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Newspaper Page TextTHE OREGON MIST. VOlTliT- 7 ST. HELENS. OREGON, FRIDAY. JANUARY 17. 1806. ' NO. i. TELEGRAPHIC . RESUME Events of the Day in a Con densed Form. OF INTEREST TO ALL KKADERS Items of Importance From Domestic aud foreign Sources Creaia at the Dispatches. . Disastrous prairie fire in Western Kuusas have caused great los ol llfo ud property. The gross earning! of the Northern FaolUo for the six mouth ended De cember 81, were $11,088,148, ail in crease of f 1,620,5811. Amiootitto Justloe PeokliHiu, the latent 'acquisition to tho supreme benoh, ha taken hU scat Cheif Justice Fuller . administered the outh. City Treasurer Henry Dolin, of Omaha, Neb., 1" short more than $115, 000 In his aooouuts. lie offors no ex planation for the defalcation.' A board of naval oflloeri has boon ap pointed by the nuvy dopatrineut for in vestigating the condition of the nine monitor lying at the League inland yard, Philadelphia. Disorders have occurred in the East End of Loudon growing out of the fuot that the Uerman and Dutch tailor bout the docks wore hissed. The win dow of the shops kept by German Jew were broken, and aeveral Uerman olub were cloned. The London Timoi, in an editorial, remind tho United State that "w hut her we have trouble in Europe nd Afrioa or not, we will not yield on the Venezuela question. We have insulted nobody, but if we are com pelled to fight we ahull be ready to do fend what i worth fighting for." Stephn V. Kuimona, a prominent gold miner of New York, ha addressed an open letter to President Cleveland, setting forth a unique plan for main taining the treasury reserve. Ilia sug gestion i that if the secretary of the treasury will put himself in com munication with the owner of gold mine throughout the country, he can oauae the entire product of the United Bute to be at the disposal of tho gov ernment in exchange for ailver coin. He promise the oo-opertaion of all hit interest. At the request of Senator Mitchell aud MoBrido the secretary of the in terior ha directed a special agent of the department to proceed to Oregon immediately, to make such Investiga tions a can be made at this season of the year in relation to the alleged ap propriation and occupation of laud within tho Bull Hun reservation (from which Portland receive it water sap ply), the pasturing uf oattle and sheep thereon, snd the destruction of timber by forest 11 res and trespassers. This agent i dlrectd by the screury to con fer with the chairman aud other officers of the Portland Water Company and their attorneys, to co-operate with them In every way. New Mexico offers to supply the necessary laud froe of oost for the colonisation of Armenians in this ooun try. The rebel chloftan, Gungnnhflna, who ha been making war on the PorJ tnguese in Mozambique, South Africa, has been oaptured, and the rebellion will be terminated. Judge Morrow, of San Frauoisoo, gave judgmeut in the sum of $ 300 to a passenger who was refused accommoda tion on tho steamer Willamette Valley for the reason that he had scalper's ticket Judge Shlras, of Iowa, in the federal oourt at Omaha, reuderod a docision declaring that in cases where Indians have become oitisons with all the ao oompanylug privileges, the government i (till bound by the troaty stipulation existing while the tribal relations were sustained. lie holds that it applies on all reservations, aud is wide in scope. A dispatch from Berlin says that serious rumors are in circulation re garding the situation of Italians in Erytbrea. Their position is said to ba almost doaperate. It is learned that the tension betweou England and Italy regarding tho refusal of the former power to allow the latter to disembark troop at Zoilay ha beoome very serious. The notorious outlaw, Bill Dooloy, is again oreating trouble for the of oers, this time in Texas. Both Cincinnati and St Louis are working hard to secure the national Democratic convention. , '" f A special from Rome say 10,000 Abyssinian were killed or wonndod in an attack upon Makile. The heirs of the lute Jay Oonld are being made to pay their inheritance tax by the New York oourts. The availuble cash balance of the treasury is something over 1180,000, 000 and the gold reserve below $60, 000,000. , Charlos II. Hill, a former ball-player of note, shot aud killed hi wife on the streets of Oakland, Cal. Domestic troubles were the oause. The government is taking active steps to put a atop to poaching in Yel lowstone Park, in order to proteot the few remaining buffaloes. Mrs. Alva K. Vanderbilt, the di vorced wife of William K. Vanderbilt, has been mnrrlod to Oliver H. P. Bel mont, Mayor Strong, of New York oity, performing the ceremony. - The term of F. B. Rooknfeller, the ex-banker of Wilkosbarre, Pa , who Closed the door of bi priavte bank in February, 1898, derfaundlng 000 de positor out of nearly f SOO.000, ba ex pired, Edwin Fields, who at one time owned a large part of the oity of Tomb stone, Ariz., and amine worth more than half a million, has been taken to the poorhouae at Dunning, 111., to spend hi few remaining your. Attorney-General Maloney, of II. liuoi, ba begun quo warranto proceed ing against the National Linseed Oil Company on the grouud that it is a trust. The case is similar to the pro ooediugs pushed to a conclusion against the late whisky trust. Sir Maokeusie Bowell, of Ottawa, Out., authorises a statement relative to Canada' position in regard to arbitra tion of the Behring sea seizure claims, that Canada has agreed to the terms of tho treaty uud promptly forwarded her assent to the Brtiish authorities. Three bothers were fatally injured by an explosion of dyuamito in Philadel phia. Tho boys experimented with toy safe, which they were trying to open with dynamite, an explosion oo curing, breaking open the door. The three were so badly burned that their death i momentarily expeoted. The mother austainod serious injuries try ing to put out the flames. Alexander J. Boroday, an electrician of the Westinghouse Company, of Pitts burg, Pa., is believed to be held a prisoner by the Kussisn government, probably in Siberia. He was a natur alised American citizen, but had been active in political agitation in Russia before ooroing here. Albert Schmidt, general superintendent of the Westing house works, has , communicated the facta to Booretary Olney. A dispatch from Johannesburg says it is reported from Pretoria that Dr. Jamieson and other offloors interested with him in tho recent disturbance with the Boors, in South Afrioa, have been started for Natal, whore thoy will be banded over to the British authori ties to be tried under the laws making it a punishable offense to prepare a warlike demonstration against a friend ly state. A representative gathering of men aud women of Detroit, took action ex pressive of keened sympathy with the Armenians, and also by gift of over 600 made a substantial beginning in rendering financial aid to that op pressed people. The meeting also adopted memorials to the United States government, and to the queen of Great Britain, urgiug action which shall for ever ond the atrocities perpetrated by the Turks agaiust Christians. The London correspondent of the Associated Press says that Great Britain is seriously aud steadily preparing for war on a very large scale at sea and on laud, against Germany, or against Germany, Franoe and Russia, should they oombine against hei. Emperor William threw down the gauntlet; it was promptly picked up and energetio steps were immediately taken by the British government to baok up this action bv a most imposing display of sea power. Those in a position to have early in formation on the subject, claim to have good reason for believing that large German banks intend to subscribe for 10,000,000 of the new government loan. The Deutsche bank, it is said, intends to subscribe tor $25,000,000 of the bonds, aud the Bleiobroeders for $16,000,000. It is alaosaid that the imperial oouuoil has been largely in fluenced in consenting to these sub scriptions by the strained relations now existing between Germany and England. , Ten days of sufforing from oold and privation on a rocky bluff, during which time seven of the crew, includ ing the captain and mate, met their death, and the other mate and a sea man terrible aocideuts, tell the tale of the wrecking of the big fonr-masted English ship Jesnnette Cowan, on Van couver island, Puget sound, otherwise known as the "Boneyard of the Paoiflo Ocoan." Seven people are dead and two injured. The offloera of the tug tell a harrowing story of the wreck and of the crow and its surroundiugs as found by them. The interest of American millers is oontered in the next meeting of the executive committee of the National Millers' Trade Association, to be held January 87, in Chicago. Millers have recently practioally docided upon per sistent agitatton for reciprocity with South American oountries, and will make a determined effort for the repeal of that portion of the tariff law which they think conflicts with the flour in terests of the United States. B. A. Hart, a member of the association, says the prospect of the Cubans gaining their independence will have a ten dency to promote commercial relations between the new republio and this country. "' ' A Wreek In Maxloo. City of Mexioo, Jan. 13. A tele gram from Progresso announoes the wreck of the steamer Oxford on Alotn' reef. Twelve of the orew came ashore, but the rest are missing. Jeaunett Cowan Reported loit. Seattle, Jan. 18. Shipping men here say that the iron ship lost on Vancou ver island is the British ship Jeannette Cowan, 8,400 tons, 135 day out from Cape Town for Vanoouver. News From Japan. Yokohama, Jan. 18. An address to the throne censuring the government for surrendering the Liao peninsula hns been rejeotod. Strong reinforce ments of troops are going to Formosa to assist in paoifying that territory. Dingier' Bond Bill. " Baltimore Sun: Chairman Ding ley's bond bill ha the seriou defect of not authorizing the retirement of the greenback. The greenbaok i to be hoarded, not retired. NORTHWEST BR EV1TIES Evidence of Steady Growth and Enterprise. ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST From All Part of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and British Co. tumble Washington, ' Adams oonnty claims not to have had a sheriffs' sale advertised for two months. The large log jam in the Coweeman, in Cowlitz oonnty, was recently broken with dynamite. Waitsburg is discussing the matter of putting in a pumping station during the dry season. E. P. Brinnon, a pioneer of Jefferson county, i dead. The town of Brin non wa named after him. Snohomish axpeots to add an import ant industry this year to her resources, namely: a beet sugar factory. The teaohers of Walla Walla county have deoided to have a permanent or ganization to hold a monthly meeting at Walla Walla, Waitsburg, Presoott and Dixie. " The Whatoom board of trade ha appointed a committee to look up a lite for the Lynden creamery on Belling bam bay whore good shipping facili ties can be bad. The merchant and ship owner of San Francisco and Puget sound con template a telegraph line from Tatoosh island to Gray' Harbor. This stretch of ooun try is totally uncovered. Taooma exported last year 887,310 ton of coal, valued at $1,880,177; wheat valued at $3,018,089, and 278, 984 barrel of flour, valued at$672,126, making a total of nearly $4,600,000. The executive committee of the Northwest Mining Association have deoided to call a convention on Febru ary 22, at Spokane. Invitations will be extended to the state oflloials of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Mon tana. The Everett school board has de termined to bond the outstanding in debtedness of the distriot, and then to put expense on a cash basis. The board is not inclined to issue any more warrants. The problem it has to solve is to run the school without going in debt The Great Northern contemplates increasing largely the working foroes at the big shops at Hillyard. It is proposed to do all the repairing of the Western division at this town. At present there are about ninety men in the shop, this number will be in creased to about 800. The Northern Paoiflo railroad Com pany have notified the county auditor that they will work out their property road tax in this oonnty, instead of pay ing the cash, as provided by law. This i an Innovation and the probabilities are that the company will contract with a gang of men to work out their road taxes in eaoh county. . The salmon pack statistics for the Columbia river for 1895 show: Spring pack Chinook salmon, 487,810 oases; total value, $3,711,858.76; amount paid for fish, $1,776,647. Allowing one halt of the catch to Washington fisher men makes the amount reoeived by the fishermen of Washington for spring salmon delivered to canneries, $888, 378.60. Fall pack 93,086 oases of silverside; 31,500 oases of Chinook; 8,500 steel head. Total 187,086 oases, valued at $450,609.60. The report of Fish Commissioner Crawford for the year 1896 shows many points of interest in the develop ment of one of Washington's leading industries. In this document he says: The sum of $20,000 was appropriated by the recent legislature from the fish commission fund, for the purpose of erecting and operating artfloial salmon hatcheries. A hatchery with a capa city of turning ont 6,000.000 young salmon annually has been ereoted on the Kalama river, a tributary of the Colum bia, and is now bong operated. There are now in this hatohory over 4,000,000 young Chinook salmon in various stages of development i A station for taking and eyeing salmon spawn has been built on the Chinok river, in Pa oiflo county. The total amount ex pended from the appropriation is $7,077. . : - ; Oregon. There are five stamp mills now in Jackson oonnty. The Columbia river is now lower than it has been for many years. Of forty-three vessel examined by the health offlers at Astotria, during the last quarter, no oontagious diseases were found. A oargo of lumber is strewn along Elk Beach for miles, which i supposed to have been floated off the decks of lumber sohooners during the late storm. . The Southern Miners'Assooiation has , formed 'permanent organization at Grant' Pass. About 200 miners were present and genuine enthusiasm pre vailed. Sturgeon fishing has beoome quite an industry around The Dalles. Beveral large catches are reported in that dis triot, a reoenf one weighing 43S pounds. , , . ; . Fourteen additional machines for making small nails have just been added to the Everett nail works. The works have been run overtime for some weeks to keep even with orders. The Polk oounty census returns show 2,440 legal voters.' The entire popula tion is 9,198. Over 2,000,000 pound of hops were raised; 795,961 bnshels of wheat, and 680,607 bushels of oat. The Coos Bay Creamery Association paid in aotnal oash to its milk reducers during 1806, $18,600. Notwithstand ing the low price of butter this season, the year was fully as good a in 1894. Work on the construction of the freezing and packing bouse, at Goble, is progressing as rapidly as possible. The maobinery will arrive this month and the establishment will be ready for operation by May. Mrs. Warren, the first white child born in Oregon and one of the sur vivors of of the Whitman massacre, was recently married to William Coch ran. The couple have moved to Sun Jose, CaL The bride was 60 years old at the time of the marriage.' The promoters of the Oregon summer school have formed a corporation with a capital of $30,000, at $1 per share. The objects of the association are to ad vanoe the standard and efficiency of the teaohers of the various educational institutions of the state of Oregon. It la intended to maintain and oon dnot one or more schools and to provide lectures and instruction on pedagogics and the associated sciences. The total population of Oregon is about 878,000, gain of more than 100 per cent over 1885, and of 18 per cent over 1890. Between 1880 and 1890 the state Increased at the rate of 79.68 per cent Inorease has been more rapid, therefore, between 1885 and 1896, than between 1880 and 1890. On the other hand, the rate of increase was greater between 1885 and 1890 than between 1890 an 1896. It will never be as Urge again, because a greater immigration will bear a small er proportion to the whole. Oregon gained 294.65 per cent between 1850 and 1860 because the original popu lation was so small that the immigra tion of that era exceeded it The gain of 18 per oent between 1890 and 1895 is just about snob a is shown by states which are growing, but not receiving considerable immigration. New York gained 18 per oent between 1880 and 1890. ' ' - Idaho. A new lumbering enterprise has just been started at South Boise. The mill oost $40,000, and will out about 4,000, 000 feet this year. The maximum ca pacity i 40,000 feet per day. A coal mine has been located about twenty-five mile from Idaho Falls. It is a superior quality of octal and can be delivered at that place for $3. 50 per ton, one-half of the price of soft ooal at the present time. It is a very light ooal, free from iron and with great heat A road is to be oonstruoted to the mine. A company baa been organized, which has secured deedsjto gravel bars, and water rights about the Horseshoe Bend to Salmon river. It is the object of the oompany to construct a large cut through the neck of the bend which will be 13,000 feet long, and by this means drain 9,000 feet of the present river channel. A Chicago capitalist 1b about to launch on the Snake river a veritable floating mining camp. On the boat there is a good-sized boarding and lodg ing house to aocommodate 150 miners, an immense stationary engine and boilers, together with dredgers and pnmps of all sizes. This mechanical boat battery will move up and down Snake river, working the banks for gold. . The report of Wells-Forgo & Com pany give the total mineral produc tion of Idaho, in 1895, at $7,853,820, an inorease of $511,900 over last year. Of this production the gold was $2, 521,000; silver, 2,807,450; lead, $3, 036,680. The difference between Wells-Fargo's total and the assay office estimate is largely aooonnted for by the different value per ounoe of silver, the mint using the coinage value and Wells-Fargo the commercial prioe. The difference, 63 oenta, amounts to $3,500,000. Montana. A new hotel is to be bnilt early in the spring at the old Hunter' Hot Spring's resort A ataooo oompany has been incor porated with a capital stock of 15,000. It i to work the gypsum fields at Kib bey. The Odd Fellows at Belt have let a oontraot for a new building. The lower floor is to be used as a pnblio hall. The Great Falls soap factory offered a good prioe for band of horses at Stevensville. Small oayuses are worth more for soap than any thing else at present Governor Riokards is on a trip to the national capital for the purpose of se curing aid from the federal authorities to remove the marauding Cree Indians aoross the border. The long bridge over the Yellow stone, five miles south of Livingston, was blown into the river by a high wind. It is total wreck and oost Park oonnty $8,000. The produotin of gold was 4,100,000; of silver, 4,600,000 ounoes; of copper, 213,000 pounds, and of lead, 84,500, 000 pounds. The output of copper is estimated as being 65 per oent of the prodnotion of the United States. The receipts of bullion at the Helena assay office during 1896 were 10 per oent greater than last year, and 47i per oent greater than during 1898. Montana produoed in metals about 40,115,000 during the year 1895, jnst ended, taking the value of the silver at the coinage rate and estimating the last two months of the year on a pro rata basis The offloial report of the assayer for this offloe will not be ready until some time in March, but it is believed that the figures given will not vary more than a few thousand from the real amount ' THE BUSINESS WORLD Uncertainty in Money Market Affects Trade. R. 6. DUN'S WEEKLY REVIEW The Speculation In Prod acts Has Been : Quiet at Better Prices Iron Quo tations Are Lower. New York, Jan. 13. R. G. Dun & Co. 's Weekly Review of Trade, says: Tho new year begins with such un certainty that business is somewhat re tarded. The proposed sale of bonds offers ground for oonfidenoe in the future, but no one is able to determine what its earliest effects .may be in the menay market, and for the time, it is a oause of hesitation, rather than hope fulness. ... Speculation in prod note has not been active. Wheat is about 1 cent higher, and corn the same, without distinct reason in eaoh case, for the govern ment report, tardily conforming to commercial estimates of some months ago, did not command great confidence. Wheat receipts at Western points were almost double last year, 2,805,703 bushels, against 1,305,700 last year, but Atlantio exports were a little larger than last year. Corn receipts are about a quarter lower than last year, while Atlantio exports are about four times as large. The industrial situation has not materially changed. There is much hesitation in the iron business, and some advance in Bessemer pig. Fin ished products of iron and steel are on the whole quoted a little lower. The business in nails is extremely lower. Nothing is doing in rails, and, while there is rather a better demand for sheets and plates and several good or ders are reported for structural work, angles are quoted a shade lower. Every thing turns on the contracts for ore which are still unsettled, but the great excess in production of pig-iron over the present demand is no longer denied, and it is expeoted that quite a num ber of furnaces will presently dis continue production. Lower prices for Alabama iron renew competition with Eastern furnaces. Sales of wool are large, 6,699,300 pounds for the week, against 5,236,716 last year, although a large part of the purchases are of .a speculative charac ter, based upon a belief that prices may be advanced, if the new tariff bill goes into effect Failures for the week were 431 in the United States, against 421 last year, and 53 in Canada, against 54 last year. THE MIOWERA SAFE. After Leaving the Strathnevls She Proceeded to Honolulu. Vancouver, B. 'OL, Jan. 13. The steamer Warimoo arrived this after noon from Australia. She brings wel come news of the safety of the Mio wera, having spoken her January 2, at 10 A. M., about 100 miles off Hono lulu. The Warimoo brings lengthy report from Captain Stott, regarding his attempted resoueof the Stratbnevis, which contains -particulars already re lated by the officers of the disabled steamer. After relating how the Strathnevis had been lost during the storm December 38, Captain Stott proceeds: . "It was blowing such a fierce gale that it was impossible for us to do any thing, the sea being so heavy that the Strathnevis at times wonld be engulfed nearly out of sight and at other times towering above us. It was notioed that the Strathnevis rolled so heavily that the green light at times was nearly perpendioular with her port red. We kept well in sight of her lights until 4 A. M. bearing east one-half south, when suddenly, they were lost to view, and, from the tremendous sea running, we feared that she had foun dered. . "Owing to the very heavy oross sea that was running, we had for our own safety at 5:80 A. M. to head the Mio wera to sea southwest and go dead slow, as we found the force of the waves was endangering our rudder and rndderpost, and we were shipping heavy water on board, flooding the stoke hold and also down the engine room skylights, wbioh were stove in, and causing considerable other dam age. The rise and fall of the steamer in the sea was so great that she buried her stern six feet under water, but not withstanding all the above, and, at the risk of our ship, we held on to the Strathnevis to the very last, until the hawsers parted and we oould do no more. "We remained near the place of parting for fifteen hours and then pro ceeded to Honolulu." TRADITION DEFIED. Leo to Address en Knoyellcal to Non Catholles ai Well aa Catholte. New York, Jan. 18. Special ad vioes to the World from Rome say: The central object of Pope Leo's policy has always been to bring about or prepare a grand reunion of the Christian ohurches. The holy father has already published two enoyohoals devoted to that end. One was addressed to the princes and the people. The other took the form of an appeal to Anglicans. A third encyclical will shortly be made known. It is to be addressed "Ad Omnes Christionos," (To All Christians ) Thus one more innovation will be added to the others of the present pope. In former times it was the oustom to address the papal doouments "To the Bishops and the Faithful in Communion With the Holy Apostolio Churoh." Leo XIII has de fled tradition by dedicating his enoyoli oals to non-Catholics as well as Catholios. THE EMERGENCY BILL. Comment of Leading Xdltors on the Mew Tariff. Philadelphia Times: The many and various arguments against an inorease of the tariff are reinforced by the latest treasury statement, which shows the revenues for the past six month to have been $8,000,000 greater than in the corresponding period of 1894 and the expenditures $4,000,000 less. While refined mineral oils and their products represent nearly a fourth of this value, the increase in the exports of iron and steel, maobinery! leather and, manufacturers, china and glass chemicals, sn fabrics, and several other items, is even more remarkable, showing conclusively the influence of lower duties, especially on raw ma terial, in enabling American manu facturers to enter the markets of the world. This most valuable progress the tariff proposed by the honse of representatives would abruptly destroy. Guilty of Misrepresentation. New York Times: This is a "gen eral tariff bill." Those who said in the majority report of the ways and means committee and on the floor of the house that it is not snob a bill knew that they were guilty of deliberate misrepresentation. Tbe bill changes every duty in the present tariff, except those relating to sugar, and it also takes wool and lumber from the free list Why should any one deny that such a measure is "a general tariff bill?" And so the programme is laid out to take wool from the free list now, imposing the McEinley duties on the carpet maker's raw ma terial and 60 per cent of the McEin ley duties on clothing wool, with a corresponding increase for woolens, and to enlarge all the other rates by 16 per cent ; "in 1897-98" to enact the entire McEinley tariff, or something worse; a subject all business interests to tariff agitation during the political campaign of next year, and (if the Republicans shall win at the polls in 1896) during the two years thereafter. How do business men like this pros pect? . Cannot Shape the Republican Policy. Philadelphia North American: The president cannot shape the policy of the Republican party. He asks for help, and he must expect help as Re publicans may see fit to prescribe it He will probably accept such help as is foreshadowed by the house. Hav ing led the oountry into embarrass ments, the Democrats cannot expect to be permitted to devise the means of getting back to firm ground. They had that privilege last year, and utterly failed to rise to the level of the occa sion. None of the measures offered are the embodiment of the policy of the Republican party. They are provided for the emergency, are merely tem porary expedients to tide over a diffi culty that only a powerful remedy can remove. A Great Fraud. Utioa Observer: The ways and means committee of the house of repre sentatives have undertaken a very large job.in trying to palm oft measure for protection as a measure that com plies with President Cleveland's re quest There has been no greater fraud attempted on tbe American people. It is peculiarly reprebesnible because it is taking advantage of a pnblio crisis to impose an unjust, iniquitous and re pudiated policy of taxation upon the American people. A Temporary Measure. Pittsburg Dispatch: The tariff bill, while passed uy a party vote, is not a party measure. No protectionist would aocept, as a tariff settlement, the preservation of the incongruities of the Wilson act with a 15 per cent raise. It ought to be recognized by the Demo crats that the acceptance of the Wilson schedules, aa a basis for an increase of revenue, is just what it claims to be, a temporary measure to provide revenue enough to stop the swelling of the pnb lio debt The Syndicate Condemned. Cincinnati Enquirer: If tbe man agers of the majority in the house were in real earnest about this business of finance, why" did they not proceed to investigate the much condemned trans action under which a syndicate made an enormous and unnatural profit out of the taxpayers of tbe United States? Assumption Unfair.. New York World: It is currently said that the senate will not pass the bill of relief. The assumption is un fair. There is no warrant for saying that the senate will refuse to pass an act so obiviously necessary for the re lief of the treasury under conditions such as those that now exist Democrats Should Not Object. ' New York Mail and Express: No patxiotio Democrat can consistently ob ject to tbe emergency measure just passed by the bouse of representatives. While it does not essentially sacrifice or surrendei the prinoiple of protection it is nevertheless practioally a tariff for revenue. Why Democrats Oppose. Philadelphia Inquirer: The Demo crats attack this bill because it is a Btep away from the : Wilson-Cleveland abomination. These Democrats de clare that we do not need money. That is iunny. Great publio enter prises are still held up. The Phila delphia mint, for instance, languishes. Something Unusual. New York Tribune: Probably no one has supposed that the tariff bill passed by the house would be adopted by the senate without any alteration. It scarcely ever happens that the judg ment of the senate aooords in every detail with the judgment of the house. INTENSIVE DAIRYING Make a Few Acres Support a Large Number ot Cows. WASHINGTON STATE DAISY LAW The Law Prohibits the Selling of Skimmed Milk Under Pretense That It Is Unskimmed. "Intensive dairying is the science of making a few aores support a larger number of cows than is generally the oustom, says the Paoiflo Coast Dairy man. It is called the praotioe of soil ing. By this system cows are not al lowed to run in the pasture, as is usually the case; but they are kept up, and all green food put and fed to them. The ideas brought out above exaotly fit our people owning ten and twenty five aore tracts. Nearly every one i more or less familiar with the wonder ful butter producer, the Jersey cow, but it is not every one who is familiar with the way the Jersey cow is cared for on the beautiful island of Jersey. The people on the Jersey island are situated like many of our people, with small holdings ten and twenty-five acre tracts. The land being very valu able, is not fenced. Then one might well ask, how .are the thousands of cows cored for and kept? They are oared for in two ways tethered with thirty or forty feet of rope and changed as needed, and kept in stables and feed cut and fed to them daily. This is tbe intensive idea to make a small tract produce more aud support many more cows than would be possible under the system of allowing them to roam at will in large pastures. To those who are now in the dairy line, and others who may engage in it, here is anoter important point: Arrange so as many of your oows as possible may be fresh about the 1st of September. You will find your cows will bring in more income by this plan than to have them fresh in the spring. What calves you raise are ready to turn out in the spring; your cows are in full flow of milk when milk commands the highest price, and they are dry in July and August, when it is worth the least money. Then through the cow during fall and winter you can turn your hay and roots into oash monthly The Dairy Law. State Dairy Commissioner Smith, of Washington, says that their state law has been the cause of increasing tbe product of the dairymen 20 per oent This is due largely to the effect the law has had in decreasing the sale of oleo margarine. It provides that oleomar garine shall not be colored, bnt must be sold at its original form. It is as white as lard, and is of course not so tempting as when richly colored so as to resemble a fine quality of butter. This spoils its sale, and the Cuds by Packing Company is fighting the law on the west Bide. We have a cow butter man in Seattle who has been ar rested several times for selling colored "oleo," and one of these oases is now pending in the superior court, to whioh be appealed after being convicted in tbe justice court When oleomargarine first began to come in under tbe law it was whiten It would not sell, and the manufacturers said they believed they oould give it a shade darker oolor in the process of manufacture without adding any coloring matter. This was advisable under the law and they tried it They imparted a slight oolor to it, and tnen they said that by the same process they could make it a lit tle darker yet I had no doubt of it, and was not mistaken. They oontinued to make it darker till it looked like butter once more. The law also pro hibits the selling of skimmed milk un der the pretense that it is unskimmed. A man may sell skimmed milk if he wants to, but he must not lead the pur chaser to believe that it is pure. That is one thing I want your oity counoil to insert in the new milk ordinance provision requiring that cans from whioh skimmed milk is being sold shall be properly labeled. The law also prohibits the watering of milk under any circumstances. Persons knowing of any violation of the law, either by selling sk turned milk under false pretenses or watering milk, should re port it, and violations of the law would soon stop. Dairy Notes. The secret of suooess in the dairy is to reduoe the cost of making goods. Have your oows gentle by kind treat ment if you want big returns in milk and butter. Study the nature of your oows and fall in with their moods. It pays to be agreeable, even to a cow. , No business requires more emphatic ally under one's thumb than does suc cessful dairying. ; , . , It is always advisable to make a ohange of feed occasionally for the cow in .winter. ' It gives her increased appetite. Buyers on the Utioa board of trade have deoided to refuse to buy or even handle on commission any cheese made after the 1st of November. i s After butter customers are secured, the way to hold them is to always fur nish as high a grade of butter as that which at first won them as oustomers. J. H. Monard, of Chicago, has re cently published it most valuable pamphlet on "Pasturisation and Milk Preservation, with Chapter on Selling Milk." "....' H. B. Gurler thinks the first move for a dairy farmer who has not tested his cows, should be to have them test ed, and beoome acquainted with them individually. Weed out all the un profitable ones. Then select bull from some dairy breed.