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THE -OREGON MI
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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,