. 1t is surm SEQ
that his object in going where his body
was found was TO take quiet nap.
A man supposed TO be Joseph M Mo.
rency was found dead on the doorstep al
LBS Filbert street to-day. Ills death IL
supposed to have been due to exposure
and cold and the eoroner's district dep
uty who had charge of the case. Is OF
the opinion that the man fell asleep on
the step and froze TO death.
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Into a Receivers Hands.

Port Townsend. Wash. Dec. 26.-By
the steamer City Of Topeka, which ar
rived to-day from Juneau, it IS learned
that the NOVEL; Gold Mining company
and Berner's Bay Mining and Milling
company have passed into the hands or
a receiver. The receiver is E. f. Cas-
sell of Juneau, formerly of Seattle
Thomas s. Novel; was president and
manager of the companies. which have
been in existence since 1883, and which
embraced more property than any other
one corporation in Alaska. Besides the
Novel; mine and Berner Bay mine. the
company own large interest on Douglas
island and $50 acres Of placer mines In
Silver Bow basin. The heaviest stock
holders in the company are Eastern
men. No statement of liabilities and
assets has yet been made.
Forty-eight thousand dollars in bull
ion from the Treadwell Mining company
was brought down by the Topeka and
transferred here for San Francisco.
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AN OVERHEATED STOVE.
Wooden Buildings at Camp Low, sandy
Hook. DeslroNed bN ILre.

Sandy Hook. \. j.. Dec. 26.--The office,
store house, stable and one Of the 10 ging
houses. all old wooden buildings. at camp
Low were consumed by fire early this
morning. Camp Low was established at
the former landing of Sandy Hook boats.
During the cholera scare a few years ago
the wharf and platform were inclosed a d
rooted over and several hundred passen-
gers We're kept in Quarantine there. The
marine hospital service abandoned the
station last year and the buildings were
purchased by contractor who used
them as a large boarding camp for the
men employed in building garrison quar-
ters at Fort Hancock. An overheated
stove is supposed to have caused the
fire.
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A DOUBLE MURDER.
A Frighttui Tragedy III Pennsylvania
Town->on Discnv RS the Mutilated Re-
mains of Mother and Eather.

Town-Son Discnv RS the Mutilated Re-
mans of Mother and Father.
Indian. Penn, Dee 26-Milton Neal ard
his aged wife were shot to death by an
unknown assassin at their home near
Jacksonville, nine miles southwest of
here. some time during Christmas. Their
bodies were found at o clock that night
by their son Harry. who was passing the
house and stopped 20 pay Christmas
call on his parents. Neal was one OF the
most prominent farmers in the vicinity
in which he lived. Officers are to-day
securing the country for the murderer,
but as yet he has not been found.
When young Neal tried TO enter his
parents house he found the doors loc ked.
He forced his way in through the cellar
and on entering the sitting room hor-
rible sight met him. In chair near the
window lay the form of his mother. her
face entirely blown away. AT her feet
was all that remained of her husband.
and CHASTITY hole I'm the SIDE of his head
told the tale of his murder. AT his side
lay "a double -barreled shotgun. the i'm
plement of death. All the walls. ceilings
and articles of furniture i'll the room W re
spattered with blood and on the ceiling
was a good-sized dent, in which was inn
bedded piece of the woman s skull
For a time there was a supicion of sui
eide. but as the facts in the case devel-
oped the murder theory gained strength.
The woman was killed with brushot, the
husband with buckshot There were no
marks of powder on his face. something
which. il Is said. would have been inn
possible to avoid had suicide been W tn a
shotgun. There is nothing to ind cate that
the crime was committed for plunder, as
in Mr.. Meals pocket was a $40 bill and
n $50 bin lay on the top of the dress
The friends say they have clue whil h
| they viii at once begin work on to trace
! down the murderer
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THE STORY DENIED.
No Truth in the Rumor That an Omnibus
Ginim Had Keen filed.

Washington. Dec. 26.-Secretary of State
Sherman was seen tonight regarding a
story cabIed from Madrid to the effect
that the United States had demanded o.
Spain SSOOO.0o0 indemnity to American
traders for damages sustained through
the rebellion in Cuba. The secretary
stated that if any such demand had b-en
made he had not heard of 1t.
Judge Day assistant secretary of
state. said: $50 far as I know there is
absolutely nothing in the story. Some
one may have attempted 70 foot up all
the individual claims that have been filed.
but even on that supposition ! should not
attempt to say their estimate was cor
rect"
AT the Spanish legation i was said
that no information mad been received
of any such action. The legation here has
heretofore been notified OF The filing OF
all individual claims, but il Vas thought
improbab BILE that any claim in bulk would
be made.
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CHESS TOURNAMENT.
Four Colleges VIII Compete for the Cup
for 1898.

New York Dec. 26.-The sixth annual
intercollegiate chess tournament VIII be-
gin tomorrow At the Columbia Grammar
school in this city. 1t will extend over
the entire week, and representatives OF
Columbia. Yale. Harvard and Princeton
will compete for the honor of ho.d ng
the cup during 1898. Each college has two
representatives and each man will play
one game with every other player in the
series.
The order of play tomorrow viii be as
follows. Arbury ). Meyer, Columbia. vs..
James Hewens, Harvard, Louis A. Cook,
Yale. VS.. David T. Dana, Princeton;
George o. Seward. Columbia, VS. William
w Young Princeton, William NJ. Muir
dich. Yale, VS.. Emil S. Southland. Har-
ward.
Play will begin at o'clock and continue
till the finish. and in case there should De
any games left unfinished at that time
there will be an evening session from
until 10 o'clock.
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PEkRY PLEASED.
He Will Use the wiudward in His Mex
Trip to the Arctic.

Trip to the Arctic.
New York. Dec. ga dispatch to the
World from Washington says: Lieut..
Robert f. Peary. the Arctic explorer,
who returned from England on the st.
Paul. Immediately upon his arrival in
New York, took the train for Washing
ton. Lieutenant Peary. when seen by a
reporter tonight was enthusiastic over
his reception in England and the glft 10
him by Alfred c. Harnsworth, the
wealthy Englishman Of the Nindward.
a fine ship. which the explorer viii use
in his trip to the Arctic regions next
year.
Mr.. Harmsworth also furnished funds
for the expedition. Lieutenant Peary
said that the Windward would be sent
to New York early in the spring. and
he would start north the latter part of
July. Lieutenant Peary started fo;
New York tonight to finish work on
his narrative, which IS in the publish
er's hands.
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DEATH OF JOHN C0SGRAVE.
The Weil-Known Athlete Died From the
Effects of "A surgical Operation.

Albany. n. Y. Dec. 26.-John Cosgrave.
a well known athlete. died In the city
hospital to-day after an operation /
appendicitis. He was member Of the
New Jersey Athletic club the Ridgti ID
Athletic club and tine Tenth battalion a.
A. o. Il. Of the national guard g. grave
won the all-round athletic champ oas y
OF America In 1895, and finished cond to
Clark Of Boston in this years competition.
Cosgraye's work has always baen consid-
cred of the highest order. and in al-round
work in the athletic field and on III.
track he had few superioTs.
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TT BEGAN IN ITALY.
Brought to This Country IL Results in
Two Murders.

Boston. Dec. 26.--There seems to be lit
tie information CLEANED by the police to-
day to clear up the mystery OF a double
murder in the northern district last night
The men are Joseph Catolare. a boarding
house keeper of Hanover street, and Sa-
vario Quartario of Moon street. a board
er in the house. The men under arrest
who will be charged with the murders
are Savario Careli. who is in the hospital
suffering from knife wounds. and a friend
named Cappoceino. 1t is said that the
trouble which ended in the killing grew
out of a feud originating in Italy.
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WOodfortl's Note.

London, Dec 26.-The Madrid corre-
spondent of the Daily Mail says Gen
eral Woodford's note differs greatly from
the first he presented and contains sew
eral statements that should be refuted.
1t is inspired. on the whole, by the sent
ments pervading President Mckinley $
message. Senor Gulon. the minister of
foreign affairs. will reply traversing the
points raised"
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Royalston.as Aass~. Dec 26.-ColoDei
George whitney prominent member OF
this town. died to-day after months Ill
ness. He was born mere in 1871, and TOR
Is wears drove a stage coach between
Royalston and Boston. The opening Of the
Fitchburg railroad put an end to the
stage business and Colonel Whitney turn-
ed his attention other pursuits. After
some years engaged in the lumber and
chair business he became interested in
the manufacture of woolens, and contin-
ucd ii till his death.
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A WHOLE FAMILY.
A Mother and Nine Children burned to
Death in London.

London, Dec. 26.-Mrs. Jarvis and her
nine children. the youngest about
months old. were burned to death to-day
in a four-room cottage occupied by Jar
Wis and two families in Fife street, Beth
nal Green. London. The family lived on
an upper floor BY strange concindencc
Mr.. Jarvis, the woman's husband, VINO
had been suffering from consumption,
died in the workhouse infirmary this af-
ternoon without having heard of the dis
aster. Mrs. Jarvis earned a scant living
by making match boxes and her rooms
were filled with in1ammabe material
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Blanco gave n Banquet.

Havana, Dec. 26.-To-night Cantain Cen
eral Blanco gave banquet to the oftic RS
of the German corvette Stein. f rty
guests were present, including the Span
ish admiral. the mayor Of Havana and
other naval and civil authorities.
Congressman William Henry King of
Utah has arrived here.