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Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1899-07-06
Joint Pacific Coa.. Terminal Company

Joint Pacific Coast Terminal Company.
Tacoma, Wash. July "A special
from New York to the Evening News
today says: Negotiations which have
been pending for the past 80 days for
settlement Of the terms for a joint
terminal corporation for the Pacific
coast have been practically concluded,
and the plan OF organization agreed
upon. Tacoma will be the center of
the system, which will include various
ports on the navigable waters of the
North Pacific coast, where the steam.
ship lines OF the Pacific will be GEN.
tered.
Active work in the carrying out of
the project, which includes the Great
Northern. Northern Pacific. urlington
and Union Pacific systems, will be at
once begun.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1899-07-06

Judging from the number OF blasts
going Off near Pyramid harboE Jack
Dalton must be doing extensive work
on that end Of his trail.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1899-07-06
HAS THREE TTMEs THE CIRCULATION
OF ANY PAPER In THE COUNTY.
ADVERTISING RATns.

Business locals win be charged at 10 cents par
line for nrss insertion and cents per Line there
after.
Legal advertisements win in all cases b.
charged TO the party ordering them, a. legal
Satss, and paid for before sfsdavit ID furnished
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1899-07-06

Paris, July S,--The chamber of depu.
ties adopted resolution today author
izing duly qualified women to practice
at the bar.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1899-07-06
GOVERNMENT OF SAMOA.
Governor Not to BE Subject to Any OF
the Treaty Powers.

the Treaty Powers.
San Francisco. July 3.-The steam
ship MaripOsa arrived from Australia,
via Samoa and Honolulu, today, and
reports every thing quiet in the Sa-
moan islands.
The commission lost no time in get
ting to work and had an interview with
the riavl kings. who agreed to suIIend-
er all arms and abandon their claims to
the thorne. The commission is now
engaged in writing its report.
Apia is to be governed by council
and mayor. The judicial and diElo-
matte functions of the consuls will be
greatly restricted and the supreme
court and one law is recognized as suf-
ficient for the needs of Samoa. Rev.
enue will be raised by indirect taxation
by means of increased customs duties.
and the poll tax will be abolished. A
governor will be appointed who will
not be the subject OF any treaty pow
eIs. He will be assisted by a council
OF three, one from each of the interest
ed powers. This council will legislate
for the Samoans and will be aided by
small body of representative Samoans.
Consuls Rose and Maxse are passengers
on the Mariposa.
Some of the rebels ae dissatisfied
with the proclamation providing for a
provisional government, and have de.
clined to give up their rifles.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1899-07-06

In Portugal married women retaiR
their maiden names.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1899-07-06

Philadelphia, July 3.--Rev. Henry
H. McCook, Sc years Of age. the en-.
inent Presbyterian clergyman and
scientist. and Mrs. Eleanor d. Abey
were married last Tuesday.
DR.. MoCook belongs to the fighting
McCook family. During the civil war
he aided in organizing the FoIty-frst
regiment Illinois volunteers and served
as its chaplain. During the war with
Spain he visited Cuba and did splendid
work in locating end making the
graves of American soldiers.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1899-07-06

Not sovereign or ruling prince In
Europe failed to send Queen Victoria
fluctuations on her 80th birthday.
The Hve-ton schooner Coke has sailed
from San Francisco for Manila. Cap.
tain Freitch, the sole occupant of the
little vessel, expects to reach the Phil
ipplnes in 60 days.
The exposition OF natural and manu-.
factured products OF the south will take
place at the Grand Central palace in
New York, commencing October 25
and ending December 1. 1899.
The evening times., 1899-04-15
TIE Rights of "a wife.
(From Youths Companion.)


An extremely interesting case has lately
been decided by the Indiana supreme court
establishing new principle regarding the
rights of wife. A man in that State who
kept a shoe store employed his wife as
saieswoman and paid her weekly wages
which she saved and invested.
When his business declined he borrowed
her money, and also failed to nay her
wages. Then he. became bankrupt. His
wife presented her claim as one of the
creditors, for the borrowed money and
years unpaid wages. In the old times the
claim would have been thrown out at once
The theory of the common law Eaye the
wife NO right as against her husband. Her
property was his. She could not testify
for or against him in court in any case
civil or criminal. There could be no valid
contract between the two for the payment
of money.
The situation has been greatly improved
by statute and by the common sense de-
cisions of modern jurists One Of the last
Of the ancient disabilities OF the wife is re-
moved by the Indiana decision. The court
holds that an agreement to pay wages for
services Of q doDiestic character would not
stand. II would be against public policy
that man; should-by promising to pay
his wife for washing the dishes and for
sewing on his buttons-withhold money
from his ordinary creditors.
But the wife was under no obligation to
become . salesWoman for her husband He
paid-or rather ldid not pay-to her what
he would have had to pay to another; and
therefore hiH creditors were not injured by
his employing her. Consequently her claim
was good Ane-An was allowed.
The evening times., 1899-04-15
The Ranann Bu.Ine...

tFrom the New Orleans Times -Democrat)
The banana trade certainly seems to appcal to
the imagination Of newspaper men, remarked
New Orleans shipper There is an item now
floating about the Eastern papers that states in
substance that the Central American growers will
probably be ruined by the importation to the
United statcs OF Cuban fruit free of duty The
man who wrote that knew precious little about
the business As a matter of fact there is no
import duty OF any sort bananas at present
and it would take vastly more fruit than Cuba
could grow to glut the American market When
Campos WAS Governor General of Cuba he issued
an cdict prohibiting the shipment of native ba-
nanas and one OF the results was to ruin a big
New York house that owned enormous plantations
on the island. Campos' purpose was to shut off
a source OF revenue from tire Cuban insurgents,
but while they were shipping unrestricted we
took care of their cargoes all right. Another
bit OF fake news that is being widely copied is
that the Chinese banana growers of Bocas are
about TO organize a feet Of their own Why, the
Chinese banana growers OF Bocas couldn't organize
a fatboat The few of them who are in the
business have very small plantations. and the
fruit they raise cuts no figure in the general
cargoeS. Of course. there are great many Chi
nese in the banana business, hut they are merely
laboreis. When they get little money together
it is the rarest thing in the world for them to
invest in farm property. They all hope TO return
some day To the Flowery Kingdom, and conse-
quently avoid anything that would tie them to
the country. Chinaman with capital goes
straight TO town and starts store or a laun-
dry"
The evening times., 1899-04-15
Dreyfus Exonerated.


The best evidence yet offered 10 establish the
innocence of Dreyfus is that given before the
Court OF Cessation by Major Hartmann, an ar
tillcry officer, nov in command at Versailles.
The major testified that the bordereau Tor meni-
orsnduml could not have been written by an ar
tillcrymar. because it filed with technical
errors of which officer OF artillery would he
elilty-and Drcsfl, such officer. Major
Hartmann further testified that during all the
wears he was cof of the technical section Of the
artillery school Drcyfus had not asked to any
of the documents connected with il. He clinched
this testimony with the statement that any ar
tllcIy officer could openly the information
which Drcy i,Is i accuscd Of obtaining surrep-
ttiously. A. 10 the technical errors Major
Hartmann declared artilleryman would use the
term .'hydrauiiguc'' for 'hydropneumatiquc," or
'ie 100 Tor ''le l20 court when designating
field OPPOSED To siege guns. Other matters al
legged to he secret Major Hartmann proved to
have been openly discussed. while a certain man
ual instead OF being exclusively the property of
the regular army was in frequent by the vol
untcers. Such testimony this. coming from
one OF the highest officers if the artillery section
OF the French army. ought to satisfy anv rea-
sonsble person that Dreyfus did not write the
hordercau. B,,i neither the army authorities nor
the anti-Scmitic Partisan mob are reasonable
The evening times., 1899-04-15
LARGEST VESSEL AFLoAT.
Dimensions of the Oceanic. Showing
Her Magnitude.

Liverpool, April 15.-Work on placing
the machinery in the Oceanic. the largest
vessel in the world. is rapidly progressing.
and she will probably make her first
transatlantic trip in June next The
vessel was launched last January from the
shipbuilding yards at Belfast. Ireland
The keel Of this ship was laid on March
u, 1897. but the work was very much de-
layed pending the construction Of huge
gantry 81 feet high by 80 feet beam. which
weighs 500 tons. This gantry is said to be
the largest in the world. The dimensions
of this leyiathan are as follows: Length
over all 105 feet inches by 6S feet beam.
by 49 feet inches nodded depth. The
total depth is about IS feet and length be-
tween perpendiculars 6s5 feet The OK
treme load draught will be about - feet.
Her gross tonnage is 1I.c40; displacement,
80. 100 tons She will have 15 boilers. II
double and single-ended. OF about LOO
tons total weight. The engines will be
triple. four cylinder. four crank-baianced
of about q, 600 l. H. p. driving two three
bladed propellers very close together with
an opening between them. II is generally
supposed she will travel at uniform speed
OF 20 knots. although she will be capable of
O much higher speed. This vessel Will have
the largest electric light installation ever
fitted in a ship. and her passenger accom-
mediation will be something superb The
number of first-class passengers carried
will make a total Of 2.104.
The evening times., 1899-04-15
CANADIAN RAILROADS.
Prospect of . Contest Between Rival
Interests.


Montreal. April 15.-The Canadian Pa
cifc Railway is preparing for bill fight
before Parliament to maintain its railway
monopoly in the boundary mining district
bin, who owns a railway running from
Spokane to the international boundary. has
applied to Parliament for charter ena-
bling him 10 extend ii along the Kettle
River Valley In British Columbia, thus lap
ping a rich mineral country.
Last year similar application was
made. but was defeated by narrow ma
jority through the opposition of the Ca
madam Pacific Railway, which is now
building a read through that district The
application has been renewed this year,
and behind Mr.. Corbin is the powerful in
fluence of the Grand Trunk Railway. and
allied with it that Of the Great Northern.
Of which system Mr.. Corbin'S road is a
feeder. The boards of trade of Victoria.
B. c.: Greenwood. B. c.; Rossland, B. c..
and Winnipeg have passed strong resolu-
tiOns demanding that Parliament permit
the boundary country to obtain the rail-
way competition which its people desire.
and the Canadian Pacific will have Difficult
ty in blocking the application.
The argument used in favor of a refusal
Of the charter is that il the road is built
1t will make all Southern British Columbia,
with its immensely rich silver and lead
mines. tributary to Spokane, Wash, and
that Eastern Canada will lose an immense
amount of trade. The matter comes up
almost Immediately before the Canadian
Parliament.
The evening times., 1899-04-15
The Age of Invention.

1: is now said that when the Trans
Siberian Railway is complete the journey
around the world. which now takes sixty
six days, will require but thirty thrse.
The Russian Minister of Roads and Com
merce is authority for this statement.
This is rather stupendous statement,
when one thinks of the extraordin ,ry
shifts resorted to by Jules Verne to get
his hero around the world in eighty days:
but the schedule is as follows: Seven days
from New York TO Bremen; day and
half TO st. Petersburg; ten days from the
capital to vladivostock; ten days more to
San Francisco, and four and one-half
thence to New York. This, 1t Is needless
10 say, takes no account of possible delays
or misconnections; but even counting al
these things it may be safely said that
the traveller over the new Siberian Rail
way will cover his twenty-five thousand
miles and more in less than forty days.
1t will actually take less time to 60
around the world than 1t did fifty years
The evening times., 1899-04-15

aso- to 70 from New York to San Fran
cisco! When the present Pope. as young
man. was called upon to travel from Rome
to BRUSSELS, he had time to mcguire .
working knowledge OF the French LAM
guaxe on the road. One could hardly co
that now while going from Rome to CHI
casp and back ssain-and II may be re-
membered that at the time the Pope
made his journey Chicago did not exist.
At the present rate OF travel. even should
no more startling improvements be made.
II will be possible to visit every part OF
the Inhabited globe in the time formerly
impossible that the means Of Transports
tion should be brought to much great u
degree OF excellence than exists at the
present time; but when the steam raj.
road was first seen In this country there
were many old-fashioned people who de-
ciarca that Il was tempting Providence 10
travel so fast Nad there were othsrs, no,
old fashioned. who were confident that
nothing better in the way of a carriage
could possibly be devised. AS some one
has aptly said. we are only at the thresh
old of the age OF electricity, the safe t,
cheapest. and most available motive force
yet discovered. and one which, SO far as
can he seen at present. Is inexhaustible.
What electricity will do in the way OF
girdling the earth during the next hun
dred years 1t Ia not possible TO foretell
The immediate result of all this tre-
mendous and sudden development of in
ventive genius will, of course. be the
opening up Of regions of the eaith hitherto
unexpiored or uninhabitable. Nations tn
erto savage will be introduced to civiiiza-
tion, and in a somewhat different way
from that of former centuries. This is
ore of the things which is not fully un-
savage countries. in former years. tie
trader came first, with whisky, beads,
trinkets. and vice. After he had given
the native just enough knowledge to make
him a had savage instead Of any sort Of
civilized man, the missionary came. and
labored with more or less success. ac-
cording to the condition of the trib, and
the brains Of the laborer. But the whole
course of development was exceedingly
slow, and generation after generation OF
white men sometimes perished before the
foundations of colony were laid in b,ooi.
treachery. injustice. pestilence. famine.
and misery, both for the colonist AMI the
native. Nowadays development will be
more rapid. From the first, the incipie-t
colony will be more or less under the
control of civilization. If we are to make
the Philippines profitable to us in any
sense OF the word, and not a byword and
reProach. they must be protected from
dishonest spectators and incompetent po-
iitical governors. Savage tribes of the isl
ands must be introduced to civilization
in way which will make tn m respect it
and help TO forward its purposes. And tn $
is much more likely to happen. in the
Philippines and elsewhere, than if the isl
ands had been conquered two hundred
years ago by England and handed ever 10
Us by any chance when We won oar own
Independence. Civilization will. under the
present arc-light blaze of publicity. have
some chance of winning her way unham-
pered by private greed and political in
trigue
The evening times., 1899-04-15
FOUND DnovnxD.
Corpse Discovered Floating In the
Spuyten Duyyil Creek.

Corpse Discovered Floating In the
spuyten Duyvil Creek.
+ New- York. April 15.--En the discovery Of
the body Of a handsome woman floating
in spuyten Duyvil Creek yesterday even-
ing. the police OF the Kingsbridge station
have a mystery which is only partially
cleared up by the clews to her identity
found on the body. The evidence points
to suicide
The body was that of . woman about
thirty-fve years old, five feet five inches
tall and weighing $50 pounds. She had
dark brown hair and hazel eyes, and was
tastefully dressed in dark clothing Of good
quality. A pair Of gold-rimmed eyeglasses
hung from her neck by . chain. and in her
pocket was q key to room No. 3l7 at the
st. Denis Hotel. No money was found in
her possession. and there were no letters
or other evidence of her identity. A plain
gold wedding ring stamped wv. & Co"
pair of gold sleeve links, and a coral
stiekpin were all the jewelry she wore.
The body bore no marks Of violence and
evidently had not been in the water more
than twenty-four hours.
The body was discovered at Z o'clock
last evening by two laborers in a lumber
yard. The men summoned Policeman Tier
ney. Of the Kingsbridge station. He got
a boat and brought the body to the bank,
after which ii was taken to the station.
AT the st. Denis Hotel 1t was stated
that room No. 317 had been occupied since
April 3 by woman. who registered as
MRS. A. B. Lyles. Columbus, Ohio. ana
that description of the woman whose body
was found answered in a general way to
hers. Mrs. Lyles came to the hotel alone
on the evening Of April 9. Her only bag
gage was a hand satchel, and she was
not known to any Of the employees of the
hotel as a former patron.
She sent for the night clerk. d. c. Am
stead. on Thursday evening. He went to
her room and found her in great distress.
She told him that her purse had bsen Gto.s =
from her in Sixth Avenue that morning
1t contained $500. she said. all the money
she had with her. and she was much dis
tressed at the prospect Of being penniless
in a strange city. She told Amstead that
she was a widow and that her business af-
fairs were managed by a physician in Co
lumbus. whose name he forgets- Amstead
loaned her a small sum of money to COM
municate with her friends. and since then
no one In the hotel seems to have seen
her.
II was not known at the hotel last night
whether she had spent Thursday night
there, A search of her room revealed no
clew to her identity. Nothing was found
but a few articles of clothing. 1t ts the
opinion Of the police that she fell or jump
ed from some North River pier down town
and that her body was swept into Spuyten
Duyvil Creek by the tide.
The evening times., 1899-04-15

often entNpped into Tar worse company.
In camp his money 10 safe II he takes Iea-
sonabie care Of It; in = city dive he may be
robbed Of that and number OF other
things, including his self-respect. At can
teen he is under the control Of his ofacers;
in town he is only under the care Of the
police. II he were 9. perfect being the
problem would be easy. II he were worse
than he is II would be different. In both
Of these cases there might be good reason
to abolish the canteen. But as things are
he is simply = healthy. hearty. reckless.
pleasure loving fellow. with reasonable.
but not an extraordinary. amount Of self
control
The evening times., 1899-04-15
PRIOR RE1LE CALLED TO ROME.

The Water-Cure Prelate'x Successor
to Visit the Pope.
Berlin. April 15.-Prior Relic. the sue
cessor Of Father Kneipp at Woerishofen.
has been ordered by telegraph to proceed
to Rome at once to see the Pope
There is much speculation regarding the
summons. Father Kneipp advocated
water cure for certain ills. feature of
the treatment was an early morning walk
with bare feet on the dew-iaden grass.
Prier Relies summons to Rome may mean
that the Pope is desrous of taking the
treatment
The evening times., 1899-04-15
The B.a,,nsor- Ei-ctIon.-rhe may
PAY CORPS OF THE NAVY.
A Long List of Applicants for APP
point ment.


point tment.
The President has taken under consid-
Grafton the names of long list OF ap-
plican.s for appointments in the Pay
Corps of the Navy where twenty-five va
cancies exist in the lower grades by pro-
vision Of the Naval Appropriation bill al
lowing an increase of officers. Several
hundred young men. many supported by
strong backing and with social influence.
combine to render the Presidents task
most difficult, and it has been suggested
that in order to relieve him of annoyance
and embarrassment all places be filed
as a result of competitive examinations.
This procedure is objected to. however,
by the politicians who have appealed to
have selections made by the President
outright.
Among the candidates are a number of
volunteer paymasters in the Spanish war.
Those having good records will be given
preference when selections are made over
other classes of applicants.
The evening times., 1899-04-15

Both England and this country have
yielded to the persistent and unreasonable
demand of Germany. in order to hasten
the Commission TO Samoa. Ii is not very
delicate in Germany to take such an ad-
vantage of the desire of America and Eng
land to avoid trouble. But for her knowl-
edge OF the strong feeling OF the two
countries for peace, she would never have
been so obstinate in her demand
The evening times., 1899-04-15
ThI. xnrinr Chill.

(From the Cleveland Plain DealeT.l
.'Why don't you speak to papa. Berthe
well. you Just wager your sweetest
smile. dearest. that I'm not going to wreck my
cause by asking favor of your daddy in ANY
such weather the present.
The evening times., 1899-04-15
Irformation wanted.
To the Editor Of The Times:

To the Editor of The Times:
Will Adjutant General Corbin please explain
why the brevets Col Evan Miles, First Infantry.
brigadier general of volunteers. is entitled to un-
der his name in the Official Army Register for
1899. for the Civil War and Indian wars Of 1877
and 1873. omitted? Gen. Evan Miles has had
a remarkable He is officer Of promi
ncnce. of the strictest integrity. who has wen
honoss in the Civil, Indian, and Spanish wars.
RETIRED STAR.
The evening times., 1899-04-15
A LIFE INSURANCE DECISION.
Widow of 81 Suicide Secures n Yer
dict in Her Favor.

Widow of n Suicide Secures YER
dict In Her Favor.
Philadelphia. April 15.-Mrs. Emily v.
Hopkins, widow of John s. Hopkins, for
mer cashier of the Peoples Bank. has been
awarded verdict in the United States cir
cult court for $40. 400 against the North
western Life Assurance Company of Chi
cago. on a policy of insurance upon the life
of her husband. who committed suicide and
precipitated the failure Of the bank.
The policy. 1t appeared. contained an
anti-sulcide clause but was given in ex-
change for another policy which did not
contain such a clause. The court has yet
to determine this question of law. and un-
der its finding it is to be decided whether
the verdict will hold.
The evening times., 1899-04-15
An Important Distinction.

From the Chicago Tribunc.)
Stranger see YOU have magnificent og,-iiard>
in this section. Ii must he a great truitra,ing
country. viii there he any crop this year.
Natiye-Mister are you 4 reporter Il buyer.
The evening times., 1899-04-15
Too Com mon.

(From the Detroit Free Tres-.)
'Henry Higgs sent pin made of of
his army buttons
.'How you must value it,
81 did until ] found out that other
girls each had one, too
The evening times., 1899-04-15
Yelled Nea s,i ugS.
(From the Boston Tranpript

tFrom the Boston TransvriW.)
Johnny-Pa. Mr.. BIownlow said for Obvious
reasons he should be unable to he AT the meet
ing at the schoohouse tonight. What does he
Inean by .'obviUus reasonsg''
Pa-Why, my son. when has any
sons that he can't think Of or has that hc
does not care to name. he says his are
obvious.