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VOL. 13.
ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1896.
NO. 10.
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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.