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OREGON COURIER A, W. CHKNKT, Publisher. OREGON CITY OREGON EVENTS OF THE DAY EPITOME OF THE TELEGRAPHIC NEWS OF THE WORLD. Interesting Collection of Item From the Two Hemisphere! Presented In Condensed Form A Large Amount ' of Information' In a Small Space, connections at Ogden. Its objoct is said to be to divert as much trafflo as possible from the Central Paoiflo road the Southern Paoiflo having entered upon a deliberate and systematio policy of impoverishing that' part of its sys tern, with the view of frightening the United States to settle its claims against that road on the easiest terms, Irving Flemming oommitted suicide, by cutting bia throat with a razor, at Woodburn, Or. The entire family of Jacob Jaoodi was asphyxiated in bis farmhouse, near Nile Center, 111., by gas from ooal stove. Bill Nye, the famous humorist, died at bis home in Asheville, N. C, from a paralytio stroke. Daniel Galencia, residing near Bpo . Thomas Howes Hinckley, an artist lcane, killed himself by shooting him of wide fame, died in Boston. self through the heart i Chioaeo clothing-cutters and trim- A' large amount of spurious coin- in men have ordered a strike, and 20,000 the shape of 50-cent and f 1 pieces baa are thrown out of work. been found to. be in circulation at The secretary of the interior has ap- Wenatohee, Wash. , . .: proved a list of eighty acres of land ae- The president has signed the bill ex looted in Oregon City land distiot, Or- tending the operation of the mineral egon, by the Oregon St California rail- land laws to the north half : of the Col: road, under its grant. ville Ind.lan reservation. John L. Waller, oonfined in a French At a meeting of Irish-Americana prison, has been granted a pardon by held in ( New York,-resolutions were President Faure, due to the representa- adopted demanding the release of all political prisoners oonfined in English jails. E. R. Campbell, ex-clerk of the United States district court, was shot and killed by his son, Robert Camp bell, in Nashville, Tenn. Young been regarded as men tions made by the United States gov eminent in the prisoner's behalf. The Elicott Square building strike in Buffalo, N. Y., is ended, and a thou and or more workmen have returned to work. The differences between the superintendent and the men have been Campbell has amicably settled. tally unsound lit. A. 1. reruns, oi Chicago, nasi Seyen e0I)le were aBDhVxiated. one A. iJ 1 I I I - - - " ' pawnwu a process ui Keeping uum, fatally hnrt hv Inmninir from a win meats and perishable produots during aoWi -nd flve otnerg more or less in transportation Dy me use oi swruizea jure(j uy flre m the residence of James air. His patents extend to the antip odea. A factory for the making of reme dies similar in nature to the proprie tary medioines now on the market is to be started by Chicago retail drug gists. A majority of the oity phar maoists are interested, and they hope to drive the patent medicine makers from the field. Hope is about abandoned for the barkentine Discovery, owned by Pope & Talbot, of San Francisco. The vessel ia now out twenty-eight days from Port Gamble, loaded with lumber. She was commanded by Captain Christen sen. There were twelve men in her, and there ia scarcely any chance of them turning up alive. Aa far as can be learned ex-President Harrison has not confided to his friends the day and hour of his wedding, but it is believed it will ocour Wednesday of the noxt week following Easter, which closes the Lenten season, and until after which, be said in acknowl edging the engagement, the marriage would not be solemnized At a masked ball in Lisbon fire broke out and a panio followed. Men, ' women and children jumped from the windows, seriously injuring them elves. Friends of the revelers rushed into the burning building to aid in the work of rescue, and many of them were caught by the flames. Thus far forty four bodies have been taken out. According to advices reoeived at Port Townsend from Alaska by the steamer City of Topeka, the Bank of Jnneau has failed, owing depositors about 15,000. There are no assets, J. N. Harrison, the bank's cashier and manager, just before the steamer sail ed, was arrested for larceny by embez element of $-100. The cashier and his bvother operated the bank as a joint copartnership. Baron Blano, of Rome, Italy, min ister of foreign affairs, authorizes the announcement that President Cleve land, having decided to accept the position of arbitrator to settle thequea tions in dispute between Italy and Brazil, a prootoool has been signed, R. Arminger, a prominent jeweler of Baltimore, Md. At Seney Mich., four men were kill ed and seven seriously injured by a steam log-hauler at a lumber camp. The engine became uncontrollable and ran down the road at full speed, catch ing the men before escape was pos sible. Another big gun has reached the Presidio in San Franoisco. It was hauled to the top of the ridge back of Fort Point This is the second 80-ton rifle to be added to the Fort Ponit bat tery and completes the trio ordered for this coast several years ago. A London special says the Natal Times claims to have the best authority for the statement that the South Af rioan republic will, on the fifteenth an niversary of the Boer victory 'over the British under General Colley at Ma juba hill, proclaim its independence. The great tailors' strike, whioh has been in foroe several weeks in many oities of Germany, has been ended by the employers granting a 12 per cent increase of wages. The seamstresses strike, a movement allied to the tail orB' strike, is also on the eve of a settle ment Arthur C. Newsan, the former British magistrate at Cedros, Trini dad, who was arrested in Brooklyn July 7, last, oharged with having embezzled about 100,000 belonging to the British government, has been ac quitted after two trials, and has been set at liberty. State Senator Guy, of New York, has prepared a bill which will be pre seated to the legislature very soon whioh authorizes the city to purchase and remove the Edgar Allen Poe cot tage. The bill provides for an appro priation oi 150,000, whioh sum, it is estimated, will cover all expenses, The Chicago Post's Washington special says that on authority of gentleman who enjoys the personal confidence of the president as fully aa any one, the statement is made that if oongress adjourns without currency TO PROTECT SALMON HAS GOVERNMENT JURISDIC TION OVER THE COLUMBIA? referring to his arbitraiton all claims legislation along the lines suggested that are not amioably settled by the by Mr. Cleveland, he will call a special iwo countries within two months. Robert Laughlin, of Augusta, Ky., who reported his house burned by mur derers, who attacked him with knives, and whose wife and nieoe were burned session and foroe the issue upon the country as being the one question of paramount importance. James Fitzgerald was hanged at St Louis for the murder of his sweet' in the building, has confessed that he heart, Annie Nessens, on the night of waa the murderer. The general theory November 24, 1808. The rope broke ia that he first assaulted his nieoe, and and the victim lay struggling on the then killed ber and his wifo to hide his orime. He denies this, and says he could not tell what put it in his mind to brain them with a poker while they were asleep. Charles Christy, of Waverly, Kan., a young lawyer, has just arrived from Cuba, where he was a prisoner. He, with about 400 others, were oaptured in one battle near Havana. All but he and fifteen other Americans were lined up and shot The Amerioan oonsul saved them. Christy ia a member of one of the pioneer families of Coffey county. He is an enthusiastic Cuban patriot, and claims they have every thing on the island except Havana, and that that will soon fall. He also says that since the new Spanish general baa taken command no prisoners are taken. An explosion of dynamite occurred at Vieudendorfp, South Africa, and the poor quarter of the town has been blown to pieces. Hundreds of houses are in ruin, and the havoo wrought is fearful. The windows of every house in Johannesburg were broken by the explosion. The dynamite that caused the catastrophe filled eight trucks and made a hole thirty feet deep. Forty dead, nearly all of them horribly mu tilated, were taken from the ruins, and the search is not yet completed. Two hundred of the most severely in jured were admitted to the hospital, where several died. A deal is said to have been made be tween the Southern Paoiflo and the Seaboard Air Line.fcwhereby all the trafflo which can possibly be diverted to the former'! Sunset route will be delivered by the latter at New Orleans. Thia deal ia considered to be a direct blow at the Southern Pacific's direct ground beneath the gallows. The doctors found Fitzgerald still con scious. Stimulants were given and he revived. A new rope was sent for and an hour later the sick and trembling, but very nervy victim, was again taken to tne scaaoid. ibis time there was no hitch. Under the new postal appropriation bill the secret inspection of letter oar riers by special agents will be Btopped, The bill provides instead,, that there shall be thirty additional postoffioe in spectors, who shall be assigned to the free delivery service exclusively. While these men will be nominally un der (he authority of the fourth assist ant postmaster-general, they will be subject to the orders of the first assist ant and the superintendent of the free delivery service. They will devote their time exclusively to the inspection of the free-delivery service, and will pursue the same methods pursued by the special agents. At Ellis island, in New York har bor, the Immigration committee of the house will take evidence bearing on the administration of existing immi gration laws. The committee will witness the landing of two shiploads of immigrants. A general consulta tion on the subject of immigration and the class of immigrant will be held with the government inspectors at El lis island with a view to learning more about the workings of the exist ing laws. It ia generally conceded that if any immigration law ia passed by the present congress it will be the Lodge bill now pending before the sen ate, which provide for a strict educa tional test, in addition to the restric tion of present laws. If It Is So Decided, Congress Will He A iked to I' an a Law for the Pres ervation of the FUh-To I'revent Indiscriminate Killing. Washington, ieo. 25. It waa a source of disappointment to the Ore' gon delegation that no aotion was taken by the legislatures of Oregon and Washington looking to the preser vation or the salmon of ..the Columbia river. .The attempt , was made, while Senator Mitchell waa endeavoring to get an appropriation for the fish com mission to carry out its plans of in creasing theflsh product ef the. .river and its tributaries. The. commission refused to have, anything to ,do. with the matter unril some method waa de vised to protect the fish' and. prevent their indiscriminate killing,' which, the commission declares, meant their ultimate destruction. BenatorMitchell believes -the general, government can take jurisdiction of the Columbia and take steps to prevent the destruction of the salmon industry of that stream.' He has had referred to the judiciary committee the resolution he introduced on the subject, so that the committee may decide that the general govern ment has jurisdiction. If ;so, then Senator Mitchell intends to introduce a bill to cover the case, . and in accord ance with the wishes of the people of Oregon and Washington on thia im portant subject. The text of the reso lution introduced by Senator Mitchell is as follows: "Whereas, The salmon fishing in dustry of the Columbia river is one of vast magnitude, the pack of last year amounting to 665,410 cases, of the ag gregate value of 13,342,928, giving em ployment to 1,674 operatives and 8,775 fishermen, and investment to more than 13,000,000; and Whereas, It is evident from past experience elsewhere that the fish in said river will beoome extinot unless properly protected and artificially hatched; and Whereas, From the fact that paid Columbia river is partly within the jurisdiction of the state of Oregon and partly within the jurisdiction of the state of Washington, and therefore, not wholly subject to the legislative control of either state, it becomes of the utmost importance that whatever legislation ia necessary looking to the protection and promotion of this great industry should be enacted by the oon gress of the United States, provided jurisdiction over the subject exists in oongress; therefore, be it "Resolved, That the committee on the judiciary be, and it is, hereby in structed to investigate and report to the senate at the earliest practicable date whether or not the -congress of the United States has jurisdiction to legis late concerning the protection and pro motion of the salmon fisheries of the. Columbia river SILVER TAKES A JUMP. Highest I'rfce It llai Iteai'hed In Mauy .Many Months. New York, Feb. 20. Silver bullion sold at the highest price today that it has reached in many months. There was an apparently good oonsul duuiaud, which advanced the rate to 70 cents. The rise was sharp, and in sympathy with an upward movement in Loudon. Zimmerman Forshay' and Haudy & Harman, bullion dealers, and Edward Bush, of the Kansas City Smelting & Refining Company, declared that they did not know of any definite cause for the improvement They did not agree that the adv'anoe was due to specula tion, or that it would be sustained. The facts are that silver sold as low aa 60o, and the price ranged about 60o for six months. There was. by rea son of adverse legislation, material cur tailment of production. - Shrewd people, who knew the' com mercial value of silver, began cautious ly, buying and accumulating bullion. A large amount has been absorbed for export, a legitimate Continental do-' mand having prevailed for a long time. The supply haa also been reduced by the demand for manufacturing pur poses. For ten months the price was fluctu ating about GOo, and during the past three weeks and until yesterday 6O0 was the quotation . The advance has taken so long as to escape general at tention. Simultaneously with, the ad vance came decided improvement in mining stocics, wnicu is regarded as significant of a revival of interest in silver mines 'and brighter prospects. Seventy-five cent silver means much to the great industry and would undoubt edly produce another silver boom. Exchange on India has been keeping pace with the strong tone of the silver market, and in London yesterday was at the top notch. At the same time production has not kept pace with the demand, the miners having turned their attention to gold-digging. NIPPED IN THE BUD. LIMITATION OF UEliT FIXED BY SUPREME COURT FOR WASHINGTON'S COUNTIES. AFTER THIRTY-TWO YEARS. Horrible Fnte of Three Ueserters In a Weit Virginia Coal Mine. Colliers, W. Va., Feb. 25. People are much exoited over a recent find, which, it is claimed, clears up a mys tery of thiry-two years' standing. The remains of four human bodies have been discovered in an abandoned coal mine east of here. David Snyder has explored the old mine, which has not been worked sinoe the '60s, and discov ered the human bodies. One of the skeletons was sitting upright against a log. Beside this skeleton was found a flask that oontained notes explaining the mysterious disappearance of John Ewing, Ben Avers, Tom Ackleson and Joe Obuey thirty-two years ago. The notes were written in pencil, but are well preserved. They read as follows: "November 2, 1863 Should this ever reach the outside world, let it be known that we (giving names) are prisoners here owing to the caving-in of the mine. We are deserters and were in hiding here when the mine caved in. Food and water are all gone, We are doomed, as no one outside is aware of our whereabouts. This is about the eighth day of our imprisonment." "November 4 John Ewing and Tom Akelson have just killed Ben Ayers and are eating' him. 'I have already eaten my bootleg. The water in the mine is terrible. Our oil is getting scarce and the air is becoming foul. 1 only know the day of the month by my watoh." "November 6 Ewing has just killed Ackelson. Cut off one of his feet and is eating it and dancing around and flourishing his dirk-knife like a maniac "November 7 I am how alone with the dead. I had to kill Ewing in self- defense. I have just eaten my other bootleg. I am sleepy. Good-by. I enclose this note in this flask to pre serve it if possible, so that if it is ever found our sad fate will be known. (Signed) Joseph Obney." Several of the old residents here a bouts remember these men. It was generally believed they had been killed in battle. As no relative of the de ceased men could be found their re mains were given in charge of Andy Lister for interment Filibustering: Party Arretted by Iteve 11 tie Officers. New York, Feb. 26. The iron steamor Bormurla, flying the British flag, was boarded and seized by reve nue officers off Liberty island, late last night The Bermuda has been under watch of Spanish spies for some time. They bad reason to believe she had been bought by the Cuabn revolution ists, and was fitting out as a filibus ter. She has been anchored off Lib erty island since lust Saturday, and yesterday there was evidence that she was preparing for sea. At 1 1 P. M. , just after a large party of Cubans bad gone aboard, the reve nue cutter Hudson steamed alongside, and the boarding party arrested all on the Bermuda. At midnight the reve nue cutter Chandler started down the bay to catch a lighter loaded with am munition and to look for another party of Cubans who had started to board, the Bermuda. The Bermuda, an English-built steamer, was recently purchased by a firm snspeoted of bieng in league with the revolutionary party. Last Satur day she was taken to the ooal docks at Port Liberty and there coaled up. She went form there to too Liberty island anchorage. When the tug ran along' side the marshals and Pinkerton men swarmed aboard. No resistance was offered by the frightened crew and Cubans who had just come aboard, Every man was seized. Among the captives was Genearl Qarcia's son, and several other prominent Cubans. Four bags of gold were seized by the marshals, and a quantity of ammuni tion. Pardon for Mri. Maybrlck. New York, Feb. 26. A local paper says: It is annuonced by cable that Mrs. Florence Maybrick, who is in prison in England, serving a life sen tence for poisoning her husband, is about to be liberated. An official an nnoncement to this effect, it is said, will be made thia week. Ever since the conviction of Mrs. Maybrick, in 1889, great pressure has been brought to bear upon the home secretary to in fluence him to commute her sentence. She was sentenced to death first, but the decision was reversed and she was sent to the working prison for life. Her friends have been unceasing in their efforts to secure her release ever since, and in the until now apparently hopeless effort made by them, Ameri cans have been foremost. Cash, Taes fur the Current Year and Thoie Delinquent May He Iteck uned aa Asets Warrant Indebted line Validated. Olympia, Feb. 24. Tne supreme court today reversed judgment in the case of the state on the relation 01 W E. Barton, respondent, va. the Auditor and Treasurer of Thurston county. The relator in this case contracted cer tain water works for the county, and to pay him therefor the commissioners assigned to him a portion 01 tne oenn crueut taxes of 1804, which he agreed to receive. ' The proceeding was brought to compel the county oflloers to give effect to the order in pursuance of this agreement The material points here involved are: Can the cash assets of the county be deducted from the outstanding indebt edness for the purpose of determining its amount within the meaning 01 tne constitutional' provision upon the sub jeot? Can the amount of the taxroll for the current year and the amount unpaid upon these of prior years be treated as a part of such cash assets? The first has been already affirmatively deoided. and replying to the second question the supreme court says: "From the decisions to the effect that taxes for1 the current year can be treated as a part of. the cash assets of a municipality, it follows as a logical conclusion that under our system for assessment and collection of taxes not only those of the current year, but those unpaid assessed for prior years should be treated aa a part of such cash assets, and we feel compelled to hold that unpaid taxes constitute a part of the cash assets of the county until the lien of the tax has been merged in a sale of the property." The result of this decision is to van date the warrant indebtedness of Thurs- ton county to the amount of $ 95,000, and will probably take up the certifi cates of indebtedness issued prior to January , 1896. Further, it will van date the warrant indebtedness of Pierce county and seive a like purpose in a number of countes of the state. WALLA WALLA WHEAT RATES Interstate Commerce Commission De cides They Are Too High. Washington, Feb. 24. The inter state commerce commission has an' nounced a decision in favor of the com plaints in the cases of Milton Evans and H. D. May, against the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company, and its receiver and others. The cases in volved reasonableness of wheat rates from Walla Walla and Dayton, Wash, to Portland. ' - The main rulings are: Prior leave of court which has appointed the re ceiver of railroad oompany is not neces sary to entitle a shipper to complain against such receiver in proceedings be fore the commission, nor is such leave necessary to give the commission juris diction. The wheat rates to Portland, 23 cents per 100 pounds, from Walla Walla and 23 cents from Dayton, when the complaints were filed, were unjust and unreasonable; a reduced wheat rate of 2 1-4' cents per 100 pounds, put in foroe from both shipping points since the cases were instituted is still above a reasonable and just charge for service rendered; the rate on wheat in carloads from Walla Walla to Portland should not exceed 19 cents per 100 pounds, or $3. 90 per ton, and the rate for the somewhat longer distance from Dayton to Portland should not exceed 20 cents per 100 pounds, or $4 per ton. The complaniants' claim for a money reparation ia denied. DOINGS OF CONGRESS. Koutlne Work of the Fifty-Fourth Ion Senate, Bee- Washington, Feb. 21. The Cuban question oame before the senate today for definite and final aotion, and it ia expected that votea will be taken at an early day on the several pending prop ositionsrequesting Spain to recognize the belligerency ot Cuba, and request ing a recognition of Cuban indepen dence. The first thing of importance in the senate today waa the reading of a resolution from the secretary of treas ury aa to coin and other money in circu lation, whioh waa ordered printed for the use of the senate. The senate then spent some' time in discussing the ques tion of offtoial procedure. Sqiure re ported favorably a bill reqiuring that marine engineers be American citizens. Minor bills blocked the way for some time, but Call finally had the Cuban resolutions called up, and they took up' the time until adjournment. Washington, Feb. 25. The senate committee on publio lands deoided to favorably report the house bill extend ing the time which suits may be brought by the government to annul unauthorized grants of publio lands. The committee made several verbal amendments to the bill, and also added canal lands to those which are inoluded in the bill. The decision of the com mittee was preceded by a .hearing of representatives of the various localities interested in the proposed legislation. There was a proposition before the oommitteee to inolude Mexioan land grants in the extension, but White ap peared in opposition to this, contend ing that the Mexican grant question should be settled as soon as possible, in the interest of all concerned, and the amendment was not made. Washington, Feb. 26. The public- interest in the Cuban question waa shown today by the crowds that came to the senate galleries in anticipation of a continuance of the Cuban debate. The diplomatio gallery showed the largest representation since the session opened, the ministers of Brazil, Chili, Hawaii and several other countries be ing present Morgan of Alabama oc cupied almost the entire day in a nar rative and historical speech. He spoke three hours, and bad not conoluded when the senate adjourned. A signifi cant vote on the resolution for an in vestigation of the recent bond issues was taken during the day. Lodge's resolution for an investigation came up end Peffer offered an amendment for a special committee, and a more compre hensive iDquiry. Lodge sought to have-v the amendment laid on the table, but his motion was defeated, 16 to 34. Final aotion was not seoured as Hill carried the debate beyond 2 o'clock. The bill pensioning the widow of the late Seoretary Oresham at $100 month ly was passed. PORTLAND TO EUREKA- To Mine for Siberian Gold. Vladivostok, Feb. 26. The news papers announce the arrival here of agents of an Anglo-American oompany with a capital of 5,000.000 to work the alluvial gold deposits of Eastern Siberia. They intend to purchase abandoned claims, hoping to extract gold by improved machinery and processes. Dentistry was practiced in Egypt at least 2,000 yean before Christ 1 Not Officers for the Government. ' San Franoisco, Feb. 26. Deputy United States marshals and federal clerks, generally, are not officers for the government Such was the decision of the United States circuit court of appeals today in the suit of John M. McDonald against the United States to recover (1,237 due as compensation for services rendered to the United States as clerk of the district attorney for Montana. In the lower court Mo- Donald's petition was allowed, and his salary ordered paid to him. The gov ernment appealed, however, with the result that the lower court was reversed. The secretaries of the American Bap tist Missionary Unoin, the American Baptist Publication Society and the American Baptist Educational Society, acting under the advice and authority of their respective boards, at a meeting held in Philadelphia, unanimously voted that it is impracticable to hold the anniversaries in May in Portland, Or., according to the previous arrange ment and, announcement The recent destraction by fire of the Baptist Pub lication Society building in Philadel phia is given as one reason. An invi tation to bold the anniversary at As- bury Park, commencing May 20, has been accepted. Several rich strikes have recently been made on the xellow creek, in the Black Hills country. Efforts of the Chamber of. Commerce to Establish a Kegular Line. Eureka, Cal., Feb. 24. Great inter est is manifested here over the propo sition made by the Portland Chamber of Commerce to establish a regular line of steamers between that place and' Eureka. Martin Wallace, of the Portland Flouring Mill Company, has been sent here as a representative of the Portland chamber. The Oregon Railway & Navigation Company has now a small steamer, the South Coast, on the route, and as soon as the merchants here are willing to guarantee a larger freight and passen ger trafflo a much larger and better steamer will be put on. This company has a road from Portland to Umatilla Junction, where a connection is made with the Great Northern for Spokane and the East From Umatilla Junction its line ex tends to Huntington, where it meets the Union Pacific The Oregon Rail way & Navigation Company then can offer to the people of this section the choice of two connecting routes to the East If any arrangements can be made so that the same through rates enjoyed by the Washington shingle and lumber men can be secured by the Eureka manufacturers it will not be long before redwood suingles, doors and window sashes will be laid down in Kansas City, Chicago, Buffalo and other Eastern markets, to compete with the pine industry, which now controlla these markets. For many years San Francisco has monopolized the entire trade of this country. Lately, however, the mer chants here have secured some of their wares from Portland, and now a con siderable trade is in a fair way to be established between the two places. Next to securing an Eastern railroad direct, this is considered by the busi ness men as the best proposition the peo ple of this district can expect Bouse. Washington, Fob. 21. The house' today devoted itself strictly to busi ness. The army appropriation bill, carrying (23,275,902, was passed: the conference report on the urgent defici ency bill was adopted, and the bill tc extend for five years the time in which the government can bring suits to an nul patents to publio lands under rail road and wagon-road grants was passed. An amendment was adopted limiting the application of the act to "railroad and wagon-road grants." The fol lowing proviso was also added to the bill: "That no suit shall be brought, nor shall recovery be had for lands whioh were patented in lieu of other lands covered by grants which were lost or relinquished by the grantee in oonsequenoe of the failure of the gov ernment to withdraw the same from sale or entry." The substitute for the; bill offered by McRae, to repeal out right the limitations of the aot of 1891, was defeated. Washington, Feb. 25. The senate amendments to the military appropri ation bill were concurred in by the house today. The senate bill to amend section 5,294 of the revised statutes, relative to the power of the secretary of the treasury to remit or mitigate fines, penalties or forfeitures, was passed; also the senate bill relating to final proof on timber culture entries. Represenatative Colson introduced a resolution to investigate the action of Seoretary Carlisle in refusing to accept the bid of William Graves for $4,600, 000 at 115.3391. Washington, Feb. 26. The house today in committee of the whole, after a very interesting debate, by a vote of 93 to 64, deoided that none of the ap propriations in the Indian appropria tion bill for Indian schools should go to the sectarian schools. The only sectarian schools to whioh money now goes are Roman Catholio in denomina tion, and the fight today was lead by Linton, a Michigan Republican, who is the most pronounced and openly avowed A. P. A. member on the floor. In last year's appropiration bill the amount was cut down 28 per cent, with the understanding that it should be reduced 20 per cent each year until it ceased, at the end of five years. The committee on Indian affairs this year resolved that this appropriation be re duced 20 per cent, but Linton moved an amendment that no portion of thiB appropriation should go to sectarian schools. Despite the bad roads travel has al ready commenced to the Nei Perce reservation and it is estimated that 1.500 white settlers will be on their claims before June. The new city of Nez Perce is already the scene of ac tive business operations. A new stage and mail line will be in operaion by April 1 from this place, which will give direct communication with the terminus of the Spokane & Palouse branch of the Northern Pacific railroad. Members of the Irish parliamentary party have elected Dillon aa the n.w chairman to succeed Justin McCarthy.