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Newspaper Page TextOREGON Ml nn VOL. 13. ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1896. NO. 10. -i JL JLJLJUi TELEGRAPHIC RESUME Events of the Day in a Con densed Form. OF INTEREST TO ALL KEADEES Itetus of Importance from Domestic and Foreign lourui Cream or the Dlspatebes. Tboniai Uowoi Hinckley, an. artist of wide fame, died In Boston. Chioago olothtng-outters and trim men have ordeded a strike, and 30,000 are thrown oat of work. Members of the Irish parliamentary party have elected Dillon aa the new chairman to auooeed Justin McCarthy. The sooretary of the Interior haa ap proved a Hat of eighty acre of land se ' looted in Oregon City laud distlot, Or egon, by the Oregon & California rail toad, under Hi grant. John L. Waller, oonflued in a Frenob prison, haa been granted a pardon by President Faure, due to the representa tion made by the United Btatea gov ernment In the prisoner'! behalf. The Elloott Square building atrike In Buffalo, N. Y., ia ended, and a thousand or more workmen have re ' turned to work. The differeuoea be- ' tween the auperiutendent and the men have been amicably aettled. A faotory for the making of reme dies alinllar in nature to the proprie tary mediolnes now on the market ia to be started by Chioago retail drug' gists. . A majority of the oity pharma' oista are Interested, and they hope to drive the patent medicine makers . from the field. Alaska .travel from the Sound ia growing to aucb an extent that the Pa olofl Coast Steamship Company haa de olded to put another ateamer, the Mex- ioo, on the route, in addition to the Topeka and Al-Ki, wblob are now orowded every tirp with freight and passengers for the North. A leading Spanish newspaper ia quoted aa aayiug: "It la not for the United Btatea government to gtv'e Spain lessons in humanity. Those who live in glass houaea should not throw stones. I Ait the United States government put down lynohlugs be- fore it reads us our duty to the Cuban insurgents. " Hope ia about abandoned for the barkantlne Discovery, owned by Pope Talbot, of San Frauoisoo. The ves sel is now out twenty-eight days from Port Oamble, loaded with lumber. She waa oommaandud by Captain Cbristnnsen. There wore twelve men in her, and there is aoarouly any chanoe of tbem turning up alivo. At a masked ball in Lisbon Are broke out and a panio followed. Men, women and ohildreu jumped from the windowa, seriously injuring them selves. Friends of the revelers rushed into the burning building to aid in the work of rescue, and many of them were caught by the flames. Thus far . forty-four bodies bare been taken out Baron Blano, of Rome, Italy, min ister of foreign affairs, authorises the announcement that President Cleve land, having decided to aooept the po sition of arbitrator to settle the quea , tion in dispute between Italy and Bra ail, a protocol haa been signed, refer ring to bis arbitration all olalma that are not amicably settled by the two countries within two months. Aooording to advioea reooived at Port Townseud from Alaska by the ateamer City of Toptka, the Bank of Juneau haa failed, owing depositors about 16,000. There are no assets. J. N. Harrison, the bank's oashier and manager, just before the steamer sail ed, waa arrested for larceny by embes slemeut of 1400. The oashier and his brother operated the bank as a joint copartnership. Robert Lauhglin, of Auguata, Ky., who reported bis bouse burned by murderers, who attacked him with ' knives, and whose wife and nleoe were - burned In the building, haa oonfessed that he was the murderer. The gen eral theory is that he first assaulted bis niece, and then killed her and his wife to hide his crime. He denies this, however, and says he oonld not tell what put it in his mind to brain them with a pokor whilo they were asleep. An explosion of dynamite ooonrrred at Vlendendorp, South Africa, and the poor quarter of the town haa been blown to pleoea. Hundreds of bouses are in ruin, and the havoc wrought is fearful. The windows of every house in Johannesburg were broken by the explosion. The dynamite that caused the catastrophe filled eight trnoks and made a bole thirty feet deep. Forty dead, nealry all of them horribly mu tilated, were taken from the ruins, and the search is not yet completed. Two hundred of the most severely injured were admitted to the hospital, where several died. Chalrea Christy, of Waverly, Kan., a young lawyer, haa just arrived from Cuba, where be was a priaouer. He, with about 400 others, were captured in one battle near Havana. All but he and fifteen other Americana were lined np and shot. The Amerioan consul saved them. Christy ia a member of one of the pioneer families of Coffey .oounty. He is an enthusiastio Cuban patriot, and claims they have every thing on the island exopet Havana, and that that will soon fall. He alao says that since the new Spanish gen eral has taken oomamnd no prisoners are taken. A deal is said to have been made be tween the Southern Paoiflo and the Seaboard Air line, whereby alljthe traf fic which can possibly be diverted to tho former's Sunset route will be do llvurd by the latter at New Orleans. This deal is considered to be a direct blow at the Sonthern Pacific's direct connections at Ogden. Its object is said to be to divert as much tTafflo as possible from the Central Paoiflo road, the Sonthorn Paoiflo having entered upon a deliberate and systematic policy of impoverishing that part of its sys torn, with the view of frightening the United States .to settle its claims gnlnst that road on the easiest terms. ' Irving Fleming committed suioide, by outtiua his throat with a razor, at Woodburn, Or. Bill Nye, the famous humorist, died at his home In Ashevillle, N. C, from a paralytic stroke. , . Daniel Oalenoia, residing near Spo kane, killed himself by shooting him self through the heart. The entire family of Jacob Jacodi was asphyxiated in bis farmhouse, near Niles Centor, 111., by gas from a coal stove. The president has signed the bill ex tending the operation of mineral land laws to the north half of the Colville Indian reservation. A large amount of spurious coin in the shape of 60-oent and $1 pieces has been found to be in circulation at Wenatohee, Wash. At a meeting of Irish-Americans held in New York,, resolutions were adopted demanding the release of all politloal prisoners confined in English jails. - K. R. Campbell, ex-olerk of the United States district court, waa ahot and killed by hia son, Robert Camp bell, in Nashville, Tenn. Young Campbell has been regarded as men tally unsound. Seven people were asphyxiated, one fatally hurt by jumping from a win dow, and five others more or less injured by fire in the residence of James R. Arminger, a prominent jeweler of Bal timore, Md. At Seney, Mich., four men were killed aud seven seriously injured by a steam log-hauler at a lumber camp. The engine beoame uncontrollable and ran down the road at full apeed, catch ing the men before, escape waa possible. Another big gun has reached the Presidio in San Franoisoa It was hauled to the top of the ridge back of Fort Point Thia is the second 30-ton rifle to be added to the Fort Point bat tery and completes the trio ordered for thia ooaat several years ago. A London special saya the Natal Timea olaims to have the best author ity for the statement that the South African republic will, on the fifteenth anniversary of the Boer victory over the British under General Col ley at Majuba bill, proclaim its independence. The great tailors' strike, which hss been in force several weeks in many cities in Germany, has been ended by the employers granting a 13 W per oent inoroase of wages. The seamstresses' atrike, a movement allied to the tail ors' atrike, is alao on the eve of a set tlement ' Arthur C. Newsan, the former Brit ish magistrate at Cedroa, Trinidad, who waa arrested in Brooklyn, July 7, hint, oharged with having embezzled about 100,000 belonging to the Brit ish government, has been aoquitted after two trials, and has been set at liberty. The monitor Monadnook has been formally plaoed in commission at Mare-island navy yard, San Franoisoo, The Monadnook was oommenoed twelve years ago, aud has dragged along at intervals. Navy officers say she is now a most powerful battleship and able to bold her own against anything that floats. State Senator Guy, of New York, has prepared a bill whioh will be pre sented to the legislature very soon which authorizes tbe oity to purchase and remove the Edgar Allen Poe oot- tage. Tbe bill provides for an appro priation of $50,000, which sum, it ia estimated, will cover all expenses. James Fitzgerald was hanged at St Louis for tbe murder of his sweetheart, Annie Neasens, on the night of Novem ber 34, 1808. The rope broke and tbe victim lay struggling on the ground beneath the gallows. Tbe doctors fonnd Fitzgerald still conscious. Stim ulants were given and he revived. A new rope waa sent for and an hour later the slok and trembling, but very nervy victim, was again taken to tbe scaffold. - This time there was no hitch. Under the new postal appropriation bill the secret inspection of letter car riers by special agents will be stopped. The bill provides instead, that there shall be thirty additional postoffloe in spectors, who shall be assigned to the free delivery servioe exclusively. While these men will be nominally under the authority of the fourth as sistant postmaster-general, they will be snbjeot to the orders of the first as sistant and tbe superintendent of the free delivery service. They will de vote their time exclusively to the in spection of the free-delivery servioe, and will pursue the same methods pur sued by the speoial agents. The secretaries of the Amerioan Ban- tist Missionary Union, the Amerioan Baptist Publication Sooiety and the Amerioan Baptist Eduoatlonal Sooiety, aoting nnder the advice and authority of their respective boards, at a meeting held in Philadelphia, unanimously voted that it is impraotioable to bold the anniversaries in May in Portland, Or. , aooording to the previous arrange ment and announcement. The reoent destruction by fire of tbe Baptist Pub lication Socioty building in Philadel phia is given as one reason. An invi tation to hold the anniversary at As- bury Park, commencing May 30, has been aooepted. PACIFIC NORTHWEST Items ot General Interest From All Sections. DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS All the Cities aud Towns of the Pacific States and Territories Washing-ton, rrosser is taxing steps to secure a oreamery. A trainload of hoga was shipped out of the JPalouse country last week. About $30,000 was left by tho pur chasers. Tbe oity oounoil of Everett is baok- ing tbe marshal in an effort to bring to justioe a lot of hoodlums who con. duct themselves disgracefully at the Salvation Army meetings. Attorney-General W. C. Jones is pre paring to bring before the courts the question of whether stone or marble on government land makes the land mineral la the legal acceptation of the term. J. M. Lively', promoter and founder of the Port Towsend steel wite and nail worka, la authority for tbe state ment that there ia a possibility that the works may be started again in tbe near future. W. L. Bartholomew, one of the com- mlssionros of Pierce oounty, who was oharged with purchasing oounty war rants below par, was found not guilty by tbe court, upon an agreed state ment of faota. Reports sent baok by those who went down from Davenport to Central Amerioa last fall are very conflicting. It is said that several of the party are disappointed with the country, and anxious to get baok. There is more aotivity in the mines in the Kettle Falls district than at any time in the past three years. Work has been progressing for four weeks on tbe Silver Uueen, a night and day shift of men being employed. The Puget Sound reduotion works at Everett has added another furnace to its smelting plant and will hereafter treat copper ores. It has on hand 1,500 tone of the Le Roi ore from Trail Creek. Thia new addition will treat fully 800 tons of ore per day. R. J. Brewster and wife are in jail at Taooma, charged with thieving, Fifty-two chickens had been stolen from tbeir neighbors, and fifty of them were found bidden In the Brewster bouse. Mrs. Brewster testified that she stole the ohickens Sunday night while her husband waa absent with the Salvation Army, to whioh they both belonged. Work haa been begun at Anaoortes on two aalmon canneries, one by the Fidalgo Island Canning Company, and one by the Anaoortes Paoking Com pany. An Astoria firm has, it is said, secured a site and will soon begin the construction of another cannery. The aggregate ooat of these three planta, in cluding buidlings, equipment, fish traps and steamers, is estimated at $350,000. . The oargo shipments from the eleven prinoipal mills ot tbe state of Washing ton, aa reported to the West Coast Lumberman, shows that a total of 4,- 870,951 feet of lumber was shipped to foreign ports and 83,033,670 feet to domestuio porta, making a total of 86,893,631 feet of lumber. This total oo in pa red with the record for Deoember shows a falling off ot 81,399,899 feet for Januuary. A silver-tip bear, tbe largest of the kind seen here in many years, was shot and killed laat week, a abort distanoe above tbe mouth of Grand Ronde river. It is learned from hunters who have depended for years upon their rifles and traps for a livelihood, that the weather has been so mild all winter in the lower mountains ' along the Snake river, that bear never onoe went into winter quarters. The Chinook fish hatchery haa this season turned out over 1,000,000 parr (young ohinook salmon) and now has on hand overy 800,000, whioh soon will be ready to turn out The parent flab are taken from fish traps in Baker's bay, towed in orates to Chinook river and plaoed in the river above the dike, there left until they oome to maturity and asoend the stream to spawn, when they are again oaught in a slat trap, the eggs taken from them and put into the hatchery. The most aotive line of business on Puget sound during the oomlng seson, says the Post-Intelligencer, will un doubtedly be that of oanning salmon. The number of canneries will be more than quadrupled. Severalnew oan neries are to be located down Sound, three at Anaoortes, one at Richardson, San Juan county, and more are talked of, but not definitely decided upon. In Seattle harbor, aooording to persons in a position to know, there is likely to be an addition of three oannerles, and one of them seems to be a certainty. It will bo located at West Seattle. . ' Oregon. Clamming parties are now fashion able at ooast points in Curry oounty. The taxroll of Clatsop oounty has been turned over to the sheriff for col lection. There is a movement among the farmers ot Douglas oounty to establish a co-operative store. Sllverton will try to secure a oollege, assisted by the Liberal societies of Ore gon and of the United States. The managers of the Athena broom faotory have deoided not to move the institution to Walla Walla. There ia quite a rivalry among the towns of Eastern Oregon and Washing- ton for the place of holding the next firemen's tournament Pendleton has secured a pledge of $800 of the neces sary $600 to entitle it to a cbanc for the honor. ? -; Tbe Klamath river is full of fine salmon, and great quantities are being oaught and marketed every day. - Medford's soboolhoose is to float nn der a new $50 Amerioan flag when opened, a subscription being circulated to rise tbe money. Cattle buyers are on the ground in Lake oonnty early this year. Already two from Colorado are going over the northern part of the oounty looking for spring buys. Already reports of crop prospeots are beginning to oome from Wasco county. They are very flattering, and it is said fall grain never looked so well at this season of the year before. ' The oity council of Grant's Pans has passed an ordinance prohibiting boys from smoking on tbe streets; alao, one forbidding the posting of obscene post ers or piotures in the oity. A boat is being built to run on the Lower Klamath river this summer. It will be a single-deck stern-wheeler, 60 feet long and 13 feet wide, propelled by a 10x14 cylinder engine. Sherman oounty farmers are pre par ing to put in larger crops of grain this spring than for many years past Tbe favorable weather for plowing is en couraging to farmers all through East' ern Oregon. Work on the woolen mill buildings In Pendleton is advancing rapidly and will be oompleted before the remainder of the machinery arrives, which will be about tbe middle of next month. The validity of the lease made by Wasco oounty to the Hood River Lum bering Company, whereby the com pany is granted the right to oharge for material floated down the river, will probably be tested in the courts. Postmaster Crossen, of The Dalles, haa a letter from the war department, asking a reoommednation for the oro- posed site of the $100,000 publio build ing to be ereoted in The Dalles, in the event Senator Mitchell's bill becomes a law. J. H. Hindman, an orohardist of Weston, says that the prospeots of fruit this year are very good. In several localities the buds are already swollen, something unusual at this time of year. Tbe fruitmen fear a frost, whioh, if severe, would be damaging. The youngest captain on the coast, is Louis Olsen, of the Gem, who is 19 years old, and has been in oharge of the schooner Gem for eight months. The Gem was formerly commanded by his father, who met death on board the vessel, while the son was employed aa mate. Star mail servioe has been discon tinued between Portland and Bethany, and between Hillsboro and Glenooe, to take effect March 7. Speoial mail servioe will be discontinued March 7 to Lenox, Washington oounty, from Glenooe, and to Phillips, same oounty, from Bethany. Idaho. Boise has sold her $35,000 sidewalk bonds at par. They bear 6 per cent in terest and run seven years. The Northern Paoiflo railway has just issued a valuable folder that is devoted exoluaively to the Nez Peroe reservation. A number ot Moscow citizens inter ested in mining nave organized a branch of the Northwest Mining As sociation. The branoh has a member ship of thirty. In the mail servioe from Vanwyok to Meadows, the postoffloe departemnt has directed that permission be given postmasters at termini to deliver mail to carrier one hour in advance of sched ule time, provided no connections are broken and no complaint be made. The state of Idaho haa been sued by Butte oontraotors for $6,744.35, for work on the state wagon road. Tbese oontraotors built a portion ot the road in Lemhi oounty, afterwards it was washed away by apring freshets, and the board ordered them to rebuild it Their bill is tor the rebuilding, and tbe state board of examiners refused to pay it, henoe the suit Despite the bad roads, travel has al ready oommenoed to the Nez Peroe reservation and it is estimated that 1,500 white settlers will be on their olaims before June. The new oity of Nes Peroe is already the scene of ao tive business operations. A new stage and mail line will be in operation by April 1 from thia place, whioh will give direct oommunioation with the terminus of the Spokane & Palouse branoh of tbe Northern Paoiflo rail road. . Montaue. Coal has been discovered near Hins dale, about eighteen milea from Glas gow, whioh is aaid to be oi a good cok ing grade and in great abnudanoe. An improved miners' oage has been patented by Montana parties, the prin oipal features being a method of doing away with the aooi dents to life and limb and the destruction of property in mines using the old-style chairs. A fine quality of asbestos has been found near Red Lodge, whioh gives every indication of being a valuable disoovery. At a depth of only a few feet the fibres show a length of fully six inohes and has the appearanoe of being of fine quality. .. , The past year's shipments of cattle from the state exoeeded that of any year in the history of Montana. The shipments out of the state during the year amounted to 846,460 head; slaugh tered for home oonsumpiton 60,000 head, making a total of 806,848 head. Tbe average prioe per year was a little over $86 per head. Thus the oattle industry brought the stare a little more than $11,000,000 during 1895 THE NEW RECEIVERS Appointment ot Bigelow and McHenry Approved. JOINT BOND FIXED AT $100,000 A Decision Finally Rendered In the Northern Paelde Keeelrershlp Cm. In Mew York Court. New York, Feb. 34. Tbe motion for argument in the matter of the ap pointment of receivers for the North ern Paoiflo railway made in behalf of the Farmers' Loan & Trust Company, was called today before Judge La com be, in the United States cirouit court Argument on the motion was made by Francis T. A. Junkin and Herbert S. Turner, general counsel for tbe Farm ers' Loan & Trust Company. Silas W. Pettit and Henry Stanton were in court to look after the interests of the officers of the Northern Paoiflo rail way; and the reorganization commit tee. Silas W. Pettit, speaking for tbe Northern Paoiflo railway officials, said they were not opposed to the appoint- ment of Bigelow and McHenry. but,' the finbflH for their ronflrmot.inn rl. ! they asked for their confirmation to gether with R. M. Galloway and Andrew F. Burleigh. E. Nathan, rep resenting tbe second mortgage bond holders, asked for the appointment of but two receivers and Mr. Howard, of Root & Clarke, spoke for the third mortgage bondholders. A few minutes after 5 o'clock Judge La com be gave hia decision approving the appointment of Bigelow and Mo Henry. Tbe judge aaid: "In view of the order herteofore made by Mr. Justioe Brown, while as signed to the district, I am prepared to sign an order in similar form to that made in the court ot so-called jurisdic tion, consolidating the two suits, ac cepting tbe resignations of tbe old re ceivers and appointing the new ones, but with a clause providing that there ahall be kept within the jurisdiction a sum of money not less than $100,000 to provide for the claims of any rcedit ors here, and further providing for the servioe of papers on such receivers in any cause begun here. Inasmuch as the new receivers are non-residents, and this court therefore haa no means of enforcing their compliance with the above terms by personal service, they should give a joint bond in the sum of $100,000." THE REVIEW OF TRADE. More Favorable Influencee Are Be- ported Than for Weeks. New York. Bradstreet's weekly trade review says: While no radical improvement haa appeared in the gen eral trade situation, more favorable in fluences are reported than for some weeks. The drop in the temperature has affected the movement ot dry goods, bats and groceries. The record for de clining quotations which began last week is continued for some varieties of oottons and the tendenoy of quotations of wool is to deoline, and prices of wheat, flour, corn, oats, pork, lard and petroleum are lower. The con spicuous advanoea are in coffee and sugar., Exports of wheat, flour included as wheat, from both coasts of the United States, this week, amount to 8,149,000 bushels, against 3,718,000 bushels last week, and 1,808,000 bushels in the same week a year ago. Scarcely less favoraable than tbe im provement in the bank clearings is the sudden drop in the total number of business failures throughout the coun try, that of the week being 876, against 38 last week; 837 in the cor responding week a year ago, and 335 in the week two years ago. There are few failures also reported from the Dominion, 58 against 70 a week ago, 88 in the corresponding week a year ago", and 63 in the week two years ago. CORBETT'S TURN NEXT. Fitialmmons Whipped Matter and Is Now the Champion. Langtry, Tex., Feb. 84. Peter Maher was knocked out by Bob Fitz Simmons today in the first round, after one minute and 85 seconds of aotnal fighting. Fitzsimmons played tbe same old game he haa so often played before led on his opponent until he had him where he wanted him and then landed a lightning right-handed swing on the jaw and it was over. It waa the identical blow that knocked out Jim Hall in New Orleans. For the first part of the round Maher bad the best of it He led often and forood the fighting. In his eagerness to get at Fitasimmona, he oommitted a palpable foul during a olinoh, and was warned by Referee Siler that its repe tition would oost him the fight Maher fought well, but he was no match for his red-headed opponent, who proved himself today one ot the craftiest men who ever stepped into the ring. Fitzsimmons is now, by Corbett a ao- tion in presenting the championship to Maher, the champion of the world. and after the fight was over he de clared, through Julian, his willingness to defend the- ohampionahip against any and all oomers. " To Measure Densities. Chioago, Feb. 84. Whether or not oath ode rays will be of servioe in de tecting flaws in steel, Charles E. Sorib- ner, of the Western Electrio Company, said today that they will be of great value in measuring densities. Mr. Soribner is conducting experiments all along this line. The latest information from tbe moon is that 188,866 craters have been counted on its surface, all dead. CONGRESSIONAL NEWS. Condensed Record of the Doings of the Nation's Lawmakers Senate Waahington, Feb. SO. The session of the senate today furnished a succes sion of breezy inoidenta. Little actual work was accomplished, but brief de bates on a number of subjects develop ed frequent sharp personal exchanges between the senators. Hill had a lively tilt with Tillman of South Caro lina during the debate on Peffer's reso lution for a senate investigation of the recent bond issue. Allen joined issues with Gear of Iowa and Woloott over the oourse of tbe Paoiflo railway com mission in conducting their inquiry. Chandler and Cockrell had an ani mated but good-natured colloquy, and Hawley and Allen bad a differenoe somewhat less good-natured. Two ap propriation bills, tbe military academy and the pension bill, were passed dur ing the day. Efforts were made to amend the military academy bill by in creasing the number of cadets by two from each state, 90 in all, but, after a debate of three hours, the plan was de feated. The pension appropriation bill, carrying $143,000,000, was passed after ten minutes' debate. Washington, Feb. 31. The 'Cuban question came before the senate today for definite and final action, and it ia Zat roZ 'mZuUnS eIPeCKa tM VOtS Will DO WKen at an early day on the several pending propo- aitiona requesting Spain to recognize the belligerency of Cuba, and request ing a recognition of Cuabn independ ence. The first thing of importance in the senate today was the reading of a resolution from tbe secretary of the treasury as to coin and other money in circulation, whioh was ordered printed for the use of tbe senate. The senate then spent some time in discussing the question of official procedure Squire reported favorably a bill requiring that marine engineers be American citizens. Minor bills blocked the wsy for some time, but Call finally k?i tbe Cuban resolutions called up, and tbe remain der of the day was spent in discussing them. Waahington, Feb. 35. The senate oommittee on publio lands decided to favorably report tbe house bill extend ing the time within which suits may be brought by tbe government to annul unauthorized grants of publio lands. The decision of the committee was pre ceded by a hearing of representatives of the various localities interested in the proposed legislation. There waa a proposition before the oommittee to in clude Mexican land grants in the ex tension, but White appeared in opposi tion to this, contending that the Mex ican grant question should be settled as soon as possible, in the interest of all ooneerned, and the amendment was not made. Bouse. Waahington, Feb. 30. The house today passed the agricultural appro priation bill. It carries $3,168,193. Tbe section of the revised statutes for the purchase and distribution of "rare and uncommon" seeds, whioh Secretary Morton declined to execute in the cur rent appropriation law, waa repeated, the appropriation for seeds was in creased from $180,000 to $150,000 and its execution waa made mandatory upon the secretary. Cousins intoduoed his amendment to reduce Mr. Morton's salary from $8,000 to $35 until he ex pended the appropriation in the cur rent law, but tbe amendment was ruled out on a point of order. Several amendments to the meat inspection act of 1891, recommended by Secretary Morton, whioh would have given him additional power to enforce regulations and have strengthened the law by the imposition of penalties for violations, were stricken out Pills were passed to dispose of the Fort Klamath hay reservation, and to grant the Colum bia & Red Mountain railroad a right of way through the Colville reserva tion. A resolution was adopted direct ing the oommittee on ways and means to investigate the effect the difference in exchange between gold and silver standard countries haa upon the manu facturing industries ot the United States. The agricultural bill was then taken up, and consumed the rest of the day. ' Washington, Feb. 81. The house today devoted itself strictly to business. The army appropriation bill, carrying $33,375,903, was passed; the confer ence report on the urgent deficiency bill was adopted, and the bill to ex tend for five years the time in which the government can bring suits to an nul patents to publio lands under rail road and wagon-road grants was passed. . An amendment was adopted limiting the application of the aot to "railroad and wagon-road grants." The following proviso was also added to the bill: "That no suit shall be brought, nor shall recovery be had for lands whioh were patented in lieu of other landa covered by grants which were lost or relinquished by the grantee in consequence of the failure of tbe government to withdraw the same from sale or entry." - The substitute for tbe bill offered by MoRae, to repeal outright the limitations of the aot of 1891, was defeated. Washington, Feb. 85. The senate amendments to the military academy appropriation bill were oonourred in by the house today. The senate bill to amend seotion 5,894 of the revised statutes, relative to the power of the secretary ot the treasury f,o remit or mitigate fines, penalties or forfeitures, was passed; also tbe senate bill relat ing to final proof on timber oulture en tries. Representative Colson intro duced a resolution to investigate the aotion of Secretary Carlisle In refusing to aooept the bid ot William Gravos for $4,600,000 at 115.8891. When Governor Richards, of Wyoming, leaves the oapitol, his daughter, aged 19, who is his private secretary, beoomea governor in srrey tbiag but the nam. ORCHARD AND FARM Budget ot General News for Progressive Farmers. KAFFIR CORN HAS QUALITIES Which Make It a Desirable Flant for Many Idealities Milking Cows Diseases in Winter. Among the newer forage planta which have been introduced into the United States, Kaffir corn appears to be one of tbe most promising. It has been grown here several years, prin cipally in the central portion of the country, and has rapidly been gaining in popularity. Tbe extremely unfav oarble climatio conditions of laat sea son put all forage plants to one of the severest tests they have ever received. They showed beyond question, that Kaffir corn has qualities which make it a most desirable plant for manv lo calities, as it was successfully grown unaer circumstances m which most other forage crops failed. Kami corn is one of the nonsaocha- vine varieties of sorghum. It can be grown in great variety of soils and nn der widely differing conditions of cli mate, but it is especially valuable where the growth of vegetation ia liable to be checked by a deficiency of moisture. Naturally, its yield of stalks and seeds is not as large on thin soils aa it is on those that are well supplied with plant food, but, if other conditions are favorable, it makes a considerable crop on poor land. When rains are infrequent it continues to grow after many other planta have come to a standstill, and after a pro longed period of drouth it promptly responds to the first fall of rain. The stalks grow from four to seven feet in height, snd are well supplied witn leaves. When grown only for forage the seed is sometimes sown broadcast, and the crop is fed green or is cut and cured like hay. It is much better, however, to plant in drills snd cultivate like broom corn or Indian corn. From four to five pounds of seed will plant an acre of land. It does not germinate as quickly as some seeds. and at first its growth is rather slow, but it soon mskes up far all lost time. The time of planting will vary with the loaclity, but the seed can safely be put in as soon as the ground ia warm in the spring, though very late plant ingeven in July, has given good crops at the South. Milking Quality. The cow has a certain degree of adaptability and may be compelled to change the habits of her system and adapt herself to her feed. There is no doubt but that by feeding a ration that is rich in heat and fat forming ele ments and low in flesh forming ele ments you will develop a beef ten dency, and vice versa. We should be careful to feed a proper milk ration to dairy cows to keep np a profitable flow of milk all the time, but what is equally important that the milk ten denoy or habit be constantly encouraged and stimulated with a view to its greater permanent development If this line ot feeding is judiciously kept up from generation to generation, says a dairyman, beginning with onr or dinary cow, the milk type and ten dency will become permanently estab lished and become hereditary, and those cows that are our best milkers will be developed into still better yielders by this course. Diseases In Winter. More disease is brought into flocks by purchasing fowls than from other causes, as but few are able to properly inform themselves of the condition of the purchased stock. Roup may be present in a neighbor's flock and not make its presence manifest, and where it has onoe appeared, even with but few sick ones among the number there is sure to arrive a time when it will spread. The ground beoomes oontami a ted, the germ of the disease are com municated to all, a gradual develop ment is resulting, and when the birds are brought and given- a change of quarters the roup may appear. It will then spread to the new flock, and the farmer will have the work of battling to save a lot of sick fowla instead of enjoying the profits from a healthy flock. To avoid disease, raise your own fowls and never buy one from elsewhere if it can be avoided. It is the only snre way to add vigor and stamina to the flock. It is of oourse, neoessary to add new blood, but it must be done by the use of care and in endeavoirng to secure only healthy birds. , Agricultural Ticks. . If yon have coal ashes, sift them, and spread the sittings over the floor of the sheep stables. It ia next best to plaster. : Do not get too many fowls on the farm and overdoe the matter, for if yon do yon will be snre to be money out ot pocket An important thing in the line of prevention of disease is the Removal of all fowls from the flock as soon as they show any signs of disease. Iti s a very singular faot, but never theless true, that a very large propor tion of our farmers never let their corn go on a rising market, but are always free sellers on a falling market A wise choice of methods of prepar ing and feeding the food has much to do in determining profit or loss. .-. Tbe oheapest production of flesh by horse, cow or sheep, or of milk, is where all or the larger part of the food is secured by the animal grazing in good pas ture. Simple methods ot preparation are best as a nil.