TRIP TO CHINATOWN. An Oriental City in the Heart of Down-Town New York. /Liter Ton nt Mailt Opium Fiend* anil CiniuhlerN Oun the Pell mid Mott Street District H"«l Adjuln luti l.gni'i. [Special New York Letter.] SAM MOV stuck the ends of • dozen joss sticks in the jars at each side of the ugly-looking god which squatted on the handsome ly-carved table. He applied a match and the sweet-scented smoke curled In thin grayish wreaths toward the ceiling of the joss house. Then he seated himself and muttered in a gut tural tone a monotonous sing-song chant. The high priest struck a brass gong which emitted a deep sonorous clang. More joss sticks were lighted and the temple became odorous with ♦he insinuating incense. The lights in the little square metallic lamps sus pended from the ceiling burned low in green and red and yellow and from the dim flames was reflected a mellow glow from the b!g gold bas relief rep resenting the glory of the ancestors for a hundred years. There was some thing of the spellbinder in this incan tation-mumbling' priest of Buddha, CROWD OF CHINAMEN LEAVING ONE OF THEIR THEATERS. and as T entered this idol-bedecked temple of the pagans in Chinatown that night a vision of the magic east arose before me. I smelled the aro matic spices of the orient. 1 heard the rustle of the silken robes of the watchers in the inner circle. The lights of Peking seemed dancing be fore me, and just beyond were the : wonders of the Purple city. The crown-shaven priest bowed low. "You buy joss stick?" saiu he. And this was the burden of the cry from the time I entered at Pell street New York's colony of Chinamen till I left it some hours later. The China men who come to America may be j heathen. It may be that they are j slow to adopt the customs of a civil- j ized country and that their hatred of J the "foreign devils" is never overcome, j but this is certain: They are quick j in turning a situation to their own account, eager as salesmen and shifty in the wondrous art of chasing the nimble nickel. You ivwy leave the Bowery with its types of the Yiddish merchant and numerous samples of its genus tough, and in a t winkling—like t he t transforma tion scene of a Christmas extravaganza —find yourself in a veritable city of slant-eyed, pig-tailed Celestials. There are the odd, box-like lamps spluttering and blinking, swung on strings across ' HITTING THE PIPE. 'the narrow streets. There are the long, perpendicular signs covered with hieroglyphic characters reading from the top down, in front of the minia ture shops so low as to ceilings that a tall man must need stoop to enter. And within you may see the arrange ment of tiny cups in saucers in dainti est of China and red-cheeked i oils with head® as bald as the heads of the grin ning Mongolians who are trying to sell them. There are little paper bags filled with rice and T.ychee nuts and .queer-looking packages filled with -things good to eat from a Chinaman's standpoint. There are stools of ebony .inlaid with silver, and. stowed away on shelves, are rare silks' fashioned into shawls, and gaudy feathers fashioned into fans. Then there are quaintly carved ivory idols of Fo, and ingenious p.izz'.es ant) toys, and teas, and spices, and joss sticks, too- much cheaper than the joss sticks which my friend Sam Moy will offer t.o sell to you in the temple. If you are not careful as to your bearings you will soon become turned around, for the streets are crooked aud the way is narrow. Doyers street bends like a horse shoe, and Mott aud Pell streets run in an intricate manner. Now, don't so into Chinatown befoie ♦en o'clock at nTght. TV y°" J' ou will line] Chinatown asleep. First of all. you must know that the resident* of thi* little city within the greater city represent the sporting Chinamen of New York. They are the merchants, many of whom, although living in diingy basements, are the great impor ters of opium and sijk», and are wealthy enough to occupy mansions on Fifth avenue; the gamblers who win and lose fortunes with a non chalance that excites the envy of their white brother gamesters further up town; the bunco men and the members of the murderous secret societies. These are the people who will brush against you as you wend your way through the alley-like thoroughfares. You will find them crowiling in groups of four or five in the middle of the road way few use the stone sidewalks, which are only three feet wide, am: are reserved as passageways to the shops. You will hear them talking in a jargon that grates upon the ears for the rea son of its> unharmonious discord** of gutteral sounds. Uncommunicative as thej' are to the foreigners, among themselves they are a babbling flock of magpies. Ten o'clock at night is the hour when most of them arise. Mid night is their time of greatest activity. It was just 12 o'clock when the Chinese theater closed, and, as I passed the doors, I was surrounded by a crowd of Chinamen, who had been witnessing a performance which had doubtless been the continuance of a play requiring several weeks to complete. From that time on Chinatown was as full of life as a wasp nest. The two and three-story houses, constructed mostly of dull reel brick, were filled with Celes tials from basement to attic. In the upper rooms are located the gambling dens. The Chinamen will play any thing that offers an element of chance. Fan-fan and bungloo are their favor ite native games, but poker and other games with American-cards are en tered into with equal felicity. Other methods being absent, a sporting Chinaman will wager his month's in come on the possible direction to be taken by a perambulating straddle bug. The first floors are occupied by the shop keepers, and the basements are utilized for the opium hells, al though some of these places are con ducted with little attempt at conceal ment in the rear of the stores- only a scant curtain hiding the smokers from full view of the pedestrians' in the street, in one of the little shops I en tered —the merchant was a wholesale dealer and an importer of opium—l saw. just back of the narrow counter, a Chinaman in a skull cap and loose jacket reclining on a couch industri ously "hitting" an opium pipe. Ilis eyes were fixed and glassy, ami from the imbecilie expression on his face I judged that he was about entering that state of estatical bliss which the victims of the habit say resembles a ramble in the fields of Elysium. This smoker could be seen plainly from the open door. The dealer paid no atten tion to him. and in reply to a question as to whether he had any opiutn on hand exhibited without hesitancy a box of the drug, and set a price upon it. The police pay no attention to this violation of the law. And yet within these reeking hells white women and white men, farther down in the scale of degradation than even the China men, congregate nightly and enter Into this most loathsome species of de bauchery—so low and so \i!e that even the filthiest of beasts could not be in duced to enter into it.in the base ments row after row of bunks are filled with men and women of all ages, of all nationalities. Gentile, Jew, Turk, negro. Chinamen are cheek by jowl. The people of all nations lie peace fully side by side. Their manhood, their womanhood has gone forever. Through the stifling atmosphere of smoke and noisome odors may be seen the attendants —yellow-skinned fiends —twirling the gummy drug with their long-nailed fingers into little balls which they cook in the flames of alco hol lamps and drop dexterously into the bowls of the flute-shaped pipes constantly being thrust out to them by the skeleton hands of the victims. One by one the dwellers in the bunks drop listlessly back upon the hard mat tresses. Their eyes are sunken in their heads. Their brains are clotted with the fumes of the death-dealing' drug, i There are .'IO,OOO Chinamen in New York city. Of this number 3,000 live in Chinatown and the others go there for amusement. It is estimated that seven out of ten Mongolians art ad dieted to the use of opium. S7.fi that 50,000 whites in this city a f e "dope fiends." All the opium "joints" are not confined to the Chinese quarter, but the majority are located t lere. FREDERICK BOTD STEVUNSON. A lion places its head near tli» ground when roariny. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1900. LINE UP FOR SOUND MONEY. Ihlcnen Hiim i lie mm Men Orisiinl-xr for the Cum i*alinn—AddreNM of .In men 11. Kekelx. Chicago's business men, representing nearly every phase of industry I lial has brought the city to its present stand ing among the great commercial cities of the world, met Wednesday night, September 2<i, at the Grand Pacific ho tel and reorganized the Business Men's Sound Money association, '.i he princi pal feature of the meeting was an ad dress delivered by James 11. Eckels, former comptroller of the currency . The chair was taken by Joseph Beife'.d. who. after announcing the reasons for the call, asked Chairman Nye, of the committee on resolutions of the old as sociation. to read t he rcsolnt ions drawn up for submission to the meeting. They were as follows: RenolutloiiN I'rnhf President. "Be it resolved, That the Business Men's Pound Money association of 1901) is hereby organized, and that It pledges its member ship heartily and unconditionally to th« support of McKinley and Roosevelt, the tried and true champions of honest govern ment, honesty money and commercial honor. "It is with gratification that we recur to the fact that every business prediction made by the Sound Money association in 1N96 has been fully realized. On the other hand, the truth of the statement is con ceded that not one of the prophecies of our opponents made at that time has been borne out by experience. "The fulfillment of the pledge made by Ihe republican party to pass the necessary laws to put the monetary system of the country on a sound basis was prompt and met with universal approval, resulting in the absolute restoration of confidence and an Increase In the volume of trade that was unprecedented. During Ihe past four years llj.* total amount of trade balances in our (7 'or has exceeded the total sum of trade balances In our favor during the hundred years preceding the pres ent administration. The marvelous growth of the savings bank deposits during the past four years shows that more labor has found employment and has been better paid than at any time Jn 1 tie history of this or luiy other country. In deed. the difficulty in securing the neces sary labor to move crops and to construct and reconstruct railways during the past year lias been pronounced, and stands out In strong contrast with the situation tour years ago. when so many hundreds of thou sands were without employment. "Hesolved. That the prosperity which has been so general and bountiful during the past four years—that has given employ ment to the unemployed—that has brought enterprise out of stagnation and security out of chaos, had for Its foundation sound money and commercial honor, and that In behalf of a continuance of the blessings of prosperity we again pledge ourselves to the support of William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt." Chairman Beifeld then introduced Mr. Eckels as a man who hud been and still was a democrat "a true demo crat, one fit the Cleveland an<l John M, Palmer school, the kind that republic ans had ever recognized as honorable foes and as worthy antagonists." Mr. Eckels said: "With each recurring presidential can vass for 20 years I have thought it my duty and privilege to address my fellow-citizens. 1 have done so always as a democrat, hav ing full faith in democratic principles right ly applied and properly lnterpneted. 1 have yet that faith, and 1 ain yet a democrat. But my democracy is not the democracy that finds itself the convenient lying-in asylum of every element of discontent and disorder in the country When my duty to my party cannot align with piy duty to the state I maintain my self-respect and my democracy by refusing to follow the democratic organization. "This movement of yours is fraught with good to the city, state and the country at large. It is a movement to demonstrate that the people of this country hold il as a sacred duty to retain unimpeachable and untarnished the honor and integrity of the government. If democrats could not ac cept Mr. Bryan's views In lMnj because he stood as the embodiment of a party that had putin its platfcjm an assault on Ill honor of the land how can he be any more acceptable now? What has he done since 1896 to convince any citizen of this repub lic that he is any more capable of discharg ing the duties of the high office he seeks to-day than he was then? If the govern ment was endangered in lsliti by the theories of socialism, populism and Bryanism, is it any less endangered to-day? I)ut> of liiiHineMK Men. "The business men of the land owe it to themselves to band together against a party pledged by all the acts of its leaders and by all the platforms it has made to a work that must be revolting to all right minded men. a party that has the audacity to declare that, as far as it is concerned, the sacred right of private contract shall be abrogated, a party that within its own fold will not for a moment entertain a single suggestion from those true democrats who appeal to it in the name of patriotism and honor. I deny that that party is any long er the democratic party and I declare that the democrat who truly believes in demo cratic principles demonstrates his fealty to democracy by voting against Bryan and assisting in the reelection of President Mc- Kinley. ■ "A democracy that prefers a Tillman, a Weaver, an Allgeld and a Towne to a Jef ferson, a Jackson and a Cleveland is not a democracy at all, but a hybrid—the result of an unholy alliance with an organization which always has been and always will be a prostitute in politics. What man is there among you who fails to understand the mo tive back of the plank declaring against what it calls government b> injunction? it lies in the fact that a democratic presi dent, now repudiated by this hybrid or ganization, had the honesty and the ster ling courage to say that in this city of ours law and order should prevail at all costs and at all hazards. •National Currency Threatened. "The so-called democratic organization to-day Is socialistic, populistic, liryanistic. There is not a single democratic doctrine for which it stands. It sacrificed the is sue upon which it drew to Itself the sup port of the business and intellectual ele ments ot the country when it allied itself with the silver republicans of the west and the silver populists of the south, and after all its professions of a freer commerce and trade accepted as its doctrine instead the worst kind of protection—the protection of the silver mine owner, which would have meant the debauching and debasement of the national currency. "Above all others, the laboring man ought to repudiate this heresy as he would grap ple wtih a man who assaulted his personal safety. For the capital of the laboring man is his daily wage, and when he has no labor he has no capital to live upon, and when he has no capital he comes face to face with distress. Mr. Bryan says that McKinley is not to be trusted because he stands for something In foreign parts that he does not approve of. I myself have never been an expansionist. But this question ought to come to every man who takes the position that I do: How is it pos sible for Mr. Bryan, entertaining as he docs an erroneous ldea>on every domestic ques tion, to have a right and proper idea of the solution of any foreign question? "We may set it down as a safe common sense proposition that, 11 we have a sound and conservative administration at Wash ington now, the same man who Is responsi ble lor it may be trusted to act in a similar mnnm ron pvciv <|i.ration th.'it confront* htm. "l»o we want for president a man who, before he took the oath of office, would have to he put uiuler bonds to keep the peace? If Mr. Bryan is honest In his threats, then he In no lit man to dare to aspire to the highest office In a nation like ours. If, as has bet n hinted in his behalf more than once, he does not mean what he says, then he is an arrant and a blatant demagogue, and on that ground alone ought to be repudiated in no uncertain manner next November. '"They say he is Intellectually honest. Well, if be is, he is woefully ignorant, anil no woefully Ignorant man can become president of the United States, It will not be sufficient to beat Bryan by a bare mar gin. The things for which he stands ought to be so decisively killed at the polls that they will forevi r disappear as a disturbing factor in American politics, Get us as one man mightily rebuke those who have so dan 'I to assault the rights of a liberty lov ing and a llbi rty giving people." lin pcriii lln hi h War Power, It docs not seem to occur to tlie Bryanites that in denouncing Presi dent McKinievV action in the Philip pines as imperialism they are con demning' the action of more than one democratic president. Mr. McKinley is simply exercising his constitutional power as president and performing his duty iii prosecuting a war forced upon the I'nited Statesnnd suppressing a rebellion against its rightful author ity. The Constitution says:"The pres ident shall take care that the laws be faithfully ' xecuted," ami it also says: ''Ail treaties made, or which shall be made, tinder the authority of the I'nit ed States shall be the supreme law of the land." I'nder these provisions it is as much the duty *>f President Mc- Kinlev to make the treaty with Spain effective by establishing t lie am hority of the United States in the Philippines as it is to see that the laws of the Unit ed States are enforced in any part of the count rj . Indianapolis Xcws ( hid,). Tin* Huff-Alive iHMiie. In his sptech accepting the populist nomination Bryan demonstrates that the Chicago platform issues, especially free silver and free riot, are so much alive that there, is 110 reason why any one who voted for him in 1 S'Mi should refrain from doing so in 1000. It seems to follow that no one who on these is sues voted against him in 18!l(> should vote him in 1900. But perhaps sil ver coinage at sixteen to one is alive only ia populistic circles and defunct within the borders of democracy, or buried and forgotten in the east, while full of vigor in the silver-producing west. However, Bryan might elo quently remark, no issue can !f>ng en dure half dead and half alive. —Wash- ington Star. in.'ln his discussion of mil liar 's 111 liov, Roosevelt says:"The only certain way of rendering it nece-.ary for our republic to enter 011 a career cf 'militarism' would be to abandon the Philippines, to their own tribes, and at the same time either to guarantee a stable government among these tribes or to guarantee them ayninst outside interference." This Is tin* Bryan plan of settling the Philippine question, and without doubt it would require a much larger army than would the establishment and maintenance of order under the Amer ican flag. Indianapolis Journal. C7\Ve suppose it will be conceded that Mr. Bryan knows what his party stands for.and that he is th» best wit ness at; to his own political faith. He does not tell us what he would do, or how he would seek to realize his prin ciples. but he leaves us in doubt about what those principles are. Hi" and his party stand to-day for what they stood for in lS9ii, and therefore the men that vote for Bryan will assured ly vote for those principles. It is tho same party, the same candidate, the same platform, and these three con stitute the same menace.—lndianap olis News (Intl.). ICT'The attention of William Jen nings Bryan is respectfully called to the movement inaugurated by his party in Louisiana for the repeal of the fourteenth and fifteenth atner.d ments to the federal constitution. Perhaps he would like to deliver a few speeches in the Pelican state on the atrocity of government without the consent of the governed. If so. there is no doubt that he would meet with a warm reception. —Chicago Inter Ocean. It is really painful the way the southern democratic press is poking fun at the "consent of the governed" plank in the Kansas City platform. The esteemed "paramount issue" is re garded as a great joke in the south.— Chicago Journal. tCThe London Standard, in com menting upon Bryan's letter of ac ceptance, says it does not think he shows courage in meeting the issues before the country. The "colonel" has been a dodger all his life. —lowa State Register. 112 American manufactures are going abroad this year at the rate of s.'!S.O<)o.- iWO a month, an increase of over 200 per cent, since IS'.IO. Prosperity could take 110 more lasting form.- —St. Louis Globe- Democrat. proof that at least 8!> per cent, of the business interests of the coun try will vote against Bryanism this fall is conclusive and incontrovertible.— Chicago Times-lieraUl. Jones' mathematics and Mr. Bry an's logic are occasionally dis tinguished by some audacious com plexities. Washington Star. Prof. Emery, of the North Carolina , experimental station, has come for ward to help out the overworked hen. lie says that eggs of all sorts should be sold by weight instead of by the dozen, and shows the great injustice of sell ing duck eggs weighing two pounds per dozen, light Brahma hen's eggs weighing 1% pounds per dozen, and the eggs of Leghorn pullets weighing a pound per dozen, for the saute price. MISCHIEF MAKERS. China's Emperor Issues Edicts Against Them. Prince* a«i«l .lllnlfltem of Mate WUo Kncoura&ged the Anti- Criiftttclp IjOmc ICank anil Of fice ICiiMNian Con«i«ie»t of .ilaiu-liiiriu I* ro;; re *»«**. Washington, Sept. 2S. —Minister Conger lias been advised by the state department of the substance of tho replies made by this government last Friday to the governments of Ger many, Russia and China respecting China, which clearly indicated to him tin £reneral nature of the instruc tions he is'to receive. Moreover, by this time he is informed of the or ders issued to (leu. ( liaftVe to reduce his force to a legation guard. The note to China specifically pointed out the lines on which this government will issue its instructions to its min ister. h is said that the text of the in structions will not be given publicity at present for diplomatic reasons, but, there is no concealment of the gen eral scope of the document, which is on the lines laid down in the three notes. !t is believed that the state depart ment already has taken steps through Minister uto impress upon the Chi nese government, the undesirability of the appointment of Prince Tuan as grand secretary and the painful im pression this appointment has cre ated throughout 1 liis country. The effect of his appointment, if persist ed in, it is said, might be to retard seriously the final negotiations, or in fact, any negotiations at all. llong Kong, Sept. 28. —Thy Ameri can Presbyterian and Catholic mis sions at Slick-Lung, on the East riv er. have been destroyed. The priest in charge of the Catholic mission es caped and was protected by a man darin. Numerous anti-Christian dis turbances are taking place in the provinces of Kwang-Si and Kvvang- Tung. The authorities are employing active measures to suppress the out breaks and there have been several executions. Native Christians are flocking to Canton. London. Sept. —Apparently Ger many's retreat from an untenable po sition has been virtually accomplish ed. The Paris correspondent of the Morning Post says: "An agreement on the Chinese pro gram has been arranged between France. Germany and Russia. It will be submitted, ' v o the other powers v\»bin a few days. The action rec ommended will he milder than Ger many's original proposal, and it is ex pected that all the powers will accept the program." It is announced from a Chinese offi cial source that the imperial court has ordered that the palace at Si Ngan Fit. capital of the province of Shen Si, be immediately prepared for its reception. London. Oct. I.—Beyond a number of imperial edicts which throw into still worse confusion the complicated Chinese situation, there is little in to-day's news to arrest attention. All the news with regard to the edicts emanates from Shanghai. Ac cording to these advices, in addition to the edicts ordering Grand Council lor Kun Rang to offer oblations be fore the coffin of Baron Yon Ketteler and tlie edict directing that Li Hung Chang's entire plan he followed in re gard to the punishment of the princes and high ministers of state responsi ble for the anti-foreign outrages, and the decree ordering that funeral hon ors be paid in Pekin and Tokio to the. remains of Sugi Vama Akira, the mur dered chancellor of the Japanese le gation. Emperor Kvvang Su has ad dressed further letters to the czar and the mikado renewing his request for their aid in the peace negotia tions. Various opinions are expressed as to the importance of the edicts. The Shanghai correspondent of the Morn ing Post says: "The 'severe punishment' ordered bv Emperor Kvvang Sll will only mean a money fine. There are traces of Li llttn<. r Chang's hand, under American influence, in the edicts.'" On the other hand the Standard's Shanghai correspondent remarks: "The empress regent now realizes tho true nature of the crisis. After con sulting the emperor, she summoned the court dignitaries and.on their assembling, while she remained silent, the emperor, in a loud voice, deliver ed a tirade lasting a couple of hours against the courtiers. Then, in an angry voice, he dismissed them. Af ter this the decrees were issued." A dispatch to the Times from Sf. Petersburg confirms the reports that the town of Kirin surrendered to the Russians without a shot on peremp tory orders from Prince Cliing. The dispatch says that, if similar orders were issued with regard to Mukden, the Uussian conquest of Manchuria will be completed. According to the same authority no further reinforce ments will he required by the lius sian commanders in the far easf. A decree of the emperor and em press, dated September ??">. blames their ministers for encouraging the Boxers. The edict orders the degra dation of four princes and deprives Prince Tuan of his salary and official servants, lie is to be brought foi trial before the imperial clan court. Suicided In a Hotel. Philadelphia. Sept. 20. .losiali R. Adams, a lawyer of this city, commit ted suicide yesterday in a hotel, llis wife was in an adjoining room when the deed was committed. She knows of 110 reason for ihe act. Mr. Adams was a year ago the republican nomi nee for judge of the supreme court of Pennsylvania. His candidacy met with much opposition within his par ty. lie finally resigned as a candi date. Ex-Senator John I. Mitchell was named in his place and elected. Siticf that time Mr. Adams has been de spondent. LOPEZ COMES TO AMERICA. Agiiiiialdo'* Former Secretary l.an<t* in !%«*»' lurk III* lllmiluii. New York, Oct. 1. —Sextd Lopez, formerly secretary and confidant ot Gen. Aguinaldo, arrived* here Mtnday on the Campania. Lopez is said to have come here at the invitation of Fiske Warren and lie expects to ex plain to the people the Filipinos' side of their fight with this country. Lope/ is a small man, with a yellovr complexion and straight black hair. His secretary, who says that he has known Lope/ for eight years, is from Brisbane. Queensland, and describes himself as a Britisher from head t<» foot. While coining" up from quarantine Lopez srave out the following signed statement: "My object in visiting the United States is not to interfere in Ameri can politics, but solely to tell the American people what the Filipinos desire in reference to the future gov ernment of our country. It has been said that my coming to America is in the interests of certain persons and parties. We. as Filipinos, know no parties in the United St ites. We have only one desire, viz: To seek justice for our country. "Those who desire to give us jus tice will no doubt be glad to know the wants and conditions of the Phil ippines All we want is peace with honor to both parties and I hope t>» be able to show that the conditions of our country are such as to tit us for the maintenance of that independ ence." WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. Itritioli Arnij in South Africa lla* Hade a Itecor'l ill It* I »p. Washington, Oct.* 1. The Naval An nua;. jnsi published by the ollice of naval intelligence, contains among' other interesting articles one by Lieut. W. L. Howard, summarizing" compactly the increase of naval strength effected during the past year by the great maritime powers. An article of value is contributed by Lieut. L. 1!. Destiguer on the subject of wireless telegraphy. This recites just what each of the naval powers has done towards the utilization of Marconi's discovery and embodies ;i thorough review of the state of the art of long distance wireless trans mission by a competent German au thority. In general it appears that the ex periments have resulted satisfactor ily. and the liritish army in South Africa, by the use of kites for the vertical wires, managed to transmit messages a distance of S.i miles, or more than ten miles further than the distance which separates Tien Tsiri from Pekin. which still proves to !>■» impracticable for ordinary telegraph met hods. There is also an illustrated description of the fastest vessel in the world, the famous turbine torpe do boat Viper, which runs over "t knots an hour with ease. SMUGGLERS ARE ACTIVE. Kxteimive Operation* Along the Bor der of a*l»iii(4toii State. Port Townsend. Wash., Oct. 1. Two steamships, the Oregon and the Pot t land, have arrived from Nome. Tlr.i former had 4(W passengers and the latter 88 passengers, two boxes of bul lion and a partial cargo of furs. Ac cording to the records of the quar antine officers 2,000 people have ar rived from Alaska and have been in spected here during the past four days. Smuggling across the British Co lumbia line into the United States has been carried on extensively of late. The officers have been watching. Col lector Hetisfis luts received a telegram from Siltnas, Wash., announcing the arrest of two men with a pack train, of five horses laden with general mer chandise and miners supplies. 1 It** •roods were purchased in British C o lumbia and were destined to mines 2-i miles from Sumas, in the Mount Bak er district. The customs officer thinks this capture important and believes that it may lead to other arrests. A DeMrnctlve Storm. San Francisco, Oct. I.—The steamer Curacao bfings news of a storm which was raging along the Mexican coast# when she sailed for the north. Sev eral vessels were driven ashore, among them being the German baric Planet, which will be a total loss, ('apt. Parsons, of the Curacao, said: "We just missed the worst of the storm by running to Guayamas. The following day Mazatlan was swept, and the wreckage was fearful. Houses were blown down, roofs were lifted, trees uprooted, telegraph wires twist ed and vessels swept from their moor ings." Shipbuilding Statistic*. Washington, Oct. I.—The quarterly statement ot the commissioner of navigation shows that 308 sail vessels of ss,T!to gross tons were built in th • United States during the quarter end ed September 30. I'JOO. Of the vessels constructed of wood IGO were sail and 127 steam. Of the steel vessels four were sail and 1" steam. Of the whole number 100 were built on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts; 28 on the Pacific; 3:i on the great lakes and."> Bon the west ern rivers. The largest tonnage. 37.0", was on the great lakes, and the next largest was on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. liiKiiriient* I,o*t flit Tien. Manila. Oct. I. The Filipinos in the vicinity of Manila have been more quiet of late, although hist Wednes dav night there were brisk attacks at Las Pittas and Paranaque, south of Manila, as well as outpost firing- at linns and Baeoor. Official reports have been received of insurgent ae tivity in Zambalos and Batangas prov inces. Two skirmishes occurred dur ing the week on Bicol river, in tins province of South Camarines, It i« estimated that the insurgents lost 1»(1 killed in the various districts. 3
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