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.