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VOL. 10.
ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1893.
NO.
5.
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THE OREGON MIST.
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J. R. DEEOLE, Manager.
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER
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COLUMUIA COUNTY DIKKCTOttY.
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Hupt. til Mohoota.
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Surveyor
Commlaalouvra.,.
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, , T. J. Clertou, Varuonle
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A, B. I.IIU.. Raul.r
trt. 11. Huhoinovitr, Varuonle
- Id. w. Baruaa, Marg.r.
, Sanely !llcee.
ManiNiC HI. Helena Lodge, No. Itt Regular
enmmMiunatioiia nr.l aim mini paturiiay in
ea-h moil Ih .17 nor, M. at Maeunle hall. Vl.lt-
Ing in.uibera In good .landing liivll.l to al
io nd.
MianNitt.-Ralnl.r Ixlc. No. ll-stated
- Ttiei-llnir.HaMir.lay on or iioroea"h full union
at 7:IW r. M at MaMinli! hall, over Blaurhard'a
atore. Waiting liiinli.r In good .landing in
vited la alWlul,
Oun rxLLoaa Ht. 'Helena l,odire No. 117
Miwia iry Matimlay ulghl at 1, 1.0. Tranalent
brethren In good .lau.tliig cordially Invited to
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Down riv.r (lioal) rloaaa at S:M a, a.
i I i. river (l.aUi-IOM. at r. .
Tha mall lor Varnmila auit I'llUliunr
Ht. Il.len. Monday, Wwiuewlay anil rriday at
I a . a.
Tha wall fnr Marahland. I'laukanl. anil MIX
tava liuliiu Monday, Wedneaday and Friday
at II m.
Mallafrallvay) north cloa a' 10 a. N.j for
Portland at r. M.
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Travelers Unlale Ml ver Ham...
HTri. W. Kiuvaa- taavea Ht. Helena
fur Portland al II 4. M. Tueday, Tburadav and
Kamroay. Uavaa Ht. Helena Ir t'laiakanle
Monday, Wrdinmlay and Friday at 00 a, .
H-ramaa laaui Uavo. Ht. Helena for Tort
land J : a. M, raturulng at 1-W r. H.
hti JorM KKtMKia lave. Bt. Ilclenii
hit I'tinland ilnlly -pl Hunday. at 1 a. t , ar
rlvlncat I'urtland at 10 30: rvturiiliia-, Isav.
I'orilant at I r. a., arriving at Ht. ll.l.ii. at..
PKOFKMHIONAL.
J JR. H. R. CIJFPi
rilYSICIAN and SURGEON".
8t. Helena, Oregon.
jjR. 1. K. II ALU
.PHYSICIAN and SURGEON.
Clgtskuiil. Columbia county, Or.
jyn. W. C. BKI.T,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON.
Ralnlor, Oregon.
jirwiiliTsiTiKiHwouj,
DENTIST.
St. Mkiknh,
Okkook
J All Woik Guaranteed.
T. A. Mc IIhide. A. 8. Dg.
JijIllllDE PKK8HKR,
ATTORNEYS-at-LAW.
Oregon City , Oregon.
Prompt tltcntlon given Unil-ofnobmliiwt.
B. LITTLK,
SURVEYOR and
- CIVIL ENGINEER,
Ht. Helens, Oregon.
County nurveyor. hand iirveylng.town
planing, nU engineering work promptly
doivp. '
W. T, HllRNKY.
J. W. Vttum,
itJRNKV DRAPER,
ATTORNEYS-at-LAW,
" Oregon City, Oregon.
Twelve year' egpfrienee m Regiater of
the Cniuil Hliitea Una OHlce here, recom
mend u In on. aneoialty of nil klmla of
Courts and Involving the General Land
Ollloe. .....
B
R0UKKNUROUUH COWING,
ATT0RNEY-AT-LAW,
Oregon City, Oregon.
' ( Ule apef iul agent of General land office. )
II ,iiiote'il. l-re eniption, and Tlnilier
1 ai d applicatlona. and other Land Oft.ce
uulnH iipei)ialt'. Office. leeond floor,
' .iind Ollli Uuililing.
ST. HELENS HOTEL.
'mm 0
J, George, Proprietor,
Tnlilc" always supplied wlih the best edibles
knd delicacies he market affords.
TERMS REABONABLK
FOR MAR BOARDERS.
Having been newly refiirnWied, we
are prepared to give satisfaction te all
our patrons, and solicit share of your
patron ago.
gT. HELENS
OREGON.
W. H. CONYERS & CO.
Real Estate and Insurance Agents
Real Batata bought, sold and managed 00
uminl.alon, nnU collected aud
abatraots made.
A0ENT8 FOR THE
Farmers and Merchants,
German American,
And other Inaiirane Companies, with
combined Ataols of ta.iuu.ouo,
NOTAIIIKS
C'laiakanle, . ,
PUBLIC.
Orrgaat,
CITY BARBER SHOP
. AND :
BATH HOUSE.
C. L. COLBURN, Proprietor.
Has Boon Thoroughly Kcfitled and
Rearranged.
Only Baths in the City.
8T. HELENS, OREGON,
THE ITKAMEH
IRAL.DA
Is now making regular round
trips from
OAK POINT TO PORTLAND
Daily Except Wednesdays,
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W. E. NEWSOM.
Th. Urated FrencHure,
Kunr?"APHRODITINEMS
Is Bold on a
POSITIVE
QUARANTtf
to cure any form
otnervoiudiaraM
or any dlaorderol
the groerallv. or
gan, ol. liner imx,
whethsr arl.lUK
lmmlh...Mulva
Tobacco or Opium, or through youthful iniliaera.
tlon.orirrlndiilgpnee, A ,.urha Umnf Brain
rower, Wali.fiilneaa, Hearing down Fain. In the
Mck,8emliialWeaknpBi,Hyuirla,N.rvous tros
tratiou, Noelurnal Emhulous, Liicorrha-a, Dla
laeaa.Wi.ak Memory, of fowerand Imno
trnny,wblthl(ncwl!tedoften lead to prematura
old aire and Inaauity. Frtc 11.00 a box, fi boxes
lor .'.oo. Hent by mall on roreli.t of nrlee-
A WRiTrKNcinARANfr.it la glwn for
every .U0 order racolTed. to refnnd the moiwy It
a rarmanent cur I. not enerted. We have
thnuumlinf teatlraonlala from old and youug,
aif both aefi.whohar. been permanently eimit
ty theuaaof AphrodltlDa. Circular fre. Addraas
THE APHRO MEDICINE CO.
Waat.ru Branch. Box 27. 1'oan.uiD. Ob.
For sale by EDWIN ROSS, Druooibt
. Helena. Or. ;
Model Saloon.
I. STAN WOOD, Prep'r.
ST. HELENS, - . - OREGON.
Choice Wines,
Liauors and Cigars. Beer 5 Cts.
Billard and Pool Vabh
for Ch psommodation of Patrons
CALL AROUND.
OF COURSE YOU DO.
SUCH BEING THE CASE, It behooves
you to liml the most deairable placo to
purchase vour ' iuvlgorator."
THE BANQUET.
Keeps constantly on hand the famous
Cuban Blossom Cigars.
The finest line of Wines IJt-.-s and
Cigars to be found this side of Port
land. And if you wish to ,
, . engage In a game of
POOL OR BILLIARDS,
They can ensure you that they have the
best table In town. Everything new and
neat, and your patronage Is respectfully
solicited
"THE BANQUET"
tit. Helens, Oregon.
JAPANESE
CURB
A new and complete treatment, conalatlng of
iuppoaltorlea, Ointment. In Capaulea, alao in
Box and Pills: a Poaltlve Cure for External, In
ternal, Blind and Bleeding, Itching. Chronic
Recent or Hereditary Piles, and many other
dtaeaaea and female weaknesses: It Is alwayaa
Sraat benent to the canaral health. The first
lauovory of a medical cure rendering an opera
tion with tne knife unnecessary hereafter. This
Remedy haa never been known to fall. 11 per
box. ( for Is; sent by mall. Why suffer from this
terrible dtsaan when a written guarantee Is
given with S boxes, to rsfund the mon.y If not
luuedby Woooaao, Ciisxs Co., rVhol.aale
ana aewu Drugguta, aw agaaus rawaa, v..
)u ii Dnii:
lrr ka MMgggMggMganM
m AM SBBBBBB
PACIFIC COAST.
I-add's Handsome Bequesl for
Charitable Purposes.
THE CENSUS OF BOISE CITY.
The Arizona Press Association Pass
Resolutions in Favor of
Statehood Etc.
The cattle rang In Arizona are re
ported in one condition.
Rear-Admiral J. B. Bkerrett has ag
io in ed command at Mara Ialand.
All the attraction of Al Hayman and
Oharleg Frohman are to be played at
Log Angelea hereafter.
The Portland Ministerial Association
hag adopted resolutions asking Congress
to repeal the Ueary Chinese act.
The new coal find near Flagstaff, A.
T., is creating much interest. The coal
la of a fine quality and the velni large.
A party of conchologista la to visit
Point Loma at an early date to seoore
ahellg, which are laid to be abundant in
that section.
Senator John P. Jones of Nevada and
other capitaliata have purchased a con
trolling interest in the First National
Bank of Santa Barbara.
A considerable quantity of cabbage,
cauliflower and celery is being shipped
from Lot Angeles East in carload lota,
bat the demand is greater than the anp
ply. A petition to the Oregon Legislature
hag been estenelvely signed throughout
the Willamette Valley to have railroads
fence their line where they ran through
pastures and meadow lands.
The orange crop in the south will not
begin to move much for two or three
aa.aw.Lras aaskakwa ttsMvar aVlinmsanll ttltaW hi
looked for. The quality and quantity
are both ahead of any previous season.
An annortionment bill, baaed on the
vote cast at the recent election, hag been
introduced in the Idaho Senate. Tbe
bill Dravides that each county shall have
at least one Senator and Representative.
There are valuable slate beds four
milet from Merlin in Josephine county.
Or. This la the only elate quarry known
in the State, and Portland contractors
have been obliged to obtain their slate
aa far away as Maine.
The Bradatreet mercantile agency re
ports fifteen failures in the Pacific Coast
Statee and Territories for the past week,
a oo m pared with fourteen for the pre
vious week and fifteen for the corre
sponding week of 1892.
Oantaln Anderson, a pilot at San Pe
dro, while cruising in hie yacht off Santa
Monica had an adventure with a whale,
which paeeed nnder and raieed his ves
sel three feet. A shot in a vital part of
the animal drove it away.
The appeal in the case of tbe People
of the State of California vs. Ah Lee
Doon, a Chinaman who waa convicted of
murder in the first degree at Ban Rafael
and sentenced to death in March, 1891,
has been affirmed by the Supreme Court
The Arisona Press Association baa
nmaaad raaolntiona favoring the admis
sion of the Territory as a State and rec
ommending the appointment of L. C.
Hughes, editor of the Tucson Star, to
the office of Governor under the Cleve
land administration.
Jean Baptiate Trauvlco, a survivor of
the famona Donner nartv. and who
claims to have been the only one in
tieorge Donner't camp who for many
days waa able to keep up the fires and
wait on the others, ia living in Santa
Rosa, Cel., in destitute eircumgtancee.
A novel house ia to be bnilt on the
ocean front at Ooronado by M. C. Jones
of Manitou. Ool., lor a winter home for
himself and wife. It wilt be two stories
in height, and the front, facing the eea,
wilt be ol glass. The roof will be fiat
and oovered with cement for a root gar
den.
The Roman Catholic institution of the
Bisters of the Holy Name has decided
to erect at Astoria in the near future a
sanitarium for the nee of the Bisters in
Oregon, Washington and California. The
building, which win mods vacs over
looking the river, will be the handsom
est of the kind on the continent. .
The will ol W. S. Ladd of Portland
ha been filed for probate. His widow
ia given an annuity of 124,000. His eons
are left all banking interests. The sum
of (450,000 for educational and charita
ble purposes baa been left in trust, and
a number of relatives in Massachusetts
have been bequeathed annuities. Am
le provision waa made for all the fam-
An error in the census taken in Boise
In 18U0 haa been the means of depriving
the residents of the suburban districts
ol the enjoyment of the same postal fa
cilities extended to those in the heart of
the city. An attempt haa been made to
have the matter righted, and a statement
recently forwarded to the department at
Washington, which shows that the pop
ulation is 6,900 instead of 2.600, aa erro
neously supposed, will probably help
greatly in straightening the matter out
Thomaa Hann. Treasurer of Berkeley,
Cel., is short in his accounts to a con
siderable amount He gave a check on
the Berkeley Bank for 10,600 to the Ger
man Saving! and Loan Bank of San
Francisco in payment for electric-light
bonds. - The Berkeley Bank refused the
check, ae Hann had no money on de
posit Hann says he haa used the town's
money in his own business, and he has
no idea how his affairs stand. He has
turned his property, valued at about
$25,' 00. over to his bondsmen, and an
expert ia examining his books.
In the Idaho mineral exhibit at the
World'g Fatr ia a piece of ore that looks
like an ordinary chunk of lead. It ia a
specimen of almost pure galena, ground
down into two rectangular blocks, like
twi boxes, one on top of the other. Tbe
top cube ia engraved with miners' tools,
picks, shovel and hammer. On the side
of the larger solid ia cnt in gold letter
the name of the donor, L. A. Lusk, su
perintendent of the Queen of the Hills
mine at Bellevue, from which the ore ia
mined. It ia hard for one whoexamines
the specimen to think it ia not lead bull
ion. But it ia native galena, containing
about 76 per cent sulphur. The ore car
ries 180 ounces of silver to the ton.
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL
Value of Pig Iron Produced In the Union
Greater Than That of Gold, Sil
ver and Copper.
Germany ia building paper houses.
Japan haa thousands of them.
A locomotive that consumes its own
tmoke has made it appearance.
Tbe principle of the bicycle la applied
to the propelling of tmall boat.
The rice crop in tbe South this year is
eetimattd to be 226,100,00 pounds.
Tbe forest of Germany pay an annual
government revenue of 126,000,000.
In Douglas county, Ool., 48,000 fruit
tree are irrigated by one company.
France sent almost 20,OJO,000 bottle
of champagne to this country last year.
The anthracite coal field produce
more than 46,000,000 tons of coal every
year.
In onlv thirtv-alx of Oregon' new or
chard there are 9,000,000 young fruit
tree.
It 1 aid that the Iron-pipe foundries
of the country have formed a $20,000,000
trnet
It is said that 1,000 roee tree are re
quired to aupply two ounce of attar of
rose.
Edison baa ZOO women In his employ,
making the most delicate electrical in
struments. Some 86.009 Iambs are being fed and
fattened in the Cache la Pondre Valler.
Col., this winter.
A single row ef pearl as large as pea
and perfectly round were sold recently
in i'arls lor iize.ooo.
The real-estate brokers in New York
city sold property worth in the aggre
gate $46,000,000 last year.
The time 1 not far distant when a
fiaper-bound book, well printed and 11
ustrated, will be told for 6 cents.
Canada takes in proportion to her in
habitant almost three times aa much of
British good aa the United State.
Denmark. France and neighboring
countries sell about $60,000,000 worth of
dairy produce annually to England.
The silver output of Aspen. Col., the
law jvmt n tr, .u 1 , .w mm uu.t
8,000,010 ounoea of the preceding year.
1... -mm mvmm Q 1 Al 1 0dt h.wu
The number of person carried by the
railroada of the United States the last
year waa in round number 600,000,000.
Sixty-five thousand incandescent
lampa are manufactured every day at an
average selling price-of about 76 cents
spiece. '
The button of the wedding dree of a
New York millionaire' daughter recent
ly married were made of jewels, and cost
$100 each.
Commercial traveler support two-
third of the country hotel, to say
nothing of instructing the proprietor
now to manage mem.
An acre grow 600 mulberry tree;
each tree ha twenty pound of leaves:
from twenty pound of leaves one pound
of cocoons b produced.
Probably the beavieet rudder on record
ia tha. mad for the torpedo-boat Vul
can. It waa forged in single piece, and
weigh twenty-two tone.
Tbe application of the factory law re
ducing the hours of labor in factories.
mines, etc., has caused a reduction ef
wage throughout France.
The fleece of ten goats and the work
of several men for half a year are re
quired to make a genuine cashmere
shawl a yard and a half wide.
The exportation of American beef to
England through all seasons of the year
has, it is said, caused a reduction of
cents a pound to the British consumer.
Colorado' total mineral production
during 1892 waa valued at $41,806,124, of
which $28,101,111 were in silver. Her
total mineral output in 1891 waa $33,
648,934. The value of the pig iron produced ia
this country ia now greater than the
value of gold, silver and copper com
bined. Tbe value of the coal product is
greater than that of pig Iron. .
PERSONAL MENTION.
The Avoirdupois of the Governor of the
Lone Star State President Diaz
of Mexico Decorated.
Governor Hogg of Texas Is 39 years
old and a good man, weighing 875
pound.
King Humbert ha conferred high dec
oration upon President Dies of Mexico
and the Mexican Minister in Rome.
Mrs. Robert G. Ingereoll receive al
most as many letter aa her husband,
and moat of the letter inclose religious
tracts.
Pope Leo has declined to receive Senor
Valoria, the Spanish Envoy recently ap
pointed, on th ground that he ha writ
ten immoral novel.
Mr. George Hearst, widow of Senator
Hearst of California, is the most heavily
insured woman in the world. Her pol
icies aggregate J60),000.
The New York State Senate haa con
firmed the nomination of Mia Susan B.
Anthony aa the head of the State Indus
trial School at Rochester, N. Y.
Eddie Gould Is a member of a New
York canoe club, and until a very few
years ago used to participate in " npeet
race " and other aquatio high jink.
Rev. J. W. M. Williams, D. D., has
now been pastor of the First Baptist
Church in Baltimore for forty-two years,
and ia still serving that congregation act
ively. Mr, Swinburne has written a long
poem on Grace Darling. Hia early life
was passed in the locality which was the
scene of her heroism, and he knew her
father. l
Allen W. Thnrman ia regarded as a
likely candidate for Governor of Ohio in
the near future. He appear to be a
sort of Old Roman Junior with hi party
in Ohio.
The widow of Dr. Elisha Kent King,
the famous Arctio explorer, is said to be
lick and destitute. The Chicago Inter
Ocean appeals to the public tor aid in
her behall.
A letter from Monte Carlo says that
Sir Arthur Sullivan divides his time
equally between work at his villa, where
he ia composing a new opera, and play
at the gaming table.
Mark Twain ha written something
about the experience of a stranger in
London with a 1 ,000,000 bank note. It
i probably the wildcat bit of imagina
tion that Mark ever Wrote.
EASTERN ITEMS.
Ice Bridge at Niagara Falls
Draws Visitors.
LAST YEAR'S IMMIGRATION.
Beer War Raging in St. Louis The
Flow of American Capital
to Canada.
A oorn6T in tin i being manipulated
in the East
The Mississippi river Is shallower than
it ha been before since 1856.
There is only one Columbian coin for
every thirteen Inhabitants of this coun
try. Thousands of crows starving near Har
rodsburg, Ky., are killing sheep and
hogs.
The Santa Fa road is requiring it em
ploye to separate from labor organiie
tions. During the year 1892 957 ships brought
479,477 passengers from Europe to New
York.
Philadelphia' Mayor recently vetoed
an appropriation of $1,200,00) lor com
pleting the city ball.
Oat of a population of over 1,50J,000
there are only 693 persons sustained in
aim houses in Kansas.
Philadelphia haa already spent $10,
000,000 toward building her city hall in
the pest twenty year.
A threatened claah between the white
and black races has put Jefferson vilie,
Ind., in a state of terror.
A five-mile ridei In a three-horse sleigh
for 25 cent is one of the attraction in
Central Park, New York. ,
Secretary Foster ay there will be an
available balance of $20,000,000 in the
Treasury on July 1 next
Negroes have been driven out of Marke
ville, La., by the whites, because they
wanted to educate their children.
Philadelphia society is in a ferment
over the attempt of the Health Board to
prohibit the sals of akimmed milk.
St Lou! merchants favor the opening
of the Cherokee Strip, because they
think it will increase their business.
The Slaven Bros, of New York and San
Francisco are said to have made $16,
000,000 out of the Panama canal scheme.
By a compromise ex-President Beer
of the New York Life Insurance Com
pany gets $15,C00 a year instead of $37,
600. Petitioning for $24,600,010 to build a
railroad from Mexico to Canada, Farm
ers' Alliance men will seek 1,000,003 sig
natures. The flow of American capital in $10,
000,000 lumpi to Caps Breton and Nova
Scotia coal mines greatly cheers the Ca
nadians.
According to a New York paper body-
anatchingiaa profitable calling at the
national cp;Ul, where there are two
medical colleges.
The suffering at Homestead among the
families of those who were in the strike
is said to be very great, 800 being on the
verge of starvation.
JoeGoddard and " Denver" Ed Smith
have been matched to fight to a finish
at catch weight for $2,600 and the best
purse offered at Chicago.
The eerie of world's congresses to be
held in Chicago this year will be opened
by a world' congress of representative
women, the call for which has just been
issued.
A Chicago paper haa been testing the
honesty of the citizens by sending its
reporter round to drop pocket-book.
Very few of the pocket-book were re
turned. The people of North Carolina, like tbe
people of Maryland, will discuss in State
convention this month plan for sys
tematically Improving their country
highways.
The Tennessee Board of Health ha
passed resolution favoring a permanent
international commission to prevent the
passage of contagious diseases from one
land to another.
The trustees of the University of Penn
sylvania hospital are contemplating the
erection of an extensive addition to the
hospital building to cost in the neigh
borhood of $180,000.
St Lout is hoping that her beer war
may last until the summer torrid ity
comes along. Four glasses for a nickel
make the city on the muddy Mississippi
a paradise for toper.
The experiment of the Agricultural
Department on cattle diseases at Chicago
have resulted in the recommendation of
iodide of potassium for lumpy jaw. Tbe
disease is not contagious. -
Visitors are enjoying the spectacle of
the ice bridge at Niagara Fall, and sa
loonkeepers have set np booth on the
dividing line between Canada and the
United State and sell liquor without a
lloenee.
Tbe Treaanrv Department bas compro
mised for $26,0 X) the civil suit against S.
Block A Son of New York, charged with
undervaluation of imported Nottingham
lace. Criminal proceedings are still
pending.
- The Toronto Empire, the organ of the
Canadian government, announce that
the canal tariff adopted for the year 1893
Jiuta an end to all discrimination against
he vessel, merchandise and citisens of
the United States.
- Twelve of the nineteen Chinamen who
were arrested at House's Point, N. Y..
while being smuggled into tbe United
States have been sentenced to the Al
bany penitentiary for thirty days. They
will be deported to China when their
term expire. :
At a meeting at New York of the
frUnda nf ranirl transit Dr. McGlvnn ad-
1 I .V. n.n.l .!). Am tmmm
of charge, on the same principle that el
evator are ran free in large buildings.
Henry George also spoke, advocating the
, aame tneoriee.
The miners in the King coal mine at
Oomo, Ool., where the explosion recent
ly occurred, killing twenty-seven men,
' are on a strike. The men say that the
chamber ar overcrowded, and that
they cannot watch each other and avoid
I premature shot and work at the same
NATIONAL ' CAPITAL
Most Important Meeting of the Finance
Committee of the Senate Held
During This Congress.
The Preeident ha determined to leave
the Crater Lake and Mount Hood reser
vation to hi successor.
The House Commerce Committee has
adopted the report of the subcommittee
on the bill to allow pooling by railroads
under supervision of the Interstate Com
merce Commission.
The Senate Interstate Commerce Com
mission by a vote of 6 to 6 rejected the
railroad pooling provision amendment
to the Cuilom bill, and will report the
bill a that amended.
The House Committee on Territories
without division has ordered favorably
reported the bill enabling Utah to form
a constitution and State government
and to be admitted into the Union.
Senator Dclph has introduced a bill
for the relief of tbe Blalock Wheat
Growing Company, which was referred
to the Committee on Public Lands and
will probably be reported favorably soon.
Representative Fellow offered in the
House for reference a resolution direct
ing an inquiry by a Congressional com
mittee into the state of affairs on the
Isthmus of Panama, tbe expenditure of
money in America to secure acquieecence
in tbe canal project and the propriety of
General Newton' connection with the
Panama Canal Company.
Representative Wilson has received
an order from the Commissioner of the
general land office for tbe issuance of
patents for the lands of the Northern
Pacific, commencing at the eastern line
of Washington and continuing through
to the end of the road, for all odd sec
tions within the grant Montana and
Idaho have been left out for the present,
owing to the fact that the lands of the
Western State have been more generally
old than the other and owner are ask
ing for patent.
Provision is made In the sundry civil
bill for extra rate to be paid for survey
in tbe mountainoue and heavily-timbered
districts of Oregon, Washington
and Idaho as was Ann last year. In
thi same bill $93,00) t appropriated for
lifeboat and life-saving atatijn on the
Oregon and Washington coasts. The
sundry civii bill only provides $50,000 to
carry out the Chinese exclusion act and
the return of the Chinese to their native
country. Senator Dolph claims that this
amount is mucn too small, ana be will
make an effort to have it increased in
the Senate.
The lighthouse bill, which passed the
House, contains the following appropri
ation for Oregon and Washington : At
the mouth of the Willamette river. Or.,
a light and fog signal, $6,000; at Gray'
Harbor, Wash., a first-order lighthouse
and 'og signal, at a cost not to exceed
$6,000, in addition to the appropriation
of $15,600 already made; on tbe north
head of Cape Disappointment, Wash., a
first-order lighthouse, not to cost more
than $60,000, and when the light shall
have been established the light at Cape
Disappointment will be discontinued
and a light of the fourth order to be sub
stituted therefor; at twenty-five points
on the Willamette river between Salem
and Portland, beacon lights and buoys,
at a cost not exceeding $6 000, and the
earn- to be expended under the direction
of the ''"cretary of the Treasury. Rep
resentative Wilson has already secured
in tbe Bundry civil appropriation Din a
provision for a lighthouse at Gray's
Harbor.
Perhaps the most important meeting
of the Finance Committee of the Senate
held during this Congress waa that which
resulted in the decision of a favorable
report of the bill to repeal the Sherman
silver purchase act. Subsequently Sher
man reported tbe bill, and it waa placed
on the calendar. The meeting waa large
ly attended, every member being pres
ent except Senator Jones and Vance,
who ia ill. While a majority waa in fa
vor of the action taken, a vigorous op
position waa manifested by Harris of
Tennessee and Voorheea of Indiana.
Those who voted to report the bill favor
ably were Morrill, Sherman, Allison, Al
drich, Hiscock, McPberaon and Carlisle.
Senators Voorhees and Hani entered
an emphatic protect against the proposed
action of the committee, and would have
been i lined by Senators Jonee and Vance
had they been present The meeting is
said to have been interesting. Thi is
probably in reference to the speeches
mads by Harris and Voorheea. They
were outvoted, however, and the discus
sion will now be transferred to the floor
of the Senate. Senator McPherson said
ths bill was satisfactory to him, although
he would rather have had hi resolution
reported. One feature he did not ap
prove was that which postponed the
time to January 1, 1894, but still he
thought it afforded a relief, for the peo
ple would know at that time at least that
the present inflation of currency would
end and the country would return to
currency and money not debased. Teller
and Voorheea do not believe the bill can
Sasa, and Voorhees is credited with say
ig that not ten Democratic Senators
will vote for it
The proposed Seattle canal ha met
with a eerioua obstacle by point raised
by engineer and scientific men who
have visited that point and given some
attention to tbe climatic condition and
topography of the land and tbe country
surrounding Lake Union and Washing
ton. It appear now that, if thi canaT
hould be built, a depth of water suffi
cient to be of any nee for floating ships
into the fresh-water lakes would be so
great a drain upon the lakes a to mate
rially lower their depth. There la not
sufficient rainfall in that vicinity nor
sufficient water-shed to these lakes to
keep np the supply. As a consequence
the outflow would soon drain the lakes.
Thi question will no doubt come np eo
soon as another attempt is made to put
the bill through the House or Senate.
That it will make a great difference in
the consideration of the bill there can
be no doubt As a matter of fact it may
be positively stated that Congress doe
not intend to dig this ditch, and that it
will accept any theory like thi advanced
by scientific men and refuse the in
dorsement of the Seattle scheme. Of
course, the member of Congress cannot
be expected to under tend the topogra
phy of these lakee and the lands sur
rounding them nor to know whether
there ii not sufficient water-ahed or rain
fall to supply the demand that a huge
hip canal would demand, bat it may be
certain that before any action will be
taken a scientific commission will be ap
pointed to make the investigation and
ascertain whether conditions exist which
would drain the lakee and render the
ditch useless after $3,300,000or more haa
been expended npoa it.
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FOREIGN LANDS.
The Death Rate of London
Almost Doubled.
SOCIALISTS BOYCOTT BEER.
Sacredness of the Nuptial Ties
Disregarded by Russian
Common People.
Russian refiner have formed a sugar
trust.
Tbe Socialist of Maedebunr. German v.
are boycotting the breweries.
Eiflel'e reputation eeema likelv to be
knocked higher than hi tower.
There are at present, it ie stated, about
8,600,000 milch cow in the British Isles.
Liverpool' elevated electric railway
along the line of docks is to be opened
on February 4.
It ia reported that the Bank of France
haa removed the premium it had been
paying for gold.
Russia la spending a great deal of
money in extending and Improving her
railroad system.
The body of a woman cut into 173
piece was found in a coffee sack In the
street of Moscow.
Tbe little trip to the continent which
the Queen of England makes each soring
costs about $60,000. t
Provisions are growing so dear In St.
Petersburg that it is almost im possible
for a common laborer to live on hi
wage.
The attempt to establish penal stations
in the prison of the central province
of European Russia baa been relin
quished. Snow, aleet and high wind prevail
along the coast of Great Britain, and
many small accident to shipping have
been reported.
General Sa ussier haa called upon Pres
ident Carnot to deny the truth of the
f uoro't insinuation that he is a candi
date for the Presidency. ) i j
There is an iron work in the neigh
borhood of Essen, Prussia, where work
men are discharged if their wives have
more than two children.
A German chemist baa proposed the
sterilising of rivers by the means of an
electric current, which he claim will
kill cholera and other germs.
It ia reported that Count Monster.
German Ambassador in Paris, will be
summoned to Berlin immediately to re
port on the situation in raria.
It ia thought that De Leaseps intend
to sell the castle La Cbesnaye at auction
in order that his wife may have all his
property when the crash comes. . ;
Tha silver wedding of King Humbert
of Italy will be made memorable to Ital
ian exiles and political prisoners by a
general proclamation of amnesty.
Within the past year and a half a ter
rible epidemic haa destroyed million of
the cattle ot Africa and inflicted a crush
ing blow noon the pastoral tribes. -
The French courts have decided that
a young man born in France of a French
mother and an English father must
serve hia time in the French army. ;
Statistic of the cost of the late gen
eral election in Italv show the amounts
spent on " treating " to aggregate a total
of 10.0J0.000 lire (about $2,000,000).
A district messenger service Is to be
established and put into operation im
mediately in Paris nnder a concession
trom tne government to M.. tioueoeeqae.
British warship have been ordered
hereafter to return home at the end of
their commissions for new crew instead .
of having the crew sent out to them by '
troopMiipe.
By the explosion of large Quantities of
gunpowder and dynamite on tbe Congo
railway fifty persona were killed, includ
ing lawueque, the head ol the society
Anonycie Beige.
The French syndicate which is build
ing the much-talked-of railroad from
J erase em to Jaffa find that the esti
mated coat ot 6,000,000 francs will be
considerably exceeded. ' " "
- Cock-fighting is legal in Scotland.
Seven Judges at the Edinburgh High
Court ef Justiciary lately quashed a con
viction on a charge of cock-fighting, ob
tained under the cruelty to animal act
Mrs. Chaloner, a Newmarket (Eng
land) woman, haa a license from the
Jockey Club, and personally conducts a
horse-training establishment, perhaps
the only one in existence that is run by
a woman. ..
Tbe new President of the Swiss Re
public who has held the office during
ix previous terms is a Calviniat cler
gyman, and was regarded until lately aa
one of the best all-round athletes ia
Switzerland.; v:'.;-
Listok of Saratov reports that in .the
whole Volga region the sacredneeoof tbe
nuptial tie is disregarded among - the
common people. A marriage can be dis
solved by any three men at the request
ot the husband or the wife. . :
It ha been estimated that government
persecution haa reduced the Jewish pop
ulation of Moscow from 80,000 to 80,000.
All over the Holy City the honaea from
which the Jews have been driven, are
placarded with notices "to let" . .
The Emperor of Austria bas fust pre
sented hia relative, the Queen Regent of
Spain, with a beautifully built cart lor
tandem driving. In return Queen Chris
tina will send the Emperor three cream-
colored mules from Andalusia, .which
are to form a team for the little Arch
duchess, daughter of the late Crown
Prince Kudolpb.
After a summer and autumn that were
abnormally healthful the death rate of
London has been suddenly almost doub
led. The mortality i now above thirty
to the thousand. The increase is almost
entirely confined to diseases of the res
piratory organs, which are ascribed by
nearly every one to tbe low temperature
ot the past three weeks.
' The movement Inaugurated against
the privilege enjoyed try the bureaucra
cy is stirring the middle classes of Prus
sia. The Prussian official are exempt
from any taxation exempt a direct income
tax. Outside of the office holding clmi
thi I believed to be an injustice, an-1
meetings have been held in a number of
places to protest agaioat tbe cxeatkm,