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3 OREGON Ml VOL. 13. ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1896. NO. 7. PACIFIC NORTHWEST Items ot General Interest From All Section. DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS All tli Oltlai aud Town, of Hi, Pacific lata, and Territories Washington. County immigration oonvoutlous aro all the rage in tbu Evergreen state thli mouth. A resumption of the operations of the paper mill at Everett la a maltor of considerable importance to that town. A consignment of Kaffir oorn will noon arrive from Kaunas and an effort will bo inado to induce Adumt county farmers to glvo it a thorough trial. Spooiinun photograph! of Whutoom oountjr tliubtir have been forwarded to an Eastern polytoobnio institution, to be nwd in the regular oourae of study. The people of Puyallnp are rejoicing In tlio mildness of itt oliuiuto, which faot la eviduuoud by the presence of blooming rosea and chrysanthemums. Another lurge butch of land has been patented by the Northern Pooiflo rail way. It oonaiats of 6U5, 818 acres lying in Yakima, Walla Walla and Frank lin oouutiva. To this state has been secured a sep arate diatrlot for river and harbor im provements by the authorities at Wash ington. An engineering office will be established at beattle. The Ritsrille farmers and business men are very joyful on aooount of the bright prospect for a good year. Sum mer fallowed ground is permeated three or four feet with moisture and a good crop is almost assured. A good suggestion has been made to build flatboats with a capacity of ten or fifteen tons, to be loaded with ore at or near Falrview mining oamp, 15. C, iu the UMioyoos division upon the Okanogan river, and float them down to Weuatchoe. The Pacflo County Bar Association has taken steps to pruveut Oregon law yers from practicing in the superior court in the district which comprises Pacific, Wahkiakum and Lewis coun ties. The lust legslature passed a law allowing only those lawyers from other states to practice in Waahngton courts whose states granted the same privileges to Washington lawyers. It appears that Oregon laws do not per mit lawyers residing in this state to practice there. Two carloads of niaohlnery have ar rived from the East for the Hostile firm that successfully bid for two of the uow warships. The buildings are now all iu readiness, including the building ways, which are covered by a roofed shod 200x75 feet, giving am ple room to build both the torpedo boat and the revenue tug. Not the least siguillcant ot the recent extensions is the shop for steel ship building which is now ooinpletod and ready to reoeive . iu machinery and tools. : lieal ostate agent of Spokane are jubilant over the increase of their stock in trade of alluring inducements. The bank olearanoes for the week end ing January 35, exceeded those of Seat tle, Tsooma and Helena, It may also be noted that the railroad t radio shows a remarkable increase, and the hotels and restaurants aro filled with more ' strangers than at any time for three years previous. This insorease, to gether with ten big mines working in the Coeur d'Alenes and a lengthening list of shippers in the Slooan and Trail Creek districts; with wheat advancing until it is worth about SO cents per , bushel more than last year; with new enterprises guaranteed for this city, and with the other signs ot new pros- perity, Spokane has no complaint to , register at this date. wares, and those who bad not packed fall lish were railing against those who had. Of late there has been a brisk demand for sulmon, and all the fall pack has been sold and shipped, and there are only a few small lots of ohlnook left on the river. It is stated on good authority that more salmon has been shipped from this section dur lug the present month than during January of the five previous years. The demand is principally from the East, whore many new markets have been opened up. It will be reinem bered that the pack of fall salmon was very huge, and it has found favor and has been sold for a good price. At a recent meeting of the state board of labor commissioners of California in San Franoisoo reports from Professor Hllgard of the state university, who was appointed to test the relative merits of building stone from different sections, were received and discussed. This report was secured for the pur pose of selecting the boat material for the new depot building, at the foot of Market street Samples from the state of Nevada, California, and from Pio neer quarry at Yaquina were sub mitted, and the Oregon stone was found far superior to either of its com petitors. If the stone for San Fran Cisco's big depot, which will require 10,000 tons, is selected upon its merits it will be taken from the Pioneer quarry in this stste. This stone is the sume that was used in the building of tne -lamou Parrot block on Market street in San Franoisoo, which is pro nounced the finest of its kind in the United States. TELEGRAPHIC-RESUME Events ot the Day in a Con densed Form. OF INTEREST TO ALL READERS Idaho. The late Goddard murdor case cost the oouuty of Nos Poroe $7,524. A shipment of 70,000 fruit trees was recently made from Moscow to Camas Prairie. , A snowslide oarried away the mill at the Vanderbilt mine, two miles south of Hal ley. s Another payment Is due the No Peroos in February ot 1160,000. It might be very handy these dull days to be an Indian. Development work on the Black nor ma has suspended for the present The owners will put up a ten-stamp mill for reducing and saving the gold. The maohinorjr for the now paoking company at Idaho Falls has arrived and is being placed in position. Con tracts have been made for a large num ber of hogs, so that slaughtering may oommenoe at onoe. The Boise mining exchange is start ing off In a business-like manner. The members seem to be in earnest in the matter, and filled with a determination to score a suooess. The exchange promises to be a great beuuilt to the mining industry of the state. Some Indiana oitizens desiring couio West havo written for offers and inducement a a bonus for their start lug a wood-pulp mill. It would re quire considerable soft wood, such oottonwood, linn, bnokeye, etc. Ail things being favorable another desir able industry will be started in Idaho. Items of Importune from Doinc.tle and Foreign Bourses Creain ot th, Diapatcuo. Potter Palmer, ot Chicago, is being oonsiaorea by the administration as the possible soooeasor to Theodore Bun- yon, as ambassador to Germany. It is reported that Germany has or- aereo twelve torpedo-destroyers from a London shipbuilder. - The new vessels are to have a speed ot thirty knot an hour. . A railroad bridge near Sausalito. CaL, collapsed from the weight of a locomotive, resulting in the death of the engluoer and serious injury to the fireman. Right Hon. Hugh C. E. Childers. formerly first lord of the admiralty. chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. and financial secretary of the treasury, died in London. General Joseph H. Porter died at the Grand Union hotel, New York. The immediate cause of his death was oom- soonider the oase within its jurisdiction to determine upon constitutional grounds. C. W. Smith, of San Franoisoo, has been named as a new receiver for the Atlantio & Pacific railroad. The Colisseum in Chloago has been selected as the place tor holding the national Democratic convention. The American board has received word from Erzeroum, Turkey, that through the relief money which is sent, bread is given daily to about 1.500 persons in that city alone. Bat appli cants for relief are nearly twice that number. March 25 the German reiohstag will oeieDrate in an elaborate manner the signing of the preliminary peace of J 871. Three members of. the last Ohio legislature have been indicted for bribery. The names are not made pub' no yet The Liberty bell, which has been on exhibition at the Atlanta exposition, Has been returned to Philadelphia, Its arrival there was announced by a aaiute oi iortj-nve guns, Whittaker Wright, an Australian yaohtaman, has offered a $500 oup, to oe sailed tor oaring the Riviera season. and with the object of bringing about a meeting between such big yachts as SPEECH BY SALISBURY Supports the Monroe Doctrine as a Rule of Policy. ENGLAND AND THE ARMENIANS Reason Why Ureat Britain Has Mot Interfered Reform. In Turkey ; Kngland Not Bound. London, Feb. 8. The banquet of the Nonconformist Unionist Associa tion at the Hotel Metropole tonight was the occasion of an address by the marquis ot Salisbury, prime minister and secretary of state for foreign aflairs. In the oourae of his remarks be said, with referenoe to Venezuela: "1 nave been held up a the de nouncer of the Monroe doctrine. As matter of fact, although the Monroe doctrine is no part of international law, my dispatch to Mr. Ulney, the secre tary of state of the United States, sup ported it as a rule of policy iu the strongest and most distinct terms But when I stated in that dispatch ana i reiterate it now that, a rule oi policy we are the CONGRESSIONAL NEWS. THE RISE IN WHEAT Decidedly Encouraging the Growers, , to CondenMd Record or th. Dolus, of th, ' nation's Law maker. Senate Washington, Feb. 1. Senators were late in arriving at the senate chamber today. Hale reported back the urgent deficiency appropriation bill and gave notice that he would ask to take it up Monday. Morrill called on tha hill for the payment to the widow of the INTERNATIONAL COMPLICATIONS late Samnel F. Miller, justice of the supreme oourt, of a sum equal to the balance of his salary for the year in which he died. Morrill explained that tne justice bad left only a house, en cumbered by a $10,000 mortgage. and that the widow's circumstances were such as to make the appropria tion desirable. The bill was nassed. Britannia. Ratanira All.. .v iv.l- ru, 01 Vn07 we advocates Of an American v.oht ' !?e Monroe doctrine, we mean the , m ', Monroe doctrine as President Monroe m wasning- understood it In that sense, von will not find any more oonvinoed supporters an American yacht The Japanese legation ton has reoeived an important cable' plications from a gunshot wound in the gram from the forein oftlc Japan than we are " . Oregon. A now steamer for the ooal trade is soon to be put on between San Fran oisoo and1 Coquillo City. A mining and ooal-shipping corpora tion ha been started at Bandou, with a capital stock of $150,000. ' The building of the Astoria rail road ba already oousumed $400,000, whioh is at the rate of $50,000 per month, A rabbit drive fad is now being in dulged in by the citizens of Lakeview, und thousands ot the animals have been killed. It is estimated that the wool orop alone sold to such good advantage that $000,000 was disbnrsed in the vicinity of The Dalles last year. Benton county, which now has six flouring mills, is soon to have another. The new mill is to be of a oomplete rollor prooess and is to oontain modern machinery. The farmers around Roseburg have been oashiug up their wheat, taking advantage of tho prevailing advanoe of the market value ot that oommodlty; the result 1 much coin Is being placed iu circulation whioh oannot be acouu tuated with the opening season. The Willamette river seems to be steadily deepening every year and also increasing in volume of water. In pi noes the ohannel has an entirely dif ferent course than that remombercd by the oldoBt settlors. It really Booms to be going back to its old bed of prehis torio times. Such radical ohanges" have taken plaoe in tho ohannels of othor rlvors, but the oause pf which has been just as deeply involvod in mystery. A short time sinoe oannerymen were complaining of a slow market for their Montana. The diptboria epidemio has diod ou at Bolt and the publio schools have re opened. Billings' latest enterprise is to con struct $10,000 opera house with capacity for 000 persons. A recent fire at Helena destroyed $30,000 milling plant of the Montana Lumbering & Manufacturing Com pany. A brewing oonoern has just finished a one cold-storage house and are pre paring to put in bottling work in oon nootlou with their establishment at Belt The assessed valuation of Montana is $134,076,585.50, while it indebted ness is only 13. 798.080. 83. For state that is only six years old, Mon taua la doing remarkably well. The business of the Anaconda post oinoe is too large tor its present ao oommodations and as there is no suit able building, it probably mean the construction of a new block. The postoffloe inspeotor are in the city looking the matter up. Tho munioipal authorities of Helona under authority of a popular vote to that effect, tried to dispose of about $000,000 worth ot bonds recently, bear ing interest at 6 per oent There was only one bidder, and the matter was postponed for thirty days. -f Britl.h Columbia. It is likely that the War Eagle will put up a milling plant of its own at Koasland. A now brewery will soon be erected at Ssppington. It will have a Hold storage plant iu the same building. The present air oom pressor at the Le Koi mine having proven too small, i new twonty-drill one will be put in, This ooinpany is a steady dividend payer. A private bill will be introduced at the approaohiug session of the legisla ture for the purpose of incorporating a company to build a railway from rentioton to Cascade City. The pro. posed line will run from Okanogan iaae to Midway, thonoe to the North Fork of Kettle river and to Grand orka, thenoe east to Casoade City. The people of Bossland are now con sidering the proposition of munioipal corporation, i wo meetings have been held. At the first meeting a oominit toe was appointed to learn the concen sus of the property-holders on the sub jeot This being favorable, at the sec ond meeting a committee was directed to draft resolutions to the legislature, now in session, praying for incorporation. There is a movement in North Ad ams, Mass., to make the town a oily. With a population of 31,000, it olaims to be the largest town in Amrloa, with the exception of Watervliet, N. Y. lungs, received during the war, The rolling mills of the Illinois Stoel Company, located at South Chicago, which were shut down December 81, have resumed, giving work to 6,000 men, wno nave been idle sinoe the shut down. A physician of Rio de Janeiro de clares that he has found a cure which is almost oertain in it effects for yel low lever. The physician' new rem edy consists of the internal use of doses of the extraot of euoalyptns. A dispatch to the London Pall Mall Gazette from Cairo, Egypt, say a seri ous revolution bas occurred at Khar. touin, growing out of differences be tween the mabdl and the tribe belong ing to the interior of Soudan. The mahdi is practically overthrown. The Berlin Tageblatt says: "It will be the duty of continental diplomacy to convince America that England's mo tive in the Armenian question are po litical, and not Humane, and thn dis suade the United States from co-operat ing witn England." A dispatch to the New York World from Caracas, says: Anti-English meetings are again being held. The with a direction to make it public, by I the terms of which the rich island of Formosa, which Japan acquired from China, will bo opened up to trade and oommerce. Lord Salisbury then turned abruptly to the Armenian question, and he re proached the religious communities with laboring under a mistake when they SQDDOsed that England hail hnnnd mi. ,11 - r, , . . - I . - - . " -u" fiue day, Oliver now and urav herself In honor to snown- tha Armani. Rock minet, of the Butte & Boston ans, whioh means to go to war with group, in Butte, Mont, have olosed the sultan in order to force him to aown, and over 800 men are thrown govern the Armenians welL Tha Rr. out oi employment ihe pumps have Mm treaty, Lord Salisbury said, merely not been withdrawn from the mines, bound the signatory rowers that, if tha wmon snow teat tne shutdown is only saltan promulgated oertain reforms, wuipurary. tney would watch over the execution In view of the report circulating in ot those reforms. Nothing more. He the United States that William K. did hot think any one could interpret Vanderbilt is shortly to announce his taat 88 an understanding to go to war. engagement to Miss Amy Bend, Vanity ' am hot bound to answer the que' tun, published in London, this week on wny Europe does not interfere. I assert that William K. Vanderbilt 887 confidently that none of the powers will shortly announce his engagement wished to interfere, and I believe their to an angnsn oneness. new is mac, with patience, the sul- Lord anH TjMv Rhnitn Tv.nni.. i, tan s prestige, which is the only Dower abandoned their theatrinal tnnr fchmnh leIt ln the country, will ultimately re California and returned to Ran Fran, establish order and allow oommerce and Cisco. The lord attributes the failure of the trip to the heavy rains and the faot that hi advance agent left him in an inopportune time. He says he will try it again shortly. The London Observer says: "We have good authority leading us to ex- industry to take their usual secure course. That is their view, and it is our duty to give the sultan time. It is not for me to pass judgment on that view, but no other remedy has been Mora Than Anything KI.e, th. Can,, of th. Substantial Improvement In th. Wheat Market. The great nations of the earth are now standing glaring at one another with their sleeves rolled ud. and it i. The resolution directing the secretary donhtful whether a great war can. be of agriculture to execute the law rela- "vered much longer. It is this cou- tive to seed distribution was then taken ltlon of international relations more op, and George spoke in defense of the than anything el. we think, that ia course of the seoretary. Oallinger aaiae the substantial improvement and Allen supported the resolution. in 6 wheat market We hope that The resolution gave way at 3 o'clock 106 Prioe wiu continue to rise and be to the silver bond bill, and Call oon- at ,non " when the next orop tinned his speech begun yesterday. come in that every fanner will be Mitchell of Oregon followed in support able to reco"P on the losses of the last of the ailver substitute, consuming the three Tears 8110 m" ut with a snug rest of the day. little sum for a rainy day. The dis- Washington, Feb.' S.-When the ?PrtMte nse in the local market senate oonvened today the silver bond ? - IarKelT the unusual bill had the immediate right of way. u a"Voa?,nJ? ttle man' ve88el Vilas addressed the senate in opposi- S" w " "coma, BeattIe and tint, n tk. uii !,!, t. .ij j u "anoisoo. A Portland narjer served its fate of being strangled by gta , tnaf be8,ide8, Ure "ntM of silver, and. in denuoiation of the mine- .already in the Willamette, owner of the Rockies, who, he de- u,,rv-"u t forty are expected within dared, were responsible for the agita- IZ' ger. of Taooma, states that more vessels are soon to senate committee on privilege, and a.ve 'ha Pt the purpose . of elections decided to report in favor of to f 0n wh,eat The8e outers "re seating Dupont, Rep., as senator from i dJmnst madf ot rv.i,. ti, jj with as little delay as nossible. hnnna strict party lines, being five to four T? ,0r WaU Walla against Republican senators in can- " " ut " ""goes, cus today decided to make an attempt London standard', vi.w.. to oomplete the reorganization of the Tha i.jL- senate, and to meet next Friday lat- me purpose. reasons why thnra ahnnl ha . i- . Washington, Feb. 4. The long con- small raise in the nrioe of wht- : test over the ailver bond bill is at an "The area of wheat grown ii the end in the senate, that body having United Kingdom in 1895 was the passed the free silver coinage substi- smallest ever recorded sinoe any at- tute for the house bond bill by the de- tempt at a statistical statement was owive vote of 43 to 85 a majority of made. For the whole United King seven for free silver. This result was dom it waa 1,456,300 acres, or more reached at S o'clock today, after three than 500,000 acres less than 1894.-The hours of caustic debate and sharp par- total product of the wheat orop in liamentary fencing. The bill pro- Great Britain is offloiallv vides: "That from and after the pas- not more than 87.194 25B hnahala ago vi una act, too mints oi we united wnue tne total requirement were State shall be open to the coinage of 340,000,000 bushel. More than 3, silver, and there shall be coined dollars 000.000 acres have sons ont nf whM't at the weight of 413 grains, (Troy, of cultivation in England in the last suinaaro silver, nine-tenths One, women of Venezuela form branohes of nmaa tha hlif ht ..i anniat Inr rh Aat. .!! f 77 . " " ""V J aw uvivuou UHvlvUni SrV"A I inVlrAn HtlBBIII an1 Atha riAirava a nn. ritory, and will boyoott all Euirlish nrurta i . . ii- . ,v,o, oontinned Ooannation of Ennt An. . nJt' w oording to our information and belief candidate on the woman's rights lms proposition was declined by ticket, and now a practicing attorney Kussia. i ,1 17...,U; . i j i j I ' . " -"'""8"". u uuourreu as a Emperor William ia firmly deter. yrauMeiug attorney or agent peiore tne mined to carry out the project of doubl. vujlvu vuirou. DUO IB BUOUIKnl UI I ina tha airni nf Ua Claan A having improperly accepted a pension high German official says he has had re- "" rjeated oonversatinnn with tha tmnum. as i twenty years. The a vera pa ner anra provided by the act of January 8, 1837. last year waa the amalleat Avar bnmvn suggested. It is some enoouragement i and "P011 M1Iie terms and subject only 36 bushels. It is also stated to find that already some degree of or- 10 the limitations and provision of that Russia's wheat ctod waa 50. 000.- der is being restored. the law regulating the coinage and 000 bushels short in 1895, and the rye "If yon do not act with the great "al-tender quality of gold, and when- corp 80,000,000 short This came powers, you must act against them and j ever the said ooins herein provided for from a decline in the yield Der acre. produce calamities far more awful and , 8ha11 1)6 received into the treasury, Great Britain cannot afford to cutivate woAMuwawv Mumj w jeeutju ujorouii in i wuwi at tne prices ox the manner now provided by law." three years." terrible than the Armenian atrocities. In conclusion, Lord Salisbury refer red to the recent patriotic demonstra tions in the colonies in the face of threatened foreign complications, and said: "I care not how muoh we are iso lated if we are united. An example has been set which will shed beneficent the last two or Decline in Shipment,. ! A resume of the grain shinments as made by the Taooma Ledger, shows that the amount of wheat coining in Finkerton detectives have arrested on this subject durintr the cast three lisht on the last mmflratinna nf TCnir. upresa Agent ueorge Krout, or uolo- weeics, ana oe asserted that durine the land. raoo springs, uoio., on a charge of be- oom ing Bummer the plan for the reor- ing implicated in the theft of $35,000 ganization of the navy will be drawn irom weila-Fargo Company several up- months ago. Krout olaim to be in- The forthcoming monthly state uwuui,, mying ne nau oeen roooed Dy ment of the government receipts and highwaymen. expenditure for January will show William Gambold. a railroad liraka. that aggregate receipts will be approx man, has begun suit against the Penn- ntmy $39,337,670; expenditures, igriculture, reported the agricultural f0 tha oitJ Tear is no nearly as ippropriation bilL On motion of Doo- lt was 1884 year- Up to De- TRADE REVIEW. Jndleation, of Deflnlt, ImproTemant In - Bu.lue.k New York. R. G. Dun Company's weekly review of trade says: Though business is still waiting. sylvania Railroad Company for $35,000 .896,430, leaving a denoit for the there are some signs of definited iin damaire for malicious nroseontion. month of about $3,459,160, and for provement It i now believed that The suit is the ontomwth nf tha Amari. the seven months of the present fiscal the first payment for bond will oause can Railway Union strike of 1894, nd M6' of about $13,813,875. Receipts no further pressure, and the money la brought as a test oase. A apeoial dispatch from St Peters- ourg says: Arrangements point to a conclusion between Russia, : Great Britain, France and Italy tor a final settlement of the Armenian Question. These include Russia's occupation and administration of Anatolia, and the purobase of Cyprus by Russia. bill was passed for the reorganization of the -customs oolleotion . district of Alaska. Washington, Feb. 3. The house to- from the anstnma rinrinir tha nraumt msrbnra ara aaainr in raanant tn lnana a&7 OOnnned itaeil to routine business. month will amount to about $16,380,- on collateral, though the difHoulty of .Mt. 01 108. 86881011 was devoted to the 796; from internal revenue, $11,041.- making commercial loan still checks ': L,1.!tnoL 01 owmoia appropriation 401; from miscellaneous sources, about operations. But large maturities at $1,815,473. This is a decrease of the end of January have been met House. Washington, Feb. 1. The attend ance in the house was slim today. waoswortn, rrom the committee on a aDDroririation little, a resolution waa adonted rannaat- oember 1, only 3,500 cars of wheat. ing the president at his earliest oonve- approximately, had arrived from East nienoe, to transmit to congress the re- Washington grain fields. . One port of the board of engineers on the thousand of these cars arrived during Nicaragua canal. The biU to amend ovemoer, boo during October and 600 the dependent pensions aot ot 1890, so 0818 tween September 10 and Octo that in considering widows' claims L These flttnre were obtained seven year of unexpected absence m 0,6 8tato Brin commission which should be deemed sufficient proof of the an to inspect grain the second week death of the so'aier, was passed. A more satisfactorily than was expected, and merchants and bankers report that the signs promise a good spring trade. No inorease appears as yet in the de mand for the principal products, un less for some form ot iron and steel, in vhioh good contracts have been about $1,000,000 in reoeipts from the customs as compared with January, 1895, and an inorease of about $3,000,- 000 in receipts from the internal reve nue. ine nrst signs or the Dominion gov- A disbatoh to the London Standard ernment' intention to carry out its from Madrid savs: The ruinara hara promises towards the protection of the protest energetically against the TTnited made this week, and uncertainty as to uuuuuy, in me event oi iron Die witn States senate committee a attitude on congressional aouon nun aneots tne m any other nation, are seen in the esti- the Cuban Question. . They declare that dustries and oommerce, but the In mate of the ooming year, whioh have the insurgents have fulfilled none of crease in inquiry and the report of been presented to parliament by the the requisites by international law or dealers are deemed assurances of large Hon. G. E. Foster, minister ot flnanoe. usage for the recognition of helHirnr. trade ooming whenever the uncertainty Ihe total estimate for the ensuing year enov. The government organs, with a ovr. is i,iio,H81, about the same as last view of oaoifving the nnblio irritation. signs oi improvement in tne iron In the expenses for the maintenance of point out that President Cleveland, his and 8teel business are gratifying, even the militia, however, there is an in- ministers and the federal authorities so though they spring from combinations orease ot $373,716 over last far have preserved a Derfeotly oorreot which have raised the price of ooke and The unexDeoted order for nnrnmandar and friendly attitude toward Snain. allotted the output of lake iron ore. Ballington Booth's recall to England contrasting strongly with the popular There is also a better demand for wire from Amerioa, has occasioned so muoh sympathy and assistance the insurgents nail8 after lon8 stagnation, and also disoniotude and mnrmnrinir amnno have Obtained from the American nen. ior sueem. rig lruu u weaiter. ooutn the rank and file of the Salvation pie. Army in this country that General William Booth, father of Ballington Booth and oommander-in-ohief of the Salvation Army forces throughout the world, who is now in Australia, bas decided to visit the United States next spring. The treasury department is exoeed' ingly anxious that a large proportion of the gold offered in payment of the new bonds shall be obtained in Europe, and lor the purpose of enoouraging ini- ports, it is intimated that the bidder who offers foreign gold, or who demon strates that he has gold on the way at the time the bids are opened, will be given preference in the awards, other things being equal, over others who offer domestic gold. The second opinion in the Eastern Oregon branoh asylum oase bas been handed down by the supreme oourt This time the injunction is dissolved and the oompluint dismissed, leaving the constitutional question still unset tled. The opinion was written by Judge Wolverton and oonourred in by the other two members. In it ruling, the oourt admits that the Question is one of grave importance, but does not Bequest, In Prize Package.. Cleveland, O., Feb. 3. Luther Moses' will, whioh has just been pro bated, ia peculiar in that seventeen be quests to relative are represented in as many prize paokages, oontained in the safe at the Savings & Trust Com' pany. As soon as the executors fur nish bonds the heirs will lepair to the bank and receive the paokages, whioh are numbered and assigned. It is sup- posed they oontain deeds to real estate and perhaps oheoks for sums ot money. The testator died three weeks ago. He was possessed of a large fortune, the exaot value ot whioh is not known. A terriflo toronado, accompanied by floods, occurred in North Queensland, attended with great destruotiou of life and property. Many vessels are miss ing as a result of the storm. The rain fall during the tornado amounted to 83 inches, and it is estimated that the damage to property will amount to $3,500,000. A large number of per sons were drowned. Sunday dosing of saloons in Soot- land ha obtained for forty years. ern works are competing sharply, while speculative buyers oi some months ago are selling below present furnace prioes, but the average from all products is praotioally unchanged. and 11.4 per cent below the higest figure last year. Coke production has again been out down 10,975 tons in a single week. Minor metals are strengthened a shade by speculation. Sales of wool at the three chief mar kets have diminished of late, manufac turers buying only for present needs. Wheat haa again advanoed about 8 oenta for oash, but only 1 oents for May, although Atlantio exports are lit tle larger than a year ago, and for fonr weeks, flour inoluded, have been 8,403,765 bushels, against 7,357,884 bushels last year. Neither this faot nor the continued exoess of Western reoeipts for the week, 3,381,913 bush els, against 1,336,013 bushel last year, explain an advanoe for whioh the basis or the excuse must be sought in foreign advances. ' Failures this week were 404 in the United States, against 354 last year, and 70 in Canada, against 54 last year. If an orohard ia to be planted in the spring, prepare the ground in the fall. of Columbia bill. The committee on ways and means adopted a resolution providing lor an investigation of the tariff dis crimination against American products and the effect of the repeal of reciproo ity laws. The resolution was intro duced by Tawney. Experts to make the investigation are provided for. Representative Maguire, of California, addressed the house committee on Pa oifio railroads in opposition to the funding bill. There was muoh discus sion as to whether the government holds prior title to the other interests. Chairman Powers appointed Messrs. Arnold of Pennsylvania, Watson of Ohio, and Bell of Texas, a committee to investigate the question ot the pri ority of the lien. Washington, Feb. 4. Attendance in the house today vyas small. Powers asked unanimous consent for considera tion of a senate bill to pay the widow of the late Justice Samuel F. Miller $7,149, the balance of his salary for tha year in which he died. Loud objected and the bill was referred. Bills were passed to grant to the St Louis & Oklahoma City rialroad right, of way through the Indian and Oklahoma ter ritories; to amend the aot granting to the Kansas City. Pittsburg & Gulf rail road right to build a branoh road to Fort Smith. A resolution reported by Taft from the oommittee on foreign affairs was adopted, calling on the president, if not incompatible with the publio interest, to transmit to the honse all oorrespondenoe between this gov ernment and Germany relative to the exclusion of insuranoe oom panics of the United States from transacting busi ness in Germany. The house then went into committee of the whole and resumed consideration of the Colum bia appropriation bilL Expenditure, for Canada', Militia. Ottawa, Feb. 8. The annual re port of the mininster of militia gives the total expenditures for the militia last year as $1,547,013. Only 80,877 put in their annual drill of twelve days last year. The adjutant-general calls attention to the obsolete rifles with whioh the foroe is equipped. of Ootober. About 600 cars had rolled into the city before inspection began, making between 3,400 and 3,500 car altogether. Beside this there are 500 cars which have arrived here for ship ment to San Franoisoo that are not enumerated in the above figures. Last year during the months of Au gust, September, Ootober and Novem ber, 5,143 oars had been received here besides about 1,000 car that had passed through the oity consigned to San Francisco. As previously reported in the Led ger, the reason for the light movement is that farmers are holding . to their crop, expecting higher prices, and also that the illegal rebates alleged to bs granted by the O. R. & N., are send-i ing a great deal of the wheat which had heretofore come to Taooma to Portland and San Franoisoo this sea-i son. The average reoeipts now amount to twenty oars daily. The wheat mar ket has shown a rising tendency tor ten days past, and if prioes continue to go up, the movement will increase as oro- duoers will be more anxious to dispose of their crop. Notwithstanding the depressing outlook a number of ahina have already loaded cargoes here and many others are on their way to take on Vheat and flour cargoes at the Ta- coma docks. ; r Agricultural Bug ge.tlon,. We boast that our nation feeds tha world, but it does not by any means. we import produots to the amount of $5,0000,000. There are brought in more or less of all grains; many horses and mules, eggs, cheese, butter and condensed milk; potatoes by the thou sands of bushels. Let us hope there will be a change some day. So often the side branohes of farm work fail to pay because carried on negligently. A dozen hive of bees should bring the farmer a much rove-; nue a a 10-acre wheat field. The re turn the oare of hi chicken would ' bring is underrated, and even tha i children are not trained to a proper in- " terest in tnem. The relative value of timothy and wild hay has not yet been thoroughly " investigated; but so far as exDerimnnta have come under observarion they seem to be favorable to wild hay against timothy. The other question, as to whioh is the most profitable orop tor the farmer to grow, must be iarge- ly settled by the farmer himself. Tha question of soil nd location must be considered.
