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Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-09-29
ULT|MATUM TO TRAhSYAAL
England Serves Notice or
the Beers.
FORMER NEGOTIATIONS OFF
Issues Will Re Communicated In q
Later Dispatch-Troops in Natal.

London, Sept. 27.-The officials of
the foreign office this evening gave out
the text of the letter of the secretary of
state for the colonies, Joseph Chamber
lain, to the British high commissioner
in South Africa, Sir Alfred Miner,
dated September "a. The British re-
ply expresses regret that her majesty s
offer No. 3, of September 8; has been
refused, and says:
The object her majesty's govern
ment had in view in the recent nego-
tiations has been stated in manner
which cannot admit of misapprehen-
sion, viz: To obtain such immediate
representation for Uitlanders as will
enable them to secure for themselves
that fair and just treatment which was
formally promised them in 1881, and
which her majesty intended to secure
for them when she granted privileges
of self-government to the Transvaal.
No conditions less comprehensive than
those contained in the telegram of
September s, can be relied on to effect
that object.
''The refusal of the South African
government to entertain the offer thus
made, coming, as it does, after four
months of protracted negotiations,
closes five years of extended agitation,
and makes it useless further to pursue
discussion on the lines hitherto fol-
lowed, and the imperial government is
now compelled to consider the situa-
ton afresh and to formulate its own
proposals for a final settlement of the
issues which have been created in
South Africa by the policy constantly
followed for many years by the govern
ment of the republic of South SAfrica.
1t will communicate the result of it.
deliberations in later dispatch. !"
A telegram received from Calcutta
announces the departure of the trans
port Chidhana for South Africa, and
the last transport for the Cape will
leave India tomorrow.
A special dispatch from Pretoria says
that the members of the volksraad, be-
lieving that the British notes are in
tended to gain time for the concentra-
tion of. troops, urge the government to
adjourn the raad Immediately and to
send Great Britain q note declaring
that further mobilization will be re-
garded as an unfriendly act. Trenches,
earthworks and sandbag defenses are
being erected in all the available ap-
proaches to the capital.
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-09-29
THE FIRST MONTANA.
six Companies Return ON the Transport
Zealandia.

Six Companies Return ON the Transport
Zealandia.
San Francisco, Sept. 25.-The Uni
ted States transport Zealandia arrived
from Manila via Yokohama today, hav-
ing on board six companies of the First
Montana volunteers. A noisy greeting
was extended to the returning soldiers,
whose safe arrival was announced by
the blowing of steam whistles and the
discharge of cannon.
Notification of the Zelandia's COM
ing was promptly given, and tugs went
out to greet the transport. One tug had
on board number of officials of Cali
fornia and of San Francisco, and MEM
bers of the local reception committee,
reinforced by brass band. The othea
carried Governor Smith, of Montana;
United States Senator Carter and
party of Montanans, who were vocifer-
GUS in their joy at beholding their SOL
dier kith and kin once more.
The health of all on board is excel
lent, and there was but one death on
the voyage, that of James Ashton,
Fourth United States cavalry, who died
September 19 of pneumonia. Aside
from this case there was no sickness on
board the transport during the trip.
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-09-29
NAVY B0ABHRDS 1HE REBELS
Works on the Bay Of Subig
Destroyed.
TowN OF oLANeAPo RIDDLE
Wero Working Was Blown Up by
Landing Party--Town Took Fire.

Manila, Sept. 90. - The crniser,
Charleston, the monitor Monterey and
the gunboats Concord and Zafiro, with
the marines and bluejackets from the
cruiser Baltimore, left Cavite Septem-
Der 19, and, as already cabled. pro-
ceeded to Subig bay to destroy an in
surgent cannon there.
Owing to the bad weather, the opera
tion was postponed until yesterday.
when the warships for three hours bonn
barded the town of Olangapo and the
entrenchments where the gun was situ-
ated. Men from the Charleston, Con-
cord and Zafro were then landed un-
der heavy insurgent fire, proceeding
to the cannon, which was utterly de-
stroyed by guncotton, and then re-
turned to the warships. The Amerl-
cans had one man wounded during the
engagement.
While waiting in Subig bay for bet
ter weather, the Americans deserted
Filipino reinforcements moving toward
Olangapo At $40 A. M. yesterday
the Monterey began to advance upon
the town, which was about three miles
east of the monitors anchorage. The
Charleston, Concord and Zafro fol-
lowed. At 7:2O the Monterey opened
fire with her secondary and main bat
teries; the Charleston and Concord join
ing Immediately. At 7:30 the insur-
gent cannon answered the first shot
passing close to the Monterey's smoke
stack. The gun was fred twice only.
The American bombarding then be-
came general. At $3.50 the Monterey
advanced to range of 600 yards, using
her main battery. Two hundred and
fifty men were landed about 800 yards
east of the cannon at IL o'clock, under
a severe Mauser fire.
The men from the Charleston were
the first to reach the beach, but the
Concord's men were the first at the
gun, which they reached at 11:1O.
The cannon was found to be 16-cen-
timeter Krupp gun, presumably OBJ
tanned from the Spaniards. Meanwhile
the warships continued to shell the
shelving beach on the east and west
side to silence the insurgent fire upon
the sailors from the trenches sklrtlng
the beach.
0u01or OlSeu 04plOu6u oO pOuAuS VI
guncotton in three discharges in the
cannon, which had suffered from the
fire of the warships.
The Americans then returned to the
boats, the firing inland being kept up
to protect the embarkation. The Con-
cords men were the last to leave the
shore and the warships were reached
at 11:50.
Cadet Brinzer, with the Concord's
launch, armed with gatling. did ex-
cellent work on the left of the landing
party. Captain Meyers. of the ma
rines, captured muzzle-loading field
piece. Lieutenant Mcdonald was in
command of the landing party. and the
movement was splendidly executed and
controlled.
The numbers of the Filipinos there
could not be ascertained, and no dead
were seen.
The Monterey fired for four hours
81 shots from her 10-inch guns, and IL
from her 12-inch guns. The town,
which was riddled with shells, took fire
at several points.
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-09-29
work in England.

New York, Sept. 27.-James O'Con-
nell, president of the International
Machinists, who had been a delegate to
the British trades congress meeting
held in Plymouth, England, spoke to
the Central Federated Union of his
experiences and observations at the
congress and among the working
classes in England. He did not have
high opinion of them. The condi-
tion of the English working men, wo-
men and children, he said, was deplor-
able. The difference of sex seemed to
be entirely lost sighAef. He saw the
women going about in clogs, dressed in
mems clothes, in blacksmith and other
shops, welding the sledge hammers
with the men.
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-09-29
Edmonton Relief Expedition.

Seattle, Sept. 25.-Moved at last by
the appeals of the relatives and friends
of the misguided men, SO many of
whom met death or encountered hard
ships and sufferings almost beyond hu-
man endurance, Canadian officials have
dispatched relief expedition over the
Edmonton trail route. The rescuers
left Dawson early in September. 1t is
a splendidly equipped body. led by
Corporal Kerving and Constable Boke.
The voyage will probably require seven
months. The expedition left Dawson,
going down the Yukon to the mouth of
Porcupine river. Thence the voyagers
go up the Porcupine to the portage of
Bell and West Rat rivers, where they
cross the mountains to the Pelly river,
thence portage to the Mackenzie and
down that stream to Fort MCPHERSON.
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-09-29
GENERAL TRADE is GOOD.
Reactioa In the Stock Market Has But
Little Eject.


r. G. DUN q Co. g weekly review of
trade says: The reaction in the stock
market is not sign of anything outside
that market, but has caused many to
look for signs of reaction elsewhere.
Such signs have been hard to find. It
has been for months wonder that the
demand for products was sustained at
rates exceeding past consumption in
any year, Notwithstanding the general
rises in prices. But the demand does
not appear to abate, and the rise in
prices continues.
Wheat exports fall little below
last years, but in three weeks, -four
included, have been 1896, 877 bushels
for Atlantic ports, against 9,293, 83l
bushels last year, and 1,021, 1898 BUSH
els from Pacific ports, against GOT, 961
bushels last year. But Western re-
ceipts have been 81, ,759,852 bushels,
against 23, ,099, ,397 bushels last year,
and even more impressive are the re-
ceipts of 1855, 932 bushels of corn,
against IL, lit, 4S3 bushels last year,
and the exports of 9,201, ,427 bushels,
against 5.943, 966 last year.
Further government reports have
been 80 credited abroad that cotton has
risen to 6.62 cents, but 1t comes for
ward more freely than in years of max
imum crops.
When men pay So to $5 per ton more
than the latest quoted price for iron
products in order to get early deliver
les, it is because delay is threatened on
works or railroads or bridges, vessels
or machinery. promising profit many
times the cost of small fraction of the
material. In such circumstances as
in much of the reconstruction and ex-
pansion now going on, present cost
counts for little compared with the
earning power of the finished product
in time like this.
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-09-29
Relief Exnsditian.

Victoria, B. c., Sept. 27.-News
reached here by the Cottage City that
relief expedition has been sent by the
mounted police to the Mackenzie trail
where great suffering is said to prevail
The last arrival from the Mackenzie
was an Australian named Edwardson,
who, after losing his supplies, was a
week without food. A prospecting ex-
pedition which returned to Dawson
after 10 weeks on the upper Klondike,
Porcupine and Stewart rivers, reports
that although colors are found there is
no gold on any of the creeks of these
DEPARTMENTS
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-09-29
OUR HEAD IS TURNED.
Sc says Goodwin Smith, Who Thinl
Dewey Is Ovsrestimated.

Sc says GoIdwin Smith, who Thinks
Dewey Is Ovsrestimated.
Toronto, Ont, Sept. 25.-Goldwin
Smith, writing in a local paper, says:
Nothing could show the extent to
which the head of Columbia has heen
turned by the war more than her ador-
alton of the hero Dewey. What did
the hero Dewey and his comrades do?
They sat in almost perfect safety and
destroyed at long range line of help
less tubs, with some hundreds of the
poor Spaniards who manned them,
and who alone had any opportunity of
showing heroism on the occasion. So
perfectly secure did the Americans feel
that they adjourned to breakfast in the
middle of their sport. There was
among them a single casualty, and hae
they all gone tiger hunting one casual
ty at least probably would have oc-
CURED.
''For this, however, Dewey, is de-
clared to be the equal of the great sea-
men who conquered in the terrible days
of Aboukir, Copenhagen, Trafalgar. If
he were SO inclined he might probably
be elected president Of the United
States.
Canada cannot possibly take part
in the celebration of Dewey's triumphs
without evidence of discourtesy toward
Spain, friendly nation, which has
done Canada no wrong. Spain, let it
be remembered, though deprived of her
possessions in this hemisphere, is still
Mediterranean power, decayed at
present, but capable of restoration.
The British government will hardly
thank the Canadian government for
making her an implacable enemy"
HooTED OFF THE PLATFORM.
Jerry simpson's Praise of Aguinaldo
Was Too Much for His Hearers.
Kansas City, Sept. 25.-A dispatch
to the Journal from Wichita, Kan,
says:
Ex-Congressman Jerry Simpson was
hooted off the platform here this even
ing while addressing local G. A. r.
reunion Mr.. Simpson said:
ST glory in the spunk of Aguinaldo's
men. They are simply fighting to re-
gain the land the Catholics took from
them. A local paper has asked: who
is John Browns soul marching with
Otis or Aguinaldo?' believe John
Browns soul is marching with Agui-
naldo."
Mr.. Sipmson said in substance that
he would rather be with Aguinaldo
than with General Otis. An old SOL
dier in the audience rose and said that
the speech was drifting too much into
politics. This was applauded and
greeted with cries of Throw him outP
and sKick Simpson off the platformW
Men and women arose and Missed, and
the men kept crying, "Put him outP'
Simpson appealed to the crowd to sit
down. ST am coming to my perora-
tion," he said, although he had been
speaking only Is minutes. Cries came,
'.Take your peroration to Aguinaldo.
Simpson attempted to go on, but no
one could hear him 10 feet away. The
band struck up .'The Star Spangled
Banner" and Mr.. Simpson left the
platform. His retirement was greeted
with prolonged cheers.
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-09-29

cleveland street-car Dyn.mited.

Cleveland, o., Sept. 25.-Another
Big Consolidated street car was dyna-
mited tonight. The explosion occurred
on the Wade Park line, in lonesome
place near the city limits. The explo-
sion smashed the front wheels ON each
side. The car jumped the track, ran
across the other track and stopped in
the gutter of the street. There were
only two passengers. and they both
escaped injury. Nobody was seen about
the place where the explosion occurred,
and there is no clew 70 the perpetFar
tors.
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-09-29
American Prisoners.

Manila, Sept. 27.-Two Englishmen
who had been held by the insurgents
since June, have arrived at Angeles.
They have reported that the Filipino
congress has resolved that ID American
prisoners shall be surrendered Wednes-
day or Thursday. They have, how
ever, no information as to the where
abouts of Captain Charles M. Rookie
feller, of the Nineteenth infantry, who
disappeared in April last, and from
whom nothing has been heard. They
assert that three Americans who were
captured by the rebels are acting as
officers in the insurgent army.
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-09-29
CAPTURED BY REBELS.
American Gumboat and Crew in Fill
pinO Hands.


Manila, Sept. 27.-It is reported
that the insurgents have captured the
United States gunboat Urdaneta, in
the Orani river, on the northwest side
of Manila bay, where she was patrol.
ling. One officer and nine of crew
are missing.
The gunboat Petrol, sent to investi-
gate, returned and reported that the
Urdaneta was beached opposite the
town of Orani, on the Orani river.
She was burned and the following guns
with their ammunition were captured:
One one-pounder, one Colt automatic
gun and one Nordenfeldt, 25 milimeter
gun. The crew of the Urdaneta are
prisoners, or have been killed. Further
details are lacking.
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-09-29

Pietermaritzburg, Natal, Sept. 27.-
The troops that have been moved from
Ladysmith to Dundee will form new
company at Glencoe, their places being
filled by others from India. The move
ment was executed SO smartly and un-
expectedly that the Boer spies were un-
aware of it until it was actually ac-
complished.
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-09-29
rour Yaahta Canaized.

Toledo, O., Sept. 2e.-Lake Erie
witnessed the worst storm of the sea-
son, the wind blowing at the rate of 70
miles an hour. Four yachts were cap
sized near Maumee bay, and the crews
were rescued with difficulty. Consid-
erable damage to houses is reported in
Northwestern Ohio,
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-09-29
Troops In the Natal.

Durham, Natal, Sept. 27.-Seven
hundred and fifty men of the Leicester
shire regiment, 750 of the Royal Dub
lin fusilleers, 200 mounted infantry
and the EiShteenth hussars have arrived
at Dundee from Ladysmith.
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-09-29
Uncle Coilis Got 1t.

San Francisco, Sept. 25.-The Chron-
icle says: Definite and reliable infor-
nation sent to the Chronicle from the
East sets at rest the rumors about the
sale of the Crocker holdings of South
ern Pacific stock, and ends speculation
as to the purchaser. The Crocker
shares, numbering $40, 200, and valued
approximately at $40, 900, have
been bought by a syndicate of which
G. P. Huntington was the promoter
and is the head, and of which the
Speyers, of New York, are the bankers.
It is also certain that the recent visit
of James Speyer to this coast had much
to do with the Crocker deal.
G. P. Huntington is now virtually
in control of the Southern Pacific.
Other outside holdings are also said to
have been purchased by the same syn
dicate in sufficient amounts to secure
to Huntington the absolute control of
the road.
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-09-29

New York, Sept. 25.-Private G.
Oswald, of the First infantry, who was
transferred to Swinburne island last
Tuesday from the transport Buford,
died tonight from yellow fever.
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-09-29
Americans Invade Germany.

London, Sept 27-The Berlin CORE
spondent of the Daily Mail, in a dis
patch dealing with the great increase
of American iron and steel imports into
Germany, says:
ST learn that the Garvin Machine
Company and the Nile tool works are
going to erect large plants in Berlin.
Other important American concerns,
including the Buffalo Forge Company,
are expected to follow suit. There is
an average of e2, 400 value of iron tools
alone imported weekly from New
York. -
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-09-29
E1plo.ion killed Three brothers.

Palmetto, Ga, Sept. 27.-E. P.
Hearn, J. P. Hearn and Henry Hearn,
brothers. were killed today by the ex-
plosion of stationary engine boiler in
building owned by them. The ex-
plosion was caused by letting cold
water into the boiler.
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-09-29
Read I'm the yolk.raad.

Pretoria, Sept. 27.-The imperial
dispatch was read today in the volks-
raad. President Kruger announced
that the reply of the government of the
South African republic would be pre-
sented to the volksraad tomorrow.
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-09-29

Onions. new, $1.25@1. 80 per sack.
Potatoes, new, 76c@$1.
Beets, per sack, $1.10.
Turnips, per sack, SOC. %.
Carrots, per sack, $4,000. sw
Parsnips, per sack, $1@1.75.
Caulifower, 75c per dozen.
Cabbage, native and California, 81
@1.25 per 100 pounds.
Peaches, 65@80c.
Apples, $1.25@1. 80 per box.
Pears, $1.00@1.25 per box.
Prunes, 60c per box.
Watermelons, $1@1.75.
Cantaloupes, 50@75c.
Butter-Creamery, 27c per pound;
dairy, 17@22c; ranch, 121a CLIO per
pound.
Eggs-27c.
Cheese-Native, .18@14c.
Poultry-14@ Ice; dressed, 161ac.
Hay-Puget Sound timothy, $7@9;
choice Eastern Washington timothy,
$14.00
Corn-whole, $3.50; cracked. $2s;
feed meal, $2S.
Barley-Rolled or ground, per ton,
sal; whole. $22.
Flour-Patent, per barrel, $3.50;
blended straights, 1925; California,
1926 buckwheat -four, $3.50; gra-
ham, per barrel, $500; whole wheat
-four, $3. 90; rye -four, $3.75.
Millstuffs-Bran, per ton, $500;
shorts, per ton, $1,000.
Feed-Chopped feed, $20.5 per ton;
middlinps, per ton, $22; oil cake meal,
per ton, $500.
San Francisco Market.
Wool-Spring Nevada, 12@14c per
pound; Eastern Oregon, 10@14c; VAL
ley, 17@19c; Northern, S@1Oc.
Onions-Yellow, 75@85c per sack.
Butter-Fancy creamery 25@ @26c;
do seconds, 23@24c; fancy dairy, 81
@23c; do seconds, 18@ zoe per pound.
Eggs-store, 20@asc; fancy ranch,
25@28c.
Citrus Fruit-O Oranges, Valencia,
$2.75@S.25; Mexican lines, $4,000
800; California lemons 75c@$l. 80;
do choice $1.75@2.OO per box.
Hay-Wheat $8@9.5O; wheat and
oat $6.50@8.50; best barley 5000
TOO; alfalfa. $5.O0@7.00 per ton;
straw. S0@S5c per bale.
Potatoes-Early Rose, 40@ 55c; Ore
gon Burbanks, $l.25@1. LOO; river Bur-
banks, 50@70c; Salinas Burbanks,
90c @$1.1b per sack.
Tropical Fruits-Bananas, $1,000
2.60 per bunch; pineapples, $4,000
400; Persian dates, 6@616c per
pound.
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-09-29

San Francisco, Sept. 27.-The Idaho
and North Dakota volunteers were
mustered out of service of their coun-
try at the Preside today.
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-09-29

Sacramento, Sept. 25.-Governor
Gage today issued orders to the ad-
jutant-general to fire a salute of IL
gums upon the arrival of Admiral
Dewey in New York,
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-09-29

Vacaville, CAL, Sept. 23.-By the
explosion of a soda fountain in bakery
today, Karl Andler, an employe, was
killed. The proprietor, who was fill
ing the fountain, was uninjured,
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-09-29
DISASTERS IN INDIA.
Earthquakes. Floods and Landslide
in Lower Himalayas.


Earthquakes. Floods and Landslides
in Lower Himalayas.
Calcutta, Sept. 27.-Eartquakes,
floods and terrible landslides occurred
at and near Darjeeling, in the lower
Himalayas, last night. Great damage
was done, and no fewer than so natives
perished. There was a rainfall of 2S
inches in 38 hours. Three bad land
slides took place between Darjeeling
ment of railway train of passengers.
According to the latest reports, nine
European children and 20 natives were
lost between those two points. The
whole Calcutta road is blocked, and
the Paglajohre line has been seriously
damaged.
About 100 acres of tea have been
destroyed from Jalapahai to Burchill.
At the latter place some 5000 feet of
water supply pipe has been ruined.
The electric light plant has suffered
seriously, and the town is in darkness.
There is great fear of further rain
A dispatch from Jalpaiguri, on the
river Teesta, 40 miles southeast of Dar-
jeeling, says that boat crossing the
Teesta with three Europeans and six
natives was swamped by the high
waves. The body of one of its occu-
pants has been found IA miles down
the river. It is. reported that the
Europeans, Anderson, Kuster and
Whitman, jumped overheard. Their
fate is unknown. Search parties have
been sent to look for them.
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-09-29

There are in existence more than roo
biographies of Columbus, written IN
various languages.
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-09-29
STRUCK A REEF.

Transport Leelenaw Kept Ahoat by
Working Her Pumps Steadily.
San Francisco, Sept. 26.-The United
States transport Leelenaw came into
port today with the pumps steadily at
work to overcome the effect of hole
in the ships bottom. The Leelenaw
sailed for Manila September 2, with
cargo of commissary stores and 200
horses for army use. After leaving this
port distemper was developed among
the horses, and SO many of the animals
died that the Leelenaw put into Homo
lulu and landed there the commissary
storse and the surviving horses. The
transport then started on the return
trip to this city.
During the three days prior to reach
ing this port, SO thick and constant was
the fog that no observations could be
taken, and, having lost her bearings,
the Leelenaw struck reef near Mon
tara, 20 miles south of this port, last
evening. She was for five hours stuck
fast on the rocks, and when she finally
fioated off at high tide it was found that
the Jagged rock had torn hole in her
bottom.
1t will be necessary for the Leelenaw
to 40 in drydock for considerable
overhauling. In addition to the leak,
the vessel was badly strained by her
experience on the reef.