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About The Oregon mist. (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.) 188?-1913 | View Entire Issue (March 11, 1892)
i, Circulation, 1,000. 784 Subscrifters In Columbia County. '. ' - BKHT Advertising Medium In ColumUt Co. -TlIK leading Paper of Columbia County. VOL. 9. ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1892. NO. 11. THE OREGON MIST THE OREGON MIST. IHItDKO KVKIIY FRIDAY MOHNIBfO J. R. BEEGLE, Publisher. The County Official Paper. Rulxcrlp.lou Itatea, On oopy on year In advance One xiyy month' Him oiy M .. 76 ft Aitrerll.lns Hates. profvaatonal oerila imu rsar .,,,..... 112 One utilurnii one yr ..,. .lyj! 11 ilf eolnniii oue year.. 4nartr cnliirnu oam year , .. 4" Olio Inch one month. , V Oue Inch Ibme nionllia J On Inch all mouth . Local notlrea, I ft rem. per line for flrat fnaer tloiii louenta j.ur Una lor art uhmqueut In sarlon. . . , x lOiial ailvartlaementa, $1.50 ir inch (or rlr t liiiriiiu,.ii(175cuut.i r Inch lor each wb quant fuaiirllnn. COLUMBIA COUNTY DllUCOTO County Offloere. JU'1k..,.'......m ;....!. J. Hwl'or, Ht. Il.lrna Oeik K. K wuifk.Ht. H i Sheriff , Wm. Mwiar, hi. Hitlpna TirMiirnr , (I, W. Cola, Ht. Ilnlelia Duut. ol Muhooia J. (I. Watta, HcniXMMi-a A.Mwuor,,,,, .,.,.,'. P. Dohii, tielnlor Surveyor A. H. l.llllo, H . Uoiena fv.r...u.innr. latel JFiiti Vrruonla (.oiamlMlonon.. j w Hhjiiwi. OlaLkanle. Niialvty Notleee. Mabonio. Ht. IMena tonga. No, at rlegnlar coinmunlralloua 11 rat anil Thlnl Haturilay lu eai'k anon'h at 7:W r n ot Ma-ouln Hall. VlatMni mamlH-r. lu Rood ataititlne; IuvIUnI tfiatb-ml. M ahiinu! U.IiiIit l.wlan No. vi-Hutwl me t HK ramr air on or htforecach full moon at 7 :M r. H. at Me-milc Hall, war tilnrwhara'a atiira. Vlaltmt member lu good Hamlin Invluxl to albmit. Kvangelloal Aioliitmenta. Klrat Hauilay-Deer ialand, II a. M.s rlt. Helena. 7:00 r. M. H.oud Buuday Near City, U a. Heuutiu, T ii r. al. Third HiiDday illllton, II a. m.; Houltoii, r. M Fourth BHiidayHHvlta aland (Olllahan), 11 A, M. lWlet',3 r. 1. H. BIIKI.INUAMIC, I'aator. . The Malta. ' " t)own river (Inat) nloaea at 10 A, H. p river (lMatl nloaea at 1 r. M. I lia mail for Verimula and Pltlatmrg learn HU llelein Tuetday, 'I buraday and Haturday al A. at. The mall for Marahland. Olatkiile and Mlal leavea tulun Huuday, Wetlueaday and K rid ay at U M. Mall (railway) north oloaa at 10 a u. tot Vnitland at I r. M. . Traveler.' (luldaltlvar Knuta. HTma (I, W. HNAVKK lav (t. Helena for Portlaud al li a. m. Tudy. Th iraday and Mat- rdav. Iearm HI. Helena for t'lat.kanle Moa dev. Weltieolay and Krl :av at B HD a. m. HrRAMKR Joaai'it K KU.imo--l,avee Ht. Ilelein for Honlaud dally ritHuuily at t M a. a. ReinrulnK, tearea Portland al 'i r. M. . M18CKLLASKOU8. D. d. SWITZER, GENERAL INSURANCE -AND- Real Estate Agent, St. Hiuns, Oregon. -oo TO- John A. Beqk, WatchiDakep and Jemeler, -KOH YOUR- ELECANT JEWELRY. The Plneat Aaaortmeut of W'atrh.a. Gloeka and Jewelry of all IJeaurlflloua. OfPMITI IHI KIMONO, PORTLAND. OR' PIANOS and ORGANS. I riillt'tt tfe I avis and New Scale Kimball Pianos and Kimball Or gans. I invite inspection, and defy competition. ' ' L. V. MOORE, 1 05 Washington St., Portland, Or. Write for catalogue and prices. Mention this paper. v , ... r - Ola, ts 1c a, n i e STEAMER G. W. SHAVER. J. W. SHAVER, Master. Leaves Portland from Alder-street dock Monday, via Westport, Skamokawa and Catlilamet, Wednesday and Friday for Clatskanie, touohinK at Sauvies Island, St. Helens, Columbia City, Kalama, Neer City, Rainier, Cedar Landing, Mt. Collin, Bradburv, Stella, Oak Point and all intermediate point, returning Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. DON'T BUY YOUR DRUGS ANYWHERE BUT AT A KKUULAR YOU WILL FIND THE Freshest, Purest and Dest of Everything -AT CLATSKANIE v DRUG '.' STORE. DR. J. E. HALL, Proprietor. PROFESSIONAL. DR. H. R. CLIFF, Physician and Surgeon, at. Helena, Or. DR. J. E. HALL, Physician v and v Surgeon, t'Utaltanle, Columbia Co., Or. T, A. McHHim. A. B. IMUMsta, McBRIDE & DRESSER, Attorneys .1 at ;.' Law, Oregon City, Or. , ' Prompt attention given to laud offlre baalneee A. B. LITTLE, Surveyor and Civil Engineer, St. Helena, Or. Ooatity Bury yor. J-an1 surveying, town plat' ting ana aiiKluoerlug work piuuijitly done. , W, T. Rt'HNKr. .- J. W. Daamt., BURNEY & DRAPER, Attorneys v at v Law, ; Oregon :itjr, Or. v. Twelve yeara' experience a Rcglntor of the United 8ta-ea Laud OHIoe here raotimmendl ua It) our .e l 1 ty of all kind, of nuahima Iwf ire the Laud Oflliie or Ihc caurli, and Involving the practice in the (leuaral l.aud Olflce. J. B. BROCKCNBROUQH, ' ATTORNEY V AT V LAW, Oregon City, Or. I (Lite Hprrlal Agent of (lent ral Ijind Office.) Il imeaiead, Prueinpiloi and flintier Mud Ao- Jill at out ami other Laud Onlue llualueaa a iiwelelty. Olflce, Htoond Kloor, land Office Hulldlug. CHflS. W. pYGEfl, Notary .' Public AND- INSURANCE AGENT, MAVOKR, OR. iilplitlierln... Of thoae who' vro ntflickeJ by yellow fflvnr iliirlria tin prevalence of that tliwiiHe lu Florida a yt:iir or two ago only ntxtut oiih in olovtm ilitxl. Tn the aaute yoar tliera were 1,433 ciistitof diphtheria in Dtwttin, of whioh 470, or one in three, proved ftttjil.' During th- liutt eleven yearn tlwro have been 14,807 caaea of dijihtlieria in Uiwton, with an agKregate of 4.H25 dwttlw. HiicU a fvarful pruvalenco of this dead ly diseune wit h itt incwsKant desulation of homm in not by any mcatm tieoestuiry. In GIiihbow, Scotland, iu ravagwt have been u;r-atly ohncknil by niftatiH of en forotnl ttmliition and diinfection, and thoro in no n-awm why our own board of health. If they were untied with the rwiuUilte legal power and backed up by a wine public sentiment, might not be able to Hcconiplixh a Kimihir remtlt. Diphtheria i much more fatal than BiiiiiUxx, and the fitct tlutt it u iemt con tiitfloun only 'incwutett the ntwetwity of compulsory iwHatKm, for many pernons exiKwo tliemwlveii nimecensnriiy to uipu theria who could not bo induced by any conaideration to extxwe thotnaelveg to atuallKx. ' . It is a fact of public intereut that diplv theria dot not go' from tiouae to honae apart from pentonal communication. Ex cept In teimment hotiHeti, therefore, the patient can be aafoly Isolated at home, provided the public in duly notified by gome mmplu lint familntr Dinal attached to the door. For such as cannot be safe ly ioolated at home ailetiunte municipal accommodation fthottld be provided. Yonth'n riw"'""'iei ' THE - PACIFIC COAST. irand Potlatch in Honor of the Queen. STOLEN JEWELRY RESTORED. Profound Sensation Created at Butts on Aooount of Attachment of Mining Propirly. Caraon tai organized a fishing and hunting club. A boal-buildlng yard is to be estab lished V ctoriu, 11. 0. Nogalea, A. T., will have an electrio llnht system in operntioa soon. HAcramento freeholders have at last completed the formation o( a new char ter. The Supervisors of Motloc county offer a ljoimty of (S eacb for California lion cnlps. The sale of the Sapphire mine in Mon tana to English parties bas been de clared off. H"P rts regarding the loss of cattle in Houthern Arzuna .owing to the absence of food, ate declared untrue, . A Montana man has invented a ranch snow plow for scraping the snow off the ranges, so that the cittle can get at the graw. . The Union Pacific Company has adopt ed the O ogon State Board of Railroad Commissioners' schedule with a few modifications. , -,. ; Dr. Arley Barthlow 8how, professor of history in Donne College, Neb., has been sppiinted assistant professor of history in Iceland Stanford (Jr.) University. . There Is a legal ngnt over the pwses- iib aieinwj o prum-ny i o.in : mces immediately preceding the narra ith the prut pact of the people ! tive of Montcalm and Wolfe. The work Dief, being fnrni-hed with copies of two Suns. The weal'h of the Northwest is rap'dly augmenting. The total valuation of pr perty in Montana in 1891 was 1142, .'05,428, an increase of i!W,'l8,045 over 18(10. William Chriflie, the treasurer of the Kaweah c ilonist", has be"n ane'ted and taken to Los Angeles on a charge of sending fraudulent matter thr ugh the mads., Qusin Chung, the wea'tbiest China man in Maho, is under airest at I! use City and cliaiged with defrauding the fovcrniiu'iit,. It is believed he is fie lead ol a large stnuling itang. The Columbia Uiv- r Fisliermen's Pro teclive Union has set the price of salmon for the season on the river at $1 all around for gill net (I'll. Trip and seine fish will be paid for by the pound. Public government business at Fresno is almost at a standstill, owing to the refusal of the Treasurer to pay the sal aries of deputies in the Recorder and Tax Collector's offices. The deputies have all quit work. l'tie arrest of a divekeeper at Sawa-trn-nlo has led to the startling discovery dial there is no ordinance iu that city prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liq uors without going thtough the formal ity of si curing a license. A ompany has recently been formed by San Frat c fc capitalists to work ex tensive cial fields at Coal Harbor, Unga Island, Alaska. Underlying the coal measures on Unga Is and there is also said to l:e a vast deposit of petroleum. Judge McKinley at Los Angeles has bcided that the big shipment of tree Irom the South Sea Islands, numbering 325,030, and which was seized by the County Horticultural Commissioners, the trees being infested, must be burned. Nearly all the Indians in British Co lumbia will assemble at the north arm of Fraaer river on the Queen's birthday and hold irrand potlatch. Ten thou sand dollars in prixes will be given away nd 3,'XX) blankets distributed bv Chief George. The stakes and purses for the next meeting of the Trotting Horse Breeders' Association at San Francirco have closed with the largest number of entries ever received by auv association on the Coast. bverv prominent sire on the Uoast is represented. E. L. Hun tie v of Chicago, a clothing drummer who was robbed in Idaho of $l2,XM)in jewels while on a stage run ning between Kootenai and Bonner's Ferry, has had them restored to him on the payment of $2,000 and a promise not to prosecute. W. J. Barry. ex-Chief of Police of As toria, has been arrested on a charge of larceny bv bailee of fa, 400, said to have been collected by him for delinqnent city taxes and not paid over to the Treasurer. The complaint is sworn to bv Mavor Magnua C. Crosby. Barrv has given bonds for bis appearance. ' A profound sensation has been created at Butte, Mont,, on account of the at tachment of the property of the Bine bird Mining" Company (limited) by the banking nouse ot Uoje, m-owntees uo. This mining company is one of the prin cipal silver producers of the State. The ainouut due the bank is $70,000 on over drafts during 18 U and 18D2. , ; William Pointer, County Treasurer of Washington county. Or., has forwarded $1,0.'0 to the State Treasurer as a part of Washington county's State taxes for cur rent expenses. The Treasurer informs State Treasurer Phil Metsi tvw that, the County Court has iitnnred the action of the State Board of Kqualiration and will make the levy as equalized by the Coun ty Board. If that is done, Washington county will nav tuxes on fl9,764.25 in--lea i of 123,017 28, the sum as levied by the Slate Hoard ol Apporii nment Iu the Uuited 8tnte (lonrt at Boise City'tha Last Chance Ml io Company h;is bepn maintained in its water rights. The Bunker Hill Company located a wa t. r ritrht on Mllo creek-! and the Last Chance made a location farther down. The former company made a lecation still farther down the stream, and tried to divert the water around the Last Chance works. In his decision Judge Keatty says: "In the appropriation of water to be ued at a specified place for the purpose of operating machinery and other work, and after so UBlng returning to its original cl.annei, the person so ap propriating cannot change the place of use to the damage of a subsequent ap propriation lower down on the stream." PERSONAL MENTION. Congressman Amos Cummings De clared the Choice of Fremont, Neb., for President. ., Mrs. Julia A. Carney of Galesburg, III., is not widely knowu In the world of letters, and yet she is the author of that interesting little poetical moreeau be ginning "Little drops of water, little grains of sand." Congressman Amos Curnmlngs has been declared the choice of the citizens of Fremont, Neb., for President. There is certainly one thing in his favor be could write his own messages and make them breezy ana bright. Aaron Kimball Loring is one of the "characters" of Boston. He keeps book store, Into which Emereon used to drop for an idea, John Lothrop Motley for a reference, Prescott, the historian, for an old chronicle, Lowell for a new book of poems and Holmes for his cur rent literature. Loyalty to the Stuarts still exists in England. The Royalul announces that those desirous ot taking part in the com' memoration of the death of Mary Queen of Scots may go to Westminster Abbey at a certain time and lay upon her tomb a " cross oi nowers " ana a martyr's crown ot roses." v , Miss Soonderbaf Powar, a native high caste Hindoo, has been sent by India to this country as a missionary. She comes to point out the evils of the opium traf fic. She wears an Oriental costume, but speaks English fluently. Her oratory is simple and direct, and she excites the sympathy ol her bearers. The sword and bloody dagger taken from the body of James IV. of Scotland on Flodden Field are with Queen Vic toria's permission to be deposited in the restored Parliament hall in Edinburgh. It waa from the fortress in that city that the unfortunate monarch volunteered forth to the battle in which be was slain. jrrancia 1'arkman is busy with a new historical work. This will complete his series of historical writing, and will cover the period of the struggle of France afralnar. Knirland in hftr fllnrifldian nmv. will be called "A Half Century of Con met." Dwisht W. Moody Is one of the men they talk of as Spurgeon's successor as pastor ot the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London. Across the water it is be lieved that the great American evangelist Is enough of a Baptist to come within the requirements of the trust deeds of the church property ; but little hope is entertained of persuading Mr. Moody to come. Governor Edwin B. Winans of Michi gan is not very widely known outside of bis state, for. unlike many Western Gov ernors, he does not often go East to visit cities and mingle with men in hotel cor ridors. He is a man of commanding ap pearance, with a tall, straight, military figure, iron-gray hair and a mustache of like color. . tie u usually at his desk by o o ciocx, ana is a nara woraer, The royal family of Portugal has de cided to retrench iiersonal expenses. His majesty, the King, announced recently that the salaries of public functionaries were to be reduced, and that the law re ducing salaries should be applied first to 'its own lainity. : Household expenses nave been cut down. Among the lux uries which are to be lopped off for a time id mate subsidized opera. ' That is a good legal story just narrated about George J. Gould. Being in the witness chair, a foolish lawyer, who be lieves in the generally exploded idea that cross-examination means personal abuse, atked htm an impertinent question about ins lather, ueorge and the lawyer looked at each other, when the former mildly replied: "I honor my father, and 1 hope your father is equally worthy of honor." The old advice of Charles O'Conor to his pupil stands good all the time, via. : " Never hazard on cross-examination any question that if answered in a cert tin possible way may hurt your esse." ; WORLD'S FAIR NOTES. Pennsylvania Coal Operators Want Construct a Building Entirely of Anthracite Coal. to Fully 12S Bavarian firms have applied for Bpaee at the Chicago Exposition. New York granite cutters will have a $5,000 monum mt at the World's Fair. Tad Pennsylvania coal operators want to construct a building entirely of an thracite coal at the exposition and to have 5 ',000 tons of the best anthracite on exhibition. The Rhode Island World'a Fair Board contemplates having its exposition build ing at Chicago combine the best archi tectural features of its State capital at Providence, together with those of the old capitol building formerly occupied at Newport. The horticultural department of the exposition la planning to have a magnif icent rose garden, in which will be fully 60,000 pi inlp, besides large groups in special areas. The garden will be of classic design, with temples, arbors, arch ways and trellises. Plans for the exercises dedicatory of the exposition buildings during the week of October 12, 1892, are fast being ma tured. One of the chief featnrea prac tically decided upon is a nocturnal pro cession of floats on the illuminated la goons at Jackson Park. Chief Walker Fearn of the foreign af fairs department ot the exposition in a recent report to the Dliector General says that interest in the exposition is al ready great and is repMIy increasing in nearly every foreign country. Foreign Eartlcipation, as shown by exhibits, will e exceedingly complete and gratifying. New Hampshire as a delightful place of summer resort will be demonstrated by a portion of the exhibit made by that State at the exposition. At least such is the present intention, and summer re sort proprietor!", editor, railroad offi cials and others have been invited to a con'erence to decide upon the best plan for accomplishing that end, . Balsa Bros., the largest cigar manu facturers in Mexioi, will make an exten sive exhibit at Chicago in 1893, and Lor ing Olmstead, who haB charge of one of the largest plantations in Mex'ct, which is the property of the Bank of London and situated in the state ot ruenia, will inske a verv interesting exhibit, illus trating " hacienda" life In Mexico Mr. Olmstead was formerly an otlicer in the United States navy, and is a graduate from the Annapolis Mavai Academy. EASTERN ITEMS. Ingersoll Sues a Minister for LibeL METEOR FALLS IN ALABAMA. Bill Reducing the Duty on Barley Introduced in the House by Fitch of New York. . Chicago collects over . '1,000,000 in sa loon licenses. Never before were prices for iron so low as tney are now. Philadelphia has 7,000 fewer licensed saloons than New York. Senator Sherman is to build a $100,000 mansion in Washington. New York State Senate is investigat ing tne Heading coal aeai. Three new lines of railroad will soon be built through Ottumwa, la. Oil has been discovered on Mr. Blaine's farm in Washington county, Pa. An effort will be made in New York to raise $2o,000 to send the 200 stranded colonists to Liberia. ... ; The value of Kansas farm lands is said to have actually increased 24 per cent. in tne past twelve months. .. Relatives of William Turnbull, one of the sailors slam at Valparaiso, will ae mand a large Indemnity of Chili. Governor Gilpin of Colorado seriously advocates the construction of a railroad from Denver to Paris via Behring Straits. Fred Douglass has been appointed to represent Hayti at the World's Fair. An appropriation of $25,000 has been made, Two cases of typhus fever have been discovered in St. Louis among Jews who recently arrived there from Idena, Rug- sia. , Chicago has just adopted the plans for a new pubac-iiDrary building, which ac cording to the estimates will cost $1,250,- ooo. The present Federal House of Repre sentatives will be asked for more than $25,000,000 for river and harbor improve ments. The street cars in Leavenworth, Kan.. are to be run by compressed air. The citizens have raised the money to raise the wind. 1 , - The first consignment of camel skins for commercial purposes ever broueht to this country reached New York some days ago. ; . New York Central road employes have received orders to Hag any train that is seen to be following another train within ten minutes. - Revolutionary societies, having for their object the freedom of Cuba and Porto Rico from Spanish control, are or ganizing in New York. President Harrison has dismissed In ternal Revenue Collector A. T. Wimbr- ley of Mississippi becacse of affiliation with the lottery people. Inquiries made throughout the cotton belt by the St. Louis Globe-Democrat jhow that planters will raise less cotton iuring 1892 than in 1891. The Health Officer of Philadelphia has been directed to prosecute 130 clergy men for a fine of $10 for each of 442 mar riages that they neglected to report. The Interstate Commerce Commission has decided that it is a violation of the law for a road to issue passes to Council men on account of their official posi tion, j ... The Schmidt local-option bill was de feated in the Iowa Senate by a strict f tarty vote. Anew measure similar in ts provisions was at once introduced by Senator Gobble, The will of Daniel Hand, the Guilford (Conn. ) philanthropist who gave so much money for the education of freedmen, is to be contested. It disposes of $000,000, and the heirs number twenty-nine. At a conference of colored people at Tubkngee, Ala., the other day it was de termined that they can become prosper ous, intelligent and rich where they are, and wholesale emigration is discouraged. The License Commissioners of Wash ington. D. C. have prepared a new li cense bill, which has been sent to Con gress. Under this new bill the retail license will be $600 per annum and the wholesale $300. A meteor which fell In Alabama last week plowed up a furrow about as large as a flour barrel and three or four feet deep, then bounded and struck a large pine tree six feet from the ground, shiv ering the tree. It then exploded. The New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company has signed a contract for 33,500 steel ties, which are to be laid on four tracks running out of New York. 8teel rails of 100-pounds section will be used for this purpose. Miss Rhoda Broughton has organized a successful movement in Philadelphia for a home of rest for horses. The scheme is in practical operation, and insures greater - kindness in treatment of the class of animals for which it is designed. Investigation of Chicago's water sup ply, prompted by the prevalence of ty phoid fever in that city, has shown that the water is unfit to drink nnless boiled, and that it will be necessary to go fon miles out into the lake for an uncontatn inated supply. Colonel Robert G.Ingereoll has brongh' suit for libel against Rev. Dr.. A. 0. Dixon of the Handson Place Baptist Church, Brooklyn, because Dixon in a sermon charged that Ingergoll had been hired b publishers of impure literature to " po ute the minds of the young ol this g . eration." ' The annual returns of theorjaniz1 militia ot the States, which have recent ly been presented to Congress, show . gratifying increase in numbers over last vear and a still ureater advance over a few years ago. Exclusive of three lately admitted States, whose statistics are lacking, the aggregate is 110,713. The charges made in Chili aa-alnst Consul McCreery and Lieutenant Har low, which have been mentioned in the cable dispatches, have iteen forwarded to the United States by Hill. Dr. Trum bull has also mailed a statement that McCreery gave out the news for which Admiral Brown is blamed about the landing at Quinteroa Bay, NATIONAL CAPITAL; 1 he House Bill to Better Control and to Promote the Safety ot National Banks in the Senate. After a struggle with the department Representative Hermann has succeeded in obtaining a daily mail service from Canyon City, Grant county, to Burns, Harney county. The increased cost amounts to nearly $3,000, and the de partment hesitated nearly two years be fore acceding to the demand. The House Committee on Agriculture bas authorized a favorable report on the hill submitting oleomargarine trans ported into any State or Territory or re maining therein for consumption, sale or storage to the police powers of snch State or Territory, or to the same extent and In tH .ame manner as though it was produced therein. senator Allen has secured a favorable report upon his bill appropriating $00, OhO for a lighthouse at Gray's Harbor. He also appeared bo'ore the Committee on Commerce and made a long argument urging thai an appropnat.on be made for the Lake Washington cinal. All members of the committee were pres ent, and listened with a great deal of attention to what the Senator had toeay of the advantages that would accrne to his State and to the government if this canal should be built. A modified form of a bill which the President vetoed last year was reported to the Senate from the Committee on Military Affairs. It provides for the es tablishment of the record and pension division of the War Department. The Piesident based his veto on the ground that the bill was a delegation of the ap pointing power to Congress, bee mse it provided for the appointment of a cer tain army officer. Major Ainsworth, as chief of the division. The modified bill does not provide this. Representative Hermann has intro duced a bil to amend the law making an annual -appropiiation to the militia; also to authorize proofs on Umatilla lands before any officer; also to provide bounty land to persons who served in the Indian wars since l-5i; also for ex tending the time for II: i- instruction of a bridge across the Colombia river near La Camas; also extending to settlers in the Northern Pacific railroad's forfeited limits further time to make payments as provided in the act of forfeiture. A bill to correct the difficulty that pre vented thp government from assuming jurisdiction ih the prosecution of the persons concerned in the killing of the Italians accused of complicity in the murder of Chief Hennessey of the New Orleans police force a year ago has been introduced in the Senate by Mr. Do'ph of Oregon. It will be remembered that the United States government found it self powerless to interfere in the imtter, because the killing came under the State law of Louisiana. The bill provides that any act committed in any State or Terri tory in violation oi tne rights o any cit izen or subject of a foreign country, se cured to such citizen or eu bjct by treaty, when the act constitutes a like crime or misdemeanor against the peace and dig nity of the United States, is punishable in a like manner, and may be prosecuted in the courts of the United States, and upon conviction thereof to t e executed in a like manner as those under a United States law. After a week's consideration of th tiver and harbor bill b paragraphs in the committee reports come out to the effect that in spite of .every effort at economy exercised by the Democrats the bill will reach the proportion of the last Congress and will carry everything over .na ..n , nn mi A ... . AUn. U.ll t2,iHJ YJUU. HllttUjpt. W UUb tuv and especially to cnt the Northern and Pacific Coast interests, has met with such a storm of opposition as to frighten even the Southern, members charged with economy in the preparation of this feature, it will be remembered that the last bill which passed was two years ago, and the appropriations made were for two years' work on the nver and narDor improvements. It is expected the pres ent bill will cover about the same period, and it has been demonstrated to the committee that it would be impossible to carry on the work now under construc tion and to make the necessary new im provements without making this bill as large as the one passed by the last Con gress. Negotiations between the Unit ed States and Great Britain, looking to the sub mission to arbitration ot tne long pend ing controversy between the countries in regard to the Behring Sea seal fisher ies has reached a favorable conclusion. Sir Julian Panncefote, the British Min ister, met Secretary Blaine by appoint ment, and signed the treaty of arbitra tion on behalf of Great Britain. He said he bad been fully authorized by Lord Salisbury to take this action. Blaine signed the document on behalf of this government, and . the matter was con summated so far as the diplomatic part of the business is concerned. The treaty is still subject, however, to the action of the British Parliament and the United States Senate. The exact terms of the treatv cannot now be stated, but u is known that the Board of Arbitration will consist of seven persons, two represent ing the United States, two representing IInuI R.itoin mm nt wHim la tn 1m a Canadian, an one each representing the neutral governments oi France, Sweden and Italy. Representative Hermann has present ed to Secretary Noble numerous letters from settlers upon the lands claimed by the Coos Bay and Roseburg Wagon Road Company, but which were erroneously patented to that company, and when called unon by the eovernment to re cover, it answers that it bas disposed of these lands to. other parties. Mr. ner mann has insisted that some definite ac tion be taken by the Secretary, and he now catls upon the Commissioner of the general land office to submit a list of the lands which have been wrongly patent ed, so that the Attorney-General may institute suit for collection of patents. The whole grant is 99,819 acres. There i . . , . i i naa oeen paten teu witnin iiiree-mua limits 59.809 acres, and 6,169 acres with in those limits remain vacant and sub iect to selection and patent, making 66.- 039 acreB apparently subject to the grant within the primary limits, mere nave been certified and patented within the indemnity limits 44,139 acres, making in all 110,178 acres, or an apparent excess of 10,350 acres over the amount the com pany is entitled to. The Secretary di rects that the excess be identified by in cluding those tracts farthest from the line of the road. This will include 1 ,099 acres outside, of all limits, and will be separated from the remainder, so that a judgment may be obtained on either theory. Hiany action u urguu. FOREIGN LANDS. Pneumatic Tubes Used ' in Sending Mail. INFLUENZA AMONG ANIMALS. Coal Mines Discovered in Argentine Republio Bismarck Will Attend the Diet. The disorders in Berlin are believed to be at an end. South Africa is taking steps to prohibit Chinese immigration. It is stated that Denmark is novr will ing to Bell St. Thomas. . British Guiana produced nearly $2, 000,(100 worth of gold last year. Mall is being sent between Paris and Berlin through pneumatic tribes. Senor Saenz Pana, Independent, will contest the Presidency of Argentine. ; Bismarkwill attend the coming session of the Upper House of the Prussian Diet. Three companies have been formed in ' London to work the petroleum beds of Peru. ' ' : It is proposed to construct a new tele-' graph line from Valparaiso to Buenos Ayres. -. . ,; ; Emperor William will crulfe off the coast of Norway during the approaching summer. ' . - ... - No case of foot and mouth disease has . occurred in Denmark for the pist seven teen years. : . ; .- ' - A terrific gale is reported near Oporto, Portugal. and 200 fishermen are supposed to have lost their lives. " The great emporium of Berliu, known ' as the Kaiser Bazar, which is in liquids- ' lion, was sold for $4,000,000. Count Ernest d'Ureel. 26 years old. a Belgian who commanded the military ' force in Lnluabourg district, Congo, is dead.-' . The grip epidemic has disappeared in - Paris, the rate of mortality being again normal. In German towns the disease is ' also abating. . ' ! s ' Lord Salisbury has the credit of being i. the mo?t industrious and hardest-work- ing Premier that England - has had for many a year. " t English capitalists leave rnptnred ne- t gottations for properties in Southwest- Alrica, and lorieited joj.ujo .o a nam- . buTg syndicate.- The President and other officers of a 7 hank at Corrintes, Argentine, have been t I ut in jail for robbing that Institution . ot WJti ixw pesos. The foot and mouth disease has spreid to nineteen districts in Scbleswii- Hoi- stem. It is presumed that the disease was propagated by manure. Mendoza Cortex, a peer of the realm in Portugal, was recently sent to prii-on, i btcjuse he could not make good a dt bi , in the bank of which be is President. M. Carnot's term as President of " France will expire in December, 1894, and the rumor is already going about.. : that he does not "wish to be re-elected. The magazine rifle recently issued to ; the British regulars has been withdrawn, ' and a weapon sighted for uee, with cor- -y dite ammunition, will be issued in ita place. . : The newly d if covered coal mines in ' the Argentine Republic bave caused a t cancellation of the contracts with Eng- j, land for coal for the railroads in that country. ;- " '; - - Count de Lesseps, who lost a fortune -by the failure of the Panama cana. en- ; terpriee, is in more than comfortable cir cumstances through bis interest in the Suez canal. " Word from Athena announces that Dr. Waldstein has discovered at Argos the , foundations of the Temple of Hera, de- stroyed by fire 429 B. C., together with f many curios. - - , . ' . Arrangements have been made b an educational institution ha London by . which workingmen will be able to visit : the Columbian Exposition next year at a reasonable cost , ...... ; . r The first volume of Count von Moltke's' war correspondence is of interest chiefly '" to students of military tactics. The vol ume contains 146 letters relating to . the Danish war of 18trt. An English journal states that the consulting rooms of the oculists are' -crowded with patients suffering from, ir-; ritation of the eyfes, caused by exposure to the unprotected electric light. Three kundred , thousand ' Germans," whose ancestors settled in the Volga provinces during the reign of the Em-t press Catherine the Second by her invi tation, are preparing to emigrate to the United States. The cause of the shortage of crops inj Russia, as reported by the American Consul, was owing to excessive heat, fol lowed by hail storms; not to the unsuc cessful methods of Russian farmers, aa previously reported. A communistic experiment is to be tried in Africa by a number of German enthusiasts. The selected territory liea. within England's sphere of influence in Africa, in the region of Mount K.enia, in the equatorial highlands. The coffee crop of Costa Rica is bat two-thirds the amount of the previous -year's harvest, and the price is station ary at $35 per quintal. There is much - . anxiety in commercial circles, and it is feared that several houses will fail. . .The last year has been one of the worst business years ever known in Sax ony. Over 40,000 distress warrants were issued in Dresden alone, an increase of nearly 20 per cent. ; and the number of bailiffs bas had to be considerably sag mented. i :; .?-..; ' :,- . , : t. ! f A letter from Cairo gives a enrious ac count of the ceroriionial performed every day at the burial place of Khedive Tewi fik. His mother attends daily for the purpose of prayer, and over 1,0 JO per- " sons, who also attend, are fed with por tionsof meat, rice and bread. They ait down in groups of about a dozen eachy and a dish is placed in the middle of the group. Casual visitors who look on without participation in these strange rites are served with coffee and cigarr ettee, which it is the height of bad form to decline. " 1 J I 1 1