The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1898-01-13
News Of What is Going on 10 our own
and Other Countries.
EVERYDAY DOIEGS In 4 NUTSHELL
Selected Items OF Interest From
Press Dispatches OF the Pest
Week Boiled Down for busy
Readers.
FRIDAY.


aid visits the Cuban forces insurgent
cam ps and carefully estimates their actu.
al strength which he discovers is by no
means slight. Their progress 10 continu-
al and there is absolutely no chance OF
starving the rebels out :. The steamer
Seattle arrives from Alaska with IS pas
sengers from Dawson bringing 1000 In
gold .... Theodore Durrant is hanged ct
10 :35 a. m. He was firm to the end,
embl aced the Catholic faith, and pro-
tested his innocence with his last breath.
SATURDAY.
A mob at Colfax overpower the jailor
and take possession of Marshal Chad
wick, suspected of the murder OF Orville
Hayden in November, and hang him
from court house window. Mcdonald
the other suspected man, prevented the
opening of the door OF his cell by stuffing
the keyhole with paper and thus saved
bis neck ..... Litigation results over Q
misunderstanding among Spokane people
regarding the terms OF grub stake. 49,.
Ore carrying 1905 in gold is discovered at
depth of 81 feet in the Olympics, twelve
miles from Port Angeles.
SUNDAY.
1t is discovered that at least fifty men
on the police force OF St. Louis, are draw
ing disability pensions from the govern
ment and at the same time drawing their
salaries as able bodied policemen. .....
England makes determined effort
through its representative at Washington
city to secure the promise of moral sup
port, II not Of active naval and financial
assistance, by the United states in the
Chinese situation to offset the combine
ton of Russia, Germany and France.
She is making every effort at the present
time to secure either an actual alliance
with the United States or q promise of
moral support, or guarantees of neutrali-
ty, with definite promisscs, not ID Gs, ~ :
the Russian com bination.
MONDAY.
Orders are given to the officials at the
French dockyards to hasten the compile
ton of the warsbips on hand The
body OF Theodore Durrant 10 still I'M
buried 49,. bunker Creek, which emp
ties into the Klondke, is proving a Sec
ond Eldorado .... Hon. w. J. Bryan 10
entertained at Chicago by the Bryan
League who celebrate Jackson Day. 80.
A steel aud wire trust is organized in
Illinois with capital OF $S7 900 .0O0......
Elk Sheriff Wooley is sued by King coun-
ty to recover $4,000.
TUESDAY.
According to a special from CONSTANT.
nople, the Russian embassy there has
been threatened with bomb outrsges
unless Russia wlthdraws her opposition
to the ameliorstion OF the condition Of the
Armenians. . The S. Z. Ry. Co. and
.. X. & N, Co, who have been cutting
rates between Portland and San Francis
CO, go into a combination and raise the
fares to former figures .... Spain will be
called upon to pay the Western Union
Telegraph Co. from $500 900 to 81 600 900
as damages for interfering with the work
ings of the cable between Havana and
Key West ... W. A. Potter is employed
TO expert the books of the county auditor,
sheriff and clerk Of Pacific county since
1893. Mr.. Potter is heavy taxpayer
and expert accountant Nicaragua
virtually grants to the Atlas Company
IN, En,,Iiab copcernA tho yiuht In hn;ld
the Nicaragua Canal, so far as the San
Juan river is concerned and thus cuts the
ground from under the Americans who
have spent so much time and money in
surveying and estimating on its compile
ton .... The steamer City of Topeka ar
rived from the north yesterday, bringing
the very interesting and important news
that the mother lode" of the Klondike
has been discovered. So rich is it that
money is to be made by pounding the
strings of gold out of the virgin rock on
the anvil. As soon as explosives are
available and means to treat the ore this
quartz vein promises to eclipse in treas
ure the productiveness of even the placer
diggings Of the vicinity.
WEDNESDAY.
The forward turret OF the battleship
Iowa, with it pair Of Pinch guns, was
crippled to such an extent yesterday that
it could not he used. Ten shots were to
have been fred for practice. At the sixth
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