THE 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.