E OREGON
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ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY. MARCir 6, 1896.
NO. 11.
VOL. 13.
TELEGRAPHIC RESUME
Events ot the Day in a Con
densed Form.
OF INTEREST TO ALL BEADKR8
Item, of Importance from Dome.tlo
and Foreign sources Groom
of tho Dispatch.
man and a boy SO years old, were
lynched by a mob in WtohlU, Kan.,
tor bank robbery and murder.
Gold baa been discovered In City
Creek oauyon, within the oity limit of
Bait Lake City. Assay are reported
rnnuiug ai high ai 1600 in gold and
$40 in silver per ton.
The American abip William G.
Daria, from Philadelphia for Han
Franoiaoo, to inaugurate the new line
of olippera arouud the Horn from the
latter port to the AtUutio seaboard,
baa been loat at aoa.
Senator Dnbola aaya the silver Be
pablioana ot the North woo t will per
mit no tariff legislation in this con
greaa or any other that doea not reoog
niae free ailver, and the aame laine
will be rained in the St Ixui conven
tion. Five hundred litbographera struck
in New York to enforce the recogni
tion of their organisation and the abo
lition of the piecework ayatein. The
action of the Mew York branch ia ex
pected to precipitate atrikea forthwith
in all large otties.
Roll O. Heikes, of Dayton, U.,
champion target ahot of the world,
made anothor aenaatioual record ia an
exhibition in Indianapolis. He broke
100 targeta, ooutinuoaa ahootlog, in 4
miuntea and 30 aeoonda, which makea
a new world' record.
A movement of ice in the Hlaaiaalppl
oarrled away 180 feet ot the draw ipan
ot the government ' bridge in Daven
port, la., wbioh waa supported by
treatle work, while uudergolug mpalri.
The bridge waa a heavy doable-decker
naed by the Rock Inland railway.
The withdrawal of Comtnauder and
Mr. Booth from the Salvation Army
has created a commotion in the Phila
delphia branch ot the army. The sol
dlera are aroused and talk of enliating
in a big aooeiaion from European head
quarters 1 heard in every Salvation
hall in Unit oity.
In a Ot of rage Juoob Dletzol, of Chi
cago, aged 68, ahot bis daughter, Mrs.
Henry Obner, and then himself, inflict
ing fatal wound. He waa onoe in
proaperoua circumstances, but ot lato
baa been dependent upon bis children
for support, and their frequent com
plaint, it la aaid, wore tho cause of
the orluie.
It i reported in Constantinople that
February 14, the first day of the Ram
adan festival, tbe Tnrka surrounded the
Armenian quarter in Maraovan and or
dered the Armenian to aooept Islam.
Five hundred of them agreed to do so,
but ISO recalcitrants were killed. A
freah series of massacre is reported in
the Siva and Kbarpoot district.
The Paris Politique Coloniale pub
lishes an alleged telegram from the
Frenoh oonaular ageut in Brnxil, re
porting that oonfliot have taken plaoe
in the disputed territory ot Amapa, be
twoen Freuoh Guiana and Brazil. It
ia added the French troops half do
atroyed Amapa after losing 100 killed
and wounded, including four officers.
Ooerge Grant, pioneer resident of
Grass Valley, Cal., 70 year of age,
was blown up by giant powder. He
waa nalng the powder to blow op some
willow and leaned over to aee why it
did not go off, when be got the full
charge in the face. One eye was
blown out and the other badly injured,
his lip was terribly lacerated and bia
left arm badly injured. He will prob
ably survive.
Havana advice aver that the Cuban
will retaliate on tbe Spaniard for
their slaughter of suspect by using
dynamite. A manifesto signed by the
Cuban revolutionary party has been
found scattered through Havana set
ting forth that from five to ten of the
uspedta oonflned In the Caballaa wore
being (hot nightly, and that the Cu
ban would retaliate by destroying
Spanish residences and place of busi
ness by dynamite.
Henry Gottrell, of Edinburgh, Ind.,
died after several week' illness, ot
softening of the brain, due to exoessive
cigarette smoking. A post-mortem ex
amination was beld, and a peculiar
condition waa discovered. The peri
cardial lack waa enlarged until it held
about a gallon of water, and the heart
was abnormally contracted. A fatty
growth had alao formed, and both the
lungs and spleen were enlarged and
weakened by the disease.
By the provisions ot Representative
Hermann's bill for the examination
and classification of mineral landa in
Oregon, publication of the classifica
tion of lands 1 to be made, and sixty
day given for any person or company
to protest the olasslfloatWu. Provision
ia made how the protest shall be oou-
ducted, and for hearings to determine
the oharnater of the land. Appeals are
allowed from the decision of the land
offloers, as in other oases. An appro
priation ot 95,000 la made to pay the
expenses of the classification.
The passenger steamer Queen col
lided with tbe British ship Strathdon
In San Francisco while steaming up
the harbor on her arrival from Port
land. The vessels were not together
more than two minutes, but in that
time, between 30,000 and 980,000
were sacrificed in damage,. The
Strathdon was lying at anchor in the
stream, and her heavy stoel bowsprit
iwept the upper saloon docks of the
steamer before the Queen oould be
backed away. The Queen had on board
lin nnuiinirnra. Unlv two Dersons
were bnrt, and their Injuries amount
ed to mere scratches.
United States Distrlot Attorney H.
V. Johnson haa filed a suit in the
United States court agalnat the Union
Paciflo Railroad Company and about
3,000 holding land under title ob
tained from that company, asking for
the cancellation of pa tout to about
10,000 aores, or tbe payment to the
United States of 93,000,000. The land
comprises portions of the buslnea sec
tion of Denver, Greeley, Fort Collin
and Loveland, Colo. It l alleged that
tbe lauds in question have been ex
empted from tbe original patent a
they wore already subject to claims
under the homestead and pre-emption
IttW).
Chief of Police Crowley, of San
Francisco, bas resigned. He baa been
in service for nearly forty year.
Ballington Booth ha aunounoed bis
plans for an independent American
Salvation Army, of which he and his
wife will be leaders.
General Lewi Merrill died in Phila
delphia, aged 65. He waa one of the
noted offloer of the war, and waa re
tired from aotive servloe on a surgeon'
certificate of disability in 1886, after
soveral years of frontier duty.
Two little girls lost their live and
two men were injured in a fire wbioh
partly destroyed tbe big double tene
ment at 158 Prospect street, Brooklyn.
The origin of tbe fire is unknown. Tbe
loss will not reaoh more than 93,600.
As a train on the Ferris Sc Cliff
House railway in San Franoiaoo was
on it way to the beach, a tunnel near
the ocean terminus caved in. No one
was seriously Injured in the debris.
Several passenger were bruised, and
tbe road waa impassable for seme time.
Tbe British and Freuoh negotiation
at Paris on tho Niger question have
been temporarily suspended. Tbe
Freuoh representative accused the
British of trying to aoqutre control oi
territory within the French sphere,
and there tbe matter end for the pres
ent. The Very Rev. Father Borgmeyer,
father superior of the Franciscan mis
sion, in Santa Barbara, Cal., was fa
tally ahot by a man who bad been em
ployed at tbe miaaion for over year.
Three shoU entered tbe priest' body,
and one in tbe bead. Hia recovery ia
impossible.
Tho British troops whlob formed part
of tbe Ashantee expedition returned to
Londn in a dilapidated, though not
battered oondltion. They were enthu
siastically cheered as they marched
through tbe oity from the docks where
they landed to their barraoks in the
west part of London.
At Rome, Ga., a desperate street
fight occurred between V. T. Sanford
aud Policeman Mulky. Mulky la dead
and ex-Sheriff Matthew critically
wounded. Several stray shot took
effeot In innocent spectators, one a
young lady, ine altercation Degau
beoause Mulky clubbed a iriena oi
Sauford. ,
The supreme oourt of the state ot
Washington has decided that a county
treasurer is liable personally or on bia
bond' for money deposited in a bank
which afterward become Insolvent,
in case wherein there 1 no oharge of
negligonoe against the offloer and in
which tbe oounty failed to supply a de
pository. The oomolaint reoently made by the
oitixen of Antelope, Idaho, that the
water of the Big Loat river bad
been turned out on tbe publlo lands by
a ditch oompany and had created dam
age to settlers, will be Inquired into by
the government A speolal agent of
the general land offioe ha been ordered
there to investigate.
The onnferenoe between President J.
Edward Simmons, of the Panama Rail
way Company and C. P. Huntington,
president of the Paoiflo Mail Steamabip
Company, regarding the recent trio
tton between tbe two oompaules, is
said to have resulted In the adjustment
of all difference, it l nnaeratooa
that entirely harmonious relation have
been restored.
The Southern Paoiflo Railroad Com
pny ha reopened the rate war between
PnrklanA and San Francisco. The out
is a radloal one, putting tbe figures
back to where they were during we
early day of Deoember, namely, 910
fnr fli-at. nlaaa nana ire. including berth
in the Pullman sleeper, and $6 for seo-
ond-olaas in tbe tourist sleeper.
Fur February the receipt from cus
toms show a falling off of 93,474,408,
and tbe Internal revenue receipt a de
oresae ot 9384,640. Aa the expendi
ture during the month, however,
were exceptionally light, a small sur
plus ia shown. The total defloit for
the present fiscal year amounted to
918,668,587, and it is the opinion ot
treasury offloial that the deficit July
1, next, will not exceed this amount
St James' tiatette, in commenting
upon the reoent dismissal of Lord Dun
raven from the New York Yaoht Club,
said: "The New York Yaoht Club
very properly expelled Lord Dunraven,
aud we now only regret that the oredit
of British sportsmanship was ever
Identified with a man who oan behave
so badly. Hi charges were Improb
able, and bis refusal to aooept the de
cision of the oommittee was a sheer
pleoe of ohlldlsh obstlnaoy.".
Governor Lord, of Oregon, baa been
notified that land olalraed by tbe state,
under the swamp land grant ot 1863,
whtnh afterwarda nasaed bv errant of
the state to the United States Military
Wagon Road Company, in 1886, baa
been rejeoted by the commissioner of
I the general land office, at Washington.
' Attorey-Genneral Idleman has the mat-
J ter nnder advisement, and will likely
appeal on behalf of the state to the seo
retary of tbe Interior, Hok Smith,
GROWING NORTHWEST
Progress and Doings in the
Paclfio States.
CONDENSED BUDGET OF NEW8
from All tho Cities and Towns of tba
Peslno States and Territories
Washington.
There were twenty-seven applicants
for teachers' certificates at tbe Sprague
examination lust week, nineteen of
whom were successful.
Eighteen hundred dollar is the
amount already pledged in Yakima
oounty to relieve the Ahantum acad
emy of its indebtedness
New bas been reoeived at Spokane
that one of the San Poiles Indiana on
the Okanogan reservation bad killed
hia wife's brother, by beating out bis
brain with a olub.
It is reported that a fourth interest
has been sold in tbe Cle-Elum Coal
Company's mine at Cle-Elum, for
96,000. Tbe buyer are supposed to be
tbe agents of tbe O. R. A N. Co.
While Rev. D. C. Ellis was conduct
ing servioes In the Baptist church at
Port Towusend, burglar entered his
residenoe and carried away money and
jewelry to tbe value of about 9100.
A gentleman who la Interested In the
state capital contract, say that al
though the contractor have three years
in which to complete tbe work, the
oapitol will be finished within two
years. .
Tbe big jam ot logs in the Huraph
tulip river, in Chebalis oounty, is to
be removed. Frank Linder and others
have made arrangement to get them
out It is estimated that about 3,000,
000 foet of good logs are beld there.
The publio school at Palouse and
Pullman will probably hold an addi
tional two months' session this spring,
being enabled to do so by tbe inoreased
apportionment ot school money to tbe
district by reason of tbe "Barefoot"
bill.
R. Henry, on a recent trip up tbe
Snohomish river, purchased of the
ranchers over 91.000 worth of stock
nd grain. Hog are bringing about
i cents, cattle the same, and oat
range from 918 to 916 per ton, along
the river.
Rumor bas it that a rich gold-bearing
quartz ledge haa been discovered within
four miles ot Goldendale, wbioh ap
parently haa no limit Tbe ledge is
said to have been traced a distance of
four miles, and reoent assays from the
rock show 950 to the ton in gold.
Tbe Yakima Republic say that a
letter from a man who bas gone to
Miohigan to induoe Immigration to
Yakima from the Holland settlement,
states that fully 500 people have sig
nified their Intention of visiting the
Yakima on the excursion soon to start
from that state.
Old settlers In Walla Walla say that
about fourteen year ago we bad just
about suoh a winter as this, with uo
snow. The tree budded out just as
they are doing now, and flower were
everywhere In bloom. But In March
oame a cold snap, with a hard frees,
and trees of nearly every kind were
killed outright
The United State oivil servioe oom
mission ha ordered that an examina
tion be held by it local board in Port
Townsend, Tuesday, April 7. 1806, com
mencing at 9 o'clock A. M., for tbe
grade of olerks, day inapeotor, night
inspector, messenger and boatman in
the ouatoms servioe. Only citizen of
the United State oan be examined.
Surveyor-General Watson say, in
regard to tbe Colville reservation:
"Moat of the note of tbe reservation
surveys have been oompleted, and the
plats are now being made; but before
aooeptanoe of tbe surveys, an examina
tion must be made of all these con
tracts, so aooeptanoe will probably not
ooour until some time next summer or
fall."
In oonneotion with the alleged short
age in the aooonnts of the oity offloial
of Walla Walla, the Union say that
during 1808, when the treasurer's
book were In oharge ot a clerk em
ployed by Mr. Parks, a oheok for 9690
was , reoeived to liquidate the tax
assessed against oertain property. In
vestigation ha disclosed that the oheok
waa oashed by the olerk, but' credit was
only given on tbe books tor 96. 90. Tbe
entry was also made in tbe olerk's
handwriting.
There was a novel strike inaugurated
in Aberdeen lost week that waa as
shortlived as it was novel. The Fish
ermen's union raised the prioe of fish
to 4 cents per pound, the lenten sea
son always bringing Increased demand.
Tbe buyers struck, but as the union
alao engages in shipping fish, and had
a market for tbe supply, the buyers
were foroed to yield. Tbe union itself
pays out about 9500 a week to its mem
ben for fish.. '
Oregon.
A band of sheep was sold tbe other
day in Baker oounty at 11.50 a bead
A carload of horses were shipped
from Pendleton to the Sound last week
for use in the lumber mills and camps.
Otto Kohler, of The Dalles, has
reaohed New Brighton, Minn., with a
tralnload of sheep, and intend to feed
them for about sixty days oh wheat
screenings.
At the Grant's distillery, 150 buah
els of wheat are now being used daily
and 800 head of cattle and 650 hog are
fed. The distillery ia daily produoing
about 600 gallons of aloohol and high
wine.
A drive of 100,000 feet of logs has
been reoeived at the Dilley sawmill.
The mill will start up soon and 400,
000 feet of log will be brought down
before tbe water 1 too low.
Farmer in Sherman oounty are said
to be hauling seed wheat from the
railroad to tbeir farms, they having
sold too mnoh wheat last fall, not leav
ing themselves enough for seed.
A pooket of rich ore waa struck in
tbe Old Tom Payne mine, In the Pooa
horta district in Eastern Oregon.
About ten year ago a pooket was found
in the mine from which 913,000 was
taken in one week.
A Tillamook dairyman has made an
experimental shipment of butter to
China, Under perfect conditions, the
butter was landed in fair shape, and
was sold so as to realize a better figure
than if marketed at home. .
Word has been reoeived from Bel
gium, says tbe Pendleton East Ore
gonian, that Polydor Moens, who
shipped cavalry horse from Umatilla
oounty to that oountry, has closed bis
accounts and find that he bas lost
money on the deal.
Tbe William brother are preparing
to build two boat on tbe Snake river.
A large pump, twelve inches in diam
eter, and an engine of 100 horse-power
to run the pump will be put in one of
the boats. The other will be a tug,
used for hauling supplies.
Work bas been progressing on tbe
schooner Lila Mattle that drifted
ashore near tbe Coqollle river some
weeks since, and an endeavor 1 being
made to get her in tbe river. She
now lie in tbe gap of the north jetty,
being almost through.
Tbe postoffioe department bat granted
tbe petition for tbe establihment ot
new postofflceat Woodley, the head
quarters of the Grand Ronde Placer
Mining Company, and Daniel M.
Griffith, who occupies the position of
foreman of the mine at that plaoe, has
been designated as postmaster.
Tbe Oregon Railway & Navigation
Company is making arrangement to
deliver freight in Eugene at all seasons
of the year. When tbe water will per
mit, boats will be run to that oity, and
when the water is too low, it i pro
posed to deliver the freight by teams
that will haul it from Harrisburg.
An expert machinist will soon be in
Pendleton to set up tbe machinery now
at the woolen mills. Tbe looms will
not be ready until some time in May.
On this account there will not be much
work done at the mill this year, as
the season will be too far advanoed be
fore things can be In readiness to be
gin work.
Idaho.
George T. Murray, of Cottonwood,
Idaho ounty, haa been granted an orig
inal pension.
Tbe Star mail servioe between
Grangevllle and Raymond will be in
creased to three time a week from
March 3.
At a largely attended meeting held lu
Wardner, 91,000 was subscribed, and
work will soon be oommenoed build
ing a new ohuroh for the Methodists.
Mra. Bridget Dounovan, widow of
Sergeant Donnovan, died in Sherman.
She bad been known in the army for
the past twenty-five years, and had
earned an exoellent reputation as a
nurse.
Farmer have oommenoed plowing
in Juliaetta. A larger percentage of
grain will be sown than last year, due
to the advanoe in the prioe of wheat
Flax will be the prinoipal crop on tbe
reservation.
Quarts mining Is certainly to be the
industry of the future In Boise oounty.
At present it 1 about In the same stage
of progress that it was twenty-five
years ago, but the conditions at present
are suoh that there la a broad basis for
hope. ' -. -
The gold-bearing area in Boise
oounty is certainly not less than one-
fifth of the oounty, possibly more, em
braced In several distrlot. Probably
8,000 out of the 7,000 square miles in
the oounty will In time furnish some
gold.
A larm number of sheen are be ins
fed in tbe vioinity of Lewiston. C
Theisen, James Madden and Rigg
Rrna. all have lama hunches atrtrresat-
ing 8,600 bead, that they are fattening
fnr tha imrinir market Risff Bros.
sold last week a carload at 8 cents.
This it considered a good sale, '
' ' Montana.
A party of leasers have started work
on the Stevens mine again. They are
sinking a new shaft near the gulch. ;
There ia little Question but that the
new light aoetylene will become the
popular illumlnant Tbe shares in the
new oomnanr reoently inoornorated in
Butte have about all been taken up by
oitizena ot that oity, and It ia expected
that consumers oi tne new ngnt win
soon be sopplied.
The completion of the new oonoan
trating plant of the Montana Ore Pur
chasing Company is being rapidly
pushed ahead. Already several of the
vanners and jigs are running. This
plant when oompleted will be capable
of handling ,600 tone ot ore daily.
New boiler are also being added in
order to furnish the inorease of power
required for the new plant. . v
' Word has been reoeived from the
Rook Creek mining distrlot that all
the land in Brewster gulch from the
Golden Scepter mine to Rook oreek
at Gillespie' ranoh and thenoe down
the east bank ot Rook oreek for five
miles, has been located for placer
ground. Even the ranoh Of Superin
tendent Baboook is taken up for that
purpose. What the result will be re
mains to be seen. Snffloe to aay all
the ground is a gravel bed and the in
dication are that it is not Improbable
there will be valuable dioovene along
the valleys now located.
VOTE WAS DECISIVE
Cuban Belligerency and Inde
pendence Favored.
SENATE ADOPTS BKSOLUTIONS
Be.ult Oroetod by Densely-Packed Gal
leries With Applaoao, Whloh Waa
Cheeked With Difficulty.
Washington, March 3. By tbe over
whelming vote of 64 to 6 tbe senate
today adopted a oonourrent resolution
favorable to Cuban belligerency and
independence. Tbe resolutions adopted
are as follows:
"Resolved, By the senate, the house
of representative concurring, that, In
the opinion of oongress, a condition of
publio war exists between the govern
ment of Spain and tbe government
proclaimed and for some time main
tained by force of arms by the people
of Cubs; and that the United States
of Amerioa should maintain a strict
neutrality between the contending
powers, according to each all the rights
of belligerent in the ports and terri
tory of tbe United States.
"Resolved, That tbe friendly offices
of the United States should be offered
by tbe president to the Spanish gov
ernment for the recognition of tbe in
dependence of Cuba."
When the result was announoed, the
densly packed galleries broke into loud
and continued applause, which the
vioe-president checked, with difficulty.
The result was reaohed, after a day
of fervid speeobes, which, at times,
aroused the crowd of spectators to en
thusiastic demonstration. The keen
publio interest in tbe subject waa evi
denced by tbe presenoe of the largest
crowd sinoe oongress assembled. The
representtive of foreign power were
numerously In attendance. The occu
pants of tbe diplomatio gallery in
cluded: Ministers Mendooa of Brazil, Hatoh
of Hawaii, Lazo-Arriaga of Guatemala,
Rengifo of Colombia, and Baron von
Ketteler, of the German embassy.
Senor Dupuy de Lome, the Spanish
minister, was not present, but two of
the attaches of tbe Spanish legation
occupied seats with tbe other diplo
mat. The main feature of tbe debate was
tbe speech of Sherman, chairman of
tbe oommittee on foreign relations. As
a rule, the veteran senator from Ohio,
speaks with conservatism; so it was
the more surprising when he arraigned
Spain and her governor-general. Wey
ler, in the most scathing language.
Sherman read specific instances in
which Weyler was pictured as strip
ping young girls beld as captives and
compelling them to dance before the
Spanish troops. Other speeches were
made by Lindsay, Lodge, Caffrey and
Allen.'
THE CONSULATE STONED.
All Spain AraiMd by tha Action of th
American Senate.
Madrid, March 8. It one may judge
by the things that have been said, and
some of the things tbat bave been done,
the Spanish people are determined to
go to war forthwith with the United
States, and to speedily avenge the in
sult which It Is fancied has been offered
to tbe haughty pride of Spain by the
United States senate In determining
to recognize the Cuban provisional gov
ernment a a belligerent power, and to
ask tbe president to use his good
offices with Spain to obtain recognition
of Cuban independence.
Some of the organs of publio opinion
declare that the bankruptcy oi the
Spanish government would not prevent
the Spanish from taking up tbe quarrel
on their own account, and fitting out
expeditiona and maintaining themselves
at their own expense, while combatting
the insolence of the assertions oi tbe
United States.
The day has been characterized by
many manifestations of publio wrath
and excitement In Barcelona the
Spaniards have gone to the extreme of
using violenoe upon the oonsulate of
tbe United State and stoning it, break
ing several windows in tbe building.
No bodily bam was done to any
body, exopet to oertain member ot the
orowd, that was charged by the police
when the stones were thrown at the
United State oonsulate.
GOLD AT POSTOFFICES.
Batracte
From Statement Prepared by
tho Department.
Washington, March 3. The re
ceipts ot gold and "representatives" of
gold at various poet offioes in tne states
of the Northwest are shown in the
elaborate statement gotten up and made
publio by the postoffioe department
The figures show that i Oregon the
gross receipt for tbe year in an nrst-
olass and second-class postoffioe were
9186.885, making the average per
month 915,570. The gold receipts per
month were 95,713. Tbe gross reoelpt
tor the year of poetoffices of all olasses
were 9419,658, and the department
estimates the gold reoeipts at 9151,043.
In Washington the gross reoeipts
were 9301.144, and the average per
month 916,763. The gold reoeipts per
month were 99,938. The gross re
oeipts of all offioes in tbe state for the
year were 9459,043; the gold reoeipts,
9366,344.
These are the figures for Idaho:
Gross reoeipts for the year ot all olasses
of money at offioes ot tbe first and aeo
ondolasses, 914,141; average per
month, 91.175; gold reoeipts, 9176.
Tbe gross receipt of all office in the
state for the year were 9181,956, and
tbe estimated gold reoeipts, 919,909.
A London restaurant serve its food
on leotrloally hatd plate.
CONGRESSIONAL NEWS.
Condennod Rwd of tho Dolus, of the
Nation'. Lawroeker.-a.net.
Washington, Feb. 39. A stirring
speech by Vest on behalf of Cuba was
tbe event of today in tbe senate. It
came unexpectedly, aa Vest seldom an
nounces bis speeobes or makes prepara
tions. The senate had agreed tbat tbe
final vote on the Cuban resolutions
would be taken at 4 P, M. Monday,
and tbe debate was proceeding, White
and Gray contending as a legal propo
sition tbat tbe United States oould not,
at this time, reoognize Cuba's inde
pendence. This aroused Vest, first to
questions of remonstrance, and then to
one of tbe borsts of eloquence witb
which he, at times electrifies the sen
ate. He spoke of Spain as the tooth
less old wolf who had lost, one by one,
her litter, and wa still clinging to
this single remaining cub. He pic
tured Spain as the impotent giant De
spair of the "Pilgrim' Progress,"
gazing on defeat In impassioned
words he made an apotheosis of liberty
of rare beauty aud fervor, adding with
ringing emphasis, tbat tbe Cuban pa
triot would never, never, never, again
become tbe unwilling subject of Spain.
Washington, March 3 In tbe sen
ate today Allen withdrew bis resolu
tion for tbe appointment of Mr. Lloyd
as a senate official after a discussion as
to adding a Populist offloial to the
rolls. During the debate on the Cuban
resolutions, the floor was yielded for
the adoption of a conference report on
the pension appropriation bill, and also
tbe passage of a bill relating to tbe
ancohrage and movement of vessels in
St Mary 'a river. Mitchell of Oregon,
chairman of the oommittee on privi
leges and elections, gave notioe tbat
on Friday next he would eall up
the Dupont election case, involving tbe
seat from Delaware.
Washington, March 8. The senate
oommittee on naval affair had Assist
ant Patent Examiner Stauferon the
stand in connection with tbe inquiry
concerning the armor-plate oontracta
today. He produced the reoords of the
patent offioe department to show the
action of that office on the Harvey ap
plication for patents. The oommittee
has succeeded in ascertaining among
other things in its reoent inquiries that
four-fifths of the stock of tbe Harvey
company is owned abroad, and that the
company receives a royalty of two oents
a pound on all the Harveyized steel
used in European countries. Ihese
facts are accepted as an explanation
of tbe low rates at which foreign con
tracts are let .
. .. ... Bonn. . ; ;
Waahingtou, Feb. 39. At 5 o'clock
this afternoon au ex-member of tbe
house became a member, and a member
became an ex-member. Such was the
result of a three days' debate in the
house on the Van Horne-Tarsney con
tested election case. The vote by
which the Demoorat lost his seat and
by wbioh it wa given to the Republi
can con tea tee was 113 to 164, eighteen
Republicans joining with the Demo
orat in opposition to the majority.
The report of the committee on foreign
affairs, submitting resolution on the
Cuban question, was then presented,
but, upon objection of Boutelle, went
over without action. At 5:15 tbe house
adjourned. The house committee on
judiciary, after a long oonferenoe with
Attorney-General Harmon and Major
Strong, of the department of justice,
today authorized a favorable report of
Representative Updegraff' bill to
abolish the fee system as to United
States district aSVwney and marshala,
and to substitute salaries.
i Washington. March 8. There w
an enthusiastic demonstration in tbe
house today, when Seoretary Cox, of
the senate, shortly before 4 o'olook, ap
peared and aunounoed the passage by
the upper branch of congress of the Cu
ban resolutions, but the matter did
not come in any other form during tbe
dav. After encountering tbe unex
pected opposition of Boutelle yester
day, the house leaders concluded to
postpone taking np tbe resolution un
til the legislative bill waa disposed of.
The whole day was passed in the con
sideration of the legislative appropria
tion bill, and considerable progress was
made. An agreement waa reaohed
whereby the bill to obange tbe compen
sation ot United State attorney and
marshals from tbe fee to the salary sys
tem is to be offered as an amendment
to the bill.
Washington, March 8. Tbe first
presidential veto of this session of oon
gress was overridden by tbe house to
day by a vote oi suo to as, ia more
than the requisite constitutional two
third. All tbe Republicans and
thirty one Demoorat voted for tbe
bill, while the votes to sustain tne
president were all oast by Demoorats
The bill authorizes the governor and
local authorities of Arizona to lease
the school lands of the territory for
eduoational purposes. The president's
objection to the bill was that it did not
give the Beorearty of tbe interior power
to disapprove tbe leases, ana aia not
throw proper safeguards about the
timber on the lands.
i r .
Kouland Miners Frote.t.
Rossland, B. C, March 3 A largely
attended mass meeting held here to
night adopted resolutions protesting
against tbe bill introduced by the gov
ernment in the Birtish Columbia par
liament to impose a 8 per oent tax on
all ores mined in the province. It is
expected that a aimilar action will be
taken by various mining towns of the
Kootenai country. It ia claimed by
tbe people ot this distrlot tbat tbe bill
would be a serious blow to the mining
industry, because it would drive out
capital and impair established values
A 99,000 gold nugget, weighing
thirtv-one sounds and seven ounces, is
reported to have been found at Eldo
rado, Montgomery oounty, Va.
THE FIELD AND FARM
Practical Pointers on Proper
Care of Farm.
THE PROFITS IN EGG FARMING
Detail. In Dairying by an experienced
Dairy woman Planting and
Hearing- of Trees.
The best profits in egg farming I in
building up and maintaining a fancy
egg trade. Retail customers will pay -a
few oents more on the dozen for fresh
eggs than they will pay for tbe artiole
at tbe grocers. Eggs ooming direct
from tbe farmer used to be a guarantee
of freshness, but not all farmers bave
been able to keep up this reputation.
On tbe average farm hens are allowed
to roam about as tbey please, and it is
not uncommon for farmer to every
now and then come across hidden
nests. There may be dozen egg in
one of those nests, and how is tbe
farmer to kuow if a dozen hens laid
those eggs that day, or if one hen laid
them between twelve and twenty-four
days? It is more likely to be the lat
ter case, whioh certainly must give .a
number ot stale, if not rotten, egg in
the lot. As the farmer dump these
eggs right in witb tbe lot he gathered
that day from tbe nests, somebody will
get cheated. And one bad egg in ' a
dozen will not condemn tbe entire lot,
but the farmer's reputation for honesty
is at stake. So be absolutely sure your
eggs are fresh, and then be ready to
guarantee them. Send clean eggs to
the oustomers, says the .- American
Poultry Advocate. Dirty eggs make
oustomers hesitate. Assort them out
to size. A dozen small eggs will not
look as objectionable as a dozen of all '
sizes. Keep the hens from the manure
piles, and do not feed any food that
might taint the flavor of tbe egg, for
it is a fact that an egg oan 1)9 tainted
as readily as milk, by what ia given
thehenoroow in their food. Pur
grain, fresh water, pure meat, and
fresh green food, will help wonder
fully in this direction.
Detail, or Dairying.
Oue of our most successful dairy
women writes that she does not allow
noise in the stables at milking time. A
blow with the milking stool may not
only lessen the quantity but effeot the
quality of the milk. The milking
should be done regularly and quietly,
carried to the milkroom. strained and
cooled quickly. The good dairymen
who are posted as to the value of food
produots kuow full well tbat clover ia
one of the most valuable crops raised
on the farm. The most successful
swine breeders make clover pasture
and clover bay n important ration for
their stork, and so do the meet suc
cessful dairymen. : Every dairy farm
should have enough hogs to utilize the
skim-milk and buttermilk. Some
farmers succeed better in a flnsnoial
way with hogs, and as the Irishman
says: "He's the gentleman tbat root
the mortgage off. " But hog and cow
should always go together. Dairying
in all its details must be done at th
proper time; other work must be done
secondary to this. After the cream
is gathered and properly ripened it
should be churned at onoe, the churn
must receive close attention ' and . be
stopped when the butter haa ' formed
into granules the size of small wheat
kernels. Too much salt and excessive
working injure the product So, after
all, it is looking after these ' small
things that make the suooessf nl butter
and cheese maker. '--, .
Planting and Bearing Tree..
There are two kinds ot tree that th
farmer must take into consideration
when he wishes to plant trees, via. :
forest and nut tree. These two olasses
of trees are about as far removed from
one another as any two things oan be. -If
the farmer want to grow forest tree,
he has one oertain line to pursue. If
he wants to grow nut trees be must
altogether forget that there was ever
such a thing as a forest, and must
bring the tree out where it will have
heaven's sunshine and develop a great
crop of nuts. The nut are the fruit of
the tree and we must treat nut trees
aa you would treat an apple orchard.
They are pruned with a view to spread
ing out the crop to securing for each
tree it due proportion ot light and
sunshine In order that It may do It
fullest work, and thus produoe a muoh
greater result than would be necessary
for tbe development merely of leaf and -
branch. -'.
The fruit, or nut, may always be re
garded as the exoess of stored material
whioh the tree produces over that
whioh is essential for the growth of
itself. So iu the case of nut trees, yon
consider tbe individual. In tbe oase of
forest trees you consider only the sg-.
gregate. So tbat at the threshold of
tbe question wbioh we are to "consider,
we meet quite a oontrast; the. nut tree
must be wide apart; tbe forest tree
must be close together. The . reason
for this lies in the difference ot tbe
object with whioh those .tree, respeo-
tively ore planted. , In tbe oase of tbe
nut tree, what we want 1 the fruit; in
the other ease, what we want ia th
trunk. ' ' , . s
Notes.''' '
While grass Is very valuable even in
the first stage! ot fattening, its greatest
value tor hogs is in the fact that it ia
a means of insuring health. - '
The hog possesses a great deal of
natural heat and doea not need a high
temperature. . Forty degree., is high
enough for swine. ...,
Tbe system of feeding calculated to
produoe tbe best results in feeding for
beef or fat If. steadily pursued in th
dairy, invariably change th character
of tb cow. :