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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-03-31
RECRUITS FOR THE B0ERS.
Thousands Have Come Through
From Europe ny Way of Lour-
emo Mnruuey

NEW YORK. March S0-A Worlds
correspondent, writing from Pretoria,
March z. says;
"The Bocr army has thn3 far been
strenEt hened by about 5000 men who
have come into the country through Dol
aKoa bay since the war began.
This large body OF men has been re-
cruited chiefly In Europe. but many men
have come from America and even Aus
tralln Ever since the war began this
steady stream Of hghung men has been
pouring into the Transvaal over the
Portuguese border. although the English
officials there have done everything in
their power 90 stop IL, Every train ar
irving from luureuxo MARQUEE brings
from ten TO nny recruits
Two direct lines OF steamers arrive at
tourenEo Marquee and each is carrying
all the passengers from Naples and Mar
settles that 20 can accommodate
For the most part the passengers bay
tickets go Durham but leave the boats az
IeourvuEo Marquee ia order 90 give a
wrong impression 90 the British officers
who search the vessels al Alden
Cen. Botha Popular Hero.
"Tbc Borr nero ~ She first four months
OF the war Is Louis Rotha. the victor ~
Colenso aUd Spion kop and ths youngest
general iu the republican armies The
name Hntha Us ora every tongue iu the
Two rrpahli-s and already ra is hoirE
mentioned as - possible eirliat, Cor the
precedence.
his FiGht at >pton kop.
"rhe hEht vn sqleH kep iu th- latter
part az january Was tHe FIRST ot ans
great consequence. iuakuuch as . i.rtt-
Ism victory would have baen followed ur
iho RAISING .t thr siszt 90 i5iyamith.
The defeat OF Who B.egs wsgll have
changed ths eide ~ frr entire lamr4tee
in Natal ara 90 SHarl ag7ias, s1eh o.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-03-31
DR.. N. A. MCLAUGHLIN,
los COLUMBIA ST., ABOVE fRSI.
SEATTLE, WASH.
Never Sold In Drug Stores.
THE SYSTEMS SfwfRAd.
Necessity OF Keeping II In Perfect
Working order.
Consultation the Cause Of Intevsal
sewcr-Gss Poisoning, Invoissss
All the vital oraRns-noaI
Neglect the First symp-
toms.

When a sewer IL cl0gged--
The sewage hacks up. oVeftowH aha W.
sens the whole nelghborhood .,,..,.
II Tho sewage Of the body IL rssulaiv
removed. it means health, II 4 Is fftAis'
81, II means disease, ,f a
decaying refuse. don't allow u V ~
mere nor Violently EJECT Il. Fore n ,asy
az long as the liver can be inmle Ns -,
and things yet right in nice. Eenile ssass
positive. natural way by using Nsfs''''
Candy Cathariic. the IDEAL lakatli,se Ven .rs
Btiy and try CasraTets today tesa ~
that it's what they DO. not What W.
they'n DO. that viii plea-o yen ~ "a
send fgr Booklet and free aimpie Aaa,f =
ne Rtefilng Remedy Co. Chicago. sSh-
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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-03-31
ROBERTS, ADVANCE
ENGAGES THE bOERS

Continued from Page One.
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1900-01-19
A MYSTERIOUS WRECK.
Name of the Steamer Lost in st. Mary's
Bay Still Unknown.

Name of the Steamer Lost in st. Mary's
Bay Still Unknown.
st. Johns, N. F., Jan. 15.-The fol-
lowing comprise all the details regard
ing the wreck in st. Mary's bay that
could be obtained up to midnight:
The ship is two-masted steamer of
nearly 5000 tons. and probably carried
crew of 60. with possibly some pas
sengers. She went ashore before day.
break Thursday, striking ledge at the
foot of the cliff, where escape was
hopeless. The crew launched the
boats, but probably during the panic
some were crushed against her side,
others being swamped, all the occu.
pants apparently perishing.
The ship was seen to be on fire by
residents sgS miles away. Attracted to
the scene, they found the after-half of
the wreck blazing fiercely, and the fore
part under water. Kerosene in the
cargo helped the blaze.
At that time only three men were
left on board. Two were on the bridge
and one was in the rigging. Those on
the bridge were safe until about 2 P.
M, when they were washed overheard
and drowned, the bridge being carried
away. The survivor soon after left the
rigging, swan to the rocks, and twice
endeavored to get footing. Failing
in this, he made his way back to the
rigging, where he died of exposure dur
ing the night.
Many dead bodies are visible tossing
in the surf. Two of them, thrown up
in cove, cannot be reached, owing to
the heavy sea. One is thought to be
that of woman. Boats and other
wreckage are thrown out among the
rocks for miles.
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1900-01-19
CROSSED FREE STATE BORDER
Reports of Proceedings in the Modder
River Country.

Reports Of Proceedings in the Modder
River Country.
Modder River, Thursday General
Darlington, with two regiments Of
Lancers, the Victorian mounted rifles
and battery of horse artillery, left
here on the evening of January z {Sun.
day. and crossed the FREQ State border
on Tuesday.
Simultaneously other movements
wero made. A column under Colonel
Pitcher went from Belmont to the
south of General Babington's route,
while a portion of the garrisons Of
Klokfontein and Honey Nest kloof. nm
der Major Byrne, advanced towards
Jacobsdal. General Darlington pene-
trated IL miles and his scouts 30.
They saw no signs of armed Boers. The
farmhouses we're found empty, the oc.
cupants having had news of the ad-
vance and gone further into the inte-
rior. The British bivouackcd at Ram
don. They burned three farmhouses,
the property of Lubbe, one of the Boer
leaders. Yesterday they swept around
southwark. returning here today.
Nothing was accomplished except Q
reconnaissance.
Colonel Pitcher came into touch
with General Darlington and then re.
turned to Belmont.
Major Byrne reconnoitered the hills
about four miles from Jacobsdal and
saw 700 Boers.
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1900-01-19
Of OUR EXPORTS
How Our Trade Has Grown
in Past Five Years.
WHO BUY OUR GOODS
by Far tho Best Customer, and Ger
many aud France Come Next.

Washington, Jan. 16.-Frank III.
Hitchcock. chief of the foreign mar
kets division of the agricultural depart
ment. has prepared an interesting col
lation OF figures showing for the first
time the respective amounts of our
agricultural exports which go to the
several countries of Europe and of the
other continents. The period covered
is 1894 to 1898. The statement shows
that the agricultural products exported
from the United States in the five years
had an average annual value of $685.
538, 8,201. OF these enormous exports,
about 60 per cent found market In
the United Kingdom and it's various
dependencies. The sum paid by the
British people for the American farm
products purchased during the period
mentioned reached as high as $40S..
-953, 954 year. Grea. Britain alone
took moro than one-half OF our agricul-
tural exports, tho consignments cred.
tied to that country forming about 55
per cent of the total shipments and
having al annual value of $3.50. 407,-
701.
United Kingdom us market sfor the
products of American agriculture, re-
ceived about 16 per cent OF the exports
for 1894-98, the average yearly value
amounting to $50, $780, ,254.
France, with purchases that aver.
aged $4S, 9Ss, ,791 year, Or about 6.6
per cent of the total, was the third
country in inheritance. These three
countries-the United Kingdom, Ger
many and France-received together
nearly rs per cent OF the total agricul-
tural exports.
After the three countries just mem
toned, The Netherlands, Belgium,
Canada, Italy and Spain afforded the
most important markets. Tho Neither
lands bought 4.3 per cent of tho total:
Belgium, s.6 per cent; Canada, s.6 per
cent; Italy, 2.2 per cent; and Spain,
1.5 per cent. The average value OF the
exports to these countries.
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1900-01-19
PLAGUE At HONOLULU.
Twenty-Two Cases Up to Date, One q
European.

European.
Honolulu, Jan. 17.-Since the 1st
inst, nine cases of plague have devel-
oped, making % cases to date. The
board of health has adopted heroic
measures, and it is believed the work
now in progress will stamp out the
scourge in short time. Thus far but
one European has been attacked. This
case was that of Ethel johnson, Nor
wegian girl, aged IA years. The other
2l cases are divided as follows, Chi
nese, Is; Japanese, 2; Hawaiian, s.;
South Sea islander, /.
The Sd inst. the board of health de-
clared the entire judicial district of
Honolulu under quarantine. The
council of state has appropriated $27S,-
900 for which to fight the plague and
place the city in a proper sanitary con-
dition.
The bubonic plague appears to be
spreading In Japan. Even mail cannot
come from there while the present
rules are enforced, and the island
steamship companies will suffer heav-
lily. The Ke An Hou arrived this
morning from the island without hav
ing been able to approach any wharf.
There were deputy sheriffs with shot
guns at every landing place, and they
shouted the order to keep away. The
result was that the steamer returned to
Honolulu absolutely empty.
Leung Chi Tso, the Chinese reformer,
is now in Honolulu. The Chinese con-
sui has written to the government pro-
testing against Leung being allowed to
remain here.
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1900-01-19
PACIFIC COAST TRADE.
Seattle Markets.

seattle mBrkOc1s
Onions, new, $1.0O@1.25 per sack.
Potatoes, new, $1,000.
Beets, per sack, 75@85c.
Turnips, per sack, 60c.
Carrots, per sack, SOC.
Parsnips, per sack, 75@85c.
Caulifower, 75c@$1 per dozen.
Cabbage, native and California, "
@90c per 100 pounds.
Apples, $1.25@1.50 per box.
Pears, $1.00@1.25 per box.
Prunee, 60c per box.
Butter-Creamery, 32c per pound;
dairy, 17@22c; ranch, 34c per pound.
Eggs-24c.
Cheese-Native. lee.
Poultry-9@ 10c; dressed. 18@14c.
Hay-Puget Sound timothy, $1,000;
choice Eastern Washington timothy,
$17.00@l8.00
Corn-whole. $2s.oO; cracked, sas;
feed meal, $23.
Barley-Rolled or ground, per ton.
$s1; whole, $22.
Flour-Patent, per barrel, $8.25;
blended straights, $500; California,
$3.25; buckwheat -four, 5000; gra-
ham, per barrel, $3.50; whole wheat
-four, So. 90; rye -four, $3.80@4.00.
Millstuffs-Bran, per ton, $500;
shorts, per ton, $17.00.
Feed-C Chopped feed, $40. .00 per ton;
per ton, $40; oil cake meal.
per ton, $4,000.
Fresh Meats-Choice dressed beef
steers, 7N@8c; cows, prime, &c; pork,
&c; trimmed, s12c; veal, 8K@1Oc.
Hams-Large, 13c; small; 1917;
breakfast bacon, 121kc; dry salt Sides,
Be-
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1900-01-19
TO THE RELIEF OF LADYSM|TH ]
Two British Columns March
ing Around the Beers.
WITH coMMussARlAr STORES
One to the East, the Other to the West
of the Main Dutch Position-Every-
thing Quiet at Sterkstrom.

London, Jan. 17.-General Buffers
latest authentic word as to what he
and his $4,000 men are doing was
wired from Springfield after his first
forward step. Striving to think out
the unknown, London is confused by
surmise and rumor and disquieting
suspense.
Spenser Wilkinson, the military ex-
pert of the Morning Post, asserts that
the Boer force in Northern Natal is
larger than General Buffers and Sir
George Whites together, 90 that the
Beers are able to leave q force around
Ladysmith larger than that within the
town, and yet to oppose General Bul-
Ter with force superior 70 his own.
The Standard gives prominence to
the following dispatch. dated January
ID, from Durham:
"a man who has just arrived here
from Springfield says that British
column proceeding to the relief of
Ladysmith has crossed the Little
Tugela. When he left it was facing
the Boer position ON the Big Tugela,
and howitzer was shelling the Boer
trenches. He says also that 270 wag-
ons laden with commissariat stores for
Ladysmith had left Frere, and it was
expected that the column would join
hands with General White Monday
evening.
''The traction engines have been do
ing excellent work in hauling heavy
wagons out of holes and swamps. This
they accomplish with the greatest
ease.
British patrols have discovered par
ties of Beers in the direction of Enlers-
dale, between Frere and Estcourt.''
A dispatch from Cape Town, dated
January 15, says:
There is good reason to believe that
the statement that Sir Charles Warren,
with 1000 men, has gone toward
Weenan is correct, and we may expect
important~news shortly.
Reports have been received here
that dysentery is very life in Lady
smith.
Everything is phenomenally quiet
at Sterkstrom."
Reports from the Boer camps affirm
that the circle of investment has been
drawn closer by the occupation of some
hills nearer the town, thus liberating
reinforcements to oppose General Bul.
Ter.
The Daily News suggests that null
titude of the rumors that originate in
South Africa and London are given
currency by the English military ap-
thorities in order to mislead the Beers.
The war pages of the great dailies
this morning are almost barren. Never
theless, the instruments on the loops
connecting the war Office with the Ca
bles continue to click.
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1900-01-19
DEMAND IS QUIET.
Prices, However, Continue Steady in
Nearly All Lines of Trade.

Bradstreet's says: Quietness as to
demand but marked steadiness as to
prices is still the leading feature in
NAKED not uncommon at this stage Of
the year, which is q sort of middle
ground between stock taking and in
ventory time and the actual opening of
the spring season.
Aggressive strength in prices is con-
fined to few staples, such as pork
products, which are firmly held on q
rather tardy recognition of the fact that
supplies, both of live hogs and dead
meats, are far from burdensome. Tai
low, cotton-seed oil and similar pro-
ducts are sympathetically strong. Raw
and refined sugars have both advanced
this week, not apparently because of
the war between the refners being set
tied, but really because supplies of raw
are limited.
What few lines of next seasons
woolen goods have been reported are at
advances ranging from % to 85 per
cent.
Iron and steel are extremely quiet,
but signs of weakness are not numer-
GUS, the shading in pig iron being con-
fined to a few grades and markets.
The demand for lumber is naturally
light, but the length of supplies is mo-
table. as evidenced by the fact that
white pine stocks are % per cent
smaller than year ago.
Hides are dull at the East, but CON-
siderable buying is reported West, and
quotations are fairly firm. Wheat in
cluding -four shipments for the week
aggregate 4,248, 926 bushels against
2,509, ,6e2 bushels last week.
The current weeks failure returns
reflect the annual clearing out of delin-
quent traders in total for the week
of 295, as compared with 229 last
week, S04 In this week year ago, S23
in 1898, 478 in 1897 and 412 in 1896.
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1900-01-19
REPLY TO PETTIGREW.
Wolcott's Soathing Arrangement q
South Dakota Senator.

Wolcott's Soathing Arrangement of
South Dakota Senator.
Washington, Jan. ia spirited
debate on the Philippine question occu-
pied the attention of the senate for
nearly three hours today. Berry, of
Arkansas, first addressed the senate in
support of the resolution recently intro
duced by Bacon. of Georgia, regarding
the disposition of the Philippines. He
was followed by Pettigrew, of South
Dakota, in support of his resolution of
inquiry. Pettigrew was very bitter
in his attack upon the administration.
Wolcotr. of Colorado, replied to Pet
tigrew, scathingly arraigning the South
Dakota senator for the attitude he had
assumed on the Philippine question.
He declared his belief that if Agui-
naldo himself occupied the seat in the
senate occupied by Pettigrew, repre-
senting the people of South Dakota,
who had sent their sons as soldiers to
the Philippines, he would be too patri-
otto, too devoted to the interests of the
country to assume the attitude assumed
by the present South Dakota senator.
Today's session of the house was de-
voted to consideration of District of
Columbia business. Representative
June W. Gayle, of Kentucky, was
sworn in, and Cannon reported the
urgent deficiency bill, with notice
that he would ask that it be taken up
tomorrow.
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1900-01-19
|voTEs HIGH IN MONTANA.
Witness Wanted $4,000 to Vote for
Clark and Was offered $4,000. :


Clark and Was offered SIS, 900.
Washington, Jan. 15.-Dr. Ector, a
dentist of Missoula, Mont, was the
first witness before the Clark investi-
eating committee today. He had par
ticipated in the campaign in Ravali
county in the interest of E. P. Woods,
Democratic candidate for the legislat-
ture, and who was a friend of Clarks.
Ector said he had acted at the instance
of Bickford, one of Clark's managers.
Witness said Bickford had promised to
pay him for his services, but no spe-
cific sum had been mentioned. A
to show that Bickford had been an
agent of Clark in the senatorial race.
Cross-examination of the witness was
postponed until the. defense could look
up the letters received from Ector.
Representative Sullivan, member OF
Montana legislature from Granite
county. certified to having been ap-
preached by Bickford in Helena pre-
vious to the meeting of the legislature
and asked to vote for Clark.
81 said," the witness testified, "that
might do SO if there was enough
in it. He said how much. l said
twenty thousand. He then asked me
if half that amount would not be
enough. replied no, and we parted"
Sullivan said he met Bickford. who
suggested fifteen thousand. Witness
told Bickford he would not vote for
Clark under any circumstances, and
had seen no more of him.
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1900-01-19
BOOM TIMES COMING.
Vancouver Soon to Have q New Rail-
way to Portland.

way to Portland.
Vancouver, WASH, Jan. 17.-It has
been reported in Vancouver that the
mortgage held by the Portland Loan &
Trust Company against the Portland,
Vancouver & Yakima Railway Com
pany has been released by a we'll
known transcontinental line, and that
the latter road will push the construc-
tion work from the present terminus of
the road to North Yakima, and from
Vancouver to Portland.
1t has also been asserted, by people
who are in position to know, that
the Portland, Vancouver & Yakima
Railroad Company has Jumped" the
old bridge pier in the Columbia river
opposite the lower end of Vancouver.
Nobody has claimed ownership to the
pier for the past ten years, and a
quantity of material which was on the
bank when construction work ceased
was sold for taxes.
The old bridge pier in the Colum bia
river was built in boom times by the
Union Pacific Railroad Company.
During the years of 1889-90 that line
established grade from Puget sound to
Vancouver via Kelso and Ridgefield.
1t was the intention to bridge the Co.
lumbia river at Vancouver, and to enter
Portland from the north. The draw
pier was built at q cost of $3.50, 900.
When construction work ceased there
was about $50, 900 worth of bridge ma
ten ial on the bank.
Construction work along the entire
line ceased suddenly, and there was
large number of labor claims unsatis-
fed. For some time a watchman was
kept on the bridge pier. 1t was his
duty to hang bright light on each end
of the draw rest every night. He
worked several months, but was unable
to collect his salary. No one seemed
to know who owed him money or who
hired him. He attached some of the
material. which was sold to satisfy the
claim. Since that time no one has
claimed ownership of the structure.
If the report that the Portland, Van
couyver & Yakima Railway Company
has taken possession of the pier, and
that the mortgage, which has been
hanging over the road for SO long, has
been released proved true, the dream
of the residents of Vancouverand Clark
county will be realized. A bridge
across the Columbia river, with rapid
transit between this place and Portland
and direct communication with all por
tions of the country by means of
transcontinental line, will put Vancou-
yer far ahead of the position it occupied
in the boom days between 1888 and
1892
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1900-01-19
FLANK MOVEMENT BY BULLER
Getting Around the Intrench-
ments of the Beers.
NEARERTHEBELEAeuREDTowN
Important Operations in Progress In
Natal-General Whites Situation Be-
comes Serious-Scenes of Patriotism.

London, Jan. 15.-General Buller's
Is words, announcing his forward
movement Thursday, is interpreted as
meaning that he has passed around the
western end of the Boer lines at Colen-
SO and is now several miles behind
them and within IA miles of General
Whites outposts at Ladysmith.
The Boer forces few days ago had
forces with guns at Springfield, where
General Butler dates his dispatch.
These commandos have been obviously
dislodged, either by fighting or by ma
neuvering, the Beers retiring across the
Tagela as General Butler advances.
From General Buffers dispatch,
coupled with the fact that nofficial
intelligence from the seat of war has
virtually ceased since Monday, the de-
duction is drawn that important opera
tions are in progress, as he cannot
move far without going against the
Boer entrenchments.
The death list from enteric fever and
dysentery at Ladysmith, averaging
from to 10 daily, is considered mort
serious than the 42o casualties of Satur-
days fight, as they indicate the fright
fully unsanitary condition of the be-
leagured town. A letter from Lady
smith, dated December 2, says that
even then 80 out of $40 men in the bat
TALON of which the writer is member
were sick with dysentery or enteric
fever, and, according to dispatch to
the Daily Chronicle, dated January 8,
the patients and attendants in Tomb
camp, where the hospital is, then num-
bered 2,80O.
Remarkable scenes of patriotism
were witnessed in London last evening
after short service held for the volun-
teers in St. Paul's cathedral. The vast
audience was slow to disperse. Ladies'
stood up on their chairs beckoning and
calling to brothers, sons and friends in
the ranks, the latter signalling back.
A scene of great animation ensued.
The organist introduced few bars OF
the naional anthem in concluding the
voluntary. The effect of this was
magical. First the volunteers and
then the congregation took up the
strains, and the vast cathedral was
Nll0O Win 0utnuS1asGlC song. 1n6
demonstrations were renewed by i'm
mense crowds outside. St. Paul's
churchyard and Ludagte hill were
black with people, and it was impossi-
BILE for the volunteers to march. Indi-
vidual members were pulled out of the
ranks by their friends and admirers,
who raised them on their shoulders,
and thus carried them down Fleet
street to the Temple. Those who es-
capped hoisting proceeded slowly. sur
rounded by clinging women. After
ward at the various theaters, where the
men were entertained, and yet later,
on returning to barracks, these scenes
were renewed, and the streets were
filled until midnight with cheering
people,
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1900-01-19
Indiana Bank Robbed.

Princeton, Ind, Jan. 15.-Robbers
blew open the safe and vault in the
banking house of McGinnis, Teel s.
Co., at Owensville, this county, early
this morning and secured SIS, 900, the
total currency in the bank. The money
was placed on handcar on the Evans
vile & Terre Haute road and run to
Poseyville, IL miles southeast. Here
the handcar was left, and the money
was removed to a vehicle. The rob-
bers then crossed the Wabash river to
the Illinois side and escaped.
Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1900-01-19
Fighting In Cebu.

Manila, Jan. 18.-Advices from,
Cebu report sharp fight january 8
between battalion of the Nineteenth
infantry and body of insurgents oc-
cupying a strong position in the Soud-
Ion mountains. The enemy was
routed, the Americans capturing q
smooth-bore cannon, some rifles, and
destroying the Notifications. Four
Americans were wounded.