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county to be withdrawn under the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.