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About The Oregon mist. (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.) 188?-1913 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 19, 1892)
ITT nn ,784 Subscribers' In Columbia County. HKHT Advertising Medium In Columbia Co. -TIIK- llHi Leading Paper of Columbia Coonty, VOL. 0. ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEJHIUAUY 19, 1892. NO. 8. Circulation, 1,000. f OREGON M TIlIl . OJtKdOU MIST. IRNDKM HJTKttY VHIIMY MUHNIHO d. R. BEEGLE, Publisher. Tha County Official Paper. "'' Auhaerlptlon ltala. Ona mpr rr 111 1vli(io..... lint (iiiiM'i month ... HIiik copy ,. 76 . . Ailvortlalng ltata. t'rofi'.nlnntl curia on rear. , Oiim, Initio ona year.,..,, H lit tinlumii ona yar ; (Jitartcr column linn yar , On, Inch iitio Month linn Inch thio tiiotittia. On. Ini'li ill iitontlia ...i12 ....liM .w ii'il l'i, 1ft nam xr lino for (Irrt tiixir tlou; 10 m ill, per lliia (or each nbt'Unt lu. r luti . Umal ailvnrtlxitiiiiiita, II. M) xr inert (or Art liiHvrtloii, awl 74 wnil. p r Inch (or wH nl" iiii'iil liiDDrtlon. COLUMBIA. COUNTY DtUKUTOi County orHcira. II. ), Hwl'unr, HI. Il.lti u K. K Quick, K linen. Win. M ekr, it. II,..:mii J HilUU. 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Imwii rlrnr (IhhiI) olo at S:M it. M. I'p rlvor (l.oat) oIomw at I f. H. 'Ilia mail lor VHrnoiilH ant fliuimrf teavca Hk lluloin l'iU'.il.y.Thiir.iUy and H.iuril.y at A.M. 'I lia mall (or Manihliillt. I!latkanl airt IlUt kav gniuii M Jli.lav, Weilnmilay ami Krlilay at W a. ; Mall, (railway) north rlmo at 10 A a.; lor roiuamt at IM, . Traveler.' lulil-HI vr Koota, HTKMKR'I. W. XlUVKIl I.OKVI'i H', II 'li'll. (.1 I'.iillaii.l al 1 1 a. M. TnvMlay, Tli.irwlny ami Hal unlay. la'M HI. Hi'Imih d.r Clai.kaula Mou dav. Br Inn ilny mill KM iav al " ID a. h. HrK.aaH JiuKrti Kkm..hiii lavra HI. Iluli'in Mr Porllaml ilally I'litiotriuinlay at t :) a K' Uiriilim. Isaviia fottl.ml at a..i l'. a. I'ROKKSSIONAL. DR. H. R. CLIFF, Physician and Surgeon, Mt. Ilolvna, Or. . DR. J. E. HALL, Physician;.' and v Surgreon, t'latakanlff. Cwlumlila Cm tlr. T. A. Mi liKiua. A. 8. Dhkukkk. McBRIDE & DRESSER, Attorneys at Law, Oregon Clt Or. Prompt attention xlvau to land oltlce bnhtnaa A. B. LITTLE, Surveyor and Civil Engineer, St. Helena, Or. Comity mirv yor. Ijind anrverlns;. town plat ting auu eiiKlUMrlng woik prooiptly douv. . W. T. Bukmkv. J. W. Datraa. BURNET & DRAPER, Attorneys V at V Law, Oregon Clt jr, Or. Twclva yoara' rxpcrlenn j aa RcnUter o( tlx Uiiit.Ml Hia on l.ttu! Olllt'e licro nH'oininitid it. lu our apocNIty o( allklulao( b'lalucKR be( -ra ina i jiii'l um.'f or mt' i;nri, ana luroiviiig tue prai'tlou in Hie (iaimial Laud otUoe. . , , J. B. BROCKENBROUGH, ATTORNEY AT V LAW, Or(on t'lty. Or. . (I.tto flprdal Agont o( (lini ral IjiihI Odlre.) U.)ini..lHat, I'rd'ftnipMiin and 'I'lmlnir J.vid Aji- Jill al .mi and other Laud Otllne llimluuia a iwinliy. Ulllw, Hcmind Kloor. 1-aud uilkia llullillU(. , CHflS. W. jVIAYGE, Notary ". Public -AND- INSURANCE AGENT, MAVOKH, OK. MIHOKLLANKOUS. D. d. SWITZER, GENERAL INSURANCE -AND Real Estate Agent, St. Helens, Oregon. -00 To - John A. Beck, Watchmaker and Jeweler, -KDK YOUR- ELEGANT JEWELRY. Tiie Klue.t Amortmont o( Wati'haa, (Monk, and J.welry of all Heaorli.Uoua. PIANOS and ORGANS. Ifalliitt it DaviH and New Bottle Kimball Pianos and Kimball Or ginm. I invito iiiHpnction, nnd defy competition. L. V. MOORE, 1 05 Washington 8t., Portland, Or. Write for catalogue Slid prices. Mention this paper, EVERDI NG & FARRELL Front 8treet, Portland, Oregon, DEALERS IN - f ' ' ; WHEAT, OATS AND MILL FEED OF ALL KINDS, Hay, Shingles, Lime, Land Plaster. Also Flour, Bacon, ( AND A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF roc Which we sell eh;ap EVERDING 01a.tslca.nie Line. STEAMER G. W. SHAVER. J. W. SHAVER, Master. Lt-iivfH Portlund from Altler-stroot dock Monday, via Wcstport, Sktunokttwa arid Cnthlainct, Wednenday and Friday for Clittnkanie, tout'liinx at Niuvios Irtland, t. Iloleim, Columbia City, Kulaiiia, Nee City, Kiuiimr, Udliir Janiling. Mt. and all intermediate points, returning Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. NOW IS THE TIME - IN - eoraetown. This dt'Hi ruble property adjoins Milton Station, on the Northern Pae'ific Hint ONE HOUR'S RIDE And ih only 1 milea from St. Helens, the county-eeat, on the Columbia river, ah i ton creek, a lea,utilul mountain stream, runs within 2K) yards of this property, furnishing an inexhaustible supply of water for all purposes. LOTS, 50x1 Ranging in price from 50 to D. J. Switzer, St. JOSEPH KELLOGG Joseph Kellogg M FOR COWLITZ RIVER. EV a aalA"f aat IJ,ltwH KELSO Monday, WIedncsday andFri IllOrin Webt day at 5 a.m. Leaves PORTLAND Tuesday. nursday and Saturday at U a. m. JOSEPH KELLOGG ing at Portland at 10:30 a. m. Returning, leaves PORTLAND at 2:30 m., arriving at V p. m. DON'T BUY YOUR DRUGS ANY WHKRK BUT YOU WILL FIND THE ' Freshest, Purest and Best of Everything ',..z. :' : 1AT THE ' I GLATSKANIE '.' DRUG '.' STORE. DR. J. E. HALL, Proprietor. TRYA I FFfEL WHEEL and get IVIORE POWER arid use LESS WATER TVrlto for our New lllli.trotod Catalogue of 1H91. THE LEFFEL WATER WHEEL ENGINE CO. SPRINGFIELD, 0-U.S.A. e r i es, for curih. Give uh a call. & FARRELL. Collin, JJradburv, Stella, Oak Point TO SECURE A LOT road, ,- ' FROM PORTLAND, OO FEET, 10(), can lie socired from Helens, Oregon S CO.'S STEflVIERS and Northwest Leaves RAINIER at 5 A. m, daily, Sunday excepted, arriv ; , AT A REGULAR- i PACIFIC COAST Two Indians Kidnap White Girl. a SALVATION ARMY AT RENO. Sacramento Dressmakers and Factory Girls to Organize N. P. R. R. ' Expenditures. Work on Pun .Tone's new postofflce will Ixfuin next mom li. The 8lvation Army is credited with Hood work at Reno. Tli Orrgoniaa sa;v( Portland's city jail is the li ItliieHt outside of Hiiieria. Recent frostB damaged oranes near Ventura to the extent of $80,000. The dreamt ikers and factory girls of Kacramento are toorganize a labor union. The Sacramento brewery has been reized by order of Colonel ISyintiton for a violation of the internal-revenue laws. A company has been formed to build and operate an eleetriudight system in Hprinitlield, Or. The capital stock is K),oo;). . . . . . , Robberies are almost of nightly oc currence at Albuquerque, N. M., and the police are bullied in their efforts to ob tain a clear. , Fort Benton, Mont., is to be left five uiilea from the railroad. It A few years !) had a population of 2,000, but it has dwindled to m). The body of Joseph Klein, recently loet in the Sierra Ncvadas between Plao- Brville, Cal., and (arson, Nev., has been found, it was partly mutilated by wild animals. The rains have raised the water in Salton Lake to an extent nearly as great as last srin. lite una river is rising, a llien allects tne (joiorauo and also Hal- ton Lake. . It is rumored that the town of Beau nont on the summit of Han Gorgon io I'tt.s. Los Angeles county, Cal., has been void to an English syndicate. The sum named is 5U),000. The decision in the Storke divorce case at Hunt a Barbara leaveB the case just as it eto d tieiore suit was Drongnt.. xda Adis Btorke soueht separate mainte nance, and alleged crue ty. Bradstreet's mercantile agency reports eighty-six failures in the Pacific Coast States and Territories during January. as compared with 108 the previous month and 128 the corresponding month of last year. Aiicnaei uenzer oi uavisvuie nas hronitht suit against the Directors of the California 8tate Agricultural Society for 5J.000 damages, lie was injured by the collapse ot some seats during tne last fair. The Palmdale Short Line railroad is no more, inis tine, wnicn was seven miles long and ran from the Southern racttic to Palm Valley, Los Angeles county, nas tieen sold to Miller & Lux and the rails are being taken up and shipped to Kern county. The German colony at Los Aneelea nas neen made the victim oi a Teutonic confidence man, who has swindled his compatriots with all the skill ot a thor oughbred. He represented himself as a wealthy Iowa horse breeder and called himself Dr. von Troths. The prominent fruit growers about San Diego have manifested considerable nterest in the reported scheme of Henry Morgenthau and Y. B. Armstrong of New ork to oreanine a Iruit growers' trust Dv the consolidation ot Uaiuorma truic farms into an enormous association, The Board' of Directors' of the Tulare irrigation district has decided bv a vote of 4 to 1 to purchase the Kaweah canal and irrigation system for (150,000 in bonds of the district. They also have unanimously voted to purchase the Cam eron and ttocay iora system tor szu,nuu. Two Indians in Verde Valley, A. T., having in their possession a white girl, stobped at a ranch, when the girl im plored the person living there to rescue nsr. i ne ranch owner gave the alarm alter the Indians lelt, and a posse was organized and started after the Indians to release the girl. Another heavy snow storm in South ern Idaho has discouraged stockmen. Thousands of animals have already per ished, and efforts to save the remaining thousands will be abandoned. In some of the valleys farmers have run short of feed, and have been compelled to turn the poorest of their stock adrift to starve. Ogdcn, Utah, is to have a grand brass and military band tournament June 15 and M. It is to be a Western affair, in which bands from San Francisco, Port land, Butte, llelenit.-Uenver, Salt Lake and others within a radius of 1,000 miles Of Ogden will be invited to participate. There will be $2,500 put np in prises, the first prise being $1,000 and the others grading down to $50. i The total expenditures of the Northern Pacific in Oregon, Washington and Idaho for 18H1 foots up $3,292,800, of which $750,000 is in new construction ; $832,000 fn buildings, cluetty shops at lucoma. The remainder comprises the filling of trestles, tne lining ot the Uascades Mountain tunnel with masonry and iron and stone on bridges. One hundred and twenty-live miles of new road have been constructed. The Liberals still hold their power at Salt Lake, notwithstanding the at tempt to divide the Territory into na tional party lines. - At the municipal election recently the total vote of the eity was 8,178. Neobich's (the Liberal) vote was 4,)U; the Democratic vote, 2 760, and the Republican vote, 852: Liberal plurality, 1,704. The Liberal majority over all was 1,147. These fig urea are the returns for Mayor. The Lis Angeles Times says ! Con gressman Bowers has been advising Cal ifornia raisin makers through the medium of a Redlands paper to pick their prod uct as an imported article, labeling It " Malaga," because, he says, the country demands imported raisins. This is the poorest kind of short-sighted advice. How can a section ever build ud a remi- tation and get irood prices for its prod ucts while thus sailing under borrowed colors? Such advice is specially foolish just now, when California raisins are be ginning to driva tha imported article out EDUCATIONAL Education of the Rising Generation for Useful Employments Ona of the Greatest Needs. Among the many proposed additions to Columbia College is a new school to be known as the school of pure science. The winter term of the Ohio Wesleyan University has opened with the largest enrollment in its hittory. The attend ance for the year will between 1,100 and l.ZUO. ' It is stated thai the recent bequest of $300,000 from Mrs. Stuart of New York makes Princeton Theological Seminary the richest Presbyterian seminary in the country. The first feminine candidate to pass the Alabama State medical examination said to have been an unusually severe written examinationis Mrs. li. T. Dil lon, a colored woman. The University of Michigan is to have a school of music. Sufficient subscrip tions have been made to secure it. The new school will raise the attendance at' the university to over 3,000. By the will of Richard Berridge, who lately died in England, $1,000,000 were bequeathed for educational purposes. one-fourth of which amount (or $230,000) is to be employed exclusively in the teaching of cookery in voluntary schools of England and Wales. There are at present malntainel in Massachusetts 7.23U public schools. taught by 9,227 teachers, which allows one teacher lor every lorty-entht pupils. The schools are supported by a yearly expenditure of , more than $8,500,000. Nearly fl) per cent, of all the children in the State of school age are in regu'ar attendance upon these schools. Included in the above are 214 high schools, with an average attendance of 26,2)1 pupils. The growth of the educational svstem of New York State is interestingly set forth by Hon. A. S. Draper, Superin tendent of Public Instruction. The num ber of children of school age in the State in 18til was 1,338,167 and in 1891, 1,821,- 773. In 1861 there were 423,1 7t) school children in the cities and 915,088 in the towns; in 1891 the number in the cities had grown to 1.074,63 ), and in the tow s had fallen to 747,143. The cities increased 154 per cent., and the towns declined 18 per cent. The increase of attendance in tiie cities in the thirty years was from 270,925 to 513.066, or 89 per cent., while in the towns the decline was from 601, 928 to 540,978, or a fraction of 10 per cent. One of the greatest needs of the age ig the education of the rising generation for useful employments. On the one hand we have a vast army of people de pendent for their subsistence upon the employment provided by others and yet receiving poor pay for their labor when they get employment at all. On the other side is an army of employers who are willing to pay good wages for skillful work, but who find it difficult to obtain the competent, conscientious help they need. Those who thoroughly understand avocation and give an honest day s work for an honest day's pay are the ones who keen their positions, and it is the ineffi cient and the shirks and those who slight their work who are dismissed as soon as their services can be dispensed with. PERSONAL MENTION. Sir John Gorst Said to Be an Abla Debater and a Great States . man Edmunds' Gall. Ferdinand Ward's term of imprison ment will expire shortly, but there is no probability of his going back to Wall street. Bostonians declare that nature gave Phillips Brooks a weak mouth," which by a constant "uplifting of the spirit" he has ennobled. , Bourke Cochran's house in Washing ton, the old residence of ex-Secretary Robeson, is believed by the superstitious to be " voodooed. ',' George Shiras, Jr., of Pittsburg is an other candidate for the vacant place on the United States Supreme Bench caused by the death of Justice Bradley. He ia 6.) years of age and a cousin of Secretary liiaine. Sir John Gorst, who will be a candi date for Parliament at the next general election, is said to be both as a debater and as a statesman head and shoulders above most of the members of the Eng lish cabinet. , . Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton has been residing with her son in New York since her return from England. - She is over 70 years of age, but is full of work and as fond of literary labors as she was twenty years ago. Time makes its mark on the finest hu man beings. Jean lngelow is now a gray-haired, little old woman of (S3 years.. She is a kind mend oi -the poor, nnd at regular intervals gives' them what she calls " copyright dinners " from the pro ceeds of her books. Simon Newcomb. senior professor of mathematics in the United States navy and professor of mathematics and as tronomy in John Hopkins University, has just received his diploma of election as an honorary member of the Royal Institute of London. The present Khedive of Egypt was greatly averse to the ceremony and alia sionB to his rank. In Paris one day, be ing permitted to walk the boulevards with a Bingle companion, he met one of his future subjects, who saluted him and addressed him as " your highness." Thereupon Abbas replied in excellent French : " You are mistaken ; I am a Parisian." - , The Comtesse d'Eau is an amiable woman, but with ideas of her own and a determination to carry them out even when they are a little farfetched. It is said that, though at one time the Comt esse was giving costly entertainments during a period of starvation among the poor about iier father's palace, at another Blie was known to scrub the steps, of the palace in sight of the people as an exam ple for the encouragement, of industry and thrift among the masses. . .. The audacity of Senator Edmjinds in lecturing the Supreme Court on a point of law recalls an anecdote of Henry Clay, who once while arguing a case before that august tribunal Stopped in the mid dle of his speech, advanced to the bench and helped himself to a pinch of snuS out of Justice Washington's box. Then, as he returned to his place, he remarked t " I see that your honor still sticks to the Scotch." Clay was the only man of his time who could dare to do such ibiss v as Edmunds ia oi his own day. EASTERN ITEMS. A Peculiar Child Born in Nebraska. IMMENSE COAL SYNDICATE. Underclothing of Good Quality Made From Wood Fiber N-groea to Go to Africa. - The barb-wire trust has collapsed. The Cherokee Strip will be opened in the near mture. The Memphis bridge will be ready for traffic by May 1. Florida's orange crop was not injured by the late frost. ;, Mississippi's Legislature meets only once in four years. Lean Year is the name of a new post- ofiiee in Tennessee. The next river and harbor bill will carry about $10,000,000. Philadelphia is to try the pneumatic j , 1 . f.. t. ; 1 aAnn 1 1ULA3 DJ'DICllJ IUI UCl umilO B..U11. A movement is on foot for a perma nent Mexican exposition at New York. Chinese in the East are very restless. They shift continually from city to city. The Inman Steamship Company has leased a new and valuable pier at INew York. . Indian school students have gone from Carlisle to Utah as United States sol diers. The price for cotton in the Sonth is lower than it has been for forty-seven yee-i. . A colored man toik an "nth in a Kan sas court the other day tout he was 170 years old. The European claims agency E. Ross, manager at New York is said to be a swindling concern. Lake Erie is frozen over from the American to the Canadian shore for the first time in six years. Underclothing of good quality made from a wood fiber is being made, it is said, by a factory in Michigan. The American bridge manufacturers' combination has baen declared illegal by the Supreme Court of New Jersey. j The Commissioner of Indian Affairs 1 has recommended an allotment of lands ' in everalty for the L tea in Colorado. creased volu me of money, he said, meant The Court of Claims has affirmed the 'an enhancement of prices. He wanted right of the Postmaster-General to annul , Congress to protect the legal qnalifica contracts made without his approval. j tion of money issued by the government The Commercial Exchange of Kansas f he 00,11(1 ?ot-1)8 comJfiU&A mBk City objects to the grain inspection by; Payments in one form of money., the JliBsouri Warehouse Commissioners Hone. 8a,d the free coinage of silver . It is eaid a factory wiU be bui.t at An-1 'py wX SfXEsS derson.Ind., to employ 1,00) hands ndjh Jd against free-silver coinage were to make aluminum for 25 cents a pound. trne. the farmer would not lo,an vthin Howard Murphy, a Missouri Pacific engineer, has invented a coat-of-mail for use by express meHBengers wnen at tacked by train robbers. A decision of the Pennsylvania Su preme Court upholds a law compelling citizens of cities to pay for Btreet im provements in front of their property. The Chairman of the War Claims Committee of the House reported favor ably to the House the Pennsylvania bor der raids claim bill appropriating $3,- 447,845. Philadelphia's death rate is slowly de creasing, but it is still very far above normal, with diphtheria and influenza as prominent factors in keeping it as high as it is. - A woman has brought suit against a railroad company at Little Rock, Ark., to recover $50,000 damages for the loss of her husband, who was killed on the cars by a maniac. According to the 'assertions of .the American Colonization Society 1,000,000 colored people are seriously looking for ward to a change of residence from the United States to Africa. Lebanon, Mo., is at present the seen of the trial of a murderer named How ard, who is said to have committed four teen homicides, and whose last Offense ia the killing of a poor deaf mute. AH the Jewish-American papers speak oi the failure ot the appeal recently made to the people of New York, irre spective of creed, to contribute to the fund in aid of the Russian-Jewish immi grants. Senator Proctor has introduced a bill authorizing the enlistment in the regu lar army of 3,000 Indians under the same conditions that govern the enlistment of other persons, the strength of the army to be increased to that extent. The State Treasurer of Georgia has begun the payment of the Confederate widows' pensions. This tax upon the State, authorized by the last Georgia Legislature, entaiiB an annual tax of $400,000. There are 4,000 widows on the rolls. .. . . . , The Ohio Legislature Is struggling with a bill providing for two-cent rail road fare. For more than twenty-five years the legal passenger rate in Onto has remained at 3 cents per mile, while freight rates have in the Bame period de clined one-half. ' A bill repealing the act requiring life saving appliances on steamers, so far as it relates to carrying of line-carrying projectile and the means ot propelling them on steamers plying exclusively on any of the lakes, bays or sounds of the United States, was passed by the Senate at Washington. A huge coal syndicate is reported to have been formed at New York. The coal-producing" companies are to be placed nnder a hoard of control, which would establish joint agencies for the sale of the output, thus abolishing the present system ol separate State agents anil prevailing competition. The examination of Henry Rossite?, clerk in Major Overman's office, in. the court-martial case.- at Cleveland, O , has brought out the lact that Kossiter left the employ of the Domestic Sewing Ma r'line Company in Chicago in 1880 a heavy defaulter. As cashier and book keeper of the company's Chicago office he sank $20,000 of their money in a wheat speculation. It is stated the mat ter was kept out of the newspapers; that not even his most intimate friends or relatives knew of it until the unwill ing admission of Rossitot, and that the loss bad long line bean, mad good. NATIONAL CAPITAL An Attempt to Compromise fhi Ques tion of Mineral Lands .ling the Northern Pacific. The Committee on TCn1n ho rWMod there should be an investigation made into the management of the pension of- Boomers to the number of 20,000 are making arrangements to movo to the Cherokee Strip March 22, unless Con gress takes action toward opening it be fore then. The House Committee on Naval Af fairs has ordered a bill to provide for the construction of a dry dock at Algiers, La., favorably reported, with an amend ment limiting the total cost to $840,000. Representative Johnson of North Da kota has written a letter to the President urging the appointment of John M. Langston of Virginia as Judirn ot flm Court of Claims. Mr. Langston is a col ored man, and won a seat in the last Congress by contest. The Secretary of the Interior has ap pointed A. G. Connor, appointment clerk of the department, and George Evans, disbursing officer, to examine into the condition of the work of the censns office and to ascertain its future needs. The Secretary states he has no suspicion of wrong doing, and he takes this course to satisfy hunself as to tha exact condition of the office. Secretary Noble has telegraphed the special land inspector at El Reno, Okla homa, where a lot of jumping is going on, that notice for a review of the Fore man case had been filed in the depart ment, and until the qnestion was deeded Foreman's rights must hold gold. The Secretary savs a bill will soon he, favor. ably reported to Congress confirming the rights of innocent purchasers. All the lot jumpers on the Foreman tract, it is understood, will be compelled to vacate at once. The House Committee on the Election of President and Vice-President and Representatives further discussed the resolution in regard to, the election of the Senators by a direct vote of the peo ple. The committee is in favor of the resolution, and is proceeding slowly in preparing ita report, as it is its desire that it shall meet the general approval of the House. The committee seems to favor the change in the time of com mencing the term of Congress, but docs not agree as to the dav. Some favor January 1 and others March 4 for tha convening of Congress. At a hearing before the House Com mittee on Coinage, Weights and Meas ures Leonard R. Hone, representing the Legislative Committee of the National Orange, said the American farmer was asxing that silver be restored to the po sition it occupied prior to 1873. An in- because there was no time when the farmer fared so well aa in 1805, whea there was depreciated currency. He fa vored the free coinage of both gold and silver. '.v . j-, . In the matter of government proceed ings against the alleged fraudulent tim ber land entries in Washington, Oregon or California the Commissioner-General of the land office, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, has insti tuted a change of procedure, by which parties claiming title to these lands will hereafter be required to produce the original entrymen and their witnesses at the local land offices for further exam ination with reference to any contracts or arrangements which may have been made prior to the entry for the convey ance of land to corporations or syndi cates. It appears from the records of the general land office that ia-ge tracts of valuable timber land in different lo calitits have been entered on the same day by a large number of persons and immediately thereafter all the parties transferred to syndi -ates. It is now con- r fliiently asserted by these syndicates that the government cannot prove the entries were originally made in their in- terests. This new order is made with a view of simplifying the procedure in such cases. It is decided by the Navy Department to make another lineof soundings before definitely deciding upon a route for the proposed submarine cable between tan Francisao and the Hawaiian Ilands. This conclusion was reached after an ex amination of the full report jnit pub lished of the two lines recently com pleted by the fish commission steamer Albatross. Many irregularities, ranging from normal to submarine mountains two and a half miles in height, were found in these two lines. Orders were telegraphed to Lieutenant-Commmder Tanner of the Albatross at San Fran- cisco to get his vessel ready at once for making a new survey. A new line will be run on a great circle, starting at or near Point Conception in California to the Island of Hawaii. Experts in the hydrographic office, who have kept a careful record of all soundings made, v expect a more level line on the greit. circle which it is now proposed to run. The work already done, they say, indi cates the possibility of a line compara tively uniform and at an average depth of about three miles. There is evidently an attempt to com promise the question of mineral lands -along the Northern Pacific road. Prom inent officers of that company say that ; the company has no desire for the lands and is perfectly willing to take other , lands in lieu of those which are found to be mineral. This indicates tit .t the ' company might be in favor of legisla- i tion which would allow them to make selections for lands lost by these mineral locations. But, of course, nothing ran ' be done until the Supreme Court deci- , sion is reached upon the subject, and ; then it is doubtful if Congress would . want to grant to the Northern Pacifio lands lost by these mineral locations if -the decision should lie against the com pany. If, on the other hand, the deci- sion should be in favor of the company, . it is doubtful if it would be willing to give up these valuable mineral lands fo" such other lands as it select within itv indemnity limits. The officers of tha , company recently in Washington, how ever, inferred that, even if the decision should be in favor of the company, it would be willing to accent other lands in place of the mineral, it being stated that mineral lands would really be a 1 damaga to tha company. (POJIte IHC ESMOND, PORTLAND, OBf 1