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About The Oregon mist. (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.) 188?-1913 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 29, 1892)
784 Subscribers In Columbia County. ' ' BEST , ' Advertising Medium In Columbia Co. OREGON nn -4 -TMK- Leading Paper of Columbia County. VOL. 9. ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 181)2. NO. 5. Circulation, 1,000. 1 HH M TUB? Oil EG OK MIST. Iltlilt) ; KYKKV VKIU.tY MOBX1NO J. R. BEEGLE, Publisher. Th County Official Paper. Rubanrlu.luu ltatea. On opr ' '" f'vauoa On. vl "ln Hlnl l II M 7ft .... AtvnrllalnT tut... Prnfra.loaal riarla on yor. , ...... ilu nuliiinn on year Iilf nnliiinn mi. yar. .. u tart r noluinii o... year..., Oil. lunh oaa month On Irwin Hum uioniht....... ........ On. luiib ill month. 7ft 41) ! ft Ijx-.I noiliwa, tHr.nl. par Hit I'll flrit Inaaf. tloni Id n.iiu pur tin lor eax'h iittowiiuaut In "it, . . . . . Una! aiWerMaem.iila. (1.60 per limb for flrit iiiMirimii, .nn 7 o.nu p riiicniur rwu iubw quant ln."Nlou. COLUMBIA COUNTY DlUKOTu,. , C'ouutr Oltto.r.. Jttrtie I). J. ftt .r,Ht. ll..:l Uirk..u.. K. K Uiilnk.Ht. Ho Hhurirr Traaaiirer , , it. of Mfhuels... A M.r..l.,.... .,...... Surt.yor CominlMlon.r. . ,.., Wiu Honker, HI. IIoImih (I. w. ( Hi.. HI. Ilul.lll J. (I. WktU.lk'.IMIIMI' t. r. I)..n, llallllor A. II l.l i tie, H'i u.i.nt lr.. Krwiirer, Vernou'a , w iiariina. uialaan;. , Mool.tr Nutlc.. ' Masonic HI. JMimk lyulun, No. i Keg-nlar Cormauiihatlonl Drat aurl 1 hlnl Satarilay lu vvh aionih at 1.U p.m. at M.oulr Hull. VlaUltif m.mtnr. lu awxl laiulltia; InvliM to itm1. Mwtiia. Kalulnr Iulna No, 31 ttotnl m In. Katitf ' ou or tKinra t-ai'b full in. mil at 7:S0 p. M. l Haonla Hall, ovnr Hla'K'liar.l'. nr. Vl.ll'm m.iobert In food .lauding Invited to attand. ,. , 'ttvana-atlcal A ppcilntmant.. rir.tlt.uJ.r-l).Drl.laiid,ll.M.; Ht. HelaiM. . T.OU P. M. H..md Similar Near City, 11a. M.l K.ubtm, T oo p. a. Tultd riattlda, (Hilton. It a. M.: Houllon, 1 p. M. ronrth Bandayativlwi lalaml (iHHahau), 11 A. M.j Kvadar'a, Jr. a. .: .t M. HURMNUAMIC, Paator. Tlia Malta, pown river (boat) iiIomw at 130 a, M. I'll rl-.r (boat) rliwra at 1 p. M. I n. mail lor Von mm a alii IMIlatiiir laa.ea St UnUuiTvday,1liuraday and Saturday at A. M. , Tba mall (or Marahland, ClaUkanln and Milt l.avM Qulun HtHiday, VV.diia.ilay ami Krlilay at U M. Malta (railway) uortn cloa, at 10 A M.i for Portland at S P. M. Travelara' Ould-Hlvr Kuuti-a. BratHaait. W. muvaa Uv- H'. Il-lma fnr Piiitland at II a. M. TiimWy, Tliirwlay aud Mat arday. Ilniii for C'laiak.ula Moa- day. wlnaday and Krl av at a no a. m. HraiMaa JnaapH Kiluhiu l ayi-a Ht. Helena fnr Poriland dally pi'itHuoilay at t l A. M. nlarnin, taa.iia F.nll.ud at p. M. l'ROFESSIO.NAU DR. H. R. CLIFF, Physician and Surgeon, it. Ilalani, Or. DR. J. E. HALL, Physician v and '. Surgeon, Clalakanla, Columbia Co., Or. T. A. Mi BaiDi. A. 8, p.. MeBRIDE & DRESSES, Attorneys at v Law, Orasoa City, Or. Prompt attention lan to laud oltloa baalnaaa A. B. LITTLE, Surveyor and Civil Engineer, it. tfalana. Or. Ooanty llurr jor. Ind .urtayln. town plat tluf aud ngUiWlog woik piottiplly dont. W. T. BtimiiT. J. W. paaria. J) BURNETT & DRAPER, ; Attorneys at v Law, , ra City. Or. ' Tw.yara' eiMrlinc aa Urnlalar of th Dnttad Mta a. Laud OnVe horo ncommand. Mi In our aiMHiUlly of all klnda of hualmwa Iwl .ra tha laud Oftliw or the laurla, and InvolTlug the praetlee la Uie Uaueral Uud uftlce. . v J. B. BROCKENBROUQH, ATTORNEY .' AT . LAW, Orason Cltr. Or. (Lata Bprelal Airent of General Und Offloe.) Hommiiead, Preampilon and Timber Land Ap pll at on and other Und Olttue Hitalnn.. a dixwialiy OIBce, Htooud Floor. 1-and Oilloe ..'caAS. W. 1HAYGEK, Notary '." Public ' f ' -AND INSURANCE AGENT, MATOIR, OR. MI8CKLLANKOU8. P.;u;"switzer, GENERAL INSURANCE AN D Real Estate Agent, ,, , St;. Helen8i Oreoon. -ao io- UOHN, A. DECK, Wijtchmikep and Jeuieler, ELEGANT JEWELRY. J.welry of all Uaacrlpltoiia. ( erposiTi ih waoNP, Portland, o PIAWOS and ORCAWS.i IJallott A Davis ami New Sculo Knna, I invito iiiHpoction, and defy compotition. L. V.MOORE, 1 05 Washington 8t., Portland, Or. Write for cHtnlonnB ml prlcci. Mention thii paptir. EVERDING &. FARRELL Front Street, Portland, Oregon, DEALERS IN WHEAT, OATS AND MILL FEED OF ALL KINDS, Hay, Shingles, Lime, Land Plaster. Also Flour, Bacon, AND A OENKttAL ASSORTMENT OF- ' Groceries, Which we sell cheap for cash. Give us a call. . EVERDING & FAR R E L L. Glei tslcstnie Xjixie. STEAMER G. J. W. SHAVER, Master. Leaven Portland from Alder-etreet Rkamokawa and Catblamet, Wednenday and Friday for Clatskanie, touching at Suuvios Inland, St. Helenn, Columbia City, Kalania, Neer City, IUinier, Cedar Landing, Mt. Collin, Kradburv, Stella, Oak Toint and all intermediate points, returning Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. flOW IS THE Tip eorgetown. Thii desirable property adjoins Milton Station, on the Northern Pacific Kail ONE HOUR'S RIDE And ia only U mils from St. Helens, the county-sent, on tho Columbia river, itinvuit creeic, a oeauiiiui uiuiiitutui Buroui, mm niui 200 yards of this property, furnishing an inexhaustible ' supply of water for all purposes., .. , LOTS, 50x100 FEET, Ranging in prico from $50 to $100, can be secured from D. J. Switzer, St. JOSEPH KELLOGG Joseph Kellogg and Northwest FOR COWLITZ RIVER. Northwest Thursday and Saturday at 6 a. m JOSEPH KELLOGG daily, Sunday excepted, arriv ing at Portland at 10:30 a. m. Returning, leaves PORTLAND at 2:30 p. m., arriving at 7 r. m. ' '. ;" 1 ' ' : '- ; ' - " -: v ' DON'T BUY YOUR DRUGS ANYWHJiEE BUT AT A HKGULAR-- YOU WILL FIND THE Freshest. Purest and Best of Everything -AT CLATSKANIE V DRUG 7 STORE. . j ' , , Mi DR. J. E. HALL, Proprietor. ff TRYA a La u U : ua and get WORE -POWER ..-,, ,.i r. - and use LESS WATER -Writ far Iliuetrte Ca.ta. af MU ' THE LEFrTrL WATER WHEEL ENGINE CO. SPRiNBFlE' J),0, U.S.A, Kimball Pianos and Kimball Or- W. SHAVER. dock Monday, via Westport, TO SECURE fl LOT road, FROM PORTLAND, Helens, Oregon & COS STEflJUERS Leaves KELSO Monday, Wednesday and Fri day at 5 A. m. Leaves PORTLAND Tuesday, THE - II WHEEL pacific coast. The Fresno Y. M. C. A. in Trouble. POMONA'S NEW ORDINANCE. A Mare Island Foreman's Offense to be Investigated An Indignant Phoenix Doctor. Otfilen has the tng-of-wr craze. There will be no extra session of the Haho Legislature. New Mexico will hold an irrigation convention at Los Angeles March 10. The Bunnet Teleirraph Company will have two distinct lines from Stockton to San Francisco. Candidates for municipal offices, to be voted for this spring at Sacramento, are numerous. - There will be a much largor acreage put in etiKar beets at Chino this season titan last, year. I'liii.nii. A. T.. is much disturbed over the difiappearanee of Dr. E. E. Powell, a well-known druggist. Joe Crocker and George Dawson have been arrested at Los Angeles and charged with forging checks. Philip D. Yieser, a stenographer at Phienix. has been arrested on a char: of forgnry at San Bernardino. Eastern expert safe-crackers are doing work profitable to themselves at Les Angeles and the neighborhood. The forger and professed wool-shipper, Robert Flake of Anthony, N. M., has been captured in Juarez, Mexico. A vigorous policy is being adopted by Southern California horticulturists to prevent the ' importation of infected stock from the East. A reward of 530 has been offered by the Governor of Arizona for the arrest of the murderers of Mrs. Morgan and Joe Miller near Temps last week. The Victoria, B. C, Council of the Board of Trade recommends that a fort nightly mail to the north be established, and the matter will be pressed on the Ottawa government. The Y. M. C. A, at Fresno is in trou ble. It has a number of unpaid bills, and the creditors have used legal means to secure payment. A keeper is in charge of the institution. Captain Hewitt, master of the San Pedro, and Pilot Christensen are cen sured by the members of the committee that investigated the causes for the lots of the vessel neir Victor a. The Bradatreet Mercantile Agency re ports thirteen failures in the Pacific Coast States and Territories for the past week, against twenty the previous week and sixteen the same week of lbOl. The steam sleigh at Truckee will soon be ready for its trial trip. The machin ery ha., arrived, and is now being put In place. Much interest in the invention is manifested by the people of the snowy country. Dr. Prowtell of Phoenix proposes to make things warm for those people wno originated stories of a libelous character about him and sent them out from Phoe nix during his temporary absence from that town. Thirty thousand pounds of fresh salmon were shipped in a car from the Franer river two weeks ago, going by way of the Canadian Pacttic to .New xora: ana thence in the cold-storage room of a Ger man steamship to Hamburg. '" Eastern tree dealers are greatly exer cised over the attitude of California in reference to the importation of diseased stock, and exhibit a desire to retaliate by urging Congress to remove the pro tective tariff from foreign fruits in order to injure the home industry. A threat of th'it nature comes from a firm at New ark, Wayne county, N. Y. The San Diego tmW says: It has been reported that the December frosts killed the pineapple planti that have been so successfully grown in this vicin ity for the past two years. K. R. Mor rison wai seen, and he says he has fif teen varieties growing both at South San Dieiroand in this city, numbering 1,500 ;b.!its in all, and of that lot not ore was killed. Pomona's new liquor ordinance has irone iuto effect. Under it no man is al lowed to step into a place where liquors are sold upon any business whatever under a fine of not more than (100 and lodgment in jail o! not more than fifty days. The. public is excited over the or dinance, ana there will probably be some warm times in Pomona during the next few days. ; : . Considerable talk is occasioned at Val- leio over the charges against Foreman Utiaries 1. rneips oi me cuiiBirncuuii ilnnartment at Mitre Island. His offense as stated in the preferred complaint is extorting money from workmen who are amnloved under him. making them pay a large monthly bonus for the privilege of working. An investigation will be had at once. The recent ruling of the District Court at Ho se Citv to the effect that housees of nrostitution cannot be abated as nui sances has created no small amount of adverse criticism. The weight of author ity seems to be that they can be so bbated, but Judge wugeni seized upon nn absolute ruling of some obscure New York court as a pretense for deciding in ''avor of the sporting fraternity as against the decent classes in Boise uity. .... rna case will be appealed.. There is much indignation over bis decision. The Oregon Pacific Railroad has been sold at Sheriff's sale. The property wan bought in by Zepliin Jobof Ccr allis for the sum of $1,000,000. It is thought a compromise has b en effected by the New York bondholders, and that Col onel T. Egerton Hogg will be retained as President of the road, whilo Blair und his friends will remain managers ami have a voice in the policy of the road. The road was bought for the benefit of all the bondholders who. it is under rtood, are united upon a policy of re organization. It is thought the policy will be to issue bonds to raise sufficient funds to complete the road to its eastern terminus in Idaho, and to provide ocean steamers to accommodate the Increased raffle that will result. PERSONAL MENTION. The Life of the Queen of Roumanla Despaired of Ibsen Lionized In Christiana. London is to have a new woman's club, presided over by the Duchess of Teck. It is reported that the doctors who are In attendance on the Queen of Roumania despair of saving her life. Ex-Minister to Great Britain Vanx of Philadelphia, who has not been ill for forty years, has succumbed to la grippe. Henry Clews, the New York banker, is in favor of making Saturdays in sum mer time whole instead of half holidays. Mrs. Springer, the wife of the Con gressman, is said to be bis " best achive ment, brightest accomplishment ami most admirable quality." Ibsen is lionized in Christiana, but they won't permit bis plays on the boards up there, Tbe " pillars of soci ety " must be reasonably firm in Scandi navia. Mrs. Augusta Evans Wilson is living quietly at Spring Hill, a suburb of Mo bile. The author of " Beulab " ia said to be loath to welcome Amelie Rives as a rival in Southern literature. Cornelius Vanderbilt is to be asked to take the Presidency of the New York Grant Monument Fund Association, and is considering the question whether or not he will accept the position. The author of "The Light of Asia" Inscribes his name on the hotel register as "Sir Edwin Arnold." Fastidioui people may object to Hub, out it is cer tainlv better than writing one's self down an aes, as some distinguished tour ists have done. Walter Crane, tiie English artist, openly announced sympathy with the boctalisis winie ne was in smwn, uuv after he reached Chicago he did not find it convenient to aih hate with tnein. rer haps the withdrawal cf invitations to a dinner in his honor in the n odern Ath ens taught him something. The families of the Queen of England, the King of Greece and the Czar of Rus sia have made arrangements to erect a handsome monument in Copenhagen in honor of the golden wedding of the King and Oneen of Denmark. The model of the monument will be presented to the royal pair next May ou the anniversary o; the weouing. Congressman Hatch is said to have cured himself of a strong teste for liquor ten years ago by adopting fcdmuna Riirke's cure all of hot water. He drank quantities of it, and thinks he derived grai ueneufc iroui 11. n Humuiawu unu without anv of the reafti'inarv effects that follow stimulation from drinking alcoholic drinks. Kvrle Bellew is greatly changed, says Labbuchere in London Truth. He is no longer the dapper, well-groomed Bellew who was known by the matinee girls as " Kvrlie." There is now a touch of the shabby genteel about the once-debonair beau, and lie nas a -ea great.iv, uie nam which used to be only streaked with sil ver being now almoBt entirely gray. Thompson was first moved to write verges, according to s me special infor mation which the Boston (ilohe has re cently obtained, when 16 years of age and upon a Sunday while staying nomc- frotn church. The attempt wa suggest! by me one else as a means of occupy ing his snare time. The task was under taken, so this story goes, and with such success that the youth was encouraged to try further. EDUCATIONAL. . Andrew Franklin is the First Negro . Student to Attend the University of Heidelberg. President Low of Columbia College has put his foot down on hazing. Mrs. Robert L. Stewai t has bequeathed $.'!OJ,000 to Princeton Theological Semi nary. : . The schools of New York will cost this year $4,600,000, of which 3,12S,t!00 is for teachers' sa'aneB. B.Andrew Franklin hi said by the Rochefort (Mo.) Commercial to be the first negro student in the University of Heidelberir. where he is now taking a course. 1 . -. A parental school is to be established in Boston to supply a family life and an industrial education to boys who are without homes or opportunities for per sonal trailing. At the new Chicago University there will be four quarters, each consisting of two terms, six weeks in each term. A student will be allowed to choose any two terms in the year lor his vacation. In the scholastic year 1890-1 St. Pe tersburg had 250 primary schools, with 12,700 pupils, mis year me numoer oi schools is 2B7 and the number of attend ing pupils 13,042. This includes 120 fe male schools, with an attendance of 6,703. University extension has attracted much attention in France. The Ministry of Education has appointed a committee to investigate the workings of this move ment in England, and delegates of the French government were present at the Oxford summer meeting. Christine FrederikBen of Copenhagen, the author of a book on intuitional in struction, has won a university gold medal for an orderly collection and der ivation of the most important laws of educational theory as far as they can be derived from modern psychology and ethics. ' ' In the famished districts in Russia public schools and higher institutions of Teaming which depend on the subsidies of the central or local governments have been closed one after the other. The money appropriated for the institutions is required for the purchase of bread for the starving families. Vapsar, University of Pennsylvania and John Hopkins are all about to erect new buildings to accommodate the great numbers of students with which their halls are overflowing. The sending of o manv votiths to jeceive the higher education is another good symptom of the prosperity of the country. According to the school statistics of Finland there are this year 4,293 pupils attending the male schools and 1,5(17 the female schools. The population ot Finland is 2.200,000, of which 200,000 are SwedeB, with a small admixture of other nationalities. To judge by the language which the school children speak, the proportion of education is vnrv nnponallT divided between the na tive Finns and their Swedish neighbors. EASTERN ITEMS. Jack the Slasher Capt ured in New York. SELF-CONFESSED PATRICIDE. Missouri State University Building Destroyed Discovery of a Wonderful Cava St. Joseph, Mo., has a large hotel for colored people only. Pontoon bridges across the Missouri river are said to be failures. The Whiskv Trust is not scared by a threat at prosecution in Chicago. The estate of the late 8 mator Plumb of Kansas is valued at 15,'W,000. The buildings of the World' Fair will contain twenty-nine acres of glass. Just 28.163 alien immigrants arrived at the port of Philadelphia during 111. At the annual meeting of the Sugar Trnst the capital stock was increased by 25,000,C0). Maine rivers are still open, and the icemen are a'raid they will have no har vest this season. A compilation of the funds in eight savings banks of Baltimore gives a total of f3-,81 5.547.13. Congressman Brosiua proposes to tele graph $10 0i0 to St. Petersburg for Russian sufferers. An English syndicate, with $2,150,000, has purchased twenty-three of the twenty-nine flour mills of Utah Territory. Baltimore is to have a new athletic association called the Mm-land, incor porated with a capit il ntuck of $2 .0,000. The popular vote was about 10,0 )000 in 1884, about 11,400,000 in 1887, and it will probably reach 13,000,000 votes in 1890. ' Dr. Keeley asks the parties who wish to start an "institute" at Excelsior Springs $200,000 for the State of Mis souri. Thieves recently held up a small fu neral procession in Hillsdale county, Mich., and robbed the minister and un dertaker. Over 847 bills for the pavment of Southern war claims have been intro duced in the present House of Repre sentatives. Leavenworth is to be the western de pot for the Keeley bichloride remedy, and it is not improbable that Dr. Keeley will go there to live. One planter in Louisana will this year draw irom tne u mwu Duties vranury bounty of $85,000 npon a sugar product of 4.26J.0OO pounds. Another outbreak of looting and blood shed among the miners of Tennessee is almost hourly expected, and the State troops are preparing for it. A noor man in St. Louis who some years ago beiriended a beggat In distress has just received a $50,000 remembrance from that individual's estate. A tf. 001 monument is to be erected at Waldheiin cemetery, Chicago, to mark the resting place of Anarchists Parsons, Spies, Lingg, Engel and Fischer. The Kansas Board of Railroad Com missioners has ordered the railroads of thBt State to put into effect by February 1 a new and reduced schelule of ratea. The ice on the Sangamon river in Cen tral Illinois is ten inches thick. This is the first winter in three years that ice has been thick enough there to harvest. The new Chairmen of the Hou'e Com mittees are nearly all ex-Confederates. Only two of them served in the Federal army, and a majority of them fought on the other side. A bill has finally been introduced in the Senate of Ken Vork pioviding for an appropriation of $33.1,000 for the World's Fair. This is going one better than California. The Carnegie gift for a great library in Pittsburg, which now aggregates $2,1 0, 000, provides that $5?.0 O shall lie annu ally devote! to the purchase of Amer ican works of art. That the lottery question does not con cern the State of Louisiana merely is clear frem the introduction at Frankfort of a bill to prohibit Kentucky lotteries under criminal penalty. The insurance on the Missouri 8tate University building, which was burned, was 133.50X The number of volumes destroyed in the library was about 22,000 books and ls.uuu pampniets. Senator Peffer of Kansas makes haste to aoolosize for his bill to lend $1H),G00,' 000 to the farmers of Indiana. He says he introduced the bill bv request, and is in no wise responsible lor it. 1 The collateral inheritance tax on the estate of the late Governor Tilden will exceed $500,000. Westchester county will be enriched bv this amount, and the County Treasurer's fees will be $7,000. The Mavor and Council of Philadel phia are at odds on appropriations for pavements ot 3UU,uuu. ine mayor wants all the money used to improve Broad street. The Councilmen want each ward to have its share. A wonderful cave is said to have been found near Petersborough, Ont. The floor is rich in silver ore, twelve pounds of the rock containing $11 worth of sil ver. The sides of the cave are marble, and the ceilings are covered with huge stalactites. The sub-treasury in New York did more than a billion-dollar business last vear, the receipts aggregating $1,227, 381,521.81. Araona the largest transac tions were $127,401.00 '-. 83 received from customs duties and $52,51 1,442.06 ex pended in the purchase of silver bullion. Under the influence of religions ex citement at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., William Coulton confessed to the mur der of his father, and gave the particu lars of the crime. He had been tried by a jury and acquitted ; therefore his con viction on the charge of murder is im possible, i An experimental sidewalk 'is now in operation in Chicago. It consists of two movable platforms 300 feet long, moving jide by side in the same directio i, one at the speed of three, the other r.t six wiles per hour. It haa carried 6)0 per ions at one time, and seems to be a sno oess. It will be need at tha World's Fair. NATIONAL CAPITAL. Supreme Court Renders an Important Opinion In Its Construction of the Immigration Laws. There are to be an additional number of beacons and buoys placed in Alaskan waters next spring. Mr. Bowers has introduced his bill annronriatini? 1230.000 for tho purchase of a site for a military reservation near 8an Diego in accordance with the rec ommendation of the United States Army . Board. The select Committee of the Senate on Woman Suffrage has decided by a vote of 3 to 2 to report with favorable recom mendation the joint resolution for con stitutional amendment allowing women to vote. Senator Squire has received a telegram from a man inTacoma asking whei her the government wonld arm and equip a regiment in case of war for active serv ice. He went to the Secretary of War, who said he could not spe.ik authorita tively on the matter, tut presumed that in the event of war several regiments wonld be armed and equipped. In the case of A. C. Petre et al , plaint iffs in error, vs. the Commercial Nat onal Bank of Chicago the Supreme Court of the United States has affirmed the judg ment of the United States Circuit Court for the Northern District of Texas in fa vor of the bank, thus establishing the right of a national bank of one State to bring suit against the citizens of another State in the district in which such citi zens live. . Secretary Nob'e has received a dippatch from Cherokee Comm ission .representi ng the United States, announcing that an agreement for the sale of the Cherokee Strip between the Cherokee Indians aud the United States has been ratified by the Cherokee Council. The Strip con tains 6,000,000 acres of land. All that remains to be done is for Congress to ratify the agreement and pass a bill opening it for eettlemenr, which will be probably announced by proclamation. - Mr. Mitchell's bill pensioning soldiers who served in the Indian wars reads as follows : " That the same pensions and benefits granted to the Mexican veterans by virtue of the provision of the act of Congress entitled 'An act granting pen sions to the Sf v1;ers and sailors of the Mexican war and for other purposes' and approved January 29, 1887, be and the same are hereby extended to the survivors of all Indian wars who served thirty days or more in any Indian war since theyear 1845." Secretary Rusk has issued notice to ,. all interested that tbe splenetic or Southern fever exists among the cattle in tbe -rea which includes nearly all of the erri ory lying south of and includ ing tne States of North Carolina, Ten nessee, Arkansas, Texas and Indian Ter ritory. From February 1 to December 1, this year, no cattle are to be trans ported from this area to any portion of the country north of nor west of it ex cept by rail for immediate slaughter, and when so transported certain regula tions are to be observed. However, cat tle which have been in the certain area described at least ninety days may bo shipped to Colorado, Wyoming and Mon tana for grazing purposes under the State regulations. An opinion of importance in its con struction of the immigration lawB has been rendered in the United States Su preme Court in the case of Fishimura Ekin, a Japanese woman, to whom entry into the United States was refused by the immigration officers and Collectors at San Francisco on the ground that she waa like v to become a public charge. This ruling the immigration officers con tested, and it was sought to nave me Federal Courts on application for a writ ' of habeas corpus review the facts in the case. The government contended tho ruling of the Treasury Department with reference to tne entry oi lrauugTania was final and not reversible by the courta. Thie contention of the govern ment the Supreme Court sustains. Mr. Hermann represents that the Cas cades portage by the State has proved a success, and asserts that, although not completed until in tbe fall, it has al ready saved in traffic charges to the peo ple nearly, if not the whole, cost of con struction and rolling stock, including the operating expenses, and this does ' not, he Bays, include any trade np the Columbia above The Dalles. He ex presses the opinion that when The Dalles portage shall be completed the net earn ings will cover the cost of construction every year, and save the people of the upper country a great deal of money in transportation. There is no possible hope of getting the boat railway bill, with its large appropriation, through Congress, while there is a slight chance for the portage railway bill. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs has written a letter to the Secretary of the Interior recommending tliat a num ber of Indian agencies of the lesser sort be abandoned so far as an agent was con cerned, and that the agencies be placed in -charge of the superintendents of schools at the particular agencies ; also that the pnyBicians at tne various agen cies be required to act as clerks, which ..I e : wonia D0 BOmmuiug ui bhvuir m wia matter of expenses. ' Whether the Sec retary will act favorably upon this rec ommendation or not is unknown; but, aa the movement is in the interest of economy, it is probable that it will re ceive his approval, although there are a number of Senators and members of Congress who might seriously object to anytlling OI WIS Kinu, as ii wouiu itim a number of personal appointees with out a job. Utah is making a push for admission, and a bill has been introduced by Sena tor Teller providing for absolute admis sion. Another bill has been introduced by Senator Faulkner, providing for a more liberal form of Territorial govern ment, which will allow the Territory to elect all of its State officers now ap pointed by the President, and tbe only authority that the United States govern ment is to retain over the Territory will be to pass npon and either approve or disapprove of the laws which may be made or action which the State govern ment may take. Senator Piatt, Chair man of the Committee on Territories, states that there will be a hearing be fore the House Committee February 11, and parties interested for or against the proposed measures will have a chance to air their views. It is pretty definitely settled that the Republican party does not care to give much more liberty to the Mormons; but, if it ia shown that there can be fair elections in the Terri tory of Utah, it is probable that the pro posed mrdified form of Territorial gjv rnment may be adopted.