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The Portland daily press., 1898-05-25
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Rioting Going on in the
Us. Philippines.

Hong Kong, May M,-The Japanese
cruiser Akitsushima, which arrived to-
day from Manila. reports that when she
left there rioting had broken out and q
n a,nber Of houses had been burned.
Food was daily becoming scarcer and
horse flesh was sold at dollar and a
halt pound.
The Spanish volunteers were making
angry demands for pay and food which
the Spaniards were utterly unable te
satisfy.
The cruiser reports that Admiral
Monto1o is awaiting trial by court mar.
tial for alleged incompetency during the
engagement with the Unitsd States
SQUADRON under Commodofe Dewey
while the captain Of the Spanish revenue
cutter Callao, captured by thsdA american
warships, isyosbe shot for notlmaking re-
sistance. .,SSss
Il Aguinaldo the insurgent leader, had 6
great reception on his arrival at the Phil
ippines from Hong Kong. Rear Admi
raj Dewey supplied the insurgents witt
two guns and 80 rifles. and at the time
the Japanese cruiser left, Aguinaldo ex
pected to make an immediate attack
The archbishop Of Manila announced IL
a pastoral that four Spanish warship:
were coming, and promised victory for tht
Spaniards.
The Portland daily press., 1898-05-25
ST. CoUls CUT CABLE
City of Felkin Will Be Conyoyed r.,
Charleston from Honolulu. suzss

Washington May 24-The Navy De-
partment at 3.15 this evening posted the
following bulletin:
1.-The department has no reason to be.
Iieve that battle has occurred in the
Windward Passage.
1.-THE auxiliary cruiser St. Louis has
cut the cable at Santiago de Cuba and
San Juan de Porto Rico.
q Late this aftern BON it was ascertained
that the cable from Santiago shat was
cut by the American warship st. Louis,
was not the line controlled by the French
company running from Santiago to
Haytf through Guantanamo, but was one
of the two English cables running
from Santiago south to Janaica.
3 This information was communicated tc
the officials of the government by Mr..
Luerinne, the general agent OF the French
cable company In the United States.
Gen. Blanoo, therefore, Is not isolated
from the rest Of tho world, but can still
communicate with the home government
by either the French cable going to
Haytl or the English one running te
Jamaica
The transport City of Pekin with 1906
troops on board and the transport Sydney
ana Australia. also loaded wirh troops,
are expected to sail from San Francisco
To-Day Tor Honolulu, from which point
tney Will be conveyed to the Philippines
py tne cruiser Charleston.
The Portland daily press., 1898-05-25
MAY CIRCLE ISLAND.
Sehley South and Sampson North Of
Cuba.

On Board the Associated Press Despatch
Boat Dandy, Montego Bay, JAM, May p
The waters south of Cuba have sudden.
ly become the scene of great naval activi-
ty. Commodore Schley. who left Key
West last Thursday, with the battleships
Massachusetts and Texas, the armored
cruiser Brooklyn and armed yacht
Scorpion, is believed to be cruising of
Cienfuegos and Santiago de Cuba.
When the Dandy left Key West last Fri.
day morning Admiral Sampson was still
there. Tt was the opinion of naval officers
that he would sail for Cienfuegos soon by
the eastern route, the two fleets thus com.
pleting the circle of Cuba.
The battleship Iowa followed Commo.
dore Schley on Friday but was overtaken
off Cape San Antonio on Saturday by the
torpedo boat Dupont, with secret instruc-
tions. The battleship Immediately in
creased her speed to the limit and when
last seen, was guarding the entrance to
the passage between the Isle Of Pines and
Cuba. The Dupont rushed on toward
Cienfuegos.
Five British warships are now in the
vicinity Of Jamaica.
The Spanish 1900 ton passenger steamer
Purisima Conception is here. She Is
afraid to venture out. The numerous
rumors as to the sighting OF the phantom
Spanish feet in this vicinity are quite
unsubstantiated. tvTsa.
The Portland daily press., 1898-05-25
OREGON ALL RIGHT
Allan ia, Ga. May a. A special to the
Constitution reports the safe arrival ii
the q. S. S. Oregon at Jupiter, Fla.
GOOD TRICK But NO GO.
Hospital Ship Alicante Proves To
Be Collier.

st. Pierre, May 24--6 p. m.- The Span
ish torpedo boat destroyer Terror is being
coaled by the Spanish steamer Alicante.
The Alicante lies at the mouth ofsthe
Fort de France harbor. 1t was all alonr
supposed that she was hospital ship ;
but there is no doubt that she carries a
cargo of coal for the Spanish warships.
Her pretensions to be hosp ital ship
were obviously put forward as blind.
The U. S. consul has cautioned the
French officials of the port not to allow
the Terror to take coal in excess of ths
quantity necessary to carry the Terror to
the nearest Spanish port.
Tt is reported that the Terror will leave
Martini que tomorrow. She is understood
to be in gool conol0lon'
The Portland daily press., 1898-05-25

1t was again announced In the most posi-
tive manner that the navy department.
had no information to warrant the report
Of any sort of engagement in the Wind
ward Passage. This did not specially
cover the waters of the West Indies, but
in view of the fact that the department
has almost pledged itself to lot the pub
lio know of anything in the nature Of a
general engagement, possibly the bulle-
tin announcement Is sufficient to cover
tho case.
When Secretary Long started for home
today after an exceptionally busy day,
he stated to group of newspaper men
that the department. had received no in
formation OF Importance In response to
an inquiry as to where the Spanish feet
was located, MIR. Long replied that his
belief was that 1t was still at Santiago
dc Cuba. Concerning the reported capt
ure Of the Mangrove and the loss of other
ships, the secretary dismissed these stories
as purely conjectural and not supported
by facts. Word had come from the com.
mander Of the Mangrove since the time
of the alleged capture, showing that the
ship could not have been in the hands Of
the Spanish.
ME, 0OuS pstIN u lAuUSOlll0 CElDuO5 &C
the war board. and stated that there was
no purpose whatever of changing the pres
ent system, whereby this board co-operat
ed with him IN giving every possible as.
sistance and advice mainly in the way
of information to the admirals in com
mand. The office Of the war board, the
secretary pointed out, was not to fight
battles; that was exclusively the province
of the squadron commanders. The board
acted merely In an advisory way and al
no time had assumed executive func-
tions.
The Spaniards appear to be making
ready for something more than defen
sive campaign at home, or at least they
are trying to create that impression by
other means than news bulletins that is.
sue almost daily from Madrid.
| its own reliable sources reports of ths
greatest activity i'll the Spanish navy
| yards and ON the preparation for sea anC
for a long voyage OF two of the torpedo
| boat destI overs. 1t Is given out that they
arc to join Cervera, Immediately, when
! his squadron enters Cadiz harbor.
Possibly this statement is made with 3
deliberate purpose of misleading Aineri
can vessels into the belief that CerVers
mas taken his way honeward.
Inquiries as TO the whereabouts OF tht
oregon brought reply this AFTERNOON
TO the effect That the battleship was safe
Noehing could be learned of her location
IL Is probable that the kilograms said tt
nave emanated from the vessels really
were nled at Key West, but were brough1
10 unau port by some despatch boat from
| fleets.
Inc cutting Of the cables at Santiago
ahu az oah Juan de Porto Rico as rs
poreeu @ eoeay, Was a military move of thu
nssS inss oaaracIer. ~ ~ Blanco has yet one linl
world, but the Spanish comman,iar -s .
San Juan now finds himself totaliv in th
dark to the conditions in Spain or j,
The Portland daily press., 1898-05-25

much care ought to be exercised to win
them to our side. He pooh-poohed the
alarming rumors about England and
Gibraltar. The important thing, he de-
olared, is that Admiral Cervera should be
able to divide the American squadron"
The Portland daily press., 1898-05-25
DAY Or RUMORS.
Washington Was FaIl Of Them
Yesterday.

Washington, May s4.-There was q
lapse into sensational war rumors IN
Washington today after week of COM
parative quietude. The rumofs ranged al
the way from the capture of the little
Mangrove with a crew OF IL men, to the
reported destruction of the entire Span
ish feet by SIMPSONS and schley's COM
hinad forces. They We're circulated
with persistence, Notwithstanding
their denials, as soon as they could be
bro1aht to the attention of any official
oanable of passing Judgment on their &C
ouracy. AS the day rolled along the ofiic-
ials themselves became apprehensive, as
was shown by the frequency with which
they callsd fer the latest newspaper bull
letins. At the close of the day, however,
The Portland daily press., 1898-05-25
BELIEVE CABLE HAS REEN CUT.

Washington, May "a The authorities
here are satisfied from reliable private in
formation received that the French Cable
line running from Cuba to Hayti has been
cut, probably at Santiago by American
warshipa, with view to the isolation Of
General Blanoo. With this, however, is
the less satisfactory information that the
two British cables from Cuba to Jamaica
were not cut. This is looked upon by
officials most interested In the subject as
unfortunate from strategic standpoint.
Officials here have no definite informa.
ton as TO the exact routes used by General
Blanco in sending and receiving dis.
patches to and from Madrid.
The Portland daily press., 1898-05-25
NEW YORK REGIMENT MOVES.

New York. May 24.-The Goth regiment
left Camp Black today for Chickamauga.
The Portland daily press., 1898-05-25
is CERVERA BOTTLED up?
Belief That His Fleet Is In San


increasing Belief That His Fleet Is In Sam
tiago.
Boston, May 24.-A Washington special
to the Journal says:
From source which cannot be aues-
toned learn that word was received
from Admiral Sampson last night that
he had the Spanish fleet bottled UP in the
harbor of Santiago de Cuba and intended
to lombard the town today in the hope of
forcing fight, The bombardment is
therefore probably now on.
1t will be difficult thing to force the
Spanish feet out of the harbor if Cervera
does not wish to fight, for the land locked
condition of the harbor and the precipi-
tious character of the defences of the
town make successful bombardment to
some degree matter of chance. From
this information it appears that the re,
port of the annihilation of the Spanish
fleet already, which has been current this
| morning, is probably premature, although
tomorrow may bring an authentic &C.
count of a battle.
The Portland daily press., 1898-05-25
SUSPICIOUS NEWS.

Washington, May 24.-The navy depart
ment has advices from Cadiz that the
torpedo boat destroyers Destructor and
Proserpina have been put in order and
are ready to start with Cervera's fleet
as soon as it reaches Cadiz en- route TO
TIE Philippines.
The Alphonso III. and Pelayo are ex-
pected to remain at Cadiz with the home
squadron.
The navy department is suspicious of
the news SO far as it relates to Cervera IS
movements.
The Portland daily press., 1898-05-25

London
g ~ hngnm es war
Cespo odG Epamao aoberes:
dsonde
fphg no hewaE
The Portland daily press., 1898-05-25
Report That Madrid Has Had News of
Battle Again Confirmed.

Strong Confrmatory Moves That Admiral Cerera Has
Been Bottled Up i'm Some Port.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-22
QUESTION OF THE AGE.

I N the local columns recently recorded an ac-
 cdent to wheelman, and over 1t was the caption Aged Cyclist Injured" A natural supposition was that some venerable grandfather had come to grief The real fact shown by reading of the article, was that the rider was so years old.
 Now, if this century has been marked by so swift gait as to make proper the calling of of so aged 1t is time to slow up Such should be in his prime unless he be prize-hghter Ill which case he doesn't count At the fifty mark the doctor the lawyer, the banker and the citizen generally has just a sprinkng of the white hairs which indica tive of wisdom If this stage he is to be called "aged" clear insinuation that he has entered upon the sere and yellow, there Is little in ones pre- pairing himself for a career of usefulness As a boy devoid of experience he cannot have the full conf dence of the rest of the world, and when as of 5o he falls off his wheel only to have the incident garded episode in the progress of sene decay, life appears too short to bother with
 Any day in the park may be whose snowy heads bespeak the passing of at least three years them yet pedaling away like lot of youngsters Some of them can add a haf-score or more to these figures and go spinning along, she'd ding the incubus of accumuating decades they glide and feeling youthful if yet to cast their first vote So 1t is not fair term the ffty-year man "aged" The thus misrepresented would have perfect right ask retracton, and getting it, throw few copy-readers downstairs, just to convince them of their error.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-22
GET THERE FIRST.

C ONE enterprising New York men have begun
 discussing the advisability of opening grand - universal exposition in that city in 1901. The idea is to take advantage of the collection of exhibits of all nations in Paris in 1900 and provide place where they be displayed in this hemisphere before they are dispersed and scattered.
 The discussions have not yet reached the point of developing activity At present it Is but project, and not movement Nevertheless, the matter is one which concerns us, for if we permit the New Workers to get ahead of in enterprise of this kind and be first to ask appropriation from Con- gress for international exposition in that year chances of obtaining large appropriation will be much diminished.
 Philadelphia has already put forward project for holding great exposition in I8oo Her representa- tves have made application at Washington for an appropriation for $3ooooo to be employed in the con- structon of buildings and S5oooo to be used in pro- noting exhibits of goods from foreign countries. In addition to these sums, the Government will be asked to appropriate further amount for the pur- pose of making Governmental exhibit. Bills pro- viding for these appropriations are before Con- gress and it is likely they will be adopted either at this session or that of the coming winter.
 If Philadelphia gets the right of way for 1899 and New York comes in for 1901 chance for getting good appropriation would be limited to 1900. That year would suit us perhaps as we'll as any, but It IS known that considerable number of people favor an exposition for the following the grand display at Paris In order therefore, to give those who pre- fer that year for holding the exposition fair oppor tunity to develop their plan California should act promptly in getting the project into shape If we to hold our great fair in the year succeeding the Parisan display must present our claim before New York does or we will have hard fight hands to win.
 Upon no consideration have any time to lose in an enterprise of this nature. Propositions con- ducted on large scale have become popular i'll the United States, they have proved so profitable to their promoters and so beneficial to the general pub lie that Eastern cities wing with another in contest for the right of holding them. it to be conceded that no shall be held in the Unit ed States at the time.
 At Atlanta and at Nashville the South in rapid sue cession has held two expositions The upper Mis- sissipp Valley region will hold one this summer at Omaha. Philadelphia will hold one next year. Alter that the field is open for all asprants and many will enter it New York is already planning for the move ment California has no time waste if she intends to get there first.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-22
UNIFORM WEIGHTS AND MEASURES

n MORNING contemporary suggests that the / \ Mahoney law establishing State and county "sealers' of weights and measures throughout California contains the germ of valuable reform which should not be lost sight of amid the indscrim nate abuse being heaped upon that statute This is true. Indeed 1t the existence of demand for a legal and uniform State system of weights and measures which led Mahoney to concoct his law. Being politician, he could way of achieving results except by creating offices, and, in cordance with his principles evolved the State and county "sealers."
 The same effect would have been produced by es- tablishng State standard of weights and measures Such a standard might be enforced by making it a misdeameanor to any other. The Sherffs, police officers and constables of the State under such law could, with the aid of the courts it that the people not defrauded by inadequate weights or short measures. If it were not practicable to estab fish State standard by law the Governor Secretary of State and Attorney General could have been reform referred to by contemporary might have been effected without fastening upon the mercantile community hoard of mousng fee-takers.
 The objection to the Mahoney law is that it estab- fishes unnecessary and unjust method of taxation entirely foreign to the constitution. Business men pay real and personal property taxes, license taxes, internal revenue and custom taxes besides other smaller impostons and to pile upon them an additional tax for examining their weights and meas ures is in the nature of an outrage. We are willing to concede that State standard of weights and meas
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-22
COLLECTED IN
 THE CORRIDORS.

D. Earl of Chicago is at the Baldwin. M. w. Berriman of Chicago is at the Baldwin.
 C. M. wiIkens of Philadelphia is at the Baldwin.
 A. D. Levy of New York is guest at the Palace.
 J. C. Dennis from Texas is guest at the Baldwin.
 Leo Hamburg of New York is registered at the Baldwin.
 James J. Wait from Chicago is a guest at the Occidental.
 J. E. Woodwaite and wife of Portland are at the Palace.
 J. J. Thomas of Salt Lake City is regis tered at the Lick.
 Mrs and Miss Hardin from Santa Rosa are at the California
 Dr. s. c. Leauhardt from Juneau, AL aska, Is at the Grand.
 H. D. Stone and wife of Rochester, N. T.. are at the Grand.
 H. L. Brandon of Philadelphia is a guest at the California.
 Captain Arthur E. Miller from New York is at the Palace.
 w. H. Cleary ST.. prominent miner of Stockton, is at the Lick.
 Francis Doud. wholesale butcher of Monterey, is at the Lick.
 Ex-Judge J. F. Rooney of Tuolumne County is at the Occidental.
 Mir. and Mrs. John de Gaitto of Minne- apolis are at the California
 L.. E. Collins and Miss Collins of St. Louis are at the California
 Otis H. Poo.e, silk merchant from Yokohama, is at the Palace.
 MT. and Mrs. W. s. Odell of Ontario, Canada, are at the Baldwin.
 Charles Horton and family of Winona, Minn., are at the Occidental.
 l.. F. Bruner, furniture-dealer of Sacramento, is at the Grand.
 A. B. and w. J. Youmens and wives of St Paul are at the Occidental.
 Ex-Mayor B. U. Steinman and wife of Sacramento are at the Palace.
 J. E. Silver, large crockery merchant from Los Angeles, is at the Palace.
 J. w. Cassidy, a merchant of Quincy, H., with his family, is at the Palace George Lingo, large cattleman from Birds Landing, is a guest at the Grand Henderson Hayward, who is largely in- terested ill the oil business in the south
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-22

ern part of the State, and who lives at Los Angeles, Is at the Occidental.
 F. w. George, a prominent attorney of Sacramento, is registered at the Grand. Andrew Kull and wife from Lake Ge- neva. Wis, are guests at the Califo-- nia.
 l.. S. Chittenden, who owns a large vineyard at Hanford, Cal, is at the Grand.
 V. D. Williamson, prominent mining man from Spokane, is guest at the Palace.
 B. H. Upham. proprietor of the Glori- ana vineyard at Martinez, is a guest at the Lick.
 George R. Stewart, prominent cattle dealer from Crows Landing, Is guest at the Grand
 W. A. Morgan and F. T. stimson. we'll known mercnants from Los Angeles, are at the Palace.
 Stanley Brown, the superintendent of the North American Commercial Com pany, accompanied by his wife, Is on<h
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-22
PUBLISHING THE NEW CHARTER

D offering to do the work at a lower price than H that asked by any of its morning contem- A porares, The Call has obtained the contract for publishing the text of the proposed new charter Our readers will, therefore, have the text of the document in full, and study 1t comprehensively. It is scarcely necessary point out that the charter is matter of grave importance to the people, and that it should receive the earnest consideration of all
 It was because of recognition of the importance of the proposed charter that The Call made so low bid for the contract for publishing it. The in tention was not to make money out of the contract but to publish the charter cheaply possible for the public benefit, and at the time secure for The Call document which is of interest to every citizen a matter of municipal politics.
 By the low price at which 1t offered to perform this work of publication The Call saved to the city siderable sum of money. It will publish the charter at just about cost and seeks profit other than that which will come from the increased demand for the paper from citizens who wish to post themselves on the terms of the proposed form of municipal government, and from the popular appreciation of the fact that the publication be made under ditions which so economical and advantageous to the municipal treasury
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-22

way to the Seal Islands to take cnarse of the company's business lie IS s'op ping at the Occidental.
 Governor Hastings and party or Fehll- s,.1,o,,ia arc at the Palace They re- tiirned yesterday from Del Monte.
 6or,mander B. P. Lamberton of the Trnited States navy, who is on his way to China 10 take command of the Sos- ton. is registered at the Occidental.
 Major J. H. Marshall, a weh-KnoWn Western railroad man, who has been talk ing tourist observations in California for the past month, leaves to-day Tor Port- land, Or, on his return journey East' Major Marshall served aboard the gun boat Choctaw in the operations against Vicksburg in 1863.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-22
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

Women never apologize to each other; they only cry and then kiss and make up
 Probably Delilah had an idea she could save money by cutting Samson's hair her self.
 Some mems faces reflect nothing but the truth. Some women's reflect nothing but the teeth.
 Every man is a hero to the woman he marries and every woman is hero to the man she doesn't.
 Women talk lot about their rights. but none of them want to do any fighting If there was war a few of them would go as nurses Nobody shoots at nurses
 No man ever wants to kiss a girl after he has once seen her hold a nickel the conductor has given her for change be- tween her teeth while she gets her purse open.-New York Press.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-22

ures would be good thing No honest tradesman could object to it. Indeed, such standard would probably be received by the mercantile community with favor But establishing uniform method of ascertanng weights and measures and fastening upon the State fftyseven office-holders with power to muct tradesmen for unconstitutional fees are two different things.
 The next Legislature should be required to reform the Mahoney law Governor Budd, who IS likely to be called upon under the opinion of the Attorney General to appoint several of these county sealers, may properly direct the attention of that body to the subject If it be true, contemporary says, that the consuming public is being generally cheated in weights and measures, a uniform system should be adopted possible There is no question that such system could be enforced without costing either the State business men a cent.