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I ... , THE -OREGON MI nn VOL.13. ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY. APRIL 3, 1896. NO. 15. TELEGRAPHIC RESUME Events of the Day la Con' denied Form. OF INTEREST TO ALL HEADERS It, mi of ImpflrtuM from Dosneetl nod Foreign ItutM Ovens of tbs Dl.patehes, ' Iks Plser, negro, wh lynohed la -Bbreveport, La., for attempting to as sault two young ladles. . The negotiations between Franoe and Great Britain, however, promisee sstlafaotory settlement A dispatch from Bombay reports tremendoui Are In the native quarter or Calootta, i toe result of wblota 'many persons were killed. Gorernor MoGraw, of Washington, bss offered 1500 reward (or the appre hension, arreit and oonvlotion of tbe murderer of Dr. J. H. Lyon, of Roalyn. Thomai Hughea, Q. C, the author of "Tom Brown 'a School Day a." "Tom Brown at Oxford," eto., and tha foua der of the Britiih aettlement at Kogby, Tenn., died In London, aged 70. It la asserted in Farit tbat mora power boiide Franoe and Rnaala will else tbe ooosslon of tbe Uritish-Egyp tlan expedition up the Nile to demand a guarantee for tbe eraonation of Egypt Rebel reoently attaoked tbe Japan ese near Fussn. After several day' flgtlng the rebel were repolaed. Many Japaneee bare been murdered, and Jepsnese warahip have been aent to tbe aoene of the disturbance. Tbe athletlo team of the university of California baa received a telegram from the Harvard team aooepting a challenge to meet May 88. The Cali fornia team will meet the athlete of v several other oollegea on their Eaatera tour. Loots Melberg, a oar repairer on the Great Northern railroad, was fatally injured in Bnattle by being oaugbt be tween tbe drawheads of two flat-car. A ooupling link waa driven through his body, toarlng his intestines In horrible manner. ' A prominent butoher and one of tbe stockholder of the American Dressed Meat Company of Walla Walla, and W. A. Montgomery, who waa employ d a a butcher at tbe oompany's slaaghter-yards, have been arrested on ta obarge of stealing cattle. Bloyols tourists from the United Bute and other countries, will this year bs reqinred to deposit, at the Can adian ouitom-hooss, the retail prloe of their wheel on entering Canada, and when they are exported baok the money will be refunded to the owners. Tbs Americas Eleotrlo-Beating Cor poration, which inoludea all the com panies of lmportanoe engaged la tbe manufacture of eleetrlo-beating appar atus, haa been formed, with beadqusr . ters in Boston. Tbe new corporation la oontrolled by syndicate of Boston, New York and Western capitalists. Tbe Mexlosn government Is making preparation for the abolition of all Interstate and lnter-mnnlolpal duties in July, snd taxes will be apportioned aolentifloally. Tbe reform is of the greatest lmportanoe and far-reaohing, and will greatly facilitate Interna tlonal trade. ... ;.'";: Hiram H. Morrison, arrested In Bos ton after bis wife bad been found dead in their borne, with linger marks upon her throat, haa oonfossed that ba ohoked the womsa to death la a fit of Jealous rage at her having a crowd of neighbors in tbs house drinking. He lieges be wss also drank. ' i The trans-Missouri roads have not been as liberal with tbs Grand Army as tbs roads in tbs Western Passenger Association. They have deoided upon a rate of one fare for ths round trip for tbs annual encampment la Si Paul, Instead of a rate of 1 oent per mile, as authorised by the roads of ths Western Passenger Association. A New York psper ssys the revolu tion la Nicaragua, aooordlng to Intel ' llgenoe reoelved through private chan nels, is more serions than the dls patobes from tbat country would indi cate. The striot prees oensorsblp estab lished by President Zelaya renders It Impossible for news of any oharaoter exoept what is fsvorable to the govern ment, to be made public. The Bpsnish government hss official ly disclaimed responsibility for tbe Aery view expressed in ths columns of tbe Madrid newspaper El Epooa, de manding that the United State oease talking about the Cuban insurrection or slss declare war at onos upon Spain. Ths government felt that it might be harmful because it was intimated that she article waa Inspired by it. At a meeting of the 'Associated Chamber of Commeroe of the United Kingdom, held la London, a resolu . tion- expressing appreciation of the friendly feeling displayed by the ohsm bar of commeroe of New York and the .national board of trade of Philadelphia and representing their itrong desire that a method be found for settling In s oonolllatory spirit sny differences wbioh may arise, wss adopted.' ' A dispatch from Athens report the renewal of the murders of Christian In the Island of Crete, and tbe exist enoe of a panlo there owing to the be lief prevailing among the Cretan dep uties that tbe Turkish troop are wait ing for the Chrlitians to retaliate for outrages, when they will seise the oo osslon to begin a general massacre. The deputies have invoked the proteo tion of Greece. ' The moat important opinion handed down by the court of sppesls from a publio standpoint wss that tbe state of , Missouri ba oomplete jurisdiction over the Missouri and Mssissipnl rivers where those rlvsrs form the boundary line of the state, so thst the state would bavearlsdlotlon over gambling or illegal whisky on a. boat la these rivers or any other Illegal aot done on we river. The Constantinople correspondent of the London Times ssys tbe Turkish minister and first secretary of tbe Turkish legation at Washington have been reoalled, owing to the sympathy for the Armenians manifested in the United Bute. This has been denied st tbe lesgtlon, however. It Is slso ssid that the sultan has promised Abrshsm Pasbs 10,000 if be suooeeds in Inducing the Armenian pstrlaroh to retire. : ;?;.;..,, : ' , ,i . Judge Piper, of Mosoow, Idaho, hss fixed tbe date of tbe execution of Frank Smith for tbe murder of Emmett Fox. Smith will be banged May 1. A judg. ment for $88,649,880 was filed agsinst the Atchison, Topeka fe Santa Fe Rail road, in favor of tbe Union Trust Com. pany as trustees for tbe holders of first mortgsge bonds. The amount is for the deficiency , judgment obtained la February last sgainst the railroad ootnpsoy in Kansas. , ..." " ,. Tbe state department has reoelved a oablogrsm from United States Minister Hmyths, at Port su Prince, Hsytl, ooa firming tbe Pari report of tbe desth of President Hippolyte. A terrible explosion of fire damn took plaoe in a mine at Brunnerton, N. Z. Five persons were killed outright, snd sixty more were entombed, with no hope of being rescued. The Iron Horse group of mines, smong the best known In the Trail Creek diitriot in British Columbia, has been sold for 178,000 to Peter Porter. The Iron Horse is a gold produoer, snd hss a defined ledge, and is shipping ore. ,. v The Vose blook, one of tbe finest in Msohias, Me., wss burned and several business firms renting offloes in tbe building, ss well ss lodge-rooms, lost 11 their effects. The total damage is estimated at $360,000; lnsursnoe, $60,000. An sttempt wss msde to derail the Oregon express between Tebsmt and Vina, CaL, by plaolng ties on tbe track. The engineer ssw the obstruc tion in time to avert a smashup. No motive oan be given for the attempted derailment The London Standard's Berlin oorre- tpondent says thst Chins has granted s oonoession to Russia to build a railroad from tbe Chita, in the trans-Baikal dlatriot of Siberia, through Manohuria to Port Arthur, the latter port being ceded to Russia in exchange for oertain important oonoesslons. The resignation of John I.1 Hall as sssitsant attorney-general of 'the inter ior department, has been ' presented to the president to take effect May 1. Joge Hall resigns to aooept the general oounselsbip of the Georgia Southern & Florida Railway Company. His suo oessor ss assistant sttorney-general will be W. A. Little, of Columbus, Ga, A new play is being written in Baa Franoisoo, in wbioh Msttie Overman and Mrs. Tunnell are to have star parts. The play will follow olosely the drsmstto incidents of the recent career of the Rev. C. O. Brown and Mrs, Mary Davidson. Rlohard C. White is the author of the play. He ssys it will eolipse the fsmous Durrsnt play. v. ... .,, p i The two three-story warehouses of the Pleasure Ridge Park Distillery Company were destroyed by fire in Louisville, Ky., with all their con tents, inoluding upwards of 80,000 barrels of whisky. The total loss is about $460,000, of whioh $890,000 is on bonded whisky, $10,000 on free whliky snd the remainder on ' the buildings. - Three hundred Chinese were blown to atoms by the explosion of maga sine sttaohed to the fort at Kiangyln, China. The disaster, according to msll advioes reoelved by steamer, ras the work of mutinous soldiers, who were preparing to join tbe secret so olety rebels in on attaok on an adjacent town, but whether through carelessness or by intention is not known. In the last week of mild weather, Grand Valley, Colo., throughout Us length and breadth, Is riddled with holes dog for fruit trees. It is esti mated that between 760,000 and 1, 000,000 fruit trees, apples, pesohes, plums and pears, ohiefly, will be planted as soon ss water is turned into the irrigating ditches. This is far the largest planting the valley haa ever known.' .. ., ;; ,; A desperate fight took plaoe in the village of Berry, 111. James and Chsrles Horning, two prominent young farmers, and James Housiok were shot in the fight. One of the Horning re oelved a wound in the leg, and the other had his hand and his arm shat tered by ball. Housiok was shot in the nook, and his injury is regarded as serious. The trouble grew out of the sending of valentine; - Consternation was thrown Into the oamp of the numerous heirs and olaim snts to the Pavls millions, when At torney M. J, Cvanaugh filed a petition in the dlatriot court in Butte, Mont. in behalf of Mrs. Huldah queen Davis, otherwise known as Huldah Bnell, of Kern oounty, Cal., laying olaim to ths whole of the estate, worth many mil lions, alleging she is the surviving wife of the dead millionaire. It is stated that the Rev. a O. Brown, of San Franoisoo, will be tried by the Bay conference on the oharge of unmimsteriai oondnot Tbe obarge, it i laid, will be presented by either Dr. Rader or Dr. William, and Among the items alleged against the aooused minister are said to be his sttempted deception of the press; the discrepancy la hi testimony in the Davidson trial, where he is alleged to have testified one way in the polios court and direot ly opposite in ths superior oourt NORTIIWESTBREVITIES Evidence ot Steady Growth and Enterprise. ITEMS 07 GEHEEAL INTEREST All lbs Oltls and Town of th, raelfle States and Territories ' Washington. Port Townsend Is to have bioyole' traok. Diphtheria has entirely disappeared from Ellensburg, and the sobools were re-opened. Potatoes are very oheap this spring at Ellensburg. A bunderd pound ssok oan be bought for 86 cents. The Paoiflo oounty papers ere in formed that the surveys of townships 13-6 snd 19-6 have been accepted. Lieutenant J. H. Hetherington, United States army, has taken oharge of tbe branch nydrogrspbio office st Port Townsend. , The board of state land commission ers, bss decided to sooept Skamania oounty bonds to the smoont of $6,000, subject to approval of the attorney general. One thonssnd sore of winter wheat belonging to Miles C. Moore, at En reks Flat, Walla Walla oounty, was killed by the oold spell, and the ground is being reseeded. Mondsy was squirrel dsy with tbe Spokane oounty commissioners, - and the day netted total of 9,171 squirrel tails, for wbioh the oounty psid $91.71. Just an even twenty persons brought in this number. The Pullman Palaoe Car Company has psid the tax on its oars operated on the O. R. fc N. railway In Bpokane oounty. This was brought about through the leisure of one of the sleep-ing-osrs In use on the Northern Pa olfla Counollmsn Hill, of North Yakima, is in favor of the appointment of an Inspector of weights snd measures. He ssys that many of the soalea used in the city are not true, owing to the springs losing their strength, and In oonsequenoe full value is not received by purchasers. New York capitalists are negotiating for the purchase of tbe Andrew Cham ber prsirie, near Rainier, with the in tention of setting oot the entire trsot in fruit It is estimated that 60,000 trees, about seventy-five per oent of wbioh will be prunes, will be put out in the vicinity of Rainier this season. Robert Soott has 1,000 peaoh and apple trees, wbioh he is setting out on his Nstohes ranch, twelve miles from North Yakima plowing up eight acres of hops to sooommodate the orchard. For eight oonseoutive years this rsnoh has had a splendid peach crop, and its owner alleges that he has never lost a single bud or blossom in all that time, from frost If the Whitman oounty board of commissioner la contemplating the appropriation of oounty fund toward the del traction of the squirrel pests, the Garfield Enterprise protests against its being expended in soalp bounties. It declares thst it any appropriations are made It should be by way of assist ing the aotual wheat raisers to buy pOiBOn. ' :' A gontleman from Goldendale tells a Dalles paper that the mining excite ment tbat was so high in Kliokitat oounty few weeks sgo hss subsided, snd those who left their farms expect ing to make their fortunes in the mines have settled down to agricultural par suits, satisfied with the slower but surer wsy of soonmulating wealth by raising grain. ' James O'Neill, deputy clerk of the United States oourt at Bpokane, re oeived a request from the agent of the secret servioe at Ban Franoisoo asking bim to paok up and send all the ooun terfeit ooins and implements used la making such ooins thst have been used as evidenoe in oases thst have already been disposed of. The oolleotlon is rather an odd one, and will be used by the secret servioe department in other oases of like kind. At Orohsrd prairie, la Bpokane oounty, the farmers have formed an anti-squirrel olnb of forty-four mem bers. There are two captains, who choose sides from the membership, and with their respective bands, hsve entered into active competition for the destruction of the pests. At the end of the squirrel season the two sides will meet and count the squirrel tails. The winning side is to have a plonio dinner furnished by the losers. Two of the most prominent orchard ists of Oroas island, George W. Meyer and George Gibbs, have out down and uprooted their prune orchards this spring, which were among the finest in thst oounty and just oomlng into bear ing. ' Mr. Meyer is setting out pear tree instead, in wlhoh he thinks there is more money.' His aotion in destroy ing his prune trees just as they were coming nioely into bearing has occa sioned considerable comment among fruitgrowers, and will be likely to dis courage many from going Into prune raising extensively. . . ; , v ' Oregon. w Kern & Church hsve swsrded a oon tract for a cannery building on the Silets river. The battle between the fruitgrowers and the frultpests is bow oa la desd earnest la Jackson oounty. ; Rainier has secured her long-sought oresmery, and consequently Is happy. A oompany has been incorporated with a oapital atook of $3,600. The Linn oounty authorities have reoelved $10,041.66, being the amount due from taxes from the distribution of tbe $100,000 fund created by the sale of the Oregon Paoiflo. George Kykitra reoently brought into Dallas 114 pounds of mohair sheared from forty goats, and sold it st 80 cents pound. Tbe ooating of each animal brought bim 86 cents. The Milling A Mining Company at Elgin has sold sll of its ties in the Elgin yard, 60,000, to the Oregon Lumber Company, of Baker City. The ties will be shipped Esst and used on tbe Union Paoiflo system. Tbe contracting firm of Butler, Bar ret ft Stewart, has sbout completed ar rangements for opening up a brickyard on bis ten-sore trsot of land in North west uediord. tie will oommenoe making brick ia a short time, sad will put up s kiln of 100,000 brick. ' ine Astoria box company nas pur chased from Thomas Boyle all the re maining timber at Its oamp on Young's river. There is about 1,000,000 feet ia tbe lot, and it is arriving daily at the mills. Ths silver-tipped grsy squirrels are occasionally seen onoe more oa the oak trees ia Hood River. If these beauti ful animals oould be protected from vandal hunters, they would soon be come numerous again oa the handsome shade trees of that town, ssys the Glaoier. The moral wave has struok Prine vine. An effort will be msde by the W. U. T. U. to enforoe the Sunday law and see tbat the saloons are closed on Sundsy. , There is difference of opinion as to whether or pot snob s law oan be enioroM in laoorporated sowns. . "Grandma" Follett, who lives at Willow Ranch, In Lake oounty. is re ported by the Lakeview Examiner to have fallen heir to $8,000,000 worth of property la the heart of New York olty, a 99-year lease wbioh wss given by her father having expired. She is 90 yesrs old. A gentleman living about four miles out on The Dalles road from Hood River, says there were three hatches of the Cslifornla quail la his neighbor hood last summer and about twenty- nve in eacb batch. He reoently taw a flock of them numbering About forty. These quail are from tbe ones Imported by Csptaia Cos. Z Mrs. Laurinda W. Reeves died st North Powder, Union oounty, March 19, 1896, at the age of 68. She was born in the state of New York, and re moved to Illinois ia 1888, and to Ore gon la 1876, going to Union oounty in 1879. She left three children. Robert Lloyd of Union and Mrs. J. E. Carroll and T. J. Lloyd of North Powder, The beautiful oountry residenoe of Thomas Tanner, about seven miles west of North Powder, ia Unioa ooun ty, was totally destroyed by fire last week. The fire originated in a defec tive flue. An old bouse snd some sheds standing near were also destroyed. The loss will probably aggregate not less than $8,000. There was no In surance. .-". . , ti A whole mountain of asbestos has been found on Beaoh creek, about four miles north of Mount Vernon, near Adsm Gordon's residenoe The ma terial varies from a half lnoh to two inches in thickness and is of excellent quality. A band of sheep had been herded over the mountain, and where their hoof had beaten the rook the threads of the mineral oould be gath ered up like so much wool. t : A postoffloe has been established at Swsnlake, Bannook oounty, Idaho, with Floyd F. Wbitt as postmaster. This offloe is four miles north of Ox ford. The Northern Paoiflo steamer Georgia Oakes will oommenoe regular trips be tween Coeur d'Alene and Mission April 1. This boat connect - the nar- row-guage railroad to the Coeur d'Aleae mines, and the Northen Pa olfio train from Spokane. I Captain 8. G. Fisher, Indian agent at Lapwai, waa in Lewistoa reoently, aooompanied by Robert Stalnton, who la assisting in making up the Indian payrolls. Captain Fisher ssys that about May 1 there will be another pay ment ot $300,000 or more to the In- disuse i A mining boom has struok Mosoow. People are locating olaims on the mountains north ot town. Quarts has been found on the surface whioh assays well In both gold and silver. A olaim was staked on the very summit of Mount Mosoow, taking in 1,000 feet of the big ledge there. There is a town on the upper Snake river, called New Sweden. . Hans Hansea ia mayor of the towa, Peter Petersen is olerk and the common oounoil is composed ot Peter Hansen, Hans Petersen, Peter Hans Petersen, Hsns Peter Hansen, and Peter Hansen Hans Petersen.' No relstlon&hip exists among these men. . Montana. The several papers read before the Mining and Immigration convention held at Helena last week should be printed in book form and olroulated through the East For the week ending Maroh 14 there were sold on the Chios go Mineral ft Mining Board 780,800 shares of stock at an average value ot 10 oenta per share. There are at present twenty mining companies listed among them being but two from Montana. The Columbia ' A -Red Mountain railroad has been granted right of way through the Colvllle reservation. The road will enter at a point near the Lit tle Dalles on the Columbia river In Ste vens oounty, from which point it will extend in a northerly directions to the International boundary line. There are twenty oreeks in this oountry which have been dignified with she asms of the Tiber. THE PLAN IS ILLEGAL Court Decides Against Hill's Consolidation Scheme. LAW ON PARALLEL BAILB0AD8 Pablla Cannot B, B.n,flUd by Joining of Competing Lines -Opinion Do llvsrsd by Jostlo, Brown. Washington, April 1. Justioe Brown delivered sn opinion of the su preme oourt today in the case of Thom as Pearsall vs. the Great Northern Railway Company, and the Louisville ft Nashville Railway Company vs. the Commonwealth of Kentuoky, as to the right of parallel oompeting railway lines to consolidate, holding in the case of tbe Greet Northern that it oould not under its charter, and in opposition to tbe aot of the Minnesota legislature of 1874, be consolidated with the Northern Paoiflo, as was sought to be accomplished. Justloes Field and Brewer dissented. The oase of Pearsall vs. the Great Northern railway osms to the supreme court from tbe United States oiroult oourt for the district of Minnesota. It wss bill in equity, filed by Pearsall, as a stockholder in the Great Northern oompany, sgainst the company under the laws of the territory sad tbe state of Minnesota to enjoin it from entering into an agreement with the Northern Paoiflo Railway Company, under which the property and franchises of the Northern Paoiflo Company were to be purchased. It appears tbat the Great Northern was originally incorporated under the name of the Minneapolis ft St Cloud railway. The original char ter granted the company the right to connect with any railroad running in the same general direction and oonsoli date Its stock or franchise with that of any other railway, and the question presented to the supreme oourt was whether the oompany oould be deprived ot this right by a subsequent act of the state legislature, inhibiting the oon sol idation, lease or purchase by any rail' way of the stock, property or franchise of sny parallel or oompeting line, the legislature having such law in 1874. The oourt answered the queition in the affirmative. The oourt says that it was oompetent for the legislature to limit the charter and to "declare that the power it had conferred upon the Minneapolis ft St Cloud Company to consolidate its interest with other sim ilar corporations should not be exer oised so far as applicable to parallel oompeting lines, inasmuch as it is for the interests of the peoople that there should be competition between parallel roads." The legislature." it continues. "has the right to assume in this connection that neither road would i educe its tar iff to a destructive or unprofitable fig ure or to a point where either road would become valueless to its stock holders, and the object of the aot in question is to prevent snob a combina tion between the two as would consti tute a monopoly." GOLD II ALASKA. Report of th. Operation, or the Geolog ies! Survey. Washington, April 1. The geolog ical survey has reported to Seoretary Smith on the operations of the survey during the field season of last year. -. Discussing - Investigations ia the Alaskan gold fields, tbe report says that many small veins of rather rich ore ooour on the southern side of the Silver Bow basin, about three miles northeast of Juneau. The old lakebeds there are successfully worked for gold by the hydraulic prooess. At Seward City, fifty miles north of Juneau, there are also veins, extremely rich at some points, wbioh are yielding gold. On Admirallty island there are promising veins, and mining there wifl be oommenoed in the summer. Near Sitks, especially along Silver bay and in the oountry to the southeast, there are numerous veins, some of wbioh have yielded a little gold. - The report of Dr. Hall, the expert who investigated tbe ooal resouroes of Alaska, says large fields of a fairly good quality of brown ooal exist on the eastern shores of Cook's Inlet, and that veins of eoonomlo value exist on the south shore of the Alaskan penin sula. Two Buioldes In Portland. Portland, Or., April 1. Max Friendly, manager of the California wine depot, oommitted auiolde by send ing a bullet through his head, with such fatal effect that he only lived twenty minutes. Mr. Friendly was one ot the old residents of Oregon, hav ing lived in Benton oounty for about thirty years, and he came to Portland to make his home a little more than a year ago. He left no note telling why he oommitted the rash aot , John E Bartosoh, living at 846 Rus sell street, Albina, a dealer, in boots and. shoes, oommitted suioide yesterday st the home of his dsoghter. Mrs. C. E Cluth, on Government island, in the Columbia river. Attacked Governor Hughes. Phoenix, Aria., April 1. Governor L. C. Hughes was assaulted on the street this morning by P. J. Clark, aorreanondent at Phoenix for the TWi. ver Times. Clark struok the governor in the faoe, the blow breaking the gov ernor'a speotaolen and oauslng several faoe wounds of small importance. Clark is now in the city prison await ing trial. He waa formerly agent here of the Rooky Mountain News, and was dismissed by the paper, so Clark as serts, at the governor's instigation, tor sending telegrams reflecting upon tbe executive. CONGRESSIONAL NEWS. Condensed Beeord ot the Doing, of the nation's Lawmaker, Senate. Washington, Maroh 37. The first reference to the adjournment of oon gross osme in the senate today in tbe formal resolution offered by Piatt, pro posing an adjournment May 3. Piatt ssid his purpose waa to eall attention to the desirability of sn early adjourn ment The resolution wss referred to the appropriations oommittee, as sny determination as to adjournment must depend upon the condition of the ap propriation bills. The adoption of a resolution allowing ex-President Har riet n to receive decorations from Spain and Brasil wss postponed by an objec tion from Allen. During the day, Gallinger proposed sn smendment pro hibiting the United States or any state from giving any recognition or finan cial aid to any church or religious in stitution. Most of the day was psssed on the legislative sppropriation bill, wbioh Is not completed. Washington, March 38. Afters sion witn tne senate oonferenoe oom mittee on the Cuban question today of less than ball an hour, the house oon fereei agreed to aooept the senate reso lutions. This aotion will hsve tbe effect of taking the question entirely out of the senate and tsnsferring sll further discussion to the bouse. ' Tbe senate passed most of tbe dsy on the legislative appropriation bill, but did aot oomplete it owing to Sherman's motion to strike out the proposition for the obsnge from fees to sa la ires for United States distrlot attorneys and marshals. Tbe subject was debated at length. Allen introduced a resolution today declaring that ooogrees should not adjourn without restoring free coinage and taking from the secretary ot the treasury the power to issue bonds. Washington, March 80. The senate indulged in an acrimonious political debate today, whioh developed much personal snd party feeling, and brought on two sharp personal exchanges be tween Hill and Elkins. The senate oomimtee on publio buildings and grounds today voted to recommend the passsge of the bill appropriating 33, 000,000 for new building at Indian apolis; the bill for a government building at Oakland, CaL, and the biU for tbe purchase of a site for a building at Salem, Or. At the close of the day the senate passed the legislative appro priation bill, carrying $31,600,000. Aside from providing the usual appro priations, the bill is Important, aa effecting a reform of the system of compensation tor United States dla triot sttorneys and marshals, salaries being substituted for fees. Houe. Washington, March 37. The house today took up the naval appropriation bill and made such rapid progress that when adjournment was reached, all the paragraphs hsd been passed ssve those relating to the increase of the navy. The bill carries $81,611,084. or 83, 468,438 more than the current law, and authorizes four new battle-ships and fifteen torpedo-boats, tbe oost of whioh oomplete will be almost $88,- 000,000. Not a single amendment waa adopted, although there was an effort to provide for a new drydook ' at the League Island yard. During the day, Boutelle and Wheeler continued their altercation of yesterday over the record of the Democrats on the bill to retire General Grant The other inoident of the day arose In connection with; an attack by Cannon, chairman ot the ap propriations oommittee, on the naval offloers detailed st the naval observ atory. i,.,...- . Washington, Maroh 88. The naval appropri talon bill was passed today by the house without substantial amend ment An effort was msde by the ad vocates of s larger increase of the naval strength than was authorised by the bill to inorease the number of battle ships from four to six. This inorease was supported on the floor by Hanley, Cummin gs and Johnson, and opposed by Boutelle, Lick an Robinson. The house by a large majority stood by the recommendation of the oommittee, the proposition tor six battleships muster ing only 83 votes against 184. The bill ss passed carries $81,611,084 aad authorises the construction of four bat tleships and fifteen torpedo boats, tbe total oost of whioh will be in the neigh borhood of $36,000,000. Washington, .March 80. Hepburn of Iowa, in the house, anatagonised consideration of the sundry olvll appro priation bill, whioh Cannon, ehairmaa of the sppropration oommittee, gave notioe he would call up today, by mov ing that the house proceed to the con sideration of tbe private olaims. Can non opposed the motion ot Hepburn, but oa a rising vote he wss detested. He then demanded tbe ayes and noes, whioh were ordered. The roll oall re sulted 148 to 77. The house then went into oommittee ot the whole for con sideration ot bills on the private calen dar. Piok'er, chairman of the oom mittee on Invalid pensions, moved tbat bills from the oommittee on war olaima be laid aside without prejudice, and thst the committee oonsider only bills from the oommittee on pensions, in valid pensions and military affairs. 8ome filibustering wss attempted, but Piouer's motion was agreed to. Dt.mlMed From the Bervlee. , Washington, Maroh 80. The result of the general oourt-martlal in the base ot Medical Inspector Edwsrd Eershner, U. 8. N.. oonvioted of violation ot u'nl regulation Issued by the seore- tary of the navy, aad also of scandal ous oonduot tending to the destruction of good morals, was made publio in an order issued from the navy depatrment today. , The offioer was dismissed from he servioe. Now is the time to plsn for the gar den and the orohard. A little fore thought goes a long wsy la making sueoessful garden. THE NICARAGUA CANAL President Miller Before the Commerce Committee. THE COMPASY'S GRIEVANCE The Government Sbenld Take the Work .or Give Motloe That II Intends to Do Mothlng. Washington, March 80. The inves tigation of the Nicaragua canal prob lem by the house oommittee on oom meroe wss begun today by the appear anoe of Warner Miller, of New York, tbe president of tbe canal company. There was a full attendance of the oommittee and other interested parties Mr. Miller deolared he had not oome for tbe purpose of recommending the Mahon bill, which had been adopted by the subcommittee, for he bsd not even read the bill. He described at some length the history of tbe work on the canal, treating of the physiosl con ditions in Nioaragua and other details. His Idea was that tbe government should guarantee bonds of tbe smount of $100,000,000, at 8 per oent, which would necessitate sn annusl exepndl tore of $8,000,000 for Interest. About $1,000,000 a year would be needed for maintenance and improvements above the oost of operating the canal. ' The remainder of the reoelpta would be put into a sinking fund for paying off the bonded debt The government, he de olared, oould pay nothing for the oansl under this srrsngemnet and have some $70,000,000 Of stock left. As the canal oompany had never taken any part in legislation, ' never hsd advocated any plan for government oontrol, and never appeared before con gressional oommittees, exoept when called upon, the oompany had felt that it had a grievance against the govern- ' ment, because after the introduction of the senate bill it hsd been impossible to raise money. American capitalists had said the government should take obarge of the enterprise sad foreign houses hsd feared that after few years the government would take pos session and return only the money in vested snd no profits. Mr. Miller said be had no doubt of the ability of the oompany to raise tbe necessary funds, notwithstanding - the flnanoial condition of the world, but for the interposition of the government. He deslt with the report of the com mission at length. It had been well un derstood, he deolared, that the commis sion had been appointed by opponents of the canal for delay. He oritioised the engineering attainments of ih? commission snd said that with,, the money at their oommand they had been unable to Inspect tbe oountry suffi ciently. Tbe proposition thst the com mission wss favorable to the project, be asserted, was incorrect. .. . . Speaking of the Paoiflo ooast. Miller ssid It had been expected tbat a great population would settle there. . He assured tbe oommittee thst vouohers for all expenditures msde for the oompany would be plaoed at U e disposal of the oommittee, and said they inoluded no expenses for tnflueno- Ing legislation. ; The company felt the time bad oome when the government should take the work or give notioe to the world that it Intended to do noth ing, so thst promoters would , have a clear field with other government or capitalists. ' If congress deoided to drop the project, Mr. Miller said, he would turn to the American people to invest in the oompany, and if that ap peal failed, he would turn the work over to someone else. INTERESTING TO HOPGROWERS Sonoma Hops o' Last Tear's Crop i srered at a Rldlonlonsly Low Prion. ' San Franoisoo, .' March 80. Hop growers and hopdealers have been very much disturbed by the contents of a circular sent from London to English brewers, ooples of whioh have been re oelved here within the last few days, sent by London men representing ths Paoiflo coast growers and shippers. The letter Is one offering what It rep resents aa choice Sonoma hops, 1896 crop, at a prioe much below what the bulk of the 1896 Sonoma crop sold for, and what hops ot equal quality are now bringing in the London market It is the universally expressed belief thst the hops thus offered are not choice Sonoma nor any other quality of Son oma hops of the crop of 1896, and there ia prsoticslly oonolosive evidenoe in support of this opinion. Nevertheless the fact that an offer ot hops purport ing to be of that quality at such low prioe hss a most demoralizing effect on the market and makes it praotlcally impossible to sell through mail or tele graphic orders at prioes whiob the quality of the artiole should oommand. The Arm searing tbe oirolsr agrees to furnish ohoioe Sonoma hops at 33 ah tilings per hundred weight, and offers to furnish samples. The circular says 386 bales of ohoioe Sonoma hops, orop of 1896, have been shipped by sailing vessels from Ban Franoisoo, and that the shipment is expected to arrive soon. It is stated here that no such shipment of Sonoma hops hss been msde, but thst a similar number of bale of 8aoramento hops, worth 8 cents a pound less, were sent by sailing ves sels. To Inquire A beat Neman. Irkustk, Maroh 80. Two messengers hsve left Irkustk, one February 36 snd one March 10, to Inquire Into the re ports regarding Dr. Nansen's return by way of tha New Siberian Isaads. Orders were given to these messengers to inspect snd replenish the various provision stores whioh hsd been plaoed far Dr. Nsnsea'i are,