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VOL. 13. ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1896. NO. IN NORTHWESTSTATES Interesting News Notes From Various Places. KVKRKTT SHOWS ENTERPRISE Immigration Boards In Oregon and Washington Orgaalaed to lot Urn Da alrable Immigration Washington, A new road has beeu opened from the Sillaquamish at Grand Falls to Canyon oreek, Wslla Walla oounty is advertising fur btdt for the erection of hoate ou the oounty farm. A regularly organised baud of bone aud saddle thieves have been operat ing in Yakima and Kltital valleys. The counties that have not bonded debU in Washington are, Cowlits, ttar Hold, Klikitat, Ban Joan aud What com. A log booin in the Snohomish river, containing about 10,000,000 feet of logs, has broken and the logs are fast going to sea. The saloon men of Blaine have in augurated a crusade against minors, who have been in the habit of visit ing their saloons. A large numlwr of men are engaged in rebuilding the Northern Pacific tele graph lines between Pasoo and Prosser. The work will be oompleted this mouth. The shipments of Washington lum ber to foreign oountrios Increased from ' H0,000,000 foot iu 1894 to 180,000,000 feet in 1805, with prospects for still heavier shipments ia J 886. Parties have leased a boom at the mouth of the Nooksaok river, and will begin work at onoe to remove the Jam that has made steam navigation and log driving iuipraotloal for the last four years. A vigorous fight is predicted between the stockmen of- the Big Bend and the small farmers for the possession of the north hslf of the Big Bend. Borne of the new settlors are trying to take up land under the desert law, and the cattle raisers will fight the matter in the courts. Everett has several mills in viow. The ooustrootion of the Bell lumber mill, on the subsidy site will begin at onoe. The new oompany who are re building the barned Smith mill at Lowell, are aotively pushing the enter prise forward and preparation for the foundation of a plant are now being made. The looal land office at North Yaki ma, has an application from the com missioner of arid lands for the segrega tion of 77,180 sores of laud in Yiaklua county to be withdrawn under the Carey act , The work of selecting luuds aud mokiug preliminary lines for the canal has been quietly going on since the existence of the commission, though advantage has beeu taken to a very large extent of previous surveys ' made. The contract ' for furnishing and placing the machinery In the flour mill at Hnokane has been oonoludod. and the mill will be in operation about the first of ApriL It will rank as one of the best equipped mills in the United States, being one or we very ew lug only the latest improved maohinery throughout This establishment will not contain a single piece of maohinery or material of any kind that was ever In place before In any mui, ana every pieoe is of the most reoent design. Oreat interest has been manifested throughout Washington in the immi gration convention, which has Just con cluded iu session in Seattle. The re nit nf tha nnnveution was the organ isation of a permanent state immigra tion association. ne piau u -iaation provides that the organisation hii nnmUt nf one member from eaoh county; that there shall be an exeoutive committee of seven onosen, wno soau elect a president, secretary and treas urer from their number. C. L. Webb, of Seattle, has been elected president The committee earnestly reoommended that an appropriation of not less than 936,000 per annum should be made by the next legislature, and there seemed to be no doubt that this recommenda tion would be granted for the question. Oregon. Z Umatilla county has a movement on foot to stamp out the Russian thistle, V The Bandon woolen mills have started up again and are running at full capacity. Eighteen million cans were made during the past season by an- Astoria can oompany. The work on the lighthouse at Cape Arago has been abandoned for the present, owing to rough weather. A new steamer called Ruth has been put on the Columbia river by the Ore gon Railway & Navigation Oompany. The amount of revenue to be raised for the state this year is $898,888, and the resulting rate is 4 8-10 mills. The maohinery has been plaoed in the iron works at Ashland and every thing is now running very niooly with a full force. Material has arrived at Bandon for the light and fog-horns at the light house there. The tower fixtures are now being plaoed. The reports from Tillamook come to the effect that' there ia one of the largest runs of steel-head salmon ever seen in the Wilson, Trask or other rivers. Oregon shows a great increase in the manufacture of butter aud cheese in the naat ten vears. Iu 1886 the num ber of pounds manufactured was 8,280,- 088; in 18U5 this was Increased to B, 881,087. ; ; ; Although little work hat been done on the aotual construction of the As toria railroad, the surveying is being pushed right along, and the prospects of building the road are now considered good. Pendloton't first Installment of flour shipments, is the first ever made from Eastern Oregon to Australia. It con sists of 6,000 barrels, which in Aus tralia will have a valuation of about 16,000. - The Beaver Bill coal mine district is reported to show indications of a very porsperous future, and an extra vein of ooal has been recently discovered, and the small camp haa grown to be a prominent district. The contractors who are oonstruotlng the looks at the Catoadet still main tain that they will have an open river betwoon The Dalles and Portland by March 1st, unless an unusually heavy fall of snow should interfere. The state military board have de cided agaiust an euoampment of the Oregon national guard. The ex penses would have been about f 30,000, and the members of the board were averse to so large an expenditure at this time. Lakeview has been Indulging lately in rabbit drives, and thousands of the animals have been killed. The farm eit of Wallowa have plaoed on the market this fall about 4,000 head of bogs, whioh at the prevailing low prices have realised the owners about 16,000. Before the coming summer is over upward of 600 more stamps will be dropping in Baker county than dur ing 1806. Hundreds of men will be added to the payrolls, and placer mines will be operated on a scale un precedented in the oounty. Shlpmonts of ice have oommenoed by the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company , for their ponds at Perry. Their ioe houses at Pendleton hold 600 tons, whioh are used entirely by them selves. The oity of Pendleton consumes about 1,000 tons. Dealers have not yet oommenoed shipping. - One of the sheep kings of Umatilla oounty, says there is a heavy increase in the demand for sheep for spring delivery, and he believes that sheep will be worth more this year than for some time past, and that there would be an inorease of 76 per oeut over last year in the number of sheep. The Paoifio Northwest immigration board, an organisation that promises to be a most important factor in the near future, in advertising Oregon throughout the East and turning the tide of a desirable kind of immigra tion in this direction, has been organ ised by some of Portland's most promi nent business men. As soon as its proposed subscription fund of ISO, 000, of which $10,000 haa already been secured, bat been raised, the work of the board will begin in earnest The new board will have a much larger amout of money nudor its control, and, with the application of business ideas and principles to its expenditure, its work is likely to be much more effect ive than that of the Oregon immigra tion board, and should secure for this stAte iu share of immigration. Idaho. Boise City has 000 publio sohool obildren. There are 133 oonviota in the Idaho penitentiary, four of , whom are mere boys. A Grangeville citizen intends to put in a hotel and livery stable at Dixie the coming spring. Boise City is ready to receive bids for oity sidewalk bonds. The improve' menu were recently voted by the peo ple of the oity. A movement is on foot for the incor poration of the town of Wardner. An attempt was made to incorporate it three years ago but the legal require menu were not all fulfilled. Water will be running to Dry oreek by July 1. The Farmers' Union Ditch Oompany have expended thus far $10,- 000 in the prosecution of tnis work. It will water 8,000 acres of land in Ada oountv. ; The contract for the oonstruotion of the reservation oanal in Bingham oounty, has been added by Seoretary Hoke Smith. The contract price is f 90,000 and the work It to be oom pleted by June 1. , There was patented in the state of Idaho during the year, 9,893 aoret of land in aid of the State Agricultural college, 8,708 for insane asylum, 19,964 acres for penitentiary, 1,830 pumio buildings, 19,888 for soiontiflo sohool, 69,493 for oharitable institutions, 6.607 for the normal school. Of pub lio lands in Idaho there were surveyed during the year 480,896 acres. The Northern Paoikflc oompany received patents for 91,411 acres of Idaho land during the year. ' Montana. The war department haa issued a oall for bids for the erection of five brick buildings at Fort AsBinnibone. The bids will be opened February !, A colony is being organized in Cen tral , Illinois to settle in Montana on government lands. About 400 families are preparng to move to the state in the spring. The Boss Tweed group in the Poney mining district is now under option of English capitalists. When the sale is consummated the sum of fl, 000, 000 will be spent for the purchase of the property and the , erection of an im mense milling plant One of the largest oontraoU for min ing machinery oonoernt to submit esti mates on will be the new plant of the Katie mine at Basin. It is under stood the concentrator will have a oapaoity of 600 tons. In addition to this will be a smelting plant to treat the oonoentratos. ' TELEGRAPHIC RESUME Events ot the Day in a Con densed Form. OF INTEREST TO ALL READERS Item of Importance Tram Domeetle ad Foreign Souroea Oram of tk Dlapatohee, Canada it to have a naval reserve. -The Pawnee Indians in Oklahoma territory have all left their farms, and have gone to ghost danoing. Peter Hongaard, believed to have been insane, killed himself and his wife and five obildren in Chicago, Vigorout search is being oondooted for the bidden wealth of an old Span iard, who died some years ago in Los Angeles. The matter of the Bohring sea arbi tration treaty is at last in a fair way to be settled, Canada having agreed to ita terms. The Occidental college at Los An geles, CaL, a Presbyterian institution, has been oonsumed by fire. The lost it 170,000, partly Insured. The overtaxation of the publio archi tect's oflloe it given at the reason for the delay in the oonstruotion of the Portland, Or., publio building. Colonel Ingersoll, the great infidel, has been extended an invitation, to preach in a Chicago church, and to give his views of ideal Christianity. Through the oheapnesa of corn, American distillers, for the first time in ten years, can successfully compete in the Frenoh market with the tier mans. It has been authoritatively an nounced that the Yale management has decided to abandon the project of a raoe with Oxford-Cambridge crews, of London. - The candidaoy of Senator AUiison it announoed for nomination on the Re publican tioket for the presidency. Iowa's congressional delegation is solid for him. The aeoond coming of the Redeemer bat been prophesied again by the an evangelist of Baltimore, who thinks the present war talk it the beginning of the millenium. The sultan of Turkey has issued a decree prohibiting the distribution of funds ooueoted in this oountry by the Red Cross Society for the relief of suf fering Armenians. A dispatch from London says the statements made in the Italian newt- papers that Great Britain had oeded Zilah, on the Straits of Babel-Mandeb, to Italy, is officially denied. A dlspatoh from Vienna aays Count Thun, governor of Bohemia, has re' signed, and that his resignation is ex peoted to lead to a healing of the breach between the young Czebs and the Germans. The Gloucester fishing schooner For tune sunk in a oolision with the Boston Fruit Company's steamer Barnstable, off Highland light, Boston harbor. Nine of the Fortuna't orew were drowned and fourteen saved. The Prussian diet has been opened. The speeoh from the throne was de voted to domestic affairs. It is esti mated the budget of 1896 will show a smaller defloit than that of 1896, owing to inoreased reoeipU due to improving trade. - Mail advioes from Hawaii state that friends of the ex-queen are anxious for war between England and the United States, believing that in the event of such hostilities England would seize the Hawaiian islands and restore Lili uokalani. A cablegram from Prague announces the death of .Charles Jonas, United States consul at Crefeld, Germany. Mr. Jonas wat formerly consul at St Petersburg, but exchanged positions with John Karel. He was at one time lieutenant-governor of Wisoonsin. The certainty of the settlement of the Venezuela boundary dispute is' still in doubt, since Venezuela repeatedly affirms that it is impossible for her to oomoromise the boundary claims by any treaty or convention, beoause of the terms -of her national constitution. The City bank, of Minneapolis, a state banking institution, suspended payment this week, pending ex amination. The capital stock is 1300,000. The deposiu at the last atatamnnt.' December 1896. were (638,604. It is olaimed the depositors will be paiain iuu. "There is a general opinion," says a letter to a Boston tobacco dealer, "both among insurgents and Span iards, that General Campos has become ifomontoul. Hia actions, not only in the direction of the oampaign, but his private and ordinary doings are suoh as to give good grounds for this be lief." Tha Chilean treatv with Brazil has been shorn of IU importance by the an t that. Argentina has an an terior treaty with Brazil, giving all the rights of a favored nation. It is the Intention of the United States minister tn ifomand nf the Brazilian government that similar privileges be aooorded this oountry. This will minimize the damages that may possibly aoorue in favor of Chilean flour and cereals. Tha Uuhlllt.iftn of Keene. Satterlee & Co., leather dealers of Philadelphia,, Pa., whose fialuro is announoed will reaoh $4,000,000. ' Nothing can be lean red of the assets, f'rederiox w. flattarlan. head of the Arm. left the oity before the assignment was reoorded, in oompany with John M. . Fenlin, a tobacco merchant, wno lauea at we same time, and neither have been beard from.' ' . - :?, , The members of the government bond syndtoato received a letter from J. P. Morgan & Co., releasing them from the commitment to furnish their pro rata of $100,000,000 in gold, taking payment in 4 per cent government bends. There is no longer any doubt of the success of the loan by popular subscription. ' Sir Herculet Robinson, the governor of Cape Colony, South Africa, and British high commissioner, hat sent a message to Pretroria that matters have been satisfactorily arranged in the Transvaal and that bloodshed it ended. Final agreemet between President Kruger and Sir Hercules Robinson, governor of Cape Colony, regarding the disposition of the prisoners cap tured as the result of Dr. Jamieson's raid into the Transvaal, has been com pleted. Jamieson and the officers will be tried in England. The rank and file of the freebootres are now on their way to Natalia, where they will be turned over to the British authorities, who will deoide the treatment tbey are to receive. A speoial decree has been issued announcing the coronation of the ozar will take plaoe in Moscow In May next Ex-President Harrison has announoed that he and Mrs. Dimmick are engaged to be married. The marriage will not take place until after Lent The Panama Canal Company is mak ing gigantic preparations for railroad oonstruotion. It is purchasing im mense quantities of cross ties and ooal. The Deutsche bank has obtained a contract to issue the Chinese loan of 100,000,00 teals, with interest at 6 per oent, to oost 89)$, and to be issued at 96. A dispatch from Yokohama says the queen of Corea it certainly dead. There it no truth in the story that she escaped at Seoul Two Coreans have been executed for patrioipation in the murder. A Berlin dispatch to the Standard says all the German sovereigns will grant a limited pardon to criminals upon the oocasion of the celebration of the anniversary of the proclamation of the empire. A dispatch from Peking says the British minister has presented an ulti matum to the Chinese government, de manding the opening of West river. The truth of the report has been denied in London, however A series of poetoffice robberies has just been discovered in San Franoisoo by the government and three Chinese firms will lose $4,000. The robberies were oommitted by Chinese who had keys made to open the mail boxes. The Ashantee war in South Afrioa is ended. Sir Francis Scott, in com mand of the British expeditionary forces, has occupied Coomassie, the capital, without opposition. King Prempeh accepts all the British de mands. It la officially stated that Dr. Jamie son and others who are in prison with him will be released unconditionally by the Transvaal government, and that the UHlanders, in due oourse of time, will be enabled to make their demands clearly understood. A frightful aooident ooourred on the Midland Terminal railroad. The train was en route to Denver and Colorado Springs, and was just above the city limits of Viotor, Colo. Fifteen passen gers were injured, six seriously, two of whom will probably die. There is a rumor current in Wash ington to the effect that the United States is preparing to enforce ita de mands against the Turkish govern ment for the protection of Americans residing in Turkey, and the payment of indemnity for proprety losses. Throughout the German empire the twenty-fifth crowning at Versailles of King William of Prussia, the grand father of the present emperor, as em- nf DorminT and the consentient re-establishment of the German em pire wat oelebrated in some form or other. . rinntnin.Gntiflral Martinez de Camoos formally resigned his command of the Spanish forces In Uuba to uenerai Marin. The ceremony took place in the great salon of the captain-general's palace. There were present all author ities of the city of Havana and the chief offioera of the army. The London Chronicle believes both England and Venezuela will institute innn iriaa into 'the settlement and oessious of land in the disputed terri tory. It says tnis will present a dbbis t.r tha rAtiAwal nf nftirntiu tinna. It is now most probable that arbitration will be resorted to. Aftar a two-davs' meetina held in St Louis, by the Populist national oommittee, it was decided to leave the matter of selecting the time and plaoe for the national convention to the ex ecutive committee. At a subsequent meeting of tne oommittee t Xjonis was chosen, and the date set at July 83. The president of the Manufacturers' Trust Company of Brooklyn, has offer ed to plaoe gold in the treasury, and take a receipt therefor. Being a bidder for the new Issue ot bonds, he suggests that if his bid is aooepted the amount -be deduoted, and the balanoe returned. It is said that in this way the treasury would be afforded imme diate relief. . The return of Commandant Herbert Booth, of the Salvation Army, from London to this oountry ia likely to create trouble among the offloers and the rank and file of the Salvationists in the United States. If he suooeeds in supplanting hit elder brother, Balling ton Booth, in the oharge of the army here, publio meetings will be held in New ' York . and ; protest agaiust tne change. , ' THE MONROE DOCTRINE Senator Davis' Resolution a Strong Enunciation. ITS TERMS ARE TO BE EXPLICIT Said to Bo a Mora Foroible Declaration Than Any Which Has Vat Boon Introduced In Congreae. Washington, Jan. 20. The resolu tion drawn by Davit and adopted by the senate oommittee on foreign rela tions today will prove to be a clear and strong enunciation of the Monroe doctrine, when iu text is made public. It is a more forcible declaration than j any which has been introduced In con- j gress on this subject, and ita terms are so explioit that they cannot be mis understood. The advancement of the Monroe doctrine, as set forth in the re port, it said to be vital to the welfare of the oountry and the countries of the American continents. The doctrine, it is asserted, is now in force, and has been in force ever sinoe it was estab lished by President Monroe. The resolution declares it . to mean that acquisition of territory by purohase, concession or otherwise, on the Ameri can oontinenU by a foreign power is an unfriendly act, and such acquisi tion will not be permitted by the United States. The most important feature is that which touches upon a new phase of the Venezuela question the report that England and Venezuela may reach an agreement,and that English money will settle the boundary dispute. The resolution asserU that when disputes on the American continent between foreign governmenU and American governments are decided by arbitra tion, agreement purohase, or in any manner whatever, the United States shall be He sole judge as to whether the Monroe doctrine haa been violated in such arbitration or agreement In fact, it meant that a resolution or agreement between foreign govern menU and governmenU of the Ameri can oontinenU as to boundary disputes cannot beoome binding or effective un less sanctioned by the United States, and that this government must be satis fied that no part of the American con tinent has been ceded to a foreign pow er by such arbitration or agreement This portion of the resolution caused much apprehension among some mem bers of the oommittee, as it it claimed it may lead to many entanglements. On the other hand the supporters of the resolution say it leaves everything in the hands of the United States, where the final deoision should be, and tnat the United States will interfere only when the Monroe doctrine is violated. The resolution is drawn with a view of covering every contingency whioh may arise in boundary disputes, or the acquisition, or the sale of territory by one foreign government to another on th Amrioan oontinenU or islands which are considered a part of the Western hemisphere. . :. TO SUCCEED CAMPOS. Another Captain-General of the Spanlah Forces In Cuba. Madrid, Jan. 20. The cabinet hat unanimously decided to supersede Captain-General Martinez de Campos and his lieutenant, General Arderens, ow ing to differences which exist between them and the political parties in Cuba. General Marin and General Pando, who are in command of the Spanish troops in the provinoe of Santiago de Cuba, will replace General Campos and General Ardereus, temporarily. The names of General Polaviaja and General Weyler are both mentioned for the post of commander-in-chief of Cuba. When the Spanish government was organizing ita f orses to oppose the Cuban insurrection last year, General Polaviaja was slated by publio rumor for the position of captain-general of the Spanish forces in Cuba, to suooeed General Callea, it being doubtful at that time whether Campos would be willing to undertake the task. But his suooess as a pacificator in the former insurrection led to the selection of Campos and a reliance upon a more conciliatory polioy which he avowed himself to pursue .toward the Cubans with the hope of winning them to peace. Bradatreet's Report. New York, Jan. 20. Bradatreet's weekly report says: While general trade has not shown a widdespread ten dency to revive from the holiday de pression, there are favorable features in a revival in iron and steel prices and oontinned heavy cereal exports. Reports from jobbers in staple lines are slow. Travelers are on the road, but returns are irregular in only a few in stances, indicating the usual volume of orders for spring delivery. Rela tively the greatest improvment is shown in the request for dry goods, clothing, hats and shoes. PrinU and ginghams are only fairly active with the mills at work inspite of the reduoed de mand." " " : ' The New Bond luue. New York, Jan. 20. President St John, of the Mercantile National bank of New York, has issued a circular let ter to customers announcing that the Mercantile National intends to bid for $1,000,000 of the bonds, and offers to receive and tender the bids of cus tomers for $4,000,000 additional, on whioh the bank will furnish gold in exohange for lawful money, for the first 20 per oent, and will procure the remainder at aotual cost by importa tion or otherwise, but not from the United States treasury, the bank to oharge iu oustomrs one-fourth of 1 per cent for the service. CONGRESSIONAL NEWS. Condenaed Record of the Dolnga of the Ration's Lawmakera Senate. Washington, Jan. 18. The matter of pensions oonsumed most of the sen ate's time today. The bond silver bill wat further considered, but .without appreciable approach to a oonolusion of the debate. Butler spoke for two hours in opposition to bond issues and in favor of silver legislation. Mills offered a resolution declaratory of the policy of the government against issu ing bonds, favoring the speedy extinc tion of the national debt and for the coinage of the silver bullion in the tresury. '. Senator Lodge today introduced an amendment to the fortifications appro priation bill authorizing a popular 8 per oent loan of $100,000,000, the pro ceeds to be used in providing for the defense of the coast, for the manufac ture of guns and the erection of forU and batteries. Senator Nelson introduced a bill today placing interstate rail roads, whioh have been chartered by act of oongres, under the jurisdiction of the states they enter, so far at con cerns the control of the tolls and fares charged, regardless of charter provi sions to the contrary. Washington, Jan. 17. Mills' speech on finanoe, with frequent direct criti cisms of the president and the seore tary of the treasury, was the main fea ture of today's session of the senate. Wilson has introduced a bill in the senate allowing mineral prospectors and claims on Colville reservation the same as on other public lands. Chief Engineer Craighill, in a letter to Squire, estimates the oost for Puget sound defenses at $2,822,000, not in cluding torpedo sites. Washington, Jan. 18. There was no session of the senate today. Houee. : Washington, Jan. 16. The house spent today in further discussion of the pension appropriation bill. All fav ored a liberal administration of the pension laws and the adoption of the changes of the existing laws proposed by the bilL Shafroth of Colorado in troduced a Pacific railroad bilL It contemplates a foreclosure sale ot the Union and Central Paciflo properties, and, in the event that the titles were vested in the government, there shall be organized a government railroad oompany. The company ia to be man aged by a board of directors appointed by the president As toon as organ ized the proptery vested in the United States by foreclosure sale is to be con veyed to it The oommpany is then to deliver to the United States fifty year 8-per cent bonds to the amount of the total indebtedness to the govern ment, secured by a mortgage on all property subject only to the bonds se cured by first mortgage upon the property in the event the United States has not purchased or paid the same. The stock of the new company is to be sold at publio auction, and the amount realized applied to the indebtendess of the government, and when the latter is fully paid, the stockholders are to organize a new corpora toin. The gov ernment railroad company is to convey the railroad and properties to it upon the surrender and cancellation of the stock of the old oompany. Washington, Jan. 17. In the house today the speaker announoed the ap pointment of Allen ot Utah to the committee on publio lands, in plaoe of Curtis of Kansas, resigned. "A free- home bill," making aotual residence on railroad land grants unnecessary where the lands have been fenced and improved, was passed. Grow opposed the idea of communications being sent to the house by the president and cabi net offloers for the purpose of creating legislation, and referred to the letter sent by the president to Mr. Catchings adding:- "This house should resent any attempt by the president or his clerks to diotate legislation to the house." The rest of the day was oon sumed in disoussion of the pension ap propriation bill. , Washington, Jan. 18. The house to day passed the pension appropriation bill, to the consideration of which it has devoted the entire week, and ad journed. The clause in the bill chang ing the existing laws so as to allow widows to obtain pensions under the act of 1890, whose net income did not exceed $500 per annum, was stricken out The provisions under the act of 1890, rejecting, suspending or dismiss ing applications were allowed to date from their first application. It was announoed that bills covering the amendments ruled out would be re ported from the invalid pension oom mittee. The pension bill at passed carries $141,826,820, about $60,000 less than the estimate. The bill was passed fifty days ahead of any previous pension appropriation bill. Weyler Baa Accepted. Madrid Jan. 20. General Valeriano Weyler has aooepted the appointment to governorship of Cuba. He will tail for the island Friday next General Suarea Valdez has been appointed sec ond in oommand. - A dispatch from Havana reports an interview with General Marin, gov ernor pro tern of Cuba, in whioh he said that the situation there was not dangerous, sinoe the insurgents were always defeated in every engagement in whioh they took part He intended, he said, to organize a fresh plan of campaign in Cuba. ' To Protect the Government, Washington, Jan. 20. The preident today sent to congress a communication inviting attention to the necessity for prompt legislation in order to remove the limitation of the time within whioh suiU may be brought bj the government to annul unlawful 01 un authorized granU of publio lands. Despite the order of the '- court, oolored children were denied admission to the publio schools in Perry, O. T. PROFITABLE POULTRY Should Be in Good Condition When Marketed. HOW TO CARE FOR CHICKENS Falna Must Bo Taken In Shipping Hoar to Get Early BrollereAgrloul- . tnral Bnggeationa. With the advent of cold weather enormous masses of poultry in all stages of unfitness have been rushed to market This is no new thing. It occurs regularly every year, and the farmers complain that there ia no money in poultry. No doubt they are right There is none, any more than there is in poor, wormy fruit or bad butter, says a writer in the New York World. While this state ot the market affect ed the prices obtained for all grades of ' poultry, of course it was the inferior stock that suffered chiefly. The loss - might have been avoided by propel care in fattening and the culling out and marketing of the stock only as it became fit This would have extended the shipments over a muoh greater period and prevented the glut and con sequent drop whioh actually occurred. . Many farmers say it does not pay to keep fowls after cold weather seU in and that they have not sufficient ac commodation for them. Both of these are very poor reasons. If it pays to raise poultry at all, it pays to keep it until in a fit condition to bring money and credit when marketed. Tha amount necessary to fatten is but a trifle compared to that oonsumed dur ing the whole of the fowl's previous existence, and it ia upon that trifle that the question of profit or loss depends. All previous care will oount for nothing if the birds are denied the requisite finishing. . If your poultry accommodations are too limited, enlarge them; but keep the fowls until they are fit. Don't market them a day before. ;, Happy-go-lucky methods may have answered in days when prices were high and competition light, but tbey won't do now. The struggle is too keen. City people know . a good article when they see it They are quite as quick at any farmer at dis criminating, and they pay accordingly. Those poultry raisers who recognise this are the ones who make money. : ; Shipping Poultry. Considerable stock is lost by ship ping in worn-out ooops, which oome apart in transit if roughly handled, as sometimes happens. .Every "coop should be carefully examined, and all bottoms and cleats . securely nailed. The ooops should be strong bnt light; heavy wood is unnecessary if long nails are used. They should not be so large as to render handling difficult. The coops should be high enough to allow the poultry to stand , easily up right, and should not be overcrowded. The close packing and too low ooops are cruel and cause loss by suffocation. Hens and roosters should be shipped separately whenever possible. How to Get larly Brollera. If you want your hens to lay in the fall and early winter when eggs are worth 26 oenU, never keep a hen after she is three years old, and turn out 'your pullets early in the spring, says the North Yakima Farmer. The way to get early pullets is to hatch the eggs in an incubator and have several little brooder houses, the kind that H. A. March has on Fidalgo island. Erect them of boards an inch thick, one foot wide and seven feet high, and taok black asphaltnm paper all over the in side. The size should be ten feet square. Lay a floor of rough boards. In the center of it have the "mother." Under this mother the chickens will huddle. Have a thermometer hang ing under the raised platform and keep the temperature at ninety by turning the screw of the lamp up or down. At the back of the brooder house make a little slot drop gate, and when the spring days are bright "and - warm enough, raise this and let the obioka run out on a little grass plat fenced with laths. ' This yard should be wide as the house, ten feet, and about twen ty feet long. With suoh an arrange ment brother March has thousands ot ohioks growing before any one else sets a hen. He gets his broilers (cock erels) qn the Seattle market in April when they are worth 76 oenU apiece. And in November and Deoember he has thousands of dozens of eggs in barrels kept fresh by a preparation of lima. Our Agricultural Bnggeationa. Good land will not produoe a good orop without good cultivation. Paper cans are now being introduced in place of tin cans, for preserving fruit ;., ; If there is a stagnant pool of water near the house or on the farm where the stock oan get at it, drain it some how. ' ' - '- '' We are asked if ground cob is valu able? Corn ground on the cob, with say half its bulk of oaU, mixed with out hay makes a good ration for oowa or horses. ' ; Take extra care of improved stock, it advioe often given. Take extra care ot any kind of atock. In fact tha poorer the stock the better the care it needs to insure any return whatever. Some people gather the potato vines with a revolving rake before digging. It looks like a good plan tor it removes the vines out of the way and they are bunched ready to cart to the barnyard. Constructing little ventilators with holes in them, in the potato bins, has been tried with great satisfaction, it ia claimed. The moisture from the pota toes passes off through these ventilators.