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l'ROFESSIO.NAU
DR. H. R. CLIFF,
Physician and Surgeon,
it. Ilalani, Or.
DR. J. E. HALL,
Physician v and '. Surgeon,
Clalakanla, Columbia Co., Or.
T. A. Mi BaiDi. A. 8, p..
MeBRIDE & DRESSES,
Attorneys at v Law,
Orasoa City, Or.
Prompt attention lan to laud oltloa baalnaaa
A. B. LITTLE,
Surveyor and Civil Engineer,
it. tfalana. Or.
Ooanty llurr jor. Ind .urtayln. town plat
tluf aud ngUiWlog woik piottiplly dont.
W. T. BtimiiT. J. W. paaria.
J) BURNETT & DRAPER,
; Attorneys at v Law,
, ra City. Or. '
Tw.yara' eiMrlinc aa Urnlalar of th
Dnttad Mta a. Laud OnVe horo ncommand. Mi
In our aiMHiUlly of all klnda of hualmwa Iwl .ra
tha laud Oftliw or the laurla, and InvolTlug the
praetlee la Uie Uaueral Uud uftlce. .
v J. B. BROCKENBROUQH,
ATTORNEY .' AT . LAW,
Orason Cltr. Or.
(Lata Bprelal Airent of General Und Offloe.)
Hommiiead, Preampilon and Timber Land Ap
pll at on and other Und Olttue Hitalnn.. a
dixwialiy OIBce, Htooud Floor. 1-and Oilloe
..'caAS. W. 1HAYGEK,
Notary '." Public
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INSURANCE AGENT,
MATOIR, OR.
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GENERAL INSURANCE
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Real Estate Agent,
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UOHN, A. DECK,
Wijtchmikep and Jeuieler,
ELEGANT JEWELRY.
J.welry of all Uaacrlpltoiia. (
erposiTi ih waoNP, Portland, o
PIAWOS and ORCAWS.i
IJallott A Davis ami New Sculo
Knna, I invito iiiHpoction, and defy compotition.
L. V.MOORE, 1 05 Washington 8t., Portland, Or.
Write for cHtnlonnB ml prlcci. Mention thii paptir.
EVERDING &. FARRELL
Front Street, Portland, Oregon,
DEALERS IN
WHEAT, OATS AND MILL FEED OF ALL KINDS,
Hay, Shingles, Lime, Land Plaster. Also Flour, Bacon,
AND A OENKttAL ASSORTMENT OF- '
Groceries,
Which we sell cheap for cash. Give us a call. .
EVERDING & FAR R E L L.
Glei tslcstnie Xjixie.
STEAMER G.
J. W. SHAVER, Master.
Leaven Portland from Alder-etreet
Rkamokawa and Catblamet, Wednenday and Friday for Clatskanie,
touching at Suuvios Inland, St. Helenn, Columbia City, Kalania, Neer
City, IUinier, Cedar Landing, Mt. Collin, Kradburv, Stella, Oak Toint
and all intermediate points, returning Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
flOW IS THE Tip
eorgetown.
Thii desirable property adjoins Milton Station, on the Northern Pacific
Kail
ONE HOUR'S RIDE
And ia only U mils from St. Helens, the county-sent, on tho Columbia
river, itinvuit creeic, a oeauiiiui uiuiiitutui Buroui, mm niui
200 yards of this property, furnishing an inexhaustible
' supply of water for all purposes., .. ,
LOTS, 50x100 FEET,
Ranging in prico from $50 to $100, can be secured from
D. J. Switzer, St.
JOSEPH KELLOGG
Joseph Kellogg and Northwest
FOR COWLITZ RIVER.
Northwest
Thursday and Saturday at 6 a. m
JOSEPH KELLOGG
daily, Sunday excepted, arriv
ing at Portland at 10:30 a. m. Returning, leaves PORTLAND at 2:30
p. m., arriving at 7 r. m. ' '. ;" 1 ' ' : '- ; ' - " -: v '
DON'T BUY YOUR DRUGS
ANYWHJiEE BUT AT A HKGULAR--
YOU WILL FIND THE
Freshest. Purest and Best of Everything
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DR. J. E. HALL, Proprietor.
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THE LEFrTrL WATER WHEEL ENGINE CO. SPRiNBFlE' J),0, U.S.A,
Kimball Pianos and Kimball Or-
W. SHAVER.
dock Monday, via Westport,
TO SECURE fl LOT
road,
FROM PORTLAND,
Helens, Oregon
& COS STEflJUERS
Leaves KELSO Monday, Wednesday and Fri
day at 5 A. m. Leaves PORTLAND Tuesday,
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pacific coast.
The Fresno Y. M. C. A.
in Trouble.
POMONA'S NEW ORDINANCE.
A Mare Island Foreman's Offense to be
Investigated An Indignant
Phoenix Doctor.
Otfilen has the tng-of-wr craze.
There will be no extra session of the
Haho Legislature.
New Mexico will hold an irrigation
convention at Los Angeles March 10.
The Bunnet Teleirraph Company will
have two distinct lines from Stockton to
San Francisco.
Candidates for municipal offices, to be
voted for this spring at Sacramento, are
numerous. -
There will be a much largor acreage
put in etiKar beets at Chino this season
titan last, year.
I'liii.nii. A. T.. is much disturbed over
the difiappearanee of Dr. E. E. Powell, a
well-known druggist.
Joe Crocker and George Dawson have
been arrested at Los Angeles and
charged with forging checks.
Philip D. Yieser, a stenographer at
Phienix. has been arrested on a char:
of forgnry at San Bernardino.
Eastern expert safe-crackers are doing
work profitable to themselves at Les
Angeles and the neighborhood.
The forger and professed wool-shipper,
Robert Flake of Anthony, N. M., has
been captured in Juarez, Mexico.
A vigorous policy is being adopted by
Southern California horticulturists to
prevent the ' importation of infected
stock from the East.
A reward of 530 has been offered by
the Governor of Arizona for the arrest
of the murderers of Mrs. Morgan and Joe
Miller near Temps last week.
The Victoria, B. C, Council of the
Board of Trade recommends that a fort
nightly mail to the north be established,
and the matter will be pressed on the
Ottawa government.
The Y. M. C. A, at Fresno is in trou
ble. It has a number of unpaid bills,
and the creditors have used legal means
to secure payment. A keeper is in
charge of the institution.
Captain Hewitt, master of the San
Pedro, and Pilot Christensen are cen
sured by the members of the committee
that investigated the causes for the lots
of the vessel neir Victor a.
The Bradatreet Mercantile Agency re
ports thirteen failures in the Pacific
Coast States and Territories for the past
week, against twenty the previous week
and sixteen the same week of lbOl.
The steam sleigh at Truckee will soon
be ready for its trial trip. The machin
ery ha., arrived, and is now being put In
place. Much interest in the invention
is manifested by the people of the snowy
country.
Dr. Prowtell of Phoenix proposes to
make things warm for those people wno
originated stories of a libelous character
about him and sent them out from Phoe
nix during his temporary absence from
that town.
Thirty thousand pounds of fresh salmon
were shipped in a car from the Franer
river two weeks ago, going by way of the
Canadian Pacttic to .New xora: ana
thence in the cold-storage room of a Ger
man steamship to Hamburg.
'" Eastern tree dealers are greatly exer
cised over the attitude of California in
reference to the importation of diseased
stock, and exhibit a desire to retaliate
by urging Congress to remove the pro
tective tariff from foreign fruits in order
to injure the home industry. A threat
of th'it nature comes from a firm at New
ark, Wayne county, N. Y.
The San Diego tmW says: It has
been reported that the December frosts
killed the pineapple planti that have
been so successfully grown in this vicin
ity for the past two years. K. R. Mor
rison wai seen, and he says he has fif
teen varieties growing both at South San
Dieiroand in this city, numbering 1,500
;b.!its in all, and of that lot not ore was
killed.
Pomona's new liquor ordinance has
irone iuto effect. Under it no man is al
lowed to step into a place where liquors
are sold upon any business whatever
under a fine of not more than (100 and
lodgment in jail o! not more than fifty
days. The. public is excited over the or
dinance, ana there will probably be some
warm times in Pomona during the next
few days. ; : .
Considerable talk is occasioned at Val-
leio over the charges against Foreman
Utiaries 1. rneips oi me cuiiBirncuuii
ilnnartment at Mitre Island. His offense
as stated in the preferred complaint is
extorting money from workmen who are
amnloved under him. making them pay
a large monthly bonus for the privilege
of working. An investigation will be
had at once.
The recent ruling of the District Court
at Ho se Citv to the effect that housees
of nrostitution cannot be abated as nui
sances has created no small amount of
adverse criticism. The weight of author
ity seems to be that they can be so
bbated, but Judge wugeni seized upon
nn absolute ruling of some obscure New
York court as a pretense for deciding in
''avor of the sporting fraternity as against
the decent classes in Boise uity. .... rna
case will be appealed.. There is much
indignation over bis decision.
The Oregon Pacific Railroad has been
sold at Sheriff's sale. The property
wan bought in by Zepliin Jobof Ccr allis
for the sum of $1,000,000. It is thought
a compromise has b en effected by the
New York bondholders, and that Col
onel T. Egerton Hogg will be retained
as President of the road, whilo Blair
und his friends will remain managers
ami have a voice in the policy of the road.
The road was bought for the benefit of
all the bondholders who. it is under
rtood, are united upon a policy of re
organization. It is thought the policy
will be to issue bonds to raise sufficient
funds to complete the road to its eastern
terminus in Idaho, and to provide ocean
steamers to accommodate the Increased
raffle that will result.
PERSONAL MENTION.
The Life of the Queen of Roumanla
Despaired of Ibsen Lionized
In Christiana.
London is to have a new woman's
club, presided over by the Duchess of
Teck.
It is reported that the doctors who are
In attendance on the Queen of Roumania
despair of saving her life.
Ex-Minister to Great Britain Vanx of
Philadelphia, who has not been ill for
forty years, has succumbed to la grippe.
Henry Clews, the New York banker,
is in favor of making Saturdays in sum
mer time whole instead of half holidays.
Mrs. Springer, the wife of the Con
gressman, is said to be bis " best achive
ment, brightest accomplishment ami
most admirable quality."
Ibsen is lionized in Christiana, but
they won't permit bis plays on the
boards up there, Tbe " pillars of soci
ety " must be reasonably firm in Scandi
navia. Mrs. Augusta Evans Wilson is living
quietly at Spring Hill, a suburb of Mo
bile. The author of " Beulab " ia said
to be loath to welcome Amelie Rives as
a rival in Southern literature.
Cornelius Vanderbilt is to be asked to
take the Presidency of the New York
Grant Monument Fund Association, and
is considering the question whether or
not he will accept the position.
The author of "The Light of Asia"
Inscribes his name on the hotel register
as "Sir Edwin Arnold." Fastidioui
people may object to Hub, out it is cer
tainlv better than writing one's self
down an aes, as some distinguished tour
ists have done.
Walter Crane, tiie English artist,
openly announced sympathy with the
boctalisis winie ne was in smwn, uuv
after he reached Chicago he did not find
it convenient to aih hate with tnein. rer
haps the withdrawal cf invitations to a
dinner in his honor in the n odern Ath
ens taught him something.
The families of the Queen of England,
the King of Greece and the Czar of Rus
sia have made arrangements to erect a
handsome monument in Copenhagen in
honor of the golden wedding of the King
and Oneen of Denmark. The model of
the monument will be presented to the
royal pair next May ou the anniversary
o; the weouing.
Congressman Hatch is said to have
cured himself of a strong teste for liquor
ten years ago by adopting fcdmuna
Riirke's cure all of hot water. He drank
quantities of it, and thinks he derived
grai ueneufc iroui 11. n Humuiawu unu
without anv of the reafti'inarv effects
that follow stimulation from drinking
alcoholic drinks.
Kvrle Bellew is greatly changed, says
Labbuchere in London Truth. He is no
longer the dapper, well-groomed Bellew
who was known by the matinee girls as
" Kvrlie." There is now a touch of the
shabby genteel about the once-debonair
beau, and lie nas a -ea great.iv, uie nam
which used to be only streaked with sil
ver being now almoBt entirely gray.
Thompson was first moved to write
verges, according to s me special infor
mation which the Boston (ilohe has re
cently obtained, when 16 years of age
and upon a Sunday while staying nomc-
frotn church. The attempt wa suggest!
by me one else as a means of occupy
ing his snare time. The task was under
taken, so this story goes, and with such
success that the youth was encouraged
to try further.
EDUCATIONAL.
. Andrew Franklin is the First Negro
. Student to Attend the University
of Heidelberg.
President Low of Columbia College
has put his foot down on hazing.
Mrs. Robert L. Stewai t has bequeathed
$.'!OJ,000 to Princeton Theological Semi
nary. : .
The schools of New York will cost this
year $4,600,000, of which 3,12S,t!00 is
for teachers' sa'aneB.
B.Andrew Franklin hi said by the
Rochefort (Mo.) Commercial to be the
first negro student in the University of
Heidelberir. where he is now taking a
course. 1 . -.
A parental school is to be established
in Boston to supply a family life and an
industrial education to boys who are
without homes or opportunities for per
sonal trailing.
At the new Chicago University there
will be four quarters, each consisting of
two terms, six weeks in each term. A
student will be allowed to choose any
two terms in the year lor his vacation.
In the scholastic year 1890-1 St. Pe
tersburg had 250 primary schools, with
12,700 pupils, mis year me numoer oi
schools is 2B7 and the number of attend
ing pupils 13,042. This includes 120 fe
male schools, with an attendance of
6,703.
University extension has attracted
much attention in France. The Ministry
of Education has appointed a committee
to investigate the workings of this move
ment in England, and delegates of the
French government were present at the
Oxford summer meeting.
Christine FrederikBen of Copenhagen,
the author of a book on intuitional in
struction, has won a university gold
medal for an orderly collection and der
ivation of the most important laws of
educational theory as far as they can be
derived from modern psychology and
ethics. ' '
In the famished districts in Russia
public schools and higher institutions of
Teaming which depend on the subsidies
of the central or local governments have
been closed one after the other. The
money appropriated for the institutions
is required for the purchase of bread for
the starving families.
Vapsar, University of Pennsylvania
and John Hopkins are all about to erect
new buildings to accommodate the great
numbers of students with which their
halls are overflowing. The sending of
o manv votiths to jeceive the higher
education is another good symptom of
the prosperity of the country.
According to the school statistics of
Finland there are this year 4,293 pupils
attending the male schools and 1,5(17
the female schools. The population ot
Finland is 2.200,000, of which 200,000
are SwedeB, with a small admixture of
other nationalities. To judge by the
language which the school children
speak, the proportion of education is
vnrv nnponallT divided between the na
tive Finns and their Swedish neighbors.
EASTERN ITEMS.
Jack the Slasher Capt
ured in New York.
SELF-CONFESSED PATRICIDE.
Missouri State University Building
Destroyed Discovery of a
Wonderful Cava
St. Joseph, Mo., has a large hotel for
colored people only.
Pontoon bridges across the Missouri
river are said to be failures.
The Whiskv Trust is not scared by a
threat at prosecution in Chicago.
The estate of the late 8 mator Plumb
of Kansas is valued at 15,'W,000.
The buildings of the World' Fair will
contain twenty-nine acres of glass.
Just 28.163 alien immigrants arrived
at the port of Philadelphia during 111.
At the annual meeting of the Sugar
Trnst the capital stock was increased by
25,000,C0).
Maine rivers are still open, and the
icemen are a'raid they will have no har
vest this season.
A compilation of the funds in eight
savings banks of Baltimore gives a total
of f3-,81 5.547.13.
Congressman Brosiua proposes to tele
graph $10 0i0 to St. Petersburg for
Russian sufferers.
An English syndicate, with $2,150,000,
has purchased twenty-three of the twenty-nine
flour mills of Utah Territory.
Baltimore is to have a new athletic
association called the Mm-land, incor
porated with a capit il ntuck of $2 .0,000.
The popular vote was about 10,0 )000
in 1884, about 11,400,000 in 1887, and it
will probably reach 13,000,000 votes in
1890. '
Dr. Keeley asks the parties who wish
to start an "institute" at Excelsior
Springs $200,000 for the State of Mis
souri. Thieves recently held up a small fu
neral procession in Hillsdale county,
Mich., and robbed the minister and un
dertaker. Over 847 bills for the pavment of
Southern war claims have been intro
duced in the present House of Repre
sentatives. Leavenworth is to be the western de
pot for the Keeley bichloride remedy,
and it is not improbable that Dr. Keeley
will go there to live.
One planter in Louisana will this year
draw irom tne u mwu Duties vranury
bounty of $85,000 npon a sugar product
of 4.26J.0OO pounds.
Another outbreak of looting and blood
shed among the miners of Tennessee is
almost hourly expected, and the State
troops are preparing for it.
A noor man in St. Louis who some
years ago beiriended a beggat In distress
has just received a $50,000 remembrance
from that individual's estate.
A tf. 001 monument is to be erected at
Waldheiin cemetery, Chicago, to mark
the resting place of Anarchists Parsons,
Spies, Lingg, Engel and Fischer.
The Kansas Board of Railroad Com
missioners has ordered the railroads of
thBt State to put into effect by February
1 a new and reduced schelule of ratea.
The ice on the Sangamon river in Cen
tral Illinois is ten inches thick. This is
the first winter in three years that ice
has been thick enough there to harvest.
The new Chairmen of the Hou'e Com
mittees are nearly all ex-Confederates.
Only two of them served in the Federal
army, and a majority of them fought on
the other side.
A bill has finally been introduced in
the Senate of Ken Vork pioviding for
an appropriation of $33.1,000 for the
World's Fair. This is going one better
than California.
The Carnegie gift for a great library in
Pittsburg, which now aggregates $2,1 0,
000, provides that $5?.0 O shall lie annu
ally devote! to the purchase of Amer
ican works of art.
That the lottery question does not con
cern the State of Louisiana merely is
clear frem the introduction at Frankfort
of a bill to prohibit Kentucky lotteries
under criminal penalty.
The insurance on the Missouri 8tate
University building, which was burned,
was 133.50X The number of volumes
destroyed in the library was about 22,000
books and ls.uuu pampniets.
Senator Peffer of Kansas makes haste
to aoolosize for his bill to lend $1H),G00,'
000 to the farmers of Indiana. He says
he introduced the bill bv request, and is
in no wise responsible lor it. 1
The collateral inheritance tax on the
estate of the late Governor Tilden will
exceed $500,000. Westchester county
will be enriched bv this amount, and the
County Treasurer's fees will be $7,000.
The Mavor and Council of Philadel
phia are at odds on appropriations for
pavements ot 3UU,uuu. ine mayor
wants all the money used to improve
Broad street. The Councilmen want
each ward to have its share.
A wonderful cave is said to have been
found near Petersborough, Ont. The
floor is rich in silver ore, twelve pounds
of the rock containing $11 worth of sil
ver. The sides of the cave are marble,
and the ceilings are covered with huge
stalactites.
The sub-treasury in New York did
more than a billion-dollar business last
vear, the receipts aggregating $1,227,
381,521.81. Araona the largest transac
tions were $127,401.00 '-. 83 received from
customs duties and $52,51 1,442.06 ex
pended in the purchase of silver bullion.
Under the influence of religions ex
citement at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.,
William Coulton confessed to the mur
der of his father, and gave the particu
lars of the crime. He had been tried by
a jury and acquitted ; therefore his con
viction on the charge of murder is im
possible, i
An experimental sidewalk 'is now in
operation in Chicago. It consists of two
movable platforms 300 feet long, moving
jide by side in the same directio i, one
at the speed of three, the other r.t six
wiles per hour. It haa carried 6)0 per
ions at one time, and seems to be a sno
oess. It will be need at tha World's
Fair.
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Supreme Court Renders an Important
Opinion In Its Construction of
the Immigration Laws.
There are to be an additional number
of beacons and buoys placed in Alaskan
waters next spring.
Mr. Bowers has introduced his bill
annronriatini? 1230.000 for tho purchase
of a site for a military reservation near
8an Diego in accordance with the rec
ommendation of the United States Army .
Board.
The select Committee of the Senate on
Woman Suffrage has decided by a vote
of 3 to 2 to report with favorable recom
mendation the joint resolution for con
stitutional amendment allowing women
to vote.
Senator Squire has received a telegram
from a man inTacoma asking whei her
the government wonld arm and equip a
regiment in case of war for active serv
ice. He went to the Secretary of War,
who said he could not spe.ik authorita
tively on the matter, tut presumed that
in the event of war several regiments
wonld be armed and equipped.
In the case of A. C. Petre et al , plaint
iffs in error, vs. the Commercial Nat onal
Bank of Chicago the Supreme Court of
the United States has affirmed the judg
ment of the United States Circuit Court
for the Northern District of Texas in fa
vor of the bank, thus establishing the
right of a national bank of one State to
bring suit against the citizens of another
State in the district in which such citi
zens live. .
Secretary Nob'e has received a dippatch
from Cherokee Comm ission .representi ng
the United States, announcing that an
agreement for the sale of the Cherokee
Strip between the Cherokee Indians aud
the United States has been ratified by
the Cherokee Council. The Strip con
tains 6,000,000 acres of land. All that
remains to be done is for Congress to
ratify the agreement and pass a bill
opening it for eettlemenr, which will be
probably announced by proclamation. -
Mr. Mitchell's bill pensioning soldiers
who served in the Indian wars reads as
follows : " That the same pensions and
benefits granted to the Mexican veterans
by virtue of the provision of the act of
Congress entitled 'An act granting pen
sions to the Sf v1;ers and sailors of the
Mexican war and for other purposes'
and approved January 29, 1887, be and
the same are hereby extended to the
survivors of all Indian wars who served
thirty days or more in any Indian war
since theyear 1845."
Secretary Rusk has issued notice to ,.
all interested that tbe splenetic or
Southern fever exists among the cattle
in tbe -rea which includes nearly all of
the erri ory lying south of and includ
ing tne States of North Carolina, Ten
nessee, Arkansas, Texas and Indian Ter
ritory. From February 1 to December
1, this year, no cattle are to be trans
ported from this area to any portion of
the country north of nor west of it ex
cept by rail for immediate slaughter,
and when so transported certain regula
tions are to be observed. However, cat
tle which have been in the certain area
described at least ninety days may bo
shipped to Colorado, Wyoming and Mon
tana for grazing purposes under the State
regulations.
An opinion of importance in its con
struction of the immigration lawB has
been rendered in the United States Su
preme Court in the case of Fishimura
Ekin, a Japanese woman, to whom entry
into the United States was refused by
the immigration officers and Collectors
at San Francisco on the ground that she
waa like v to become a public charge.
This ruling the immigration officers con
tested, and it was sought to nave me
Federal Courts on application for a writ '
of habeas corpus review the facts in the
case. The government contended tho
ruling of the Treasury Department with
reference to tne entry oi lrauugTania
was final and not reversible by the
courta. Thie contention of the govern
ment the Supreme Court sustains.
Mr. Hermann represents that the Cas
cades portage by the State has proved a
success, and asserts that, although not
completed until in tbe fall, it has al
ready saved in traffic charges to the peo
ple nearly, if not the whole, cost of con
struction and rolling stock, including
the operating expenses, and this does '
not, he Bays, include any trade np the
Columbia above The Dalles. He ex
presses the opinion that when The Dalles
portage shall be completed the net earn
ings will cover the cost of construction
every year, and save the people of the
upper country a great deal of money in
transportation. There is no possible
hope of getting the boat railway bill,
with its large appropriation, through
Congress, while there is a slight chance
for the portage railway bill.
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs
has written a letter to the Secretary of
the Interior recommending tliat a num
ber of Indian agencies of the lesser sort
be abandoned so far as an agent was con
cerned, and that the agencies be placed
in -charge of the superintendents of
schools at the particular agencies ; also
that the pnyBicians at tne various agen
cies be required to act as clerks, which
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matter of expenses. ' Whether the Sec
retary will act favorably upon this rec
ommendation or not is unknown; but,
aa the movement is in the interest of
economy, it is probable that it will re
ceive his approval, although there are a
number of Senators and members of
Congress who might seriously object to
anytlling OI WIS Kinu, as ii wouiu itim
a number of personal appointees with
out a job.
Utah is making a push for admission,
and a bill has been introduced by Sena
tor Teller providing for absolute admis
sion. Another bill has been introduced
by Senator Faulkner, providing for a
more liberal form of Territorial govern
ment, which will allow the Territory to
elect all of its State officers now ap
pointed by the President, and tbe only
authority that the United States govern
ment is to retain over the Territory will
be to pass npon and either approve or
disapprove of the laws which may be
made or action which the State govern
ment may take. Senator Piatt, Chair
man of the Committee on Territories,
states that there will be a hearing be
fore the House Committee February 11,
and parties interested for or against the
proposed measures will have a chance to
air their views. It is pretty definitely
settled that the Republican party does
not care to give much more liberty to
the Mormons; but, if it ia shown that
there can be fair elections in the Terri
tory of Utah, it is probable that the pro
posed mrdified form of Territorial gjv
rnment may be adopted.