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VOL. 13.
ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1896.
NO. 6.
NORTHWEST BREVITIES
Evidence ot Steady, Growth
end Enterprise.
ITEMS OF GENEBAL INTEREST
From All Hi, Cities and Town, of th,
I'nolMo State, ud Territorial
Washington.
An opera house aud danoe hall oom
blued la to be erected at Kalama.
Washington haa 113 member. In her
legislature, while tba new state of
Utah haa sixty-three.
A oontraot haa. been signed to build
lit Everett a aaw mill with a oapaolty
of 60,000 feet a day.
The Marysville labor exchange has
aturted a depository, by aelllug ihlnglea
- aud laying in stock of groceries.
Washington1! lumber product for
1800 whi the value ot $0,800,000 of
whioh 12,000,000 was In ihlnglea.
A fonr-atory brewery with atone
foundation la to be ereotod at Turn
water. Ita dimensions will be 38x1)0
feat
An Indian on the North beaoh oap
tored a flue speoiineh of the Arctic owl
one day last week. The captain of the
aohoouer Thayer paid 95 for lb
A oheeae factory with all the latest
Machinery it to be erected at Daren
port, aud ia expected to be ready to
commence operationa in the apring.
A carload of oedar doors baa been
ordered from Taooma for England.
Thia sample order gives promise of
many large European shipments. The
same Arm several months ago shipped
9,700 doors to Portland, Me.
The state insurance commissioner's
roimrt for the year shows receipts of
$4,488. 80 and expenditures of $1 ,644. 60
during 181)6; excess of reoeipta, $2,
8U8.80. The aeoretary of state has de
cided to strictly enforce the provisions
of the law licensing tnanranoe agents
during the present year.
Uue point that was well brought out
at the immigration convention was
that the state ot Washington is, taken
as a whole, a place where farmers to
be suowHuiful do not require large hold
ings. It is a atate whore ten acres
will give an industrious man inde
pendence. Ten acres of Irrigated laud
or ten acres of our best land In West
ern Washington make a fine farm.
While the oatching and marketing of
shrimps baa been a oousidorable indus
try in the waters about Ban Francisco
for nearly a score of years, it was al
ways thought that shrimps did'uot ex
ist in Pugot sound. Lately, however,
they have been found there in large
numbers, and a company baa been
formed to oatoh them and ship them to
Eastern market. The Bound shrimps
are aaid to be finer than any yot found
on the Paoiflo coast.
The Increased interest taken In the
proceedings ot the state dairy asaooia
tion augurs well for the future. Dairy
ing is destined to be the greatest of all
the agricultural intercuts in the state.
Ita possibilities are almost limitless.
Then it ia to be remembered that dairy
ing draws in ita train other interests.
In fact the dairy is the foundation for
auooesaful mixed farming, and, all
things considered, mixed farming is
the safest and best for ninety-nine out
of every bundrd ranchers in the state.
Experience in hop and wheat-raising
baa shown tho unwisdom of carrying
all the eggs In one basket.
The biggest logging Industry on the
Bound will probably be operated in
Jefferson oounty this year, ny Air.
Drown. He already baa orders tor 16,'
000,000 feet of timber, and may pos
sibly double that amount before the
summer is over. He is being looked to
by the mill companies for the best logs
that will be floated into tne bouuq anu
the orders that he baa already received
makes it oertain that there will be
more losniuff done in thia section dur
ing the coming season than has ever
been known before. In the vloinity of
the two or three camps that Mr. Brown
proposes to establish, he claims that
there are SOO.OOO.uuu reel or nne tim
ber, ready for the ax, and that it will
furnish profitable logging for twenty
five years. A season's work, he says,
will hardly make a notioeable losa in
the timber thereabouts.
- Orson.
Last year's product of oorn was
816,870 bushels.
The ofllolal figures of the Harney
oounty assessment are $1,734,088.
A freight train numbering fifty cars,
containing wheat, waa shipped trom
near Pendleton last week.
. Junotion City is to have an eleotrio
light plant the oouucil having granted
thirty-years' franohiae to Robert Clow
and his associates.
The two Nestuooa valleys are to be
oonneoted by a wagon road, the court
having favorably passed on a recent
petition to that effeot.
The stool-head salmon have been so
numerous at Coquille this week that
the good people there have been quite
willing for Lent to ooinmenoe.
In oase of urgent need of malitia
protection, about 1,600 men, including
two batteries, oan be rendesvoused in i
twenty-four hours, at Portland.
An Oregon man haa attained con
siderable distinction in Philadelphia
by carrying off the prise for growing
three fine yellow Denver onions.
AUO - - vhuuwm tUiUUU .
out 9,000 broom handlea for one ship
ment to San Franoisoo. This industry,
and the woolen mills, whioh have re
nnntlv resumed operations, have raised
thn nonnlation of that town to over
19 on I
The death rate among the Indiana
ot the Klamath reservation is roported
to be very high owing to the whooping
cough eptdemlo, and the redskins have
returned to the aboriginal sweat-house
treatment ot the disease.
One of Polk oounty's wealthiest land
owners has had the fever for some
years to engage in raising ooffeo. He
wanted to visit Bouth or Central
America in the Interest ot this sub
ject, but has at last decided to send to
Mexico for ooffoe trees.
The Polk oounty tax levy is 14
mills, ot which 4 8-10 mills is for the
state; 4 3-10 mills for the oounty and
6 for schools. This is an inorease of
1 mill over last year's rate. The
oounty valuation has been left by the
state board at $14,077,807. Umatilla
oounty's rate is 18 mills.
Jackson oounty people may not be
expected to urge the next legislature
to action In the matter of reapportion
ment, as they will be apt to lose one
representative. The oounty assessor's
oensus shows a population of 18,000
whioh would entitle them, aocording to
the new oensus to a less representa
tion. The Democratic state convention
has been called to meet at Portland,
April 0. Nominations will be made
for one oandldate for oongress from
each congressional district, and can
didates for such other state and distriot
offices aa may be required under the
law. Nonlinatlons will also be In
order for foor candidates for presiden
tial electors and eight alternates to the
national Democratic convention.
A good aieed ledge of high-grade car
bonate of oopper and black oxide of
copper ore has been struck in the oop
per mines near Waldo. Because of
the quantity and quality of the ores
the oompany will at onoe ereot its
smelter, so that within six weeks two
smelters will be running In Josephine
oounty. The development work on
the oopper mines oousists of a tunnel
on the south side of the oreek eighty
five feet in depth and two tunuola and
a shaft a abort dlatanoe to the south
west and about 900 feet above the
orook.
Idaho.-
Snake river haa been closed for the
season.
A new Masonic lodge was organized
at Blaokfoot last Saturday evening.
The oity of Lewiston baa $10,688.87
in outstanding warrants and interest.
The great Bruneau canal is now
completed. It ia twenty miles long
and coHt over $200,000.
The first annual meeting of the
Idaho atate horticultural society was
held at Boise, January 33 and 23, 1800.
The ioe season in Boise is over and
all the largest ioohouses are full.
About 0,000 pounds were put up this
year.
Of available farming land Idaho has
neirly 10,000,000 aorea and more than
double this number ot grazing land,
Its forests embrace thousands of square
mliei, or 7,000,000 aorea of pine,
spruce, fir and mahogany.
' A band of Bannock Indians, under
the leadership of Jim Ballard, have
been giving no little trouble of late.
Threatening demonstrationa have been
made against Agent Teller compelling
him to qall on the Uuitetd States mar
shal lor protection.
The Amorioan Land and Power Com
pany haa received a detailed statement
from H. R. Grant, of Bookline, Mass.,
of the coat of constructing and operat
ing two-set woolen mill at American
Falls. Mr. Grant assures the oom
pany that he will invest a considerable
sum in the enterprise himself and will
Induce bis associates in the East to do
the aame, aud it is possible that aotual
construction will commence in the
spring. According to the estimates,
the cost of the mill will be $64,000.
The faoilities for obtaining wool in
Idaho are ample and there is a local
market for the output of such a mill.
Montana.
Referring to the new bounty law,
the commissioners' report saya it is,
the most benefioial law tor protection
of the stock interests ever enacted in
Montana. Wolvea are fast disappear
ing, and on some slopes have become
soaroe. The report says it is a quea
tion of but few years when the
wolvea will be almost wiped out
While feed is reported short on almost
all of the ranges, cattle are in good
oondition.
One of the latest business enterprises
of this oommunlty is the organization
of the Danzer Sheep Company. The
capitalization of this institution is
placed at 60,000 shares, tne par vaine
of whioh is $1 eaon. Tne property
whioh has thus been placed in the
hands ot a stock oompany is the mam
moth possessions of G. F. Danzer, and
inoludea some of the finest meadows
of our valley. It lies along the north
fork of Smith river for a distance ot
seven miles and commands a large
range. The premises are in a high
state of cultivation and the new com
pany starts out with splendid prospects.
The trustees for the first three months
are G. F. Danzer, Miohael Danzer and
J. T. Anderson.
Brltlah Columbia. -
The Vanoouver poultry show held
reoently was well attended, and bad
upwards of 400 entries.
A bridge 360 feet long is being built
by the government, crossing Cranberry
oreek at Paul's landing.
Work was resumed on the Slough
oreek drain tunnel about the first of
the month. It is expected to have the
drain aoross to the head of Nelson
oreek by April 1.
There was an extraordinary run of
herring in Departure bay last week.
A few strokes of the herring rake were
sufficient, in almost every Instance,
to flu a boat with nun. . .
TELEGRAPHIC RESUME
Events of the Day in a Con
densed Form.
OF INTEREST TO ALL EEADEES
Items of Important), from Domeatle
aud Foreign Bourse, Cream
of the Ol.patehe,.
Earthquakes have been noted In vari
ous parts of the state of Oaxooa,
Mexioo.
Uoneral Thomas Swing, ex-member
of oongress trom Ohio, is dead, at the
age of 67.
Three men were killed and four re
ceived serious injuries by the explosion
of gas ir New Haven, Conn.
England's application for the
American loan will involve the export
of $3,000,000 of gold within a week.
Advices from Crown Point, Ind.,
state that bloodhounds are to be used
to trail criminals hiding in the Kan
kakee swamps.
As the result of a fire in' St Louis
five firemen were buried in the ruins,
and another died from Injuries received
while fighting the flames.
Despite the prohibitory decree of the
sultan, the Red Cross Society ia pre
paring an expedition to Turkey to dis
tribute relief to the Armenian suffer
ers. The hoisting maohine in the convert
ing department of the Ohio Steel Com
pany, at Youngstown, O., went wrong
and one man was killed and two sen
ously Injured.
The death of Prinoe Henry, ot Bat
tenberg, is announced He accom
panied the British expeditionary forces
to South Africa, and while there con
tracted a fever of whioh he died.
The supreme court rendered an im
portant deoision in San Franoisoo, de
claring that the stockholders of the de
funct Paoiflo bank are individually
liable for the debts of the corporation.
The Mohammedan rebellion, in the
Chinese province of Kansu, has been
entirely suppressed, and the country
puoitled. There have been many ex
ecutions, inoluding the leaders of the
insurrection.
The site for the United States peni
tentiary, whioh was located by the
commission about eighteen months ago
near the state penitentiary in Walla
Walla, baa been approved by the gov
ernment, and the title aooepted.
A detailed account of the surrender
of King Prempeb, of Ashantee, to the
British expeditionary force in Honth
Africa, state that his majesty aotual ly
groveled in the duBt aa a mark of bis
complete submission to England.
A row between Theodore Luebcke, a
carpenter, and William Solomon, a
German compatriot, at tne home or tne
former in Portland, Or., ended in
Luebcke stabbing to the heart and al
most instantly killing Solomon. Fam
ily troubles were the cause.
It is stated that a rupture between
Brazil and Italy is imminent, owing
to Brazil's tardiness in satisfying Ital
ian claims arising out of the oivil war
in Brazil. It is reported the warship
Benjamin Constant has started to oo
oupy the island of Trinidade.
A dispatch from San Salvador says
the minister ot war is mobilizing the
militia, ot whioh in this oity alone
there are 7,000 available. The gov
ernment asserts this ia done for the
purpose of aooustoming the militia to
the use of anna and to perfeot tneir
drill.
A dispatch from Ekaterinoslav, the
capital of the government of that
name, in Southern Russia, gives de
tails of a fire that occurred in a
theater, causing a great losa of life.
The fire was discovered while a per
formance was going on. The speota
tors became panio-strioken, and made
a wild rush for the exits. Forty-nine
bodies have already been taken out
Truly Shattuok, the young aotress,
has fled from San Franoisoo to avoid
testifying against her mother, who is
being tried for the murder of Harry
Poole. Truly was the chief witness
againBt her mother during the first
trial, as Mrs. Shattuok shot the young
man on account of the attentions to
her daughter, and it was proved that
Truly, at the command of her mother,
wrote Poole a note whioh summoned
him to her house the day he waa shot
There ia to be a sensational oontest
in Andersonville, Ind., between Dr.
Covert, who bas reoently sued and
been sued by the Indiana Spiritualists,
and Dr. Harry Adams, ot Crawfords
ville who olaims to represent the
Spiritualists, but many disclaim Mm.
For six nights Dr. Adams is to appear
and Dr. Covert has wagered that he
will do everything Dr. Adams per
forms, Covert not claiming! any med
ium assistance. The men have put up
$500 with the judges.
Knontiatlnna between the Rio Grande
Western and the Wesern Passenger As
uviintlnn havA been broken off aeain.
Tha Rin Grande Western has agreed,
however, to oease paying a commis
sion on tickets from salt ijaae to uen-
manrvinir to itself the right to Out
vote. whAiiAVM nflftAARarv to meet the
competition of the Union Paoiflo, The
Western ' roads have agreed to make
half fare rates for commissioned offioers
of the army and navy and the depend
ent members of the families when they
travel at their own expense.
.1 n Oawnld. who has lust returned
from the Orient, and who was a wit
ness of the execution of the Chinese
rlnolnarinra nf the rncenfc" massacres of
missionaries In that country, in speak-1
ing ot it says: "Alter tne exeoution
bad taken place the heads ot the five
ringleaders were plaoed in buckets
whioh were out o as to give a full
view of their ghastly oontenta and the
buckets were hung on the Foo Chow
bridge, where they remained on exhi
bition for two days. Then they were
taken to Ku Cheng, the scene of the
massacre of the ten Christian girls, and
were then hung on ' trees, where they
are probably still hanging. To remove
one of the beads means immediate
death to the offender. The exeoution
has had a great moral effect on the
Chinese, and I think it will be a long
time before there will be murderous
interference with the missionaries."
John Tyler, eldest son of President
Tyler, died in Washington, aged 76.
Twenty -nine hundred miners at Co
lumbus, O., returned to work, having
settled their trouble.
President Cleveland has consented
to be present at the 'anniversary cele
bration at Princeton oollege.
, A San Franoisoo paper says the presi
dent bas aooepted an invitation from
Attorney W. W. Foote to spend part
of his vacation next summer on the
Paoiflo coast
The ioe gorge in the Maumee river,
about eight miles above Toledo, broke
and in running ont carried away two
spans of the new bridge in oourse of
construction. The loss is estimated at
$60,000.
In a heavy fog, with the wind in the
northeast and the surf running far np
the beach, the American liner St Paul,
bound in, went ashore on Long Island.
All of the 700 passengers were safely
transferred to land.
A special to Novoe Vremya from
Vladivostock says news has been re
ceived from Peking that the Chinese
government haa assigned a large sum
for the creation of a fleet The plan
of construction is very large.
Herr Knebel-Doeberitz, a high offi
cial of the ministry of the Interior,
who drafted the regulations exolnding
the American insurance companies
from doing business in Germany, has
received a high decoration from Em
peror William.
The Hon. Theodore Runyon, United
States ambassador to Germany, expired
suddenly and unexpectedly at Berlin
of heart failure. Mr. Runyon had
been in - somewhat feeble health for
some time past, but no immediate
fatal results were anticipated.
A special to the New York World
from Kingston, Jamaica, says a serious
uprising is reported in Port-au-Prinoe,
the capital of Hayti. After three days'
rioting in the streets, the insurrection
was surpressed. There is general un
easiness throughout the island.
Colonel Crofton baa been reqested to
retire by Secretary Lamont. The col
onel refuses to comply, and relies on
the influenoe of bis nephew, Dupont of
Delaware, who claims an election as
United States senator, to retain for
him his position in the army.
A special to the Boston Traveller,
from New York, saya that the ban
plaoed by the Catholic church upon
the orders of Knights of Pythias, Sons
of Temperance and Odd Fellows is ab
solute, and offers no further discussion.
This is the mandate of the pope,
through his representative, Cardinal
Satolli. t
The imperial court ot Leipsio, Ger
many, has ruled on a case whioh affects
the rights of German-Americans. F.
W. Beohine, of Brooklyn, N. Y., was
fined in September last the sum of 200
marks for evading military aervloe by
emigrating. The court quashed thia
sentence, as not being in aooord with
treaty rights.
A bill has been introduced in the
Kentucky legislature by Goebfl to re-
peal the charter of the Southern loiflo
Railway Company, obtained in 1884
by C. P. Huntington. The road bas
never been operated in Kentucky, but in
California, and the action of the sena
tor is prompted by resolutions of mass
meetinga of oitizena of California,
Postmaster-General Wilson has is
sued a general order providing that in
all oities and towns having free deliv
ery postal service, the postal system be
extended to inolude house-to-house
collections. For the convenience of
the department, however, the introduc
tion of boxes in houses, until further
orders, will be confined to twenty-five
places.
A meeting of the American mer
chants in Pretoria, waa held, and it
was decided to telegraph to Secretary
of State Olney that in view ot the in
terests of American citizens and the
faot that their property was jeopar
dized, it was requested that a diplo
matic agent be sent to arrange matters
with a view to any exigencies whioh
might arise.
The secretary of the Oakland, Cal.,
blanch of the American Railway Union
has received a letter from the private
seoretary of E. V. Debs, in whioh the
statement telegraphed from the East
that Debs is to resign the presidency of
the union is denied. He saya Debs
will win the fight be is now engaged
in on behalf of organized labor or die
in the attempt
The Chinese government has agreed
to open the West river, provided China
ia allowed to retain the territory oeded
under the Burmah-China convention ot
1894. The opening of two porta on
the West, or Si Kiaug river, namely,
Shao King and Wu Chow, waa stipu
lated for by the Japanese as part ot the
terms of peace. The oities of Canton
and Hong Kong are situated on the bay
into whioh the West river empties.
At a meeting of the grand offioers
of the Knights of Pythias, held in Cin
cinnati, the following resolution was
passed: "Resolved, That it is the
unanimous sense of the assembly that
no encampment of- the uniformed rank
should be held during 1896, unless a
guaranteed rate of one oent per mile
by the shortest praotioable route, with
a limit of twenty days, oan be sc
oured."
NOW RUSSIA'S VASSAL
An Offensive and Defensive
Alliance Formed.
TREATY SIGNED BY THE POETE
In the Brant of Ku.ala Going to War
Turk? Agrees to Clou tha Oar- - .
dandle, to All Worships.
London, Jan. 37. A dispatch to the
Pall Mall Gazette from Constantinople,
dated yesterday, says an offensive and
defensive alliance bad been concluded
between Russia and Turkey. The dis
patch adds the treaty was signed at
Constantinople and ratifications were
exchanged at St Petersburg between
Aarej Pasha and the ozar. The basis
of the treaty is declared to be on the
lines of the Unkiar Skelessi agreement
of 1828, by which Turkey agreed in the
event of Russia going to war, to close
the Dardanelles to the warships of all
nations. The Pall Mall Gazette cor
respondent -says this treaty was soon
abandoned, owing to the refusal of the
powers to recognize it He also says
the French ambassador, M. Cambou,
oonf erred with the sultan yesterday,
and it is probable that France will be
included in the new alliance.
Commenting on the dispatch from
Constantinople announcing the signing
of the treaty between Russia and Tur
key for offensiv and defensive pur
poses, the Pall Mall Gazette says:
"We regard the news as true, and
the result of the treaty ia the Dardan
elles ia the southern outpost of Russia,
and Turkey is Russia's vassal. We
presume the British government will
protest against the treaty for all it ia
worth.
"The information is plainly of the
gravest importance. The . first in
formation reached us four days ago,
but we witheld it until the arrival of
the strong confirmation we received this
morning. This brings Russia into the
Mediterranean with a vengeance, and
may necessitate strengthening our fleet
in those waters. The political effect
will be far greater. The teraty means
that Turkey has realized her own im
potence against disorders both from
within and without, and has decided to
throw herself for safety into the arms
of Russia. She ia now Russia's vassal,
and Russia is entitled to dispatch
troops to any part of the sultan's do
minions. PRICES SEEM BETTER.
Tha Weak Marked by Improrament Ap
parent Kather Than Real.
New York, Jan. 87. R. G. Dun &
Co. 's weekly review of trade says:
"The week has been marked by im
provement aparent rather than real.
Prioes of some products have risen,
but only because supplies are believed
to be smaller than waa expeoted. The
senate still injures all business by do- j
ing nothing, and the treasury oannot
expect to gain in gold as yet, but loses
less than was expeoted. It is generally
assumed that the new loan will be
plaoed without difficulty, though the
successive payments may cause con
tinued disturbance.
"A deluge of foreign reports favor
able to wheat speculation found ready
answer in an advance of over 6 cents,
in spite of whioh receipts have been 60
per oent larger than last year. At
lantic exports for tne week were much
larger than last year, for the first time
in several months, but for the crop
year to date, all exports have been
about 11,600,000 bushels smaller than
last year.
The market has the idea that foreign
demands hereafter must be much
greater because of deficient supplies
elsewhere, but no one expeota that the
increase will be at all commensurate
with the enormous inorease in Western
reoeipta of 87 per oent since the orop
year began 187,600,000 against 107,
986,191 bushels last year.
"Failrues for the week were 878 in
the United States, against 868 last
year, and 61- in Canada, against 69
last year."
LURED TO HIS DEATH.
Waylaid and Killed Whlta Vi.ltlng Bli
Sweetheart.
St. Louis, Jan. 37. Webster Grove
is wildly exoited over a tragedy whioh
ooourred there last night Bertram E.
Atwater, a young Chicago artist who
had gone to the suburb to visit his
bethrothed, Miss Genevieve Ortoa,
was waylaid and killed by highway
men. One of the robbers, John
Schmidt, wounded to death by the
pluoky Chioagoan, will probably die
before morning. The other thugs,
Sam Foster, a colored ex-convict, who
fired the fatal shots, and Peter Sohmidt,
who arranged the trap into which At
water waa unsuspectingly lured and
then Blain, are in custody.
While the inquest was being held to
day oitizena of the village became so
enraged that it was with the greatest
diffloulty that oooler heads could re
strain the prevailing impulse to drag
the captive highwaymen from the
offioers and hang them.
. The Sohmidta, who are oousins, have
oonfessed as to the part taken by eaoh
in the crime. Peter, who voiuteered
to carry Atwater'a valise from the sta
tion, admits that he led the latter to
his fate. Atwater's body was shipped
to Chicago. Mr. Orton and his daugh
ter Genevieve, Atwater's affianced, ao
companied the remains. Miss Orton
is almost prostrated with grief. The
wedding is said to have been set for an
early date, and the object of Mr. At
water's visit last night was to look
over some preliminary arrangements.
The young lady is a beautiful brunette
of 30.
CONGRESSIONAL NEWS.
Conden.ed Record ot tha Doing, of tha
nation's fcawmnkew-Senate.
Washington, Jan. 38 The senate put
aside flnanoe and foreign affairs today
and gave the day to work on private
and minor bills on the calendar. About
seventy bills passed, olearing the cal
endar of much accumulation, and leav
ing only important measures pending.
The Cnban question received brief and
inconclusive attention early in the day.
Pugh's resolutions concerning silver
payments of the government obliga
tions were allowed to go over. Sena
tor Sherman today gave notioe of
amendments to Senator Pugh's concur
rent resolution providing for the re
demption of United States bonds in
silver coin. Sherman's amendments
provide for the recognition of the law
declaring the policy of maintaining the
parity of gold and silver and require
the observance of this principle in car
rying the resolution into effect in oase
it should pass.
Washington, Jan. 34 Today's senate
session was marked by notable speeches
and notable debates. Late in the after
noon a controversy ooourred between
Sherman, Teller, Gorman and others,
which led to the most spirited finan
cial debate sinoe the present oongress
convened. Sherman spoke at length
on the silver qustion. Teller and Gor
man answered from their respective
standpoints, while Aldrioh, Lindsay,
Gray and others took part in the excit
ing debate. Woloott's speech criticis
ing the president's attitude on the
Venezuela question was the notable
event of the early part of the day.
For an hour the senator commanded
the attention of a crowded ohabmer and
over floi wing gallery. Two important
resolutions were reported by the oom
mittee on foreign affairs, one strongly
presenting the serious oondition of
affairs in Turkey and urging prompt
attention by the civilized powers, and
an adverse report on Mr. Call's resolu
tion calling for the official dispatches
of United States oonsuls in Cuba.
Washington, Jan. 35. The three
subjects more prominently before the
publio are the Monroe doctrine, flnanoe
and tariff, each of which oame up for
consideration in the senate during the
day. Daniel spoke for two hours in
support of a vigorous upholding of the
Monroe doctrine as applicable to Ven
ezuela; Dubois of Idaho dealt with the
silver phase of the financial question,
and Warren of Wyoming pointed out
the disastrous effects of the tariff legis
lation of the last congress on farm pro
ducts in general and on wool in par
ticular. The senate oommittee on com
merce today authorized McMillan to
report favorably bills providing for two
additional revenue cutters on the Great
Lakes, two on the Pacifio coast, one
in the vicinity of New York, and one
on the Gulf of Mexioo; also a bill for
a lghthouse tender on the Florida
ooast Vest introduced a bill in the
senate today to create the territory of
Indianola out of the part of the Indian
territory occupied by the five civilized
tribes. -
I House, '
,J Washington, Jan. 28. The house
today passed the urgent deficiency bilL
The bill carried $4,415,932, of whioh
$3,242,582 was for the expenses of
, United States courts. The abnormal
j growth of expenses under the tee sys
, ten! ot the courts came in for a good
deal of criticism, and there waa a gen
eral expression in favor of a salary sys
tem. Representative Mondell, of
, Wyoming, today introduced a bill pro
viding tor the appointment of a oom
' mission to treat with .the Shoshone,
Arapahoe and Bannock Indiana for the
surrender of and modification of any
rights they may have to hunt on the
publio domain. The bill waa drawn
, for the purpose of remedying differ
, enoes growing out of the opposition to
I their exeroise ot this privilege, and is
. an echo of the settlers' trouble tn the
, vioinity of Jackson's Hole, Wyoming.
I Washington, Jan. 24. In the ab-
aeoe of any regular business in tne
bouse today, the aeasion waa devoted to
the consideration of minor matters and
legislation by unanimous consent
The major portion of the day waa con
sumed in the discussion ot the senate
resolution appropriating $25,000 fox
architectural aid in the preparation of
plans for publio buildings. The house;
adopted the report of the elections com
mittee in favor of Harry Miner, of
New York, in a contest brought for
his seat by Timothy Campbell.
Washington, Jan. 35. The honae re
sumed consideration of the rules and
disposed of the last amendment offered
by the oommittee. It submitted for
the rules of the fifty-first congress, the
method ot compelling the attendance
of a quorum proposed in the forty-sixth
oongress by J. Randolph Tuoker, with
some modifications. It was not until
the rules of the fifty-first oongress stood
adopted, with the few modifications
reported from the committee, that
something like exoitement waa engen
dered by an eloquent speech from
Dolliver. He taunted the Democrats
with at least acquiescing in the adop
tion ot all the prinoiplea adopted in the
rules of the fifty-first oongress, against
whioh they had raised their voices in
1890. This' speeoh drew forth an in
dignant reply from ex-Speaker Crisp,
in the oourse of which he reviewed the
whole history of the controversy and
charged the other side with trying to
make political capital by false pre
tenses. '
Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British
ambassador, has submitted the final
aooeptanoe by the British government
of the plan for a Behring sea commis
sion to pass upon the olaims of Cana
dian sealers seized prior to the Paris
award. It remains only for the presi
dent to submit the plan to congress, and
aa the legislative branch refused to
pay a lump sum for the seizures, it is
oonsidered certain that the commission
arrangement will be approved.
ORCHARD AND FARM
Budget ot General News lor
Progressive Farmers.
HOW TO KEEP BE00D SOWS
Profitable Mode of Fattening Hogs
J. C. Cownle Glrea Some Valu
able Information.
The first litter as a role is not so
valuable aa the following. The sec
ond, third and fourth generally are
reckoned most profitable, but I have
known sows to bave eight or ten litters
of good pigs. Aocording to the Amer
ican Agriculturist, when a sow brings
a good litter in numbers, suckles them
well and they are fairly level in size,
that sow is a money getter, and a
man is foolish to sell her, and replace
with one he knowa nothing about
But immediately after a sow brings
unlevel litters, and seems in any way
deteriorating aa breeder, she should be
sold or fattened. Some sows begin to
deteriorate after the second and third
litter. Some never are any good; the
quicker these are got rid of the better.
Some think old sows are more likely
to bave the milk fever; in my opinion
it is more likely to happen to a' sow
with her seventh or eighth litter, than
to one producing her second or third,
if care be used? No doubt a four or
five-year-old sow, if made into bacon,
ia a bit hard, but aa they make up in
the open market as much as one that
has suckled one litter only, this is no
obstacle to keeping them on while they
bring up unprofitable litters. Breeding
sows, and in fact all hogs, seem to
acquire certain amount of mineral ele
ments to assist digestion, by counter
acting acidity of the stomach, and un
less hogs closely penned are supplied
with something of the kind, they will
lose their appetites and cease to feed
as the should, and in some cases to lose
rather than gain. While running on
pasture and having free access to the
soil, they do not require it ao much,
yet should be able to get it when they
need it A very good mixture for the
purpose is one preserving the health
of swine, given in Farmers Voice, by
A. C. Moore, a noted breeder of swine
in Illinois, and ia as follows: Three
bushela of wood ashes, one bushel of
charcoal, small pieces; one-half bushel
of slacked lime, one bushel of fine salt,
two pounds ot Spanish brown, five
pounds of sulphur, one-half pound of
copperas and one-quarter pound ot
saltpeter. Pulverize the last two thor
oughly, mix in a bin or box and keep
it in an open trough where the hogs
can have free access to it
Profitable Bog Fattening.
Next to a well 'bred pig is the
method of feeding, of importance for
the highest success. Cleanliness, sys
tematic method of feeding and water
ing are presented in the American
Swineherd by Mr. J. Cownie as fol
lows:
I have tried feeding three times per
day, but the days are too short in win
ter for that Hogs do not like to be
disturbed before it is day and they like
to retire before it is dark. To feed
three times a day keeps them moving
too much; it ia not the eating but the
digestion that gives the fat I have
tried watering after feeding and also
to have water on the feeding floor that
hogs might eat and drink aa they
please, but it is a ruinous policy. One
hundred and fifty hogs, averaging over
800 pounds, being fed a few years ago,
were making a gain ot two pounds a
day eaoh on fourteen pounds of ear
oorn, watered before feeding. Wish
ing to test tie matter, I permitted
them to return to the yard after feed
ing, giving them what water they
wished, then allowing them to go to
the hog house. At the end of the
month they were again weighed, show
ing a gain of only One pound and a
quarter eaoh day. The water and
other ciroumstanoea were equally as
favorable for feeding the second month
aa the first, and no change bad been
made in the amount or quality of feed.
The following month with a return to
the system of waterig before feeding, -although
the weather was very un
favorable tor feeding, showed a gain
of a fraotion over two pounds daily.
A bushel of oorn for each five hogs
daily, is the average amount fed, or
fourteen pounds of ear corn each when
onoe brought to full feed. Care must
be taken not to overfeed; just enough
and no more. If they do not appear
satisfied teed a little more next time
and if it is left reduoe the allowanoe.
Onoe a week oats are substituted for
oorn, and when plenty, a few basket
fula of raw potatoes arc occasionally
soattered over the floor and eaten with
avidity. Salt and sifted wood ashes
are kept in a trough accessible at all
times. The average weight at time of
confining, say November I, ia usually
about 300 pounds. The first two
months, if everything is favorable, will
show a gain of over two pounds daily,
the third month somewhat less and the
fourth month the amount of oorn fed
will bave to be reduced, and the gain
will be correspondingly decreased.
An average gain for the entire time of
two pounds daily is very satisfactory.
Sixteen weeks is the limit to whioh
such feeding should extend; beyond
that there ia no profit
Agricultural Suggestion,.
Ground Kaffir oorn ia pronouoed a
most excellent feed for miloh oowa.
Corn bran has about as mnoh feeding
value as wheat bran, but it ia not in aa
good shape to feed.
Clean culture means no rubbish for
the insects to breed in, and ia a very
important feature.