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About The Oregon mist. (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.) 188?-1913 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 22, 1892)
r Circulation, 1,000. nn EGCXN 784 Subscribers In Columbia County. -T1IB- LeadlDg Paper of Columbia County. -BUST- Advertising Medium In Columbia Co. VOL. 9. ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1892 NO. 4. TTTTt OK XXlJDj THIS OliJCCJON 3UST IHVBU KVBHT riUUA MOBNINO J. f?. . BEEGLE, Publisher, Th Oounty Offlolat P-pr. ubaorlliilon Hetaa. oiw mp'r ""l '"'- " i 7d imai'iipr ' """" Hlu wpy " Ailrartlalii Hataa. Prnfi'MlnO) earl, onn rear. Oim (uilu in ii una rear Hill iiiiIiiiiiii una year u iarlir eoliiinn a rear , Una lui'h "Ha month Oil Inch i In i iiniiilh.,...., Out tat .In iiioatlii. lwal nit'Pea, in (will. .r IIh. (or llrt iiJT f Inn; la a ill. por iliis fat each ubmuiil In or I'm ? s . . . BI mlvrtliiitmiil. II.M lar Innh fur Art liiMirllmi, ami 7 oaiit. p f iuo qilrlll In.'MIOII. COLUMMA OOUNTV lilKKt'Ur OtitiMtr Oflloeri.' ,.t). ). lr, Ht, IMan K. K Ull rt. H . I n all. Hliarlir.. , Tt.Mii' .....- iiit. nl HuMmi,-.-. (ii tirvayor...., Coi-iiiln.loniT...,.,,. Win. U kr, nl. 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TuaaUay.Tliuraday and Haturday at a 't!,. m.ll f,Mar.lilan1.1latliaiiland Ml.t .a.aaUiuaa MjUdajf, Watlnawlay ami frhUr at Malta frallway) north olDa at 10 A N.j lor Po'ilaiid at I r. a. Travalara ulil-IUar Kuuti-a. Rtcinbko, w. HMva UavraH-. Ilnl.na lo Piiitlau't at U . a T.io-il i. Tb irxlay and Hat' ardar. Iea Hi. Iloinia for Olai.kaiila Nou da. Walua dar and Krl ay ata:iw a. araaHaa JoaarN Ki.LMiii-lj-ar.a hi. Ilnlena for Poriland daily rii'i.tMuuitay at ;M a. m. KrlBriitna, loa.oa Hmtlaud at p. M. J'ROKESSIONAI DR. H. R. CLIFF, Physician and Surgeon, at. Ilalana, Or. " DR. J. E. HALL, Physician v and Surgeon, Clalahanle, Columbia Co., Or. T. A. Vi'Mami. - A.B. Oaaaaaa. 1 . McBRIDB ft DRESSES, Attorneys at . Law, ; jj I I Orrf ob CltFt Or. Prompt alt nllon glrao to laud olWca bnalimaa ' f;'i A. B. LITTLE, Surveyor and Civil Engineer, Halaoa. Or. : OmitT li ynr. I-and inrraylii. town plal lliif ami tiiKtuverluif aroik piompily dnuc. W. T.VUMM. 'I ' J, W. Daaraa. BURNEY & DRAPER, , Attorneys v at V Law, t a 4r.(on ;lty. Or. TivaWa or" ai'rli'no a H .-alitor nl the OuitH.1 Hta na l,jd OIlU-o tiorai rmoiainaiidi i lnotirtwllly of all kind, ol biialuoaa b"l t, tho Uud rfl 'nr thv ttoiiita, and Involving tlia yra Una tri tlia (Jmioral lud oillw. J.!B. BROCKENBROUQH, AfTORNEY v AT LAW, . w'r..-i city, o (f.ta Bprrlal Ant til Oenoral I-njl Offli;.) H imiial, Pnampllo i and I'linlwr Uud Ap pll at on and othur Iiid Offloa ." io!alty. OIHcii, pecoud Floor, Uud omoe UulidlUK. - - Notary Public ' -AND- : INSURANCE AGENT, ,1, :i3 ' "' .. . 3 '. " MAYOKB, OB. MI8CELUNEOU8. Dd." SWITZER, GENERAL INSURANCE "-'' " " AND Real Estate Agent, . St. Hilsns, Oregon. .... . , ,.(10 TO John ; A. Beck, Watchmaker, and Jeweler, . , -FOR YOUR- , ELEGANT, 'J EWELRY. Tha Fln Aortment of WatoUi, Clooka and 1M ' Javralry q( U liaaotlluut. PIANOS and ORGANS. Ilolljitt & Davia and New Scale Kimball Viimoa jind Kimball Or iraiifi, I invito iiiHiwctiiM nn,l rl,.f.r .,.,.. iiii,,.. "-V. MOORE, 1 05 Washington St., Portland, Or Write for cntnlnuiio ami nrli-pa. M.ni.lim Una mn- EVERDING & FARRELL Front 8treet, Portland, Oregon, WHEAT, OATS AND MILL FEED OF ALL KINDS, Hay, Shingles, Lime, Land Plaster. Also Flour, Bacon, ' AND A OENEBAL ASSORTMENT OF roceries, Wliich we sell cheap EVERDING Clatskanie Line. STEAMER C. W. SHAVER. J. W. SHAVER, Master. Leaves Portland from Alder-street dock Monday, via Westport. Skainokawa and Cathlamet, WednoBday and Friday for Clatskanie, touching at Situvics Island, St. HelenB, Columbia City, Kalama, Neer City, Rainier, Cedar Landing, Mt. Collin, Bradburv, Stella, Oak Point ana all intermediate points, returning Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. NOW IS THE TIME -IN- org Thii desirable property adjoins Milton Station, on the Northern Pacific . Hailroad, ONE HOUR'S RIDE FROM PORTLAND. And is only li miles from St, Helens, river. Milton creek, a beautiful mountain stream, runs within . 200 yards of this property, furuirihing an inexhaustible supply of water for all purposes. LOTS, 50x100 FEET, Ranging in price from $50 to $100, can be secured from D. J. Switzer, St. Helens, Oregon JOSEPH KELLOGG I li-li Mill mm - - - ,ww?S"r-" ' '11. - - Joseph Kellogg and Northwest FOR COWLITZ RIVER. IV I .fc-... 4. Leaves KELSO Monday, Wednesday and Fri IM O rill WGST day at 5 a. m. Leaves PORTLAND Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 6 a. m. 1ACCDU lCI I M" Leaves UAiAlMt at o a. m. JVdCrrrl IaCl-l-J V4V4 daily, Sunday exwpted, arriv ing at Portland at 10:30 a. m. Returning, leaves PORTLAND at 2:30 p. m., arriving at 7 P. M. v ? ... DON'T BUY YOUR DRUGS ANYWHERE BUT AT A HEGULAR : YOU WILT- FIND THE Freshest, Purest and Best of Everything -AT CLATSKANIE 7 DR. J. E. HALL, Proprietor. TRYA" EFFE and get MORE POWERe and use LESS WATER Writ f aa Kaw IllnatmU Catala(a MM. .. . THE LEFFEL WATER WHEEL! ENGINE CO. SPRINGFIELD, 0,U.A for cash. Give ub a call. & FARRELL. TO SECURE A LOT e tow n. the county-seat, on the Columbia & GO.'S STEALERS THE - DRUG '.' STORE. WHEEL ' PACIFIC COAST. The Oregon Board of ; Equalization. COMSTOCK FORCE DECREASED. A Nevada Deputy Sheriff Short in His Aocounts Counterfeiters at Salt Lake, Utah. A large colony from the East Is to lo cute in Linn county, Or. Cttrlnton'g Opera Company opened Ban Dii'tio's $1(J0,000 opera house. The Deputy Sheriff of Orovsby connty, Nev l'ete Taylor, in charged with being over $1,00) short in his accounts. There wems to be no doubt now that the Klein party were frozen to death while crossing the Sierra, going to Car son. The franx of counterfeiter, who flooded Salt Lake with $5, (10 and 0 piece, during the boldidayg six in number have Iw'D held for tbe action of the grand jury. The Oregon Board of Equalization has increased the total taxable property of the State alwnt i) ),OfW,000. The value of the real and personal property of the State U placed at 2H),000,000. The businea, men of Ou len, with the Mayor of the city in the lead, have or ganized a $50,0tM) atock company to bore for natural ga, and oil. It ia claimed by acientilic experts that Ogilen is the cen ter of the great natural nag and oil re gion In the Salt Lake Valley. The Florence and Globe stage was hold up by one man five miles west of Riverside! A. T. Wells-Fargo's box and two bars of sliver bullion were taken. The mail was untouched The robber is described as tall and dark, with a heavy mustache. He wore no mask. , At Victoria the Chinese six-year-old girl, Cheing Man, whose possession has been disputed between her adopted fa ther (her purchaser) and the Chinese Home, h:s been decidel by the girl vol unteering to go with him. It was proved he had previously bad three little ones whom he had sold. The schooner Jesse P., running from San Diego to Cedras Island, is reported to have gone down in a sorm. The ves sel was commanded by Albert Holhrook as captain, Harry Jenkins as mate and a Norwegian sailor named Hansen. Hoi brook is a nephew of Mr. Holhrook of the San Francisco importing Arm of Hoi brook, Morrill and Stetson. Word comes from Silver City, Lyon county, Nev., that Rube Melcalt shot himself through the abdomen. Metcalf is well known as the keeper of the Dev il's (iate toll road in years gone bv. He was employed a a clerk in W. T. Cad dy's s'ore at Silver City. Despondency, produced by drink, is supposed to have been the cause of his attempt to destroy himself. The force of men employed in th, Comstock mines lias been decreased by a draft of s'xty-three men, divided at fallows: Chollar, 40; Uonsoimated Uai iiornia and Virginia, 18; Alta, 6. The draft iu the two former mines is due to a decreae in the ore output, and in the Alta the men were laid off pending the starting of a pump to drain that mine down to the l,4!i'root level. The Alta mill stamps are also bung up pending the draining of the flooded levels. General Datus E. Coon, Commander of Heinixelinan Tost, G. A. H., of San Dieiro and Senii r Vice National Com mander of the National Union Veteran Legion, on b"half of foregoing orders lias telegraphed President Harrison, asking permission to raise a brigade of troops for Chili. The bsxbarous treat ment of American seamen in Valparaiso ha aroused the patriotism of the old soldiers in Sin Dico to the highest pitch. Permission from the War De partment to enlist wonld cause veterans lo pour into San Diego. . Interest in the San Francisco postoffice i'te job is not. confined to the people of that city or to the jobliers. The admin istration has suddenly discovered that the steal means a political mistake as well as a national disgrace, and although the jobliers are still working for the ac ceptance of the job site, their efforts wilt come to nothing. O. P. Huntington i, working for the site in the East, and is angry with the officials for their fail ure to obey his orders. The old commis sion will probably be removed and a new one appointed. The administration re alizes that this is tbe only solution of the problem. Tho following notice has been issued by the Lighthouse Board : "The Noon day Rick ball buoy, which recently parted it m loriugs and went adrift, has been rep'ac id. It now lies 851 yardi W. 8. W. W. from the Rock. Navigation therefore must be careful and not at tempt by giving the buoy a wide berth to pass between the Rock and the North Fitrallon, for this course might lead them directly onto the Rock. It has been found impracticable to place the buoy nearer the danger. This is a dangerous locality a place to be avoided; but.il the mariner tinds himself in the vicin ity, in approaching the coast he should not pass betwten the bell bnoy and the North FarBllon Islet." Couriers from Ascencion, State of Chi hnahnt. Mexico, 100 mileB south of Dent in, N. M., report a terrible uprising. For some time a bad feeling has existed between the adherents of the Church party ami the supporters of the Dias government. Affairs reached a crisis on last Thursday, when the election of the President of the town wis held. Rafael Anchele, who twice held the office, was elected bv a few votes. Anchele was distasteful to the opposition on account of his efforts to inaugurate reform, and threats were openly made against his life. About 4 o'clock in the afternoon a mob of over 100 suddenly surrounded the city building and opened Are. An cliele and histecretary, M. Devalac, were Instantly killed, The mob took posses sion of the town after a hard fight. Dar ing tbe battle three revolutionists were killed, and many on both Bides were fa tally wounded. " France Sunzo, one of the leaders of the mob, was among the killed. The impression prevails that ti ls is a movement in support of Ctarsa. The strength of the insurgents is re ported at eighty armed men. Troops have been ordered to the point of u outbreak. PERSONAL MENTION. The New Secretary of War Own One ..v of the Finest Country Resi dence In the South. The Roman Prince Ippolite Aldobran dini has given himself and his million of inheritance to the Jesuit order. He has taken the vow of humility and pov erty. Bob Burdette is an exception to the general style of humorits in being fat and jolly-looking. He is 47 years old, and ha been funny nearly half that time, Andrew Lang is 47 years old, and has ceased to admire any living author ex cept Andrew Lang. He still has a weak ness for Shakespeare and Moliere, which he may live to outgrow. Archibald Forbes declares that the late Count von Moltke waa the mildest mannered man of war whom be ever knew. His look was that of the scholar rather than the soldier. Buffalo Bill is making the hair of the canny Scots stand on end with horrified delight at tbe daring feat of hi cow boys. The school children of Glasgow have in turn startled William by singing Yankee Doodle. Thomas Laws, the negro boy who bore the message from Miss Rebecca Wright to General Sheridan which induced Sher idan to attack tbe Confederate army at Winchester, has been ionnd. He lives in Philadelphia. It is reported that Hignor Crispi, ex Premier of Italy, will visit Prince Bis marck this spring at Friedrichsrahe. As has been the Italian's custom for a nnm ber of years, he sent the ex-Chancellor three kegs of fine Syracuse wine a few days ago. Crispi' wine is famous, and Prince Biemirck is always glad to get it. Joseph Pulitzer, still in New York, chafes against the restriction on- hero work which his invalidism places npon him. He can neither eat nor drink, ex cepting a few bit and a few swallows prescribed by his physician, lie cannot endure excitement of any kind ; he is able to eee' only through a glass, and very darkly, and he is a virtual prisoner with the activity of hi mind wholly un impaired. Mme. Sophie Zola, the operatic star, has sent home from Stockholm to her hnsliand in Boston, E. O. Achorn, a handsome Christmas present she re ceived from the swediuh King, with whose family she is a favorite. It is an after-dinner coffee set of finest china, which the King gave to his daughter. Eugeuia, when she was married, and each piece bears the name of the Prin cess in letters of gold. Stephen B. El kins, the new Secretary of War, has in R nd ilph county, W. Va., a palatial home that is described as "one of the finest country residences in the South." It stands on a hill command ing an unobstructed view of the eur ro mding country, and is not unlike a mediaeval castle, while with the ninety rooms it is large enough for a hotel. The winters Mr. Elkins passes in New York, wiiere his house is noted for its valuable library. Though the Secretary has not the reputation of being a man of schol arly tastes, he is fond of rare books. He also possesses Mr. Blaine's accomplish ment of never forgetting a rame or face and the incident associated with it. EDUCATIONAL. Vassar Has a Pin-Money Fund The Highland Fling In the Dundee Public Schools. The entering Chautauqua class, which is to pursue a three years' course, com prises 15,000 students. The average cost per pupil in the Bos ton public schools during the past twelve months has been (24.53. The gain in school enrollment in New Mexico in 1890 was 283 per cent., while the gain in population waa only 28 per cent. There are fourteen school children per 1 ,000 population in Russia and 197 school children per 1,000 population in this conntry. .. .. Throughout France gardening is prac tically taught in the primary and ele mentary schools. There are about 28,000 of these schools. In round numbers, says the Denver V Ul.; lfJUUIICail, 111- gilKK icvTiiirba w j the doll fair for the benefit of the free , kindergarten at Denver amounted to $10,000, and the net proceeds will be about $10,000. No college for women has so many gradua'es in its classes as has the Har vard Annex. There are twenty-one members in its graduate club, and in the University of Michigan among 2,000 students there are only seven women graduates. -' The public schools in Dundee have de cided to make tbe highland fling and the strathspey of Tullocbgorum and other forms of dancing part of the cur riculum. Education in dancing, how ever, will require an extra fee, and will therefore be optional. Vassar is the only woman's college in the country that has a pin-money fund. Borne good old New Yorkers donated a certain sum for a "free fund" not long ago, to be used for fun exclusively. Every year there are a few girls in the college who are actually penniless. They have sufficient brains to secure the free schol arships, and depend on their darning baskets for the fees that cover incidental expenses. All through the year parties are made np for lectures, concerts, op eras, readings, field sports and excursions- about the country. These tripe cost money, and the girl who hasn't any may draw'on the " pin-money fund " for expenses, and nobody but the " Lady oi Vassar "and the Treasurer will be tha wiser. . , The national conference of university extension at Philadelphia was addressed by Michael E. Badler of Oxford, Eng land, who spoke about university exten sion in England and said that of $3,500, 000 a year expended for the teaching oi science and technical education about $; 00,000 goes to the aid of the university extension centers. Dr. Wilfred H. Munro of Brown University spoke on the stndy of history under the university exten sion system, and Prof. Cheney of the University of Pennsylvania argued in favor of a more entertaining system of lecturing on history. Prof. Henry L. Chapman of Bowdoin College spoke for the cause in Maine, where university extension, he said, waa making real headway. Reports were also made of progression In other States. EASTERN ITEMS. Axmount of Bounty Paid on Sugar. THE EMBEZZLERS' STEALINGS. Andrew Carnegie Pressnts an Iowa , Town With $30,000 for a Publio Library. St. Louis expended $13,2;'2,170 on new buildings last year. More cider was m tile in Connecticut in 1891 than ever before. A Michigan hatchery is Incubating 51,030,000 white fish eg. The death rate of New York waa 25.96 in 1891 ; in 1890 it was 24.1 During 1S91 the Treasury Department paid t0,93J bounty on sugar. Andrew Carnegie has given $30,000 for a public library at Fairfield, la. Knights of Labor want the Chinese exclusion act renewed after 1892. Last year thirteen railway postal clerks were killed and 132 injured. Diatilling companies at St. Loui are organizing to fight the whisky trust. The total tax collections iu December in New York amounted to $8,4X)000. The Cordell-Dunnica Banking Com pany of M trshail, Mo., has suspended. The Calhoun, are dropped from the directorate of the Georgia Central rail road. The city of Cleveland has turned out the gas, and now uses oil lamps. exclu sively. . . . Enabling acts for Arizona and New Mexico will likely be passed by this Congress. Senator Teller has offered a resolution providing for an international monetary conference. The United States wheat crop in 1891 was the largest per capita ever raised by any country. The price for brooms has been ad vanced 25 cents per dozen by Eastern manu'acturet. Action has been -taken in the Federal Court in Pennsylvania agtinst the oleo- margerme trast. The toial output by Colorado for 1891 of silver, gold, lead and copper amount ed in value to $33,548,934. Giles Otis Pearce of Keokuk, la.. charges the Federal Courts of Iowa with maladministration of justice. United States cittle. rice, beans, peas. corn and hay and all kinds of vegetables now go into Guatemala duty free. Chairman Soringer of the Wavs and Means Committee has drafted a bill pro viding for the free admission of wools. The World's Fair envoys to foreign lands are Swing called back, sufficient ad rertiBing having been accomplished. The telepnoue line which has jast been completed between Pike's Peak and Manitou is the highest line in the world. During the year 1891 there were coined at the Philadelphia mint over 92,CO0,O.K) pieces, with a valuation of over $13,00J, ooo. . . Troops to guard Tennessee "convicts have gone into camp, and fortifications are being thrown np on a commanding hill. The Ohio River Railroad Company has made an offer to purchase for $3,000,003 the Newport News and Mississippi rail way. . . ;- . V: The will of George P. Pomeroy was sustained in Chicago, and his minor son will get ail the $l,00i),000 estate when he becomes of age. ' Massachusetts and Nebraska are sec onding the work of Minnesota in send ing breadstuff's to the famine-stricken peasantry of Russia. . The embezzlers of 1891 stole about $20,000,000, more than twice as much as the embezzlers of 189.). This is a bad record for the country. Every messenger in the etnpliy of the Southern Express Company has been ordered to quit work by the Grand Mas ter of the Brotherhood. . The Baltimore City Passenger . Rail way Company will require 1,900 tons of track rails and 1,050 tons of slot rails for their proposed cable line. Fourteen or fifteen members of the congregation of the Reformed Church at Tiffin, O., were partly asphyxiated by natural gas, which escaped from a flue in the church. County Treasurer Panl at Hastings, Neb., is short 50,000. He says he does not know what became of the money, except $16,000 lost by the failure of the City National Bank. Mrs. Julia E. Johnson, a handsome young widow of New York city, has be gun a suit in the Circuit Court at Chi cavro against John W. Temple, a wealthy Chicago lumber dealer, for $20,0)0 for breach of promise. The negroes in Washington are hold ing mass meetings to protest against separate free schools, separate eating houses, separate bathing houses and their practical exclusion from restau rants and barber shops. ' Senator Sherman is reported to have said that a free-silver bill would paas both Houses of Congress this session, but would be vetoed by the President. A tariff bill would pass the House, but would be defeated in the Senate. . As to the Northern and Southern ar mies the present Congress stands as fol lows : Union soldiers now Senators, 16 ; Confederate soldiers now Senators, 23; Union soldiers now Representatives. 70; Confederates now Representatives, 60. An effort will be made by a number oi Representatives to have the Appropria tions Committee recommend .that the fee system in Federal offices be aliolished as far as can be done. This is to correct principally tbe abuses which exist in the offices of Marshals in the various States. ' ; i. s , .. . - - . The Chicago Htrald prints another cnapter oi its cnarges inai uie ponco ue partment of Chicago is composed of s gang of conspirators bent on blackmail and wreaking vengeance on their ene mies who refuse to " put up the stuff." Facts, names and figures are given to prove the "hra. NATIONAL CAPITAL. Government Clerks Not Entitled to Any Holiday, When Absent More Than Sixty Days. Senator Allen has introduced a bill for a lighthouse at Northheud. Cape Disap pointment, near the mouth ol the Co lumbia river. An attempt was made at last session to secure such a lighthouse, but failed during the closing hours on , account of lack o. time for consideration. Senator Dolph has reported favorably from the Committee on Public Lands his bill to grant to the State ot Oregon sev eral townships of the public lands, in cluding Crater Lake, for a public park and timber reservation. He has also prof" red a favorable report of his bill lor the relief of Thomas Guinean, and has introduced a bill granting a pension to James H. Preston of Gresham, Or. The Committee on Indian Affairs ha referred the report of Colville Com mis- , ion to Chairman Pe!l and Representa tives Rockwell and Wilson. Mr. Wilson ays there is no doubt that he will have the bill favorably reported, but he is not so sure of its passage through the House, as the Democrats will not be so favor, able towards legislation for the North west a the Democrat in the last Con gress. The Court of Claims has decided that government clerks are not au titled to any holidays when absent from duty more than sixty days. The case came tip on account of a claim for full salary where a clerk had been absent from duty more than sixty days, and the head ex ecutive of the department employed a substitute in the clerk's place and paid the substitute out of the clerk's salary. It was to recover this portion of the sal ary the principle waa declared by the court..,.. . . : .... .. .. .: Representative Harter of Ohio has in troduced in the House a bill for the con solidation of customs commission dis tricts of the country. . It reduces the number of districts materially. Under the law Arizona will be one district; California and Nevada, two; Alaska, one: Montana and Idaho, one, and Col orado, Wyoming and Utah, one. The bill abolishes all commissions, emolu ments, etc., and provides for annual sal aries to Customs Collectors, naval ofli- " cers and Surveyo-s at certain of the larger ports. The smaller collection dis tricts are to be divided into five classes according to the amount of business transacted. The President has sent to Congress with a recommendation nrginzearlvand favorable consideration the agreement of Messrs. Bingham of Ohio and Merrellat of Washington, the majority of the Sho shone and Arapahoe Indian Commission, made with the Shoshone and Aiapahoe Indians of Wyoming fur the cession of more than half of the reservation on Wind river in Wvonung. The lands ceded comprise 1,15.1,000 acres of land in tbe northern part o: the reservation. and the price is $0 X1,000, or about 55 cents an acre. The minority report signed Dy J. v. woodrott ol Lander, Wyo., Chairman of the commission, op- Doses the treaty nrmiinallv on tha ground that the Indians would not soil the southern tract of the reservation near Lander. When the Senate Committee on Poast. Defenses adjourned, Senator Dolph t titled the members that tbe next sieet ing wonld be called together by Senator Squire of Washington, as be will be Chairman of that committee in prefer ence t the one he now has, which is the transportation routes to the Bealxard, and which is not nearly so important to his section as that of coast defense, Sen ator Dolph becoming the head of public lands. The (Senator explained that be. would not ask for a report on his bill to establish a gnn factory on the Pacific Coast, because Senator Felton desired to present some additional in formation as to the resources of the Pa cific CoaBt for carrying on such an estab lishment, and the matter was postponed until the next meeting of the committee. The commission which was appointed , to determine the north line of the Warm Springs reservation in Oregon has re ported that the line run and surveyed by T, B. Handley in the year 1871 from the initial point up to and including tbe twenty-sixth mile thereof, thence in a due course to the semmit of the Cascade Mountains, is the boundary. There has been a long dispute over thin m alter, trying to prove from the claim by the Indians that in 1856 one R. R. Thomp son blazed an oak tree end said that would be the line. The settlers have gone on the lands south of the blazed tree, and their lands have always been in dispute. Troubles have grown out of the matter and resulted in Senator -Mitchell having the commission ap pointed to settle the boundary. A strip of land several miles wide was in dis pute. ' c; ;: The latest news of the appointment of a Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit is that Judge Hanford of Seattle, now United States District Judge for Wash ington, may be agreed upon and pro moted to the circuit bench. President Harrison is very much pleased with the decisions that Judge Hanford has ren dered during his term on the district bench, and thinks very favorably of pro moting him to the circuit bench, if the Pacific Coast delegation can a;ree npon him. Judge Hanford is not pushing his claims in the least, and it is stated that he is not very anxious for the promo tion, as it wonld take him away from Seattle. He prefers that cilv as a place of residences The President is willing to see if the various disagreements can be justified so as to select a man who may be satisfactory to the people of the circuit, One of the attempts to do awav with the perquisites in the Federal offices is ol considerable interest to numerous post masters of the first class throughout the country. At present stamped envelopes are furnished to postmasters at a cost of a fifth of a cent for each envelope. - No profit is realized on these by the post master when he sells them in large lots. When sold singly or in small quantities, there is a profit of four-fifths of a cent on each envelope, and Mr. O'Neill of Missouri, who intends to urge Congrera to change the practice, says the result I a considerable profit to the postmaster in receipt of a regular fixed salary. Ha will urge that hereafter stamped envel opes be furnished at cost in five-cent lots (the price of stamo not included). The government, he says, should not make profit on these and the other conveni ences it furnishes the people, bnt should give them at cost, whenever practicable, and any profits arising should not go to the salaried officers, , OrrQSIU'lHS.MKQND, . rOBTlaMO, 0W 'A 1