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ST. HELENS, OREGON, Fill DAY , FEBRUARY 26, 1892.
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PIANOS and ORGANS.
JIallutt & paviB and Now Scale Kimball Pianos and Kimball Or
gans. I invito inspection, and defy cotnnetition.
L.V.MOORE. 1 05 Washington St.. Portland. Or.
Write tor catalogue and prices. Mention thin paper.
The) County OfYlolal Paper.
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COLUMBIA COUNTY DIREUTO
Julif,.,
Calk
Hherlir.
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Hii).t. til Huliuuil.
Aaaeaaor........
Surveyor
fJoinmuwtonvra,.
County Ortleere.
,. I. J. Hwl ner.Ht. H Una
K. K IJiilnk.Mt. Iluen.
Wm. Hookr, Ml. Helena
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J. II. Watta. Sciitmoo.
(1. f. Dimii, llalnlur
A. II. l.lltlu, Mr. Hulena
eixmctir, Vermmla
(I. w. llarntM, Clatakanle.
EVERDING & FARRELL
Front Street, Portland. Oregon,
DEALERS IN
! WHEAT, OATS AND MILL FEED OF ALL KINDS,
Kay, Shingles, Lime, Land Plaster. Also Flour, Bacon,
AND A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF
G i? o c eries,
Which we sdl cheap for cash. Give us a call.
EVERDING & FARRELL.
PACIFIC COAST.
Suits Against the Hun
System.
TIMBER SWINDLE AT TU SON
Western Stock Raisers to Hold a Con
vention at OgdVn A High
Aluminum Assay.
; .. Monletr Notleea.
Maminih. Ht. Helena IhIk,. No. W Regular
oommuniraiioiii ant ami I Him H.taruay lu eacu
mini i h at 7:Ht) r. at Maioule Hall. Vl.illug I
mciniHT. in aiHKi aiainiing inviieu in aiu-nu.
MtaiiNio. Kalult'r ImIud No. at Hutctl ma t
IiiilD eaiar- ay ou or brfnra each full ninou at7:IW 1
r. H. at Ma-ollKt Hall, over nianrnarj'. alore. I
Vl.lllng Dumber. In good tlaudlng Invited to
eueuii.
Cla, t s 1c a, n i e Line.
atvaMaelleat Appointment,.
rirat MnnJay Dear Inland, 11 A. M,; HI. Helen.,
7.00 . N.
H.wniid Sunder Near City, II a, tteuben,
i:uir. .
Tulrdrtunday-fllllloii.il a. M.; HoulKiu, i t.
u.
Fourth Snnday-Htnvlea I.laud (Olllalian), 11
a. Meaner, r.
M. BURL1NAMK, Faator.
STEAMER G. W. SHAVER.
J. W. SHAVER, Master.
The Malta.
Down river (boat) oloae. at I D a. M.
I!n river (tMial) pIoimm at I p. M.
- The mill Itir Vernonle and IMtUhara leave.
St. lleleiuTuiuday, Tliurtday aud Maturtlay at a
a. m.
Tiie mall for Maraliland, Clat'kanle and Mlat
Leaves Portland from Alder-street dock Mondav. via Westnort.
Skamokawa and tlathlaniet, Wednosday and Friday for Clatskariie,
touching at Snuvies Inland, St. Helens, Columbia Citv. Kalama. Neer
leave. Uuluu Monday, Weduetday and Friday at Citv. Hllilliei'. Cnflnr T.nndintr. Mt. finllin. Rrndlmrw Stolln Onlr Pnint
".7.... . . .t ... . ... ... .n, nil ...... K.. ..:... ..4,.:T 1 rm i o J
railway norm viuie iv ., lor i t.n luvrimuuiaic nniii.0. lubuiiuiiu x uuouuy, xiiurnuuy tiliu oitLuruay,
. M - - -
Mill, fral
Poclland at
Traveler,' flulda Klvar Hnutea.
Htam ii, W. HiiAvaa IavS, llvlen. for
Poillaml at 11 a. M. Tiituday.Th'irwIay aud Hat-
aroay. iavra nr. iiemn itir t;iaLKi
day. v)'eilue.day and Krl.iay at no a. m.
HrltKH Jiwkph K KU.OOO U'avv. Ht. llnlnni I
for Porllaud dally ervitHunlay at M a.
Ki'lurnlna, leavea I'lirtlaud at 'l.'M r.
l'ROFEHStONAL.
DR. H. B. CLIFF,
Physician and Surgeon,
Sa. Ilalena, Or.
DR. J. E. HALL,
Physician . and v Surgeon,
Clat.Kanle, Catuinhla Co.. Or.
' T. A. ati'Baina. . A. 8. DMamaa.
McBRIDE ft DRESSER.
5 Attorneys at . Law,
, City, Or.
Prompt atfntlna given to land office baktneaa
' A. B LITTLE,
Surveyor and Civil Engineer,
St. Helena, Or.
Count Hiirv ynr. land aurreylng. town plat-
M"l euu engiueeruig woia piompiiy utiur.
W. T. Buaaar. , . J. W. Uaaraa.
BURNEY & DRAPER,
Attorneys v. at V Law,
Oregon Cltr, Or.
Twolve yean exnfrtem'a a. Il.'al.ter nf the I
United Sta e. Ltud Ollli'e here remimuieudi hi
In our .pei'lilty of allkimlaof liiiKliiea. lief ra
uio ijiiiu umiw or ine v.eiinii, ami iiivniviug me
pranttu In tua ueuerai i.auu uiilue.
J. B. BROCKENBROUQH,
ATTORNEY .' AT V LAW,
Oregon City, Or.
(f.tte Hpodnl Agent, of (Ivncral land Oftlfr.)
11 imtroa I, rr'-emnunn ami i unoer i.uu iy
ml mi iini and ntliur Ijtnd Ollli Hnalneo. a
Hiwi'ialiy. Ollliw, Souud Floor, Ind Ollloa
Building.
NOW IS THE TIME TO SECURE II LOT
eprgetown.
Tliis desirable property adjoins Milton Station, on the Northern Pacific
. Kiulroad,
ONE HOUR'S RIDE FROM PORTLAND.
And is only miles from St. Helens, the county-seat, on the Columbia
river. Milton creek, a lieautiful mountain stream, runs within
200 yanis of this projmrty, furnidhing an inexhaustible
aimnlv fif watar for all purposes.. r
LOTS, 50x1 OO "FEET,
Ranging in price from $50 to $100, can be secured from
D. J.Switzer.St. Helens, Oregon
JOSEPH
KEIiLOCO S CO.'S
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STEAflERS
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CHAS. W. JVIflYGE
Notary Public
AND
INSURANCE AGENT,
HAYOIR, OR.
MISCELLANEOUS.
; D.iJ. SWITZER,
GENERAL INSURANCE
-AND-
Real Estate Agent,
' St. Hrlenb, Oregon.
- 00 TO-
John A. Beck,
Watchmaker and Jeweler,
-FOR YOUll-
ELECANT JEWELRY.
The Flneat Aaanrtment of Watch ea, Clock, and
Jewelry of all Deaoriptluna.
JPfOSITI THI ESMOND," PORTLAND, Off
Joseph Kellogg and Northwest
FOR COWLITZ RIVER.
lil taeJaLa m a Leaves KELSO Monday, Wednesday and Fri-
IHVI lal I ff W7 L day at 5 A. M. Leaves PORTLAND Tuesday,
inursaay anu oaiuruay at u A. m. v
inCCDU IfCI I rrr leaves RAINIER at 5 a.m.
w "eVeia. W"atVal daily, Sunday excepted, arriv
ing at Portland at 10:30 a. m. Returning, leaves PORTLAND at 2:30
p. m., arriving at V p. m.
DON'T BUY YOUR DRUGS
; ANYWHKRK BUT AT A REGULAR-
: ' -YOU WILL FIND THE
Freshest, Purest and Best of Everything
AT THE . . . .
CLATSKANIE .' DRUG '.STORE.
DR. J. E. HALL, Proprietor.
TRY A ylT
II
WHEEL
and get MORE POWER
and use less atck
, , Write for oo New Illu.atra.ted Catalogue of 1891.
THE LEFFEL WATER WHEEL& ENGINE CO. SPRINGFIELD, 0 U.S.A.
A printer at Silver City, N. M , has
iHi.en neir to t7o,ueu.
Utah stock raiders have called for
convention o' the cattlemen of the Went
to lie held at V'len on Aprl 29 and 3 1.
Wnrk of ron.trtifttion on the Oregon
I acini! railroad in the direction of K mt-
em o. egon is to begin as goon as spring
opens.
All cattle have been ordered off the
While Mountain Indian reservation in
Now Mexico, owing to dispute! with
cowboys.
The cowboys have bad no fiht with
trie JNavajoH in tlie vicinity of Ujolmlge
N. M., and nothing of a reriona charac
ter is likely to occur between them.
The Bradstrect mercantiln nvencv re
ports twelve failures iu the Pacific Const
S'ales and Territories dnriiijf the past
week, compared with eleven the pre
vious weea.
The PostnfHee Department has mivie
an order for two more card ra for the
S'tletii post Hi . makiDtf five in all.
The territory will boexiended to include
all intiao ana corporate limits ol the
city.
Klix McClelland has been arrested at
Ht'H'ftton and charged with robbing the
M'ikeininne Hill and Valley Springs
otave. lie was once a truBtel railroad
employe, but drink hss caused bis down'
fall.
For some time past there has been i
settlers' war brewing in the L Ule Te
junga Canyon, ju-t north of Los Angeles,
ana u iooks as u me uoroner would soon
have work to do, as everybody la carry
ing a Winchester.
Advioeg from Alaska concerning the
lite 01 Morn" urton ami a party ot ten
miners ind cate that the men were mnr-
dered by Indians or were lost in trying
to cross the stormy waters from the
sound to i ukitka.
The TranC3ntinental Association, it is
caul, nas agree i up jn a one and one-tilth
rate certificate plan for the delegates to
the National Methodist camp meeting to
oe neia at uguen, utan, beginning May
it auu running one weea.
The Farmers' Loan and Trust Corn-
piny of Boston has begun suit in the
United States Circuit Court at Portland
to foreclow three mortgages on the Ore
gon ana Washington Territory railroad.
commonly known as the Hunt system.
The high assay of 8tf n;r cent, alumi
num has been obtained from a stone
ledge in the Sierra Madre, fifty miles
from Los Angeles, whi, h hag furnished
material for many of the best buildings
in that citv. A com Dan v will develop
the find.
The Southern fac fie Riilroid Com
pany has filed a number of complaints
n the united States Circuit Court at
.' Angeles ami net var.one persons in
Tulam county to recover lands occupied
iv them, aliened to be the Dronertv of
the company. ,
H.irain V Carr. who nan 400.0(10 acres
of laud and claim the inn i.iritv of the
water in Kern countv. Cal.. have con
sented t nermit a branch to be con
structed from the Kern Is'and canal,
which will irrigate about 50,100 acres of
land mxt to BakergfHd that have here
tofore been held as a desert.
In September last at Bedford. Mont.
IVter Woods, a railroad man. killed a
man who was recognized as Z. A. Short
of Butte. Woods was convicted, and is
serving a life sentencH in the peniten
tiary. The Public Administrator took
charge of the estate of the deceased. Z.
A Short has now appeared in Butte,
proved that he is still alive and taken
charge of his own estate.
J. C. Reed of Astoria, President of
the Oregon Fish Commission, is n'eased
with the. law allowing none bnt citizens
oi the United Hates to fish for salmon
in the waters.of Oregon More citisen
ship papers have been taken out at Aa-to-ia
Ihe pist year than during any pre
vious flv.4 years President Reed thinks
there will be between 2,000 and 3,000
nsnermen on trie river this year.
Governor Markham of California has
favorably reported on a number of appli
ed ions for pardons. They will be sub
mitted to the Pi iaon Directors for final
action at the next meeting of the board.
Seneca Swnlm, who systematically se
cured possession of Clara Belle McDon
ald's jewelry, is making a strong effort
to secure his release from San Quentiu,
and the Governor is reported to have fa
vorably cons dered his appeal for clem
t ncy.
Feeling is running high at San Diego
against the Pacific Mail Company, and
it is openly charged that Captain Friele
of i he City of Sydney made four posi
tively false statements as to the draught
of his vessel, the depth of water on the
bar at the moitih of ihe harbor, the
depth of water in the channel and his
delay there, with the object of aiding
the company to avoid the clause in its
contract forcing vessels to stop at San
Diego.
The sealing schooner Eliza Edwards
has returned to Vancouver, B. C, from
her third halibut fishing trip on the
nortli coast with 40,000 pounds of splen
did hali ut. Captain McKensie thinks
lie hue found t e winter feeding grounds
without a itou' t, and that the fisheries
w'il grow to immense proport'ons. So
fur the location of the halibut banks is a
secret with 'he discoverers. The steamer
wil go north again as soon as she dis
charges her cargo.
The Friends' Polytechnic Institute of
O-eeon lias filed articles of incorporation
at Salem with the County Clerk. The
object of the corporation is to establish
a Friends' (Quaker) pchool at Salem. It
is the intention to have the school es
tablished by June. The capital stock is
$5,000, and the incorporators ere H. J.
Mnthorn, W. J. Iladiey, J. W. Wins
low and B. F. Hinfhaw, Shares of
stock are $?5 each. The buildings will
be located in Highland addition.
PERSONAL MENTION.
The Noble Old Roman Suffering From
Rheumatism Wondeful Power
of Pasteur's Eye.
Judge Thurnian suffers so from rheu
matism that be can hardly get abont.
The Old Roman says bis legs are practi
cally of no account except to ache all
tue time.
Rev. E. J. Hardy, author of " How to
De Happy 'ihough Married," is now
serving as an army chaplain in Plymouth,
England. His wife is a first cousin of
Oscar Wilde.
Mrs. Catherine Standish. lineal de
scendant of Lord Blandish, an Irish peer
raisea to me peerage in iiiiu Dy the then
Ctiglish K.ing, died recently at Birming
bam, Conn., in abject poverty.
Rudyard Kipling will be in this coun
try in the spring, and reporters are now
going into training to get at him. Con
sidering that he will be well guarded by
his wife, bis mother-in-law and biswife's
sister, it looks as if the boys had a hard
assignment to face.
In a recent article on Cromwell the
London Spectator says : " There ia no
other name in the long and splendid
history of our race, unless it be that of
Lincoln, which can claim more retried
for wisdom, for true patriotism, for duti
fulneas in its highest sense."
Pasteur has an eye of wonderful power.
A visitor to his menagfrie in Paris,
where he has gathered various kinds of
animals for experimental uses, saw the
chemist quell with a glance a fierce
Spanish mastiff, which for bis ferocity
bad been muzzled and chained.
Ex-Governor Thomas T. Crittenden of
Missouri waa recently in Washington.
where his handsome face and white hair
attracted much complimentary notice.
The ex-Governor has done some famous
deeds in his day, but none that brought
him more celebrity than did the kiss he
once gave Patti.
The Princess Isaliella will be cleaned
to know that the Brazilian government
haa suspended the effort to confiscate
tne property owned by her and other
members of the late imperial family a
counscation wnicn was admitted iv too
cheese-paring in its scope to add to the
dignity of a great Republic.
Snureeon. like Grant, loved a rood
cigar, and he smoked almost as many as
the General did. The great preacher
was a man oi curious onvsinue. He waa
short and fat, or of " portly habit." as
the doctors say euphemistically. In at
tire he looked more like a country squire
than a famous metropolitan minister.
Rev. Robert Laird Collier once said
that when he first saw Spurgeon preach
be was grievously disappointed. The
matter of the sermon seemed to him
dull and at times flippant, and the man
ner of ita delivery dreary when not un
pleasantly aggressive. The great preach
er's prayer especially seemed offensivelv
familiar.
Prince Victor Emmanuel, heir to the
Italian crown, ia one of the handsomest
and most accomplished men of his sta
tion in life. Although nearly 30 years
of age and widely traveled, he is yet un
married. He is liberal in his political
views, versed in several languages, ami-
able and intellectual, and generally and
justly imio.eo..
Mrs. Stowe baa been credited with
having done much to bring the blood
hound into disrepute in her "Uncle
Tom's Cabin," but a reader who recently
peruseu tnai remarranie dook to dis
cover just what the author really did
write abont those maligned plantation
dogs says that there ia but one reference
to bloodhounds in the entire story.
Commodore Montgomery of Confeder
ate naval fame, and later a popular cap
tain of river steamers, says that the
most interesting cargo iiis boat ever car
ried was that which comprised the re
mains of the men who fell at the mas
sacre of the Little Big Horn. There
were twenty-seven coffins, the dead in
each wrapped in an army blanket, and
most conspicuous among them all waa
the body of ( niter.
Carl Sclinrz was recently made an
nonorary member oi a new German so-
EASTERN ITEMS.
Mexican Lottery Shares
Advance.
NATIONAL CAPITAL
STATUE OF ROBERT BURNS,
Trades and Labor Unions of Indian.
apolis to Build an Expensive
Labor Temple.
Sioux Citv Is in serions trouble with
ner saloons.
Cincinnati is gaining a record for dark.
oiooay ana mysterious crimes,
Talton Hall, the boasted murderer of
100 men. will be hanged at Bristol
Uenn., on March 14.
The trades and labor unions of Indian
apolis are arranging to build a large labor
tempie to cost siuu,uuu,
The fight will go on in Louisiana be
cause the anti-lotteryitea have no confl
uence in Morris sincerity.
Kansas City showa a record of over
ffi,000,OOJ expended in public improve
ments in tne last jour years.
White Cape have ordered Elisabeth.
town (Ky.) whisky sellers to shut nn
-i i- i .1 -
Biiop or oe eioseu np oy lorce.
Nevada. Mo., ia to have an "institute
for the cure of the effects of whiskv. as
well aa opium, morphine and the milder
poisons.
Mex'can lottery shares have advanced
$6 to $ 0 a share in consequence of the
judicial suppression of the Louisiana
lottery.
Robert Burns ia in a fairway to
honored with a statue in Philadelphia.
Scotchmen in that city have taken the
scheme in hand.
The supply of natural gas in Toledo is
failing, and it haa been decided to resort
to the use of pumps to force ihe gas from
tue weita w tue city.
Negro citizens of Nashville asked the
Board of Public Works to allow their
race to be represented on the police
iorce. J.ney were reiusea,
Alfred and Edmund Gosling have been
arrested at New York and charged with
swindling through forgeries the Coimo-
polUan Magazine out of $4,000.
The World's Fair Directors are wran
gling aa to which body, the National or
unicago Board, snail control the trans
portation and installation of exhibits
A hotel keeper on the upper shore of
Lake Michigan proposes to transport hia
big hotel over the lake on a raft to Chi
cago in time to open in the spring of
1893. 8
A number of certificate holders of the
unights and Ladies of Protection, a ten
year endowment order of Boston, have
applied for the appointment of a re
ceiver. . .
The next criminal New York will kill
Dy electricity is Noah Richardson, a col.
ored man, who murdered a New York
policeman. He wili die in the week be
ginning March 21.
The ministers at Omaha are n aking c
moral crusade against the pic.ures oi
actresses as they appear on the bill
boards. An effort will be made to have
the police tear them down.
One hundred and three alien contract
laborers were deported from the port of
New York during the month of January
last, Deing tne largest number ever de
ported in any month at any port.
Mrs. Henrietta Snell. widow of the
millionaire. A. J. Snell. who was mur
dered by Tascott at Chicago, haa been
threatened sith dynamite unless shede-
uvers fi,000 to some anonymous person
There is now talk in New York of
formally opening the Broadway cable
car system next Fourth of July. The
contractor says the work will be com
ne accepted tne compliment and ex
pressed approval of the intention of the
organization to assist in welcoming vis
itors to the World's Fair from the Fa
therland. But at a still later meeting,
wnen tne socialist element waa out in
full foice, the club reconsidered the res
olution and withdrew the honor.
EDUCATIONAL.
School for Instructing Women In Prac
tical Domestic Economy and :
Cooking Etc.
ciety, the Rhinelander, of Chicago, and , pleted by that time and the road ready
iur uperatiun. .
Henry H. Yard haa been indicted at
Philadelphia by the United States grand
jury on tne cnarge ot aiding uideon W,
Marsh. President of the Keystone Na
tional Bank, in embezzling the funds of
mat institution.
New York State factory oprratives are
agitating for a law to prohibit bosses
from fining employes. A law of this
nature waa passed by the Massachusetts
Legislature, but it waa tested and de
clared unconstitutional.
A venerable Indian chief, one of the
last survivors of the I'ottawa tomies, died
recently at Indian Grove, Ind., at the
age of 10b'. This tribe, when the old
chief was a youth, held sway from the
Wabash to the shores oi Lake Michigan.
The Secretary of the Treasury has ap
pointed George H. Thobe of Covington,
Ky., to be inspector nnder that depart
ment for duty in connection with the
immigration service. Thobe will be re
membered aa the Union Labor candidate
who contested John G. Carlisle's seat in
the Forty-ninth Congress. ...
At a big cattle sale in Kansas City re
cently, said to be the largest in that city
since the boom times' of 1882 and 1883,
the Waddingham Bell Ranch Cattle
Company of New Mexico sold 4,000 two-year-old
steers at (15 a head and 3,000
three-year-old steers at $19 a head. The
ranch company owns 700,000 acres of
land. . .
Chicago has iuet obtained decision
from the courts affirming its right to
open up streets across a railroad track
running inside the city limits of the city.
The decision will greatly aid the author
ities in their contest with the grade-
crossing evil, with which Chicago is
more atiiicted probably than any city in
the country.
It is reported that it ia the intention
of the government to establish at the
Exposition grounds a complete postof
fice, equal in capacity to that required
by a city of 203,000 or more inhabitants,
and to operate it, not only during the
fair, bnt for several months previous to
the opening and after the closing. A
government postomce inspector is now
on the grounds perfecting plans and es
timates. It is believed that the number
of exhibitors will be between 150,000
aud 170,000. To these mail will be de
livered hourly. Maila sorted on the cars
will be dropped at the grounds from in
coming trains whenever possible. At a
rough estimate this Exposition postomce
will require about 300 employes and en
tail an expense of about $260,000 on the
part of the government.
There are six schools ia Ireland where
Irish is taught.
There are students from fifteen foreign
countries at Yale.
In Chili there are 1.020 oublie schools.
With 84,386 pupils.
There are free public libraries in 248
of the 351 towns and cities of Massachusetts.
Texas learning has been made the tar
get for many a shaft, yet the State haa a
school fund of $UiO,000,000.
Sixty-three students are now said to
be working their way through Yale Col
lege and paying all their expenses.
Of the $7,000,000 and more capital
represented by Harvard Univeraity about
$3,000,000 is invested in Boston real estate.
The London School Board estimates
that about 1 per cent, of the children of
school age in that city 1b habitually Buf
fering for want of food.
Boston claims the honor of having had
the first free public school (in 1035),
with only a sufficient number of pupils
to make a single class in the schools of
today. - , 1
The girls in a few of the higher grades
of the public schools of New York city
are taught the physiology of feeding.
They are told what kind of food ia need
ed by the body, and the? have learned
the wonderful processes by which bread
la transmitted into blood and into
thought.
The University of Chicago will atart
mil-fledged, with the best professors
money can obtain, as the John Hopkins
began its career. The Chicago institu
tion determined to pay $7,000 a year to
every professor it invited to a leading
chair, and it is taking some of the best
from some of the oldest seata of learn
ing. It has successfully invaded Har
vard, Yale, Cornell, Oxford and Frei
burg. The West is something more than
wild and woolly.
Nothing In the Financial Condition of
the United States Treasury to
Cause Uneasiness. ,
A bill has been reported to the House
appropriating K60,000 for the construc
tion of a revenue cutter for use in San
Francisco harbor.
Representative Hermann has secured
a clerical allowance for the postoflice at
Lebanon in Linn county, Or., and an
equally generous allowance for Burns
in Harney county.
Senator Squire haa obtained favorable
action from the War Department recom
mending the building of the county
bridge to be erected across the Bwi
nomish slough in Skagit county.
Senator Allen's bill appropriating
$400,000 for the purchase of a site and -the
erection of a public building at Ta
coma has passed the Senate without ob
jection from the Democrats. What ita
fate or that of the billa for buildings in
Seattle and Spokane in the House will
be is not known. But it ia doubtful if
they pass by Objector Holman and his
disciples.
The Senate committee on military af
fairs baa ordered an adverse report upon
the bill providing for the location of s
military post in Alaska, and for a sur
vey of the Ynkon river valley, also a
favorable report upon the bill to increase
the pay of non-commissioned officers
and provide fdr an examination of non
commissioned officers for promotion to
second lieutenants.
When the Boise City public building;
came np for consideration the proposi
tion was to cut the appropriation in two
and make it cost only $100,000. The
bill, however, at the reooest of the Idaho
Senators, was recommitted, and will
probably bo amended. If the Idaho
Senators would consent to have the
building erected upon the ground al
ready owned by the government, there
would be little or no trouble in securing
an appropriation.
On the application of Senator Mitchell.
the Superintendent of the money older
system of the Postoflice Department has
ordered that the postomce at Myrtle
Creek, Douglas county, Or., be placed
upon the list of additional money order
offices next to be established, and the
postmaster at that office will be author
ized to commence the issue and payment
of money orders and postal notes on or
about April 1, the beginning of the next
quarterly period ; provided he shall
bave nied tne required bond.
Senator Do! ph has introduced a bill
which will, if it becomes a law, permit
purchasers nnder the timber and stone
act of March 3, 1879, relating to Wash
ington, Oregon and California, to make
proofs before any officer authorized to
take proofs in homestead entriea.
Under the present law the neome who
have taken lands are compelled to go
before the land office, as was previously
the case nnder the homestead and pre
emption laws, which were afterwards
modified for the benefit of settlers.
Senator Mitchell introduced a me
morial from several towns in Oregon.
asking for the passage of a bill appro
priating money for the improvement oi
the Willamette and lower Columbia
rivers, borne doubt naa been expressed
aa to whether the house committee uu
rivers and harbors will appropriate the
IZoU.uuo asked lor me deep water cnan
nel from Portland to the sea. There
baa been aome rather persistent oppo
aition manifested to this proposed im
provement from various sections of
Oregon, and members of the committee
nave received information indicating
that it would not benefit very many
people.
The sub-committee, to whom the
foreign committee referred several Rus
sian Hebrew resolutions introduced in
the House, has reached an agreement
upon the following resolutions to be re
ported: Kesolved, That the American
people, through their Senators and rep
Resentatives in Congress assembled, do
hereby express sympathy for Russian
Hebrews and their depressed condition
and .hope that the Russian government,
however, with which the united States
always has been on terms of amity and
good will, will mitigate as far as pos
sible the decrees lately issued respect
ing them, and the President is request
ed to use his good offices to induce the
government of Russia to mitigate said ,
decrees.
The Secretary of the Treasury haa
written a letter to the Speaker of the
House in response to the Honae resolu
tion calling on him for information
whether at any time since the per
cent, bonds became due. there had been
sufficient funds in the treasury to pay
the same, and if so, by what authority
ne assumed to continue any such bonds
at 2 per cent, interest, and why the
same waa not paid at the time said
bond8 were due. The S.-cretary Bays
the i per cents are redeemable at the
pleasure of the United Stales and three
months' notice to the holders. He
ahowa there were sufficient binds in the
treasury to pay the outstanding bonds,
but eava it was deemed prudent and
profitable to the government to con
tinue a portion, and the authority un
der which the bonds were permitted to
continue ia contained in the act which
authorized their issue. The Secretary
calls attention to the fact that the Forty
seventh Congress opposed the contin
uance of the 5 and 6 per cent, bonds at
8 per cent, " ' ,
The telegram from San Francieco to
the effect that the claims fordamagee
against Chili by the sailors on the cruiser -Baltimore,
injured in the Valparaiso
riot of October 16, would amount to
$135,000 in addition to the clause made
in behalf of the relatives of Rigio and
Turnbull, the eailora who were killed in
the affray, has led to aome misappre
hension respecting the method of pre
aenting such claims for collection. Some
days ago in these dispatches the modus
operandi of presenting and collecting
rr, n a t-w tntat-nntinnn.1 olAim. Vflll Set
forth at some length. As to these par
ticular claims, an official of the State
Department said: "The faoi the dead
and injured r their representatives
have presented, or will present, claims ,
to this department against Chili, will .
not inflnence the action of the depart
ment. Whether or not any such clarms
were filed, we should see that the mat
ter of reparation to the sufferers by the
assault was attended to in the settle
mentof the affair. The matter will be
taken up in due time, and if we cannot
agree upon the amount to be ptid, it
ill be fixed by arbitration, bnt nettl
ing will be done for some time yet. We
shall wait for Chili to fulfill her promises.