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Newspaper Page TextVOL. 13. ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 189G. NO. 2. OREGON MIST. iai'i;u evKiiv iiiiuav moiihihu MSKGLK & DAVIS. 01T1CIAL COUNTY PAPER. . Subscription Hale. On, enpy one year In advaii,... IW On. mi)f mix mimili. 76 Blugle uupy.... ... t Advertising niton innd. known upon application CO I.UM 111 A COUNTY DlllltCTOUY. County Officers, i Jtidlio .Dean lllnilrhnnl. Kalnlar vlitrk .,.., .Jii.Imoii vd, V.i'iiuma Hhorlir, Clm. K. liuan, Itulnlcr rrniMiiror EM. n harii.ii i.miiiiiiiia i;uy , Hunt, ol rtfliiMila,. i. It. VVutta, HnppMe Amour. ,, Martin W lilts, yulm'y Hurvuvur ....W. N. Mrmrvu, i'oloita (.lnli,i I ...... I. A. KiBk, Hi.mii l'lUU'ESSJONAL T. J. Ct.C(TM. H. Aug. ALLEN & CLEETON, -Attorneys and Counselors at Law ST. HKLKNS, OKKllOK. . NotarlM PCon.Mcln j ani otlnni jr. u. r. cuer, niVSlCIAX AND SURGEON. . Bt. Huletia, Oregon. JR. i. X. HALL, rilVsif IAN AND SUItGEON. Clatukaule, Columbia county, Or. N. MKSKHVV, Surveyor and Civil Engineer I K LENA, OHBUON. .. ' 0Mtnty Surveyor. 1.imI Surveying, Town Platting; lid Kii(iiim:riiig work promptly tit'iiu-d, oriental Hotel A. II. M.AKKLlfr, Proprietor. Board by Day, Week or Month AT REASONABLE BATES. The UWr I. rappMed with the twl the market arTonla. Kvervtliliig oloau. A hr of your iwl muetfe I. annulled. Kl UKt.KNrt. OHKuliN. am. miN tfirnnti ftmintnA SI. HELENS L1YLKI oiADLLo THO. COOPKR, Proprietor. Horses Hoarded and Cared For. TURNOUTS ON SHOUT NOTICK, fiT. HKI.KNS, l : OREOON E. MoNEILL, Hecetter. TO THE JU A S T OIVK TUB CHOICB 0 Two Transcontinental Routes GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY ' i-BY WAV OF-- h ' Sookane. Minneapolis & Si. Pual UNION PACIFIC RY iBY WAY Or DEN7ER, OMAHA, & KANSAS CITY LOW RATES TO ALL EASTERN CITIES OC1CAX STEAM EltS ' LBAVK PORTLAND KVEItY 5 DAYS For San Francisco. For Villi Dotalln fall on or Addrrss W. H. IIUltLUUKT, , General Frelirht nd Van. Agt., Portland. 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N0RTHWESTBKEV1TIES Evidence ot Steady Growth and Enterprise. ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST Froui All Parte of Oregon) Waahlngtou Idaho, Moiitatfia and Brltl.h to lurublat Wa.hlngton. The Ute road oommtaaion bag Juit closed noaaluu t wbloh wui fully dlMuHMM tlia dottbu euturtalned of the logulity of the appropriation for the ataw tvanon road aoroaa the Cusoade tuouutaiua. During the pant lumuier the oonimiMion (pent but a small part of the sum appropriated, the effort be lug made to iuvMtlgate the routes as cheaply as poaaible iu ordor to kuep the bulk intact for ooustruction pur poatis, as the tuombers of the commis sion realized the meagruueiia of the ap proprlatlou when the length of the road to be oouatruotod was oousidered. The result of the examination of the differ eut routes showed that to construct even a good four-foot trail aoross the Cascade division would oost from 2B, 000 to 9116,000, according to the route selected, while only $30,000 was appro- priated for that purpose; while the same conditions prevailed upon the other divisions. The oommiasion be ing in donbt whether the law would al low it to oonstruot four-foot trail which had been urged reforiud the question to the attorney-general, who furnished an opinion that the law oon- tnmnlatMt tha nonatrinttion of a waoirn road, and to build a trfltl would be to spend the money appropriated without authority of law. At the recent session Commissioner Watson offered a resolu tion to report back to the legislature, furnishing fall details of the best route the oost of a trail and of a wagon road, but owing to opposition the resolution was withdrawn, the other members de siring to continue the investigation further. It was thou agreed to aooept the opinion of the attorney-goueral as final regarding the eoesaitr for con structing a wagon road under the bill. For the purpose of ascertaining whether the cheapest kind of a wagon road could be built with the appropriation, a maximum grade, for the puprose of making estimates only, was agreed to at 30 per cent, the width at seven feet, without grubbing, trees to be out off level with the road, and bridging only where streams could not be forded In ordinary low wator. Two of the members express themsolves as opposed to such road, but agreed to figure ou It to satisfy the third member. So that, should it be found possible to build such a road, it is not certain that the majority would agree to go ahead. "The trouble is, said a mem ber of the oommisHion, "that the or iginal law of three years ago provided for a road, and the members of the first commission oonstrued that to mean a trail or wagon road, as the circumstances soomed ' to warrant The old commission in recommending the last legislature to appropriate oertain sums, made its estimates evi dently on the trail or road, but the legislature, while not materially changing the sums asked for, changed the law to road 'wagon road.' " Generally in public improvements it is understood the sum appropriated by the governgment is to be expended on the work, whether completing it or not, and relying upon another appro priation to complete the work. Those who have atudied the Cascade road law, however, agree that the sums ap-pro"--"' -".fi( to complete too , ., " ' ' . sentiment In tf i-.. that the money should to aix-.k r" if a safe wagon road can be built and the object of the law honestly enforced The question of a selection of a pass baa been purposely deferred by the commission until after these other matters are disposed of, but it is be lieved will oome ap for final action at the next meeting. The Taooma school board has under consideration the rednotion of the present school year from nine to six months, in ordor to lessen the expense and put the district on a sound finan cial basis for the next year. A special eleotion la to be held for the purpose of validating the indebtedness to $38,000. The reoent storm on Puget sound was the most severe that has taken plaoe for many years. The Port Townsend and Victoria shipping experienced consider able damage. ' , ; ' Oregon. The new hotel at Bandon is nearly oompleted. , There are sixty-fonr pupils now en- rolled In the state school for deaf mutes in tialem. A sohoolhouse has just been oom pleted at Port Orford with funds raised by popular subscription. , Gold Beach is to have a new hotel. The Mnsonio building will be recon structed for that purpose. The Presbyterians of Medford are receiving bids for the ereotion of a new church edifice in that town. The recent storm played havoo with the telegraph and telephone lines be tween Orescent City and tlie oopper mines. The school board at Pendleton has made a rednotion of nearly 36 por oent in the pay of teaohers in the public school. The assessment roll of Umatilla oouuty, just oomploted, shows a gross valuation of $7,471,686. The number of polls is 1,767. The total area of Malheur oounty is 0,377,440 acres. The population of the oounty is 3,088, one person to every four square miles. The stock inspector of Umatilla county reports that there are about 340,000 sheep in the oounty and con trary to the reoent reports are in good ooudition for the winter. The stock men are better prepared this winter than last The completion of the new water works system at Astoria was cele brated with pomp and ceremony. The expense of the system was $300,000. The entire salmon pack, spring and fall season, for the entire Pacific ooast, was 3,084,877. Of this amount Alaska furniHhed 687,000; British Columbia, 513,877. A minors' convention has been called for the early part of January, for the purpose of organizing a miners' assoclB' tlon for Southern Oregon, It will be held in Grant's Pass. . . The census enumeration of 1885, compared with that of 180S, shows a production of wheat in Oregon ten years ago to be 8,038,718 bushels, and this year to be 9,010,193 bushels. A wood war is reoorted at The Dalles. The price of wood by the com' petition of the local dealers has been re duced to a lower figure than for previ oua winters. An unusual amount of wood has been bought up the river dur ing the year. The contract recently made by the Oregon Hallway & Navigation Com pany, making its line of steamers to the Orient permanent, insures a great trade in Oregon's flour with Asia. The manager of one of the leading flour mills of the state says their flour trade with Asia has doubled twice within the past three years, and he is oonadont it will be doubed again within three years. The arrangements at present are sufficient to handle 4,000 tons per month, and in two or three years at farthest, two steamers per mouth will be needed, instead of one, and the poaaibilitieg of the trade in ten years no one can even approximate. Idaho. . Five thousand rabbits were killed at a rooent drive at Oakly. Two or possibly three new steamers will be built on the Kootenai for pas sage between Bonners Ferry and Lake Bounds next spring. A feed and flour mill is to be estab lished at Ferudale. Bids for a daily mail service between that plaoe and Whatcom has been sent to the poetofBoe department A Chioago combination has made ap plication to the state board of land com missioners to have 10,000 acres of land withdrawn from settlement for the purpose of reclaiming it under the Carey act Two honored thousand dol lars is the estimated oost of the irri gation works. Coal has been ' found in several places within the limits of Stevens oounty, also on the east side of the Co lumbia river above Market, where there is a seam of one foot in width and a depth of eighty feet Coal is also found in other parts of the oouuty not far from the boundary line. A special agent of the treaurer has dispersed in payment $50, 000 to the Nes Perce Indians. It is estimated that 343 native Nea Peroes have died sinoe the Fletcher allotment of land was oom pleted in 1893. The births are re corded to the number of ninety-four. These statistics show the destiny of this favored Indian tribe. The W. R. L. I. & Co., have oom pleted their Nutmeg reservoir and now have a substantial dam 800 feet long and fifty feet high, holding water suf ficient to irrigate 4,000 acres. Water is guaranteed by the projectors by May 16. Ail the government land in this nt is taken no. but 1,000 acres of " iJtv land are still open to The stat6 .. . h reported to the land "Sotnniisaiouers that timber will soon be offered for sale. The timber will probably go to different lumber firms. They will have to build about twenty-five miles of railroad in order to transport the timber. In all he has estimated 410, 397,000 feet of timber, divided as fol lows: white pine, 144,319,000 feet; yellow pine, 85,791,000; white fir, 48,871,000; red fir, 8 .-,880,000; tam araok, 95,601,000 and oedar, 47,139, 000 feet Montana. The fire at the Mure tunnel on the Northern Paoiflo is still smoldering. It will bike months to repair (he damage done by the fire. . . t ' The manager of the Katy mine is re ported to have disposed of -one-third interest to Springfield, Mass., capital ists, who will build a 600-toh mill and probably a Bmelter during the coming year. ' A syndioate of Helena capitalists whioh has purchased the right to man ufacture aoetyloiie, the new illumin ant, in Montana, is said to be contem plating the establishment of an acety lene manufacturing plant In Livings ton, .the requisites of a great water power, lime and coal, being at hand. The new state penitentiary building has just been oompleted at Deer Lodge It was built almost exclusively by oonviot labor. The new buildings only oost the state $1,000. The founda tion walls are granite and red briok was used for superstructure. The re cent report of the penitentiary shows the expense of the prison in the last year to be $40, 736. 20. The establishment of a school in the penitentiary at Deer Lodge is'Va oom mendable movement originated by Gov ernor Kiokard. The prison officials have been instructed to oolleot and provide a library for the special bene fit of the inmates. There are now a number of exceptionally fine eduoated persons in the prison and they have volunteered their services as teaohers. FIFTY-FOURTH SESSION Daily Proceedings in Senate and House. IM POUT ANT BILLS INTRODUCED Appointment of Member, on the Varl one CongreMlonal C'ommltteee 8euat. y " Washington, Deo. 80. The Demo oratio steering committee of the senate today completed the last assignment of minority members of the committees, and handed the list to Mitchell, chair man of the Republican caucus com mittee. The chairmen of the more important committees are as follows: Appropriations, Allison; finance, Morrill; foreign relations, Sherman; judioiary, Hoar; oommeroe, Frye; in terstate oommeroe, Cullom; military affairs, Hawley; naval affairs, Cam eron; public lands, Dubois; Indian affairs, Pettigrew; claims, Teller; ooast defense, Squire; education and labor, Sbonp; territories, Davis; Pacifio rail roads, Gear; pensions, Gallinger; post offices and postroads, Woloott; agricul ture snd forestry, Proctor; private land claims, Harris; manufcaturea, Wet more; fisheries, Perkins; civil service and retrenchment, Pritobard; immigra tion, Lodge; irrigation and reclamation of arid lands. Warren; mines and min ing, Stewart; railroads, Clark; Indian depredations, Wilson; transportation routes to the seaboard, McBride; Nica ragua canal and Nicaragua claims, Morgan; international exposition, Thurston; national banks, Mantle; forestry reservations and protection thereof, Allen; to investigate tresspass ers on Indian lands. Baker; woman suffrage, Call. House. Washington, Deo. 26 It being gen erally understood that the ways and means committee would not be pre pared to report its bill for the relief of the treasury situation before Friday, the attendance in the house today was comparatively small. Mr. Dingley, chairman of the ways and means committee, said the com mittee met this morning and unani mously decided, in view of the presi dent's message, that it was not appro priate for the house to adjourn until a proper response had been made. "On Friday," he continued, "we hope the house will make a response to the nrgent request of the president and take some action which will relieve the situation in which the country finds itelt" Beach of Ohio will introduce in the house tomorrow a bill providing that duties imposed by the tariff laws of the United States shall not apply to food products and raw materials from suoh nations as maymake equivalent reciprocal concessions in favor of mer chandise imported from the United States. Washington, Dec 27. The two bills to be presented to the house for action and their text are as follows: No 1 "A bill ta maintain and pro toot the ooin redemption fund, and to authorize for the 'Resumption of Specie Payments, the issue of certificate on indebtedness to meet the temporary deficiencies of revenue. "Be' it enacted, eta, that in addi tion to the authority given to the sec retary of the treasury by the act ap proved January 14, 1875, entlited 'An Aot to Provide for the Resumption of Specie Payments, ' he is authorized from time to time, at his discretion, to issue, sell and dispose of, at not less than par, in ooin, coupon or registered bonds of the United States to an amount suffi cient for the object stated in this boo- lion, bearing not to exceed S per oent interest per annum, payable semi-an nually and redeemable at the pleasure of the United States in coin, after five years from their date, with like quali ties, privileges and exemptions provid ed in said act for the bonds therein authorized. 'And the secretary of the treasury shall use the proceeds thereof for the redemption of United States legal tendsr notes, and for no other purpose. 'Section 2 In order to provide for any temporary deficiency now existing or whioh may hereafter ooour, the sec retary of the treasury is hereby author ized, at his discretion, to issue certifi cates of indebtedness of the United States to an amount not exoeeding $50,000,000, payable in three years after their date, to the bearer, in law ful money of the United States, of the denomination of $30, or multiples thereof, with annual coupons for inter est at the rate of 8 per oent per annum, and to sell and dispose of the same for not less than an equal amount of law ful money of the United States. Bill No. 3 "A bill to temporarily inorease the revenue to meet' the ex penses of the government and provide against deficiency. "Be it enaoted, etc, that from and after the passage of this aot, and until August 1, 1808, there shall be levied, collected and paid on all imported wools of classes 1 and 3, as defined in the aot hereinafter cited, approved October 1, 1800, and subject to all the conditions and limitations thereof, and on all hair of the oamel, goat, alpaoa and other animals, except as herein provided; and on all noils, shoddy, garnetted waste, ring waste, yarn waste, top waste, Blubbing waste rov ing waste, and all other wastes com posed wholly or in part of wool, and on all woolen rags, mungo and flocks, a duty equivalent to 60 per cent of the duty imposed on eaoh of such ar ticles. "Section 8 That from and after the passage of this act and until August 1, 1898, there shall be levied, collected and paid on all Imported ar ticles, made whole or in part of wool, worsted, or other materials described in section 1 of this act "Section 8 That after passage of this act, and until August 1. 1898, there shall be levied and paid on im port lumber and other articles desig nated in paragraphs 674 to 683, in' elusive, of an aot entitled 'An Act to Reduce Taxation, to Provide Revenue for the Government and for Other Pur poses," which became a law August 37, 1894, a duty equivalent to 60 per cent of the duties imposed on each of such articles." Washington, Deo. 80. The house today responded to the appeal of the president by passing a tariff bill, the operation of which is limited to two and a half years and which is designed to raise $40,000,000 for the relief of the treasury. The vote today was on party lines, with two exceptions. - The Re publicans all voted for the bill except Hartman of Montana, who did not vote, and the Democrats and Populists against it, save Newlands of Neavda, who voted in favor of the measure. The special order under whioh the bill was brought to a vote, after three and a half hours of debate, was ironclad in character and oompelled the members to adopt or reject it without oppor tunity of offering amendments of any Kina. Washington, Dec 81. The house today passed the bond bill by a vote of 170 to 186; and the house, having discharged the task for whioh it had been sitting during the recess, effected an agreement by which it should ad journ next week, three days at a time in order to give members an oppor tunity to rest and visit their homes. The closing hours of the deabte today were lacking in spirit, and there was practically no excitement until the vote was taken. . The margin of 84, by which the first section of the bill, against which the Republican oppon ents of the measure, massed their oppo sition, was passed showed that the friends of the measure ban marshaled every vote in its favor available. As it was 47 Republicans refused to act with the majority of the party. The Populists and Democrats, with the ex cpetion of Hutchison, who voted for the bill, presented an unbroken front against the bilL AGAIN THE TRANSVAAL. The Bwr Republic to Supplant Vene auela In Interest. London, Deo. 81. The Times this morning publishes long dispatches from Cape Town, Paris and Berlin bearing on the Transvaal question, which seems to be displacing the Venezuela question. The Paris dispatch quotes the Journal des Debate as saying: "The London Times seems to be avenging itseii on tne Boers lor the moderate tone it was obliged to adopt toward Uncle Sam. " The Des Debate then proceeds to argue upon the danger to JTrencn In terests of allowing England to seize the Transvaal. ' A dispatch to the Times from The Hague says that Holland's attitude on the question is apparently one of in difference. The Berlin dispatch says the aotion of the Uuitlanders in the Transvaal has given rise to an unusually violent ex ploitation of anti-English feeling in the German press. The National Zeitung is quoted as follows: , "Germany, Portugal and possibly France cannot allow the Boer republic to beoome the exclusive prey of Eng land, especially of suoh a dangerous personage as Mr. Ceoil Rhodes." The Koeniche Zeitung, the Kreuz Zeitung and other papers express simi lar sentiments. It cannot be denied that while the relations between the English and German governments are in no way oordial, a widespread feeling of animosity against England exists in Germany. The Times also has a column article explanatory of the Transvaal trouble, which says: ."Equity of representation with taxation, language, law, responsi bility of the admisitration to the legis lature, and the removal of religious disabilities are among the chief of the Uuitlanders' demands, which they de sire to maintain inviolable." FOUR AMERICANS SHOT. Case Which j Call, for Something More Than a Mere Explanation. New York, Dec 31. A special to the World from La Pas, Bolivia, says: Four American citizens, Charles Joiner, George Miner, Alfred Heard and Thomas Cardwell, arrived at Chuquisaoa last week, after a five weeks' journey from Brazil, where they bad been working for years, and had amassed considerable fortunes, which they were taking home. They remained several days spending money freely and gambling extensively, i Tuesday Miner accused Pepe Gon zales, the aoting mayor of Chuquisaoa, of having cheated them by playing with marked oards, and offered to prove the assertion. Gonzales drew a pistol, but was knocked down by Joiner, and a general fight ensued, in whioh thirty persons threw themselves on the friend less Amorioans. Finally, the police arrested the Americans, letting the na tives go free. The Americans were taken to a filthy jail, left two nights and one day without food. They were then given the semblance of a trial, in which they were accused of being spies, and were not allowed to send a mes sage to the American consul. They were sentenced to death. The sentence was carried into exeontion Thursday night pnblioly. Their horses and other property have disappeared, but it is known that Gonazales has distributed them among his friends and the police. THE VENEZUELA AFFAIR A London Paper Publishes a . . Mass ot Matter. AS THE ENGLISH WOULD VIEW IT One Writer Bay. the Claim Would Be Similar to One Made by Spain ' for Gibraltar. London, Dec 81. The Chronicle publishes a mass of matter on the Vene zuela affair, including maps in posses sion of the colonial office, extracts from the American papers which have arrived by mail, and an article by Frederick Harrison, declaring that the Venezuela claims is on all fours with a Spanish claim to Gibraltar. Harrison says;. "If the United States can persuade Venezuela to submit to a bona fide boundary settlement and to drop her swagger about Charles V and Philip II of Spain, and can enforce an award when it is made, the quetsion oould be settled in a month." The Brussels delegate to the Vene zuela government, Velos Guitiooa, recently visited The Hague, and ex hausted every channel without success in support of the Venezuela claim. Five years ago lie British vice-consul pfflj&lad Bolivar, examined the Span TslfVboords and proved the British as pect of the case completely. The Berlin correspondent to the Standard says: "I have excellent reasons to state that the reports of an' agreement be tween Russia and the United States about Venezuela are unfounded. On the contrary, the ozar was painfully surprised at President Cleveland's mes sage, and any war involving England would be unwelcome to the Kuasian court, on the approach of the corona tion." The New York correspondent of the Times, while he affirms his previous convictions that there is uo longer 'any feeling for war with England at present in the United States, says there lies a real danger for the future. He attri butes this partly to the personal char actor of the president or that quality of it "which bis friends call firmness and his enemies stubbornesa." The proposed meeting of the Ameri can society for the purpose of an ex pression of the people for an amicable settlement of existing differences be tween England and the United States has been abandoned in view of the im proved situation. The Order of Crtrfcders has for warded, through the Hon. Neal Dow, Mother Stewart and Miss Frances Wil lard, a New Year's greeting to the Temperance Workers of America, with the hope that the war will now be averted. The Venezuela CommU.ton. Hageratown, Ind., Dec 81. The re port that Riohard H. Alvey, chief justice of United States court of ap peals, Distnot of Columbia, has been requested by President Cleveland to be come a member of the Venezuela com mission, is oonfinLAd. The request was made Thursday last in Washington. The proposition took Judge Alvey by surprise, and he begged for time to consider the matter before committing himself. This the president granted. He is at home in Hageratown, and will be here until his court meets the first Monday in January. , i Tonight Judge Alvey said that he had not yet fully made up his mind whether he would acoeyt or not, for many of his cases would oome up be fore the district court of appeals at the January term. Because of his heavy judicial duties, and for other reasons, he hesitated about immediately accept ing the president's offer. He is heart ily in aooord with the president's views, and feels under obligations to further Mr. Cleveland's policy. Venezuela's Bepreaentative Here. Washington, Dec 81. General Targe Uslar, special commissioner to the United States from Venezuela, is here with his family. General Uslar, who is commander of the army of Vene zuela, was appointed commissioner to come to the United States and watch the negotiations with Great Britain re garding the boundary dispute. President Crespo, General Uslar says, as soon as rresiaent uieveiana announoes tbe Venezuela commission, will appoint a commission of five of the most representative oitiaens of the South Ameroian republio to come to the United States, and to oonvey to President Cleveland, oongress and the country, Venezuela's thanks and ap preciation of good will shown by the United States government in its an nouncement of its intention to fearless ly enforce the Momoe doctrine. This commission has not oeen appointea. though the gentlemen who will serve on it have been notified. THE FIGHTING AT ZEITOUN. A Masaaere Mar Follow the Clty'a ,. Capture. . Constantinople, Dec 81. It is of ficially announced that the most ob stinate fighting preceded the capture of Zeitoun by the Turks. Bemi-offloial advioes from Zeitoun say the Armen ians lost 2,500 killed during the en gagements and 850 Turks were killed. The narrow pass between the hills leading out of Zeitoun is said to be crowded with Armenians, men, women and children, and it is feared they will be massacred. The ambassadors of Great Britain, France, Russia, Ger many, Italy and Austria sent their dragomans to the palace today to make representations with a view of prevent ing the Armenians being massaored. The financial situation oontinues very bad. v THE INDIAN TERRITORY. A Potent Argument for a Change In tha Kxlatlng Conditions. Kansas City, Kan., Dec 81. A spe cial to the Journal from Washington says W. J. Watts and Colonel Hub bard, of Muldrow, L T., will tomor row file with tbe secretary of the inter ior a potent argument for a change in the conditions in their country. The document filed within due time, will reach the various committees in oon gress interested in legislation for the country. The information collected, it is insisted, will be enongh to dis prove the many statements made by tha delegates from the tribes, that it is a very orderly country, and that there is no need of congressional interference because of lawlessness. The document contains a partial list of murders committed in the Indian territory from March 5 to the last of October. In this time 186 murders have been committed and accounted for in the record, and the claim is made that the list is not complete. In each case a short statement is given. This is set forth as evidence of the need of a ohange in that country. This is a part of the basis for the position taken by the Dawes commission, and will be used by members therof in jus tifying them for their recommenda tions and open that country to settle ment after paying the Indians a fair and equitable amount for their lands, IMPROVING STEADILY. Tha Financial Situation In Thia Conn try Gradually Growing Better. New York, Deo. 28. The stock mar ket opened in good tone, with specula tion very brisk. There was good bay ing, in which '-. foreign houses were prominent, and nearly all active lists . made rapid advances. Some realizing sales caused a retrograde movement and declines were recorded from to 3 per cent The market, however, was fairly steady, and there were no indications of panicky condition. The depression which came on the market at 10:45 continued about half an hour, the extreme decline being in sugar, which fell 2 oents. At 10:45 prices were again moving upward, Pullman selling at 6 per oent and others at from to 3 per oent ad vance Money had raged between 6 and 25 per cent on actual transactions, but at one time was 85 per cent, with no business. The rate at noon was 20 per oent, and 12:50 $200,000 was loaned at 20 per oent Loans have been made on dividend-paying stock at 6 per cent . Gould, Hall & Company suspended today as the result of the slump in the stock market Friday and Saturday. Tbe firm is a small one, and the bus- pension had no effect on 'ohange. Improvement la London. . London, Dec 26. At 1 o'clock this afternoon there was less excitement in the stock exchange, but the market was still unsettled. There was a disposi tion to take a more hopeful view of the Venezuelan question politically, but grave apprehension is felt regarding the finanoial Outlook of the United States., There was not much improve ment in foreign government securities. The American railroad market, which was very excited at the opening, was quieter at 1 o'clock. In fact the panicky feeling seems to have given way to one of more confidence On the Liverpool and Manchester and Glasgow stock exchanges the tone showed a marked improvement and prices for Ameircan securities were steadily advancing. Are Glad of It. London, Dec 26. The afternoon pa pers today, comment editorially at length on the Venezuelan matter, but their remarks are on the finanoial rather than the political phase. While there is no abatement of expressions of belief that the ground taken by the United States is untenable, the tone is altogether more paoiflo. Yet there is considerable display of satisfaction at finanoial difficulties in the United States. . Business during the day was ex ceedingly quiet on the exchange. Operators generally were disposed to await further news from the United States. American stocks, however, closed steady; Brazilians particularly heavy. ' In Iloaton. Boston, Dec 26. There was a no ticeable reaction from the panicky con dition of last week's market at the opening this morning. It is believed the worst is over. The advance in prices noted during the first few minu tes of business was not seriously broken, and a feeling of greater confidence was apparent ; ' On the Aalatlo Station. ' Washington, Dec 81. An order has been sent to the admiral commanding the Asiatic station detaching the Petrel from his squardon and directing that she proceed to San Franoisoc Arriv ing there she will be put out of com mission for an overhauling. Her re lief, the Boston, is now at Mare island navy yard. She has been put in first olass ooudition, and will start on her long voyage aoross the Pacific, in a day or twe The Petrel will not await her arrival, but will start for home as soon as she oan be prepared for the trip. It is the evident policy of the administra tion to maintain a strong fleet on the Asiatio station until the disappearance of all signs of further trouble among the countries of the Orient - Portion, of Spain Shaken. Madrid, Deo. 81. An earthquake has been experienced in the districts of Orensa, Vienna, Pueblo de Tribes, Lu gudini and Valdeorreas, in the province of Galioia. Several houses collapsed, but no deaths are reported.