Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1900-02-16

tAt tufeut ot famine refugees.
red The White Pass Yukon railway hal
resffe4 through train service between
q TSkagway and Lake Bennett January 81
after blockade of more than two weeks
: Colonel Richard w. Thompson, ex,sec
rotary Of the navy, is critically i'll at his
Z home, Unless the invalid rallies the worst
is feared. Colonel Thompson is 81 years
Id.
, The Indian government has arranged to
recoin half crore of rupees and has also
. bought enough silver to coin a crore OF
new rupees. These operations are expect
ed to meet all present requirements so
that no further coming is contemplated.
The silver was purchased quietly without
disturbing the market.
Il During the big fire in Dawson January
i ii Robert B. Switzer, clerk of the court,
was assaulted and robbed of 81, 545 court
funds. No clue has been found to he
lperpetrator.
The Pendleton (Or.) Commercial asso-
citation has inaugurated movement to
build a railroad from Pendleton south
through the Camas Prairie region and the
John Day country to the mining district
of Granite.
| An unknown man was found dead In
a cabin at Kent, Wash. A bullet hole
through the stomach told how he died.
The cabin is known to have been the
rendezvous for band of crooks who op
Grated in Seattle.
According to adYices received at the
democratic national headquarters there ia
a strong disposition among the leaders
OF the party, including William ]. Bryan,
to settle upon June as the date for the
national democratic convention.
Senator Shoup has introduced an amend
ment to the Indian appropriation bill ex-
tending the time of payments due from
settlers on Indian reservation lands pur-
chased by the government from Indians
and sold to settlers, for another year, or
until July !, 1901.
Only a delay will result is the opinion
of leaders Of the senate on the canal treaty,
but it will finally pass. Opposition comes
from Observation-Disclosures, headed by
Mason. Senator Morgan says there are
men in the senate who would offer amend
ments to the ten commandments.
The text of the canal treaty secures to
every ship equal rights at all times and
to have no forts near by; when the Mica
raguan waterway is built its safety is as
sured. 1t contains an ownership clause
saying America may collect the tolls or
may allow private corporations that privi-
lege.
1t is generally believed in Pekin that |
the dowager empress will not attempt the |
formal deposition Of the emperor at the |
present moment, though that this was her
first intention there is little room to doubt.
1t is gathered from credible Chinese |
sources that the dowager intended to car.
ry out her plans during the first days OF
the new year.
The insurgents have been driven out of
Legaspi province of Albay. The rebels of
Tayabas province were conveying some
800 Spanish prisoners to Libmanan and
on arriving the prisoners, exhausted and
starving, revolted and dispersed their
guards with stones and clubs. They also
captured few rifles and barricaded them.
selves at Lithuanian, where they are await.
ing the arrival of American troops.
The senate finance committee has re-
ported a new section of the financial bill
as follows: THAT the provisions of this
act are not intended to place any obsta-
lies in the way of the accomplishment of
International bimetallism, provided the
same be secured by concurrent action of
.he leading commercial nations of the
world and at q ratio which shall insure
,ermanence of relative value between gold
md silver"
Men of prominence in banking and
circles to the number of nearly
100, met at the annual banquet of group
light of the New York State Bankers as
ISOLATION, held at the Waldorf-Astoria in
New York recently. 1t had been expected
hat Secretary of the Treasury Gage
would be at the banquet, but a telegram
vas read from him in which it was stated
hat he could not be present ON account of !
lis health.
: The rooms of the house committee IN
were crowded to overlooking
With the representatives Of many religious,
and social reform bodies to
lrge the need of constitutional amend /
nent prohibiting polygamy. The address [
8 were strongly condemnatory of po- /
ygamy, and many of those engaged in I
Missionary work in the west stated that
he Mormon church was systematically
'ropagating the doctrine of polygamy de-
pite all denials i