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ST. HELENS. OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1806.
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NORTHWEST BREVITIES
Evidence of Steady Growth
and Enterprise.
ITKHS OF GKNFJUL INTEREST
Now. From Our HLter States Kpltom-Uxl-Th
Leading Toultm ll-ounHtlr-Waalilngtun,
Aberdeen will have only tlx moutht
cl school, tbo term ending the latter
part of this ntuutb. , . . ' -
A permanent county immigration
convention waa organized in Taooum
for Pierce oouuty last week.
There will, it in ununited, be from
8.UUO to 13,000 bushela of apples
shipped from Oroas lslund this year.
The winter school for farmer at
l'ulluiar ia Droving populur. Farniert
fnmi all oaru ot the atate are in at
teuduuoe.
Mra. Caroliue E. Hurtman, who it
62 ycart old, hut taken op a claim tlx
miles above (intuitu Valla, lu Buotio.
ruiab oouuty.
Kx-Sheriff DuRaukin, of Ltuoalu
county, hai purcbaed the Populist pa
pur at Davenport, the People's Banner,
from U. H. Scott
Thiiro will be no ice famine in 8po
Jtane. notwithstanding tlie mild win
tor. There ia plenty of ioe in Silver
iuke. Medical lake and other lakei near
: the oity. ,
At a reward for hard work on the
part of the wouieu, Buohouiish now baa
a large rondiug-room, well ligMua ana
miiulv innllod with pa pen and other
reading mutter.
A buvor of horses hat been in North
Yakima on the loukout for amull aul
mala to ahip to Alaska. He hai been
paying from (5 to (10, and baa bought
up fourteen horses.
Turner & Williama, of Spokane, re
nnntlv wut a htru-e sblDineut of ore
from the Le Roi mine to tbo Everett
amelter, from which they got (18,000,
The ore averaged over (100 a ton.
.Tuff Lntton. a former reaideut of
Faruiinirtou. ia in trouble at Wallace,
Idaho. Me ia acouaed of poiaoning bia
18-uioutha' old child in order to obtain
a lugacy to which the child waa sup
poaed to bo beir.
The analysis of a depoait from a lake
lu Aduma county haa been made by the
uhiefof the wiuerul division oi tne
guologioul aurvey. He found that the
depoait constated of a mixture of ohlo
ride aulphute and carbonate of eodium.
The public soboool of Weaton ia to
be oonducted for the remaindor of the
year by the normal school aa a train
ing department, an agreeemnt to that
effect having been recently arrived at
by the directors with the aohool man
agers, t
The atar mail aorvioe between Chelan
and Stehekin, haa been ordered in
creased to throe time a week from
June 1 to Hop turn bur 80 of each year.
The postoflloe department haa for
warded a commission aa postmaster to
William D. Stark, at Seguin.
The atate mining bureau baa ap
pointed Harry Laudea aa atate geolo
giat. Tbe now appoiutee K profeaaor
of geology in the atate nuiveraity, and
haa accepted the new position with
the understanding that he will receive
no compensation exeopt that paid by
the nuiveraity.
O.N. Uylea, aaaignoe of tho Wake
field Bute bank, haa tiled hiaaeoond re
port. Claima aggregating (10,900
have been filed with biiu by 73 credit
ors. He baa collected (380.88, and
paid out (108.80. The assets are in
auuh a oondition that it will be a loug
time before the affairs can be closed up.
Colonel Georae Hunter, who is over
70 veara uf aue. was niarrlea in waBn
iuuton. D. C, to a woman of 84, about
a. w..PW auo. his first wife having been
dead onlv alx month. Colonel Hunter
ia one of the pioneer Indian fighters of
this region, and is known' all over
Eastern Washington.
During services in an Ilwaoo ohuroli
the other day two or three dogs kept
up a contiuual yelping not far from
the building. On going out to ascer
tain the oause, it was found that they
had a flue eight-point elk at bay, in
the timber a few yards back of the
church. The animal eaoapod capture,
however.
David Spoor, ex-street commissioner
and oity oounoilman of Port Town
aend, died in that city, aged 68 years.
He was a native of New York, and left
that state when the rush to the Cali
fornia gold fields took place in 1849.
Then he drifted to the Sound country ,
and for the past thitry years made hia
home in Port Townsend. He waa a
prominent mason.
for taxes, from Sheriff Houser, and hat
remitted (3,600 of that sum to State
Treasurer Metsohan.
The Lawler syndicate, owning and
developing the (juartzville mine in the
Bautlain district, paid out to those In
its employ and lor supplies over (10,
000 during January.
A petitiou for the pardon of Frank
Kelley, conviotod of having deer meat
in his possession during the closed sea
sou, has boon forwarded to Governor
Lord from Pendleton,
The Buudon Coal Conpamy is ao
tively operating its mines at Rlverton
and expects in the near future to keep
two steamers plying between the Co
quille and San Franosoo.
The president of the Douglas County
Pioneer Society will call a meeting
sometime in March or-April for the
purpose of electing officers, and decid
ing upon the time and place for tbe
next reunion.
The telephone line between Canyon
vllle and John Day is finished, and the
next work will be its extension to
Prairie City and Long Creek. A move
ment ia on foot to extend the line on
to linker City.
Two of the four prisoners in the En
gene jail out through the board wall
reoeiitly and made their escape. Tbe
jail has several iron cells, but it was
not thought necessary to oonflue tbo
prisoners therein.
In Astoria, Officer A. Seafeldt stuck
a key in the keyhole of a fire-alarm
box to turn lu an alarm, and was
knocked almost senseless. The box
waa heavily charged with electricity
by tbe wirea having become orosaed.
The farmers of Sherman oouuty feel
elated over orop prospeota. . More
moisture ia in tho ground than there
bat been for years, which ia an aasur-
anoe that an abundant harvest will re
sult. There is large demand for
wheat laud to rout in the county.
The White Swan Mining Company,
coin posed of Iowa capitalists, haa sent
out two repeseutatives, who are busy
adjusting the affairs of tbe company.
They aay all indebtedness will be paid
and tbe mine will soon take its plaoe
among Baker oouuty a bullion pro-ducers.
Reliable information has been re
ceived from Cracker Creek, Baker
county, of a rich strike in tbe upper
tunnel of the Nor'Ji Pole mine. The
ledge is seven feet wide, ore from
which is of such a high grade that the
company bus decided to make ship
incut to a smelter rather than treat it
at the mill
Oregon.
"wheat at Salem jumped torn 63 to
66 cents one day last week.
The city counoil of Hillaboro has
levied a tax of 7 mill to raise revenue
for the oomiug year.
Dr. Inman, of Umatilla oounty, has
been bound over in the turn of (1,600
to answer to the grand jury the chargo
ot manslaughter.
Eugene horsemen are making ar
rangements to tenure Eugene a place
in the racing circuit, and to have a
three days' meet there In May.
Coot oounty farmers have agreed to
furnish the Myrtle Point oreamery tho
milk of 200 oows, and the creamery
will begin operations in the spirng. -
Railroad officials at LaGrunde re
port that the new flange machine for
clearing tbe track of snow and ioe is a
success. The maohiue in use was con
structed at Albina. "
Treasurer Kern, of TJamtilla oounty,
bat reooived (3,800, money oolleoted
Idaho,
ThePotlntch Horticultural Associa
tlon held its meeting last week. There
waa brought out some interesting data
concerning the condition and prospeota
of tbe orchards of the Potlatuh empire.
The state board of land commission
ers at Boise, on tbe 14 th inst. took
favorable aotion on tbe application of
the Amerioan Falls canal and power
oompany, for the reclamation, under
the Carey aot, of 76,000 acres of arid
lands iu Idaub.
It ia said that the prospects for
operating the mines ot the Coeur
d'Alenes, in Idaho, are fairly good for
the coining season. Tbe price of lead
is not, however, very encouraging, but
it oan not keep closed such mines at
the Standard, the Gem, 'Frisco, Poor-
man and others. These and other
properties are well equipped with the
latest reduction plants and the product
oan be handled economically. It is
expected from this time on nearly
every mine in thia rich country will be
operated to its fullest oapaoity.
The new mining exchange of Boise
will toon be opened for business. This
will not be a stock exchange, but will
be an association devoid of brokerage
or other oonoerns, where tbe miner and
prospector will congregate, securing
correct assay returns of their mines,
etc A description of the merits of all
such properties will be conspicuously
posted and filed with the officers, and
whloh will at all tiroes be open to the
inspection ot investors. The work of
the association ia not confined to any
one seotlon of Idaho, but will take in
the entire state.
TELEGRAPHIC RESUME
Events ot the Day in a Con
densed Form.
OF INTEREST TO ALL READERS
Itams of Importance from Domestic
and Ponies) Source Oraatn
of tho Dispatch..
Three were killed and two injured
in truin-wreok near Rochester, N. Y.
Mrs. Nancy Welch, an Oregon pio
neer and the first white woman to set
tle in Astoria, died suddenly of heart
failure in Astoria.
Montana.
The classification of the min
eral land commissioners made last Sep
tember bat been made final. By tbit
decision the Northern Paoiflo will ao
quire title to about' 60,000 aorea ot
land in Missoula, Flathead and Ra
valli oounties. :;
A carload ot ore was shipped from
the Big Seven mine at Neihart last
week that netted (33,000. Thia mine
is looated near the Benton group and
is being managed by E. J. . Barker,
who, together with D. L. S. Barker,
is fortunate enough to own the prop
erty. The extension of the Anaconda re
finer v was started up for the first time
last week. It it an event of more than
ordinary importance in the history of
the Anaoouda Copper Mining Com
pany, sayt the Recorder. After an ex
penditure of (360.000, nearly all of
which was paid out for Montana labor
and products in its construction, Ana
conda now enjoys tbe proud distinc
tion ot possessing the largest and moat
complete electrolytic refinery in the
world.
Chief Engineer Lombard of I he Mon
tana railroad bat just returned from a
trip of inspection along Sixteen Mile
creek. Work, he reports, it progressing
as fust as oan be expeoted. The work
it extremely diffioult at portiont and
the men at this teotion are now at
work, making a roadbed through the
solid rock. A month't work after the
frost is out ot the ground next spring
will complete the road to within four
teen milea of its terminus Castle.
The remaining distance will be com
paratively easy.
By the use of Roentgent't new dis-
oovery, tbe "X" rays, a buoksbot was
looated in a man's hand, where it bad
been for two years.
Grant Atterbury, a murderer, wat
taken from tbe jail at Sullivan, III.
dragged to tbe courthouse in hit night
shirt by a mob, and banged to a tree.
The schooner Aida, twenty-tix days
from Shanghai to Port Townsend, has
made the best passage across the Pa
oifio ocean on record for a sailing vessel
Bartholomew Shea wat electrocuted
in Dannemora prison, New York, for
tbe murder of Robert Ross, at Troy, in
March, 1894. He died protesting his
innooenoe.
There is believed to be Jaok the
Ripper abroad in San Franoisoo. The
police aay tbe murders recently com
mitted there are similar to those of the
London terror.
The city of Guayaquil, Ecuador, was
visited by a terrible fire. The Peru
vian consulate and several blocks were
destroyed. The lost will aggregate
over (4,000,000.
At a result of a prizefight in Phila
delphia, Frederick Sohlecnter, one of
the prinicpala, died and ex-Poliooman
Plucktelder, the other principal, it in
jail charged with murder.
A statement prepared at the treasury
department, under the direction of As
sistant Secretary Curtis, shows that
tbe government will realize from tbe
new loan (111,878,886.87.
Governor Lord received from the
United States land office a certified
transcript of a dear list of school in
demnity selections in Tbe Dalles dis
trict, embracing 6,633 aorea.
Minister Buchanan of Argentine
cables in reply to an inquiry about the
wheat oondition that it is unfavorable
owing to exoessive rains, and estimates
the exportable aurplus at 80,000,000
bushels.
Juatioe Morris, of Washington, D.
O. , in announcing a decision of the
court of appeals for the District ot Co
lumbia, ruled that while intoxioation
may be a disease, yet if it it voluntary
and leads to oom mission of orime, it is
orime in itself.
Mary Ellen Lease, the Kansas orator.
win mane ner debut into tne minis
terial profession, and henceforth her
literary prefix will be reverened in
stead of colonel. Her recent sickness
was the immediate oause of her mind
taking a divine turn.
It is announced on authority that fol
lowing the advioe of the United States,
Venezuela baa praotioally deeded to
send a representative to Loudon with
power to open negotiations with the
government of Great Britain for the
settlement ot the boundary dispute.
An aerolite exploded above Madrid,
The loud report was followed by i
general panic. AU buildings were
shaken, and many windowt were that
tered. Aooording to the offloiala of the
Madrid observatory, the explosion oc
cured twenty miles above the earth.
While proceeding from Yokohama to
Kobe, the United States flagship Olym
pia struck a gale, to escape whioh all
steam wat orowded on and a apeed of
twenty-one knots developed. The
storm broke her forward deck stanoh
iont and carried away her bridge rails.
The London Chroniole olaima the
oredit for the conversion of England to
arbitration, and says: "The speeches
in parliament show that we have
reached the point where a solution it
a oertainty. The Sohomburgk line it
at . defunct aa the boundaries of W ea
se t."
Barney Book, a printer, shot and
seriously wounded Mrs. E. B. Catlin in
Anaoouda, Mont . He waa puraued by
an angry mob, but killed himself be
fore they oould oapture him. Infatua-
tion for the woman, and her refusal to
aooept his attentions is given as the
oause.
Rev. J. H. Hunyoutt, Baptist min
ister, has been arrested at Morrilltown,
Ark., obarged with infantioide. His
housekeeper's 1 -year-old baby cried
while he wat preparing a sermon, and
the preaoher became enraged at the
annoyanoe and ohoked the child to
death.
Martin Cleary, a oustom-house in
spector, waa arrested in San Franoisoo,
oharged with accepting bribes from a
Chinese opium manufacturer and from
Chinese emigrants, who , desired to
land but did not possess the neoessary
certificates authorizing them to enter
the United States.
Delegate Catron, of New Mexico, the
author of the anti-prizefight bill, ia
greatly displeased at the impression
whioh haa been formed that be was
aoting under the advioe of Governor
Thornton, of New Mexico, in hia ef
forts to prevent prizefighting in the
territory. Catron made satement to
the press aoousing the governor of
"standing in" with Stuart, ia his de
tire to pull off the fights.
Catsiut R. Carter, a retired sergeant
of the United States army, wat found
dead in hit room in the Palmer house,
Chicago. Death wat caused by at
pbyxiation. Carter had the distlna
tion of having served twenty-three
years with the Seventh cavalry, Gen,
eral Custer's old regiment He par
ticipated in a dozen engagements with
hostile Indians and earned a record at
a brave soldier on the frontier.
Dr. Cyrut Edson, of New York.
olaima to have discovered a remedy for
tuberculosis, ue terms it aseptolin.
It ia principally water and carbolic
acid, and it used bypodermioally.
About fifty physicians in the oountry
have pi ocured aseptolin from Dr. Ed-
ton's laboratory and are using it in
their practice. It hat oared every case
of malaria and la grippe in which it
has been tried, seventy-seven in all of
malaria and fifty-one of la grippe.
Tbe Cramp Shipbuilding Company,
of Philadelphia has been awarded the
con tt aot for building revenue cutter
No. 8, for the Pacific coast. The new
outter it to be 160 foet long.
While the Amerioan steamer Paris,
from New York, was dooikug in South
ampton, ahe came into collision with
the steamer Majesty, belonging to tbe
Isle of Wight. The Majesty was sunk,
but all her crew were saved.
Meager details have been received in
San Francisco of a disastrous hurricane
on tbe Tonga islands, in the South
seas. The barks Woosung and West
Australia and the Samoan schooner
Aele were wrecked, but no livet were
lost. -
Li Hung Chang and Shaa Yu Lien
have been appointed delegates to rep
resent the emperor of China at tbe
ooronation ot Emperor Nicholas II, of
Russia, at Moscow. Negotiations are
still in progress looking to the conclu
sion of a commercial treaty between
China and Japan.
Through Senor Andrade, its min
ister in Washington, the government
of Venezuela has notified Seoretary
Olney that it will respond affirmatively
to the invitation of the Venezuela com
mission to submit all the evideuoe in
its possession touching the location of
the true boundary line.
Magnus C. Crosby died in Astoria.
Tbe deceased was one of Astoria's lead
ing business men, and wat twice elect
ed mayor of tbe city. He left a widow
and five children. The oause of bis
death was a complication of Bright's
disease, from whioh be had been suf
fering for several years.
Count Zeppelin, of Germany, hat de
livered a lecture at Stuttgart in the
presence of the king of Wurtemburg
and tbe military authorities on a steer
ing airship, whioh, it is laid, will cost
about (76,000 and travels eleven miles
an hour. It is olairaed such an airship
oan remain in the air 7t days.
The Brisbane river in Queensland
haa been greatly swollen by floods. A
small steamer crossing the river with
about ninety passengers capsized, and
only forty were saved. The capsized
steamer waa the ferryboat PeraL The
current was very swift and tbe river
banks and Victoria bridge were endan
gered. ' i
FRENZIED WITH FRIGHT
Match Carelessy Thown Into
a Pile ot Oily Waste.
L0KS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY
Advices just reoeived from Seoul,
tne capital of Corea, say an uprising
took place there February 11, during
which the premier and seven officials
were murdered. These dispatches add
that the king and crown prince sought
shelter in the Russian legation. Tbe
king ordered the ministers put to
death. Two hundred Russian aailiors
and mariners are now guarding the
legation in that oountry.
For the first time in half a century
tbe American fulls of Niagara praoti
oauy ran dry, by tne lormation ot an
ice bridge or dam, extending from
Schlosser'a dock, on the American
bank, about halt way across the river.
The water was almost entirely diverted
to the Canadian falls. It was possible
for a time for a man with a plonk to
have walked from the mainland to
Goat island without wetting hia feet
During the debate on the address in
reply to the queen's speech in the house
of commons, Sir William Vernon Har-
oourt, supporting the amendment for
not proposing self-government for Ire
land, pointed out that the colonies,
from whioh there was evidently"
splendid testimony of loyalty to the
crown, enjoyed home rule, and he
maintained that the policy of home
rule oould be as successful in Ireland
as in the colonies.
A great fire raged in Guayaquil,
Ecuador, resulting in tbe death of
thirty persons. When the firemen and
soldiers, who were hurriedly ordered
out to help them finally brought it
under control, thousands ot panic-
stricken persons were wandering home
less in the streets, many lay dead in
the morgue, and property worth nearly
(3,000,000 had been destroyed, includ
ing the noble cathedral and the oon
vent whioh adjoined it.
D. Willit James, of New York, has
offered (36,000 toward paying the
debt of the Amerioan board of foreign
missions. The gift is to be made on
oondition that (90,000 additional be
subscribed before March 1. The board
members are making a determined
effort to carry out the conditions of the
offer. Tbe (90,000 has been appor
tioned as follows: Boston, (86,000;
New York, (30,000; Chicago, (36,000.
Milton Evans, ohairmun of the
farmers' committee, of Walla Walla,
has reoeived a letter from Washington,
through Senator Squire, from W. R.
Morrison, of the interstate oommeroe
commission, in whioh Morrison says
the commission had considered the
oomplaint made by Evans against the
Oregon Railway & Navigation Com
pany, alleging tnat exoessive ireigbt
rates were oharged on wheat, and that
the commission bad decided to make a
slight reduotion from Walla Walla to
Portland, and that an order to that
effect will be issued aa toon aa it oan
be prepared and printed
Three Hundred Olrl Fought for Life a.
tbo Hot Flame. Chaud Thou
With Hungry Tongues.
Troy, N. Y., Feb. 18 A small boy
carelessly throwing a match into a pile
oi ouy waste, a mast of flames and 800
girls and women frenzied with fright:
ngbting lor life at the hot flames
chased them with hungry tongues, was
the beginning ofafa fire tonight which
consumed thousands of dollars' worth
of property and caused the destruction
of many lives. From the outside of
tbe high building tbe sight of a body of
girls as they rushed out on tbe fire
ercapes from the windows, those who
were more fortunate crowding out at
tbe entrance. Following Ithem was a
mass of tmoke, with flashes of hot
flame ior luird streaks. Then the mass
of frenzied , humanity, finding the
egresses too small for instant escape,
began climbing over the sides ot the
escapes and bundles of clothing filled
with writhing humanity dropped at
tbe feet of the horrified passers by.
Within twenty minutes after the fire
started there were three dead women
laid upon the floor of an adjoining
store, and at least a dozen burned and
maimed girls and women taken to hoe
pitals or to their homer.
Of the 860 girls and women in tbe
building, it is presumed that at least
half a dozen are in the ruins, for it is
impossible to locate all, and there may
possibly be a score of dead.
'It was just thirty minutes before the
closing hour in Stettheimer & Ca's
shirt-waist factory on River street, and
the 350 girls and women were working
rapidly to finish up. In tbe cutting-
room, on the fifth floor, the 150 girls
were closing up tneir day's work and
preparing to leave when the. whistle
blew. Lillie Kreiger, who wat work
ing near a machine, called to a small
boy to light the gas over her work.
The boy struck a match and threw the
burning stub to the floor. It struck a
pile of oily waste and in an instant
the girl was enveloped in flames.
With her clothes and hair burning, she
rushed to tbe window, and at once the
loom became a struggling, shrieking
mass of humanity, filling the window,
the fire-escapes and the only stairway.
Jamming and pushing, tearing and
pulling each other's clothes from their
backs, turning in narrow corridors to
find a sister or mother, or friend, tbe
number in the exits augmented every
minute by those from the lower floors,
these girls and women fought for their
lives to get away from tbe flames which
seeemd to be growing to a monstrous
size. -
With rare presence of mind, Police
man Farrell, who was on the street,
seeing that in the panic a number were
liable to jump, let down the awning
over tbe entranoe. Barely waa it
down when two or three forms came
flying down from the fifth and sixth
stories, and, bouncing from the awn
ing, fell to the sidewalk.
Lillie Kreiger, over whose machine
the fire started, was one of these. She
struck the awning, fell on her back
and bounced to her hands and knees
on the walk. She got up and stag- j
gered about until people helped her to
ber feet again. By this time nearly
every window had a female form
dangling from it, and when the fire
men arrived there was a hustle to get
ladders up.
The firemen and polioe worked like
heroes, and to their enegy waa due a
geat saving of life. At least a dozen
of the women. .and girls were carried
down the ladders or dragged out of
the oorridors, the officers and firemen
going into the midst of the smoke.
Captain Williard, of the polioe foroe,
says he saw a number of girls at win
dows who never came out, but fell
baok into the flames.
Lrttie and Nellie Hull, sisters.
grasped eaoh other tightly by the
handa and started down the stairs
from the tixth story. At the landing
oi tne fifth floor they encountered a
wall ot flame and smoke. Nellie had
on only ber corset and skirts, having
been making her toilet. Lottie was
only partially dressed. She threw her
dress over Nellie s faoe, and together
they went through the flames. Lot
tie's hair was burned completely off.
and when she reaohed the sidewalk
Nellie was burned only about her bare
arms. They were taken home.
The lost by fire is from (360,000 to
(400,000, with about (100,000 insur
ance.
CONGRESSIONAL NEWS.
Condensed Keeord of the Doing, of the
Nation' Lawmakers Henate.
Washington, Feb. 14. There wat
an unusually full attendance on the
Republican side of the senate chamber
today, aa Morrill, chairman of tbe
finance committee, bad given notice of
a motion to take up the tariff bill.
The deficiency appropriation bill held
its place at unfinished business, and
there wat no disposition to displace it.
Vest secured tbe adoption of a resolu
tion calling on the secretary of agricul
ture to report what recent changes have
been made in tbe quarantine line
against cattle coming north from Tex
as. Peffer came forward with t
lengthy resolution proposing a senate
investigation of the circumstances of
all tbe recent bond issues. The resolu
tion proposes a special committee of
five senators and gives comprehensive
directions as to the scope of the in
quiry, the dealings with tbe syndicates.
tha effect of such dealings and explioit
information as to the purchasers of the
bonds, the rate, and all attendant cir
cumstances. The resolution went over.
Washington, Feb. 16. The friends
of tbe tariff bill met an unexpected
repulse thia afternoon, when, by the
vote of 21 ayes nd 39 noes, the senate
defeated tbe motion of Morrill to take
up the tariff bill. The negative vote,
which defeated the motion, wat given
by Democrats, Populists and four Re
publican senators Teller, Mantle, Du
bois and Carter. The affirmative vote
wat entirely Republican, but its total
of 81 ia less than half of the aggregate
Republican strength. The senate has
passed the bill authorizing the leasing
of lands in Arizona for edocatonal pur
poses; also, the bill authorizing the
First National bank of Sprague.Wash.,
to change its name and location; also.
the bill authorizing repairs for the
public wharf at Sitka, Alaska. '
Washington, Feb. 18. The senate
committee on foreign relations held a
meeting today and practically decided
to faovrably report Pettigrew'a bill for
the amendment of the law regulating
the teal fisheries. The main feature
THE FIELDiND" FIRM
Practical Pointers on Proper
Care of Farm.
WE MUST SUIT THE MARKET
So Say One of Consul Abroad I'r.
' ventlre of Dl.eaee-Veeflliig
Potato to Cow.
One ot our consuls writes that it Is
absurd that Amerioan t utter should
go to England in very small quantities
and at very moderate orices. while
Denmark is sending England enormous
quauntites that bring high prices, and
its only serious competitor it Australia,
whose butter baa to traverse the tropics
and make the passage on the Red Sea.
But the people of Denmark have taken
pains to find out what can be sold in
England and other fc reign markets,
and they have applied themselves with
great energy and high intelligence to
the task of producing those thincs.
This has not been the work of the gov
ernment or of the commercial classes
more than it baa been the work ot tbe
peasantry themselves who have shown
an enterprise and a business capacity
that put the American farmer to
shame. -
Prerentlve of Disease.
Exercise on high ground may miti
gate the hog-oholera trouble, by in
creasing the extent of exhalation, to
relieving the blood in some degree of
the accumulated poisons. Regular
daily exeroise in good sized pastures,
or in open grounds, together with a
greater variety and more albuminous
quality of feed, preventive treatment
that can exempt swine from the inva
sion of bacteria. Keep the. bldbd of
the hogs sound by a healthy supply Ot
oxygen from regular exeroise and full
breathing, and bacteria or cholera,
will not affect the bogs nor vex their
owners. And the only ture preventive
of lung fevers in cows, or other cattle,
ot the bill is a provision permitting tbe ig regular, moderate exercise in whole
president to have a 1 tbe seals, male tome air, thus cooling the circulation,
and female, on tbe Pribvloff islands, while supplying a healthy proportion
xiiiea, in case other governments in
terested will not agree upon a modus
vivendi for tbe better protection of the
seals, while the matter of permanent
protection is under consideration by an
international commission, for which
the bill makes provision. The com
mittee had also under consideration tbe
proposition for a cable to Hawaii. The
of oxygenated blood, that will not irri
tate the lungs, while such a quality of
blood certainly forma sound tissue, in
renewing general growth, or in en
larging size in growing cattle or swine.
Feeding Potatoe.
During a recent tour through the
dairy sections of York state, in attend -
subcommittee which bad this under nco at the dairy meetings, the matter
consideration made a favorable report ! of teeding potatoes to milch oows came
without recommending either of
propositions before the oommittee.
the
House.
Washington, Feb. 14. At 12 o'clock
up at about all tbe meetings, in the in-
dieot way of "Why does not my milk
cream better," "Why does not the but
ter come, and what make it salvy,
aua oi ten grainless, and in one ln-
the regular order of the house began, j Rtanoe the creanier had been served
Pii.Kuawjoiuiresom- notice by their New York house that
tion appropriating (75.000 for the pur-' le8g tbere wag legg feedi of a
pose of making a joint aurvey together tein food not to mon bntter
with Great Britain of the boundary jj, every case the trouble waa traced to
line between Alaska and British ter- feedjn g potatoes to the cow in excea
ntory. The resolution waa adopted. An .mounts, often as high aa a bushel
Ihe house then resumed consideration , ja ,ru i :
of the bond silver bill. Dolhver taking totoegt their alow sale, made it a
the floor in opposition to the free-coin- tempting matter to teed them to the
age proposnion. He reviewed the M , j e t of the ration, and
story of the subject from the fourteenth the large per cent of the raw and im-
perfectly digested starch had damag
ing effect upon the milk, the milk be
ing very vioions, hence diffioult tot the
cream to rise, and the butter globules
being unable to free themselves from
Newfouudlaad-Preneh Shore,
Montreal, Feb. 18 The report
comes from St John's, N. F., and lit
saia to ne nasea on semi-omoiai infor
mation that negotiations are progress
ing between England and France,
Wbioh will for all time settle the Newfoundland-French
shore question. The
basis of the settlement is said to be the
ceding to Franeo of Englands' interests
in the state ot Tunis, Africa, in ex
ohange for the Frenoh claim in Newfoundland.
Galveston' lizport or Corn.
St. Louis, Feb. 17. A special from
Galveston says: Edwin Webster, chief
grain inspector, reports that from Oc
tober 13 to January 29 tbere were ex
ported from this port to foreign points
8,018,6U bushela of oorn. So far dur
ing the present month there hat been
exported about 800,000 bushels, mak
ing the total grain exports thus far this
season nearly 8,000,000 bushels, with
fully 1,000,000 bushels on hand await
ing tonnage.
oentruy, and said tbe demonetization
ot silver in 1873 bad "not struck it
down," for during a previous period of
seventy years there had been no silver
circulation. MoMillin followed. He
. , . , , , uoiMg uuauig iu un milium
n luaumoieui currency, milk ther in creaming or churn
ami mat we snouia not wail ior ine oo- ino . thtk t,tto. m4ii.
operation of any foreign country be-' lement ln nTnnnrtinn anrt
fore taking steps to improve our Bive8 the magg a salvy tenure. This
umuicuu auairs. ne was not ior ig inoreaBec from the fact that the
monometallism or anything of the sort; milk fet8 of a ,0 textnre when
he desired the use of both metala. Bro-1 potatoes are fed, and thia only adds to
sius opposed free coinage and Bailey ' difflcillty. where only , BmaU
sought to prove that gold had appro- amonnt of potatoes are fed. four to six
oiated Within the last twenty years. qnarta mixed with food there WM
saying that if this were ture the oppo- liMa ot no inj 00 the sn00u.
nenta of silver would have nothing to leBoe of thf) potato in EmAll
stand on. amount, was a sort of digestant to the
Washington, Feb. 15. After a ten dry food. Where potatoes were
daya debate the house today, by a vote t cooked, a much larger amount of them
of 80 to 190, in oommittee of the : oould be fed. aa the onokiwl ctamh wee
not in its -effects the same at the raw
material. From all : that oould be
gathered, it seemed that with meal at
(20 per ton, potatoes might have a
feeding value not to exceed (3.25 a
ton. ".
whole, rejected the senate free coinage
substitute to the bond bill, and re
ported baok to the house, with a recom
mendation to nonconcur and insist
upon the house bill. The most signifi
cant statement came in form of an
ultimatum from Dingley that a bill
might be reported from the ways and
means oommittee looking to the initia
tion by this oountry of a project ot an
other international monetary confer
ence to meet within a year. While
Dingley said be was expressing his per
sonal position in the matter. it was
generally understood from the manner
in whioh he said it that the suggestion
had already matured into a well-de
fined intention on the part of tbe Re
publican leaders of the house.
Washington, Feb. 18. The attack
on Seoretary Morton for his refusal to
expend the appropriation for seeds in
the present agricultural appropriation
bill waa transferred from the senate to
the house today, and furnished the
feature of the proceedings in the lower
house. It waa led by Baker and was
supported by Moses and Livingston,
Boatner and Meredith. Some very
harsh things were said and applauded,
especially by Boatner. who referred to
Mr. Morton contemptuously as "that
individual," and not a voice was
raised in hia defense. The general de
bate on the agricultural bill during its
consideration, ' when the attack was
made, was olosed before adjournment.
Several bills of minor importance were
passed and a resolution was adopted
directing tbe judioiary oommittee to
inquire into tbe right of an executive
offioer to refuse to execute a law on the
pound of its unconstitutionality, and
to report by bill or otherwise. This
investigation grows out of Controller
Bowler's decision in the sugar-bounty
oases. : : ,
Firmly closed lips indicate deter
minates.
Miscellaneous Note. .
The breakfast food made at the Ta-
flnmfl mill nnt nf whnnt i a mnnHno in
popularity and is taking the place of
Aooording to official statistics the
importations of lemons into the United
States during the : past ten ; years
amount to (38,500,680.
One hardly knows what . he will
plant next year, prices are so univer
sally depressed. But fruit and vege
table growing, under favorable condi
tions, will likely be favored.
In England and Scotland tbe farmers
raise large sheep, whole flocks averag
ing over 800 pounds eaoh, alive, and
when a wether is killed for family use,
that whioh is not desired immediately
is corned the same at beef. Small
breeds are not raised in Great Britain,
and the farmers pay no attention to
wool compared with mutton.
In the February bulletin of the well
known Thayer Fruit Farms, it la
stated that after the land it put into
high cultivation the aotual cost of
bringing an acre of blackberries or
raspberries, well set and with no miss
ing hills, to a good bearing age, it
from (125 to (150. .v ; -
It it predicted that Within a few
years all the work of tbe farm will be
done by electricity. ; Not - in a few
years. Jhe time may come when elec
tricity will play a considerable part in
farming, but it will take longer than a
few yeara. It is true that it may be
utilized for some portion of the power
used on the farm in the not very dis
tant future.