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OREGON COURIER A, W, CHENEY, Publisher. OEEGON CITY OREGON EVENTS OF THE DAY EPITOME OF THE TELEGRAPHIC NEWS OF THE WORLD. An Interesting Collection of Item! From the Two Hemlf pherei Presented In Condenied Form A Large Amount of Information la Small 8poe, Canada ia to have a naval reserve. Whisky, not wines, will be used for christening the new battle-ship Ken tnor. Peter Hougaard, believed to have been insane, killed himself and his wife and five children in Chicago. The matter of the Bebring sea arbi tration treaty is at last in a fair way to be settled, Canada having agreed to its terms. . Vigorous search is being oondncted for the hidden wealth of an old Spaniard, who died some years ago in Los Angeles. The Occidental oollege of Los An geles, CaL, a Presbyterian institution, has been oonaumed by fire. The loss is $70,000, partly insured. The overtaxation of the public archi tect's office is given as the reason for the delay in the construction of the Portland, Or., public building. , Colonel Ingersol, the great infidel, has been extended an invitation to preach in a Chioago church, and to give his views of ideal Christianity. The second coming of the redeemer has been prophesied again by an evan gelist of Baltimore, who thinks the war talk is the beginning of the millenium. Through the cheapness of corn, Amerioan. d "tillers, for the first time in t""' "-locessfully compete " ' kh the Ger- Fa., whose failure is announoed will reaoh 14,000,000. Nothing can be learned of the assets. Frederick W. Satterlee, head of the firm, left the city before the assignment was record ed, in company with John M. Fenlin, a tobacco merchant, who failed at the same time, and neither has been heard from. Sir Hercules Robinson, the governor of Cape Colony, South Africa, and British high commissioner, has sent a message to Pretoria that matters have been satisfactorily arrangod in the Transvaal and that bloodshed is ended. Final agreement between President Kruger and Sir Hercules Robinson governor of Cape Colony, regarding the disposition of the prisoners captured as the result of Dr. Jamieson's raid into the Transvaal has been oompleted, Jamieson and the officers will be tried in England. The rank and file of the freebooters are now on their way to Natalia where they will be turned over to the British authorities, who will decide the treatment they are to re ceive. The government of Chile has failed to float a government loan of a, 000,000. A special decree has been issued an nounoing the coronation of the czar will take place in Moscow in May next. The Panama Canal Company is mak ing gigantio preparations for railroad construction. It is purchasing lm mense quantities of cross ties and coal The Deutsche bank has obtained a contract to issue the Chinese loan of 100,000 teals, with interest at 6 per oent. to cost 89 14, and to be issued at DS. A dispatch from Yokohama says the aueen of Corea is certainly dead. There is no truth in the story that she escaped at Seoul. Two Coreans have been executed for participation in the murder. A Berlin dispatch to the Standard says all the uerman sovereigns win grant a limited pardon to criminals upon the occasion of the celebration of the anniversary of the proclamation of the empire. A dispatch from Peking says the British minister has presented an ulti natum to the Chinese government, de- anding the opening of West river. 9 truth of the report has been de 1 in London, however. series of poBtoffice robberies has oeen discovered in San Francisco e government, and three Chinese will lose $4,000. The robberies committed by Chinese who had i open the mail boxes. Ashantee war in South Africa d. Sir Franois Soott, in coin of the British expeditionary has occupied Coomasie, the , without opposition. King eh aooepts all the British de- NEIGHBORING TOWNS "hL?Z ta habU i DAVIS' RESOLUTION w B The shipment of Washington lumber to foreign countries increased from 86,000,000 feet in 1894 to 180,000,000 NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST EPITOMIZED. jd . ,ot)uef For' .i with the Bos' ..ny's Bteamer Barn' Bnland light, Boston bar .. iiine of the Fortuna's crew were ' tirowned and fourteen saved. The Prussian diet has been opened. The speech from the throne was de voted to domestic affairs. It is esti- mated the budget of 1896 will show a smaller deficit than that of 1895, owing to inoreased receipts due to improving tiade. Mail advices from Hawaii state that friends of the ex-queen are anxious for war between England and the United States, believing that in the event of such hostilities England would the Hawaiian islands and restore Lil- iuokalani. The London Chrouiole believes both England and Venezuela will institute inquiries into the settlement and ces sions of land in the disputed territory. It says thin will present a basis for the renewal of negotiations. It ia now most probable that arbitration will be resorted to. The City bank, of Minneapolis, a state banking institution, suspended payment this week, pending ex amination. The capital stock is $300,000. The deposits at the last statement, December 81, 1895, were $523,604. It is olainied the depositors will be paid in full. A cablegram from Prague announces the death of Charles Jonas, United States consul at Crefold, Germany. Mr. Jonas was formerly consul at St. Petersburg, but exchangod positions with John Karel. He was at one time lieutenant-governor of Wisconsin. I The certainty of the settlement of the Venezuelan boundary dispute is still in doubt, since Veuezuela repeat edly affirms that it is impossible for her to compromise the boundary claims by any treaty or convention, because of the terms of her national constitution. "There is general opinion," says a letter to a Boston tobacco dealer, "both among insurgents and Spaniards, that General Campos has become demented. His actions, not only in the direction of the campaign, but his private and ordinary doings are such as to give good grounds for this belief." The members of the gnovernment bond syndicate received a letter from J. P. Morgan & Co., releasing them from the commitment to furnish their pro rata of $100,000,000 in gold, taking payment in 4 (per oent government bonds. There ia no longer any doubt of the success of the loan by popular subscription. The liabilities of Keene, Satterlee A Co., leather dealers, of Philadelphia, 1 - officially stated that Dr. Jamie d others who were in priBon with ill be released unconditionally e Transvaal government, and that .fill & enabled to make their demynd. f :egon National Guard, oieariy uvaerstooa. Development and Progress of the Vsrl one Industries on the Faclfle Coast Organisation of an Immigration Board Oregon. Umatilla oounty has a movement on foot to stamp out the Russian thistle. The Bandon woolen milla have started up again and are running at full capacity. Eighteen millions of cana were made during the past season by an As toria can company. Lakeview has been indulging lately in rabbit drives, and thousands of the animals have been killed. The woajc on the lighthouse at Cape Arngo nas oeen aDanaonea lor tne pres- ent, owing to rough weather. A new steamer called the Ruth has been put on the Columbia river by the Oregon Railway & Navigation Com pany. The machinery has been plaoed in the iron works at Ashland and every thing is now running very nicely with a full foroe. Material has arrived at Bandon for the lights and fog-horns at the light- There itf a run""" current in Wash ington to the effeot that the United States is preparing to enforce its de mnnds agninBt the Turkish government for the protection of Americans resid- ing in Turkey, and the payment of in demnity for property losses. A frightful accident occurred on the Midland Terminal railroad. The train was en route to Denver and Colorado Springs, and was above the oity limits of Victor, Colo. Fifteen passengers were injured, six seriously two of whom will probably die Throughout the German empire the twenty-fifth crowning at Versailles of King William of Prussia, the grand lather of the present emperor, as- em peror of Germany, and the consequent re-establishment of the Gorman empire was celebrated in some form or other, After a two-da; s' meeting held in St. Louis, by the Populist national committee, it was decided to leave the matter of selecting the time and place for the national convention to the ex eoutive oommittee. At a subsequent meeting of the oommittee St. Louis was chosen, and the date' set at July 22, Captain-General Martinez de Campos formally resigned his command of the Spanish forces in Cuba to General Marin. The ceremony took place in the great salon of the captain-generals' palaoe. There were present all author. ities of the oity of Havana and the chief officers of the army. The president of the Manufacturers' Trust Company of Brooklyn, has of fered to plaoe gold in the treasury, and take a receipt therofor. Boing a bid der for the new issue of bonds, he sug gests that if his bid is accepted the amount be deducted, and the balance returuod. It is said that in this way the treasury would be afforded imme diate relief. ' The report of the immigration inves tigating committee appointed by Secre tary Carlisle June 13, 1894, has just been published. The chapter on Can adian migratory laborers says: The commission nevertheless advises, in view of the injury done to American labor by Canadian migratory laborers, that congress provide a law regulating immigration into the United States from contiguous foreign countries, by water or land, in such a manner as to protect our workmen from the importa tion of the transient cheap labor across our frontier. The return of Commandant Herbert Booth, of the Salvation Army, from London to this country is likely to create trouble among the officers and the rank and file of the Salvationists in the United States. If he succeds in supplanting his elder brother, Balling ton Booth, in charge of the army here publio meetings will be held in New I York and protest against the change. house there. The tower fixtures, are now being placed, A number of bob-tailed quails have been received from Ohio and turned loose near Pendleton. It is the first of the variety in that Bection The reports from Tillamook oome to the effect that there is one 01 the largest runs of atoel-head salmon ever seen in the Wilson, Trask or other rivers. The farmers of Wallowa have placed on the market tnis ian aoout ,uuu head of hogs, which at the prevailing low prices have realized the owners about $15,000. Pendleton's first installment of flour shipments, is the first ever made from Eastern Oregon to Australia; it consists of 5.000 barrels, which in Australia will have a valuation of about $15,000. Although little work has been done on the actual construction ol tne as- toria railroad, the surveying is being pushed right along, and the prospects of building the road are now oonsiaerea good, Oregon shows a great increase in the manntacture of butter ana cneese in the past ten years. In 1885 the uom ber of pounds manufactured was .288.923: in 1895 this increased to 5,821,667. The Beaver Hill coal mine distriot is reported to show indications of a very prosperous future, and an extra flue vein of coal has been discovered and the small camp has grown to be a prominent distriot. The sta5 iilitary board . have de ided gainst an euoampment of the The expenses wonld have been about $20,000, and the members of the board were averse to so large an expenditure at this time, Before the coming summer is over upward of 500 more stamps will be dropping in Baker county than during 1895. Hundreds of men will be added to the payrolls, and plaoer mines will be operated on a scale unprecedented in the county. One of the sheep kings of Umatilla oounty says there is a heavy inorease in the demand for sheep for Bpriug de livery, and he believes that sheep will be worth more this year than for some time past, and that there would be an inorease of 75 per cent over lust year in the number of sheep, Shipments of ice have commenced by the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company from their ponds at Perry Their icehouses at Pendleton hold 600 tons, which are used entirely by themselves. The oity of Pendleton oonsumes about 1.000 tons. Dealers have not yet commenoed shipping, The Pacifio Northwest immigration board, an organization that promises to be a most important factor in the near future, in advertising uregon throughout the East and turning the tide of a desirable kind of immigration in this direotiou, has been organized by some ol rortiana s most prominent business men. As soon as its proposed subscription fund of $30,000 of which $10,000 has already been secured, has been raised, the work of the board will begin in earnest. The new board will have a much larger amount of money under control, and, with the applica tion of business ideas and principles to its expenditure, its work is likely to be much more effective than that of the Oregon immigration board, and should secure for this state its share of immi gration. feet in 1895 with prospects for still heavier shipments in 1896. Partiea have leased a boom at the mouth of the Nooksaok river and will begin work at onoe to remove the jam that has made steam navigation and log driving impractical for the last four years. A vigoroua fight ia predicted between the stockmen of the Big Bend, and the small farmers for possession of the north half of the Big Bend.. Some of the settlers are trying to take up land under the desert law, and the cattle raisers will fight the matter in the courts. The contract for furnishing and placing the machinery in the flour mill at Spokane haa been oonoluded, and the mill will be in operation about the first of April It will rank aa one of the best equipped mills in the United States, being one of the very few hav ing only the latest improved ma chinery throughout This establish ment will not contain a single piece of maohinery or material of any kind that was ever in place before in any mill, and every pieoe ia of the most recent design. Evertt haa several mills in view. The construction of the Bell lumber mill, on the subsidy site will begin at onoe. Tne new company, who are rebuilding the burned Smith mill at Lowell are aotively pushing the enter prise forward and preparations for the foundation of a plant are now being made. The local land office at North Yaki ma has an application from the com missioner of arid lands for the segrega tion of 77,180 acres of land in Yakima oounty to be withdrawn under the Carey act. The work of selecting lands and making preliminary lines for the oanal has been quietly going on since the existence of the oommison, though advantage haa been taken to a very large extent of previous surveys made. Great interest has been manifested throughout Washington in the immi gration convention whioh has just con cluded its session in Seattle. The re sult of the convention was the organ ization of a permanent state immigra tion asociation. The plan of organiza tion provides that the organization shall consist of one member from eaoh county; that there shall be an executive committee of seven ohosen, who shall elect a president, secretary and treasurer from their number. C. L. Webb, of Seattle, has been elected president. The committee earnestly recommend that an appropriation of not less than $25,000 per annum should be made by the next legislature, and there seemed to be no doubt that this recommenda tion would be granted for the ques tion. STRONG REAFFIRMATION OF THE MONROE DOCTRINE. Idaho. The railroad payroll at PocatelloV $40,000 per month. A Grangeville citizen intends to put in a hotel and a livery stable at Dixie the ooming spring. Boise City is ready to reoeive bids for city sidewalk bonds; the improve' ments were recently voted by the peo- pie of that oity. The People's Canal Company have a large number of teams on their work at the west side where they are grading as rapidly as possible. The estimated oost of the woolen mills project at American Falls is $54,000. The actual construction will probably oommence in the spring. A movement is on foot for the in. corporation of the town of Wardner, An attempt was made to incorporate it three years ago but the legal require ments were not all fulfilled. Pocatello is the town chosen as the next meeting place for the State Teachers' Assooiatiou. The recent ses sion at Boise was a great success, and H. Barton, of Idaho Fall, was elected president. There was patented in the state of Idaho during the year, 9,893 acres of land in aid of the State Agricultural college, 8,703 for insane asylum, 19,- 954 acres for penitentiary, 1,320 for publio buidings, 22,383 for scientific school, 96,492 for charitable institu tions, 5,607 for the normal school. Of publio lands in Idaho there were sur veyed during the year 430,895 acres. The Northern raoino Company re ceived patents for 91,411 aores of Idaho land during the year. The Report of the Committee on For. elgn Relations Bring! the Adoption of the Resolution Formally Before the Senate Opposed by Sewell. Washington, Jan. 22. Two oppoB' ing phases of the Monroe doctrine were presented in the senate today- one from the committee on foroignrola tions favoring a strong reaffirmation of the doctrine, and another from Sewell urging that the doctrine had been car ried so far beyond ita scope as to threaten dangorous consequences. Davis presented the committee ro port, as he is the author of the resolu tion embodying the essential features of all previous resolutions. It was read from the desk, receiving close atten tion. The resolution ia aa follows: "Concurrent resolution relative to the assertion and enforcement of the Monroe doctrine: "Resolved, By the senate, the house of representatives concurring, that President Monroe, in his message to congress of December 2, A. ,D. 1823 deemed it proper to assert as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they as sumed and maintained, were thence forth not to be considered aa subjeots for future aggression by any European power." "Whereas, The doctrine and policy so proclaimed by President Monroe have since been repeatedly asserted by the United States, by executive declar ation and action, under provisions and exigencies similar to the particular oc casion and exigency which caused them to be first announced, and have been, ever since their promulgation and now are, the rightful policy of the United States; therefore, be it "Resolved, That the United States of America reaffirms and confirms the doctrine and principles promulgated by President Monroe in his message of December 2, 1823, and deolares it will assert and maintain that doctrine and tnese principles, ana will regard any infringement thereof, and particularly any attempt by any European power to take or aoquire any new territory on the Amerioan continent, or any of the islands adjacent thereto, or any right of sovereignty or dominion in the same as an interposition which it would be impossible in any form for the United States to regard with indifference." ENGLAND AND SPAIN. Deal laid to He Pending lletween them For the Transfer of Cuba. Tallahasse, Fla., Jan. 81. Sensa tional atoriea are afloat here tonight. Governor Mitchell, at the request of the war department in Washington, haa or dered Adjutant-General Houston to see that the Florida military be plaoed lit readiesa to take the field at a moment' notioe. The governor, it ia reported, will call the militia together tomor row. In the meantime, the adjutant general is quietly issuing ordors. Similar roquosts, it ia reported have been sent to the governors of other Southern states. The story haa become generally known and is causing excite ment throughout the South. Governor Mitohell and Adjutant General Houston were asked in regard to it, but thoy refused to talk. Gen eral Houston haa been in hia office all day, and has sent telegrams to all bat talion commanders in the state. Major Turner, of Jacksonville, commanding; the First Florida battalion, has re ceived soveral messages from General Houston. The battalion commanders at Tampa and Pensaoola have also re ceived messages from General Houston during the day. It ia stated, as coming from the ex ecutive office, that the Washington) authorities have reason to believe that a deal is pending between Spain and England for the sale of Cuba to the lat ter; that the United States ia preparing to resist the transfer of the island, aud that the flying squadron is coming to American waters to be ready for the war with the United States whioh will inevitably follow an attempted cessiou of Cuba. Dispatches from various cities in Florida report that the troops are gathering and that the war fever i higher now than the day after Presi dent Cleveland's Venezuela message. RECOGNITION OF INSURGENTS Washington. A new road has been opened from the Sillaquaniiah at Grand Falls to Canyon creek. Walla Walla oounty is advertising for bids for the erection of a house on the oounty farm. A large number of men are engaged rebuilding the Northern Pacific tele graph lines between Pasoo and Prosser. The work will be completed this month. A regulalry organized band of horse and saddle thieves have been operating in Yakima and Kititas valleys. The counties that have no bonded debts in Washington are Cowlitz, Garfield. Klikitat, San Juan and Whatcom. A log boom in the Snohomish river, containing about 10,000,000 feet of logs, has broken and the logs are fast going to sea. The saloon men of Blaine have inaugurated a crusade against the Montana. The war department has issued a call for bids for the erection of five brick buildings at Fort Assinnibone. The bids will be opened February 1. A oolony is being organized in Cen tral Illinois to settle in Montana on government lauds. About 400 families are preparing to move to the state in the spring. The Boss Tweed group in the Poney mining district is now under option of English capitalists. When the sale is consummated the sum of $l,000,000will be spent for the purchase of the prop erty and the erection of an immense milling plant One of the largest concentrators for mining machinery concerns to submit estimates on will be the new plant of the Katie mine at Basin. It is under stood the concentrator will nave a capacity of 500 tons. In addition to this will be a smelting plant to treat the concentrates. The work of removing the debris from the Muir tunnel ia being pushed from both eads very successfully. About 100 men are being employed. It is the intention of the oompany to arch the center with brick material. I Surveva have been made for an over London Frees Comment. London, Jan. 22. The Globe this afternoon in an artiole condemns the attitude of the United States senate on foreign affairs. It says: "The English pejple will, not stand much more fooling from anybody, and these gentlemen, whom we oredit with no more exalted sentiment than the wish to stand well with their con stituents, may very easily find them selves face to face with a situation whioh oould be called appalling." The Chrouiole, in an editorial, re joices over the news of the signing of the Behring sea treaty as an event of happy omen, proving that reason still sways the Anglo-American race. It asks why the Venezuela question can not be treated similarly, and says: "We can see nothing in the Davis resolution which did not exist in the earlier form of the doctrine, or which prevents arbitration on Venezuela." The Chronicle thinks Europe will lose substantially nothing by Amer ica's assumption of a doctrine iuvolv ing such heavy responsibilities. THE ALASKA BOUNDARY. Gold Fields on Forty-Mile Creek I long to the United State. Washington, Jan. 22. That the rich gold discovery on Forty-Mile creek, Alaska, belongs to the United States has been accurately determined by an employe of the British govern. ment, and properly marked in certain places. General Duffield, chief of the coast survey, says the survey shows that but sixteen miles of the creek, as the bird flies, and twenty-three miles as water floats, is in British territory, and in this portion no gold has been discovered. All the remaining portion of the creek is in Alaska, and belongs to the United States. A bill has been introduced in congress, providing for the appointment of commissioners to fix the boundary, but it has not yet been done. Kews From the Front. Havana, Jan. 21. Further reports have now been received of the engage ment between Colonel Galbia and the insurgents near Batabano. It is said the insurgent forces that attacked him were those of Gomez. The troops met the attack of the insurgents on their knees, and withheld their fire until the enemy was within a short distance. The report says the insurgents left eleven killed on the field, and nine were found in a canefield a short dis tance away. The insurgents retreated. it is said, with a numerous loss, while the losses to the troops were insig nificant Although it is reported that Gomez was repulsed and defeated, it is stated that he afterward moved south of Met lena upon Guinea and in the direction of the village of San Nicolas. These points are east of the military line of Batabano, and would indicate that Gomes was successful in hia attempt to break through the line. It Is Bald That President Cleveland Is. Preparing Such 1'roelnmatlon. St. Louis, Jan. 22. The Republic this morning, in summarizing dis patches from Florida, New York and Washington, says: A crisis has been reaohed in the Cuban war. Recognition of the bel ligerency of the patriot army by the United States is imminent. President Cleveland is said to have prepared a proclamation whioh may be issued in the immediate future. The president, it is declared, intended to recognize the insurgents just when he learned of the recall of Marshall Campos, but, under the circumstances, the executive thought such recognition would be re garded as inopportune and unfriendly to Spain, and he therefore withheld the important document, pending the ap pointment of a successor to Campos. Within the past forty-eight hours. however, President Cleveland is said to have learned that Spain, despairing of a successful termination of the war, had offered to sell Cuba to Great Brit ain. Rumors to this effect spread like wildfire over the oountry. They seem to be confirmed by dispatches from Florida. The governors of the South ern states, according to these advices, have been required by the war depart ment to prepare the state militiamen for immediate service. Troops are already beginning to move in Florida. The belief is held in some places that the flying squadron of Great Brit ain is destined for servioe in Amerioan waters. If this is so, war will result.' The cession of Cuba to Great Britain would be resisted by the United States to the last ditch. Official information from the White House is laoking, but it is evident that serious complications are at hand. Senor Palma, the head of the Cuban party in the United States, wires from Washington: "Our case is oomplete. The presi dent and congress will recognize the insurgent cause." Senor Palma adds that it i9 not necessary that the insurgents should hold a port, but that, as a matter of fact, General Gomez has taken half a dozen ports in the past week, leaving the Spanish army penned up in Havana. Belea Gonld to Tassar College. Poughkeepsie, N. Y.t Jan. 22. Miss Helen Gould has sent check for head line to prevent the track crossing ' $3,000 to Vasrar college to found the tunnel at any point THE FLYING SQUADRON. Belknap Says Its Coming Will Be a Menace to the United States. New York, Jan. 21. A special to the World from Boston quotes Rear Admiral Belknap retired, as saying: "If tho British flvinc Should come Over to Amerinnn woto it would not astonish me. I wrnta tn Admiral Bunce, at Hampton roads, three days ago, that it would not sur- prise me in the least if the flying squadron should be first heard from at LaGuayra. From the moment it w announced that the squadron was to be commissioned, I made up my mind it was for American waters. T that conclusion because qieted down in the Transvaal, and the excitement over Emperor William's telegram to Kruger had subsided. in my opinion, if that flvino- a. ron does appear in American waters, under existing conditions it n De construed as a mermen tr, th rnitj States." u Journalist Eugene V. Debs. Toledo, Jan. 22.-Eugene V. Debs tonight said he would retire from the American Railway Union, and enter the field of journalism, as he had re ceived offers from both New York and Chicago papers, and also had offers from capitalista to establish a paper of his own. He haa practically decided to accept the offer of a Chicago paper William Burbank, an 83-year-old resident of Thompsoni-ille suuoto .a, college to found fataUy mjured recnUy while coaitog scholarship in memory of her mother. down a hill in that place..