The Oregon mist., February 14, 1896, Image 1

GROWING NORTHWEST
Progress and Doings In the
Paclfio States.
CONDENSED BUDGET OF SEWS
from All Mi Cities nnd Town of the
I'ealllo State and Territorial
Wellington.
Tha Bound Pnlp & Paper Company's
mill at Everett resumed operations last
week.
Thre Everett oounoll ha cloned a oon
traot to pay 9190 a mouth for 187 hy
drants now In poitlou.
The militia bovs of Pomeroy are
talking about opening a library In con
nection with a billiard room, gymna
sium, eto.
Thirty-six chattel mortgages and
eight assignments were filed with the
auditor of Whitman oounty during the
month of January.
From half an acre of aeed onions, 8.
Conway, of Kennewlok, gathered 900
pounda of aeed, for wbioh he ilnda a
steady market at 1 1 per pound.
It la understood the stone upon which
Mr. UoM based his bid for the con
struotion of the state oapitol was that
of tho Sunset quarry near Wilkeson.
The Washington Mill Company, at
Port Hadlook, baa reoeived oders for
over 4,000,000 feet of lumber, and ex
peote to sUrt up the mill In a few days.
Sergeant A. Wagnor, a member of
the United States signal oorps, died
last week at Han Autonto, Tex. lie
was formerly stationed at Vanoouver.
Judgtneut for $787,600 has been en
tered in the superior oourt in favor of
the oity of Taooina In the damage ault
againat the Taooma Light & Water
Company A oompromise is talked of.
Tbr little steamer Crloket burned at
Everett last week. She broke from
her moorings during the prevailing
wind, listed to one sideband Are from
the fire box Ignited the woodwork.
Governors MoUraw, of Washington;
Lord, of Oregon; Riokards, of Mon
tana, and Connell, of Idaho, aro ex
ported to be present at the Northwest
mining oonveution, to be held In Spo
kane February 89.
The general oommitteo having in
charge arrangements for the state U.
A. K. enoampmeut, to be held in Ta
ooma next June, has recommended the
17thi ISth and 19th of that month as
dates for the gathering.
Port Townsend Is in hopes arrange
ments will be perfected for the estab
lishment there of a plant for canning
sardines. One firm stands ready to
take 100,000 oans of the sardines as
toon as they can be furnished.
Adjutant-General Boutello, Colonel
Gleason and Colonel Joslin, of the Na
tional Guard of Washington, were in
Walla Walla and oonduoted the ex
amination of ofiloers appointed for com
pany C and D, First infantry battalion.
The firm of Anderson & Co. has been
warded the contract for building nine
miles of plank road from New What
com for f 17,168. This makes nearly
fifteen miles of new road contracted for
by Whatcom oounty since January 1.
A fanner of Walla Walla valley was
offered 45 cents per bushel for his 1806
Wheat, by a milling firm a few days
go, says the Walla Walla Statesman.
Thinking he would be able to get more
later on, the farmer did not aooept the
offer.
Seattle is making great efforts
through a subsidy oommittee to secure
the location there of a United States
army post It is desired to raise $85,
000 for 640-aore traot on Magnolia
bluffs, which it is thought will sooure
the establishment of post with sixteen
companies. ,
The value of Amerloan-made goods
hipped through the Taooma custom
house to foreign ports during the month
of January amounts to $2118,709.88,
while goods to the value of $901.65
oame through In bond. The total re
ceipts of the office for the month
amount to $10,668.79. "'
Sugar beets grown experimentally in
Whatoom county yielded an average
of 14.6 per cent in saooharln substanoe;
18 per oent was all that was required
by sugar ohemlsts. Sued costs $9.16
per acre. It is estimated that fifteen
tons per aore would pay, and sell for
$4 per ton, and the profits per aoia
would be $20. The land would grow
twioe fifteen tons per aore.
F. L. Lord, the Anaoortes cannery
man, la of the opinion that the un
usually large run of salmon in the
Fraser this year should be attributed
to the hatchery, which la located seven
miles above New Westminster. The
Fraser had the largest run in years,
The oanneries are becoming so numer
ous there that fish would naturally be
come soaroe, were it not for the hatch
ery. But from it 7,000,000 fry are
produeod every year.
Or (on.
The Ashland school distriot has
made a tax levy of 11 mills.
Gilliam oounty is calling in its war
rants Issued up to January, 1894.
A oensus of prune culture at Yon
. oalla shows about 48,000 trees in the
vioinity.
A Prineville merchant says business
has been better there this winter than
for any winter during the last eight
years.
Frank Kelly was fined $50 by Judge
Btowe, at u manna, ior naving deer
meat in his possession during the
close season.
A band of Oregon horses, in transit
to Kentuoky, was taken from the oars
at Shoshone and the animals sold for
50 oents apiooe, -
Complaint has been made by the
fruitraisers in the vioinity of Columbus
that orchards in that section are badly
Infested with the scale. ,
In Gilliam oounty the new industry
has developed of robbing coyote traps.
The thief makes away with the scalp,
whloh brings $9 bounty.
The Eumka and Excelsior mines in
the Cracker Creek district in Baker
oounty, produced in 1895 $120,000.
The concentrators were sent to Taooma,
and, of oourse, added to Washington's
annual output.
Large quantities of snow continue to
fall in the Blue mountains. There is
now every assurance of an abundance
of water for plaoer mining this season.
A bout 6,000 feet of pipe and five
Klant have been taken to the mines on
the headwaters of Grand Ronde river,
in the southwestern part of Union
oounty.
The Thursday Afternoon Club of
Peudloton claims the honor of being
the first new woman's olub organized
in Oregou. It will celebrate the end
of the third year of it work this week.
Coos county's levy this year is 32
mills, divdod as follows: For state
purposes, 4.8 mills; for oounty, 18;
for schools, 4.8. The oounty paid out
for the relief of indigent persons, be
tween April 1, 1895, and January 1,
1890, $9,699.80.
The Sturgls mine, for some years
past regarded as one of the most valu
able in Southern Oregon, is now run
ning up to the full oapaoity of the
plant, and the indications are that
more dirt will be moved this year than
during any previous year.
Lane oounty baa received bill for
$110 from Coos oounty for oaring for a
pauper claimed to belong to Lane
oounty. This was considered an ex
orbitant charge for the servioes per
formed, and the court baa tendered $88
in settlement of the aooount
There has been some exoitement
about Lostlne, In Wallowa oounty,
over what was thought to be a rich
mineral discovery, but the returns of
the assays gave $1.08 In gold and $1.40
in silver to the ton, instead of running
into the hundreds as at first reported.
The board of regents of the Oregon
agricultural college has appointed a
committee to arrange for the addition
of a school of mines to that institu
tion. This was done to avail the state
of the provision to be made by con-
gross that suob schools shall receive
per oent of the money arising from the
sale of mineral lands In each state.
The friends and rolatiocs of Cap
tain Chapman, who died at Cape Foul
weatbor from injuries received on the
ship St. Charles, when she blew up
with ooal gas, off the Oregon coast two
years ago, had a metallio casket sent
up to Port Orford, to the care or Uap
taln Babbidge, who will see to the rais
ing of the body and having it shipped
back to the state of Maine.
James II. Miller, a brother of the
poet Joaquin, has been visiting The
Dalles. Me is one of the pioneers of
Eastern Oregon, havlug settled In the
Oohooo country whon Indians were
thioker than jack-rabbits, and when the
settlor's life and property were con
stantly in danger. He retains the
ooatunie of the frontiersman, and pre
sents the appearance of having belongod
to a generation of the past.
- Idaho
At Medimont David Mulvy shot and
Instantly killed H. Boden. They had
a dispute about an old aooount
The new machinery -for the hoist
ing plant for the A. D. & M. Company
has arrived at Gibbonsville and will
be put in place at once.
Now that a sale of the Blaok Hornet
mine will not take plaoe, the owners
have decided to ereot a milling plant
and hereafter work the property them
selves. The postoffloe at Juniper, Owyhee
oounty, has been discontinued, and
mail for that office, whiah was a apo
dal one, must hereafter be forwarded
to Castle Creek.
The Christian Endeavorer held
union meeting at Mosoow to com
memorate the anniversary of the found
ing of the order. Six hundred were
proseut
The wheat elevator of J. R. Collins,
at Juliotta, baa been destroyed by fire.
It oontained about 60,000 bushels of
wheat, only a small portion of which
was insured. The fire was of incen
diary origin. ,
A shipment of twenty tons of ore
from the Silver Stake mine, near
Salmon City, has been shipped to Den
ver as a test It the results are satis
factory a milling plant will be put in
next spring to treat the output of this
mine. . ... '"...
The oity oounoil of Mosoow adopted
a resolution ordering that a demand
beynade upon the oounty assessor for
the amount held baok for the collecting
of oity taxes. - In oase he refuses to
turn over the amount, whioh he olaims
in the nature of fees, the oity attorney
is to bring suit i " i i
Montana.
The Golden Socptre mines, near
Missoula, are being inspected by
offlolals with the expectation of erect
ing a 100-stamp mill. . ,
The next five years is going to see
greator development of theagriolutural
resources of Montana, says the Mon
tana Stockman, than has been wit
nessed in any of the Northwestern
Btates in the same time.
Major Steele, of Helena, and daugh
ter Agnes, aged 15, went to Washing
ton to christen the gunboat Helena.
The ceremony took plaoe at Newport
News., Miss Steele breaking the bottle
of obampagne ovei the prow of the
boat. -
TELEGRAPHIC RESUME
Events of the Day in a Con
densed Form.
OF INTEREST TO ALL BEADERS
Item of Important From Domestic
and Foreign oareof Cream
of tho Dlspatehes.
Colonel W. P. Thompson, president
of the National Lead Company, died
of pneumonia in New York.
The Chicago oity oounoil has passed
an ordinance prohibiting any person
from engaging in the truffle of horse
meat It is snnonnoed in London that
Justin McCarthy will resign the lead
ership of the Irish parliamentary party
at the next meeting of that party.
The unprecedented rains in the lower
Mississippi valley the past ten days
haveoansed all streams to overflow,
and the lowlands of Tennesse, Arkan
sas and Mississippi are one vast sea of
water.
Word oomes from Brazil that rain
has fallen in such torrents for the last
few days that it has oaused the falling
of many bouses in the cities. Yellow
fever is increasing and one man on the
Italian oruiser Lomardi has died of the
disease.
The storthing has been opened. In
the speech from the throne, King Oscar
said he hoped that the meeting of the
committee on the oondition of the
union of Norway and Sweden would
tend to an agreement for the happiness
of both nations.
The United States minister to Tur
key, Mr. Terrell, has demanded an in
demnity of $100,000 for the burning
and pillage of the American mis
sions at Ma rash and Kharput He
also asked for the immediate granting
of firmans for rebuilding them.
The celebrated oase of Dr. Arthur
Duestrow, the St Louis millionaire,
who has been on trial during the past
month for the cold-blooded murder of
his wife and baby boy, two years old,
has ended, the jury returning a ver
dict of guilty in the first degree.
After six months' search through
ancient and modern history the patent
offioe bos issued a patent on bloomers.
The man who gets the credit of invent
ing this up -to date article is Thomas
H. Royoe, of Brooklyn. In the future
the new woman will have to pay Royoe
a royalty on her nether garments.
Developments show that Lee Sellers,
lynched in Knoxville, Tenn., ten years
ago for the supposed murder and rob
bery of $1,100 from Edward Mainess,
was innooent Lizzie Hickman, on
her deathbed, confessed that Ike
Wright, notorious character, was
the murderer. He is now being pur
sued by the ofiloers.
The federal oounoil has authorized
the president of the Swiss republio to
accept the proposal tendered by the
governments of Great Britain and the
United States that, in the event of a
disagreement as to oboioe of arbitra
tor tor the Canadian sealers' olaim, the
president of Switzerland shall desig
nate the arbitrator.
An agent of the Chinese government
has oorae to the Paoiflo coast to place
an order tor 60,000,000 feet of lumber.
Most of the timber is intended for the
construction and repair of government
buildings. The agent says the indica
tions are good for healthy revival of
the lumber trade throuhgout China
and Japan this and next year.
The Mexican International Exposi
tion Company expects this week to con
clude arrangements with the govern
ment for a national exhibit, and na
tional oommittee to'oo-operate with
the exposition managers will be ap
pointed. The land on whioh the expo
sition will be held has been formally
oonveyed to the New York syndicate
organised to carry out the project
Andrew H. Davidson, of New York,
who is greatly interested in securing
the release of Mrs. Maybriok, confined
in an English prison on a oharge of
murdering her husband, says the next
attempt to secure her release will be
made by the Masons and Roman Cath
olios, and that the effort will be made
on the same lines as those in the past
The congressional delegates from
the Paoiflo coast are making quite a
push in the matter of the additional
revenue cutters for the ooast If
Squire's bill should go through, the
possibilities are that one . will be sta
tioned at Fuget sound and the other in
the Columbia and adjaoent waters.
They will no doubt be built on the
ooast
It is expected that the battleship
Oregon will have her offloial trial some
time in the latter part of April or early
in May, and immediately after that
she will be ready to be commissioned
as a flrst-olass battleship of the United
States. All that remains to be done is
to plaoe the armor plate of the after
turret and mount the two 18-inoh
breech-loading guns it ia to shelter.
The New York Herald's correspond
ent in Rio de Janerio telegraphs that
the British minister has received a dis
patch from England ordering him to
reoognize the sovereignty of Brazil in
the iBland of Trinidade. It ia now
probable that Brazil will permit Great
Britan to establish a big coaling sta
tion on the island for her South Atlan
tic squadron, and that she will grant
thejlght to lay a oable on its shores.
The biggest trust ever formed on the
Paoiflo ooast, and representing a oapital
of over $70,000,000, has been consum
mated. It is the Central Lumber Com
pany, of Caliornia. Its membership
Includes every lumber mill, all ship
owners, and the wholesale and retail
dealers of the Western ooast of the
United States and British Columbia.
All charters of vessels and sales of lum
ber must be effected through this com
pany, whioh regulates freight and fixes
the buying and selling price on all
lumber, regulating the product of each
mill and the amount of lumber each
vessel shall carry each year. The lum
ber shipments to foreign countries are
also placed under restriction.
Four thousand six hundred and forty
bids for $558,269,856 worth of bonds,
is the tremendous total of the subscrip
tions opened at the treasury department,
in accordance with the terms of the
call issued a month ago Inviting pro
posals for $100,000,000 of United btates
4 per cent bonds, to run for thirty
years, from February 1, 1895. These
figures do not include about $120,000,
000 of "crank bids" rejeoted as bogus.
The immense offerings astounded the
experts. The bids literally swamped
the treasury department Although
no action has been taken yet, the bid
of the Belmont syndicate, 110,6877,
will probably be aooepted for at least
$50,000,000. The syndicate bid cov
ered the entire amount
John Hays Hammond, oharged with
the leadership of the late uprising in
Johannesburg, has been liberated on
bail.
A windstorm in New York which
blew 62 miles an hour, did much
damage to property. Three people
were killed.
The oases of Americans arrested at
Johannesburg are now under prelimi
nary examination, and a formal trial
will take plaoe April 21.
f A bridge in the New England rail
road over the Peqnonnock river, near
Bristol, Conn., collapsed, carrying
with it twenty workmen; thirteen
were drowned.
Notwithstanding the success of the
new loan, fears are entertained that
a considerable share of the gold offered
in payment will have been with
drawn from the treasury for that pur
pose.
It is reported in Havana that Gen
eral Gomes is going to establish a seat
of government at Siguana, province of
Santa Clara. He is announoed to be
on the move between Batabano, San
Felipe, Salud and Mariet
John Lee and James Bostio, rivals
for the affections of a young woman of
Adams, Ind., attempted to settle the
matter with pistols, and both were
badly wounded, while a bystander also
reoeived a stray bullet
The Red Lake and White Earth In
dian reservation, comprising about
1,000,000 acres, part of the Chippewa
reservation, in Minnesota, will be
opened for settlement May 1, by proc
lamation to be issued shortly.
Governor Riokards, of Montana, de
manded of Secretary Olney that he
forthwith rid Montana of the Cree In
diana. The demand was made after
the receipt of a letter from Secretary
Olney referring to the Cree contro
versy. :
The rebellion in Formosa is un
checked. One army of rebels has taken
up its position at Ton Wei, and another
has assembled at Camphor Mount
The Japanese troops are confident of
defeating the rebels, but cannot attack
them in their mountain retreats.
The safecrackers who have been ter
rorizing the people of Oakland, Ala
meda and Berkley for the past three
months have been captured by the po
lioe. They are mere boys, aged 16
and 17. They confessed to thirty-seven
burglaries of residences and store.
They said they had realized only $100
from the burglaries.
Dr. Zelle, a practicing physician of
Brandenburg, Germany, baa contrived
a photographio instrument which will,
in minute details, reproduce the vari
ous colors of objeots, persons and land
scapes brought within a specified range
of the camera. What is most surpris
ing in this experience is that in the
photographs the colors lose none of
their original brilliant shades.
Mrs. Jennie Baxter was murdered by
her husband in East Portland. She
returned home in a drunken condition
and Baxter, beooming enraged, drew a
razor aoross her throat, nearly sever
ing the head from the body. He then
attempted suioide in the same manner,
but was stopped by an offloer before he
had completed his work. Their 4-year-old
ohild was the only witness.
Ctt tha mint nhanires introduced in
quick suooession in Cores, the reeont
adoption of the Western method ox
bairdressing has attraotod most atten
tion. The kinir recently issued a rjroo-
lamation urging the saorifioe of the
queues, and set the example oy nav
ing his own hair out, the prince royal
following suit Many lesser govern
ment offloers have resigned rather than
saorifioe their locks.
The reorganization oommittee of the
Oregon Railway & Navigation Com
pany announoea that the plan of or
ganization is now operative. Deposits
of consolidated mortgage and collateral
trust bonds will continue to be reoeived
up to February 29 without penalty.
After that date a payment of $50 per
bond will be required. Deposits of
stock will be reoeived up to the same
date, upon payment of $6 per share.
In sporting circles there has been
considerable attention aroused abroad
by the oable dispa tones announcing
Yale's intention to send a orew aoross
the Atlantio to compete at the Henly
regatta. The newa met with a kindly
reception among the amateur oarsmen,
and it is felt that the appearance of a
sportsmanlike orew, such as Yale is
sure to send, will do muob to effaoe the
bitterness resulting from the Dunraven
inoident and the unfortunate experi
ence of tha Cornell orew in England
last year.
EFFECT OF THE LOAN
General Trade Improved by
the Recent Bond Issue.
THE TREASURY ON A SAFE BASIS
It Influence Felt in All Manufacturing
and Trading Induitrles-The
Week' Failure.
New York, Feb. 10. R. G. Dun &
Company's weekly review of trade
says:
The wondef ml suooess of the popular
loan alters the fsoe of events. The in
fluence of this event upon all manufac
turing and trading industries cannot be
lightly estimated. It puts the treasury
on a safe basis for a time, whether con
gress does anything useful or not It
notifies foreign nations that the United
States has power ai well a purpose.
It unlocks millions of gold which have
been gathered in preparation, brings
directly several millions in gold from
Europe and stimulates the anxiety of
foreign investors to obtain American
securities. With suoh a revolution in
business suddenly effected, the custom
sry records of the past week and month
are of leas value than usual.
But there have been signs of im
provement in the iron manufacture,
although the average of prioeeis nearly
1 per oent lower this tweek, for orders
have been booked for nearly 800,000
tons of rails this year, against total de
liveries in 1895 of 1,000,000 tons, and
orders for wire nails are stimulated by
a decision to advance the price again
on March 1. Speculation has raised
copper to 10j oents, with sales of
6,000,000 pounds, and tin to 18J
cents, and lead to $3.10, with large
exports of Mexican.
Speculation in wheat has again lift
ed prices, although Western receipts
have been 8,800,907 for the week,
against 792,971 last year, and for the
year thus far, 16,067,696 bushels,
against 6,039,933 last year. Atlantio
exports have been inoreasng, though
not in the same proportion, amounting
for the week, flour inoluded as wheat,
to 1,965,956 bushels, against 1,458,255
last year. The speculative market has
been largely influenced by rumors of
injury to the ooming crop, and by for
eign advices, and prices advanced 3o
for cash and 3 5-8 for May.
Failrues for the week have been 323
In the United States, against 281 last
year, and63 in Canada against 58 last
year.
MUST APPLY TO THE POWERS.
Tho Sultan's Reply to Terrell Bequest
Regarding tho Dardanelles.
; Constantinople, Feb. 10. Regard
ing the request of Minister Terrell,
that the United States legation be al
lowed a dispatch boat for its service,
the Turkish cabinet oontends as the
passage of the straits of Dardanelles
was regulated by an agreement be
tween the six powers, the United
States must apply to them for the
necessary permission, as she is not a
party to the treaty of Paris. On be
half of the United States, it is under
stood, the contention is made that the
regulations do not apply to the United
States, and she oonsidera the straits
of Dardanelles to be open water. It
is stated in well-informed oirolea that
the reason for the porte's hesitation to
grant the request is the opposition of
Russia.
The sultan has replied to the auto
graph letter from Queen Victoria,
wbioh it had been understood was a
personal appeal to the better nature of
the sultan against the oondition of Asia
Minor, sympathizing with her in the
humane sentiments expressed and de
claring the reports of the massacres
were spread by evil-disposed persons.
The sultan adds that, oontrary to allega
tions, the Turks were first attacked
while praying in a mosque. The sul
tan assured the queen that the meas
ures taken had suooeeed in restoring
order, and exoept in Zeitoun, quiet
prevails everywhere, and negotiations
going on with the insurgents at Zeitoun
will undoubtedly lead to quiet
COMPUTATION COMPLETED.
Morgan Syndicate Will Secure One
Third of the Bond Issue.
Washington, Feb. 10. Late this
afternoon the treasury officials com
pleted the computation of bids offered
for the new bond issue, from whioh it
appears that the amount of the bids
sbove that of J. P. Morgan and his
associates ($110.6877) was $66,788,
650, and that the amount whioh will
be awarded to the syndicate, there
fore, will be $33,311,350, or approxi
mately one-third of the whole issue.
The number of suooessf ul bidders is
781. In arriving at this conclusion
the offloials have thrown out very few
bids, whioh were obviously fictitious,
and a larger number whioh were ir
regular in important partioluars.
Some of these bore no signature, and
others did not oontain the amount In
tended to be bid tor, while still others
omitted the rate. These last, however,
are not supposed to aggregate any con
siderable sum. The fact that two
thirds of the entire issue are found to
have been at rate ranging above 110,
6877 is something of a surprise to all
who heard the bids announoed, but
there is no question of the aoouraoy of
the statements, for all of the bids have
been gone over again and all errors
made in the hurry ol tne day or open'
ing have been correoted.
Zeltoanlia Beady to Surrender.
New York, Feb. 10. A dispatch
from Constantinople, says the Zeitounlis
are willing to surrender their weapons
of war, while retaining the bunting
weapons they usually carry. They de
mand a Christian governor.
CONGRESSIONAL NEWS.
Condensed Record of the Doing of the
Matlon' Lawmakers -Senate.
Washington, Feb. 6. Today the
senate passed a resolution calling for
detailed statements oonoeralng the
bond bills. Another resolution was
agreed to, directing the secretary of
state to send to the senate copies of all
laws, regulations and decrees of Ger
many, France, Belgium and Denmark,
whioh discriminate against the intro
duction of Amerioan cattle. Quay
brought up the resolution to recommit
the tariff silver bilL He offered an
amendment modifying bis original res
olution, that, instead of instructing
the oommittee to report back separate
bills, the measure be referred baok "for
further consideration." The resolu
tion went over. Turpie then addressed
the senate in favor of the eleotion of
United States senators by popular vote.
Shortly before 3 o'clock the house bill
prohibiting prizefights in the territories
was brought over from the house, and
was at onoe taken up. Hoar stated
briefly the need of speedy aotion. The
prizefighters, he said, had been driven
from Texas to Mexico, and now to New
Mexico, where they hoped to fight, be
cause there was no restraining law.
The bill was read. No objection was
made, and, within three minutes of
the time it was presented in the senate,
it was passed.
Washington, Feb. 10. Upon the
opening of the senate, the aoting chap
lain, the Rev. Hugh Johnson, in the
course of an eloquent prayer, referred
to the reoent popular expression of the
financial strenght and confidence of the
nation. Frye, Rep., was unanimously
chosen president pro tern of the senate,
and in brief remarks, promised to jus
tify the confidence reposed in him by
strict impartiality. The Republican
senators in caucus nominated A. J.
Shaw, of Spokane, We?h.. for secre
tary of the senate; H. L. Grant, of
Notrh Carolina, for serges nt-at-arms,
and Alonzo Stewart, of Iowa, to sue
oeed the late Captain Bassett as assist
ant doorkeeper. It was decided, to
make no change in the office of chap
lain. Boos.
Washington, Feb. 7. The debate
on the senate free-coinage substitute
for the house bond bill was scheduled
to commence today, and there was a
good attendance in consequence. The
session opened with an attempt to pass
a bill to stop the "pugilistic carnival"
billed to take plaoe "near El Paso,
Tex., February 14. Catron asked
unanimous consent for consideration of
the bill. He explained that it was no
torious that the preparations were now
going on at El Paso, Tex., for a series
of prizefights, which could not take
plaoe there, but were to occur in the
territory of New Mexico, which was
within a few miles of El Paso. The
governor of New Mexioo had publicly
stated, Carton said, that he knew of no
law to prevent fights. In view of the
shortness of the time remaining (one
week) he warned the house that if ob
jection were made, and the bill was
sent to a oommittee, it oould not pass
both houses and be signed in time to
prevent the "milL" Knox objected,
and the bill went to oommittee. At 8
o'olock, the house went into committee
of the whole, Payne In the chair, and
took up consideration of the free-ooin-age
substitute for the house bond bilL
The afternoon and evening sessions
were consumed in dissuasion of the bill, .
the house adjourning at 10:35.
Wahington, Feb. 8. The senate
free-coinage substitute tor the house '
bond bill was debated five hours in the j
house this afternoon and five hours at
the night session. The speeches so far
have been tame and dry. There were
two notable exceptions, however, to
day. Johnson of North Dakota, and
Johnson of California, -both Republic
ans, but on different sides of the sil
ver question, afforded entertainment
and perhaps instruction. The former
was onoe a schoolteacher, and he
brought the method of the schoolroom
into the house. He plaoed some charts
in front of the speaker's desk, illustrat
ing graphically the rise and fall of
prioes in this country, the production
of silver, and, pointer in hand, like a
professor to his pupils, explained con
verging and diverging lines. Johnson
of California, on the other hand, whose
fiery protests against the passage of
the bond bill attracted general atten
tion and won the applause of the silver
men, with an eloquent speech urged
the Republicans not to ignore silver,
and warned them of the dire conse
quences wbioh might follow if they
did. His wit was so trenchant and
his blade so keen that he was . fre
quently applauded by those who were
not in sympathy with him.
Washington, Feb. 10. Debate on
the tree-silver substitute for the bond
bill proceeded steadily in the house to
day. The house met at 10:80 A. M.,
with less than thirty members present
Newlands awoke the empty echoes of
the vast ball with a vigorous argument
in favor of the free and independent
coinage of silver. He ' asserted not a
single debtor nation of the world main
tained the gold standard exoept the
United Statse, and we dids so as the
prioe of . the continued bond issues.
Hartman and Eem followed in favor
of concurrence, and Tucker in favor
of non-oonourrenoe.
To Kxelud tho Socialist.
New York, Feb. 10. A Berlin dis
patoh says the government of Saxony
has prepared a bill changing the eleo
tion system, and virtually disfranchis
ing the working classes, the avowed
object being to exclude socialists from
the diet - 1 '
The relatives of the late Mrs.
Anna R. Aspinwall of Pittsburg, who
left $8,000,000 to tha Episcopal hospl
tal of Philadelphia, have withdrawn
their opposition to it probata.
ORCHARD AND FIRM
Budget ot General News for
Progressive ' Farmers.
THE HEAVY SEEDING OF OATS
A Cheap Way to Begin Farming Rapid
Decline In Breeding Hares
Sueoessfol Tenant Farmer.
Lodging of oats is due to the imper
fect development of the tissues of the
stem, and this is the result of an in
sufficient exposure to sunlight in con
sequence of the plants being too olose
together. The greatest exposure will
donbtless be , secured by moderately
thin sowing. It is usually considered
that the quantity of seed per aore
should vary with the oondition of the
land and the time of sjwing, a great .
quantity being sown when the land is
in poor oondition, and when the season
is late. A greater quantity of seed is
required on poor land, as the oats do
not "stool out" so well, and in a
late season it is necessary to increase
the amount in order to hasten the bar
vest, as, where the bind is thinly sown,
the "stooling" process is liabile to be
carried on for too long a time, making ,
the harvest late. In England, as high ,
a eight bushels per acre of oats are
often sown, in other year-testa that
quantity of seed yielding an average
ot forty-three bushels per acre; six :
bushels, fifty-three; and four bushels
seed yielding an average of forty-three
bushels per acre; other things being
equal. In America, four bushels per
acre is usually considered heavy seed
ing for oats, and one and one-half to ,
two bushels is the amount usually
sown.
Cheap Way to Begin.
Let one purchase hens of the com
mon mongrel stock whioh can always
be got quite cheaply and with these
hens mate a purely-bred male of the
variety desired to breed into. In the
autumn carefully seleot the strongest
and best-developed pullets, still re
taining the former male bird. Select
only those pullets whioh are robust
and perfectly healthy in every respect,
and stongly marked in form, color and
general characteristics of the breed
represented by their sire. Mate this
second orop of pullets to an unrelated
sire and the resulting generation will
be equal to thoroughbred stock of that
breed for all practical purposes in lay
ing and marketing qualities.
A Bapid Decline.
The failure of owners to breed mares
during the past two years is empha-,
sized by a deoline of 8 per cent in to -tal
numbers on the farm. This deoline
would be still greater but for the fail
ure of the ordinary .demand for low
grade animals for city work, so that
an urban census would disclose a de
crease in numbers In addition to the
farm decrease measured here. The
most striking feature regarding horses,
however, whioh is brought out by that
investigation is the deoline in the aver
age value . per head, amounting to
$7. 60, or nearly 18 per oent in a year.
A Successful Tenant Farmer.
I began on a run-down Vermont
farm of 165 acres with thirteen cows,
two yearlings, two ah oats, ten hens,
and now have fifteen cows, . three
springers, six yearlings, fourteen bogs,
eighty hens, and plenty of rough fod
der to keep them. This year I sowed
five aore of fodder corn, planted eight
aores of flint corn, began feeding green,
fodder August 10 and roots later on,
and am now feeding oured fodder and
about seven pounds of grain (composed
of equal parts cob meal, wheat bran
and gluten meal) three times a day to
each cow. Am milking thirteen oows,
six of them farrow, and carry the
milk to the Marshall oreamery. Last
year the hens brought in about $60.
Next year I shall sow ten aores of
San ford oorn, having raised my own
seed, and am working to keep forty
oows on this plaoe. I am in favor of
the silo but cannot afford one on a
rented farm, so will run my fodder
through a shredder. I think soiling ia
the only way to bring up a farm. 1
shall try sowing about four aores of
oats to out green and make hay of, and
shall experiment with muok, as we
have a large amount of it and land
adapted to its use. The great trouble
with farmers here is, they are apt to
sell their stock if short of fodder. Now
I am in favor of buying grain and
keeping the stock, as more stock means
more hay, and more hay means better
farms. L. S. Glynn, Rutland County,
Vfc -v 'v :
- ' Notes. '
It is said that only 34 per cent of
last week's Boston sales were of Ameri
oan wooL
J. D. Woodruff of Wyoming, one of
the largest wool-growers in the ooun
try, thinks the best cross for the range
is the Shropshire ram on the large Cal
ifornia Merino ewe. .
It is said that shipments of oattle
and horses are being made from Aus
tralia to South Africa. The voyage
from Victoria to Cape Colony require
about three weeks.
Minister Buchanan of Argentine
cables in reply to an Inquiry about the
wheat oondition that it is unfavorable
owing to exoessive rains, and estimatea
the exportable surplus at 80,000,000
bushels.
The National Provisioner, of New
York says that within the past month
a new industry has been established
between this oouutry and Cuba. On
eaoh outgoing steamer to the islands
large quantities of live poultry have '
been shipped from that oity, the war
there having engaged the attention ot
the people so that they neglected at
tending to poultry -railing. - 4