Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The Oregon mist. (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.) 188?-1913 | View Entire Issue (April 8, 1892)
OREGON nn 784 Subscribers Columbia County. V' THIt- -BKHT- Lf adlng Paper of ColambiaCounty. Advertlsing Medium lo Columbia Co. vol. y. ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1802. NO. 15. Circulation,! II- Pa TJIE OUECJON " HIST lltHIO KVIHI riHUAV MORNING J. R. BEEGLE, Publisher. Th Oounty Offlolal Paper. iiliecrluilnn Itatea. On copy one year fu ai1vaune... one copy bi month fMpwM--i Slug i!y.... i ... M 7ft ft v " '"' "Adyerlleltig Mate.. Pmfeaalnna) card, mm year ...112 On, oolii inn one year.,.: , UH Kill iKiliitiin one year...... .. 7ft UnarU-r ouluinu nun year 40 One lui'h dim month il One liwh three mi ml ha o One liii h ili nioutha..... , e Jjmal nntlooe, Iftoent. par line lor flrat luacr Hon; 10 citnta per Una lor each fubwHiUont In or Ion. . Legal aitvertlserflenta.fl.M par Inch lor flnt liiaerilmi,and76oeutau I Inch lur i'ti fubae. quent tnaerilon. COLUMBIA COUNTY 1)1 U KOTO County OITlcere. Judge , D. J. SwlKer, HI. ll.Ieua (liaili K. K tnl, Ht. lie u Hlierlir, Win Meeker, t. JittTpua Treaaiiia' ....it. W. role, Ht. Union gup, nl Snhoois....... ..J. U. Watte, tk'iimiwe A.hvaaor C. K. biian, lialnler aurvayor A. II. Mitl, H-. ll-iiene Coinmlealouen.. )iatai spender, vernonia il. w Harm, tllatikaiiie. Munlatr Notice.. Masonic M. Mlena l-ndire, No. S3 Ki-gnlar cnimnuuiratliina oral ana niiniHa'Hftiaytu cacti nonili at 7:W r. M. at Maximo Hall. Vlaltlug moinbere In good atetitllng invited to attend. MaaoMio. Iteliilnr l.oilxn No. Ill Huted me t Ing4 natar mi on or bt lore wh full innonat7:llu r. H. at Masonic Hall, over HlaneliaM'a atnre. V lulling meuibera In good ataudlug Invited to attend. stvangelleal Appolntmente. Flrat Holiday lluerlalanil, II a. ; HI. liulena, 7:00 r. M. H-ooud Sunday Near City, 11 A. M, i Renboti, 7:00 r. m. , Tuird eauday Olllton, 11 k. .; Houlton, 3 r. M. Fourth Sunday Banvlee lalaud (UlUahan), 11 A. M.i Hwlere, i r. m. M. BtJKMNOAMK, Paator. .' . :- . i t - ' t THe Malls. - t; Ilowo river (boat) oloaea at :30 A. . lip rler (boat) el.iaee at 1 r. H. Toe mail lor Veriioula aui Pltlabnrg leave SL HaleueTtteaday.l'buraday and Saturday at 8 A. M. ' Tlie mall lor Hereunto 1, Clatkanle and Mlet lea-. a Quiun Monday, Wednetday ami Friday at ' Malla (railway) north alow at 10 A for Po Hand at S r. . Travelers' Uulde-lllver Knuta. BTaMH. W. HHAVan leaveaR'. Helena for Poitlamt at 11 M. Tilu-diy. Til iriuliiy anil Hat arday. Iavea Ht. Helena for Clatakanla Mon day. VVe tne-uay and Prl ay at :M a. a. HraaHna JoaKm K hu.ihhi lav. a Ht. Helena for Portland daily exwnt Hiimiay at t.M A. M. Riitnrnlng, leave Portland at 'iilW r. M. M18CKLLANEOU8. D. J. SWITZER, GENERAL INSURANCE -AND- ' Real Estate Agent, f 1 St. Helens, Oreoon. -oo : John A. Beck, Watchmaker and Jeuieler, -KOR YOUR ELEGANT JEWELRY. Tha Plnait Aaaortment of Watrhea, Clocka and Jewelry ol all Deaoriptioua. OPPBSITt THE If MONO. PORTLAND, OH' PIANOS aitd ORGANS. , Ilallett & Davis and New Scale Kimball Pianos and Kimball Or gans. I invite inspection, and defy competition. - . L. V. MOORE, 105 Washington St., Portland, Or. Write for catalogue and prices. ' Mention this paper. Clettsls:a,xiie Line. STEAMER G. J. W. 8HAVER, Master. Leaves Portland from Alder-street dock Monday, via Westjtort, Skamokawa and Cathlamot, Wednesday and Friday for Clatskanie, touching at Sattvies Island, St. Helens, Columbia City, Kalama, Neer City Rainier, Cedar- Landing, Mt. Coflin, Bradburv, Stella, Oak Point and all intermediate points, returning Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. DON'T BUY YOUR DRUGS ; v -ANYWHERK BUT AT A RKQULAR i' YOU WILL FIND THE i, Freshest, Purest and Best of Everything -AT CLATSKANIE v DR. J. E. HALL, Proprietor. PROFESSIONAL. DR. H. R. CLIFF, Physician and Surgeon, St. Helena, Or. DR. J. E. HALL, Physician v and v Surgeon, Clatekaola, Colmnlila Co., Or, T. A, MiiUkidi. A. 8. DllKHkK. - McBRIDE & DRESSER,. ' Attorneys '.' at '. Law, Oregon City, Or. Prompt attention given to land office hnnlneaa A. B. LITTLE, Surveyor and Civil Engineer, Ht. Helena, Or. County Htirv. yor. Land eurveylng. town plat ting auu engineering woik promptly dona. W.T. Buiwir, J. W. Drapki. BURNEY & DRAPER, Attorneys . at Law, Ortigon ;l.y, Or. Twelve veara' exmirlinia u ttfirlaAr nf that United Hta va l.aud Otllce here reimminenda hb lu our aMrllly of allklndaof bualneaa before the Ijnd urnne or the emirta, and Involving tbe praiitire in uie ueuerai iauo umce. a J. B. BROCKENBROUGH, ATTORNEY V AT . LAW, Oregon City, Or. ' (I-te Sppclal Agent of General Und Offlne.) imuiHaieaii, rn-einpuon ann runner iaua Ai' pll at oik and other I-awl (lllloe Huxlneaa a Aiwolalty. Ulllnoi Mtoond rioor, Uud Office OUliUIUg. ? ' CHflS. W. IWflYGER, Notary .' Public - . AND Insurance agent, MATOBR, OK. The Tall Tower Idea. It hat been remarked of the Eiffel tower tut a pocimon of engiuoeriug it ia gimply a vuriution from tbo onii nary motlnxJ of iron bridge building. Tliu AintTU-iiii Piigincerg who visited I'nuice, Eiitflund arid Scotland a few weeks agpi, xiftutly admired Hie Eiffel, but regurded the bridge in course of construction across the Frith of Forth a fur more remarkablti. They do not consider it a reuiarkablo thing to erect an iron tower 3U0 inciers in height. It repose perpendiculurly uihw ttrm fouuUutioiiH, and the weigRt of the material ia easily sustained It is a far uiore phunonieual per formance to build out on the canti lever plan a structure extending', un supported by false work, for a thou amid feet over an arm of the sea. That was the wonder our engineers witness ed in ijcotlaiid, and il whs immensely more impressive than the simple iron ediilce, notuble chielly for its perfec tion of details and colossal propor tions, that is the loading- attraction of the French exposition. , We have mentioned that there was a proposition before the committee of tnanugers of the Philadelphia centen nial for the erection of an iron tower 1,000 feet high; and that jt was reject ed because the estimated cost, $1,000, 000, was held to be extravagant It would be worth while to look through the old papers of the Fourth of July centennial, and see how closely the work proposed and rejected for the banks of Hie Kchuylkill has been fol lowed in that which has been erected on tlif Hot - W. SHAVER. THE - DRUG '.'STORE. PACIFIC COAST. The Portland Shipments of Wheat IDAHO'S WARDEN REMOVED, A Disease Similar to the Grip Prevails Among the Horses About Boise City. . Astoria Is to have can factory. The British Columbia canneries pro- pose to cut the salmon pack down one' Halt. Millions of crickets have made their appearance on the Warm Springs reser vation in uregon. An Eniclish syndicate is tryitm to bay the plant of the Klectric Light Oompany ot rait utxe lor ouu,uuu. A New York syndicate has nald S7.- ROO.OOO for Hubbard & Bowers' Harqna llaia Rom mines in Arizona. At the present term of the District Court in Ada county, Idaho, some fifteen divorce raees are to be tried. The Hants Fe Is preparing- to compete witn the Houtnern raciric in its passen ger business ac eanta Monica. The horses about Boise City. Idaho. have a disease similar to the grip, though it is latal in nearly every case. The troubles of the Ban Diego Sun are tilled over. Warren Wilson has obtained full possession of the property ' The Los Angeles Krprtu celebrated Its twenty-nrst birthday last Monua making its appearance in an. entire! new drees. John Lnkra, an old-time prospector, has been found dead near Phmnix, A. T., with indication that death resulted ironi suicide. The total number of grain vessels that cleared from Portland from August 19 to March 1 was seventy-three, with a regis tered tonnage of 03,82 ) tons. Bills relating to tbe imperial loan for the crofter settlement in British Colum bia and for the company to carry on fishing operations are before the Provin cial Legislature. ' Tbe citiwns of Racramnto are liberal givers for charitable purposes. The Sis ters of Mercy recuntly collected $20,000, and the. Protestant Orphan Asylum has just secured 16,000. i The Washoe Indians in Nevada are en deavoring to secure a reservation for the tribe like the Flutes have, and they pro pose lo send a delegation to Washington to secure that object. A wild ruining excitement has broken out at Lordsburg, a little town about midway between Los Angeles and Han Bernardino. Asstys ol the rock give SI,- 800 to the ten In silver. It is stated that Timothy Hopkins will build dormitories at Collene Terrace to ice jm uj'xlate the expected influx of new Hudeitts st the Stanford University next year, which has been estimated at as many as 1,000. A commission appointed from Wash ington is to examine into the truth of the reports of great mineral wealth in the Carrixo Mountains in the Navajo reservation in New Mexico, with a view to opening up that section if the reports are lound to be reliable. Portland's shipments of wheat from August 1 to February 20 to foreign ports were ii.U2H.iiso centals, valued at 000; to domestic pirU, 8:,021 centals valued at fl.SOO.Zoo. The exports ol flour to foreign ports were 246,492 bar- ports, 81,030 barrels, valued at f0,760. The receipts ol wheat Irom the inland empire aggregated 4,618,048 centals; flour, 100,747 barrels; valley wheat, 70ft,4l centals; Hour, 227,063 barrels. ' W. S. Mack, for the past year Warden of the Idaho penitentiary, has been re moved and Frank S. Jamie of Weiser, Washington county, installed as his suc cessor. The new Warden will assume his duties at once. Mack's term of war- denship has been fraught with a thou sand scandals. Among other things the practice ot allowing glove contests in the prison yard created a big rumpus last fall. Mack was appointed from Hailey, having for backers Senator Du bois and other prominent persons. Soon after he became Warden it was alleged by John Mitchell, who filed affidavits to that enect, that he had swindled cred itors in Spokane and Seattle. Other al legations of crookedness were made. Those of the Prison Commission who asked for his removal were Governor Willey and Attorney-General Roberta. The Columbia river centennial cele bration is to take place at Astoria May 10, 11 and 12 next. The present plans are to have the 10th occupied with an address of welcome by the Mayor of the city and responses by visitors, an excur sion to Fort Stevens and the government jetty! a parade of civic societies and an exhibition drill by the Astoria fire de partment and in the evening a musical concert and literary exercises. The 11th is to be centennial day.. There will be a national salute at sunrise; an imitation sh p Columbia will proceed to the en trance of the Columbia with specially invited guests, while a convoy consisting of steamers, sailing vessels and other water craft will leave in time to escort the ship back again. Captain Simpson of San Francisco and Gray's Harbor has promised to make all possible enorts to provide a vessel which will be as nearly at-possible like the Columbia, which discovered the river loo years ago. At noon there will be a grand salute, an them, by bands and chorus of cheers, whistles and bel's, to be answered by 100 guns from Forts Stevens and Canby. An oration by Prof. John Fiske of Massa chusetts and other literary exercises will' follow ; a national salute at sunset and a marine torchlight procession of steam ers, tugt and tisiung boats in the even ing. The 12th will be occupied with excursions to different places, as visitors may choose, ann prooaoiy some addresses by a representative sneaker from each r f the States drained by the Columbia Oregon, Washington and Idaho. Tbe Secretary of War and -the Secretary of the Navy have promised that their de partments will co-operate in the celebra tion, and the Pnneer Associations and Indian War Veterans are invited to be present in their respective bodies. WORLD'8 FAIR NOTES. Th Emperor Desires to Have a Fin Display of German Silks and Velvets at Chicago. . Austria will make a fine exhibit of glass, porcelain, bronze, leather, artistic Iron and cabinet work. In the Illinois State building a room 82x64 feet has been assigned to a kinder' garten exhibit, which will be made chiefly nnder the direction of the women, A choral hall, 100x120 feet, will be erected near the horticultural building. There Prof. Tomlins with 2,000 trained voices will furnish rare choral music during the exposition. The Welsh In ternational Eisteddfod will occupy the building for week. Michigan's building will measure lOOx 140 feet and be three stories high. It will be constructed of Michigan mate rial, which with tbe furnishings will be donated. Though but S 20.00J ol tbe ap propriation will be devoted to its erec tion, It will in reality be a to ,00U build ing. - The governments of Norway and Swe den have respectively asked for World's Fair appropriations of $01,288 and $53, 6 10. In Norway a number of private citizens are laising a fund of $10,720. with which to build and send to Chicago a counterpart ot the viking ship, which was exhumed near bandetiord a few years ago. The Independent New York Scheutxen, considered the elite corps of German American sharpshooters, have decided to attend the exposition in a body. The organization has in its membership many prominent business men. It has made two or more shooting tours of Ku rope, on one of which it was entertained by Prince Bismarck. Through misinformation a " World's Fair note" recently stated that the Rhode Island building would combine tbe architectural features of the present capitoi otiuuing and ol the one lormerly used at Newport Such is not the case. The structure will combine tiie features of the "old stone mill" at Newport, which is of unknown origin, and which is alluded to in Longfellow's "Skeleton in Armor," and those of the "Arcade," a business building In Providence erected about sixty-five years ago. Baron de Berlepsch, German Minister of uommerce, has written to the Cham ber of Commerce of Crefeld. the princi pal place in Prussia for the manufacture of silk goods, that the Emperor ardently desires that there should be as fine a dis play as possible of German silks snd vel vets at the Chicngo World's Fair. ' A majority of the silk and velvet manu facturing firms in the Rhenish prov inces will comply with the wishes of the Emperor, whose interest in Germany's share of the exhibition is having a stim ulating effect in all directions. PERSONAL MENTION. Mr i. Edison Prefers Candles to Elec tricity English Baronets are Said to be Leng-Llved. Turgenleffs brain is the larceet one ever weighed by scientists. . Carl Schurs is engaged in writing his Reminiscences of Public Men and Events." George Alfred Townsend has gone to Spain to get material for a biography of Columbus. General Edward S. Bragg is small, vig orous, alert, able and bitter. He has a sharp tongue and an honest purpose. T. Jefferson Coolidge. a wealthy mer chant of Boston, is prominently men tioned in connection with the mission to France. . General Bullock, a representative in Congress from Florida, was a Captain of volunteers in the Indian war of 1858-0 in Southern Florida, t Mrs. Edison, the wife of the man who has applied the electric light to domestic purposes, prefers candles to any other form of household illumination. Lucy Hooper says that Americans who go to Paris forget ail about the Salon and the Institute and remember the Casino de Paris and the Monlin Rouge, Colonel Goodwin-Austen says the Chogo glacier in the Himalayas is one of the most beautiful in the world. It is an almost impassable sea of ice waves on edge. The Hapebnrgs are by far the richest among the reigning families of Europe. The private fortune of the Emperor of Austria may be reckoned at about 110,- 000,000. The houses occupied by three Con necticut Governors, Richard D. Hubbard, Phineas Lounsbury and Morgan G. Bulkelev, stand in a row on one street In Hartford, . ; One of the largest salaries received bv any man in this country ia drawn by C. A Gi iecom, the chief of the Interna tional Navigation Company, who receives $60,000 a year. Ex-Attornev-General Garland, who has resided in Washington these three years since he ceased to be a part of Mr. die veland 's ad m inistration , is goin g back now to Little Kock, Ark., to live. English Baronets are long-lived. Sir James Bacon is 04; Rev. John Warren Hayes is 92, and at a like age Admiral Sir Lewis Tobias Jones is the senior of the navy list and the oldest Knight of the Bath. : , The health of the Baroness Burdett- Ooutta is anything but promising, and the need of the attention of four doctors during a recent case of chills would in dicate that her friends deem it necessary to have every means of professional as sistance at her service so as to ward off possible oom plications. ' ' 'it' ;' Tl.. VT.--In- .k -! V... l ju luAHiici. w wuuimiwu ov mug and so attractively to the pictorial feat ures of Punch, was once asked how he managed to keep up so well with the changes In women's fashions. His an swer was; " Young man, when yon have a wife and three daughters like those girls of mine, yon will know more about fashion than you want to know." Ward McAllister's only daughter was visiting not long ago in Philadelphia. and at a luncheon given in her honor as sumed airs of superiority which caused the other women present mingled amuse ment and rsge. During the luncheon she remarked in a supercilious tone to a bright girl on her right: "Ah, have yon any one here who fills the somewhat im portant place in society that papa does in New York?'' "Oh. yes. several" sweetly repliei the girl addressed ; " bat they're an colored men - . EASTERN ITEMS. Loss of Stock and Sheep in Colorado. MICHIGAN'S GERRYMANDER. Arabs Arrive in New York With a Stud of Thoroughbred Arabian Horses Etc. New York will repeal ite prison-for- aeut law. The new city of Niagara Falls claims a population oi iii.oou. Tbe Pawnee Indians in Oklahoma Territory threaten to give trouble. Injunction suits were filed against all the saloonkeepers at Muscatine, la. Ohio is considering a law making it criminal to discharge employes for union' ism. , The Pennsylvania road will test tbe constitutionality of the Indiana tax laws. Members of the Board of Education at Chicago are found to have been in the scramble for boodle. United States engineers are consider ing a project lor a new bridge at tbe en' trance of Duluth harbor. Kansas farmers are still paying off ineir mortgages, xne total decreased 800,000 during February. It is estimated that the losses to stock and sheep men of Colorado by tbe recent blizzard will reach xzoo.uot). t Chicago is securing Nebraska grain by rate manipulation, winch shuts out St. Louis and Kansas City buyers.- The latest fad among amateur sinners is to have part of the cartilage of the nose removed to improve the voice. Secretary Foster says that the govern ment has as available assets f04.000.000. exclusive ot the 1100,000,000 gold reserve. An effort is to be made to have the le gality of the Michigan gerrymander de termined by the united states Supreme Court. The window-glass manufactory at Spiceland, Ind.. has shut down on ac count of the failure of its natural-gas SUpply. . , . -. Secretary Foster save emphatically that the gold reserve of $100,000,000 will be held intact in the United States Treasury. . A company has just been formed in Chicago to run 'buses on the boulevards propelled by accumulators or other elec trical appliances. There i a great strike in New York against the employment of hod-hoisting machines. The complaint is that the machines can't vote. It is said to have cost three corpora tions a total of nearly t5'J0.00O to ge' three franchises through the Chicago Uitv tjouncii recently. Nearly forty committees have been ap pointed to canvass among New York's business men for fnnds sufficient to com plete its Grant monument. A greet ilerrick picked 1X00,000 eggs (rum the Hudson river, and never broke one. They were contained m eight freight cars on a sunken float. The President has signed the bill giv ing certain land contiguous to the Lick Observatory to the astronomical depart ment ol the university ot liautornia. It ia stated that General Miles expects to nave bis Stan at unicago increased to seventeen, making it. the largest of any department headquarters in tbe army.- The corner-stone of General Grant's monument in New York will be laid by president Harrison April 27 the seven tieth anniversary of the dead hero's birth. Postmaster-General Wanamaker a few days ago received a $60 Confederate note from the Postmaster-General of Italy, and was requested to cash it, but it was returned. ' Ferd Ward's term of ten years in Sing Sing will expire April so, and he win be released. He was sentenced October 31, 1885, and aboct one-third of his time has been commuted. The Missouri river at Jefferson City is moving a sand bar ap stream eo as to cut off the ferry landingand threatens to go over to the Callaway side and cut out a lot of rich land. The Thirteenth Infantry, the Fifth and part of the Seventh Cavalry will soon be ordered to the Cheyenne and Arapa hoe reservations to clear rquatters off before throwing open the lands to settle ment. The committee appointed by the Ohio Legislature to investigate the charges of corruption in the re-election of Senator Sherman has been unable to find a sin gle item of proof to sustain the accusa tions. , Mrs. Homer G. Baldwin, who was in jured so terribly in the New York Cen tral collision at Hastings on Christmas eve, has sued the railroad company for $26Q.O0O damagee. Her injuries are of a fearful character. : Exports of breads tuffs continue enor mous, and show wonderful increases in va'ne. For the eight months, July, 1801, to March 1, 1892, their value was $210,000,000, against $73,000,000 for the same pariod in 1800-1. Tha Illinois State crop report places the area of winter wheat at 1,805,000 acres, or 4 percent, larger, than last year. Condition of the plant is reported to be fair except in the southern part of the State, where it is poor. ' The Brooks locomotive works of Dnn kirk, N. Y-, will soon begin wotk on twenty engines for the Atchison, Toneks and Santa Ke road, all of which will be equipped with the American driver brake and will carry 180 pounds steam pressure. Tiie steamship India from Gibraltar brought to New York nine Arabs and a stud of thoroughbred Arabian horses. The party comes from the court of the Saltan of Morocco, and will form part of a native Arabian village at the World's Fair. , . --;,,.v i . --. Claus Spreckels' sugar Te finery at Philadelphia has been formally turned over to the sugar trust in consideration of $7,000,000 in trust certificates. The transaction was conducted between Treasurer Searles of the trust and Claus Sprackels personally. . t NATIONAL CAPITAL. The Supreme Court Hands Down Opinion Construing the Timber and 8tons Act of 1878. an The House Committee on Agriculture baa agreed on a substitute for all tbe arjti-option bills referred to it. - It is said to be much milder than the Hatch bill. The Houe and Ways Committee has decided to report favorably to the House the Hunting bill reducing the duty on tin plate from 2.2 cents to 1 cents pound. The House has passed a bill to protect foreign exhibitors at tbe World's Fair from prosecution for exhibiting wares procured by American patents and trade marks. The Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections has decided to allow $4,000 and $1,251 respectively to Claggett and Davidson, contestants, and S2.000 to Du bois to meet the expenses he was put to iu ueieuuing nis Hue 10 nia eeai. The Springer free-wool bill was de nounced in the House as a conspiracy between the cotton raisers of the South and the wool manufacturers of the North to enrich themselves at the expense of the prosperity of the nation. This charge was made by Representative J. I), lay lor of Ohio. . Immigrant Inspector Stitch ha re ceived information from the Washington xreasnry department that It has been decided that Canadians cannot under the alien-labor law ba allowed to serve as sailors on American vessels in the lakes. It is feared this will cripple the axe iraae. as hundreds ol Canadians are so employed. Attorney-General Miller expressed gratification at the decision nf Jnatica Brewer, favoring the government in the suit against the Union Pacific and the Western Union Telegraph Company. He said there are a number of cases against oilier ractnc roaas dependent on the same principles. Tbe case will likely be appeaiea w me eiuprem uourt. General Warner, Chairman of tbe Na tional Silver Committee, is going to call a national silver convention, fo be held probably at St. Lome or ranit other cen tral point within the next two months. His idea is to secure a vigorous expres sion on the subject of silver, with the hope that it will have some influence upon the national conventions to beheld at Minneapolis and Chicago. He con- lerrea witn a number of leading silver men in Washinorton. and they annrove of tbe silver convention plan. ' The Committee on Rules has decided to report favorably to the House a reso- iii! ion to investigate the census bureau. This action is based upon a resolution introduced in the House some weeks ago by Mr. Alderson of West Virginia. Mr. Alderson, convinced that the census of fice had been conducted as a political machine, and that the census returns were altogether unreliable and untrust worthy, began investigating on his own account. As a result there is no man in the House better fitted to manage this investigation than he, and his selection by Speaker Crisp is generally com mended. The Supreme Court has handed down an opinion construing the timber and stone act of 1878, which applied to Ore-1 gon, Washington, Nevada and California. I The courts in Uregon and Washington have been deciding one way and th Land Department another. In the case of the United States vs. N. E. Budd and James Montgomery Judge Ailyn of the Terrrori-il Court decided in Montgom ery's favor. This was subsequently af firmed by District Judge Hanford and now by the Supreme Court of the United States. It was charged in the hill that the land in question, lou acres in Cow litz county, Wash., was not purchasable under the' timber act, and that there was irau dulent conveyance of tbe land by Budd to Montgomery. The court held that neither charge is sustained, but that the timber act included the land and authorized its sale. , , In the pension bureau investigation G. N. Lockwood. a pension attorney . for merly, chief clerk of the Interior Depart ment, lesmnea ne borrowed money iroin a bank to loan Raum, the banker refus ing to make the loan direct, because Kaniu reinsed to promote a certain wom an in the pension office. W. H. Barker, formerly chief record clerk of the pen sion office, admitted borrowing money from employee and not returning it. He said he lost $120,0c0 in speculation on S 'inters given him by W. W. Dudley, e said Raum, Jr., got a part of the bor rowed money. Thomas Farnsett, for merly in the pension office, said that be fore election of lb90 pension claims from Indiana were advanced. These cases al ways came up as completed, though many oi mem nao neen in the ontce a long time. A remark of witness about the bad character of some women in the pension office was stricken out. . Enloe has submitted to the Houee the report of the Committee on the Mer chant Marine, recommending the repeal of the mail-subsidy ac1. it dissents from the policy of subsidies on the ground that it is a robbery, snd says that if the principle of subsidy is right it should apply to all, and that the com mon planter has as much right as the ship owner. The minority argnes in favor of the retention of the law, b sed upon figures showing the impetus given ship building under the new regime. Comment is made upon the refusal of the majority to hear testimony or inves tigate the workings of the act. It is maintained, had theg ivernment pursued in the past the subsidy policy, it would now hold the supremacy of the high seas in merchant marine instead nf paying (principally to England) during the 'last thirty years the enormous trihu'e of over $3,01,000,000 for transporting goods. Secretary Noble has approved the in structions of the Commissioner of the general land office to the Registers and Receivers of the land offli-es at Fariro. K. I)., and Watertown, 8. D., in anticipa tion of the President's proclamation opening to settlement and entry the un allotted lands in the limits of' Sisseton and Wahpeton Indian reservations. Spe cial attention is given to sections 2-1 and 20 of the act of Congress approved March i, lain, in regard to religions societies purchasing land now occupied by them. These societies must make proof after six weeks' advertisement of its nronnr occupancy of such land on May S, 1891, and pay for them at the rate of $2 60 per acre. No other app'icant will be allowed to make entry of these lands. In addi tion to the usual affidavits required of homestead applicants must be one slat ing that the applicant did not enter upon and occupy any portion of the lands de scribed and declared open to entry bv th President's proclamation. . FOREIGN LANDS. Argentine Republic Will Not Reciprocate. A SLAVE DEALER DEFEATED. Jews Trying to Leave Russia Baron . Fava Will "Probably Return as Italian Minister. It is said 400,000 Jews are trying to leave Russia. Argentine declines Mr. Blaine's special reciprocity proposal. . , , Russia is gratified at the steps taken in Paris against the Anarchists. Many African travelers have faith In the commercial development of Africa. Peru has offered inducements to Amer icans wanting to settle in that country. The first railway to Jerusalem will probably be opened in the spring of next year... An increase of $500,000 is asked in the House of Commons for the Irish educa tion bill. - English capitalists are completing ar rangements to explore the coast of Pat aironia for minerals. British naval expenditures for this year were fixed at $75,000,000, an in crease of $125,000 over last year. It is proposed to form a new bank to take over after liquidation the business of the Mercantile Bank of Melbourne. The dispatch of soldiers to the Dur ham (England) collieries has had the effect of quieting the disturbances there. A movement is on foot for the harmo nizing of the laws of Bavaria and Prus sia regulating the manufacture and sale of beer. , Dr. Peters, tbe African explorer, ha been recalled to Berlin, owing to his bar barities and his wholesale slaughter of the natives. , Makntuiuba, an African slave dealer, was defeated by Portuguese, nearly all his band of Arabs killed and his 500 slaves liberated. The Bank of England reserves con tinue to increase; Confidence that the immediate future will bring a flow of business is general. Emperor William requires whoever goes to the German East African colony to obligate himself not to write a line to any European paper. It is stated that the Pope has saved 5,000,000 I ires through economy, which will be deposited in a bank for the use of the Pope's successor. The application of the elective fran chise to the people in India is proposed to be eecured by a bill just introduced in tbe House of Commons. The Minister of Finance at Lisbon proposes to settle the Portuguese debt by raising a $20,000,000 loan and reducing the interest by 60 per cent. According to the new military laws of the Turkish Empire the Turkish army on a war footing will be increased short ly from 700,000 to 1,000,000 men. Several of the members of Balm ace da's Congress, admitted to bail, are in such a wretched condition through prison abuse that their lives are despaired of. The center of the French ribbon trade, St. Etienne, has been shaken with ex citement on the rumor of the betrayal of valuable trade secrets to foreign firms. It is affirmed at Rome that Baron Fava . will resume his duties as Italian Minis ter at Washington soon, if the question of indemnity in the New Orleans affair is arranged. ;. The Spanish government is said to be trying to farm out the Cuban custom houses for a period of ten years to a syn dicate of London, Hamburg and Amster dam capitalists. Russian Jews are prohibited from passing through Germany, and many in stances have occurred where they have been shot down by German soldier for persisting in crossing the line. In the British House of Commons resolution favoring the payment of mem bers of the Commons in order to enable the representative of the industrial classes to be elected was defeated. The German steamship Eider, which was recently wrecked on Atherfleld, Isle . of Wight, has been successfully floated from the rocky bed, on which she has ola t.o niKl nf ti,,ni 91 WJ -J. U.il V W ,11V !.-. v W J VA Deeming, the Australian murderer, while being taken to Melbourne came near being lynched. The windows of his car were broken, and rushes were made to the train wherever it stopped. The ' women were especially violent. . . A mass meeting of workmen at Syd ney, N. S. W., protested against the 'in troduction of colored labor into the col ony while white men were without work. The Legislature will be urged to prohibit the importation of black laborers. The depression from which the Hong kong and Shanghai Bank shares have suffered for a week past in London is explained by a telegram from Hongkong saying tbe comprador of the institution embezzled $500,000 and decamped. The London Timet' Shanghai corre spondent says the Ysnng Li Yamen, nrged by the Foreign Ministers at Pe king, have ordered Viceroy Chang Chie Tung to arrest Chan Han, the official re sponsible for spreading in iluoan antt- , foreign literature. The most remarkable railway robber of modern times, the gentleman bandit of romance, Atbanasius, tbe Greek, who has been living and practicing his " pro fession " for years in the cold glare of the last decade of the nineteenth cen. tury, has reformed and become a gentle- ' man farmer in the famous Vale of Lar issa. He raises orchids when he can. and talks over his wine about the day... when he raised purses. . - . John Stuart Mill has bad to do with ' causing a new play to be suppressed on the Austrian stage. An ill-treated wife live with a brutal husband for the sake of her child. The child dies, and the wife, happening to read John Stuart . Mill on the subjugation of woman, con- 1 eluded that she would be justified in throwing off the matrimonial yoke, and she leaves her husband and goes home. Part of the dialogue baa offended some women in Vienna, and the Emperor . sappressed it.