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ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1802.
NO. 15.
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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
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)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.
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: 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.
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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.
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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
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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.