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ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEJHIUAUY 19, 1892.
NO. 8.
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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.)
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CHflS. W. jVIAYGE,
Notary ". Public
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INSURANCE AGENT,
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D. d. SWITZER,
GENERAL INSURANCE
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Real Estate Agent,
St. Helens, Oregon.
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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
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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
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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
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AT A REGULAR-
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PACIFIC COAST
Two
Indians Kidnap
White Girl.
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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